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Recalling it now, all she could think was, “‘Please don’t mess this up.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You wouldn’t know it from watching her on the show. In a majority black ensemble accentuated by knee-high snakeskin boots and a sweater with scales running down one sleeve that screamed Black Queen of Dragons, Thomas projected confidence and personality. The judges also took to her plan for how to use the show’s prize money: to expand BGGH—currently a plant and specialty home goods shop that doubles as a community event space—to include a design and installation service complete with delivery trucks, and to grow their all-Black female staff to include more senior positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/GGi14HkBPrQ?t=206\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two advanced to the next round, along with 11 other finalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Thomas and Gebreyohannes’ journey on the show continues to unfold on-air, they hope to represent Oakland well—most of the other contestants are based in the Atlanta area. 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The judges also took to her plan for how to use the show’s prize money: to expand BGGH—currently a plant and specialty home goods shop that doubles as a community event space—to include a design and installation service complete with delivery trucks, and to grow their all-Black female staff to include more senior positions.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/GGi14HkBPrQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/GGi14HkBPrQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The two advanced to the next round, along with 11 other finalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Thomas and Gebreyohannes’ journey on the show continues to unfold on-air, they hope to represent Oakland well—most of the other contestants are based in the Atlanta area. Putting on for their city is especially important to the duo since they feel the seeds they’ve planted in the Bay Area have facilitated their business’s rapid growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the community support and the way people have rallied around us and just really shown up for us in so many ways…has been a huge contributing factor in why we’ve been able to get to the level that we’re at,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is the nature of Oakland,” Gebreyohannes added. “Oakland rides hard for Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BlkGirlsGreenHouse2-1020x1528.jpg\" alt=\"Two Black women standing side-by-side in a plant store\" width=\"640\" height=\"959\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13908250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BlkGirlsGreenHouse2-1020x1528.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BlkGirlsGreenHouse2-800x1198.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BlkGirlsGreenHouse2-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BlkGirlsGreenHouse2-768x1150.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BlkGirlsGreenHouse2-1026x1536.jpg 1026w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BlkGirlsGreenHouse2.jpg 1282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J’Maica Thomas and Kalkidan Gebreyohannes (L–R) of Blk Girls Green House hope the Revolt TV series brings greater exposure not just to their business but Oakland as a whole. \u003ccite>(Hunter Cates)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And though they’ve gotten a great reception back home over their appearance on \u003cem>Bet on Black\u003c/em> thus far, Thomas and Gebreyohannes’ aspirations don’t end with The Town. The pair have their eyes set on opening Blk Girls Green Houses in other cities, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we both really would just love to expand our reach and let people know outside of Oakland who we are and what we’re doing,” says Thomas, “and letting other people know that retail doesn’t have to look a certain way, that business ownership doesn’t have to look a certain way, that it doesn’t have to happen at a certain time or at a certain age.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though their business has sprouted quickly, Gebreyohannes adds that outsiders looking in should make no mistake about it: the duo’s success has come from their entrepreneurial experience, acumen and a lot of hard work behind the scenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to openly say, I think for the first time, we’re very deserving of it,” Gebreyohannes said. “It’s not luck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Bet on Black’ airs every Tuesday at 6pm PST on Revolt TV. \u003ca href=\"https://www.revolt.tv/show/2022-01-10/147516/bet-on-black/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch new episodes here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Blk Girls Green House (1700 Center St., Oakland) is open by appointment Friday through Sunday, 10am–5pm.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the early 2000s, going to Brothers & Sisters at Luka’s Taproom & Lounge was nothing short of a transcendental experience for \u003ca href=\"http://djemancipation.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Emancipation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Thursday, she and her friends would roll up on their bikes to the downtown Oakland spot. Once inside, they’d say hello to the host, bypass the dining area and enter the dancefloor through a heavy velvet curtain. “It had this mysterious feeling to it, like you’re about to enter a womb of love,” she remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emancipation, who eventually became a resident DJ at the party, says those nights felt “almost like a prayer for our community”: bodies moving in unison to soulful house music, the advanced dancers getting in the middle of the circle, time melting away. At the time, downtown Oakland had fewer places for young people to party, and almost none of the existing spots had nights welcoming Black and Brown LGBTQ+ clientele like Brothers & Sisters did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our sweat and our DNA is definitely ingrained in the wood floors of that space,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The party was for everybody,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.mixcloud.com/DjDedan/stream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Dedan\u003c/a>, who started Brothers & Sisters with DJ Daniella in 2004, when Luka’s first opened. “The whole idea is to bring people together and have a slice of utopia for those four, five hours on a Thursday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Luka’s announced it would be closing after 18 years in business. Husband-wife owner team Rick Mitchell and Maria Alderete decided to shut down after their landlord, HP Investors, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/01/07/lukas-oakland-closing-hp-investors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wanted to double the rent\u003c/a> and take a portion of their profits in a participation agreement. The bar, restaurant and venue will close at the end of January, joining a growing list of pandemic-era closures in the area that includes longtime punk dive Stork Club, nightclub The Layover and soul food destination \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/01/11/brown-sugar-kitchen-tanya-holland-closed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brown Sugar Kitchen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BZU6AsBArGr/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With some key establishments going out of business and customers hesitant to go out because of the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, “downtown is looking real 2004-ish,” says Leon Dnas Sykes, an Oakland high school teacher, community advocate and radio personality who hosted the party Fresh Steps at Luka’s from 2009 to 2017. He’s referring to the era before Oakland saw a massive influx of development and gentrification, a time when city policy made it difficult for nightlife venues catering to young, Black audiences to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Oakland lifted an \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-12-31-ca-5617-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official ban on rap concerts in 1990\u003c/a>, throughout the ’90s and 2000s, discrimination was still rampant. Club owners said \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/delete-add-delete-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police scapegoated them for neighborhood violence\u003c/a>, and leveraged expensive security fees and bureaucratic hurdles to make throwing events difficult, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13902006/oakland-police-security-fees-community-events-canceled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a trend that continues\u003c/a> to a lesser extent today. [aside postid='arts_13902006']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black nightlife was strategically removed,” says community advocate and event organizer Chaney Turner. “That’s when you had a ghost town, pretty much, downtown. OPD would sit in front, pretty much intimidating the owners and staff, and providing ‘security’ or whatever, and sending these venues these crazy ass bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Lukas opened in 2004, there were few places in town where hip-hop thrived outside of house parties and underground warehouses. “There was definitely this excitement that there was a legit venue that was supporting real hip-hop DJs,” remembers \u003ca href=\"https://djplaturn.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Platurn\u003c/a>, who DJed at Luka’s on First Fridays from its early days until about 2011. “Oasis was around, and was Geoffey’s Inner Circle was around. But this was the new spot, and we hadn’t seen a new spot that was at this caliber come along in I don’t know how long. … It was a big deal for Oakland, I definitely remember that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13829481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13829481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Platurn in 2017. \u003ccite>(Jose Lim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My original vision was I wanted to make it like going to Kool Herc’s place in 1972—DJs cuttin’ it up, showing off their skills, not just playing records,” says co-owner Mitchell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he and Alderete started the business, he had previous experience waiting tables but had never run a bar or restaurant, let alone a nightclub. He enlisted DJ Wisdom, who booked the first parties at Luka’s and helped Mitchell network with other DJs. DJ Platurn and DJ Spair started a party called Flashback Fridays after Mitchell wrote an email to the address on the back of their mixtape from their influential DJ collective, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/oaklandfaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Faders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid 2000s, the First Friday art walk started drawing a punk and hipster crowd to downtown, and the hyphy movement was in full swing. The excitement of young, creative energy was in the air. Underground scenes percolated, invigorated by the rise of early social media and sustained by an abundance of cheap real estate. Luka’s was a place where all these different kinds of people could meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There just wasn’t a ton of stuff to choose from, and there was an energy involved with our night that people were really attracted to,” says DJ Platurn. “That was for sure an undeniable thing that I remember pretty fondly as far as an Oakland nightlife energy goes, where you’re seeing people from literally every walk of life and all ages, the whole nine, all coming to party for the right reasons. … The drinks were always super heavy, the bartenders were always really generous with their pours. People would be hammered, having a blast. Dancing the whole night. The walls would fucking sweat in that place on our nights. It was hardcore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Luka’s nightlife programming continued to evolve: there were nights for salsa and reggae, and local celebrities like Pam the Funkstress (who DJed for Prince and Boots Riley’s The Coup) regularly showed up. After DJ Platurn and DJ Spair moved on, DJ Mere and Max Kane took over First Fridays, and eventually KMEL’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lexxjonez/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lexx Jonez\u003c/a> held down the slot along with Kane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When First Fridays were going on outside, it was usually people’s first stop,” he says. “It was a meeting place for artists and DJs and everybody, period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pam the Funkstress’ signature inside the DJ booth at Luka’s.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aebldee/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Aebl Dee\u003c/a> started his party, Fresh Steps on a New Lawn, in 2008 to celebrate Black excellence after Barack Obama was elected. The monthly showcase continued at Luka’s for 10 years, and became a place for emerging rappers to sharpen their skills. Bay Area artists who eventually became nationally recognized—IAMSU, P-Lo, Ian Kelly, Duckwrth—had some of their first performances there. Veterans like Zion I and Mac Mall showed up, too. And there were even live instrumentalists: hip-hop orchestra Ensemble Mik Nawooj performed, and so did hip-hop, rock and cumbia group Bang Data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such an intimate show—it was no stress,” says Aebl Dee. “You showed up, handed me a flashdrive and just got up on the stage and went for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A blurry photo captures the chaotic dancefloor at Oakland Faders’ party, Flashback Fridays, at Luka’s. \u003ccite>(DJ Platurn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hile Luka’s is set to close at the end of the month, HP Investors hasn’t officially announced new plans for the site. Razing the building to put up a hotel is one possibility. For many longtime Oakland residents, that prospect indicates a trend towards homogeny and more corporate ownership, and less of what makes the city vibrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each time we lose a space, we’re losing a bit of culture,” says Chaney Turner. “We’re losing memories that have been made, friendships with different people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting the empty storefronts downtown, Turner says, “The city has to do more to protect our small businesses across the board so we can protect jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason why people come to places like Oakland, even San Francisco, New York, is because there’s a culture there,” says Brothers & Sisters’ DJ Dedan. “When you start stripping that culture away, what are you gonna have? You have a hotel but there’s no reason to go to Oakland anymore because there’s nothing there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aebl Dee takes a more optimistic view. He recently started spinning at \u003ca href=\"https://www.continentalcluboakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continental Club\u003c/a>, a historic blues venue that just reopened in West Oakland, and he’s a resident DJ on First Fridays at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hellostrangerbar/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hello Stranger\u003c/a> with DJ Platurn, who is the talent buyer and promoter there. “Oakland nightlife is gonna be here,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Br9WqbsBrF9/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, other new club openings are on the horizon: Mistah F.A.B. secured a spot for his venue, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CYNXyperF-6/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dezi’s\u003c/a>, opening later this year, and a new place called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CYmjcfovhF4/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crybaby\u003c/a>—owned by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CS99P_YhJ5u/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crew of longtime DJs, musicians, independent label owners and promoters\u003c/a>—is also set to debut soon at an unspecified date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the owners of Luka’s, once their venue closes they’ll be taking some time off from the hustle of running a small business to focus on community work. They started \u003ca href=\"https://www.ckoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Kitchens\u003c/a>, which buys meals from other local restaurants and serves them to people in need with the help of mobile clinics. They’ve distributed 120,000 hot meals since the pandemic started, Mitchell says, and are getting ready to launch a new initiative called \u003ca href=\"https://www.ckoakland.org/dining-for-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dining for Justice\u003c/a>, where the participating restaurants add a 1% surcharge to checks to raise permanent, sustainable funding for these efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luka’s brought people from all walks of life together in an unpretentious atmosphere, and for many artists and partygoers, it’ll always hold a special place in Oakland nightlife history. But when looking back at the venue’s legacy, Mitchell doesn’t like to take much credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is, I didn’t come into this in any way with a master vision,” he says. “I was just a guy who didn’t like what I was doing before, and wanted to have a change and get involved in my community. People saw it as something going on and wanted to help. DJ Wisdom built our nightclub, and it’s just the community of people that came around, that’s what I’m most proud of, the people I’ve met and what they’ve accomplished. I managed to not burn the place down along the way. It’s everybody else who made it happen.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With some key establishments going out of business and customers hesitant to go out because of the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, “downtown is looking real 2004-ish,” says Leon Dnas Sykes, an Oakland high school teacher, community advocate and radio personality who hosted the party Fresh Steps at Luka’s from 2009 to 2017. He’s referring to the era before Oakland saw a massive influx of development and gentrification, a time when city policy made it difficult for nightlife venues catering to young, Black audiences to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Oakland lifted an \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-12-31-ca-5617-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official ban on rap concerts in 1990\u003c/a>, throughout the ’90s and 2000s, discrimination was still rampant. Club owners said \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/delete-add-delete-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police scapegoated them for neighborhood violence\u003c/a>, and leveraged expensive security fees and bureaucratic hurdles to make throwing events difficult, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13902006/oakland-police-security-fees-community-events-canceled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a trend that continues\u003c/a> to a lesser extent today. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black nightlife was strategically removed,” says community advocate and event organizer Chaney Turner. “That’s when you had a ghost town, pretty much, downtown. OPD would sit in front, pretty much intimidating the owners and staff, and providing ‘security’ or whatever, and sending these venues these crazy ass bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hen Lukas opened in 2004, there were few places in town where hip-hop thrived outside of house parties and underground warehouses. “There was definitely this excitement that there was a legit venue that was supporting real hip-hop DJs,” remembers \u003ca href=\"https://djplaturn.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Platurn\u003c/a>, who DJed at Luka’s on First Fridays from its early days until about 2011. “Oasis was around, and was Geoffey’s Inner Circle was around. But this was the new spot, and we hadn’t seen a new spot that was at this caliber come along in I don’t know how long. … It was a big deal for Oakland, I definitely remember that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13829481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13829481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/DJ-Platurn-Header-03-1920x1080-credit-Jose-Lim-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Platurn in 2017. \u003ccite>(Jose Lim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My original vision was I wanted to make it like going to Kool Herc’s place in 1972—DJs cuttin’ it up, showing off their skills, not just playing records,” says co-owner Mitchell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he and Alderete started the business, he had previous experience waiting tables but had never run a bar or restaurant, let alone a nightclub. He enlisted DJ Wisdom, who booked the first parties at Luka’s and helped Mitchell network with other DJs. DJ Platurn and DJ Spair started a party called Flashback Fridays after Mitchell wrote an email to the address on the back of their mixtape from their influential DJ collective, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/oaklandfaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Faders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid 2000s, the First Friday art walk started drawing a punk and hipster crowd to downtown, and the hyphy movement was in full swing. The excitement of young, creative energy was in the air. Underground scenes percolated, invigorated by the rise of early social media and sustained by an abundance of cheap real estate. Luka’s was a place where all these different kinds of people could meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There just wasn’t a ton of stuff to choose from, and there was an energy involved with our night that people were really attracted to,” says DJ Platurn. “That was for sure an undeniable thing that I remember pretty fondly as far as an Oakland nightlife energy goes, where you’re seeing people from literally every walk of life and all ages, the whole nine, all coming to party for the right reasons. … The drinks were always super heavy, the bartenders were always really generous with their pours. People would be hammered, having a blast. Dancing the whole night. The walls would fucking sweat in that place on our nights. It was hardcore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Luka’s nightlife programming continued to evolve: there were nights for salsa and reggae, and local celebrities like Pam the Funkstress (who DJed for Prince and Boots Riley’s The Coup) regularly showed up. After DJ Platurn and DJ Spair moved on, DJ Mere and Max Kane took over First Fridays, and eventually KMEL’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lexxjonez/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lexx Jonez\u003c/a> held down the slot along with Kane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When First Fridays were going on outside, it was usually people’s first stop,” he says. “It was a meeting place for artists and DJs and everybody, period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_4017.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pam the Funkstress’ signature inside the DJ booth at Luka’s.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aebldee/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Aebl Dee\u003c/a> started his party, Fresh Steps on a New Lawn, in 2008 to celebrate Black excellence after Barack Obama was elected. The monthly showcase continued at Luka’s for 10 years, and became a place for emerging rappers to sharpen their skills. Bay Area artists who eventually became nationally recognized—IAMSU, P-Lo, Ian Kelly, Duckwrth—had some of their first performances there. Veterans like Zion I and Mac Mall showed up, too. And there were even live instrumentalists: hip-hop orchestra Ensemble Mik Nawooj performed, and so did hip-hop, rock and cumbia group Bang Data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such an intimate show—it was no stress,” says Aebl Dee. “You showed up, handed me a flashdrive and just got up on the stage and went for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/IMG_1879-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A blurry photo captures the chaotic dancefloor at Oakland Faders’ party, Flashback Fridays, at Luka’s. \u003ccite>(DJ Platurn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hile Luka’s is set to close at the end of the month, HP Investors hasn’t officially announced new plans for the site. Razing the building to put up a hotel is one possibility. For many longtime Oakland residents, that prospect indicates a trend towards homogeny and more corporate ownership, and less of what makes the city vibrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each time we lose a space, we’re losing a bit of culture,” says Chaney Turner. “We’re losing memories that have been made, friendships with different people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting the empty storefronts downtown, Turner says, “The city has to do more to protect our small businesses across the board so we can protect jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason why people come to places like Oakland, even San Francisco, New York, is because there’s a culture there,” says Brothers & Sisters’ DJ Dedan. “When you start stripping that culture away, what are you gonna have? You have a hotel but there’s no reason to go to Oakland anymore because there’s nothing there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aebl Dee takes a more optimistic view. He recently started spinning at \u003ca href=\"https://www.continentalcluboakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continental Club\u003c/a>, a historic blues venue that just reopened in West Oakland, and he’s a resident DJ on First Fridays at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hellostrangerbar/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hello Stranger\u003c/a> with DJ Platurn, who is the talent buyer and promoter there. “Oakland nightlife is gonna be here,” he says.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Indeed, other new club openings are on the horizon: Mistah F.A.B. secured a spot for his venue, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CYNXyperF-6/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dezi’s\u003c/a>, opening later this year, and a new place called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CYmjcfovhF4/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crybaby\u003c/a>—owned by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CS99P_YhJ5u/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crew of longtime DJs, musicians, independent label owners and promoters\u003c/a>—is also set to debut soon at an unspecified date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the owners of Luka’s, once their venue closes they’ll be taking some time off from the hustle of running a small business to focus on community work. They started \u003ca href=\"https://www.ckoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Kitchens\u003c/a>, which buys meals from other local restaurants and serves them to people in need with the help of mobile clinics. They’ve distributed 120,000 hot meals since the pandemic started, Mitchell says, and are getting ready to launch a new initiative called \u003ca href=\"https://www.ckoakland.org/dining-for-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dining for Justice\u003c/a>, where the participating restaurants add a 1% surcharge to checks to raise permanent, sustainable funding for these efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luka’s brought people from all walks of life together in an unpretentious atmosphere, and for many artists and partygoers, it’ll always hold a special place in Oakland nightlife history. But when looking back at the venue’s legacy, Mitchell doesn’t like to take much credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It started out as a way to reduce food waste. “I was looking into what to do with leftover mooncake skins,” explains Annie Wang, who runs the vegan home bakery \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Annie’s T Cakes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> out of her Uptown Oakland apartment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The answer, Wang discovered, was mooncake biscuits. According to Chinese custom, bakers would put a small portion of mooncake dough in the oven to test its temperature. Eventually, they started forming these test batches \u003ca href=\"https://www.therakyatpost.com/taste/2021/09/20/little-piggy-biscuits-rediscovering-a-fast-disappearing-mid-autumn-festival-tradition/\">into the shape of little pigs\u003c/a> and selling them as a standalone item—an inexpensive alternative to the mooncakes proper, minus their luxurious lotus seed and salted egg yolk fillings. Kids, in particular, love the biscuits, which Wang describes as being akin to a flaky, not-too-sweet cookie. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Hong Kong, Malaysia and elsewhere in the Chinese diaspora, mooncake biscuits are a common sighting during the Mid-Autumn Festival (which typically falls in September or October). But this year Wang decided to feature them in her Lunar New Year snack box—\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/products/lunar-new-year-snack-box\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">just released for preorder\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—in part because the biscuits are such a rarity in the Bay Area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lunar New Year boxes ($30), which also include almond cookies and the more typical filled varieties of mooncake, will be available for pickup in Oakland from Jan. 27–Feb. 1. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of the baked treats are 100 percent vegan, in keeping with the bakery’s overall mission to veganize traditional East Asian sweets. Armed with a cottage food license and an arsenal of plant-based egg and dairy substitutes, Wang says she hopes efforts like hers will help create a better, more sustainable food system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908107\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908107\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A variety of Chinese baked goods—including a mooncake and an almond cookie—arranged on a plate.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lunar New Year’s treat box also features almond cookies and regular mooncakes. \u003ccite>(Annie's T Cakes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As it did for so many other Americans, the pandemic brought Wang face to face with the hard realization that “a full-time job is not necessarily as stable as we thought.” When she was laid off from her marketing job in May of 2020, she dove headfirst into her passion for food tech and vegan baking, spending the better part of the year on recipe development. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her first breakthrough wound up becoming the item that Annie’s is best known for: a plant-based version of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/products/taiwanese-pineapple-cake-original\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taiwanese pineapple cakes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or fengli su, probably Taiwan’s most iconic snack cake. Wang, who is Chinese American, grew up eating the cakes, and she says it only took her three tries to come up with an eggless recipe that hit all the right notes, with a buttery (but butter-free) shortbread crust and jammy pineapple filling. Conveniently, the cakes are also gluten-free.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, for Lunar New Year, Wang is excited to introduce her vegan mooncake biscuits to customers who aren’t familiar with them. “They’re really satisfying to eat, and you can eat a lot of them,” she says. “It’s not a heavy snack.” In Hong Kong or Singapore, the little pig-shaped biscuits are typically sold in baskets that are meant to look like cages—which, Wang says, “as a vegan is less fun for me to think about.” So, Wang’s version isn’t modeled after a pig at all. Instead, she stuck with a more traditional-looking engraved mooncake design, though she’s playing around with other shapes for the future.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13906738,arts_13905832,arts_13897868']\u003c/span>The bakery is also selling kits for preparing \u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/products/tang-yuan-soup-kit\">tang yuan soup\u003c/a>, a rice flour–based dessert that\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s also commonly eaten during Lunar New Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Growing up, Wang remembers that Lunar New Year was all about family time: making dumplings, playing mahjong, watching Chinese comedy skits on TV that she couldn’t understand. Wang’s Lunar New Year box is well suited for that kind of small, intimate gathering—the kind most people will be having to ring in the Year of the Tiger this coming month. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s not a great time for the world,” Wang says. “But one of the small side benefits of the pandemic is a lot of people really got closer to their smaller circle.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/\">Annie’s T Cakes\u003c/a> Lunar New Year Box ($30) is available for preorder through Jan. 18, with pickup at Little Giant Ice Cream (1951 Telegraph Ave., Oakland) Jan. 27–Feb. 1. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It started out as a way to reduce food waste. “I was looking into what to do with leftover mooncake skins,” explains Annie Wang, who runs the vegan home bakery \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Annie’s T Cakes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> out of her Uptown Oakland apartment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The answer, Wang discovered, was mooncake biscuits. According to Chinese custom, bakers would put a small portion of mooncake dough in the oven to test its temperature. Eventually, they started forming these test batches \u003ca href=\"https://www.therakyatpost.com/taste/2021/09/20/little-piggy-biscuits-rediscovering-a-fast-disappearing-mid-autumn-festival-tradition/\">into the shape of little pigs\u003c/a> and selling them as a standalone item—an inexpensive alternative to the mooncakes proper, minus their luxurious lotus seed and salted egg yolk fillings. Kids, in particular, love the biscuits, which Wang describes as being akin to a flaky, not-too-sweet cookie. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Hong Kong, Malaysia and elsewhere in the Chinese diaspora, mooncake biscuits are a common sighting during the Mid-Autumn Festival (which typically falls in September or October). But this year Wang decided to feature them in her Lunar New Year snack box—\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/products/lunar-new-year-snack-box\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">just released for preorder\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—in part because the biscuits are such a rarity in the Bay Area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lunar New Year boxes ($30), which also include almond cookies and the more typical filled varieties of mooncake, will be available for pickup in Oakland from Jan. 27–Feb. 1. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of the baked treats are 100 percent vegan, in keeping with the bakery’s overall mission to veganize traditional East Asian sweets. Armed with a cottage food license and an arsenal of plant-based egg and dairy substitutes, Wang says she hopes efforts like hers will help create a better, more sustainable food system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908107\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908107\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A variety of Chinese baked goods—including a mooncake and an almond cookie—arranged on a plate.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lunar New Year’s treat box also features almond cookies and regular mooncakes. \u003ccite>(Annie's T Cakes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As it did for so many other Americans, the pandemic brought Wang face to face with the hard realization that “a full-time job is not necessarily as stable as we thought.” When she was laid off from her marketing job in May of 2020, she dove headfirst into her passion for food tech and vegan baking, spending the better part of the year on recipe development. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>The bakery is also selling kits for preparing \u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/products/tang-yuan-soup-kit\">tang yuan soup\u003c/a>, a rice flour–based dessert that\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s also commonly eaten during Lunar New Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Growing up, Wang remembers that Lunar New Year was all about family time: making dumplings, playing mahjong, watching Chinese comedy skits on TV that she couldn’t understand. Wang’s Lunar New Year box is well suited for that kind of small, intimate gathering—the kind most people will be having to ring in the Year of the Tiger this coming month. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s not a great time for the world,” Wang says. “But one of the small side benefits of the pandemic is a lot of people really got closer to their smaller circle.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/\">Annie’s T Cakes\u003c/a> Lunar New Year Box ($30) is available for preorder through Jan. 18, with pickup at Little Giant Ice Cream (1951 Telegraph Ave., Oakland) Jan. 27–Feb. 1. Shipping is also available in California only. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>An Oakland resident is now the first woman—and one of only four people ever—to win over a million dollars on \u003cem>Jeopardy!\u003c/em> And with 29 wins under her belt (and counting), there’s no telling how far \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Jeopardamy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Schneider\u003c/a> will go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13901062']The engineering manager was already the first transgender person to qualify for the game show’s prestigious Tournament of Champions. But on Friday, Jan. 7, Schneider pushed her winnings into seven figures—$1,019,600 to be precise—by successfully answering a question about Norwegian literature. (The answer, incidentally, was “Who is Heyerdahl?”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after nearly three months on one of TV’s most popular syndicated shows, Schneider has also become one of the most recognizable trans women in the country. The fame has led to online abuse—but it’s also opened the minds of some unlikely folks in the show’s audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JLCool3/status/1477015685884645377\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/annesoffee/status/1477049429903527936\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BelgianFriar/status/1476970437468835843\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schneider’s identity as a trans woman has been touched on only briefly within the confines of the show. Her most prominent gesture came during the week of Thanksgiving, when she wore a small trans flag pin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She initially made a few comments on Twitter about the decision to do so:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Jeopardamy/status/1464356254801793024\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Schneider elaborated on her flag pin during a special \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Jeopardy/status/1464368375044268036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">behind-the-scenes segment for \u003cem>Jeopardy!\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “Thanksgiving is a time for family,” she explained, “and sadly, it’s still true for a lot of trans people that that can be difficult for them. That they may have a difficult relationship with their families. I’m fortunate not to have that issue myself, but I know it’s out there, so I just wanted to send that message of support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schneider’s message was received loud and clear. One viewer named Cassandra noted on Twitter that her non-binary child was “walking taller and feeling good” simply because of Schneider’s daily visibility on their television screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CassandraKend15/status/1478823350206013441\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to her amazing intellect, Schneider just seems—well—cool. A Warriors fan since she first moved to the Bay in 2009, she showed up at the Chase Center to witness Klay Thompson’s return on Jan. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_96696']Schneider was also quick to brush off the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/05/jeopardy-winner-amy-schneider-robbed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widely reported robbery she was subjected to\u003c/a>, at gunpoint, on Jan. 2. She tweeted only that she would be a little less active on social media as she got the contents of her wallet back in order. (“I’m fine,” she wrote.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, a December essay for Defector titled “\u003ca href=\"https://defector.com/how-i-got-smart/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How I Got Smart\u003c/a>” proved Schneider to be disarmingly self-aware, and in possession of a charming sense of humor. In it, she noted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Given my traditional Catholic upbringing, I obviously can’t just let somebody compliment me without resistance. If I just go around letting people praise me willy-nilly, what’s next? Having self-worth? Pursuing my dreams? \u003cem>Pre-marital sex\u003c/em>?!?!\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>She went on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am white, and until well into adulthood, was perceived as male. Had that not been the case, my intelligence would have been seen as surprising at best, and threatening at worst … I was never discouraged from acquiring knowledge. 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The process was documented, from idea to outline. There were community conferences and government gatherings, as well as critiques and criticisms from neighbors who felt like the theme—people of color pushing for resistance against oppressive forces—didn’t represent their experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby cultural centers were also included. At 14th Street and Alice Street, right across the street from the mural, is the Malonga Casquelourd Center, a hub for African drumming and dance performances. On the other side sits Hotel Oakland, a residential and cultural space for older Asian folks. Elements from the two centers—both the physical design of the buildings and faces of the people who’ve graced those grounds—were incorporated into the artwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artists eventually created a mural covering four large walls of a sizable parking lot. But as the paint dried and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10139706/oaklands-newest-mural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ribbon was cut in\u003c/a> August of 2014, a new development was being planned on that very spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-800x553.jpeg\" alt=\"Performers playing instruments inside of Hotel Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-800x553.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1020x705.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-160x111.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-768x531.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1536x1061.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-2048x1415.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1920x1326.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performers play instruments inside of Hotel Oakland. \u003ccite>(Spencer Wilkinson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited to highlight the artists and what’s happened since the documentary took place,” says film producer \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/spenceriwilkinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spencer Wilkinson.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the two lead artists on the project will be present for a post-screening dialogue on Nov. 16. 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Maybe years, or decades from now it will see new light. But for now, all that’s visible are the names of the artists and the website where you can get more information about \u003ca href=\"https://www.alicestreetfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the film\u003c/a>—and the ongoing conversation about the arts, community and urban development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Alice Street’ screens Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the New Parkway in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lJRPZLuY9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trailer here\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/10159?siteToken=P5WXdOEJ3Eq2eHbZHTAtbg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artists eventually created a mural covering four large walls of a sizable parking lot. But as the paint dried and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10139706/oaklands-newest-mural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ribbon was cut in\u003c/a> August of 2014, a new development was being planned on that very spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-800x553.jpeg\" alt=\"Performers playing instruments inside of Hotel Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-800x553.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1020x705.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-160x111.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-768x531.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1536x1061.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-2048x1415.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/Alice-Street-3-1920x1326.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performers play instruments inside of Hotel Oakland. \u003ccite>(Spencer Wilkinson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited to highlight the artists and what’s happened since the documentary took place,” says film producer \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/spenceriwilkinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spencer Wilkinson.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the two lead artists on the project will be present for a post-screening dialogue on Nov. 16. They’ll be joined by drummer \u003ca href=\"https://actaonline.org/profile/kiazi-malonga/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiazi Malonga\u003c/a>, son of the late world-renown artist Malonga Casquelourd and head of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.actaonline.org/profile/fua-dia-congo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fua Dia Congo\u003c/a> performance group, as well as musician and poet \u003ca href=\"https://destinymuhammad.net/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destiny Muhammad,\u003c/a> who is featured in the film asking the poignant question: “Is what’s coming better than what’s here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film concludes with a note that individuals and community organizations such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccedoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Coalition For Equitable Development (CCED)\u003c/a> have pushed for and received a set of community benefit agreements, which have led to more low-income housing, more parking—and, in addition to other agreements, they’ve been financially supported in the painting of a new mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906004\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-800x640.jpeg\" alt=\"Drummers gather at a celebration for the new mural on 14th Street in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-800x640.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1020x816.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-160x128.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-768x615.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1536x1229.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-2048x1639.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/DK6dODsQ-1920x1537.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drummers gather at a celebration for the new mural on 14th Street in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Rudi Tcruz and Galex Tcruz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A couple blocks down from the location of the site of the previous mural, on the side of the \u003ca href=\"https://greenlining.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiA1aiMBhAUEiwACw25MbNayyyBrFf0DTmTvP6XMoVjjDk6eJKLCYNgCPH7y_LpXVuc66ElURoCvyEQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenlining Institute\u003c/a>, now stands a new painting featuring some of the same artists as the previous piece, as well as the themes of housing justice, diversity and cultural arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the old mural, mummified by a new building? Maybe years, or decades from now it will see new light. But for now, all that’s visible are the names of the artists and the website where you can get more information about \u003ca href=\"https://www.alicestreetfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the film\u003c/a>—and the ongoing conversation about the arts, community and urban development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Alice Street’ screens Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the New Parkway in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lJRPZLuY9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trailer here\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/10159?siteToken=P5WXdOEJ3Eq2eHbZHTAtbg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>We all know the story: artists move into a low-income area in search of cheap space, set up shop and eventually attract wealthier interests that push out long-term residents. But in East Oakland, a coalition of artists and educators is trying to rewrite the narrative by doing something improbable—making a new development serve the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new space is a former cotton mill slated for redevelopment. Once the project is completed, the entire 200,000-square-foot Jingletown building, not far from the Fifth Avenue Marina, will become a new arts and culture complex called The Loom (2150 Livingston Street). It’s an ambitious project that promises solar power and a permaculture garden, spaces for classes and events, affordable artist studios, dining, retail, below-market-rate co-living spaces and even a hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the blueprints for most of those features are still being drawn up, an art space called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/agencyoakland/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agency\u003c/a> has already moved into the bare bones of the cavernous, brick warehouse. Agency is a collaboration among Rosalyn Nash of \u003ca href=\"https://www.thepeoplesconservatory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The People’s Conservatory\u003c/a>, which provides arts education to underserved K-12 students; Assan Jethmal, an event producer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.endeavors-oakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Endeavors Oakland\u003c/a> and co-founder of Good Mother Gallery; and Natalia Ivanova of the nonprofit downtown art gallery \u003ca href=\"https://www.proartscommons.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ProArts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each player brings with them a wide-ranging network of artists and activists, many of whom are people of color making forward-thinking work and in need of affordable places to create, gather and perform. And their goal isn’t just to get a symbolic nod to diversity and inclusion from the developer, but to give the community direct access and influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re bringing to the table is bringing folks who are boots on the ground, doing work with the community, creating the arts and culture of Oakland,” says Nash. “As the developers, they have the capital, they have the space. But we have the culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since moving in in August, Agency has already shown the potential of what an 8,500-square-foot space like this can offer. A textile art exhibit curated by Maymanah Farhat featured big, colorful, hand-sewn pieces. Some were whimsical and kitschy (like a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CT412Qmlobi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rug portrait of 2000s-era Soulja Boy\u003c/a> by Assan Jethmal’s brother Ian). And others used fabric for potent storytelling, like Daniel Drennan ElAwar’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CUh99T2lUyl/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vigil knitting\u003c/a>,” made while waiting on news from Palestinian friends taking cover from Israeli bombings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Agency hosted a musical healing circle by the \u003ca href=\"https://thesongremedy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Song Remedy\u003c/a>, a project of SOL Development singer and community organizer Brittany Tanner. On a September night in the warehouse’s spacious courtyard, chart-topper and Oakland native G-Eazy rocked a crowd at his album release party for \u003cem>These Things Happen Too\u003c/em>. The People’s Conservatory students have been doing schoolwork at Agency (and soon, a music tech lab with free classes is coming thanks to a grant from Apple). An African diaspora dance festival, an NFT festival and a holiday artist market are also in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CT_Ro48Dyf9/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as I’ve known Rozz and Assan, it’s all about sustaining the art,” says Karega Bailey of \u003ca href=\"https://soldevelopment.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SOL Development\u003c/a>, who is slated to perform at \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/agency-oakland-inaugural-costume-gala-tickets-186221342047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agency’s costume gala and fundraiser\u003c/a> on Oct. 28 with Brittany Tanner and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13885918/grand-nationxl-a-wolf-pack-of-artists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rap supergroup Grand Nationxl\u003c/a>. “They understand art to be an integral part of society and any community. … I imagine [Agency] could be a new focal point of story and gathering and belongingness for artists in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea for Agency began to germinate with Jethmal throwing COVID-safe artist markets and hip-hop shows in \u003ca href=\"https://www.endeavors-oakland.com/the-lot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the parking lot outside of the Tribune Tower\u003c/a>. Eventually, he worked with the landlord and artist Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith to turn the tower’s fifth floor into a blank canvas for muralists, including Bud Snow and Vogue TDK. (The murals were eventually \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13897823/nft-artists-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digitized and sold as an NFT\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jethmal wanted to find a permanent space, the owners of Tribune Tower, an investor group called Highbridge Equity Partners, pointed him to the larger and much more affordable property that would eventually become Agency and The Loom. [aside postid='arts_13901928']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of waiting for the developer to take the lead, Jethmal pitched Highbridge: “Let’s all be at the table, ground-up, before you even start,” he said, arguing that his coalition of artists brings a cultural value greater than any monetary deposit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aboudi Kabbani, senior vice president at Highbridge, listened. “We’re not a developer that’s just trying to build market-rate housing or a commercial building and make a lot of money,” Kabbani explains, adding that Highbridge specializes in historic sites. Its holdings also include the former \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/Oakland_YWCA_Building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YWCA building\u003c/a> on 15th Street designed by renowned architect Julia Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s only a couple of investors,” Kabbani says of The Loom. “Everyone’s in this for the long haul, not looking to flip or anything like that. As long as we make enough money to sustain the projects that’s all that really matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kabbani has a few ideas for how to make that happen: established commercial anchor tenants will pay market-rate rent, subsidizing the costs for smaller businesses and nonprofits. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/spsgym/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speed Power Strength gym\u003c/a> was already in the building before Highbridge purchased it, and is staying on.) The Seed Barn, a building adjacent to Agency, can hold performances, community fundraisers and meditation classes, which could be sustained by rentals for weddings and private events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYSakzhsbI/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highbridge has enlisted \u003ca href=\"https://www.dbarchitect.com/project_detail/306/The%20Loom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Baker Architects\u003c/a>, a firm known for innovative affordable housing projects. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fletcher.studio/the-loom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fletcher Studios\u003c/a> has been charged with the landscape architecture, and has lofty goals of making The Loom a regenerative project that produces its own solar energy and minimizes water use and construction waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new development that’s sustainable for culture and the environment? Given the ways the city has changed over the past 20 years, some Oakland residents might understandably raise their eyebrows at the idea. But if all goes according to plan, The Loom might become an important connecting thread in the local cultural fabric for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904814\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Infamous TAZ is rockin' a yellow Spongebob hoody and some shorts as he's posted on a park bench at Pittsburg's City Park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02551.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Born in Oakland, Infamous TAZ and his family soon moved Pittsburg, part of a two-decade shift in Bay Area demographics. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“I\u003c/span> was born up in Deep East Oakland / The world knows us for hyphy and ridin’ in scrapers, yokin,’” raps \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/infamoustaz_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Infamous TAZ\u003c/a> on “Home Town,” the final song of a six-track EP he dropped last month, \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/09u6QRp5xy7a4kpIM8HS8K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Negus In The Sun\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in that same reflective verse, TAZ opens up about his father’s drug addiction and his mother’s decision to move the family out of the Town. “We moved in with my auntie, she stayed up in Pittsburg / It used to be a suburb where the rich folks stayed reserved / Just like our ancestors, we thought moving would make us better off/ Until we saw the suburbs transform like Decepticons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s rapping about the changing demographics of the Bay Area. And he’s doing so from lived experience. TAZ is one of many, specifically working-class Black folks, who’ve relocated to the Delta, the Central Valley or out of state, but still call Oakland home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2000, Oakland’s overall population has grown by 33,000 people, but the percentage of African Americans has dropped from 35.7% to 23.8%. A smaller percentage of a larger number of people–something that often gets overlooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the Caldecott Tunnel, just down Highway 4, is the city of Antioch, where two decades ago the population was just over 90,000 people, with Black folks making up 9.7%. According to the latest census, “the Yoc” now has a total population of more than 111,000, of which African Americans account for 21.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, nearby Pittsburg had a total population of over 56,000 folks, of which nearly 19% were African American. Now Pittsburg has grown to over 72,000 residents, and 15.4% are African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TAZ, a graduate of Pittsburg High School’s class of 2015, has seen it all unfold. So, a couple weeks ago, I pulled up to the far East Bay to see Pittsburg and Antioch through his eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904815\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Infamous TAZ cracks a smile as he sits on the staircase in front of his old apartments in Pittsburg.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02564.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infamous TAZ on the staircase in front of his old apartments in Pittsburg. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>AZ points to the Riverstone Apartments on Sycamore Drive, his first home after moving from Oakland. A little further down, in the parking lot of a small shopping center, sits a makeshift memorial for a homicide victim. This area is where a lot of drama occurs, TAZ tells me, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/18/the-highest-crime-area-of-antioch-feds-appear-to-be-focusing-on-antiochs-sycamore-corridor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news reports of federal agents\u003c/a> focusing on that area confirm it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference is,” TAZ says to me, “you gotta \u003cem>find\u003c/em> trouble out here. In Oakland, it’ll find you.” He and his family moved out here to escape it. But that didn’t exactly happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the day, his brother had long locs, was into turf dancing, and wore airbrushed T-shirts. “He had to fight his way home just off the strength that he was from Oakland,” TAZ tells me, as we bend corners through the neighborhood. The beef has since died down, but when he first moved here, TAZ says, “there was a war going on between Oakland and Pittsburg.”[aside postID='arts_13865533']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that during those early years, people would do dirt in the Town or the City and then hide out in Pittsburg or Antioch—his brother included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TAZ, who has an older sister as well, is the youngest in the family. Because of that fact, he was often protected. But there’s only so much sheltering available when there’s drama inside the house too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We park inside of the Villa Serena apartments on E. Leland Road: “Apartment 209, that’s it,” TAZ says. This is where TAZ realized the economic situation that his family faced; a realization that catapulted him into adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He paints a picture for me of what went on in the house—dice games with money on the floor, weed smoke in the air, ashes on the table, shotgun under the bed, glock under the couch. Essentially, it was a trap house, he says, except it wasn’t abandoned. His family lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was days when my mom was crying because she didn’t have rent money,” TAZ recalls. “My brother was selling drugs to make money to keep us in here.” The juxtaposition of activity inside the house versus what was going on outside messed with his teenaged head. “Outside, I was in Pittsburg. But inside I was in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music became an escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904817\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904817\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Infamous TAZ takes a sip of a beverage as he posts in front of Angelo's, a store around the corner from his old high school. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infamous TAZ takes a sip of a beverage as he posts in front of Angelo’s, a store around the corner from his old high school. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a kid he was deeply into hip-hop, but not the hip-hop of the time. When Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane were hot in the early 2000s, he was listening to the Fat Boys and the Funky 4 + 1. Known for beatboxing, TAZ rocked Gazelle-styled shades and fat laces in his kicks. He even developed a New York accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out here,” TAZ says, pointing to the ground we’re standing on. “I’m telling you I’m from East Oakland. And I’m talking like I’m from New York.” He laughs at the confusion. “Na, B, I’m really from out here!”[aside postID='arts_13851806']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got deeper into writing raps, publishing his first project while in high school. After class, he’d post up in front of Angelo’s Pizza & Wings & Mini Market to sell pot and freestyle with other students and folks from the neighborhood. And while he hung out with seedy crowds, he never got in trouble with the law—something he credits to his family, his own moral compass, and getting into theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his senior year he landed a role in a hip-hop musical, playing a gangsta. “It helped me reenact everything I had seen over the years, and it put me around positive people,” TAZ tells me, taking a swig of lemonade. Suddenly, he didn’t have to dumb himself down anymore. He could freely discuss poetry, spirituality and chakras. He also saw a lane to pursue his dream of being an entertainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, he got deeper into acting, even doing out-of-state shows—including one at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904816\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Infamous TAZ and Angelo, owner of Angelo's Pizza and Wings, share a moment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infamous TAZ and Angelo, owner of Angelo’s Pizza and Wings, share a moment. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside of school, he pushed his music, which led him back to Oakland. He got connected with United Roots and the Urban Peace Movement’s \u003ca href=\"https://urbanpeacemovement.org/programs/determination/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Determination Black male mentorship program\u003c/a>, where he met mentors Adimu Madyun (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wolfhawkjaguar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WolfHawkJaguar\u003c/a>) and the late Dr. Prince White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TAZ watched Dr. Prince White’s efforts to free \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Supporters-of-ex-Oakland-football-star-want-11260039.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dajon Ford\u003c/a> from Santa Rita Jail, where he had been sitting for four years awaiting trial. When Ford was released, TAZ says, it one of the most remarkable things he’s ever seen. “I never saw a group of brothers get a Black man out of jail,” says TAZ. “That made me believe in (Dr. Prince White) a whole ‘nother way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dr. Prince White \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2018/09/04/remembering-the-social-justice-advocate-dr-prince-white/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed unexpectedly\u003c/a> in 2018 from a rare medical condition. “When he passed, it was deep for me. It felt like that moment when niggas lost prominent leaders in the ’60s,” TAZ laments. “That’s why I had to give him that shoutout on “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_--5ZeZ-Raw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Peace\u003c/a>” … I felt like everyone who fights for peace ends up dying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_%E2%80%935ZeZ-Raw\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_–5ZeZ-Raw\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>round the same time, TAZ started running with a peer named \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851806/sitting-at-the-right-hand-of-president-obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leo Mercer\u003c/a>, who helped him reconnect with Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was away from Oakland for so many years that everyone I knew in Oakland was either dead, in jail, or they moved out,” TAZ says. “So he got me reacquainted with the Oakland scene as it is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in Pittsburg, TAZ looked at Oakland the same way some Black folks in America look at the continent of Africa. Constantly questioning how his life would’ve been if he’d been raised out there. “To me, Oakland was the motherland,” he says as he sits in the passenger seat. “Especially after I learned about the Panthers.”[aside label='Also See' link1='https://www.theroot.com/oakland-makes-everything-black-blacker-1832718298,Oakland Makes Everything Black, Blacker']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once disconnected from the heartbeat of the Bay, TAZ now spends plenty of time in Oakland. He’s a regular at community events and underground shows. “Now that I’m acquainted with Oakland and Pittsburg, I get the same feeling,” TAZ says, letting out a laugh of frustration. “I gotta get out of the Bay!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true. Like \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/576496-more-than-half-of-bay-area-residents-plan-to-leave-permanently-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many Bay Area residents,\u003c/a> TAZ wants to leave his hometown—or hometowns—for a place where the cost of living isn’t as expensive and career opportunities are vast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s working on it. He’s dropped two albums in the past 18 months, has done more shows out of state, and is doing weekly freestyles on Instagram, calling them #TazForceTuesdays. He’s pushing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he says the glimmers of success he’s had so far are God’s way of showing him that he’s headed down the right path—wherever it might lead next.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that during those early years, people would do dirt in the Town or the City and then hide out in Pittsburg or Antioch—his brother included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TAZ, who has an older sister as well, is the youngest in the family. Because of that fact, he was often protected. But there’s only so much sheltering available when there’s drama inside the house too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We park inside of the Villa Serena apartments on E. Leland Road: “Apartment 209, that’s it,” TAZ says. This is where TAZ realized the economic situation that his family faced; a realization that catapulted him into adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He paints a picture for me of what went on in the house—dice games with money on the floor, weed smoke in the air, ashes on the table, shotgun under the bed, glock under the couch. Essentially, it was a trap house, he says, except it wasn’t abandoned. His family lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was days when my mom was crying because she didn’t have rent money,” TAZ recalls. “My brother was selling drugs to make money to keep us in here.” The juxtaposition of activity inside the house versus what was going on outside messed with his teenaged head. “Outside, I was in Pittsburg. But inside I was in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music became an escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904817\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904817\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Infamous TAZ takes a sip of a beverage as he posts in front of Angelo's, a store around the corner from his old high school. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02547.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infamous TAZ takes a sip of a beverage as he posts in front of Angelo’s, a store around the corner from his old high school. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a kid he was deeply into hip-hop, but not the hip-hop of the time. When Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane were hot in the early 2000s, he was listening to the Fat Boys and the Funky 4 + 1. Known for beatboxing, TAZ rocked Gazelle-styled shades and fat laces in his kicks. He even developed a New York accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out here,” TAZ says, pointing to the ground we’re standing on. “I’m telling you I’m from East Oakland. And I’m talking like I’m from New York.” He laughs at the confusion. “Na, B, I’m really from out here!”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got deeper into writing raps, publishing his first project while in high school. After class, he’d post up in front of Angelo’s Pizza & Wings & Mini Market to sell pot and freestyle with other students and folks from the neighborhood. And while he hung out with seedy crowds, he never got in trouble with the law—something he credits to his family, his own moral compass, and getting into theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his senior year he landed a role in a hip-hop musical, playing a gangsta. “It helped me reenact everything I had seen over the years, and it put me around positive people,” TAZ tells me, taking a swig of lemonade. Suddenly, he didn’t have to dumb himself down anymore. He could freely discuss poetry, spirituality and chakras. He also saw a lane to pursue his dream of being an entertainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, he got deeper into acting, even doing out-of-state shows—including one at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904816\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Infamous TAZ and Angelo, owner of Angelo's Pizza and Wings, share a moment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/DSC02542.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infamous TAZ and Angelo, owner of Angelo’s Pizza and Wings, share a moment. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside of school, he pushed his music, which led him back to Oakland. He got connected with United Roots and the Urban Peace Movement’s \u003ca href=\"https://urbanpeacemovement.org/programs/determination/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Determination Black male mentorship program\u003c/a>, where he met mentors Adimu Madyun (\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wolfhawkjaguar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WolfHawkJaguar\u003c/a>) and the late Dr. Prince White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TAZ watched Dr. Prince White’s efforts to free \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Supporters-of-ex-Oakland-football-star-want-11260039.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dajon Ford\u003c/a> from Santa Rita Jail, where he had been sitting for four years awaiting trial. 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It felt like that moment when niggas lost prominent leaders in the ’60s,” TAZ laments. “That’s why I had to give him that shoutout on “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_--5ZeZ-Raw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Peace\u003c/a>” … I felt like everyone who fights for peace ends up dying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_%E2%80%935ZeZ-Raw\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_–5ZeZ-Raw\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>round the same time, TAZ started running with a peer named \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851806/sitting-at-the-right-hand-of-president-obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leo Mercer\u003c/a>, who helped him reconnect with Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was away from Oakland for so many years that everyone I knew in Oakland was either dead, in jail, or they moved out,” TAZ says. “So he got me reacquainted with the Oakland scene as it is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in Pittsburg, TAZ looked at Oakland the same way some Black folks in America look at the continent of Africa. 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