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"content": "\u003cp>A wild, hairy, primate-like creature living in the forests of Northern California has long been part of the lore of a small mining community known as Willow Creek. Everything changed in 1967, when the creature was supposedly captured on film. Yes, we're talking about Bigfoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/OBTUQI60yqQ?t=175\" target=\"_blank\">iconic Bigfoot video\u003c/a> shot just 29 miles north of Willow Creek made national news. Nearly 50 years later, people are still flocking to the Humboldt County town, which celebrates the creature every year during its Bigfoot Days Festival. We stopped by this year's event, held on Sept. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228750700\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are plenty of believers within the festival. 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Driving through town, it’s hard to miss the Bigfoot statues and signs lining the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10726268\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Streufert outside Bigfoot Books in Willow Creek.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10726268\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks-400x245.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks-1440x882.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks-960x588.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Streufert outside Bigfoot Books in Willow Creek. \u003ccite>(Redwood Coast/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steve Streufert, owner of Bigfoot Books and local expert in all things Bigfoot, would argue that the creature has become more than a mascot. To him, Bigfoot brings the community together, and its impact has been growing since 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is sort of the mecca of Bigfoot,\" Streufert said. \"I get tourists from Europe and all across the country. Bigfoot was how this town became bigger than just a tiny little hole in the wall along the intersection there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also notable that major networks and hundreds of scientific studies have kept the legend alive by finding new evidence. \u003ca href=\"http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/finding-bigfoot/\" target=\"_blank\">Animal Planet\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/bigfoot-hoax-sci?source=relatedvideo\" target=\"_blank\">National Geographic\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.com/shows/monsterquest/videos/the-legend-of-bigfoot\" target=\"_blank\">History Channel\u003c/a> continue to produce Bigfoot documentaries showcasing new facts and new evidence, as well as analyzing and deconstructing the 1967 film by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin to prove that Bigfoot could be real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone enjoys Bigfoot just for the fun of it,” said Streufert. \"Because even if you do believe, it's not like it's easy to go find the thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With almost 10,000 miles of wildlife spanning the entire Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest surrounding Willow Creek, finding Bigfoot is not a walk in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Jaime Wayne, a researcher with the Bluff Creek Project. Among the many vendors at the Bigfoot Days Festival, his table was the only one with giant cement foot casts made from Bigfoot prints. He held up one of the prints and explained that some are not always accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10726273\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Outside a Bigfoot museum in Willow Creek.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10726273\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootMuseumExterior-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside a Bigfoot museum in Willow Creek. \u003ccite>(Trisha Fawver/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve amassed a collection of reported Bigfoot prints,\" he said. \"Some of them are quite interesting, but other prints are attributable to normal animals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to finding various Bigfoot tracks, the Bluff Creek Project leads outdoor adventure trips, including regular visits to the place where Bigfoot was supposedly filmed. 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Driving through town, it’s hard to miss the Bigfoot statues and signs lining the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10726268\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Streufert outside Bigfoot Books in Willow Creek.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10726268\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks-400x245.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks-1440x882.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/BigfootBooks-960x588.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Streufert outside Bigfoot Books in Willow Creek. \u003ccite>(Redwood Coast/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steve Streufert, owner of Bigfoot Books and local expert in all things Bigfoot, would argue that the creature has become more than a mascot. 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He had to move out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This memory of the contrast between the relatively prosperous time of having a ranch to the ugly discovery that the Japanese-American owner had everything taken away inspired him to write his latest play, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.valleyoftheheart.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Valley of the Heart.\u003c/a>\" It's a love story set in Cupertino in 1941 about the relationship between a Mexican-American ranch hand and the daughter of a Japanese-American rancher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez says \"Valley of the Heart\" not only tackles history and race issues of that era but is also relevant to a new generation because, at its core, it is about today's blended multicultural landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8QqiJesJwY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez was in San Jose on Monday holding auditions for \"Valley of the Heart\" at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thestage.org\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Stage Company,\u003c/a> where it will open Feb. 10 and run through March 6. Then it goes to Los Angeles. Valdez hopes there will be a movie version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was also in the Bay Area to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of his theater company, \u003ca href=\"http://elteatrocampesino.com\" target=\"_blank\">El Teatro Campesino,\u003c/a> in San Juan Bautista. \"Valley of the Heart\" has been playing there since last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Teatro Campesino (the farmworkers' theater) was founded on the picket lines during the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=cc_his_research&b_no=10482\">Delano Grape Strike\u003c/a> in 1965, when workers walked off farms demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez launched his theater company on flatbed trucks with short plays performed by novice actors for audiences of Central Valley farmworkers. He had graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in English before heading to the Central Valley to connect with iconic labor leader Cesar Chavez and get involved in the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just wanted to figure out how I could fit in,\" says Valdez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10724596\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10724596\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2-400x300.jpg\" alt='Luis Valdez (center) performs with his \"Farmworkers Theatre\" on a flatbed truck in the Central Valley in 1967.' width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Valdez (center) performs with his \"Farmworkers Theatre\" on a flatbed truck in the Central Valley in 1967. \u003ccite>(George Ballis/El Teatro Campesino)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At age 75, Valdez says he is comfortable in his roles as playwright, director, writer, actor and the person some call the hero of Latino theater. The work has come a long way from the fields of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In terms of a lifetime, 50 years is a considerable chunk,\" says Valdez. \"I have the freedom in San Juan Bautista with my theater company to do more. I can do what I do by watering the root of where I still belong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldo Billingslea, a professor of theater and associate provost for diversity and inclusion at Santa Clara University, has studied Valdez and his body of work at El Teatro Campesino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Much of his work is biting satire. His plays and movies hold up a mirror to society and speak truth to power,\" says Billingslea. \"The common theme in all Valdez's work is about empowering the individual. If you keep trying to push someone down, eventually they are going to rise up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billingslea says that for decades Valdez has been an unprecedented bridge into the Latino and multicultural worlds, but his work is much more than that .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's a genius. Listen to the number of people who talk about him as a Latino writer or relegate him to being only about the Latino culture,\" says Billingslea. \"He's writing about America, and that's an aspect of America we need to know about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez's hit play, \"Zoot Suit,\" about the 1940s Sleepy Lagoon murder case in Los Angeles, gave him the title of the first Chicano playwright on Broadway. 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Valdez hopes there will be a movie version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was also in the Bay Area to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of his theater company, \u003ca href=\"http://elteatrocampesino.com\" target=\"_blank\">El Teatro Campesino,\u003c/a> in San Juan Bautista. \"Valley of the Heart\" has been playing there since last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Teatro Campesino (the farmworkers' theater) was founded on the picket lines during the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=cc_his_research&b_no=10482\">Delano Grape Strike\u003c/a> in 1965, when workers walked off farms demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez launched his theater company on flatbed trucks with short plays performed by novice actors for audiences of Central Valley farmworkers. He had graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in English before heading to the Central Valley to connect with iconic labor leader Cesar Chavez and get involved in the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just wanted to figure out how I could fit in,\" says Valdez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10724596\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10724596\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2-400x300.jpg\" alt='Luis Valdez (center) performs with his \"Farmworkers Theatre\" on a flatbed truck in the Central Valley in 1967.' width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Campesino2.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Valdez (center) performs with his \"Farmworkers Theatre\" on a flatbed truck in the Central Valley in 1967. \u003ccite>(George Ballis/El Teatro Campesino)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At age 75, Valdez says he is comfortable in his roles as playwright, director, writer, actor and the person some call the hero of Latino theater. The work has come a long way from the fields of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In terms of a lifetime, 50 years is a considerable chunk,\" says Valdez. \"I have the freedom in San Juan Bautista with my theater company to do more. I can do what I do by watering the root of where I still belong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldo Billingslea, a professor of theater and associate provost for diversity and inclusion at Santa Clara University, has studied Valdez and his body of work at El Teatro Campesino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Much of his work is biting satire. His plays and movies hold up a mirror to society and speak truth to power,\" says Billingslea. \"The common theme in all Valdez's work is about empowering the individual. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rain failed to deter more than 100,000 locals and out-of-towners from showing up at the \u003ca href=\"http://pumpkinfest.miramarevents.com/\">45th Annual Art and Pumpkin Festival\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay this past weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historic Main Street was lined with art, pumpkin doughnut vendors and, of course, the occasional kid in a \"Ghostbusters\" costume. A highlight was the Great Pumpkin Parade, with the local high school’s homecoming court leading the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event, which raises thousands of dollars each year for community organizations and scholarships, now attracts thousands of outsiders and features live music, face painting, shopping and DIY art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10724065\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2045.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10724065 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2045-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Daletas of Pleasant Hill, OR won the 42nd Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off with his 1,969 pound pumpkin. 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The pumpkin weighed in at 1,969 pounds. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it remains, after all, a pumpkin festival. Spectators lined up along main street for the Great Pumpkin Parade, some with pumpkin pie in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the parade’s highlights was the 1,969-pound winner of the \u003ca href=\"http://weighoff.miramarevents.com/index.php\">42nd Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off\u003c/a>, the 12th heaviest in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Competition growers all over the world understand the stature and historical significance of Half Moon Bay'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Steve Daletas, 55, won $11,814 ($6 per pound) for his pumpkin. The airline pilot from Pleasant Hill, Oregon, won the weigh-off twice before, once in 2001 and again in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Competition growers all over the world understand the stature and historical significance of Half Moon Bay, and to win here is an incredible feeling,“ said Daletas in a post on the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/HalfMoonBayPumpkinFestival/\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. “It’s been a great year and I simply could not have accomplished this without the support of my family ... it’s definitely a team effort.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10724077,10724152,10724071,10724150\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival was created by the \u003ca href=\"http://pumpkinfest.miramarevents.com/hmbbc-facts.html\">Main Street Committee for Beautification \u003c/a>in 1970 to raise funds to restore the historic downtown. In the first year, the city was able to paint buildings and plant trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, millions have gone to grants and donations, with more than $100,000 going to local scholarships in the past 20 years. About $25,000 goes to maintenance on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All the proceeds and profits [from the Pumpkin Festival] go right back into the community and organizations like the Boys & Girls Club and the Senior Center\" said Shari Mills, a festival volunteer at the information booth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10724083,10724155,10724229,10724154,10724228,10724227\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Pumpkin Festival isn't just about the pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oddyssea's activity and adventure garden on Main Street, visitors could make everything from sand art to earth treasure necklaces -- paid for, of course, with pirate doubloons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young princesses hoping to win the annual costume contest could pass time in line for a walk through the Haunted Barn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Festival-goers could also treat themselves to seasonal pumpkin harvest ales or beverages from Half Moon Bay Winery, all while watching the MLB playoffs in the \"Take 5 Lounge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10724304,10724306,10724157,10724307\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When rain began to sprinkle, visitors either put on their hoods or headed back from where they came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Festival-goers from Hayward, Santa Cruz, San Jose and beyond contributed to the traffic along the two main highways leading to Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those stuck in the backup, it was a scenic ride along the country side of the small pumpkin capital with a now 45-year-old festival that, in 1970, was just a modest hometown effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like a group of friends from San Jose, Sunnyvale, Union City, Menlo Park and Santa Clara, were just getting started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why would we leave now?\" they said as they ate their pumpkin pie in the rain. \"We drove over two hours to get here.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A few weeks ago, the Bay Area hip-hop duo \u003ca href=\"http://blackalicious.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blackalicious\u003c/a> ended their decade-long hiatus with the release of a brand-new album. Yet despite its effortless flow, the album’s creation was far from easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1992, Blackalicious has released four albums -- each one chock-full of MC Gift of Gab’s virtuosic wordplay and positive messages, and producer Chief Xcel’s soulful, lush arrangements. They cemented their reputation as masters of their craft with 2002’s breakout album, \"Blazing Arrow,\" and even skeptics may find it hard to not break into a grin while listening to Gab’s ever-accelerating, lightning-fast flow on their beloved track, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/w8YM22wqFkw?t=47\">“Alphabet Aerobics.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228750161\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much to the chagrin of their fans, in 2005 the duo took a break to work on solo albums and other collaborations. Yet Gab and X, who have known each other since high school in Sacramento, couldn’t be kept apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“2012 came and we said, ‘Hey it’s been a minute, time to get back to the mothership,’ ” Gab recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our communications happens in the sheer nonverbal,” X chimes in. “If something hits, he’ll scrunch up his nose and bob his head and then I know he’s thinking ‘I’m gonna murder this track.’ That’s when I know I’ve struck fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But around the same time that Blackalicious started working on new material, Gab’s health took a sharp turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10720073\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 477px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10720073\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW-800x545.jpg\" alt=\"Gift of Gab (L) and Chief Xcel.\" width=\"477\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW-800x545.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW-1440x982.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW-1180x804.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW-960x655.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gift of Gab (L) and Chief Xcel. \u003ccite>(Photo: Nicole Mago)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was almost like I thought I had the flu,” Gab says. “I would be walking and get tired after 20 steps. I was bedridden and it wouldn't stop. And then I didn't eat for four days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High blood pressure and diabetes run in Gab’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew I hadn’t been living right,” he admits, and acknowledges that his lifestyle had caught up with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt kinda helpless because I didn’t know what to do and I didn’t know how to deal with it,” he adds. Doctors told him that his kidneys were failing. He was put on dialysis, a machine that removes, cleans and replaces his blood. Each session takes five hours; he gets treatment three times a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet during the dialysis sessions, Gab began writing with newfound urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We’re all gonna be handed obstacles, it’s just what you do with them.'\u003ccite>Gift of Gab\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“One day I took a pad and a pen there and I wrote two songs.” He realized, “This is exactly where I’m supposed to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duo composed 60 songs in total, which they whittled down to 16 for \"IMANI Vol. 1,\" their fifth album. The title is the Swahili word for faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your experience makes your record,” Gab reflects. “There’s glimpses of it throughout the album.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the album finished, they began plotting a world tour. But with the fragile state of Gab’s health, they weren’t sure it could even happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The] first show we did after I started dialysis was SXSW in Texas, and that was a hard show,” Gab recalls. “I can still remember the first rehearsal. I don't think I was even able to get through a song.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10720077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10720077 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ImaniCover-800x800.jpg\" alt=\""IMANI Vol. 1" is Blackalicious' first album in 10 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ImaniCover-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ImaniCover-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ImaniCover-1440x1441.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ImaniCover.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ImaniCover-1180x1181.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ImaniCover-960x961.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ImaniCover-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ImaniCover-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ImaniCover-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ImaniCover-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/ImaniCover-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"IMANI Vol. 1\" is Blackalicious' first album in 10 years.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In order for the tour to succeed, Gab would need regular dialysis on the road. Gradually, his body adjusted to the treatment. They started doing one-off shows, and now they’re in the middle of a four-month tour that’s taking them from Switzerland to Singapore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I feel great,” Gab practically shouts. He left for Europe, where Blackalicious is currently touring, days ahead of X, so he would have time to receive dialysis and rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over two decades into their career, Blackalicious are at the top of their game, and they aren’t showing any sign of slowing down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had amassed so much work doing Vol 1,” X explains, “that we thought there was no way we could tell the whole story in 16 songs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now the duo is hard at work on \"IMANI Vol. 2 and 3,\" which will be released over the next year and a half. It’s a daring move for any artist, but for Blackalicious, it’s a testament to one of the most lasting and exciting collaborations in hip-hop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This whole thing man, life is all about turning negatives into positives,” says Gab. “We’re all gonna be handed obstacles. It’s just what you do with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our communications happens in the sheer nonverbal,” X chimes in. “If something hits, he’ll scrunch up his nose and bob his head and then I know he’s thinking ‘I’m gonna murder this track.’ That’s when I know I’ve struck fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But around the same time that Blackalicious started working on new material, Gab’s health took a sharp turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10720073\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 477px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10720073\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW-800x545.jpg\" alt=\"Gift of Gab (L) and Chief Xcel.\" width=\"477\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW-800x545.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW-1440x982.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW-1180x804.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GabXcelBW-960x655.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gift of Gab (L) and Chief Xcel. \u003ccite>(Photo: Nicole Mago)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was almost like I thought I had the flu,” Gab says. “I would be walking and get tired after 20 steps. 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He’s authored two National Book Award nominees, “Boxers & Saints” and “\u003ca href=\"http://us.macmillan.com/americanbornchinese/geneluenyang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Born Chinese\u003c/a>.” (Yang’s latest book is called “Secret Coders.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228115979″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We caught up with him by email to talk about the cultural mashup in his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: KQED’s “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/so-well-spoken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">So Well Spoken\u003c/a>” is taking up the idea of multiracial families, and you’ve said you’re in one. What kind is yours?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: My marriage is multicultural, not multiracial. I am Chinese-American and my wife is Korean-American. 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When we do have conflicts, however, they tend to stem from differences in culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713728\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10713728\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-800x1238.jpg\" alt=\"Gene Luen Yang is the author of The Shadow Hero, about a character who many consider to be the first Asian-American superhero. 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My wife felt uneasy that our kids didn’t know how to speak Korean. I felt uneasy that my kids weren’t growing up with the same Chinese traditions as I did in my home church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know if there’s a good solution to that uneasiness. Wall Street Journal [columnist] Jeff Yang talks about how the culture of an immigrant community is like water in a bucket. When the water gets passed from the bucket of one generation to the next, some of it spills out. If you marry someone with the exact same cultural background, less water spills out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I guess my wife and I just have to make peace with the inevitable spillage. And, perhaps more hopefully, we can encourage our kids to see themselves as part of the emerging Asian-American subculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: How can these differences be funny sometimes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: In Korean restaurants, they sometimes have these flat, metal, beautifully crafted chopsticks. I still can’t get used to them. I know it’s stupid. It’s shameful for an Asian-American guy to complain about chopsticks of any kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: A Supreme Court ruling made interracial marriage fully legal at the federal level in the 1960s. That means some people living today were alive when it was still illegal to marry someone of another race. What do you say about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: Of course people of different races and cultures ought to be able to marry each other. Humans are humans. Also, culture is fluid, and the boundaries between cultures are often blurry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, spouses of different cultures ought to go into their marriages with their eyes open. Culture is real. Culture is a thing. And something kicks in after you have kids. Maybe it’s biological? I don’t know. But cultural habits that didn’t seem all that important before kids can suddenly feel very, very important after kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: Any advice? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: My marriage is multicultural, not multiracial. I am Chinese-American and my wife is Korean-American. We have a lot in common. We grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same high school. We are both Roman Catholic. We both attended a college in the University of California system. (I went to Cal and she went to UC San Diego.) We both worked as teachers for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as marriages go, ours is fairly low conflict. We have our seasons, but overall we’re stable. When we do have conflicts, however, they tend to stem from differences in culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713728\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10713728\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-800x1238.jpg\" alt=\"Gene Luen Yang is the author of The Shadow Hero, about a character who many consider to be the first Asian-American superhero. Yang is also the author of American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-800x1238.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-400x619.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-1440x2228.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-1180x1825.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16984_ShadowHero-Cov-300rbg-2-qut-960x1485.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Luen Yang is the author of “The Shadow Hero,” about a character who many consider to be the first Asian-American superhero. Yang is also the author of “American Born Chinese “and “Boxers & Saints.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gene Luen Yang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Q: Does being with someone from another culture have particular challenges? How does that play out in your home?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: As far as cultures go, China and Korea are fairly close. I mean, they share a border. There’s been a lot of cultural exchange over the centuries. There’s a sizable Korean minority in China, and the same is true for the Chinese in Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d figure cultural differences between a Korean-American and a Chinese-American wouldn’t be that big of a deal, but they are. Early on, my wife and I decided that we would attend a Korean-American church and send our kids to weekend Chinese-language school. That’s how we’d stay in touch with both cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then when we actually lived it out, all these unexpected feelings came up. 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I know it’s stupid. It’s shameful for an Asian-American guy to complain about chopsticks of any kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: A Supreme Court ruling made interracial marriage fully legal at the federal level in the 1960s. That means some people living today were alive when it was still illegal to marry someone of another race. What do you say about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: Of course people of different races and cultures ought to be able to marry each other. Humans are humans. Also, culture is fluid, and the boundaries between cultures are often blurry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, spouses of different cultures ought to go into their marriages with their eyes open. Culture is real. Culture is a thing. And something kicks in after you have kids. Maybe it’s biological? I don’t know. But cultural habits that didn’t seem all that important before kids can suddenly feel very, very important after kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Q: Any advice? 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"content": "\u003cp>It's an after-school ritual for Abigayle de la Rosa to stop at La Original Paleteria y Neveria (The Original Ice Cream Shop) and get a scoop of Mexican ice cream in her bustling San Jose neighborhood, called Calle Willow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it opened on Willow Street a year ago, the shop has become her version of \"31 Flavors.\" The surrounding area resembles parts of Mexico City, with storefront signs written in Spanish, merchants selling fresh flowers, jewelry, sidewalk tacos and pictures of the Virgencita de Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. The neighborhood is wedged between downtown's glistening office buildings and Willow Glen, one of the most affluent areas in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De la Rosa is only 10 years old, but she's fully aware that on Sunday her neighborhood will be one of many on full display when six miles of city streets will be closed to cars but open to people to walk, bicycle, skateboard or travel by any nonmotorized mode of transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the inaugural \u003ca href=\"http://vivacallesj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Viva CalleSJ\u003c/a> open streets event, a festival stretching from downtown San Jose to Little Saigon to East San Jose that aims to encourage residents to explore parts of the city they know little about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712086\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10712086\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-400x263.jpg\" alt=\"Map of the VivaCalleSJ route for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1440x945.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1920x1260.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the VivaCalleSJ route for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. \u003ccite>(VivaCalleSJ/city of San Jose )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think this bike ride will bring a lot more people here,\" says De la Rosa. \"There's a lot of cool things to see and the ice cream is delicious.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Viva calle!\" is a Spanish phrase that translates to \"long live the streets!\" Organizers say the event is a test run for future street events. Can sprawling San Jose, where Teslas and hybrid cars are king, get people out of their car -- and comfort zones -- to explore the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Solis, recreation superintendent of San Jose's Department of Parks, Recreation & Neighborhood Services, thinks so. He says a major goal of Viva CalleSJ is to make a giant city known for its distinctive neighborhoods and diverse cultures a little more accessible. He's expecting 30,000 people to turn out in a city that is 180 square miles and has a population of 1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are going to be traversing a number of communities, social-economic lines and cultural lines, and our hope is to unify the city through open streets,\" says Solis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder Palles says he plans to be there. He lives in the nearby town of Milpitas and believes once people get to know the flavor of the downtown neighborhoods they will return. He comes to Calle Willow to pick up his daughter from school most days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel at home here,\"he says. \"I live in Milpitas and all you see are the neighbors with closed doors. Look over here, how everyone is walking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Jose, the \u003ca href=\"http://bikesiliconvalley.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition\u003c/a> and Knight Foundation are the main sponsors, providing the funding for Viva CalleSJ. So far the cost is $300,000 to pay for everything from police to shutting down the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viva CalleSJ is similar to open streets events like Sunday Streets in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sundaystreetssf.com/what-is-sunday-streets-2/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SundayStreetsBerkeley\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley\u003c/a> and Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://oaklavia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oaklavia\u003c/a>. But maybe the closest parallel is to a bigger city well to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, San Jose officials traveled to Los Angeles to look at how that city launched an open streets event in 2010 it calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.ciclavia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CicLAvia\u003c/a>. CicLAvia was inspired by events in Bogota, Columbia and Mexico City. L.A. has been ramping up the number of rides each year, attracting between 50,000 and 100,000 riders, and designing different routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romel Pascual, CicLAvia executive director, says there are similarities between the two cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Jose is a smaller version of Los Angeles,\" he says. \"(W)e are made up of distinct neighborhoods that aren't just defined by different cultures but blended like it is in San Jose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pascual says studies show the event has been successful in drawing people from all over Los Angeles and increasing business along the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"About 75 percent of all the ZIP codes in Los Angeles were represented along the route,\" he says. \"The amazing thing is the jump in businesses along the routes from 25 to 60 percent. These are mostly service-oriented businesses like restaurants and coffee shops.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local San Jose residents want that kind of success in neighborhoods such as central San Jose's Little Saigon, where many Vietnamese immigrants settled after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Cecille Nguyen, who was born in San Jose and whose parents were immigrants, has been helping promote Viva CalleSJ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10712357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the Viva CalleSJ route leading into Little Saigon.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the Viva CalleSJ route leading into Little Saigon. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Vietnamese people are very much passionate about their food and culinary skills but I think it's a bit neglected sometimes that the Vietnamese are known for their friendliness and willingness to help and serve,\" she says. \"I think that is something that will surprise everyone. No matter what service you're looking for here, you're going to find someone who can help you out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Velazquez, outreach manager for the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, stressed the importance of overcoming the isolation of neighborhoods. The Calle Willow neighborhood, for example, while close to downtown and Willow Glen, is separated by roadway bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valazquez, who's trying to drum up more business sponsors for future events, says when he worked in Chicago he observed how neighborhoods divided by bridges or railroad tracks suffered a disconnect between people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really hoping to get people young and old,\" he says. \"This isn't a bike race. We want \u003cem>abuelitas\u003c/em> (grandmothers) being led in their wheelchairs by their granddaughters. We want to see people walking and skateboarding. We want everyone to feel comfortable using the streets and see that this is theirs and something they can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's an after-school ritual for Abigayle de la Rosa to stop at La Original Paleteria y Neveria (The Original Ice Cream Shop) and get a scoop of Mexican ice cream in her bustling San Jose neighborhood, called Calle Willow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it opened on Willow Street a year ago, the shop has become her version of \"31 Flavors.\" The surrounding area resembles parts of Mexico City, with storefront signs written in Spanish, merchants selling fresh flowers, jewelry, sidewalk tacos and pictures of the Virgencita de Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. The neighborhood is wedged between downtown's glistening office buildings and Willow Glen, one of the most affluent areas in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De la Rosa is only 10 years old, but she's fully aware that on Sunday her neighborhood will be one of many on full display when six miles of city streets will be closed to cars but open to people to walk, bicycle, skateboard or travel by any nonmotorized mode of transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the inaugural \u003ca href=\"http://vivacallesj.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Viva CalleSJ\u003c/a> open streets event, a festival stretching from downtown San Jose to Little Saigon to East San Jose that aims to encourage residents to explore parts of the city they know little about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712086\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10712086\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-400x263.jpg\" alt=\"Map of the VivaCalleSJ route for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1440x945.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1920x1260.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/UPDATED_VivaCalleSJ_RouteMap-960x630.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the VivaCalleSJ route for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. \u003ccite>(VivaCalleSJ/city of San Jose )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think this bike ride will bring a lot more people here,\" says De la Rosa. \"There's a lot of cool things to see and the ice cream is delicious.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Viva calle!\" is a Spanish phrase that translates to \"long live the streets!\" Organizers say the event is a test run for future street events. Can sprawling San Jose, where Teslas and hybrid cars are king, get people out of their car -- and comfort zones -- to explore the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Solis, recreation superintendent of San Jose's Department of Parks, Recreation & Neighborhood Services, thinks so. He says a major goal of Viva CalleSJ is to make a giant city known for its distinctive neighborhoods and diverse cultures a little more accessible. He's expecting 30,000 people to turn out in a city that is 180 square miles and has a population of 1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are going to be traversing a number of communities, social-economic lines and cultural lines, and our hope is to unify the city through open streets,\" says Solis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder Palles says he plans to be there. He lives in the nearby town of Milpitas and believes once people get to know the flavor of the downtown neighborhoods they will return. He comes to Calle Willow to pick up his daughter from school most days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel at home here,\"he says. \"I live in Milpitas and all you see are the neighbors with closed doors. Look over here, how everyone is walking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San Jose, the \u003ca href=\"http://bikesiliconvalley.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition\u003c/a> and Knight Foundation are the main sponsors, providing the funding for Viva CalleSJ. So far the cost is $300,000 to pay for everything from police to shutting down the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viva CalleSJ is similar to open streets events like Sunday Streets in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sundaystreetssf.com/what-is-sunday-streets-2/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SundayStreetsBerkeley\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley\u003c/a> and Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://oaklavia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oaklavia\u003c/a>. But maybe the closest parallel is to a bigger city well to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, San Jose officials traveled to Los Angeles to look at how that city launched an open streets event in 2010 it calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.ciclavia.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CicLAvia\u003c/a>. CicLAvia was inspired by events in Bogota, Columbia and Mexico City. L.A. has been ramping up the number of rides each year, attracting between 50,000 and 100,000 riders, and designing different routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romel Pascual, CicLAvia executive director, says there are similarities between the two cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Jose is a smaller version of Los Angeles,\" he says. \"(W)e are made up of distinct neighborhoods that aren't just defined by different cultures but blended like it is in San Jose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pascual says studies show the event has been successful in drawing people from all over Los Angeles and increasing business along the route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"About 75 percent of all the ZIP codes in Los Angeles were represented along the route,\" he says. \"The amazing thing is the jump in businesses along the routes from 25 to 60 percent. These are mostly service-oriented businesses like restaurants and coffee shops.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local San Jose residents want that kind of success in neighborhoods such as central San Jose's Little Saigon, where many Vietnamese immigrants settled after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Cecille Nguyen, who was born in San Jose and whose parents were immigrants, has been helping promote Viva CalleSJ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10712357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the Viva CalleSJ route leading into Little Saigon.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/Vietnamese-woman-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the Viva CalleSJ route leading into Little Saigon. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Vietnamese people are very much passionate about their food and culinary skills but I think it's a bit neglected sometimes that the Vietnamese are known for their friendliness and willingness to help and serve,\" she says. \"I think that is something that will surprise everyone. No matter what service you're looking for here, you're going to find someone who can help you out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Velazquez, outreach manager for the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, stressed the importance of overcoming the isolation of neighborhoods. The Calle Willow neighborhood, for example, while close to downtown and Willow Glen, is separated by roadway bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valazquez, who's trying to drum up more business sponsors for future events, says when he worked in Chicago he observed how neighborhoods divided by bridges or railroad tracks suffered a disconnect between people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really hoping to get people young and old,\" he says. \"This isn't a bike race. We want \u003cem>abuelitas\u003c/em> (grandmothers) being led in their wheelchairs by their granddaughters. We want to see people walking and skateboarding. We want everyone to feel comfortable using the streets and see that this is theirs and something they can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to create and host a show. Now I'm getting that chance. So far, most of the reaction to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Well Spoken\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been positive, sent in by people who are ready to have open and honest discussions about race, culture and diversity:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It's a scary issue, race, and I think I admire your effort to dip your toe into this water, because it's very tumultuous right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\">--Scott\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Nobody has all the answers to these tough questions, least of all KQED, but we can help ask good questions and create a safe space to talk. T\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he outpouring of personal stories and thoughts from all walks of life, from as far away as Germany, demonstrates the need for this:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/So-Well-Spoken-Sidebar.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>Candid conversations about race and identity with Joshua Johnson\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">Read more stories\u003c/a> in this series\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tune in Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. on 88.5 or \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\" target=\"_blank\">listen live\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’m not sure how to compliment a person of color. Maybe I’m overly sensitive to being white and coming across as condescending. I appreciate our differences but I get stuck on what to say. This situation may not be prevalent, but... I don’t feel very well spoken in these circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\">--Cheryl\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, we know that some folks just don’t like the idea of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Well Spoken\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at all: They believe that we’re chasing shadows, dealing in hyperbole and basically wasting time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, our story about a woman who had a rough situation involving the word “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/10/4-tips-for-dealing-with-racially-charged-insults-like-uppity\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">uppity\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">” drew this tweet from a listener in San Francisco:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NPR\">@NPR\u003c/a> Now UPPITY is a racist? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQED\">@KQED\u003c/a> should just fire all their reporters. Report the real news, stop trying to create news. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/kqedspoken?src=hash\">#kqedspoken\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>— Josche Schaekar (@ifampresident) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ifampresident/status/641997376282980353\">September 10, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, uppity didn’t just recently become a racist term. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the word has quite a long and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5823018\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">loaded history\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public media organizations like KQED strive not just to report the news as it happens, but also to explore issues, ideas, events and cultures. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Well Spoken\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the latter type of effort at a time when race \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">culture\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">featured\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prominently in the\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. (Recent examples \u003ca href=\"http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/09/28/marathon-organizers-respond-to-black-lives-matter-plans/\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article35679474.html\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/27/politics/ben-carson-muslim-president-sharia-law/\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251743/Asians-set-overtake-Hispanics-largest-group-immigrants-2065-number-foreign-borns-nears-record-high.html\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/us/panel-studying-racial-divide-in-missouri-presents-a-blunt-picture-of-inequity.html?_r=0\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/24/jeb-bush-win-black-voters-with-aspiration-not-free-stuff/\">here \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/09/01/idris-elba-too-street-play-james-bond/4VRukURkTRU3Tud8ChUwYK/story.html\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Facebook, one person took strong issue with our recent story about the concept of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/how-to-acknowledge-prejudice-and-white-privilege-without-the-guilt\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">white privilege\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 MAs, 20 years teaching experience abroad, and I have the privilege of teaching ESL in the great East Bay for $17 net an hr at an ESL school in the super cool, super liberal, full of super-duper love for the homeless city of Berkeley - concern for those of us who work for a living, not so much.. Oh, I forgot!! I'm WHITE so I'm \"privileged\". Gotcha.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That story also prompted a similar reaction from Dick in San Jose, who left us a voicemail:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">...I've had to work for everything I've got, so maybe stop spreading the propaganda that all white people are privileged. It's more of a socioeconomic, where you were raised and how much money your parents and how good your parents are at parenting you. So come on, guys, you're smarter than that. It's not about race really. So please, stop with this. Please. Every day. It's half intellectual conversation, half propaganda, “white men are horrible”... come on. Grow up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It's true that not all whites are equally privileged. However, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/07/white_privilege_extends_to_the_poor.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shows that white privilege transcends socioeconomics. Another \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-whites-downplay-their-individual-racial-privileges?utm_source=Stanford+Business&utm_campaign=4c6f7c1217-Stanford-Business-Issue-71-9-20-2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b5214e34b-4c6f7c1217-73746881&ct=t(Stanford-Business-Issue-71-9-20-2015)\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shows that the “I’ve worked for everything I’ve got” argument often comes up among people who are reluctant to acknowledge the impact of white privilege. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the criticism has been very helpful. One listener, a white male who declined to give his name or city, suggested that we create an email address for feedback (initially, we took only calls and social media posts). \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"AcH6DuDzdNGzOTy3x0o2Uqhrd2MIzsII\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His concern was that people like him wouldn't share their stories unless they could do so privately and think through their words. That was an excellent point, and we added \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"mailto:SoWellSpoken@KQED.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SoWellSpoken@KQED.org\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to meet that need.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps our most vocal critic is Henry, a listener in Napa who was very upset over our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/kqed-so-well-spoken\">story\u003c/a> about the recent incident aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">...I think KQED in particular is obsessed with race, and I think the more you talk about it, the worse it gets. one of the reasons race in America is so tenuous and so tense right now, is because of the over-obsession with liberal media like yourselves, and I hope you have the b---- to put this on the radio, OK? Because we're sick and tired of it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether you like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Well Spoken\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or not, whether you agree with the assessments of our guests or not, whether you think this approach is right or wrong, the mere fact that you are engaging with us makes you part of the dialogue. And part of the solution. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m encouraged by these comments, critical and complimentary. We’ve aired only four segments so far -- hardly enough to get into the nuances of race, culture, diversity and identity. Today we air the first hourlong show, where we hope to consider more of those nuances.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cem>So Well Spoken\u003c/em> is a safe space to have dangerous conversations. Pushing the critics away would violate the spirit of this project because, at the end of the day, we really do need one another. I think \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/100-amazing-facts/who-designed-the-march-on-washington/\">Bayard Rustin\u003c/a>, the main organizer of the 1963 March On Washington, said it best:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We are all one. And if we do not know it, we will learn it the hard way.”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to create and host a show. Now I'm getting that chance. So far, most of the reaction to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Well Spoken\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been positive, sent in by people who are ready to have open and honest discussions about race, culture and diversity:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It's a scary issue, race, and I think I admire your effort to dip your toe into this water, because it's very tumultuous right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\">--Scott\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Nobody has all the answers to these tough questions, least of all KQED, but we can help ask good questions and create a safe space to talk. T\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he outpouring of personal stories and thoughts from all walks of life, from as far away as Germany, demonstrates the need for this:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/So-Well-Spoken-Sidebar.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>Candid conversations about race and identity with Joshua Johnson\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sowellspoken\" target=\"_blank\">Read more stories\u003c/a> in this series\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tune in Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. on 88.5 or \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\" target=\"_blank\">listen live\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’m not sure how to compliment a person of color. Maybe I’m overly sensitive to being white and coming across as condescending. I appreciate our differences but I get stuck on what to say. This situation may not be prevalent, but... I don’t feel very well spoken in these circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\">--Cheryl\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, we know that some folks just don’t like the idea of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Well Spoken\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at all: They believe that we’re chasing shadows, dealing in hyperbole and basically wasting time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, our story about a woman who had a rough situation involving the word “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/10/4-tips-for-dealing-with-racially-charged-insults-like-uppity\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">uppity\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">” drew this tweet from a listener in San Francisco:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NPR\">@NPR\u003c/a> Now UPPITY is a racist? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQED\">@KQED\u003c/a> should just fire all their reporters. Report the real news, stop trying to create news. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/kqedspoken?src=hash\">#kqedspoken\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>— Josche Schaekar (@ifampresident) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ifampresident/status/641997376282980353\">September 10, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, uppity didn’t just recently become a racist term. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the word has quite a long and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5823018\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">loaded history\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public media organizations like KQED strive not just to report the news as it happens, but also to explore issues, ideas, events and cultures. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Well Spoken\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the latter type of effort at a time when race \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">culture\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">featured\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prominently in the\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. (Recent examples \u003ca href=\"http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/09/28/marathon-organizers-respond-to-black-lives-matter-plans/\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article35679474.html\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/27/politics/ben-carson-muslim-president-sharia-law/\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251743/Asians-set-overtake-Hispanics-largest-group-immigrants-2065-number-foreign-borns-nears-record-high.html\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/us/panel-studying-racial-divide-in-missouri-presents-a-blunt-picture-of-inequity.html?_r=0\">here\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/24/jeb-bush-win-black-voters-with-aspiration-not-free-stuff/\">here \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/09/01/idris-elba-too-street-play-james-bond/4VRukURkTRU3Tud8ChUwYK/story.html\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Facebook, one person took strong issue with our recent story about the concept of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/24/how-to-acknowledge-prejudice-and-white-privilege-without-the-guilt\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">white privilege\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 MAs, 20 years teaching experience abroad, and I have the privilege of teaching ESL in the great East Bay for $17 net an hr at an ESL school in the super cool, super liberal, full of super-duper love for the homeless city of Berkeley - concern for those of us who work for a living, not so much.. 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However, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/07/white_privilege_extends_to_the_poor.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shows that white privilege transcends socioeconomics. Another \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-whites-downplay-their-individual-racial-privileges?utm_source=Stanford+Business&utm_campaign=4c6f7c1217-Stanford-Business-Issue-71-9-20-2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b5214e34b-4c6f7c1217-73746881&ct=t(Stanford-Business-Issue-71-9-20-2015)\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shows that the “I’ve worked for everything I’ve got” argument often comes up among people who are reluctant to acknowledge the impact of white privilege. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the criticism has been very helpful. One listener, a white male who declined to give his name or city, suggested that we create an email address for feedback (initially, we took only calls and social media posts). \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His concern was that people like him wouldn't share their stories unless they could do so privately and think through their words. That was an excellent point, and we added \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"mailto:SoWellSpoken@KQED.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SoWellSpoken@KQED.org\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to meet that need.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps our most vocal critic is Henry, a listener in Napa who was very upset over our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/kqed-so-well-spoken\">story\u003c/a> about the recent incident aboard the Napa Valley Wine Train:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">...I think KQED in particular is obsessed with race, and I think the more you talk about it, the worse it gets. one of the reasons race in America is so tenuous and so tense right now, is because of the over-obsession with liberal media like yourselves, and I hope you have the b---- to put this on the radio, OK? 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"content": "\u003cp>In India, middle-class couples used to find each other and marry through family connections, a marriage broker or by way of a newspaper ad. Today, they — and their counterparts around the world — are just as likely to use any one of an explosion of matrimonial websites, some with apps for your smartphone. Two of the largest sites are \u003ca href=\"http://www.shaadi.com/\">\u003cu>Shaadi.com\u003c/u>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/\">\u003cu>Bharatmatrimony.com\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689918\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1-400x710.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot from the iPhone app.\" width=\"200\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1-400x710.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen shot from the iPhone app. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of BharatMatrimony)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A growing number of the profiles on these sites are written by the hopeful wedding seekers themselves, but those with a more traditional mindset will allow their parents to write them. That was the case for Gomathi Ramakrishnan and her husband, Prashanth Vishnumangalam Narayanan:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gomathi: She’s intelligent…pursing her Master’s in Canada…she’s homely and traditional…plays Badminton…she’s cute. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Prashanth: He’s an Iyer Brahmin…he doesn’t eat meat…he doesn’t drink. He’s a good boy. He’s done his bachelor’s, he’s done his master’s, and he’s based out of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gomathi\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three years ago, Gomathi was 22 years old and working to complete a master’s degree in neuroscience at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. One day her father called from her hometown of Chennai in southern India. “We’re going to put up a profile for you on Bharatmatrimony.com,” he said matter-of-factly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss an episode of ‘Love in the Digital Age’\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Gomathi delights in sharing what happened next. “He started entering \u003cem>his\u003c/em> profile information. He typed his name, he typed his age, and he typed all stuff about him.” In retrospect, she figures he probably thought he was registering, as opposed to creating a profile. But the error became apparent when the first bite of interest came from an older woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad was like, ‘Why is someone who is 50 years old giving information for my daughter?’ ” Gomathi giggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tech-savvy cousin soon came to the rescue — and now Gomathi was on the hot seat. “Within two weeks, he [her father] came back with a list of 15 guys. I was really overwhelmed!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She demurred, but her dad insisted, and then begged her to at least call his favorite: Prashanth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prashanth\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth Vishnumangalam Narayanan was 27, a Fremont resident and established consultant on supply chain management for PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Jose, when he started getting curious calls from his mother in Chennai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10694743\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 361px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10694743\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GomathiPrashanthVERT.jpg\" alt=\"Gomathi and Prashanth\" width=\"361\" height=\"554\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gomathi and Prashanth\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She told him women were expressing interest in getting to know him better, which made no sense, until she admitted she’d posted a profile of him online. Soon after, she sent him a list of 25 matches. And she hardly let the matter rest there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had my mom’s sister call me and say, ‘This is the right time to talk.’ Then I had my grandma call me and say, ‘This is the right time to talk.’ Then my dad, then everybody, decided to take turns calling me, and say, ‘This is the right time to talk,’ ” says Prashanth. It was obvious he had to talk to somebody, soon. He had to name at least one candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth chose Gomathi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Semi-Arranged Marriage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though their parents wrote the profiles, picked the candidates and met each other before giving the go-ahead to Gomathi and Prashanth, they call the process that led to their wedding \u003cem>semi-arranged. \u003c/em>That’s because they did get to pick who to talk to, and they got to talk for nine months before settling on each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth explains, “I got introduced to the person I was getting married to through family relations and connections, and they established the connection through a digital website. But then we talked, and we really understood each other, and we got married. I had my freedom, and she had her freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, even with the freedom to choose over time, they still felt pressure to come to a decision eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”SkD29tNEiyVCEFchT7DTtN443eU0BTSA”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had Gomathi and Prashanth not liked each other, they would have worked through match No. 2, No. 3 — and so on — until they agreed to somebody their parents found suitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomathi says the two sets of parents got along really well. “Based on their hard work, they were able to come up in life,” she says. “That was something, that both of them have mutual respect for each other. That was something that I also wanted in the person that I was going to marry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the first phone call. “I remember Gomathi being the one who asked a lot more questions than me asking her,” says Prashanth, laughing. “She was like, ‘Who’s your favorite actress? Who’s your favorite actor? What movies do you like?’ I found her to be very full of energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple began phoning, texting and talking on FaceTime regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few months, Prashanth and Gomathi decided to meet in Canada. The gravity of it all hit Prashanth as he went through the airport in Edmonton. When the visa officer asked him the purpose of his visit, he said he was going to see “a friend.” A friend he had never met, perhaps his future wife. Prashanth had seen Gomathi only virtually, and he scanned the airport for her. “She seemed small. And I was like, “I’ve seen her before.’ Then I realized: That’s Gomathi!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689853 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gomathi and Prashanth at home in Fremont, California\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gomathi and Prashanth at home in Fremont, California \u003ccite>(Polly Stryker/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gomathi remembers, “It felt really odd, because you have spoken to this person over the phone, but you haven’t met the other person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They spent a long weekend getting to know each other: going out to eat, taking walks, watching the movie “Brave.” When Gomathi cried during the film, Prashanth felt touched by her empathy with the characters. But by the time he left Canada, Gomathi had not made a decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt kind of sad,” Prashanth says. “I thought, initially, I wasn’t emotionally invested, but I learned that I’d been \u003cem>heavily\u003c/em> emotionally invested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to understand the person really well before getting married,” Gomathi says, “because it’s a one-time thing, and you just don’t want to screw it up. You just don’t want to make a decision until you know, ‘Yes, this is it!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth’s mother urged him to talk to other matches from Bharat Matrimony. He told her he wasn’t interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple talked for several more months. Gomathi says her love for Prashanth “deepened more when I realized who Prashanth was and what sort of a guy he was. When I was able to trust him, I really fell for him. I know in my heart that he has high moral standards. That was the point that I came to when I decided, ‘Yes, I should get engaged to Prashanth.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t hurt that Prashanth plays a mean game of badminton, Gomathi’s favorite sport. The wedding was on. Their families organized a lavish three-day event that took place in Chennai on June 28, 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fremont, Capital of Indian California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Gomathi and Prashanth live in Fremont, home to a large and growing population of immigrants from India, filled with bustling Indian restaurants and stores. \u003ca href=\"http://politicalscience.ucr.edu/people/faculty/ramakrishnan/\">\u003cu>Karthick Ramakrishnan\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (no relation to Gomathi), professor of Public Policy at UC Riverside, says that Indian immigration more than doubled in Silicon Valley between 2000-2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689913 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-800x667.jpg\" alt='Indian population size and growth in Alameda and Santa Clara counties from 2000-2014, according to the U.S. Census, as distinct from the \"Other Asian\" category.' width=\"800\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-400x333.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-1440x1200.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian population size and growth in Alameda and Santa Clara counties from 2000-2014, according to the U.S. Census, as distinct from the “Other Asian” category. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Professor Karthick Ramakrishnan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That shift is reflected in the number of Californians on Indian matrimonial websites. Shaadi’s chief marketing officer, \u003ca href=\"http://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/the-people-report/aditya-save-is-shaadi-coms-new-cmo-anupam-mittal-steps-down-as-ceo/48013510\">\u003cu>\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff\">Aditya Save\u003c/span>\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, says approximately 200,000 accounts are registered to people living in the state. He adds that the platform is used mostly by South Asians — and not just first-generation immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our platform is used by people of Indian origin, born in the U.S., the UK and Australia. A larger percentage of that 200,000 (in California) would be people who are American citizens, born in America, but of Indian descent,” he says. For those spouse seekers, Save says it’s more likely they’ll set up their own profiles, as opposed to letting their parents do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Gomathi Ramakrishnan co-manages a neuroscience lab at UC San Francisco. Prashanth still works at PricewaterhouseCoopers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lives as newlyweds are filled with pleasures they enjoy together: playing badminton, watching TV shows like “\u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones\">\u003cu>Game of Thrones\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones\">”\u003c/a> and eating ice cream at \u003ca href=\"mailto:https://www.coldstonecreamery.com\">\u003cu>Cold Stone Creamery\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. Gomathi isn’t shy when she explains how she and Prashanth found compatibility first, allowing love to follow after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Love doesn’t happen one sudden day,” she says. “It takes a really long time. I feel like we are still falling in love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u003cem>This podcast features music by Karthick Iyer (“Brovabarama” and “Manavyalakim”).\u003c/em> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three years ago, Gomathi was 22 years old and working to complete a master’s degree in neuroscience at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. One day her father called from her hometown of Chennai in southern India. “We’re going to put up a profile for you on Bharatmatrimony.com,” he said matter-of-factly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss an episode of ‘Love in the Digital Age’\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Gomathi delights in sharing what happened next. “He started entering \u003cem>his\u003c/em> profile information. He typed his name, he typed his age, and he typed all stuff about him.” In retrospect, she figures he probably thought he was registering, as opposed to creating a profile. But the error became apparent when the first bite of interest came from an older woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad was like, ‘Why is someone who is 50 years old giving information for my daughter?’ ” Gomathi giggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tech-savvy cousin soon came to the rescue — and now Gomathi was on the hot seat. “Within two weeks, he [her father] came back with a list of 15 guys. I was really overwhelmed!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She demurred, but her dad insisted, and then begged her to at least call his favorite: Prashanth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prashanth\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth Vishnumangalam Narayanan was 27, a Fremont resident and established consultant on supply chain management for PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Jose, when he started getting curious calls from his mother in Chennai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10694743\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 361px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10694743\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GomathiPrashanthVERT.jpg\" alt=\"Gomathi and Prashanth\" width=\"361\" height=\"554\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gomathi and Prashanth\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She told him women were expressing interest in getting to know him better, which made no sense, until she admitted she’d posted a profile of him online. Soon after, she sent him a list of 25 matches. And she hardly let the matter rest there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had my mom’s sister call me and say, ‘This is the right time to talk.’ Then I had my grandma call me and say, ‘This is the right time to talk.’ Then my dad, then everybody, decided to take turns calling me, and say, ‘This is the right time to talk,’ ” says Prashanth. It was obvious he had to talk to somebody, soon. He had to name at least one candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth chose Gomathi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Semi-Arranged Marriage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though their parents wrote the profiles, picked the candidates and met each other before giving the go-ahead to Gomathi and Prashanth, they call the process that led to their wedding \u003cem>semi-arranged. \u003c/em>That’s because they did get to pick who to talk to, and they got to talk for nine months before settling on each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth explains, “I got introduced to the person I was getting married to through family relations and connections, and they established the connection through a digital website. But then we talked, and we really understood each other, and we got married. I had my freedom, and she had her freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, even with the freedom to choose over time, they still felt pressure to come to a decision eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had Gomathi and Prashanth not liked each other, they would have worked through match No. 2, No. 3 — and so on — until they agreed to somebody their parents found suitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomathi says the two sets of parents got along really well. “Based on their hard work, they were able to come up in life,” she says. “That was something, that both of them have mutual respect for each other. That was something that I also wanted in the person that I was going to marry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the first phone call. “I remember Gomathi being the one who asked a lot more questions than me asking her,” says Prashanth, laughing. “She was like, ‘Who’s your favorite actress? Who’s your favorite actor? What movies do you like?’ I found her to be very full of energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple began phoning, texting and talking on FaceTime regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few months, Prashanth and Gomathi decided to meet in Canada. The gravity of it all hit Prashanth as he went through the airport in Edmonton. When the visa officer asked him the purpose of his visit, he said he was going to see “a friend.” A friend he had never met, perhaps his future wife. Prashanth had seen Gomathi only virtually, and he scanned the airport for her. “She seemed small. And I was like, “I’ve seen her before.’ Then I realized: That’s Gomathi!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689853 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gomathi and Prashanth at home in Fremont, California\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gomathi and Prashanth at home in Fremont, California \u003ccite>(Polly Stryker/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gomathi remembers, “It felt really odd, because you have spoken to this person over the phone, but you haven’t met the other person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They spent a long weekend getting to know each other: going out to eat, taking walks, watching the movie “Brave.” When Gomathi cried during the film, Prashanth felt touched by her empathy with the characters. But by the time he left Canada, Gomathi had not made a decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt kind of sad,” Prashanth says. “I thought, initially, I wasn’t emotionally invested, but I learned that I’d been \u003cem>heavily\u003c/em> emotionally invested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to understand the person really well before getting married,” Gomathi says, “because it’s a one-time thing, and you just don’t want to screw it up. You just don’t want to make a decision until you know, ‘Yes, this is it!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth’s mother urged him to talk to other matches from Bharat Matrimony. He told her he wasn’t interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple talked for several more months. Gomathi says her love for Prashanth “deepened more when I realized who Prashanth was and what sort of a guy he was. When I was able to trust him, I really fell for him. I know in my heart that he has high moral standards. That was the point that I came to when I decided, ‘Yes, I should get engaged to Prashanth.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t hurt that Prashanth plays a mean game of badminton, Gomathi’s favorite sport. The wedding was on. Their families organized a lavish three-day event that took place in Chennai on June 28, 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fremont, Capital of Indian California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Gomathi and Prashanth live in Fremont, home to a large and growing population of immigrants from India, filled with bustling Indian restaurants and stores. \u003ca href=\"http://politicalscience.ucr.edu/people/faculty/ramakrishnan/\">\u003cu>Karthick Ramakrishnan\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (no relation to Gomathi), professor of Public Policy at UC Riverside, says that Indian immigration more than doubled in Silicon Valley between 2000-2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689913 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-800x667.jpg\" alt='Indian population size and growth in Alameda and Santa Clara counties from 2000-2014, according to the U.S. Census, as distinct from the \"Other Asian\" category.' width=\"800\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-400x333.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-1440x1200.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian population size and growth in Alameda and Santa Clara counties from 2000-2014, according to the U.S. Census, as distinct from the “Other Asian” category. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Professor Karthick Ramakrishnan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That shift is reflected in the number of Californians on Indian matrimonial websites. Shaadi’s chief marketing officer, \u003ca href=\"http://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/the-people-report/aditya-save-is-shaadi-coms-new-cmo-anupam-mittal-steps-down-as-ceo/48013510\">\u003cu>\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff\">Aditya Save\u003c/span>\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, says approximately 200,000 accounts are registered to people living in the state. He adds that the platform is used mostly by South Asians — and not just first-generation immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our platform is used by people of Indian origin, born in the U.S., the UK and Australia. A larger percentage of that 200,000 (in California) would be people who are American citizens, born in America, but of Indian descent,” he says. For those spouse seekers, Save says it’s more likely they’ll set up their own profiles, as opposed to letting their parents do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Gomathi Ramakrishnan co-manages a neuroscience lab at UC San Francisco. Prashanth still works at PricewaterhouseCoopers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lives as newlyweds are filled with pleasures they enjoy together: playing badminton, watching TV shows like “\u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones\">\u003cu>Game of Thrones\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones\">”\u003c/a> and eating ice cream at \u003ca href=\"mailto:https://www.coldstonecreamery.com\">\u003cu>Cold Stone Creamery\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. Gomathi isn’t shy when she explains how she and Prashanth found compatibility first, allowing love to follow after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Love doesn’t happen one sudden day,” she says. “It takes a really long time. I feel like we are still falling in love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — In a gift to many musicians, moviemakers and other content creators, a federal judge has found that the song \"Happy Birthday To You\" is entirely in the public domain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling could mean millions lost for the music publishing company that has been collecting on the copyright to one of the most widely sung songs in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10694173\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Happy-Birthday-To-You-e1442990739684.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10694173 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Happy-Birthday-To-You-e1442990739684-400x334.jpg\" alt='Words and music to the song, \"Happy Birthday\" -- also known as \"Happy Birthday to You.\"' width=\"400\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Happy-Birthday-To-You-e1442990739684-400x334.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Happy-Birthday-To-You-e1442990739684-800x668.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Happy-Birthday-To-You-e1442990739684.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Words and music to the song 'Happy Birthday' -- also known as 'Happy Birthday to You.'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge George H. 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