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The answer is as shocking as a sucker punch: Yes, indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gyllenhaal is a sort of Spider-Man-meets-Jack Reacher-meets Jason Bourne, an oddball loner with ferocious fighting abilities who makes a living in illegal fights and lives in his car, haunted by what he did to a friend in the octagon. He douses booze on his open wounds and uses electrical tape instead of a bandage, yet he also oddly uses wheelie luggage. (You expected a big old black duffel, right?) What’s in the baggage? A death wish, of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0ZsLudtfjI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is lured to the Florida Keys by a roadhouse bar owner (the always brilliantly tart Jessica Williams), who needs an excellent bouncer to protect her from nightly violence. He’s offered $5,000 a week to stop thugs in sleeveless jean jackets from throwing bottles, flipping tables and breaking pool cues. 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Schneider, who helped create, write or produce shows like \u003cem>All That, The Amanda Show, Kenan & Kel\u003c/em> and\u003cem> iCarly\u003c/em>, is credited with discovering young stars like Amanda Bynes, while defining the shape of kid-oriented television during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6jbU4jPru8\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The dark side of creating kids’ TV\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nickelodeon and Schneider’s success was rooted in creating shows which seemed like they were built just for kids, starring kids, presented at a time when young people had a lot fewer entertainment options. 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It’s tough to imagine what these stars’ bright smiles and sunny attitudes onscreen might have been hiding, though some have spoken out in the past, including former \u003cem>iCarly \u003c/em>co-star Jennette McCurdy who wrote the searing memoir \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139218060/jennette-mccurdy-opens-up-about-childhood-fame-tumultuous-relationship-with-her-\">\u003cem>I’m Glad My Mom Died\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, a docuseries like this one is a natural progression from the revelations of toxic behind-the-scenes behavior in adult-focused TV shows, films and the music industry kicked off by the #MeToo movement. 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Other bars scrambled to keep up with the Condor, introducing their own spins on Doda’s act. (The topless band at Tipsy’s is a particular highlight here. As is Judy Mamou, the dancer who incorporated snakes and a monkey into her routine.) Soon the entire neighborhood had topless fever; a menswear store opened with topless assistants, along with a topless shoeshine stand. (Those last two proved to be a step too far for local authorities.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTITyLpW9nI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, unfortunately, is right about where the fun ends. \u003cem>Topless at the Condor\u003c/em> reveals that Doda was the product of childhood neglect and an abusive early marriage. Doda also apparently had two children during that marriage — a fact that comes up almost as an aside towards the end of the movie. (\u003cem>Topless at the Condor\u003c/em> would have benefited from more on that topic.) Doda spent her life desperately seeking love wherever she could find it — and her audience was the most immediate and consistent source. That emotional reliance on the limelight, paired with a dearth of other job options ultimately left Doda overworked and underpaid. Though her likeness graced the Condor’s sign for decades, the club’s owners cruelly locked her out of any revenue shares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even bleaker, it was the Condor’s publicist Davey Rosenberg who first encouraged Doda — a naturally very small-chested woman — to get silicon injections. Though she spent her life making jokes about the largeness of her enhanced assets, behind the scenes, the injections caused Doda lifelong pain, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/goodpasture-syndrome\">the disease that ultimately killed her\u003c/a> in 2015. 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Unfortunately, despite some solid input from commentators like Wednesday Martin and Florence Williams, there simply isn’t enough time here to effectively unpack questions of empowerment and exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the film does more successfully is transport the audience back to the sights, sounds, lights and music of 1960s North Beach. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936538/sly-stone-memoir-autobiography-thank-you-ben-greenman-questlove-funk\">Sly Stone\u003c/a>’s history in the neighborhood is a welcome addition to the narrative, as is the music of Teddy & George. The documentary is also outstanding when it comes to exploring Doda’s moxie, personal motivations and drive to survive. Some of the nuggets uncovered here about Doda’s later life — like the fact that she performed with a metal band at the DNA Lounge in the 1980s — are captivating. 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But, like so many who flocked to North Beach in the ’60s in search of a good time, viewers of \u003cem>Carol Doda: Topless at the Condor\u003c/em> might be surprised to find out just how much grime was lurking underneath all of that glitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Carol Doda: Topless at the Condor’ opens at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/carol-doda-topless-at-the-condor/\">Roxie Theater\u003c/a> (3117 16th St.) and San Rafael’s \u003ca href=\"https://rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/carol-doda-topless-at-the-condor/\">Smith Rafael Film Center\u003c/a> (1118 4th St.) on March 22, 2024. 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"content": "\u003cp>We all know the basics of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. In a Washington, D.C. theater 159 years ago, Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by actor John Wilkes Booth, while Lincoln was watching \u003cem>Our American Cousin\u003c/em> with his wife. As with so many major events from history the murder has, over time, merely become part of our national story — more and more devoid of emotional heft as time ticks along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new seven-part series from Apple TV+ now aims to change that, vividly taking us back to the murder, the political chaos that followed and, most importantly, the 12-day-long chase that culminated in the death of Booth and the trial of (some of) his co-conspirators. Despite a winding storyline and an overuse of time jumps, \u003cem>Manhunt\u003c/em> somehow succeeds in being consistently gripping. The series plays out like a crime thriller, only one full of people whose names we might already know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13951349']At the center of the story is Lincoln’s secretary of war, Edwin Stanton (Tobias Menzies). Stanton puts his own health and personal life at risk as he relentlessly pursues Booth (played by a convincingly petulant Anthony Boyle), while also trying to enact Lincoln’s final political wishes. We enter meetings with the likes of Frederick Douglass (Elvis Nolasco) and President Andrew Johnson (Glenn Morshower). We get to know the determined man in charge of the hunt for Booth, detective Lafayette Baker (Patton Oswald). We even see questions raised about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06/health/mary-todd-lincoln-pernicious-anemia/index.html\">the mental health of Mary Todd Lincoln\u003c/a> and her ability to look after herself as a widow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Manhunt\u003c/em> offers an engrossing education about American life during the Civil War and after the assassination. That goes for the famous people at the center of the story, and those unknowns operating on the ground around them. However, as with so many dramatizations of true stories (see also: \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> — coincidentally also starring Menzies), \u003cem>Manhunt\u003c/em> intermingles true events with some flagrant embellishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFT-b8eKdSo&t=7s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One particularly troubling scene has Stanton burning pages from Booth’s diary. What happened to the diary’s missing pages has long been the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Eisenschiml\">conjecture and conspiracy theory\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Manhunt\u003c/em> makes the bold choice to lay the responsibility at Stanton’s feet even though, in reality, the diary changed hands several times and no definitive answer has ever emerged about what really happened to those pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13952433']Where \u003cem>Manhunt\u003c/em> truly takes on a life of its own is in its depiction of Mary Simms (Lovie Simone). It is true that the real-life Simms and her brother were enslaved by Samuel Mudd — the doctor who briefly housed Booth and treated the assassin’s broken leg. It is also true that Simms, in an extraordinarily brave move, testified against Mudd at his much-publicized trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simms is central to some of the show’s most enthralling storylines. We see her kidnapped as a child and enslaved by Mudd. At the end of the war, she escapes Mudd’s home and starts teaching local Black children how to read and write. After the land granted to her at the end of the Civil War is reclaimed by Johnson’s government, she is forced to return to Mudd’s house. Crucially, in the show, we also see her directly interacting with Booth while he’s on the run, and with Stanton before and after the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disappointingly, there is no evidence that any of this actually happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1606px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954156\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-14-at-4.06.39-PM.png\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a bonnet and carrying a basket walks through the woods with a Black man who is carrying a sack and wearing period clothing from the 1860s.\" width=\"1606\" height=\"1018\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-14-at-4.06.39-PM.png 1606w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-14-at-4.06.39-PM-800x507.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-14-at-4.06.39-PM-1020x647.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-14-at-4.06.39-PM-160x101.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-14-at-4.06.39-PM-768x487.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-14-at-4.06.39-PM-1536x974.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1606px) 100vw, 1606px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lovie Simone as Mary Simms and Antonio J. Bell as Milo Simms in ‘Manhunt.’ \u003ccite>(Apple TV+)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As far as I can tell from the scant documentation that exists around Simms, in reality she was enslaved by Mudd for four years and escaped from his home in 1864, before Booth was ever on the property. During his trial, Simms testified that Mudd was a Southern sympathizer, protected Confederate soldiers at his home and was friends with John Surratt (another man accused of being a Booth co-conspirator). Simms also testified that Mudd said “he would have killed” Lincoln, given the opportunity. That’s about all we know about her for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13881675']So enamored was I with Simms’ story (as told by \u003cem>Manhunt\u003c/em>) that this entire review was originally going to center on introducing this little-known but important historical figure. Instead, Simms’ storyline is a reflection of the well-intentioned ways that \u003cem>Manhunt\u003c/em> can be misleading. People who worked on the show have since confirmed that Simms “\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/manhunt-abraham-lincoln-assassination-john-wilkes-booth-8611ad4c3c1029365ab6243cfcfab725\">was written as a composite\u003c/a>” of multiple people involved in the conviction of Booth’s co-conspirators. The version of Simms we see in the show was intended “to bring some of these heroes to light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given how little documentation the lives of individual enslaved people inspired at the time, embellishing Simms’ backstory in order to bring her role in the trial to the forefront is an understandable choice. 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You might be surprised by what you find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Manhunt’ airs on Apple TV+ starting from March 15, 2024.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>We all know the basics of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. In a Washington, D.C. theater 159 years ago, Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by actor John Wilkes Booth, while Lincoln was watching \u003cem>Our American Cousin\u003c/em> with his wife. As with so many major events from history the murder has, over time, merely become part of our national story — more and more devoid of emotional heft as time ticks along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new seven-part series from Apple TV+ now aims to change that, vividly taking us back to the murder, the political chaos that followed and, most importantly, the 12-day-long chase that culminated in the death of Booth and the trial of (some of) his co-conspirators. Despite a winding storyline and an overuse of time jumps, \u003cem>Manhunt\u003c/em> somehow succeeds in being consistently gripping. The series plays out like a crime thriller, only one full of people whose names we might already know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At the center of the story is Lincoln’s secretary of war, Edwin Stanton (Tobias Menzies). Stanton puts his own health and personal life at risk as he relentlessly pursues Booth (played by a convincingly petulant Anthony Boyle), while also trying to enact Lincoln’s final political wishes. We enter meetings with the likes of Frederick Douglass (Elvis Nolasco) and President Andrew Johnson (Glenn Morshower). We get to know the determined man in charge of the hunt for Booth, detective Lafayette Baker (Patton Oswald). We even see questions raised about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06/health/mary-todd-lincoln-pernicious-anemia/index.html\">the mental health of Mary Todd Lincoln\u003c/a> and her ability to look after herself as a widow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Manhunt\u003c/em> offers an engrossing education about American life during the Civil War and after the assassination. That goes for the famous people at the center of the story, and those unknowns operating on the ground around them. However, as with so many dramatizations of true stories (see also: \u003cem>The Crown\u003c/em> — coincidentally also starring Menzies), \u003cem>Manhunt\u003c/em> intermingles true events with some flagrant embellishments.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/VFT-b8eKdSo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VFT-b8eKdSo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>By the time Nicholas Winton died in 2015 at the ripe age of 106, the former London stockbroker and self-proclaimed “ordinary man” had been widely recognized for his extraordinary deeds — rescuing 669 Jewish children from the Nazis, saving them from certain death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for most of his life, Winton’s rescue of those children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, bringing them to safety in Britain, was unknown to the public. His story was revealed dramatically on the BBC show \u003cem>That’s Life!\u003c/em> in 1988, which introduced him, in an emotional surprise, to some of the very people he’d saved. Tears were shed and a fuss was made over this unfussy man. He was dubbed the “British Schindler,” and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nFuJAF5F0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you didn’t know Anthony Hopkins was starring in \u003cem>One Life\u003c/em>, the straightforward yet still moving new drama based on Winton’s tale, you’d be forgiven for assuming it the minute you learned Winton was a modest and quiet elderly man, keeping much to himself. Hopkins can play such a character in his sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he’s truly great at, though, is that moment when he finally lets the wall around him crumble and shows what he’s been feeling all along. Yes, this happens in \u003cem>One Life\u003c/em>, and yes, you’ll likely be wiping tears along with him. The emotional payoff takes a while to arrive, but once it does in the last act of this film, you’ll have a hard time forgetting Hopkins’ face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holocaust-themed movies are crucial but notoriously tricky ventures. At Sunday’s Oscars, Jonathan Glazer’s \u003cem>The Zone of Interest\u003c/em> was honored for a hugely inventive approach, illustrating the banality of Nazi evil in its chilling portrayal of an Auschwitz commandant’s family life right outside the camp wall. \u003cem>One Life\u003c/em>, directed with efficiency by James Hawes, takes a much more traditional approach, telling its story in flashback with dialogue that sometimes borders on the overly expository, but with a lovely cast and a story that begs to be told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13929913']Hopkins is the key draw, but Johnny Flynn, the talented actor-musician, has the difficult task of channeling Hopkins as a younger man (the filmmakers chose to shoot the Hopkins scenes first, so that Flynn could then build the connective tissue between the two, something he does admirably.) And it’s a lot more than 50 years that separate the two versions of Winton. It’s the war itself. The events with younger Winton took place in 1939, as the Nazis were marching across Europe but two years before they began implementing their so-called Final Solution, the mass murder of European Jews. The elder Winton knew exactly what became of all those children he couldn’t bring to safety, and you can see it in his eyes here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9G-PA1oMPI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We first meet the elder Winton at home in Maidenhead, a town in southeast England. It’s 1987, and he’s staring at faded photos of children from the war. He spends his days involved in local charity work. He can’t seem to get rid of all the clutter in his study, despite the pleadings of his wife, Grete (Lena Olin), who tells him: “You have to let go, for your own sake.” He’s still trying to figure out what to do with a frayed leather briefcase, which contains a precious scrapbook full of war memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13953524']We flash back to 1939 London, when 29-year-old Nicky, as he’s known, who is of Jewish descent but has been raised as a Christian, resolves to leave the comfortable home he lives in with his mother, Babi (Helena Bonham Carter), to travel to Prague. He aims to help with the growing crisis caused by the influx of refugees from the Sudetenland region just annexed by Germany; he and others fear (correctly) that the Nazis will soon invade and send the Jewish refugees to camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Prague, he finds desperate families and starving children, like a 12-year-old girl caring for an infant who has lost its parents. “We have to move the children,” he tells his colleagues. They say the task is too daunting. He persists, convincing a local rabbi to give him lists of children to begin the process (“I’m putting their lives in your hands,” the rabbi tells him.) Upon his return to London, aided by his spirited mother, he embarks on a furious race against time and government bureaucracy to obtain visas for the children and raise awareness in the media. “The process takes time,” an official says. “We don’t have time,” he replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow, he manages to get the transports going, meeting the trains in London, where children are matched with foster families. (The most moving scenes in the film, until the emotional crescendo at the end, are departure scenes in Prague, with children saying goodbye to parents who must surely sense they’ll never see them again).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13953601']As the film toggles between 1939 and 1987-88, we learn that Winton managed to get eight trains of children out but not a ninth, with 250 children who were turned back once the Nazis invaded, a loss he keeps buried inside. That is, until he meets a Holocaust researcher who happens to be married to news magnate Robert Maxwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meeting ultimately leads to the climax in the television studio, faithfully recreated by Hawes, who actually once worked on that very BBC show. The scene is doubly poignant given the knowledge that some of the background actors in the studio that day were actual family members of those Winton saved. “There was not a dry eye on the set floor,” the director has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not difficult to believe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘One Life’ is released nationwide on March 15, 2024.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Brandee-Younger-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-photo-Jack-Brown-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman sitting in white dress plays the harp with musical equipment and a potted plant nearby\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13953842\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Brandee-Younger-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-photo-Jack-Brown-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Brandee-Younger-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-photo-Jack-Brown-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Brandee-Younger-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-photo-Jack-Brown-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Brandee-Younger-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-photo-Jack-Brown-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Brandee-Younger-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-photo-Jack-Brown-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Brandee-Younger-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-photo-Jack-Brown.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandee Younger performs the music of Alice Coltrane at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco on Saturday, March 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jack Brown/SFJAZZ)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I had started to worry about the term “spiritual jazz.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past six or seven years, it has become divorced from its radical roots to become the new \u003ca href=\"https://putumayo.bandcamp.com/\">Putumayo Music\u003c/a> — a hip, vaguely “exotic” sound for well-to-do middle-aged white people to dabble in its aesthetics in order to feel sophisticated. It is no longer the social and political undercurrent of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ3vbrwabuM\">Alabama\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dokLwszdUgY\">Space is the Place\u003c/a>” or “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkDvkR5l1eg\">Colors\u003c/a>,” but playlist wallpaper. A few years ago, when I was in one of those lifestyle boutiques on Valencia Street — you know the kind, with candles, bespoke jewelry and a single rack of long dresses — and heard Alice Coltrane’s \u003cem>Journey in Satchidananda\u003c/em>, I knew something was amiss culturally, like something reverent was being stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, Brandee Younger came to the SFJAZZ Center this past weekend to take it back. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13953843\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandee Younger, second from right, performs the music of Alice Coltrane at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco on Saturday, March 9, 2024 with her ensemble. Left to right: string ensemble conducted by De’Sean Jones, drummer Makaya McCraven, flautist Nicole Mitchell, bassist Rashaan Carter, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, harpist Younger, and pianist/ keyboardist Marc Cary. \u003ccite>(Jack Brown/SFJAZZ)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For her program dedicated to the music of Alice Coltrane, Younger brought players closely connected to the music’s lineage. Nicole Mitchell, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbCd6iPoQCA\">Black Earth Ensemble\u003c/a> and former chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5CTjuCYOTw\">Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians\u003c/a>, played flute. On drums was Makaya McCraven, whose father played with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75MCN2k1tQw\">Archie Shepp\u003c/a>. On saxophone, well, you can’t do much better than Ravi Coltrane, the son of John and Alice Coltrane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was Younger’s total immersion in the music, and commitment to honoring it deeply and properly, that elevated the program from surface-level tribute to sacred ritual. From lesser-known songs like set opener “Rama Rama” to eternal compositions like “Turiya & Ramakrishna,” Younger played solos that dug probingly into Coltrane’s modal chord figures and prodded the band to moments of transcendental alchemy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Alice Coltrane was overlooked in her time is no secret; plainly sexist notions, of her as mere wife of one of jazz’s most prominent musicians, kept the world from recognizing her genius. Shattered by her husband’s untimely death at the tail end of the civil rights era, she turned to religious education, founded Sai Anantam Ashram in Southern California and recorded privately pressed cassettes of Hindu devotional songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, she lived with intention — and the group on Saturday night matched it. There were quite simply no weak links on stage. Credit must go to De’Sean Jones, who conducted a string sextet with a keen ear for dynamics, especially on the delicate “Pranadhana,” played by just harp, soprano sax and strings. Bassist Rashaan Carter anchored the group (the bass line for “Journey in Satchidananda” was one of the first he ever learned, remarked Younger after the song) and included a few brilliant solos of hammer-ons and pull-offs that never got too flashy for their own good. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11693821']Mitchell traded fours with Coltrane on the perpetually accelerating “Los Caballos,” which gave McCraven a chance to break out of his support role and play the disassembled beats he’s known for. On “Blue Nile” — a song that Alice Coltrane performed at her \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/11/07/fans-share-a-love-supreme-with-alice-coltrane-and-son/\">last-ever concert\u003c/a>, at San Francisco’s Masonic Auditorium in 2006 — Mitchell infused her invigorating alto flute solo with a bluesy, human cry of experience. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13950805/andre-3000-tickets-san-francisco-bimbos-the-independent\">Andre 3000\u003c/a>, take notes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravi Coltrane, who just gets more revelatory every year, propelled the uptempo “Affinity” with a thrilling solo that maneuvered inside and out of the music. As for Marc Cary, who played piano and synthesizer? At the end of “Prema,” he soloed so bracingly up the piano keys that his fingers kept right on playing, off the right edge of the piano, into the air. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger’s high regard for Alice Coltrane is more than evident; she introduced three different songs as “my favorite Alice Coltrane composition.” What she \u003cem>did\u003c/em> with that esteem at SFJAZZ on Saturday night, though? You won’t get it in a spiritual jazz playlist piped through Sonos speakers at a Thai fusion restaurant in Napa. You just had to be there, and let it wash over you.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It is no longer the social and political undercurrent of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ3vbrwabuM\">Alabama\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dokLwszdUgY\">Space is the Place\u003c/a>” or “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkDvkR5l1eg\">Colors\u003c/a>,” but playlist wallpaper. A few years ago, when I was in one of those lifestyle boutiques on Valencia Street — you know the kind, with candles, bespoke jewelry and a single rack of long dresses — and heard Alice Coltrane’s \u003cem>Journey in Satchidananda\u003c/em>, I knew something was amiss culturally, like something reverent was being stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, Brandee Younger came to the SFJAZZ Center this past weekend to take it back. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13953843\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Branddee-Younger-at-SFJAZZ-Center-March-9-2024-credit-Jack-Brown.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandee Younger, second from right, performs the music of Alice Coltrane at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco on Saturday, March 9, 2024 with her ensemble. Left to right: string ensemble conducted by De’Sean Jones, drummer Makaya McCraven, flautist Nicole Mitchell, bassist Rashaan Carter, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, harpist Younger, and pianist/ keyboardist Marc Cary. \u003ccite>(Jack Brown/SFJAZZ)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For her program dedicated to the music of Alice Coltrane, Younger brought players closely connected to the music’s lineage. Nicole Mitchell, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbCd6iPoQCA\">Black Earth Ensemble\u003c/a> and former chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5CTjuCYOTw\">Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians\u003c/a>, played flute. On drums was Makaya McCraven, whose father played with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75MCN2k1tQw\">Archie Shepp\u003c/a>. On saxophone, well, you can’t do much better than Ravi Coltrane, the son of John and Alice Coltrane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was Younger’s total immersion in the music, and commitment to honoring it deeply and properly, that elevated the program from surface-level tribute to sacred ritual. From lesser-known songs like set opener “Rama Rama” to eternal compositions like “Turiya & Ramakrishna,” Younger played solos that dug probingly into Coltrane’s modal chord figures and prodded the band to moments of transcendental alchemy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mitchell traded fours with Coltrane on the perpetually accelerating “Los Caballos,” which gave McCraven a chance to break out of his support role and play the disassembled beats he’s known for. On “Blue Nile” — a song that Alice Coltrane performed at her \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/11/07/fans-share-a-love-supreme-with-alice-coltrane-and-son/\">last-ever concert\u003c/a>, at San Francisco’s Masonic Auditorium in 2006 — Mitchell infused her invigorating alto flute solo with a bluesy, human cry of experience. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13950805/andre-3000-tickets-san-francisco-bimbos-the-independent\">Andre 3000\u003c/a>, take notes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravi Coltrane, who just gets more revelatory every year, propelled the uptempo “Affinity” with a thrilling solo that maneuvered inside and out of the music. As for Marc Cary, who played piano and synthesizer? At the end of “Prema,” he soloed so bracingly up the piano keys that his fingers kept right on playing, off the right edge of the piano, into the air. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger’s high regard for Alice Coltrane is more than evident; she introduced three different songs as “my favorite Alice Coltrane composition.” What she \u003cem>did\u003c/em> with that esteem at SFJAZZ on Saturday night, though? You won’t get it in a spiritual jazz playlist piped through Sonos speakers at a Thai fusion restaurant in Napa. You just had to be there, and let it wash over you.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Every time I write a book review lately, I seem to start by saying something like this: Here are three poets responding in different ways to this deeply terrifying time, when the personal and the political are utterly inextricable and life is everywhere at stake. This review is no different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their new collections, poets Monica McClure, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Diane Seuss are all taking the poetic measure of America in the aftermath of the pandemic, as the whole country suffers a tremendous crisis of faith in itself. Each of them offers poetry as, if not a solution, then a kind of truth-telling companion, a mirror with a real person on both sides of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘The Gone Thing’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 806px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953760\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-1.03.52-PM.png\" alt=\"A book cover featuring a vintage photo of a woman's face turned on its side.\" width=\"806\" height=\"1206\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-1.03.52-PM.png 806w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-1.03.52-PM-800x1197.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-1.03.52-PM-160x239.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-1.03.52-PM-768x1149.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Gone Thing’ by Monica McClure. \u003ccite>(Winter Editions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monica McClure is one of my favorite contemporary poets. \u003cem>The Gone Thing\u003c/em>, her follow-up to \u003cem>Tender Data\u003c/em>, her mind-bending 2015 debut, is powered by the tension between seemingly contrary forces: money and poverty; the too-cool-for-you world of couture fashion and utter vulnerability; art and office life; motherhood and daughterhood. It’s a book about borders — the U.S. southern border, the borders between high and low culture, between McClure’s Mexican heritage and her cosmopolitan New York life, and between humor and dire seriousness. It’s all rolled into one slippery sensibility, equal parts social critique and personal excavation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13937655']With arresting simplicity, McClure paraphrases the basic message the United States has for immigrants: “It’s a crime to be born poor/ It’s treason to stay that way.” This double bind is presented in countless ways throughout the poems. “Nothing shocks me,” writes McClure in “Serving Many Masters,” a poem that tallies the costs of success in a society bent on keeping the poor poor and powerless: “Don’t get up if you’re not/ Ready to crawl.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poems also hint that a baby is on the horizon, and McClure tries to envision how to safely bring a child into such a fallen world, where “at best, I can do an interpretation of justice/ And hope it doesn’t go up in smoke.” How can one explain post-Trump America to a child who “will live/ Where people who are better than me/ Had their babies wrenched from their arms/ Scattered to the winds”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure’s means of facing this entrapment is to reclaim the language, to ice it with biting humor, and to use it against itself, to defy categories, to be more than one thing at once: “You’re an earner/ as well as a mother You’re a midwife to conversations.,” she writes in the long title poem, which closes the book. We are in desperate need of those conversations — perhaps they’ll start here.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Modern Poetry: Poems’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 844px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953759\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-1.01.08-PM.png\" alt=\"A book cover depicting a close up on a woman's face, shoulder and hand.\" width=\"844\" height=\"1212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-1.01.08-PM.png 844w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-1.01.08-PM-800x1149.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-1.01.08-PM-160x230.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-1.01.08-PM-768x1103.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 844px) 100vw, 844px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Modern Poetry: Poems’ by Diane Seuss. \u003ccite>(Graywolf Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The danger/ of memory is going/ to it for respite,” writes Diana Seuss in “Weeds,” the best poem in her first collection following the Pulitzer-winning \u003cem>Frank\u003c/em>. On page after page, she asks: How can we bear to live in the present, given what a mess it is, but also avoid living in memory, which, she says, is a trap? Seuss, too, comes to poetry as a means of survival, though, for her, even retreating into poetry risks painting things with a false glimmer: “What luxury to think of milkweed cars/ and cookie jars and turning lights on in the dark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These extemporaneous poems reckon with the past, have their say, almost lightheartedly romping through meditations on whatever she feels like thinking about, often poetry and The Great Poets of the past (Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke), but also the pandemic, love, and all the suffering that comes with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13952372']In what amounts to a book-length origin story, Seuss explains how she became a poet, finding, if not beauty, then at least a sense of mission in repurposing the ugliness she encounters: “I could find some things repulsive and still/ require them for my project. My project/ was my life.” She takes us on a tour of “the desolate town where I was raised,” and where she became familiar with “that icky-sweet smell of a dead mouse in the wall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like an off-beat Virgil, she tosses off gems of odd aphoristic wisdom (“Every town has a two-headed something”) and makes poetry more accessible by mixing in a bit of pop culture: “Keats made such a compact corpse/ Only five feet tall, shorter than Prince.” Finally, she wonders whether poetry is mostly a home for misfits: “What did modern poetry really mean? Maybe/ just fucked up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am a late convert to the cult of Seuss, but came around forcefully to \u003cem>Frank\u003c/em> and the many ways it finds to explode the sonnet form while also taking advantage of its tradition and its argumentative powers. \u003cem>Modern Poetry\u003c/em> lacks the rigor of that book, as if to say it’s simply foolish to try to tame all this pain. I do think the box of the sonnet did something useful for Seuss’s poetry, organizing her improvisations. I miss that rigor, but maybe disorder is part of the message: “A cobbled mind,” she notes, “is not fatal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Silver’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 824px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953758\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-12.58.03-PM.png\" alt=\"A book cover depicting a dark night with tiny stars.\" width=\"824\" height=\"1214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-12.58.03-PM.png 824w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-12.58.03-PM-800x1179.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-12.58.03-PM-160x236.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Screen-Shot-2024-03-08-at-12.58.03-PM-768x1131.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Silver’ by Rowan Ricardo Phillips. \u003ccite>(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“No one is ever alone with their thoughts,” writes Rowan Ricardo Phillips in his fourth collection. To meet an increasingly isolating and terrifying era, Phillips retrenches in poetry, which, he claims, can be found everywhere. “The imagination hides in plain sight.” Poetry stands by us, ready, Phillips seems to say, to console us with the truth, whether or not we want to hear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only poetry, Phillips suggests, can express the horrendous illogic of our moment, which may be “like real flowers in a field/ Of memes or a meme in a filed of real/ Flowers.” And when it fails as a stay against confusion, poetry holds our grief, stores the unresolved: “George Floyd’s face floats slightly out of focus/…/ Remember the heat,/ how it burns the back/ Of the throat as night screams his name through the flames.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Phillips is not saying that everyone must become a poet in order to manage the hell of 2024. 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One girl romanticizes the red indentations her gym shorts left on her stomach because “they seemed like evidence of work she’d done.” Another imagines her opponent punching her head so hard and “the center of her brain becoming a bloody flower.” Another uses a break to kiss her palms together in fake prayer so people can’t see she’s really assessing her surroundings like a seasoned war veteran. [aside postid='arts_13833865']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bullwinkel’s sentences have well developed musculature; each builds onto the other, generating enough torque and power to land like a finely choreographed punch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like these girls, the author spent her teen years in competitive youth athletics. She sacrificed twenty hours a week to train as a water polo player, overcame a broken nose and fingers and eventually co-captained a Division I team. 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The filmmaker seems content to let Mom hold the emotional center, along with her grandmother, Um Ali, a direct link to the exile evoked through black-and-white archival footage of the Nakba (which translates to “Catastrophe,” as Palestinians describe their eviction and displacement during and after the 1948 war).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953649\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953649\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait of an older mother and adult daughter, both fair skinned with dark hair and wearing red lipstick, against a black background\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian actress and film director Hiam Abbass (L) and her daughter, French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress Lina Soualem, pose during a photo session in Paris on Febr. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hiam was born in Deir Hanna, the fifth of eight daughters (and 10 children overall), where some of her siblings still reside. Abbass wrote poetry throughout her adolescence and studied photography in college before moving to Jerusalem to pursue acting — in secret. “Everything suffocated me,” she recalls. “Even the people I loved suffocated me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most modern viewers will applaud Abbass’s artistic ambitions, and see her need to go and grow beyond her traditional family as not just natural but admirable. But at the time, it took a lot of guts, even if she extricated herself from her family and country through a time-honored method: marriage. (Abbass fell in love with an Englishman, she notes. She wasn’t being strategic or calculating, though the relationship had the desired result.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abbass’s decision to pursue an acting career abroad was undoubtedly the right one — “I was the child who had to escape,” she says — but it was accompanied by a raft of emotions. Palestine’s entry for the International Feature Film Oscar, \u003cem>Bye Bye Tiberias\u003c/em> lets us imagine how it felt to be “the one who left” when Abbass came home for visits, and gives just a fleeting hint of any jealousy and resentment her sisters obliquely expressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her most palpable regret, or greatest twinge of guilt, involves her mother. FaceTime may be the next best thing to being there, but it isn’t the same thing. (And it didn’t exist until 2010.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we know how to become mothers,” Hiam tells Lina. “But we never know how to separate from a mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some moviegoers may be inclined to approach \u003cem>Bye Bye Tiberias\u003c/em> through a political lens given the terrible present moment of war, suffering and displacement. But the interactions between Hiam and Um Ali ground us in a primary, universal relationship. 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The filmmaker seems content to let Mom hold the emotional center, along with her grandmother, Um Ali, a direct link to the exile evoked through black-and-white archival footage of the Nakba (which translates to “Catastrophe,” as Palestinians describe their eviction and displacement during and after the 1948 war).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953649\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953649\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait of an older mother and adult daughter, both fair skinned with dark hair and wearing red lipstick, against a black background\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2001172747-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian actress and film director Hiam Abbass (L) and her daughter, French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress Lina Soualem, pose during a photo session in Paris on Febr. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hiam was born in Deir Hanna, the fifth of eight daughters (and 10 children overall), where some of her siblings still reside. Abbass wrote poetry throughout her adolescence and studied photography in college before moving to Jerusalem to pursue acting — in secret. “Everything suffocated me,” she recalls. “Even the people I loved suffocated me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most modern viewers will applaud Abbass’s artistic ambitions, and see her need to go and grow beyond her traditional family as not just natural but admirable. But at the time, it took a lot of guts, even if she extricated herself from her family and country through a time-honored method: marriage. (Abbass fell in love with an Englishman, she notes. She wasn’t being strategic or calculating, though the relationship had the desired result.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abbass’s decision to pursue an acting career abroad was undoubtedly the right one — “I was the child who had to escape,” she says — but it was accompanied by a raft of emotions. Palestine’s entry for the International Feature Film Oscar, \u003cem>Bye Bye Tiberias\u003c/em> lets us imagine how it felt to be “the one who left” when Abbass came home for visits, and gives just a fleeting hint of any jealousy and resentment her sisters obliquely expressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her most palpable regret, or greatest twinge of guilt, involves her mother. FaceTime may be the next best thing to being there, but it isn’t the same thing. (And it didn’t exist until 2010.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we know how to become mothers,” Hiam tells Lina. “But we never know how to separate from a mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some moviegoers may be inclined to approach \u003cem>Bye Bye Tiberias\u003c/em> through a political lens given the terrible present moment of war, suffering and displacement. But the interactions between Hiam and Um Ali ground us in a primary, universal relationship. 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