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I don’t really think I’m breaking any ground here when I say that the Catholic Church has had its fair share of problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to see people kind of reclaim – especially so many queer fans, specifically … like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/1249331190/conclave-pope-lgbtq-catholics-francis\">queer people have been so marginalized by the Catholic Church\u003c/a> – to see them kind of find their own way of reclaiming Catholicism is very cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13975852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/Papal-conclave-memes-16-20250424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1490\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/Papal-conclave-memes-16-20250424.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/Papal-conclave-memes-16-20250424-800x745.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/Papal-conclave-memes-16-20250424-1020x950.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/Papal-conclave-memes-16-20250424-160x149.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/Papal-conclave-memes-16-20250424-768x715.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/Papal-conclave-memes-16-20250424-1536x1430.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some things about the Catholic Church that I think a lot of queer people are drawn to. So much of it is the pageantry. A couple of years ago, there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/met-gala-2018-see-best-heavenly-looks-catholic-themed-red-n872051\">the Heavenly Bodies theme\u003c/a> [at the Met Gala]. If the Catholic Church didn’t want gay people to be so interested in it, they should stop slaying so hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think queer people also may have been drawn specifically to Pope Francis, because he was so involved with this message of peace. Especially towards the very end of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>McCain\u003c/strong>: As for \u003cem>Conclave\u003c/em> itself, let me just also say: People love Stanley Tucci, people love Ralph Fiennes, people love intrigue. I have described it many times as \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em> set in the Vatican. It is people trying to find the truth to these rumors. Isabella Rossellini is a queen. There’s a lot about that that people are also really drawn to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pope Crave\u003c/strong>: You can’t ignore the fact that Catholicism has a baller aesthetic. And it has a lot of history behind it, for better and for worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone else talked to me about this, so I can’t claim credit for this, but it’s really fascinating how \u003cem>Conclave\u003c/em> [swings between] low culture to high culture, to low culture to high-culture low culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Harris [the author of \u003cem>Conclave\u003c/em>] kind of writes these airport novel thrillers, and then it becomes a prestige drama with Edward Berger and Ralph Fiennes. At the same time, it’s like a drag performance of the Catholic church. And when you [the fans] are making Old Man Yaoi, you are dragging the drag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13975853\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/05781ed9-6e11-418e-9587-991ba6915fb4_1184x926.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1184\" height=\"926\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/05781ed9-6e11-418e-9587-991ba6915fb4_1184x926.jpg 1184w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/05781ed9-6e11-418e-9587-991ba6915fb4_1184x926-800x626.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/05781ed9-6e11-418e-9587-991ba6915fb4_1184x926-1020x798.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/05781ed9-6e11-418e-9587-991ba6915fb4_1184x926-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/05781ed9-6e11-418e-9587-991ba6915fb4_1184x926-768x601.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1184px) 100vw, 1184px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film itself – even Catholicism itself – is really interesting, in that you’re seeing non-traditional depictions of masculinity. These are men in dresses who are really about interiority and faithfulness and sincerity, but also at the same time doing vape hits and being full-ass divas. So on every level, there’s just so much subversion, and the transformative nature of that is inherent to the text.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you following any potential candidate for the papacy? Do you have any hopes for the outcome?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>McCain\u003c/strong>: I certainly would like to have another more liberal-minded Pope. Let’s be honest with ourselves, it’s still going to be a representative of the Catholic Church, and the Catholic Church is in many, many different ways [behind], especially on stances like people being queer, and women, and abortion. I really worry that they’ll end up taking somebody who is much more conservative given the way that just world politics is right now.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Welcome to our list of Bay Area arts and culture trends in 2023. Notably, it was a year that few are describing as “the worst year ever,” as many year-end listmakers were understandably wont to do for a while. We also suppose this list could have included things like AI, driverless cars, robot deliveries and the metaverse. It was just Tom Waits’ birthday; \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/195963-we-are-buried-beneath-the-weight-of-information-which-is\">let’s let him weigh in\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s to you all, individually and collectively, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8AMZmWqgRM\">love and happiness\u003c/a> in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A blonde woman with a microphone is on stage performing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1815\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937426\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-800x567.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-768x544.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-2048x1452.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-1920x1361.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Swift performs onstage during The Eras Tour at Levi’s Stadium on July 28, 2023 in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Jeff Kravitz/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Return of the Monoculture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Twelve years after Touré’s defining treatise “\u003ca href=\"https://www.salon.com/2011/09/29/how_niches_killed_culture/\">Why I Miss the Monoculture\u003c/a>,” the monoculture is back, for better or for worse. Taylor Swift alone absolutely dominated the \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-top-album-sales-chart-1235464968/\">recording\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.normantranscript.com/community/taylor-swift-is-spotify-s-most-streamed-artist-of-2023-ending-bad-bunnys-3-year/article_daecf7f8-8fa4-11ee-8337-5f9be5f11a35.html\">streaming\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-eras-tour-top-grossing-global-tour/\">touring\u003c/a> industry, while captivating the \u003ca href=\"https://ew.com/movies/taylor-swift-eras-tour-concert-film-tops-box-office-breaks-global-record/\">box office\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937413/uc-berkeleys-taylor-swift-business-class-set-for-2024\">UC system\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/6342806/person-of-the-year-2023-taylor-swift/\">\u003cem>TIME\u003c/em> magazine\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931892/dear-city-leaders-stop-with-the-taylor-swift-pandering-already\">our nation’s elected officials\u003c/a> — and Beyoncé was \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/music/news/beyonce-record-most-grammy-wins-all-time-1235513412/\">not far behind\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> took the nation’s multiplexes \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/film/box-office/summer-box-office-hits-4-billion-barbie-oppenheimer-1235712314/\">by storm\u003c/a>, and superhero franchises like \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Spider-Man\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Ant-Man\u003c/em> filled out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2023/\">Top 10 box office list\u003c/a>. In other words, if you needed common ground to talk about with coworkers, you had plenty to pick from this year.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894605\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immersive van Gogh at SVN West, San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Cheshire Isaacs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The End of Immersive ‘Art Experiences’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let me tell you one thing I didn’t miss this year: being immersed in a so-called art experience. 2022 was full of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13894558/immersive-van-gogh-review-san-francisco\">Immersive van Gogh\u003c/a> spawn (a frankly offensive Frida Kahlo, a fine-by-comparison \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909273/review-imagine-picasso-immersive-san-francisco\">Picasso thing\u003c/a> at the Armory). Those events, in turn, were the immaterial outcome of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13804930/no-filter-necessary-in-sfs-instagram-ready-color-factory\">Color Factory\u003c/a>, the Museum of Ice Cream and (my personal least favorite) the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861247/the-90s-experience-instagram\">90’s Experience\u003c/a>. Strangely, we’ve now come full circle: the immersive photo-op has phase-shifted back into physical artwork and taken up residence at our largest museum, courtesy of SFMOMA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13935810/yayoi-kusama-sfmoma-infinite-love-review\">Yayoi Kusama exhibition\u003c/a>, which literally costs $10 a minute. If museums learned one thing from all the immersive offshoots over the years, it’s that people will pay top dollar for a limited amount of time in an audio-visual experience utterly stripped of context.\u003cem>—Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 848px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401.jpg 848w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If San Francisco’s new marketing campaign slogan sounds familiar, well… (seen here: a sign in Las Vegas.) \u003ccite>(Darren Asay/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco Spending Millions Trying to Rebrand Itself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Imagine you live elsewhere, and your understanding of San Francisco is essentially Fox News footage of people pillaging Walgreens. But wait! You encounter a bus ad: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/us/san-francisco-ad-campaign.html\">It All Starts Here\u003c/a>.” Are you overcome with desire to travel to SF? How about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RkuigBlSLg\">Always San Francisco\u003c/a>,” does that do anything for you? This is, as far as I can tell, the scenario on which city leaders and a handful of tech billionaires wagered a combined $10 million in 2023, attempting to reverse reputational damage caused by a dearth of affordable housing, an absurd cost of living and a devastating fentanyl crisis \u003cem>with marketing\u003c/em>. Does this feel a little like the captain of the Titanic launching a social media rebrand mid-collision? Sure! Do nuanced discussions of public health, inequality and long-term investments in the arts make for snappy copy in politicians’ campaign materials? Not really! But hey, maybe we just haven’t come up with the right slogan yet. In the meantime, we have this new “\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/04/san-francisco-anthem-premiere-johns-grill/\">San Francisco theme song\u003c/a>,” about which I will say: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931922/tony-bennett-san-francisco-remembrance\">We miss you, Tony Bennett\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—Emma Silvers\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop.jpg\" alt=\"A hand reaches to pick up an icy pink beverage. There's also a iced chocolate drink and a plate of corn roti on the table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925324\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dek Doi Cafe’s Thai-style “pink milk” and street food style sweet roti.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Bay Area’s (Mom-and-Pop) Restaurant Scene Isn’t Dead Yet\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These days, keeping a restaurant afloat in the Bay Area seems like an impossible task — an unwinnable battle against \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/oakland-restaurants-crime-closure-18373900.php\">thieves\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz2mhcvLNwW/\">vandals\u003c/a> and an overall “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/cafe-international-lower-haight-18339072.php\">sea of lawlessness\u003c/a>.” Or so goes the prevailing narrative, anyway. A few Oakland restaurateurs even declared a (\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/09/27/strike-oakland-business-closure-protest/\">largely overblown, hour-long\u003c/a>) “strike” in protest. And it’s true that crime (and, nearly as bad, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13933006/hina-yakitori-closing-grilled-chicken-omakase-san-francisco\">the \u003cem>perception\u003c/em> of crime\u003c/a>) is a real concern. This isn’t an economy that leaves much margin for error, and the sheer economics of the Bay have snuffed out a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bonappetit.com/story/sf-bay-area-dining-problem-opinion\">innovation at the highest end\u003c/a>. Still, anyone lamenting the death of Bay Area food hasn’t been eating out at the same places we have — not when 2023 has gifted us with S-tier \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936332/tchaka-haitian-restaurant-oakland\">Haitian comfort food\u003c/a>, idiosyncratic little Thai cafes serving dessert rotis and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925310/dek-doi-cafe-pink-milk-thai-bl-oakland\">gay pink milk\u003c/a>,” and joyously off-kilter \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/egglicious-india-san-jose-18193681.php\">Indian egg restaurants\u003c/a>. Now as always, when it comes to niche, street-level mom-and-pops, the Bay remains undefeated.\u003cem>—Luke Tsai\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939096\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum to protest the ownership of the baseball team on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The A’s Resent You\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Well, the A’s \u003cem>owners\u003c/em> do, at least. That much was confirmed in 2023, during which, instead of my usual seven or eight games at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1179463946631184384\">the greatest ballpark in America\u003c/a>, I could only bring myself to go to one. Finally, after years of neglect, the A’s owner — I’d say his name, but it’d have to be accompanied by the foulest string of obscenities imaginable — acquired approval from Major League Baseball to move the whole sad, desiccated team southward to sad, desiccated Las Vegas. Sure, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968536/new-oakland-ballers-baseball-team-aims-to-keep-the-sport-in-the-city\">another baseball team coming to town\u003c/a>. But 2023 was the year of the “SELL” T-shirt, and the broken hearts of longtime fans.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands holding a sign with a building in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937172\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soha Leach, 42, poses in front of a marching crowd at the ‘Stop the Genocide in Gaza’ rally at the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 28. \u003ccite>(Olivia Cruz Mayeda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Pro-Palestinian Uprising Larger Than Ever\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year saw the largest, most cohesive wave of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937170/the-art-of-protest-in-san-francisco-5-messages-from-the-gaza-rally\">pro-Palestinian protests\u003c/a> ever. In the Bay Area, Richmond became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/richmond-city-council-passes-resolution-showing-solidarity-with-gaza/\">first American city\u003c/a> to pass a ceasefire resolution, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968400/oakland-city-council-set-to-vote-on-gaza-cease-fire-resolution\">followed by Oakland\u003c/a>. Bay Area artists, in particular, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938450/400-bay-area-artists-palestine-bds-pacbi-letter\">rallied in protest\u003c/a> of Israel’s most recent siege of Gaza, which has so far killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-passes-15000-palestinian-official-says?nid=322376&topic=Israel-Palestine%2520war&fid=491046\">more than 15,000\u003c/a> Palestinians. Artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937219/bay-area-artists-palestinian-childrens-relief-fund-continental-club\">raised upwards of $13,000\u003c/a> for Palestinian children at a November fundraiser in Oakland, matched in the restaurant scene with support for and by Palestinian \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/israel-hamas-war-giving-back-to-gaza-fundraiser-san-jose-business-el-halal-amigos/13968097/\">businesses and eateries\u003c/a> here in the Bay Area. Even local surfers got involved, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937866/local-surfers-screening-gaza-surf-club\">screening\u003c/a> the documentary \u003cem>Gaza Surf Club\u003c/em> to call upon their community to advocate for a ceasefire. With their dollars, poetry, policy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938619/porch-party-oakland-pop-up-art-activism-community\">food\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938450/400-bay-area-artists-palestine-bds-pacbi-letter\">organized boycotts\u003c/a>, Bay Area folks are showing up for Palestinians now more than ever.\u003cem>—Olivia Mayeda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_.jpg\" alt=\"Signage at Bandcamp's new Oakland offices goes up on Jan. 17, 2019.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"751\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13848951\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-768x524.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-1020x696.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signage at Bandcamp’s Oakland offices goes up on Jan. 17, 2019. The downtown Oakland performance space and record showroom closed in 2023 shortly after Bandcamp’s sale to Songtradr. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Music Industry Making it Harder to Be an Artist — and Fan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2023, we convinced ourselves that paying Ticketmaster hundreds of dollars in fees would be a fair exchange for experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934154/beyonce-review-levis-stadium-2023-renaissance-world-tour\">Beyoncé tour\u003c/a>. But throughout the year, the ubiquitous ticketing company drove up prices for large and small concerts alike with those exorbitant add-on fees, all while its parent company, Live Nation, pocketed record profits. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13935406/fillmore-live-nation-on-road-again-touring-artists\">independent touring musicians\u003c/a> continued to lose money amidst post-pandemic gas prices and inflation. Songtradr bought Bandcamp and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936509/idiotic-and-cruel-musicians-slam-layoffs-at-bandcamp\">laid off staff\u003c/a> including the entire union bargaining committee, prompting a labor complaint, and Spotify announced that it will stop paying royalties on songs with under 1,000 streams. The music industry is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893314/how-musicians-are-navigating-streaming-algorithms-ai-and-automation\">increasingly stacked against up-and-coming musicians\u003c/a>, which is why it’s all the more important to be intentional about supporting our local artists.\u003cem>—Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13938220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Rubber gloved hand sprinkles chopped cilantro onto an oversized pupusa topped the meat.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13938220\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irma Morales sprinkles cilantro on a Birria Pupusa Pizza in the kitchen at Pupuseria Las Cabańas in Hayward, Calif. on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Watch Me Eat This Pupusa The Size of Your Head and sMasH tHaT LiKe bUtToN!!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anyone chronically on TikTok and Instagram has probably already noticed this year’s biggest food trend: the proliferation of local, raucous, personality-driven food influencers. From the humorous caricatures of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thesnacksensei/?hl=en\">The Snack Sensei\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bayareafoodz/\">BayAreaFoodz\u003c/a> to the health-focused feed of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13915889/berkeley-vegan-food-festival-bizerkeley-vegan\">Bizerkeley Vegan\u003c/a> and lavish outings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/allie.eats/?hl=en\">Allie Eats\u003c/a> (nearly half a million followers combined between the four accounts), there’s more bombastic food-related content than ever from the Bay Area. Viral videos of an oversized pupusa or a pan dulce big enough to use as a literal pillow has fueled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936325/social-media-biggest-pupusas-burritos-instagram-tiktok-latinextravagant-bay-area\">new wave of extravagant restaurateurs\u003c/a> catering to the frenzy by super-sizing, quadruple-dipping and gold-flaking everything under the sun — often collabing with foodie accounts to build hype. And all of our internet-marinated brains seem to be eating it up.\u003cem>—Alan Chazaro\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1630px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM.png\" alt='A blue sky background with a large Barbie logo in the center and a United airplane. Text around it reads: \"This Barbie is a dream. Now flying.\"' width=\"1630\" height=\"1196\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931700\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM.png 1630w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-800x587.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-1020x748.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-768x564.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-1536x1127.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1630px) 100vw, 1630px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Barbie isn’t a Barbie. Now, knock it off, United. \u003ccite>(Instagram/ @united)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Barbie Burnout\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At first it was like, yay, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13933011/its-billiongirlsummer-taylor-beyonce-and-barbie-made-for-one-epic-trifecta\">girly pop culture moment\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931981/greta-gerwig-box-office-record-female-directors\">female director from Sacramento making hella bank\u003c/a>, but then it was like, why is every commercial this very specific shade of pink and why are all the makeup stores pink, and the clothing stores, and the shoe stores, and why is that Burger King burger pink, and why is my Google search pink, and is it okay that everyone’s making \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931677/barbenheimer-barbie-oppenheimer-box-office-greta-gerwig-christopher-nolan\">memes that combine Barbie and the actual atomic bomb\u003c/a>, and what the hell is an Ice Spice Munchkin, and isn’t it a bit weird that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931533/taylor-swift-irs-fbi-woke-gen-z-how-do-you-do-fellow-kidshttps://www.kqed.org/arts/13931533/taylor-swift-irs-fbi-woke-gen-z-how-do-you-do-fellow-kids\">the TSA used Barbie in a knives warning\u003c/a>, and isn’t the end of the movie where Barbie goes to the gynecologist actually lazy and reductive, and wouldn’t it have been better if she was in the Mattel CEO chair instead because women aren’t allowed that very often, and actually, just forget it, because even though \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931753/allan-doll-michael-cera-greta-gerwig-barbie-movie-review\">Allan is the literal greatest\u003c/a>, I want nothing to do with any of this now.\u003cem>—Rae Alexandra\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 928px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"928\" height=\"274\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939095\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM.png 928w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM-800x236.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM-160x47.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM-768x227.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks, Elon. \u003ccite>(X)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Billionaires Ruining the Internet’s Usefulness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While TikTok continues to drive culture and dominate discourse among young people, adults like Elon Musk (“adults,” ha) couldn’t figure out what to do with their social media platforms if it walked up and hit them with a Cybertruck. Meta did what it always does and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931259/threads-meta-thanks-i-hate-it\">copied an existing platform\u003c/a> with Threads. BlueSky didn’t fully catch on, Mastodon is a distant memory, and BeReal kinda withered and died. And, in the midst of it all, Google Search became \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/16yxzg0/google_is_no_longer_a_search_engine/\">more useless than ever\u003c/a>, prompting users seeking information to be fed pages of ads, or worse, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jakezward/status/1728032639402037610\">AI-generated garbage\u003c/a>. (This is where I repeat my catchphrase: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=subscribe%20to%20a%20newspaper%20from%3Agmeline&src=typed_query&f=top\">subscribe to a newspaper\u003c/a>.)\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1455560954-scaled-e1673477731985.jpg\" alt=\"A stack of books featuring Prince Harry's face in close up, sit in a neat pile.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923614\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’ is offered for sale at a Barnes & Noble store on Jan. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Scott Olson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Flood of Celebrity Memoirs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The secret to publishing a NYT-bestselling blockbuster this year seemed to lie in aristocracy. Celebrity memoirs have never gone out of style, but the monumental success of Prince Harry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13923613/dish-from-prince-harry-one-of-their-own-could-fuel-royal-change\">\u003cem>Spare\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and pop music royalty Britney Spears’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936729/britney-spears-book-autobiography-the-woman-in-me-gallery-books\">\u003cem>The Woman in Me\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which sold over 1.6 million and 1.1 million copies in the U.S. alone in their first weeks, shifted the spotlight back on the genre in 2023. For those of us seeking even more juicy, reflective stories from our aspirational tax bracket, memoirs from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937730/barbra-streisands-memoir-review-my-name-is-barbra\">Barbra Streisand\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936614/dolly-parton-book-review-behind-the-seams-my-life-in-rhinestones\">Dolly Parton\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13930083/elliot-page-shares-struggles-and-former-selves-in-engaging-new-memoir\">Elliot Page\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1151356491/pamela-anderson-book-memoir\">Pamela Anderson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206140650/jada-pinkett-will-smith-tupac-worthy\">Jada Pinkett Smith\u003c/a> did not disappoint. Pro tip: These memoirs make great stocking stuffers for the pop culture fanatics in your life.\u003cem>—Ugur Dursun\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 848px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968.jpg 848w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pants! \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Great Pants Awakening\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I went to high school in the late aughts, when we all traded low-rise flares for skinny jeans, so I’ve been studying the latest Great Pants Awakening like an anthropologist, gathering data on BART and TikTok, and surveying friends and family members of all ages. Some millennials dared to break up with our beloved tapered legs and waist-cinching highrise trousers, while others clung on to their favorite cuts for dear life. Meanwhile, new pants styles challenged all generations to reconsider their notions of beauty, gender and even propriety. Unisex cargo pants paired with a baggy hoodie to hide the body; thong-revealing ultra-low-rise with nipple-baring mesh on top. It’s all fair game, and both looks can be seen on the same person in a given week. 2023 was all about poly-pantism: the way of the future.\u003cem>—Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1852px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1852\" height=\"1384\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939094\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin.jpg 1852w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-1536x1148.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1852px) 100vw, 1852px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Albany Twin theater pictured on June 16, 2023, the day after its final movie screening. The theater had served Albany’s moviegoing public for 88 years. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Too Many Movie Theaters Biting the Dust\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite some hopeful reopenings such as San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13924146/4-star-theater-talk-movies-richmond-history-woody-labounty\">4-Star Theater\u003c/a>, the Bay Area’s movie theaters continue to roll credits and close down for good. The Albany Twin, the Century Theater in San Francisco’s Westfield Mall, the CGV (formerly the AMC) on Van Ness, the Rohnert Park Reading cinema and others all shuttered. “But we can watch movies at home now,” you might say! Joke’s on you, bub: fees for streaming subscriptions \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/streaming-service-price-increase-1235784311/\">got significantly more expensive\u003c/a>. After three years of other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892596/historic-west-portal-theater-closes-permanently-due-to-pandemic\">tough-to-swallow theater closures\u003c/a>, and tumult for fans of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">movies at the Castro\u003c/a>, we’re happy for even the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/s-f-real-estate-office-movie-theater-18431003.php\">smallest bit of good news\u003c/a> for local theaters.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The studio of San Francisco sign painter and pinstriper Lauren D’Amato at Headlands Center for the Arts, Oct. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lots of Love for Sign Painting (and Signs in General) \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With a healthy local sign painting scene, it’s no surprise we saw a lot of this work in gallery spaces this year — and a greater appreciation for the artistry of signs, period. Lauren D’Amato’s \u003ca href=\"https://houseofseiko.info/complete_machine\">solo at House of Seiko\u003c/a> borrowed from real-life Bayview signs, and she later received the Headlands’ Tournesol Award for an emerging Bay Area painter. The \u003ca href=\"https://web-production-7d4c4.up.railway.app/pieces/pieces/pieces/shows/2/\">inaugural show at Berkeley’s 127010\u003c/a>, curated by Oliver Hawk Holden, focused on artists merging commercial craft and fine art (a gold leaf and enamel piece by sign painter Michelle “Meng” Nguyen was a standout). And Pacific Saw Works, a new artist-run space in Oakland, christened their walls with a show of sign painters called, simply, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificsawworks.com/exhibitions\">\u003ci>Signs\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. I also need to mention the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/tenderloin-neon-sign-district-wins-approval/article_cf388ae8-3939-11ed-94c7-3376ecdea09c.html\">legislation\u003c/a> that passed late last year to make it easier to repair old neon signs (which often include painted elements) and install new ones in the Tenderloin. This year, we saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz7G72syuX0/?img_index=1\">the electric results\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13938611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1017px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1017\" height=\"652\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13938611\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1.jpg 1017w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jackson about to win 12 Grammys for ‘Thriller’ at the 1984 awards. At his side is his date Brooke Shields. At the time, says Mary J. Blige in a new documentary, Jackson was considered ‘super-duper-duper sexy.’ \u003ccite>(Ron Galella/ Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>TV Going Peak ’80s and ’90s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>My childhood was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97337/the-other-f-word-how-homophobic-language-has-ruined-80s-teen-movies\">the 1980s\u003c/a>, my teen years coincided with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13915084/chloe-sherman-renegade-san-francisco-1990s-schlomer-haus\">the ’90s\u003c/a>, and goddamnit, the streaming platforms \u003cem>really\u003c/em> played into my rapidly aging hands this year. In 2023, I finally got to rewatch \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936463/moonlighting-hulu-cybill-shepherd-bruce-willis-1980s-comedy\">\u003cem>Moonlighting\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (the endearingly preposterous detective show that launched Bruce Willis’ career) and unabashedly immerse myself in \u003cem>L.A. Law\u003c/em> at an age where I could actually understand it. But nowhere has ’80s and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/14084/90s-nostalgia-a-look-at-how-our-lives-do-and-dont-matter\">’90s nostalgia\u003c/a> shown up harder than in celebrity documentaries. Watching retrospectives about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938155\">\u003cem>Thriller\u003c/em>-era Michael Jackson\u003c/a>, Michael J. Fox, Wham!, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13924520/pamela-anderson-captivatingly-tells-her-own-story-in-new-netflix-documentary\">Pamela Anderson\u003c/a>, Anna Nicole Smith, the Gladiators, Robbie Williams, David Beckham and, yes, even Apple TV+’s far too rose-tinted profile of \u003cem>The Super Models\u003c/em> was like seeing my first 20 years of life flash before my eyes. My middle-aged ass is clearly being pandered to — and I absolutely love it.\u003cem>—Rae Alexandra\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Welcome to our list of Bay Area arts and culture trends in 2023. Notably, it was a year that few are describing as “the worst year ever,” as many year-end listmakers were understandably wont to do for a while. We also suppose this list could have included things like AI, driverless cars, robot deliveries and the metaverse. It was just Tom Waits’ birthday; \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/195963-we-are-buried-beneath-the-weight-of-information-which-is\">let’s let him weigh in\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s to you all, individually and collectively, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8AMZmWqgRM\">love and happiness\u003c/a> in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A blonde woman with a microphone is on stage performing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1815\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937426\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-800x567.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-768x544.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-2048x1452.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-1579018397-1920x1361.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Swift performs onstage during The Eras Tour at Levi’s Stadium on July 28, 2023 in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Jeff Kravitz/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Return of the Monoculture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Twelve years after Touré’s defining treatise “\u003ca href=\"https://www.salon.com/2011/09/29/how_niches_killed_culture/\">Why I Miss the Monoculture\u003c/a>,” the monoculture is back, for better or for worse. Taylor Swift alone absolutely dominated the \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-top-album-sales-chart-1235464968/\">recording\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.normantranscript.com/community/taylor-swift-is-spotify-s-most-streamed-artist-of-2023-ending-bad-bunnys-3-year/article_daecf7f8-8fa4-11ee-8337-5f9be5f11a35.html\">streaming\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-eras-tour-top-grossing-global-tour/\">touring\u003c/a> industry, while captivating the \u003ca href=\"https://ew.com/movies/taylor-swift-eras-tour-concert-film-tops-box-office-breaks-global-record/\">box office\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937413/uc-berkeleys-taylor-swift-business-class-set-for-2024\">UC system\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/6342806/person-of-the-year-2023-taylor-swift/\">\u003cem>TIME\u003c/em> magazine\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931892/dear-city-leaders-stop-with-the-taylor-swift-pandering-already\">our nation’s elected officials\u003c/a> — and Beyoncé was \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/music/news/beyonce-record-most-grammy-wins-all-time-1235513412/\">not far behind\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> took the nation’s multiplexes \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/film/box-office/summer-box-office-hits-4-billion-barbie-oppenheimer-1235712314/\">by storm\u003c/a>, and superhero franchises like \u003cem>Guardians of the Galaxy\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Spider-Man\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Ant-Man\u003c/em> filled out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2023/\">Top 10 box office list\u003c/a>. In other words, if you needed common ground to talk about with coworkers, you had plenty to pick from this year.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13894605\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/vangogh-5690_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immersive van Gogh at SVN West, San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Cheshire Isaacs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The End of Immersive ‘Art Experiences’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let me tell you one thing I didn’t miss this year: being immersed in a so-called art experience. 2022 was full of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13894558/immersive-van-gogh-review-san-francisco\">Immersive van Gogh\u003c/a> spawn (a frankly offensive Frida Kahlo, a fine-by-comparison \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909273/review-imagine-picasso-immersive-san-francisco\">Picasso thing\u003c/a> at the Armory). Those events, in turn, were the immaterial outcome of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13804930/no-filter-necessary-in-sfs-instagram-ready-color-factory\">Color Factory\u003c/a>, the Museum of Ice Cream and (my personal least favorite) the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13861247/the-90s-experience-instagram\">90’s Experience\u003c/a>. Strangely, we’ve now come full circle: the immersive photo-op has phase-shifted back into physical artwork and taken up residence at our largest museum, courtesy of SFMOMA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13935810/yayoi-kusama-sfmoma-infinite-love-review\">Yayoi Kusama exhibition\u003c/a>, which literally costs $10 a minute. If museums learned one thing from all the immersive offshoots over the years, it’s that people will pay top dollar for a limited amount of time in an audio-visual experience utterly stripped of context.\u003cem>—Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 848px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401.jpg 848w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1456657401-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If San Francisco’s new marketing campaign slogan sounds familiar, well… (seen here: a sign in Las Vegas.) \u003ccite>(Darren Asay/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco Spending Millions Trying to Rebrand Itself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Imagine you live elsewhere, and your understanding of San Francisco is essentially Fox News footage of people pillaging Walgreens. But wait! You encounter a bus ad: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/us/san-francisco-ad-campaign.html\">It All Starts Here\u003c/a>.” Are you overcome with desire to travel to SF? How about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RkuigBlSLg\">Always San Francisco\u003c/a>,” does that do anything for you? This is, as far as I can tell, the scenario on which city leaders and a handful of tech billionaires wagered a combined $10 million in 2023, attempting to reverse reputational damage caused by a dearth of affordable housing, an absurd cost of living and a devastating fentanyl crisis \u003cem>with marketing\u003c/em>. Does this feel a little like the captain of the Titanic launching a social media rebrand mid-collision? Sure! Do nuanced discussions of public health, inequality and long-term investments in the arts make for snappy copy in politicians’ campaign materials? Not really! But hey, maybe we just haven’t come up with the right slogan yet. In the meantime, we have this new “\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/04/san-francisco-anthem-premiere-johns-grill/\">San Francisco theme song\u003c/a>,” about which I will say: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931922/tony-bennett-san-francisco-remembrance\">We miss you, Tony Bennett\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—Emma Silvers\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop.jpg\" alt=\"A hand reaches to pick up an icy pink beverage. There's also a iced chocolate drink and a plate of corn roti on the table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925324\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Natera_DekDoiCafe_feature-crop-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dek Doi Cafe’s Thai-style “pink milk” and street food style sweet roti.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Bay Area’s (Mom-and-Pop) Restaurant Scene Isn’t Dead Yet\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These days, keeping a restaurant afloat in the Bay Area seems like an impossible task — an unwinnable battle against \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/oakland-restaurants-crime-closure-18373900.php\">thieves\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz2mhcvLNwW/\">vandals\u003c/a> and an overall “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/cafe-international-lower-haight-18339072.php\">sea of lawlessness\u003c/a>.” Or so goes the prevailing narrative, anyway. A few Oakland restaurateurs even declared a (\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/09/27/strike-oakland-business-closure-protest/\">largely overblown, hour-long\u003c/a>) “strike” in protest. And it’s true that crime (and, nearly as bad, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13933006/hina-yakitori-closing-grilled-chicken-omakase-san-francisco\">the \u003cem>perception\u003c/em> of crime\u003c/a>) is a real concern. This isn’t an economy that leaves much margin for error, and the sheer economics of the Bay have snuffed out a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bonappetit.com/story/sf-bay-area-dining-problem-opinion\">innovation at the highest end\u003c/a>. Still, anyone lamenting the death of Bay Area food hasn’t been eating out at the same places we have — not when 2023 has gifted us with S-tier \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936332/tchaka-haitian-restaurant-oakland\">Haitian comfort food\u003c/a>, idiosyncratic little Thai cafes serving dessert rotis and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925310/dek-doi-cafe-pink-milk-thai-bl-oakland\">gay pink milk\u003c/a>,” and joyously off-kilter \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/egglicious-india-san-jose-18193681.php\">Indian egg restaurants\u003c/a>. Now as always, when it comes to niche, street-level mom-and-pops, the Bay remains undefeated.\u003cem>—Luke Tsai\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939096\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum to protest the ownership of the baseball team on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The A’s Resent You\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Well, the A’s \u003cem>owners\u003c/em> do, at least. That much was confirmed in 2023, during which, instead of my usual seven or eight games at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1179463946631184384\">the greatest ballpark in America\u003c/a>, I could only bring myself to go to one. Finally, after years of neglect, the A’s owner — I’d say his name, but it’d have to be accompanied by the foulest string of obscenities imaginable — acquired approval from Major League Baseball to move the whole sad, desiccated team southward to sad, desiccated Las Vegas. Sure, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968536/new-oakland-ballers-baseball-team-aims-to-keep-the-sport-in-the-city\">another baseball team coming to town\u003c/a>. But 2023 was the year of the “SELL” T-shirt, and the broken hearts of longtime fans.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands holding a sign with a building in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937172\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Image-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soha Leach, 42, poses in front of a marching crowd at the ‘Stop the Genocide in Gaza’ rally at the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 28. \u003ccite>(Olivia Cruz Mayeda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Pro-Palestinian Uprising Larger Than Ever\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year saw the largest, most cohesive wave of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937170/the-art-of-protest-in-san-francisco-5-messages-from-the-gaza-rally\">pro-Palestinian protests\u003c/a> ever. In the Bay Area, Richmond became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/richmond-city-council-passes-resolution-showing-solidarity-with-gaza/\">first American city\u003c/a> to pass a ceasefire resolution, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968400/oakland-city-council-set-to-vote-on-gaza-cease-fire-resolution\">followed by Oakland\u003c/a>. Bay Area artists, in particular, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938450/400-bay-area-artists-palestine-bds-pacbi-letter\">rallied in protest\u003c/a> of Israel’s most recent siege of Gaza, which has so far killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-passes-15000-palestinian-official-says?nid=322376&topic=Israel-Palestine%2520war&fid=491046\">more than 15,000\u003c/a> Palestinians. Artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937219/bay-area-artists-palestinian-childrens-relief-fund-continental-club\">raised upwards of $13,000\u003c/a> for Palestinian children at a November fundraiser in Oakland, matched in the restaurant scene with support for and by Palestinian \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/israel-hamas-war-giving-back-to-gaza-fundraiser-san-jose-business-el-halal-amigos/13968097/\">businesses and eateries\u003c/a> here in the Bay Area. Even local surfers got involved, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937866/local-surfers-screening-gaza-surf-club\">screening\u003c/a> the documentary \u003cem>Gaza Surf Club\u003c/em> to call upon their community to advocate for a ceasefire. With their dollars, poetry, policy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938619/porch-party-oakland-pop-up-art-activism-community\">food\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938450/400-bay-area-artists-palestine-bds-pacbi-letter\">organized boycotts\u003c/a>, Bay Area folks are showing up for Palestinians now more than ever.\u003cem>—Olivia Mayeda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13848951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_.jpg\" alt=\"Signage at Bandcamp's new Oakland offices goes up on Jan. 17, 2019.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"751\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13848951\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_.jpg 1100w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-768x524.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-1020x696.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signage at Bandcamp’s Oakland offices goes up on Jan. 17, 2019. The downtown Oakland performance space and record showroom closed in 2023 shortly after Bandcamp’s sale to Songtradr. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Music Industry Making it Harder to Be an Artist — and Fan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2023, we convinced ourselves that paying Ticketmaster hundreds of dollars in fees would be a fair exchange for experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934154/beyonce-review-levis-stadium-2023-renaissance-world-tour\">Beyoncé tour\u003c/a>. But throughout the year, the ubiquitous ticketing company drove up prices for large and small concerts alike with those exorbitant add-on fees, all while its parent company, Live Nation, pocketed record profits. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13935406/fillmore-live-nation-on-road-again-touring-artists\">independent touring musicians\u003c/a> continued to lose money amidst post-pandemic gas prices and inflation. Songtradr bought Bandcamp and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936509/idiotic-and-cruel-musicians-slam-layoffs-at-bandcamp\">laid off staff\u003c/a> including the entire union bargaining committee, prompting a labor complaint, and Spotify announced that it will stop paying royalties on songs with under 1,000 streams. The music industry is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893314/how-musicians-are-navigating-streaming-algorithms-ai-and-automation\">increasingly stacked against up-and-coming musicians\u003c/a>, which is why it’s all the more important to be intentional about supporting our local artists.\u003cem>—Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13938220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Rubber gloved hand sprinkles chopped cilantro onto an oversized pupusa topped the meat.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13938220\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/20230927-Biggest-Pupusa-020-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irma Morales sprinkles cilantro on a Birria Pupusa Pizza in the kitchen at Pupuseria Las Cabańas in Hayward, Calif. on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Watch Me Eat This Pupusa The Size of Your Head and sMasH tHaT LiKe bUtToN!!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anyone chronically on TikTok and Instagram has probably already noticed this year’s biggest food trend: the proliferation of local, raucous, personality-driven food influencers. From the humorous caricatures of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thesnacksensei/?hl=en\">The Snack Sensei\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bayareafoodz/\">BayAreaFoodz\u003c/a> to the health-focused feed of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13915889/berkeley-vegan-food-festival-bizerkeley-vegan\">Bizerkeley Vegan\u003c/a> and lavish outings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/allie.eats/?hl=en\">Allie Eats\u003c/a> (nearly half a million followers combined between the four accounts), there’s more bombastic food-related content than ever from the Bay Area. Viral videos of an oversized pupusa or a pan dulce big enough to use as a literal pillow has fueled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936325/social-media-biggest-pupusas-burritos-instagram-tiktok-latinextravagant-bay-area\">new wave of extravagant restaurateurs\u003c/a> catering to the frenzy by super-sizing, quadruple-dipping and gold-flaking everything under the sun — often collabing with foodie accounts to build hype. And all of our internet-marinated brains seem to be eating it up.\u003cem>—Alan Chazaro\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1630px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM.png\" alt='A blue sky background with a large Barbie logo in the center and a United airplane. Text around it reads: \"This Barbie is a dream. Now flying.\"' width=\"1630\" height=\"1196\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931700\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM.png 1630w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-800x587.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-1020x748.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-768x564.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-17-at-8.54.28-AM-1536x1127.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1630px) 100vw, 1630px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Barbie isn’t a Barbie. Now, knock it off, United. \u003ccite>(Instagram/ @united)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Barbie Burnout\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At first it was like, yay, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13933011/its-billiongirlsummer-taylor-beyonce-and-barbie-made-for-one-epic-trifecta\">girly pop culture moment\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931981/greta-gerwig-box-office-record-female-directors\">female director from Sacramento making hella bank\u003c/a>, but then it was like, why is every commercial this very specific shade of pink and why are all the makeup stores pink, and the clothing stores, and the shoe stores, and why is that Burger King burger pink, and why is my Google search pink, and is it okay that everyone’s making \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931677/barbenheimer-barbie-oppenheimer-box-office-greta-gerwig-christopher-nolan\">memes that combine Barbie and the actual atomic bomb\u003c/a>, and what the hell is an Ice Spice Munchkin, and isn’t it a bit weird that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931533/taylor-swift-irs-fbi-woke-gen-z-how-do-you-do-fellow-kidshttps://www.kqed.org/arts/13931533/taylor-swift-irs-fbi-woke-gen-z-how-do-you-do-fellow-kids\">the TSA used Barbie in a knives warning\u003c/a>, and isn’t the end of the movie where Barbie goes to the gynecologist actually lazy and reductive, and wouldn’t it have been better if she was in the Mattel CEO chair instead because women aren’t allowed that very often, and actually, just forget it, because even though \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931753/allan-doll-michael-cera-greta-gerwig-barbie-movie-review\">Allan is the literal greatest\u003c/a>, I want nothing to do with any of this now.\u003cem>—Rae Alexandra\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 928px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"928\" height=\"274\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939095\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM.png 928w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM-800x236.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM-160x47.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-1.43.29-AM-768x227.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks, Elon. \u003ccite>(X)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Billionaires Ruining the Internet’s Usefulness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While TikTok continues to drive culture and dominate discourse among young people, adults like Elon Musk (“adults,” ha) couldn’t figure out what to do with their social media platforms if it walked up and hit them with a Cybertruck. Meta did what it always does and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931259/threads-meta-thanks-i-hate-it\">copied an existing platform\u003c/a> with Threads. BlueSky didn’t fully catch on, Mastodon is a distant memory, and BeReal kinda withered and died. And, in the midst of it all, Google Search became \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/16yxzg0/google_is_no_longer_a_search_engine/\">more useless than ever\u003c/a>, prompting users seeking information to be fed pages of ads, or worse, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jakezward/status/1728032639402037610\">AI-generated garbage\u003c/a>. (This is where I repeat my catchphrase: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=subscribe%20to%20a%20newspaper%20from%3Agmeline&src=typed_query&f=top\">subscribe to a newspaper\u003c/a>.)\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1455560954-scaled-e1673477731985.jpg\" alt=\"A stack of books featuring Prince Harry's face in close up, sit in a neat pile.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923614\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’ is offered for sale at a Barnes & Noble store on Jan. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Scott Olson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Flood of Celebrity Memoirs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The secret to publishing a NYT-bestselling blockbuster this year seemed to lie in aristocracy. Celebrity memoirs have never gone out of style, but the monumental success of Prince Harry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13923613/dish-from-prince-harry-one-of-their-own-could-fuel-royal-change\">\u003cem>Spare\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and pop music royalty Britney Spears’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936729/britney-spears-book-autobiography-the-woman-in-me-gallery-books\">\u003cem>The Woman in Me\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which sold over 1.6 million and 1.1 million copies in the U.S. alone in their first weeks, shifted the spotlight back on the genre in 2023. For those of us seeking even more juicy, reflective stories from our aspirational tax bracket, memoirs from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937730/barbra-streisands-memoir-review-my-name-is-barbra\">Barbra Streisand\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936614/dolly-parton-book-review-behind-the-seams-my-life-in-rhinestones\">Dolly Parton\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13930083/elliot-page-shares-struggles-and-former-selves-in-engaging-new-memoir\">Elliot Page\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1151356491/pamela-anderson-book-memoir\">Pamela Anderson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206140650/jada-pinkett-will-smith-tupac-worthy\">Jada Pinkett Smith\u003c/a> did not disappoint. Pro tip: These memoirs make great stocking stuffers for the pop culture fanatics in your life.\u003cem>—Ugur Dursun\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 848px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968.jpg 848w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-1042695968-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pants! \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Great Pants Awakening\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I went to high school in the late aughts, when we all traded low-rise flares for skinny jeans, so I’ve been studying the latest Great Pants Awakening like an anthropologist, gathering data on BART and TikTok, and surveying friends and family members of all ages. Some millennials dared to break up with our beloved tapered legs and waist-cinching highrise trousers, while others clung on to their favorite cuts for dear life. Meanwhile, new pants styles challenged all generations to reconsider their notions of beauty, gender and even propriety. Unisex cargo pants paired with a baggy hoodie to hide the body; thong-revealing ultra-low-rise with nipple-baring mesh on top. It’s all fair game, and both looks can be seen on the same person in a given week. 2023 was all about poly-pantism: the way of the future.\u003cem>—Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1852px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1852\" height=\"1384\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939094\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin.jpg 1852w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/AlbanyTwin-1536x1148.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1852px) 100vw, 1852px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Albany Twin theater pictured on June 16, 2023, the day after its final movie screening. The theater had served Albany’s moviegoing public for 88 years. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Too Many Movie Theaters Biting the Dust\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite some hopeful reopenings such as San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13924146/4-star-theater-talk-movies-richmond-history-woody-labounty\">4-Star Theater\u003c/a>, the Bay Area’s movie theaters continue to roll credits and close down for good. The Albany Twin, the Century Theater in San Francisco’s Westfield Mall, the CGV (formerly the AMC) on Van Ness, the Rohnert Park Reading cinema and others all shuttered. “But we can watch movies at home now,” you might say! Joke’s on you, bub: fees for streaming subscriptions \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/streaming-service-price-increase-1235784311/\">got significantly more expensive\u003c/a>. After three years of other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892596/historic-west-portal-theater-closes-permanently-due-to-pandemic\">tough-to-swallow theater closures\u003c/a>, and tumult for fans of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">movies at the Castro\u003c/a>, we’re happy for even the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/s-f-real-estate-office-movie-theater-18431003.php\">smallest bit of good news\u003c/a> for local theaters.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13939098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13939098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/LaurenDamato-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The studio of San Francisco sign painter and pinstriper Lauren D’Amato at Headlands Center for the Arts, Oct. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lots of Love for Sign Painting (and Signs in General) \u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With a healthy local sign painting scene, it’s no surprise we saw a lot of this work in gallery spaces this year — and a greater appreciation for the artistry of signs, period. Lauren D’Amato’s \u003ca href=\"https://houseofseiko.info/complete_machine\">solo at House of Seiko\u003c/a> borrowed from real-life Bayview signs, and she later received the Headlands’ Tournesol Award for an emerging Bay Area painter. The \u003ca href=\"https://web-production-7d4c4.up.railway.app/pieces/pieces/pieces/shows/2/\">inaugural show at Berkeley’s 127010\u003c/a>, curated by Oliver Hawk Holden, focused on artists merging commercial craft and fine art (a gold leaf and enamel piece by sign painter Michelle “Meng” Nguyen was a standout). And Pacific Saw Works, a new artist-run space in Oakland, christened their walls with a show of sign painters called, simply, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificsawworks.com/exhibitions\">\u003ci>Signs\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. I also need to mention the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/tenderloin-neon-sign-district-wins-approval/article_cf388ae8-3939-11ed-94c7-3376ecdea09c.html\">legislation\u003c/a> that passed late last year to make it easier to repair old neon signs (which often include painted elements) and install new ones in the Tenderloin. This year, we saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz7G72syuX0/?img_index=1\">the electric results\u003c/a>.\u003cem>—Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13938611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1017px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1017\" height=\"652\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13938611\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1.jpg 1017w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/GettyImages-88696481-1020x847-1-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jackson about to win 12 Grammys for ‘Thriller’ at the 1984 awards. At his side is his date Brooke Shields. At the time, says Mary J. Blige in a new documentary, Jackson was considered ‘super-duper-duper sexy.’ \u003ccite>(Ron Galella/ Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>TV Going Peak ’80s and ’90s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>My childhood was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97337/the-other-f-word-how-homophobic-language-has-ruined-80s-teen-movies\">the 1980s\u003c/a>, my teen years coincided with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13915084/chloe-sherman-renegade-san-francisco-1990s-schlomer-haus\">the ’90s\u003c/a>, and goddamnit, the streaming platforms \u003cem>really\u003c/em> played into my rapidly aging hands this year. In 2023, I finally got to rewatch \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936463/moonlighting-hulu-cybill-shepherd-bruce-willis-1980s-comedy\">\u003cem>Moonlighting\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (the endearingly preposterous detective show that launched Bruce Willis’ career) and unabashedly immerse myself in \u003cem>L.A. Law\u003c/em> at an age where I could actually understand it. But nowhere has ’80s and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/14084/90s-nostalgia-a-look-at-how-our-lives-do-and-dont-matter\">’90s nostalgia\u003c/a> shown up harder than in celebrity documentaries. Watching retrospectives about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13938155\">\u003cem>Thriller\u003c/em>-era Michael Jackson\u003c/a>, Michael J. 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"content": "\u003cp>You know that feeling you get every time a Fox News presenter uses the word “woke”? That full-body cringe? You probably also experience it every time your dad says “on fleek” or your aunt talks about getting a “glow up.” And I’m fairly certain everyone who watched the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925510/senators-are-calling-on-the-justice-department-to-look-into-ticketmasters-practices\">Ticketmaster Senate hearing\u003c/a> last January knows exactly what I’m talking about. (Thanks for all the forced Taylor Swift references, politicians!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z347R_2R0HM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s become virtually impossible to avoid these kinds of pandering pop culture references and cringeworthy puns, even in what should be the dullest corners of the internet. There have lately been some major offenders! Let us now collectively point in their direction and judge them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The FBI Wants You to ‘Speak Now’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s take a moment to think this one through, because honestly, it boggles the mind on multiple levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after Taylor Swift released her much-hyped \u003cem>Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) \u003c/em>album, someone at the actual Federal Bureau of Investigation noticed, had an incredibly misguided ‘ah-ha’ moment, then came up with … this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FBIWFO/status/1678524780230656000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because, sure, one of the best ways to get federal crime tips is to wink at a bunch of Taylor Swift fans on Twitter and expect them to immediately spill the many felony-related secrets they’ve been harboring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snitching: Apparently just one well-placed “Better Than Revenge” reference away!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>H&R Block Goes to ‘Taxchella’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Remember that nerdy kid from math club who decided one summer they were going to be cool next year? So they showed up Sophomore year wearing a brand new, stiff-as-all-get-out leather jacket over their regular nerd clothes, and thought that would do the trick? This H&R Block tweet reminds me of that kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/HRBlock/status/1646875959537147906\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think we can all agree that Portugal, the Tax Pro is a real low point here.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Velveeta Gets in on the Stupid Coachella Thing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Say what you want about H&R Block’s abomination, but at least it was timed to coincide with the first day of Coachella. Velveeta (you heard me) waited two full months to hit the internet with this — a fake festival lineup full of dairy puns that uses the word “drip” repeatedly and still expects us to want to eat cheese afterwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CuUsRBiSyiA/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really, Velveeta social media person? You’re just gonna go ahead and leave Cheesy XCX sitting there right above Cheesy XX? For shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The State of New Jersey Knows a Song\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The scene: An over-decorated corner of an office block in Trenton, NJ. Two social media employees smile at each other, fresh from Photoshopping the state of New Jersey onto a picture of Baby Yoda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan: Man. We are killing it, bro.\u003cbr>\nDave: I know, dude. What’s next?\u003cbr>\nSusan: I mean… I’ve got this GIF of a pier at sunset?\u003cbr>\nDave: Should we Photoshop Baby Yoda onto it?\u003cbr>\nSusan: Hold my Snapple, friend, because I’ve got an even better idea.\u003cbr>\nDave: Is the idea just “Lizzo”?\u003cbr>\nSusan: Yes!\u003cbr>\nDave: Isn’t she from Detroit though?\u003cbr>\nSusan: Yeah, but… That’s close enough though, right?\u003cbr>\nDave: Totally, dude. Still a genius idea. Just make sure you do the text in lowercase like The Kids do it.\u003cbr>\nSusan: Done!\u003cbr>\nDave and Susan: *high five*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NJGov/status/1227975614742876160\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How Deep is the Ocean?” by Frank Sinatra — who actually \u003cem>is\u003c/em> from New Jersey — was right there, Susan. Right friggin’ there.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The IRS Wants You to Think It Gets Nintendo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Someone at the IRS thinks that if you need a six-month extension on filing your taxes, you’re probably a Super Mario Bros. fan. (Gamers, amiright?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out these killer and not at all boxy graphics!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CqrEcdsLZUR/?img_index=1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No fire will come your way”? Really, IRS? This is not as seamless as you think it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New York City’s Conflicts of Interest Board Has a Full-Blown Meltdown\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not gonna lie, I did have to look up what the New York Conflicts of Interest Board does exactly. If you also don’t know — and to put it as briefly as possible — it’s a government agency that “seeks to prevent ethics questions from becoming ethics problems for public servants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less easy to understand is why on God’s green Earth these tweets happened:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NYCCOIB/status/1228399887588392960\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What just happened? I mean… What. Just. Happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>United Tries to Do a ‘Barbie’ Something\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thanks, United. This makes no sense. No sense at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqq271EuOrh/?hl=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The laziness is brazen.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The TSA Turns ‘Barbie’ Into a Slasher Movie\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What is it with air travel-related accounts and Greta Gerwig’s friggin’ \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> movie?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to be outdone by United, someone at the TSA took it upon themselves to transform an amusing, tongue-in-cheek \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> publicity image into a Cronenberg-ian nightmare that:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Extracts any and all semblance of humor from the image\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Severs Barbie’s legs from her torso (!)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jams Barbie’s body full of knives (!!)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Punishes anyone foolish enough to keep looking at this with a list of godawful puns\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CqtMDJtP1AX/?img_index=1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This feels like an HR violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parks and … what the heck?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>New York City’s Parks Department is prone to leaning into hip-hop culture, posting recent clips of rappers Sean Combs, Fat Joe and Jim Jones. One still has to wonder what its social media team was trying to say when it posted \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMQwnSXgY2U/?hl=en\">this clip from 1991’s \u003cem>New Jack City\u003c/em>\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CMQwnSXgY2U/?hl=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps “Come hang out at our New York City playgrounds where guns are plentiful, men are intimidating and women wear terrible hats?” Slow clap, Parks and Rec department. 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"content": "\u003cp>Threads! It’s mostly terrible, yes? But you’re also on it? And you’ve checked it 17 times since it launched last night? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-competitor app Threads is here, and already it’s amassed millions of users thanks to its close integration with Instagram. It has also amassed complaints, speculation, and every once in a while, a quality post. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, on the first full day of Threads’ availability to the public, some of us from the KQED Arts team offer our first impressions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"325\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13931267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0091.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0091-160x69.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Give us a followers-only, chronological feed, jeez\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A followers-only, chronological feed is the only thing anybody wants in a social media app, and this is what Threads denies its users. The only reason to join a new social media platform is to revel in its followers-only, chronological feed, because five years down the line, it’s inevitably ruined by shoving a bunch of stuff in your face that nobody wants. Threads has decided to jump straight to this five-years-later point of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/\">enshittification\u003c/a>: my feed is full of Mr. Beast, Complex, Wendy’s, crypto bros, tech reporters and other garbage I did not sign up to see. I’d love to say that this would mean the death knell for Threads, but Meta is essentially too big to fail; in nearly every other instance of stealing from other social media platforms, they’ve gotten away with it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, head of Instagram Adam Mosseri acknowledged the lack of a followers-only feed, along with the absence of search, hashtags, and DMs, and promised “we’re on it.” But for those who want to run screaming and delete their account now, sorry: if you delete your Threads account, you’re also \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emilyhughes/status/1676775597735923719\">forced to delete your Instagram account with it\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the upsides? “At least it isn’t Twitter” isn’t much of a glowing review. But I no longer want to supply free content to Elon Musk on his constantly malfunctioning platform, and I’m not alone. Time will tell if Zuckerberg’s crew can come up with features more compelling for what they are than what they aren’t.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0096.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"650\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13931271\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0096.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0096-160x277.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The calm? Yeah, that won’t last\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>12 p.m. July 6: How is Threads? I wouldn’t know, baby! Having worked in social media and social-adjacent journalism roles for over a decade, I’m \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/explainers\">finally in a job\u003c/a> that does not require me to be wildly invested and involved in “the latest in social media” on a 24/7 basis. So like any reasonable person who wrests a degree of control back over their life, I am now — for the next few hours, anyway — gleefully flexing that control by not activating my Threads account (and let’s be real, if you have an Instagram account that’s all this really is — a de facto activation of the Threads account every Instagram user basically already now has.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This calm won’t last, of course. Judging from the air of “oh, of course” inevitability with which the launch announcement was met among Twitter users, Threads is probably going to become the next Twitter pretty fast. Not just because of that portability of your account and your follower count from Instagram (although do you want to see what your most visual pals are writing in text format?) but because of the fact we’ve all been waiting for New Twitter and, like Goldilocks with a screen time problem, we’ve not found any of the previous options on offer to be Just Right. We’re all tired, and if there’s finally a new option that looks good enough, we’ll probably accept it, with all its wrinkles and evolving features. So, if enough folks make that compromise (and I think they will, fueled by what’s been done to their beloved Twitter since Musk’s takeover), I’ll do it too — basically, so as not to be left in the cold on both the personal and professional fronts. But for now… just let me have a day without Threads?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5 p.m. July 6: I am probably now on Threads.—\u003cem>Carly Severn\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0095.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"348\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13931270\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0095.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0095-160x74.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bring back anonymity!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I was shaped/burned by the flames of Tumblr in the mid-to-late 2010s, so the first thing I noticed about Threads is that you need to link it with your Instagram. This makes it slightly more annoying to have alternate, somewhat-anonymous accounts, since Instagram tends to be more personable or influencer-y than, say, the K-pop stan accounts of Twitter and TikTok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to imply that there isn’t a wide fandom scene on Instagram, but I have a hard time seeing those subcultures flourishing in an isolating environment like Threads. (I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing.) There’s not a ton of opportunities to personalize one’s profile, like adding a header.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also very ugly.—\u003cem>Nisa Khan\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0090.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"269\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13931266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0090.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0090-160x57.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Call it what it is: two billionaires in a tiresome pissing contest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of what I’ve seen on Threads so far is (fittingly) very meta and therefore very boring. Threads about Threads. Beyond that, what I dislike most about the Current State of Social Media is knowing who’s calling the shots: a couple of billionaires engaged in a pissing contest over a form of communication and expression that has come to mean very much to very many. These bros are the frickin’ worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Zuckerberg, a 39-year-old American man worth $101.5 billion and who employs tens of thousands of people, shitposted on Twitter yesterday for the first time in 11 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/finkd/status/1676747594460962817?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile Twitter — owned by Elon Musk, a person I try to know as little about as possible (and who happens to be worth an unfathomable $249.4 billion) — is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads\">threatening to sue Meta\u003c/a> over Threads. (The Twitter lawyer’s letter accuses Meta of hiring former Twitter employees with trade secrets.) It’s like a straight-up schoolyard scene over here, folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1677042708756439041?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concurrently, Twitter itself is being sued by former employees for a host of reasons, including, most recently, allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/5/23784760/twitter-lawsuit-arbitration-laid-off-employees-jams-musk\">refusing to pay for legal arbitration fees\u003c/a>. Any time a reporter asks Twitter for comment, they get a poop emoji in response. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I do not want to know any of this\u003c/em>. Better yet, I don’t want the products that help me learn new things, connect with colleagues, look at art and stay in touch to do such fundamentally bad things that we need to constantly cover both their mistakes and willful wrongdoings. I am even mad at my editor for asking me to think about the Current State of Social Media and write something about it. 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When it comes to using Twitter, Elon Musk’s toolbaggery is a major turnoff, for sure, but — real talk — if Twitter still worked, I would still use it. I really do miss it being useful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside Threads, for the first 20 minutes, I felt like Janet in \u003cem>The Good Place\u003c/em> — just staring into bare white nothingness, waiting for someone to summon me from the abyss. When I did finally find the “thread” portion — the place with actual posts — I was immediately reminded that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pilotonline.com/2020/08/05/with-tiktok-mired-in-uncertainty-facebook-pounces-with-instagram-reels/\">social media biter\u003c/a> Mark Zuckerberg is involved in this by the fact that the layout is basically identical to Twitter. (Is that legal? It feels like that shouldn’t be legal…) The second thing that struck me is that the people I primarily follow on Instagram are artists and friends, not the journalists I follow on Twitter. 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Time will tell if Zuckerberg’s crew can come up with features more compelling for what they are than what they aren’t.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0096.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"650\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13931271\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0096.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IMG_0096-160x277.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The calm? Yeah, that won’t last\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>12 p.m. July 6: How is Threads? I wouldn’t know, baby! Having worked in social media and social-adjacent journalism roles for over a decade, I’m \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/explainers\">finally in a job\u003c/a> that does not require me to be wildly invested and involved in “the latest in social media” on a 24/7 basis. So like any reasonable person who wrests a degree of control back over their life, I am now — for the next few hours, anyway — gleefully flexing that control by not activating my Threads account (and let’s be real, if you have an Instagram account that’s all this really is — a de facto activation of the Threads account every Instagram user basically already now has.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This calm won’t last, of course. Judging from the air of “oh, of course” inevitability with which the launch announcement was met among Twitter users, Threads is probably going to become the next Twitter pretty fast. Not just because of that portability of your account and your follower count from Instagram (although do you want to see what your most visual pals are writing in text format?) but because of the fact we’ve all been waiting for New Twitter and, like Goldilocks with a screen time problem, we’ve not found any of the previous options on offer to be Just Right. We’re all tired, and if there’s finally a new option that looks good enough, we’ll probably accept it, with all its wrinkles and evolving features. So, if enough folks make that compromise (and I think they will, fueled by what’s been done to their beloved Twitter since Musk’s takeover), I’ll do it too — basically, so as not to be left in the cold on both the personal and professional fronts. 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This makes it slightly more annoying to have alternate, somewhat-anonymous accounts, since Instagram tends to be more personable or influencer-y than, say, the K-pop stan accounts of Twitter and TikTok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to imply that there isn’t a wide fandom scene on Instagram, but I have a hard time seeing those subcultures flourishing in an isolating environment like Threads. (I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing.) 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"content": "\u003cp>The 2022 Venice Film Festival started a little over a week ago, and one film has dominated much of the conversation\u003cstrong>—\u003c/strong>not because of its cinematography, editing or script, but because of reported behind-the-scenes drama that’s stolen the spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don’t Worry Darling\u003c/em> is director Olivia Wilde’s second feature film, following her 2019 debut, \u003cem>Booksmart\u003c/em>. The movie, which stars Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan and Wilde herself, premiered on Monday at the festival and is scheduled for wide release on Sept. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_112069']The film is a psychological thriller set in the 1950s, in the fictional town of Victory, California. Pugh and Styles play Alice and Jack, a married couple who live in the town, which was built by the company Jack works for. As Alice tries to learn more about her community, tensions begin to arise between her and her new neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reportedly, the production of the film had also been filled with tension, and interactions between the stars at Venice left the internet to speculate wildly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some aspects of the unfolding interpersonal drama definitely appear like an unwieldy mess,” Nicholas Baer, Assistant Professor of Media, Arts & Society at Utrecht University, told NPR. “So although it’s always tricky to gauge intentionality, I’d imagine it’s a combination of ‘authentic’ drama and savvy image manipulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The memes begin at the Venice Film Festival\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Monday morning ahead of the premiere, Wilde and the film’s stars participated in a press conference—most of them, that is. 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"content": "\u003cp>Just as his effort to buy Twitter has led the world to focus on Elon Musk’s management style and business strategies, FX and \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> have stepped up with a documentary taking a close look at how Musk responded to crashes involving the Autopilot function in cars from his company, Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those watching Musk’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/17/1099416770/elon-musk-says-doubt-about-spam-accounts-could-doom-twitter-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fitful attempt to buy Twitter\u003c/a>, the film also serves as a pointed comparison; showing how his penchant for bold moves and provocative statements can lead fans to see what they want in his words—regardless of whether what he says is actually possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13880859']As part of FX’s \u003cem>The New York Times Presents \u003c/em>documentary series,\u003cem> Elon Musk’s Crash Course\u003c/em> suggests that Musk oversold the cars’ self-driving capabilities, leading to public confusion over what it could actually do. 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Because the Oakland rapper spent the early ’90s shuffling from side-to-side at the top of the charts, and filling commercial breaks with entreaties to buy \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eydWVvFV2w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sneakers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHp3xXBBDfk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taco Bell\u003c/a>, Hammer is too often treated like the Carlton Banks of hip-hop. 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