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"content": "\u003cp>I have a rule where anytime I spot a busy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/food-truck\">food truck\u003c/a>, I’ll make a brief detour to check it out, even if it means pulling across three lanes on the highway — much to the dismay of my passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how I first discovered \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chefmuskebab/\">Chefmus\u003c/a>, a modest-looking Turkish food trailer wedged between a gas station and tire shop in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/mountain-view\">Mountain View\u003c/a>. From the main street, you can’t see the dining tables or the crowd of customers swarming the trailer. But when I peeked inside the window, I saw a full-on pyrotechnics show: a variety of meat kebabs, jalapeños, tomatoes and onions grilled over a live flame until they were heavily charred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The menu features only three items: lamb shish kebab, chicken shish kebab and, the truck’s biggest claim to fame, the minced lamb skewers known as Adana kebab. These glistening kebabs are scorched on the grill until they develop a crunchy shell, then tightly wrapped in a flour tortilla along with tomatoes, onion and a spritz of lemon juice. The meat is so tender it hardly requires chewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987760\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987760\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-jalapenos.jpg\" alt=\"Jalapeños, tomatoes and Adana kebab on a hot grill.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-jalapenos.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-jalapenos-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-jalapenos-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-jalapenos-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adana kebab, tomatoes and jalapeños are cooked over a live fire until they’re nicely charred. \u003ccite>(Octavio Peña)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brothers Seyhumus and Emir Artik moved to the US from their hometown of Istanbul, Turkey, in 2021. Although the city of Adana is on the other side of the country, the Artiks grew up eating Adana-style kebabs as it’s one of the most popular street foods all across Turkey. Still, Seyhumus says he was never taught how to make the kebabs when he attended culinary school in Istanbul. Instead, he picked up the skill while working at a hotel restaurant in Taksim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the brothers opened Chefmus this past December, their goal was to share the depth of Turkish cuisine with the Bay Area. Familiar grilled meats like kebabs and köfte seemed like a good place to start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Turkish people come for Adana kebab because it’s hard to find in the Bay Area,” Seyhumus says. While the dish is a staple on Turkish restaurant menus, proper Adana — fire-roasted and intensely lamby, with meticulously ground meat — is incredibly rare. In the Bay Area, most restaurants make their Adana with lamb scraps or a mix of lamb and beef instead of grinding the proper cuts of lamb, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987771\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-emir.jpg\" alt=\"A man poses in front of a food truck.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-emir.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-emir-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-emir-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-emir-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-owner Emir Artik poses in front of the Chefmus food truck. \u003ccite>(Octavio Peña)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So, Seyhumus decided that Chefmus should focus on mastering Adana kebab. The dish is traditionally made by \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/6169932?turnstile=0.6MbAj6ED8-MOqJ-8nemaMegVknEExUAXZBRGso7jdyRzbt42N0DnBvRZHZgjM5BPyzPXiRGgJ8n0KA6tWfyIIb9f2J8vuUDB5HKd32pdHD9ofyZRWjhasOx6sJQmW4-B5JtaZbnlLYODW_7UksD5qrQp20WGFvE-z4KbQAqeu24GxyLDnWMU4AxyUlBFJLEZ6_7exnTQUDdc-41scc9G6zUcYHmazq3FIYOv8J2kjX_1IZbfmszOiN1DGfGevMAoNlG3QPg78zro1zOTmeLRQ8FAh0flb_oKocasUSVeJPBXwdY-vxjA4WEw1ikPYRTqjoPLUnB7652g8v6GWcQ0VVGsS4LC7jds1JICnFqhWeimbTFJMMOUca8VMy-xwyF-GQxTRtYo1jD890NPHIUcmcIaYYLjvHj0McJdG3zI6YWvUGxega6L4KBYt85Vc2yePvrQKho5AnwBM2UzbRfsDTkU0H483LHnHtr_5mPmodRXbEdIZvVlCGwufagUU4SV_OZY_1r7Xz8_lZSqxQYO9OENzWomgpwUA9GbKwqDUPuOqMX8LfDbOPSY03h_HQqZbP-Qnt3MusO0vSTEB55glsAAVsds5Kj9fYfktnFOfzh6fHZcGOalXZMX3wK2jN8HVCejdPsROM9JI1eV--UeT61VudCe_lFiGCNAPrLGmPWxMKC6A5MFMINP0-XAtWNBPymTFLNzaEXQ4V9xEu6L1k2m-8_c0mjCq4vUoGQy2H7sFIEZuKucggaz4vb1zjXGVdJMIybuoduALsdo3z95YWxp5v1WjYtahcgKRqmLdq2gkE6YNzuwJceDHTiEDdpbdF3L6HG0k5AJxNpMXU_mRhSjpr-jczCTNERuM4BSIkWvOkd6Tm_91cREcmtA4oc29sROdlULPnUHPVOmpeUBg6JceL6DLoQNI1eY92BNZtk7kjzmIsAaAethBQ-Ppr6w.OG5UkLg4O3O8GIAA4-WXrw.61f5f4cba33a76b70b13c208efa6cab31d9da2cf089e005b0cad52afe8f178c8\">mincing lamb\u003c/a> with a curved blade known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXY59BZnH-4\">zirh knife\u003c/a>. Seyhumus uses the zirh he ordered from Turkey to finely chop a minimum of 10 pounds of halal lamb each day. Even though a lot of other kebab shops use a machine to grind their meat, Seyhumus is opposed to that shortcut because it produces a dense, chewy texture akin to sausage. Chefmus’ coarsely chopped lamb — a mix of shoulder and rib meat — is looser and more tender. It’s only salted and lightly seasoned with red pepper to allow the flavor of the lamb to shine. The ground meat is massaged onto a long, blade-like skewer known as a shish). After grilling, the kebabs are juicy with a hint of smokiness. They’re served wrapped in flour tortillas, as the Artiks have yet to find a source for pide, the traditional Turkish flatbread. Even still, this is the best Adana-style kebab I’ve had in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers tag-team the food trailer — Seyhumus takes the first shift to prepare the meats, and Emir takes over in the afternoon to cook until they sell out. Emir was working as an Uber driver and decided to get into the food business to support his brother even though he never had any prior restaurant experience. Both brothers say they see Chefmus as more than just a business venture. It’s a way to connect with people in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, 50% of our customers are Turkish,” says Emir. “Others have never tried Turkish food.” Many customers tell the brothers they feel like they’re eating a meal in Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987762\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-kofte-kebab.jpg\" alt=\"A kofte keba sandwich, opened to show the meat, tomatoes, and onions inside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-kofte-kebab.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-kofte-kebab-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-kofte-kebab-768x355.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-kofte-kebab-1536x710.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chefmus’ köfte kebab is a recent addition to the menu. \u003ccite>(Octavio Peña)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chefmus also offers rotating dishes like sütlaç (rice pudding) and mercimek çorbası (lentil soup). On the first day of Ramadan this year, Seyhumus prepared lamb shanks that he cooked for four hours. “I’m not sure if these things will be on the menu permanently,” says Emir, noting that they’ll usually announce these specials on their \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chefmuskebab/\">Instagram page\u003c/a>. “We’re always going to do new things, but not every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13965475,arts_13979641,arts_13961613']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>If a dish is extremely popular, like their recent beef köfte, it’ll join the permanent roster. Seyhumus declined to share any of the fourteen secret spices he uses in his köfte, but the results speak for themselves: Grilled over the flame, these meatballs were earthy and aromatic, and especially tasty when tucked into a crunchy baguette with sliced onions and tomatoes. The advantage of having a limited menu is being able to focus on each dish. The chicken kebab, for example, is marinated for 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emir and Seyhumus already have plans for opening a second Chefmus location in Santa Clara later this year and perhaps eventually a restaurant. Meanwhile, Seyhumus says his true passion has always been desserts — specifically, San Sebastian cheesecake (aka Basque cheesecake) topped with Belgian chocolate. Before opening the food truck, he’d dreamed of starting a cheesecake business. He held off on selling desserts at the food trailer due to lack of space, but he says he’s eager to return to his roots as a pastry chef someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe I will open a coffee shop with desserts,” he says. “First, I want people to know us and what we sell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chefmuskebab/\">\u003ci>Chefmus\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is open Monday through Saturday 11 a.m.–10 p.m. and Sunday 1–8 p.m. at 101 E. El Camino Real in Mountain View.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Turkish people come for Adana kebab because it’s hard to find in the Bay Area,” Seyhumus says. While the dish is a staple on Turkish restaurant menus, proper Adana — fire-roasted and intensely lamby, with meticulously ground meat — is incredibly rare. In the Bay Area, most restaurants make their Adana with lamb scraps or a mix of lamb and beef instead of grinding the proper cuts of lamb, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987771\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-emir.jpg\" alt=\"A man poses in front of a food truck.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-emir.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-emir-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-emir-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-emir-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-owner Emir Artik poses in front of the Chefmus food truck. \u003ccite>(Octavio Peña)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So, Seyhumus decided that Chefmus should focus on mastering Adana kebab. 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Seyhumus uses the zirh he ordered from Turkey to finely chop a minimum of 10 pounds of halal lamb each day. Even though a lot of other kebab shops use a machine to grind their meat, Seyhumus is opposed to that shortcut because it produces a dense, chewy texture akin to sausage. Chefmus’ coarsely chopped lamb — a mix of shoulder and rib meat — is looser and more tender. It’s only salted and lightly seasoned with red pepper to allow the flavor of the lamb to shine. The ground meat is massaged onto a long, blade-like skewer known as a shish). After grilling, the kebabs are juicy with a hint of smokiness. They’re served wrapped in flour tortillas, as the Artiks have yet to find a source for pide, the traditional Turkish flatbread. Even still, this is the best Adana-style kebab I’ve had in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers tag-team the food trailer — Seyhumus takes the first shift to prepare the meats, and Emir takes over in the afternoon to cook until they sell out. Emir was working as an Uber driver and decided to get into the food business to support his brother even though he never had any prior restaurant experience. Both brothers say they see Chefmus as more than just a business venture. It’s a way to connect with people in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, 50% of our customers are Turkish,” says Emir. “Others have never tried Turkish food.” Many customers tell the brothers they feel like they’re eating a meal in Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987762\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-kofte-kebab.jpg\" alt=\"A kofte keba sandwich, opened to show the meat, tomatoes, and onions inside.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-kofte-kebab.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-kofte-kebab-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-kofte-kebab-768x355.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/chefmus-kofte-kebab-1536x710.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chefmus’ köfte kebab is a recent addition to the menu. \u003ccite>(Octavio Peña)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chefmus also offers rotating dishes like sütlaç (rice pudding) and mercimek çorbası (lentil soup). 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"content": "\u003cp>When Rajiv Joseph first wrote \u003cem>King James\u003c/em>, a play about the friendship of two LeBron James fans, Shawn and Matt, it was drafted as a single scene. Eventually, he turned it into a four-part story — loosely mirroring the four quarters of a basketball game — that takes place over several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized I needed to have a play that spanned the length of time, because part of LeBron’s appeal and his legacy is his longevity,” said the Pulitzer-nominated playwright. “And part of the story is how the emotions towards him ebbed and flowed over time because of different fortunes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13966472']Directed by Joseph’s longtime workmate Giovanna Sardelli, and \u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/mainstage/king-james/\">running through Nov. 3 at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley\u003c/a> in Mountain View, \u003cem>King James\u003c/em> reflects contemporary social realities in that its protagonists belong to different races and economic backgrounds. At its heart, though, it’s a nod to the way men use sports to express otherwise repressed emotions. “They have a sort of ‘code,’” Joseph said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This theme came from Joseph’s own friendships growing up. “We have this language of sports, this rivalry between teams and our opinions of players that get very fierce,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn (Kenny Scott) and Matt (Jordan Lane Shappell) in TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s ‘King James.’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The deepest impression was made by his good friend, actor Glenn Davis who is also the artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, where \u003cem>King James\u003c/em> premiered in March 2022. Davis played Shawn. He was also in the cast of Joseph’s \u003cem>Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo\u003c/em>, which premiered in California in 2009 and later went to Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis and Joseph have been friends for decades and share a love of basketball. “He’s from Chicago, I’m from Cleveland, he’s a Jordan guy, I’m a LeBron guy and so those arguments and debates also filter into the story in a major way,” said Joseph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Team sports, especially of the kind associated with regions and cities, are about a great deal more than simply watching one’s favorite athletes in action, Joseph said. “There’s so much of one’s identity, one’s upbringing, one’s family and friends that’s connected to the performance of a team… that sense of it, the sense of belonging somewhere. All those factors are kind of what inspired the play somewhere for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne9.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne9-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne9-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne9-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne9-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne9-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne9-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn (Kenny Scott) and Matt (Jordan Lane Shappell) in TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s ‘King James.’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joseph’s own identity has informed this piece in a big way. Not his mixed-race identity — his dad is Indian, his mom is part French-part German — but the part that ties him to the place he was born and raised: Cleveland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the case of this play, the identity that comes across of mine is my identity as a Clevelander — as an East Side Clevelander,” he said. Autobiographical elements are aplenty; the entire play takes place in a suburb of the city called Cleveland Heights, where Joseph grew up. Matt went to Heights High School, where Joseph went. Shawn went to St. Ignatius High School, the Catholic private school that Joseph’s grandfather and uncles went to — “that I was supposed to go to, but I begged my parents not to go to,” Joseph said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13966064']Also playing into the creation of this play was the “implicitly dramatic” relationship between the city of Cleveland and LeBron. “You know, he’s from the region, he came here, we loved him, he left Cleveland, we hated him, he came back to Cleveland, we loved him…” he said, recounting James’ career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By his own admission, it’s these aspects that make King James a “decidedly American play,” as compared to much of his previous work. For instance, \u003cem>Guards at the Taj\u003c/em> (2015), about the cruelty behind the construction of the Taj Mahal, remains his most internationally produced play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn (Kenny Scott) and Matt (Jordan Lane Shappell) in TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s ‘King James.’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The story of King James is an American story, and a Cleveland story, and it deals with the racial dynamics between white and Black people in this country,” he said. A few months from now, it’ll be staged in London, but he doesn’t anticipate a prolific international life for it. “I think it’s a limitation that it is kind of so clearly an American play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the same, it is one of the most produced plays within the country. In 2016, in a historical final, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Golden State Warriors to win the NBA championship thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Block_(basketball)\">James’ famed block\u003c/a>. Is Joseph at all concerned that his Bay Area audience most likely comprises Warriors fans who’re still salty about that blip in the sporting matrix? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, not at all,” he said. “The fans of the Warriors are much like the 2016 Warriors — their bark was worse than their bite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘King James’ runs through Nov. 3 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in Mountain View. \u003ca href=\"http://<a%20href=\" https:>“>Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Also playing into the creation of this play was the “implicitly dramatic” relationship between the city of Cleveland and LeBron. “You know, he’s from the region, he came here, we loved him, he left Cleveland, we hated him, he came back to Cleveland, we loved him…” he said, recounting James’ career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By his own admission, it’s these aspects that make King James a “decidedly American play,” as compared to much of his previous work. For instance, \u003cem>Guards at the Taj\u003c/em> (2015), about the cruelty behind the construction of the Taj Mahal, remains his most internationally produced play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/TW_KingJames_KevinBerne3-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn (Kenny Scott) and Matt (Jordan Lane Shappell) in TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s ‘King James.’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The story of King James is an American story, and a Cleveland story, and it deals with the racial dynamics between white and Black people in this country,” he said. A few months from now, it’ll be staged in London, but he doesn’t anticipate a prolific international life for it. “I think it’s a limitation that it is kind of so clearly an American play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the same, it is one of the most produced plays within the country. In 2016, in a historical final, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Golden State Warriors to win the NBA championship thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Block_(basketball)\">James’ famed block\u003c/a>. Is Joseph at all concerned that his Bay Area audience most likely comprises Warriors fans who’re still salty about that blip in the sporting matrix? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, not at all,” he said. “The fans of the Warriors are much like the 2016 Warriors — their bark was worse than their bite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘King James’ runs through Nov. 3 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in Mountain View. \u003ca href=\"http://<a%20href=\" https:>“>Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/siliconvalleyunseen\">Silicon Valley Unseen\u003c/a> is a series of photo essays, original reporting and underreported histories that survey the tech capital’s overlooked communities and subcultures from a local perspective.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My earliest childhood memories revolve around an apartment building near downtown Mountain View, populated by immigrant Asian families and, for a time, my Mexican dad. I vividly recall its details: tight quarters, cockroaches scattering between tiles, a shared backyard and the overpowering aroma of mixed diasporas trying to cook their way back to some faraway homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13964538']The most distinct sensory detail, though — one I’ve literally dreamt of as an adult — was the daily, charcoal-thick waft from the Persian market across the street, where Middle Eastern spices commingled with joojeh kabab and koobideh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose Market is where we’d go for everything from bubblegum and Tahitian punch soda to fresh veggies and poultry. It was among the few places I was allowed to walk to, on my own or with my older brother. Though we moved out of those apartments in the late ’90s, my memory of that market has endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965454\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Middle Eastern spices and seasonings greet customers inside the newly renovated Rose International Market on El Camino Real in Mountain View. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rose Market stood in that same location for decades. At the height of its popularity, Middle Eastern families would visit from all over the region. The market eventually expanded to nearby Saratoga, becoming Silicon Valley’s definitive outlet for Iranian foods and groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the years, as Silicon Valley underwent drastic redevelopment and a tech-induced real estate land grab, some smaller businesses clustered near Rose Market — including Clarke’s Burgers, Le’s Alterations, an auto shop and a liquor store — receded from the landscape. Clarke’s had been a no-frills neighborhood institution, and it was where my single dad would often take us to watch 49ers games. Prior to its closing in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Clarkes-Charcoal-Broiler-Mountain-View-closes-75-15184803.php\">near the start of the pandemic\u003c/a>, it had been the oldest restaurant in all of Mountain View, and perhaps the most universally beloved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, Rose had also disappeared in Mountain View. From 2015 to 2019, as rents skyrocketed and trendier properties sprouted up nearby, the humble Iranian market closed its doors, making way for a ritzy mixed-use apartment complex. For nearly half a decade, there was no scent of Persian-style kebabs in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to public outcry, however, the developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltoonline.com/blogs/2019/02/14/rose-international-market-returns-to-mountain-view/\">signed long-term leases for a handful of small businesses\u003c/a>, including Rose, to remain on the ground floor once construction was complete. Through all of those back-and-forth negotiations, and a temporary relocation to Cupertino, Rose Market was one of the lucky ones, able to endure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965462\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965462\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose International Market’s new look is drastically different from its humble beginnings in 1988. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Rose finally reopened at the new site. Its exterior is modernized, an extension of a sterile, swanky campus-like structure, similar to those of adjacent small businesses like Le’s Alterations, the Asian-owned dry cleaner from my childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, Rose Market continues to supply a busy clientele with imported specialty products, like Persian pistachio ice cream sandwiches and an extensive selection of hard-to-find teas from abroad. Though unfamiliar in its updated appearance, it still delivers the same aromatic sensory overload of the old market, offering a soupçon of Iranian culture I’ve always associated with my South Bay upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13965311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area — and Silicon Valley, in particular — has been a hotbed for Iranian immigrants and refugees for over half a century. The initial wave of Persians \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/mapping-the-iranian-diaspora-in-america\">mass migrated to the United States in 1979 as a result of the Islamic Revolution\u003c/a>, with the highest concentrations in Los Angeles and San Jose. From 1980 to 1988, during the Iran-Iraq War, even more Iranians left their homeland for California. Today, the state boasts the highest population of Iranians nationwide with over 200,000 estimated residents (as the \u003ca href=\"https://cids.sfsu.edu/background-center\">Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies reports\u003c/a>, no official census data exists for Iranian Americans).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965493\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965493\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1684\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-2048x1347.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-1920x1263.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose water for sale at Rose International Market in Mountain View. The region has been home to one of the nation’s largest Iranian populations for nearly half a century. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After leaving Iran, Saied Mehranfar cofounded Rose Market with his brothers in 1988. You can usually find him bustling around the market, delegating tasks and overseeing the business. His English is limited and his storytelling is sparse, but during a recent visit he gave me a tour around the shop, pointing out the different sections of fresh produce, imported beverages and the store’s upgraded kitchen. He then directed me to his nephew, Ramin, a second-generation Iranian American who helps run daily operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The developer came and bought up all this property piece by piece, and everything closed down for a few years,” Ramin said, recalling the period of time when the market’s future in Mountain View was uncertain. “[But] this place was always meant for us to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mountain View had the first Rose Market,” he continued, referring to the shop’s previous iteration in another part of Mountain View. “Then [we] got a bigger place, and then the one that everybody knows from over 35 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965460\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965460\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohsen Amiri, right, smiles at Ramin Mehranfar, both employees at Rose International Market in Mountain View. Ramin’s uncle, Saied, is an original co-owner who sometimes appears at the market. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was one of those who grew up knowing Rose on Castro Street and Victor Way, when smells from the market wandered through my second-floor apartment’s bedroom window. (The view to the market has since been obstructed by a cookie-cutter development of homes in the adjacent lot, once a dirt field wonderland for kids like me.) Just as Rose offers a sense of connection to a lost homeland for Iranians and Middle Eastern immigrants, it simultaneously connects me to my own upbringing in pre-Googleplex Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965453\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965453\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Middle Eastern stew at Rose International Market, a 37-year-old Iranian market, in Mountain View on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mohammad.earth/\">Mohammad Gorjestani\u003c/a> can relate. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mohammad.earth/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Iranian born filmmaker\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, artist, and founder of production company and creative studio \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/evenodd.studio/?hl=en\">Even/Odd\u003c/a> in San Francisco, Gorjestani grew up in West San Jose immersed in Iranian traditions. After he and his parents arrived to the Bay Area from Iran in 1988, places like Rose Market became a destination.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a little far from The Gardens [a Section 8 apartment complex in San Jose where many Iranian families lived], \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">but we would pick up food often at places like Chelokebabi, Yas, or Rose Market and picnic at Shoreline,\u003c/span>” says Gorjestani. “That was a tradition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a filmmaker who spent this past summer in Iran capturing the nation’s affinity for wrestling during the 2024 Olympics, Gorjestani is aware of the various complexities and nuances that surround Iran, its migrants and its cultural norms. While the slang and customs have morphed in Iran — a nation which Gorjestani admits is “like a black box to Americans,” \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">due its portrayal, restricted access, and heavy Western sanctions — Iranians in the diaspora have been more stuck in a time of the past.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965459\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ibrahim Almamori, a Rose International Market employee of over 30 years, makes Kabob Koubideh, in Mountain View on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Iran has evolved, but the people who immigrated here are still mimicking what they left behind, I think it’s a natural way of finding comfort for my parents’ generation especially” he told me over the phone while still overseas. “There’s a curtain drawn around Iran by the West. It’s very particular what is seen and shared. That’s why, even being there, it’s like being in a portal. You feel totally transported.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gorjestani reflected on his recent trip to Tehran, Iran’s metropolitan capital, and how it was filled with younger “new wave” efforts, such as craft coffee shops and eateries excited to offer pizzas and burgers. He sees the art and culinary scene in Tehran as eclectic, worldly, experimental — on par with other major cities in the world. In Northern Iran, known for its food and especially sour flavor profiles, Gorjestani experienced things he didn’t even know existed like “Chanar,” distinctly regional dessert shops focused on creating pomegranate-only concoctions of shaved ice, slushies and regional lavashak (“fruit roll-ups”) that he’s never seen. It’s not the Iran that his parents or former generations may have remembered or ever known.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s even a word commonly used (“sonnati”) for anything traditional. It’s not that traditional foods and customs are no longer revered; they’re just no longer the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">only\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> defining aspects of define Iran’s burgeoning multi-generational identity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When I was going out over there, people would ask, do you want to go to a sonnati — like a traditional place — or do you want to go to a contemporary place, like a fast food spot? I got asked that a lot by all the gracious hosts I had” he says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Gorjestani, Rose Market is more sonnati. It’s a reflection of a time left behind by a certain generation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965492\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965492\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traditional Middle Eastern pastries are plentiful at Rose International Market. The shop offers a variety of Iranian sweets. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“These Iranian markets [in Silicon Valley] were new at the time,” says Gorjestani. “These places were [being opened by] immigrants in their twenties, thirties, maybe forties and fifties if you’re pushing it. They had this energy to create something for the diaspora here and for themselves to deal with being homesick. Then they get older, their businesses get older, and maybe their kids don’t want to run a family business or do their own thing. They’re not as connected to the homeland as their parents are, and things start to fade, assimilate, move on. It’s natural for the ebb and flow of any diaspora. But I’m so grateful for places like Rose Market who kept us connected to our Vatan [motherland]. ”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinner at Rose Market might begin with fesenjan, a sweet pomegranate stew bathing thick, uneven chunks of chicken and mixed with ground walnut. When scooped on top of an order of cabbage rice, it smacks harder than just about any dish I’ve ever had. You can pair that with koofteh Tabrizi, a delectable meatball bigger — and meatier — than my balled up fist. The saffron and cinnamon mingle with fresh herbs, onions and prunes, while a massive walnut stuffed at its core awaits. Unlike the average American meatball, which usually functions as a sidekick to pasta, the Iranian koofteh is a meal unto itself. Served in its own juices, it needn’t be accompanied by much more than your appetite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you’ll want to add more anyway: ghormeh sabzi (a zesty, lemony stew of kidney beans and tender beef), kalam polo (rice and cabbage fried to a golden, auburn hue), tabouli salad, tahdig (crisp, pan-burnt rice), and the showstopping varieties of kebab plated in a to-go box with a generous side of traditional Persian lavash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These items won’t just fill an empty stomach. They’ll bring you closer to enlightenment, reminding you of all things good and holy about our corporeal existence. In that sense, Rose Market is about timelessness, and perhaps that’s why it has lasted for nearly 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965494\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pistachios are a favorite at Rose International Market. In addition to fresh items and produce, the hot food counter at the back of the shop is a key attraction at the longstanding grocery store. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Silicon Valley — hyper-forward thinking, constantly transmorphing — sonnati is necessary. Rose Market may be stuck on a different Iranian timeline, but it represents a more tender version of Silicon Valley, before the dot-com arms race seized this region’s image, and dictated who gets to live and eat here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I walk into Rose Market now — as an adult, father, and journalist — it teleports me to a quondam time and place that I can never let go of. These days, that’s the kind of nourishment I rarely get anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13965311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\">\u003cem>Rose International Market (801 W El Camino Real Suite B, Mountain View) is open daily for groceries from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and hot food from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The most distinct sensory detail, though — one I’ve literally dreamt of as an adult — was the daily, charcoal-thick waft from the Persian market across the street, where Middle Eastern spices commingled with joojeh kabab and koobideh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose Market is where we’d go for everything from bubblegum and Tahitian punch soda to fresh veggies and poultry. It was among the few places I was allowed to walk to, on my own or with my older brother. Though we moved out of those apartments in the late ’90s, my memory of that market has endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965454\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Middle Eastern spices and seasonings greet customers inside the newly renovated Rose International Market on El Camino Real in Mountain View. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rose Market stood in that same location for decades. At the height of its popularity, Middle Eastern families would visit from all over the region. The market eventually expanded to nearby Saratoga, becoming Silicon Valley’s definitive outlet for Iranian foods and groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the years, as Silicon Valley underwent drastic redevelopment and a tech-induced real estate land grab, some smaller businesses clustered near Rose Market — including Clarke’s Burgers, Le’s Alterations, an auto shop and a liquor store — receded from the landscape. Clarke’s had been a no-frills neighborhood institution, and it was where my single dad would often take us to watch 49ers games. Prior to its closing in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Clarkes-Charcoal-Broiler-Mountain-View-closes-75-15184803.php\">near the start of the pandemic\u003c/a>, it had been the oldest restaurant in all of Mountain View, and perhaps the most universally beloved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, Rose had also disappeared in Mountain View. From 2015 to 2019, as rents skyrocketed and trendier properties sprouted up nearby, the humble Iranian market closed its doors, making way for a ritzy mixed-use apartment complex. For nearly half a decade, there was no scent of Persian-style kebabs in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to public outcry, however, the developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltoonline.com/blogs/2019/02/14/rose-international-market-returns-to-mountain-view/\">signed long-term leases for a handful of small businesses\u003c/a>, including Rose, to remain on the ground floor once construction was complete. Through all of those back-and-forth negotiations, and a temporary relocation to Cupertino, Rose Market was one of the lucky ones, able to endure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965462\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965462\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-59-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose International Market’s new look is drastically different from its humble beginnings in 1988. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Rose finally reopened at the new site. Its exterior is modernized, an extension of a sterile, swanky campus-like structure, similar to those of adjacent small businesses like Le’s Alterations, the Asian-owned dry cleaner from my childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, Rose Market continues to supply a busy clientele with imported specialty products, like Persian pistachio ice cream sandwiches and an extensive selection of hard-to-find teas from abroad. Though unfamiliar in its updated appearance, it still delivers the same aromatic sensory overload of the old market, offering a soupçon of Iranian culture I’ve always associated with my South Bay upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13965311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area — and Silicon Valley, in particular — has been a hotbed for Iranian immigrants and refugees for over half a century. The initial wave of Persians \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/mapping-the-iranian-diaspora-in-america\">mass migrated to the United States in 1979 as a result of the Islamic Revolution\u003c/a>, with the highest concentrations in Los Angeles and San Jose. From 1980 to 1988, during the Iran-Iraq War, even more Iranians left their homeland for California. Today, the state boasts the highest population of Iranians nationwide with over 200,000 estimated residents (as the \u003ca href=\"https://cids.sfsu.edu/background-center\">Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies reports\u003c/a>, no official census data exists for Iranian Americans).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965493\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965493\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1684\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-2048x1347.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-10-1920x1263.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose water for sale at Rose International Market in Mountain View. The region has been home to one of the nation’s largest Iranian populations for nearly half a century. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After leaving Iran, Saied Mehranfar cofounded Rose Market with his brothers in 1988. You can usually find him bustling around the market, delegating tasks and overseeing the business. His English is limited and his storytelling is sparse, but during a recent visit he gave me a tour around the shop, pointing out the different sections of fresh produce, imported beverages and the store’s upgraded kitchen. He then directed me to his nephew, Ramin, a second-generation Iranian American who helps run daily operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The developer came and bought up all this property piece by piece, and everything closed down for a few years,” Ramin said, recalling the period of time when the market’s future in Mountain View was uncertain. “[But] this place was always meant for us to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mountain View had the first Rose Market,” he continued, referring to the shop’s previous iteration in another part of Mountain View. “Then [we] got a bigger place, and then the one that everybody knows from over 35 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965460\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965460\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-40-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohsen Amiri, right, smiles at Ramin Mehranfar, both employees at Rose International Market in Mountain View. Ramin’s uncle, Saied, is an original co-owner who sometimes appears at the market. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was one of those who grew up knowing Rose on Castro Street and Victor Way, when smells from the market wandered through my second-floor apartment’s bedroom window. (The view to the market has since been obstructed by a cookie-cutter development of homes in the adjacent lot, once a dirt field wonderland for kids like me.) Just as Rose offers a sense of connection to a lost homeland for Iranians and Middle Eastern immigrants, it simultaneously connects me to my own upbringing in pre-Googleplex Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965453\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965453\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Middle Eastern stew at Rose International Market, a 37-year-old Iranian market, in Mountain View on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mohammad.earth/\">Mohammad Gorjestani\u003c/a> can relate. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mohammad.earth/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Iranian born filmmaker\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, artist, and founder of production company and creative studio \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/evenodd.studio/?hl=en\">Even/Odd\u003c/a> in San Francisco, Gorjestani grew up in West San Jose immersed in Iranian traditions. After he and his parents arrived to the Bay Area from Iran in 1988, places like Rose Market became a destination.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a little far from The Gardens [a Section 8 apartment complex in San Jose where many Iranian families lived], \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">but we would pick up food often at places like Chelokebabi, Yas, or Rose Market and picnic at Shoreline,\u003c/span>” says Gorjestani. “That was a tradition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a filmmaker who spent this past summer in Iran capturing the nation’s affinity for wrestling during the 2024 Olympics, Gorjestani is aware of the various complexities and nuances that surround Iran, its migrants and its cultural norms. While the slang and customs have morphed in Iran — a nation which Gorjestani admits is “like a black box to Americans,” \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">due its portrayal, restricted access, and heavy Western sanctions — Iranians in the diaspora have been more stuck in a time of the past.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965459\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IRANIANMARKET_GC-37-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ibrahim Almamori, a Rose International Market employee of over 30 years, makes Kabob Koubideh, in Mountain View on September 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Iran has evolved, but the people who immigrated here are still mimicking what they left behind, I think it’s a natural way of finding comfort for my parents’ generation especially” he told me over the phone while still overseas. “There’s a curtain drawn around Iran by the West. It’s very particular what is seen and shared. That’s why, even being there, it’s like being in a portal. You feel totally transported.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gorjestani reflected on his recent trip to Tehran, Iran’s metropolitan capital, and how it was filled with younger “new wave” efforts, such as craft coffee shops and eateries excited to offer pizzas and burgers. He sees the art and culinary scene in Tehran as eclectic, worldly, experimental — on par with other major cities in the world. In Northern Iran, known for its food and especially sour flavor profiles, Gorjestani experienced things he didn’t even know existed like “Chanar,” distinctly regional dessert shops focused on creating pomegranate-only concoctions of shaved ice, slushies and regional lavashak (“fruit roll-ups”) that he’s never seen. It’s not the Iran that his parents or former generations may have remembered or ever known.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s even a word commonly used (“sonnati”) for anything traditional. It’s not that traditional foods and customs are no longer revered; they’re just no longer the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">only\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> defining aspects of define Iran’s burgeoning multi-generational identity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When I was going out over there, people would ask, do you want to go to a sonnati — like a traditional place — or do you want to go to a contemporary place, like a fast food spot? I got asked that a lot by all the gracious hosts I had” he says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Gorjestani, Rose Market is more sonnati. It’s a reflection of a time left behind by a certain generation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965492\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965492\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-55-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traditional Middle Eastern pastries are plentiful at Rose International Market. The shop offers a variety of Iranian sweets. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“These Iranian markets [in Silicon Valley] were new at the time,” says Gorjestani. “These places were [being opened by] immigrants in their twenties, thirties, maybe forties and fifties if you’re pushing it. They had this energy to create something for the diaspora here and for themselves to deal with being homesick. Then they get older, their businesses get older, and maybe their kids don’t want to run a family business or do their own thing. They’re not as connected to the homeland as their parents are, and things start to fade, assimilate, move on. It’s natural for the ebb and flow of any diaspora. But I’m so grateful for places like Rose Market who kept us connected to our Vatan [motherland]. ”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinner at Rose Market might begin with fesenjan, a sweet pomegranate stew bathing thick, uneven chunks of chicken and mixed with ground walnut. When scooped on top of an order of cabbage rice, it smacks harder than just about any dish I’ve ever had. You can pair that with koofteh Tabrizi, a delectable meatball bigger — and meatier — than my balled up fist. The saffron and cinnamon mingle with fresh herbs, onions and prunes, while a massive walnut stuffed at its core awaits. Unlike the average American meatball, which usually functions as a sidekick to pasta, the Iranian koofteh is a meal unto itself. Served in its own juices, it needn’t be accompanied by much more than your appetite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you’ll want to add more anyway: ghormeh sabzi (a zesty, lemony stew of kidney beans and tender beef), kalam polo (rice and cabbage fried to a golden, auburn hue), tabouli salad, tahdig (crisp, pan-burnt rice), and the showstopping varieties of kebab plated in a to-go box with a generous side of traditional Persian lavash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These items won’t just fill an empty stomach. They’ll bring you closer to enlightenment, reminding you of all things good and holy about our corporeal existence. In that sense, Rose Market is about timelessness, and perhaps that’s why it has lasted for nearly 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965494\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20240923_IranianMarket_GC-25-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pistachios are a favorite at Rose International Market. In addition to fresh items and produce, the hot food counter at the back of the shop is a key attraction at the longstanding grocery store. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Silicon Valley — hyper-forward thinking, constantly transmorphing — sonnati is necessary. Rose Market may be stuck on a different Iranian timeline, but it represents a more tender version of Silicon Valley, before the dot-com arms race seized this region’s image, and dictated who gets to live and eat here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I walk into Rose Market now — as an adult, father, and journalist — it teleports me to a quondam time and place that I can never let go of. These days, that’s the kind of nourishment I rarely get anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1701px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1701\" height=\"1506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466.jpg 1701w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466-800x708.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466-1020x903.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466-160x142.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466-768x680.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466-1536x1360.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1701px) 100vw, 1701px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley is full of economic contradictions and diverse identities. Throughout the year, events like Mexican Independence Day (above) showcase the array of immigrant enclaves that reside in the tech capital. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/siliconvalleyunseen\">Silicon Valley Unseen\u003c/a> is a series of photo essays, original reporting and underreported histories that survey the tech capital’s overlooked communities and subcultures from a local perspective.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or most of my life, when someone’s asked where I’m from, I’ve avoided saying “Silicon Valley.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, I’ve opted for a term more representative of my Bay Area upbringing: the South Bay. “Silicon Valley” and all it connotes is just too one-dimensional, too narrow-minded to hold the layered realities that have shaped my community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12/328/1401\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The name Silicon Valley dates back to 1971, when journalist Don Hoefler coined it\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in a series about Santa Clara County’s booming semiconductor industry. In the decades since, its promise has been lionized worldwide.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To outsiders, Silicon Valley is seen as the world’s biggest gold mine in the digital age. Whereas the pick-and-axe Gold Rush once attracted runaways and rogues westward in the mid-1800s, this tech boom signaled white collar excellence and limitless profiteering laced with uber-innovative thinking — a modern algorithm that has spawned replicas in Tel Aviv, London, Austin and Zhongguancun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But this pristine, mainstream portrayal blithely ignores its de facto caste system. For every office building, there are tireless custodians who stay after hours to clean up, and security guards whose shifts begin at midnight. At local parks, groups of Spanish-speaking nannies gather while raising tech workers’ children. Silicon Valley is where you’ll see a scissor-door Lamborghini casually parked in a bland strip mall — right next to an Uber food delivery driver in a Toyota with a missing front bumper.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley is often depicted as a monolithic capital of wealth and tech innovation, but the region has some of the highest rates of homelessness and wealth disparities in the nation. \u003ccite>(Darius Riley/HOUR VOYSES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the son of Mexican immigrants, I’ve spent decades trying to understand the reverence others project onto my imperfect hometown. I’m someone who grew up surrounded by these privileges yet still fell through the institutional cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to a high school where some students lived in the hills and sported a rotation of BMWs and Mercedes, while others lived with eight undocumented family members doing their best to get by on minimum wage and avoid deportation. I observed these disparities as someone in the middle, with access to both worlds. Constantly toggling between extremes warped my sense of place. I eventually gravitated towards graffiti, attended community college and read up on the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2007, I left Mountain View (now known as the home of Google) for Berkeley in pursuit of art, education and personal growth. I eventually exited California entirely, and never planned on returning to Silicon Valley. But recently I moved back to my old neighborhood, right next to Highway 101 and Moffett Field. And the changes are enormous.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965095\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1244px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965095\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1244\" height=\"908\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM.png 1244w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-800x584.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-1020x745.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-768x561.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1244px) 100vw, 1244px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author Alan Chazaro (left) stands with Knuckles (middle) and R.J. (right) during a graffiti outing in Mountain View, circa 2006. Knuckles still lives in Mountain View, as one of the only remaining families in the neighborhood from that time. R.J. has since passed away.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gone are any bounce houses and taco trucks; any lowrider bikes and tinted windows on low-sitting Lexuses and Mustangs; any \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWf-sL1LFjE\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">aspiring Chicano rappers at the nearby park\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; any Samoan, Vietnamese and Filipino house parties. They’ve mostly been replaced by empty holograms and dollar signs. There isn’t much space and affordability for anything else these days, it seems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Headlines about my hometown make it seem like the world’s biggest capitalist theme park rather than an actual community of everyday people: “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/30/silicon-valley-wealth-second-richest-country-world-earth\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Silicon Valley Were a Country, It Would Be Among the Richest on Earth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.” “\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/28/kid-parties-silicon-valley-entertainers/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside the Opulent World of Six-Figure Kids Birthday Parties in Silicon Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-campus/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside Apple’s Insanely Great (or Just Insane) New Mothership\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who gets to tell stories about Silicon Valley? And what do those stories reveal about who we really are? Perhaps more than ever, as the architectures of displacement continue to spread in every direction and the ongoing tides of entities like OpenAI encroach, there’s an urgency for preservation. For humanized connection.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week on KQED, local activists, small business owners, car club enthusiasts, photographers, reporters, poets, filmmakers, rappers, radio hosts and longtime community members will converge to share our homegrown views about Silicon Valley — in our own words.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For too long, our region’s ordinary beauties and people have gone unseen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13965311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]M[/dropcap]y dad never goes to San Francisco’s Mission or Oakland’s Fruitvale — two of Northern California’s most celebrated Mexican and Central American neighborhoods — to order his favorite pupusas. He doesn’t have to.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His pupusas of choice are served by a Salvadoran woman who lives on a tree-lined suburban cul-de-sac in Mountain View.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are many food vendors in Silicon Valley who set up their operations in front yards, public parks and parking lots. From pupusas to tacos, you’ll find a rich supply of immigrant dishes being served in unlikely locations. This particular taquero immigrated from Mexico City and serves al pastor tacos during local soccer games in Sunnyvale. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In front of a shanty home that remains as a vestige from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://fortheloveofapricots.com/2016/07/valley-of-hearts-delight/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the South Bay’s centuries of fruit orchard prominence\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, this señora slangs distinctly Salvadoran staples: pupusas, curtido, salsa roja, frijoles and arroz. Her offerings aren’t particularly creative, and she’s not the kind of trendy, underground TikTok food celebrity that attracts buzzing lines.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Primarily, she’s simply trying to survive the economic reality of Silicon Valley, a land where some people own Cybertrucks, and others ride public transit and help assemble Teslas in nearby factories. Silicon Valley isn’t the attractive, vibrant center of a major metropolis. It’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mocutobi/status/1790549460562628764\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sleepy stretch of homes that resemble just about any other suburb in the country\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, except that property values are measured by the multi-millions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the largest centrifugal cluster of moguldom on the planet. Google, Apple, Uber, Facebook, Waymo, LinkedIn, Netflix and Lockheed Martin are all within 15 miles from my front door. These surrounding corporations — rather than the hardworking residents who live here — are what get cared for and invested in.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965094\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignacio Chazaro immigrated from Mexico to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1976 without a high school education. Within a decade, he was hired as a mechanical designer in Menlo Park, part of what journalist Don Hoefler in 1971 termed “Silicon Valley USA” due to the region’s booming semiconductor industry. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our pupusera prepares her homemade meals in a gravel driveway near a Google satellite campus, right beside a parked trailer where an immigrant Honduran handyman lives because rent in this zip code is too expensive to afford an actual bedroom. (The renovated house across the street from the pupusera is now valued at just shy of $4 million).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dad arrived in the San Francisco Peninsula from Mexico as a middle school dropout. Like so many who cross the border into the United States, he sought opportunity. He enrolled at College of San Mateo while working nights as a restaurant cook near campus; miraculously, he managed to complete a program in mechanical design. My dad had known nothing about it, only that a recruiter from a nearby company visited his class and a counselor had encouraged him to sign up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965100\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965100\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Chazaro’s son, Maceo, explores the San Jose Flea Market, where the author often visited while growing up.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prior to that, my dad, Nacho, was a free-floating hippie. By all accounts — from stories I’ve heard and photos I’ve unearthed — he was a marijuana-loving, laissez-faire artist who rocked a Mexican afro and wore a leather vest. A man who’d wandered off from a family of 12 siblings in Veracruz to chase something — anything — somewhere else. He’d never used or seen a computer before. In a recent conversation, when I asked what his plan had been upon reaching California, he told me he didn’t have one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That all changed in Silicon Valley. Due to the fateful intersection of time, place and skills, my dad landed a gig in the early tech workforce as someone who could sketch detailed computer parts by hand. (He worked for a company that no longer exists, inside a building that has since been converted into Facebook’s headquarters). Back then, computer parts were drafted by pencil as illustrations. If there’s one thing my dad could do, it was drawing. Nearly four decades later, he does similar work, though he uses a computer now. It pays the bills, he enjoys it, and he never complains. I admire him for being able to plug into the system and reap the rewards of his immigrant scrappiness. By those metrics, he crushed it in life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plus, his life in tech has provided me and my older brother with invaluable tools. I remember when my dad got a computer at our first apartment, back in the days of floppy discs and MS-DOS in the mid-’90s. At the time, I thought it was part of normal childhood. Looking back, it’s clear I grew up with immediate access to technologies that my peers would later come to depend upon and even worship. It was a perk of being inside Silicon Valley, if only on the cultural fringes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Try to imagine an unqualified Mexican immigrant waltzing into Silicon Valley for a lifelong career in tech these days. That backdoor has since been locked.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13965311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]D[/dropcap]irt bikers popping twelve-o’clock wheelies at rush hour. That’s what you might see in East Palo Alto (EPA) — a redlined city off the eastern ramp of Highway 101, whose primary street leads directly to Stanford’s finely manicured campus. As one of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Silicon Valley Unseen’\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s eight collaborators, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hourvoyses/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">EPA-raised photographer Darius Riley\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> rides around on his skateboard, capturing local sights and faces. He provides a glimpse into this ever-evolving community historically alienated from Silicon Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across the Dumbarton Bridge from EPA, you’ll find Fremont. The city marks the northeasternmost edge of Silicon Valley, home to a host of tech companies, including Tesla. More importantly, it’s a tranquil suburb known for its Indian cuisine, Afghan community and high-ranking safety. Recently, Fremont has provided the setting for popular films like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dìdi \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fremont\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. East Bay journalist \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soup_.y/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supriya Yelimeli\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> dives into it all in a reflection on her own upbringing as a first-generation Indian American in the country’s “happiest city.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contributing journalist, Supriya Yelimeli, grew up in Fremont during a time of rapid expansion. Here she is pictured riding BART with her family members. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From there, you’ll hop on 880, swerving past Union City and Milpitas toward the aortic valve of Silicon Valley: San Jose. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Shark City” has multiple regions — East Side, West Side and South — each an ecosystem unto itself. In Japantown, you’ll hear from the Vietnamese American owner of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/classicloot/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a clothing boutique\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about what defines her sense of Silicon Valley fashion (and where to thrift shop). On San Jose’s East Side, you’ll meet folks like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jiggyjoefresco/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jiggy Joe Fresco\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and Pro Tribe’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tribe_general/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stretch\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. As \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ogpenn/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED reporter Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> learns over the span of his ride-alongs, the 408’s rap hustle parallels what he has seen in his own community in East Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/alexknowbody/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alex Knowbody\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> takes over from there. A Mexican American photographer who spends his weekends at PayPal Park — home to the Bay Area’s only professional soccer clubs, the Earthquakes and Bay FC — he embraces the area’s fútbol passions. His photos reveal the sport’s deep legacy, proving Silicon Valley has long been an underrated hotbed for U.S. soccer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming back up 101, crossing 237 (sorry, Cupertino and Campbell), you’ll zing past Alvarado and Santa Clara to reach Sunnyvale, home of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/duenascarclub/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dueñas, an all-women’s lowrider club\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The group’s founder Angel tells us how it all started, and why Silicon Valley is the undisputed lowrider mecca.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dueñas are an all-women lowrider club based in Silicon Valley. Here, they pulled into a strip mall and turned heads from every passersby. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your last stop is in Mountain View, where \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/_gbizness/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KMEL’s hip-hop radio host G-Biz\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> moved after growing up in East Palo Alto. At one point, Gary and I were neighbors, and attended the same high school. He explains what the area means to him and his family after they moved from Arkansas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And me? I went back to a 47-year-old Iranian market that has flourished near downtown Mountain View since my childhood. After being forced out of business for a few years, Rose Market is still supplying some of the best lahori chicken and basmati rice with saffron and zereshk. I weigh in on what they’ve meant to me, and hear from nearby \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mohammad.earth/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Iranian American filmmaker Mohammed Gorjestani\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about both the importance and shortcomings of immigrant nostalgia.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A teenager shows off his motor bike in East Palo Alto, a city that has often been overlooked in the heart of Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Darius Riley/HOUR VOYSES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be born and bred in Silicon Valley is not to be enamored or mesmerized by it. On the contrary, it’s to be at once skeptical and open-hearted; to remain simultaneously inspired and disillusioned. It’s to understand that while this region has been the site of so many life-altering tech trends, it has obscured — if not completely dismissed — everyone doing the day-to-day working and living underneath it all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m from here. We all are. And in the mighty words of Alex Knowbody: “There was a culture here before tech, and there will be a culture here after it, too.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But this pristine, mainstream portrayal blithely ignores its de facto caste system. For every office building, there are tireless custodians who stay after hours to clean up, and security guards whose shifts begin at midnight. At local parks, groups of Spanish-speaking nannies gather while raising tech workers’ children. Silicon Valley is where you’ll see a scissor-door Lamborghini casually parked in a bland strip mall — right next to an Uber food delivery driver in a Toyota with a missing front bumper.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley is often depicted as a monolithic capital of wealth and tech innovation, but the region has some of the highest rates of homelessness and wealth disparities in the nation. \u003ccite>(Darius Riley/HOUR VOYSES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the son of Mexican immigrants, I’ve spent decades trying to understand the reverence others project onto my imperfect hometown. I’m someone who grew up surrounded by these privileges yet still fell through the institutional cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to a high school where some students lived in the hills and sported a rotation of BMWs and Mercedes, while others lived with eight undocumented family members doing their best to get by on minimum wage and avoid deportation. I observed these disparities as someone in the middle, with access to both worlds. Constantly toggling between extremes warped my sense of place. I eventually gravitated towards graffiti, attended community college and read up on the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2007, I left Mountain View (now known as the home of Google) for Berkeley in pursuit of art, education and personal growth. I eventually exited California entirely, and never planned on returning to Silicon Valley. But recently I moved back to my old neighborhood, right next to Highway 101 and Moffett Field. And the changes are enormous.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965095\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1244px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965095\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1244\" height=\"908\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM.png 1244w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-800x584.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-1020x745.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-768x561.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1244px) 100vw, 1244px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author Alan Chazaro (left) stands with Knuckles (middle) and R.J. (right) during a graffiti outing in Mountain View, circa 2006. Knuckles still lives in Mountain View, as one of the only remaining families in the neighborhood from that time. R.J. has since passed away.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gone are any bounce houses and taco trucks; any lowrider bikes and tinted windows on low-sitting Lexuses and Mustangs; any \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWf-sL1LFjE\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">aspiring Chicano rappers at the nearby park\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; any Samoan, Vietnamese and Filipino house parties. They’ve mostly been replaced by empty holograms and dollar signs. There isn’t much space and affordability for anything else these days, it seems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Headlines about my hometown make it seem like the world’s biggest capitalist theme park rather than an actual community of everyday people: “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/30/silicon-valley-wealth-second-richest-country-world-earth\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Silicon Valley Were a Country, It Would Be Among the Richest on Earth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.” “\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/28/kid-parties-silicon-valley-entertainers/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside the Opulent World of Six-Figure Kids Birthday Parties in Silicon Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-campus/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside Apple’s Insanely Great (or Just Insane) New Mothership\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who gets to tell stories about Silicon Valley? And what do those stories reveal about who we really are? Perhaps more than ever, as the architectures of displacement continue to spread in every direction and the ongoing tides of entities like OpenAI encroach, there’s an urgency for preservation. For humanized connection.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week on KQED, local activists, small business owners, car club enthusiasts, photographers, reporters, poets, filmmakers, rappers, radio hosts and longtime community members will converge to share our homegrown views about Silicon Valley — in our own words.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For too long, our region’s ordinary beauties and people have gone unseen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13965311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">M\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>y dad never goes to San Francisco’s Mission or Oakland’s Fruitvale — two of Northern California’s most celebrated Mexican and Central American neighborhoods — to order his favorite pupusas. He doesn’t have to.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His pupusas of choice are served by a Salvadoran woman who lives on a tree-lined suburban cul-de-sac in Mountain View.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are many food vendors in Silicon Valley who set up their operations in front yards, public parks and parking lots. From pupusas to tacos, you’ll find a rich supply of immigrant dishes being served in unlikely locations. This particular taquero immigrated from Mexico City and serves al pastor tacos during local soccer games in Sunnyvale. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In front of a shanty home that remains as a vestige from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://fortheloveofapricots.com/2016/07/valley-of-hearts-delight/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the South Bay’s centuries of fruit orchard prominence\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, this señora slangs distinctly Salvadoran staples: pupusas, curtido, salsa roja, frijoles and arroz. Her offerings aren’t particularly creative, and she’s not the kind of trendy, underground TikTok food celebrity that attracts buzzing lines.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Primarily, she’s simply trying to survive the economic reality of Silicon Valley, a land where some people own Cybertrucks, and others ride public transit and help assemble Teslas in nearby factories. Silicon Valley isn’t the attractive, vibrant center of a major metropolis. It’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mocutobi/status/1790549460562628764\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sleepy stretch of homes that resemble just about any other suburb in the country\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, except that property values are measured by the multi-millions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the largest centrifugal cluster of moguldom on the planet. Google, Apple, Uber, Facebook, Waymo, LinkedIn, Netflix and Lockheed Martin are all within 15 miles from my front door. These surrounding corporations — rather than the hardworking residents who live here — are what get cared for and invested in.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965094\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignacio Chazaro immigrated from Mexico to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1976 without a high school education. Within a decade, he was hired as a mechanical designer in Menlo Park, part of what journalist Don Hoefler in 1971 termed “Silicon Valley USA” due to the region’s booming semiconductor industry. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our pupusera prepares her homemade meals in a gravel driveway near a Google satellite campus, right beside a parked trailer where an immigrant Honduran handyman lives because rent in this zip code is too expensive to afford an actual bedroom. (The renovated house across the street from the pupusera is now valued at just shy of $4 million).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dad arrived in the San Francisco Peninsula from Mexico as a middle school dropout. Like so many who cross the border into the United States, he sought opportunity. He enrolled at College of San Mateo while working nights as a restaurant cook near campus; miraculously, he managed to complete a program in mechanical design. My dad had known nothing about it, only that a recruiter from a nearby company visited his class and a counselor had encouraged him to sign up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965100\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965100\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Chazaro’s son, Maceo, explores the San Jose Flea Market, where the author often visited while growing up.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prior to that, my dad, Nacho, was a free-floating hippie. By all accounts — from stories I’ve heard and photos I’ve unearthed — he was a marijuana-loving, laissez-faire artist who rocked a Mexican afro and wore a leather vest. A man who’d wandered off from a family of 12 siblings in Veracruz to chase something — anything — somewhere else. He’d never used or seen a computer before. In a recent conversation, when I asked what his plan had been upon reaching California, he told me he didn’t have one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That all changed in Silicon Valley. Due to the fateful intersection of time, place and skills, my dad landed a gig in the early tech workforce as someone who could sketch detailed computer parts by hand. (He worked for a company that no longer exists, inside a building that has since been converted into Facebook’s headquarters). Back then, computer parts were drafted by pencil as illustrations. If there’s one thing my dad could do, it was drawing. Nearly four decades later, he does similar work, though he uses a computer now. It pays the bills, he enjoys it, and he never complains. I admire him for being able to plug into the system and reap the rewards of his immigrant scrappiness. By those metrics, he crushed it in life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plus, his life in tech has provided me and my older brother with invaluable tools. I remember when my dad got a computer at our first apartment, back in the days of floppy discs and MS-DOS in the mid-’90s. At the time, I thought it was part of normal childhood. Looking back, it’s clear I grew up with immediate access to technologies that my peers would later come to depend upon and even worship. It was a perk of being inside Silicon Valley, if only on the cultural fringes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Try to imagine an unqualified Mexican immigrant waltzing into Silicon Valley for a lifelong career in tech these days. That backdoor has since been locked.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13965311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">D\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>irt bikers popping twelve-o’clock wheelies at rush hour. That’s what you might see in East Palo Alto (EPA) — a redlined city off the eastern ramp of Highway 101, whose primary street leads directly to Stanford’s finely manicured campus. As one of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Silicon Valley Unseen’\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s eight collaborators, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hourvoyses/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">EPA-raised photographer Darius Riley\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> rides around on his skateboard, capturing local sights and faces. He provides a glimpse into this ever-evolving community historically alienated from Silicon Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across the Dumbarton Bridge from EPA, you’ll find Fremont. The city marks the northeasternmost edge of Silicon Valley, home to a host of tech companies, including Tesla. More importantly, it’s a tranquil suburb known for its Indian cuisine, Afghan community and high-ranking safety. Recently, Fremont has provided the setting for popular films like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dìdi \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fremont\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. East Bay journalist \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soup_.y/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supriya Yelimeli\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> dives into it all in a reflection on her own upbringing as a first-generation Indian American in the country’s “happiest city.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contributing journalist, Supriya Yelimeli, grew up in Fremont during a time of rapid expansion. Here she is pictured riding BART with her family members. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From there, you’ll hop on 880, swerving past Union City and Milpitas toward the aortic valve of Silicon Valley: San Jose. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Shark City” has multiple regions — East Side, West Side and South — each an ecosystem unto itself. In Japantown, you’ll hear from the Vietnamese American owner of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/classicloot/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a clothing boutique\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about what defines her sense of Silicon Valley fashion (and where to thrift shop). On San Jose’s East Side, you’ll meet folks like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jiggyjoefresco/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jiggy Joe Fresco\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and Pro Tribe’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tribe_general/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stretch\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. As \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ogpenn/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED reporter Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> learns over the span of his ride-alongs, the 408’s rap hustle parallels what he has seen in his own community in East Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/alexknowbody/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alex Knowbody\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> takes over from there. A Mexican American photographer who spends his weekends at PayPal Park — home to the Bay Area’s only professional soccer clubs, the Earthquakes and Bay FC — he embraces the area’s fútbol passions. His photos reveal the sport’s deep legacy, proving Silicon Valley has long been an underrated hotbed for U.S. soccer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming back up 101, crossing 237 (sorry, Cupertino and Campbell), you’ll zing past Alvarado and Santa Clara to reach Sunnyvale, home of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/duenascarclub/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dueñas, an all-women’s lowrider club\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The group’s founder Angel tells us how it all started, and why Silicon Valley is the undisputed lowrider mecca.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dueñas are an all-women lowrider club based in Silicon Valley. Here, they pulled into a strip mall and turned heads from every passersby. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your last stop is in Mountain View, where \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/_gbizness/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KMEL’s hip-hop radio host G-Biz\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> moved after growing up in East Palo Alto. At one point, Gary and I were neighbors, and attended the same high school. He explains what the area means to him and his family after they moved from Arkansas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And me? I went back to a 47-year-old Iranian market that has flourished near downtown Mountain View since my childhood. After being forced out of business for a few years, Rose Market is still supplying some of the best lahori chicken and basmati rice with saffron and zereshk. I weigh in on what they’ve meant to me, and hear from nearby \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mohammad.earth/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Iranian American filmmaker Mohammed Gorjestani\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about both the importance and shortcomings of immigrant nostalgia.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A teenager shows off his motor bike in East Palo Alto, a city that has often been overlooked in the heart of Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Darius Riley/HOUR VOYSES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be born and bred in Silicon Valley is not to be enamored or mesmerized by it. On the contrary, it’s to be at once skeptical and open-hearted; to remain simultaneously inspired and disillusioned. It’s to understand that while this region has been the site of so many life-altering tech trends, it has obscured — if not completely dismissed — everyone doing the day-to-day working and living underneath it all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For the average Bay Area caffeine seeker, Peruvian coffee and tea probably aren’t very high on the list of familiar options. Yet, Peru is \u003ca href=\"https://teajourney.pub/tea-in-peru/\">one of the highest tea-consuming nations in the Western Hemisphere\u003c/a>, largely due to the country’s high elevation. (In townships along the Andean peaks, tea made with coca leaves — of cocaine fame — is believed to prevent altitude sickness.) Peruvians have also become increasingly fond of coffee in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Bay Area residents probably have never even heard of Peru’s choice beverages, let alone know where to get them. And who can blame them? Though Peruvian cuisine has done extremely well in our region — from local restaurant chains like Limón to smaller mom-and-pop shops like El Cerrito’s El Mono — there isn’t much of a Peruvian cafe scene to speak of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when I came across \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/papachayperuviancoffee/\">Papachay\u003c/a>, a husband-and-wife-owned brick-and-mortar located on a sleepy back street in the Peninsula city of San Carlos, I made my trek over. (In Quechan, an indigenous language in Peru, papachay is akin to saying “what’s up?” to a male friend; “mamay” is used to greet women).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960416\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3145-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a man prepares a cup of fresh coffee inside a Peruvian cafe\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3145-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3145-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3145-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3145-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3145-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3145-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3145-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3145-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximiliano Gambirazio, a Peruvian immigrant, has been operating Papachay for nearly 20 years. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The business is masterminded by Maximiliano Gambirazio (originally from Peru) and Juliana Zieira-Gambirazio (a Brazilian immigrant). Impressively, the couple started out in their San Carlos warehouse nearly 20 years ago, when they sold raw coffee beans to roasters before buying a roasting machine of their own and expanding their business to include wholesale roasted coffee. Now, they run a full-fledged cafe — which opened in 2018 — and pop up every Sunday at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafarmersmkts.com/mountain-view-farmers-market\">Mountain View Farmers’ Market\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It all started spreading by word of mouth. We would get notes under the door of people asking us to call [them] so they could visit to buy fresh brewed coffee,” Zieira-Gambirazio says. “That pushed us to open [the cafe], and we started getting a crowd of people. After that, we had some calls to the fire department because of the smoke coming from all the roasting we were doing. [The fire department] told us to put a sign that we’re coffee roasters. That brought us more people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zieira-Gambirazio isn’t aware of any other strictly Peruvian cafes in the greater Bay Area. What Papachay is doing might be unmatched. That’s because the couple owns two coffee farms in Peru — in a highly elevated rainforest on the eastern slope of the Andes, near the small town of Villa Rica. With the help of a family, they source their organic coffee beans directly from these farms. Translation: they’re legit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specializing in Peruvian-origin coffee — as the massive “Peruvian Coffee” sign announces from the rooftop, like a 1920s hotel in Beverly Hills — the shop also sells Peruvian chocolate and Brazilian treats like pão de queijo (Brazilian cheese balls). But what caught my eye more than anything were the Peruvian teas. At its Sunday farmers market stand, the cafe brews emoliente, a mix of flax seed, plantain leaf, alfalfa sprout, toasted barley, Andean horsetail herb, cinnamon and cat’s claw bark. Native to Peru, the refreshing herbal drink is believed to help with digestive, circulatory and respiratory issues. The medicinal tea tastes earthy but not bitter, toasted but not burnt, balanced but not bland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Emoliente is a very common drink in Peru. You often see it being prepared and sold on the street. Everybody has their own recipe. We make ours from scratch,” says Zieira-Gambirazio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960419\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960419\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3173-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"dried coffee fruit pulp \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3173-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3173-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3173-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3173-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3173-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3173-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3173-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3173-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cascara, the dried skin and pulp of discarded coffee cherries, is used to brew an increasingly popular beverage in Peru. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Papachay also serves cascara, a tea-like beverage made from boiling the skin and pulp of dried coffee fruit husks to make a drink that has recently become more popular in Peru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see many people having that in the Bay Area, or even in Peru, really,” she continues. “It’s new to Peruvians. It’s a mix of fruit flavor with a green tea texture on your tongue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13932089,arts_13930727,arts_13928571']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>The reason you may have never heard of Peruvian cascara, or any other Peruvian coffee products for that matter, is due to the country’s internal political turmoil dating back to the 1980s, when \u003ca href=\"https://webarchive.archive.unhcr.org/20230521173955/https://www.refworld.org/docid/3f51fd694.html\">insurgent groups like Sendero Luminoso (the Shining Path) occupied isolated territories in Peru\u003c/a> that otherwise could have been used to cultivate coffee. Byproducts of the coffee industry such as cascara were therefore less available for decades. Instead, tea became popularized as the nation’s drink of choice, leading to emoliente’s rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first encountered Papachay at the Mountain View Farmers’ Market, a long line of coffee drinkers waited for their lattes and cold brew. Naturally, I ordered emoliente, something I’d never heard of until then. Though the drink is typically served hot, I asked to enjoy it with ice — something the owners were happy to do. After a few sips and light conversation with the friendly Latin Americans, they mentioned having a shop a few miles north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960417\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960417\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3155-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"an imported coffee bag of Peruvian coffee beans\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3155-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3155-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3155-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3155-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3155-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3155-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3155-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/IMG_3155-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Papachay imports their coffee beans directly from Villa Rica, Peru. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some days later, I made the drive over to their home base in San Carlos. That’s where I ordered cascara. It isn’t the kind of sugary morning drink you might find at Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts. Instead, the old-world beverage — which predates coffee itself — is a tangy mix of sweet and sour notes, most reminiscent of tamarind. Like emoliente, it’s consumed in Peru’s high-altitude areas and beloved for its health properties and organic freshness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it provides a jolt of caffeine, it’s not meant to zap you awake with a quick rush of energy. Rather, Peruvian culture — and its teas — are meant for the long haul, for those steady uphill climbs (think Machu Picchu). Both cascara and emoliente share a smooth drinkability that doesn’t feel like it should be solely limited to a morning commute. In fact, most Peruvians prefer to drink cascara and emoliente in the evenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps I’ll start to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/papachayperuviancoffee/\">\u003ci>Papachay Peruvian Coffee\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> (1431 Old County Rd., San Carlos) is open Mon. through Fri. from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Every Sunday, they can be found at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafarmersmkts.com/mountain-view-farmers-market\">Mountain View Farmers’ Market\u003c/a> (600 W. Evelyn Ave., Mountain View) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1997, when the dot-com boom was booming in the heart of Silicon Valley, the tech-focused region engineered another kind of innovation: the world’s largest burrito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burrito weighed about 4,500 pounds, measured more than 3,500 feet long and required hundreds of volunteers to assemble at Mountain View’s Rengstorff Park. (For reference, a Ford Mustang weighs 3,933 pounds; the Empire State Building stretches for 1,458 feet.) In a way, it was one of the earliest iterations of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936325/social-media-biggest-pupusas-burritos-instagram-tiktok-latinextravagant-bay-area\">the Bay Area’s over-the-top, “Latinextravagant” culinary ambitions\u003c/a>, long before going viral on TikTok or Instagram was even possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though largely forgotten and eventually superseded in the Guinness Book of World Records — \u003ca href=\"https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-burrito\">the current record holder\u003c/a> is a gargantuan, 12,785-pound burrito assembled in Baja California, Mexico, in 2010 — the once-famed achievement still holds weight in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Costeña, a Mexican grocery store in Mountain View known for the customizable burritos it served from the back counter, spearheaded the epic effort along with another local business called Burrito Real (which has since closed). The two taquerias had mastered the assembly line-style build-a-burrito method long before Chipotle popularized it — an approach that made them uniquely well suited for the task at hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952654\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952654\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6367.jpg\" alt=\"a van parked in a parking lot that displays a restaurant's claim to burrito fame in 1997\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6367.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6367-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6367-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6367-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6367-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6367-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nearly three decades later, La Costeña proudly displays its former burrito world record in Mountain View. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though La Costeña has since\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/06/25/revamp-in-works-for-popular-mountain-view-burrito-joint/\"> relocated across town \u003c/a>and no longer offers groceries, the restaurant still slings well-sized burritos at affordable prices in a strip mall lot off East Middlefield Road. Even today, the burritos are often named as some of the best in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the current location, photos of the record-shattering burrito decorate the restaurant’s otherwise bare walls — an aerial shot that shows the chorizo-and-potato stuffed beast \u003ca href=\"https://www.costena.com/famous.html\">snaking around Rengstorff Park like a baby Godzilla tail\u003c/a>. And there’s an old van parked out front with sun-peeled letters that read, “1997 Guinness Record Worlds [sic] Largest Burrito.” Besides that, there isn’t much physical evidence left. Thankfully, though, La Costena’s moment of glory happened in Silicon Valley, so it was recorded online by first-wave foodies from the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\"]‘The burrito weighed about 4,500 pounds, measured more than 3,500 feet long and required hundreds of volunteers to assemble.’[/pullquote]A quick Google search (Google’s main campus is just a couple miles down the road from today’s La Costeña) reveals some brief testimonies, photos and records of the event. A 1997 report from \u003ci>Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/i> declares “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/1997/04/21/tidbits.html\">¡Ay carramba! Burrito makers go for record\u003c/a>.” Strangely — or perhaps predictably — the special burrito operation was organized by Dan Rosen, a tech worker at nearby Sun Microsystems Inc., in the days leading up to Cinco de Mayo. The event drew a large crowd, which featured news reporters (the original food influencers) from around the state and a young Sofia Vergara when the future star was only known as a co-host on \u003ci>Fuera de serie, \u003c/i>a Latino travel show on Univision\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further internet sleuthing reveals humorous write-ups about the globally-scaled burrito. The now-defunct website \u003ca href=\"http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/2006041120363213\">SuperSizedMeals.com described it as “the earliest Supersized meal we have on record … circa 1997\u003c/a>.” The burrito had to be assembled in coordinated sections in order to meet the 90-minute time limit prescribed by the city’s health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952608\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952608\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/costena.jpeg\" alt=\"a group of Latino kids stand next to the actress Sofia Vergara at an outdoor park\" width=\"1080\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/costena.jpeg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/costena-800x525.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/costena-1020x670.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/costena-160x105.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/costena-768x504.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author’s childhood friend and his brothers attended the burrito fest at the Rengstorff Park in Mountain View, and met Sofia Vergara. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Adrian San Agustin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/2006041120363213\">One blogger outlined\u003c/a> how the ingredients came in pre-loaded boxes that weighed 40 pounds and contained tortillas, rice, beans, chorizo and salsa, and had to be distributed and laid out on unfurled aluminum foil at a meticulous but speedy pace: “The tortillas were broken out and laid down with care, 12 per table, as we had been instructed. … Once your section was complete, it was time to leapfrog the other workers and start again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/image/693179611\">news reports\u003c/a> at the time, the burrito consisted of 123 gallons of rice, 28 gallons of salsa and more than 5,000 flour tortillas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13936325,arts_13931115,arts_13936639']\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>After its completion, which happened under the “officially edible” time limit, the volunteers celebrated by consuming the world’s largest known burrito. “We ravaged that fattie like a wild pack of dogs,” the aforementioned blogger poetically wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, it might seem strange that this record-breaking effort even took place in Mountain View, a tech suburb that isn’t exactly known for being a Mexican food destination or hub of Latinx culture. Back then, however, the city’s Mexican and Central American immigrant populations were far more sizable than they are today. With that came a famed burrito war between La Costeña and its Salvadoran-owned rival, La Bamba, that lasted over a decade. But in 2013, as part of an ongoing wave of gentrification and redevelopment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2013/12/05/taqueria-la-bamba-evicted-la-costena-relocates/\">both restaurants were effectively “evicted” from their original locations\u003c/a>, as La Bamba’s co-owner, Leo Munoz, told the \u003ci>Mountain View Voice\u003c/i> at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Bamba has since gone out of business, along with many of the Latino-owned businesses from that era. But La Costeña — and the legacy of its long burrito — remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, I commemorated the achievement by ordering a mole chicken burrito at La Costeña for under $10, which is a steal in today’s economy. For the record, the restaurant’s burrito meat selection is impressive for a sleepy, outwardly-unnoticeable joint in a suburban neighborhood surrounded by tech offices. Besides mole, they offer chile colorado, lengua, pollo borracho (chicken marinated in beer), garlicky al mojo de ajo, fajitas and carnitas estilo Chiconcuac, in addition to the more common options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952653\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952653\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316.jpg\" alt=\"a photo of three restaurant employees holding a large burrito between the three of them\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not to be confused with the world’s largest burrito, La Costeña often assembled larger-than-average burritos for hungry customers. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>La Costeña also serves a super burrito that could easily feed two. The dish still attracts a noticeable lunch crowd — albeit mostly tech workers on their break, rather than the shop’s former working-class Latino clientele, who have mostly been priced out. And amateur food reviewers continue to travel from places as far as Austin, Texas, to seek out \u003ca href=\"https://winstonwanders.com/2015/03/25/la-costena-mountain-view/\">the former record-holding burrito destination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Websites like AOL and Ask Jeeves may no longer be around to feed our sense of connection like they once did. But other remnants of the dot-com era, like La Costeña, are still on the map — if you go offline to search for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>La Costeña (235 E. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A quick Google search (Google’s main campus is just a couple miles down the road from today’s La Costeña) reveals some brief testimonies, photos and records of the event. A 1997 report from \u003ci>Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/i> declares “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/1997/04/21/tidbits.html\">¡Ay carramba! Burrito makers go for record\u003c/a>.” Strangely — or perhaps predictably — the special burrito operation was organized by Dan Rosen, a tech worker at nearby Sun Microsystems Inc., in the days leading up to Cinco de Mayo. The event drew a large crowd, which featured news reporters (the original food influencers) from around the state and a young Sofia Vergara when the future star was only known as a co-host on \u003ci>Fuera de serie, \u003c/i>a Latino travel show on Univision\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further internet sleuthing reveals humorous write-ups about the globally-scaled burrito. The now-defunct website \u003ca href=\"http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/2006041120363213\">SuperSizedMeals.com described it as “the earliest Supersized meal we have on record … circa 1997\u003c/a>.” The burrito had to be assembled in coordinated sections in order to meet the 90-minute time limit prescribed by the city’s health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952608\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952608\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/costena.jpeg\" alt=\"a group of Latino kids stand next to the actress Sofia Vergara at an outdoor park\" width=\"1080\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/costena.jpeg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/costena-800x525.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/costena-1020x670.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/costena-160x105.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/costena-768x504.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author’s childhood friend and his brothers attended the burrito fest at the Rengstorff Park in Mountain View, and met Sofia Vergara. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Adrian San Agustin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/2006041120363213\">One blogger outlined\u003c/a> how the ingredients came in pre-loaded boxes that weighed 40 pounds and contained tortillas, rice, beans, chorizo and salsa, and had to be distributed and laid out on unfurled aluminum foil at a meticulous but speedy pace: “The tortillas were broken out and laid down with care, 12 per table, as we had been instructed. … Once your section was complete, it was time to leapfrog the other workers and start again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/image/693179611\">news reports\u003c/a> at the time, the burrito consisted of 123 gallons of rice, 28 gallons of salsa and more than 5,000 flour tortillas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>After its completion, which happened under the “officially edible” time limit, the volunteers celebrated by consuming the world’s largest known burrito. “We ravaged that fattie like a wild pack of dogs,” the aforementioned blogger poetically wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, it might seem strange that this record-breaking effort even took place in Mountain View, a tech suburb that isn’t exactly known for being a Mexican food destination or hub of Latinx culture. Back then, however, the city’s Mexican and Central American immigrant populations were far more sizable than they are today. With that came a famed burrito war between La Costeña and its Salvadoran-owned rival, La Bamba, that lasted over a decade. But in 2013, as part of an ongoing wave of gentrification and redevelopment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2013/12/05/taqueria-la-bamba-evicted-la-costena-relocates/\">both restaurants were effectively “evicted” from their original locations\u003c/a>, as La Bamba’s co-owner, Leo Munoz, told the \u003ci>Mountain View Voice\u003c/i> at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Bamba has since gone out of business, along with many of the Latino-owned businesses from that era. But La Costeña — and the legacy of its long burrito — remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, I commemorated the achievement by ordering a mole chicken burrito at La Costeña for under $10, which is a steal in today’s economy. For the record, the restaurant’s burrito meat selection is impressive for a sleepy, outwardly-unnoticeable joint in a suburban neighborhood surrounded by tech offices. Besides mole, they offer chile colorado, lengua, pollo borracho (chicken marinated in beer), garlicky al mojo de ajo, fajitas and carnitas estilo Chiconcuac, in addition to the more common options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952653\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952653\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316.jpg\" alt=\"a photo of three restaurant employees holding a large burrito between the three of them\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/img_6316-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not to be confused with the world’s largest burrito, La Costeña often assembled larger-than-average burritos for hungry customers. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>La Costeña also serves a super burrito that could easily feed two. The dish still attracts a noticeable lunch crowd — albeit mostly tech workers on their break, rather than the shop’s former working-class Latino clientele, who have mostly been priced out. And amateur food reviewers continue to travel from places as far as Austin, Texas, to seek out \u003ca href=\"https://winstonwanders.com/2015/03/25/la-costena-mountain-view/\">the former record-holding burrito destination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Websites like AOL and Ask Jeeves may no longer be around to feed our sense of connection like they once did. But other remnants of the dot-com era, like La Costeña, are still on the map — if you go offline to search for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ever fight with your neighbors? Maybe she steals your paper. Or he parks that clunker in front of your house. Or maybe I’m describing \u003cem>you\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Playwright \u003ca href=\"http://www.karenzacarias.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karen Zacarías\u003c/a> says she was inspired to write \u003cem>Native Gardens \u003c/em>after a dinner party in which a number of her friends related problems with their neighbors. “We all talked about how terrible it is to be in a fight with your neighbor, because it’s where you live, you know. But also, I noticed what all the stories had in common: there was something primal and poetic and absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That got Zacarías thinking, “What if every fight in the world can be narrowed down to four people in a backyard? And what can I learn about myself and my community by looking at it like that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacarías lives in Washington, D.C., but a story about neighbors new and old struggling to find common ground with each other resonates nationwide. In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/201819-season/201819-season/native-gardens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheatreWorks Silicon Valley\u003c/a> is one of six companies to perform it this year alone. Others include the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/event/native-gardens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pasadena Playhouse\u003c/a>, where \u003cem>Seinfeld\u003c/em> star Jason Alexander is directing, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/17-18-season/native-gardens/#?startDate=2018-08-01&?endDate=2018-08-31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Globe\u003c/a> in San Diego and \u003ca href=\"http://www.intiman.org/nativegardens/#showinfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intiman Theatre\u003c/a> in Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13840151\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"It's all smiles and laughter before two couples get to know each other, really, in “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarías presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32661_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s all smiles and laughter before two couples get to know each other, really, in “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarías presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The plot (pun intended)\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A young Latino couple, \u003c/span>Pablo (Michael Evans Lopez) and Tania (Marlene Martinez),\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moves into a nice suburb in Washington, D.C.. They form a fast friendship with the older white couple next door, \u003c/span>Frank (Jackson Davis) and Virginia (Amy Resnick)\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Both couples listen to NPR. Both couples have strong, if conflicting, philosophies about gardening. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then it turns out the fence between them is located two feet onto the young couple’s property. What’s going to happen to \u003c/span>Frank’s potentially prize-winning purple iris and hydrangea?\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add a dash of racial tension — it is a border dispute after all — and you have instant comedy. Yes, says Zacarías, who adds she \u003ci>judges\u003c/i> everyone in the play, including herself.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> Thinking back to a small neighborly dispute she survived, she says “\u003c/span>You know, I wanted it to be right more than I wanted it to be over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13840153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A simple property line dispute becomes a proxy for issues neighbors find harder to talk about, like racism, sexism, ageism, culture, class, privilege and immigration in “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarías presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/RS32663_TheatreWorks_NativeGardens_KevinBerne3-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A simple property line dispute becomes a proxy for issues neighbors find harder to talk about, like racism, sexism, ageism, culture, class, privilege and immigration in “Native Gardens” by Karen Zacarías presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"story_text\">She also wants the audience to change their alliances over the course of the play. Zacarías studied international relations at Stanford, which proved good preparation for this play.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> She says, \u003c/span>“I think comedy is one of the best ways to talk about things that are thorny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story_text\">Everybody’s earnest, self-pitying, self-righteous and patronizing. It’s impossible to see the play without thinking of the national border dispute directed by the Trump Administration, but this story could take place in almost any town in Silicon Valley. We can all irritate each other very, very easily, even without the help of politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Native Gardens\u003c/strong>, put on by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, runs through September 16th at the Mountain View Center \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>for the Performing Arts. 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At some point, those crowds wanted to sing along, and a tradition was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a unique, musically edifying — most of the time — occasion,” says Gregory Wait, music director at \u003ca href=\"https://scholacantorum.org/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schola Cantorum Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, which hosts its \u003ca href=\"https://tickets.mvcpa.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">51st annual sing-along \u003cem>Messiah\u003c/em>\u003c/a> this year. That would make it the oldest sing-along \u003cem>Messiah\u003c/em> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody gets to kind of sing everything,” Wait says. “I jokingly ask attendees to attempt to sing them in the octave written, but that doesn’t always happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/12/MessiahSingAlongforweb.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/ScholaSing2017_800x461-800x461.png\" Title=\"Sing-A-Long Messiahs A Perennial Favorite\" program=\"KQED News\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that \u003cem>Messiah\u003c/em> is a profoundly religious work, you don’t need to be a Christian to appreciate how fun it is to sing. As Wait says, “The music is spectacular. It has life and vibrancy and — most of the time — up tempo. I think it makes people happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This upcoming sing-along \u003cem>Messiah\u003c/em> will be Wait’s 29th. 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While texting a friend in another time zone, and she typed in the word “shoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13807140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13807140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_2371-800x1047.jpg\" alt=\"Florie Hutchinson and her daughter Beatrice mug for the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1047\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_2371-800x1047.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_2371-160x209.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_2371-768x1005.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_2371.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_2371-240x314.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_2371-375x491.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/IMG_2371-520x680.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florie Hutchinson and her daughter Beatrice mug for the camera. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Florie Hutchinson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I realized I was staring, slightly deliriously, at this red, high-heeled stiletto,” Hutchinson says. Was that her phone anticipating her preference as a woman? As if most women wear a shoe better suited to a Barbie doll?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a little digital leg work, Hutchinson discovered there are \u003ca href=\"http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html#1f1f8_1f1e9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">four other shoe emojis\u003c/a>, but all three female shoes involve a heel: the red stilleto, the mule, and the riding boot. Unless you type in the word sneaker, the stiletto appears to be the default.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked friends of various ages, genders and nationalities to type “shoe” – and they got the stiletto, too, “Whether they were typing in shoe, or chaussure or zapato.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson doesn’t think early emoji designers were intentionally trying to bake in stereotypical gender norms. Nonetheless, that’s the result, and as our usage of the visual language \u003ca href=\"https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/08/18/emoji-poetry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grows\u003c/a>, so does the impact of unconscious choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a mum, I’ve become very aware and hypersensitive to what I see is implicit gender bias, something that is pervasive in every aspect of life from the age of zero onwards,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13807141\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13807141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large.png\" alt=\"It's not that Florie Hutchinson doesn't wear a heel for a date night or the opera. She just wants there to be a "non-sexualized" female option.\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large.png 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-375x375.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s not that Florie Hutchinson doesn’t wear a heel for a date night or the opera. She just wants there to be a “non-sexualized” female option.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But how to influence the discussion as a PR Lady with no experience or contacts in tech? Cue the obvious Google search: “How do emoji get made?” And the first result is the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit in Mountain View that maintains a global, standardized list of approved emoji.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The web site’s FAQ includes a lot of helpful history. The Japanese were the first to use pictographs — images of things such as faces, weather, vehicles and buildings, food and drink, animals and plants — or icons that represent emotions, feelings, or activities. Hence, the word \u003cem>emoji\u003c/em> comes from the Japanese \u003ca href=\"http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=%E7%B5%B5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">絵\u003c/a> (e ≅ picture) + \u003ca href=\"http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=%E6%96%87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">文\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=%E5%AD%97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">字\u003c/a>(moji ≅ written character).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consortium’s emoji subcommittee meets four times a year to approve or deny new proposals. Yet, even with this deliberative approach, some emoji prove far more useful and appealing than others, a fact dramatically visualized at \u003ca href=\"http://www.emojitracker.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emojitracker.com\u003c/a>, which tracks the realtime use of many emoji in Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a young language, and it continues to evolve. Even though there are already nearly \u003ca href=\"http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Identification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2,700 emoji\u003c/a>, the Consortium is wide open to new proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson was impressed with how easy the Consortium makes it to understand the \u003ca href=\"http://unicode.org/emoji/selection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">application process\u003c/a>. “There are lots of templates on the Unicode web site, some of successful emoji proposals, some of unsuccessful ones. And it’s just a matter of making a compelling case for why it should exist and why the existing emoji don’t do the job that you’re looking to do with your emoji.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do your homework; then hire a designer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It does help to hire a professional designer. \u003ca href=\"http://www.apheemesser.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aphee Messer\u003c/a> wears a sandal whenever weather permits in Lincoln, Nebraska, and so she practically leapt on board the project. “You can look at it as a baby step, but I think any steps towards more diversity on the emoji keyboard are great,” says Messer, whose best known emoji may be the recently approved hijab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13807142\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 341px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13807142 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/hijab.png\" alt=\"Aphee Messer has designed numerous emoji. She created this one of a girl in a hijab on behalf of a 15-year-old from Germany who realized there wasn't one.\" width=\"341\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/hijab.png 341w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/hijab-160x229.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/hijab-240x343.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aphee Messer has designed numerous emoji. She created this one of a girl in a hijab on behalf of a 15-year-old from Germany who realized there wasn’t one. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Aphee Messer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In early July, Hutchinson submitted a proposal for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17274-womans-flat-shoe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ballet flat\u003c/a> in multiple hues, ” anything except pink!” Within a month of applying, her emoji appeared on the Consortium’s \u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/08/67-emoji-drafts-considered-for-2018-addition-by-unicode.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draft list\u003c/a> for consideration… The final decision comes out in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t believe it!” exclaims Hutchinson. “That this crazy idea that I got in the middle of the night would actually become a reality, and even if it doesn’t make it through, which I sincerely hope it does, I can honestly turn to my girls when they’re preteens or older and say, you know, this was important to me and I did something about it, and it was not only for me but also for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any plans for a follow-up? “I have my eyes on a one piece swimsuit,” Hutchinson says, before adding “To be honest, what I’d love is for more women to take some time to go through the emoji and think about what in their daily lives isn’t reflected in this global vocabulary that we’re building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have your marching orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13807138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 601px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13807138 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/BalletFlat.png\" alt=\"If the ballet flat wins final approval from the Unicode Consortium, it will show up in blue.\" width=\"601\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/BalletFlat.png 601w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/BalletFlat-160x99.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/BalletFlat-240x149.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/BalletFlat-375x233.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/BalletFlat-520x323.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If the ballet flat wins final approval from the Unicode Consortium, it will show up in blue. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Aphee Messer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She asked friends of various ages, genders and nationalities to type “shoe” – and they got the stiletto, too, “Whether they were typing in shoe, or chaussure or zapato.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson doesn’t think early emoji designers were intentionally trying to bake in stereotypical gender norms. Nonetheless, that’s the result, and as our usage of the visual language \u003ca href=\"https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/08/18/emoji-poetry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grows\u003c/a>, so does the impact of unconscious choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a mum, I’ve become very aware and hypersensitive to what I see is implicit gender bias, something that is pervasive in every aspect of life from the age of zero onwards,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13807141\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13807141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large.png\" alt=\"It's not that Florie Hutchinson doesn't wear a heel for a date night or the opera. She just wants there to be a "non-sexualized" female option.\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large.png 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-240x240.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-375x375.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/HIgh_Heel_Shoe_Emoji_large-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s not that Florie Hutchinson doesn’t wear a heel for a date night or the opera. She just wants there to be a “non-sexualized” female option.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But how to influence the discussion as a PR Lady with no experience or contacts in tech? Cue the obvious Google search: “How do emoji get made?” And the first result is the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit in Mountain View that maintains a global, standardized list of approved emoji.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The web site’s FAQ includes a lot of helpful history. The Japanese were the first to use pictographs — images of things such as faces, weather, vehicles and buildings, food and drink, animals and plants — or icons that represent emotions, feelings, or activities. Hence, the word \u003cem>emoji\u003c/em> comes from the Japanese \u003ca href=\"http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=%E7%B5%B5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">絵\u003c/a> (e ≅ picture) + \u003ca href=\"http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=%E6%96%87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">文\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=%E5%AD%97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">字\u003c/a>(moji ≅ written character).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consortium’s emoji subcommittee meets four times a year to approve or deny new proposals. Yet, even with this deliberative approach, some emoji prove far more useful and appealing than others, a fact dramatically visualized at \u003ca href=\"http://www.emojitracker.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emojitracker.com\u003c/a>, which tracks the realtime use of many emoji in Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a young language, and it continues to evolve. Even though there are already nearly \u003ca href=\"http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Identification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2,700 emoji\u003c/a>, the Consortium is wide open to new proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson was impressed with how easy the Consortium makes it to understand the \u003ca href=\"http://unicode.org/emoji/selection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">application process\u003c/a>. “There are lots of templates on the Unicode web site, some of successful emoji proposals, some of unsuccessful ones. And it’s just a matter of making a compelling case for why it should exist and why the existing emoji don’t do the job that you’re looking to do with your emoji.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do your homework; then hire a designer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It does help to hire a professional designer. \u003ca href=\"http://www.apheemesser.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aphee Messer\u003c/a> wears a sandal whenever weather permits in Lincoln, Nebraska, and so she practically leapt on board the project. “You can look at it as a baby step, but I think any steps towards more diversity on the emoji keyboard are great,” says Messer, whose best known emoji may be the recently approved hijab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13807142\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 341px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13807142 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/hijab.png\" alt=\"Aphee Messer has designed numerous emoji. She created this one of a girl in a hijab on behalf of a 15-year-old from Germany who realized there wasn't one.\" width=\"341\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/hijab.png 341w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/hijab-160x229.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/hijab-240x343.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aphee Messer has designed numerous emoji. 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