Rae Alexandra is a Reporter/Producer for KQED Arts & Culture, and the creator/author of the Rebel Girls From Bay Area History and Bizarre Bay Area series. Her debut book, Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area was published by City Lights in March 2026. In 2023, Rae was awarded an SPJ Excellence in Journalism Award for Arts & Culture. Rae was born and raised in Wales and subsequently — even after two decades in Northern California — still uses phrases that regularly baffle her coworkers.
Hardly Strictly Announces Initial 2026 Lineup, Including My Morning Jacket
Celebrating the Americans With Disabilities Act in San Francisco
Bay Area Teen Podcasters Honored in NPR Contest
Roll Up, Roll Up: Celebrating All Things Bicycle at Shiny Side Up in San José
How John Steinbeck Fueled the Lore of Big Sur’s ‘Dark Watchers’
Bay Area Open Studios to Visit During National Craft Weekend
Metallica Just Flew to the UK and Pretty Much Broke Wales
Oakland Library Is Once Again Asking You to Make Weird History Dioramas
San Francisco’s First Serial Killer Was a Doctor Named J. Milton Bowers ... Probably
The San Francisco AIDS Protest That Lasted a Decade
The Oakland Public Library Wants YOU ... to Grow Really Tall Marigolds
Three Bay Area Nonprofits Win Literary Arts Grants
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"content": "\u003cp>They’ve been part of California mountain lore for centuries: featureless black figures, more than 7 feet tall, often wearing brimmed hats and long cloaks, who appear during dusk and dawn to silently observe the unfortunates who wander into their midst. They are called the Dark Watchers, and believers say they dwell in the Santa Lucia mountain range, unnervingly overlooking human activity in remote areas.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Any discussion of the Dark Watchers — be it in books (like \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Big-Book-of-California-Ghost-Stories/Janice-Oberding/Big-Book-of-Ghost-Stories/9781493058624\">The Big Book of California Ghost Stories\u003c/a>\u003c/em> by Janice Oberding) or on TV (see: the History Channel’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42GxYs1u_ro&t=163s\">\u003cem>MonsterQuest: Origins\u003c/em>\u003c/a>) — usually mentions that these mysterious figures were first named by California’s earliest Spanish settlers. Back then, witnesses apparently called the shadow people in the Big Sur wilderness “Los Vigilantes Oscuros.” Despite this frequently given history, source texts remain elusive. Today, it’s unclear where or how the Spaniards documented the vigilantes at all — perhaps the stories were passed down orally. Some sources say California’s Indigenous people believed in them, though there’s no clear record of that either.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Much of the reason the lore of the Dark Watchers has survived to the present day is John Steinbeck. On the very first page of his 1952 classic \u003cem>East of Eden\u003c/em>, the Salinas-born author describes the Santa Lucia mountain range in Monterey County as a place of personal terror. He writes: “The Santa Lucias stood up against the sky to the west and kept the valley from the open sea, and they were dark and brooding — unfriendly and dangerous. I always found in myself a dread of the west.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In this passage, Steinbeck was continuing a narrative he’d begun 14 years earlier, in a grim little short story, \u003cem>Flight\u003c/em>, found in his 1938 collection \u003cem>The Long Valley\u003c/em>. \u003cem>Flight\u003c/em> tells the story of Pepé Torres, a “gentle, affectionate … but very lazy” 19-year-old who flees into the Santa Lucia mountains after killing a man in Monterey. As his mother assists Pepé’s exit, she warns cryptically, “When thou comest to the high mountains, if thou seest any of the dark watching men, go not near to them nor try to speak to them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Pepé does, inevitably, encounter those very men along his ill-fated journey. Steinbeck writes: “Pepé looked suspiciously back every minute or so, and his eyes sought the tops of the ridges ahead. Once, on a white barren spur, he saw a black figure for a moment; but he looked quickly away, for it was one of the dark watchers. No one knew who the watchers were, nor where they lived, but it was better to ignore them and never to show interest in them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Dark Watcher appears in the story shortly afterwards as, “a dark form against the sky, a man’s figure standing on top of a rock … When a moment later [Pepé] looked up again, the figure was gone.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>These mysterious figures are, in the course of \u003cem>Flight\u003c/em>, terrible omens — it doesn’t take long for Pepé to reach a tragic end. But the Dark Watchers were not entirely an invention of Steinbeck’s. A year before \u003cem>Flight\u003c/em> was published, poet Robinson Jeffers — a lifelong Carmel resident — wrote in \u003cem>Such Counsels You Gave Me\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“He thought it might be one of the watchers, who are often seen in this length of coast-range, forms that look human to human eyes, but certainly are not human. They come from behind ridges to watch.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1438\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/dark-watchers-book.png\" alt=\"A book cover featuring a painting of a tree-lined hillside at dusk, with a view of water on the horizon.\" class=\"wp-image-13991635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/dark-watchers-book.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/dark-watchers-book-160x115.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/dark-watchers-book-768x552.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/dark-watchers-book-1536x1104.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">‘In Search of the Dark Watchers: Landscapes and Lore of Big Sur’ by Thomas Steinbeck and Benjamin Brode. (Steinbeck Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If John Steinbeck was the main reason the lore of the Dark Watchers stayed alive in the 20th century, it’s his son that has done so in the 21st. After publishing his 2014 book \u003cem>In Search of the Dark Watchers: Landscapes and Lore of Big Sur\u003c/em> — a collaboration with fine artist Benjamin Brode — \u003ca href=\"https://www.studiobrode.com/news-and-reviews\">Thomas Steinbeck appeared on \u003cem>Simple Life\u003c/em> \u003cem>Radio\u003c/em>\u003c/a> with Cynthia Fernandes. In that 2015 interview, he stated:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They live in the misty hillsides of Big Sur … migratory beings, possessed of incredible hearing and impeccable eyesight. Like crows, they can sense the presence of gun oil and the smell of plastics and weatherproof coatings, therefore they are immune to high-tech detection and only reveal themselves to trekkers simply equipped with sticks and hats.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The younger Steinbeck continued: “I’ve gotten this from some of my father’s relatives, that since the time of the conquistadors, people just talked about being in the Big Sur and being watched by these creatures that they can’t quite see. My grandmother … swore that she traded with them. She’d leave them fruit and nuts in a very specific place and when she came back a couple of weeks later, there would be shells with holes drilled in them, decorated feathers, other things … They didn’t use fire, you could never find their camps, they were constantly on the move, and they’ve been there forever. And everybody talks about them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Perhaps the oddest thing about Thomas Steinbeck and Benjamin Brode’s take on the Dark Watchers is that they both believe the forest-dwellers are actually small and gnome-like, not the towering creatures most commonly referenced when \u003ca href=\"https://www.darkwatching.com/stories\">reported sightings do occur\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Brode added, “The thing about Big Sur is, you can get away from humans really, really easily. The habitat for the Dark Watchers is better than it was maybe 20 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And perhaps that’s at the core of all of this. Big Sur is intimidating, otherworldy, and awesome in the most traditional sense of the word. Because of that, it hasn’t just conjured stories of Dark Watchers over the years. Reports of \u003ca href=\"https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/2022-03-11-hiker-thinks-they-found-proof-of-bigfoot-in-california/\">Bigfoot footprints\u003c/a> have been reported by \u003ca href=\"https://campchimp.com/blog/california/pfeiffer-big-sur-campgroundbigfoot-map\">multiple sources\u003c/a> as recently as November 2025. Reddit users have shared multiple Bigfoot sightings they said happened at Big Sur, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/bigfoot/comments/l4k9zf/our_up_close_sighting_in_big_sur_california_1978/\">from 1978\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sasquatchchronicles.com/sc-ep515-i-shouldnt-be-alive/\">the late ’80s\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/31/trekking-californias-mysterious-bigfoot-trail/\">beyond\u003c/a>. Big Sur is also, infamously, the location where two air force employees claimed a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Sur_UFO\">UFO shot down a test missile\u003c/a>, using beams of light, in 1964.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could it be possible that these misty mountains just play tricks on the minds of humans? Might this legend have died without the Steinbecks? It’s impossible to know. But if you catch sight of a Dark Watcher on your next hike, rest assured that they won’t bother you. If they were willing to have such interactions, we might be more sure of their existence. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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They come from behind ridges to watch.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1438\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/dark-watchers-book.png\" alt=\"A book cover featuring a painting of a tree-lined hillside at dusk, with a view of water on the horizon.\" class=\"wp-image-13991635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/dark-watchers-book.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/dark-watchers-book-160x115.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/dark-watchers-book-768x552.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/dark-watchers-book-1536x1104.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">‘In Search of the Dark Watchers: Landscapes and Lore of Big Sur’ by Thomas Steinbeck and Benjamin Brode. 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Helmed by textile and fiber artist Pam DeLuco, this Mission District studio collaborates with individuals and organizations alike to make books and tell stories in sustainable ways. The organization is also surprisingly romantic: among many other things, they help couples turn their old clothing into wedding invitations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">East Bay\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://berkeleypotters.com/\">Berkeley Potters Guild\u003c/a>\u003cbr>(731 Jones St., Berkeley)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Founded 55 years ago, the Berkeley Potters Guild is Northern California’s oldest and largest collective of professional ceramicists. Hidden behind the anonymous blue visage of the Guild’s warehouse are 19 private studios, embracing an eclectic array of aesthetics. Highlights include Julia Kirillova’s whimsical teapots, Carol Valk’s ornithological creations and Niki Shelley’s earthy, minimalist homewares.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.carolleeshanks.com/\">Carol Lee Shanks\u003c/a>\u003cbr>(3102 Wheeler St., Berkeley)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carol Lee Shanks wants the textural clothing she creates to turn the wearer into a living, moving sculpture. Playing with dimension, transparency, volume and lines, Shanks’ handmade creations offer comfort and practicality, as well as a wow factor. The UC Davis graduate treats sewing as a meditative practice. That focus and intentionality is visible in every stitch.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://davidmbowman.com/\">David M. Bowman Studio\u003c/a>\u003cbr>(2816 10th St., Berkeley)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Father and son team David and Reed Bowman work with brass and copper to make a wide variety of unique art pieces, as well as jewelry, vases and other homewares, including clocks and menorahs. David is self-taught, and has been perfecting his craft since 1971. His son Reed’s designs are informed by a UC Berkeley history degree, as well as the Master’s he earned in Medieval Studies. The two operate out of a studio they built behind their homes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1433\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/BRUCE_PIZZICHILLO.jpeg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man wearing glasses uses a blow torch on an ornate glass ornament attached to the end of a rod. 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Expect hand-crafted fashions by \u003ca href=\"https://giselleshepatin.com/\">Giselle Shepatin\u003c/a>; Venetian glassworks by \u003ca href=\"http://www.pinzetteglass.com/\">Pinzette\u003c/a>’s Michael Sosin; fantastical figures (and jewelry) conjured by \u003ca href=\"https://www.susanbrooks.com/\">Susan Brooks\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/zaftigjellylady/\">Magical House of Fuff\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/maggiewihnyk/\">Maggie Wihnyk\u003c/a>’s intricately beaded accessories; and multimedia art pieces by Janet Lee Smith’s Transformations Design Studio.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://werkshack.com/\">Werkshack\u003c/a>\u003cbr>(481 25th St., Oakland)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ten makers share this nonprofit studio, gallery and retail space — and they work in a wide variety of mediums. 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Her paintings of Bodega Bay, China Camp, Point Reyes, Merced and Marin will be of particular interest to local outdoorsy art lovers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.flmceramics.com/\">FLM Ceramics\u003c/a>\u003cbr>(301 2nd St., Petaluma)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>FLM’s geometrically inclined handmade tiles and pottery were born in the mind of Forrest Lesch-Middelton, who calls working with clay “alluring,” “sexy” and “incredibly hard.” Now he shares his business with two fellow potters, Wyatt Amend and Kelly Brothers, along with ceramicist Stephanie LeBaudour. Lesch-Middelton teaches workshops from time to time, and uses creative techniques to create his pottery — including transferring screen-printed images onto pots while he’s still throwing them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/flm-ceramics.png\" alt=\"Eleven plates featuring geometric patterns in grey and white. \" class=\"wp-image-13991303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/flm-ceramics.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/flm-ceramics-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/flm-ceramics-768x538.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/flm-ceramics-1536x1076.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Salad plates in varied patterns, by FLM Ceramics. 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This is a great opportunity to explore Berman’s work — and find some of the most spectacular bracelets you’ve ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Attendees of the National Craft Open Studios Weekend are encouraged to \u003ca href=\"https://craftcouncil.org/events/national-craft-open-studios-weekend/#ncos_map_tix_jump\">register in advance\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>Joe Cunningham’s quilts are literal works of art, made by both hand and machine. Cunningham has been a professional quiltmaker — and author on the subject — for almost half a century. He uses his craft to explore political themes, recall historical events, and as expressions of personal love and loss. His work has been part of the de Young Museum’s permanent collection since 2010, when he was the museum’s artist in residence. Cunningham’s online workshops attract thousands of students; this is a chance to grab a glimpse behind the wadding for free.\u003c/p>\n",
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Behind her is a corrugated iron wall, multiple work tables and a black shaggy dog.\" class=\"wp-image-13991301\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/PAMELA_DELUCO.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/PAMELA_DELUCO-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/PAMELA_DELUCO-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/PAMELA_DELUCO-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pam DeLuco of Shotwell Paper Mill in San Francisco. (Courtesy of Pam DeLuco)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://shotwellpapermill.com/\">Shotwell Paper Mill\u003c/a>\u003cbr>(305 Shotwell St.)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If you’ve ever wondered how to make paper from old rags and plants, you’ll want to visit Shotwell Paper Mill. Helmed by textile and fiber artist Pam DeLuco, this Mission District studio collaborates with individuals and organizations alike to make books and tell stories in sustainable ways. The organization is also surprisingly romantic: among many other things, they help couples turn their old clothing into wedding invitations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">East Bay\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://berkeleypotters.com/\">Berkeley Potters Guild\u003c/a>\u003cbr>(731 Jones St., Berkeley)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Founded 55 years ago, the Berkeley Potters Guild is Northern California’s oldest and largest collective of professional ceramicists. Hidden behind the anonymous blue visage of the Guild’s warehouse are 19 private studios, embracing an eclectic array of aesthetics. 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Don’t miss \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollybobisuthi.com/\">Holly Bobisuthi\u003c/a>’s innovative approach to statement jewelry, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bouquetimprov/\">Sigrid Hubbell\u003c/a>’s botanical sculptures and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thewindinthetrees.net/about\">Olivia A. Carter\u003c/a>’s gorgeous leatherwork.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">North Bay\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://maryfassbinder.com/\">Fassbinder Gallery and Atelier\u003c/a>\u003cbr>(110 Purrington Rd., Petaluma)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Expressionistic landscape artist Mary Fassbinder has been painting the wilds of Northern California — and much further afield (including all 63 National Parks) — since 1994. When not on a hillside with her easel, Fassbender also makes ceramics and Lino-cut prints, and takes portrait commissions for both pets and humans. Her paintings of Bodega Bay, China Camp, Point Reyes, Merced and Marin will be of particular interest to local outdoorsy art lovers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.flmceramics.com/\">FLM Ceramics\u003c/a>\u003cbr>(301 2nd St., Petaluma)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>FLM’s geometrically inclined handmade tiles and pottery were born in the mind of Forrest Lesch-Middelton, who calls working with clay “alluring,” “sexy” and “incredibly hard.” Now he shares his business with two fellow potters, Wyatt Amend and Kelly Brothers, along with ceramicist Stephanie LeBaudour. Lesch-Middelton teaches workshops from time to time, and uses creative techniques to create his pottery — including transferring screen-printed images onto pots while he’s still throwing them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/flm-ceramics.png\" alt=\"Eleven plates featuring geometric patterns in grey and white. \" class=\"wp-image-13991303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/flm-ceramics.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/flm-ceramics-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/flm-ceramics-768x538.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/flm-ceramics-1536x1076.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Salad plates in varied patterns, by FLM Ceramics. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco rock legends Metallica brought the capital city of Wales to a screeching halt over the weekend with a series of firsts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>To start with, June 28 was the first time the band had played the small Celtic nation (total population: 3 million) in 30 years. Then — possibly as a result of the length of time between visits — the metal icons managed to sell 76,000 tickets for a single show, making it the largest single concert to ever happen in Wales. At least 13 roads around the city center closed in preparation for the event.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Excitement built for days before the Principality Stadium gig, with fans and revelers holding full-blown Metallica street parties outside a variety of pubs, occasionally \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DaGq8wqsBeg/?hl=en\">spotting band members\u003c/a> as they did so. Then, during the show, bassist Rob Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett performed \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1089392840935142\">a cover of Tom Jones’ “Delilah,”\u003c/a> a song the Welsh traditionally like to sing at weddings, parties and sporting events. “Delilah” was recently banned from the Principality Stadium for having lyrics that some domestic violence charities objected to. Still, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/metallica-cardiff-review-waited-30-34201483\">review from WalesOnline\u003c/a> noted that the cover got “one of the biggest cheers of the night.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFKKCM1lXuQ&list=RDgFKKCM1lXuQ&start_radio=1\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But it was after Metallica left Cardiff that the Welsh really got a taste of Metallica’s mettle. The band donated £20,000 (roughly $26,500) to \u003ca href=\"https://cardiff.foodbank.org.uk/\">Cardiff Foodbank\u003c/a> — the largest celebrity donation the charity has ever received. (In June 2024 during her Eras tour, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift\u003c/a> also gave Cardiff Foodbank enough cash to provide three-day emergency food parcels to 925 people.) \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rachel Biggs, chief executive of the organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DaLdI29Ax7L/\">told BBC Radio Wales\u003c/a> on Monday morning that the Metallica cash would provide 9,000 meals to a thousand people in need, in South Wales. “It’s incredible that celebrities are using their status to donate and raise awareness of causes such as ours,” Biggs noted. “It’s going to make an incredible difference.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this financial offering took Wales entirely by surprise, Metallica has been donating to charities all over the world since 2017, when the band’s members and crew started the \u003ca href=\"https://www.allwithinmyhands.org/\">All Within My Hands\u003c/a> foundation (AWMH). The organization gives back to cities that welcome Metallica on tour and helps incentivize fans to participate in blood drives by giving participants limited edition merch.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.welsh-blood.org.uk/metallica/\">Metallica’s efforts in Wales\u003c/a> also marked the first time that UK blood services had ever partnered with a band to champion blood donation. Simon Campbell-Daves, of Welsh Blood Service, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnv9elgvz5lo\">told the BBC\u003c/a>: “We cannot be any more thankful to [the fans that donated] and to Metallica for their support in making this happen. It’s been incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Before Metallica had even arrived in Cardiff, Wales’ neighbors in Ireland were on the receiving end of even larger donations. After Metallica played Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on June 19 and 21, AWMH gave €40,000 (around $45,000) to anti-domestic violence organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.womensaid.ie/\">Women’s Aid\u003c/a> and another €40,000 to homeless charity, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dubsimon.ie/\">Dublin Simon Community\u003c/a>. Back in 2020, AWMH donated $250,000 to five wildfire relief organizations on the west coast. According to a 2025 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg4kKVYAgYo&t=188s\">CBS news report\u003c/a>, AWMH has donated $10 million across the U.S. to workforce education programs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, we have a tendency to take Metallica for granted a little bit — another band that’s simply part of the local fabric. It’s impossible not to appreciate the quartet on a fresh level after viewing them through the rest of the world’s eyes though. 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When O’Donnell rushed to the Bowers home on Market Street and demanded one, Bowers did everything in his power to prevent the procedure. This included burying Cecelia’s body before the city physician, Dr. Black, could get to it. After some legal wrangling, O’Donnell managed to get poor Cecelia disinterred. One of his arguments for it: Bowers had recently taken out a $17,000 life insurance policy on his wife.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dr. Black finally got his scalpel on Cecelia’s remains, lo and behold he found zero evidence of a liver abscess. What he \u003cem>did\u003c/em> find was an abnormal-looking stomach, which he promptly placed in a jar and sent to a chemist named Dr. William Johnson. (Pity the delivery boy…) Johnson later testified that he could smell phosphorus on the organ before he’d even tested it for chemicals. His findings were backed by several other doctors and they were conclusive: Cecelia had been poisoned.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At the Nov. 10 inquest, when Bowers was asked to account for the phosphorus in Cecelia’s stomach, he stumbled incredulously for a while, before stating: “I did not give it to her. She must have taken it herself!” When the inquest also raised the fact that the coroner had found evidence of a recent abortion, Bowers replied, “Yes [but] I did not perform it. She did it herself!”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Faced with this level of buffoonery, nine inquest jurors decided that Bowers needed to be placed under arrest immediately. Once in the county jail, Bowers talked to the local press at every opportunity. He complained to the \u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em> that he was “unused to close confinement,” but found the strength to insist that if was going to poison his wife, he would have used something less traceable than phosphorus.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/Chron-mar-8-1904.png\" alt=\"A grainy black and white portrait of a white man with coiffed hair and a long white beard, accompanied by two courtroom illustrations.\" class=\"wp-image-13990863\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/Chron-mar-8-1904.png 650w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/Chron-mar-8-1904-160x234.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. J. 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He also said he’d witnessed Cecelia sobbing to Bowers, “You are torturing me to death with medicine.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In contrast, Bowers’ associates testified that the marriage had been a happy one, and Bowers himself denied all accusations in a day-long testimony. It didn’t work. After a 35-minute deliberation, the jury found Bowers guilty of murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to death by hanging.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>All’s well that ends well, right? Well, no. This is actually where things get even stranger…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Eighteen months after the end of Bowers’ trial, Henry Benhayon (yes, Cecelia’s brother again) was found dead in a Geary Street rooming house that was next door to Bowers’ former medical office. Near Henry’s lifeless body (which was found in an odd, face-down position) were three bottles: whiskey, chloroform and a tightly capped bottle of cyanide. Close to those were three letters signed with Henry’s name, one of which stated that he’d planned to murder both his sister and Bowers so he could become guardian to his niece and inherit the insurance money. The letter also stated that Henry had bought the phosphorus used to kill his sister from a unnamed man who had later committed suicide. (How convenient!)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When reporters told Bowers about the confession letter, the doctor said, rather smugly, “Strange that with all my watchfulness, and despite the fact that I was continually at her bedside, that [Henry] should be able to get in and poison her in such a mysterious manner.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, if you’re thinking, “Sounds like Dr. Bowers had his brother-in-law murdered,” you’re not the first. Investigators quickly jumped on the case, and after following some boulder-sized breadcrumbs, arrested a friend of Bowers’ named John Dimmig. 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He complained to the \u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em> that he was “unused to close confinement,” but found the strength to insist that if was going to poison his wife, he would have used something less traceable than phosphorus.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/Chron-mar-8-1904.png\" alt=\"A grainy black and white portrait of a white man with coiffed hair and a long white beard, accompanied by two courtroom illustrations.\" class=\"wp-image-13990863\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/Chron-mar-8-1904.png 650w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/Chron-mar-8-1904-160x234.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. J. 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He also said he’d witnessed Cecelia sobbing to Bowers, “You are torturing me to death with medicine.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In contrast, Bowers’ associates testified that the marriage had been a happy one, and Bowers himself denied all accusations in a day-long testimony. It didn’t work. After a 35-minute deliberation, the jury found Bowers guilty of murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to death by hanging.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>All’s well that ends well, right? Well, no. This is actually where things get even stranger…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Eighteen months after the end of Bowers’ trial, Henry Benhayon (yes, Cecelia’s brother again) was found dead in a Geary Street rooming house that was next door to Bowers’ former medical office. Near Henry’s lifeless body (which was found in an odd, face-down position) were three bottles: whiskey, chloroform and a tightly capped bottle of cyanide. Close to those were three letters signed with Henry’s name, one of which stated that he’d planned to murder both his sister and Bowers so he could become guardian to his niece and inherit the insurance money. The letter also stated that Henry had bought the phosphorus used to kill his sister from a unnamed man who had later committed suicide. (How convenient!)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When reporters told Bowers about the confession letter, the doctor said, rather smugly, “Strange that with all my watchfulness, and despite the fact that I was continually at her bedside, that [Henry] should be able to get in and poison her in such a mysterious manner.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, if you’re thinking, “Sounds like Dr. Bowers had his brother-in-law murdered,” you’re not the first. Investigators quickly jumped on the case, and after following some boulder-sized breadcrumbs, arrested a friend of Bowers’ named John Dimmig. Not only was Dimmig a frequent visitor to Bowers in prison, he’d also recently rented the room that Henry’s body was found in. (Dimmig claimed that Henry must have stolen his key.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite Dimmig making several preposterous assertions (like admitting he’d recently bought cyanide, yes, but that it was just for a doctor friend), Dimmig’s murder trial was complicated by confusing witness testimony and conflicting handwriting analysis. (One expert said the confession letter was definitely fake, the other said it absolutely matched Henry’s penmanship.) The trial ended in a hung jury. A second trial six months later also resulted in a deadlock, but this time the judge refused to let the jury give up and go home. The end result? 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(ARC patients were granted less social security and disability benefits than AIDS patients.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Shortly after Bert and Russell’s protest began, Pat Norman — the first openly gay employee of San Francisco’s Health Department — \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caJ_l-rHeN8\">told documentary filmmakers\u003c/a> she believed ARC patients were being sidelined on purpose. “[Government officials] don’t want to spend money treating and providing services for people with ARC because it is larger and larger and larger than anybody wants to concede,” she said. “They are trying very hard not to expand the definition and diagnoses of ARC.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It did not take long for people to start sympathizing with Bert and Russell’s cause. Four days into the protest, the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> published a photo of the men titled “Other casualties of AIDS.” They sat peacefully under a blanket, wearing multiple layers of clothes, still chained to the doors. The 24/7 protest was kept alive by allies who showed up to give Bert and Russell breaks. The first two helpers were Paul Ramirez, 27 and Wes North, 31.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I’m out here, there’s so much love,” North told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> a few weeks later. “When I’m at home alone, I get scared. I think of dying. Here, I feel I’m doing something.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1324\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/ARC-Vigil-Night-Final-2000x1324.png\" alt=\"A government building with two mattresses visible in its doorway. 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By the end of 1985, 100 people were in attendance, some of whom slept in tents. Federal Building employees started bringing coffee and donuts. A nurse donated a grill. Others dropped off Thanksgiving turkeys and a Christmas tree to get the makeshift village through the holidays.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A woman named Serena Wylie who regularly donated casseroles to the vigil told the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> in December: “[The protesters] have come to be part of my family. There is joy here and a lot of laughter and smiles. There is strength and hope.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The prolonged action was not without its risks, however. In the early hours of Nov. 3, two straight allies were attacked by strangers at the federal building. (“It is not going to scare us away,” Russell told the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> at the time. “If we need to, we will stay here indefinitely.”) In the first week of December, a 39-year-old protester named Jän Beck was rushed to SF General after enduring three seizures and a stroke at the federal building. As soon as he was back on his feet, he went straight back to U.N. Plaza, telling reporters, “I have felt a home here that I have not felt in a long, long time.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Beck added, “It started out as a desperate, last-ditch effort by people who had seemingly tried everything to get the government to listen. It gained a new spirit and power because people have become empowered.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That spirit proved to be contagious. Folks gathered at the vigil were not placated by the House and Senate approving $221.5 million for AIDS research at the end of 1985. Everyone stayed put. Some began writing letters to their local and federal representatives, including Mayor Dianne Feinstein and President Ronald Reagan. The Board of Supervisors endorsed the vigil, and Congresswoman Barbara Boxer shared her support too.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The core members of the vigil began fundraising, sending out press releases, and set up an information table on site. An official organization was established to run things, led by project director William Davis and secretary Lance Hunt. Smaller ARC-AIDS vigil committees were formed to create sit-in schedules, plan other political actions and coordinate community outreach.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By February 1986, Hal Freeman, the manager of the Department of Health and Human Services, had resigned after 18 years of service — in protest of his own department’s inaction on AIDS and ARC. At the time, Freeman shared that, “a director in one meeting in Washington was heard to say ‘We don’t want to lend an aura of dignity to these AIDS cases,’ and that, to me, is simple homophobia.” (Freeman died of AIDS just two and a half years after his resignation.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1185\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/ARC-Vigil-88.jpg\" alt=\"Four men of varying ages stand outside doors to an office building. 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