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Five nights a week, he perched at his instrument, with vinyl albums emblazoned with \u003cem>Jerry\u003c/em> for sale off to the side. Monkey toys crashing cymbals and a train whistle added even more texture. Despite the fun of his gig, he now had a mortgage in San Jose, and the prospects of a 40-year career as an organist wasn’t going to get things paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nagano, who has an undergraduate degree from UCLA, began taking computer classes at De Anza College in Cupertino during the day, which first led to a job at NASA and then a career at Stanford as an electrical engineer from 1998 to 2024. Five days a week in Hayward became two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his new full-time gig, Nagano found a way to keep his very unique skill going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I started this year from hell of doing college classes, going to NASA and playing at the Pizza Joynt, someone decided, ‘OK, you don’t have enough to do, so let’s throw another something on your plate for you to spin — would you be the Tuesday night organist at the Stanford Theatre?’” Nagano recalled. “That was one of my two free nights, so another night was taken up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984823\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/20251210_JERRYNAGANO_DECEMBER_GH-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/20251210_JERRYNAGANO_DECEMBER_GH-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/20251210_JERRYNAGANO_DECEMBER_GH-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/20251210_JERRYNAGANO_DECEMBER_GH-5-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/20251210_JERRYNAGANO_DECEMBER_GH-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organist Jerry Nagano plays the lobby’s restored 1928 Wurlitzer pipe organ at the California Theatre in San Jose on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now 67 years old, Nagano splits his time between the Stanford Theatre and the California Theatre, the organ programming in both venues supported by the Packard Humanities Institute. Nagano has a knack for dazzling audiences with tunes that often fit the bills of the respective venues, especially at Stanford, which specializes in playing vintage films as far back as the silent era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opera San Jose General Director and CEO Shawna Lucey understands that in today’s modern era, where competition for one’s entertainment dollar is fierce, opera is more than a rustic stage and beautiful singing. Going to the opera is an event, where patrons bask in the thrill of the world’s greatest vocal compositions. Nagano has been a staple for those attending the California’s many events since 2008, and having a Bay Area icon in the house just amplifies the setting even more. [aside postid='arts_13984704']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a special thing from this region that we have remarkable talent, and Jerry is delighting audiences with the sounds of one of the most classic American experiences. It just doesn’t get any better than that,” said Lucey, whose father, like Nagano, is a retired electrical engineer. “We have Jerry play, but he doesn’t just play. He talks to our audiences and explains things about the Wurlitzer organ, which is really exciting for our patrons and audiences both young and old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching Nagano dive into the two-, three- or four-manual organ is to watch an American master in motion. In the dimly lit lobby of the California Theatre, where the 1928 two-manual instrument is housed, each keyboard has 61 keys, with 32 more notes at his nimble feet. That’s not to mention the plethora of sound buttons that surround the keys just above, featuring every brass, woodwind or percussion sound imaginable. [aside postid='arts_13984286']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mighty Wurlitzer and all its iterations have seen their best days. In the Bay Area, those days are largely attributed to the few folks like Nagano, keeping a tradition alive that is straight from the pages of classic Americana. Nagano still enjoys playing, still loves sitting down and cranking out a Broadway tune, even keeping tricks up his sleeve from newer shows like \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em> or classic rock bands such as Led Zeppelin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only rules Nagano has are his own. No matter the setting — in fancy dress at the opera, enjoying a film from the golden age of cinema, or, back in the day, scarfing down pepperoni slices with your family — Nagano’s number-one rule is all about having fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many other organists in the business that play better and more accurately than I do, and I always refer to them as the organists that want to impress people,” Nagano said. “That was the point where I said, ‘I would much rather entertain my audience than impress them, so I will work on giving my audience a fun, good time.’ You might be impressed or you might not be, but I sure hope you have a good time while you’re listening.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1701px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1701\" height=\"1506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466.jpg 1701w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466-800x708.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466-1020x903.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466-160x142.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466-768x680.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MexicanIndep_2024_Preview2-scaled-e1726774232466-1536x1360.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1701px) 100vw, 1701px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley is full of economic contradictions and diverse identities. Throughout the year, events like Mexican Independence Day (above) showcase the array of immigrant enclaves that reside in the tech capital. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/siliconvalleyunseen\">Silicon Valley Unseen\u003c/a> is a series of photo essays, original reporting and underreported histories that survey the tech capital’s overlooked communities and subcultures from a local perspective.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or most of my life, when someone’s asked where I’m from, I’ve avoided saying “Silicon Valley.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, I’ve opted for a term more representative of my Bay Area upbringing: the South Bay. “Silicon Valley” and all it connotes is just too one-dimensional, too narrow-minded to hold the layered realities that have shaped my community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12/328/1401\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The name Silicon Valley dates back to 1971, when journalist Don Hoefler coined it\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in a series about Santa Clara County’s booming semiconductor industry. In the decades since, its promise has been lionized worldwide.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To outsiders, Silicon Valley is seen as the world’s biggest gold mine in the digital age. Whereas the pick-and-axe Gold Rush once attracted runaways and rogues westward in the mid-1800s, this tech boom signaled white collar excellence and limitless profiteering laced with uber-innovative thinking — a modern algorithm that has spawned replicas in Tel Aviv, London, Austin and Zhongguancun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But this pristine, mainstream portrayal blithely ignores its de facto caste system. For every office building, there are tireless custodians who stay after hours to clean up, and security guards whose shifts begin at midnight. At local parks, groups of Spanish-speaking nannies gather while raising tech workers’ children. Silicon Valley is where you’ll see a scissor-door Lamborghini casually parked in a bland strip mall — right next to an Uber food delivery driver in a Toyota with a missing front bumper.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley is often depicted as a monolithic capital of wealth and tech innovation, but the region has some of the highest rates of homelessness and wealth disparities in the nation. \u003ccite>(Darius Riley/HOUR VOYSES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the son of Mexican immigrants, I’ve spent decades trying to understand the reverence others project onto my imperfect hometown. I’m someone who grew up surrounded by these privileges yet still fell through the institutional cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to a high school where some students lived in the hills and sported a rotation of BMWs and Mercedes, while others lived with eight undocumented family members doing their best to get by on minimum wage and avoid deportation. I observed these disparities as someone in the middle, with access to both worlds. Constantly toggling between extremes warped my sense of place. I eventually gravitated towards graffiti, attended community college and read up on the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2007, I left Mountain View (now known as the home of Google) for Berkeley in pursuit of art, education and personal growth. I eventually exited California entirely, and never planned on returning to Silicon Valley. But recently I moved back to my old neighborhood, right next to Highway 101 and Moffett Field. And the changes are enormous.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965095\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1244px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965095\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1244\" height=\"908\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM.png 1244w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-800x584.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-1020x745.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-768x561.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1244px) 100vw, 1244px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author Alan Chazaro (left) stands with Knuckles (middle) and R.J. (right) during a graffiti outing in Mountain View, circa 2006. Knuckles still lives in Mountain View, as one of the only remaining families in the neighborhood from that time. R.J. has since passed away.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gone are any bounce houses and taco trucks; any lowrider bikes and tinted windows on low-sitting Lexuses and Mustangs; any \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWf-sL1LFjE\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">aspiring Chicano rappers at the nearby park\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; any Samoan, Vietnamese and Filipino house parties. They’ve mostly been replaced by empty holograms and dollar signs. There isn’t much space and affordability for anything else these days, it seems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Headlines about my hometown make it seem like the world’s biggest capitalist theme park rather than an actual community of everyday people: “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/30/silicon-valley-wealth-second-richest-country-world-earth\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Silicon Valley Were a Country, It Would Be Among the Richest on Earth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.” “\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/28/kid-parties-silicon-valley-entertainers/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside the Opulent World of Six-Figure Kids Birthday Parties in Silicon Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-campus/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside Apple’s Insanely Great (or Just Insane) New Mothership\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who gets to tell stories about Silicon Valley? And what do those stories reveal about who we really are? Perhaps more than ever, as the architectures of displacement continue to spread in every direction and the ongoing tides of entities like OpenAI encroach, there’s an urgency for preservation. For humanized connection.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week on KQED, local activists, small business owners, car club enthusiasts, photographers, reporters, poets, filmmakers, rappers, radio hosts and longtime community members will converge to share our homegrown views about Silicon Valley — in our own words.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For too long, our region’s ordinary beauties and people have gone unseen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13965311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]M[/dropcap]y dad never goes to San Francisco’s Mission or Oakland’s Fruitvale — two of Northern California’s most celebrated Mexican and Central American neighborhoods — to order his favorite pupusas. He doesn’t have to.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His pupusas of choice are served by a Salvadoran woman who lives on a tree-lined suburban cul-de-sac in Mountain View.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are many food vendors in Silicon Valley who set up their operations in front yards, public parks and parking lots. From pupusas to tacos, you’ll find a rich supply of immigrant dishes being served in unlikely locations. This particular taquero immigrated from Mexico City and serves al pastor tacos during local soccer games in Sunnyvale. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In front of a shanty home that remains as a vestige from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://fortheloveofapricots.com/2016/07/valley-of-hearts-delight/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the South Bay’s centuries of fruit orchard prominence\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, this señora slangs distinctly Salvadoran staples: pupusas, curtido, salsa roja, frijoles and arroz. Her offerings aren’t particularly creative, and she’s not the kind of trendy, underground TikTok food celebrity that attracts buzzing lines.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Primarily, she’s simply trying to survive the economic reality of Silicon Valley, a land where some people own Cybertrucks, and others ride public transit and help assemble Teslas in nearby factories. Silicon Valley isn’t the attractive, vibrant center of a major metropolis. It’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mocutobi/status/1790549460562628764\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sleepy stretch of homes that resemble just about any other suburb in the country\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, except that property values are measured by the multi-millions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the largest centrifugal cluster of moguldom on the planet. Google, Apple, Uber, Facebook, Waymo, LinkedIn, Netflix and Lockheed Martin are all within 15 miles from my front door. These surrounding corporations — rather than the hardworking residents who live here — are what get cared for and invested in.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965094\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignacio Chazaro immigrated from Mexico to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1976 without a high school education. Within a decade, he was hired as a mechanical designer in Menlo Park, part of what journalist Don Hoefler in 1971 termed “Silicon Valley USA” due to the region’s booming semiconductor industry. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our pupusera prepares her homemade meals in a gravel driveway near a Google satellite campus, right beside a parked trailer where an immigrant Honduran handyman lives because rent in this zip code is too expensive to afford an actual bedroom. (The renovated house across the street from the pupusera is now valued at just shy of $4 million).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dad arrived in the San Francisco Peninsula from Mexico as a middle school dropout. Like so many who cross the border into the United States, he sought opportunity. He enrolled at College of San Mateo while working nights as a restaurant cook near campus; miraculously, he managed to complete a program in mechanical design. My dad had known nothing about it, only that a recruiter from a nearby company visited his class and a counselor had encouraged him to sign up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965100\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965100\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Chazaro’s son, Maceo, explores the San Jose Flea Market, where the author often visited while growing up.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prior to that, my dad, Nacho, was a free-floating hippie. By all accounts — from stories I’ve heard and photos I’ve unearthed — he was a marijuana-loving, laissez-faire artist who rocked a Mexican afro and wore a leather vest. A man who’d wandered off from a family of 12 siblings in Veracruz to chase something — anything — somewhere else. He’d never used or seen a computer before. In a recent conversation, when I asked what his plan had been upon reaching California, he told me he didn’t have one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That all changed in Silicon Valley. Due to the fateful intersection of time, place and skills, my dad landed a gig in the early tech workforce as someone who could sketch detailed computer parts by hand. (He worked for a company that no longer exists, inside a building that has since been converted into Facebook’s headquarters). Back then, computer parts were drafted by pencil as illustrations. If there’s one thing my dad could do, it was drawing. Nearly four decades later, he does similar work, though he uses a computer now. It pays the bills, he enjoys it, and he never complains. I admire him for being able to plug into the system and reap the rewards of his immigrant scrappiness. By those metrics, he crushed it in life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plus, his life in tech has provided me and my older brother with invaluable tools. I remember when my dad got a computer at our first apartment, back in the days of floppy discs and MS-DOS in the mid-’90s. At the time, I thought it was part of normal childhood. Looking back, it’s clear I grew up with immediate access to technologies that my peers would later come to depend upon and even worship. It was a perk of being inside Silicon Valley, if only on the cultural fringes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Try to imagine an unqualified Mexican immigrant waltzing into Silicon Valley for a lifelong career in tech these days. That backdoor has since been locked.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13965311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]D[/dropcap]irt bikers popping twelve-o’clock wheelies at rush hour. That’s what you might see in East Palo Alto (EPA) — a redlined city off the eastern ramp of Highway 101, whose primary street leads directly to Stanford’s finely manicured campus. As one of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Silicon Valley Unseen’\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s eight collaborators, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hourvoyses/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">EPA-raised photographer Darius Riley\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> rides around on his skateboard, capturing local sights and faces. He provides a glimpse into this ever-evolving community historically alienated from Silicon Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across the Dumbarton Bridge from EPA, you’ll find Fremont. The city marks the northeasternmost edge of Silicon Valley, home to a host of tech companies, including Tesla. More importantly, it’s a tranquil suburb known for its Indian cuisine, Afghan community and high-ranking safety. Recently, Fremont has provided the setting for popular films like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dìdi \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fremont\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. East Bay journalist \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soup_.y/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supriya Yelimeli\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> dives into it all in a reflection on her own upbringing as a first-generation Indian American in the country’s “happiest city.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contributing journalist, Supriya Yelimeli, grew up in Fremont during a time of rapid expansion. Here she is pictured riding BART with her family members. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From there, you’ll hop on 880, swerving past Union City and Milpitas toward the aortic valve of Silicon Valley: San Jose. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Shark City” has multiple regions — East Side, West Side and South — each an ecosystem unto itself. In Japantown, you’ll hear from the Vietnamese American owner of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/classicloot/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a clothing boutique\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about what defines her sense of Silicon Valley fashion (and where to thrift shop). On San Jose’s East Side, you’ll meet folks like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jiggyjoefresco/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jiggy Joe Fresco\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and Pro Tribe’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tribe_general/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stretch\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. As \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ogpenn/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED reporter Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> learns over the span of his ride-alongs, the 408’s rap hustle parallels what he has seen in his own community in East Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/alexknowbody/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alex Knowbody\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> takes over from there. A Mexican American photographer who spends his weekends at PayPal Park — home to the Bay Area’s only professional soccer clubs, the Earthquakes and Bay FC — he embraces the area’s fútbol passions. His photos reveal the sport’s deep legacy, proving Silicon Valley has long been an underrated hotbed for U.S. soccer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming back up 101, crossing 237 (sorry, Cupertino and Campbell), you’ll zing past Alvarado and Santa Clara to reach Sunnyvale, home of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/duenascarclub/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dueñas, an all-women’s lowrider club\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The group’s founder Angel tells us how it all started, and why Silicon Valley is the undisputed lowrider mecca.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dueñas are an all-women lowrider club based in Silicon Valley. Here, they pulled into a strip mall and turned heads from every passersby. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your last stop is in Mountain View, where \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/_gbizness/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KMEL’s hip-hop radio host G-Biz\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> moved after growing up in East Palo Alto. At one point, Gary and I were neighbors, and attended the same high school. He explains what the area means to him and his family after they moved from Arkansas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And me? I went back to a 47-year-old Iranian market that has flourished near downtown Mountain View since my childhood. After being forced out of business for a few years, Rose Market is still supplying some of the best lahori chicken and basmati rice with saffron and zereshk. I weigh in on what they’ve meant to me, and hear from nearby \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mohammad.earth/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Iranian American filmmaker Mohammed Gorjestani\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about both the importance and shortcomings of immigrant nostalgia.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A teenager shows off his motor bike in East Palo Alto, a city that has often been overlooked in the heart of Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Darius Riley/HOUR VOYSES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be born and bred in Silicon Valley is not to be enamored or mesmerized by it. On the contrary, it’s to be at once skeptical and open-hearted; to remain simultaneously inspired and disillusioned. It’s to understand that while this region has been the site of so many life-altering tech trends, it has obscured — if not completely dismissed — everyone doing the day-to-day working and living underneath it all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m from here. We all are. And in the mighty words of Alex Knowbody: “There was a culture here before tech, and there will be a culture here after it, too.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But this pristine, mainstream portrayal blithely ignores its de facto caste system. For every office building, there are tireless custodians who stay after hours to clean up, and security guards whose shifts begin at midnight. At local parks, groups of Spanish-speaking nannies gather while raising tech workers’ children. Silicon Valley is where you’ll see a scissor-door Lamborghini casually parked in a bland strip mall — right next to an Uber food delivery driver in a Toyota with a missing front bumper.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF6100-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley is often depicted as a monolithic capital of wealth and tech innovation, but the region has some of the highest rates of homelessness and wealth disparities in the nation. \u003ccite>(Darius Riley/HOUR VOYSES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the son of Mexican immigrants, I’ve spent decades trying to understand the reverence others project onto my imperfect hometown. I’m someone who grew up surrounded by these privileges yet still fell through the institutional cracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to a high school where some students lived in the hills and sported a rotation of BMWs and Mercedes, while others lived with eight undocumented family members doing their best to get by on minimum wage and avoid deportation. I observed these disparities as someone in the middle, with access to both worlds. Constantly toggling between extremes warped my sense of place. I eventually gravitated towards graffiti, attended community college and read up on the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2007, I left Mountain View (now known as the home of Google) for Berkeley in pursuit of art, education and personal growth. I eventually exited California entirely, and never planned on returning to Silicon Valley. But recently I moved back to my old neighborhood, right next to Highway 101 and Moffett Field. And the changes are enormous.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965095\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1244px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965095\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1244\" height=\"908\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM.png 1244w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-800x584.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-1020x745.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-12.22.04-PM-768x561.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1244px) 100vw, 1244px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author Alan Chazaro (left) stands with Knuckles (middle) and R.J. (right) during a graffiti outing in Mountain View, circa 2006. Knuckles still lives in Mountain View, as one of the only remaining families in the neighborhood from that time. R.J. has since passed away.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gone are any bounce houses and taco trucks; any lowrider bikes and tinted windows on low-sitting Lexuses and Mustangs; any \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWf-sL1LFjE\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">aspiring Chicano rappers at the nearby park\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; any Samoan, Vietnamese and Filipino house parties. They’ve mostly been replaced by empty holograms and dollar signs. There isn’t much space and affordability for anything else these days, it seems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Headlines about my hometown make it seem like the world’s biggest capitalist theme park rather than an actual community of everyday people: “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/30/silicon-valley-wealth-second-richest-country-world-earth\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Silicon Valley Were a Country, It Would Be Among the Richest on Earth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.” “\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/28/kid-parties-silicon-valley-entertainers/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside the Opulent World of Six-Figure Kids Birthday Parties in Silicon Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-campus/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside Apple’s Insanely Great (or Just Insane) New Mothership\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who gets to tell stories about Silicon Valley? And what do those stories reveal about who we really are? Perhaps more than ever, as the architectures of displacement continue to spread in every direction and the ongoing tides of entities like OpenAI encroach, there’s an urgency for preservation. For humanized connection.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week on KQED, local activists, small business owners, car club enthusiasts, photographers, reporters, poets, filmmakers, rappers, radio hosts and longtime community members will converge to share our homegrown views about Silicon Valley — in our own words.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For too long, our region’s ordinary beauties and people have gone unseen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13965311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">M\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>y dad never goes to San Francisco’s Mission or Oakland’s Fruitvale — two of Northern California’s most celebrated Mexican and Central American neighborhoods — to order his favorite pupusas. He doesn’t have to.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His pupusas of choice are served by a Salvadoran woman who lives on a tree-lined suburban cul-de-sac in Mountain View.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_6313-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are many food vendors in Silicon Valley who set up their operations in front yards, public parks and parking lots. From pupusas to tacos, you’ll find a rich supply of immigrant dishes being served in unlikely locations. This particular taquero immigrated from Mexico City and serves al pastor tacos during local soccer games in Sunnyvale. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In front of a shanty home that remains as a vestige from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://fortheloveofapricots.com/2016/07/valley-of-hearts-delight/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the South Bay’s centuries of fruit orchard prominence\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, this señora slangs distinctly Salvadoran staples: pupusas, curtido, salsa roja, frijoles and arroz. Her offerings aren’t particularly creative, and she’s not the kind of trendy, underground TikTok food celebrity that attracts buzzing lines.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Primarily, she’s simply trying to survive the economic reality of Silicon Valley, a land where some people own Cybertrucks, and others ride public transit and help assemble Teslas in nearby factories. Silicon Valley isn’t the attractive, vibrant center of a major metropolis. It’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mocutobi/status/1790549460562628764\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sleepy stretch of homes that resemble just about any other suburb in the country\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, except that property values are measured by the multi-millions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the largest centrifugal cluster of moguldom on the planet. Google, Apple, Uber, Facebook, Waymo, LinkedIn, Netflix and Lockheed Martin are all within 15 miles from my front door. These surrounding corporations — rather than the hardworking residents who live here — are what get cared for and invested in.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965094\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Pa2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignacio Chazaro immigrated from Mexico to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1976 without a high school education. Within a decade, he was hired as a mechanical designer in Menlo Park, part of what journalist Don Hoefler in 1971 termed “Silicon Valley USA” due to the region’s booming semiconductor industry. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our pupusera prepares her homemade meals in a gravel driveway near a Google satellite campus, right beside a parked trailer where an immigrant Honduran handyman lives because rent in this zip code is too expensive to afford an actual bedroom. (The renovated house across the street from the pupusera is now valued at just shy of $4 million).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dad arrived in the San Francisco Peninsula from Mexico as a middle school dropout. Like so many who cross the border into the United States, he sought opportunity. He enrolled at College of San Mateo while working nights as a restaurant cook near campus; miraculously, he managed to complete a program in mechanical design. My dad had known nothing about it, only that a recruiter from a nearby company visited his class and a counselor had encouraged him to sign up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965100\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965100\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/BE029B9D-ED7C-4944-836B-56A285F04628-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Chazaro’s son, Maceo, explores the San Jose Flea Market, where the author often visited while growing up.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prior to that, my dad, Nacho, was a free-floating hippie. By all accounts — from stories I’ve heard and photos I’ve unearthed — he was a marijuana-loving, laissez-faire artist who rocked a Mexican afro and wore a leather vest. A man who’d wandered off from a family of 12 siblings in Veracruz to chase something — anything — somewhere else. He’d never used or seen a computer before. In a recent conversation, when I asked what his plan had been upon reaching California, he told me he didn’t have one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That all changed in Silicon Valley. Due to the fateful intersection of time, place and skills, my dad landed a gig in the early tech workforce as someone who could sketch detailed computer parts by hand. (He worked for a company that no longer exists, inside a building that has since been converted into Facebook’s headquarters). Back then, computer parts were drafted by pencil as illustrations. If there’s one thing my dad could do, it was drawing. Nearly four decades later, he does similar work, though he uses a computer now. It pays the bills, he enjoys it, and he never complains. I admire him for being able to plug into the system and reap the rewards of his immigrant scrappiness. By those metrics, he crushed it in life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plus, his life in tech has provided me and my older brother with invaluable tools. I remember when my dad got a computer at our first apartment, back in the days of floppy discs and MS-DOS in the mid-’90s. At the time, I thought it was part of normal childhood. Looking back, it’s clear I grew up with immediate access to technologies that my peers would later come to depend upon and even worship. It was a perk of being inside Silicon Valley, if only on the cultural fringes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Try to imagine an unqualified Mexican immigrant waltzing into Silicon Valley for a lifelong career in tech these days. That backdoor has since been locked.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13965311\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SVU.LogoBreak.computer-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">D\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>irt bikers popping twelve-o’clock wheelies at rush hour. That’s what you might see in East Palo Alto (EPA) — a redlined city off the eastern ramp of Highway 101, whose primary street leads directly to Stanford’s finely manicured campus. As one of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Silicon Valley Unseen’\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s eight collaborators, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hourvoyses/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">EPA-raised photographer Darius Riley\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> rides around on his skateboard, capturing local sights and faces. He provides a glimpse into this ever-evolving community historically alienated from Silicon Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across the Dumbarton Bridge from EPA, you’ll find Fremont. The city marks the northeasternmost edge of Silicon Valley, home to a host of tech companies, including Tesla. More importantly, it’s a tranquil suburb known for its Indian cuisine, Afghan community and high-ranking safety. Recently, Fremont has provided the setting for popular films like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dìdi \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fremont\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. East Bay journalist \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soup_.y/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supriya Yelimeli\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> dives into it all in a reflection on her own upbringing as a first-generation Indian American in the country’s “happiest city.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contributing journalist, Supriya Yelimeli, grew up in Fremont during a time of rapid expansion. Here she is pictured riding BART with her family members. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From there, you’ll hop on 880, swerving past Union City and Milpitas toward the aortic valve of Silicon Valley: San Jose. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Shark City” has multiple regions — East Side, West Side and South — each an ecosystem unto itself. In Japantown, you’ll hear from the Vietnamese American owner of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/classicloot/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a clothing boutique\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about what defines her sense of Silicon Valley fashion (and where to thrift shop). On San Jose’s East Side, you’ll meet folks like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jiggyjoefresco/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jiggy Joe Fresco\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and Pro Tribe’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tribe_general/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stretch\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. As \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ogpenn/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED reporter Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> learns over the span of his ride-alongs, the 408’s rap hustle parallels what he has seen in his own community in East Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/alexknowbody/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alex Knowbody\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> takes over from there. A Mexican American photographer who spends his weekends at PayPal Park — home to the Bay Area’s only professional soccer clubs, the Earthquakes and Bay FC — he embraces the area’s fútbol passions. His photos reveal the sport’s deep legacy, proving Silicon Valley has long been an underrated hotbed for U.S. soccer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming back up 101, crossing 237 (sorry, Cupertino and Campbell), you’ll zing past Alvarado and Santa Clara to reach Sunnyvale, home of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/duenascarclub/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dueñas, an all-women’s lowrider club\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The group’s founder Angel tells us how it all started, and why Silicon Valley is the undisputed lowrider mecca.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-41-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dueñas are an all-women lowrider club based in Silicon Valley. Here, they pulled into a strip mall and turned heads from every passersby. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your last stop is in Mountain View, where \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/_gbizness/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KMEL’s hip-hop radio host G-Biz\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> moved after growing up in East Palo Alto. At one point, Gary and I were neighbors, and attended the same high school. He explains what the area means to him and his family after they moved from Arkansas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And me? I went back to a 47-year-old Iranian market that has flourished near downtown Mountain View since my childhood. After being forced out of business for a few years, Rose Market is still supplying some of the best lahori chicken and basmati rice with saffron and zereshk. I weigh in on what they’ve meant to me, and hear from nearby \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mohammad.earth/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Iranian American filmmaker Mohammed Gorjestani\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about both the importance and shortcomings of immigrant nostalgia.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/DSCF5132-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A teenager shows off his motor bike in East Palo Alto, a city that has often been overlooked in the heart of Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Darius Riley/HOUR VOYSES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be born and bred in Silicon Valley is not to be enamored or mesmerized by it. On the contrary, it’s to be at once skeptical and open-hearted; to remain simultaneously inspired and disillusioned. It’s to understand that while this region has been the site of so many life-altering tech trends, it has obscured — if not completely dismissed — everyone doing the day-to-day working and living underneath it all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They're devouring doughnuts and plates of Hawaiian barbecue.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Open late in a Palo Alto strip mall, SH Hawaiian BBQ & Donuts specializes in hearty Hawaiian plate lunches. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/the-midnight-diners\">\u003ci>The Midnight Diners\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and graphic novelist \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thiendog/?hl=en\">\u003ci>Thien Pham\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our quest to document the Bay Area’s sweetest and most sacred late-night haunts, let us not forget the humble doughnut shop. Temples to sweet-tooth possessors, havens for night owls and scratch lotto addicts, these fried pastry purveyors are often the only food business within a several-mile radius that’s open past midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located in a quiet Palo Alto strip mall, SH Hawaiian BBQ & Donuts isn’t a colorful, bustling hangout spot like a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bobsdonuts/?hl=en\">Bob’s\u003c/a>. (During our visit on a recent Friday night, it was almost completely empty.) It doesn’t have the surreal weirdness of a Silver Crest Donut Shop (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13961794/silver-crest-closed-sf-donut-shop\">R.I.P.\u003c/a>). It isn’t quite open 24 hours. It doesn’t even sell lotto scratchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one thing the doughnut shop/Hawaiian barbecue hybrid is committed to, though, is feeding anyone with a case of late-night munchies — and not just with doughnuts, but noodle soups, rice bowls and full-on Hawaiian plate lunches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant falls vaguely in the same category as the kind of \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/doughnuts-and-barbecue-1/\">Cambodian-owned doughnut shop\u003c/a> that sells lemongrass-scented meat skewers and sticky-sweet chicken wings on the side — except the savory food menu is even broader and more eclectic. As its name indicates, the shop is best known for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13911062/hawaiian-barbecue-bay-area-multicultural-oakland-ilava\">Hawaiian barbecue\u003c/a>, but like other Bay Area restaurants in this genre, it rounds out its menu with a wide array of Hawaiian and Chinese American takeout standards. There’s Spam musubi, of course, along with other comfort food favorites like loco moco and kalua pork. You can order a Hawaiian-Japanese beef curry plate, a bowl of wonton soup, and about a half-dozen different variations on saimin (Hawaii’s homegrown, ramen-like noodle soup).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s even Vietnamese pho on the menu, even if we weren’t quite feeling frisky enough to try it on this particular visit. The dining room looks the part, too: the bottles of sriracha and sweet chili sauce (and, why not, green Tabasco) on every table, the flatscreen TV perpetually tuned to cable news, and the Christmas decorations still lit up in the middle of July. It’s a pleasantly chill late-night coffee shop vibe (though the place seems to mostly do a lot of takeout business).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13962346\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13962346\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration: The facade of SH Hawaiian BBQ & Donuts, lit up at night.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Sams-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The restaurant has a pleasantly chill late-night coffee shop vibe. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In any case, if you’re in the mood for a big, meaty Hawaiian plate lunch at 2 o’clock in the morning — and you won’t believe how often I get this \u003ci>specific\u003c/i> late-night craving — this is your spot. The good news is that the food at SH is as tasty as we had hoped, especially if you stick to the straightforward offerings on the barbecue side of the menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re feeling particularly famished, go for the “BBQ Mix” plate, which for about $17 comes jam-packed with teriyaki-glazed grilled chicken, beef and kalbi-style on-the-bone short ribs, two scoops of rice, and one scoop of excellent, mayonnaise-y mac salad. The chicken and the short ribs, in particular, were excellent — juicy and flavorful with a nicely caramelized char. It was such a generous plate of food, the takeout carton still had an impressive heft to it even after we’d eaten half of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13961997,arts_13961613,arts_13911062']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>Maybe it was the lateness of the hour, but SH’s version of even something as ubiquitous as Spam musubi impressed us. Past midnight, where else can you get musubi where the Spam comes hot off the grill and the crisp nori is freshly toasted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, we couldn’t visit a late-night doughnut shop without scoring at least a couple of doughnuts, and in this regard too, SH’s offerings seemed to be a few notches better and more varied than the norm. In addition to the standard doughnut purveyor’s selection of crullers, cake doughnuts, variously-filled-and-glazed raised doughnuts, and croissant breakfast sandwiches, the shop also sells trendier items — maple-bacon bars, for instance, and doughnuts topped with ube-taro, Fruity Pebbles or Cinnamon Toast Crunch. (“Some young person is affiliated with this business,” I wrote in my notes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, I opted for a classic apple fritter — a gargantuan specimen, and one of several different fritter varieties on offer. The first bite was the best bite: those wonderfully crisp edges, rich and oily without being too sweet. The sudden urge I felt to scratch off a lotto ticket notwithstanding, it was the perfect way to close out the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>SH Hawaiian BBQ & Donuts (3890 El Camino Real, Palo Alto) is open Mon.–Wed. 9 a.m.–2 a.m., Thu.–Sat. 8 a.m.–3 a.m. and Sun. 8 a.m.–2 a.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, the most scenic vista in Palo Alto isn’t the view from the top of Hoover Tower, or within Gamble Garden’s immaculately manicured grounds, or deep inside a coastal redwood grove, lovely as all of those might be. As of last week, I’ve decided that the most beautiful sight in the entire city is the front patio at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/zareensrestaurant/?hl=en\">Zareen’s\u003c/a> at 10 o’clock on a gorgeous mid-summer night, when the umbrella-bedecked picnic tables are lit up with string lights and bustling with dozens of contented kebab and curry eaters. The vibe was so choice, I started to fall in love even before I took my first bite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beloved Pakistani and Indian restaurant, a staple on the Peninsula for the past 10 years, has two other locations, including the Mountain View original, which opened in 2014. But the Palo Alto Zareen’s is the only one that’s open late — until midnight every day — so that’s where we headed on a recent Friday night, joining the long queue of customers waiting to order at the front counter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13961328,arts_13958041,arts_13952384']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>The menu covers a wide gamut of contemporary Pakistani and Indian food trends. There is, for instance, a whole section devoted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952384/pakistani-desi-burger-fremont-late-night\">desi burgers\u003c/a>, naan wraps and other hybridized street foods that would fit in at any next-generation desi food truck — chapli burgers, fried chicken tikka sandwiches and so forth. Meanwhile, the traditional thali plates, which come with rice, pickles and lentil daal, are perfect for the solo diner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We decided to stick to the kind of cozy, homestyle Indo-Pak dishes upon which Zareen’s first built its reputation. In many ways, the restaurant embodies the apotheosis of fast-casual dining: Within five minutes flat, our order arrives at our patio table piping hot, everything fresh and vibrant as a home-cooked meal. The chicken biryani, a specialty of the restaurant only available on Fridays, is an excellent version of the dish. Each grain of rice is perfectly toothsome, without any clumping, and we couldn’t stop eating the moist, well-spiced chicken and red-tinged potatoes buried underneath. Even better is the lamb gosht, with its tender chunks of meat and rich, savory gravy — the ideal vehicle for Zareen’s outrageously fluffy naan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961619\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961619\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Zareens.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration: A bustling front patio of a restaurant (the sign reads, "Zareen's") lit up at night.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Zareens.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Zareens-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Zareens-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Zareens-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Zareens-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Zareens-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The front patio at Zareen’s. The restaurant’s Palo Alto location is open until midnight daily. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I have to admit that I may have been profiled just a bit: When I inquired about the gola kebab sizzler, the staff member at the front counter took a quick glance at me and suggested, not unkindly, that the dish might be too spicy for me. Of course — something something toxic masculinity — I couldn’t back down from that challenge. When the dish came out sizzling intensely, as promised, on a bed of grilled onions atop a cast iron plate, we took our first bite with more than a little trepidation. Thankfully, these beef meatballs were spicy enough to leave our tongues tingling but not so much that they set our mouths on fire. More importantly, they were \u003ci>delicious \u003c/i>— incredibly soft and flavorful. We smashed them onto pieces of sheermal, a slightly sweet, flaky flatbread that the restaurant suggests ordering to accompany its kebabs. It was a killer combo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we loved best, though, was the whole atmosphere of the place, whether you’re eating outside on the patio or inside the small but cozy dining room, with its chalkboard art and hanging, mobile-style lending library providing a spark of warmth and color. The vibe is equal parts relaxed and lively, but also cosmopolitan in that uniquely Bay Area way — the crowd is a mix of families with kids, tech workers, older white couples and groups of mostly South Asian teens and college kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this particular night in Palo Alto, there wasn’t anywhere else we’d rather be.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Palo Alto location of \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/zareensrestaurant/?hl=en\">\u003ci>Zareen’s\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> (365 S. California Ave.) is open 11 a.m. to midnight daily (takeout only after 11 p.m.). The restaurant also has \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.zareensrestaurant.com/locations\">\u003ci>locations in Mountain View and Redwood City\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> that close earlier in the evening.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Before applying to Palo Alto’s King Artist Residency, \u003ca href=\"https://studiolandeta.com/\">Alma Landeta\u003c/a> researched the state of mental health in the city, specifically among queer people. The findings alarmed them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The statistics from a 2019 report were something like 25% of LGBTQAI+ individuals in Palo Alto had had some suicidal ideations, and it went up to closer to 50% for those who identified as trans,” Landeta remembers. “It’s startling and deeply upsetting.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landeta grew up in Tampa, Florida and always thought of the Bay Area as a refuge. “A part of me was a little surprised,” they say. “I guess I thought those numbers would be lower here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their winning application for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Community-Services/Arts-Sciences/Public-Art-Program/King-Artist-Residency\">year-long residency\u003c/a>, Landeta proposed a portrait project in which the artist would work collaboratively with their subjects. In all their work, Landeta wants to provide mirrors for queer people to see themselves — and for the rest of the world to see them as well. That’s why their portraits, though identifiable to sitters, are somewhat abstract, so that viewers can project their own lives and experiences onto each artwork. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8-768x536.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8-1536x1072.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8-1920x1340.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landeta in their Cubberly studio. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In June, in the plain, white studio in the Cubberley Community Center, which they had recently started using as part of the residency, some examples of those portraits hung on the walls. Landeta’s process is careful. They check in with their sitters often, before, during and at the end of the session, making people feel comfortable with how they’re being portrayed. Sometimes, they say, a sitter will ask for small adjustments: lips more defined, a jawline less pronounced. Finally, Landeta has their sitters title the artwork. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since painting a mural for the San Francisco LGBT Center in 2023 titled \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CvIMla_xtlS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Joy is the Fuel\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Landeta says they have been wanting to express more joy in their work. It’s part of why they take the collaborative process so seriously; Landeta wants people to feel good about how they’re portrayed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the 2024 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Coretta Scott King artist in residence, Landeta has, along with the free studio, a stipend from the city, and will do an installation at King Plaza in front of Palo Alto City Hall at the end of the year. Landeta is the third artist to participate in the residency program, which focuses on equity and belonging. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, they started the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/alma.landeta/reel/C8pqrGBSrYQ/\">Queeries Hotline\u003c/a>, which people are invited to call and leave a story. Landeta says the retro nature of voicemails tickles them, and they are thinking of using some of the audio in the installation at the end of the year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960593\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of Landeta’s research phase for the residency, they started a hotline where individuals who identify as LGBTQAI+ call and talk about their stories. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The prompt is ‘What is something you would want residents of Palo Alto to know about your experiences as an LGBTQAI + person of this community,’” Landeta says. “There’s a lot of beauty and a lot of joy in these stories as well as a lot of hardships. There are a lot of ways folks are still not feeling safe to be out and open, and that’s heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In-person events are providing Landeta with opportunities to further connect with people in Palo Alto. In June, they hosted an open studio event, and a free community portrait workshop at the Mitchell Park Library. Landeta has linked up with Avenidas, a senior center that welcomes all communities. They participated in a Pride event there with \u003ca href=\"https://atmospherepress.com/books/run-my-story-of-lgbtq-political-power-equality-and-acceptance-in-silicon-valley-by-ken-yeager-ph-d/\">Ken Yeager\u003c/a>, one of the first openly gay political leaders in Silicon Valley, who served on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was instrumental in making a lot of change happen, and I got to hear from him and other people in the room who had lived here and grown up here,” Landeta says of the senior center event. “There were some folks who had only recently come out, and they’re in their 60s and 70s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960597\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landeta holds a photo from the 2022 documentary ‘Queer Silicon Valley.’ \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Avenidas, Landeta stayed after the panel to have lunch with attendees, inviting them to visit the studio and sit for a portrait if interested. At the library, Landeta led an hour-long workshop where the participants made portraits with Sharpies, which they took home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a few folks who came up to me at the end of the workshop and just wanted to share, ‘Hey, I’m trans,’ or ‘Hey, I’m gay,’” Landeta says. “I had one woman who was so sweet. She was wearing this rainbow jewel necklace, and she held it up to me, and she kind of was whispering, ‘I’m an ally.’” Like, ‘OK, yes, we love the allies, say it loud and proud!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landeta’s ability to connect with people is part of why they were chosen for this residency, says Elise DeMarzo, director of Palo Alto’s public art program. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alma is so relatable and approachable,” DeMarzo says. “In the interview and presentation, they engaged everyone right off the bat with a drawing exercise. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Before applying to Palo Alto’s King Artist Residency, \u003ca href=\"https://studiolandeta.com/\">Alma Landeta\u003c/a> researched the state of mental health in the city, specifically among queer people. The findings alarmed them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The statistics from a 2019 report were something like 25% of LGBTQAI+ individuals in Palo Alto had had some suicidal ideations, and it went up to closer to 50% for those who identified as trans,” Landeta remembers. “It’s startling and deeply upsetting.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landeta grew up in Tampa, Florida and always thought of the Bay Area as a refuge. “A part of me was a little surprised,” they say. “I guess I thought those numbers would be lower here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their winning application for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Community-Services/Arts-Sciences/Public-Art-Program/King-Artist-Residency\">year-long residency\u003c/a>, Landeta proposed a portrait project in which the artist would work collaboratively with their subjects. In all their work, Landeta wants to provide mirrors for queer people to see themselves — and for the rest of the world to see them as well. That’s why their portraits, though identifiable to sitters, are somewhat abstract, so that viewers can project their own lives and experiences onto each artwork. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8-768x536.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8-1536x1072.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-8-1920x1340.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landeta in their Cubberly studio. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In June, in the plain, white studio in the Cubberley Community Center, which they had recently started using as part of the residency, some examples of those portraits hung on the walls. Landeta’s process is careful. They check in with their sitters often, before, during and at the end of the session, making people feel comfortable with how they’re being portrayed. Sometimes, they say, a sitter will ask for small adjustments: lips more defined, a jawline less pronounced. Finally, Landeta has their sitters title the artwork. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since painting a mural for the San Francisco LGBT Center in 2023 titled \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CvIMla_xtlS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Joy is the Fuel\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Landeta says they have been wanting to express more joy in their work. It’s part of why they take the collaborative process so seriously; Landeta wants people to feel good about how they’re portrayed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the 2024 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Coretta Scott King artist in residence, Landeta has, along with the free studio, a stipend from the city, and will do an installation at King Plaza in front of Palo Alto City Hall at the end of the year. Landeta is the third artist to participate in the residency program, which focuses on equity and belonging. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, they started the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/alma.landeta/reel/C8pqrGBSrYQ/\">Queeries Hotline\u003c/a>, which people are invited to call and leave a story. Landeta says the retro nature of voicemails tickles them, and they are thinking of using some of the audio in the installation at the end of the year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960593\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of Landeta’s research phase for the residency, they started a hotline where individuals who identify as LGBTQAI+ call and talk about their stories. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The prompt is ‘What is something you would want residents of Palo Alto to know about your experiences as an LGBTQAI + person of this community,’” Landeta says. “There’s a lot of beauty and a lot of joy in these stories as well as a lot of hardships. There are a lot of ways folks are still not feeling safe to be out and open, and that’s heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In-person events are providing Landeta with opportunities to further connect with people in Palo Alto. In June, they hosted an open studio event, and a free community portrait workshop at the Mitchell Park Library. Landeta has linked up with Avenidas, a senior center that welcomes all communities. They participated in a Pride event there with \u003ca href=\"https://atmospherepress.com/books/run-my-story-of-lgbtq-political-power-equality-and-acceptance-in-silicon-valley-by-ken-yeager-ph-d/\">Ken Yeager\u003c/a>, one of the first openly gay political leaders in Silicon Valley, who served on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was instrumental in making a lot of change happen, and I got to hear from him and other people in the room who had lived here and grown up here,” Landeta says of the senior center event. “There were some folks who had only recently come out, and they’re in their 60s and 70s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960597\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landeta holds a photo from the 2022 documentary ‘Queer Silicon Valley.’ \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Avenidas, Landeta stayed after the panel to have lunch with attendees, inviting them to visit the studio and sit for a portrait if interested. At the library, Landeta led an hour-long workshop where the participants made portraits with Sharpies, which they took home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a few folks who came up to me at the end of the workshop and just wanted to share, ‘Hey, I’m trans,’ or ‘Hey, I’m gay,’” Landeta says. “I had one woman who was so sweet. She was wearing this rainbow jewel necklace, and she held it up to me, and she kind of was whispering, ‘I’m an ally.’” Like, ‘OK, yes, we love the allies, say it loud and proud!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landeta’s ability to connect with people is part of why they were chosen for this residency, says Elise DeMarzo, director of Palo Alto’s public art program. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alma is so relatable and approachable,” DeMarzo says. “In the interview and presentation, they engaged everyone right off the bat with a drawing exercise. They put everyone at ease with their warmth.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960595\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-7-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240627_AlmaLandeta-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A self-portrait Landeta made a few weeks ago, center, is displayed in their Cubberly studio. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Landeta, a high school art teacher, is skilled at drawing people out, and their collaborative approach comes out of a genuine desire to make others feel included. 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At the turn of the millennium, the first live performances were incorporated. Blackfest has since grown from a picnic to a one-day festival — with some of the biggest names in music rocking the stage, such as Kendrick Lamar, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Lil Yachty, Metro Boomin, E-40 and \u003ca href=\"https://arts.stanford.edu/rapper-future-performs-at-stanfords-blackfest/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Future\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are bringing globally and nationally recognized talent to the Bay Area for free,” says Kamel Jacot-Bell, co-founder of Ankh Marketing, during a conference call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re choosing people who feel relevant to the community,” adds Catherine Harbour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 21 year-old senior from East Brunswick, New Jersey, Harbour is the co-president of the Black Family Gathering Committee and the lead organizer of Blackfest. 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"content": "\u003cp>We’ve all seen a version of the domino effect meme. In it, a man (\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/y97rBdSYbkg\">YouTuber Stephen Morris\u003c/a>) crouches low to demonstrate how a small domino can knock over a larger domino which can knock over an even larger domino and create a chain reaction. The meme has been used to explain how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand lead to WWI, or how an apple falling off a tree in the 1600s could be responsible for the tears of high schoolers in math class four centuries later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his new book, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo-alto/9780316592031/\">Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, writer Malcolm Harris positions the foundation of Silicon Valley as a small domino that unleashes the true final domino, the destruction of the world. It’s a bold claim that, after reading the argument laid out over the book’s 700-plus pages, is not entirely unearned or unconvincing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is also the author of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/will-collyer/kids-these-days/9781478992332/\">Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a formal account of the birth, promise and maligning of the millennial generation which counts him as a member. Harris, who is based in Washington, D.C., began his writing and research for \u003cem>Palo Alto\u003c/em> in 2020 — although in many ways, the seeds of this story were planted in childhood, which he partly spent in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book opens with an unexpected data point: teen suicide rates from the early 2000s. Beginning in the 2000s and extending well into the 2010s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.inverse.com/article/11555-teen-suicides-investigated-as-an-epidemic-in-palo-alto\">a pattern of teen suicides\u003c/a> began to occur on Caltrain tracks, the railway line near Palo Alto High School where Stanford University’s founder, Leland Stanford, helped establish the nation’s \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/08/first-transcontinental-railroad-stanford-forever-linked/\">first transcontinental railroad\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Red haired white man in glasses smiles with arms crossed\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923795\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200-800x1063.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200-1020x1355.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200-768x1020.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200-1156x1536.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Malcolm Harris. \u003ccite>(Julia Burke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You have this historical confluence between this suicide wave that is coextensive with my own childhood,” Harris explains, “as well as the story of the railroad and so, the connection between those two is the foundational violence that led me into the subject.” Rather than use this data as an entry point to a memoir about surviving one of the world’s most famous bubbles, Harris uses it to open a line of investigation into the heart of a city that has achieved so much and at such a great cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Palo Alto\u003c/em> is divided into five sections that cover significant time periods of roughly 20–50 years, the last of which is 2000–2020. Both in subject and tone, Harris’ writing merits comparison to the work of anarchist archivist David Graeber, a man described by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> as a “caustic critic” in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/books/david-graeber-dead.html\">2020 obit\u003c/a>. Harris’ sentences are accessible but packed with information — the footnotes of this book could form another book — and very pointed. Some readers may be unprepared to hear him casually declare the state “a whiteness cartel” or the decidedly un-reverential way he speaks of key figures in Silicon Valley’s history (Noyce, Packard, Jobs, Wozniak, Gates) who are most often written about in hagiographic terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as Harris will openly admit, the book is written “from a Marxist lens.” He adds that as a Marxist, “the closest to an objective understanding of history as we can get [is] by plotting this history through the struggle of classes.” In his own words, his book strives to keep company with and follow in the mold of writers who took part in the histories they documented and “whose rigor I aspire to” like Cedric J. Robinson, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, H. Bruce Franklin, Mae Ngai and the late Mike Davis — “a North Star” and fellow Marxist — whose books \u003cem>City of Quartz\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Prisoners of the American Dream\u003c/em> are considered among the definitive histories of power and class struggle in urban America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The field of social history emerged as a response to the popularity and obliqueness of political history, which focused on elites and “great” (read: rich and white) men, and erased, through omission, the lives and experiences of the masses. “So much of our reception around history books and social history books and social commentary books is siloed sometimes and particularly by race,” Harris explains. “This book isn’t sold as an Asian American history book, but that doesn’t mean that Asian American history isn’t a central thread of the whole story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white illustration of future Stanford campus\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923796\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-2048x1347.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-1920x1263.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration depicts an aerial view of ‘Senator Leland Stanford’s Farm at Palo Alto, California’ in 1888. \u003ccite>(Interim Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To tell the whole story, Palo Alto wrangles together seemingly disparate threads: railroad colonialism, the founding of the Bank of California in 1864 (the nation’s first commercial bank), Japanophobia, forgotten Black Beat poets, an interracial coalition of striking farm workers, the invention of the microchip, and the post-9/11 information arms race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Palo Alto\u003c/em>, exceedingly deliberative and grand in scope, is a social history of a city via the people who built it — both the laborers and the people who exploited them. In this way, Harris lays out a clear corollary for how the history of one zip code is the story of California, which, “with its high profits and bifurcated labor force,” he writes, “modeled capitalist discipline for the nation.” The second concept in the book’s descriptive title is actually its main player, as Harris argues nearly everything that has happened has been propelled to happen by the perennial winds of capitalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris writes about capitalism like it’s an invading, occupying force that has only gotten hungrier and more territorial as time goes on: “Capital hit California like a meteor, alien tendrils surging from the crash site.” The book’s central framing device is the refrain, “forces, not men.” Repeated, the phrase reiterates the primacy of forces like capitalism over the capitalists that enact them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the great men associated with Palo Alto hadn’t been present, Harris writes, capitalism would have summoned other men to take their place. In his view, Palo Alto was inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris avoids a propagandic tone by working from historical points that are objectively true — Palo Alto has become the most consequential suburb in the world, we live in a capitalist world system — and connecting dots throughout history that not only create a picture of California, but also offer persuasive explanations for why California looks the way it does, wields the power it has and espouses the toxic achievement philosophies that have become its trademark and albatross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite compiling a detailed litany of “the series of plagues visited upon California” throughout history, Harris eschews fatalism in favor of something approaching optimism. “To think about life this way is not to surrender to predetermination,” he writes in the book, “only by understanding how we’re made use of can we start to distinguish our selves from our situations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Palo Alto\u003c/em> is not a prescriptive text; this isn’t a how-to book about fixing California. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>We’ve all seen a version of the domino effect meme. In it, a man (\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/y97rBdSYbkg\">YouTuber Stephen Morris\u003c/a>) crouches low to demonstrate how a small domino can knock over a larger domino which can knock over an even larger domino and create a chain reaction. The meme has been used to explain how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand lead to WWI, or how an apple falling off a tree in the 1600s could be responsible for the tears of high schoolers in math class four centuries later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his new book, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo-alto/9780316592031/\">Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, writer Malcolm Harris positions the foundation of Silicon Valley as a small domino that unleashes the true final domino, the destruction of the world. It’s a bold claim that, after reading the argument laid out over the book’s 700-plus pages, is not entirely unearned or unconvincing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is also the author of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/will-collyer/kids-these-days/9781478992332/\">Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a formal account of the birth, promise and maligning of the millennial generation which counts him as a member. Harris, who is based in Washington, D.C., began his writing and research for \u003cem>Palo Alto\u003c/em> in 2020 — although in many ways, the seeds of this story were planted in childhood, which he partly spent in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book opens with an unexpected data point: teen suicide rates from the early 2000s. Beginning in the 2000s and extending well into the 2010s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.inverse.com/article/11555-teen-suicides-investigated-as-an-epidemic-in-palo-alto\">a pattern of teen suicides\u003c/a> began to occur on Caltrain tracks, the railway line near Palo Alto High School where Stanford University’s founder, Leland Stanford, helped establish the nation’s \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/08/first-transcontinental-railroad-stanford-forever-linked/\">first transcontinental railroad\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Red haired white man in glasses smiles with arms crossed\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923795\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200-800x1063.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200-1020x1355.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200-768x1020.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Mal-photo_credit-Julia-Burke_1200-1156x1536.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Malcolm Harris. \u003ccite>(Julia Burke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You have this historical confluence between this suicide wave that is coextensive with my own childhood,” Harris explains, “as well as the story of the railroad and so, the connection between those two is the foundational violence that led me into the subject.” Rather than use this data as an entry point to a memoir about surviving one of the world’s most famous bubbles, Harris uses it to open a line of investigation into the heart of a city that has achieved so much and at such a great cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Palo Alto\u003c/em> is divided into five sections that cover significant time periods of roughly 20–50 years, the last of which is 2000–2020. Both in subject and tone, Harris’ writing merits comparison to the work of anarchist archivist David Graeber, a man described by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> as a “caustic critic” in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/books/david-graeber-dead.html\">2020 obit\u003c/a>. Harris’ sentences are accessible but packed with information — the footnotes of this book could form another book — and very pointed. Some readers may be unprepared to hear him casually declare the state “a whiteness cartel” or the decidedly un-reverential way he speaks of key figures in Silicon Valley’s history (Noyce, Packard, Jobs, Wozniak, Gates) who are most often written about in hagiographic terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as Harris will openly admit, the book is written “from a Marxist lens.” He adds that as a Marxist, “the closest to an objective understanding of history as we can get [is] by plotting this history through the struggle of classes.” In his own words, his book strives to keep company with and follow in the mold of writers who took part in the histories they documented and “whose rigor I aspire to” like Cedric J. Robinson, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, H. Bruce Franklin, Mae Ngai and the late Mike Davis — “a North Star” and fellow Marxist — whose books \u003cem>City of Quartz\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Prisoners of the American Dream\u003c/em> are considered among the definitive histories of power and class struggle in urban America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The field of social history emerged as a response to the popularity and obliqueness of political history, which focused on elites and “great” (read: rich and white) men, and erased, through omission, the lives and experiences of the masses. “So much of our reception around history books and social history books and social commentary books is siloed sometimes and particularly by race,” Harris explains. “This book isn’t sold as an Asian American history book, but that doesn’t mean that Asian American history isn’t a central thread of the whole story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white illustration of future Stanford campus\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923796\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-2048x1347.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1150980334-1920x1263.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration depicts an aerial view of ‘Senator Leland Stanford’s Farm at Palo Alto, California’ in 1888. \u003ccite>(Interim Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To tell the whole story, Palo Alto wrangles together seemingly disparate threads: railroad colonialism, the founding of the Bank of California in 1864 (the nation’s first commercial bank), Japanophobia, forgotten Black Beat poets, an interracial coalition of striking farm workers, the invention of the microchip, and the post-9/11 information arms race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Palo Alto\u003c/em>, exceedingly deliberative and grand in scope, is a social history of a city via the people who built it — both the laborers and the people who exploited them. In this way, Harris lays out a clear corollary for how the history of one zip code is the story of California, which, “with its high profits and bifurcated labor force,” he writes, “modeled capitalist discipline for the nation.” The second concept in the book’s descriptive title is actually its main player, as Harris argues nearly everything that has happened has been propelled to happen by the perennial winds of capitalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris writes about capitalism like it’s an invading, occupying force that has only gotten hungrier and more territorial as time goes on: “Capital hit California like a meteor, alien tendrils surging from the crash site.” The book’s central framing device is the refrain, “forces, not men.” Repeated, the phrase reiterates the primacy of forces like capitalism over the capitalists that enact them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the great men associated with Palo Alto hadn’t been present, Harris writes, capitalism would have summoned other men to take their place. In his view, Palo Alto was inevitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris avoids a propagandic tone by working from historical points that are objectively true — Palo Alto has become the most consequential suburb in the world, we live in a capitalist world system — and connecting dots throughout history that not only create a picture of California, but also offer persuasive explanations for why California looks the way it does, wields the power it has and espouses the toxic achievement philosophies that have become its trademark and albatross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite compiling a detailed litany of “the series of plagues visited upon California” throughout history, Harris eschews fatalism in favor of something approaching optimism. “To think about life this way is not to surrender to predetermination,” he writes in the book, “only by understanding how we’re made use of can we start to distinguish our selves from our situations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Singer and guitarist \u003ca href=\"https://www.mollytuttlemusic.com/\">Molly Tuttle\u003c/a> has been lighting up the bluegrass music scene with her third album, \u003cem>Crooked Tree\u003c/em> — and she’s got two Grammy nominations this year to prove it. One is for Best Bluegrass Album and one is for the coveted Best New Artist award — making her the first bluegrass artist to be nominated in the latter category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just wasn’t on my radar of even being a possibility,” Tuttle says of the Best New Artist nomination. “So when I saw that, it just blew me away. I was kind of in disbelief for a few days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuttle, who grew up in Palo Alto and now lives in Nashville, is no stranger to awards, though. She’s a two-time winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitar Player of the Year award — the first woman to win the title. In 2022, she was named Female Vocalist of the Year by the same organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zIlaJ-RroQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s recognition that affirms what her father \u003ca href=\"https://www.jacktuttle.com/\">Jack Tuttle\u003c/a>, a Palo Alto-based bluegrass musician and music teacher, sees as her triple-threat talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Molly can play very intricate, complex lines that are very fluid. Kind of smoother, cleaner than your typical bluegrass guitar player,” Tuttle says. “She’s got that package now of high-level guitar playing, great singer and a really good songwriter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly Tuttle knew by high school that she wanted music to be her path. She’d been playing at bluegrass jams since she was 11, plus festival gigs alongside her father and two brothers in the family band, The Tuttles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I had other friends talk about colleges and what they wanted to do after graduating, it dawned on me that like, all I really want to do is play music,” Tuttle says. “And that’s what I’m doing every chance I get. Every weekend I’m trying to play shows and I get home and want to practice guitar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/High-School-Cystic-Fibrosis-Fundraiser-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924681\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/High-School-Cystic-Fibrosis-Fundraiser-800x539.jpeg\" alt=\"a four piece band, an older man with white hair and three kids, one girl and two young boys, all playing guitar\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/High-School-Cystic-Fibrosis-Fundraiser-800x539.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/High-School-Cystic-Fibrosis-Fundraiser-1020x687.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/High-School-Cystic-Fibrosis-Fundraiser-160x108.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/High-School-Cystic-Fibrosis-Fundraiser-768x517.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/High-School-Cystic-Fibrosis-Fundraiser-1536x1034.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/High-School-Cystic-Fibrosis-Fundraiser-2048x1379.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/High-School-Cystic-Fibrosis-Fundraiser-1920x1293.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teenaged Molly Tuttle with her father, Jack Tuttle, and brothers Michael (left) and Sullivan (right) performing at a Bay Area fundraiser as their band The Tuttles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jack Tuttle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She first honed her songwriting skills by taking classes at Foothill Community College in Los Altos Hills during her last two years of high school. She then set off to Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied in their Americana Roots program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of her career, though, Tuttle didn’t want to be pigeonholed as a bluegrass artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I had all this other music that I loved to listen to and that I loved to write,” Tuttle says. “So my first two records were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQHecBZTx-Q\">kind of a departure\u003c/a> from the music I grew up with and that felt really natural to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the pandemic hit. Between sheltering in place and the shutdown of music venues and festivals, Tuttle realized how much she missed the bluegrass community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bluegrass music is so cool because you go to a festival and you see all your friends. And you might see people who are up on the stage and at night they’re in the campsite jamming. It’s really communal music,” Tuttle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with the success of \u003ci>Crooked Tree,\u003c/i> Tuttle’s headlining some of the big festivals she grew up watching her music heroes play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’ve reached so many of those early dreams that I had as a kid,” Tuttle reflects. “It feels really cool. Like this year we’re going to headline the \u003ca href=\"https://californiabluegrass.org/fathers_day_festival/fdf-home/\">Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival\u003c/a>, which I grew up going to in Grass Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7yYfC2Osl0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That festival inspired the song “Grass Valley” on her Grammy-nominated album. It features her father on backing vocals and came out of a yearning for togetherness during the height of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were no longer able to gather, something about that triggered this kind of feeling in me. Like, I want to make these songs that people can jam on in the campsites and play with their friends,” Tuttle says. “It’s probably the most autobiographical song on the record. I just wanted to pay tribute to where it all started for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another song on her album also conjures memories of home, albeit bittersweet ones. Titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyR4uMhUKkg\">“San Francisco Blues,”\u003c/a> the song laments the impacts of gentrification in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sort of a personal song. That disconnect between, like, I go back and all my favorite spots are disappearing and the vibe seems different from when I used to go into the city as a kid,” Tuttle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a nod to people who have been pushed out of the Bay Area due to the high cost of living, something she relates to as a musician. Despite being regularly homesick for California, she says, “it definitely makes more sense to live here in Nashville, where it’s more affordable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, though, those blues are taking a backseat to the pride that Molly Tuttle, her family and local fans are feeling as her star rises, including the Grammy nod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see the pride in all the people in the bluegrass community. She’s like the home state gal that’s making it big,” says Jack Tuttle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Molly Tuttle says she’s taking that support with her into Grammy night: “I definitely feel the Bay Area music scene rooting for me, which is cool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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