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Hosted by the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council (OCIC), the parade comes at a time when community members are hoping to augur a fresh and positive start after the COVID pandemic, a rise in anti-Asian rhetoric and violence since the start of the pandemic, and two recent mass shootings that claimed the lives of 18 people in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938828/la-mass-shooting-suspect-kills-10-near-lunar-new-year-fest\">Monterey Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three young women dressed in green and red costumes with face masks and holding fans walk on the street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade participants make their way through Chinatown during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have had participants drop out of the parade because of [Monterey Park],” said Stewart Chen, board president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocic-ca.org/\">Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council\u003c/a>, in an interview with Ericka Cruz Guevarra, host of KQED’s The Bay podcast. “I think this is important for us to show the rest of the Bay Area and the community and the world that we’re not afraid … It’s a new beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with short hair and glasses wearing a light blue shirt holds up part of a sign while standing next to a woman wearing a yellow hat and sun glasses.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Tran walks with the Little Saigon Business Improvement District group during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The community is really hungry for celebration [and] hope, and at the same time, this is a theme the same week with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939598/what-we-know-about-the-killing-of-tyre-nichols\">the video that was just released for Mr. Tyre Nichols\u003c/a> and his family,” said Jennifer Tran, executive director of PIVOT (the national Progressive Vietnamese American Organization) and president of the Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce. “And so our hearts are so heavy and we talk about changing the direction and coming together. But what does justice look like for our communities who experience violence? There’s violence in the AAPI community, violence in Latinx communities, violence in the Black communities and for many marginalized communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Lunar New Year, it’s really difficult or actually taboo to talk about a big negative,” she added. “Everything has to be hopeful, but our next direction have to hold those two in tension, right? Both healing and action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m originally from Monterey Park, and it’s been really hard hearing from community members down there after many years of staying at home and not being able to come out and celebrate,” said Carline Au. “It’s that sense of fear again and not wanting to go outside and feeling alone. I really wanted to come out today in Oakland to combat that narrative that it’s OK, and that joy and community [are] still out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themed “Oakland Is Changing,” the inaugural Lunar New Year parade aims to revitalize Oakland’s Chinatown while also celebrating the city’s newly elected mayor, Sheng Thao, who is Hmong American. It also comes just a few months after Gov. Gavin Newsom passed a law \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AB-2596-SIGNING.pdf?emrc=4d6ee2\">formally recognizing Lunar New Year as a public holiday in California (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939665\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing red and black clothing holds a microphone outdoors next to other people dressed in red.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao speaks during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Well, we all know that we are celebrating a new year,” said Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao during the festivities. “We are also celebrating a new way of building community with new leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And this is what we’re going to continue to do,” she added. “But we can’t do the work if we don’t actually uplift our seniors and our elders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing costumes and makeup face another person with an arm outstretched.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lana Wong (left), 90, and her daughter Maggie Wong greet friends before the start of the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>It’s really special because the parade hasn’t been here for several decades,” said Becky Luoh, who attended the celebration with her family. “Living in Oakland as an Asian American family, it’s really special to get to have this tradition and to see the community come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a panda costume walks down the street with other people on the side.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local employees and spectactors watch as a giant panda walks past during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Especially given all the events of the past week, it’s just really meaningful to get to share it with the next generation,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People dressed in bright green costumes and pink hats with face masks walk in formation while holding red drums and drum sticks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group performs a waist drum dance followed by traditional fan dancers during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[The Lunar New Year parade] is something that I think can unify people because I think we have more in common than we do in difference,” said Vasana Ly, who was volunteering with the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council. “I think with everything that’s going on, we should take every chance we can to celebrate these kind of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing an embroidered golden costume and headpiece stands next to an American flag outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A parade participant stands on a float before the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hosted by the OCIC and co-hosted by the Toishan Benevolent Association, this year’s parade also commemorated former Alameda County supervisor and California Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101886344/remembering-alameda-county-supervisor-wilma-chan\">Wilma Chan\u003c/a>, an Asian American political trailblazer whose life was tragically cut short in a 2021 traffic accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To honor Chan’s legacy, the parade began at 11 a.m. at the newly renamed Wilma Chan Park by the Lake Merritt BART station, proceeding four blocks down 9th Street, turning onto Webster, and then proceeding another four blocks up 10th Street before ending where it began at 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11939666 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman, both Asian American, smiling happily, and wearing black clothing, embrace outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/018_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao hugs Assemblymember Evan Low during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a time for our community to come together and celebrate this momentous occasion,” said OCIC’s Chen to KQED. “Lunar New Year is now a state holiday. This is a celebration — it’s momentous, it’s historic, and the fear is not going to stop us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sara Hossaini, Beth LaBerge and Attila Pelit contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area residents gathered in Oakland’s Chinatown today for the city’s first Lunar New Year Parade in decades. January 22 marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit (and the Vietnamese Year of the Cat). Hosted by the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council (OCIC), the parade comes at a time when community members are hoping to augur a fresh and positive start after the COVID pandemic, a rise in anti-Asian rhetoric and violence since the start of the pandemic, and two recent mass shootings that claimed the lives of 18 people in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">Half Moon Bay\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938828/la-mass-shooting-suspect-kills-10-near-lunar-new-year-fest\">Monterey Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three young women dressed in green and red costumes with face masks and holding fans walk on the street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/038_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parade participants make their way through Chinatown during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have had participants drop out of the parade because of [Monterey Park],” said Stewart Chen, board president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocic-ca.org/\">Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council\u003c/a>, in an interview with Ericka Cruz Guevarra, host of KQED’s The Bay podcast. “I think this is important for us to show the rest of the Bay Area and the community and the world that we’re not afraid … It’s a new beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with short hair and glasses wearing a light blue shirt holds up part of a sign while standing next to a woman wearing a yellow hat and sun glasses.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/045_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Tran walks with the Little Saigon Business Improvement District group during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The community is really hungry for celebration [and] hope, and at the same time, this is a theme the same week with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939598/what-we-know-about-the-killing-of-tyre-nichols\">the video that was just released for Mr. Tyre Nichols\u003c/a> and his family,” said Jennifer Tran, executive director of PIVOT (the national Progressive Vietnamese American Organization) and president of the Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce. “And so our hearts are so heavy and we talk about changing the direction and coming together. But what does justice look like for our communities who experience violence? There’s violence in the AAPI community, violence in Latinx communities, violence in the Black communities and for many marginalized communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Lunar New Year, it’s really difficult or actually taboo to talk about a big negative,” she added. “Everything has to be hopeful, but our next direction have to hold those two in tension, right? Both healing and action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m originally from Monterey Park, and it’s been really hard hearing from community members down there after many years of staying at home and not being able to come out and celebrate,” said Carline Au. “It’s that sense of fear again and not wanting to go outside and feeling alone. I really wanted to come out today in Oakland to combat that narrative that it’s OK, and that joy and community [are] still out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themed “Oakland Is Changing,” the inaugural Lunar New Year parade aims to revitalize Oakland’s Chinatown while also celebrating the city’s newly elected mayor, Sheng Thao, who is Hmong American. It also comes just a few months after Gov. Gavin Newsom passed a law \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AB-2596-SIGNING.pdf?emrc=4d6ee2\">formally recognizing Lunar New Year as a public holiday in California (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939665\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing red and black clothing holds a microphone outdoors next to other people dressed in red.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/010_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao speaks during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Well, we all know that we are celebrating a new year,” said Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao during the festivities. “We are also celebrating a new way of building community with new leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And this is what we’re going to continue to do,” she added. “But we can’t do the work if we don’t actually uplift our seniors and our elders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing costumes and makeup face another person with an arm outstretched.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/001_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lana Wong (left), 90, and her daughter Maggie Wong greet friends before the start of the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>It’s really special because the parade hasn’t been here for several decades,” said Becky Luoh, who attended the celebration with her family. “Living in Oakland as an Asian American family, it’s really special to get to have this tradition and to see the community come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a panda costume walks down the street with other people on the side.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/031_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local employees and spectactors watch as a giant panda walks past during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Especially given all the events of the past week, it’s just really meaningful to get to share it with the next generation,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People dressed in bright green costumes and pink hats with face masks walk in formation while holding red drums and drum sticks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62390_026_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group performs a waist drum dance followed by traditional fan dancers during the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[The Lunar New Year parade] is something that I think can unify people because I think we have more in common than we do in difference,” said Vasana Ly, who was volunteering with the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council. “I think with everything that’s going on, we should take every chance we can to celebrate these kind of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11939667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing an embroidered golden costume and headpiece stands next to an American flag outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/019_KQED_OaklandLunarNewYearParade_01292023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A parade participant stands on a float before the Lunar New Year parade in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood on Jan. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hosted by the OCIC and co-hosted by the Toishan Benevolent Association, this year’s parade also commemorated former Alameda County supervisor and California Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101886344/remembering-alameda-county-supervisor-wilma-chan\">Wilma Chan\u003c/a>, an Asian American political trailblazer whose life was tragically cut short in a 2021 traffic accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To honor Chan’s legacy, the parade began at 11 a.m. at the newly renamed Wilma Chan Park by the Lake Merritt BART station, proceeding four blocks down 9th Street, turning onto Webster, and then proceeding another four blocks up 10th Street before ending where it began at 1 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca 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The sculpture is roughly a couple feet wide and 6 inches taller than a nearby doorframe.\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Screenshot_20221216-160834_Instagram-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Screenshot_20221216-160834_Instagram-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Screenshot_20221216-160834_Instagram.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wilson Ferreira is the first gay Brazilian artist to create a public memorial in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(sfaguilas/Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As gay men, we know how much we are subjected to violence,” he says. “Our community, the LGBTQIA+ community, has suffered prejudice and violence every single day — unchecked homophobia, unchecked violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sculpture’s sleek, vertical design takes the eyes upward to the top of the shield, where the rainbow banner peeks out near the ceiling. Ferreira says he wanted the piece to link the terrestrial and celestial planes. The intention behind each subtle detail — the dozens of perforations that grow smaller and fade away as you move up the piece, for example — make it clear that we are now in a place to mourn and remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco LGBT Center already is home to several significant works of art by LGBTQ+ artists, including \u003ci>Queeroes\u003c/i>, the mural by artists Juan Manuel Carmona and Simón Malvaez on the building’s exterior that features key figures in the movement for queer liberation, like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a few days before the \u003ci>Aegis\u003c/i> unveiling, Rita Wantings started their new job at the San Francisco LGBT Center as a services navigator. Originally from Colorado, Wantings came to San Francisco to find a place where they would be understood and not judged for their identity or experiences as a queer person of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935646\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 344px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11935646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-800x1200.png\" alt=\"A gold and rainbow-colored metal sculpture hanging on a blue wall.\" width=\"344\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-800x1200.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-1020x1530.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-160x240.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-1024x1536.png 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-1365x2048.png 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-1920x2880.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Aegis,’ by Wilson Ferreira, draws its name from a divine form of protection in Greek mythology. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the SF LGBT Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in Colorado, Wantings says, they were judged and ridiculed for their pronouns. “Out here I don’t feel like that. I feel very protected out here,” they say. “I feel seen. I feel heard. I feel valid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though they have only been in the Bay for a short period of time, Wantings says they have already formed deep connections. “I don’t even want to call them friends. I call them my chosen family — people who see me, who identify in similar ways as what I identify,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That chosen family has become their shield, Wantings says, so \u003ci>Aegis\u003c/i> reminds them of the care and protection they receive from the community. They point to their bag, which reads “Protect Black women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado will always be their home, Wantings says. But they add that the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs hit close to home — literally. They are still working through their grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s actually somewhere I’ve been,” they say. “I’ve experienced that place. It was a beautiful place, I’ve seen drag shows there.” Throughout these difficult emotions, they’ve leaned on their new chosen family in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be our own shield,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction (Dec. 19): The original version of this story incorrectly stated the year of the Pulse nightclub shooting as 2017. The event occurred June 12, 2016. The year has since been corrected.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ferreira unveiled the sculpture on Dec. 7 at a reception hosted by the San Francisco LGBT Center and AGUILAS, an advocacy and resource group for LGBTQ+ Latinx people. It was a long time coming: Back in 2017, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors set aside $10,000 for a public memorial to honor the victims of the shooting. Four years later, Ferreira unveiled \u003ci>Aegis\u003c/i> in a moment when violence against queer people is once again on the rise, only weeks after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932900/what-we-know-about-the-shooting-at-a-colorado-springs-lgbtq-club\">the shooting that killed nine people at Club Q\u003c/a>, an LGBTQ+ club in Colorado Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aegis\u003c/em> is intended not just to honor those who lost their lives at Pulse, but also to protect the living who remain vulnerable to anti-LGBTQ+ violence, Ferreira says. “This shield cannot be destroyed because it protects you, me, all of us,” he says. “It gives us the protection to move forward, despite resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferreira, originally from Brazil, is the first gay Brazilian artist to create a public memorial in the city. He says that he’s experienced discrimination in both Brazil and the U.S., and he felt the tragedy at Pulse deeply. Many of those who lost their lives at Pulse were queer Latinx people who sought to create a space without queerphobic, racist or xenophobic aggression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935653\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Screenshot_20221216-160834_Instagram.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11935653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Screenshot_20221216-160834_Instagram-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"a young-looking, bald Latino man with a dark brown mustache and goatee, wearing a brown shirt and coat, smiles in front of a metal and rainbow-hued sculpture hanging on a blue interior wall. The sculpture is roughly a couple feet wide and 6 inches taller than a nearby doorframe.\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Screenshot_20221216-160834_Instagram-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Screenshot_20221216-160834_Instagram-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Screenshot_20221216-160834_Instagram.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wilson Ferreira is the first gay Brazilian artist to create a public memorial in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(sfaguilas/Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As gay men, we know how much we are subjected to violence,” he says. “Our community, the LGBTQIA+ community, has suffered prejudice and violence every single day — unchecked homophobia, unchecked violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sculpture’s sleek, vertical design takes the eyes upward to the top of the shield, where the rainbow banner peeks out near the ceiling. Ferreira says he wanted the piece to link the terrestrial and celestial planes. The intention behind each subtle detail — the dozens of perforations that grow smaller and fade away as you move up the piece, for example — make it clear that we are now in a place to mourn and remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco LGBT Center already is home to several significant works of art by LGBTQ+ artists, including \u003ci>Queeroes\u003c/i>, the mural by artists Juan Manuel Carmona and Simón Malvaez on the building’s exterior that features key figures in the movement for queer liberation, like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a few days before the \u003ci>Aegis\u003c/i> unveiling, Rita Wantings started their new job at the San Francisco LGBT Center as a services navigator. Originally from Colorado, Wantings came to San Francisco to find a place where they would be understood and not judged for their identity or experiences as a queer person of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935646\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 344px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11935646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-800x1200.png\" alt=\"A gold and rainbow-colored metal sculpture hanging on a blue wall.\" width=\"344\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-800x1200.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-1020x1530.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-160x240.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-1024x1536.png 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-1365x2048.png 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/598A0453-1920x2880.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Aegis,’ by Wilson Ferreira, draws its name from a divine form of protection in Greek mythology. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the SF LGBT Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in Colorado, Wantings says, they were judged and ridiculed for their pronouns. “Out here I don’t feel like that. I feel very protected out here,” they say. “I feel seen. I feel heard. I feel valid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though they have only been in the Bay for a short period of time, Wantings says they have already formed deep connections. “I don’t even want to call them friends. I call them my chosen family — people who see me, who identify in similar ways as what I identify,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That chosen family has become their shield, Wantings says, so \u003ci>Aegis\u003c/i> reminds them of the care and protection they receive from the community. They point to their bag, which reads “Protect Black women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado will always be their home, Wantings says. But they add that the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs hit close to home — literally. They are still working through their grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s actually somewhere I’ve been,” they say. “I’ve experienced that place. 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"content": "\u003cp>If the \u003ca href=\"https://apeconcerts.com/venues/castro-theatre/\">Castro Theatre\u003c/a> didn’t exist, then neither would Sophia Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always joke that I was conceived at the Castro Theatre,” said the San Francisco resident, who happened to be passing by the iconic, one-hundred-year-old movie palace on a recent afternoon while out walking her dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said her parents first met in line to see a movie at the theater, 27 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both of them were on dates with other people, actually,” Padilla said. “They fell in love right here. And I’ve been coming to the Castro to see movies for my entire 26-year life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla also said the Castro Theatre helped to forge her queer identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Castro really helped me find who I was,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-scaled.jpe\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11934113\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"a woman in a green jacket poses with her dog in front of a historic movie theater\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-800x600.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-1020x765.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-160x120.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-1536x1152.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-2048x1536.jpe 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-1920x1440.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco resident and movie fan Sophia Padilla poses outside the Castro Theatre with her dog. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Located in the heart of one of the country’s most high-profile LGBTQ neighborhoods, the Castro Theatre has played a prominent role in San Francisco’s cultural and social evolution for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"arts_13917362,forum_2010101890364,news_11922643\"]Besides hosting major film festivals like the San Francisco International Film Festival and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the venue has long been a bastion of queer cinema and community events. Highlights include the first ever public screening of the 2008 movie \u003cem>Milk\u003c/em> about the pioneering openly gay politician Harvey Milk, the annual Frameline queer movie festival, and an abundance of drag performance nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Castro Theatre is like a sacred temple for the community,” said \u003ca href=\"https://castrolgbtq.org/\">Castro LGBTQ Cultural District \u003c/a>board member Jesse Sanford. “It’s where we gather to laugh together, cry together, learn our history, and mourn our losses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the recent purchase of the theater’s lease by \u003ca href=\"https://apeconcerts.com/\">Another Planet Entertainment\u003c/a>, which operates a handful of mostly music-oriented venues and festivals around the San Francisco Bay Area, has led to a struggle for the theater’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another Planet’s plan will mean that films rarely get shown, and community events rarely happen,” said Sanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conservationists push back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Castro LGBTQ Cultural District is one of several local groups pushing back against Another Planet’s plans to refocus the venue’s programming and make sweeping renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a hundred-year-old theater. You can’t just change it any way you want,” said Peter Pastreich, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.savethecastrotheatre.org/\">Castro Theatre Conservancy\u003c/a>, a group that was formed three years ago to address concerns about the increasingly dilapidated state of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-scaled.jpe\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11934114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"an older man in a dark blue suit with a white beard and glasses smiles in front of a theater\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-800x600.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-1020x765.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-160x120.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-1536x1152.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-2048x1536.jpe 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-1920x1440.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castro Theatre Conservancy executive director Peter Pastreich at the Castro Theatre. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pastreich said his group welcomes some of the proposed upgrades, such as putting in wheelchair access and a new HVAC system, and touching up the interior’s grand mural’d walls, chandeliers and leather-effect ceiling. He estimates renovating the theater would cost $20-30 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We aren’t opposed to Another Planet or anybody else who will renovate the theater and keep it open,” Pastreich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It all comes down to the seating\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The activists’ main point of contention is the leaseholder’s plans for the theater’s seating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The plans are to take out the seats and level the floor, which would make the theater no longer appropriate for movies,” Pastreich says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people, including many celebrities like Francis Ford Coppola, Alice Waters and Tilda Swinton, have signed the conservancy’s petition to prevent Another Planet’s renovations from going ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is already in-part protected. The City of San Francisco gave landmark status to the exterior in 1977. Now these activists are trying to get the city to expand the designation to include the building’s interior. If that happens, it will be much harder for the leaseholder to rip out the theater’s 1400 seats, and flatten the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-scaled.jpe\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11934115\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-800x534.jpe\" alt=\"the interior of an ornate historic movie theatre with red seats and a chandelier\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-800x534.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-1020x680.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-160x107.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-1536x1025.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-2048x1366.jpe 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-1920x1281.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Castro Theatre’s interior. \u003ccite>(Andrew Rosas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Changing the seating is a big deal,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.mlambrosphotography.com/\">Matt Lambros\u003c/a>, a Boston-based photographer of historic movie theaters who has written several books on the topic. “You could ruin the sight-lines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few thousand old, single-screen movie palaces like the Castro still in operation in the U.S. today, down from tens of thousands in their pre-World-War-II heyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambros said in order for these cinemas to survive, the seating has to do more than accommodate movie-goers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s interest in restoring these places,” he said. “The issue is, you have to find something that will bring people. For the most part, unfortunately, a 1500-or 2000-seat theater showing films, that’s just not viable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who want the theater’s seating plan to remain intact point out that the Castro has hosted all kinds of non-movie events over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is possible to have the theater be conducive to movie-going and concert-going and comedy and spoken word presentations and community meetings,” said \u003ca href=\"https://silentfilm.org/\">San Francisco Silent Film Festival\u003c/a> director Anita Monga. “All of that is possible with the existing seats and same configuration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another Planet pushes ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another Planet spokesman Alex Tourk said that despite its plan to remove the movie-style seating, the company is committed to honoring the theater’s legacy. “They absolutely want to continue to show film,” Tourk said. “They committed to making sure that 25% of programming would be dedicated to the LGBTQ community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the company has been shocked by all the pushback, given its solid reputation as a concert and festival producer, and its plan to put $15 million towards renovating the theater. “Another Planet did expect some opposition,” he said. “But the level of vitriol has been beyond the pale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tourk said even if the landmark designation for the theater’s interior goes ahead next year, Another Planet will not, at least for now, be deterred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another Planet will continue to work with the city to find consensus and move the vision forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If the \u003ca href=\"https://apeconcerts.com/venues/castro-theatre/\">Castro Theatre\u003c/a> didn’t exist, then neither would Sophia Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always joke that I was conceived at the Castro Theatre,” said the San Francisco resident, who happened to be passing by the iconic, one-hundred-year-old movie palace on a recent afternoon while out walking her dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said her parents first met in line to see a movie at the theater, 27 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both of them were on dates with other people, actually,” Padilla said. “They fell in love right here. And I’ve been coming to the Castro to see movies for my entire 26-year life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla also said the Castro Theatre helped to forge her queer identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Castro really helped me find who I was,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-scaled.jpe\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11934113\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"a woman in a green jacket poses with her dog in front of a historic movie theater\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-800x600.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-1020x765.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-160x120.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-1536x1152.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-2048x1536.jpe 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/sophiapadilla-772b04087ecf02b3dd7e016b4374740bef8f659c-1920x1440.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco resident and movie fan Sophia Padilla poses outside the Castro Theatre with her dog. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Located in the heart of one of the country’s most high-profile LGBTQ neighborhoods, the Castro Theatre has played a prominent role in San Francisco’s cultural and social evolution for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Besides hosting major film festivals like the San Francisco International Film Festival and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the venue has long been a bastion of queer cinema and community events. Highlights include the first ever public screening of the 2008 movie \u003cem>Milk\u003c/em> about the pioneering openly gay politician Harvey Milk, the annual Frameline queer movie festival, and an abundance of drag performance nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Castro Theatre is like a sacred temple for the community,” said \u003ca href=\"https://castrolgbtq.org/\">Castro LGBTQ Cultural District \u003c/a>board member Jesse Sanford. “It’s where we gather to laugh together, cry together, learn our history, and mourn our losses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the recent purchase of the theater’s lease by \u003ca href=\"https://apeconcerts.com/\">Another Planet Entertainment\u003c/a>, which operates a handful of mostly music-oriented venues and festivals around the San Francisco Bay Area, has led to a struggle for the theater’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another Planet’s plan will mean that films rarely get shown, and community events rarely happen,” said Sanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conservationists push back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Castro LGBTQ Cultural District is one of several local groups pushing back against Another Planet’s plans to refocus the venue’s programming and make sweeping renovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a hundred-year-old theater. You can’t just change it any way you want,” said Peter Pastreich, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.savethecastrotheatre.org/\">Castro Theatre Conservancy\u003c/a>, a group that was formed three years ago to address concerns about the increasingly dilapidated state of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-scaled.jpe\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11934114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"an older man in a dark blue suit with a white beard and glasses smiles in front of a theater\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-800x600.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-1020x765.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-160x120.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-1536x1152.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-2048x1536.jpe 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/img_7616-320ab002f413ff743466e70ddc947dff99d2c84d-1920x1440.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castro Theatre Conservancy executive director Peter Pastreich at the Castro Theatre. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pastreich said his group welcomes some of the proposed upgrades, such as putting in wheelchair access and a new HVAC system, and touching up the interior’s grand mural’d walls, chandeliers and leather-effect ceiling. He estimates renovating the theater would cost $20-30 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We aren’t opposed to Another Planet or anybody else who will renovate the theater and keep it open,” Pastreich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It all comes down to the seating\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The activists’ main point of contention is the leaseholder’s plans for the theater’s seating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The plans are to take out the seats and level the floor, which would make the theater no longer appropriate for movies,” Pastreich says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people, including many celebrities like Francis Ford Coppola, Alice Waters and Tilda Swinton, have signed the conservancy’s petition to prevent Another Planet’s renovations from going ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is already in-part protected. The City of San Francisco gave landmark status to the exterior in 1977. Now these activists are trying to get the city to expand the designation to include the building’s interior. If that happens, it will be much harder for the leaseholder to rip out the theater’s 1400 seats, and flatten the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11934115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-scaled.jpe\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11934115\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-800x534.jpe\" alt=\"the interior of an ornate historic movie theatre with red seats and a chandelier\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-800x534.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-1020x680.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-160x107.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-1536x1025.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-2048x1366.jpe 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/castro_2.8.22_rosasandrew_23-copy_custom-54d51f69ab1b36290c8f6c747b6061b3de0f0c3d-1920x1281.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Castro Theatre’s interior. \u003ccite>(Andrew Rosas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Changing the seating is a big deal,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.mlambrosphotography.com/\">Matt Lambros\u003c/a>, a Boston-based photographer of historic movie theaters who has written several books on the topic. “You could ruin the sight-lines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few thousand old, single-screen movie palaces like the Castro still in operation in the U.S. today, down from tens of thousands in their pre-World-War-II heyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambros said in order for these cinemas to survive, the seating has to do more than accommodate movie-goers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s interest in restoring these places,” he said. “The issue is, you have to find something that will bring people. 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"content": "\u003cp>This week, communities across California celebrated Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, with processions and ceremonies honoring the loved ones they've lost. In San Francisco’s Mission District, festivities kicked off with Aztec dance troupes blessing altars on 24th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You were born in these traditions and this is what's going to surround you to the day you die,” said Chabela Sanchez, who performs with Danza Azteca Xitlalli and has danced in events like these for more than 30 years. “You will be surrounded by the ancestors and prayer in this way. So we're going to bless you with the ceremony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Mexican Americans, Aztec dancing helps them feel connected to their Indigenous roots. But if you see a performance and notice a crucifix being held or a guitarist strumming religious hymns in Spanish, those are European symbols and traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So even though there's a Catholic image behind it, there's that syncretism of why it had to be,” said Sanchez. “To be able to survive and be preserved.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Roberto Vargas, Aztec dancer\"]'Danza represents the cosmos, and the cosmos has an order.'[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/spanish-invasion/syncretism-aztec-christians\">Syncretism\u003c/a>, Sanchez explained, is the blending of two contradictory religious traditions. To keep dance traditions, Aztec performers trying to protect their Indigenous spiritual roots often concealed them under the guise of Catholicism, which helped divert unwanted hostility from Spanish colonizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days some Indigenous people with roots in Latin America still practice some aspects of Catholicism as well as Indigenous traditions, and many Aztec troupes reflect a melding of those two religious traditions in their ceremonies throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Xilonen ceremony\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to Day of the Dead festivities, Aztec dancers perform at ceremonies throughout the year. During the summer solstice, drummers and dancers are key to the Xilonen, or the ceremony of the young corn, which is a coming-of-age ceremony for Latinx teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is kind of an Aztec quinceañera,” said Sanchez. “Our girls run from ages 13 to 17.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this summer’s Xilonen in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco, different dance troupes, each in their own matching Indigenous regalia, performed at a local park as part of an event hosted by Danza Azteca Xitlalli. Five teens in white knee-length dresses donned colorful feathers on their wrists and crowns made of corn husks, as Aztec dancers encircled them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Xilonen ceremony is one of many annual cultural milestones hosted by an Aztec dance troupe rather than by a family or a church.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dancing nonstop for 30 hours\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At least five Aztec dance troupes in San Francisco perform their own ceremonies throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be a big commitment for the dancers, who sometimes get called at a moment’s notice to support a birth or death ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the kids that grew up here on the street died,” said Louie Gutierrez, director of Danza Azteca Coyolxauhqui, who lives in the Mission. “So they wanted to do a ritual for them, burn some sage, some copal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11931036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_Calle24_PaseoArtistico_12092017_7693-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Aztec dancer in traditional dresswith head raised dances with others in a Mission District alley surrounded by colorful murals\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_Calle24_PaseoArtistico_12092017_7693-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_Calle24_PaseoArtistico_12092017_7693-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_Calle24_PaseoArtistico_12092017_7693-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_Calle24_PaseoArtistico_12092017_7693-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_Calle24_PaseoArtistico_12092017_7693-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_Calle24_PaseoArtistico_12092017_7693-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_Calle24_PaseoArtistico_12092017_7693-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louie Gutierrez (foreground), director of Danza Azteca Coyolxauhqui, and other Aztec dancers commemorate the Day of the Virgin Guadalupe by dancing in front of murals depicting the Virgin of Guadalupe around the Mission District during Paseo \u003cem>Artístico\u003c/em> on Dec. 9, 2017. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a typical ceremony, performers may dance for 30 hours with breaks for prayer and food. There’s one annual event in December — a Catholic tribute to the Virgin Mary — where Gutierrez and his dancemates dance nonstop for an entire day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dancers show up for these marathon late-night events and practices while juggling full-time jobs. Gutierrez \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057615303390\">runs the popular La Reyna bakery in the Mission\u003c/a>. But showing up for his community as a dancer is an unpaid gig.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Generals and captains\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aztec dance groups are organized in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057615303390\">strict hierarchies\u003c/a>. Here’s how it works: Each dance group has a sergeant who reports to a regional captain, and the captains report to the highest-ranking position in Aztec dance: an Aztec dance general. That person is usually someone living in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez's husband, Roberto Vargas, also a longtime Aztec dancer, explained how the strict militaristic order of command helps everyone dance in unison.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Louie Gutierrez, director, Danza Azteca Coyolxauhqui\"]'The point of dancing is to bring health and well-being.'[/pullquote]“Danza represents the cosmos, and the cosmos has an order,” said Vargas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://mexicayotl.org/our-board/\">The Aztec dance higher-ups — the generals in Mexico\u003c/a> — set the rules and the tone on how dancing should be performed and on which events dance troupes are allowed to participate in. For a long time, Vargas said, the elders have shied away from participating in political events or protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don't want to align themselves with politicos because somebody could be cool one day and the next day, not cool,” he explained. “So you can't be affiliating with people who are wishy-washy, so it's sort of like the spiritual mission is more important than any political [one].”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A history of violence against dancers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another big reason why many Azteca dancers have avoided protests is because historical violence has been etched into their memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas remembers the Tlatelolco massacre in the days before the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico. Eyewitnesses say government forces opened fire on student protesters, killing hundreds. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97546687\">The tragedy and its aftermath had a chilling effect on student activists and cultural performers.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over there [in Mexico], they have memories of once again people being killed,” said Vargas. “You risk your life standing up against the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comes on top of historical violence against Indigenous people — including dancers — since colonization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the early years of bringing the danza out to the public, people were getting attacked and jailed and killed for practicing these traditions,” explained Vargas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11930976\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11930976 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS51910_083_SanFrancisco_IndigenousPeoplesDay_10112021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Aztec dancer in colorful feathered head dresses garb plays a traditional percussion instrument as another dancer stands in the background on a lawn surrounded by onlookers\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS51910_083_SanFrancisco_IndigenousPeoplesDay_10112021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS51910_083_SanFrancisco_IndigenousPeoplesDay_10112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS51910_083_SanFrancisco_IndigenousPeoplesDay_10112021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS51910_083_SanFrancisco_IndigenousPeoplesDay_10112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS51910_083_SanFrancisco_IndigenousPeoplesDay_10112021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Teokalli Aztec Dancers from the Bay Area and Mexico City dance during the third annual Indigenous Peoples Day Commemoration at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco on Oct. 11, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in the U.S., Sanchez said, many dancers see performing as an inherently political act because they are reclaiming their Indigenous cultural identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of troupes, for example, performed at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Indians-gather-on-Alcatraz-in-memory-of-occupation-5019944.php\">Indigenous Peoples Day Sunrise Gathering\u003c/a> last month, an event that challenges centuries of colonization and genocide with a gathering on Alcatraz Island that features both Aztec and Native American dancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of dancing is to bring health and well-being,” said Gutierrez, adding that dancing has helped him focus his energy in a positive direction. It’s a huge part of his quest for a healthier lifestyle and of his spiritual journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutierrez and Sanchez are always keeping an eye out, scouting for the next generation of dancers to carry on this tradition. They know it may take a while for younger dancers to fully understand how vital they are to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you see a Danza Azteca performance and you feel pulled in by the dancers, Sanchez said, that’s your heart being conquered. You want to be a part of it. She recited the motto that guides all Aztec dancers: \"Union, conformidad y conquista.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loosely translated, it means: We dance united, we dance together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>At a time when California is searching for people to fill key jobs in higher education, change is critical in a selection system that favors white men, a new report concludes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student bodies of public colleges and universities have become much more diverse than they were 10 or 20 years ago, and there is an urgent need to increase these students’ success, said Estela Mara Bensimon, lead researcher on the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We depend on these students to step into the jobs that have traditionally been occupied by white professionals,” said Bensimon, president of Bensimon and Associates and professor emerita at the University of Southern California. “There’s both a social justice urgency but also a political and economic urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said California needs educational leaders who have the racial literacy and cultural competency to address students’ needs. “We’re not naive that just because you appoint a Black president, a Latinx president, Indigenous president or Pacific Islander president that automatically you get magic,” Bensimon said. “We know that it takes more than that.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Michele Siqueiros, president, Campaign for College Opportunity\"]'We are here today to ask how do we attack a structure that is not equitable and not fair for women and candidates of color.'[/pullquote]One benefit of diverse leadership is that the increasingly diverse student body will see in their leaders someone who has experienced the same struggles in the face of systemic racism, the study said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a report to push diversity for the sake of diversity. It’s pushing diversity for the sake of improving the experience of the student,” said Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president and CEO of College Futures Foundation and former chancellor of the California Community Colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report outlines the importance of what it calls “equity-minded” leadership: someone who understands that institutions of higher education have “been designed by whites for whites, and is therefore intentional about asking the race question as a standard practice.” Without these kinds of leaders at the top, the work of addressing racial equity won’t be fully realized throughout institutions, Oakley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College Futures Foundation commissioned the report, “\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://collegefutures.org/insights/whiteness-rules-racial-exclusion-in-becoming-an-american-college-president/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whiteness Rules: Racial Exclusion in Becoming an American College President,\u003c/a>” and a companion piece, “Tools to Redesign Presidential Search for Racial Equity,” that walks presidential search teams through creating a process that is equitable for candidates of color. College Futures advances college degrees for the state’s diverse students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need presidents who have the skills — the racial literacy, the cultural competency — to be responsive to the students that we are educating,” said Bensimon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said that competency in equity issues is not a part of the conversation when searching for leaders. This hurts students, she said. She points to practices, such as remedial education at community colleges, that harm students of color who have remained in place for decades. Gov. 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It also comes \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/as-supreme-court-considers-affirmative-action-case-university-of-california-offers-cautionary-tale/679692\">just as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a case\u003c/a> that calls into question the role that race plays in higher education, though through affirmative action at the admissions level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report notes that historically the top positions at colleges and universities in California have been held by white men. It notes that at some institutions, such as UCLA and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, there have only been white men who have been chancellor or president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, 51% of public institutions of higher education in California have white leaders. The numbers are starker for more selective institutions: Sixty percent of leaders at the UC are white. That number is 57% in the CSU, and in community colleges it is 49%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women are also underrepresented in both the UC and community college systems, but they’re slightly overrepresented in the CSU system. In the UC system, women make up just 20% of leaders, the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at California’s public universities and colleges are overwhelmingly nonwhite. CSU reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/about-the-csu/facts-about-the-csu/enrollment/Pages/student-enrollment-demographics.aspx\">just 21.5% of its student body was non-Hispanic white\u003c/a> last fall. In California’s community colleges, that number was 24%, according to data from the California Community College Chancellor’s Office. In the UC system, \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/fall-enrollment-glance\">23% of students were white\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More selective institutions, such as the UCs, take their cues from other selective institutions across the nation like Stanford, Harvard and Yale, Oakley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re replicating the same type of practices that you compare yourself to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an assumption that candidates of color don’t make it to the finish line because there are not enough qualified candidates in the pipeline. But the report outlines the ways that male whiteness is privileged at every step of the presidential search process from the job listing to the type of candidates on the radar of search firms and finally to the biases of search committees in the final selection process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people think that the searches are neutral and objective, but the rules that we break in this report [are] calling out how whiteness is implicated in just every step of the process,” Bensimon said. “We don’t talk about that: whiteness as credentials, whiteness as rules that directly disadvantage Black, Latinx and Indigenous candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California-focused report is based on interviews with search firm consultants, trustees and community members, but the heart of the report is interviews with 36 sitting college presidents and chancellors, 20 of those with people of color. It also included an analysis of the curriculum vitae of 35 presidents and chancellors, and 38 job announcements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It notes that there has been an uptick in the hiring of presidents of color nationally since the George Floyd uprising. But it questions whether this practice will hit a plateau in the same way it did during previously tumultuous times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report includes several examples of searches where there was explicit bias against candidates who weren’t white men. One search firm consultant described a trustee who said that a Black candidate from the South couldn’t move forward because they couldn’t understand a word they were saying. Another consultant said that the search committee complained that female candidates were “dowdy,” “motherly” or “like a Jewish woman.” Candidates of color describe a process of telegraphing that they have been assimilated, such as a Black woman choosing to not wear braids and speak “white.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presidents of color describe having to walk a fine line when discussing race and equity issues during the search process. There may be factions in a search team who want to hit the accelerator on improving equity, while others are resistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakley said the report mirrored his own experiences as the president of Long Beach City College and, most recently, the chancellor of the California Community College system. He broke down racial barriers as the first person of color in those roles, but he said he faced resistance in both roles from people who believed he wasn’t right for the role or didn’t have the correct academic pedigree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I’m not surprised by the results because I’ve been in the industry for a long time, I am shocked to see how deep in the culture these practices are,” he said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president and CEO, College Futures Foundation\"]'This is not a report to push diversity for the sake of diversity. It's pushing diversity for the sake of improving the experience of the student.'[/pullquote]One search firm consultant told researchers that candidates of color need to be the “Jackie Robinson” of presidents to be deemed worthy, qualified and ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report outlines some practices that may seem neutral but give an advantage to white candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, search committees tend to privilege candidates who come through academic affairs, a pathway that has shut out too many people of color who have other experiences, such as student affairs. A search firm consultant said faculty on the search committee objected to a Black candidate for not having the right degree and the correct institutional pedigree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[E]veryone who’s currently credentialed has 20 or 30 years of experience [and], well, we can all admit the last 20 or 30 years has not been an open invitation for everyone to have the same kinds of experiences,” said one white president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a bias toward candidates who come from peer institutions, which limits the pool of candidates. This includes discounting those who have worked at historically Black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions, Bensimon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michele Siqueiros, president of The Campaign for College Opportunity, said that she hopes the findings push California to offer more transparent data about the hiring process — not just for college presidents but for other leadership and faculty positions that remain disproportionately white. She added that though the report takes aim at public universities in California, she hopes independent colleges also take the report’s findings seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here today to ask how do we attack a structure that is not equitable and not fair for women and candidates of color,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report outlines how the deck is stacked against candidates of color, but researcher Megan Chase said that equally important is the toolkit of solutions that the team compiled. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a done deal. Elon Musk now owns San Francisco-based Twitter. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html\">closed the $44 billion deal last week and quickly fired the company’s top executives\u003c/a>. Some users are already leaving the social media platform in protest, fearing a rise in hate speech — \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/30/23431337/twitter-hateful-tweets-elon-musk-takeover-free-speech\">a fear that already proved well-founded by Monday\u003c/a>, as Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, said the platform was seeing an influx of tweets containing slurs and derogatory terms. In short, there’s quite a bit of chaos — not least because Musk himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/06/musk-seeks-to-stop-oct-17-trial-date-to-close-twitter-deal-on-original-terms.html\">tried to back out of the deal just a few weeks prior\u003c/a>. 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But Elon especially, he just wants the spotlight on him and he finds ways to get the spotlight on him. Now he has it, we’ll see what he does with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the $44 billion question. Speculation is rife; expectations vary. Some have \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-04-25/conservatives-elon-musk-twitter\">praised the takeover as a victory for freedom of speech\u003c/a>, while others fear \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/28/musk-twitter-racist-posts/\">things may already be headed for the worst\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jeremy Owens, technology editor and San Francisco bureau chief, MarketWatch\"]‘This is one of the dumbest acquisitions since AOL Time Warner.’[/pullquote]“It’s kind of impossible to know,” said Owens. “I stress to everybody they shouldn’t believe what Elon Musk says. He says a lot of things that are contradictory. A lot of them are fantastical. I mean, we’re not seeing Teslas rolling around as robotaxis making money for their owners in their sleep, like he said would be happening by now. We’re really going to have to wait and see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Musk said he plans to create a “content moderation council” on Twitter, he has also said he would loosen the rules on what users can say on the platform, and although he has often been referred to as a libertarian, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/business/elon-musk-politics-twitter.html\">his political views remain hazy\u003c/a>. Nevertheless, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/5/23389568/musk-twitter-signal-deleted-messages-judge-ruling\">lawsuit brought against Musk by Twitter\u003c/a> after Musk rescinded his offer to buy the company in April revealed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/elon-musk-twitter-texts-ranked-17494691.php\">texts with friends and associates\u003c/a> that provide a premonition of things to come — both in terms of what was said and\u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/09/elon-musk-caught-deleting-messages-about-the-twitter-deal.html\"> what was not\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, Musk has praised the acquisition of right-wing social media app Parler by Ye — formerly known as Kanye West — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/28/1132222606/twitter-account-elon-musk-content-moderation-council\">he announced Friday that Ye’s blocked account on Twitter had been reinstated\u003c/a>, days after the singer/songwriter \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/25/1131285970/adidas-ye-kanye-west-antisemitic\">drew international ire over antisemitic remarks and comments on slavery\u003c/a>. Musk has also said Twitter was wrong to ban former President Donald Trump — who has since founded the right-wing social media platform Truth Social — after the January 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. Musk stated back in May that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/10/musk-talk-twitter/\">he would restore Trump’s account\u003c/a>. Then, on October 18, Musk posted and later deleted\u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-meme-kanye-donald-trump-three-musketeers-parler-2022-10\"> a meme depicting the three social media platform owners — Musk, Ye and Trump — as “The Three Musketeers,”\u003c/a> tweeting “in retrospect, it was inevitable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Musk has been critical of Trump’s Truth Social, calling it a “right-wing echo chamber,” the celebration of Musk’s Twitter takeover by right-wing and conservative pundits and media since Thursday has worried Twitter users that the network will become more racist, sexist and toxic. 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Owens says there are plenty of other options for everyday users, like Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook, but adds that things would be especially alarming for journalists, considering \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/27/twitter-is-the-go-to-social-media-site-for-u-s-journalists-but-not-for-the-public/\">69% of U.S. journalists use Twitter as their preferred social media platform for work\u003c/a>, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those of us who are verified on Twitter and try to combat these storms of misinformation and disinformation … if the platform does all fall apart, where does that go?” said Owens. “Where can people find legitimate information?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, Elon Musk seemed to be moving quickly with changes, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/30/23431931/twitter-paid-verification-elon-musk-blue-monthly-subscription\">a plan to start charging $19.99 a month for verified users with the Twitter Blue check mark\u003c/a> — which is currently $4.99 a month — giving them 90 days to subscribe or lose their blue status. 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"content": "\u003cp>Art Laboe, widely credited as the first DJ to play rock and roll on the West Coast, died earlier this month in Palm Springs at the age of 97, after a broadcasting career spanning some 80 years. He coined the term \"oldies but goodies,\" and his beloved radio show drew a racially diverse audience from across California and beyond. California Report Magazine host Sasha Khokha got a chance to interview him for a 2019 story. This week, we're reprising that piece as a tribute to Laboe. Listen to the story in the audio link above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, Feb. 8, 2019:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>[dropcap]I[/dropcap] never knew who Art Laboe was, or what he meant to so many Californians, until I moved to Fresno, and started dating someone who grew up on Laboe's music. We would drive on country roads lined with orange groves and tune into Laboe's Sunday radio show, where people from all over the state would send in lovey-dovey dedications to each other. And then there was Laboe's signature on-air smooch into the microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My now-husband Karl was a low-rider growing up, cruising in his Nissan mini-truck with tinted windows, custom-painted graphics on the side and a booming stereo. He would blast Laboe's show, which played songs by artists like Rick James, Teena Marie, Tierra and the Temptations — from the 12-inch woofers, while waxing his car and cleaning the custom spoke wheels with a toothbrush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time I met Karl, he had moved away from the low-rider lifestyle, but not Art Laboe, or the love songs. He's one of generations of Californians — especially Chicanos and Latinx folks — who've grown up on Laboe's music, first listening as their grandparents did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35135_1947-circa-Art-Laboe-in-KCMJ-Palm-Springs-studio-qut-800x958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35135_1947-circa-Art-Laboe-in-KCMJ-Palm-Springs-studio-qut-800x958.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35135_1947-circa-Art-Laboe-in-KCMJ-Palm-Springs-studio-qut-160x192.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35135_1947-circa-Art-Laboe-in-KCMJ-Palm-Springs-studio-qut-1020x1221.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35135_1947-circa-Art-Laboe-in-KCMJ-Palm-Springs-studio-qut-1002x1200.jpg 1002w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35135_1947-circa-Art-Laboe-in-KCMJ-Palm-Springs-studio-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe developed a radio persona that was daring and rebellious for its time. Here he broadcasts from the Palm Springs studios of KCMJ in 1946 while getting a haircut. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Art Laboe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After all, Laboe has been spinning oldies and love songs since 1943. He coined the term “oldies but goodies” and was one of the first DJs on the West Coast to play rock 'n' roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He still takes to the airwaves from a Palm Springs studio six nights a week from 7 p.m. to midnight, hosting \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ArtLaboeConnection/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Art Laboe Connection\u003c/a> — a show broadcast on more than a dozen stations across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch a tribute to Art Laboe produced by videographer Bryan Mendez:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx6zqCY8GMU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe spends hours every day playing songs that are about the heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Love is a powerful medicine, whether you’re falling in love, or out of love,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Connecting loved ones, in and out of prison\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These days, many of those calling in with regular dedications have loved ones in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's just an amazing DJ. I would listen to him until my last breath,\" says longtime listener Rosie Morales, of Sylmar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 351px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11723897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-1200x797.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe receives thousands of letters from incarcerated people each year. Some envelopes contain a week's work of dedications for their loved ones. \u003ccite>(Bryan Mendez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She calls in every single day with a dedication to her husband Scrappy, who's serving a life sentence in Kern Valley State Prison in Delano. She can't call her husband directly right now, because he's in solitary confinement. But she can hear Laboe smooch kisses sent by her husband into his microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's able to communicate to our loved ones when we can't,\" Morales says. \"He brings that spark into relationships.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re there, man and wife, every night, man and wife, doing it to each other, dedications,\" Laboe laughs. \"Conjugal, but not conjugal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some incarcerated people send in a week's worth of dedications to their spouses or lovers, with a different love song for each day of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723729\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe has been spinning love songs for 75 years. \u003ccite>(Bryan Mendez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Art’s so concerned about the prisoners, because for every person that's inside there can be 10 or 20 family members on the outside affected by that person being in jail,\" says his longtime audio engineer, Joanna Morones, who answers phones to take dedications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He really caters to that family dynamic, you know, and connecting them. We're told every night, ‘I can't go visit him. I won't be able to go see him for two weeks, but I can talk to him on the radio.’ The guys in prison sit there and wait to hear their wives’ voice on the radio,\" Morones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Getting his start — thanks to the WWII draft\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Laboe's obsession with radio started when he was eight years old, when his sister sent his parents what he called \"this box that talked.\" He set up a ham radio station in his bedroom at age 14, broadcasting to his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was 18, he walked into radio station KSAN in San Francisco and asked for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no real experience, and he hadn’t yet honed his rich baritone. But he did have one thing: a radio operator’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The station had lost its engineers to the draft — this was World War II. The manager offered him a job on the spot. As long as he changed his last name, which the manager thought sounded \"too ethnic\" for the airwaves in 1943.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Art Egnoian — the son of Armenian immigrants — took the name of the station’s receptionist and became Art Laboe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11723557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35134_1945-KPMO-Art-Laboe-w-Eddie-Rodriquez-s-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35134_1945-KPMO-Art-Laboe-w-Eddie-Rodriquez-s-qut.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35134_1945-KPMO-Art-Laboe-w-Eddie-Rodriquez-s-qut-160x195.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laboe claims to have invented the on-air dedication, where listeners write or call in to send music and love notes to each other on the air. Here he reads dedications with Eddie Rodriguez in 1945, at radio station KPMO in Pomona. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Art Laboe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But his music, and his fan base, have never been whitewashed. Laboe has built a huge fan base, starting with the teenagers who attended his live concerts or dances back in the 1950s. He made a name for himself hosting rock 'n' roll concerts in the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte, pioneering racially integrated, all-ages dance parties with live bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can do some nice talking in Armenian. But I can do almost that good in Spanish, too,\" Laboe smiles. \"I’m happy that [our concerts and shows appeal to] everybody. If you come to one of our concerts, you’ll see a mixture, a complete mixture of what we have in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723561\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"Laboe pioneered live broadcast events, talking to listeners from drive-ins and concert halls, and sometimes even pulling stunts like trying to get a lion to roar into his microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-800x570.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laboe pioneered live broadcast events, talking to listeners from drive-ins and concert halls, and sometimes even pulling stunts like trying to get a lion to roar into his microphone. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Art Laboe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 94, Laboe is still hosting live shows across California and the west, wearing his signature bedazzled track suit and a sparkly bowler hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe says he knows people his age always say this kind of thing, but he is nostalgic for the old days — a time when people used to have a little more kindness for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be good if we had a little bit more of what we used to have in the world,\" Laboe says. \"Nevertheless, people are people and they still have the same basic wants and needs. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He still takes to the airwaves from a Palm Springs studio six nights a week from 7 p.m. to midnight, hosting \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ArtLaboeConnection/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Art Laboe Connection\u003c/a> — a show broadcast on more than a dozen stations across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch a tribute to Art Laboe produced by videographer Bryan Mendez:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\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/jx6zqCY8GMU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/jx6zqCY8GMU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Laboe spends hours every day playing songs that are about the heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Love is a powerful medicine, whether you’re falling in love, or out of love,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Connecting loved ones, in and out of prison\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These days, many of those calling in with regular dedications have loved ones in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's just an amazing DJ. I would listen to him until my last breath,\" says longtime listener Rosie Morales, of Sylmar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 351px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11723897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut-1200x797.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35166_DSCF7495-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe receives thousands of letters from incarcerated people each year. Some envelopes contain a week's work of dedications for their loved ones. \u003ccite>(Bryan Mendez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She calls in every single day with a dedication to her husband Scrappy, who's serving a life sentence in Kern Valley State Prison in Delano. She can't call her husband directly right now, because he's in solitary confinement. But she can hear Laboe smooch kisses sent by her husband into his microphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's able to communicate to our loved ones when we can't,\" Morales says. \"He brings that spark into relationships.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re there, man and wife, every night, man and wife, doing it to each other, dedications,\" Laboe laughs. \"Conjugal, but not conjugal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some incarcerated people send in a week's worth of dedications to their spouses or lovers, with a different love song for each day of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723729\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35147_2018_1211_185557001-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe has been spinning love songs for 75 years. \u003ccite>(Bryan Mendez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Art’s so concerned about the prisoners, because for every person that's inside there can be 10 or 20 family members on the outside affected by that person being in jail,\" says his longtime audio engineer, Joanna Morones, who answers phones to take dedications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He really caters to that family dynamic, you know, and connecting them. We're told every night, ‘I can't go visit him. I won't be able to go see him for two weeks, but I can talk to him on the radio.’ The guys in prison sit there and wait to hear their wives’ voice on the radio,\" Morones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Getting his start — thanks to the WWII draft\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Laboe's obsession with radio started when he was eight years old, when his sister sent his parents what he called \"this box that talked.\" He set up a ham radio station in his bedroom at age 14, broadcasting to his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was 18, he walked into radio station KSAN in San Francisco and asked for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no real experience, and he hadn’t yet honed his rich baritone. But he did have one thing: a radio operator’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The station had lost its engineers to the draft — this was World War II. The manager offered him a job on the spot. As long as he changed his last name, which the manager thought sounded \"too ethnic\" for the airwaves in 1943.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Art Egnoian — the son of Armenian immigrants — took the name of the station’s receptionist and became Art Laboe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11723557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35134_1945-KPMO-Art-Laboe-w-Eddie-Rodriquez-s-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35134_1945-KPMO-Art-Laboe-w-Eddie-Rodriquez-s-qut.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35134_1945-KPMO-Art-Laboe-w-Eddie-Rodriquez-s-qut-160x195.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laboe claims to have invented the on-air dedication, where listeners write or call in to send music and love notes to each other on the air. Here he reads dedications with Eddie Rodriguez in 1945, at radio station KPMO in Pomona. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Art Laboe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But his music, and his fan base, have never been whitewashed. Laboe has built a huge fan base, starting with the teenagers who attended his live concerts or dances back in the 1950s. He made a name for himself hosting rock 'n' roll concerts in the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte, pioneering racially integrated, all-ages dance parties with live bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can do some nice talking in Armenian. But I can do almost that good in Spanish, too,\" Laboe smiles. \"I’m happy that [our concerts and shows appeal to] everybody. If you come to one of our concerts, you’ll see a mixture, a complete mixture of what we have in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723561\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"Laboe pioneered live broadcast events, talking to listeners from drive-ins and concert halls, and sometimes even pulling stunts like trying to get a lion to roar into his microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-800x570.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35138_1958-Art-Laboe-KPOP-broadcast-event-s-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laboe pioneered live broadcast events, talking to listeners from drive-ins and concert halls, and sometimes even pulling stunts like trying to get a lion to roar into his microphone. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Art Laboe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 94, Laboe is still hosting live shows across California and the west, wearing his signature bedazzled track suit and a sparkly bowler hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe says he knows people his age always say this kind of thing, but he is nostalgic for the old days — a time when people used to have a little more kindness for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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