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I was just happy to be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do social media stuff as well, so I vlogged the whole process of us creating the song, going viral and all of our performances and stuff like that. It was more so just for fun. Like everybody was being themselves. The lyrics are definitely like, you could tell a little personality from them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/sQ0LkFALO5g?si=gWw0A8jMnaASA7y7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tuesday, I want to hear more about your verse. I checked out your Instagram. It seems like you’re a world traveler, which really comes through in that part of the song. Tell me about how you wrote it. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tuesday: \u003c/b>Well, I went with them for music therapy, just to take my mind off of everything. And when we were in there, Nay [Theehotone] was just like, oh, just go in to write a verse about what we like about men. And then I just sat down and wrote it out right there in the studio. Definitely didn’t think that it was going to go viral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Was there an island you had been to recently that inspired the lyrics? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tuesday: \u003c/b>I go to so many islands, it’s my favorite. I go somewhere almost every other month. I’ve been to almost all of the islands in the Caribbean. I’m just missing Barbados and St. Martin right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What do you guys think it is about the song that resonated with so many people? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juice: \u003c/b>I think it’s just our vibes are so lit. And I feel like with Tuesday’s part, it’s very catchy. A lot of people traveling nowadays, that’s a really big thing to show status in this day and age. So I definitely think the traveling part is what is connecting to a lot of people for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lul Asia:\u003c/b> I also think it’s the genuineness of how we were just in the studio being ourselves, having a good time, having fun, and you can feel that energy through the song. [aside postid='arts_13988509']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Theehotone: \u003c/b>It’s not a lot of stuff that comes out of Oakland. So for this to be going as viral, everybody is appreciating the fact that we’re putting Oakland on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The song’s been shared by some pretty big names in music. Who have you been excited about? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lul Asia: \u003c/b>Once SZA posted it, I was like, oh my God — I could have just passed out right there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juice: \u003c/b>For sure SZA and when G Herbo and [his fiancee] Taina did it. Natalie [Nunn] posted it, Tyla, Mariah the Scientist was in a video with the song. It’s just been fun. Blueface was on stream and he was randomly singing the song when he was playing with his kids. I just love all of it, honestly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Has anyone DMed you guys to collaborate?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lul Asia: \u003c/b>A few people have, and we’re still looking into our next options and everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Cs17FsnG-Ks?si=WuOIHmNzczrFaIgK\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>And then you guys performed at the Oakland Arena. How was the show last weekend with Mike Epps? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juice: \u003c/b>It’s crazy seeing all the flashes and everybody singing the song and knowing the lyrics. All of this happened within literally a month and a half. I’m very grateful for it. Honestly it was a little nerve-racking, but it’s fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lul Asia:\u003c/b> When I go on the stage, I try to just have that mindset of like, I’m just going out here having fun with my family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tuesday:\u003c/b> I really like the adrenaline of it all. Just having fun and just making sure that, you know, the crowd is knowing that we appreciate them. I be always trying to get the crowd interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The music video turned out so well. Tell me about that video shoot and getting the whole neighborhood out for you guys.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lul Asia: \u003c/b>We really just messaged people, like Hyphy Burger and things like that. And once we reached out to them, they were just so open to having us, and people were open to coming out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13988618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13988618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/IMG_8174-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/IMG_8174-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/IMG_8174-2000x2667.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/IMG_8174-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/IMG_8174-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/IMG_8174-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/IMG_8174-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Behind the scenes of the ‘Juice Week pt. 2’ music video at Hyphy Burger in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lul Asia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You had cars, dancers and stuff. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juice: \u003c/b>I knew we were gonna bring out a lot of people because of how viral the song was, but I was really surprised how a lot of the media was coming out. That was my first time experiencing a media rush where it was NorCal Next Up and his crew, and people like that who keep tabs on up-and-coming artists. Thizzler posted us and they had people out there. Being in content creation and stuff, it’s just really nice to be recognized by bigger creators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Then you guys also performed at Mistah F.A.B.’s club, Dezi’s. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lul Asia: \u003c/b>He’s been supporting us so much. He’s the reason why we’ve done both Oakland Arena shows, and he just always been very supportive through this whole process and mentoring us. Our mom part went viral, but he’s pushing that the whole song is amazing, and making sure that everyone gets to do their verse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/ZkMbzcFxLRY?si=cQEyOt0Sq-_VXZK2\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Now that you guys have this viral moment, where do you wanna take this? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lul Asia: \u003c/b>I wanna keep doing music for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RaiDawg:\u003c/b> Yeah, me too, a little bit, but I’m more on the content creator side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juice: \u003c/b>I feel like I reside with RaiDawg. It’s really fun, but I feel like when it starts to be pressure, like people are expecting stuff… I definitely want to keep making the content and building the platform. And just having fun, honestly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lul Asia: \u003c/b>Nay had to hop off, but she brought up that she wants to continue doing music. And she also wants to start a podcast because she loves talking about the culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tuesday: \u003c/b>I definitely wanna keep creating music, and I’m also working on writing a book. So that’s my next step, getting a book out there and doing some public speaking hopefully. It’s a book about how to go through the grieving process when losing your kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I think that’s going to resonate with a lot of people.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tuesday: \u003c/b>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pinaa: \u003c/b>I want to continue making music too. I feel like it’s very fun, very energetic. I like the rush of it. I like having a good time and being goofy in the studio, just having a fun time with family. [aside postid='arts_13988094']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What’s been your favorite thing to come out of this experience?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lul Asia: \u003c/b>I think being able to perform for my city where I’ve grown up. 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"content": "\u003cp>In discussing this Saturday’s grand opening party for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hyphyburger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hyphy Burger\u003c/a> in West Oakland, locally raised rapper\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943512/oakland-rapper-guap-on-his-black-and-filipino-roots-and-what-inspired-the-song-chicken-adobo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Guap (aka Guapdad 4000)\u003c/a> sounds like he’s describing the circus coming to town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got face paint for the kids, a photo booth, a jumper and horses,” he says. “And then we’ll roll in the cars, and the DJ starts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its soft opening back in February, the burger-fries-and-shakes joint has had a constant line of patrons. Now, Guap and the team of local owners will celebrate the restaurant’s official grand opening with an expansion of the menu (with more burger options, including a pastrami burger and a veggie burger) and food giveaways for those who arrive early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Hyphy Burger is an ode to the term “the king of the super-duper-hyphy,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/keak-da-sneak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keak Da Sneak\u003c/a>, helped popularize — one that represents the hyperactive energy that brewed out of the inner city of the Bay Area and fueled a cultural phenomenon in the early aughts — today the burger shack on West Grand and Market stands as another local eatery gaining its footing in a churning sea of ups and downs for East Bay food establishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/IMG_1739854768480-copy-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A man in a black jacket and braids poses for a photo outside of a burger joint while holding a soda. \" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/IMG_1739854768480-copy-scaled.jpeg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/IMG_1739854768480-copy-160x240.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/IMG_1739854768480-copy-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/IMG_1739854768480-copy-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/IMG_1739854768480-copy-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guap, part-owner of Hyphy Burger, stops by the restaurant for a meal. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Guapdad 4000,)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To launch the restaurant, Guap (real name Akeem Hayes) teamed up with Darion Frazier (known for his social media food reviews under the moniker \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bayareafoodz/\">@bayareafoodz)\u003c/a>, Julian “Jigga” Ervin and a duo of brothers, Fakri and Zakaria “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/zackstv/?hl=en\">Zack\u003c/a>” Alwajeeh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With an initial aim of opening a cheesesteak shop, Frazier joined Guap on tour with DMV Area lyricist Wale and Philadelphia MC Young Chris (of the Young Gunz), stopping in Philly to survey the local cuisine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>I recommended that we change it to smash burgers because I live in Los Angeles,” says Guap, noting how the craze over the flattened burgers was taking over Southern California. “I liked the simplicity of it, and I felt like it was doable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier, the food influencer, did more research and development, testing over 30 different burger spots and taking notes on his experiences. Guap, who in addition to rapping is an actor, designer and model, took the lead on other aspects of the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/IMG_5425-scaled.jpg\" alt='A mini yellow bus and signage that reads \"you feel me\" appear at the Hyphy Burger kiosk.' width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/IMG_5425-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/IMG_5425-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/IMG_5425-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/IMG_5425-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/IMG_5425-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mini yellow bus and signage that reads “you feel me” shows how the eatery is hyphy down to the details. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I run, for the most part, creative design and customer experience,” he says, adding that he designed the employee uniforms and created a comic book that will be given away during Saturday’s event. “I did the 3-D mock-up for the fry holders and the bag,” says Guap. “I learned how to do that just to make our own for the restaurant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team added tables with signage that harken back 20 years to the era of going 18-dummy. The restaurant’s speakers blast local Bay Area hip-hop, new and old. The menu boasts a “Ya Feel Me” sauce, and the milkshakes are called “Stunna Shakes,” a play off of stunna shades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s even a mini short bus parked outside of the restaurant, a nod to the unfortunate side of the hyphy movement that made light of stigmas about people with learning disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bright logos and fresh yellow, red and blue paint have replaced the signage from the old All Star Donuts & Burgers that previously occupied the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s crazy too,” exclaims Guap, “because we finna add donuts to the menu, and really call back to that. I’m not even playing, I’m working on the logo now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent revitalization of West Oakland’s food scene has been a process of two steps forward and one step back. There are newer eateries like \u003ca href=\"https://www.prescottmarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Prescott Market\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://junespizza.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June’s Pizza\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soulblendscoffee/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soul Blends Coffee.\u003c/a> There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/category/nosh/restaurant-closures/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a running list of closures\u003c/a> that includes places like the famed \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/03/14/west-oakland-horn-barbecue-will-not-reopen-after-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Horn BBQ\u003c/a>, which last year closed its West Oakland establishment and reopened in\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/17/horn-barbecue-oakland-updates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a new downtown location.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap, who grew up in the neighborhood, understands this sea change. “I think the average person in the West, where we put the restaurant, wants to see new shiny things,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLprO6K7KEw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In seeing how people have flocked to the business since its soft launch, whether to enjoy the food or \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLprO6K7KEw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film music videos\u003c/a> at the establishment, Guap notes that there’s value in making something presentable for the community. 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It’s a great problem to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solution, he says — for his team or any other business in their position — is to do research, work with the City and find a team of people who have the same “motion as you.” Ultimately, Guap says, it’s about working with “your innermost community and pooling your resources” to create something that benefits the larger collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oakland’s Hyphy Burger celebrates its grand opening all day Saturday, August 2, at 898 West Grand Ave. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hyphyburger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check the restaurant’s IG page for more information\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The restaurant’s speakers blast local Bay Area hip-hop, new and old. The menu boasts a “Ya Feel Me” sauce, and the milkshakes are called “Stunna Shakes,” a play off of stunna shades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s even a mini short bus parked outside of the restaurant, a nod to the unfortunate side of the hyphy movement that made light of stigmas about people with learning disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bright logos and fresh yellow, red and blue paint have replaced the signage from the old All Star Donuts & Burgers that previously occupied the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s crazy too,” exclaims Guap, “because we finna add donuts to the menu, and really call back to that. I’m not even playing, I’m working on the logo now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent revitalization of West Oakland’s food scene has been a process of two steps forward and one step back. There are newer eateries like \u003ca href=\"https://www.prescottmarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Prescott Market\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://junespizza.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June’s Pizza\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soulblendscoffee/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soul Blends Coffee.\u003c/a> There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/category/nosh/restaurant-closures/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a running list of closures\u003c/a> that includes places like the famed \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/03/14/west-oakland-horn-barbecue-will-not-reopen-after-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Horn BBQ\u003c/a>, which last year closed its West Oakland establishment and reopened in\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/17/horn-barbecue-oakland-updates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a new downtown location.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap, who grew up in the neighborhood, understands this sea change. “I think the average person in the West, where we put the restaurant, wants to see new shiny things,” he says.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/rLprO6K7KEw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/rLprO6K7KEw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In seeing how people have flocked to the business since its soft launch, whether to enjoy the food or \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLprO6K7KEw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film music videos\u003c/a> at the establishment, Guap notes that there’s value in making something presentable for the community. But it has to be bigger than doing it for clicks and shares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>“\u003c/i>I want people to Instagram some quality,” he says, alluding to it being deeper than social media. “I want to bring actual value to the real estate in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not an easy process. In the six months since its soft launch, the business has experienced employee turnover, isn’t yet on the delivery service apps and hasn’t opened its drive-thru window. But with the impending launch of a second location on 98th in Deep East Oakland, Guap says what they’re really celebrating on Saturday is the baby steps of a burgeoning business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been crazy to have that line of people” says Guap. “It is a blessing though. It’s a great problem to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solution, he says — for his team or any other business in their position — is to do research, work with the City and find a team of people who have the same “motion as you.” Ultimately, Guap says, it’s about working with “your innermost community and pooling your resources” to create something that benefits the larger collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oakland’s Hyphy Burger celebrates its grand opening all day Saturday, August 2, at 898 West Grand Ave. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hyphyburger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check the restaurant’s IG page for more information\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At first glance there doesn’t seem to be room for overlap between a traditional hard-boiled detective story and the crucibles of a group of punks in West Oakland. But in Joshua Mohr’s new book, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/saint-the-terrifying\">Saint the Terrifying\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, these two worlds collide head on, exploding across the page in glittering sentences that tell an eccentric and grimy vigilante story. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Saint the Terrifying\u003c/em> has an unlikely origin story in a different music genre entirely. A friend contacted Mohr about contributing to an anthology of stories based on Taylor Swift songs, and Mohr, who has a 10-year-old Swift-loving daughter, jumped at the opportunity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I finished it and I was like, ‘This guy’s not done squawking in my ear,’” Mohr says over Zoom. A very different version of that first self-contained piece became chapter one of his new novel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further inspiration came to the author, who splits his time between San Francisco and Seattle, after a visit to Seattle’s National Nordic Museum. The trip prompted a deep dive into Viking mythology and Mohr, a “card-carrying nerd,” found himself 30-plus books deep into the lore. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cool thing about these books is it’s every possible genre,” he says excitedly. “It’s magical realism, it’s horror, love stories, fantasies. Whatever I wanted to throw in there, I could. It became this really beautiful blank canvas to really allow my imagination to leap down every rabbit hole I possibly could find.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That narrative flexibility led to a realization: “There were no limits in the Saint universe.” Mohr’s already found enough story to turn Saint’s Viking punk tales into a three-book saga. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13966978\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/josh-20-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"white man with arms behind back on a leafy street\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13966978\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/josh-20-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/josh-20-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/josh-20-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/josh-20-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/josh-20-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/josh-20-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/josh-20-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/josh-20-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Mohr drew from his own experiences as a teenager in a punk house for the novel. \u003ccite>(Unnamed Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A punk mystery\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Saint the Terrifying\u003c/em>, the first installment of Saint’s saga, has a simple premise. A local punk bands’ gear goes missing and Saint, a middling guitarist in the West Oakland scene, takes it upon himself to investigate on behalf of his peers. Mohr strikes a harmonious chord between the tropes of hard-boiled detective stories: a central mystery, a cynical anti-hero playing lead investigator, events taking place in low-rent places, and the anti-establishment and anti-consumerist ethos of punk culture. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saint has a freewheeling spirit (an inheritance from his Viking ancestors) and spent eight years at San Quentin where he got a glass eye and a neck tattoo that reads “No More Drunken Mistakes.” Throughout the book he is plagued by visions of blown-glass birds that circle his head like he’s a concussed cartoon character. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book possesses a dark whimsy and humor — there’s a busker named Elon Busk — that is anchored by Saint’s thirst for truth and street justice. There’s also a colorfully degenerate cast of characters in his life, including someone named Got Jokes. The Bay Area’s preternaturally gloomy weather nurtures the novel’s dark mood. “The day gave off a gray stare,” Mohr writes. “You never knew if the fog was gonna burn off.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohr even adopts the noir trope of first-person narration. The book opens with a run-on sentence written stream-of-consciousness style, a succession of alternately manic and beautiful rambling. “Amphetamine poetry,” as one character puts it. And then, quite fittingly, Saint loses his train of thought before finishing his sentence. The book unfolds in this stop and start zigzag style, mirroring the short frenetic bursts of punk songs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13966951,arts_13966911,arts_13966390' label='More Books']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dramatizing gentrification\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mohr’s punchy writing and observations draw from his own experiences as a 17-year-old in a San Francisco punk house. “No house starts out as a punk house,” the author says of the slow but natural way he ended up living with his friend, a member of the band American Steel, in a place where the basement and kitchen ended up becoming home to even more people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are things that chronologically probably wouldn’t have happened when Saint was telling his story, that I would be scraping from a memory of mine from 1995 or 1999,” he explains. “I used to play in shitty punk bands, we practiced in West Oakland. In the book, I called [the rehearsal space] Sound Check, but in reality it’s called Sound Wave, and it was a pretty wild place in the ’90s.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another scraped-from-reality sequence finds Saint in a warehouse fire similar to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/ghostshipmemorial\">Ghost Ship fire\u003c/a> that claimed 36 lives in 2016. In it, Saint experiences a kind of theoretical time slip as he ponders how the outcome may have changed if he arrived at another time: in an alternate universe, in an alternate warehouse, lives may have been lost. He imagines 36 names to attach to these lives, the names of the actual Ghost Ship fire victims, “friends who can still live forever if we fan their story.” In Mohr’s book they are immortal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rollicking pace of the book is only ever interrupted by hallucinatory interludes in an imaginary Whole Foods. There, Saint and the frontman of a popular pop punk band Saint despises (because he’s a more hardcore Butthole Surfers and Bad Brains kind of guy) have tête-à-têtes in a checkout line. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d lived in West Oakland since it was really West Oakland,” a fresh from lockup Saint remarks early on in the book. “I made it back … and it had a Whole Foods.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really difficult thing to make gentrification interesting because it immediately sounds as though you’re trying to feed your audience the vegetables she probably doesn’t want to eat,” Mohr says. “You have to figure out a way to dramatize it in the most compelling way, but also subtextually get at the heart of those stories. 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Or is it Nigeria or Ghana or one the many other countries across West Africa that have embraced and added their own unique twists to the beloved staple dish?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That eternal debate is the basis of \u003ca href=\"https://jolloffestival.com/\">Jollof Festival\u003c/a>, a touring nationwide cultural celebration and nationality-based jollof rice competition that will stop in 12 different cities this year, including Oakland on July 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kemi Tijaniqudus, who runs the Nigerian food truck \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jollofkitchen/\">Jollof Kitchen\u003c/a>, won the Oakland edition both years she competed, 2021 and 2023. Her victories are a point of pride, not just for herself but for the Bay Area’s broader Nigerian community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she puts it, “People have different opinions, but hey, we always win. You can choose whatever you like, but I know I will take the crown.” In fact, Tijaniqudus says part of the reason she has retired from the competition and won’t be competing this year is because it’s unfair: “I already know Nigerian jollof is going to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If those sound like fighting words, that’s all part of the fun — and the friendly but heated rivalry — of Jollof Festival, where delicious food meets a healthy dose of cultural and nationalistic pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Co-produced by Jollof Festival founder Ishmael Osekre and two local collaborators — Quiana Webster and Dj Leone, both active participants in Oakland’s Afrobeats and R&B scenes — the Oakland event will feature local chefs and caterers competing on behalf of Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Senegal and Sierra Leone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13896069,arts_13953866,arts_13954267']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>Here’s how it works: Anyone can pay a $10 general admission ticket to take part in the day’s festivities, which will include a range of West African food vendors; booths selling clothing, jewelry and art; and various cultural performances and family-friendly activities. But attendees who want a vote will have to buy a higher-tier ($45) ticket, which gives access to a blind tasting of jollof rice samples from each of the competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it’s a blind tasting, a voter with roots in, say, Ghana technically wouldn’t be able to just automatically vote for the Ghanaian entry. The judging should be based on taste alone — though savvy jollof heads might still be able to sniff out their own mother country’s representative. For instance, Tijaniqudus explains that Nigerian jollof is famous for its telltale smokiness, so anyone familiar with that taste would have recognized her entry last year after taking one bite: “Oh shit, this is Nigerian jollof!” And Ralphina Seymoun, who represented Gambia at last year’s competition along with her husband Mohamed Bereteh, says she served a special white jollof — made with broken jasmine rice and no tomatoes — that you would only find in Gambia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960585\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960585\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/tutti-fruti-jollof.jpg\" alt=\"A takeout container of jollof rice and two plastic bags of juice.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/tutti-fruti-jollof.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/tutti-fruti-jollof-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/tutti-fruti-jollof-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/tutti-fruti-jollof-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/tutti-fruti-jollof-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/tutti-fruti-jollof-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gambian-style white jollof rice courtesy of San Jose’s Ralphina Seymoun and Mohamed Bereteh. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tutti Fruti Kitchen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Seymon’s San Jose–based catering business, Tutti Fruti Kitchen, didn’t win last year’s Jollof Festival. Gambia is such a tiny country, she explains, that it would be tough to beat out Nigeria in a popularity contest. “But we sold out first,” she says with evident pride. This year Seymoun and her husband will switch gears and compete on behalf of Bereteh’s native Sierra Leone. It’s a simpler style of red rice, Seymoun explains, with its main distinguishing feature that the meat and gravy are cooked separately and served on top instead of everything getting stir-fried together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the names of her rivals have yet to be released, she’s sure to be up against stiff competition — again, with contenders representing Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia and Senegal also gunning for the crown. Will Seymon’s second time be the charm, allowing Sierra Leone to hoist up the final trophy this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only way to find out, as the event organizers like to say, is to let the jollof wars begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://jolloffestival.com/\">\u003ci>Jollof Festival Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> will take place on Saturday, July 13, 2–7 p.m., at 7th West (1255 7th St.) in West Oakland — though, as the event organizers’\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://events.eventnoire.com/e/jollof-festival-oak24/tickets\"> \u003ci>disclaimer\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> notes, “This is an African event, things may run on African time.” Tickets start at $10 — $45 if you want to participate (and vote) in the blind tasting of the competitors’ jollof entries.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He used to be with No Limit [Records], selling millions,” F.A.B. recalls. “I’m like, ‘I’m from the North, he’s from the East, he’s from the West.’ Let’s do a record about the whole Town being together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a beat from E-A-Ski and I freestyled the hook,” he continues. “Everyone was like ‘Yeah, that’s cold.’ So we wrote our verses. [But] never would I have thought that ‘N.E.W Oakland’ would be a song that stands as a Bay Area anthem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E0FIFuJZ64\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike so many rap songs about warring factions, “N.E.W. Oakland” brings each side of Oakland together on equal footing, with shout-outs to each neighborhood’s markers. There may not be another hook with as much centrifugal gravity for all of Oakland as when F.A.B. shouts, “I got the North, got the East, got the West with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of the song’s release, F.A.B. says that North Oakland wasn’t receiving its proper respect, often being left out of the larger rap conversation, while East and West Oakland rappers got their shine. In the 2005 Keak Da Sneak track “Town Business,” for example, the raspy-voiced linguist rattles off a litany of Oakland locations — but none from the North side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a big record that summer,” F.A.B. says. “I was like ‘Damn, y’all didn’t say nothing about North Oakland.’ So when I did my verse [on ‘N.E.W. Oakland’], I started it out with the same cadence Keak used but it included areas from North Oakland. It was a friendly response to my big brother about how they forgot about us. It’s not no diss or anything. It’s just letting people know about the North.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the opening verse of “N.E.W. Oakland,” Fabby bombards listeners with references to “the North Pole” — Gaskill, Bushrod, 62nd, Goldenville. He then reminds the Bay Area that Oakland is bigger than its notorious East and West sides: “My side been forgot about and that’s what I’m hot about.” Then he enlists two lyrical giants from each contingent to tell their sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The song was instantly a hit on street corners, at house parties, lakeside cookouts, car cruises and more. And its unifying theme is surely part of the reason the new video struck such a deep chord with today’s audience after it premiered on May 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11754468\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1071px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11754468\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Mistah-FAB.jpg\" alt=\"Mistah F.A.B. headlines a show honoring the legacy of Oakland's Mac Dre\" width=\"1071\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Mistah-FAB.jpg 1071w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Mistah-FAB-400x235.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Mistah-FAB-800x471.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Mistah-FAB-768x452.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Mistah-FAB-960x565.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1071px) 100vw, 1071px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mistah F.A.B. made a name for himself during the hyphy movement with his unapologetic representation of North Oakland. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Mistah F.A.B.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shot and directed by Thee Shooters, the video is a mix of documentary and artistic angling, spanning each rapper’s turf — beginning in the North, then sliding through the Deep East and circling back to Ghost Town in the West. Despite the shift in eras (and technology), the 20-year-old song seems to have even gained a few octaves of trunk-rattling superpowers with each passing year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area fans seem to agree that it slaps. The comment section under \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C6zuz27xWyF/\">the “N.E.W. Oakland” video’s Instagram post\u003c/a> is like a group chat of diehard fans and major Bay Area personalities and institutions, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936865/berkeleys-rexx-life-raj-administers-medicine-for-the-soul-on-california-poppy-3\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a>, DB Tha General, 22nd Jim, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957194/seiji-oda-bay-area-rap-lo-fi-minimalist-hyphy\">Seiji Oda\u003c/a>, The Grouch and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who here been waiting 20 years for this video button [100 emoji; fire emoji; clapping emoji],” one fan on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E0FIFuJZ64\">YouTube\u003c/a> wrote. “I’m 33 now, this slap came out when I was a freshman in high school!,” says another. And perhaps the one that hits the bullseye: “Maaannn, very smart release.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it feels rare for a rapper to reach into the archives and shoot original footage for a track that was released nearly a quarter-century ago, that’s because it is. For better or worse, hip-hop has often been presented as a genre of the moment, and the culture is still figuring out how to age gracefully and honor the past — particularly as some of its mainstay figures pass away, and others radically shift gears to stay relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that context, it’s compelling for three well-established rappers to come back in a way that is fresh, dynamic and genuine — not by trying to create a contemporary hit based on today’s TikTok trends, but to honor their past work together in a sincere way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It begs the question: Why isn’t there more of this? If it’s the right song, and it came out at the right time, but there’s no existing video for it, then why not release a video after the fact?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Capturing Oakland, then and now\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in the day, music videos were mostly financially out of reach for independent rappers — it could’ve cost $25,000 to $50,000 to film a proper one. Without record label budgets, artists learned how to survive out the trunk rather than aspiring for Hollywood’s recognition. In fact, most of Mistah F.A.B.’s legendary discography — along with many of the alpha rappers of his generation and prior — didn’t have official videos until later in their careers. They made mixtapes, and then there were bootleg mixes of pixelated slideshows created by avid fans on YouTube, long before social media existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922618\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13922618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IceCube.MistahFAB.jpg\" alt=\"Two men dressed in black stand on stage, smiling\" width=\"1499\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IceCube.MistahFAB.jpg 1499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IceCube.MistahFAB-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IceCube.MistahFAB-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IceCube.MistahFAB-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IceCube.MistahFAB-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1499px) 100vw, 1499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ice Cube and Mistah FAB on stage at Fremont High School to commemorate the unveiling of ‘Too $hort Way’ on Dec. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Kristie Song/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For F.A.B., it only felt right to resuscitate an important moment in Oakland’s rap history by providing a video. The idea first came together organically during F.A.B.’s birthday party earlier this year; G-Stack and Bavgate were in attendance. F.A.B. realized he had a film crew available that could do what he didn’t have the ability to do at 21 years old. So he locked it in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Documentation supersedes conversation,” says Mistah F.A.B., like a professor about to freestyle an entire dissertation. “When it’s locked in, there’s nothing to talk about. We here. You can see it for yourself. We just captured the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video serves as a testament to not only what Oakland is right now, but what it felt like back then — if not in the physical form, then at least in the spiritual realm. Due to relentless waves of gentrification that have dismantled so many community hubs, it’s hard to imagine what this video might’ve looked like if it came out in ‘05 instead of ‘24. That’s not lost on the artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of my friends that were there when we made this [song], they’re no longer living,” says F.A.B. Same for physical landmarks that are no longer here: “When I talk about Goldenville, that was a project building we all grew up in. Know what I’m saying? I would’ve loved to get those kinds of buildings and people in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>F.A.B. even admits that he initially thought the video could’ve worked in black and white. But he’s ultimately glad it’s in color. The energy and liveliness of contemporary Oakland is exactly what he had hoped to convey, without diluting it or hyperbolizing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The directors did a hell of a job of capturing the energy,” F.A.B. says. “If you ever wanted to know what Oakland looks like, here it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Mistah F.A.B. hosts \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw0sNjAywbV/\">\u003ci>Thug Therapy\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a mental health check-in for men, on first and third Wednesdays from 6 to 9 p.m. at Oakstop California Ballroom (1736 Franklin St., Oakland). The next event will be held on Wednesday, May 29 and feature Rick ‘Freeway Ricky’ Ross. Free entry, includes complimentary food and beverages.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 2005, when rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fabbydavisjr1/?hl=en\">Mistah F.A.B.\u003c/a> originally released “N.E.W. Oakland,” he was barely old enough to legally drink. Nearly 20 years later — now a veteran, community fixture and business savant — he’s finally decided to drop the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mistah F.A.B. is known for pouring his all into The Town. In addition to running \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dopeeraco/?hl=en\">Dope Era\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908484/mistah-fab-week-dope-era-academy-dezis-oakland\">a clothing shop that also offers a youth arts development component\u003c/a>), he recently began offering \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVbQyGJGWgw\">Thug Therapy\u003c/a> (a free, bimonthly support group for men). But “N.E.W. Oakland” shows how F.A.B. was bringing folks together long before that, with a call for pride and unity in the Oakland hip-hop scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ode recounts each side of Oakland (the North, East and West) with a triumvirate of game-certified, lyrically diverse representatives: F.A.B., \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/trugstack/\">G-Stack\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/billybavgate/?hl=en\">Bavgate\u003c/a>. As a young, rising freestyle rapper, Mistah F.A.B. — the self-proclaimed “Prince of the O” — first got the idea when he ran into the pair of Oakland legends, whom he grew up idolizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was in the studio and was like, there go G-Stack, that’s a super pioneer for the culture with [his group] The Delinquents, and what they done for Oakland. Then Bavgate walked into the studio after that. He used to be with No Limit [Records], selling millions,” F.A.B. recalls. “I’m like, ‘I’m from the North, he’s from the East, he’s from the West.’ Let’s do a record about the whole Town being together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a beat from E-A-Ski and I freestyled the hook,” he continues. “Everyone was like ‘Yeah, that’s cold.’ So we wrote our verses. [But] never would I have thought that ‘N.E.W Oakland’ would be a song that stands as a Bay Area anthem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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There may not be another hook with as much centrifugal gravity for all of Oakland as when F.A.B. shouts, “I got the North, got the East, got the West with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of the song’s release, F.A.B. says that North Oakland wasn’t receiving its proper respect, often being left out of the larger rap conversation, while East and West Oakland rappers got their shine. In the 2005 Keak Da Sneak track “Town Business,” for example, the raspy-voiced linguist rattles off a litany of Oakland locations — but none from the North side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a big record that summer,” F.A.B. says. “I was like ‘Damn, y’all didn’t say nothing about North Oakland.’ So when I did my verse [on ‘N.E.W. Oakland’], I started it out with the same cadence Keak used but it included areas from North Oakland. It was a friendly response to my big brother about how they forgot about us. It’s not no diss or anything. It’s just letting people know about the North.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the opening verse of “N.E.W. Oakland,” Fabby bombards listeners with references to “the North Pole” — Gaskill, Bushrod, 62nd, Goldenville. He then reminds the Bay Area that Oakland is bigger than its notorious East and West sides: “My side been forgot about and that’s what I’m hot about.” Then he enlists two lyrical giants from each contingent to tell their sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The song was instantly a hit on street corners, at house parties, lakeside cookouts, car cruises and more. And its unifying theme is surely part of the reason the new video struck such a deep chord with today’s audience after it premiered on May 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11754468\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1071px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11754468\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Mistah-FAB.jpg\" alt=\"Mistah F.A.B. headlines a show honoring the legacy of Oakland's Mac Dre\" width=\"1071\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Mistah-FAB.jpg 1071w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Mistah-FAB-400x235.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Mistah-FAB-800x471.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Mistah-FAB-768x452.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Mistah-FAB-960x565.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1071px) 100vw, 1071px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mistah F.A.B. made a name for himself during the hyphy movement with his unapologetic representation of North Oakland. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Mistah F.A.B.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shot and directed by Thee Shooters, the video is a mix of documentary and artistic angling, spanning each rapper’s turf — beginning in the North, then sliding through the Deep East and circling back to Ghost Town in the West. Despite the shift in eras (and technology), the 20-year-old song seems to have even gained a few octaves of trunk-rattling superpowers with each passing year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area fans seem to agree that it slaps. The comment section under \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C6zuz27xWyF/\">the “N.E.W. Oakland” video’s Instagram post\u003c/a> is like a group chat of diehard fans and major Bay Area personalities and institutions, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936865/berkeleys-rexx-life-raj-administers-medicine-for-the-soul-on-california-poppy-3\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a>, DB Tha General, 22nd Jim, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957194/seiji-oda-bay-area-rap-lo-fi-minimalist-hyphy\">Seiji Oda\u003c/a>, The Grouch and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who here been waiting 20 years for this video button [100 emoji; fire emoji; clapping emoji],” one fan on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E0FIFuJZ64\">YouTube\u003c/a> wrote. “I’m 33 now, this slap came out when I was a freshman in high school!,” says another. And perhaps the one that hits the bullseye: “Maaannn, very smart release.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it feels rare for a rapper to reach into the archives and shoot original footage for a track that was released nearly a quarter-century ago, that’s because it is. For better or worse, hip-hop has often been presented as a genre of the moment, and the culture is still figuring out how to age gracefully and honor the past — particularly as some of its mainstay figures pass away, and others radically shift gears to stay relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that context, it’s compelling for three well-established rappers to come back in a way that is fresh, dynamic and genuine — not by trying to create a contemporary hit based on today’s TikTok trends, but to honor their past work together in a sincere way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It begs the question: Why isn’t there more of this? If it’s the right song, and it came out at the right time, but there’s no existing video for it, then why not release a video after the fact?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Capturing Oakland, then and now\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in the day, music videos were mostly financially out of reach for independent rappers — it could’ve cost $25,000 to $50,000 to film a proper one. Without record label budgets, artists learned how to survive out the trunk rather than aspiring for Hollywood’s recognition. In fact, most of Mistah F.A.B.’s legendary discography — along with many of the alpha rappers of his generation and prior — didn’t have official videos until later in their careers. They made mixtapes, and then there were bootleg mixes of pixelated slideshows created by avid fans on YouTube, long before social media existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922618\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13922618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IceCube.MistahFAB.jpg\" alt=\"Two men dressed in black stand on stage, smiling\" width=\"1499\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IceCube.MistahFAB.jpg 1499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IceCube.MistahFAB-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IceCube.MistahFAB-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IceCube.MistahFAB-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/IceCube.MistahFAB-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1499px) 100vw, 1499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ice Cube and Mistah FAB on stage at Fremont High School to commemorate the unveiling of ‘Too $hort Way’ on Dec. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Kristie Song/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For F.A.B., it only felt right to resuscitate an important moment in Oakland’s rap history by providing a video. The idea first came together organically during F.A.B.’s birthday party earlier this year; G-Stack and Bavgate were in attendance. F.A.B. realized he had a film crew available that could do what he didn’t have the ability to do at 21 years old. So he locked it in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Documentation supersedes conversation,” says Mistah F.A.B., like a professor about to freestyle an entire dissertation. “When it’s locked in, there’s nothing to talk about. We here. You can see it for yourself. We just captured the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video serves as a testament to not only what Oakland is right now, but what it felt like back then — if not in the physical form, then at least in the spiritual realm. Due to relentless waves of gentrification that have dismantled so many community hubs, it’s hard to imagine what this video might’ve looked like if it came out in ‘05 instead of ‘24. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ever since Priscilla Mkenda immigrated to the Bay Area in the late ’90s, she wondered why there wasn’t a single restaurant here that served Tanzanian food — the rich curries and flaky chapati flatbreads of her native country. “I think there is big potential,” she’d tell herself over the home-cooked meals that she prepared for her friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As was the case for many aspiring food entrepreneurs, 2020’s pandemic shutdown finally prompted Mkenda to do something about it — to start her very own Tanzanian pop-up near Lake Merritt in Oakland, first with friends she met at an African dance class and then by herself. Eventually, she parlayed the business into a food truck. Then, last spring, she took another step and signed the lease on a commercial kitchen and takeout restaurant in West Oakland. She called it \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/swahilispot_bayarea/\">Swahili Spot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in this small storefront with Swahili food words (“kuku” for chicken, “mzuzu” for plantain) handwritten on the walls, that I got my first taste of homestyle Tanzanian beef curry over coconut rice and the dense, lightly sweetened rice cakes known as vitumbua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954273\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954273\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-exterior.jpg\" alt='Exterior of a restaurant with a sign for \"Swahili Spot\" in green lettering overhead. ' width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-exterior.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-exterior-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-exterior-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-exterior-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-exterior-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-exterior-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-exterior-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The restaurant opened on Peralta Street in the spring of 2023. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mkenda, who grew up in Tanzania and Uganda and moved to the Bay Area for university in 1999, says all of her food is born out of nostalgia. “My menu is a history, actually,” she says. It’s exactly what I grew up eating back home.” Her signature beef and chicken curry bowls are recreations of what she ate at boarding school as a kid — they’re staples of the cuisine that anyone who’s ever visited Tanzania would have eaten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beef curry I tried was surprisingly light — “it’s not spicy-hot, it’s spicy with flavor,” as Mkenda puts it. Instead of the heavy bass line of cumin and coriander that you might get with an Indian curry or even a Japanese curry, Swahili Spot’s curry has the brighter, more mellow flavor notes that you get from the addition of cinnamon and cloves. The beef itself was tender and flavorful, but it was almost more of a side dish. The most delicious thing in the bowl was a big pile of savory sautéed kale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My intention is healthy eating,” Mkenda says, noting that the curry bowls consist of about two ounces of meat, two ounces of beans and probably three ounces of greens, plus a couple slices of fried plantain on top as a crowning touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954274\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954274\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-vitumbua.jpg\" alt=\"A hand holding a well-browned, oval-shaped rice cake against a blue background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-vitumbua.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-vitumbua-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-vitumbua-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-vitumbua-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-vitumbua-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-vitumbua-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-vitumbua-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vitumbua rice cakes are a popular breakfast street food in Tanzania. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rest of the menu covers the whole gamut of traditional Tanzanian dishes. There are vitumbua rice pancakes — a popular breakfast street food — which are like dense, chewy balls of slightly gingery rice pudding. There’s chips mayai, or “zege,” which is essentially a French fry omelet, similar to a Spanish tortilla. And, for heartier eaters, Mkenda fries whole fish and serves it with ugali — the traditional Tanzanian cornmeal dough — on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13953866,arts_13938506,arts_13896069']Now is as good a time as any to check Swahili Spot out: As part of this year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953885/oakland-restaurant-week-2024\">Oakland Restaurant Week\u003c/a> promotion, from March 14–24, the restaurant is selling its entire menu of curry bowls and lunch plates for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitoakland.com/listing/sawahili-spot/7831/\">slightly discounted rate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not content to run a single takeout restaurant, Mkenda’s hope is to eventually launch additional branches of Swahili Spot all across California. Her long-term goal? To open a fancy sit-down restaurant that’ll really put Tanzanian food on the map here in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cooking is my passion. Cooking is my therapy, actually,” Mkenda says. “Whenever I’m idle or bored, that is my go-to place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954275\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-beef-bowl.jpg\" alt=\"Beef curry bowl loaded with beans and greens.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-beef-bowl.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-beef-bowl-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-beef-bowl-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-beef-bowl-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-beef-bowl-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-beef-bowl-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/swahili-spot-beef-bowl-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another view of the beef curry bowl, which is subtly spiced with cinnamon and cloves. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.swahilispot.com/\">\u003ci>Swahili Spot\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is open Friday to Sunday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. at 1327 Peralta St. in Oakland.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ri Louie throws porch parties. The schedule varies, but usually on Sundays, they’ll post a handwritten menu on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/_porchparty_/\">Instagram\u003c/a>. And then on Tuesday, people from all over the East Bay flock to their porch in West Oakland to share a home-cooked meal, finding community in helpings of hot food and scratch-made buttermilk biscuits. For Louie, the informal “Porch Party” pop-ups are yet another step in their long journey of feeding people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In layman’s terms, they say, “I am just your neighbor cooking for you in my kitchen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After tasting the fruits of the chef’s labor at several art events in Oakland, I began to recognize Louie as an East Bay staple. Our first chance meeting was at a celebration of queer art at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/helvella.art/?hl=en\">Helvella Art\u003c/a>, where Louie plated up crispy pork belly with the perfect level of chewy crunch, and jasmine oat lattes that sang with floral notes and grounded nuttiness. The second was a West Oakland Farmers Market art sale, where they sold “chips ‘n’ fixin’s,” a hearty plate of tortilla chips topped with slow-stewed beans, fresh cotija cheese and a tangy-sweet yogurt slaw to tickle the tastebuds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For each of these events, Louie’s three-dimensional flavor pairings paid homage to the many different food traditions that allow the Bay Area’s diasporic landscape to thrive. 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The chopsticks are from Louie’s grandmother’s Chinese restaurant. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Celadon Loo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Louie has been cooking for as long as they can remember. Their grandmother owned a classic 1950s Chinese restaurant in the Southern California suburbs. Through that lineage, Louie immersed themselves in a world of restaurant tools, kitchen efficiency and the age-old habit of tasting as you go. Growing up in the San Gabriel Valley, Louie learned that community was something that thrived in the comfort of a home kitchen — and with the guidance of their father, who was also a talented home cook, they soon became the resident chef for the family’s big parties and annual gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Louie, these early years weren’t particularly conventional. They left high school and graduated late, choosing to work as a campaigner for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid in 2016. In the days following election night, they and their coworkers found themselves bereft. To break out of their funk, Louie leaned into their Jewish upbringing and cooked weekly Shabbat meals for campaigners in the Los Angeles Area. The process of breaking bread became a way for the group to bond, and together, they began to use those Friday night meals as a time to gather for community actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Louie left L.A. to attend UC Berkeley and began working as a head cook at the Berkeley Student Co-ops. There, Louie and a team of five assistant cooks would serve 140 people (and any guests they brought) a four-course meal every week. The food — like beans hydrated in an overnight marinade or elaborate bowls of fresh noodles — quickly developed a reputation for its flavor and execution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the pandemic struck and massive protests over police violence erupted all around the country, Louie moved back home to L.A. and decided to raise money for Black Lives Matter by hosting a neighborhood bake sale — unbeknownst to their family. Louie’s mother, father and brothers came home to find flour on the floor, baking pans stacked in the sink, and a frantic baker. Thus, Louie’s subsequent attempts at activism came with a single caveat: They had to allow their family to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So began an entire operation. Louie’s father helped source ingredients. Their brother developed software to manage ordering. And Louie and their mother baked. Over the course of Louie’s year at home, they raised $34,000 for the movement.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\"]‘Here, neighbors can have meaningful dialogue about community actions, their personal well-being \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the food at hand.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through that experience, Louie found their passion. Food was a way that communities could gather and celebrate. And Louie had witnessed firsthand the joy of creating both the space and opportunity for their neighbors to engage in community action. Initially, Louie’s idea was to enter the restaurant business to create physical spaces where people could share meals and conversation. But after several stints at high-end restaurants in Los Angeles and the Bay, Louie realized that they found their greatest joy in cooking meals for neighbors — at home. Thus, Porch Party was born. Louie hosted the first iteration in August of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porch Party, in Louie’s words, is “here to serve and support and bring joy to artists, activists, creatives, and community-builders as we all do our part to destroy the racist capitalist imperialist heteropatriarchy.” Each week’s iteration has a new menu. Sometimes the pop-up takes the form of home deliveries or pickups. And, most importantly, sometimes there are actual, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C0M37b3OnIX/?img_index=1\">in-person porch parties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these pop-ups, Louie’s house serves as a place where “things can get pretty intense,” meaning community members from all around the East Bay wind up engaging in large-group conversations that go beyond a simple “how are you.” While knowing your neighbor feels rarer than ever, Louie strives to create a space where guests can feed their body, their social calendar and their mind. Here, neighbors can have meaningful dialogue about community actions, their personal well-being \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the food at hand — all while fueling good causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13938628\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13938628\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/porch-party-ari-in-profile_celadon-loo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stirs a large pot of jook with a soup spoon.\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/porch-party-ari-in-profile_celadon-loo-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/porch-party-ari-in-profile_celadon-loo-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/porch-party-ari-in-profile_celadon-loo-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/porch-party-ari-in-profile_celadon-loo-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/porch-party-ari-in-profile_celadon-loo-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/porch-party-ari-in-profile_celadon-loo-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/porch-party-ari-in-profile_celadon-loo-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louie checks on the jook, which had a wonderful, pillowy texture. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Celadon Loo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recently, Louie’s Porch Party menus went viral because they were donating proceeds to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, raising $1,600 in one week alone — and a total of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C0M37b3OnIX/\">about $6,600\u003c/a> over the course of a few pop-ups. The most recent pop-up split its proceeds between the Palestinian humanitarian aid nonprofit and the \u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/\">Sogorea Te’ Land Trust\u003c/a>, an indigenous land rematriation project whose work breathes life into more home kitchens in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13929177,arts_13938506,arts_13928345']\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>When Louie offered me a sneak peek at that last Porch Party menu, I jumped at the chance. Louie had made a homemade chicken broth with ginger and chicken bones, and then used that stock to make a heavenly jook. The rice had softened to a pillowy texture, perfectly emulsifying within the salty broth and treasures of egg ribbons. They also served a heaping pile of stir-fried mushrooms, broccoli, shallots and purple cabbage, all tossed in chili oil and a slightly sweet, umami-filled sauce — a combination so delicious that I drizzled it onto my jook as well. Every bite was grounded in a surprising new dimension of flavor.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louie’s community work boasts the same characteristics as their culinary practices, letting the flavors of diverse lives mix and mingle to create a masterpiece. The chef’s big-picture dreams have evolved over the years — from becoming a rhetoric professor to a TV show host showcasing home cooks. Now, their biggest dream is to create art about what food means to our society. While serving piping hot meals, they want to gather folks around their literal and metaphoric table to engage in oral history, movement building and elevating stories of marginalized communities whose foods we eat every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, the story of food, to Louie, is a story about the people who make it happen. And, as the mind behind Porch Party, Louie wants to do both — the making and the telling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The next Porch Party pop-up will be an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C0M37b3OnIX/?img_index=1\">in-person brunch event\u003c/a> in West Oakland on Sunday, Dec. 3, from 11 a.m.–3 p.m. RSVP by \u003ca href=\"https://www.luckyporchparty.com/\">preordering online\u003c/a> by 1 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 1 (or whenever all of the food sells out). \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside of a classic Queen Anne Victorian in West Oakland, photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tracibartlow/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Traci Bartlow\u003c/a> displays beautifully framed images of the people who shaped hip-hop culture here in the Bay Area, and across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her exhibition, \u003cem>Oakland Picture Lady: Tales of the 90’s Girl\u003c/em>, features photos of Outkast and Queen Latifah, Busta Rhymes and ODB, alongside images of the Luniz and Shock-G, as well as E-40 and The Click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the photos tell a story about what life was like in growing up in Oakland, it’s her house that tells \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CxjCC5Uv62l/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">the complex story of multiple generations of Black folks\u003c/a>, land ownership and community appreciation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traci is the owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.b-lovesguesthouse.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">B-Love’s Guesthouse\u003c/a>, which is a photography museum and a boutique hotel. With its picturesque front porch and flourishing garden in the back, the building features seven different rooms that folks can rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920339\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Traci Bartlow holds up an image of the wash house her mother once owned in East Oakland. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traci Bartlow holds up an image of the washhouse her mother once owned in East Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.alvinailey.org/school\">Ailey School\u003c/a> graduate turned \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjBa6yqRau4\">Emmy-winning dancer\u003c/a> and choreographer, Traci fell in love with the arts through what she experienced in her neighborhood as a child. Block parties and family functions introduced her to her love of dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in East Oakland, she also saw firsthand the importance of a neighborhood hub by watching the multiple ways people would use her mother’s washhouse. It wasn’t just a laundromat but a corner store, a place to get your prom dress made or pick up your Avon order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She acquired her current home from the late Eddie Mae Holmes, a Black woman who once owned multiple properties in West Oakland. And Traci envisioned using the space for the purposes of artistic expression and community gatherings, including showcasing her work. Now B-Love’s Guesthouse stands as a home for hip-hop history and a safe haven for folks to come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13920342 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Traci Bartlow.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traci Bartlow sits on the stairwell of her Queen Ann Victorian home in West Oakland \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3179587234&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode originally aired on October 14, 2022 .\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena, Producer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hey Rightnowish listeners, it’s Marisol Medina-Cadena. As we continue to honor 50 Years of Hip-Hop, we’re bringing you an episode from our archive featuring dancer and photographer Traci Bartlow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Traci documented Bay Area dancers, rappers, and dj’s in the 90’s and still hasn’t put the camera down. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This summer, the inaugural Bay Area Hip Hop Archives honored Traci Bartlow for her contributions to the region’s Hip Hop scene. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And Pendarvis Harshaw is gonna take it from here, enjoy. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">] \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw, host:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Mic, mic check one, mic check two. Are we here? All right we’re here…Rightnowish. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Street ambience ]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Do you know what type of tree it is?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow, guest:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s called a bottle brush tree.Usually it’s full of these bright red flowers with skinny pistils and the hummingbirds love it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Why start here on your tour? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s in the shade and it’s a moment to get a feel for the house and the neighborhood. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hey y’all, what’s happening? You’re listening to Rightnowish, a podcast about arts and culture in the bay area. I’m your partna Pen…Pendarvis Harshaw. And today, we’re gonna spend some time in West Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The neighborhood looks hella different than it did when I was coming up, but all is not lost. There’s still places and people that have weathered the market forces to maintain the character of the area. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like this Victorian house I’m standing in front of with today’s guest, Traci Bartlow. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is a Queen Anne Victorian house and it was built in 1895. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s painted white with a mix of soft yellow and sky blue accents. Potted roses and succulents line the stairwell.. and it’s got this half arch that extends from the porch and frames the door, almost like a house you’d see in a storybook. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It seems like they wanted to make it look like a castle! You know, like with the high ceilings, this beautiful arc, all of this really unique molding on the house. Everything is really grand. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Traci’s home is also a boutique hotel called B-Love’s Guesthouse, where you can rent a room for a day or two. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> B-Love’s Guesthouse has served as a healing space and a respite in many different ways. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s also a photography museum where you could spend an hour or two just soaking up the rich history. This month, Traci is exhibiting photos she shot of the Town, including images that graced the pages of historic magazines like The Source and Rap Pages.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This image here is the Hobo Junction. And I love this image because they’re selling their tapes out of a box on Telegraph Avenue. In front of the record store! That’s how we did in the nineties.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She had a front row seat to the artists who shaped both the Bay Area hip hop scene and the national hip hop scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These pictures are fun! Busta Rhymes and ODB. This was on the set of Busta’s music video. “Woo-ha! Got You All In Check.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Okay yeah.. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes, so he shot the video in \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco, and so I came out to capture photographs and… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What?\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s tight as hell. I didn’t know that.. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yep! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s Isha B doing ODB’s hair?! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes! \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[laughs]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Isha B did ODB’s hair?? What?? That’s crazy!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[laughs]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yep, classic history!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Woah, okay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, today we’re focused on Traci Bartlow’s dope photo archive and the story behind the place where these photos are housed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So wipe your kicks at the door, hang up your coat, relax your shoulders,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and take a deep breath: we’re posting up at B-Love’s Guesthouse. Right after this…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [Outdoor Ambience]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Just a few blocks from the women of the Black Panther Party mural and west Oakland Bart station is Traci Bartlow’s home and hotel. It’s a residential street with lots of history… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I acquired this house in 2007 and I acquired the house from a team of people that would buy houses, flip them, and then sell them. They bought the house from a woman named Eddie Mae Holmes. And Ms. Holmes was an African-American woman that came to West Oakland when she was 14 years old. And, um, through her family ownership, she acquired this house, the house I now own, this house on the corner. And in 1965, she had that apartment building around the corner built and on the lower level of the apartment building, she had Holmes Barber Shop. So Ms.Holmes is one of those black women in the community that was providing in so many different ways for everyone. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ms. Holmes was my friend! I used to make ginger tea and go sit in the kitchen in her house and we would watch The View in the mornings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b> \u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Laughs\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>]\u003c/em> Okay! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She was my partna! And she was just really amazed by me like, ‘Oh, this is who bought the house?’ And so she was really encouraging to me as a property owner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About 15 years ago, Traci converted her home into a guesthouse. People can choose from one of seven rooms for an overnight stay. And at the same time, folks can enjoy the framed photos from Traci’s archives. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Okay here is B-Love’s Guesthouse.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Traci leads me to the kitchenette of the downstairs guest house. Above a small dining room table they’re framed black and white images of kids. I see little girls with barrettes in their hair. In another image, the camera is pointed toward a window sill where a boy with a D.A.R.E. t-shirt is joined by family members, as he looks directly into the camera while eating his cup of noodles. In the background of these images are the streets and structures of the houses in East Oakland– they too are featured characters in the composition of these images. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This photo collection. Ah, this all from the neighborhood? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> These are from my neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The brick cell phone? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I mean, the hairdo, of course, in the fashion. But the brick cell phone and the leaning like “Talk to me and Imma talk back.” That’s what she looks like. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">laughs\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This one. This one as well with the cross colors and then this Benz and even the Lack behind it\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [Music] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The photos are a time machine, instantly transporting me back to the East Oakland that I knew as a youth. Outfits that my sister used to rock. And facial expressions looking like kids I used to kick it with. Squinting, I look for a familiar face or two.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> These are people that I grew up with. You know, we went to middle school and high school together. My mother owned the laundromat on 98th and Birch, and so everyone would come and do their laundry at my mom’s laundromat. And her business wasn’t just where you can do your laundry. It was like a community center \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[laughs]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> where my mom had a sewing machine in the corner and she would do alterations and she would make prom dresses and make outfits for people. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She also sold Avon, and um we had a little store in the back where you could buy candy and chips and sandwiches, and I would make homemade cookies and we would have those ghetto Icees, you know, like Kool-Aid in a cup. So people were always coming to the laundromat. They were like, Miss Bartlow, did you? Can you hem the skirt? And is my Avon ready? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taken by the beauty of her community and the joy of capturing it on film, Traci started a photography business, shooting people’s portraits and printing them for $2. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And if I didn’t see people in the neighborhood, when I would bring them, I would be like, ‘Oh, stop by the wash house and pick up your order of photos.’ \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even before she got into photography, Traci was already into the arts. At age 19, Traci was awarded a scholarship to study dance at New York’s Alvin Ailey Dance Center. A dancer since a kid, she was inspired by both the entertainers she saw on TV and the way folks moved in her community– the family gatherings and community kickbacks–so, this was a dream come true. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is a picture of my mom escorting me to audition for the Alvin Ailey School when I was 19 years old. We’re at the 34th Street Station in New York City. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And she’s beaming. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She’s beaming! Yes! My mom was very supportive of my dance career.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> After finishing the two year professional dance training program, she took performing gigs across the globe. One thing led to another and Traci dabbled in modeling before picking up the camera herself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I would also find myself at modeling shoots and just be like, ‘What kind of light is that? Oh, that’s a diffuser? What does that do?’ So I was interested in the hardware of photography. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It was just like this natural progression of me knowing about photography and wanting to learn more and also the way I would study magazine layouts. Then I had this eye for how I wanted to capture a photograph. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Traci made her way back to Oakland and this time she \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">really\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> picked up the film camera. She saw the beauty and life in her neighbors and wanted to document that with the same eye and artfulness that fashion magazine photographers did. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> My neighbors were amused with me. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like, ‘You’ve been living in New York City. Oh you want us to pose?’ Like, so I would always have my camera. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If it was a holiday, a cook, a cookout, kind of holiday. Memorial Day, 4th of July. I would just come outside and take pictures and hang out. So when they saw me, they’re like, ‘Heyyyy! \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture time! Yeah, here come the photo lady, l\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">et’s get ready. She’s going to take our picture!’ \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Traci’s background in dance soon became the focus of her photography. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I’m self-taught, so I started photographing other dancers. And you’ll see many images from this photo shoot, because this was an assignment I gave myself to practice with high speed film. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We make our way from guest room to guest room, photos hung everywhere. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s this one black and white image of teenage b-boy dancers in throwback gear: one is rocking a visor, another in a pair of Marvin the martian shorts– just dripping with youthful 90s flavor. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In front of a brick wall, one guy is doing a crazy handstand and the other is seen jumping 3 feet off the ground hitting a pose. In spite of all the movement, everything is captured in crisp detail, no blur. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And the dancers are two of the members of Housing Authority. And Housing Authority was this bad ass crew of all male dancers from Oakland and Richmond, Black and brown men. And they were running things in the nineties. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> One of the dancers in the photo is Fly Styles who went on to be a successful backup dancer and choreographer for musicians like Usher and Missy Elliot. Same goes for other Town folks that Traci has photographed in the 90s. Most are now thriving in the entertainment world or powerhouses in the local arts and culture scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is Aisha Bilal, Layla Jenkins, Asha Karima and Ingrid Best. We were at \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DeFremery Park \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">at an event there. This is 1997. We were having a conversation. And in that moment, I just stepped back from the cipher and leaned down and captured this photograph of them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Black and white, the posture, arms across, you know, like stoic for the most part and angled up. You’re like looking up at them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> My tentative title for this one is “Giant” because of how larger than life these women are, not only in the photograph, but in real life. They have all been just very powerful and dynamic in their lives, in their families, in their communities, in business. It’s really amazing just to see who these women are even today. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Look, she really has a house full of anecdotal stories about artists at every turn. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Here we are… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Entering the next room. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So this is one of the rooms that I rent out for B-Love’s Guesthouse, and people are just, like, rejuvenated and just excited to have a good night’s rest in this comfortable plush queen bed surrounded by all this art, these high ceilings, chandelier, and just this big picture window that brings so much morning sunlight into the room.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You’ve got some legends in here. Like, that’s a portrait of Shock G, the late. And this is the Luniz it looks like. That’s fresh out of high school Luniz. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [laughs] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That picture was taken backstage as Summer Jam… mhmmm \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is ’97. So this is yeah, post “I Got Five On It.”\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> They are still riding that wave. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mm. Mm mm.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> O\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ne of the things I would do as a photographer in starting out and being self-taught is, I would get a great photo of an artist. I would look on the liner notes of their album and find out who the management was, send them the photo with the cover letter and introduce myself. Sometimes I would write with a ballpoint pen on the back of the photo, like “photo by Tracy Barlow. Copyright 1994.” \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> To break into the industry, Traci had to put herself out there. And with all those portraits that she shot of her neighbors, dancer friends, and hip hop artists on the rise– that became her portfolio of work that she carried with her in a Walgreens photo album just waiting for that right moment when she’d have to pull it out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And so I talked my way into Chi Modu’s office! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The late Chi Modu is \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">thee\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> late ‘90s hip-hop photographer. He famously photographed Biggie, Eazy-E, Mobb Deep, Nas, members of the Wu Tang Clan, and Tupac. His artwork is culture visualized. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And I said, ‘I’m from Oakland, and if I get pictures of the scene in Oakland, then maybe you could publish them in your magazine?’\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And he looked at this portfolio with all these faces from deep East Oakland, and he was like, ‘You have a good eye.’ He said, ‘Let’s do it. You capture photos of the scene. Maybe we’ll publish them.’ And the first photo that was published was this image of Hiero at Hip Hop on the Green, and this was published in the Source Magazine. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music ] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hip Hop On the Green was this dope outdoor concert that was held in the East Bay throughout the 90s. And Traci was there to document it! Her photos of the event helped spread awareness of Bay Area Hip Hop Culture to the rest of the country. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From Hip Hop On the Green…look at E-40. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, Mail Man time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mail Man! Okay, Slurricane. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, the Mossie. B-legit.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Suga-T\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oooh, look at the finger waves. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes and the Cross Colours. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Nice! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It should be noted that while Traci is fully in community with folks, she’s largely doing this on her own: Her photos. Her home. Her idea. And her actualization. She’s not waiting around for someone to give her a platform or to recognize her contributions to the culture, she’s just doing it herself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And in a place where Black folks have been under-resourced, overpoliced, locked-up and pushed out of the Town for decades, for her to hold space for herself, her work and her community? Cmon, man, we’ve gotta recognize the power in that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m amazed that I survived foreclosure. There was many moments of just the spirit of detachment. This may not work out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I would come home. Those notices were posted on my front door. This house is up for auction on the county courthouse steps at 6 a.m.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> After surviving foreclosure, Traci opened up her space, allowing people to rent out rooms. The guests? It started with her network of artist friends… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I was like, Well, I think I’m going to start renting out rooms to people that I know that are coming to town for residencies, for conferences, for events, for direct actions. Like these are people that I know come to the Bay Area for these different things. I know all the African dance festivals. I know the B Boys, I know the film festivals, I know the National Poetry Slams. Like, that’s my life! Artists and activism is my life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s beautiful… to have it come almost naturally, like from your experience is poured into you and also it benefits the larger community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, there are people in this neighborhood that have been here for a long time, as well as a mix of new people that are coming in. So to honor this history of the black experience in West Oakland is really important to me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The house itself is preserving history. And then within the house you have history on the walls. And it’s not all historical, it’s forward moving, like you have people coming through in real time\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">…who are \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">culture makers, people, cultural icons, you know. And so I just wanted to get a sense of some of the people who’ve come through here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes!!! Norma Miller, the queen of swing! The Lindy Hop champion! \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">he’ll be like,’ Nope, I don’t want to be at the Marriott.’ She’s like, ‘I want to be at B-Love’s Guesthouse.’\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Because it was like she wanted to be immersed in Black culture.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">B-Girl FaTara from New York. She came out for a breaking event here in Oakland. And she said, ‘I’ve stayed at so many AirBnbs, but this is like a Black house, like the incense you have burning, the beans you got cooking, like it smells and feels like the house of an African American person.’\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So people are coming here and they may be in this gentrified neighborhood, but they’re like, Oh, but this is I, this is the Black lady’s house! \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[laughs] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ‘Thank you’ doesn’t do justice, man. I want to offer my sincere appreciation to Traci Bartlow. Thank you for your art, your hospitality and for your time. Also, thanks for being a pleasant community member, just a delightful person to see at an event and around the Town. Thank you. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can find more information at b-lovesguesthouse.com or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/blovesguesthouse/#\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">blovesguesthouse on Instagram. \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Traci’s instagram is tracibartlow and we’ll add a link to more information on her photo exhibit to the show notes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Time to give credit where it’s due:\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marisol Medina-Cadena came with me and Traci on this tour, and then produced this joint. Thank you Marisol. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Suzie Racho and Jen Chien edited this one, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christopher Beal engineered this one. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ryce Stoughtenborough is our engagement intern and Justin Ebramehimi and Ria Garewal are the engagement leads. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ethan Toven Lindsey, Jen Chien and Holly Kernan are the KQED execs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m your host Pendarvis Harshaw! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks! Much love and peace to you. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside of a classic Queen Anne Victorian in West Oakland, photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tracibartlow/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Traci Bartlow\u003c/a> displays beautifully framed images of the people who shaped hip-hop culture here in the Bay Area, and across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her exhibition, \u003cem>Oakland Picture Lady: Tales of the 90’s Girl\u003c/em>, features photos of Outkast and Queen Latifah, Busta Rhymes and ODB, alongside images of the Luniz and Shock-G, as well as E-40 and The Click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the photos tell a story about what life was like in growing up in Oakland, it’s her house that tells \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CxjCC5Uv62l/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">the complex story of multiple generations of Black folks\u003c/a>, land ownership and community appreciation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traci is the owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.b-lovesguesthouse.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">B-Love’s Guesthouse\u003c/a>, which is a photography museum and a boutique hotel. With its picturesque front porch and flourishing garden in the back, the building features seven different rooms that folks can rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920339\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Traci Bartlow holds up an image of the wash house her mother once owned in East Oakland. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04426.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traci Bartlow holds up an image of the washhouse her mother once owned in East Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.alvinailey.org/school\">Ailey School\u003c/a> graduate turned \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjBa6yqRau4\">Emmy-winning dancer\u003c/a> and choreographer, Traci fell in love with the arts through what she experienced in her neighborhood as a child. Block parties and family functions introduced her to her love of dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in East Oakland, she also saw firsthand the importance of a neighborhood hub by watching the multiple ways people would use her mother’s washhouse. It wasn’t just a laundromat but a corner store, a place to get your prom dress made or pick up your Avon order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She acquired her current home from the late Eddie Mae Holmes, a Black woman who once owned multiple properties in West Oakland. And Traci envisioned using the space for the purposes of artistic expression and community gatherings, including showcasing her work. Now B-Love’s Guesthouse stands as a home for hip-hop history and a safe haven for folks to come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13920342 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Traci Bartlow.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC04446.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traci Bartlow sits on the stairwell of her Queen Ann Victorian home in West Oakland \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3179587234&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode originally aired on October 14, 2022 .\u003c/em>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marisol Medina-Cadena, Producer: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hey Rightnowish listeners, it’s Marisol Medina-Cadena. As we continue to honor 50 Years of Hip-Hop, we’re bringing you an episode from our archive featuring dancer and photographer Traci Bartlow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Traci documented Bay Area dancers, rappers, and dj’s in the 90’s and still hasn’t put the camera down. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This summer, the inaugural Bay Area Hip Hop Archives honored Traci Bartlow for her contributions to the region’s Hip Hop scene. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And Pendarvis Harshaw is gonna take it from here, enjoy. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">] \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw, host:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Mic, mic check one, mic check two. Are we here? All right we’re here…Rightnowish. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Street ambience ]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Do you know what type of tree it is?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow, guest:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s called a bottle brush tree.Usually it’s full of these bright red flowers with skinny pistils and the hummingbirds love it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Why start here on your tour? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s in the shade and it’s a moment to get a feel for the house and the neighborhood. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Hey y’all, what’s happening? You’re listening to Rightnowish, a podcast about arts and culture in the bay area. I’m your partna Pen…Pendarvis Harshaw. And today, we’re gonna spend some time in West Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The neighborhood looks hella different than it did when I was coming up, but all is not lost. There’s still places and people that have weathered the market forces to maintain the character of the area. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like this Victorian house I’m standing in front of with today’s guest, Traci Bartlow. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is a Queen Anne Victorian house and it was built in 1895. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s painted white with a mix of soft yellow and sky blue accents. Potted roses and succulents line the stairwell.. and it’s got this half arch that extends from the porch and frames the door, almost like a house you’d see in a storybook. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It seems like they wanted to make it look like a castle! You know, like with the high ceilings, this beautiful arc, all of this really unique molding on the house. Everything is really grand. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Traci’s home is also a boutique hotel called B-Love’s Guesthouse, where you can rent a room for a day or two. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> B-Love’s Guesthouse has served as a healing space and a respite in many different ways. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It’s also a photography museum where you could spend an hour or two just soaking up the rich history. This month, Traci is exhibiting photos she shot of the Town, including images that graced the pages of historic magazines like The Source and Rap Pages.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This image here is the Hobo Junction. And I love this image because they’re selling their tapes out of a box on Telegraph Avenue. In front of the record store! That’s how we did in the nineties.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She had a front row seat to the artists who shaped both the Bay Area hip hop scene and the national hip hop scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These pictures are fun! Busta Rhymes and ODB. This was on the set of Busta’s music video. “Woo-ha! Got You All In Check.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Okay yeah.. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes, so he shot the video in \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco, and so I came out to capture photographs and… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What?\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s tight as hell. I didn’t know that.. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yep! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s Isha B doing ODB’s hair?! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes! \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[laughs]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Isha B did ODB’s hair?? What?? That’s crazy!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[laughs]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yep, classic history!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Woah, okay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, today we’re focused on Traci Bartlow’s dope photo archive and the story behind the place where these photos are housed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So wipe your kicks at the door, hang up your coat, relax your shoulders,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and take a deep breath: we’re posting up at B-Love’s Guesthouse. Right after this…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [Outdoor Ambience]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Just a few blocks from the women of the Black Panther Party mural and west Oakland Bart station is Traci Bartlow’s home and hotel. It’s a residential street with lots of history… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I acquired this house in 2007 and I acquired the house from a team of people that would buy houses, flip them, and then sell them. They bought the house from a woman named Eddie Mae Holmes. And Ms. Holmes was an African-American woman that came to West Oakland when she was 14 years old. And, um, through her family ownership, she acquired this house, the house I now own, this house on the corner. And in 1965, she had that apartment building around the corner built and on the lower level of the apartment building, she had Holmes Barber Shop. So Ms.Holmes is one of those black women in the community that was providing in so many different ways for everyone. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ms. Holmes was my friend! I used to make ginger tea and go sit in the kitchen in her house and we would watch The View in the mornings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b> \u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Laughs\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>]\u003c/em> Okay! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She was my partna! And she was just really amazed by me like, ‘Oh, this is who bought the house?’ And so she was really encouraging to me as a property owner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About 15 years ago, Traci converted her home into a guesthouse. People can choose from one of seven rooms for an overnight stay. And at the same time, folks can enjoy the framed photos from Traci’s archives. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Okay here is B-Love’s Guesthouse.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Traci leads me to the kitchenette of the downstairs guest house. Above a small dining room table they’re framed black and white images of kids. I see little girls with barrettes in their hair. In another image, the camera is pointed toward a window sill where a boy with a D.A.R.E. t-shirt is joined by family members, as he looks directly into the camera while eating his cup of noodles. In the background of these images are the streets and structures of the houses in East Oakland– they too are featured characters in the composition of these images. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This photo collection. Ah, this all from the neighborhood? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> These are from my neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The brick cell phone? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I mean, the hairdo, of course, in the fashion. But the brick cell phone and the leaning like “Talk to me and Imma talk back.” That’s what she looks like. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">laughs\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This one. This one as well with the cross colors and then this Benz and even the Lack behind it\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [Music] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The photos are a time machine, instantly transporting me back to the East Oakland that I knew as a youth. Outfits that my sister used to rock. And facial expressions looking like kids I used to kick it with. Squinting, I look for a familiar face or two.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> These are people that I grew up with. You know, we went to middle school and high school together. My mother owned the laundromat on 98th and Birch, and so everyone would come and do their laundry at my mom’s laundromat. And her business wasn’t just where you can do your laundry. It was like a community center \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[laughs]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> where my mom had a sewing machine in the corner and she would do alterations and she would make prom dresses and make outfits for people. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She also sold Avon, and um we had a little store in the back where you could buy candy and chips and sandwiches, and I would make homemade cookies and we would have those ghetto Icees, you know, like Kool-Aid in a cup. So people were always coming to the laundromat. They were like, Miss Bartlow, did you? Can you hem the skirt? And is my Avon ready? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taken by the beauty of her community and the joy of capturing it on film, Traci started a photography business, shooting people’s portraits and printing them for $2. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And if I didn’t see people in the neighborhood, when I would bring them, I would be like, ‘Oh, stop by the wash house and pick up your order of photos.’ \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even before she got into photography, Traci was already into the arts. At age 19, Traci was awarded a scholarship to study dance at New York’s Alvin Ailey Dance Center. A dancer since a kid, she was inspired by both the entertainers she saw on TV and the way folks moved in her community– the family gatherings and community kickbacks–so, this was a dream come true. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is a picture of my mom escorting me to audition for the Alvin Ailey School when I was 19 years old. We’re at the 34th Street Station in New York City. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And she’s beaming. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She’s beaming! Yes! My mom was very supportive of my dance career.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> After finishing the two year professional dance training program, she took performing gigs across the globe. One thing led to another and Traci dabbled in modeling before picking up the camera herself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I would also find myself at modeling shoots and just be like, ‘What kind of light is that? Oh, that’s a diffuser? What does that do?’ So I was interested in the hardware of photography. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It was just like this natural progression of me knowing about photography and wanting to learn more and also the way I would study magazine layouts. Then I had this eye for how I wanted to capture a photograph. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Traci made her way back to Oakland and this time she \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">really\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> picked up the film camera. She saw the beauty and life in her neighbors and wanted to document that with the same eye and artfulness that fashion magazine photographers did. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> My neighbors were amused with me. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like, ‘You’ve been living in New York City. Oh you want us to pose?’ Like, so I would always have my camera. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If it was a holiday, a cook, a cookout, kind of holiday. Memorial Day, 4th of July. I would just come outside and take pictures and hang out. So when they saw me, they’re like, ‘Heyyyy! \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture time! Yeah, here come the photo lady, l\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">et’s get ready. She’s going to take our picture!’ \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Traci’s background in dance soon became the focus of her photography. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I’m self-taught, so I started photographing other dancers. And you’ll see many images from this photo shoot, because this was an assignment I gave myself to practice with high speed film. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We make our way from guest room to guest room, photos hung everywhere. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s this one black and white image of teenage b-boy dancers in throwback gear: one is rocking a visor, another in a pair of Marvin the martian shorts– just dripping with youthful 90s flavor. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In front of a brick wall, one guy is doing a crazy handstand and the other is seen jumping 3 feet off the ground hitting a pose. In spite of all the movement, everything is captured in crisp detail, no blur. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And the dancers are two of the members of Housing Authority. And Housing Authority was this bad ass crew of all male dancers from Oakland and Richmond, Black and brown men. And they were running things in the nineties. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> One of the dancers in the photo is Fly Styles who went on to be a successful backup dancer and choreographer for musicians like Usher and Missy Elliot. Same goes for other Town folks that Traci has photographed in the 90s. Most are now thriving in the entertainment world or powerhouses in the local arts and culture scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is Aisha Bilal, Layla Jenkins, Asha Karima and Ingrid Best. We were at \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DeFremery Park \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">at an event there. This is 1997. We were having a conversation. And in that moment, I just stepped back from the cipher and leaned down and captured this photograph of them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Black and white, the posture, arms across, you know, like stoic for the most part and angled up. You’re like looking up at them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> My tentative title for this one is “Giant” because of how larger than life these women are, not only in the photograph, but in real life. They have all been just very powerful and dynamic in their lives, in their families, in their communities, in business. It’s really amazing just to see who these women are even today. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Look, she really has a house full of anecdotal stories about artists at every turn. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Here we are… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Entering the next room. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> So this is one of the rooms that I rent out for B-Love’s Guesthouse, and people are just, like, rejuvenated and just excited to have a good night’s rest in this comfortable plush queen bed surrounded by all this art, these high ceilings, chandelier, and just this big picture window that brings so much morning sunlight into the room.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You’ve got some legends in here. Like, that’s a portrait of Shock G, the late. And this is the Luniz it looks like. That’s fresh out of high school Luniz. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [laughs] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That picture was taken backstage as Summer Jam… mhmmm \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This is ’97. So this is yeah, post “I Got Five On It.”\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> They are still riding that wave. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mm. Mm mm.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> O\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ne of the things I would do as a photographer in starting out and being self-taught is, I would get a great photo of an artist. I would look on the liner notes of their album and find out who the management was, send them the photo with the cover letter and introduce myself. Sometimes I would write with a ballpoint pen on the back of the photo, like “photo by Tracy Barlow. Copyright 1994.” \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> To break into the industry, Traci had to put herself out there. And with all those portraits that she shot of her neighbors, dancer friends, and hip hop artists on the rise– that became her portfolio of work that she carried with her in a Walgreens photo album just waiting for that right moment when she’d have to pull it out.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And so I talked my way into Chi Modu’s office! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The late Chi Modu is \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">thee\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> late ‘90s hip-hop photographer. He famously photographed Biggie, Eazy-E, Mobb Deep, Nas, members of the Wu Tang Clan, and Tupac. His artwork is culture visualized. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And I said, ‘I’m from Oakland, and if I get pictures of the scene in Oakland, then maybe you could publish them in your magazine?’\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And he looked at this portfolio with all these faces from deep East Oakland, and he was like, ‘You have a good eye.’ He said, ‘Let’s do it. You capture photos of the scene. Maybe we’ll publish them.’ And the first photo that was published was this image of Hiero at Hip Hop on the Green, and this was published in the Source Magazine. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music ] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hip Hop On the Green was this dope outdoor concert that was held in the East Bay throughout the 90s. And Traci was there to document it! Her photos of the event helped spread awareness of Bay Area Hip Hop Culture to the rest of the country. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From Hip Hop On the Green…look at E-40. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Oh, Mail Man time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mail Man! Okay, Slurricane. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, the Mossie. B-legit.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Suga-T\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oooh, look at the finger waves. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes and the Cross Colours. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Nice! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It should be noted that while Traci is fully in community with folks, she’s largely doing this on her own: Her photos. Her home. Her idea. And her actualization. She’s not waiting around for someone to give her a platform or to recognize her contributions to the culture, she’s just doing it herself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And in a place where Black folks have been under-resourced, overpoliced, locked-up and pushed out of the Town for decades, for her to hold space for herself, her work and her community? Cmon, man, we’ve gotta recognize the power in that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m amazed that I survived foreclosure. There was many moments of just the spirit of detachment. This may not work out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I would come home. Those notices were posted on my front door. This house is up for auction on the county courthouse steps at 6 a.m.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> After surviving foreclosure, Traci opened up her space, allowing people to rent out rooms. The guests? It started with her network of artist friends… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I was like, Well, I think I’m going to start renting out rooms to people that I know that are coming to town for residencies, for conferences, for events, for direct actions. Like these are people that I know come to the Bay Area for these different things. I know all the African dance festivals. I know the B Boys, I know the film festivals, I know the National Poetry Slams. Like, that’s my life! Artists and activism is my life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s beautiful… to have it come almost naturally, like from your experience is poured into you and also it benefits the larger community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah, there are people in this neighborhood that have been here for a long time, as well as a mix of new people that are coming in. So to honor this history of the black experience in West Oakland is really important to me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The house itself is preserving history. And then within the house you have history on the walls. And it’s not all historical, it’s forward moving, like you have people coming through in real time\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">…who are \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">culture makers, people, cultural icons, you know. And so I just wanted to get a sense of some of the people who’ve come through here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Traci Bartlow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yes!!! Norma Miller, the queen of swing! The Lindy Hop champion! \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">he’ll be like,’ Nope, I don’t want to be at the Marriott.’ She’s like, ‘I want to be at B-Love’s Guesthouse.’\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Because it was like she wanted to be immersed in Black culture.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">B-Girl FaTara from New York. She came out for a breaking event here in Oakland. And she said, ‘I’ve stayed at so many AirBnbs, but this is like a Black house, like the incense you have burning, the beans you got cooking, like it smells and feels like the house of an African American person.’\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So people are coming here and they may be in this gentrified neighborhood, but they’re like, Oh, but this is I, this is the Black lady’s house! \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[laughs] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ‘Thank you’ doesn’t do justice, man. I want to offer my sincere appreciation to Traci Bartlow. Thank you for your art, your hospitality and for your time. Also, thanks for being a pleasant community member, just a delightful person to see at an event and around the Town. Thank you. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can find more information at b-lovesguesthouse.com or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/blovesguesthouse/#\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">blovesguesthouse on Instagram. \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Traci’s instagram is tracibartlow and we’ll add a link to more information on her photo exhibit to the show notes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Time to give credit where it’s due:\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marisol Medina-Cadena came with me and Traci on this tour, and then produced this joint. Thank you Marisol. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Suzie Racho and Jen Chien edited this one, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christopher Beal engineered this one. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ryce Stoughtenborough is our engagement intern and Justin Ebramehimi and Ria Garewal are the engagement leads. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ethan Toven Lindsey, Jen Chien and Holly Kernan are the KQED execs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m your host Pendarvis Harshaw! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks! Much love and peace to you. 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"content": "\u003cp>The West Oakland neighborhood where Elliot Johnson grew up during the 1980s was filled with community abundance — but hampered, at times, by a lack of fresh, organic foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On 14th and Center there was a store, but a real grocer wasn’t really around until Acorn Super. Then they closed,” he remembers. “The people were happy, but it was real bad poverty back then. You had to go to Alameda or Rockridge for fresh food. It was tough. So when [West Oakland Farmers Market] started, we knew we had to be part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson and his wife, Shawlaya, operate \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goldisgourmetspices/?hl=en\">Goldi’s\u003c/a>, a small-batch spice business that pops up every Sunday at the quirky \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/westoaklandfarmersmarket/?hl=en\">West Oakland Farmers Market\u003c/a>. The new outdoor market — located in the Prescott neighborhood on Peralta Street, between 18th and 20th Streets — offers a mosaic of goods provided by a diverse spectrum of local vendors and artisans. The hope is to reflect the neighborhood’s robust past and evolving future in order to serve the community’s present needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any given Sunday, you can browse the market’s selection of tasty beverages and natural foods while strolling a quiet, two-block road sentineled by nearby Victorian homes. Perhaps more importantly, you’ll notice that the market is helping to open a fresh lane in the community: one that creates a path for aspiring entrepreneurs in the area’s overlooked pocket of healthy foods commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925807\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands in front of his spice booth at the market\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elliot Johnson grew up in West Oakland in the 1980s and now sells his spices at the new farmers market. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Launched in the summer of 2022 with the support of Oakland Councilmember Carroll Fife and the \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Neighborhood-Council-Meeting-Schedule-2_2022-09-20-192105_fkcl.xlsx\">Prescott Neighborhood Council\u003c/a>, the market is currently the neighborhood’s only farmers market. Less than a year later, the market has turned into the only intersection in West Oakland where such a collection of organic farmers, florists, breadmakers, honey purveyors, ranchers, meat suppliers and wide-ranging community members like the Johnsons can share their homemade offerings to a steady base of market-goers..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring anywhere from 25 to 50 vendors each week — and predominantly representing Black, brown and Asian diasporas — the market spotlights a potpourri of creative offerings with an emphasis on providers who aren’t usually the biggest demographic at other farmers markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working with future generations of diverse organic farmers, it’s harder for them to get into more established markets,” says Harvindar Singh, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.foragersmarket.org/about\">Foragers Market\u003c/a>, the organization that operates West Oakland Farmers Market along with a handful of similar markets around the Bay Area. “But things are changing. [The idea of] traditional, old, white hippie farmers is beginning to open up to more diverse farmers and vendors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming on the heels of last year’s sudden closure of \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/02/24/oakland-community-foods-brahm-ahmadi\">People’s Community Market\u003c/a>, one of West Oakland’s only grocery stores, the farmers market arrives at a time when the neighborhood once again finds itself with limited access to such resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often described as a “food desert,” West Oakland — like many communities shaped by decades of segregation and systemically racist practices — has struggled to maintain a sustainable, concentrated supply of high-quality groceries, particularly in recent years as the Bay Area has only become increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible for working class families. Besides small, community-led sources like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bottomsupcommunitygarden/?hl=en\">Bottoms Up Community Garden\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityslickerfarms.org/about-us/\">City Slicker Farms\u003c/a>, which supply fresh produce directly to the immediate area, the neighborhood doesn’t have many options. \u003ca href=\"https://www.good.is/articles/change-through-food-bringing-an-oasis-to-the-west-oakland-food-desert\">Mandela Foods Cooperative\u003c/a> is a heralded beacon, providing the only walkable source of varietal produce for those who call the area home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within this complex landscape of food injustice, the West Oakland Farmers Market — which partners with Mandela to allow its vendors to distribute at the co-op in order to foster a mutually beneficial relationship — is hoping to shift the narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925810\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_foodhall_alanchazaro-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"the inside of a commercial building that is planning to be turned into a foodhall\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_foodhall_alanchazaro-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_foodhall_alanchazaro-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_foodhall_alanchazaro-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_foodhall_alanchazaro-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_foodhall_alanchazaro-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_foodhall_alanchazaro.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plans for a food hall near the West Oakland Farmers Market will feature local foodmakers. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, it’s necessary to look at any emerging venture in West Oakland with a certain degree of skepticism — to perhaps wonder if this is another attempt to gain footing in an increasingly gentrifiying sliver of land. After all, the farmers market is funded by a commercial real estate developer, \u003ca href=\"https://srmernst.com/\">srmERNST Development Partners\u003c/a>, which is also in the process of building a new food hall nearby — an impressive space that will host local foodmakers as well. Joe Ernst, srmERNST’s founder, and the folks behind West Oakland Farmers Market all seem to have good intentions. They say they want to deliver a promising, collaborative space for the neighborhood’s residents. But the larger issue of community revitalization is layered and intersectional, and no single effort can resolve more than nearly a half-century of institutional neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know from mounting research over the past four to six years is that geographic access inequalities are actually a pretty poor explanation of dietary inequalities,” said Priya Fielding-Singh, author of \u003ci>How the Other Half Eats\u003c/i>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907528/how-the-other-half-eats-food-deserts-food-inequality-bay-area\">in a past interview with KQED\u003c/a>. In other words, food deserts are only a small part of the problem, and the addition of a single farmers market can only do so much to improve the way that people in West Oakland eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the West Oakland Farmers Market does represent a tide of change and opportunity, with potential to become a generative outlet for both vendors and market-goers. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/west-oakland-farmers-market-17782486.php\">a recent \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> interview\u003c/a>, Ernst, the developer, said he wants to “have an impact on the area, not just build and lease.” What better way to make an impact than through good food?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh, who has over 10 years of experience as the “local forager” for Whole Foods and has built relationships with farmers around Northern California, seems to be the right man for the task, with his empathetic outlook and understanding of what’s at stake for small businesses and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Markets like these are incubators,” Singh says. “They’re designed to give people a way to start up, scale, grow and then go to broader markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Singh’s energetic leadership, the new farmers market is taking a community-first approach to ensure that the space will remain accessible — and useful — to local buyers and sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, 80% of the vendors at the market are BIPOC and representative of the neighborhood, Singh tells me. It’s an intentional effort to provide a space for fledgling micro-businesses around the area. For many of the vendors, it’s one of the only markets they have a chance to sell at, allowing them to supplement their pop-up business while trying to expand sustainably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925808\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"two local siblings sell smoothies and granola at the market every Sunday\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristian and Grisela Sánalo can be found selling smoothies every Sunday at the new market. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One such vendor is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sanalo2022/\">Sánalo\u003c/a>, a smoothie and snack company founded by Cristian and Grisela Sánalo, two Mexican American siblings with roots in Oakland and Hayward. The young venture is a part-time hustle for the Sánalos, who work full-time jobs and side gigs on weekdays, then set up on weekends to serve treats like toast and granola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living in a major city, it can be difficult to find [a feeling of community],” says Cristian Sánalo. “But the culture [at West Oakland Farmers Market] is definitely inclined to feel like a community. They’re good people who want everyone to do their thing and be successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sánalo’s “Green Magic” smoothie is a rich blend of chia, dates, apple, kale, pineapple, celery and spinach. And the “Apapacho” (a hot beverage made from oats, kabocha squash, ginger and cinnamon) — whose Spanish name, derived from indigenous Nahuatl, roughly translates to “tender affection” — allows customers to tap into less commonly available flavors that reflect the Sánalos’ heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If beverages aren’t your thing, there’s amazing sourdough from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rizeupbakery/?hl=en\">Rize Up Bakery\u003c/a>, a Black-owned bakery from San Francisco that, \u003ca href=\"https://rizeupsourdough.com/pages/about\">according to founder Azikiwee Anderson\u003c/a>, was “born as a way to channel energy into something healing during the social unrest caused by the murder of George Floyd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for less carbs? Bassline Coffee — whose owner, Brad Katz, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.waveworksav.com/\">involved in the local music industry\u003c/a> as an audio-video engineer and first dipped into coffee-making during the pandemic — is pouring “a roast for every rhythm” and supplements his coffee company with his passion for mixtapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13905374,arts_13915889,arts_13908432']Don’t do caffeine? A few booths away you’ll come across \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/clandestinacocinaberkeley/?hl=en\">Clandestina Cocina\u003c/a>, a Berkeley-based Cuban eatery serving island-style soul food and classic favorites like ropa vieja (shredded steak in tomato sauce with bell peppers and onions) and the eternally-delicious Cubano sandwich. Havana-born chef Lilian Duran is happy to feed others, including Chari Parla, a Cuban American who used to work at the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first day at the market was such an amazing, dreamlike treat to look up from my booth and see Clandestina across the way,” says Parla, originally from Miami. “I’ve been living [in Oakland] for six years, and I can count on one hand how many Cuban people I’ve met. We don’t find each other often. For me to see, smell, taste and hear all of those Cuban elements is really just warming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the sort of feeling that Singh hopes to facilitate, often surveying customers and nearby residents about what else they would like to see. The Sunday market has featured live music and, at one point, curated open mic poetry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to be inclusive, Singh has also lowered, or in some cases removed, the entrance fees for vendors in need, making it easier for non-traditional suppliers to participate. The market also donates products to \u003ca href=\"https://www.acdsal.org/farms\">Dig Deep Farms\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://westoaklandhealth.org/\">West Oakland Health Council\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1028996737152976&paipv=0&eav=AfY-Rcqphpmcxw2XqrXOeF-Er55s2YHMJsNxFrdjBL7sCfKrKHC4zSHr63ISC8UwZEo&_rdr\">Eritrean Task Force-Orthodox Church\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925809\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a group of friends pose for the camera while exploring the new market\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of friends pose for the camera while exploring the new market. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In many ways, the West Oakland Farmers Market doesn’t feel like most other farmers markets. Singh’s track record of investing in nascent, grassroots business is a strong focus, and his compassionate compass helps him navigate the market’s larger civic goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fernando [from Catalan Farm] is an organic farmer from Alba,” says Singh. “He teaches immigrant farmers how to grow organically. He’s the perfect example of how this market is about uplifting space to converse and support locally. It’s gonna take time to build, but we’re in it for the long haul. I’m having a blast, I love this community and these customers communing and supporting each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the aforementioned food hall already under construction in partnership with the developer, Ernst — who initially funded the West Oakland Farmers Market during its start-up phase before it became self-sufficient — Singh says Foragers Market hopes to continue to provide enriching economic opportunities for vendors and accessible, affordable and natural foods that meet customers wherever they’re at. It will require care, awareness and precise management — much like a field of crops, I imagine — but if done right, could yield a cornucopia of possibilities. And for many, it’s what they’ve been waiting for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like being back home,” Johnson, the spice vendor who grew up in West Oakland, says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12904247 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>West Oakland Farmers Market is open every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (on Peralta Street between 18th and 20th Streets). WIC/EBT accepted.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The West Oakland neighborhood where Elliot Johnson grew up during the 1980s was filled with community abundance — but hampered, at times, by a lack of fresh, organic foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On 14th and Center there was a store, but a real grocer wasn’t really around until Acorn Super. Then they closed,” he remembers. “The people were happy, but it was real bad poverty back then. You had to go to Alameda or Rockridge for fresh food. It was tough. So when [West Oakland Farmers Market] started, we knew we had to be part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson and his wife, Shawlaya, operate \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goldisgourmetspices/?hl=en\">Goldi’s\u003c/a>, a small-batch spice business that pops up every Sunday at the quirky \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/westoaklandfarmersmarket/?hl=en\">West Oakland Farmers Market\u003c/a>. The new outdoor market — located in the Prescott neighborhood on Peralta Street, between 18th and 20th Streets — offers a mosaic of goods provided by a diverse spectrum of local vendors and artisans. The hope is to reflect the neighborhood’s robust past and evolving future in order to serve the community’s present needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any given Sunday, you can browse the market’s selection of tasty beverages and natural foods while strolling a quiet, two-block road sentineled by nearby Victorian homes. Perhaps more importantly, you’ll notice that the market is helping to open a fresh lane in the community: one that creates a path for aspiring entrepreneurs in the area’s overlooked pocket of healthy foods commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925807\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands in front of his spice booth at the market\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/goldis_alanchazaro.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elliot Johnson grew up in West Oakland in the 1980s and now sells his spices at the new farmers market. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Launched in the summer of 2022 with the support of Oakland Councilmember Carroll Fife and the \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Neighborhood-Council-Meeting-Schedule-2_2022-09-20-192105_fkcl.xlsx\">Prescott Neighborhood Council\u003c/a>, the market is currently the neighborhood’s only farmers market. Less than a year later, the market has turned into the only intersection in West Oakland where such a collection of organic farmers, florists, breadmakers, honey purveyors, ranchers, meat suppliers and wide-ranging community members like the Johnsons can share their homemade offerings to a steady base of market-goers..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring anywhere from 25 to 50 vendors each week — and predominantly representing Black, brown and Asian diasporas — the market spotlights a potpourri of creative offerings with an emphasis on providers who aren’t usually the biggest demographic at other farmers markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working with future generations of diverse organic farmers, it’s harder for them to get into more established markets,” says Harvindar Singh, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.foragersmarket.org/about\">Foragers Market\u003c/a>, the organization that operates West Oakland Farmers Market along with a handful of similar markets around the Bay Area. “But things are changing. [The idea of] traditional, old, white hippie farmers is beginning to open up to more diverse farmers and vendors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming on the heels of last year’s sudden closure of \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/02/24/oakland-community-foods-brahm-ahmadi\">People’s Community Market\u003c/a>, one of West Oakland’s only grocery stores, the farmers market arrives at a time when the neighborhood once again finds itself with limited access to such resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often described as a “food desert,” West Oakland — like many communities shaped by decades of segregation and systemically racist practices — has struggled to maintain a sustainable, concentrated supply of high-quality groceries, particularly in recent years as the Bay Area has only become increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible for working class families. 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After all, the farmers market is funded by a commercial real estate developer, \u003ca href=\"https://srmernst.com/\">srmERNST Development Partners\u003c/a>, which is also in the process of building a new food hall nearby — an impressive space that will host local foodmakers as well. Joe Ernst, srmERNST’s founder, and the folks behind West Oakland Farmers Market all seem to have good intentions. They say they want to deliver a promising, collaborative space for the neighborhood’s residents. But the larger issue of community revitalization is layered and intersectional, and no single effort can resolve more than nearly a half-century of institutional neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know from mounting research over the past four to six years is that geographic access inequalities are actually a pretty poor explanation of dietary inequalities,” said Priya Fielding-Singh, author of \u003ci>How the Other Half Eats\u003c/i>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907528/how-the-other-half-eats-food-deserts-food-inequality-bay-area\">in a past interview with KQED\u003c/a>. In other words, food deserts are only a small part of the problem, and the addition of a single farmers market can only do so much to improve the way that people in West Oakland eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the West Oakland Farmers Market does represent a tide of change and opportunity, with potential to become a generative outlet for both vendors and market-goers. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/west-oakland-farmers-market-17782486.php\">a recent \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> interview\u003c/a>, Ernst, the developer, said he wants to “have an impact on the area, not just build and lease.” What better way to make an impact than through good food?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh, who has over 10 years of experience as the “local forager” for Whole Foods and has built relationships with farmers around Northern California, seems to be the right man for the task, with his empathetic outlook and understanding of what’s at stake for small businesses and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Markets like these are incubators,” Singh says. “They’re designed to give people a way to start up, scale, grow and then go to broader markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Singh’s energetic leadership, the new farmers market is taking a community-first approach to ensure that the space will remain accessible — and useful — to local buyers and sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, 80% of the vendors at the market are BIPOC and representative of the neighborhood, Singh tells me. It’s an intentional effort to provide a space for fledgling micro-businesses around the area. For many of the vendors, it’s one of the only markets they have a chance to sell at, allowing them to supplement their pop-up business while trying to expand sustainably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925808\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"two local siblings sell smoothies and granola at the market every Sunday\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/sanalo_alanchazaro-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristian and Grisela Sánalo can be found selling smoothies every Sunday at the new market. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One such vendor is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sanalo2022/\">Sánalo\u003c/a>, a smoothie and snack company founded by Cristian and Grisela Sánalo, two Mexican American siblings with roots in Oakland and Hayward. The young venture is a part-time hustle for the Sánalos, who work full-time jobs and side gigs on weekdays, then set up on weekends to serve treats like toast and granola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living in a major city, it can be difficult to find [a feeling of community],” says Cristian Sánalo. “But the culture [at West Oakland Farmers Market] is definitely inclined to feel like a community. They’re good people who want everyone to do their thing and be successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sánalo’s “Green Magic” smoothie is a rich blend of chia, dates, apple, kale, pineapple, celery and spinach. 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For me to see, smell, taste and hear all of those Cuban elements is really just warming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the sort of feeling that Singh hopes to facilitate, often surveying customers and nearby residents about what else they would like to see. The Sunday market has featured live music and, at one point, curated open mic poetry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to be inclusive, Singh has also lowered, or in some cases removed, the entrance fees for vendors in need, making it easier for non-traditional suppliers to participate. The market also donates products to \u003ca href=\"https://www.acdsal.org/farms\">Dig Deep Farms\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://westoaklandhealth.org/\">West Oakland Health Council\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1028996737152976&paipv=0&eav=AfY-Rcqphpmcxw2XqrXOeF-Er55s2YHMJsNxFrdjBL7sCfKrKHC4zSHr63ISC8UwZEo&_rdr\">Eritrean Task Force-Orthodox Church\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925809\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a group of friends pose for the camera while exploring the new market\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/westoakfarmersmarket_shoppers_alanchazaro.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of friends pose for the camera while exploring the new market. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In many ways, the West Oakland Farmers Market doesn’t feel like most other farmers markets. Singh’s track record of investing in nascent, grassroots business is a strong focus, and his compassionate compass helps him navigate the market’s larger civic goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fernando [from Catalan Farm] is an organic farmer from Alba,” says Singh. “He teaches immigrant farmers how to grow organically. He’s the perfect example of how this market is about uplifting space to converse and support locally. It’s gonna take time to build, but we’re in it for the long haul. 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And for many, it’s what they’ve been waiting for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like being back home,” Johnson, the spice vendor who grew up in West Oakland, says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12904247 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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