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"content": "\u003cp>On an unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon in March, Azikiwee “Z” Anderson stands in a small kitchen, talking about gluten production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the back of the Smoke Soul Kitchen soul food restaurant in San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/bayview\">Bayview\u003c/a> neighborhood, seven teens and almost-teens are huddled in front of a big commercial mixer, listening as their teacher for the day elucidates the finer points of making a kick-ass batch of pizza dough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, one by one, the students pour the ingredients with which they’ve been entrusted into the mixer — water, yeast, “poolish” (or pre-ferment), flour and salt. And as the machine folds the mixture onto itself again and again, slowly but surely, a dough begins to form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key, Anderson says, is to allow the “little rubber bands” of gluten to form more and more connections, strengthening the dough and making it more elastic. “Then you can stretch it out and make a pizza,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of this two-hour session, every kid in the class will have done exactly that. They’ll have flattened and stretched out their dough, spun it in the air like a real Italian pizzaiolo, slathered it with toppings and slid the whole thing into a 550-degree triple-decker oven. They’ll have eaten their fill \u003cem>and \u003c/em>brought home another ball of the dough that they made together from scratch, ready to do it all again the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988476\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_099_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_099_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_099_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_099_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_099_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bailey Gee, right, pours yeast into a mixer as Marina Sanchez prepares dough during a youth baking workshop at Bayview Makers Kitchen. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pizza-making session is part of a series of monthly community baking classes called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rize-make-baking-classes-tickets-1983557674400?aff=erelexpmlt\">Rize + Make\u003c/a>” hosted by the Bayview Makers Kitchen, a food incubator run by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.edotbayview.org/\">Economic Development on Third\u003c/a> (EDoT). The classes, which started in February, are pegged for youth ages 16-20, with a bit of wiggle room. (Students for this particular session range in age from an 11-year-old attending with her mom to a young man in his early 20s.) Most of them are Bayview residents themselves — a mix of Black, Asian and Latino kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best part? The classes are completely free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For young foodies who sign up for his class, Anderson is something of a local celebrity — a rising star in the world of artisanal baking. His sourdough bakery, Rize Up Bakery, is one of the breakout hits from the pandemic pop-up era, known for loaves with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963721/how-sfs-rize-up-sourdough-puts-black-bakers-on-the-map\">boundary-pushing flavors\u003c/a> like Korean gochujang and Indian masala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988472\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_089_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_089_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_089_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_089_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_089_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Youth participants shape pizza dough during the March 2026 edition of the free baking workshop. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anderson’s bread is now a staple at Bay Area farmers markets and high-end grocery stores, and he’s about to launch \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2026/03/10/rize-up-sourdough-bakery-cafe-soma/\">his first cafe\u003c/a>, in a space adjacent to his production facility in SoMa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also highly aware of the space he occupies as one of the only Black bakers in the artisanal sourdough scene in the Bay Area and beyond. It’s a big part of why he thinks it’s so important for him to give back — to give Black and Brown kids in the Bayview a chance to imagine a future they’d never before considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, you’re here for a reason,” Anderson says at the start of the class. “The next step is how do we build enough skills and how do we have fun, so that you want to be in the kitchen more? And you think, ‘I could be a baker. I could do this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Baking to feel seen\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anderson’s own childhood was, by all accounts, a difficult one. Born and raised in New Orleans, he was the eldest of three children in a biracial family. His father, a traveling musician, was a heroin addict who “spent all his money on drugs and wound up beating my mom close to death,” Anderson recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his mother got out of the hospital, protective services told her she was going to wind up dead if she didn’t move away; they put her and her kids on a bus to San Francisco. Anderson was 5 years old at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family lived in the bus station for the first few weeks after they arrived, until a women’s shelter finally set them up with a place to stay. Eventually, they moved into a small apartment amid the housing projects in the Western Addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988463\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-02-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-02-KQED-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-02-KQED-1536x1147.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson (far right), age 14 or 15, poses with his mother and two siblings for a family portrait taken in the late ’80s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Azikiwee Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The only places that we could afford to live were pretty bad,” Anderson says. Still, he fell in love with early-’80s San Francisco from the very start — he loved the diversity of thought and the way all different kinds of people were able to feel included. “At its core, it’s a place where people come to be part of community,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a different story when Anderson moved to Chico in middle school. There, he was often one of the only Black kids in any given room, and his adolescent years were riddled with run-ins with teachers and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He felt perpetually pigeonholed and stereotyped. Later, as an adult, Anderson was one of a tiny handful of Black inline skaters successful enough to make a living at it, first as a competitor and then as a judge, event organizer and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45IgxIlffn0\">skatepark designer\u003c/a>. And when he finally got involved in the Bay Area’s artisanal sourdough scene, he didn’t know any other Black bakers who were part of that world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never saw anyone who looked like me do that,” he says, explaining his initial skepticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988464\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 558px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"837\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-03-KQED.jpg 558w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-03-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson performs a skate trick during the Team Rollerblade tour, circa 2000. Before he became a baker, Anderson had a long career as a professional inline skater. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Azikiwee Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this helps explain why the idea of teaching a free baking class for young people was so appealing to Anderson. For Black and Brown kids in Bayview, he wants to be that adult role model he never had when he was growing up — the one who opens up the possibility of a career path a kid might have never considered for someone who looks like them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, he says, “I don’t think people were like, ‘Oh, Black people shouldn’t be a part of this.’ I just think maybe we didn’t have the means or the involvement. And so we didn’t see it as something that was viable for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, Anderson’s own sourdough journey started during the pandemic. By the 2010s, he’d stepped away from rollerblading to spend more time with his children. He’d always loved cooking, so he figured he might make a career out of it. After going to culinary school, he built up a successful career as a private chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, that business evaporated once COVID lockdowns hit. Anderson suddenly found himself with a lot more time on his hands, and he joined a group text with friends and neighbors who would share recipes for quarantine meals. It was only a matter of time before a few of them started tinkering with sourdough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson, for his part, had never baked seriously before, and he recalls his first few loaves being completely mediocre. “I sucked at it,” he says. “And I don’t like sucking at things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he kept baking, expanding his output from one loaf to two loaves to eight loaves a week, documenting his progress on Instagram and masking up to drop the bread off on his neighbors’ doorsteps. Eventually, he got good enough that people as far away as Brooklyn started asking if they could buy a loaf. He built a website, and the rest was history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one part of the origin story of Rize Up Bakery, anyway. The other part is that Anderson cried every day in the summer of 2020 after George Floyd was murdered by a white policeman in Minneapolis. “I never thought of myself as a depressed person, but something about him begging and talking to his dead mama just broke my heart. I couldn’t deal with how it made me feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baking sourdough was the one way he could tune out that pain for a few hours — the one thing that made him feel genuinely happy. “It was very Zen-esque,” he says. “Everything else would disappear.” And when he shared his bread with other people, it would make them happy too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988482\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_020_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Azikiwee Anderson shapes rounds of dough at a worktable inside Rize Up Bakery’s main production facility in SoMa on April 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the coolest feedback loop,” he says, describing the “dopamine hit” he’d get every time someone praised one of his creations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was deeply intentional, then, that Anderson made Rize Up’s logo a raised Black fist. And the fact that Anderson comes from such a different background than other people in the artisanal sourdough world has turned out to be his greatest strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have never been accepted in my life; I know the way it feels to be othered and disrespected,” Anderson says. “How can I use my platform to make other people feel seen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That thought process leads him to different flavors than the ones commonly sold at other bakeries — because he isn’t offering, say, a cranberry-walnut loaf just because he knows it will sell. Anderson points to one of his most popular breads, the ube pan loaf, as a point of contrast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13988481 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_014_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_014_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_014_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_014_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_014_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Rize Up Bakery, rows of sesame seed–coated loaves sit on a rack lined with cloth couche as they proof. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anyone could have made that bread, he says. The reason Anderson was the one who did was because he’d had Filipino friends who’d invited him into their homes and made him feel like he belonged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m inspired by people who always made me feel seen. Most people would say, ‘Why would I make this crazy loaf that makes it 10 times harder to make the bread, and I don’t even know if people will buy it?’” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Rize Up’s early experiments drew on his New Orleans roots, incorporating spicy Louisiana sausages, for instance. These days, many of the bakery’s most popular loaves draw from seemingly unlikely global inspirations, like his “K-Pop” bread, which features roasted garlic cloves and a hit of gochujang heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do everything ass-backwards,” he says. “I make [the bread] to make people feel seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Bayview revival\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the end, that’s what Anderson hopes his baking class will be too — a way of helping his students feel seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earl Shaddix, executive director of EDoT, explains that the idea of offering a free baking class came out of the organization’s kitchen incubator program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayviewmakers.com/kitchen\">Bayview Makers Kitchen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the group’s effort to revive Bayview’s Third Street corridor, they came up with the idea of refurbishing shuttered restaurants and turning them into shared kitchen spaces for up-and-coming food entrepreneurs. The first one, at 5698 3rd St., was so successful that the program quickly outgrew the space; two of the incubator’s alumni now run their Mexican restaurant, Frank Grizzly’s, there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13988480 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_005_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_005_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Keyan Depillo, dough team lead, and owner Azikiwee Anderson greet each other with a fist bump inside Rize Up Bakery on April 3, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The current iteration of the Bayview Makers Kitchen runs out of the space formerly occupied by Auntie April’s, a classic SF soul food spot that closed during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In front, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/smokesoulsf/?hl=en\">Smoke Soul Kitchen\u003c/a>, another of the incubator’s graduates, is a full-blown soul food restaurant. In the back, the incubator now hosts a handful of bakers — a donut maker, a Palestinian baker, a Filipina pastry chef and more. On Sundays, though, the kitchen was free, and so Shaddix struck on the idea of hosting classes there for neighborhood youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted the instructors to look like the community,” Shaddix says. “Youth in our community are not going to a fancy baking school downtown. That’s not happening. So rather than send our kids down there, let’s bring the big guns out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13981914 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/250918-TEENFASHIONSTUDENTS_02223_TV-KQEd.jpg']Anderson was the first person who came to mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the classes aren’t limited to Bayview residents, Shaddix says kids from the neighborhood are given priority, especially since each class tops out at 10 students. So far, he says, the response has been phenomenal, and he’s already making plans for other classes — one on jam-making, perhaps, or maybe one focused on pies and biscuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some of the kids, the series will serve as a direct pipeline into their first summer jobs, bussing tables or working in the prep kitchen at one of Bayview Makers Kitchen’s affiliated restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Become the adult you needed’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Maybe the most surprising thing about this kids’ baking class is how much math and science there is, as Anderson spends a good chunk of the time talking about dough hydration percentages and ideal fermentation temperatures, and teaching how to tare a scale and ever-so-gingerly measure out exactly 40 grams of flour. (One student, 16-year-old Bailey, says the whole thing reminds her of chemistry class.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the \u003cem>pizza party\u003c/em> of it all — the joy with which each student slides their custom-topped pies off the pizza peel with a quick \u003cem>shoop\u003c/em>, and then tears into their pizzas while the crust is still blistering hot — the biggest thing that comes across is how much the class feels like a real job training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_093_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_093_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_093_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_093_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_093_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson explains the dough-making process during his hands-on baking workshop. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As much as Anderson talks about specific techniques for kneading or shaping the dough, he spends just as much time emphasizing the importance of staying organized in the kitchen, moving efficiently and cleaning up after yourself as you go. By the end of the session, it really does feel like everyone is ready to work a shift at the bakery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, by and large, aren’t sure yet if they would really consider a career as professional bakers, though the class seems to open their eyes up to the possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven-year-old Marina Sanchez, a Bayview resident who’s taking the class along with her mom, says the baking series initially caught their eye because they’d seen Anderson and his bakery featured on TV. Jaylen Banks, who, in his 20s, is the oldest student in the class, has always liked cooking, but says he’s come away from the first two sessions with a greater sense of confidence in his abilities — enough so that he’s now “maybe” interested in exploring it as a career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_115_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_115_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_115_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_115_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_115_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina Sanchez stretches a round of pizza dough. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Santino Jolibette, 16, is taking the class as part of an internship at Smoke Soul Kitchen he is doing through EDoT, so he’s already well on his way to exploring cooking and baking as a potential career — “it’s definitely possible,” he says, though for now it’s just a hobby. At home, his parents mostly cook Mexican food, so artisanal sourdough pizza is a whole new world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeanne McCoy, an EDoT board member and the mother of one of Anderson’s baking students, says the class is a clear-cut example of why representation is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t see a Black astronaut in space, you might think that’s not something for you,” she says. “But if you see somebody that’s from your community who is doing the thing, it helps lay a roadmap. It’s not such a gap between this thing that I might be dreaming about and the person who’s doing it way over there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988469\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_066_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_066_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_066_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_066_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_066_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A freshly baked pizza: the end product of the Bayview Makers Kitchen’s March 2026 baking workshop. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Anderson says what really spurred him to pursue teaching seriously was when one of his employees told him, “When you grow up, you become the adult you needed as a kid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That shook me up,” Anderson says. He recalls that when he was a teenager, he never thought that any of the adults in his life, apart from his mother, cared about cultivating his dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the softness that I had got crushed out of me when I was a kid,” he says. “How cool would it be if I could [have kept] the beautiful, soft part of me just because someone believed in me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_121_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_121_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_121_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_121_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_121_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amerika Sanchez, left, and her daughter Marina enjoy the pizza they made. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Young people, when they’re 16 or 20 years old, just need someone to help them to imagine a future for themselves, he says — someone who cares enough about them to say, “You’ve got this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his own unlikely journey to becoming a baker, Anderson says, “How was it that I spent my entire life and no one ever told me I could do this — how cool it would be to do this? I want these kids to see it in themselves, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The “\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rize-make-baking-classes-tickets-1983557674400?aff=erelexpmlt\">\u003cem>Rise + Make\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>” baking classes take place on the fourth Sunday of every month — at least through October for this first year, Anderson says. The next session is on April 26, noon to 2 p.m., at 4618 3rd St., in San Francisco. Pre-registration is required, and space is extremely limited. The classes are free and are recommended for youth ages 16-20, with priority given to Bayview residents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key, Anderson says, is to allow the “little rubber bands” of gluten to form more and more connections, strengthening the dough and making it more elastic. “Then you can stretch it out and make a pizza,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of this two-hour session, every kid in the class will have done exactly that. They’ll have flattened and stretched out their dough, spun it in the air like a real Italian pizzaiolo, slathered it with toppings and slid the whole thing into a 550-degree triple-decker oven. They’ll have eaten their fill \u003cem>and \u003c/em>brought home another ball of the dough that they made together from scratch, ready to do it all again the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988476\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_099_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_099_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_099_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_099_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_099_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bailey Gee, right, pours yeast into a mixer as Marina Sanchez prepares dough during a youth baking workshop at Bayview Makers Kitchen. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pizza-making session is part of a series of monthly community baking classes called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rize-make-baking-classes-tickets-1983557674400?aff=erelexpmlt\">Rize + Make\u003c/a>” hosted by the Bayview Makers Kitchen, a food incubator run by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.edotbayview.org/\">Economic Development on Third\u003c/a> (EDoT). The classes, which started in February, are pegged for youth ages 16-20, with a bit of wiggle room. (Students for this particular session range in age from an 11-year-old attending with her mom to a young man in his early 20s.) Most of them are Bayview residents themselves — a mix of Black, Asian and Latino kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best part? The classes are completely free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For young foodies who sign up for his class, Anderson is something of a local celebrity — a rising star in the world of artisanal baking. His sourdough bakery, Rize Up Bakery, is one of the breakout hits from the pandemic pop-up era, known for loaves with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963721/how-sfs-rize-up-sourdough-puts-black-bakers-on-the-map\">boundary-pushing flavors\u003c/a> like Korean gochujang and Indian masala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988472\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_089_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_089_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_089_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_089_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_089_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Youth participants shape pizza dough during the March 2026 edition of the free baking workshop. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anderson’s bread is now a staple at Bay Area farmers markets and high-end grocery stores, and he’s about to launch \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2026/03/10/rize-up-sourdough-bakery-cafe-soma/\">his first cafe\u003c/a>, in a space adjacent to his production facility in SoMa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also highly aware of the space he occupies as one of the only Black bakers in the artisanal sourdough scene in the Bay Area and beyond. It’s a big part of why he thinks it’s so important for him to give back — to give Black and Brown kids in the Bayview a chance to imagine a future they’d never before considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, you’re here for a reason,” Anderson says at the start of the class. “The next step is how do we build enough skills and how do we have fun, so that you want to be in the kitchen more? And you think, ‘I could be a baker. I could do this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Baking to feel seen\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anderson’s own childhood was, by all accounts, a difficult one. Born and raised in New Orleans, he was the eldest of three children in a biracial family. His father, a traveling musician, was a heroin addict who “spent all his money on drugs and wound up beating my mom close to death,” Anderson recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his mother got out of the hospital, protective services told her she was going to wind up dead if she didn’t move away; they put her and her kids on a bus to San Francisco. Anderson was 5 years old at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family lived in the bus station for the first few weeks after they arrived, until a women’s shelter finally set them up with a place to stay. Eventually, they moved into a small apartment amid the housing projects in the Western Addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988463\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-02-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-02-KQED-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-02-KQED-1536x1147.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson (far right), age 14 or 15, poses with his mother and two siblings for a family portrait taken in the late ’80s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Azikiwee Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The only places that we could afford to live were pretty bad,” Anderson says. Still, he fell in love with early-’80s San Francisco from the very start — he loved the diversity of thought and the way all different kinds of people were able to feel included. “At its core, it’s a place where people come to be part of community,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a different story when Anderson moved to Chico in middle school. There, he was often one of the only Black kids in any given room, and his adolescent years were riddled with run-ins with teachers and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He felt perpetually pigeonholed and stereotyped. Later, as an adult, Anderson was one of a tiny handful of Black inline skaters successful enough to make a living at it, first as a competitor and then as a judge, event organizer and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45IgxIlffn0\">skatepark designer\u003c/a>. And when he finally got involved in the Bay Area’s artisanal sourdough scene, he didn’t know any other Black bakers who were part of that world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never saw anyone who looked like me do that,” he says, explaining his initial skepticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988464\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 558px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"837\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-03-KQED.jpg 558w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/260413-A-RISING-STAR-BAKER-GIVES-BACK-03-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson performs a skate trick during the Team Rollerblade tour, circa 2000. Before he became a baker, Anderson had a long career as a professional inline skater. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Azikiwee Anderson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this helps explain why the idea of teaching a free baking class for young people was so appealing to Anderson. For Black and Brown kids in Bayview, he wants to be that adult role model he never had when he was growing up — the one who opens up the possibility of a career path a kid might have never considered for someone who looks like them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, he says, “I don’t think people were like, ‘Oh, Black people shouldn’t be a part of this.’ I just think maybe we didn’t have the means or the involvement. And so we didn’t see it as something that was viable for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, Anderson’s own sourdough journey started during the pandemic. By the 2010s, he’d stepped away from rollerblading to spend more time with his children. He’d always loved cooking, so he figured he might make a career out of it. After going to culinary school, he built up a successful career as a private chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, that business evaporated once COVID lockdowns hit. Anderson suddenly found himself with a lot more time on his hands, and he joined a group text with friends and neighbors who would share recipes for quarantine meals. It was only a matter of time before a few of them started tinkering with sourdough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson, for his part, had never baked seriously before, and he recalls his first few loaves being completely mediocre. “I sucked at it,” he says. “And I don’t like sucking at things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he kept baking, expanding his output from one loaf to two loaves to eight loaves a week, documenting his progress on Instagram and masking up to drop the bread off on his neighbors’ doorsteps. Eventually, he got good enough that people as far away as Brooklyn started asking if they could buy a loaf. He built a website, and the rest was history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one part of the origin story of Rize Up Bakery, anyway. The other part is that Anderson cried every day in the summer of 2020 after George Floyd was murdered by a white policeman in Minneapolis. “I never thought of myself as a depressed person, but something about him begging and talking to his dead mama just broke my heart. I couldn’t deal with how it made me feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baking sourdough was the one way he could tune out that pain for a few hours — the one thing that made him feel genuinely happy. “It was very Zen-esque,” he says. “Everything else would disappear.” And when he shared his bread with other people, it would make them happy too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988482\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_020_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Azikiwee Anderson shapes rounds of dough at a worktable inside Rize Up Bakery’s main production facility in SoMa on April 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the coolest feedback loop,” he says, describing the “dopamine hit” he’d get every time someone praised one of his creations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was deeply intentional, then, that Anderson made Rize Up’s logo a raised Black fist. And the fact that Anderson comes from such a different background than other people in the artisanal sourdough world has turned out to be his greatest strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have never been accepted in my life; I know the way it feels to be othered and disrespected,” Anderson says. “How can I use my platform to make other people feel seen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That thought process leads him to different flavors than the ones commonly sold at other bakeries — because he isn’t offering, say, a cranberry-walnut loaf just because he knows it will sell. Anderson points to one of his most popular breads, the ube pan loaf, as a point of contrast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13988481 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_014_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_014_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_014_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_014_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_014_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Rize Up Bakery, rows of sesame seed–coated loaves sit on a rack lined with cloth couche as they proof. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anyone could have made that bread, he says. The reason Anderson was the one who did was because he’d had Filipino friends who’d invited him into their homes and made him feel like he belonged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m inspired by people who always made me feel seen. Most people would say, ‘Why would I make this crazy loaf that makes it 10 times harder to make the bread, and I don’t even know if people will buy it?’” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Rize Up’s early experiments drew on his New Orleans roots, incorporating spicy Louisiana sausages, for instance. These days, many of the bakery’s most popular loaves draw from seemingly unlikely global inspirations, like his “K-Pop” bread, which features roasted garlic cloves and a hit of gochujang heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do everything ass-backwards,” he says. “I make [the bread] to make people feel seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Bayview revival\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the end, that’s what Anderson hopes his baking class will be too — a way of helping his students feel seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earl Shaddix, executive director of EDoT, explains that the idea of offering a free baking class came out of the organization’s kitchen incubator program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayviewmakers.com/kitchen\">Bayview Makers Kitchen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the group’s effort to revive Bayview’s Third Street corridor, they came up with the idea of refurbishing shuttered restaurants and turning them into shared kitchen spaces for up-and-coming food entrepreneurs. The first one, at 5698 3rd St., was so successful that the program quickly outgrew the space; two of the incubator’s alumni now run their Mexican restaurant, Frank Grizzly’s, there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13988480 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_005_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_005_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/040326ArisingStarBaker_GH_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Keyan Depillo, dough team lead, and owner Azikiwee Anderson greet each other with a fist bump inside Rize Up Bakery on April 3, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The current iteration of the Bayview Makers Kitchen runs out of the space formerly occupied by Auntie April’s, a classic SF soul food spot that closed during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In front, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/smokesoulsf/?hl=en\">Smoke Soul Kitchen\u003c/a>, another of the incubator’s graduates, is a full-blown soul food restaurant. In the back, the incubator now hosts a handful of bakers — a donut maker, a Palestinian baker, a Filipina pastry chef and more. On Sundays, though, the kitchen was free, and so Shaddix struck on the idea of hosting classes there for neighborhood youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted the instructors to look like the community,” Shaddix says. “Youth in our community are not going to a fancy baking school downtown. That’s not happening. So rather than send our kids down there, let’s bring the big guns out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Anderson was the first person who came to mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the classes aren’t limited to Bayview residents, Shaddix says kids from the neighborhood are given priority, especially since each class tops out at 10 students. So far, he says, the response has been phenomenal, and he’s already making plans for other classes — one on jam-making, perhaps, or maybe one focused on pies and biscuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some of the kids, the series will serve as a direct pipeline into their first summer jobs, bussing tables or working in the prep kitchen at one of Bayview Makers Kitchen’s affiliated restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Become the adult you needed’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Maybe the most surprising thing about this kids’ baking class is how much math and science there is, as Anderson spends a good chunk of the time talking about dough hydration percentages and ideal fermentation temperatures, and teaching how to tare a scale and ever-so-gingerly measure out exactly 40 grams of flour. (One student, 16-year-old Bailey, says the whole thing reminds her of chemistry class.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the \u003cem>pizza party\u003c/em> of it all — the joy with which each student slides their custom-topped pies off the pizza peel with a quick \u003cem>shoop\u003c/em>, and then tears into their pizzas while the crust is still blistering hot — the biggest thing that comes across is how much the class feels like a real job training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_093_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_093_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_093_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_093_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_093_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson explains the dough-making process during his hands-on baking workshop. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As much as Anderson talks about specific techniques for kneading or shaping the dough, he spends just as much time emphasizing the importance of staying organized in the kitchen, moving efficiently and cleaning up after yourself as you go. By the end of the session, it really does feel like everyone is ready to work a shift at the bakery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, by and large, aren’t sure yet if they would really consider a career as professional bakers, though the class seems to open their eyes up to the possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven-year-old Marina Sanchez, a Bayview resident who’s taking the class along with her mom, says the baking series initially caught their eye because they’d seen Anderson and his bakery featured on TV. Jaylen Banks, who, in his 20s, is the oldest student in the class, has always liked cooking, but says he’s come away from the first two sessions with a greater sense of confidence in his abilities — enough so that he’s now “maybe” interested in exploring it as a career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_115_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_115_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_115_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_115_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_115_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina Sanchez stretches a round of pizza dough. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Santino Jolibette, 16, is taking the class as part of an internship at Smoke Soul Kitchen he is doing through EDoT, so he’s already well on his way to exploring cooking and baking as a potential career — “it’s definitely possible,” he says, though for now it’s just a hobby. At home, his parents mostly cook Mexican food, so artisanal sourdough pizza is a whole new world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeanne McCoy, an EDoT board member and the mother of one of Anderson’s baking students, says the class is a clear-cut example of why representation is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t see a Black astronaut in space, you might think that’s not something for you,” she says. “But if you see somebody that’s from your community who is doing the thing, it helps lay a roadmap. It’s not such a gap between this thing that I might be dreaming about and the person who’s doing it way over there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988469\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_066_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_066_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_066_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_066_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/032226_aRisingstarBakerGivesBack-_GH_066_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A freshly baked pizza: the end product of the Bayview Makers Kitchen’s March 2026 baking workshop. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Anderson says what really spurred him to pursue teaching seriously was when one of his employees told him, “When you grow up, you become the adult you needed as a kid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That shook me up,” Anderson says. 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Rosary necklace glinting in the sun and coquettish red dress billowing, she sang defiantly in Spanglish about a dude who underestimated her: “Las malas no caen tan fácil / come on, bro” (“Baddies don’t fall that easily / come on, bro”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raised in San Leandro, Mxka (pronounced Moka) is making waves with her distinctly Bay Area take on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034651/k-onda-april\">corridos tumbados\u003c/a>, the regional Mexican music style that hit the U.S. mainstream in recent years with the rise of Peso Pluma and Natanael Cano. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the 1970s, Valencia Street in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s Mission District became a lesbian cultural corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women could openly hold hands at Artemis Cafe, clink glasses at Amelia’s and debate politics at the Old Wives’ Tales bookstore. Lesbian hairstylists and mechanics offered basic goods and services without harassment. Flyers advertised apprenticeships in male-dominated trades and legal help for navigating divorces from men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, more than 50 years later, San Francisco boasts only a \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/sf-lesbian-bars-girls-and-gays/\">small handful of lesbian bars\u003c/a>. Nationwide, experts say establishments serving women-loving women are \u003ca href=\"https://www.autostraddle.com/lesbian-bars-disappearing/\">in danger of going extinct\u003c/a>. It’s a drastic change from the vast lesbian ecosystem that once offered a supportive lifeline in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to remember that many women who were identifying as lesbians were excluded from mainstream society — they couldn’t get jobs, couldn’t really be in formal education spaces,” says Dr. Kerby Lynch, the interim director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayarealesbianarchives.org/\">Bay Area Lesbian Archives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the GLBT Historical Society Museum in the Castro, Bay Area Lesbian Archives presents a new exhibit, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.glbthistory.org/dreams\">Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care, 1970–1995\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> which traces the history of an organized, self-sustaining community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kerby Lynch, lead curator of the exhibit ‘Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,’ poses for a portrait at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid today’s resurgence of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/gen-z-men-baby-boomers-wives-should-obey-husbands\">conservative gender politics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://prismreports.org/2026/02/09/anti-transgender-bills-2026/\">anti-LGBTQ+ legislation\u003c/a>, Lynch wants to provide an example to young queer people on how to thrive in spite of discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we are once again, in the contemporary,” Lynch says, “needing to rely on each other and create these mutual aid networks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The women’s liberation movement left lesbians behind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the walls of the GLBT Historical Society Museum, carefully arranged flyers, maps and business directories offer a glimpse of the lesbian scene that once flourished along Valencia Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so much about having community. Lesbians had been so invisible for so long, and so harassed,” Carol Seajay says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1976, Seajay co-founded the feminist bookstore Old Wives’ Tales, a flyer for which hangs in the exhibit. It was a narrow storefront that carried novels by women authors like Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Mahoney (left) and Carol Seajay (right) pose for a portrait at the exhibit ‘Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,’ on opening night at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. Seajay co-founded Old Wives’ Tales bookstore in 1976. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tucked in the back were shelves of lesbian books where one could browse away from prying eyes. Every weekend, the store would fill up with women who’d stop in between errands at the laundromat and grocery co-op to have spirited discussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed a place for women to go, to be able to talk with each other about this women’s liberation stuff, gay liberation stuff,” Seajay says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, the women’s liberation movement made many important legal gains. “On paper, we were getting more freedoms,” Lynch says. “But for lesbians, they were largely still feeling excluded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13987659 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Directory of Dreams,” an archival exhibit of lesbian history in the Bay Area, is installed in the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roe v. Wade gave women the right to end unwanted pregnancies, and the Equal Opportunity Credit Act allowed women to acquire loans and credit without male co-signers. Women began to buy homes and start businesses for the first time. Yet many straight women saw lesbians as a threat to the women’s liberation movement, and job and housing discrimination against LGBTQ+ people remained rampant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the ’70s, you’re in a time period of, really, lesbians coming together and being like, ‘You know, if we’re gonna be excluded by these dominant societies, let’s create some counterculture,’” Lynch says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crucial connector for the Bay Area’s lesbian community was Gloria Pell, known to friends simply as Pell. She became active on Valencia Street while working at Old Wives’ Tales. In the early ’80s, she opened Woman Crafts West, a small boutique that carried work by hundreds of female artisans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987686\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2-768x539.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Pell (right), known to friends simply as Pell, was a crucial connector of the lesbian community on Valencia Street in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Bay Area Lesbian Archives/Pell Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the GLBT Historical Society, \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> features a display of crafts from Pell’s collection: shapely goddess statues, a flower-like labia sculpture and ceramic earrings in the shape of breasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pell didn’t just break barriers so she could succeed; she also helped build the infrastructure that allowed other lesbians to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was the central part of organizing different business owners being tenants on that street,” Lynch says. “She was a part of a feminist credit union helping women open up their own bank accounts, coming up with pool funds — like, really, startup funding — for other women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lesbians strengthened the LGBTQ+ community during crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the ’80s, lesbian-owned businesses offered crucial support for gay men during the AIDS epidemic. Featured prominently in the exhibit is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/29308/lgbt-pride-remembering-the-brick-hut-cafe-part-1\">Brick Hut Cafe\u003c/a>, a Berkeley institution that drew lines down the block for coffee and muffins, as well as returning customers like Angela Davis and a free-spirited crew of gay men nicknamed the Shattuck Street Fairies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the wall of GBLT Historical Society, a 1992 poem by a customer named Cynthia describes the scene: “Flannel shirted wimmin / pierced and tattooed dykes / Bitchin’ dreadlocks, cool shaved heads / Feeding old folks and young tikes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987678\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987678\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997.jpg 1125w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Davenport and Joan Antonuccio at The Brick Hut Cafe in the ’90s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ace Morgan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As AIDS began to decimate the gay community, and government officials ignored and stigmatized the disease, queer institutions like the Brick Hut became crucial resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put up information, and we talked to people,” Brick Hut co-founder Sharon Davenport says. “You know, like, ‘Am I going to get AIDS from a toilet seat?’ No. ‘If I sit next to a gay guy, am I gonna get AIDS?’ No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this era, lesbians across the country stepped up as advocates. They organized blood drives, protested for better public health policies, and even offered bedside care for gay men with AIDS whose families were afraid to come near them. At the Brick Hut, they also offered social support. “The important part was the personal interaction with people,” Davenport says. “So they wouldn’t be afraid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lynch of the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, it’s stories like these that show that the establishments honored in \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> are much more than just businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sustaining ourselves, providing for ourselves,” she says. “But we’re also at the same time organizing ourselves, collectivizing ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Younger generations take notes from lesbian herstory\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As it celebrates visionary lesbian activists and community builders, \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> is also honest about where the movement fell short. The exhibition’s wall text notes that racism at times alienated women of color from lesbian spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was messy,” Lynch says. “I mean, [white women] were coming into consciousness that they’re racist for the first time. Black women are coming into the consciousness that, ‘Oh my god, we’ve been serving Black men and the Black power movement, and we haven’t thought about our needs for ourselves.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests observe the exhibit, “Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,” on opening night at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Absent from the exhibit are the lesbian separatists who discriminated against trans women and wanted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13977595/sandy-stone-olivia-records-jimi-hendrix-girl-island-documentary\">exclude them\u003c/a>. In the ’70s, many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976295/1970s-gay-transgender-rights-movement-san-francisco-pride\">gays and lesbians seeking mainstream acceptance\u003c/a> sought to distance themselves from trans people, who faced even worse discrimination. During our interview, Lynch acknowledged that history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the good, the bad, the ugly, but I love how those women got the conversation started for us to continue today,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-1990s, as an influx of young artists began to transform the Mission District, long-running women’s spaces like Woman Crafts West and Old Wives’ Tales shut their doors. Many of the reasons were economic: Rising rents on Valencia Street meant that people could no longer afford to run radical spaces. In Berkeley, the Brick Hut shuttered because it was $30,000 in debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests observe the exhibit, “Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,” on opening night at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think some of the generations since then are kind of pissed that we let it go,” Seajay of Old Wives’ Tales says. “I am, too. I share that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, she wants this history to inspire young people to carry on that legacy. “You want something, make it happen,” she says. “You can do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the opening reception of \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> on March 11, lesbians and queer people in their 20s, 30s and 40s mingled alongside elders who shaped this golden era. Among those taking in the display of Pell’s goddess-themed jewelry and sculptures were Stephanie and Etecia Burrell, a couple who run The Sanctuary, an eclectic shop in Oakland that offers wellness services rooted in West African spiritual traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1974px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1974\" height=\"1559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival.jpg 1974w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival-768x607.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival-1536x1213.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1974px) 100vw, 1974px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Pell (fourth from right) and friends pose in front of her shop, Woman Crafts West. In the 1980s and ’90s, it was a prominent fixture of the lesbian cultural corridor on Valencia Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Bay Area Lesbian Archives/Pell Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Burrells are both especially inspired by Pell’s legacy as a Black lesbian community builder. “It actually makes me feel like, ‘Wow, I can relax, I can feel more of what I’m doing and the power of it because someone else did it,’” Stephanie says. “And it gives me a sense of relief, a sense of calm. A sense like, ‘You got this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lesbian community in today’s Bay Area looks much different than it did during the second-wave feminist movement. Many millennials and Gen Z-ers opt for terms like “queer” and “sapphic” when throwing parties and events, so as not to exclude trans, nonbinary, bisexual or pansexual people. At queer parties raising money for immigration defense or humanitarian aid in Gaza, there’s a greater mindfulness around the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, disability and immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Lynch says it’s crucial to learn from those who paved the way. As conservative legislators continue to attack LGBTQ+ rights and civil liberties more broadly, she wants \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> to spark people’s imaginations for how to thrive, even amid a hostile political climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a mausoleum — these are instructions,” Lynch told the crowd at the opening. “Each flyer, each menu, each business card tucked away is a small declaration. ‘We were here, we built this, and you can build it too.’ Because the question is not whether these women were extraordinary. Of course they were. The real question is, what happens when we remember that survival has always been collective?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to remember that many women who were identifying as lesbians were excluded from mainstream society — they couldn’t get jobs, couldn’t really be in formal education spaces,” says Dr. Kerby Lynch, the interim director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayarealesbianarchives.org/\">Bay Area Lesbian Archives\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the GLBT Historical Society Museum in the Castro, Bay Area Lesbian Archives presents a new exhibit, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.glbthistory.org/dreams\">Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care, 1970–1995\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> which traces the history of an organized, self-sustaining community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00211_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kerby Lynch, lead curator of the exhibit ‘Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,’ poses for a portrait at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid today’s resurgence of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/gen-z-men-baby-boomers-wives-should-obey-husbands\">conservative gender politics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://prismreports.org/2026/02/09/anti-transgender-bills-2026/\">anti-LGBTQ+ legislation\u003c/a>, Lynch wants to provide an example to young queer people on how to thrive in spite of discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we are once again, in the contemporary,” Lynch says, “needing to rely on each other and create these mutual aid networks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The women’s liberation movement left lesbians behind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the walls of the GLBT Historical Society Museum, carefully arranged flyers, maps and business directories offer a glimpse of the lesbian scene that once flourished along Valencia Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so much about having community. Lesbians had been so invisible for so long, and so harassed,” Carol Seajay says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1976, Seajay co-founded the feminist bookstore Old Wives’ Tales, a flyer for which hangs in the exhibit. It was a narrow storefront that carried novels by women authors like Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-directoryofdreams00367_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Mahoney (left) and Carol Seajay (right) pose for a portrait at the exhibit ‘Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,’ on opening night at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. Seajay co-founded Old Wives’ Tales bookstore in 1976. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tucked in the back were shelves of lesbian books where one could browse away from prying eyes. Every weekend, the store would fill up with women who’d stop in between errands at the laundromat and grocery co-op to have spirited discussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We needed a place for women to go, to be able to talk with each other about this women’s liberation stuff, gay liberation stuff,” Seajay says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, the women’s liberation movement made many important legal gains. “On paper, we were getting more freedoms,” Lynch says. “But for lesbians, they were largely still feeling excluded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13987659 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00012_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Directory of Dreams,” an archival exhibit of lesbian history in the Bay Area, is installed in the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roe v. Wade gave women the right to end unwanted pregnancies, and the Equal Opportunity Credit Act allowed women to acquire loans and credit without male co-signers. Women began to buy homes and start businesses for the first time. Yet many straight women saw lesbians as a threat to the women’s liberation movement, and job and housing discrimination against LGBTQ+ people remained rampant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the ’70s, you’re in a time period of, really, lesbians coming together and being like, ‘You know, if we’re gonna be excluded by these dominant societies, let’s create some counterculture,’” Lynch says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crucial connector for the Bay Area’s lesbian community was Gloria Pell, known to friends simply as Pell. She became active on Valencia Street while working at Old Wives’ Tales. In the early ’80s, she opened Woman Crafts West, a small boutique that carried work by hundreds of female artisans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987686\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2-768x539.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/pell-archival-2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Pell (right), known to friends simply as Pell, was a crucial connector of the lesbian community on Valencia Street in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Bay Area Lesbian Archives/Pell Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the GLBT Historical Society, \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> features a display of crafts from Pell’s collection: shapely goddess statues, a flower-like labia sculpture and ceramic earrings in the shape of breasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pell didn’t just break barriers so she could succeed; she also helped build the infrastructure that allowed other lesbians to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was the central part of organizing different business owners being tenants on that street,” Lynch says. “She was a part of a feminist credit union helping women open up their own bank accounts, coming up with pool funds — like, really, startup funding — for other women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lesbians strengthened the LGBTQ+ community during crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the ’80s, lesbian-owned businesses offered crucial support for gay men during the AIDS epidemic. Featured prominently in the exhibit is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/29308/lgbt-pride-remembering-the-brick-hut-cafe-part-1\">Brick Hut Cafe\u003c/a>, a Berkeley institution that drew lines down the block for coffee and muffins, as well as returning customers like Angela Davis and a free-spirited crew of gay men nicknamed the Shattuck Street Fairies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the wall of GBLT Historical Society, a 1992 poem by a customer named Cynthia describes the scene: “Flannel shirted wimmin / pierced and tattooed dykes / Bitchin’ dreadlocks, cool shaved heads / Feeding old folks and young tikes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987678\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987678\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997.jpg 1125w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IMG_8997-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Davenport and Joan Antonuccio at The Brick Hut Cafe in the ’90s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ace Morgan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As AIDS began to decimate the gay community, and government officials ignored and stigmatized the disease, queer institutions like the Brick Hut became crucial resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put up information, and we talked to people,” Brick Hut co-founder Sharon Davenport says. “You know, like, ‘Am I going to get AIDS from a toilet seat?’ No. ‘If I sit next to a gay guy, am I gonna get AIDS?’ No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this era, lesbians across the country stepped up as advocates. They organized blood drives, protested for better public health policies, and even offered bedside care for gay men with AIDS whose families were afraid to come near them. At the Brick Hut, they also offered social support. “The important part was the personal interaction with people,” Davenport says. “So they wouldn’t be afraid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lynch of the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, it’s stories like these that show that the establishments honored in \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> are much more than just businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sustaining ourselves, providing for ourselves,” she says. “But we’re also at the same time organizing ourselves, collectivizing ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Younger generations take notes from lesbian herstory\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As it celebrates visionary lesbian activists and community builders, \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> is also honest about where the movement fell short. The exhibition’s wall text notes that racism at times alienated women of color from lesbian spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was messy,” Lynch says. “I mean, [white women] were coming into consciousness that they’re racist for the first time. Black women are coming into the consciousness that, ‘Oh my god, we’ve been serving Black men and the Black power movement, and we haven’t thought about our needs for ourselves.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00526_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests observe the exhibit, “Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,” on opening night at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Absent from the exhibit are the lesbian separatists who discriminated against trans women and wanted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13977595/sandy-stone-olivia-records-jimi-hendrix-girl-island-documentary\">exclude them\u003c/a>. In the ’70s, many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976295/1970s-gay-transgender-rights-movement-san-francisco-pride\">gays and lesbians seeking mainstream acceptance\u003c/a> sought to distance themselves from trans people, who faced even worse discrimination. During our interview, Lynch acknowledged that history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the good, the bad, the ugly, but I love how those women got the conversation started for us to continue today,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-1990s, as an influx of young artists began to transform the Mission District, long-running women’s spaces like Woman Crafts West and Old Wives’ Tales shut their doors. Many of the reasons were economic: Rising rents on Valencia Street meant that people could no longer afford to run radical spaces. In Berkeley, the Brick Hut shuttered because it was $30,000 in debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/260311-DIRECTORYOFDREAMS00303_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests observe the exhibit, “Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care 1970-1995,” on opening night at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco on March 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think some of the generations since then are kind of pissed that we let it go,” Seajay of Old Wives’ Tales says. “I am, too. I share that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, she wants this history to inspire young people to carry on that legacy. “You want something, make it happen,” she says. “You can do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the opening reception of \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> on March 11, lesbians and queer people in their 20s, 30s and 40s mingled alongside elders who shaped this golden era. Among those taking in the display of Pell’s goddess-themed jewelry and sculptures were Stephanie and Etecia Burrell, a couple who run The Sanctuary, an eclectic shop in Oakland that offers wellness services rooted in West African spiritual traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1974px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1974\" height=\"1559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival.jpg 1974w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival-768x607.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/woman-crafts-west-archival-1536x1213.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1974px) 100vw, 1974px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Pell (fourth from right) and friends pose in front of her shop, Woman Crafts West. In the 1980s and ’90s, it was a prominent fixture of the lesbian cultural corridor on Valencia Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Bay Area Lesbian Archives/Pell Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Burrells are both especially inspired by Pell’s legacy as a Black lesbian community builder. “It actually makes me feel like, ‘Wow, I can relax, I can feel more of what I’m doing and the power of it because someone else did it,’” Stephanie says. “And it gives me a sense of relief, a sense of calm. A sense like, ‘You got this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lesbian community in today’s Bay Area looks much different than it did during the second-wave feminist movement. Many millennials and Gen Z-ers opt for terms like “queer” and “sapphic” when throwing parties and events, so as not to exclude trans, nonbinary, bisexual or pansexual people. At queer parties raising money for immigration defense or humanitarian aid in Gaza, there’s a greater mindfulness around the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, disability and immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Lynch says it’s crucial to learn from those who paved the way. As conservative legislators continue to attack LGBTQ+ rights and civil liberties more broadly, she wants \u003cem>Directory of Dreams\u003c/em> to spark people’s imaginations for how to thrive, even amid a hostile political climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a mausoleum — these are instructions,” Lynch told the crowd at the opening. “Each flyer, each menu, each business card tucked away is a small declaration. ‘We were here, we built this, and you can build it too.’ Because the question is not whether these women were extraordinary. Of course they were. The real question is, what happens when we remember that survival has always been collective?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In 1999, the year she graduated from art school, Bay Area illustrator Nadine Takvorian wrote in an Armenian magazine that she hoped to someday write a book about her experience in the Armenian diaspora. Now, 27 years later, the first-generation Armenian American has released \u003cem>Armaveni:A Graphic Novel of the Armenian Genocide\u003c/em>, an autobiographical graphic novel named after her grandmother. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s taken me over half a lifetime to make that dream a reality,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Armaveni\u003c/em> tells the story of how Takvorian’s family survived the Armenian genocide, became Bolsahye (Armenians who live in Turkey) and eventually made a life in San Francisco, operating a small business. Takvorian’s family ran a specialty food shop founded in 1956 called Haig’s Delicacies, named after her uncle, located a block away from Green Apple Books in the Inner Richmond. It was later operated by her parents before its retail space closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a very special place for me growing up,” Takvorian says. “It was kind of like a San Francisco foodie destination for a while, a well known place to find delicacies from Europe and the Middle East and India. Now it’s easier to find these kinds of items, but back in the day it was pretty hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13987084']In \u003cem>Armaveni\u003c/em>, Nadine works occasionally at the shop, showcasing her industriousness and cultural curiosity. An inquisitive young girl, she pesters her parents to explain why her grandmother’s eyes “are always so sad” until one day they acquiesce and unfold her backstory. The book moves back and forth through time from Nadine’s perspective as a schoolgirl who has a homeland she’s never visited and her grandmother Armaveni’s perspective as a young girl in Hayastan (Armenia) living through the Meds Yeghern or “Great Catastrophe” during WWI. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she began her career working in the children’s educational market, and has worked on projects like a richly color-saturated Beowulf comic adaptation for kids, Takvorian’s first graphic novel is not in full color. “The subject matter required more restraint,” the author explains. The pages are covered in a lavender wash that gives them an archival feel, in line with the book’s theme of an old family story being dusted off and recounted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though we follow Nadine in the book as a teen, in reality, Takvorian was in her thirties when she learned Armaveni’s tale. In a note at the end of \u003cem>Armaveni\u003c/em>, she attributes this delay to “old-world habits of the adults shielding children from information that could put them in danger, and my own fear of what I might learn about our family’s history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her grandmother’s story takes place in an Armenia that’s under attack from the Ottoman Empire, which is waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing in an attempt to consolidate power and cultural hegemony. It is estimated over one million Armenians were exiled from their land and massacred. Grandma Armaveni’s story panels show Armenians (who were among the earliest adopters of Christianity) forced into religious conversion, trafficked, and, in one harrowing scene, women and children fleeing a schoolhouse they’d been corralled into by soldiers and left to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13986735']Though \u003cem>Armaveni\u003c/em> is a memoir of her family’s story, the heart of the novel is Nadine’s discovery of this persecution, which Armenians identify as a genocide, and the frustrations she feels when she realizes her parents do not wish to discuss it. Many deny it ever happened, including one of her American schoolteachers, and the country that perpetrated it, Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Genocide recognition is so important to the Armenian community,” Takvorian explains, noting that the issue is unfortunately used “as a political football” by politicians. “It’s dangled as, Well, if you do this, then we might recognize the genocide and we don’t want to do that and you don’t want us to do that.” In 2021, on the 106th anniversary of its start, President Biden became the first American president to officially recognize the Armenian genocide — a recognition that the Trump administration has been accused of walking back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the novel, Takvorian offers a primer on the consequences of cultural erasure. That includes a note on Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, which states it is illegal to insult Turkey, and has been used to go after journalists and writers like Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk for bringing up the persecution of Armenians. For her and other members of the Armenian community, it is important for there to be “closure and consequences” after years of being denied them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Armaveni\u003c/em> is visually personalized. A typeface is based on Takvorian’s actual handwriting, and the pages that recount her grandmother’s story have a storybook frame inspired by ancient Armenian manuscripts that Takvorian encountered at a library in England, “really lush and full of a lot of decorative elements,” she explains. “It’s one of my favorite Easter eggs in the book.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13985414']The nuances of Nadine’s daily experience help the reader’s understanding of Armenian identity. For example, when a fellow Armenian accuses her of being “Turkified,” Nadine experiences the stigma of being Bolsahye —a word that combines “Bolis,” the Armenian word for Istanbul, with a term that signifies Armenian identity. These interactions reveal purity tests and friction that exist within the Armenian diaspora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout, Takvorian’s book offers readers a cultural education simply by threading in Armenian words and customs. In a subtle one-page seven-panel sequence, Nadine and her family are pulling out of their driveway before a plane trip and her mom splashes water from a pitcher at them and says, “May your journey flow like water.” While the action goes unexplained, it is easily inferred that this is an Armenian custom. Spilling water for luck is in fact a folk tradition in the country and in many of its neighboring countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Armaveni\u003c/em> is ultimately a very personal story, but one whose themes offer a timely lesson about what it means for a people to be forced to insist on their existence. “This is important for all of us to learn about, because it’s our collective humanity,” Takvorian explains. “This is something that happened to Armenians, but then you see it happening again and again to different groups of people … It’s an Armenian story, but it’s also our story, and it’s really important to share that and help people understand that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Armaveni:A Graphic Novel of the Armenian Genocide’ is out now. Nadine Takvorian appears March 10 at Green Apple Books in San Francisco; March 14 at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley; March 15 at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco; and March 21 at Linden Tree Books in Los Altos. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nadinetakvorian.com/events\">Details on author appearances here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Saturday night at Thee Parkside, I stand in the dimly lit bathroom reading the graffiti-covered walls as I try, and fail, to catch a glimpse of my reflection under the film of stickers on the mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the bathroom I can hear East Bay metalcore band The Tower the Fool hyping the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an honor to be playing here at Thee Parkside,” the frontman says. “It’s going to be one of the last ones here. We used to come here all the time when we were young. Back in our punk days, saw Reagan Youth, Adolescents over here —”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sneaking in underage!” someone yells from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah,” he laughs. “Sneaking in underage. We were having a great time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little red building on the corner of 17th and Wisconsin Streets, Thee Parkside will soon close its doors for the last time after 26 years as a staple of the punk and underground music scene. An official last day has yet to be set, but live music performances will last throughout the month of March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While details regarding the $1.33 million sale of the property last April have not been made public, graffiti inside Thee Parkside’s patio reads, “This will be condos you can’t afford!” (The slogan is also on T-shirts sold behind the bar.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13987476 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_014-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti reading “This will be condos you can’t afford!” is painted on a wall at Thee Parkside on March 6, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No concrete plans for developing the lot have been filed with the city, but the property’s real estate listing highlights that the site “allows for development up to 48 feet in height” and “presents a rare chance to create a dynamic residential or mixed-use project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community that I serve, they’re losing a lot of things, not just Thee Parkside,” owner Malia Spanyol told KQED. “It’s been a struggle for 15 years, 20 years. Everyone’s moving to Oakland, everyone’s getting pushed out of the city. Everyone can’t afford to live here. Everyone’s working 60-hour weeks. It’s hard for a lot of people right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss is just one of many for Potrero Hill’s creative scene. Bottom of the Hill, a 35-year-old music venue, announced it’ll close at the end of 2026. The nearby California College of the Arts will also shut its doors in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987474\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_008-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owner Malia Spanyol sits inside the office at Thee Parkside on March 6, 2025, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parkside regular Duff Ryan has been coming to Thee Parkside since the early 2000s. He’d initially go to the bar to see a punk show or two. When he later enrolled at CCA just a few blocks away, Thee Parkside became the after-class hotspot to get a fix of tater tots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13987283']Over a decade after graduation, Ryan remains a consistent regular for the community he’s forged with employees and fellow regulars alike. He can stop by on any given day and find someone for a chat. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many years later it’s been a central part of my life, my friend group, my family,” Ryan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During pandemic shutdowns, Thee Parkside opened window service, and Ryan went every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a place to see your friends and to feel a little bit less crazy while stuck in your house,” Ryan said. “What an incredibly important sort of community outlet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_001-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cyclist rides past the entrance to Thee Parkside, a punk dive bar that has operated in San Francisco for 26 years, on March 6, 2025. The venue has long served as a gathering space for the city’s punk and underground music community. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the small venue has hosted local bands as well as big ones, like when Green Day played as The Coverups in 2018. There have been tricycle races and ladies’ arm wrestling on the Fourth of July — plus weddings, baby showers, memorial services and birthday parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Thee Parkside’s most tenured employee Shane Plitt, the closure is even more personal: at one point, Thee Parkside became his literal home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between tours with his band M.U.T.T., he got evicted. Spanyol offered the green room atop the bar, and he lived there well into COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have spent so much time there, I mean, it was literally like my living room,” Plitt said. “I’d wake up, go downstairs and the regulars are all there trying to get me a shot of tequila and I’m like, I just need a coffee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_023-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_023-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Walker of M.U.T.T. sings into a microphone while playing guitar during a performance at Thee Parkside on March 6, 2025, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plitt and senior colleague Max Wickham recently got tattoos of Spanyol’s name. Inspired by a former coworker who would tag “Malia” inside and outside the bar, they snapped a picture and thought it felt right to get her name permanently inked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The core [of Thee Parkside] has always been the same,” Wickham said. “Malia has owned the bar for close to 20 years, and you can’t own a place that long without it becoming an extension of yourself. … It was a place where people could be — it sounds so cheesy — but a place where people could be themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plitt and Wickham emphasize that the community at Thee Parkside — the punks, burners, hippies, techies and businesspeople alike — couldn’t exist without Spanyol’s efforts of inclusivity and acceptance. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a recent Saturday night at Thee Parkside, I stand in the dimly lit bathroom reading the graffiti-covered walls as I try, and fail, to catch a glimpse of my reflection under the film of stickers on the mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the bathroom I can hear East Bay metalcore band The Tower the Fool hyping the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an honor to be playing here at Thee Parkside,” the frontman says. “It’s going to be one of the last ones here. We used to come here all the time when we were young. Back in our punk days, saw Reagan Youth, Adolescents over here —”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sneaking in underage!” someone yells from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah,” he laughs. “Sneaking in underage. We were having a great time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little red building on the corner of 17th and Wisconsin Streets, Thee Parkside will soon close its doors for the last time after 26 years as a staple of the punk and underground music scene. An official last day has yet to be set, but live music performances will last throughout the month of March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While details regarding the $1.33 million sale of the property last April have not been made public, graffiti inside Thee Parkside’s patio reads, “This will be condos you can’t afford!” (The slogan is also on T-shirts sold behind the bar.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13987476 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_014-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti reading “This will be condos you can’t afford!” is painted on a wall at Thee Parkside on March 6, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No concrete plans for developing the lot have been filed with the city, but the property’s real estate listing highlights that the site “allows for development up to 48 feet in height” and “presents a rare chance to create a dynamic residential or mixed-use project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community that I serve, they’re losing a lot of things, not just Thee Parkside,” owner Malia Spanyol told KQED. “It’s been a struggle for 15 years, 20 years. Everyone’s moving to Oakland, everyone’s getting pushed out of the city. Everyone can’t afford to live here. Everyone’s working 60-hour weeks. It’s hard for a lot of people right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss is just one of many for Potrero Hill’s creative scene. Bottom of the Hill, a 35-year-old music venue, announced it’ll close at the end of 2026. The nearby California College of the Arts will also shut its doors in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987474\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_008-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owner Malia Spanyol sits inside the office at Thee Parkside on March 6, 2025, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parkside regular Duff Ryan has been coming to Thee Parkside since the early 2000s. He’d initially go to the bar to see a punk show or two. When he later enrolled at CCA just a few blocks away, Thee Parkside became the after-class hotspot to get a fix of tater tots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Over a decade after graduation, Ryan remains a consistent regular for the community he’s forged with employees and fellow regulars alike. He can stop by on any given day and find someone for a chat. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many years later it’s been a central part of my life, my friend group, my family,” Ryan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During pandemic shutdowns, Thee Parkside opened window service, and Ryan went every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a place to see your friends and to feel a little bit less crazy while stuck in your house,” Ryan said. “What an incredibly important sort of community outlet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_001-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cyclist rides past the entrance to Thee Parkside, a punk dive bar that has operated in San Francisco for 26 years, on March 6, 2025. The venue has long served as a gathering space for the city’s punk and underground music community. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the small venue has hosted local bands as well as big ones, like when Green Day played as The Coverups in 2018. There have been tricycle races and ladies’ arm wrestling on the Fourth of July — plus weddings, baby showers, memorial services and birthday parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Thee Parkside’s most tenured employee Shane Plitt, the closure is even more personal: at one point, Thee Parkside became his literal home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between tours with his band M.U.T.T., he got evicted. Spanyol offered the green room atop the bar, and he lived there well into COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have spent so much time there, I mean, it was literally like my living room,” Plitt said. “I’d wake up, go downstairs and the regulars are all there trying to get me a shot of tequila and I’m like, I just need a coffee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_023-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_023-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Walker of M.U.T.T. sings into a microphone while playing guitar during a performance at Thee Parkside on March 6, 2025, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plitt and senior colleague Max Wickham recently got tattoos of Spanyol’s name. Inspired by a former coworker who would tag “Malia” inside and outside the bar, they snapped a picture and thought it felt right to get her name permanently inked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The core [of Thee Parkside] has always been the same,” Wickham said. “Malia has owned the bar for close to 20 years, and you can’t own a place that long without it becoming an extension of yourself. … It was a place where people could be — it sounds so cheesy — but a place where people could be themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plitt and Wickham emphasize that the community at Thee Parkside — the punks, burners, hippies, techies and businesspeople alike — couldn’t exist without Spanyol’s efforts of inclusivity and acceptance. Some of the staff even call her “mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987477\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_015-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_015-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_015-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_015-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/030626_THEE-PARKSIDE-_GH_015-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shane Plitt (left) and Max Wickham show their tattoos honoring Malia Spanyol, owner of Thee Parkside, on March 6, 2025, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It really represents a safe haven for any creative person,” Plitt said. “Somebody’s down, bad on their luck, went to jail, got out of jail, can’t find a job — you are welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since announcing Thee Parkside will be closing sometime this year, community response has been equal parts frustration and disbelief. 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"content": "\u003cp>At the second annual San Francisco Music Week Industry Summit on Feb. 27, Mayor Daniel Lurie was quick to praise independent venues for generating $1.4 billion for the city’s economy. After all, every time someone attends a show at, say, El Rio or the Chapel, they’re also spending additional cash on pre-show drinks, post-show burritos, parking, merch and maybe even a hotel room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from their economic impact, independent venues have shaped San Francisco’s culture and global reputation. Whether it’s the Fillmore’s post–World War II jazz clubs or Haight-Ashbury’s Summer of Love heyday, San Francisco’s music scene has inspired the city’s biggest tourist attractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet at the summit, panelist after panelist spoke about how San Francisco’s independent venues are struggling. Ever-rising rents, costly permits and increasing corporate control of the industry have put a strain on the mom-and-pop shops that serve as crucial proving grounds for new bands, rappers and DJs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This last year we made by far in revenue the most we’ve ever made, but at the same time the costs were unbelievably higher than they’ve ever been before,” Fred Barnes, talent buyer and general manager at Great American Music Hall, told KQED after stepping off stage at the summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987286\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IndependentVenues_Panel2_IndustrySummit_SFMW-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IndependentVenues_Panel2_IndustrySummit_SFMW-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IndependentVenues_Panel2_IndustrySummit_SFMW-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IndependentVenues_Panel2_IndustrySummit_SFMW-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IndependentVenues_Panel2_IndustrySummit_SFMW-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IndependentVenues_Panel2_IndustrySummit_SFMW-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/IndependentVenues_Panel2_IndustrySummit_SFMW-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Gabe Docto of August Hall, Fred Barnes of Great American Music Hall, Daniel Bondi of the Faight and Lynn Schwarz of Bottom of the Hill speak at the San Francisco Music Week Industry Summit on Feb. 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SF Music Week)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to a recent report from the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA), independent venues generated billions for the nation’s economy in 2024, but only 36% of them were actually profitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the list of challenges, venues are no longer just competing against one another for patrons’ dollars. As Daniel Bondi, co-owner of the Faight, put it during the panel, “We’re actually just competing against TikTok and Instagram and social media. We’re competing against your will to get off the couch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With two historic venues, Thee Parkside and Bottom of the Hill, closing this year, San Francisco Music Week included a timely conversation about the health of the live music ecosystem and how local governments, fans and artists can help.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fixing a power imbalance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On stage at Swedish American Hall, panelists were quick to point out the power imbalance between independent venues and Live Nation and AEG, the two largest live events companies in the country. Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, operates Bay Area venues including August Hall, the Fillmore and the Masonic. Goldenvoice, an AEG subsidiary, controls the Warfield and the Regency Ballroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes pointed out that independent venues often lose money booking up-and-coming acts; once those acts blow up, they move on to the larger corporate venues, creating a dynamic where the small indies don’t get to profit from the hype they helped build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s much less risk-taking up the corporate ladder,” said Barnes. “They much prefer to just sit and wait for all of that to happen, and then just take it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13972474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13972474\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250225-NoisePopGlixen-04-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250225-NoisePopGlixen-04-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250225-NoisePopGlixen-04-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250225-NoisePopGlixen-04-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250225-NoisePopGlixen-04-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250225-NoisePopGlixen-04-BL-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250225-NoisePopGlixen-04-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250225-NoisePopGlixen-04-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glixen, a shoegaze band, performs at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2025, as part of the Noise Pop festival. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a possible solution, Lynn Schwarz, co-owner of Bottom of the Hill, pointed to the San Francisco Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund, which was created to help venues stay afloat during pandemic closures. While the grant has already been distributed, Schwarz proposed reviving the fund to meet the current moment. She pitched the idea of putting $1 of every ticket sold at a corporate-backed concert into the fund and dividing it up among smaller venues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that part of it could go to a fund that was specifically earmarked to pay opening bands more, to pay local bands more,” she added. “I’ve been passionate about that.” [aside postid='arts_13987231']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Alcohol sales may no longer be the answer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another challenge for venues is that \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7203140/gen-z-drinking-less-alcohol/\">Gen Z drinks less than any previous generation\u003c/a>. “Which is really great for them and really bad for us,” Schwarz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the panelists lamented that their business model hinges on bar sales when music is the heart of what they do. Katie Rose, the co-owner of Kilowatt, was listening in the audience and passionately agreed. “It sucks that we have to consider art being associated with drinking,” she told KQED after the panel. “If we could find a way to change that, I think a lot of that might come with grants from the city so that music venues don’t have to make decisions based on alcohol sales.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bondi said the Faight is in the process of starting a nonprofit so that it can apply for grants to fund some of its events, which skew young, D.I.Y. and experimental. “We are first and foremost a community space,” he said. “Our whole mission is to give artists and musicians a platform to grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13972462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13972462\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250221-GEOGRAPHER-_-VIDEO-AGE-MD-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250221-GEOGRAPHER-_-VIDEO-AGE-MD-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250221-GEOGRAPHER-_-VIDEO-AGE-MD-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250221-GEOGRAPHER-_-VIDEO-AGE-MD-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250221-GEOGRAPHER-_-VIDEO-AGE-MD-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250221-GEOGRAPHER-_-VIDEO-AGE-MD-08-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250221-GEOGRAPHER-_-VIDEO-AGE-MD-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/250221-GEOGRAPHER-_-VIDEO-AGE-MD-08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Video Age opens for Gepgrapher at August Hall in San Francisco as part of Noise Pop on Feb. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Reducing city costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Venue operators praised several new programs that have cut down their operating costs in recent years. One is a relatively new Type 90 liquor license for entertainment venues. Liquor licenses used to run clubs upwards of $150,000, but the Faight got their Type 90 license for $25,000, Bondi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s massive. Wouldn’t have been able to start otherwise,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Off stage in a follow-up conversation, Docto of August Hall gave props to a new parking permit reform in San Francisco that reduces the costs for venues to park tour buses outside their doors. Docto said August Hall anticipates saving $30,000 on parking alone this year. “It’s not breaking the bank anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How artists and fans can support their favorite small venues\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several panelists pointed to the success of the Castro Theatre, a historic movie palace that Another Planet Entertainment recently reopened as a mixed-use entertainment venue. British hitmaker Sam Smith recently sold out a 20-show residency there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That gives them a raging start to their financial year,” Bondi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think artists also do have some power here, like maybe push back against the agents” who want them to play bigger clubs, he argued. “Be like, ‘No, I want to play Bottom of the Hill. I want to do a three-night run there, and we’re gonna sell the place.’” [aside postid='arts_13987242']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom of the Hill’s Schwarz said booking agents have a part to play as well. She said it’s becoming more and more common for tours to book opening acts rather than allowing independent venues like hers to add a local artist to the bill — something that would help nourish the live music ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time you see a two-band bill on our calendar I had a fight about it,” she said. “I had a fight and I lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panelists had high praise for San Francisco’s dedicated music fans, who passionately support even the most niche scenes. But Bondi also said that in the post-pandemic era of delivery services and at-home entertainment, event attendance remains inconsistent. He implored the audience: “Just go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you work in tech or have a high, high six-figure salary, buy a couple of your friends tickets,” he added, “and contribute.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Growing up in Tokyo in the ’80s, she savored those moments when she and her mom stood side by side in the kitchen making fresh onigiri and mochi, and, most of all, when they’d sit around the family table to enjoy a meal of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4ZHSAtvjUG/?hl=en&img_index=1\">yose-nabe\u003c/a>, a kind of hot pot made with simple ingredients like clams, fish and whatever vegetables they had on hand — all cooked in the traditional Japanese clay pot known as donabe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best part, she says, was when they’d lift the lid of the pot to reveal the finished dish, and all of the steam wafted up. “It’s so special,” she says. “It never gets old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the introduction to her new cookbook, \u003ca href=\"https://toirokitchen.com/products/simply-donabe-cookbook\">\u003ci>Simply Donabe\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, Takei Moore recalls how years later, after she’d immigrated to Los Angeles, she found herself wanting to share traditional donabe with her new community in the United States. In 2008, she founded \u003ca href=\"https://toirokitchen.com/\">TOIRO\u003c/a>, a company that sold handmade donabe imported from Iga, Japan, and started hosting donabe-centric Japanese cooking classes in her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she knew it, she’d become donabe culture’s number one evangelist in the Western world, co-authoring her first award-winning cookbook on the topic (\u003ci>Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking) \u003c/i>in 2015, and expanding her business to include a brick-and-mortar donabe shop in West Hollywood. 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(It’s “doh-nah-bay,” not “doh-nah-bee.”) Now, magazines like \u003ci>Food & Wine \u003c/i>and \u003ci>Bon Appétit\u003c/i> will reference “donabe” in recipes without feeling the need to translate the word as “Japanese clay pot,” and TOIRO routinely gets orders from customers across the U.S. and in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Takei Moore says the gospel she’s spreading isn’t really about any particular recipe or cooking technique. Instead, she believes using donabe in day-to-day cooking is a pathway toward a slower, more intentional and more idyllic life — what she calls her “happy donabe life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the eve of a book tour visit to San Francisco that will include \u003ca href=\"https://omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/products/naoko-takei-moore-author-event-simply-donabe-japanese-one-pot-recipes\">a talk at Omnivore Books on Food\u003c/a> and a special dinner at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DUwLLUBEk3M/?img_index=1\">Rintaro\u003c/a>, I spoke to Takei Moore about the connective power of food and the life-changing, near-magical qualities of her beloved donabe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Luke Tsai: Can you briefly explain what a donabe \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>is\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb> for those who don’t know?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Naoko Takei Moore:\u003c/b> It literally means clay pot — “do” means clay, and “nabe” means pot. It’s the foundation of Japanese cuisine, going back more than 10,000 years during the Jōmon Period. So it’s almost like donabe is a national cookware for Japanese people; it’s so close to everybody’s heart. Almost every household owns at least one. It can be something very inexpensive and mass-produced, or, or you can invest in something a little bit more artisan — the super-premium style can go up to $1,000 or $2,000. But most donabe are very affordable and approachable, and if you use it properly, it can last for a long, long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>In the introduction to your book, you talk about how donabe isn’t just a cooking tool; it’s a “way of life” — and a way for a person to have a happy life. Can you elaborate on how that’s the case?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13986360,arts_13959259,arts_13926203']Ultimately, it’s a lifestyle, and it really symbolizes Japanese communal dining. In Japanese conversation, when we say “nabe,” it refers to a hot pot dish, but it also means “let’s get together.” Instead of saying “let’s get together,” we might say, “Let’s nabe sometime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you make hot pot in a donabe, you set up a tabletop burner in the center of the table, put the donabe there, add all the ingredients, and then you cook. Everybody gets to participate: Someone is in charge of the main cooking, but you might ask, “Can you pass that? Can you stir?” It’s really not about the vessel itself or the recipes, but it’s more about how donabe plays a role in communication and connecting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because donabe is essentially just a bowl and a lid, there’s always this time when the dish is done, so let’s reveal. That’s when everybody’s eyes just focus on the lid. And the joy when the donabe lid is lifted, that’s really so special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s really not about the finished dish, it’s the process of the entire meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987070\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Meat-Group-c-Matt-Russell.jpg\" alt=\"A spread of meat and seafood, ready to be cooked in a donabe for a hot pot meal.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Meat-Group-c-Matt-Russell.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Meat-Group-c-Matt-Russell-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Meat-Group-c-Matt-Russell-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Meat-Group-c-Matt-Russell-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A display of raw meat and seafood, ready to be cooked in the donabe. \u003ccite>(Matt Russell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A lot of American home cooks already have too many pots and pans and might feel like it’s too much to buy this kind of specialized cooking vessel. What do you say to those people when convincing them to give donabe cooking a try?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, I completely understand. [laughs] I promote the spirit of donabe cooking — if you want to use different kinds of pots, that’s totally fine. But I have seen so many people who are like that who say, “Ok, I’ll give it a try,” and buy a basic, medium-size donabe. Then they come back and say, your donabe changed my life and changed my family’s life. They talk about how the donabe is so beautiful to look at and how, when it’s at the center of the table, it just connects people. It becomes their Sunday ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, people comment that when cooking in donabe, somehow the food magically tastes better. And that has been proven scientifically, because donabe is made of porous clay. It takes more time to build the heat, and once it gets hot, it stays hot for a long time. So if you’re making a braised dish or a stew or soup, when the pot cools down very slowly, that’s how you develop multiple layers of flavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Is there one recipe in particular that you suggest that people try cooking in order to convince them of the “donabe way”?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s hard because all the recipes are so personal to me! But probably miso soup or a hot pot dish. Soup is so essential in my life because it calms me and slows me down. Also, rice tastes so good when you cook it in the donabe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987071\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell.jpg\" alt=\"A woman seated in front of a spread of Japanese small plates.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cookbook also includes recipes for assorted small bites meant to be eaten as part of a donabe-centric meal. \u003ccite>(Matt Russell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What about the versatility of donabe? Can you use it for cooking dishes that are completely non-Japanese? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love making curry in the donabe. And orange saffron rice, which is inspired by Persian cuisine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, donabe is not about the recipes; it’s really about the spirit of the cooking. Braising is part of every culture. Recently, I made a Mediterranean-style chickpea and lamb stew with tomato sauce that was really brilliant. And one time, a customer in Norway made a reindeer stew in the donabe and sent me a photo. It looked absolutely delicious.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://toirokitchen.com/collections/books/products/simply-donabe-cookbook\">Simply Donabe\u003c/a>\u003ci> is available wherever books are sold. 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What do you say to those people when convincing them to give donabe cooking a try?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, I completely understand. [laughs] I promote the spirit of donabe cooking — if you want to use different kinds of pots, that’s totally fine. But I have seen so many people who are like that who say, “Ok, I’ll give it a try,” and buy a basic, medium-size donabe. Then they come back and say, your donabe changed my life and changed my family’s life. They talk about how the donabe is so beautiful to look at and how, when it’s at the center of the table, it just connects people. It becomes their Sunday ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, people comment that when cooking in donabe, somehow the food magically tastes better. And that has been proven scientifically, because donabe is made of porous clay. It takes more time to build the heat, and once it gets hot, it stays hot for a long time. So if you’re making a braised dish or a stew or soup, when the pot cools down very slowly, that’s how you develop multiple layers of flavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Is there one recipe in particular that you suggest that people try cooking in order to convince them of the “donabe way”?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s hard because all the recipes are so personal to me! But probably miso soup or a hot pot dish. Soup is so essential in my life because it calms me and slows me down. Also, rice tastes so good when you cook it in the donabe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987071\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell.jpg\" alt=\"A woman seated in front of a spread of Japanese small plates.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Small-Bites-2-c-Matt-Russell-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cookbook also includes recipes for assorted small bites meant to be eaten as part of a donabe-centric meal. \u003ccite>(Matt Russell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What about the versatility of donabe? 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To Thomas, he served as a creative partner and source of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13987052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/2324concerts_121523mttway_002.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people sit in chairs, many dressed in blue, on the sidewalk\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13987052\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/2324concerts_121523mttway_002.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/2324concerts_121523mttway_002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/2324concerts_121523mttway_002-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/2324concerts_121523mttway_002-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Robison, second from left, sits with Michael Tilson Thomas, Mayor London Breed, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco Symphony Executive Director Matthew Spivey at a dedication ceremony for ‘MTT Way’ outside Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco in Dec. 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Symphony)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Thomas was the music director and public face of the San Francisco Symphony from 1995–2020, “Joshua was the steady and indispensable force behind the scenes who helped make it all work,” said the Symphony’s board chair Priscilla Geeslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their partnership was extraordinary: Michael’s expansive artistic vision paired with Joshua’s insight, advocacy, and unwavering dedication. Joshua ensured that bold ideas became realities, that relationships were nurtured, and that the Symphony’s work resonated far beyond the stage,” Geeslin added. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robison and Thomas met as musicians in their junior high orchestra. “We have very strong memories of making music together when we were 12 or 13 years old,” Thomas \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/38-years-together-Tilson-Thomas-and-Robison-marry-5867303.php\">once told\u003c/a> the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13975353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue shirt clasps his hands in appreciation next to a door as smiling friends stand close by\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13975353\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/2425concerts_042625_mttbirthday_stefancohen_080-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Robison, second from left, leaves the stage with Michael Tilson Thomas, Edwin Outwater and Teddy Abrams at the end of Thomas’ 80th birthday celebration at Davies Symphony Hall, April 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Stefan Cohen / San Francisco Symphony)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In high school and at UC Berkeley, while Thomas continued to study music, Robison became a champion gymnast. In the 1970s, the two reunited in New York state, and were inseparable ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, 38 years after first meeting, the two were married. In 2021, after Thomas was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909978/michael-tilson-thomas-goes-public-about-cancer-steps-back-from-some-engagements\">diagnosed with a brain tumor\u003c/a>, Robison provided constant care and support. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Robison produced an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13975328/michael-tilson-thomas-80th-birthday-concert-symphony-review\">80th birthday concert\u003c/a> for Thomas at Davies Symphony Hall, and sat by Thomas’ side onstage for the duration of the celebration. At the concert’s end, Thomas sang along to the song “Some Other Time,” gesturing toward Robison on the lines: “There’s so much more embracing / Still to be done / But time is racing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A memorial for Robison has not yet been announced. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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