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"content": "\u003cp>The only kind of restaurant Danny Pirello ever wanted to open was some kind of oyster shack or crab shack—the kind of laid-back spot his childhood in Scituate, Massachusetts, had imprinted onto his DNA. So that was Pirello’s first thought, years ago, when he saw the Craneway Pavilion, the sprawling, 45,000-square-foot, former Ford assembly plant on the Richmond waterfront: \u003ci>Wouldn’t this be the perfect site for an oyster bar?\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pirello finally brought that dream to fruition this past October when he quietly opened \u003ca href=\"https://www.rockyislandoysterco.com/\">Rocky Island Oyster Co.\u003c/a> at that very location, at the site of the old auto plant’s boiler room. He’s fashioned the place to be exactly the kind of oyster bar he missed from his days back East: a casual, family-friendly spot where a group of seafood enthusiasts might take down a few dozen oysters on the half shell, a couple of lobster rolls and a big, gorgeous, caper-studded plate of crudo. It doesn’t hurt that the outdoor tables overlook one of the most spectacular views of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909658\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Several people enjoy the waterfront view at Richmond's Craneway Pavilion.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Rocky Island’s chief virtues is its million dollar view of the bay. \u003ccite>(Rocky Island Oyster Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not trying to do anything too fancy,” Pirello says. “It’s casual and it’s for the community. It’s for the Bay Area people to come and kick their feet up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Island Oyster Co. sits inside the space previously occupied by Assemble, a restaurant that shut down near the start of the pandemic when the entire Craneway Pavilion was set to be \u003ca href=\"https://richmondpulse.org/2020/12/18/craneway-medical-facilities-in-richmond-on-standby/\">converted into an overflow hospital\u003c/a>. That plan never came to fruition, and when the facility came under new management last year, Pirello and his business partners, Michael Petrilli and Calvin Young, decided to reconceptualize the restaurant space as a Ferry Building–style food hall—a fitting plan given the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11765409/after-a-successful-weekday-launch-richmond-ferry-begins-weekend-service\">recent launch of the Richmond Ferry Terminal\u003c/a> right outside the Craneway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly conceived \u003ca href=\"https://www.assemblemarketplace.com/\">Assemble Marketplace\u003c/a> is now home to three mini-restaurants and a full-fledged cocktail bar. In addition Rocky Island, there’s a barbecue spot called Tommy’s and a new iteration of Assemble run by the folks behind Brezo, which, before its original Point Richmond location closed during the pandemic, served one of the region’s best California-Mexican brunches. The restaurants share a handful of indoor tables and a little outdoor patio that faces the water. In the evenings, when that outdoor area is lit up with twinkling string lights—and everyone’s digging into a tray of plump oysters with a cold beer in hand—it’s about as quaint a scene as you can find in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Pirello, the particular vibe that Rocky Island is shooting for is drawn straight from his own New England childhood. In one of Pirello’s earliest memories, he’s sitting on the beach outside his grandparents’ house in Scituate eating a giant stuffed clam. He’d spend weekends digging up clams on that same beach. His family would drive down the coast to Duxbury for fresh oysters just plucked from the water, or up to Cape Cod for lobster rolls at some little clam shack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909659\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A lobster roll and a side of potato chips, served on top of red checkered paper.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lobster roll is served in the East Coast style, with a top-cut bun. \u003ccite>(Rocky Island Oyster Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you sit down at that clam shack, it just feels like vacation, you know?” Pirello says. “And I noticed that that didn’t really exist in the same way in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pirello worked for years as a bartender in Berkeley, and he’d always felt that the East Bay, in particular, was in desperate need of a destination oyster bar—its own answer to North Bay staples like \u003ca href=\"https://hogislandoysters.com/\">Hog Island Oyster Co.\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://themarshallstore.com/\">Marshall Store\u003c/a>, or to \u003ca href=\"https://swanoysterdepot.us/\">Swan Oyster Depot\u003c/a> in San Francisco. But he also wanted to put a particular New England spin on the menu, right down to the types of oysters that he offers, which are almost exclusively New England oysters that he ships in overnight from \u003ca href=\"https://islandcreekoysters.com/\">Island Creek Oysters\u003c/a> in Duxbury, Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counterintuitively, Pirello says, these East Coast oysters come in much fresher—literally just a day out of the water—than anything he’s able to source on the West Coast. More importantly, he believes the New England oysters are a special treat for Bay Area oyster lovers who haven’t had them before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love a Kusshi. I love a Kumamoto or a Miyagi,” Pirello says of the popular West Coast oyster varieties. “But eating them is a whole different experience. It’s not that super-crisp, briny oyster that I’m used to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another gesture toward New England, Rocky Island also always has a lobster roll on the menu and, often, a Dungeness crab roll served in the same style: cold, dressed in mayo and served on a proper top-cut bun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the restaurant also highlights the things Pirello loves most about the West Coast’s own unique oyster culture. It serves an Italian fish crudo, topped with capers and pickled red onions, that’s a direct homage to the version made famous by San Francisco’s Swan Oyster Depot. In a nod to a popular menu item at the Marshall Store, it pairs garlicky grilled oysters with garlic bread. Eventually, Pirello hopes to offer a full slate of East Coast \u003ci>and\u003c/i> West Coast oysters so that customers can conduct their own side-by-side taste test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Rocky Island is the kind of place where it’s easy to drop a couple hundred dollars on a big, celebratory seafood spread, Pirello says it was important to him for the place to still retain a community-oriented vibe, which he sees as one of the hallmarks of the West Coast’s multicultural oyster scene—a scene where, for instance, big groups of Filipinos and Mexican Americans routinely spend the day picnicking out on Tomales Bay with their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909660\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of the Craneway Pavilion's massive, warehouse-y space lined with long oak tables for a special dinner.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Valentine’s Day, the restaurant spread out over the entire length of the Craneway Pavilion. \u003ccite>(Rocky Island Oyster Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, Pirello says, Rocky Island has a lot of that same kind of feel. “Everybody comes to the oyster bar,” he says. “It’s frequently not the Silicon Valley crowd that I’m used to at restaurants in San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The only kind of restaurant Danny Pirello ever wanted to open was some kind of oyster shack or crab shack—the kind of laid-back spot his childhood in Scituate, Massachusetts, had imprinted onto his DNA. So that was Pirello’s first thought, years ago, when he saw the Craneway Pavilion, the sprawling, 45,000-square-foot, former Ford assembly plant on the Richmond waterfront: \u003ci>Wouldn’t this be the perfect site for an oyster bar?\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pirello finally brought that dream to fruition this past October when he quietly opened \u003ca href=\"https://www.rockyislandoysterco.com/\">Rocky Island Oyster Co.\u003c/a> at that very location, at the site of the old auto plant’s boiler room. He’s fashioned the place to be exactly the kind of oyster bar he missed from his days back East: a casual, family-friendly spot where a group of seafood enthusiasts might take down a few dozen oysters on the half shell, a couple of lobster rolls and a big, gorgeous, caper-studded plate of crudo. It doesn’t hurt that the outdoor tables overlook one of the most spectacular views of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909658\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Several people enjoy the waterfront view at Richmond's Craneway Pavilion.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_view-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Rocky Island’s chief virtues is its million dollar view of the bay. \u003ccite>(Rocky Island Oyster Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not trying to do anything too fancy,” Pirello says. “It’s casual and it’s for the community. It’s for the Bay Area people to come and kick their feet up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Island Oyster Co. sits inside the space previously occupied by Assemble, a restaurant that shut down near the start of the pandemic when the entire Craneway Pavilion was set to be \u003ca href=\"https://richmondpulse.org/2020/12/18/craneway-medical-facilities-in-richmond-on-standby/\">converted into an overflow hospital\u003c/a>. That plan never came to fruition, and when the facility came under new management last year, Pirello and his business partners, Michael Petrilli and Calvin Young, decided to reconceptualize the restaurant space as a Ferry Building–style food hall—a fitting plan given the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11765409/after-a-successful-weekday-launch-richmond-ferry-begins-weekend-service\">recent launch of the Richmond Ferry Terminal\u003c/a> right outside the Craneway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly conceived \u003ca href=\"https://www.assemblemarketplace.com/\">Assemble Marketplace\u003c/a> is now home to three mini-restaurants and a full-fledged cocktail bar. In addition Rocky Island, there’s a barbecue spot called Tommy’s and a new iteration of Assemble run by the folks behind Brezo, which, before its original Point Richmond location closed during the pandemic, served one of the region’s best California-Mexican brunches. The restaurants share a handful of indoor tables and a little outdoor patio that faces the water. In the evenings, when that outdoor area is lit up with twinkling string lights—and everyone’s digging into a tray of plump oysters with a cold beer in hand—it’s about as quaint a scene as you can find in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Pirello, the particular vibe that Rocky Island is shooting for is drawn straight from his own New England childhood. In one of Pirello’s earliest memories, he’s sitting on the beach outside his grandparents’ house in Scituate eating a giant stuffed clam. He’d spend weekends digging up clams on that same beach. His family would drive down the coast to Duxbury for fresh oysters just plucked from the water, or up to Cape Cod for lobster rolls at some little clam shack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909659\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A lobster roll and a side of potato chips, served on top of red checkered paper.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_lobsterroll-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lobster roll is served in the East Coast style, with a top-cut bun. \u003ccite>(Rocky Island Oyster Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you sit down at that clam shack, it just feels like vacation, you know?” Pirello says. “And I noticed that that didn’t really exist in the same way in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pirello worked for years as a bartender in Berkeley, and he’d always felt that the East Bay, in particular, was in desperate need of a destination oyster bar—its own answer to North Bay staples like \u003ca href=\"https://hogislandoysters.com/\">Hog Island Oyster Co.\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://themarshallstore.com/\">Marshall Store\u003c/a>, or to \u003ca href=\"https://swanoysterdepot.us/\">Swan Oyster Depot\u003c/a> in San Francisco. But he also wanted to put a particular New England spin on the menu, right down to the types of oysters that he offers, which are almost exclusively New England oysters that he ships in overnight from \u003ca href=\"https://islandcreekoysters.com/\">Island Creek Oysters\u003c/a> in Duxbury, Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counterintuitively, Pirello says, these East Coast oysters come in much fresher—literally just a day out of the water—than anything he’s able to source on the West Coast. More importantly, he believes the New England oysters are a special treat for Bay Area oyster lovers who haven’t had them before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love a Kusshi. I love a Kumamoto or a Miyagi,” Pirello says of the popular West Coast oyster varieties. “But eating them is a whole different experience. It’s not that super-crisp, briny oyster that I’m used to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another gesture toward New England, Rocky Island also always has a lobster roll on the menu and, often, a Dungeness crab roll served in the same style: cold, dressed in mayo and served on a proper top-cut bun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the restaurant also highlights the things Pirello loves most about the West Coast’s own unique oyster culture. It serves an Italian fish crudo, topped with capers and pickled red onions, that’s a direct homage to the version made famous by San Francisco’s Swan Oyster Depot. In a nod to a popular menu item at the Marshall Store, it pairs garlicky grilled oysters with garlic bread. Eventually, Pirello hopes to offer a full slate of East Coast \u003ci>and\u003c/i> West Coast oysters so that customers can conduct their own side-by-side taste test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Rocky Island is the kind of place where it’s easy to drop a couple hundred dollars on a big, celebratory seafood spread, Pirello says it was important to him for the place to still retain a community-oriented vibe, which he sees as one of the hallmarks of the West Coast’s multicultural oyster scene—a scene where, for instance, big groups of Filipinos and Mexican Americans routinely spend the day picnicking out on Tomales Bay with their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909660\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of the Craneway Pavilion's massive, warehouse-y space lined with long oak tables for a special dinner.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/rockyisland_vday-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Valentine’s Day, the restaurant spread out over the entire length of the Craneway Pavilion. \u003ccite>(Rocky Island Oyster Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, Pirello says, Rocky Island has a lot of that same kind of feel. “Everybody comes to the oyster bar,” he says. “It’s frequently not the Silicon Valley crowd that I’m used to at restaurants in San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>That laid-back community spirit doesn’t mean the restaurant isn’t intent on providing a special experience, however. Pirello says his long-term goal is to open an adjacent diner that’s going to offer an “elevated,” sit-down extension of the Rocky Island experience. (By that point, he also hopes to convert the business into a co-op or collectively owned restaurant of some sort.) And already, Pirello is trying to think of ways to creatively utilize Rocky Island’s prime piece of waterfront real estate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, last week on Valentine’s Day, the restaurant set up long oak tables throughout the length of the Craneway Pavilion—a makeshift dining room the size of two football fields. Pirello himself spent the night skateboarding up and down the Craneway, pouring champagne for diners who were there to enjoy their oyster dinner and the sparkling view of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oysters are such a deeply nostalgic food for people,” Pirello says. And he hopes Rocky Island will be a place where people can tap into those childhood memories. “Come with your family, come with your friends,” he says. “Take up as much space as you want. Stay all day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909269\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909269\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bUasTdbv-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Oopz smiles at the camera, wearing a bright Hawiian shirt and a tye-die hat. He's got a chunky necklace and a few tattoos are visible on his forearms.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bUasTdbv-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bUasTdbv-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bUasTdbv-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bUasTdbv-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bUasTdbv-1.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oopz\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Over 4 weeks, the Rightnowish podcast is exploring love’s many forms. \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908844/rightnowish-big-love-seriespage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908844/rightnowish-big-love-seriespage\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Learn more about the series here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">.\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC8801598173\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oopzallberryz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oopz \u003c/a>is the living embodiment of “showing love.” He’s a tie-dye wearing, weed smoking, big smiling entrepreneur who sells cannabis accessories. And he’s part \u003ca href=\"https://shmoplife.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shmoplife,\u003c/a> a crew of cool kids — mostly artists and creatives — known for throwing fun-loving parties. Their headquarters is the Shmop House, a place where the music is usually slappin’, the tacos most likely smackin’ and the air is often thick with cannabis smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Oopz opens up about his love of the Bay Area and his journey to becoming an extrovert. Plus he revisits the time his community love was tested following a shooting at the Shmop House, which injured a well-known artist and friend to Oopz, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/k00lj0hn_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kool John\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, “showing love” is something we toss around all the time, especially in hip-hop circles. Oopz really lives it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are some lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Oopz.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oopz: I feel like I’m an easy person to talk to because I’m non-judgmental and I see things from different perspectives. I feel like that’s love, being understanding of people’s backgrounds and showing empathy and sympathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: I’ve recognized you as having expertise in showing love. Like everywhere I’ve seen you… in music videos, out at parties, out at the events… you’re showin love to people. And it seems like it’s being reciprocated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oopz: That’s really how I was raised, I come from a family of love… and both of my parents had a sense of humor [that’s] really goofy. I got that from them… just keeping the energy around, keeping the energy up and positive. 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I’ve stopped by the Shmop house at least once before… so much smoke in the air! What does “Shmop” mean?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oopz: “Shmop” means smacking and popping together. One day Kool John was hella drunk at a party and he was talking to his partner on the phone and he was like, “Bro, you got to get over here it’s shmackin’. It’s poppin’. It’s shmopin’ right now!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oopz: And then the party became the Shmops. And Shmoplife – it was a lifestyle that we were all living: Positive partying and living everyday like a Saturday night. Just having fun with our friends, having kickbacks and smoking and drinking. That’s what I love about Shmoplife, it’s togetherness and unity. Like I saw that a lot in myself, so I resonated with that movement. And to be able to carry that Schmoplife torch… It’s an honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: But it hasn’t been all easy: In 2020, Kool John, your good friend, was shot [at one of the parties] and he survived. And he wrote an album where he references that incident and overcoming it. It’s an interesting listen…. because it’s up tempo, it’s still a party, like you gig to it but he is talking about surviving a very violent incident…\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oopz: Yeah. He’s telling what was going through his mind around that time. That was crazy. I never thought anybody would come at us or anything because all we do is spread love and show people love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Was your love tested?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oopz: At first, yeah. You kind of start to question the love around you. Because that’s always going to make you question who’s around you. Like, What’s going on? How did I let that happen? But I’m not even really raised to live in fear so I’m not going to go out and get revenge on nobody. 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He's got a chunky necklace and a few tattoos are visible on his forearms.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bUasTdbv-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bUasTdbv-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bUasTdbv-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bUasTdbv-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bUasTdbv-1.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oopz\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Over 4 weeks, the Rightnowish podcast is exploring love’s many forms. \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908844/rightnowish-big-love-seriespage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908844/rightnowish-big-love-seriespage\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Learn more about the series here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">.\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC8801598173\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oopzallberryz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oopz \u003c/a>is the living embodiment of “showing love.” He’s a tie-dye wearing, weed smoking, big smiling entrepreneur who sells cannabis accessories. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like so many of the Bay Area’s singular food experiences, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dgrobak.bayarea/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">D’Grobak\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> started with a craving. Back in Indonesia, Christna Lim and Yohanes Ng would buy the meatball noodle soup known as bakso from street vendors multiple times a week. But they couldn’t find the dish here in the Bay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We said, ‘Let’s create some bakso because we miss bakso,’” Lim explains.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ng, whose day job is at a sushi catering company, already had a reputation as a skilled cook within the couple’s circle of Indonesian friends. One year of experimentation later, he’d nailed down the recipe for a version of the soup that’s popular in the city of Surakarta, made by simmering marrow bones for 12 hours until the broth turns as cloudy-white as a rich tonkotsu ramen. When he served his bakso to friends, they couldn’t stop talking about how much it reminded them of home. “Why don’t you sell it?” they said. When the pandemic hit, Lim and Ng decided to give it a shot. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now a weekly pop-up restaurant, D’Grobak (pronounced “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dgrobak.bayarea/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Growbuck\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”) holds in-person events every other Saturday at various locations. (The next one will be on Saturday, Feb. 12, 11am–4pm, at \u003ca href=\"https://lilikoiboba.com/\">Lilikoi Boba\u003c/a> in San Francisco.) On the Saturdays in between, Lim and Ng sell bakso to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thethirdplace.is/dgrobak/order/one-off\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pre-order customers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> out of their \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.artisankitchenandcafe.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">commissary kitchen\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Richmond, where they live.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">D’Grobak has a growing fan base thanks in part to a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/Bay-Area-s-underground-Indonesian-food-scene-is-16263823.php#photo-21152036\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">shoutout in the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">last summer and strong word of mouth within the Bay Area’s tight-knit Indonesian community—and, most of all, because the bakso is delicious. The basic version features two different kinds of noodles (vermicelli and egg noodles); jiggly, soft-cooked tendon; and the “bakso” itself—bouncy, hand-rolled beef meatballs, some of which are stuffed in tofu or wrapped around a boiled quail egg. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like all of the great Asian noodle soups, each bowl of bakso comes with an assortment of toppings and condiments to hit every part of the palate: crunchy fried shallots, fried wonton skin, sweet soy sauce, a squeeze of lime and a shot of fiery housemade sambal, the pride of every Indonesian kitchen. The smell of the broth alone—all beef fat and white pepper—is enough to get you salivating.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pop-up also sells a vegetarian version of the dish made with Impossible plant-based meat and a version crowned with a well-charred beef short rib. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two chefs in orange and brown aprons pose in their kitchen in front of many empty soup containers.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2028\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-1020x808.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-768x608.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-1536x1217.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-2048x1622.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-1920x1521.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christna Lim (left) and Yohanes Ng started making bakso because they couldn’t find it at any restaurants in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(D'Grobak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ng and Lim say they never intended to turn the little bakso experiments in their home kitchen into a business. Now, they hope to turn D’Grobak into a proper restaurant, and they’ve made it their personal mission to spread the gospel of Indonesian street food. In her hometown of Jayakarta, Lim explains, there’s a bakso stall on every street corner. In the Bay Area, however, it’s nearly impossible to find: \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/the-school-of-sambal-1/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Padi\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a short-lived Sumatran-style Indonesian spot in Berkeley, had a bakso soup on its menu during the restaurant’s early 2010s run. But the Bay Area’s two longtime Indonesian staples—Berkeley’s Jayakarta and San Francisco’s Borobudur, both closed in 2019—didn’t serve the dish. Neither does Redwood City newcomer \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.warungsiska.com/menus/#main-menu\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warung Siska\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, currently the region’s buzziest Indonesian restaurant. Apart from D’Grobak, the only place where you can find bakso is at a handful of informal, Instagram-based pop-ups run out of people’s homes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13907197,arts_13898743,arts_13897410']Part of the reason for this omission is because the Bay Area really doesn’t have the kind of street food culture found in Asian cities such as Jayakarta. Lim and Ng named their business D’Grobak after the wheeled push carts known as grobak (or “gerobak”), the basic building block of Indonesia’s bustling street food scene and still one of the primary ways that bakso is sold. Ng’s own father sold pickled fruit from a push cart. And Ng has memories of seeing bakso vendors who were even more old-school in their setup: They’d walk through the streets carrying a bucket of broth on one side and a bucket of meatballs on the other, balancing the two on their shoulders with a wooden pole. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ng and Lim don’t have any plans to convert their business into an actual push cart or bucket-based operation. (“I would collapse before I get to the distance,” Ng says, laughing.) But they hope to do their part to bring Indonesian street food culture to the Bay Area. At their in-person pop-ups, they’ll sometimes bring in an Indonesian musician to perform, to recreate the feeling of eating at a bakso stand in Jayakarta, where a siter player or ukulele player might wander from stall to stall playing for tips. And they do hope that the word “bakso” will enter into the everyday vocabulary of all Bay Area food enthusiasts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re aware that Indonesian food is really underground here,” Ng says. “So why don’t we try to promote this? So that bakso will be known like pho in Vietnam, like ramen in Japan.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908804\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A bowl of bakso (Indonesian meatball noodle soup) topped with a whole beef short rib.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1867\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-1020x744.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-768x560.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-1536x1120.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-2048x1494.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-1920x1400.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">D’Grobak sells a vegetarian version of their signature bakso and another version, pictured, that comes crowned with a well-charred beef short rib. \u003ccite>(D'Grobak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">D’Grobak takes \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thethirdplace.is/dgrobak/order/one-off\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pre-orders for delivery and pickup\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at Artisan Kitchen (865 Marina Bay Pkwy #33, Richmond) every first and third Saturday of the month. (The online pre-ordering window opens on the preceding Monday at noon.) One the second and fourth Saturdays, D’Grobak holds in-person pop-ups at various locations in San Francisco and the East Bay. For details, follow the company on \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dgrobak.bayarea/?hl=en\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like all of the great Asian noodle soups, each bowl of bakso comes with an assortment of toppings and condiments to hit every part of the palate: crunchy fried shallots, fried wonton skin, sweet soy sauce, a squeeze of lime and a shot of fiery housemade sambal, the pride of every Indonesian kitchen. The smell of the broth alone—all beef fat and white pepper—is enough to get you salivating.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pop-up also sells a vegetarian version of the dish made with Impossible plant-based meat and a version crowned with a well-charred beef short rib. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two chefs in orange and brown aprons pose in their kitchen in front of many empty soup containers.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2028\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-1020x808.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-768x608.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-1536x1217.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-2048x1622.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_chefs-1920x1521.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christna Lim (left) and Yohanes Ng started making bakso because they couldn’t find it at any restaurants in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(D'Grobak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ng and Lim say they never intended to turn the little bakso experiments in their home kitchen into a business. Now, they hope to turn D’Grobak into a proper restaurant, and they’ve made it their personal mission to spread the gospel of Indonesian street food. In her hometown of Jayakarta, Lim explains, there’s a bakso stall on every street corner. In the Bay Area, however, it’s nearly impossible to find: \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/the-school-of-sambal-1/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Padi\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a short-lived Sumatran-style Indonesian spot in Berkeley, had a bakso soup on its menu during the restaurant’s early 2010s run. But the Bay Area’s two longtime Indonesian staples—Berkeley’s Jayakarta and San Francisco’s Borobudur, both closed in 2019—didn’t serve the dish. Neither does Redwood City newcomer \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.warungsiska.com/menus/#main-menu\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warung Siska\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, currently the region’s buzziest Indonesian restaurant. Apart from D’Grobak, the only place where you can find bakso is at a handful of informal, Instagram-based pop-ups run out of people’s homes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Part of the reason for this omission is because the Bay Area really doesn’t have the kind of street food culture found in Asian cities such as Jayakarta. Lim and Ng named their business D’Grobak after the wheeled push carts known as grobak (or “gerobak”), the basic building block of Indonesia’s bustling street food scene and still one of the primary ways that bakso is sold. Ng’s own father sold pickled fruit from a push cart. And Ng has memories of seeing bakso vendors who were even more old-school in their setup: They’d walk through the streets carrying a bucket of broth on one side and a bucket of meatballs on the other, balancing the two on their shoulders with a wooden pole. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ng and Lim don’t have any plans to convert their business into an actual push cart or bucket-based operation. (“I would collapse before I get to the distance,” Ng says, laughing.) But they hope to do their part to bring Indonesian street food culture to the Bay Area. At their in-person pop-ups, they’ll sometimes bring in an Indonesian musician to perform, to recreate the feeling of eating at a bakso stand in Jayakarta, where a siter player or ukulele player might wander from stall to stall playing for tips. And they do hope that the word “bakso” will enter into the everyday vocabulary of all Bay Area food enthusiasts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re aware that Indonesian food is really underground here,” Ng says. “So why don’t we try to promote this? So that bakso will be known like pho in Vietnam, like ramen in Japan.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908804\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A bowl of bakso (Indonesian meatball noodle soup) topped with a whole beef short rib.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1867\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-1020x744.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-768x560.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-1536x1120.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-2048x1494.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/dgrobak_shortrib-1920x1400.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">D’Grobak sells a vegetarian version of their signature bakso and another version, pictured, that comes crowned with a well-charred beef short rib. \u003ccite>(D'Grobak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">D’Grobak takes \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thethirdplace.is/dgrobak/order/one-off\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pre-orders for delivery and pickup\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at Artisan Kitchen (865 Marina Bay Pkwy #33, Richmond) every first and third Saturday of the month. (The online pre-ordering window opens on the preceding Monday at noon.) One the second and fourth Saturdays, D’Grobak holds in-person pop-ups at various locations in San Francisco and the East Bay. For details, follow the company on \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dgrobak.bayarea/?hl=en\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>If you are struggling, the \u003ca href=\"https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u003c/a> is free, confidential and available 24/7 at 1-800-273-8255 or by \u003ca href=\"https://crisistextline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">texting TALK to 741741\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or nearly a decade, Richmond’s Robin López has been volunteering with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s (AFSP) national \u003ca href=\"https://supporting.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=7666\">Out Of The Darkness Community Walk\u003c/a> series.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His work, he says, was inspired by the death of his best friend, Mark Nawman, who took his own life in 2010. The news impacted family and community, and caused López to reassess the next steps in his life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC06464-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two volunteers walk through a grassy area while holding a banner that reads 'Out Of The Darkness'.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC06464-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC06464-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC06464-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC06464-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC06464-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC06464-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC06464.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two volunteers walk through a grassy area while holding a banner that reads ‘Out Of The Darkness.’ \u003ccite>(Robin López)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">López decided to go back to college, and during a final project for a political science class he began researching resources for dealing with depression and grief. He found the AFSP,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">voluntary health organization” that was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://afsp.org/about-afsp\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">founded in 1987\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to make up for the lack of federal resources for suicide prevention and mental health. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s no surprise that our government doesn’t prioritize funding for that type of research,” says López, noting that suicides and mental health crises happen to be some of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">leading causes of death\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the country. [aside postid='arts_13881725']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the United States had the \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthfund.org/press-release/2020/new-international-report-health-care-us-suicide-rate-highest-among-wealthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest suicide rate\u003c/a> out of any wealthy country, according to the Commonwealth Fund. California \u003ca href=\"https://rehabs.com/explore/mental-health-spending-by-state-across-the-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invests the most\u003c/a> in mental health resources out of any state in the union. Last year, Contra Costa County voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Contra_Costa_County,_California,_Measure_X,_Sales_Tax_(November_2020)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Measure X\u003c/a>, enacting an half-percent increase in the county’s sales tax rate that’s expected to bring \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>an estimated $81 million per year for essential services including the regional hospital, community health centers, emergency response, safety-net services, early childhood services and protection of vulnerable populations.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still, López sees that his community needs more resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Unfortunately, our community of Richmond, California, and other neighboring communities of El Cerrito, San Pablo, El Sobrante, North Richmond are some of the most historically oppressed and marginalized communities in the East Bay, and we haven’t had anything like that,” says López over the phone.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Sunday, Oct. 3, López is working to organize an event to bring awareness to suicide prevention and sustainable mental health practices for his community. It’s a part of the AFSP’s national \u003ca href=\"https://supporting.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=7666\">Out Of The Darkness Community Walk\u003c/a> series. But this one is focused on Richmond, and the surrounding areas of western Contra Costa County. [aside postid='news_11859088']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The AFSP has a Bay Area office, but López says he felt the need to “put some pressure” on the organization to make sure the resources reached his neighborhood. “We deal with mental health issues as well, no one is immune to it,” says López. “But unfortunately, in our community it’s considered taboo.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The focus of López’s event is to make sure people know they’re not alone, and to encourage more open discussions about mental health issues. That’s aside from raising funds for organizations that offer resources to people in crisis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904004\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A hat that reads 'HOPE' sits on a table at a previous Out Of The Darkness event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hat that reads ‘HOPE’ sits on a table at a previous Out Of The Darkness event. \u003ccite>(Robin López)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ópez now works as a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nature.berkeley.edu/granthamlab/people/robin-lopez/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">research associate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and is also a photographer. He says that hobby was also inspired by Mark, his best friend. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“After he passed away, I realized I only had like three photos with him,” López regrets. “So one day I picked up a camera and just started shooting away to capture other people’s memories. And that’s where it got me today as a photographer and a scientist.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s through \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shotsfromrichmond/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">following Lopez’s photography\u003c/a> that I saw his Instagram video about his work in suicide prevention. The video, although brief, was very vulnerable and open about his experiences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What very few people know about me is that I have a lot of social anxiety,” says López of sharing such an intimate story. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People see him as a photographer and a scientist; a bit of a social butterfly. “Internally it’s different than that,” says López. “It’s exhausting posting something like that. Every word is spoken with intent.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the weight that it carries to speak publicly about something with such magnitude, López tells me, “If I’m thinking about it, and I haven’t seen anyone else engage in this topic critically, then when is it going to happen? Do we have to wait another 10 years for someone in our community to speak up? I’m not saying I need to be the face of it, but I can be the spark.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-800x533.jpg\" alt='The word \"Lifesaver\" is inscribed on a wristband that sits on a table at a prior Out Of The Darkness event. ' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The word “Lifesaver” is inscribed on a wristband that sits on a table at a prior Out Of The Darkness event. \u003ccite>(Robin López)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The benefit of bringing this conversation “out of the darkness” is that it can help normalize discussing mental health, and overcome feelings of isolation. And the only detriment López foresees is the language we use when discussing it. “We never say ‘completed’ or ‘committed’ suicide,” says López. “We say ‘died by suicide.’ Changing that language helps a bit, because it doesn’t make it seem like someone was in competition to take their own life.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year’s walk will be a virtual gathering due to concerns around COVID-19, which López says is another layer to the discussion around mental health nowadays. “Going virtual means there’s an opportunity to keep our community safe,” López tells me. “But going virtual also means those that probably need to be around other people and have that fellowship are not going to have it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nonetheless the event will have a series of speakers who look like the community they serve and come from the same neighborhoods. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the United States had the \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthfund.org/press-release/2020/new-international-report-health-care-us-suicide-rate-highest-among-wealthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest suicide rate\u003c/a> out of any wealthy country, according to the Commonwealth Fund. California \u003ca href=\"https://rehabs.com/explore/mental-health-spending-by-state-across-the-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invests the most\u003c/a> in mental health resources out of any state in the union. Last year, Contra Costa County voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Contra_Costa_County,_California,_Measure_X,_Sales_Tax_(November_2020)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Measure X\u003c/a>, enacting an half-percent increase in the county’s sales tax rate that’s expected to bring \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>an estimated $81 million per year for essential services including the regional hospital, community health centers, emergency response, safety-net services, early childhood services and protection of vulnerable populations.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still, López sees that his community needs more resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Unfortunately, our community of Richmond, California, and other neighboring communities of El Cerrito, San Pablo, El Sobrante, North Richmond are some of the most historically oppressed and marginalized communities in the East Bay, and we haven’t had anything like that,” says López over the phone.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Sunday, Oct. 3, López is working to organize an event to bring awareness to suicide prevention and sustainable mental health practices for his community. It’s a part of the AFSP’s national \u003ca href=\"https://supporting.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=7666\">Out Of The Darkness Community Walk\u003c/a> series. But this one is focused on Richmond, and the surrounding areas of western Contra Costa County. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The AFSP has a Bay Area office, but López says he felt the need to “put some pressure” on the organization to make sure the resources reached his neighborhood. “We deal with mental health issues as well, no one is immune to it,” says López. “But unfortunately, in our community it’s considered taboo.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The focus of López’s event is to make sure people know they’re not alone, and to encourage more open discussions about mental health issues. That’s aside from raising funds for organizations that offer resources to people in crisis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904004\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904004\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A hat that reads 'HOPE' sits on a table at a previous Out Of The Darkness event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC09139.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hat that reads ‘HOPE’ sits on a table at a previous Out Of The Darkness event. \u003ccite>(Robin López)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">L\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ópez now works as a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nature.berkeley.edu/granthamlab/people/robin-lopez/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">research associate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and is also a photographer. He says that hobby was also inspired by Mark, his best friend. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“After he passed away, I realized I only had like three photos with him,” López regrets. “So one day I picked up a camera and just started shooting away to capture other people’s memories. And that’s where it got me today as a photographer and a scientist.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s through \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shotsfromrichmond/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">following Lopez’s photography\u003c/a> that I saw his Instagram video about his work in suicide prevention. The video, although brief, was very vulnerable and open about his experiences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What very few people know about me is that I have a lot of social anxiety,” says López of sharing such an intimate story. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People see him as a photographer and a scientist; a bit of a social butterfly. “Internally it’s different than that,” says López. “It’s exhausting posting something like that. Every word is spoken with intent.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the weight that it carries to speak publicly about something with such magnitude, López tells me, “If I’m thinking about it, and I haven’t seen anyone else engage in this topic critically, then when is it going to happen? Do we have to wait another 10 years for someone in our community to speak up? I’m not saying I need to be the face of it, but I can be the spark.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-800x533.jpg\" alt='The word \"Lifesaver\" is inscribed on a wristband that sits on a table at a prior Out Of The Darkness event. ' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/DSC03856-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The word “Lifesaver” is inscribed on a wristband that sits on a table at a prior Out Of The Darkness event. \u003ccite>(Robin López)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The benefit of bringing this conversation “out of the darkness” is that it can help normalize discussing mental health, and overcome feelings of isolation. And the only detriment López foresees is the language we use when discussing it. “We never say ‘completed’ or ‘committed’ suicide,” says López. “We say ‘died by suicide.’ Changing that language helps a bit, because it doesn’t make it seem like someone was in competition to take their own life.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year’s walk will be a virtual gathering due to concerns around COVID-19, which López says is another layer to the discussion around mental health nowadays. “Going virtual means there’s an opportunity to keep our community safe,” López tells me. “But going virtual also means those that probably need to be around other people and have that fellowship are not going to have it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nonetheless the event will have a series of speakers who look like the community they serve and come from the same neighborhoods. López reiterates that this is a space for gathering and healing—not to trigger people’s traumas and pains. And again, it’s for people to understand that they’re not alone.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>\u003cem>The \u003ca href=\"https://supporting.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=7666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Out Of The Darkness Richmond Virtual Community Walk\u003c/a> takes place Sunday October 3, 2021 from 10am-1pm. \u003ca href=\"https://afsp.org/community-programs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about AFSP’s free mental health resources\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marin County doesn’t exactly have a reputation for being one of the Bay Area’s premier taco destinations. (Some might even call certain stretches of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11307601/why-is-marin-county-so-white\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">wealthy, predominantly white\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> county a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2020/10/14/21515020/quesabirria-tacos-marin-county-richmond-san-rafael\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">taco \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">desert\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of sorts.) But no longer: Later this year, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tacoseltucan.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">El Tucán\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, one of the East Bay’s very best taquerias, will open a new outpost on the San Rafael waterfront that’s larger and even more ambitious than its original Richmond location. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like the original El Tucán, tacos at the new spot—called El Tucán Tacos and Beer—will feature all the hallmarks of the Tijuana style: handmade tortillas, a dollop of guacamole on every taco and, most importantly, meats that have been grilled over fire. The idea is for customers at the new taqueria to be able to enjoy some of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theluketsai/status/1433962298717081605\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">tastiest carne asada in the Bay\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the waterfront deck, cold beer or michelada in hand. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to co-owner Alfredo Padilla, El Tucán Tacos and Beer should open in December or January, in the space previously occupied by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pier15RestaurantandBar/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pier 15\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a San Rafael institution that closed in the early months of the pandemic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When El Tucán \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2019/12/5/20994943/tacos-el-tucan-tijuana-carne-asada-quesatacos-richmond\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">first burst onto Richmond’s much-vaunted Mexican food scene\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> two years ago, the taqueria’s biggest point of distinction was its focus on Tijuana-style tacos—a rarity in the Bay Area. It was, and remains, one of a very small number of taquerias in the East Bay that grills its meats over fire instead of just on a flat-top. Its quesatacos, whose tortillas are gilded with a thin layer of brown, crispy cheese, can go toe to toe with any taco in the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13903361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Three tacos, topped with guacamole and crispy cheese, on a paper plate.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Tucán’s calling card is its Tijuana-style quesatacos. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The restaurant immediately drew long lines at all times of day and, according to Padilla, maintained its popularity even through the worst of the pandemic. “Being mostly a takeout restaurant helped us stay busy,” Padilla says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When business did slow down during the very first month of shelter in place, that gave Padilla and his taqueros time to experiment with their menu a bit. For the first time, they started selling \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2019/11/21/20937687/el-garage-quesabirria-birria-taco-richmond-instagram\">quesabirria\u003c/a>—the cheesy, red-tinged birria tacos that are the Bay Area taco scene’s most famous Tijuana import—along with other “red tacos” prepared in the same style. They also added a well-griddled version of a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theluketsai/status/1433962298717081605\">California burrito\u003c/a>, that deliciously fry-stuffed SoCal classic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903363\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13903363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017.jpg\" alt='Exterior of a restaurant with \"El Tucán Tacos and Beer\" signage.' width=\"1536\" height=\"2304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of the former Pier 15 space in San Rafael’s Canal neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Tony Tamayo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of those new additions will be on the menu at the San Rafael restaurant, which is a joint venture between Padilla, his brother Edgar and a third partner, Victor Ceja. The new El Tucán is located in San Rafael’s Canal neighborhood, in what Padilla acknowledges is a bit of a weird location, “literally in the middle of an industrial area” surrounded by car dealerships. It’s one of the only restaurants that he’s aware of in the immediate vicinity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the neighborhood also has its share of perks. The Canal neighborhood is the heart of Marin County’s working class Latino and Mexican American community, much of which lives in the sprawl of apartment complexes just a few blocks away from the restaurant. There is, in this part of San Rafael, a built-in audience for superlative tacos.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, Padilla is excited about the space itself, which at 2,000 square feet is much larger than the Richmond location. This will be Padilla’s first sit-down restaurant, with indoor seating available in the bar area and dining room, with an additional 40 seats out back on the deck facing the water. Along the side of the building, there will be a little taco window for customers who want to grab their food to go. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13899700,arts_13896221,arts_13895488']The larger space will give Padilla the chance to flesh out the menu a bit. Most excitingly, there will be Baja-style fried fish and fried shrimp tacos—another iconic category of Baja California foods that’s rarely done well here in the Bay. Unlike the Richmond taqueria, the new restaurant has a liquor license and plans to offer a dozen beers on tap, so it’ll also add some bar bites to the menu, such as chicken wings served with housemade salsa—like Buffalo wings with a Mexican twist, Padilla says. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The restaurant will also serve five kinds of margaritas and five different micheladas, with both cocktails available as a flight.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Padilla, part of the reason he felt confident about the San Rafael expansion is that he often gets customers who drive across the bridge to Richmond from the North Bay just to eat at El Tucán—because of the lack of “good, authentic tacos” in the area, they tell him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think people are going to like the style that we have,” Padilla says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">El Tucán Tacos and Beer will open in December or January at 15 Harbor Street in San Rafael. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marin County doesn’t exactly have a reputation for being one of the Bay Area’s premier taco destinations. (Some might even call certain stretches of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11307601/why-is-marin-county-so-white\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">wealthy, predominantly white\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> county a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2020/10/14/21515020/quesabirria-tacos-marin-county-richmond-san-rafael\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">taco \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">desert\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of sorts.) But no longer: Later this year, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tacoseltucan.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">El Tucán\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, one of the East Bay’s very best taquerias, will open a new outpost on the San Rafael waterfront that’s larger and even more ambitious than its original Richmond location. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like the original El Tucán, tacos at the new spot—called El Tucán Tacos and Beer—will feature all the hallmarks of the Tijuana style: handmade tortillas, a dollop of guacamole on every taco and, most importantly, meats that have been grilled over fire. The idea is for customers at the new taqueria to be able to enjoy some of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theluketsai/status/1433962298717081605\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">tastiest carne asada in the Bay\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the waterfront deck, cold beer or michelada in hand. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to co-owner Alfredo Padilla, El Tucán Tacos and Beer should open in December or January, in the space previously occupied by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pier15RestaurantandBar/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pier 15\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a San Rafael institution that closed in the early months of the pandemic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When El Tucán \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2019/12/5/20994943/tacos-el-tucan-tijuana-carne-asada-quesatacos-richmond\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">first burst onto Richmond’s much-vaunted Mexican food scene\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> two years ago, the taqueria’s biggest point of distinction was its focus on Tijuana-style tacos—a rarity in the Bay Area. It was, and remains, one of a very small number of taquerias in the East Bay that grills its meats over fire instead of just on a flat-top. Its quesatacos, whose tortillas are gilded with a thin layer of brown, crispy cheese, can go toe to toe with any taco in the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13903361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Three tacos, topped with guacamole and crispy cheese, on a paper plate.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/eltucan_quesatacos_luketsai-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Tucán’s calling card is its Tijuana-style quesatacos. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The restaurant immediately drew long lines at all times of day and, according to Padilla, maintained its popularity even through the worst of the pandemic. “Being mostly a takeout restaurant helped us stay busy,” Padilla says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When business did slow down during the very first month of shelter in place, that gave Padilla and his taqueros time to experiment with their menu a bit. For the first time, they started selling \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2019/11/21/20937687/el-garage-quesabirria-birria-taco-richmond-instagram\">quesabirria\u003c/a>—the cheesy, red-tinged birria tacos that are the Bay Area taco scene’s most famous Tijuana import—along with other “red tacos” prepared in the same style. They also added a well-griddled version of a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theluketsai/status/1433962298717081605\">California burrito\u003c/a>, that deliciously fry-stuffed SoCal classic. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903363\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13903363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017.jpg\" alt='Exterior of a restaurant with \"El Tucán Tacos and Beer\" signage.' width=\"1536\" height=\"2304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/IMG_0017-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of the former Pier 15 space in San Rafael’s Canal neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Tony Tamayo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of those new additions will be on the menu at the San Rafael restaurant, which is a joint venture between Padilla, his brother Edgar and a third partner, Victor Ceja. The new El Tucán is located in San Rafael’s Canal neighborhood, in what Padilla acknowledges is a bit of a weird location, “literally in the middle of an industrial area” surrounded by car dealerships. It’s one of the only restaurants that he’s aware of in the immediate vicinity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the neighborhood also has its share of perks. The Canal neighborhood is the heart of Marin County’s working class Latino and Mexican American community, much of which lives in the sprawl of apartment complexes just a few blocks away from the restaurant. There is, in this part of San Rafael, a built-in audience for superlative tacos.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, Padilla is excited about the space itself, which at 2,000 square feet is much larger than the Richmond location. This will be Padilla’s first sit-down restaurant, with indoor seating available in the bar area and dining room, with an additional 40 seats out back on the deck facing the water. Along the side of the building, there will be a little taco window for customers who want to grab their food to go. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The larger space will give Padilla the chance to flesh out the menu a bit. Most excitingly, there will be Baja-style fried fish and fried shrimp tacos—another iconic category of Baja California foods that’s rarely done well here in the Bay. Unlike the Richmond taqueria, the new restaurant has a liquor license and plans to offer a dozen beers on tap, so it’ll also add some bar bites to the menu, such as chicken wings served with housemade salsa—like Buffalo wings with a Mexican twist, Padilla says. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The restaurant will also serve five kinds of margaritas and five different micheladas, with both cocktails available as a flight.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Padilla, part of the reason he felt confident about the San Rafael expansion is that he often gets customers who drive across the bridge to Richmond from the North Bay just to eat at El Tucán—because of the lack of “good, authentic tacos” in the area, they tell him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think people are going to like the style that we have,” Padilla says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">El Tucán Tacos and Beer will open in December or January at 15 Harbor Street in San Rafael. Check El Tucán’s \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tacoseltucan/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> page for updates.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "Richmond’s Hilltop Mall Offered More Than Retail Therapy—It’s Where We Grew Up",
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"content": "\u003cp>After 45 years of service, Richmond’s Hilltop Mall has shuttered for good. No one is surprised. Though many of the original architectural features from its glory days remain–the carpeted spiral ramp in the center rotunda; the abstract, decidedly-’70s, gold sculpture \u003ci>Solar Cantata\u003c/i> (so enormous it will take some David Copperfield-level maneuvering to remove); the gurgling fountain full of pennies whose signature dank aquarium smell haunts our nostrils to this day—everything else has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a gleaming testament to everything shiny and cool, most of the name-brand stores quietly pulled up stakes and moved away years ago. In their place were generic discount stores with names akin to “Stuff & Things” and “Stuff & Things II.” It felt like there were at least 30 different Sheikh shoe shops. Most everything else was gone. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://richmondstandard.com/community/2020/08/24/could-hilltop-mall-become-the-east-bay-science-and-technology-center/\">\u003ci>Richmond Standard\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, as of last summer, only about 16% of the mall’s tenants were retail shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilltop’s demise is not \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwchPJGJ3IQ\">unique\u003c/a>. Experts predict that 25% of America’s roughly 1,000 remaining malls will close in the next three to five years. The coronavirus has only hastened a process that was already well underway. What will come of this swath of empty malls dotting the country isn’t easy to determine. Some are turned into distribution hubs or shifted towards other industrial purposes. In a few best-case scenarios the space has been transformed into housing, medical centers, schools or churches. Many stand empty for years, slowly eroding into disrepair or falling victim to vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltop_teenparadise_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13896492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltop_teenparadise_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltop_teenparadise_1200-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltop_teenparadise_1200-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltop_teenparadise_1200-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltop_teenparadise_1200-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fittingly, a shop called Teen Paradise sits empty in the Hilltop Mall in 2017. \u003ccite>(Jon Konrath)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Apart from a half-dozen military recruiting centers, a couple neighborhood businesses moved into Hilltop in recent years, including a barber shop and a martial arts studio, but it wasn’t enough to revive the community atmosphere that once thrived here. Walking through Hilltop any time over the past 10 years, I swear, you could hear wolves howling in the distance. It was desolate, cloaked in an aura of despair. D-E-A-D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A homegrown meme circulated a few Christmases ago featuring a white Santa Claus at Hilltop Mall. He was wearing a red snapback baseball cap, an untucked white T-shirt, red pants and sneakers. He sat with a young boy at his knee in one of the small circular cement seating corrals, and though a few tufts of cotton balls at his feet did their best to impersonate a winter wonderland, not even the most stubbornly imaginative kid could suspend his disbelief. This Santa didn’t bother with a fur-trimmed red suit or candy canes. He wasn’t flanked by elven helpers. He was a Santa who had given up. The new mall mascot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/HilltopMallSantaMeme.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"492\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13896493\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/HilltopMallSantaMeme.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/HilltopMallSantaMeme-160x157.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hilltop Mall Santa meme that circulated in 2018.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a West Contra Costa County kid growing up in the late ’70s to early ’90s, Hilltop Mall was the spot. There were two movie theaters. There was an ice cream parlor called Scoopy’s with porthole windows that fogged up from the cold air blowing in from the ice skating rink next door. You could get your ears pierced by a disgruntled gay high school boy at Bedazzled and then go upstairs to Shirtique to pick up an iron-on shirt made right in front of you on a press resembling an oversized George Foreman grill. You could check out a row of puppies at the pet store (we didn’t know better), choke on some candle scents at Hallmark, or grab a brick of pizza at Lord Byron’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilltop Mall was a place of discovery and first times. Kids crawled around on the polished tile floors when their parents were too tired to stop them. Others ran in circles in the carpeted seating area in a Cinnabon-fueled frenzy. There were fashion shows, \u003cem>Sesame Street Live!\u003c/em> performances, and celebrity meet-and-greets featuring people like Robert “Epstein” Hegyes (from ’70s sitcom \u003ci>Welcome Back, Kotter\u003c/i>) and The Raiderettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw my very first movie at the Hilltop mall when I was so small my mom had to keep her purse on the seat just to keep it from closing up on me. When I was older, it was the first place I was allowed to take the bus by myself, igniting a lifelong desire for autonomy and escape. My friends and I would look for dudes, test out new looks, try to sneak into the back hallways and cause problems. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a place to shop, of course, but more importantly, a community hub of limitless spontaneous potential. Like a game of Richmond roulette, you might get a phone number from a hottie who didn’t go to your school or you might get jumped at the bus stop outside McDonald’s. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After 45 years of service, Richmond’s Hilltop Mall has shuttered for good. No one is surprised. Though many of the original architectural features from its glory days remain–the carpeted spiral ramp in the center rotunda; the abstract, decidedly-’70s, gold sculpture \u003ci>Solar Cantata\u003c/i> (so enormous it will take some David Copperfield-level maneuvering to remove); the gurgling fountain full of pennies whose signature dank aquarium smell haunts our nostrils to this day—everything else has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a gleaming testament to everything shiny and cool, most of the name-brand stores quietly pulled up stakes and moved away years ago. In their place were generic discount stores with names akin to “Stuff & Things” and “Stuff & Things II.” It felt like there were at least 30 different Sheikh shoe shops. Most everything else was gone. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://richmondstandard.com/community/2020/08/24/could-hilltop-mall-become-the-east-bay-science-and-technology-center/\">\u003ci>Richmond Standard\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, as of last summer, only about 16% of the mall’s tenants were retail shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilltop’s demise is not \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwchPJGJ3IQ\">unique\u003c/a>. Experts predict that 25% of America’s roughly 1,000 remaining malls will close in the next three to five years. The coronavirus has only hastened a process that was already well underway. What will come of this swath of empty malls dotting the country isn’t easy to determine. Some are turned into distribution hubs or shifted towards other industrial purposes. In a few best-case scenarios the space has been transformed into housing, medical centers, schools or churches. Many stand empty for years, slowly eroding into disrepair or falling victim to vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltop_teenparadise_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13896492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltop_teenparadise_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltop_teenparadise_1200-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltop_teenparadise_1200-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltop_teenparadise_1200-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltop_teenparadise_1200-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fittingly, a shop called Teen Paradise sits empty in the Hilltop Mall in 2017. \u003ccite>(Jon Konrath)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Apart from a half-dozen military recruiting centers, a couple neighborhood businesses moved into Hilltop in recent years, including a barber shop and a martial arts studio, but it wasn’t enough to revive the community atmosphere that once thrived here. Walking through Hilltop any time over the past 10 years, I swear, you could hear wolves howling in the distance. It was desolate, cloaked in an aura of despair. D-E-A-D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A homegrown meme circulated a few Christmases ago featuring a white Santa Claus at Hilltop Mall. He was wearing a red snapback baseball cap, an untucked white T-shirt, red pants and sneakers. He sat with a young boy at his knee in one of the small circular cement seating corrals, and though a few tufts of cotton balls at his feet did their best to impersonate a winter wonderland, not even the most stubbornly imaginative kid could suspend his disbelief. This Santa didn’t bother with a fur-trimmed red suit or candy canes. He wasn’t flanked by elven helpers. He was a Santa who had given up. The new mall mascot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/HilltopMallSantaMeme.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"492\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13896493\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/HilltopMallSantaMeme.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/HilltopMallSantaMeme-160x157.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hilltop Mall Santa meme that circulated in 2018.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a West Contra Costa County kid growing up in the late ’70s to early ’90s, Hilltop Mall was the spot. There were two movie theaters. There was an ice cream parlor called Scoopy’s with porthole windows that fogged up from the cold air blowing in from the ice skating rink next door. You could get your ears pierced by a disgruntled gay high school boy at Bedazzled and then go upstairs to Shirtique to pick up an iron-on shirt made right in front of you on a press resembling an oversized George Foreman grill. You could check out a row of puppies at the pet store (we didn’t know better), choke on some candle scents at Hallmark, or grab a brick of pizza at Lord Byron’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilltop Mall was a place of discovery and first times. Kids crawled around on the polished tile floors when their parents were too tired to stop them. Others ran in circles in the carpeted seating area in a Cinnabon-fueled frenzy. There were fashion shows, \u003cem>Sesame Street Live!\u003c/em> performances, and celebrity meet-and-greets featuring people like Robert “Epstein” Hegyes (from ’70s sitcom \u003ci>Welcome Back, Kotter\u003c/i>) and The Raiderettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw my very first movie at the Hilltop mall when I was so small my mom had to keep her purse on the seat just to keep it from closing up on me. When I was older, it was the first place I was allowed to take the bus by myself, igniting a lifelong desire for autonomy and escape. My friends and I would look for dudes, test out new looks, try to sneak into the back hallways and cause problems. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a place to shop, of course, but more importantly, a community hub of limitless spontaneous potential. Like a game of Richmond roulette, you might get a phone number from a hottie who didn’t go to your school or you might get jumped at the bus stop outside McDonald’s. You might find a pair of stirrup pants that made your ass look like God or you might get spit on by some devious kid from the upper floor who disappeared before you could make it up the escalator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltopmall_ramp.jpg\" alt=\"Spiral ramp in an empty shopping mall\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13896399\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltopmall_ramp.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltopmall_ramp-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltopmall_ramp-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltopmall_ramp-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltopmall_ramp-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltopmall_ramp-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/hilltopmall_ramp-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hilltop Mall’s center rotunda (and sculpture), photographed in 2017. \u003ccite>(Jon Konrath)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course online shopping killed the malls. We all know that. But it was also capitalism’s lack of imagination or inclination to do better. People still have the same human desires that sent us to the mall in the first place. A giant pretzel washed down with Orange Julius is awesome, but it was just a byproduct of the real reason you went to the mall: to hang out with your bestie. To be around people and immerse yourself in the circus of life. Not many large real estate corporations are motivated to reimagine the mall as the village that serves today’s community needs. So this is what we’re left with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the pandemic derailed plans for a mixed-use development and then a science and technology center, San Francisco-based industrial property owner Prologis bought Hilltop Mall for $117 million this past week. The company released a press statement that says it intends to “pursue a mixed-use development that includes residential, retail, and modern logistics facilities, which will spur further reinvestment, job growth, and economic opportunity.” But honestly, can you imagine anything human-centric coming from a company with a name like Prologis?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dpi19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denis Ivan Perez Bravo\u003c/a> is an East Bay-based photographer and organizer who isn’t shy about jumping into the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The images he captures on the front lines of protests in Northern California show the intense struggle of today’s social movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888550\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 685px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13888550\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/DE4FB6B4-A3C9-4118-B397-86681F501C3F.jpg\" alt=\"Denis Ivan Perez Bravo\" width=\"685\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/DE4FB6B4-A3C9-4118-B397-86681F501C3F.jpg 685w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/DE4FB6B4-A3C9-4118-B397-86681F501C3F-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denis Ivan Perez Bravo \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Denis Ivan Perez Bravo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The risk of bodily harm can come from both sides of a scrimmage. While covering the news, Dennis has been hit by projectiles fired from police weapons and risks being trampled by crowds of protestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, Denis is undocumented, so he’s literally risking his freedom. 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They stand in the middle of the street with a cab and many protestors in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035.jpg 1996w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protest in Sacramento, where the black community rose up for Stephon Clark. \u003ccite>(Denis Ivan Perez Bravo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2329829826\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Denis Ivan Perez Bravo.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: What caught me initially was shots of football games… then\u003c/em>\u003cem> Snoop and Mike Curry for the Warriors. And this is probably the first time I saw you work this shot right here. There’s an African-American woman, clearly pregnant, double dutching. It’s at the barbecuing while black in Oakland. And what jumps out to me are the people in the background, all the expressions. There’s people with like camera phones, holding them up, just everybody is smiling, everybody having a joyous time.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denis: I grew up in Oakland and so to capture a moment like this, I love Black culture because I grew up around Black culture. And, it’s parallel to Mexican/Guatemaltecan culture that I have. And so, when I think of Oakland, this is what I think of. Like, I double dutched when I was young and everything. 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While covering the news, Dennis has been hit by projectiles fired from police weapons and risks being trampled by crowds of protestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, Denis is undocumented, so he’s literally risking his freedom. 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They stand in the middle of the street with a cab and many protestors in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/IMG_2035.jpg 1996w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protest in Sacramento, where the black community rose up for Stephon Clark. \u003ccite>(Denis Ivan Perez Bravo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2329829826\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Denis Ivan Perez Bravo.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: What caught me initially was shots of football games… then\u003c/em>\u003cem> Snoop and Mike Curry for the Warriors. And this is probably the first time I saw you work this shot right here. There’s an African-American woman, clearly pregnant, double dutching. It’s at the barbecuing while black in Oakland. And what jumps out to me are the people in the background, all the expressions. There’s people with like camera phones, holding them up, just everybody is smiling, everybody having a joyous time.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denis: I grew up in Oakland and so to capture a moment like this, I love Black culture because I grew up around Black culture. And, it’s parallel to Mexican/Guatemaltecan culture that I have. And so, when I think of Oakland, this is what I think of. Like, I double dutched when I was young and everything. 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If a leader cannot recognize this basic fact, they cannot take steps to change it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One of the conversations circling around this election is white supremacy, often framed as if the last four years alone have led to a resurgence in white supremacy. But given your research into white supremacist activity and your personal experience with racism in varying forms since childhood, how do you respond when folks contextualize it in this way? How do you interpret and process that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know that I’m interpreting it that differently than I did prior to the past four years. What I am interpreting and questioning differently is the public response to the white supremacy. 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He’s a natural creation of our system in our culture.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13888011\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christy Chan: ‘We have someone in the presidency who is openly racist. But he’s not new. He’s a natural creation of our system in our culture.’ \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What concerns me about the current movement is that our capitalistic system is based on white supremacy and exploitation, and I don’t hear many white Americans—white liberals who are supposedly part of the movement—questioning how they participate in white supremacy. I only hear people saying that it’s somebody else. And if it’s always somebody else, then who is it? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the KKK that created white supremacy, white supremacy created the KKK. America created the KKK. So I would like to see, not just as an artist but as a citizen, the conversations in this movement go deeper, take on more intimacy, and take on more listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s assume Joe Biden is elected. That means we’ve only solved one of the 5,000 problems that affect racial equality in this country, right? I think this can be a really beautiful movement. But the participation needs to happen on a really meaningful level, beyond the symbolic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Last year, your public art piece \u003cem>Inside Out\u003c/em> was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13864750/censored-critiques-of-trump-speak-loudly-in-richmond-public-artwork\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">censored by the City of Richmond\u003c/a> because some of the submissions were critical of Trump and his policies. Right now, we’re talking a lot about how people are trying to make their voices heard, whether it’s through voting, social media or protests. How can art provide an outlet for that expression and either allow folks to make their voices heard or bring the conversation to the forefront?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13864750']The question of who gets to have a voice is essentially the battleground of our culture. Not just in art, but in general. One of the reasons I chose to illuminate the censorship in my project last year was that I wanted to communicate that the narrative was incomplete. There is a tradition in American culture of only giving certain voices control of the narrative, even when the narrative is about people of color. When the censorship happened, even if I was not able to project the perspectives of people of color, I just wanted to project the fact that they were being omitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"CHristy Chan: 'Let’s assume Joe Biden is elected. That means we’ve only solved one of the 5,000 problems that affect racial equality in this country, right? '\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13888010\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CHristy Chan: ‘Let’s assume Joe Biden is elected. That means we’ve only solved one of the 5,000 problems that affect racial equality in this country, right? ‘ \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Making art, participating in art projects and being a citizen—they all require patience and advocacy. As an artist, I want to believe that art has the capacity to invite people to become more engaged. I think art can’t necessarily solve problems, but it can help create meaning around those shared problems that we have. Art projects and looking at art can provide psychological space for people to re-examine their belief systems, and sometimes to feel like they’re less alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art can potentially be an outlet for the public, but we need institutions to be more courageous, and fund and show more works by artists of color who are addressing critical issues on race, class and inequality. We need institutions to take risks and to curate from a position of respect and familiarity with subjects such as racism. To that end, more museums, film festivals and art commissions need to have people of color in positions of power. Otherwise the artists who are being curated are doing the heavy lifting of providing education on diversity whilst also trying to create meaningful art. That’s too many hats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s 2020, and I want to see true commitment from major institutions that opening conversations on racial inequality is a priority. How can anyone with power be witnessing the potential for change right now and not participate in a meaningful way? If someone doesn’t want to use that power for that purpose, then they need to make room for someone who does. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A lot of your work seems to be about exploring dialogue, relationships and connection across some element of difference. Right now, there is a lot of emphasis on dialogue and finding ways to connect as things get more divisive. In your art, what is the unique value in that for you, and is there ever a limit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For sure. I don’t believe in neutrality. I don’t believe in unconditional unity. I think one of the things that’s happened is sometimes there’s a false equivalency between what is said on the left and the right. If part of the debate from the extreme right is that many of us are not human beings, they don’t get to debate that. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of my art is about connection, but I’m more interested in people who are underrepresented having a chance to be seen and heard. I’m not necessarily trying to amplify the voices of the oppressor or the oppressors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I find it to be a transformative process, simply to be the narrator of one’s own story. That’s one of the reasons I’ve done projects that have a lot of community engagement, because when people get to narrate their own stories, that’s subverting power in a way. It’s narrative justice. Before I was a practicing artist, reading the works of artists and writers of color and seeing the artworks of visual artists of color showed [me] that there was a way forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art makes it more interesting, more poetic, more cathartic, more communal to talk about the awful things. Art doesn’t play by the rules of the Electoral College, of whiteness, of gender, of heteronormativity. Making art is a messy process, and being a citizen is also a messy process. They both require magical thinking, and so many of the systems in our culture are set up as binary, with no room for the people in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Balcony-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Christy Chan: 'There’s a false equivalency between what is said on the left and the right. If part of the debate from the extreme right is that many of us are not human beings, they don’t get to debate that.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13888012\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Balcony-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Balcony-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Balcony-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Balcony-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Balcony-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Balcony.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christy Chan: ‘There’s a false equivalency between what is said on the left and the right. If part of the debate from the extreme right is that many of us are not human beings, they don’t get to debate that.’ \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is your relationship to voting? What does it mean to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting is about having a voice. I’m Chinese American. I vote with the awareness that I’m a member of a minority group that has been traditionally assigned silence and passivity by white America. This stereotype and misuse of Asian Americans as a political wedge perpetuates a model minority myth that goes back to the 1870s, when Southern plantation owners were documented as strategizing that Black, Chinese and Native American people needed to be kept apart so that their common interests for human rights would not be united. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it simply, it’s a white script and white fantasy that Asian American voters don’t also have a dog in this fight. I don’t accept invisibility, because it dehumanizes Asian Americans, it dehumanizes my own family, and only serves the interest of white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My relationship to voting is that it’s a responsibility. I see my act of voting as hiring someone to unfuck the future, and that person better be up for the job. There are people who died for our right to vote knowing that they might not ever vote themselves. So we’re never just voting for ourselves. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>After the election—no matter how it goes—what are your hopes and goals for the country, and for the Bay Area?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Bay Area, I feel like California takes the lead on so many things, like emissions, climate change and gay marriage. I’d love to see the Bay Area take the lead on reparations, because like every other state in this country, there’s been theft of land and redlining. Present-day Marin County has some of the most discriminatory, aggressive and racist policies against fair housing and transportation. And that’s not being addressed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would love to see structural equality replace structural inequality. We need to cultivate empathy. If you care about someone, then their problems are legitimate. Their problems are your problems. And right now, I think what’s hard to watch is this attitude that is so prevalent in our culture that as long as it’s not your problem, you don’t have to care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our culture and society were founded on independence and rebelling against authority. And those are perfectly fine, but we’re missing the fundamentals of interdependence. The ideals America was culturally founded on don’t work anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This interview was edited for length and clarity. Learn more about Christy Chan \u003ca href=\"https://www.christychan.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As we head into the election, what do you make of the political climate in America today?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the things that are bubbling up are things that were bubbling far before Trump. And the stakes are very high, but I try to remind myself that these have always been the stakes, especially with racial justice. It’s just that we’re talking about it differently and we have someone in the presidency who is openly racist. But he’s not new. He’s, from my perspective, a natural creation of our system in our culture. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we’re also in a unicorn moment, because this is a moment where we can collectively say “No, I don’t want this for us.” It’s a moment of reckoning. It’s not comfortable. This election is going to be an even more telling moment of who do we choose? Who do we want to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need leadership that recognizes that the U.S. is an apartheid system that is structured to harm Black Americans. If a leader cannot recognize this basic fact, they cannot take steps to change it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One of the conversations circling around this election is white supremacy, often framed as if the last four years alone have led to a resurgence in white supremacy. But given your research into white supremacist activity and your personal experience with racism in varying forms since childhood, how do you respond when folks contextualize it in this way? How do you interpret and process that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know that I’m interpreting it that differently than I did prior to the past four years. What I am interpreting and questioning differently is the public response to the white supremacy. It’s amazing to see an intersectional movement coming together to take an anti-racist stance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888011\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Christy Chan: 'We have someone in the presidency who is openly racist. But he’s not new. He’s a natural creation of our system in our culture.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13888011\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Chair_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christy Chan: ‘We have someone in the presidency who is openly racist. But he’s not new. He’s a natural creation of our system in our culture.’ \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What concerns me about the current movement is that our capitalistic system is based on white supremacy and exploitation, and I don’t hear many white Americans—white liberals who are supposedly part of the movement—questioning how they participate in white supremacy. I only hear people saying that it’s somebody else. And if it’s always somebody else, then who is it? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the KKK that created white supremacy, white supremacy created the KKK. America created the KKK. So I would like to see, not just as an artist but as a citizen, the conversations in this movement go deeper, take on more intimacy, and take on more listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s assume Joe Biden is elected. That means we’ve only solved one of the 5,000 problems that affect racial equality in this country, right? I think this can be a really beautiful movement. But the participation needs to happen on a really meaningful level, beyond the symbolic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Last year, your public art piece \u003cem>Inside Out\u003c/em> was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13864750/censored-critiques-of-trump-speak-loudly-in-richmond-public-artwork\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">censored by the City of Richmond\u003c/a> because some of the submissions were critical of Trump and his policies. Right now, we’re talking a lot about how people are trying to make their voices heard, whether it’s through voting, social media or protests. How can art provide an outlet for that expression and either allow folks to make their voices heard or bring the conversation to the forefront?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The question of who gets to have a voice is essentially the battleground of our culture. Not just in art, but in general. One of the reasons I chose to illuminate the censorship in my project last year was that I wanted to communicate that the narrative was incomplete. There is a tradition in American culture of only giving certain voices control of the narrative, even when the narrative is about people of color. When the censorship happened, even if I was not able to project the perspectives of people of color, I just wanted to project the fact that they were being omitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"CHristy Chan: 'Let’s assume Joe Biden is elected. That means we’ve only solved one of the 5,000 problems that affect racial equality in this country, right? '\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13888010\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Plants.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CHristy Chan: ‘Let’s assume Joe Biden is elected. That means we’ve only solved one of the 5,000 problems that affect racial equality in this country, right? ‘ \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Making art, participating in art projects and being a citizen—they all require patience and advocacy. As an artist, I want to believe that art has the capacity to invite people to become more engaged. I think art can’t necessarily solve problems, but it can help create meaning around those shared problems that we have. Art projects and looking at art can provide psychological space for people to re-examine their belief systems, and sometimes to feel like they’re less alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art can potentially be an outlet for the public, but we need institutions to be more courageous, and fund and show more works by artists of color who are addressing critical issues on race, class and inequality. We need institutions to take risks and to curate from a position of respect and familiarity with subjects such as racism. To that end, more museums, film festivals and art commissions need to have people of color in positions of power. Otherwise the artists who are being curated are doing the heavy lifting of providing education on diversity whilst also trying to create meaningful art. That’s too many hats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s 2020, and I want to see true commitment from major institutions that opening conversations on racial inequality is a priority. How can anyone with power be witnessing the potential for change right now and not participate in a meaningful way? If someone doesn’t want to use that power for that purpose, then they need to make room for someone who does. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A lot of your work seems to be about exploring dialogue, relationships and connection across some element of difference. Right now, there is a lot of emphasis on dialogue and finding ways to connect as things get more divisive. In your art, what is the unique value in that for you, and is there ever a limit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For sure. I don’t believe in neutrality. I don’t believe in unconditional unity. I think one of the things that’s happened is sometimes there’s a false equivalency between what is said on the left and the right. If part of the debate from the extreme right is that many of us are not human beings, they don’t get to debate that. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of my art is about connection, but I’m more interested in people who are underrepresented having a chance to be seen and heard. I’m not necessarily trying to amplify the voices of the oppressor or the oppressors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I find it to be a transformative process, simply to be the narrator of one’s own story. That’s one of the reasons I’ve done projects that have a lot of community engagement, because when people get to narrate their own stories, that’s subverting power in a way. It’s narrative justice. Before I was a practicing artist, reading the works of artists and writers of color and seeing the artworks of visual artists of color showed [me] that there was a way forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art makes it more interesting, more poetic, more cathartic, more communal to talk about the awful things. Art doesn’t play by the rules of the Electoral College, of whiteness, of gender, of heteronormativity. Making art is a messy process, and being a citizen is also a messy process. They both require magical thinking, and so many of the systems in our culture are set up as binary, with no room for the people in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ChristyChan.Balcony-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Christy Chan: 'There’s a false equivalency between what is said on the left and the right. 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If part of the debate from the extreme right is that many of us are not human beings, they don’t get to debate that.’ \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is your relationship to voting? What does it mean to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting is about having a voice. I’m Chinese American. I vote with the awareness that I’m a member of a minority group that has been traditionally assigned silence and passivity by white America. This stereotype and misuse of Asian Americans as a political wedge perpetuates a model minority myth that goes back to the 1870s, when Southern plantation owners were documented as strategizing that Black, Chinese and Native American people needed to be kept apart so that their common interests for human rights would not be united. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it simply, it’s a white script and white fantasy that Asian American voters don’t also have a dog in this fight. I don’t accept invisibility, because it dehumanizes Asian Americans, it dehumanizes my own family, and only serves the interest of white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My relationship to voting is that it’s a responsibility. I see my act of voting as hiring someone to unfuck the future, and that person better be up for the job. There are people who died for our right to vote knowing that they might not ever vote themselves. So we’re never just voting for ourselves. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>After the election—no matter how it goes—what are your hopes and goals for the country, and for the Bay Area?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Bay Area, I feel like California takes the lead on so many things, like emissions, climate change and gay marriage. I’d love to see the Bay Area take the lead on reparations, because like every other state in this country, there’s been theft of land and redlining. Present-day Marin County has some of the most discriminatory, aggressive and racist policies against fair housing and transportation. And that’s not being addressed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would love to see structural equality replace structural inequality. We need to cultivate empathy. If you care about someone, then their problems are legitimate. Their problems are your problems. And right now, I think what’s hard to watch is this attitude that is so prevalent in our culture that as long as it’s not your problem, you don’t have to care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our culture and society were founded on independence and rebelling against authority. And those are perfectly fine, but we’re missing the fundamentals of interdependence. 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"content": "\u003cp>For just five nights, the north wall of Richmond’s Memorial Auditorium belongs not to the city, but to the people of Richmond. Between the hours of 8 and 11pm, Aug. 21–25, \u003ca href=\"https://www.christychan.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christy Chan\u003c/a>’s public art piece \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.insideoutrichmond.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Out\u003c/a>\u003c/i> projects a looping video of large text onto the auditorium’s brick tower, all phrases collected from Richmond residents. The 75-minute video includes personal aspirations, dreams for Richmond, worries about the fate of the planet, messages of forgiveness and notes of encouragement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But markedly absent from the projection are any submissions critical of President Trump or his government’s policies. Instead, a message appears in blue: “The city of Richmond has banned us from projecting phrases you submitted that criticize the President of the United States by name. Of the 1,100 phrases submitted many have shown viewpoints on the president in both English and Spanish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large red bars block out the six phrases that follow, rendering them illegible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important that people know those voices existed, even if I can’t physically project them in the work,” Chan says. “I want to illuminate their absence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13864758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/InsideOut_1200.jpg\" alt=\"The "disclaimer" Chan inserted into the 'Inside Out' video following the city attorney's recommendation to remove a phrase critical of the president.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/InsideOut_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/InsideOut_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/InsideOut_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/InsideOut_1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/InsideOut_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “disclaimer” Chan inserted into the ‘Inside Out’ video following the city attorney’s recommendation to remove a phrase critical of the president. \u003ccite>(James Ken Butler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Inside Out\u003c/i> received its submissions during public workshops conducted in English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, and via an online portal. The project catchphrase is “Speak your truth.” Prompts for phrases (limited to seven words or less) include “Tell us your life story,” “Thank someone for doing something great for you,” and “I worry about _____.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a month of collecting submissions, Chan distilled the phrases down to a representative group of 100, which she presented for review to the Richmond Arts and Culture Commission (RACC) at their July 23 meeting, per her grant contract with the city. The commission accepted all the phrases except for one: “Donald Trump, te perdono por rasista” [sic] (essentially, “I forgive Donald Trump for being racist”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan says she included this particular phrase in the winnowed-down group because of its poetic quality. “I felt like it encompassed a lot of what other people were saying, but in a new way,” Chan says. “There were a lot of statements alluding to Trump being racist.” She estimates between 40 and 50 submissions of the 1,100 referred to the president by name—many of them critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, Chan notes, “Everyone was very respectful in their submissions, no one was saying profane things. I was really moved by how thoughtful some of the phrases were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13864759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/ChistyChan_NIAD_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Chan (second from right) at a workshop for 'Inside Out' at NIAD, one of several Richmond community partners that facilitated the project's submission gathering.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/ChistyChan_NIAD_1200.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/ChistyChan_NIAD_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/ChistyChan_NIAD_1200-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/ChistyChan_NIAD_1200-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chan (second from right) at a workshop for ‘Inside Out’ at NIAD, one of several Richmond community partners that facilitated the project’s submission gathering. \u003ccite>(Ellen Gailing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michele Seville, arts and culture manager for the Richmond Arts & Culture Division, who shepherded the project to completion, says the RACC was cautious in part because they were unsure about official policies regarding political statements on city buildings. It might be easy to dismiss the city’s response as alarmist censorship, but such decisions are complicated by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684223/us-appeals-court-rules-trump-sanctuary-cities-order-illegal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">president’s own attempts\u003c/a> to withhold federal funding from cities like Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Richmond is a sanctuary city, and they didn’t want to jeopardize its status or its state/federal benefits,” says Seville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, several participants in the project disclosed their undocumented status to Chan, who says the option to submit phrases anonymously gave people the freedom to say what was really on their minds. \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/richmondcitycalifornia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recent census data\u003c/a> shows over 35 percent of Richmond’s residents are foreign born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks that followed the July meeting, the city attorney’s office reviewed the phrase and recommended removing it from the public presentation. “They advised that it was best not to include it unless it was approved by both the RACC and the Richmond City Council,” Seville says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s summer schedule prevented any such approval. “There wasn’t time to get the art commission to approve it before the quotes were projected, and the city council does not meet during the month of August,” Seville explains. “So, the time for responding would be after \u003cem>Inside Out\u003c/em> was finished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Seville encouraged Chan to include mention of the phrase’s elimination in the final video. “I need to work within the boundaries of city policy and respect its decisions even when they might not be shared by myself or others,” Seville says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/355516291\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Courtesy of Inside Out / Christy Chan\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Interestingly, a phrase that reads simply, “No more celebrity presidents” did not garner any objections from the RACC.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, not knowing the specific content of the phrases covered by red bars lends \u003ci>Inside Out\u003c/i> a subversive potency. Following phrases like “I dream of swimming in Mexico,” “Who will fight for us when we are all gone?” and “Nosotros immigrantes no somos delinquentes” (“We immigrants are not criminals”), it’s easy to imagine what the censored statements read. Their absence speaks volumes—about whose voices are amplified in public discourse, and whose are silenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel invisible most of the time, I would like the opportunity to speak my mind,” one participant in the project wrote of their experience with \u003ci>Inside Out\u003c/i>. “We are Richmond, we need to be heard,” wrote another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seville agrees with these sentiments, “This project is truly the voice of the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though frustrated by the city’s decision, Chan encourages other artists to take on the challenge of public art projects. “I have deep respect for what art can do for communities,” she writes in a statement posted to the \u003ci>Inside Out\u003c/i> website on Aug. 23. “Community art is worth making.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Inside Out’ is on view through Aug. 25, 8–11pm nightly. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For just five nights, the north wall of Richmond’s Memorial Auditorium belongs not to the city, but to the people of Richmond. Between the hours of 8 and 11pm, Aug. 21–25, \u003ca href=\"https://www.christychan.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christy Chan\u003c/a>’s public art piece \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.insideoutrichmond.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Out\u003c/a>\u003c/i> projects a looping video of large text onto the auditorium’s brick tower, all phrases collected from Richmond residents. The 75-minute video includes personal aspirations, dreams for Richmond, worries about the fate of the planet, messages of forgiveness and notes of encouragement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But markedly absent from the projection are any submissions critical of President Trump or his government’s policies. Instead, a message appears in blue: “The city of Richmond has banned us from projecting phrases you submitted that criticize the President of the United States by name. Of the 1,100 phrases submitted many have shown viewpoints on the president in both English and Spanish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large red bars block out the six phrases that follow, rendering them illegible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important that people know those voices existed, even if I can’t physically project them in the work,” Chan says. “I want to illuminate their absence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13864758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/InsideOut_1200.jpg\" alt=\"The "disclaimer" Chan inserted into the 'Inside Out' video following the city attorney's recommendation to remove a phrase critical of the president.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/InsideOut_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/InsideOut_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/InsideOut_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/InsideOut_1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/InsideOut_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “disclaimer” Chan inserted into the ‘Inside Out’ video following the city attorney’s recommendation to remove a phrase critical of the president. \u003ccite>(James Ken Butler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Inside Out\u003c/i> received its submissions during public workshops conducted in English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, and via an online portal. The project catchphrase is “Speak your truth.” Prompts for phrases (limited to seven words or less) include “Tell us your life story,” “Thank someone for doing something great for you,” and “I worry about _____.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a month of collecting submissions, Chan distilled the phrases down to a representative group of 100, which she presented for review to the Richmond Arts and Culture Commission (RACC) at their July 23 meeting, per her grant contract with the city. The commission accepted all the phrases except for one: “Donald Trump, te perdono por rasista” [sic] (essentially, “I forgive Donald Trump for being racist”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan says she included this particular phrase in the winnowed-down group because of its poetic quality. “I felt like it encompassed a lot of what other people were saying, but in a new way,” Chan says. “There were a lot of statements alluding to Trump being racist.” She estimates between 40 and 50 submissions of the 1,100 referred to the president by name—many of them critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, Chan notes, “Everyone was very respectful in their submissions, no one was saying profane things. 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