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The phone’s ringing again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva Treadway and Max Edelman work behind the bar at The Laundromat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Busy nights like these are exhilarating to Wolfert. It’s like when his fingers are on the bass strings at Kilowatt or the Knockout. He plays with the jazz-inspired indie-pop group \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985883/uncle-chris-dove-on-the-ocean\">Uncle Chris,\u003c/a> the rock-driven songwriting-forward alt-pop of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/starfishprime999/\">Starfish Prime\u003c/a> and the gritty, edgy sounds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doublehelix.peacetreaty/\">Double Helix Peace Treaty\u003c/a>. Working at The Laundromat can be like the climax of a song, he says. The crowd is rapt. The band’s locked in. The sound engineer is waving a symbol he can half see. His friends are in the front row making heart hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a beast flowing through the air at that moment, he says. At The Laundromat, it’s caught and upheld by his co-workers, who are also his friends and some of his favorite musicians, similarly running pizzas or laughing in passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are parallels in service as in performance,” says Treadway just before their shift on a recent Wednesday. “We have our flow and we’re putting on a little bit of a show. Like, you’re providing this environment, you’re helping to curate it and you’re helping it to run, and you’re really fucking leaning on the people around you as your team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigating this organized chaos comes naturally to people who’ve worked together in a collaborative way artistically, Treadway adds, “because so much of being in a band is compromise and truly working together and doing hard things together. I don’t know anyone that’s a working musician in San Francisco that’s not working really, really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva Treadway poses for a portrait at The Laundromat. Treadway plays in The She’s and World Smasher. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Musicians have worked service jobs since the beginning of undercompensated music and undercompensated labor. But the marriage’s harmony largely depends on institutional support – especially in San Francisco, where rents are always going up, prices are high and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/under-100k-low-income-san-francisco-18168899.php\">anyone making less than $100,000 a year is considered low-income\u003c/a>. The Tenderloin rehearsal space shared by two of Wolfert’s bands, a tight room split between five bands total, costs $800 a month. He lives with four roommates, one of whom is a bandmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how to best support San Francisco’s musicians, Treadway says to tip well and pay in cash. Break out of the “transaction” mindset. Sometimes people forget their waiter is “a cool person who’s working really hard, who has their own interests, who maybe has their own band,” they add.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supporting your local restaurant is supporting your local musicians,” says Treadway. “Never forget it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max Edelman poses for a portrait at The Laundromat. Edelman plays in the bands Sour Widows and Roke. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s music scene is a fragile ecosystem, one supported through ticket and merch sales and prenegotiated percentages of the bar. And it’s supported most directly by the musicians themselves, waiting tables and humming a song idea as they grab Table Three’s vegan cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local music survives, says Wolfert, because of places like The Laundromat, and because people in the scene help each other out. Musicians hook other musicians up with places to practice or record; they ask local acts to open when they headline; they let them know when their neighborhood pizza place is hiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Wolfert talks with a co-worker at The Laundromat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a musician, I feel like you’re working so many different jobs all at once,” says Edelman. “And then you work your job. And you’re not being paid, usually, for the music aspect.” Edelman, who’s tended bar at The Laundromat for more than a year, learned about the job from an Instagram post by Treadway, right after the two returned to San Francisco from playing South by Southwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treadway calls The Laundromat “a project”; Edelman opts for a musician-artist space as well as a culinary spot. Wolfert jokes that people say from the outside, it looks like “a little cult.” (The Laundromat’s musician staff also includes Keith Frerichs of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theumbrellassf/\">The Umbrellas\u003c/a>, who is absent on this particular day to prepare for a North American tour.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wolfert worked at a prior pizza place, he says he felt validated as a musician. But there’s validation, and then there’s encouragement from managers and owners. Here, your co-workers and bosses will proactively sit down around a calendar of your upcoming tour dates. They’ll work together to cover shifts; they’ll make it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bumper stickers by Christopher DeLoach (@thatscoolthankyou on Instagram) hang at the entrance to The Laundromat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laundromat co-owners Kevin Rodgers and Jenna O’Connell don’t play music themselves, but both have histories of working with musicians in the service industry. The Laundromat, Rodgers says, is the most musician-concentrated workplace in his career. With so many band members and music lovers on staff, Rodgers says, they all just get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Feeling like you’re in a place where your actual artistic endeavors are supported, that feels really important to me as someone who has played music my whole life,” says Treadway. “What makes people whole is being able to participate in their artistic endeavors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since Treadway started in San Francisco’s music scene, people have said that the scene is dying. That everyone’s moving to L.A. They don’t think that’s true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always going to be music in San Francisco,” Treadway says. “It’s in the DNA of the city, and has been since before any of us even were considered to exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theumbrellassf/\">The Umbrellas\u003c/a> are currently touring North America, and play \u003ca href=\"https://dice.fm/event/wkpon-the-umbrellas-pocket-full-of-crumbs-and-latitude-29th-jun-kilowatt-san-francisco-tickets?\">Saturday, June 29, at Kilowatt in San Francisco\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sourwidows.com/\">Sour Widows\u003c/a> begins a U.S. tour this month, and plays \u003ca href=\"https://theindependentsf.com/event/13375114/sour-widows/\">Saturday, July 13, at the Independent\u003c/a> in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doublehelix.peacetreaty/\">Double Helix Peace Treaty\u003c/a> plays \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/credit-electric-w-dutch-interior-amp-double-helix-peace-treaty-doors-700-pm-music-730-pm\">Wednesday, August 14, at the 4 Star Theater\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Wednesday evenings, Alex Wolfert feels like he’s on stage — even if none of his three bands is performing that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because Wolfert, 24, works Wednesdays at \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelaundromatsf.com/\">The Laundromat\u003c/a> — a bagels-in-the-morning, pizzas-and-wine-in-the-evening spot in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond that doubles as a micro-community of the city’s indie musicians. Hours pass to the hum of vinyl LPs from its sizable collection; dough and industry advice are thrown and caught; band tees are complimented. Co-workers’ demos are played on shared rides home, and employees cover shifts when others play shows or go on tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But mainly, The Laundromat’s supportive, tight-knit staff show that the artist’s tradition of working behind a counter on the nights not spent on stage is alive and well in an increasingly unaffordable, tech-centered city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Wolfert serves orders at The Laundromat, where he works alongside other musicians from San Francisco bands. Wolfert plays in Uncle Chris, Double Helix Peace Treaty and Starfish Prime. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a typical shift, Wolfert, with his easy smile, might step outside to wipe down a table, passing the hour-long line and white horizon of Ocean Beach. His thoughts will race: He needs to text Joey he can record this week; Korey wants to rehearse next week; that one party needs water; two tables need to be set. Then he’ll grab a mushroom combo, balancing dipping dishes of honey and ranch between his fingers, and slide them all onto a crowded table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the phone rings, he’ll notice the Groove Armada record is on the penultimate track of Side B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One! More! Song!” he chirps in these moments over the beat to co-workers, Max Edelman, 29 (drummer for alt-rock band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sourwidows\">Sour Widows\u003c/a> and black metal band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rokeblackmetal/\">Roke\u003c/a>), and Eva Treadway, 29 (guitarist in the ’60s-style pop band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theshesmusic/\">The She’s\u003c/a> and the noisy ’90s-style rock group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/world_smasher/\">World Smasher\u003c/a>). Edelman might be pouring a skin-contact orange wine into one patron’s glass while Treadway — wearing a baseball cap with the word “Laundromat” in a squiggly font, designed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/secret.cobra.information/\">Trey Flanigan\u003c/a> of local band \u003ca href=\"https://pardoner.bandcamp.com/\">Pardoner\u003c/a> — pours a chilled red into another. A sausage pie’s ready for delivery. The phone’s ringing again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva Treadway and Max Edelman work behind the bar at The Laundromat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Busy nights like these are exhilarating to Wolfert. It’s like when his fingers are on the bass strings at Kilowatt or the Knockout. He plays with the jazz-inspired indie-pop group \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985883/uncle-chris-dove-on-the-ocean\">Uncle Chris,\u003c/a> the rock-driven songwriting-forward alt-pop of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/starfishprime999/\">Starfish Prime\u003c/a> and the gritty, edgy sounds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doublehelix.peacetreaty/\">Double Helix Peace Treaty\u003c/a>. Working at The Laundromat can be like the climax of a song, he says. The crowd is rapt. The band’s locked in. The sound engineer is waving a symbol he can half see. His friends are in the front row making heart hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a beast flowing through the air at that moment, he says. At The Laundromat, it’s caught and upheld by his co-workers, who are also his friends and some of his favorite musicians, similarly running pizzas or laughing in passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are parallels in service as in performance,” says Treadway just before their shift on a recent Wednesday. “We have our flow and we’re putting on a little bit of a show. Like, you’re providing this environment, you’re helping to curate it and you’re helping it to run, and you’re really fucking leaning on the people around you as your team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigating this organized chaos comes naturally to people who’ve worked together in a collaborative way artistically, Treadway adds, “because so much of being in a band is compromise and truly working together and doing hard things together. I don’t know anyone that’s a working musician in San Francisco that’s not working really, really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva Treadway poses for a portrait at The Laundromat. Treadway plays in The She’s and World Smasher. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Musicians have worked service jobs since the beginning of undercompensated music and undercompensated labor. But the marriage’s harmony largely depends on institutional support – especially in San Francisco, where rents are always going up, prices are high and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/under-100k-low-income-san-francisco-18168899.php\">anyone making less than $100,000 a year is considered low-income\u003c/a>. The Tenderloin rehearsal space shared by two of Wolfert’s bands, a tight room split between five bands total, costs $800 a month. He lives with four roommates, one of whom is a bandmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how to best support San Francisco’s musicians, Treadway says to tip well and pay in cash. Break out of the “transaction” mindset. Sometimes people forget their waiter is “a cool person who’s working really hard, who has their own interests, who maybe has their own band,” they add.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supporting your local restaurant is supporting your local musicians,” says Treadway. “Never forget it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max Edelman poses for a portrait at The Laundromat. Edelman plays in the bands Sour Widows and Roke. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s music scene is a fragile ecosystem, one supported through ticket and merch sales and prenegotiated percentages of the bar. And it’s supported most directly by the musicians themselves, waiting tables and humming a song idea as they grab Table Three’s vegan cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local music survives, says Wolfert, because of places like The Laundromat, and because people in the scene help each other out. Musicians hook other musicians up with places to practice or record; they ask local acts to open when they headline; they let them know when their neighborhood pizza place is hiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Wolfert talks with a co-worker at The Laundromat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a musician, I feel like you’re working so many different jobs all at once,” says Edelman. “And then you work your job. And you’re not being paid, usually, for the music aspect.” Edelman, who’s tended bar at The Laundromat for more than a year, learned about the job from an Instagram post by Treadway, right after the two returned to San Francisco from playing South by Southwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treadway calls The Laundromat “a project”; Edelman opts for a musician-artist space as well as a culinary spot. Wolfert jokes that people say from the outside, it looks like “a little cult.” (The Laundromat’s musician staff also includes Keith Frerichs of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theumbrellassf/\">The Umbrellas\u003c/a>, who is absent on this particular day to prepare for a North American tour.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wolfert worked at a prior pizza place, he says he felt validated as a musician. But there’s validation, and then there’s encouragement from managers and owners. Here, your co-workers and bosses will proactively sit down around a calendar of your upcoming tour dates. They’ll work together to cover shifts; they’ll make it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bumper stickers by Christopher DeLoach (@thatscoolthankyou on Instagram) hang at the entrance to The Laundromat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laundromat co-owners Kevin Rodgers and Jenna O’Connell don’t play music themselves, but both have histories of working with musicians in the service industry. The Laundromat, Rodgers says, is the most musician-concentrated workplace in his career. With so many band members and music lovers on staff, Rodgers says, they all just get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Feeling like you’re in a place where your actual artistic endeavors are supported, that feels really important to me as someone who has played music my whole life,” says Treadway. “What makes people whole is being able to participate in their artistic endeavors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since Treadway started in San Francisco’s music scene, people have said that the scene is dying. That everyone’s moving to L.A. They don’t think that’s true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always going to be music in San Francisco,” Treadway says. “It’s in the DNA of the city, and has been since before any of us even were considered to exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>While the Vietnam War raged in 1966, and the onset of California’s prison industrial complex began to ravage Black and low-income communities in a dreadfully systematic way, San Francisco’s Hunters Point residents were hurled onto the frontlines of their own conflict. On Sept. 27 of that year, the Third Street Riot (or \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Hunters_Point_Uprising\">Hunters Point Uprising\u003c/a>) ignited after an SFPD officer killed Matthew “Peanut” Johnson — a neighborhood teenager the police were pursuing after a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson’s violent — and presumably racially motivated — death ignited a series of community actions that crescendoed with a citywide outbreak of demands for justice. Though largely overlooked in modern history (despite being \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/hunter-s-point-san-francisco-uprising-1966/\">the largest riot in San Francisco history at the time\u003c/a>), the event offers a critical look at San Francisco’s decades-long struggles with racial segregation, police brutality and community neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959620\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 727px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/image5.jpeg\" alt=\"Black-and-white headshot of man with facial hair\" width=\"727\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/image5.jpeg 727w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/image5-160x209.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biko Eisen-Martin. \u003ccite>(Jeremiah Cumberbatch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For local actor and filmmaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/saybiko/?hl=en\">Biko Eisen-Martin\u003c/a>, it’s an essential chapter of San Francisco’s past that has yet to be fully excavated by the public. For him, growing up in San Francisco and listening to his family members and elders speak about the revolutionary time inspired Eisen-Martin to write and direct \u003ca href=\"https://www.bikoeisenmartin.com/3rd-palou\">\u003ci>3rd and Palou\u003c/i>\u003c/a> — a community-centered performance premiering as a staged reading at the historic \u003ca href=\"https://rwoh.org/#\">Ruth Williams Opera House\u003c/a> (also known as the Bayview Opera House) on the night of Juneteenth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is based on community testimonies. Right now, there isn’t a pipeline for these stories. This isn’t stuff that is readily available; it hasn’t been properly archived,” Eisen-Martin says. “But it happened right here on Third Street. There were tanks rolling down the streets of San Francisco. There are still bullet holes in the Bayview Opera House from it all. That’s why I wanted to make [the Opera House] ground zero and activate the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Directly inspired by Eisen-Martin’s godmother, Ida McCrae — who was a teenager navigating issues of patriarchy, racism and rising incarceration at the time — the play is a semi-biographical coming-of-age tale that focuses deeply on one woman’s experience, rather than trying to abstractly retell the story of the entire uprising itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[McCrae] is a revolutionary with a long, rich story,” says Eisen-Martin. “This is just a clip of it all. One year before the riots, the Youth Authority opened, \u003ca href=\"https://ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/14214NCJRS.pdf\">a huge prison\u003c/a> where Bay Area youth were sent. Ida was a victim of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a theatrical performance, \u003ci>3rd & Palou\u003c/i> is a dramatized depiction that takes creative liberties. But the core of McCrae’s story — who Eisen-Martin interviewed extensively while scripting his play — is central to much larger truths about Northern California’s Black communities, going far beyond just Hunters Point (the riots eventually spilled into other Black neighborhoods around San Francisco).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 618px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/image4.jpeg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photograph of police crouched in street with guns while people stand in doorway of building \" width=\"618\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/image4.jpeg 618w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/image4-160x104.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bayview-Hunters Point Community Center under siege during the 1966 uprising. \u003ccite>(Photo by Jean-Antony Du Lac; Courtesy San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a moment in time but it’s also a microcosm of what we still see today,” he continues. “At the time, learning about imperialism was at the forefront of popular consciousness. Reading political magazines was a day to day thing, not just a subculture. [During the testimonies], I really could see the love the community had for each other back then. We need an entire curriculum, films, books about this. I’m just trying to be a spark; it’s a big, old oven full of stuff, and this is just the preheating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13958706']Additional research on Eisen-Martin’s part included correspondence with Stanford PhD candidate \u003ca href=\"https://history.stanford.edu/people/aliyah-dunn-salahuddin\">Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin\u003c/a> — who was formerly the head of the African American Studies department at the City College of San Francisco. Her dissertation, “A Forgotten Community, A Forgotten History: San Francisco’s 1966 Uprising” was excerpted in \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://nyupress.org/9781479820337/the-strange-careers-of-the-jim-crow-north/\">The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, which Eisen-Martin heavily referenced while weaving together various threads for his own work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former teacher at Berkeley High School and a product of the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://youthspeaks.org/\">Youth Speaks\u003c/a> program for rising poets, Eisen-Martin has been comfortable with standing in front of an audience since he was able to walk. His mother, Arlene Eisen, was active in exposing Biko’s (as well as his older brother, San Francisco’s Poet Laureate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893308/tongo-eisen-martin-on-a-poets-role-in-a-protest\">Tongo Eisen-Martin\u003c/a>) to the Bay Area’s diverse tapestry of arts, activism and community organizing. Offering free acting classes and directly asking for the community’s feedback is a part of Biko’s everyday existence as a writer and actor with generational ties to Frisco’s Black histories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both San Francisco and New York City — where the artist splits his time working and performing — Eisen-Martin is all too familiar with the erasure of not just the arts, but the deep-seated stories in communities who have long fostered them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great feeling to do a show off Broadway, being in New York and spilling out into the street with all the big lights, but there’s something to being in your own community and activating the future of your community with a craft you love and watching others fall in love with it, too,” says Eisen-Martin. “We don’t need the big lights, they need us. Some of the work gets shine, some doesn’t; but the work is what has a lasting impression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eisen-Martin makes clear that he doesn’t have any answers. But, as poets and artists in times of struggle often do, he’s willing to ask questions in search of catharsis and healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘3rd & Palou’ takes place as a free staged reading at the \u003ca href=\"https://rwoh.org/#\">Ruth Williams Opera House\u003c/a> (4705 Third St., San Francisco) on June 19, 2024 at 7 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>While the Vietnam War raged in 1966, and the onset of California’s prison industrial complex began to ravage Black and low-income communities in a dreadfully systematic way, San Francisco’s Hunters Point residents were hurled onto the frontlines of their own conflict. On Sept. 27 of that year, the Third Street Riot (or \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Hunters_Point_Uprising\">Hunters Point Uprising\u003c/a>) ignited after an SFPD officer killed Matthew “Peanut” Johnson — a neighborhood teenager the police were pursuing after a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson’s violent — and presumably racially motivated — death ignited a series of community actions that crescendoed with a citywide outbreak of demands for justice. Though largely overlooked in modern history (despite being \u003ca href=\"https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/hunter-s-point-san-francisco-uprising-1966/\">the largest riot in San Francisco history at the time\u003c/a>), the event offers a critical look at San Francisco’s decades-long struggles with racial segregation, police brutality and community neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959620\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 727px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/image5.jpeg\" alt=\"Black-and-white headshot of man with facial hair\" width=\"727\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/image5.jpeg 727w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/image5-160x209.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biko Eisen-Martin. \u003ccite>(Jeremiah Cumberbatch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For local actor and filmmaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/saybiko/?hl=en\">Biko Eisen-Martin\u003c/a>, it’s an essential chapter of San Francisco’s past that has yet to be fully excavated by the public. For him, growing up in San Francisco and listening to his family members and elders speak about the revolutionary time inspired Eisen-Martin to write and direct \u003ca href=\"https://www.bikoeisenmartin.com/3rd-palou\">\u003ci>3rd and Palou\u003c/i>\u003c/a> — a community-centered performance premiering as a staged reading at the historic \u003ca href=\"https://rwoh.org/#\">Ruth Williams Opera House\u003c/a> (also known as the Bayview Opera House) on the night of Juneteenth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is based on community testimonies. Right now, there isn’t a pipeline for these stories. This isn’t stuff that is readily available; it hasn’t been properly archived,” Eisen-Martin says. “But it happened right here on Third Street. There were tanks rolling down the streets of San Francisco. There are still bullet holes in the Bayview Opera House from it all. That’s why I wanted to make [the Opera House] ground zero and activate the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Directly inspired by Eisen-Martin’s godmother, Ida McCrae — who was a teenager navigating issues of patriarchy, racism and rising incarceration at the time — the play is a semi-biographical coming-of-age tale that focuses deeply on one woman’s experience, rather than trying to abstractly retell the story of the entire uprising itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[McCrae] is a revolutionary with a long, rich story,” says Eisen-Martin. “This is just a clip of it all. One year before the riots, the Youth Authority opened, \u003ca href=\"https://ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/14214NCJRS.pdf\">a huge prison\u003c/a> where Bay Area youth were sent. Ida was a victim of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a theatrical performance, \u003ci>3rd & Palou\u003c/i> is a dramatized depiction that takes creative liberties. But the core of McCrae’s story — who Eisen-Martin interviewed extensively while scripting his play — is central to much larger truths about Northern California’s Black communities, going far beyond just Hunters Point (the riots eventually spilled into other Black neighborhoods around San Francisco).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 618px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/image4.jpeg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photograph of police crouched in street with guns while people stand in doorway of building \" width=\"618\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/image4.jpeg 618w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/image4-160x104.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bayview-Hunters Point Community Center under siege during the 1966 uprising. \u003ccite>(Photo by Jean-Antony Du Lac; Courtesy San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a moment in time but it’s also a microcosm of what we still see today,” he continues. “At the time, learning about imperialism was at the forefront of popular consciousness. Reading political magazines was a day to day thing, not just a subculture. [During the testimonies], I really could see the love the community had for each other back then. We need an entire curriculum, films, books about this. I’m just trying to be a spark; it’s a big, old oven full of stuff, and this is just the preheating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Additional research on Eisen-Martin’s part included correspondence with Stanford PhD candidate \u003ca href=\"https://history.stanford.edu/people/aliyah-dunn-salahuddin\">Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin\u003c/a> — who was formerly the head of the African American Studies department at the City College of San Francisco. Her dissertation, “A Forgotten Community, A Forgotten History: San Francisco’s 1966 Uprising” was excerpted in \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://nyupress.org/9781479820337/the-strange-careers-of-the-jim-crow-north/\">The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, which Eisen-Martin heavily referenced while weaving together various threads for his own work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former teacher at Berkeley High School and a product of the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://youthspeaks.org/\">Youth Speaks\u003c/a> program for rising poets, Eisen-Martin has been comfortable with standing in front of an audience since he was able to walk. His mother, Arlene Eisen, was active in exposing Biko’s (as well as his older brother, San Francisco’s Poet Laureate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893308/tongo-eisen-martin-on-a-poets-role-in-a-protest\">Tongo Eisen-Martin\u003c/a>) to the Bay Area’s diverse tapestry of arts, activism and community organizing. Offering free acting classes and directly asking for the community’s feedback is a part of Biko’s everyday existence as a writer and actor with generational ties to Frisco’s Black histories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both San Francisco and New York City — where the artist splits his time working and performing — Eisen-Martin is all too familiar with the erasure of not just the arts, but the deep-seated stories in communities who have long fostered them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great feeling to do a show off Broadway, being in New York and spilling out into the street with all the big lights, but there’s something to being in your own community and activating the future of your community with a craft you love and watching others fall in love with it, too,” says Eisen-Martin. “We don’t need the big lights, they need us. Some of the work gets shine, some doesn’t; but the work is what has a lasting impression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eisen-Martin makes clear that he doesn’t have any answers. But, as poets and artists in times of struggle often do, he’s willing to ask questions in search of catharsis and healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘3rd & Palou’ takes place as a free staged reading at the \u003ca href=\"https://rwoh.org/#\">Ruth Williams Opera House\u003c/a> (4705 Third St., San Francisco) on June 19, 2024 at 7 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ryan Christenson has turned lineup cards into art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin picks a batting order, his bench coach selects the font and color scheme for the day’s sumptuous script. Options include Roman Gothic, a Celtic variation, Chicano Tattoo and graffiti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s an artist,” said New York Yankees star Juan Soto, who spent 1 1/2 years with Christenson in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Players look forward to the handwriting on the wall as long as Christenson provides the penmanship. When pitcher Drew Pomeranz reached the visitors’ clubhouse at Citi Field to join the Giants last month, the lettering was unmistakable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew as soon as I walked in here who wrote that board,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christenson uses roughly 10 styles that include cursives with various thickness to make the letters pop. He employs the Phillies’ Scriptwurst font for games against Philadelphia and imitates the style of the interlocking “NY” monogram’s type when playing the Yankees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever floats my boat that day,” he said. “Sometimes if we go on a little winning streak, I’ll keep that font going until we lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13938668']Right-handed hitters are often in black, left-handers in red and switch-hitters in blue. He used orange and blue when the Giants played the Mets, and rainbow colors on pride night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something that the players kind of get a kick out of,” Christenson said, noting that sometimes when players have a great game, they’re gifted the lineup card as a memento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just something unique. You can put it on your wall. Just a little piece of art to it. It’s unique.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 50-year-old former outfielder, Christenson was born in Redlands, California, and grew up in nearby Highland. He never studied calligraphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I first started doing it back when I was a little kid. My grandma, my nana, she gave me a calligraphy pen,” Christenson said, thinking back fondly to Iva Six. “So throughout my childhood, I’d like pick it up and then put it back in the closet and find it and bring it back out and doodle a little bit around with it and kind of learn just the basics of how it worked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2210px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-6.19.15-PM.png\" alt=\"Two line up cards for the San Francisco Giants next to a color drawing of baseball players in action.\" width=\"2210\" height=\"1086\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-6.19.15-PM.png 2210w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-6.19.15-PM-800x393.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-6.19.15-PM-1020x501.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-6.19.15-PM-160x79.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-6.19.15-PM-768x377.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-6.19.15-PM-1536x755.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-6.19.15-PM-2048x1006.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-6.19.15-PM-1920x943.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2210px) 100vw, 2210px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These images provided by Giants coach Ryan Christenson show lineup card and a drawing showing Frank White turning a double play. “He’s an artist,” said New York Yankees star Juan Soto, who spent a year and a half with Christenson in San Diego. \u003ccite>(Ryan Christenson via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christenson doodled in his school folders at Apple Valley High School, northeast of Los Angeles. He made the baseball team at Pepperdine as a walk-on and was selected by Oakland in the 10th round of the 1995 amateur draft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13931346']He hit .222 over six seasons from 1998 to 2002 with the Athletics, Arizona, Milwaukee and Texas, earning a World Series ring with the 2001 Diamondbacks, though he didn’t play in the postseason. He retired due to a knee injury after spending 2004 with the Marlins’ Triple-A Albuquerque team and got his bachelor’s degree from Pepperdine that year, majoring in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I kind of have a little bit of left and right mind working,” Christenson said. “I love numbers and the analytics part of baseball. I love reading a horse racing form. All the numbers fascinate me there. And then I also enjoy the artistic side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After working in a mortgage bank north of San Diego, he opened a baseball academy in Georgia. He was planning a larger academy but financing from suburban Fairburn fell through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christenson decided to get back into baseball and worked his way up the Athletics organization, managing Class A Beloit (2013) and Stockton (2014), Double-A Midland (2015-16) and Triple-A Nashville (2017). He became Melvin’s bench coach with the A’s from 2018-21, moved to San Diego with Melvin as bench coach in 2022 and associate manager in 2023, then followed Melvin to the Giants this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is very analytic oriented, and that organization was like that,” Melvin said. “It was a perfect fit at the perfect time. Obviously, I brought him everywhere I’ve gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christenson restarted flamboyant penmanship in 2014 at Stockton, inspired by the fancy lineup cards of Jerry Narron and Don Wakamatsu, both former managers who also coached. Narron’s creative cards started with Baltimore in 1993, and he appreciates having the imprint of an innovator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imitation is the highest form of flattery, so I appreciate it,” Narron said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wakamatsu’s lineup cards gained limelight when Kansas City reached the 2014 World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13956931']“The reason I started in the first place was I remembered when I first got to my first game in the big leagues with the White Sox and they gave me my lineup card and it meant something to me,” Wakamatsu said. “When I started doing Sharpie pens, like everybody else at the time, I just didn’t like the look of it. Kind of an old-school baseball guy and I started playing around with it. My first ones were awfully rough and I think I got a little bit better as I went along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christenson takes a bag with writing implements and ink cartridges on the road. 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Unless you really look at it, you can’t tell,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco sells a majority of Christenson’s lineup cards in the Giants’ “From the Clubhouse” store at Oracle Park starting at $75, with price dependent on the game and milestones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melvin has several framed lineup cards in his study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how he has the time with all that he has to do,” Melvin said. “The players come out to the dugout at times and the first thing they want to look at is what’s the different calligraphy on the lineup card today.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When San Francisco hosted its first official city-supported Juneteenth parade down Market Street last year, Dr. Sheryl Davis witnessed its significance firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis is the executive director of the city’s Human Rights Commission, which puts on the parade, and she knew what it meant to those in San Francisco’s African-American community who’ve organized independent community Juneteenth celebrations for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For them it was huge,” said Davis. “The parade was legitimizing. They felt like all of the sudden they were welcome — even with everything that was happening and all of the different challenges, now that Black people could have a parade down Market Street, it’s a symbol of freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the celebration of Black culture is back — and the lineup is stacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend’s parade kicks off from Market and Spear Streets at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 8, ending at the Civic Center Plaza at noon for a festival headlined by Larry June, Rapsody and Goapele. The lineup also includes the Fillmore Jazz Ambassadors, San Francisco’s poet laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, Frisco’s own DJ Red Corvette, Martin Luther and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"African American woman in black attire standing behind a microphone at a podium during an indoor event in San Francisco.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1093\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1-800x683.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1-1020x871.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1-768x656.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sheryl Davis speaking at a convening in San Francisco, discussing Historically Black Colleges and Universities in February of 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>We Still Here\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Davis says the event’s goal is to both bring people back to San Francisco and celebrate the folks who still call the city home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrating Black culture in a city where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-city/how-black-san-francisco-has-dwindled-since-harlem-west-days/article_42b6f538-d5a4-11ee-85ea-df19cc90bd0d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African-American population\u003c/a> has dropped 50% in the past 50 years presents a conflict, Davis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a diminishing population of people and you hold an event to celebrate that culture, if people don’t turn out like they do for a Warriors parade, does the city then say it’s not worth it?” asks Davis. “What is our end goal for holding this parade?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some, Davis says, that answer might be financial. To others, the answer might be a matter of “enough” people showing up. Davis doesn’t see it that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people in the parade are grateful to be seen, whether it’s by one person or one thousand. And to know the streets were shut down to celebrate their culture — in a town where people often talk about how many Black folks have left the city, but they don’t mention the people who still live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/ratio3x2_960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958715\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/ratio3x2_960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/ratio3x2_960-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/ratio3x2_960-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/ratio3x2_960-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People hop aboard a cable car during last year’s San Francisco Juneteenth parade. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘How It’s Really Done’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Juneteenth became a federal holiday three years ago, but the history of its celebration in San Francisco goes back to the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June of 1945, Wesley Johnson, Sr. wore a white cowboy hat as he rode through the Fillmore on a white horse. It was his way of bringing the celebration of Juneteenth — a day commemorating the delayed notification to western states that enslaved Africans in America had become legally free — to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many African Americans involved in the Great Migration, Johnson Sr. was born in Texas and moved to San Francisco in the early 1900s for work. Along with his labor, he brought culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to bring my corner of Texas to San Francisco and show them how it’s really done,” reads a quote from Johnson Sr. on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcjuneteenth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juneteenth page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Juneteenth Events Around the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Human Rights Commission is backing a handful of events to commemorate Juneteenth. The list includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcjuneteenth.org/events/mayor-london-breeds-official-juneteenth-kickoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor London Breed’s Official Juneteenth Kickoff\u003c/a> event on June 14, the SF Black Wall Street Gala on June 14 and the Juneteenth Festival in the Bayview on June 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the City of San Francisco’s Juneteenth events there will be a number of happenings around town, including the Juneteenth celebration on \u003ca href=\"https://www.onetreasureisland.org/events/juneteenth-celebration\">Treasure Island\u003c/a> on June 15 and SF \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfjazz.org/juneteenth/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwgdayBhBQEiwAXhMxtqbGxzmhjodiAjAt29DeAGMxB7BzNghfnh7LNCll-mnj--2Xbs2hjxoCdp0QAvD_BwE\">Jazz’s Juneteenth event \u003c/a>on June 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JuneteenthDay32023-08038.jpg\" alt=\"Man on stage with a microphone and sunglasses, rapping to a full crowd of smiling faces on a sunny day at a festival.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958721\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JuneteenthDay32023-08038.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JuneteenthDay32023-08038-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JuneteenthDay32023-08038-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JuneteenthDay32023-08038-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JuneteenthDay32023-08038-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stunnaman02 will be big steppin’ at San Francisco’s 2024 Juneteenth parade and festival. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/event/free-admission-day-kp-thrive-moad-celebrate-juneteenth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MoAd will host a free admission day\u003c/a> and a series of events during the month of June, including Drag Story Hour with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/1765/the-california-report-magazine\">Black Benetar\u003c/a>, a film screening of \u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/event/film-screening-discussion-city-of-a-million-dreams-parading-for-the-dead-in-new-orleans\">City of a Million Dreams: Parading for the Dead in New Orleans\u003c/a> and a tour of oil pastel landscapes by the artist Rachel Jones. Free admission day is Saturday, June 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oigc.org/cal/2nd-freight-juneteenth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir\u003c/a> will celebrate Juneteenth for the second year in a row with a special performance. Founded in 1986 to honor Black gospel tradition, the choir brings together over 300 singers whose ages range from five to 100. The performance will take place Saturday, June 15 at \u003ca href=\"https://thefreight.org/\">Freight and Salvage\u003c/a> in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight blocks of the Fillmore District will feature music, carnival games, a hair and fashion show and more for the annual \u003ca href=\"https://juneteenth-sf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juneteenth SF Freedom Celebration\u003c/a>. On Saturday, June 15, over 50 food and retail vendors, classic cars and the L.A. R&B group The Whispers will come together for the holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://vallejojuneteenth.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 34th annual Juneteenth celebration in Vallejo\u003c/a> will include a parade, a youth art contest and a paint party. The festival and parade is on June 15 at the Barbara Kondylis Waterfront Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://healdsburgjazz.org/festival-schedule/june-15/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Healdsburg Jazz Festival\u003c/a> is honoring Juneteenth on June 15 with a quintet, a sextet, drum workshops and drinks from the Nubian Cafe Collective at Healdsburg Plaza. Performers include Houston Person and Steve Turre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 15 renowned vocalist Marsha Ambrosius is set to headline \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjaacsa.org/juneteenth/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 43rd annual Juneteenth Festival in downtown San Jose\u003c/a>, as the event will also feature the marching bands of Florida A&M University and Alabama State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download.jpg\" alt='A set of balloons reads \"JUNETEENTH\" in golden lettering overhead, as two event attendees pose for a photo in the foreground.' width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sheryl Davis and Shakirah Simley, executive director of Booker T. Washington Community Service Center in San Francisco, pose for a photo at Juneteenth on the Waterfront at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in 2021. \u003ccite>(Photo by Foodwise)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyjuneteenth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Berkeley Juneteenth Festival\u003c/a> on June 16 at Adeline St. and Alcatraz Ave is bringing live music on two stages, a zone for kids to do STEM activities and face painting and food vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.antiochca.gov/juneteenth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">During the Antioch Juneteenth\u003c/a> event there will be carnival games, live performances by Nzuri Soul and the Ariel Marin Band and a rock climbing wall at Williamson Ranch Park on Sunday, June 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Museum of California is hosting a \u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/event/hella-juneteenth-the-cookout/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hella Juneteenth “The Cookout,”\u003c/a> which will feature sets from DJs \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fattonyrap/\">Fat Tony\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djdarlingcool/\">Darling Cool\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djken_z_o/\">DJ Kenzo\u003c/a>. Cookout goers will enjoy music in the OMCA garden and food from chef Michele McQueen of the museum’s cafe Town Fare. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When San Francisco hosted its first official city-supported Juneteenth parade down Market Street last year, Dr. Sheryl Davis witnessed its significance firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis is the executive director of the city’s Human Rights Commission, which puts on the parade, and she knew what it meant to those in San Francisco’s African-American community who’ve organized independent community Juneteenth celebrations for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For them it was huge,” said Davis. “The parade was legitimizing. They felt like all of the sudden they were welcome — even with everything that was happening and all of the different challenges, now that Black people could have a parade down Market Street, it’s a symbol of freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the celebration of Black culture is back — and the lineup is stacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend’s parade kicks off from Market and Spear Streets at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 8, ending at the Civic Center Plaza at noon for a festival headlined by Larry June, Rapsody and Goapele. The lineup also includes the Fillmore Jazz Ambassadors, San Francisco’s poet laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, Frisco’s own DJ Red Corvette, Martin Luther and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"African American woman in black attire standing behind a microphone at a podium during an indoor event in San Francisco.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1093\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1-800x683.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1-1020x871.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1-768x656.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sheryl Davis speaking at a convening in San Francisco, discussing Historically Black Colleges and Universities in February of 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>We Still Here\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Davis says the event’s goal is to both bring people back to San Francisco and celebrate the folks who still call the city home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrating Black culture in a city where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-city/how-black-san-francisco-has-dwindled-since-harlem-west-days/article_42b6f538-d5a4-11ee-85ea-df19cc90bd0d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African-American population\u003c/a> has dropped 50% in the past 50 years presents a conflict, Davis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a diminishing population of people and you hold an event to celebrate that culture, if people don’t turn out like they do for a Warriors parade, does the city then say it’s not worth it?” asks Davis. “What is our end goal for holding this parade?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some, Davis says, that answer might be financial. To others, the answer might be a matter of “enough” people showing up. Davis doesn’t see it that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people in the parade are grateful to be seen, whether it’s by one person or one thousand. And to know the streets were shut down to celebrate their culture — in a town where people often talk about how many Black folks have left the city, but they don’t mention the people who still live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/ratio3x2_960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958715\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/ratio3x2_960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/ratio3x2_960-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/ratio3x2_960-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/ratio3x2_960-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People hop aboard a cable car during last year’s San Francisco Juneteenth parade. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘How It’s Really Done’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Juneteenth became a federal holiday three years ago, but the history of its celebration in San Francisco goes back to the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June of 1945, Wesley Johnson, Sr. wore a white cowboy hat as he rode through the Fillmore on a white horse. It was his way of bringing the celebration of Juneteenth — a day commemorating the delayed notification to western states that enslaved Africans in America had become legally free — to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many African Americans involved in the Great Migration, Johnson Sr. was born in Texas and moved to San Francisco in the early 1900s for work. Along with his labor, he brought culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to bring my corner of Texas to San Francisco and show them how it’s really done,” reads a quote from Johnson Sr. on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcjuneteenth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juneteenth page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Juneteenth Events Around the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Human Rights Commission is backing a handful of events to commemorate Juneteenth. The list includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcjuneteenth.org/events/mayor-london-breeds-official-juneteenth-kickoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor London Breed’s Official Juneteenth Kickoff\u003c/a> event on June 14, the SF Black Wall Street Gala on June 14 and the Juneteenth Festival in the Bayview on June 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the City of San Francisco’s Juneteenth events there will be a number of happenings around town, including the Juneteenth celebration on \u003ca href=\"https://www.onetreasureisland.org/events/juneteenth-celebration\">Treasure Island\u003c/a> on June 15 and SF \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfjazz.org/juneteenth/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwgdayBhBQEiwAXhMxtqbGxzmhjodiAjAt29DeAGMxB7BzNghfnh7LNCll-mnj--2Xbs2hjxoCdp0QAvD_BwE\">Jazz’s Juneteenth event \u003c/a>on June 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JuneteenthDay32023-08038.jpg\" alt=\"Man on stage with a microphone and sunglasses, rapping to a full crowd of smiling faces on a sunny day at a festival.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958721\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JuneteenthDay32023-08038.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JuneteenthDay32023-08038-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JuneteenthDay32023-08038-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JuneteenthDay32023-08038-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/JuneteenthDay32023-08038-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stunnaman02 will be big steppin’ at San Francisco’s 2024 Juneteenth parade and festival. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/event/free-admission-day-kp-thrive-moad-celebrate-juneteenth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MoAd will host a free admission day\u003c/a> and a series of events during the month of June, including Drag Story Hour with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/1765/the-california-report-magazine\">Black Benetar\u003c/a>, a film screening of \u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/event/film-screening-discussion-city-of-a-million-dreams-parading-for-the-dead-in-new-orleans\">City of a Million Dreams: Parading for the Dead in New Orleans\u003c/a> and a tour of oil pastel landscapes by the artist Rachel Jones. Free admission day is Saturday, June 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oigc.org/cal/2nd-freight-juneteenth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir\u003c/a> will celebrate Juneteenth for the second year in a row with a special performance. Founded in 1986 to honor Black gospel tradition, the choir brings together over 300 singers whose ages range from five to 100. The performance will take place Saturday, June 15 at \u003ca href=\"https://thefreight.org/\">Freight and Salvage\u003c/a> in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight blocks of the Fillmore District will feature music, carnival games, a hair and fashion show and more for the annual \u003ca href=\"https://juneteenth-sf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juneteenth SF Freedom Celebration\u003c/a>. On Saturday, June 15, over 50 food and retail vendors, classic cars and the L.A. R&B group The Whispers will come together for the holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://vallejojuneteenth.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 34th annual Juneteenth celebration in Vallejo\u003c/a> will include a parade, a youth art contest and a paint party. The festival and parade is on June 15 at the Barbara Kondylis Waterfront Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://healdsburgjazz.org/festival-schedule/june-15/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Healdsburg Jazz Festival\u003c/a> is honoring Juneteenth on June 15 with a quintet, a sextet, drum workshops and drinks from the Nubian Cafe Collective at Healdsburg Plaza. Performers include Houston Person and Steve Turre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 15 renowned vocalist Marsha Ambrosius is set to headline \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjaacsa.org/juneteenth/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 43rd annual Juneteenth Festival in downtown San Jose\u003c/a>, as the event will also feature the marching bands of Florida A&M University and Alabama State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download.jpg\" alt='A set of balloons reads \"JUNETEENTH\" in golden lettering overhead, as two event attendees pose for a photo in the foreground.' width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/download-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sheryl Davis and Shakirah Simley, executive director of Booker T. Washington Community Service Center in San Francisco, pose for a photo at Juneteenth on the Waterfront at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in 2021. \u003ccite>(Photo by Foodwise)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyjuneteenth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Berkeley Juneteenth Festival\u003c/a> on June 16 at Adeline St. and Alcatraz Ave is bringing live music on two stages, a zone for kids to do STEM activities and face painting and food vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.antiochca.gov/juneteenth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">During the Antioch Juneteenth\u003c/a> event there will be carnival games, live performances by Nzuri Soul and the Ariel Marin Band and a rock climbing wall at Williamson Ranch Park on Sunday, June 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Museum of California is hosting a \u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/event/hella-juneteenth-the-cookout/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hella Juneteenth “The Cookout,”\u003c/a> which will feature sets from DJs \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fattonyrap/\">Fat Tony\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djdarlingcool/\">Darling Cool\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djken_z_o/\">DJ Kenzo\u003c/a>. Cookout goers will enjoy music in the OMCA garden and food from chef Michele McQueen of the museum’s cafe Town Fare. Tickets for the event on June 19 will include access to all of OMCA’s galleries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://juneteenthcommunityfestival.info/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The family-friendly Marin City Juneteenth Festival\u003c/a> will host an African Marketplace featuring apparel, jewelry and art from small businesses, will crown a community kind and queen and will provide supervised childcare for the kiddos at Rocky Graham Park on Saturday, June 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Richmond, community members are holding a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/4665/Richmond-Juneteenth-Festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juneteenth Family Day Parade and Festival\u003c/a> to uplift peace and unity in their neighborhoods on Saturday, June 22 at Nicholl Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The thing is, I’d started to get desensitized to school shootings. Where once I devoured every detail in the news reports, trying to make sense of the senseless, lately I have scrolled right past. Maybe this has happened to you, too. If so, you know the strange guilt of it. The \u003cem>I care, but I cannot care right now\u003c/em> of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is this how “normalization” works? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfopera.com/operas/innocence/\">Innocence\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, an opera about a school shooting that made its U.S. premiere on Saturday at San Francisco Opera, does not let you look away from the horror that has, yes, become normalized in America. It does so without being preachy, or didactic. Written by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died before its San Francisco opening, it is, hands down, the most moving contemporary opera I’ve ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959106\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claire de Sévigné as the Mother-in-Law (Patricia), Miles Mykkanen as the Bridegroom (Tuomas), Lilian Farahani as the Bride (Stela), Ruxandra Donose as the Waitress (Tereza), and Rod Gilfry as the Father-in-Law (Henrik) in ‘Innocence’ at SF Opera. \u003ccite>(Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The story opens at a wedding rehearsal dinner, where the bride, Stela (played by Lilian Farahani) is thrilled to soon be married to Tuomas (Miles Mykkanen). Meanwhile, a catering waitress, Tereza (Ruxandra Donose), recognizes Tuomas as the brother of the man who committed a mass shooting at her daughter’s school, 10 years prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Tereza, as well as the groom’s parents, wrestle with what to tell the bride, seven figures haunt the wedding. Six are students. One is a teacher. In a series of soliloquies and flashbacks, on a revolving two-story turntable set that morphs between wedding venue and school, the students and teacher contrast the joy of the upcoming nuptials with the terror of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1425\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047-800x594.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047-1020x757.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047-768x570.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047-1536x1140.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At left, Claire de Sévigné as the Mother-in-Law (Patricia) and Rod Gilfry as the Father-in-Law (Henrik); at right, Vilma Jää as Student #1 (Markéta) and Ruxandra Donose as the Waitress (Tereza) in ‘Innocence’ at SF Opera. \u003ccite>(Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director Louise Bakker spares us the shooting itself. You will, to be sure, see red streaks of blood. You will see panic, and lifeless young bodies slumped against a classroom wall. (On opening night, as these visuals multiplied, I noticed only three people walk out; the rest, rapt, couldn’t look away.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly as agonizing is the characters’ ongoing trauma, its complex layers fearlessly probed by librettist Sofi Oksanen. The waitress resents the shooter’s family for the audacity to carry on with a future that they don’t deserve, while the parents of the groom, and of his brother the shooter, fight incessantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959101\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilian Farahani as the Bride (Stela), Miles Mykkanen as the Bridegroom (Tuomas), Claire de Sévigné as the Mother-in-Law (Patricia), and Rod Gilfry as the Father-in-Law (Henrik) in ‘Innocence’ at SF Opera. \u003ccite>(Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The students who survived the shooting can’t stand to be in large crowds now, or sit with their back to a door. They teach themselves to stop talking about the shooting, even though it is the only thing they can think about. For the teacher (Lucy Shelton), her very purpose has evaporated. All knowledge feels useless after the shooting, she sings, in an anguished voice: “Each textbook, stupid. Each exam, superfluous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Innocence\u003c/em> is about this loss. Not just a loss of innocence but a loss of sense or meaning. A loss, caused by guns, of our common bonds. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959118\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_-800x595.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_-1020x758.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_-768x571.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_-1536x1142.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At left, Camilo Delgado Díaz as Student #5 (Jerónimo); at right, Julie Hega as Student #3 (Iris) in ‘Innocence’ at SF Opera. \u003ccite>(Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this would be powerful enough on its own. But in the fourth act, we are forced to ask: who is really innocent? As new, shocking twists are revealed by students Iris and Markéta (Julie Hega and Vilma Jää, both mesmerizing talents), and as further context is added by the groom, his parents and even a priest (Kristinn Sigmundsson), the pain of the shooting becomes more entrenched. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elevating all of this is Saariaho’s angular, modern-sounding score, matching the mood and timeliness of its subject perfectly. Jää’s usage of Finnish folk singing adds to the story’s realism, while an off-stage chorus and surround-sound effects lend further gravitas to the tension, discomfort and sorrow. Over time, the revolving set designed by Chloe Lamford transforms entirely. All together, it’s an opera that feels like a movie, both in style and length; the whole thing runs just an hour and 48 minutes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vilma Jää as Student #1 (Markéta) (center) with Lucy Shelton as the Teacher, and Rowan Kievits as Student #4 (Anton) in ‘Innocence’ at SF Opera. \u003ccite>(Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Innocence\u003c/em> is based on a 2008 school shooting that occurred in Saariaho’s native Finland. At the time, this was a rarity for the country, but two months ago, just outside Helsinki, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68724991\">12 year-old brought a gun to school and shot a classmate dead\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, I can’t count the number of school shootings in America. Can you? Since Columbine in 1999, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.security.org/blog/a-timeline-of-school-shootings-since-columbine/\">118 active shooter incidents reported at K–12 schools in the United States\u003c/a>. A total of 1,243 have been injured, and 440 people killed. Teachers, children, all with futures. All shot down dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was supposed to be an opera review, I know. But as a work of art, \u003cem>Innocence\u003c/em> is just that masterful, to shake you out of your complacency, to keep you thinking about it for days afterward. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The thing is, I’d started to get desensitized to school shootings. Where once I devoured every detail in the news reports, trying to make sense of the senseless, lately I have scrolled right past. Maybe this has happened to you, too. If so, you know the strange guilt of it. The \u003cem>I care, but I cannot care right now\u003c/em> of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is this how “normalization” works? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfopera.com/operas/innocence/\">Innocence\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, an opera about a school shooting that made its U.S. premiere on Saturday at San Francisco Opera, does not let you look away from the horror that has, yes, become normalized in America. It does so without being preachy, or didactic. Written by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died before its San Francisco opening, it is, hands down, the most moving contemporary opera I’ve ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959106\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A0991.1920-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claire de Sévigné as the Mother-in-Law (Patricia), Miles Mykkanen as the Bridegroom (Tuomas), Lilian Farahani as the Bride (Stela), Ruxandra Donose as the Waitress (Tereza), and Rod Gilfry as the Father-in-Law (Henrik) in ‘Innocence’ at SF Opera. \u003ccite>(Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The story opens at a wedding rehearsal dinner, where the bride, Stela (played by Lilian Farahani) is thrilled to soon be married to Tuomas (Miles Mykkanen). Meanwhile, a catering waitress, Tereza (Ruxandra Donose), recognizes Tuomas as the brother of the man who committed a mass shooting at her daughter’s school, 10 years prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Tereza, as well as the groom’s parents, wrestle with what to tell the bride, seven figures haunt the wedding. Six are students. One is a teacher. In a series of soliloquies and flashbacks, on a revolving two-story turntable set that morphs between wedding venue and school, the students and teacher contrast the joy of the upcoming nuptials with the terror of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1425\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047-800x594.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047-1020x757.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047-768x570.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1047-1536x1140.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At left, Claire de Sévigné as the Mother-in-Law (Patricia) and Rod Gilfry as the Father-in-Law (Henrik); at right, Vilma Jää as Student #1 (Markéta) and Ruxandra Donose as the Waitress (Tereza) in ‘Innocence’ at SF Opera. \u003ccite>(Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director Louise Bakker spares us the shooting itself. You will, to be sure, see red streaks of blood. You will see panic, and lifeless young bodies slumped against a classroom wall. (On opening night, as these visuals multiplied, I noticed only three people walk out; the rest, rapt, couldn’t look away.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly as agonizing is the characters’ ongoing trauma, its complex layers fearlessly probed by librettist Sofi Oksanen. The waitress resents the shooter’s family for the audacity to carry on with a future that they don’t deserve, while the parents of the groom, and of his brother the shooter, fight incessantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959101\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A9204-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilian Farahani as the Bride (Stela), Miles Mykkanen as the Bridegroom (Tuomas), Claire de Sévigné as the Mother-in-Law (Patricia), and Rod Gilfry as the Father-in-Law (Henrik) in ‘Innocence’ at SF Opera. \u003ccite>(Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The students who survived the shooting can’t stand to be in large crowds now, or sit with their back to a door. They teach themselves to stop talking about the shooting, even though it is the only thing they can think about. For the teacher (Lucy Shelton), her very purpose has evaporated. All knowledge feels useless after the shooting, she sings, in an anguished voice: “Each textbook, stupid. Each exam, superfluous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Innocence\u003c/em> is about this loss. Not just a loss of innocence but a loss of sense or meaning. A loss, caused by guns, of our common bonds. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959118\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_-800x595.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_-1020x758.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_-768x571.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/74A1022.dip_-1536x1142.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At left, Camilo Delgado Díaz as Student #5 (Jerónimo); at right, Julie Hega as Student #3 (Iris) in ‘Innocence’ at SF Opera. \u003ccite>(Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this would be powerful enough on its own. But in the fourth act, we are forced to ask: who is really innocent? As new, shocking twists are revealed by students Iris and Markéta (Julie Hega and Vilma Jää, both mesmerizing talents), and as further context is added by the groom, his parents and even a priest (Kristinn Sigmundsson), the pain of the shooting becomes more entrenched. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elevating all of this is Saariaho’s angular, modern-sounding score, matching the mood and timeliness of its subject perfectly. Jää’s usage of Finnish folk singing adds to the story’s realism, while an off-stage chorus and surround-sound effects lend further gravitas to the tension, discomfort and sorrow. Over time, the revolving set designed by Chloe Lamford transforms entirely. All together, it’s an opera that feels like a movie, both in style and length; the whole thing runs just an hour and 48 minutes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/75A8850-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vilma Jää as Student #1 (Markéta) (center) with Lucy Shelton as the Teacher, and Rowan Kievits as Student #4 (Anton) in ‘Innocence’ at SF Opera. \u003ccite>(Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Innocence\u003c/em> is based on a 2008 school shooting that occurred in Saariaho’s native Finland. At the time, this was a rarity for the country, but two months ago, just outside Helsinki, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68724991\">12 year-old brought a gun to school and shot a classmate dead\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, I can’t count the number of school shootings in America. Can you? Since Columbine in 1999, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.security.org/blog/a-timeline-of-school-shootings-since-columbine/\">118 active shooter incidents reported at K–12 schools in the United States\u003c/a>. A total of 1,243 have been injured, and 440 people killed. Teachers, children, all with futures. All shot down dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was supposed to be an opera review, I know. But as a work of art, \u003cem>Innocence\u003c/em> is just that masterful, to shake you out of your complacency, to keep you thinking about it for days afterward. And to never take a school shooting for granted again. \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfopera.com/operas/innocence/\">Innocence\u003c/a>’ runs through June 21 at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfopera.com/operas/innocence/\">Details here\u003c/a>. SF Opera has also convened \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfopera.com/beyond-innocence\">Beyond Innocence\u003c/a>, a series of panel discussions on gun violence and its effects. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfopera.com/beyond-innocence\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n July 29, 2012, a family function was born on the patio of San Francisco’s El Rio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rapper MicahTron, who grew up in Hunters Point, struck a pose onstage in a silk bomber jacket, encouraging an ecstatic queer crowd sporting shaved sides, crop tops and improbably tight denim to “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/micahtron/use-it-like-a-bumper-2\">back it up, use it like a bumper\u003c/a>.” Her set followed a wraithlike performance by Tosh Basco, formerly known as boychild, an art star of the freak-drag movement that enraptured the city. Basco entranced the audience in a neon-green look consisting of little more than fishnets and happy face stickers. The event’s co-mastermind Kelly Lovemonster generously distributed hugs and booty pops, ensuring a certain atmosphere in their whisper of a gray tank top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did this because we wanted to support our community,” says Lovemonster, who is now living on the other side of the world in Australia. “I helped run and produce \u003ca href=\"https://www.swaggersf.com/\">Swagger Like Us\u003c/a> because I really thought this was an important space to hold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DJs played a joyful, aerobic collection of beats: Club-remixed R&B divas rubbed up against queer artists from niche subgenres of the nationwide hip-hop diaspora. The event’s namesake, the chest-out line from M.I.A.’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y\">Paper Planes\u003c/a>” that \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Im4tnRlJcXc?si=IHAkMCPr19JLJBwc\">Jay-Z and T.I. had spun into their own banger\u003c/a>, boomed out over the lemon trees that flanked the neighborhood bar’s dance floor. \u003cem>No one on the corner has swagger like us\u003c/em>, indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve years later, Swagger Like Us is now wrapping up its monthly format with a finale at El Rio on June 2. On a giggly, time-zone-spanning video call I had with the party’s two co-founders, Lovemonster brings up some thoughts occasioned by chapters on Black San Francisco in David Talbot’s history book \u003cem>Season of the Witch\u003c/em>. “I was thinking about places like the Fillmore and thinking of Swagger as a space for Black folks, and Black queer folks in particular, to say that we still exist,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958452\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_8657.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_8657.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_8657-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_8657-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_8657-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_8657-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd at Swagger Like Us in May 2024. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Wong @takeover.tokyo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aside from a truly significant decade-plus of supporting the financial viability of queer hip-hop artists, this may well be Swagger’s true legacy in a city that has largely failed to hold the line for its Black community. “A space for us to congregate, a space for us to celebrate,” they smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That long-ago debut twirl took place years before Swagger started selling out 1,000-person venues with indelible Pride events featuring larger-than-life allies like Trina and Leikeli47. But if you knew, you knew: Those of us who attended that first edition could absolutely clock a new chapter in queer San Francisco hip-hop history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Swagger’s finale approaches, it seems like a good moment to reflect on what the party has meant for its artists and attendees. (This may not mean goodbye forever: Organizers hint that they might be back in the future for special events.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]“T[/dropcap]he community that has formed around Swagger Like Us is nothing short of beautiful, vibrant, colorful and inclusive. It’s been a beautiful journey, and I feel incredibly humbled by the trust that David and Kelly have placed in me,” says acclaimed vogue dancer and queer socialite \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sirjoq/?hl=en\">Jocquese Whitfield\u003c/a>, who has been hosting the party since that way-back first edition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocquese Whitfield at Swagger Like Us in 2018. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Wong @takeover.tokyo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The party’s debut came mere months after a little-known “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC6gTNKl-ak\">212\u003c/a>” ingénue named Azealia Banks nonchalantly told \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> she was a bisexual. This was years before Lil Nas X came out with his 2019 track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLgxYjZEflI\">C7osure\u003c/a>,” a release that arguably \u003ca href=\"https://www.revolt.tv/article/2019-07-05/93134/lil-nas-x-on-the-backlash-of-confirming-his-sexuality-im-not-angry-or-anything\">ushered in the era of the mainstream gay rapper\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowadays, queer hip-hop has taken definite steps out of the underground. Streaming algorithms suggest \u003ca href=\"https://www.autostraddle.com/the-sounds-of-gen-z-five-queer-rappers-making-waves/\">LGBTQ+ performers\u003c/a> like Doechii and Ice Spice, and veteran MCs Queen Latifah and Da Brat have finally gone public with their decided lack of heterosexuality, to the delight of legions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swagger was born to book queer hip-hop’s rising stars long before the majors were ready. On national tours as one half of the queer electro-pop duo \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doubleduchess/\">Double Duchess\u003c/a>, davOmakesbeats realized their home of San Francisco lacked inclusive, Black and Brown community functions that would “get” the lyrics and moves he and Krylon Superstar were delivering on stage. davO’s own Caucasity aside, the beats-obsessed, Maryland-born DJ wanted to feel that energy in his adopted City by the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came to California, I would play Baltimore club tracks and no one would know what they were,” remembers davO, who was also the founder of the sweaty Chinatown basement party Blood Sweat and Queers. “I didn’t get it. I was like, ‘Not everybody listens to this?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958451\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">India Sky performs at Swagger Like Us in 2019. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Wong @takeover.tokyo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If it’s queer, immaculate vibes you’re looking for, you could do much worse than seek out davO’s eventual collaborator, Lovemonster. The multi-hyphenate creative with Haitian roots started producing events with their “Love canvases,” paint-spattered, clothing-optional performance-happenings they convened while attending their home state of New Jersey’s Rutgers University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, they are successful curator and party producer in Sydney, Australia, where they live with their partner Spencer Dezart-Smith (a.k.a. boyfriend) — one of the founding DJs of Swagger Like Us — and their son. True to form, one of Lovemonster’s current events, Leak Your Own Nudes, is an underwear party. By the time they came together with davO over starting a new monthly function, Lovemonster was already a local nightlife heartthrob who curated the inclusive and foxy “go-go babes” at El Rio’s marquee soul music Saturday afternoon monthly, Hard French.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap] see now that this was one of the many golden ages of SF queer nightlife. In the early ’10s, you could drink affordably potent cocktails while grinding with sexy weirdos every night of the week: DJ Stanley Frank’s Viennetta Discotheque on Mondays, High Fantasy at Aunt Charlie’s on Tuesdays, Booty Call Wednesdays at Q Bar, Thursday nights at DJ Bus Station John’s Tubesteak Connection and avant-garde drag cabaret Club Something on Fridays at The Stud’s original location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a breakup, I wound up living with Lovemonster, Hard French promoter Tom Temprano and a passel of other sparkly queers and their pets in a ramshackle flat on South Van Ness Avenue. An easy drunken stumble from El Rio, our lair was the designated after for, uh, releasing the energy of the bar’s daylight-hour parties. Despite a preponderance of shenanigans, we all got along surprisingly lovingly. The last of us didn’t leave that house until many years later, when the front staircase collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13938947']Even amid so much festivity, Swagger filled a void. Nearly every decade since hip-hop’s birth, Bay Area queers have made space in a genre that, much like the world at large, is all too often hampered by heteronormative rigidity. In the ’80s, Page Hodel’s The Box hosted Queen Latifah, over three decades before she came out officially. In the ’90s, DJ Olga T gave birth to the eternal (27+ years running!) Mango at El Rio. Juba Kalamka of Deep Dickollective produced the first edition of the PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival in 2001, and in 2003, Oakland’s electric fundraiser-dance-party Ships in the Night set sail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Swagger is indubitably part of this proud legacy, its founders were more focused on creating a proper Bay Area stop for the countrywide queer hip-hop circuit. Their first edition featured local nightlife stars, but the crew was soon introducing growing crowds to their next Soundcloud addictions. Early lineups featured Nola bounce queens Katey Red and Sissy Nobby; UNIIQU3’s defiant Jersey club; NYC ballroom giants MikeQ and Byrell the Great; Baltimore rappers DDm and TT the Artist; and the cadre of brilliant queer hip-hop artists who at the time always seemed painfully close to breaking the genre’s glass ceiling: Le1f, Zebra Katz, Cakes Da Killa and even Princess Nokia, who delivered an early performance of “Tomboy” to the Swagger crowd at Oasis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958453\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_9107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_9107.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_9107-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_9107-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_9107-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_9107-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers at Swagger Like Us in May 2024. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Wong @takeover.tokyo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of these names are now Bay Area party regulars. At least in part, that’s due to their initial Swagger bookings. Eventually, the sound expanded to run the gamut of Black-rooted genres, including baile funk, the reggaeton of Mexico City’s Rosa Pistola and Latin club. The CDMX party I hosted (I’m telling you, it runs in the family), Traición, came up for a Swagger crossover Folsom Street Fair afterparty in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time that I had been welcomed by a space that was so queer and Black,” remembers Saturn Risin9. The Hercules-raised performer had come up through what she calls San Francisco’s “universal” nightlife spaces, all-comer dance parties like Lights Down Low and Blow Up. “But at that time, I needed to connect with people like me,” she continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swagger was there at every shift in her career, providing a stage for Saturn’s early, elaborate choreographies and eventually, her sets of breathy, club-ready R&B tracks that davO produced on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/music/article/Molly-House-Records-aims-to-take-LGBTQ-artists-11100671.php\">Molly House Records\u003c/a>, founded in 2017 to provide yet more amplification for the party’s talented collaborators. “It was a beautiful space for me to find ways to nurture others, and find out how I needed to be nurtured,” she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt amazing to be celebrated as a Black queer artist in the city that I was born in,” says self-proclaimed “hyphy spiritual” and second-generation San Francisco rapper A.M.K, who adds that her Swagger appearances netted her exposure that led to out-of-state gigs. “Swagger Like Us represents the diversity and the love of the Bay Area,” A.M.K concludes.[aside postid='arts_13928057']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But throwing a BIPOC hip-hop party in San Francisco has never been all positivity, as generations of promoters who’ve encountered manic police surveillance and hostile venue owners know. Lovemonster recalls an insurance company who jacked up rates for a major event when they found out Swagger’s genre of preference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the city’s evolution meant many from the event’s original crowd eventually moved out. “The only changes to the party have been by virtue of the city’s changes, which is to be expected,” says davO, who is now back in Maryland working as an addiction counselor and life coach. He left SF in 2018, the same year Lovemonster and boyfriend decamped to start their Australian family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_6104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_6104.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_6104-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_6104-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_6104-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_6104-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers at Swagger Like Us in March 2024. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Wong @takeover.tokyo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Luckily, a younger generation carried on with the show, hosting and eventually becoming the new face of the party. “I think Jocquese and I were synonymous on the Swagger stage because we were its little siblings,” says Saturn. “Like, if davO and Kelly were the Kardashians, we were the Kendall and Kylie.” That they have given new life to Swagger over the last six years reminds me that as one person’s San Francisco recedes, another’s celebration of the city is just starting to pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also: “There’s a beginning and end to everything,” says Lovemonster, explaining away the end of the 12-year monthly that provided a place to dance, flirt and link when it was needed most. “Like, it’s just literally the cycle of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are sure to be a few tears when davO spins his classic Swagger closer “Choose Me,” a sweet, sunny Cobra Krames remix of UGK and Outkast’s “Int’l Players Anthem.” (“I just chose everybody!” davO exclaims when asked how the track made it into his heavy rotation.) Still, don’t think the finale of Swagger’s last season at El Rio will have more sad than swag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least, not according to its headliner, Cakes Da Killa: “I’m honored to be in the mix for the last hurrah, and I hope everyone pulls up and shows out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swagger-like-us-presents-tickets-845752437307\">Swagger Like Us\u003c/a> will host its final monthly edition at El Rio (3158 Mission, San Francisco) on Sunday, June 2, 3-8 p.m. Tickets will be available at the door for $25. There will be an after-party at The Stud (1123-1125 Folsom Street, San Francisco) from 8 p.m.-2 a.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swagger-like-us-presents-the-after-party-tickets-907486976977?aff=oddtdtcreator\">Tickets available online\u003c/a> for $20, $25 at the door. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That long-ago debut twirl took place years before Swagger started selling out 1,000-person venues with indelible Pride events featuring larger-than-life allies like Trina and Leikeli47. But if you knew, you knew: Those of us who attended that first edition could absolutely clock a new chapter in queer San Francisco hip-hop history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Swagger’s finale approaches, it seems like a good moment to reflect on what the party has meant for its artists and attendees. (This may not mean goodbye forever: Organizers hint that they might be back in the future for special events.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">“T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he community that has formed around Swagger Like Us is nothing short of beautiful, vibrant, colorful and inclusive. It’s been a beautiful journey, and I feel incredibly humbled by the trust that David and Kelly have placed in me,” says acclaimed vogue dancer and queer socialite \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sirjoq/?hl=en\">Jocquese Whitfield\u003c/a>, who has been hosting the party since that way-back first edition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/SirJoQ_Jenn-Wong_12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocquese Whitfield at Swagger Like Us in 2018. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Wong @takeover.tokyo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The party’s debut came mere months after a little-known “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC6gTNKl-ak\">212\u003c/a>” ingénue named Azealia Banks nonchalantly told \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> she was a bisexual. This was years before Lil Nas X came out with his 2019 track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLgxYjZEflI\">C7osure\u003c/a>,” a release that arguably \u003ca href=\"https://www.revolt.tv/article/2019-07-05/93134/lil-nas-x-on-the-backlash-of-confirming-his-sexuality-im-not-angry-or-anything\">ushered in the era of the mainstream gay rapper\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowadays, queer hip-hop has taken definite steps out of the underground. Streaming algorithms suggest \u003ca href=\"https://www.autostraddle.com/the-sounds-of-gen-z-five-queer-rappers-making-waves/\">LGBTQ+ performers\u003c/a> like Doechii and Ice Spice, and veteran MCs Queen Latifah and Da Brat have finally gone public with their decided lack of heterosexuality, to the delight of legions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swagger was born to book queer hip-hop’s rising stars long before the majors were ready. On national tours as one half of the queer electro-pop duo \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doubleduchess/\">Double Duchess\u003c/a>, davOmakesbeats realized their home of San Francisco lacked inclusive, Black and Brown community functions that would “get” the lyrics and moves he and Krylon Superstar were delivering on stage. davO’s own Caucasity aside, the beats-obsessed, Maryland-born DJ wanted to feel that energy in his adopted City by the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came to California, I would play Baltimore club tracks and no one would know what they were,” remembers davO, who was also the founder of the sweaty Chinatown basement party Blood Sweat and Queers. “I didn’t get it. I was like, ‘Not everybody listens to this?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958451\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IndiaSky_Jenn-Wong_8-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">India Sky performs at Swagger Like Us in 2019. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Wong @takeover.tokyo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If it’s queer, immaculate vibes you’re looking for, you could do much worse than seek out davO’s eventual collaborator, Lovemonster. The multi-hyphenate creative with Haitian roots started producing events with their “Love canvases,” paint-spattered, clothing-optional performance-happenings they convened while attending their home state of New Jersey’s Rutgers University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, they are successful curator and party producer in Sydney, Australia, where they live with their partner Spencer Dezart-Smith (a.k.a. boyfriend) — one of the founding DJs of Swagger Like Us — and their son. True to form, one of Lovemonster’s current events, Leak Your Own Nudes, is an underwear party. By the time they came together with davO over starting a new monthly function, Lovemonster was already a local nightlife heartthrob who curated the inclusive and foxy “go-go babes” at El Rio’s marquee soul music Saturday afternoon monthly, Hard French.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp> see now that this was one of the many golden ages of SF queer nightlife. In the early ’10s, you could drink affordably potent cocktails while grinding with sexy weirdos every night of the week: DJ Stanley Frank’s Viennetta Discotheque on Mondays, High Fantasy at Aunt Charlie’s on Tuesdays, Booty Call Wednesdays at Q Bar, Thursday nights at DJ Bus Station John’s Tubesteak Connection and avant-garde drag cabaret Club Something on Fridays at The Stud’s original location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a breakup, I wound up living with Lovemonster, Hard French promoter Tom Temprano and a passel of other sparkly queers and their pets in a ramshackle flat on South Van Ness Avenue. An easy drunken stumble from El Rio, our lair was the designated after for, uh, releasing the energy of the bar’s daylight-hour parties. Despite a preponderance of shenanigans, we all got along surprisingly lovingly. The last of us didn’t leave that house until many years later, when the front staircase collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even amid so much festivity, Swagger filled a void. Nearly every decade since hip-hop’s birth, Bay Area queers have made space in a genre that, much like the world at large, is all too often hampered by heteronormative rigidity. In the ’80s, Page Hodel’s The Box hosted Queen Latifah, over three decades before she came out officially. In the ’90s, DJ Olga T gave birth to the eternal (27+ years running!) Mango at El Rio. Juba Kalamka of Deep Dickollective produced the first edition of the PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival in 2001, and in 2003, Oakland’s electric fundraiser-dance-party Ships in the Night set sail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Swagger is indubitably part of this proud legacy, its founders were more focused on creating a proper Bay Area stop for the countrywide queer hip-hop circuit. Their first edition featured local nightlife stars, but the crew was soon introducing growing crowds to their next Soundcloud addictions. Early lineups featured Nola bounce queens Katey Red and Sissy Nobby; UNIIQU3’s defiant Jersey club; NYC ballroom giants MikeQ and Byrell the Great; Baltimore rappers DDm and TT the Artist; and the cadre of brilliant queer hip-hop artists who at the time always seemed painfully close to breaking the genre’s glass ceiling: Le1f, Zebra Katz, Cakes Da Killa and even Princess Nokia, who delivered an early performance of “Tomboy” to the Swagger crowd at Oasis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958453\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_9107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_9107.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_9107-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_9107-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_9107-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_9107-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers at Swagger Like Us in May 2024. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Wong @takeover.tokyo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of these names are now Bay Area party regulars. At least in part, that’s due to their initial Swagger bookings. Eventually, the sound expanded to run the gamut of Black-rooted genres, including baile funk, the reggaeton of Mexico City’s Rosa Pistola and Latin club. The CDMX party I hosted (I’m telling you, it runs in the family), Traición, came up for a Swagger crossover Folsom Street Fair afterparty in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time that I had been welcomed by a space that was so queer and Black,” remembers Saturn Risin9. The Hercules-raised performer had come up through what she calls San Francisco’s “universal” nightlife spaces, all-comer dance parties like Lights Down Low and Blow Up. “But at that time, I needed to connect with people like me,” she continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swagger was there at every shift in her career, providing a stage for Saturn’s early, elaborate choreographies and eventually, her sets of breathy, club-ready R&B tracks that davO produced on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/music/article/Molly-House-Records-aims-to-take-LGBTQ-artists-11100671.php\">Molly House Records\u003c/a>, founded in 2017 to provide yet more amplification for the party’s talented collaborators. “It was a beautiful space for me to find ways to nurture others, and find out how I needed to be nurtured,” she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt amazing to be celebrated as a Black queer artist in the city that I was born in,” says self-proclaimed “hyphy spiritual” and second-generation San Francisco rapper A.M.K, who adds that her Swagger appearances netted her exposure that led to out-of-state gigs. “Swagger Like Us represents the diversity and the love of the Bay Area,” A.M.K concludes.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But throwing a BIPOC hip-hop party in San Francisco has never been all positivity, as generations of promoters who’ve encountered manic police surveillance and hostile venue owners know. Lovemonster recalls an insurance company who jacked up rates for a major event when they found out Swagger’s genre of preference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the city’s evolution meant many from the event’s original crowd eventually moved out. “The only changes to the party have been by virtue of the city’s changes, which is to be expected,” says davO, who is now back in Maryland working as an addiction counselor and life coach. He left SF in 2018, the same year Lovemonster and boyfriend decamped to start their Australian family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_6104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_6104.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_6104-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_6104-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_6104-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/IMG_6104-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers at Swagger Like Us in March 2024. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Wong @takeover.tokyo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Luckily, a younger generation carried on with the show, hosting and eventually becoming the new face of the party. “I think Jocquese and I were synonymous on the Swagger stage because we were its little siblings,” says Saturn. “Like, if davO and Kelly were the Kardashians, we were the Kendall and Kylie.” That they have given new life to Swagger over the last six years reminds me that as one person’s San Francisco recedes, another’s celebration of the city is just starting to pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also: “There’s a beginning and end to everything,” says Lovemonster, explaining away the end of the 12-year monthly that provided a place to dance, flirt and link when it was needed most. “Like, it’s just literally the cycle of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are sure to be a few tears when davO spins his classic Swagger closer “Choose Me,” a sweet, sunny Cobra Krames remix of UGK and Outkast’s “Int’l Players Anthem.” (“I just chose everybody!” davO exclaims when asked how the track made it into his heavy rotation.) Still, don’t think the finale of Swagger’s last season at El Rio will have more sad than swag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least, not according to its headliner, Cakes Da Killa: “I’m honored to be in the mix for the last hurrah, and I hope everyone pulls up and shows out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A new CEO has stepped in to lead \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a> (YBCA), the embattled San Francisco arts organization whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953653/ybca-ceo-resigns-after-pro-palestinian-protest-and-boycott\">previous interim CEO abruptly resigned\u003c/a> in March during the fallout of a pro-Palestinian protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Rettew, the new interim CEO, has previously held five interim leadership roles at various nonprofits. His background as a crisis management expert will be put to the test at YBCA, which has been embroiled in controversy since a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952460/artists-deface-work-ybca-pro-palestine-protest\">Feb. 15 protest\u003c/a> during which eight artists spray painted and draped pro-Palestinian messages onto their own works in the \u003ci>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/i> exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 906px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958014\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"906\" height=\"1155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew.jpg 906w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew-800x1020.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew-160x204.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew-768x979.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Rettew is YBCA’s new interim CEO. \u003ccite>(Jim Rettew)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response to the protest, former interim CEO Sara Fenske Bahat and the board closed the galleries, which remained shuttered for a month. In open letters, \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZAoljeQycemJrzYNDyVoSN0gc6ogp5B3jUzj77qua2g/edit\">artists\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLNnUvnx74rLWZKIJaHUsMt4qOogFrBZ2OIeUjKjM2gblk6Q/viewform\">staff\u003c/a> accused YBCA leaders of censorship. Bahat resigned on March 3, citing “antisemitic backlash” and “the actions of some of our own employees” in her letter to the board. (Staff and leadership denied each other’s allegations.) San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen, meanwhile, voiced support for the artists, and proposed an examination of the city’s support of YBCA at an upcoming Board of Supervisors meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13952460,arts_13953653']YBCA reopened in mid-March, but the turmoil continued. At least nine staff members have resigned in protest, according to employee comments during a public meeting. And YBCA now faces scrutiny from San Francisco’s Director of Cultural Affairs, who has proposed changes that would drastically alter how YBCA operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email interview, Rettew told KQED that he sees rebuilding public trust as one of YBCA’s biggest challenges, and that he’s spent his first few weeks on the job listening to employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m now using those essential conversations to work with our staff to help deliver on the promises and aspirations of our organization,” he wrote. “I think that in many ways, the protest on Feb. 15 was a reflection of people asking the question: what do people expect from a cultural institution in 2024? We are working tirelessly to try to answer that question, and to create a space that is authentic and valuable to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area Artists Against Genocide (B.A.A.A.G.) member Paz G displays design options at a screen-printing event artists organized outside of YBCA while the art center was closed in March 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An art center on taxpayer-funded property\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>YBCA is under particular scrutiny because the private nonprofit enjoys significant, taxpayer-funded subsidies from the City and County of San Francisco. It occupies a city-owned building, rent free, on public land under a contract that’s subject to renewal through 2094. YBCA has also received tens of millions in taxpayer dollars since its founding in 1993; according to its most recent financial report, for fiscal year 2023, about 6% of its revenue and support came from the City and County of San Francisco. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy, another nonprofit, manages the YBCA property, acting as an intermediary between YBCA and the city. In exchange for financial support and subsidies, YBCA is contractually obligated to offer “high-quality artistic programming to San Francisco residents and visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Conservancy’s most recent public board meeting on April 10, San Francisco’s Director of Cultural Affairs, Ralph Remington, sharply criticized YBCA for what he considers its failure to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the level of subsidy YBCA receives … they should have been operating and maintaining the cultural facilities in a way that presents themselves as a world-class performing arts presenting, producing, exhibiting organization,” Remington said. “You’d have to go back into the distant past to see when that actually happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958015\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Director of Cultural Affairs Ralph Remington said YBCA needs to be ‘reined in’ at a recent board meeting. \u003ccite>(Aminda Villa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, YBCA significantly reduced its film programming in 2018 after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13841205/curatorial-crisis-bay-area-art-institutions\">laying off the two-person department\u003c/a>. In 2020, it launched the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13880296/ybca-launches-artist-power-center-resource-for-financially-struggling-artists\">Artist Power Center\u003c/a>, an online platform meant to connect artists to grants and job opportunities; it has since sunsetted that project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It turned into some kind of weird thinktank that should’ve been out in the woods somewhere, maybe,” said Remington at the Conservancy board meeting. “But for the level of public subsidy in the middle of the city … YBCA, in my opinion, needs to be reined in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the board meeting, Remington contrasted YBCA with SOMArts, a significantly less resourced nonprofit that’s also located in a city-owned building. While YBCA enjoys a spacious, modern, centrally located facility, SOMArts needs significant seismic improvements, and is in a much less desirable location, below a freeway underpass and away from BART and downtown offices. [aside postid='arts_13955613']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would put on the table that we could move SOMArts into YBCA to share with SOMA Pilipinas,” said Remington, referring to another vibrant, less resourced arts organization, “and they could activate the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a follow-up interview, Remington told KQED that these proposals are in their “embryonic” stages. He credited the Feb. 15 protesters, who now call themselves Bay Area Artists Against Genocide, with spurring important conversations about reforms at YBCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the activists ultimately were successful because they drew attention to the issues at YBCA; they drew attention to the issue that they were actually protesting about,” he said in a video call. “And they brought about ultimate change that will happen with that organization as a result of these bold actions. … This is why civil disobedience and protest and having your voice heard is so important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstators chant during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show ‘Bay Area Now’ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Staff members reveal a schism with leadership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the April 10 Conservancy board meeting, a handful of YBCA staff members spoke out during public comment, painting an image of broken trust between the art center’s leadership and YBCA workers. The employees said that, even amid leadership changes, they’ve spent years building relationships with artists and the public, and they now feel those relationships are in jeopardy due to the actions of the board and former CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rettew told KQED that he sees rebuilding trust with staff as one of his first priorities. (He declined to comment on recent staff resignations.) He also said that he’s working to make sure the art center fulfills its commitment to the city and its visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot undo decisions that were made, or change what happened,” he said. “What I can do is help this organization move forward with integrity.” [aside postid='arts_13956575']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about issues raised in the Feb. 15 protest, Rettew said YBCA would not join the Palestinian Campaign for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), as artists demanded. (The boycott encourages international institutions to divest from Israeli institutions until Israel ends its siege and occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, among other conditions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if YBCA would take a different approach to political messages in artists’ work, Rettew didn’t specify any changes. But he said that the censorship allegations “remain one of the most challenging and contentious issues of the past few months,” and underscored the institutions’ need to balance artistic expression with curatorial context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953036\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut.jpg\" alt='A sign over a wool rug reads \"No More Blood Money - Ceasefire Now!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign covers art by Tracy Ren during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rettew is now focused on YBCA’s upcoming programming. “I recognize that it is now our job to prove ourselves as a trustworthy partner to the community, and to artists, and the way that we will do that is by doubling down on our commitment to put on engaging and thought-provoking exhibitions, by filling our theater as many nights as possible, by putting together compelling public programs, and by working with our neighbors to continue the important work of bringing people downtown to the Yerba Buena District,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YBCA’s next exhibition, a \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/ybca-announces-nick-dong-11-to-88-an-immersive-solo-exhibition/\">solo show by Oakland artist Nick Dong\u003c/a>, opens on June 6 and will be on view through Aug. 25. A spring dance festival presented by San Francisco Ballet School is slated for May 22-24; there’s also a free, all-ages art workshop scheduled for May 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Remington hopes the Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy will arrive at a plan of action for YBCA by the fall. The proposed San Francisco Board of Supervisors public hearing on censorship allegations at YBCA has not been scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new CEO has stepped in to lead \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a> (YBCA), the embattled San Francisco arts organization whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953653/ybca-ceo-resigns-after-pro-palestinian-protest-and-boycott\">previous interim CEO abruptly resigned\u003c/a> in March during the fallout of a pro-Palestinian protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Rettew, the new interim CEO, has previously held five interim leadership roles at various nonprofits. His background as a crisis management expert will be put to the test at YBCA, which has been embroiled in controversy since a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952460/artists-deface-work-ybca-pro-palestine-protest\">Feb. 15 protest\u003c/a> during which eight artists spray painted and draped pro-Palestinian messages onto their own works in the \u003ci>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/i> exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 906px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958014\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"906\" height=\"1155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew.jpg 906w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew-800x1020.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew-160x204.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew-768x979.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Rettew is YBCA’s new interim CEO. \u003ccite>(Jim Rettew)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response to the protest, former interim CEO Sara Fenske Bahat and the board closed the galleries, which remained shuttered for a month. In open letters, \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZAoljeQycemJrzYNDyVoSN0gc6ogp5B3jUzj77qua2g/edit\">artists\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLNnUvnx74rLWZKIJaHUsMt4qOogFrBZ2OIeUjKjM2gblk6Q/viewform\">staff\u003c/a> accused YBCA leaders of censorship. Bahat resigned on March 3, citing “antisemitic backlash” and “the actions of some of our own employees” in her letter to the board. (Staff and leadership denied each other’s allegations.) San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen, meanwhile, voiced support for the artists, and proposed an examination of the city’s support of YBCA at an upcoming Board of Supervisors meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>YBCA reopened in mid-March, but the turmoil continued. At least nine staff members have resigned in protest, according to employee comments during a public meeting. And YBCA now faces scrutiny from San Francisco’s Director of Cultural Affairs, who has proposed changes that would drastically alter how YBCA operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email interview, Rettew told KQED that he sees rebuilding public trust as one of YBCA’s biggest challenges, and that he’s spent his first few weeks on the job listening to employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m now using those essential conversations to work with our staff to help deliver on the promises and aspirations of our organization,” he wrote. “I think that in many ways, the protest on Feb. 15 was a reflection of people asking the question: what do people expect from a cultural institution in 2024? We are working tirelessly to try to answer that question, and to create a space that is authentic and valuable to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area Artists Against Genocide (B.A.A.A.G.) member Paz G displays design options at a screen-printing event artists organized outside of YBCA while the art center was closed in March 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An art center on taxpayer-funded property\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>YBCA is under particular scrutiny because the private nonprofit enjoys significant, taxpayer-funded subsidies from the City and County of San Francisco. It occupies a city-owned building, rent free, on public land under a contract that’s subject to renewal through 2094. YBCA has also received tens of millions in taxpayer dollars since its founding in 1993; according to its most recent financial report, for fiscal year 2023, about 6% of its revenue and support came from the City and County of San Francisco. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy, another nonprofit, manages the YBCA property, acting as an intermediary between YBCA and the city. In exchange for financial support and subsidies, YBCA is contractually obligated to offer “high-quality artistic programming to San Francisco residents and visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Conservancy’s most recent public board meeting on April 10, San Francisco’s Director of Cultural Affairs, Ralph Remington, sharply criticized YBCA for what he considers its failure to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the level of subsidy YBCA receives … they should have been operating and maintaining the cultural facilities in a way that presents themselves as a world-class performing arts presenting, producing, exhibiting organization,” Remington said. “You’d have to go back into the distant past to see when that actually happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958015\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Director of Cultural Affairs Ralph Remington said YBCA needs to be ‘reined in’ at a recent board meeting. \u003ccite>(Aminda Villa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, YBCA significantly reduced its film programming in 2018 after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13841205/curatorial-crisis-bay-area-art-institutions\">laying off the two-person department\u003c/a>. In 2020, it launched the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13880296/ybca-launches-artist-power-center-resource-for-financially-struggling-artists\">Artist Power Center\u003c/a>, an online platform meant to connect artists to grants and job opportunities; it has since sunsetted that project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It turned into some kind of weird thinktank that should’ve been out in the woods somewhere, maybe,” said Remington at the Conservancy board meeting. “But for the level of public subsidy in the middle of the city … YBCA, in my opinion, needs to be reined in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the board meeting, Remington contrasted YBCA with SOMArts, a significantly less resourced nonprofit that’s also located in a city-owned building. While YBCA enjoys a spacious, modern, centrally located facility, SOMArts needs significant seismic improvements, and is in a much less desirable location, below a freeway underpass and away from BART and downtown offices. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1130px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957590\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-09-at-4.30.03-PM.png\" alt=\"A Victorian illustration of two men watching an airship with wings and spotlights flying near the top of the Capitol building.\" width=\"1130\" height=\"994\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendition of the airship seen in the skies above Sacramento, as illustrated in ‘The San Francisco Call and Post’ on Nov. 29, 1896.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1890s, Northern California was in flux — living with Victorian sensibilities, but surrounded by remnants of the gold rush. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13912657/gum-girls-midwinter-fair-san-francisco-history-golden-gate-park\">San Francisco’s Midwinter Fair\u003c/a> in 1894 had ushered in an age of electricity-fueled modernity, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13932525/mother-thompson-san-francisco-tavern-owner-bay-area-history\">sailors were still brawling\u003c/a> it out down on the Embarcadero. New-fangled ways to have fun — like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909983/victorian-attractions-san-francisco-chutes-gravity-railroad-woodwards-gardens-bonet-tower-auditorium-skating\">Haight Street Chutes\u003c/a> and home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13924208/uc-santa-barbara-edison-phonograph-audio-cylinder-archive-vaudeville-racism\">phonographs\u003c/a> — were all the rage, but, for most, life revolved around basic necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 1896, however, the entire region was excited and united by one thing: a mysterious “airship” that was spotted repeatedly in the skies over San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento. At the time, airships had been invented but they were flown primarily in Europe and had yet to make a West Coast debut. To see an airship over the Bay Area in 1896 wasn’t just unusual, it was entirely unheard of — and yet, suddenly, hundreds of witnesses began reporting just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13917340']Making these sightings all the more perplexing was the fact that they only happened at night, and the aircraft in question reportedly had wings, making it unlike any airship that existed at the time. Multiple passengers on an Oakland streetcar one November night described the craft hovering over Fruitvale as “resembling a huge bird in its outlines … which seemed to rise and fall in its course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, the streetcar’s conductor said the ship had one powerful headlight and several smaller lights on board. This was a welcome elaboration, as many witnesses around the Bay had reported seeing only bright lights in the sky. The day after the sighting on the streetcar, \u003cem>The San Francisco Call and Post\u003c/em> reported that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[The airship] was high in the heavens and appeared to be of huge size. When first seen, it seemed to be floating over San Leandro. It moved rapidly, going at least twenty miles an hour. It shot across the skies in the northwest, then turned quickly and disappeared in the direction of Hayward.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The newspaper was particularly invested in the story, since its very own advertising manager, Samuel Foltz, had seen the craft from his Parnassus Heights home in San Francisco. He wasn’t the only one. Colonel W. H. Menton of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company saw the airship from the Supreme Court building at Larkin and McAllister. “The light was far brighter than any of the electric lights I saw just below, in and about the park,” he also told \u003cem>The Call\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another witness cited in the newspaper that day was Mayor Adolph Sutro, who had several employees who’d seen the craft days before newspapers had even begun reporting the sightings. “I certainly think that some shrewd inventor has solved the problem of aerial navigation,” Sutro said, “and that we will hear all about it within a short time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13919589']Here, then, is where the mystery deepens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No such inventor ever came forward. And no winged airship was ever patented and produced. In fact, the first gas-powered Zeppelin didn’t fly until July 1900, and its maiden voyage was in Germany. Airships weren’t even used by the US Army until 1908. So what were so many people seeing in the skies around the Bay in 1896?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1598px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957579\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-09-at-2.01.52-PM.png\" alt=\"A Victorian illustration of a man gazing up at dark skies, astonished to see a clipper ship there.\" width=\"1598\" height=\"1246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-09-at-2.01.52-PM.png 1598w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-09-at-2.01.52-PM-800x624.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-09-at-2.01.52-PM-1020x795.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-09-at-2.01.52-PM-160x125.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-09-at-2.01.52-PM-768x599.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-09-at-2.01.52-PM-1536x1198.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1598px) 100vw, 1598px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This cartoon, referencing renowned ship builder and inventor Irving M. Scott, appeared in ‘The San Francisco Call’ in Nov. 1896, during the peak of the UFO sightings. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Call and Post/ Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time, newspapers swirled with conjecture about whether or not a patent attorney named George Collins knew who the inventor of the mysterious craft was. Collins publicly spoke of being visited by a man who was seeking a patent for a new airship that he claimed had been spotted over Sacramento. Collins told the man he could not provide a patent without first seeing a model of the aircraft. With that, Collins told reporters, the client was gone, never to be seen again. “I know nothing about the airship,” the attorney said. “I do not know what it is made of, what power propels it, nor where its inventor now is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated by Collins’ lack of information, rumors began swirling around San Francisco that the mysterious inventor was a 34-year-old dentist named E. H. Benjamin. Dr. Benjamin had patented a variety of dental equipment through Collins and also acted as his dentist. But when a \u003cem>Call\u003c/em> reporter tracked him down, the dentist simply said: “I only wish I was the inventor. But I am inclined to think I would be afraid to go up in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13935838']By the end of 1896, Bay Area airship sightings had stopped altogether. The confounding thing is, they quickly started up in other parts of the country — first Nebraska in Feb. 1897, followed by Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. The craft seen in Marshfield, Wisconsin was described as “cone-shaped with glaring headlights,” moving up to 70 mph — very similar to what had been seen in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many newspapers of the era described credible sightings, alongside hoax attempts. Fake photos of a flying airship — made using images of a painted canvas on wires — were reported in Rogers Park, Illinois. Groups of men in Omaha, Nebraska and Burlington, Iowa confessed to sending up huge balloons to confuse people actively looking for the airship. And on April 2, 1897, the K\u003cem>ansas City Journal, \u003c/em>mindful that what it was describing may have been an April Fool’s prank, nevertheless reported a:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flying machine in view for more than an hour … [Witnesses] assert that the floating power seemed to be in a mammoth bag, supposedly filled with gas. To this were attached four light wings of triangular form, two on either side and from the great bag was suspended a cage or car. This car was canoe-shaped and appeared to be from twenty-five to thirty feet long. A few declared that the ship had red lights hung over the edges of the car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one was quite sure what to believe, as is evidenced by the following words gingerly printed in Pennsylvania newspaper \u003cem>The York Dispatch\u003c/em> in May 1897:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Recently, the newspapers of the whole country have been exploiting stories of airships seen hovering over various towns and country places in districts very far apart. The testimony seems unimpeachable, especially in the face of so many witnesses, but certain details are always lacking to complete the evidence.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the origins of 1896’s unidentified flying airship were never revealed. Theories posited in the century since have included: a mass media hoax, actual bonafide aliens visiting Earth and delusional witnesses (perhaps inspired by the recent publication of H. G. Wells’ \u003cem>The Time Machine\u003c/em>) confusing the planet Venus for an aircraft. The fact that no one ever took ownership of the aircraft leaves its existence tantalizingly open to interpretation. It all just depends on how much you want to believe.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Americana treasure \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/mTu4cXW9H_Q?si=JyevuVRy34g8E3f8\">Lucinda Williams\u003c/a> performs on Aug. 18 with \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/5LZtcCsCwP8?si=jm28IqDCMxvDM_L6\">Jobi Riccio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1441278746-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with dark hair and a dark dress plays a white guitar on stage in purple lighting\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1441278746-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1441278746-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1441278746-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1441278746-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1441278746-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1441278746-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1441278746-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1441278746-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah D’Amato of Oakland’s Fake Fruit performs at Pitchfork Music Festival London in 2022. \u003ccite>(Burak Cingi/Redferns)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the closing Big Picnic Weekend, which also includes a Saturday show, electronic pop duo Sylvan Esso (whose song “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Qr5AIKRPIHo?si=lSV7PVLzeF4bVPjs\">Coffee\u003c/a>” you’ve definitely heard even if you don’t know it by name) performs Aug. 24 with lounge-y disco and pop band \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/8_I7AS90OV4?si=kqK2aIQcikLAbOcp\">Poolside\u003c/a>. 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Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most charming restaurants I’ve been to in San Francisco is a little Thai cafe that sits on a relatively unobtrusive street corner in Lower Nob Hill, stays open until midnight every night, and serves a menu that’s equal parts impeccable Thai home cooking and gloriously over-the-top desserts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s only the beginning of the pleasures that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pingyangthaigrilldessert.com/\">Ping Yang Thai Grill & Dessert\u003c/a> has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant has a cozy, lived-in quality. The walls are lined with succulents, climbing vine plants and other assorted greenery. The steady stream of guitar-driven Thai pop-rock that plays over the speakers was catchy enough to get my head bopping. A small bookshelf is stocked with the same mix of slightly random reading material you might find in a friend’s living room: \u003ci>Harry Potter\u003c/i>, \u003ci>The Catcher in the Rye\u003c/i>, some test prep workbooks, the Thai translation of the \u003ci>Detective Conan\u003c/i> manga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The menu, too, is optimized with an eye toward homey comfort. Which isn’t to say that the cooking is uninteresting or unambitious. In fact, Ping Yang serves a whole slew of dishes that I rarely see at other Thai restaurants in the Bay Area, like fried silkworms and mok pla — a Lao dish that consists of catfish steamed inside a banana leaf. This is, after all, the kind of Thai restaurant that has a specials board handwritten in Thai, with no translation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ping Yang also serves one of the most ubiquitous home-cooked Thai dishes that you’ll only occasionally find at a restaurant: a Thai omelet. This is one of my all-time favorite egg dishes (which, coming from an egg-obsessed person, says a lot) — essentially just egg and fish sauce, whisked together and fried quickly in a hot wok until it’s puffed up and golden-brown. Served over a plate of hot jasmine rice, Ping Yang’s herb-flecked version is simple and supremely comforting, especially when doctored with a few dabs of Sriracha. Left to my own devices, I would happily eat this twice a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similar comfort food vein: the restaurant’s pad see ew, which, by contrast, is a dish you can find at practically every Thai restaurant in the U.S. But I was enamored with Ping Yang’s homey, oil-slicked version of the dish, which was loaded with vegetables and full of umami without being overly salty. It didn’t hurt that I ordered the version with pork jowl, a luxurious, underrated cut that gives you a little of the fattiness of the belly with a nice, crisp, cartilaginous chew. After applying a few liberal drops of prik nam som (chili vinegar) from the condiment caddy, we inhaled this dish in a matter of minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, this is restaurant-quality food cooked with light enough a touch that I could easily imagine myself eating here multiple times a week if I lived in the neighborhood — especially with so much of the menu left to explore, and many of the dishes priced at $15 or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957596\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/pin-yang-2.jpg\" alt='Illustration: Exterior of a restaurant at nighttime — the sign reads \"Ping Yang.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/pin-yang-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/pin-yang-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/pin-yang-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/pin-yang-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/pin-yang-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/pin-yang-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Located in Lower Nob Hill, the restaurant is open until midnight every night. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Truth be told, I would come even if the food were only half as good, because the vibe at Ping Yang is just so pleasant, welcoming and chill. Half the people who came in during our visit seemed to be regulars or personal friends of the owners, and no one seemed to be in any particular rush. At around 10 o’clock on a Thursday night, a couple of thirtysomething Thai dudes had their laptops out, sipping cold Thai lagers while they worked on a project. Others came in after dinner elsewhere just to share a dessert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service, meanwhile, was friendly without being overly familiar. I especially appreciated the conviction with which our server delivered her recommendations when we asked for them. “The pad see ew is my favorite,” she said without a moment’s hesitation when we asked about the noodle dishes. And later, when it was time for dessert, she once again spoke, with absolute certainty, in favor of the watermelon bing soo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13954983,arts_13953702,arts_13952823']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>Ah yes, dessert. Can I speak for a moment on how dispiriting I have found it, personally, that there aren’t more dessert shops in the Bay Area open past, say, 9 o’clock? The struggle is real, and if you’ve felt it too, I am here to tell you that Ping Yang is the solution to your woes: It serves a vast Thai and pan-Asian dessert menu until midnight every night. In contrast to the homey, simple quality of the savory foods, the desserts are elaborate and over-the-top in a way that feels made for Instagram — but \u003ci>also \u003c/i>entirely delicious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are Hong Kong–style toast boxes filled to overflowing with ube ice cream, whipped cream and all manner of fresh fruits. There are variations on the Thai-style dessert rotis that are wildly popular at night markets all across Asia. The banana roti we tried was a deconstructed version — crispy roti wedges piled on a plate and topped with whipped cream, chocolate sauce and condensed milk, with a stack of banana slices arranged neatly on the side. You assemble each perfect bite yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for that watermelon bing soo? It was fully half of a small, sweet watermelon, served with the carved-out balls of its flesh piled high inside the rind itself. Layered inside was the bing soo, or shaved ice, itself — mixed with condensed milk and shaved so finely that for the first several bites I was convinced it was ice cream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s just say the recommendation didn’t miss: This was the tastiest, most refreshing dessert I’d eaten in months.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pingyangsf/\">\u003ci>Ping Yang Grill & Dessert\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is open Monday through Saturday from noon–3 p.m. and 5 p.m.–midnight, and Sunday 5 p.m.–midnight at 955 Larkin St. in San Francisco.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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