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"content": "\u003cp>This is not a story about whether porn is good or bad. This is not a story about whether porn addiction \u003cem>should\u003c/em> be a clinical diagnosis. This is a story about Liam (and we’re not using his real name because of the sensitive nature of the topic).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Liam, porn became a compulsive, damaging habit around the time that high-speed Internet came around -- which is to say, his entire adult life, starting when he was 20. He’s 38 now, and it’s been a little over a year since he decided to quit. We asked him to go back in time for us and describe what his habit was like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg 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>\u003cstrong>The Bubble\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a bubble,\" he recalls. \"It's like an exciting, adrenaline-filled state of mind where you're not thinking about, 'OK, I have these bills due,' or 'I have to go meet my boss tomorrow and I'm nervous,' or 'She wants to talk about the relationship and I don't want to!' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, Liam would stay in the bubble for five, 10 hours at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The variety of porn today is mind-boggling and unprecedented. Liam spent his hours scanning hundreds of images linking to videos, scrolling until he found just the right one for that moment. \"OK, there’s the girl I want to look at.\" Then he'd scroll some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or perhaps he'd meet or pass a woman during the day that sparked his curiosity. “OK, I want to see what it would look like if that person was having sex.\" He'd go home and search for a video featuring somebody who looked like that woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"omWBriHHbVruyoAMyZ6MkR4EfKWEQkXW\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liam's level of engagement with porn may have been more compulsive than average but it's hard to know, because many men are uncomfortable going public with their porn use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's an extra-special element of shame to this problem,\" says Liam, adding that people will \"deny it up and down the street, like I used to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pornography inspires powerful emotional responses, from those who see it as immoral, to those who feel it is \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201307/your-brain-porn-its-not-addictive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demonized \u003c/a>by parents and the media, to those who would simply \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/was-i-actually-addicted-to-internet-pornography/276619/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">love a scientific explanation\u003c/a> for what they're experiencing. Sex, after all, is universal in a way few things are, other than food and sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this TED Talk, one of Liam's favorite public discussions about porn, retired science teacher Gary Wilson notes many researchers say they can't find a control group of men who have not been exposed to some pornography at some point in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liam, who works in construction and lives in Los Angeles, is no awkward loner using porn as a stand-in for human contact. He's the son of a therapist, raised in a \"liberal\" home in Santa Cruz. He's articulate and charming, and a veteran of several relationships, one of which almost led to marriage. But from early on, those girlfriends were competing with porn for primacy in Liam's mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Excitement and shame mixed together makes [porn] this erotic thing, whereas just being with someone’s kinda boring,\" Liam says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not to say Liam wasn't bothered by what he called his emotional numbness. \"It’s almost like when I’m looking at pornography, I’m burning off the little receptors that are my feelings and enable me to care for somebody. You know, they get fried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Of course, I had these fantasies of ... oh, I want to do X, Y and Z once I saw that in a pornographic movie. But once I would find someone who was willing to do whatever I wanted, I’d be bored, like, right away.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Over the years, friends suggested to Liam he consider getting help, but he brushed them off. Ironically, he was open -- even proud -- of his involvement with \u003ca href=\"http://www.aa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alcoholics Anonymous\u003c/a>. He's been in AA for 16 years now, thriving on the structured approach to recovery and the supportive community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, about a year and a half ago, Liam paid for sex. \"The first time I did, I thought 'This is a great solution.' You know what I mean? 'Cause I can pay someone to be nice to me, and have sex with me, and it worked great.\" But subsequent dates were less enjoyable. \"I can’t describe other than, like, wow: This is the loneliest I’ve ever felt.\" By the fourth time, he says, \"I couldn't even have sex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Liam went to a men’s-only AA meeting and dropped an anonymous note into a basket asking if anybody else had trouble with porn and prostitution. Despite a lot of laughter and hooting when the question was read aloud, one man rose and invited whomever had written the note to reach out after the meeting. That man became Liam's sponsor in \u003ca href=\"https://saa-recovery.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sex Addicts Anonymous\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">Hear from one of the foremost thinkers on the subject of porn addiction: \u003cstrong>Alexandra Katehakis\u003c/strong>, founder and clinical director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles:\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/221349566\" 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/aside>\n\u003cp>Every night now, Liam reports by phone. Has he exercised that day? Has he done something fun like go to a movie? Or something shameful? Is he resentful about anything? What is he grateful for? One thing is for sure: Liam is grateful for his SAA sponsor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have one person who’s willing to spend a lot of time talking to me on the phone,\" he says. \"I’ve been doing that for over a year and he never, ever makes it seem like it’s a burden.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, there have been a number of movies made about online porn addiction. 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And she’s gone forever. All these really terrible consequences. Whereas [in the movie], he just, like, brushes his shoulder off. 'I’m back!'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liam says he doesn't have stories as terrible as the ones he's heard in SAA meetings. He also doesn't have a core reason or experience he can point to that might explain why pornography became a compulsive habit for him. He's happy to be dating now without the background presence and pressure that pornography put on his dating life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a lot more pleasant, and friendly,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This podcast features music by Van-G (\"Enter Sandman\" remix) and Dave Porter (\"Negra Arroyo Lane\" from \"Breaking Bad\").\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Liam spent his hours scanning hundreds of images linking to videos, scrolling until he found just the right one for that moment. \"OK, there’s the girl I want to look at.\" Then he'd scroll some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or perhaps he'd meet or pass a woman during the day that sparked his curiosity. “OK, I want to see what it would look like if that person was having sex.\" He'd go home and search for a video featuring somebody who looked like that woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liam's level of engagement with porn may have been more compulsive than average but it's hard to know, because many men are uncomfortable going public with their porn use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's an extra-special element of shame to this problem,\" says Liam, adding that people will \"deny it up and down the street, like I used to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pornography inspires powerful emotional responses, from those who see it as immoral, to those who feel it is \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201307/your-brain-porn-its-not-addictive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demonized \u003c/a>by parents and the media, to those who would simply \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/was-i-actually-addicted-to-internet-pornography/276619/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">love a scientific explanation\u003c/a> for what they're experiencing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Few things are more painful than watching people we love harm themselves. Most parents go through some iteration of this experience when their children become teenagers, but some families suffer more than others. One mom in Berkeley, Donna, found herself caught in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with her daughter, Cindy, starting in middle school. (To protect the family, we’ve changed the names.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When did the trouble start? The stories differ, depending on how you define trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\">\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>Donna recalls the moment she spotted the first sext on her daughter’s phone, while driving with her two girls in the car. Cindy was 13 at the time, and her younger sister was in the back seat, so Donna didn’t say anything out loud, at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked over. My daughter was in the front seat. She was holding her phone. You know, she kind of scrolled through. But well, my first thought was: Why is there a male torso on my child’s phone? And then I thought to myself: Oh gosh, it’s, you know, this is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘My first thought was: Why is there a male torso on my child’s phone? And then I thought to myself: Oh gosh, it’s, you know, this is happening.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s just the sexting. “I would see sometimes text conversations,” Donna says, “between her and someone I didn’t know, and I assume, actually, that she didn’t know. If I could ever really see the whole gist of a conversation, I would gather that the person on the other side was a boy or man, who eventually would lead the discussion to something sexual, and then it seemed like she would kind of stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Donna Ultimately Realized Was Happening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really wanted attention,” Cindy says. At that time, she adds, “I didn’t really care how people thought of me. Like, I’m going to text this guy a million times until he stops replying, and then I’ll find the next one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy was an anxious kid, and a year into middle school, she found herself socially excluded by a group she calls the Abercrombie Girls, in reference to their focus on fashion. Cindy describes it as a “Mean Girls” situation. “I was always at the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_POt2KlfQ]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Cindy sought out boys, and men, consciously aware they were interested in sex, regardless of what she told her mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy, you know?” Cindy says. “Snap the picture and send it. It takes nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy is hardly an anomaly. Sexting is a common practice among teenagers, and grownups everywhere are struggling to catch up. Some law enforcement agencies treat sexting an under-age girl as a criminal offense, but if the sexter is a teenage boy, that can come off as \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031fztz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heavy-handed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna warned her daughters about the fact that photos are forever on the Internet, but Cindy was favoring the bad information she got from girlfriends, who told her guys were unlikely to forward her photos if she had sexual photos of them: a kind of mutually assured destruction pact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That turned out to be a naive assumption. But even after Cindy knew better, even after she had been publicly embarrassed, she kept sexting. Even after one of the older guys she was chatting with threatened to come find her, she kept looking for new, strange friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parental Surveillance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna never really stalked her daughter. She openly checked Cindy’s phone once a week in middle school. But Cindy was much more careful about what she shared with her mom, regularly deleting incriminating evidence that could get her grounded or, at the very least, forced to endure a lecture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy wasn’t a big fan of social media, but Donna checked the feeds of her daughter’s Facebook friends nonetheless, looking for clues about her daughter’s life that Cindy wasn’t choosing to share with her. Donna also installed \u003ca href=\"http://www1.k9webprotection.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K9 Web Protection\u003c/a>, filtering software that blocks sites and then emits a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCXUuUKLxE&feature=youtu.be&t=6m23s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loud dog bark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cutting was the first clue that Cindy’s anxiety and depression were overwhelming her. Cindy fell in with a couple of girls at school who were also suffering from depression. They were also cutting themselves, and cutting themselves competitively with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy described her first scars as evidence of an encounter with a cat. That excuse worked only once, and her tolerance grew over time, so she needed to cut more often “to get the same relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They look like what they are: razor cuts,” says Donna. “So they’re very thin, and precise — but they can get a little deep. I know, it’s horrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the cutting began, Donna lined up a therapist, but Cindy didn’t take to the woman. She was formal, the kind of therapist who likes to review her notes at the end of a session — with a 13-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t more damaging,” Cindy says now, “but it just wasn’t helpful — and that was a critical time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was before high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to more of Cindy’s reflections on middle school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, high school didn’t go as well as we had hoped for her,” Donna says. “She started out strong her freshman year, but by her sophomore year, she had gotten again with a group that was kind of fringe — not exactly motivated in school, and they were smoking a lot of pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy to find,” Cindy says. “Everyone had this unlimited supply. I almost always got it for free in the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By sophomore year, Cindy was smoking, by her own estimate, eight or nine “blunts” a day — and then drinking on top of that. There was also a one-month flirtation with cocaine, but that wasn’t her main drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all this, Cindy was still getting A’s and B’s in school. She was taking care of business. “I was the only kid who went to class of the friends that I was with, ’cause I knew that If I started getting bad grades, my parents would notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are kids who are very combative with their parents,” Donna says. “They’re ‘I hate you, Mom,’ and they’re fighting. We were never like that. She would tug at my heartstrings, versus push me away. We tried to rein her in. ‘You can’t go to this party, and you can’t hang out with so-and-so.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Donna found it hard to lay down the law for any length of time. “You become a jailer, which is not fun,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Kfo8j15BfaTtV778Jwzc55k9CalAykEQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why didn’t Donna simply take away Cindy’s phone or Internet access? Cindy answers it best. “She really thought that if she punished me, I’d hurt myself.” Also, the phone was a valuable surveillance device for Donna, a way to keep tabs — however limited — on her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Donna recalls following Cindy via GPS down Telegraph Avenue one Halloween night after dropping her off at a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was probably trying to score something,” Donna recalls. “I kept texting, ‘Where are you?’ and she kept telling me, ‘Oh, at this other party,’ and I could see the little dot moving around. I said, ‘You know, I’m just coming to get you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things started to go downhill,” Donna continues. “It just went downhill really fast. I realized, again from looking at her phone, that she was financing her pot use by selling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Donna had tried talk therapy, anti-depressants, dialectical behavior therapy — “a common form of therapy used for kids who cut” — which involved a year of classes for Cindy and Donna in Oakland at \u003ca href=\"http://www.clearwaterclinic.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clearwater Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, nothing they could do in Berkeley seemed to be working. “I feel like, at a certain point, I didn’t know who she was,” Donna says. “Someone who’s using drugs and abusing alcohol, there’s a lot they have to hide and a lot of manipulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy agreed to go to North Carolina for 2½ months to attend what’s called a wilderness therapy program. There, Cindy was separated from everything: her friends, her drugs, her makeup and, of course, her iPhone. Such a dramatic intervention doesn’t always work. Some kids are literally dragged to wilderness school, and the therapy doesn’t take. But Cindy says she loved her experience at \u003ca href=\"http://trailscarolina.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trails \u003c/a>in North Carolina, and would even do it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coming Clean\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of her therapy, Cindy had to write letters home cataloging everything she’d done in the previous years. The letters were shocking to Donna. “I probably shouldn’t have trusted her as much as I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna was genuinely surprised at the level of Cindy’s drinking, despite a couple instances in which she vomited in public, and one time when she blacked out in a public park. 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"content": "\u003cp>The head of the Berkeley Public Library has resigned in the midst of \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/08/27/performance-of-berkeleys-library-director-under-fire-at-meeting-of-library-trustees/comment-page-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a controversy\u003c/a> over the weeding of books from the city’s Central Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Scott, who took the job as director of library services just 10 months ago, has been on the defensive as critics questioned his management style and honesty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is with a heavy heart that I tender my resignation as the Director of Library Services of the Berkeley Public Library. I have enjoyed my work here at the library and I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish,” Scott said in a statement Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library’s Board of Trustees will initiate a search to fill the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the public, as well as current and former librarians, have accused Scott of lying about the number of books discarded by the library in the weeding process. They’ve also charged that he removed key library personnel from the process of culling the collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just under 1,000 people signed \u003ca href=\"http://www.petitions.moveon.org/sign/librarygate-stop-senseless/?source=search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a MoveOn.org\u003c/a> petition calling for Scott’s suspension or removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott took much of the criticism on at \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/08/27/performance-of-berkeleys-library-director-under-fire-at-meeting-of-library-trustees/comment-page-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a special meeting\u003c/a> of the Board of Library Trustees last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many at the meeting complained about what they said was an overly aggressive book-weeding policy, as well as what they perceived to be a hostile working environment at the libraries and a lack of honesty and trust. They said they thought Scott had lied to the community about the number of items weeded out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott initially said he thought 2,200 items had been discarded this year. He later acknowledged that the real number was 39,000, pointing out that in a previous year more than 50,000 items were weeded out. Some also said they were punished for speaking out against the collections management policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of the speakers called for Scott to be either fired or suspended without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Mullan, a former librarian who was a leader in the campaign against the weeding, told Berkeleyside she was “relieved” at the news of Scott’s resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community is aghast at what happened,” Mullan said. “I hope the library board now can take the reins and find an interim director who understands the staff and the collection while doing a national search.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullan added that she thought two other staffers in collection management should also leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really happy he is gone. He was the wrong man for the job,” said Bob Baty, who retired as the libraries’ head of maintenance in 2008 after 19 years and who now serves on the board of the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He consistently lied to us about the number of books that were pulped, number one,” Baty said. “And number two, he kept saying they were all going to the Friends, and all we got were five boxes out of 39,000 volumes. So he broke trust with the entire staff, and therefore his ability to lead was gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Kriss Worthington, who called last week for an independent investigation into the weeding issue, said he still wants to know more about what happened at the libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody else is responsible for the mistreatment of the librarians and inaccurate information, they shouldn’t be off the hook and have him be the sacrificial lamb,” Worthington said. “We need to see what went wrong. Where did the inaccurate information come from. Did it come from him only? From one person to him? From two people to him? Who made the mistakes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second Berkeley library director who has been forced to resign in recent history. Jackie Griffin resigned in 2006 over union-related issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Scott was in his position for only about 10 months, he oversaw the creation of a new strategic plan for the library, one that included creating a larger gathering spot for teens in the Central Library. He was concerned about how to balance the needs of the homeless with other patrons and set up a task force to consider the situation. He was also active on social media, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jdscott50/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting regularly\u003c/a> about library events and issues. He is a voracious reader and posted book reviews regularly on \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/321314-jeff-scott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodreads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is scheduled to meet next week, at which time it will discuss the details for a new director search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel the role of the director of the Berkeley Public Library is a terrific opportunity, and we look forward to proceeding with that selection,” said Abigail Franklin, chair of the library board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeleyside broke this story on Twitter. Want to get breaking news quickly? Follow Berkeleyside on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A 116-band festival probably sounds like Coachella or Lollapalooza. But 59 different stages? For free? Its no wonder the town of Napa is trying to keep \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Napa-Porchfest/198470643510714\" target=\"_blank\">Porchfest\u003c/a> under wraps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basic premise of the Porchfest concept, which was \u003ca href=\"http://www.porchfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\">born in Ithaca, New York\u003c/a> in 2007, is to showcase local music on people’s front porches and yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s proved wildly successful, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.front-porch-ideas-and-more.com/porchfest.html\" target=\"_blank\">dozens of cities\u003c/a> now hold their own Porchfests. But Napa was the first in the western U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first year we all had butterflies in our stomach,” said Rachel Clark, who helped start Napa Porchfest in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220325511\" 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>“That morning we’re like ‘What if only 250 people show up?’ It ended up being more like 2,500,”Clark said, as she handed out maps to new arrivals wandering the streets of downtown Napa. Bikes zoomed by, families with strollers were out in force and lawns were dotted with strangers chatting and hopping from band to band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649140\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 466px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10649140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Many of Napa's streets are closed off to cars for the festival.\" width=\"466\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of Napa's streets are closed off to cars for the festival. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, with music ranging from Celtic folk to hip-hop, and everything in between, attendance topped 12,000, despite an intentional lack of promotion outside the area. There’s a concerted effort to keep Porchfest focused on locals. To play here, at least one member of the band must live in Napa County, and even the food trucks have to be local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>it’s a little more relaxing than our usual big shows where we’re in front of thousands of people,” said Izi Holokahi, who sings and plays ukulele for \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BlessedLoveGospelReggaeBand\" target=\"_blank\">Blessed Love Gospel Reggae\u003c/a>, a 10-piece band\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s sweating in the 85-degree heat, minutes after finishing a set out in front of the keyboardist’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649137\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 453px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10649137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Blessed Love Gospel Reggae\" width=\"453\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blessed Love Gospel Reggae \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People here live right down the road from each other,\"said Clark. \"So at least they know now, whenever they walk or drive past this house, 'Hey man! That’s the guy that was in that reggae band!'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who knew that our retired judge [is] an amazing drummer in a band? And our local kindergarten teacher is an awesome vocalist!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is absolutely the best thing this city has done,” said Sheree Solomon, who hosts an annual get-together every year. She and some friends are sitting on lawn chairs in her front yard, sipping wine and watching passers-by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It gets everybody together as a family,\" she said. \"It supports all these local young startups. It’s awesome. …Every city should do this. It’s a family affair.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porchfest also can serve as a springboard for up-and-coming musicians, who need exposure and have limited venues in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great place to come and listen to music, and it doesn’t cost anything. So you can’t beat that,\" said Joe Barreca, who’s watching a band called Powerglide play on the porch of a house that dates from the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10649138 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Sheree Solomon invites friends over each year to sit on the lawn and take in Porchfest.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheree Solomon invites friends over each year to sit on the lawn and take in Porchfest. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The home is being restored by Lauren Ackerman, to become a local \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinterest.com/napalauren/laurens-victorian/\" target=\"_blank\">heritage museum of sorts\u003c/a>. But Ackerman’s plans hit a major speed bump when last year’s earthquake hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the walls fell down in the main part of the house,” she said while giving visitors an impromptu tour. “I was about 45 days from being done and had to basically lock it up and put the key away for about eight to nine months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Porchfest planning committee had been urging Ackerman to participate for several years. \u003ca href=\"http://www.napacountylandmarks.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Napa County Landmarks\u003c/a>, a local nonprofit and the event’s fiscal sponsor, sees live performance as a way to bring the town’s beautiful old houses to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music changes everything,” says the organization's director, Stacey DeShazo. “We want people involved in historic preservation and saving our structures, and seeing these old houses in these great neighborhoods, but seeing it in a different light.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649139\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 459px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10649139\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Napa Porchfest 2015 attendees check out a band.\" width=\"459\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Napa Porchfest 2015 attendees check out a band. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We've done house tours for 30 or 40 years, and we do bicycle tours of historic neighborhoods, we do all kinds of ways,\" says Napa City Councilmember \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofnapa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=111&Itemid=1119\" target=\"_blank\">Juliana Inman\u003c/a>, who is also chair of the Porchfest committee. \"And this has by far been the most effective way to get lots of people into our historic neighborhoods and appreciate them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inman has also helped other communities who are trying to start their own Porchfest, including the town of Carmel, Indiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in California, San Francisco’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfporchfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> Mission and Noe Valley\u003c/a> neighborhoods held their inaugural Porchfest this year, and the town of Gilroy is \u003ca href=\"http://www.porchfestgilroy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">holding their second one this September. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A 116-band festival probably sounds like Coachella or Lollapalooza. But 59 different stages? For free? Its no wonder the town of Napa is trying to keep \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Napa-Porchfest/198470643510714\" target=\"_blank\">Porchfest\u003c/a> under wraps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basic premise of the Porchfest concept, which was \u003ca href=\"http://www.porchfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\">born in Ithaca, New York\u003c/a> in 2007, is to showcase local music on people’s front porches and yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s proved wildly successful, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.front-porch-ideas-and-more.com/porchfest.html\" target=\"_blank\">dozens of cities\u003c/a> now hold their own Porchfests. But Napa was the first in the western U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first year we all had butterflies in our stomach,” said Rachel Clark, who helped start Napa Porchfest in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220325511&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220325511'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That morning we’re like ‘What if only 250 people show up?’ It ended up being more like 2,500,”Clark said, as she handed out maps to new arrivals wandering the streets of downtown Napa. Bikes zoomed by, families with strollers were out in force and lawns were dotted with strangers chatting and hopping from band to band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649140\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 466px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10649140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Many of Napa's streets are closed off to cars for the festival.\" width=\"466\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/streets-are-packed-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of Napa's streets are closed off to cars for the festival. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, with music ranging from Celtic folk to hip-hop, and everything in between, attendance topped 12,000, despite an intentional lack of promotion outside the area. There’s a concerted effort to keep Porchfest focused on locals. To play here, at least one member of the band must live in Napa County, and even the food trucks have to be local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>it’s a little more relaxing than our usual big shows where we’re in front of thousands of people,” said Izi Holokahi, who sings and plays ukulele for \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BlessedLoveGospelReggaeBand\" target=\"_blank\">Blessed Love Gospel Reggae\u003c/a>, a 10-piece band\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s sweating in the 85-degree heat, minutes after finishing a set out in front of the keyboardist’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649137\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 453px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10649137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Blessed Love Gospel Reggae\" width=\"453\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Blessed-Love-Gospel-Reggae-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blessed Love Gospel Reggae \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People here live right down the road from each other,\"said Clark. \"So at least they know now, whenever they walk or drive past this house, 'Hey man! That’s the guy that was in that reggae band!'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who knew that our retired judge [is] an amazing drummer in a band? And our local kindergarten teacher is an awesome vocalist!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is absolutely the best thing this city has done,” said Sheree Solomon, who hosts an annual get-together every year. She and some friends are sitting on lawn chairs in her front yard, sipping wine and watching passers-by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It gets everybody together as a family,\" she said. \"It supports all these local young startups. It’s awesome. …Every city should do this. It’s a family affair.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porchfest also can serve as a springboard for up-and-coming musicians, who need exposure and have limited venues in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great place to come and listen to music, and it doesn’t cost anything. So you can’t beat that,\" said Joe Barreca, who’s watching a band called Powerglide play on the porch of a house that dates from the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10649138 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Sheree Solomon invites friends over each year to sit on the lawn and take in Porchfest.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Solomons-gathering-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheree Solomon invites friends over each year to sit on the lawn and take in Porchfest. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The home is being restored by Lauren Ackerman, to become a local \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinterest.com/napalauren/laurens-victorian/\" target=\"_blank\">heritage museum of sorts\u003c/a>. But Ackerman’s plans hit a major speed bump when last year’s earthquake hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the walls fell down in the main part of the house,” she said while giving visitors an impromptu tour. “I was about 45 days from being done and had to basically lock it up and put the key away for about eight to nine months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Porchfest planning committee had been urging Ackerman to participate for several years. \u003ca href=\"http://www.napacountylandmarks.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Napa County Landmarks\u003c/a>, a local nonprofit and the event’s fiscal sponsor, sees live performance as a way to bring the town’s beautiful old houses to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music changes everything,” says the organization's director, Stacey DeShazo. “We want people involved in historic preservation and saving our structures, and seeing these old houses in these great neighborhoods, but seeing it in a different light.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10649139\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 459px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10649139\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Napa Porchfest 2015 attendees check out a band.\" width=\"459\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/watching-from-corner-fence-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Napa Porchfest 2015 attendees check out a band. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We've done house tours for 30 or 40 years, and we do bicycle tours of historic neighborhoods, we do all kinds of ways,\" says Napa City Councilmember \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofnapa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=111&Itemid=1119\" target=\"_blank\">Juliana Inman\u003c/a>, who is also chair of the Porchfest committee. \"And this has by far been the most effective way to get lots of people into our historic neighborhoods and appreciate them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inman has also helped other communities who are trying to start their own Porchfest, including the town of Carmel, Indiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in California, San Francisco’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfporchfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> Mission and Noe Valley\u003c/a> neighborhoods held their inaugural Porchfest this year, and the town of Gilroy is \u003ca href=\"http://www.porchfestgilroy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">holding their second one this September. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update:\u003c/strong> Burning Man blogger John Curley reports that the strange bugs that unleashed waves of uncool angst among Burners old and new are \"all but gone.\" Read Curley's report here: \"\u003ca href=\"http://blog.burningman.com/2015/08/building-brc/bugs-what-bugs/\" target=\"_blank\">Bugs? 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Imagine 60,000 or 70,000 people driving out to a remote desert for \u003cem>that\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And maybe that's why the Burning Man blog published another post on Thursday -- this one not attributed to Curley -- headlined \"\u003ca href=\"http://blog.burningman.com/2015/08/environment/bugs-on-the-playa-dont-believe-the-buzz/\" target=\"_blank\">Bugs on the Playa -- Don't Believe the Buzz\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The post calls the bugs \"an interesting new challenge\" and urged the hordes expected at the event, which formally opens Aug. 30, not to start hyperventilating about the presence of a few million hungry insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These bugs are more of a mild nuisance than a full-blown infestation that should cause any major concern,\" the post said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gizmodo published a piece Thursday that makes \u003ca href=\"http://gizmodo.com/weve-identified-those-bugs-infesting-burning-man-and-1725287661\" target=\"_blank\">a convincing attempt\u003c/a> to identify the bugs. The experts cited by the site say there are at least two and perhaps more species involves -- large green stink bugs (family \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatomidae\" target=\"_blank\">Pentatomidae\u003c/a>) and some much smaller critters called seed bugs (genus \u003ca href=\"http://www.arizonensis.org/sonoran/fieldguide/arthropoda/nysius.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nysius\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest Burning Man post on the Six-Legged Apocalypse calls on participants to remember the event's \u003ca href=\"http://burningman.org/culture/philosophical-center/10-principles/\" target=\"_blank\">principle \u003c/a> of Radical Self-Reliance: \"Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I said at the outset, one almost feels sympathy for those at the mercy of the seed bug's probing proboscis. Then you encounter what might be called Radical Self-Righteousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You need look no further than the comments responding to Curley's original bug post to see that not everyone in the Greater Burning Man Enlightenment Sphere is on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One \u003ca href=\"http://blog.burningman.com/2015/08/building-brc/a-second-generation-and-yeah-those-bugs/#comment-1239737\" target=\"_blank\">commenter complained\u003c/a>, perhaps more than a bit plaintively, that the reported Bug-nado might ruin a trip she has made a big sacrifice for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am not a rich girl, I went broke to come to the festival and be at the whim of the desert… But being that I have paralyzing, allergic reactions to bugs I am disheartened to know that the money I’ve spent to burn will now be spent hardly being able to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope BM does something to get rid of these bugs, because it’s going to be a very painful trip for me. I will still find my way through, however, without complaint. I can’t afford to have thrown my last $1200 down the drain.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>You might imagine all the empathy that comment provoked in the Enlightenment Sphere. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.burningman.com/2015/08/building-brc/a-second-generation-and-yeah-those-bugs/#comment-1239798\" target=\"_blank\">For instance\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The origin of the event isn’t to pander to peoples sensitivities. Read the first timers guide please to help reassess your perspective. As a physician with allergy specialization having paralyzing disability from insect stings is unheard of. If you used your last $1200 to come to a non-life sustaining event, I’m more concerned about your safety overall moving forward in the universe. We are guests on the playa, it’s not for us to destroy nature for our comfort....\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One other commenter \u003ca href=\"http://blog.burningman.com/2015/08/building-brc/a-second-generation-and-yeah-those-bugs/#comment-1239700\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out\u003c/a> that people who are worried about bugs should relax, bring lots of \u003ca href=\"http://www2.epa.gov/insect-repellents/deet\" target=\"_blank\">DEET\u003c/a>, and remember that Black Rock Desert is toxic by nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You are breathing respirable glass and uranium dust,\" the commenter said. \"DEET’s like a rubber band wound next to a shotgun hole.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No -- that and the 27,000-some vehicles out at the end of what amounts to a dead-end road -- not my idea of a party. But as others have pointed out, those desert bugs ought to be welcome as part of Burning Man's philosophy of Radical Inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gosh. That sounds uncomfortable. Imagine 60,000 or 70,000 people driving out to a remote desert for \u003cem>that\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And maybe that's why the Burning Man blog published another post on Thursday -- this one not attributed to Curley -- headlined \"\u003ca href=\"http://blog.burningman.com/2015/08/environment/bugs-on-the-playa-dont-believe-the-buzz/\" target=\"_blank\">Bugs on the Playa -- Don't Believe the Buzz\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The post calls the bugs \"an interesting new challenge\" and urged the hordes expected at the event, which formally opens Aug. 30, not to start hyperventilating about the presence of a few million hungry insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These bugs are more of a mild nuisance than a full-blown infestation that should cause any major concern,\" the post said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gizmodo published a piece Thursday that makes \u003ca href=\"http://gizmodo.com/weve-identified-those-bugs-infesting-burning-man-and-1725287661\" target=\"_blank\">a convincing attempt\u003c/a> to identify the bugs. The experts cited by the site say there are at least two and perhaps more species involves -- large green stink bugs (family \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatomidae\" target=\"_blank\">Pentatomidae\u003c/a>) and some much smaller critters called seed bugs (genus \u003ca href=\"http://www.arizonensis.org/sonoran/fieldguide/arthropoda/nysius.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nysius\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest Burning Man post on the Six-Legged Apocalypse calls on participants to remember the event's \u003ca href=\"http://burningman.org/culture/philosophical-center/10-principles/\" target=\"_blank\">principle \u003c/a> of Radical Self-Reliance: \"Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I said at the outset, one almost feels sympathy for those at the mercy of the seed bug's probing proboscis. Then you encounter what might be called Radical Self-Righteousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You need look no further than the comments responding to Curley's original bug post to see that not everyone in the Greater Burning Man Enlightenment Sphere is on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One \u003ca href=\"http://blog.burningman.com/2015/08/building-brc/a-second-generation-and-yeah-those-bugs/#comment-1239737\" target=\"_blank\">commenter complained\u003c/a>, perhaps more than a bit plaintively, that the reported Bug-nado might ruin a trip she has made a big sacrifice for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am not a rich girl, I went broke to come to the festival and be at the whim of the desert… But being that I have paralyzing, allergic reactions to bugs I am disheartened to know that the money I’ve spent to burn will now be spent hardly being able to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope BM does something to get rid of these bugs, because it’s going to be a very painful trip for me. I will still find my way through, however, without complaint. I can’t afford to have thrown my last $1200 down the drain.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>You might imagine all the empathy that comment provoked in the Enlightenment Sphere. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.burningman.com/2015/08/building-brc/a-second-generation-and-yeah-those-bugs/#comment-1239798\" target=\"_blank\">For instance\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The origin of the event isn’t to pander to peoples sensitivities. Read the first timers guide please to help reassess your perspective. As a physician with allergy specialization having paralyzing disability from insect stings is unheard of. If you used your last $1200 to come to a non-life sustaining event, I’m more concerned about your safety overall moving forward in the universe. We are guests on the playa, it’s not for us to destroy nature for our comfort....\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One other commenter \u003ca href=\"http://blog.burningman.com/2015/08/building-brc/a-second-generation-and-yeah-those-bugs/#comment-1239700\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out\u003c/a> that people who are worried about bugs should relax, bring lots of \u003ca href=\"http://www2.epa.gov/insect-repellents/deet\" target=\"_blank\">DEET\u003c/a>, and remember that Black Rock Desert is toxic by nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You are breathing respirable glass and uranium dust,\" the commenter said. \"DEET’s like a rubber band wound next to a shotgun hole.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No -- that and the 27,000-some vehicles out at the end of what amounts to a dead-end road -- not my idea of a party. But as others have pointed out, those desert bugs ought to be welcome as part of Burning Man's philosophy of Radical Inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: This post has been updated to include a response from Dr. Elisa Stephens, president of Academy of Art University, as well as audio from a related episode of KQED's Forum. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Academy of Art University, an institution that's been operating for 86 years, is the nation's biggest private art college. But only 32 percent of its full-time students graduate in six years -- compared with 59 percent for colleges nationally and as high as 90 percent for top-of-the-line art colleges like the Rhode Island School of Design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The September issue of Forbes magazine calls out the for-profit Academy of Art in two investigative reports for having \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/katiasavchuk/2015/08/19/black-arts-the-800-million-family-selling-art-degrees-and-false-hopes/\" target=\"_blank\">low graduation rates\u003c/a>, nondisclosure of job placements and a student body that's burdened with debt. Forbes also discloses that the Stephens family, which owns the college, has outstanding \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/katiasavchuk/2015/08/19/how-a-for-profit-university-flouts-san-franciscos-land-use-laws/\" target=\"_blank\">planning code violations\u003c/a> for 31 of 40 buildings it owns throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email response to the Forbes stories, the Academy of Art University said: “We are disappointed that the reporter neglected to interview our successful students and alumni, or spend time in our classrooms. We are very proud of our instructors, our students and the caliber of arts education we provide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, August 24, a representative for the university sent a \"formal letter of response\" written by Dr. Elisa Stephens, president of Academy of Art University, to KQED. The letter is addressed to the Forbes' editors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=275910004 key=key-BpncYXZTpX68RWdVeCw4 mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forbes reporter Katia Savchuk discussed her investigation in an interview Wednesday, August 20 with KQED's Tara Siler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220029135\" 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>Savchuk and Sue Rowley, executive vice president for educational services at \u003ca href=\"http://info.academyart.edu/programs?network=s&cid=81730026791&campaignid=267052751&adgroupid=21893257031&match=e&k=academy%20of%20art%20university&placement=&device=c&authkey=fa262b34-61e7-4654-ba10-1ee9358c979e&pmcode=GSGEN&adposition=1t1&gclid=Cj0KEQjwmNuuBRDTu5rDjr2kxJsBEiQAWlm6UjQdvA9faYwxj3vDp19umfMrQ5712uGhzTQq4z3n6jYaAkZj8P8HAQ\" target=\"_blank\">Academy of Art University\u003c/a> joined \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201508200930\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a> on Thursday, August 21. You can listen to that discussion here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220149910\" 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\n",
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They created a space for self-expression and originality that bubbled up on the streets of Deep East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in the soil,” says \u003ca href=\"http://joehackman.com/2010/08/interview-sean-kennedy-good-news-podcast/\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Kennedy\u003c/a>, a multimedia producer and local hip-hop historian. “For some reason the air here in East Oakland breeds that type of creativity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/BpjIy3rvfX4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sideshow Beginnings \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy says it goes back to the early 1980s, when the music of the Sugar Hill Gang made it out here to the West Coast. “It seems like it started when hip-hop first got out here,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I meet Kennedy at the entrance to the Foods Co. in Foothill Square, so deep into East Oakland it is almost San Leandro. Kennedy says this is where it all began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a carnival that used to exist right here in Foothill Square, because there was a skating rink right here,” he says, pointing to what is now a Ross Dress for Less. “All the people would come down here to the skating rink and the carnival.” They would would bring their best cars and just cruise, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/ljUnyv5XUA8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy says that what many people think of as a sideshow these days, all doughnuts and destruction, was not the way it began. Back then, he says, “no one did doughnuts or spun their cars.” It was just peacocking, showing off the cars that were the pride and joy of many -- mostly male -- residents. “That,” Kennedy says, “was the original sideshow of East Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People had cruised around in their souped up Chevys before, but it was as if the introduction of the new music taught the cars to dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kennedy's description, you can almost imagine the whole scene: Men slowly circling the parking lot in lovingly modified cars painted colors like cherry red or apple green. On the sidelines women watched, wearing tight skirts and showing off skin. The sideshow was a social event, a party in a parking lot, and showing off your car had a familiar goal: to woo women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219807957&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Sideshow as Cultural Marketplace\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sideshows spread, Kennedy says, they became a sort of cultural marketplace where people repped parties, hawked homemade fashion lines and shared the latest in music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yakpusua Zazaboi \u003ca href=\"http://www.sydewayz.com/index.htm#\" target=\"_blank\">documented sideshows\u003c/a> across East Oakland for his documentary series \"Sidewayz.\" When a proposal to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OAKLAND-Sideshow-spectator-law-expected-to-pass-2622930.php\" target=\"_blank\">make it illegal to attend sideshows\u003c/a> went before the Oakland City Council in 2005, Sidewayz videos were singled out in the \u003ca href=\"http://thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/05-oakland.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">law's language\u003c/a>: “These videos portray the city in a negative light, encourage the proliferation of the activity and allow the promoters to popularize and profit from sideshows.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OAKLAND-Council-votes-for-sideshow-crackdown-2655825.php\" target=\"_blank\">The law\u003c/a>, championed by then-Mayor Jerry Brown, passed in modified form, allowing those who watched the sideshows from the sidelines to be fined and even arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sideshow, according to Zazaboi, was a thriving place, part craft fair, part improv performance, and always a place to catch the cultural zeitgeist. The sideshows, he said, were not just part of Oakland's unique hyphy culture, they formed the space in which hyphy was born. (Some of you might ask, \"What's hyphy?\" In fact, the Oxford English Dictionary recently added an entry, suggesting the word dates back to 2002 and giving the following definitions: \"1. Extremely rowdy, excited, or energetic. 2. A style of uptempo hip-hop music and frenetic dancing.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would come out and you would really understand what is popular in Oakland,” Zazaboi says. A key part of that was the music. “I think for about three or four years straight, we used to hear this song by a group called 3X Krazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a baseline and it was so popular and would sound so good on really nice audio systems, it was almost like a sideshow theme,\" Zazaboi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptou06aABg4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to name his pick for the theme of the sideshows, Sean Kennedy says there is really only one: Richie Rich’s sideshow song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l87Z1Z-40ao\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that's a classic,” Kennedy says. “When it comes to explaining the sideshow, in the early days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can hear the whole sideshow in Richie Rich’s deep and sonorous voice. “In Oakland, California,\" he raps, \"every Saturday night brothers be riding, straight-laced zeniths, drop-tops, buckets, high performance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music might have been the lifeblood of the sideshow, but according to Kennedy, the heart pumping that blood was the neighborhood's deep-rooted car culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Car Culture and the Sideshow\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10647512\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10647512\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-400x399.png\" alt='\"A-1ing it.\"(@a1springservice/Instagram)' width=\"400\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-400x399.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-75x75.png 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM.png 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"A-1ing it.\"(@a1springservice/Instagram)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruben Flores greets a customer whose car he’s just modified at A1 Spring Service, a mechanic on the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and 98th Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was -- and still is -- the go-to place to bring your car for modifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores, who went to Castlemont, the neighborhood high school, got the job straight out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The owner of the shop, he was losing a man, a mechanic, so he came down to the high school to ask about the auto shop program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores was hired on the spot, and he has been here ever since. Now he owns the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first day of work became the longest day of work, 38 years later,” Flores says, laughing as he shakes his head. Those years have given Flores a passenger seat to car culture in Deep East Oakland. He confirms what Sean Kennedy told me-- that in the beginning, it wasn’t about souping up cars to go fast. “It was going lower,” Flores says. “Low and slow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low and slow, Flores said, was a way to show off the beauty of your car. Flores said his shop became known for fixing up cars in a signature style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What A1 means, in the car culture,” Flores said, “is the stance is higher in the front and lower in the back. So they have that pointing --towards-the-moon type of look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yakpasua Zazaboi said everyone knew about A1. “That was the place to go,” he said. “People would say, I have my car sitting A1, it was because of the name of the shop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sideshows began to change and evolve with time; they went from low and slow to fast and loose, with drivers performing tricks with increasing levels of difficulty and danger. The Oakland Police Department began to take notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zazaboi says sideshows veered from “a nice slow cruising type of an event to a much faster speed, away-from-the-cops type of an event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sideshows Run Into the Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone has a story about when and how things got out of hand. Zazaboi says it was when guys with cheap cars started doing doughnuts to get attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Kennedy says it was when the new built-for-speed Mustangs came on the market in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it was the death of a young girl, in a police chase during a sideshow in the mid-'90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the exact moment, the crackdown by Oakland police and the city came quickly. New laws were introduced that let the city impound any car involved in a sideshow. Then came the 2005 ordinance, which allowed police to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OAKLAND-Council-votes-for-sideshow-crackdown-2655825.php\" target=\"_blank\">permanently confiscate\u003c/a> any car directly involved in a sideshow. According to Zazaboi, that made it personal, because the cars were not just painted pieces of metal to the men who drove them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their car is an extension of their ego,” Zazaboi says of sideshow participants. “You take away their car, you kill their ego, and that is exactly what they did out here in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Kennedy says that response complicated the already tense relationship between police and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Does that create an animosity to the police?\" Kennedy asks. \"It becomes a war at that point. And then it becomes a situation where the rebellion is, 'We're going to have sideshows anyway.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Kennedy and Zazaboi say that while local politicians criminalized the sideshow, local media demonized it, with story after story of violent, out-of-control youth taking over the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfuzDz9XCxc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy admits that bad stuff did go down, and there was by necessity a kind of nomadic, extra-legal element to the sideshows. People brought guns and sold drugs; sometimes fights broke out. And yes, young men acted stupid. But he says all that was just as likely to happen at a Raiders game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy said despite all that, the sideshow did not breed criminal behavior. The bad behavior, he says, would have been on display with or without the sideshows. Kennedy believes the sideshows were targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not about a car show,\" he says. \"At that point, it's about arresting black youth in Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the sideshow made it easy to paint East Oakland youth into an already-made stereotype: \"Young black kids who don’t have anything to do with their lives, out there playing around in these cars, carrying guns and selling drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Celebrating the Sideshow\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was lost in that narrative, Kennedy says, was the ingenuity of the sideshow: the mechanical skills it took to work on the cars, the driving skills it took to get them moving and dancing, the coordination to plan what are in essence the Bay Area's first pop-up events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy acknowledges his perspective has changed with age. Now that he has a few years on him, he is a little more weary of making cars spin like whirling dervishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As much as I love sideshows,\" he says, \"it’s a dangerous culture when it comes to spinning around a half-a-ton vehicle with no barriers and people standing there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why Kennedy, among others, supported a push to legalize sideshows that gained some ground in the late 2000s. The suggestion was to bring sideshows out of the shadows and turn them into neighborhood street parties. They could even make money, proponents argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opponents, like Councilman Larry Reid, who represents Deep East Oakland, countered that it was folly for the city to sanction an illegal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid says the sideshows slowed down for a bit, but in the last year they've once again become a regular weekend event. He said they take over the street every weekend from Friday to Sunday, around 106th and MacArthur. That is right by Foothill Square, where more than three decades ago, according to Sean Kennedy, sideshows began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is just crazy what the residents along the MacArthur corridor have to endure,\" Reid said. In the past few weeks, right here, there have been incidents, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Suspect-rams-CHP-officer-after-Oakland-sideshow-6447489.php\" target=\"_blank\">this past weekend\u003c/a> when a sideshow participant rammed into a California Highway Patrol car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you ask Yakpusau Zazaboi, he will say what is happening now is not even a real sideshow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I break it down like this now,\" Zazaboi says. \"This is how you know it's a sideshow. If there are clean cars and women out there, you might have a sideshow. If it's a bunch of buckets and a whole bunch of dudes clowning around looking at each other -- you do not have sideshow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The definition of just what makes a sideshow is constantly in flux. Every generation has its own version, just like every sideshow has people who say it is either a criminal act or a space for the creation of culture. Maybe, just maybe, there is a little bit of both, hanging out at the sideshow.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy says it goes back to the early 1980s, when the music of the Sugar Hill Gang made it out here to the West Coast. “It seems like it started when hip-hop first got out here,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I meet Kennedy at the entrance to the Foods Co. in Foothill Square, so deep into East Oakland it is almost San Leandro. Kennedy says this is where it all began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a carnival that used to exist right here in Foothill Square, because there was a skating rink right here,” he says, pointing to what is now a Ross Dress for Less. “All the people would come down here to the skating rink and the carnival.” They would would bring their best cars and just cruise, he says.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ljUnyv5XUA8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ljUnyv5XUA8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Kennedy says that what many people think of as a sideshow these days, all doughnuts and destruction, was not the way it began. Back then, he says, “no one did doughnuts or spun their cars.” It was just peacocking, showing off the cars that were the pride and joy of many -- mostly male -- residents. “That,” Kennedy says, “was the original sideshow of East Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People had cruised around in their souped up Chevys before, but it was as if the introduction of the new music taught the cars to dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kennedy's description, you can almost imagine the whole scene: Men slowly circling the parking lot in lovingly modified cars painted colors like cherry red or apple green. On the sidelines women watched, wearing tight skirts and showing off skin. The sideshow was a social event, a party in a parking lot, and showing off your car had a familiar goal: to woo women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219807957&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Sideshow as Cultural Marketplace\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sideshows spread, Kennedy says, they became a sort of cultural marketplace where people repped parties, hawked homemade fashion lines and shared the latest in music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yakpusua Zazaboi \u003ca href=\"http://www.sydewayz.com/index.htm#\" target=\"_blank\">documented sideshows\u003c/a> across East Oakland for his documentary series \"Sidewayz.\" When a proposal to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OAKLAND-Sideshow-spectator-law-expected-to-pass-2622930.php\" target=\"_blank\">make it illegal to attend sideshows\u003c/a> went before the Oakland City Council in 2005, Sidewayz videos were singled out in the \u003ca href=\"http://thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/05-oakland.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">law's language\u003c/a>: “These videos portray the city in a negative light, encourage the proliferation of the activity and allow the promoters to popularize and profit from sideshows.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OAKLAND-Council-votes-for-sideshow-crackdown-2655825.php\" target=\"_blank\">The law\u003c/a>, championed by then-Mayor Jerry Brown, passed in modified form, allowing those who watched the sideshows from the sidelines to be fined and even arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sideshow, according to Zazaboi, was a thriving place, part craft fair, part improv performance, and always a place to catch the cultural zeitgeist. The sideshows, he said, were not just part of Oakland's unique hyphy culture, they formed the space in which hyphy was born. (Some of you might ask, \"What's hyphy?\" In fact, the Oxford English Dictionary recently added an entry, suggesting the word dates back to 2002 and giving the following definitions: \"1. Extremely rowdy, excited, or energetic. 2. A style of uptempo hip-hop music and frenetic dancing.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would come out and you would really understand what is popular in Oakland,” Zazaboi says. A key part of that was the music. “I think for about three or four years straight, we used to hear this song by a group called 3X Krazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a baseline and it was so popular and would sound so good on really nice audio systems, it was almost like a sideshow theme,\" Zazaboi says.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ptou06aABg4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ptou06aABg4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>When asked to name his pick for the theme of the sideshows, Sean Kennedy says there is really only one: Richie Rich’s sideshow song.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/l87Z1Z-40ao'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/l87Z1Z-40ao'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Now that's a classic,” Kennedy says. “When it comes to explaining the sideshow, in the early days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can hear the whole sideshow in Richie Rich’s deep and sonorous voice. “In Oakland, California,\" he raps, \"every Saturday night brothers be riding, straight-laced zeniths, drop-tops, buckets, high performance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music might have been the lifeblood of the sideshow, but according to Kennedy, the heart pumping that blood was the neighborhood's deep-rooted car culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Car Culture and the Sideshow\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10647512\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10647512\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-400x399.png\" alt='\"A-1ing it.\"(@a1springservice/Instagram)' width=\"400\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-400x399.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM-75x75.png 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-17-at-6.10.41-PM.png 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"A-1ing it.\"(@a1springservice/Instagram)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruben Flores greets a customer whose car he’s just modified at A1 Spring Service, a mechanic on the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and 98th Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was -- and still is -- the go-to place to bring your car for modifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores, who went to Castlemont, the neighborhood high school, got the job straight out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The owner of the shop, he was losing a man, a mechanic, so he came down to the high school to ask about the auto shop program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores was hired on the spot, and he has been here ever since. Now he owns the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first day of work became the longest day of work, 38 years later,” Flores says, laughing as he shakes his head. Those years have given Flores a passenger seat to car culture in Deep East Oakland. He confirms what Sean Kennedy told me-- that in the beginning, it wasn’t about souping up cars to go fast. “It was going lower,” Flores says. “Low and slow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low and slow, Flores said, was a way to show off the beauty of your car. Flores said his shop became known for fixing up cars in a signature style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What A1 means, in the car culture,” Flores said, “is the stance is higher in the front and lower in the back. So they have that pointing --towards-the-moon type of look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yakpasua Zazaboi said everyone knew about A1. “That was the place to go,” he said. “People would say, I have my car sitting A1, it was because of the name of the shop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sideshows began to change and evolve with time; they went from low and slow to fast and loose, with drivers performing tricks with increasing levels of difficulty and danger. The Oakland Police Department began to take notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zazaboi says sideshows veered from “a nice slow cruising type of an event to a much faster speed, away-from-the-cops type of an event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sideshows Run Into the Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone has a story about when and how things got out of hand. Zazaboi says it was when guys with cheap cars started doing doughnuts to get attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Kennedy says it was when the new built-for-speed Mustangs came on the market in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it was the death of a young girl, in a police chase during a sideshow in the mid-'90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the exact moment, the crackdown by Oakland police and the city came quickly. New laws were introduced that let the city impound any car involved in a sideshow. Then came the 2005 ordinance, which allowed police to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OAKLAND-Council-votes-for-sideshow-crackdown-2655825.php\" target=\"_blank\">permanently confiscate\u003c/a> any car directly involved in a sideshow. According to Zazaboi, that made it personal, because the cars were not just painted pieces of metal to the men who drove them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their car is an extension of their ego,” Zazaboi says of sideshow participants. “You take away their car, you kill their ego, and that is exactly what they did out here in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Kennedy says that response complicated the already tense relationship between police and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Does that create an animosity to the police?\" Kennedy asks. \"It becomes a war at that point. And then it becomes a situation where the rebellion is, 'We're going to have sideshows anyway.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Kennedy and Zazaboi say that while local politicians criminalized the sideshow, local media demonized it, with story after story of violent, out-of-control youth taking over the streets.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/FfuzDz9XCxc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/FfuzDz9XCxc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Kennedy admits that bad stuff did go down, and there was by necessity a kind of nomadic, extra-legal element to the sideshows. People brought guns and sold drugs; sometimes fights broke out. And yes, young men acted stupid. But he says all that was just as likely to happen at a Raiders game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy said despite all that, the sideshow did not breed criminal behavior. The bad behavior, he says, would have been on display with or without the sideshows. Kennedy believes the sideshows were targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not about a car show,\" he says. \"At that point, it's about arresting black youth in Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the sideshow made it easy to paint East Oakland youth into an already-made stereotype: \"Young black kids who don’t have anything to do with their lives, out there playing around in these cars, carrying guns and selling drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Celebrating the Sideshow\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was lost in that narrative, Kennedy says, was the ingenuity of the sideshow: the mechanical skills it took to work on the cars, the driving skills it took to get them moving and dancing, the coordination to plan what are in essence the Bay Area's first pop-up events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy acknowledges his perspective has changed with age. Now that he has a few years on him, he is a little more weary of making cars spin like whirling dervishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As much as I love sideshows,\" he says, \"it’s a dangerous culture when it comes to spinning around a half-a-ton vehicle with no barriers and people standing there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why Kennedy, among others, supported a push to legalize sideshows that gained some ground in the late 2000s. The suggestion was to bring sideshows out of the shadows and turn them into neighborhood street parties. They could even make money, proponents argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opponents, like Councilman Larry Reid, who represents Deep East Oakland, countered that it was folly for the city to sanction an illegal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid says the sideshows slowed down for a bit, but in the last year they've once again become a regular weekend event. He said they take over the street every weekend from Friday to Sunday, around 106th and MacArthur. That is right by Foothill Square, where more than three decades ago, according to Sean Kennedy, sideshows began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is just crazy what the residents along the MacArthur corridor have to endure,\" Reid said. In the past few weeks, right here, there have been incidents, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Suspect-rams-CHP-officer-after-Oakland-sideshow-6447489.php\" target=\"_blank\">this past weekend\u003c/a> when a sideshow participant rammed into a California Highway Patrol car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you ask Yakpusau Zazaboi, he will say what is happening now is not even a real sideshow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I break it down like this now,\" Zazaboi says. \"This is how you know it's a sideshow. If there are clean cars and women out there, you might have a sideshow. If it's a bunch of buckets and a whole bunch of dudes clowning around looking at each other -- you do not have sideshow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>This weekend, Indians and Pakistanis around the world celebrate their country’s respective independence days. It’s been 68 years since the subcontinent was hastily divided along religious lines into \u003ca href=\"http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6924732.stm\" target=\"_blank\">two countries\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People on both sides of the border share traumatic memories of partition. Now a new archive, located in Berkeley, is collecting the stories of people who lived through the partition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219660768\" 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>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5dyEjkzs_U\" target=\"_blank\">Ravi Chopra\u003c/a> shared his story as part of the archive. He says those kind of memories never fade away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have played with them, you have lived with them, you have eaten together! And the same people [are] coming and burning your houses and killing you and looting everything,” Chopra says about the riots he witnessed in 1947.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guneeta Singh Bhalla, founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.1947partitionarchive.org/\" target=\"_blank\">1947 Partition Archive\u003c/a>, says she grew up listening to her grandparents’ frightening tales of partition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother had told me harrowing stories of the train rides that they took to come to India,” Bhalla says. “Also at one point how [she said] she was in a jeep with her brother and they literally were having to drive over dead bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10637014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 924px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16297_Refugees_en_route_to_Pakistan-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10637014\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16297_Refugees_en_route_to_Pakistan-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Millions of people were displaced from their ancestral homes as partition divided South Asia along religious lines. Many refugees took the harrowing journey via train.\" width=\"924\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16297_Refugees_en_route_to_Pakistan-qut.jpg 924w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16297_Refugees_en_route_to_Pakistan-qut-400x299.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16297_Refugees_en_route_to_Pakistan-qut-800x597.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millions of people were displaced from their ancestral homes as partition divided South Asia along religious lines. Many refugees took the harrowing journey via train. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 15 million people were displaced during the partition, the largest mass migration of the 20th century. But at the time, western media praised it as a triumph of democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhalla says she never even learned about partition in her high school history class. Years later, she took a trip to Hiroshima that inspired her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw the oral testimony archives there,” she explains. “For me it was sort of that moment, it clicked. It was like OH. Wow. \u003ci>This\u003c/i> is what we need to do. My grandmother needs to tell her own story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she created the 1947 Partition Archive, in a small office in downtown Berkeley. In the last 4 years they’ve collected about 2,000 video and audio testimonies.They plan to publish them in a few years. Some people are telling their story for the first time, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcx6O2Fltrc\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Shan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was 6 years old in 1947. His life changed when a mob attacked his ancestral town, near the newly created India/Pakistan border. In his video testimony as he struggles to tell his story, its evident that the memories still haunt him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was standing there not knowing what's happening. He, the gunman, was only about 10 feet away,” Shan says, with a shake in his voice. “You know, he shot at me few times. Every time he missed. So I start running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that attack, Shan saw his mother and brother murdered and he was orphaned. It was months before he was reunited with some distant relatives. They already crossed the border into Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10637015\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 923px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16298_Lord_Mountbatten_visits_Punjabi_riot_scenes-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10637015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16298_Lord_Mountbatten_visits_Punjabi_riot_scenes-qut.jpg\" alt=\"British officials visit a scene from the Punjab riots. The province of Punjab was split in two during partition and in the aftermath had some of the most violent riots.\" width=\"923\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16298_Lord_Mountbatten_visits_Punjabi_riot_scenes-qut.jpg 923w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16298_Lord_Mountbatten_visits_Punjabi_riot_scenes-qut-400x340.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16298_Lord_Mountbatten_visits_Punjabi_riot_scenes-qut-800x680.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 923px) 100vw, 923px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">British officials visit a scene from the Punjab riots. The province of Punjab was split in two during partition and in the aftermath had some of the most violent riots. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you don’t have a mother, father, and your own home and family, all the relatives are there to help you, but its not the same, it never was,” Shan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The archive has dispatched volunteers, called citizen historians, to record these stories. Most stories come from people in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. But many come from South Asians living in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An event at Santa Clara University spread the word about the archive among the South Asian community here. As witnesses told their stories, a packed audience hung on their every word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhalla says hearing these first hand accounts inspires others to share their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because partition has been at the crux of so much politics in South Asia and even war that a lot of that memory has been sort of shoved under the carpet,” she says. “Maybe not on purpose, maybe that's just been the circumstance. But yeah, the people haven't had an opportunity to share their stories and that's the gap that we're trying to fill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhalla says she regrets that she never got the chance to record her grandmother’s story. And time is running out for other survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those who experienced partition as teenagers are in their 80s today. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guneeta Singh Bhalla, founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.1947partitionarchive.org/\" target=\"_blank\">1947 Partition Archive\u003c/a>, says she grew up listening to her grandparents’ frightening tales of partition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother had told me harrowing stories of the train rides that they took to come to India,” Bhalla says. “Also at one point how [she said] she was in a jeep with her brother and they literally were having to drive over dead bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10637014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 924px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16297_Refugees_en_route_to_Pakistan-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10637014\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16297_Refugees_en_route_to_Pakistan-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Millions of people were displaced from their ancestral homes as partition divided South Asia along religious lines. Many refugees took the harrowing journey via train.\" width=\"924\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16297_Refugees_en_route_to_Pakistan-qut.jpg 924w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16297_Refugees_en_route_to_Pakistan-qut-400x299.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16297_Refugees_en_route_to_Pakistan-qut-800x597.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millions of people were displaced from their ancestral homes as partition divided South Asia along religious lines. Many refugees took the harrowing journey via train. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 15 million people were displaced during the partition, the largest mass migration of the 20th century. But at the time, western media praised it as a triumph of democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhalla says she never even learned about partition in her high school history class. Years later, she took a trip to Hiroshima that inspired her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw the oral testimony archives there,” she explains. “For me it was sort of that moment, it clicked. It was like OH. Wow. \u003ci>This\u003c/i> is what we need to do. My grandmother needs to tell her own story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she created the 1947 Partition Archive, in a small office in downtown Berkeley. In the last 4 years they’ve collected about 2,000 video and audio testimonies.They plan to publish them in a few years. Some people are telling their story for the first time, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcx6O2Fltrc\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Shan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was 6 years old in 1947. His life changed when a mob attacked his ancestral town, near the newly created India/Pakistan border. In his video testimony as he struggles to tell his story, its evident that the memories still haunt him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was standing there not knowing what's happening. He, the gunman, was only about 10 feet away,” Shan says, with a shake in his voice. “You know, he shot at me few times. Every time he missed. So I start running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that attack, Shan saw his mother and brother murdered and he was orphaned. It was months before he was reunited with some distant relatives. They already crossed the border into Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10637015\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 923px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16298_Lord_Mountbatten_visits_Punjabi_riot_scenes-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10637015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16298_Lord_Mountbatten_visits_Punjabi_riot_scenes-qut.jpg\" alt=\"British officials visit a scene from the Punjab riots. The province of Punjab was split in two during partition and in the aftermath had some of the most violent riots.\" width=\"923\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16298_Lord_Mountbatten_visits_Punjabi_riot_scenes-qut.jpg 923w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16298_Lord_Mountbatten_visits_Punjabi_riot_scenes-qut-400x340.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16298_Lord_Mountbatten_visits_Punjabi_riot_scenes-qut-800x680.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 923px) 100vw, 923px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">British officials visit a scene from the Punjab riots. The province of Punjab was split in two during partition and in the aftermath had some of the most violent riots. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you don’t have a mother, father, and your own home and family, all the relatives are there to help you, but its not the same, it never was,” Shan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The archive has dispatched volunteers, called citizen historians, to record these stories. Most stories come from people in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. But many come from South Asians living in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An event at Santa Clara University spread the word about the archive among the South Asian community here. As witnesses told their stories, a packed audience hung on their every word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhalla says hearing these first hand accounts inspires others to share their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because partition has been at the crux of so much politics in South Asia and even war that a lot of that memory has been sort of shoved under the carpet,” she says. “Maybe not on purpose, maybe that's just been the circumstance. But yeah, the people haven't had an opportunity to share their stories and that's the gap that we're trying to fill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhalla says she regrets that she never got the chance to record her grandmother’s story. And time is running out for other survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those who experienced partition as teenagers are in their 80s today. And those who were young adults are in their 90s and over 100,” Bhalla says. “So there's a really huge urgency in getting these stories recorded as fast as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The archive wants 8,000 more stories recorded by 2017, the 70th anniversary of partition, while witnesses are still alive.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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