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Huy Fong was also the name Tran adopted for his company, Huy Fong Foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the mid-ground you have these flying or bombing peppers coming down. It could be a reference to the current controversy David is facing with the city or Irwindale,” says Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the city of Irwindale sued Huy Fong Foods over complaints that fumes from its factory east of L.A. are making some nearby residents ill. The company disputes the claims and is fighting the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In video artist Yoshie Sakai’s more light-hearted confrontation, called \"Hot Side Story,\" dancers in Day-Glo Tapatio and Sriracha costumes face off against Heinz Ketchup and French’s mustard in a satirical \"West Side Story\"-like showdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would celebrate Chinese New Year and Cinco de Mayo and learn the traditional dances, so I feel like this show is completely aligned with my personal life,” laughs Phung Huynh, a Vietnamese-American painter who arrived in the U.S. as a toddler, around the same time as Sriracha founder David Tran. Her painting, inspired by Shanghai street poster advertisements of the 1930’s is called LAH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141175\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 233px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Uprising.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Uprising-233x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Low's Sriracha-inspired painting "Bean Sprout Uprising: Troop 626" at the "L.A. Heat" exhibit in Los Angeles. (Steven Cuevas/KQED)\" width=\"233\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141175\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Low's Sriracha-inspired painting \"Bean Sprout Uprising: Troop 626\" at the \"L.A. Heat\" exhibit in Los Angeles. (Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> “LAH, which also stands for Los Angeles Heat,” explains Huynh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And ‘lah’ in Chinese means hot, and so I wanted to play with the idea of the different meanings of hot: spicy, controversial, referring to the whole Sriracha production controversy in Irwindale,” says Huynh. “And also hot to describe somebody who is good-looking or sexy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The painting depicts cherubic babies riding a pair of strutting Sriracha roosters in the foreground, and a close-up of two mixed race teenage girls with eyes reddened and mascara streaked after overindulging on Sriracha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something that spans cultures, and spans age groups and spans everything,” says artist Sket One of the hot sauces' appeal. He says Sriracha and Tapatio have actually become like global culinary ambassadors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of what we hope for with world peace,” he laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, maybe Sriracha will bring world peace!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://camla.org/\" target=\"_blank\">About the \"L.A. Heat\" exhibit at the Chinese American Museum\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong handpicked 30 artists to submit pieces for \"L.A. Heat.\" Graffiti artist-turned-designer Sket One appropriated Sriracha’s multilingual design scheme and white rooster emblem for \"Sketinguish 1-2-3,\" three fire extinguishers stripped and repainted, each one now representing a different color of the Mexican flag and festooned with Sriracha-inspired graphics. The spicy condiment metaphorically becomes the hot sauce that can put itself out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141173\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 471px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/SrirachaExtinguishers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/SrirachaExtinguishers-471x450.jpg\" alt='The artist known as Sket One with his Sriracha-inspired \"Sketinguishers\" at the \"L.A. Heat\" exhibit in Los Angeles. (Steven Cuevas/KQED)' width=\"471\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10141173\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The artist known as Sket One with his Sriracha-inspired \"Sketinguishers\" at the \"L.A. Heat\" exhibit in Los Angeles. (Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are full, so if we had a fire right now we could put it out,” he laughs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not put sauce inside of them. A lot of people always ask me and that’s not going to be the end result -- somebody actually picking it up and firing sauce at someone!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just any hot sauce, but one created over 30 years ago in L.A.’s Chinatown by a Vietnamese immigrant, inspired by the spicy fish sauce of Southeast Asia. Sriracha would seep into Latino and American diets, just as the blue-eyed Tapatio cowboy was galloping into the cupboards of Asian-American kitchens, including Michael Hsiung’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How taste buds and how we eat food here changes. You know, you put Tapatio on everything and you put Sriracha on everything,” says Hsiung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His contribution for \"L.A. 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Huy Fong was also the name Tran adopted for his company, Huy Fong Foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the mid-ground you have these flying or bombing peppers coming down. It could be a reference to the current controversy David is facing with the city or Irwindale,” says Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the city of Irwindale sued Huy Fong Foods over complaints that fumes from its factory east of L.A. are making some nearby residents ill. The company disputes the claims and is fighting the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In video artist Yoshie Sakai’s more light-hearted confrontation, called \"Hot Side Story,\" dancers in Day-Glo Tapatio and Sriracha costumes face off against Heinz Ketchup and French’s mustard in a satirical \"West Side Story\"-like showdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would celebrate Chinese New Year and Cinco de Mayo and learn the traditional dances, so I feel like this show is completely aligned with my personal life,” laughs Phung Huynh, a Vietnamese-American painter who arrived in the U.S. as a toddler, around the same time as Sriracha founder David Tran. Her painting, inspired by Shanghai street poster advertisements of the 1930’s is called LAH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141175\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 233px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Uprising.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Uprising-233x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Low's Sriracha-inspired painting "Bean Sprout Uprising: Troop 626" at the "L.A. Heat" exhibit in Los Angeles. (Steven Cuevas/KQED)\" width=\"233\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141175\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Low's Sriracha-inspired painting \"Bean Sprout Uprising: Troop 626\" at the \"L.A. Heat\" exhibit in Los Angeles. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3929.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129740\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3929-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Famed Hawaii chef Alan Wong checks out some of Tadaaki Hachisu's eggs in Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone) \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Famed Hawaii chef Alan Wong checks out some of Tadaaki Hachisu's eggs in Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea seemed simple enough: Take a favorite family recipe, trace its origins and make a TV show about the quest. That concept brought two of Hawaii’s top chefs to Japan and the organic farm of Nancy Singleton Hachisu, who moved there from the Bay Area almost 26 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is \u003ca href=\"http://familyingredients.com\">“Family Ingredients,”\u003c/a> an hourlong production that will be shown tonight in San Francisco as part of \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2014/\">CAAMFest 2014,\u003c/a> an 11-day multimedia festival sponsored by the Center for Asian American Media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hachisu is the author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.japanesefarmfood.com\">“Japanese Farm Food,”\u003c/a> and her book tour was launched at Chez Panisse Cafe in September 2012. Dan Nakasone, who lives on Oahu and is the co-producer of “Family Ingredients,” bought the book soon after it was published. When he started work on the show, it occurred to him that Hachisu might be an ideal match for its host, Ed Kenney, and its featured chef, Alan Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s exactly what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were like yin and yang -- such a good balance off of each other,” Hachisu said on Monday night from New York, on her way back to Japan. “ Interestingly enough, some people opened up to Alan, while others opened up to Ed. They were an absolutely unstoppable combination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hachisu was born in Palo Alto in 1956, spent her childhood in Atherton, went to Stanford University and met Tadaaki Hachisu when he was a student in an ESL class she was teaching. They are farm-to-table cooks and farmers in Saitama, Japan, and their farm produces, among other things, rice and eggs – a key fact that made the simple idea for the show a much more ambitious undertaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alan’s father was Chinese Hawaiian and his mother was from Japan,” said Nakasone on Monday, by phone from Honolulu. \"He gave us two dishes he grew up with: tamago kake gohan, which is raw egg on rice with a dash of shoyu, and miso soup. I thought, ‘Man, how are we going to do a one-hour pilot on these ingredients?’ “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then he remembered Hachisu’s cookbook. “I thought that if we could get to this farm and meet this farmer, we could close the loop. It was so compelling. I told the director, ‘We need to go to this place.’ And he said, ‘Oh, Dan. You got a plan B?’ “\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3868.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129738\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3868-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaii chefs Ed Kenney, left, and Alan Wong visit with organic Tadaaki Hachisu in Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawaii chefs Ed Kenney, left, and Alan Wong visit with organic Tadaaki Hachisu in Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kenney’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.townkaimuki.com\">Town restaurant\u003c/a> and Wong’s namesake \u003ca href=\"http://www.alanwongs.com\">upscale eatery\u003c/a>, both located in Honolulu, have enjoyed enormous acclaim, and they have been relentless advocates for \u003ca href=\"http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/winter-2011-taste/aloha-spam\">local cuisine\u003c/a> and farmers on the Hawaiian Islands. Still, they learned a lot during their nine-day visit to Japan, which included a visit to Sukiyabashi Jiro, a three-star Michelin restaurant in Tokyo where the two chefs from Hawaii ate the best sushi they’d ever tasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Hachisu farm, about a two-hour drive from the capital, they encountered a version of raw egg over rice that was completely unlike the familiar dish that the chefs had consumed for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “Family Ingredients,” Kenney and Wong watched Tadaaki Hachisu transform tamago kake gohan into something else entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so different from what we do,” said Nakasone, who lives in the Oahu town of Wahiawa and is of Okanawan ancestry. “It was creamy, like a risotto. He stirred it first in circles, then he looped it. It created a lot of air and a lot of foam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Family Ingredients” combines food, history and travel. It aired last May on PBS Hawaii and is currently available on Hawaiian Airlines flights. Nakason said the pilot was made with the hope that it would be picked up as a series. Recently, the PBS national programming board said it wanted eight half-hour episodes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the first production company from Hawaii to be offered a PBS series in prime time,” Nakasone said. “The concept is to feature all the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Arnold-Hiura-s-Kau-Kau-covers-Hawaiian-chow-3256961.php\">different ethnic groups\u003c/a> that you find in Hawaii – Filipino, Puerto Rican, Portuguese Chinese, Korean, all of them. The focus would be on food. That’s the bridge that would take us to the place of origin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonight’s 7 o’clock showing of \"Family Ingredients” at the Sundance Kabuki on Post Street will be its second in San Francisco. The first was Friday night. Afterward, Nakasone and director Ty Sanga did a question-and-answer session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end, a woman from India came up in tears,” Nakasone recalled. “She said it made her miss her mom and home country. It reaches people on an emotional level. That's the immigrant story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3905.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3905-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy and Tadaaki Hacihisu are organic farmers in Saitama, Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy and Tadaaki Hacihisu are organic farmers in Saitama, Japan. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hachisu was born in Palo Alto in 1956, spent her childhood in Atherton, went to Stanford University and met Tadaaki Hachisu when he was a student in an ESL class she was teaching. They are farm-to-table cooks and farmers in Saitama, Japan, and their farm produces, among other things, rice and eggs – a key fact that made the simple idea for the show a much more ambitious undertaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alan’s father was Chinese Hawaiian and his mother was from Japan,” said Nakasone on Monday, by phone from Honolulu. \"He gave us two dishes he grew up with: tamago kake gohan, which is raw egg on rice with a dash of shoyu, and miso soup. I thought, ‘Man, how are we going to do a one-hour pilot on these ingredients?’ “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then he remembered Hachisu’s cookbook. “I thought that if we could get to this farm and meet this farmer, we could close the loop. It was so compelling. I told the director, ‘We need to go to this place.’ And he said, ‘Oh, Dan. You got a plan B?’ “\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3868.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129738\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3868-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaii chefs Ed Kenney, left, and Alan Wong visit with organic Tadaaki Hachisu in Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawaii chefs Ed Kenney, left, and Alan Wong visit with organic Tadaaki Hachisu in Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kenney’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.townkaimuki.com\">Town restaurant\u003c/a> and Wong’s namesake \u003ca href=\"http://www.alanwongs.com\">upscale eatery\u003c/a>, both located in Honolulu, have enjoyed enormous acclaim, and they have been relentless advocates for \u003ca href=\"http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/winter-2011-taste/aloha-spam\">local cuisine\u003c/a> and farmers on the Hawaiian Islands. Still, they learned a lot during their nine-day visit to Japan, which included a visit to Sukiyabashi Jiro, a three-star Michelin restaurant in Tokyo where the two chefs from Hawaii ate the best sushi they’d ever tasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Hachisu farm, about a two-hour drive from the capital, they encountered a version of raw egg over rice that was completely unlike the familiar dish that the chefs had consumed for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “Family Ingredients,” Kenney and Wong watched Tadaaki Hachisu transform tamago kake gohan into something else entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so different from what we do,” said Nakasone, who lives in the Oahu town of Wahiawa and is of Okanawan ancestry. “It was creamy, like a risotto. He stirred it first in circles, then he looped it. It created a lot of air and a lot of foam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Family Ingredients” combines food, history and travel. It aired last May on PBS Hawaii and is currently available on Hawaiian Airlines flights. Nakason said the pilot was made with the hope that it would be picked up as a series. Recently, the PBS national programming board said it wanted eight half-hour episodes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the first production company from Hawaii to be offered a PBS series in prime time,” Nakasone said. “The concept is to feature all the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Arnold-Hiura-s-Kau-Kau-covers-Hawaiian-chow-3256961.php\">different ethnic groups\u003c/a> that you find in Hawaii – Filipino, Puerto Rican, Portuguese Chinese, Korean, all of them. The focus would be on food. That’s the bridge that would take us to the place of origin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonight’s 7 o’clock showing of \"Family Ingredients” at the Sundance Kabuki on Post Street will be its second in San Francisco. The first was Friday night. Afterward, Nakasone and director Ty Sanga did a question-and-answer session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end, a woman from India came up in tears,” Nakasone recalled. “She said it made her miss her mom and home country. It reaches people on an emotional level. That's the immigrant story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3905.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_3905-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy and Tadaaki Hacihisu are organic farmers in Saitama, Japan. (Photo by Dan Nakasone)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy and Tadaaki Hacihisu are organic farmers in Saitama, Japan. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129490\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 193px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-129490\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LEVIDEO-193x640.jpg\" alt=\"Le Video website takes aim at Netflix. \" width=\"193\" height=\"640\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le Video website takes aim at Netflix.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Le Video, a favorite place to rent movies among San Francisco film lovers, said its financial circumstances had become dire, and barring a “miracle” \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/LeVideoSF/posts/10152027502870765?stream_ref=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would close\u003c/a> at the end of April. Or, as the site \u003ca href=\"http://frenchmorning.com/le-video-veritable-tresor-culturel-francophone-se-meurt/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French Morning put it\u003c/a>: “Le Video, véritable trésor culturel francophone, \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=%27se+meurt%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb#channel=sb&q=%27se+meurt%22+translation&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">se meurt\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, se meurt, maybe. Fifteen-year employee John Taylor, who works as a buyer for the store, said the outpouring of goodwill that the announcement prompted has made him a “little more hopeful” the store would survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a ton of good response on Facebook,” he said. “People have been tweeting about it. Different people have come forward with ideas, either coming into the store or in emails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Inner Sunset neighborhood fixture opened in 1980. Owner Catherine Tchen, who was born in Paris, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sunsetbeacon.com/archives/SunsetBeacon/2012editions/Nov12/levideo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunset Beacon\u003c/a> in 2012 that she launched the store because of the dearth of French and other foreign films available in San Francisco. “Tchen searched the globe to find a wide range of silent, black-and-white, experimental, independent, cult and foreign films,” the Beacon wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to create my own personal \u003ca href=\"http://www.cinematheque.fr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cinématheque\u003c/a> and to give customers their own personal Cinématheque in their backyard,” Tchen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Taylor said the store has been losing money for years. While some \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/23/adobe-books-an-appreciation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other treasured cultural retail outposts\u003c/a> have come under financial pressure due to rising rents in the city, Tchen actually owns the building that her business is located in. But Taylor said she can no longer afford to keep the unprofitable business afloat instead of renting out the 3,000-square-foot ground floor that it now occupies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the store wants to implement a plan in which it would move the 80,000-90,000 titles in stock to an upstairs space. There customers would not be able to browse the films, but could peruse the titles in copious binders. Ideally, the store wants to switch to a rent-by-mail business, like Netflix. Le Video has been working on cleaning up its database and creating software for such a transition, Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that we’ll go upstairs, keep the collection alive,” he said. “We’re working on doing a Kickstarter or Indiegogo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the store has truncated its hours. Le Video is also asking that anyone who has prepaid for movies to use their remaining credits while they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widespread changes in media delivery over the past few years may have some observers amazed that the store has lasted this long. As Netflix has gradually swelled into a movie rental colossus, the city’s video stores, independent and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/Final-curtain-for-Blockbuster-stores-4962081.php\">chain store alike\u003c/a>, have shut down. Taylor attributes the lousy video business climate to “people’s interest in having things streaming to them and not having to leave the house to get stuff. They want instant gratification for their entertainment, and even though they have less of a choice it doesn’t matter to a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds about right. Years ago, serious cinema fans automatically put Le Video on their must-visit list. The store says it has “the largest rental selection in California,” and anyone who’s snaked his or her way through the aisles, awestruck at the breadth and depth of the selection, wouldn’t doubt it. While I made that pilgrimage many times awhile back, I also stand as a good example of why even the most exceptional video stores are moribund. I used to actually schlep to Le Video on Muni for the privilege of renting an obscure Werner Herzog film or something. But when Netflix came along with its so-called \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html\">long tail\u003c/a>, the strategy of stockpiling a vast array of niche content so that it becomes profitable in the aggregate, I more and more made the decision to have my hard-to-find movies delivered direct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Netflix’s \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/07/12/did-netflix-just-kill-its-long-tail-model/\">business model has changed\u003c/a>, however. They’re very much trying to \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-21/netflix-may-ditch-dvds-sooner-rather-than-later\">move people away from DVDs and onto streaming\u003c/a>, a service that currently has a much more limited selection of titles. Perhaps, consequently, the famous long tail has been trimmed. Strictly anecdotal, but I’ve noticed some DVDs that used to sit patiently waiting their turn in my queue have now dropped down to the “saved” section, where the time of their availability is “unknown.” Le Video’s John Taylor pointed out Netflix’s collection now omits many standard titles — like some Woody Allen movies. A quick check reveals “Bananas,” “Mighty Aphrodite,” “Everyone Says I Love You,” “Deconstructing Harry,” “Sweet and Lowdown,” “Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask” and “September” — all unavailable. Via streaming, it’s really slim Woody-pickings: Just “Manhattan” and “Play It Again Sam.” A Netflix spokeswoman emailed me that it doesn’t publicize numbers for its library. She did not respond to the question of why some DVDs previously available on Netflix are now MIA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I encountered a problem stemming from this trend recently, when I needed to get hold of “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” the seminal black independent film by Melvin Van Peebles, for a piece I’m writing. I had rented it through Netflix in the past, but it’s currently unavailable. I couldn’t find it for rent on Amazon or iTunes either. I would have run down to my local video store, but I don’t have a local video store. My wife eventually snared a copy at a library in Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One moral of that story is the lengths to which I went to avoid having to head over to Le Video to get the film. But there’s another point as well: For those who want to get hold of more obscure titles, subscriptions to multiple services may now be necessary. And a one-stop movie shop like Le Video, long tail intact, may still be relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, ideas for keeping Le Video afloat are all over its \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/LeVideoSF\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. Said one customer: “It’s crazy, but someone find a way to contact Tarantino. He’s a well known lover of the SF movie scene and has a special place in his heart for video stores for true film fanatics like himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone?\u003c/p>\n\n",
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