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In other words: free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://sfethics.org/ethics/2021/09/report-on-gift-laws-part-b-gifts-to-city-departments.html\">San Francisco Ethics Commission report released in late September\u003c/a>, city officials have been gifted at least $430,950 in free tickets to the festival through a loophole that, although technically legal, is ethically dubious, according to the report’s authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the city’s Recreation and Parks Department — which is the agency accepting the tickets from Another Planet Entertainment, which puts on the festival — is also in charge of the contract for the event space. That makes them a “restricted source” for officials involved in the contract, which means that accepting any gifts from entities they are doing business with poses a potential conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in this case, the Recreation and Parks Department is acting like a go-between, accepting the tickets in bulk from Another Planet and distributing them among its staff — so staff members needn’t accept them directly from the vendor. That, the report says, is effectively a loophole in the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Department officials would clearly be prohibited from accepting free tickets provided to them directly by Another Planet. Yet, \u003ca href=\"https://sfethics.org/ethics/2021/09/report-on-gift-laws-part-b-gifts-to-city-departments.html\">Rec and Parks nonetheless regularly distributes tickets provided for free by Another Planet to its employees and officers\u003c/a>, effectively resulting in the same outcome,” the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 779px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark_1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark_1.png\" alt=\"A graphic shows the Outside Lands vendor on the left, with an arrow to the Parks Department, and another arrow to officials. 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Recreation and Parks Department General Manager Phil Ginsburg declined an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ethics Commission report acknowledges the truth in that response (with the exception of some missing reporting going back to 2009, which it also dinged Rec and Parks for). But the report essentially makes the case that while the practice follows the letter of the law, it most certainly flouts the spirit of the law, particularly given the sheer number of free tickets doled out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2015 and 2019 — the last year the festival took place — the department distributed some 1,855 free tickets to public officials across the city, including department staffers and employees in other city departments, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those known Outside Lands tickets handed to Rec and Parks between 2015 and 2019, more than 1,200 went to staffers and other officials in the departments. The report does not include ticket data from this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Public Works, whose former director, Mohammed Nuru, was ousted last year after being indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly taking bribes to award city contracts. He was one of four city department heads to step down or otherwise be ousted during the ensuing ethics scandal, which alleges many instances of bribery and corruption in San Francisco city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethics disclosure documents obtained by KQED in a records request also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/projects/outside-lands-tickets-205461/\">detail other city officials who obtained those tickets\u003c/a> originally given to Rec and Parks in 2019 (at least two tickets each, and often more): Human Rights Commission Executive Director Sheryl Davis, former Homelessness Department Director Jeff Kositsky, Manny Yekutiel (who was appointed to an SFMTA commission in 2021), and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors Chair Gwyneth Borden, among others. Former Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who died in February 2019, also netted free Outside Lands tickets in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003cem>Disclosure: KQED was given six free Outside Lands tickets in 2019, according to city filings. These were not related to news coverage. Another Planet Entertainment is also a sponsor of KQED.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Ken Garcia, a former San Francisco Examiner columnist and then-de Young Museum staffer, netted free tickets from Rec and Parks. So did City Attorney Dennis Herrera (who netted six tickets), and former Assessor-Recorder (now City Administrator) Carmen Chu (who netted nine VIP tickets). Board of Supervisors staff netted 24 Outside Lands tickets among themselves in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restriction on accepting gifts is “designed to limit the potential for pay-to-play and avoid the appearance of preferential treatment,” the report notes. “Acting as an intermediary for a high volume of such gifts gravely undermines the restricted source rule,” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 613px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark2.jpg\" alt=\"A chart describes dollar amounts in tickets distributed by the Rec and Park department.\" width=\"613\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark2.jpg 613w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark2-160x60.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From San Francisco Ethics Commission report\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another Planet Entertainment declined to be interviewed and instead directed comments to the Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"san-francisco-corruption\"]The issue is hardly limited to Outside Lands. The same report also details the widespread legal, but ethically questionable, distribution of free tickets to city officials for events in various public venues, from the War Memorial Opera House to the San Francisco Symphony — cumulatively valued at more than $500,000 between 2009 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This flow of personal benefits to City officers and employees is significant,” the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rec and Parks Commission President Mark Buell did not return requests for comment. But a former commissioner and vice president, Allan Low, who stepped down in June, acknowledged that he had received free Outside Lands tickets in previous years, saying it was useful to attend the festival and see, firsthand, how his department’s work was being carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could see the event and appreciate the event, plus observe the crowd control, the parking. There was always something coming up either immediately before or after Outside Lands where there were complaints about traffic, noise,” Low said. “Shutting down the park, or restoration of the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rec and Parks made similar arguments in its communications with Ethics Commission staff in a series of exchanges that KQED obtained using open records laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We rely on requests [for tickets] because different circumstances create an interest for different people,” Rec and Parks spokesperson Sarah Madland wrote to Ethics Commission staff in an email sent on Sept. 14, 2021. “For example, this year, Outside Lands will be one of the first large events locally during COVID. This could create a subset of people with a desire to understand how the protocols are working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Ethics Commission report also pokes holes in that argument, noting that city officials don’t need tickets for entry if they have a work-related reason to be on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s fair criticism,” former Commissioner Low conceded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rec and Parks gave its own commissioners free tickets to Outside Lands in both 2017 and 2019, at least, the agency disclosed to Ethics Commission staff. In 2017, six commissioners received a total of 12 tickets worth a combined value of $9,540, and in 2019, two commissioners received a total of four tickets worth a combined value of $3,140.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing loopholes in ticket gifting would likely require new legislation from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. But Supervisor Connie Chan, who represents the Richmond District — which borders the Outside Lands festival — told KQED that corruption is so widespread in the city that lawmakers may need to first concentrate on broader ethics reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we take a step back, we have to look at our city government as a whole, and have to look at the changes we need to make to root out corruption,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan has scheduled a hearing for Nov. 18 to probe the broader relationship between outside philanthropic entities and the Recreation and Parks Department, and examine the various ethics concerns that relationship has raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, if you’re still looking for Outside Lands tickets for this weekend, you’re out of luck: It’s sold out across the board.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After a two-year hiatus, Outside Lands is returning to Golden Gate Park this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the massive outdoor festival come some certainties: Neighbors will complain about the noise and Uber cars will clog the surrounding streets, while many avid \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoutsidelands.com/tickets/\">concertgoers have shelled out more than $900\u003c/a> to attend the three-day music bash that includes headliners like Lizzo and The Strokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for some San Francisco city officials, those tickets will be something of a fringe benefit, gratis. In other words: free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://sfethics.org/ethics/2021/09/report-on-gift-laws-part-b-gifts-to-city-departments.html\">San Francisco Ethics Commission report released in late September\u003c/a>, city officials have been gifted at least $430,950 in free tickets to the festival through a loophole that, although technically legal, is ethically dubious, according to the report’s authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the city’s Recreation and Parks Department — which is the agency accepting the tickets from Another Planet Entertainment, which puts on the festival — is also in charge of the contract for the event space. That makes them a “restricted source” for officials involved in the contract, which means that accepting any gifts from entities they are doing business with poses a potential conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in this case, the Recreation and Parks Department is acting like a go-between, accepting the tickets in bulk from Another Planet and distributing them among its staff — so staff members needn’t accept them directly from the vendor. That, the report says, is effectively a loophole in the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Department officials would clearly be prohibited from accepting free tickets provided to them directly by Another Planet. Yet, \u003ca href=\"https://sfethics.org/ethics/2021/09/report-on-gift-laws-part-b-gifts-to-city-departments.html\">Rec and Parks nonetheless regularly distributes tickets provided for free by Another Planet to its employees and officers\u003c/a>, effectively resulting in the same outcome,” the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 779px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark_1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark_1.png\" alt=\"A graphic shows the Outside Lands vendor on the left, with an arrow to the Parks Department, and another arrow to officials. Another arrow directly from the Outside Lands vendor to city officials is crossed out.\" width=\"779\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark_1.png 779w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark_1-160x83.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graphic from San Francisco Ethics Commission report\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement in response, the Recreation and Parks Department said they follow “all local and state rules and reporting requirements” and that their contract, which includes a provision for free tickets in writing, was approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Recreation and Parks Department General Manager Phil Ginsburg declined an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ethics Commission report acknowledges the truth in that response (with the exception of some missing reporting going back to 2009, which it also dinged Rec and Parks for). But the report essentially makes the case that while the practice follows the letter of the law, it most certainly flouts the spirit of the law, particularly given the sheer number of free tickets doled out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2015 and 2019 — the last year the festival took place — the department distributed some 1,855 free tickets to public officials across the city, including department staffers and employees in other city departments, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those known Outside Lands tickets handed to Rec and Parks between 2015 and 2019, more than 1,200 went to staffers and other officials in the departments. The report does not include ticket data from this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Public Works, whose former director, Mohammed Nuru, was ousted last year after being indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly taking bribes to award city contracts. He was one of four city department heads to step down or otherwise be ousted during the ensuing ethics scandal, which alleges many instances of bribery and corruption in San Francisco city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethics disclosure documents obtained by KQED in a records request also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/projects/outside-lands-tickets-205461/\">detail other city officials who obtained those tickets\u003c/a> originally given to Rec and Parks in 2019 (at least two tickets each, and often more): Human Rights Commission Executive Director Sheryl Davis, former Homelessness Department Director Jeff Kositsky, Manny Yekutiel (who was appointed to an SFMTA commission in 2021), and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors Chair Gwyneth Borden, among others. Former Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who died in February 2019, also netted free Outside Lands tickets in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003cem>Disclosure: KQED was given six free Outside Lands tickets in 2019, according to city filings. These were not related to news coverage. Another Planet Entertainment is also a sponsor of KQED.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Ken Garcia, a former San Francisco Examiner columnist and then-de Young Museum staffer, netted free tickets from Rec and Parks. So did City Attorney Dennis Herrera (who netted six tickets), and former Assessor-Recorder (now City Administrator) Carmen Chu (who netted nine VIP tickets). Board of Supervisors staff netted 24 Outside Lands tickets among themselves in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restriction on accepting gifts is “designed to limit the potential for pay-to-play and avoid the appearance of preferential treatment,” the report notes. “Acting as an intermediary for a high volume of such gifts gravely undermines the restricted source rule,” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 613px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark2.jpg\" alt=\"A chart describes dollar amounts in tickets distributed by the Rec and Park department.\" width=\"613\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark2.jpg 613w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ethics_recpark2-160x60.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From San Francisco Ethics Commission report\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another Planet Entertainment declined to be interviewed and instead directed comments to the Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The issue is hardly limited to Outside Lands. The same report also details the widespread legal, but ethically questionable, distribution of free tickets to city officials for events in various public venues, from the War Memorial Opera House to the San Francisco Symphony — cumulatively valued at more than $500,000 between 2009 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This flow of personal benefits to City officers and employees is significant,” the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rec and Parks Commission President Mark Buell did not return requests for comment. But a former commissioner and vice president, Allan Low, who stepped down in June, acknowledged that he had received free Outside Lands tickets in previous years, saying it was useful to attend the festival and see, firsthand, how his department’s work was being carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could see the event and appreciate the event, plus observe the crowd control, the parking. There was always something coming up either immediately before or after Outside Lands where there were complaints about traffic, noise,” Low said. “Shutting down the park, or restoration of the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rec and Parks made similar arguments in its communications with Ethics Commission staff in a series of exchanges that KQED obtained using open records laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We rely on requests [for tickets] because different circumstances create an interest for different people,” Rec and Parks spokesperson Sarah Madland wrote to Ethics Commission staff in an email sent on Sept. 14, 2021. “For example, this year, Outside Lands will be one of the first large events locally during COVID. This could create a subset of people with a desire to understand how the protocols are working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Ethics Commission report also pokes holes in that argument, noting that city officials don’t need tickets for entry if they have a work-related reason to be on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s fair criticism,” former Commissioner Low conceded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rec and Parks gave its own commissioners free tickets to Outside Lands in both 2017 and 2019, at least, the agency disclosed to Ethics Commission staff. In 2017, six commissioners received a total of 12 tickets worth a combined value of $9,540, and in 2019, two commissioners received a total of four tickets worth a combined value of $3,140.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing loopholes in ticket gifting would likely require new legislation from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. But Supervisor Connie Chan, who represents the Richmond District — which borders the Outside Lands festival — told KQED that corruption is so widespread in the city that lawmakers may need to first concentrate on broader ethics reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we take a step back, we have to look at our city government as a whole, and have to look at the changes we need to make to root out corruption,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan has scheduled a hearing for Nov. 18 to probe the broader relationship between outside philanthropic entities and the Recreation and Parks Department, and examine the various ethics concerns that relationship has raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It was the first time in decades that she’d seen his glow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the California foundry that fired a bust of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Percy Newton, his surviving spouse supervised as a bronze caster put finishing touches on what is now the first permanent public art piece honoring the party in the city of its founding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just glowed, like he did,” Fredrika Newton said. “His skin just glistened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unveiling took place Sunday at Dr. Huey P. Newton Way and Mandela Parkway, near the spot where Newton was murdered in 1989. It came as Panther alumni, descendants and others gathered to mark the 55th anniversary of a party that has long been both celebrated and vilified. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fredrika Newton, founder of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation\"]‘I would like for people to see him as a total human being … he wasn’t just an iconic figure in a wicker chair. This was a man with vulnerabilities, with feelings, with insecurities, with frailties, just like anybody.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton remains a divisive figure. Many people still dismiss him as the leader of a band of beret-wearing, gun-toting hustlers — and no doubt would deplore the prospect of an American city memorializing him with a statue. Others say his failings were a drag on the Black Power movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many love him to this day, venerating him as a man who, with Bobby Seale, sought to unite all Black, impoverished and oppressed people against America’s racist, capitalistic and unjust interests. His influence on the Black Lives Matter movement is undeniable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Huey was maybe the only man I’ve ever known that was a truly free man,” said his older brother, Melvin Newton. “He was universal. He felt that no one could be on his back, if he stood up. And he always stood ramrod straight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893574\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893574 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Frederika_Newton-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with long gray braids and hoop earrings smiles as she stands beside a bronze bust of the head and bare shoulders of Huey P. Newton, who has a '70s-style Afro.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Frederika_Newton-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Frederika_Newton-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Frederika_Newton-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Frederika_Newton-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Frederika_Newton.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fredrika Newton, founder of the Dr. Huey P. 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Du Bois, Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By his late 30s, he had a doctorate in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and he was well on his way to global fame and notoriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton met Seale at a community college in Oakland, and the two founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in October 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton, the minister for defense, and Seale, the chair, were frustrated with the largely Southern civil rights movement spearheaded by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which they felt had failed to address the problems of Black people in the North and West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893575\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893575 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with long gray hair and a purple knitted cap speaks into a microphone, amid people holding umbrellas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS.jpg 1259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sculptor Dana King speaks to the audience at the unveiling at Dr. Huey P. Newton Way and Mandela Parkway in Oakland on Oct. 24, 2021, near where Newton was murdered in 1989. The sculpture is the City of Oakland’s first permanent art installation honoring the Black Panther Party, and the unveiling took place during a commemoration of the party’s 55th anniversary. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Historian Robert W. Widell Jr., who as a graduate student helped catalog Newton’s writings at Stanford University, said Newton was not a natural figurehead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My sense is that he sort of pushed himself out there to be this public, confrontational figure on the streets,” said Widell, now the history department chair at the University of Rhode Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I don’t know that that was his natural inclination, personality-wise. He was more of a theoretician. And I think he was pretty surprised at how rapidly [the Panthers] grew in exposure, whether it was fame or infamy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton and Seale wrote the party’s Ten-Point Program, which laid out the party’s beliefs and its demands. The party’s Survival Programs were beloved in nearly 70 communities the U.S. and abroad where it had chapters. The Panthers were known, among other things, for free breakfast programs for schoolchildren and a pioneering sickle cell disease testing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panthers’ antagonistic relationship with law enforcement has long cast a shadow over its legacy. In 1967, Newton was jailed for the shooting death of an Oakland police officer who had pulled him over. Although Newton was himself shot during the encounter and denied being responsible for the officer’s death, he was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While imprisoned, the “Free Huey” campaign helped make him a symbol of racial injustice in the American criminal legal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His conviction was overturned in 1970, and he emerged from prison to discover the party had grown well beyond Oakland. Its image largely centered on armed self-defense, including violent and lethal encounters between Panthers and police, both in Oakland and around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we also need to recognize the very real ways in which a lot of the violence that surrounded the Panthers was instigated and provoked by law enforcement themselves,” Widell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893580\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893580 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of people with umbrellas and masks watch or record with their phone action beyond the frame to the right.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite the rain, the crowd turned out for the unveiling of the Dr. Huey P. 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And when you meet people like that, you don’t forget them.”[aside tag=\"black-panther-party\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it had been in decline for several years, the Black Panther Party didn’t fold until 1982. That was after years of police surveillance, as well as dwindling national membership, infighting, allegations of embezzlement and scandals in which Newton was implicated and criminally charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, on Aug. 22, 1989, Newton was murdered in Oakland, California, by a drug dealer. He was 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton’s bust, Fredrika Newton said, is meant to celebrate someone whose life and contributions to American history mean much more than his decline, including addictions to alcohol and drugs, and demise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like for people to see him as a total human being,” said Newton, co-founder of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation. “That he wasn’t just an iconic figure in a wicker chair. 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"content": "\u003cp>Yoga in the Bay Area has evolved in many ways over the years — from more trendy practices such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.lemosfarm.com/goat-yoga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">goat yoga\u003c/a> and hot yoga, to more well-known forms like vinyasa, often described as a flow-based practice. During the pandemic, yoga studios in the Bay Area and across the country were forced to adapt and change again. In doing so, many began offering classes online and reaching a wider audience than they might have in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say the history of white westerners co-opting yoga as a practice has created an elitist culture within the industry. Yet with the accessibility of online yoga classes, more people have been able to incorporate yoga into their lifestyles and daily rituals. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Heather Haxo Phillips, owner of Adeline Yoga in Berkeley\"]‘Whether it’s injuries or whether it’s body size or whether it’s cultural or ethnicity, race … just the ability to have your camera on or off, the ability to practice at home or wherever you may be … yoga can and should be done by anybody who wants to do it wherever they want to do it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoga has roots in Hinduism in South Asia and was practiced as a way to unify the mind and body long before reemerging as what is now yoga in the U.S. — a mostly secular form of exercise popularized by a variety of yoga instructors. “Secularizing yoga made us abandon this concept of lineage,” Judith Carlisle, who is Black and a yoga studies instructor at Loyola Marymount University, said. “And at the same time, it legitimized white American and European teachers’ presence as yoga masters, becoming the yoga masters and the spokespeople for yoga.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heather Haxo Phillips, who is white, is the owner of \u003ca href=\"https://adelineyoga.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adeline Yoga\u003c/a> in Berkeley. In the online classes she’s been teaching since the start of the pandemic, she’s noticed an increase in the number of attendees from all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many people living in communities that don’t have access to high-quality instruction, and we’ve been able to provide that in a much more comprehensive way,” Haxo Phillips said. She said she knows of students who live in remote areas and used to drive for hours to attend in-person weekly classes, but are now able to participate in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892069\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892069 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Heather-cat-e1634230888817-800x458.png\" alt=\"Woman perched upside-down on a bench with a cat sitting on her bottom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Heather-cat-e1634230888817-800x458.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Heather-cat-e1634230888817-1020x584.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Heather-cat-e1634230888817-160x92.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Heather-cat-e1634230888817.png 1029w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Haxo Phillips, owner of Adeline Yoga, teaches a yoga class on Zoom. 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She also recognizes that there are spaces cultivated by practitioners of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way Adeline Yoga has reinforced engagement with students of color, like Badruzzaman, is by \u003ca href=\"https://adelineyoga.com/affordable-yoga/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offering scholarships\u003c/a>. In the Bay Area, as in many parts of the U.S., race and socioeconomic status often overlap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badruzzaman attends through a scholarship, and because of the studio’s inclusivity, she says she misses in-person classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still miss the community aspect of seeing people and being in community, although it’s not completely not there,” Badruzzaman said. “It may not be as palpable as being in the room, but there’s some of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The studio is still operating primarily online, with only two in-person beginner classes a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JqnVCyPWBQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tejal Patel is a Michigan-based yoga instructor and founder of \u003ca href=\"https://tejalyoga.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tejal Yoga\u003c/a>. She also has a podcast called \u003ca href=\"https://www.yogaisdeadpodcast.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yoga Is Dead\u003c/a>, which dives into the colonization of yoga. Patel and co-host Jesal Parikh, who both identify as South Asian American, explore topics of capitalism, diet culture and who is teaching and benefiting from yoga. They break down how the practice evolved in the U.S. into the westernized version of yoga that is seen today.[aside tag=\"yoga\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]“We had experiences with the culture of whiteness, essentially in yoga, showing up and dominating the space,” Patel said, reflecting on when she first began her yoga teacher training. “And also not just dominating the space, but falling into the typical class and race hierarchy, tropes of making power dynamics and racializing our identities in a way that felt really exclusionary and very harmful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This experience motivated Patel to bring the practice back to its cultural roots by recentering South Asian instructors. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: The audio version of this piece incorrectly identified Sankofa as a Swahili word. Its origins are with the Akan tribe in Ghana.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, a modest crowd gathered at Dunphy Park in Sausalito to witness the return of a mythical head of state. Dressed in yellow and gold and covered in jewels, Queen Calafia stepped off her boat and onto California soil for the first time in hundreds of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The production, staged on Oct. 3 by the Antenna Theater of San Rafael, sought to showcase the rich story that answers a basic question: Where does California get its name?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve never heard of Queen Calafia, you’re not alone. She was a character in “Las Sergas de Esplandián,” an early 16th-century romantic adventure novel written by Spanish author Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. In Las Sergas, Calafia was described as a Black warrior queen who ruled the mythical island of California. The island was inhabited only by Black women who lived like amazon warriors. Calafia wore armor made of fish bones, used weapons made of gold and commanded an army of griffins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892346 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/244407173_4658589550847294_1358331450639600664_n-800x1199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/244407173_4658589550847294_1358331450639600664_n-800x1199.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/244407173_4658589550847294_1358331450639600664_n-1020x1528.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/244407173_4658589550847294_1358331450639600664_n-160x240.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/244407173_4658589550847294_1358331450639600664_n-1025x1536.jpeg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/244407173_4658589550847294_1358331450639600664_n.jpeg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Calafia takes her first step onto California soil in 500 years. \u003ccite>(Herman Privette of Photography By Privette)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fantastical as that might seem, the novel was so popular in Spain that when conquistadors reached the tip of the Baja Peninsula, they thought they’d found the fabled island of California, and named it accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name stuck, but the memory of Calafia largely faded. She has only appeared in popular culture in fits and starts: in a Diego Rivera fresco at the City Club of San Francisco, in a mural at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco hotel and in a Disney California Adventure Park movie, in which she was played by Whoopi Goldberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raylene Gorum, who attended the gathering, lives on a houseboat in Sausalito and said she only found out about Calafia a couple of months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found it really intriguing and I really would like to celebrate this part of California history. I think it’s the right time.” Gorum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a moment of racial reckoning in the United States, as racist statues are being removed and schools renamed, many here consider Calafia’s story part of a nationwide movement to re-examine and re-tell our nation’s history. Among them is Dee Nathaniel, the actress playing the queen herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892347 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Calafia-Statue-800x1199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Calafia-Statue-800x1199.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Calafia-Statue-1020x1528.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Calafia-Statue-160x240.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Calafia-Statue-1025x1536.jpeg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Calafia-Statue.jpeg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large doll welcomes the queen. \u003ccite>(Herman Privette of Photography By Privette)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the past, women of color, especially Black women, haven’t always had the best representation,” she said. “So I think corrective representation is really important because we’re looking at the new generation of Black girls and women of color coming up, and it’s really important for them to see positive role models.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calafia may be a particularly charismatic role model because there just isn’t anyone like her, says Stacey Triplette, a Spanish professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Positive representations of Black people in early modern literature are incredibly rare,” she said. “Things like Othello, where it’s a very negative, very stereotyped representation, are so much more common. So this Black, beautiful woman is really unique.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s part of why Nathaniel finds it so exciting to embody Calafia in this production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an issue with erasure, and when something doesn’t fit into the dominant cultural narrative it’s erased. I know that history is written by the winners, but if we want a more inclusive society, we need to reach back into history and restore some of what has been lost,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calafia also doesn’t conform to the normalized gender roles of her time, Triplette added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892349 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Queen-Calafia-adresses-the-crowd-in-song-800x1199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Queen-Calafia-adresses-the-crowd-in-song-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Queen-Calafia-adresses-the-crowd-in-song-1020x1528.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Queen-Calafia-adresses-the-crowd-in-song-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Queen-Calafia-adresses-the-crowd-in-song-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Queen-Calafia-adresses-the-crowd-in-song.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Calafia addresses the audience in song. \u003ccite>(Herman Privette of Photography By Privette)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s not that sort of intellectual framework to talk about what being LGBTQ would be in the medieval and Renaissance period, but you can find a literary character like Calafia who doesn’t conform to what their society’s notion of femininity or masculinity should be,” Triplette said, alluding to Calafia’s profile as a strong leader and warrior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what she represents, the Calafia story is essential knowledge for every Californian, argues Chris Hardman, the Antenna Theater’s artistic director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our origin story. It’s like if you’ve decided not to read Genesis and you were a Christian,” Hardman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he thinks that theater is the right medium to bring that story to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what the potential of the theater trick is. It brings the history in and puts it right in front of you, and says, ‘It’s live. Deal with it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Stretching 56 feet across the Chinatown side of the Broadway Tunnel is a bronze and brass sculpture of a dragon, silently towering over the cars rumbling below. It’s been poised there — a stoic sort of guardian — since 1970. Bay Curious listener Sandi Sewell asked us to find out more about how it got there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dragon was designed by San Francisco-born artist Patti Bowler, and lovingly constructed by Santa Rosa metal worker Wade Lux. Sandi, our question asker, grew up with the Lux family and recently found out about the commission from some old photos. She was charmed to learn her old friend had a hand in making such a prestigious piece of art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Arts Commission says the imposing piece was one of the first public artworks to result from the city’s Art Enrichment Ordinance. The 1969 ordinance required every civic construction project in the city to dedicate two per cent of its budget to a piece of public art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the city approved the Chinatown Public Health Center to sit above the Broadway tunnel, architect Clarence Mayhew nominated Bowler to design the accompanying $27,500 artwork. (Mayhew’s judgment in such matters was trusted, thanks in part to his seat on the board of the SFMOMA.) The piece would be titled simply, “Dragon Relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1454px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11891330\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/BroadwayDragon2-JohnnyDismal.jpg\" alt=\"The sun shines out from behind a large building with a dragon relief on it.\" width=\"1454\" height=\"1938\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/BroadwayDragon2-JohnnyDismal.jpg 1454w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/BroadwayDragon2-JohnnyDismal-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/BroadwayDragon2-JohnnyDismal-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/BroadwayDragon2-JohnnyDismal-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/BroadwayDragon2-JohnnyDismal-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1454px) 100vw, 1454px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dragon relief guards the Broadway tunnel and Chinatown Public Health Center that sits above. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Johnny Dismal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At that time, Bowler was a fashionable and forward-thinking mixed media artist and designer, whose most talked about pieces were created using a new kind of paint she had invented. Bowler manipulated her special combination of polyester resin and dry pigments using brushes and bamboo. The end results were three-dimensional, multi-colored and abstract works that were on regular display in galleries around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[emailsignup newslettername=\"baycurious\" align=\"right\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1961, the San Francisco Examiner wrote that Bowler’s “striking designs” were “unusually dynamic, lucid and handsome.” Pennsylvania’s Republican and Herald newspaper once described Bowler as an “exceptionally talented artist … that seems to thrive on hard work.” Bowler had experience working on large-scale murals and construction projects too, so the size of the dragon wasn’t a source of intimidation. After she had finalized the design, it was up to Lux — a self-described “tin-bender” — to build something that would last, scales and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, however, a small twist in this tale—Bowler’s design might never have graced the tunnel if not for a dash of nepotism. It turns out that Clarence Mayhew — the architect who chose Bowler to helm the project — was both a friend and former employer of Bowler’s architect husband, J. Carson Bowler. Mayhew gave Mr. Bowler his first major architecture job, just two years after the Bowlers were married. By awarding the “Dragon Relief” commission to Patti Bowler, he offered his protégé’s wife a hand into the big leagues as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of how it ended up there, Bowler and Lux’s dragon continues to guard the Robert C. Levy tunnel today, beneath the tall windows of the health center. And while their creation has outlived them both, it remains a testament to Patti Bowler’s artistic vision and Wade Lux’s impeccable metal skills. It also, rather helpfully, serves as a symbol of strength and luck for all of the patients being treated above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So you might be relieved to hear this bridge has a secret guardian lurking under the eastern span, keeping us all safe: the Bay Bridge troll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been a few trolls on the bridge over the years, but the legend of the first Bay Bridge troll begins in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Loma Prieta earthquake — a magnitude 6.9 on the Richter scale — collapsed a large section of the upper deck of the Bay Bridge, “and honestly, if the earthquake would have continued for a few more seconds, the entire Eastern span would have collapsed,” said Bart Ney of Caltrans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The repair work was done in about a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The contractors and the state were working together out there around the clock, seven days a week,” said Ney. Crews on the bridge worked to install steel pieces fabricated, in part, at a shop in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers from the Oakland shop contacted a local blacksmith and artist named Bill Roan with an idea — to build a gargoyle to protect the repaired bridge section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roan did his research and found that gargoyles are not typically bridge guardians, so he proposed something a little more useful.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The troll is born\u003c/h2>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>“Who’s that tripping over my bridge?” roared the troll … “Now, I’m coming to gobble you up.” — from “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The connection between trolls and bridges reaches back to the Norwegian fairy tale “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” published in the 1840s. The tale finds three billy goats trying to cross a bridge under which lives a scary troll. The three goats outsmart the troll to pass. The story was translated into English in the 1850s, and since then, trolls and bridges became inextricably linked in pop culture. As for what a troll actually looks like or does, that changes from culture to culture, bridge to bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roan decided a troll was what the repaired Bay Bridge needed to ward off evil spirits — seismic or supernatural. The result, said Ney, was, “particularly special. It was crafted out of a piece of metal that was from the [collapsed] bridge. Bill said he was trying to make a particularly fierce troll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ney said the troll has webbed feet and hands, for swimming. He’s holding “a giant wrench welded into a bolt. And, he has a really long tongue, I mean his tongue is almost as long as half of his body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, under the cover of darkness, “[the troll] was placed on the bridge segment, facing the outside so no one else would really see it,” said Ney. After the retrofit was completed, the troll stayed on the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately (the troll) did a good job out there for 24 years because we had no further, bigger earthquakes that impacted the structure,” said Ney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Caltrans began construction on the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 2002, the troll’s artist, Bill Roan, offered to make a new troll for the new bridge. Ney said they turned him down: “You can’t bring that sort of thing in the front door! This is where we talk about science and technology. That’s magic. The original troll came to Caltrans, we didn’t ask for him, and a new troll would need to be of the same ilk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No formal plans were made for a new troll. In fact, Caltrans’s official policy was “benign noninterference.” But when the new eastern span opened in 2013, a new, slightly taller troll was unveiled one night. Perched high atop a pier, the 2-foot troll is made of solid steel. He’s got a beard and tools in his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Finding the troll\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realchrisjbeale/status/1448421406631292928?t=Ud8Cy-cZn2nY-479Mp0V_g&s=19\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892166 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210929_121734-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A view of painted white iron beams, with one metal figurine of a troll on a lower level in shadow, and a white-painted one in the light.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210929_121734-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210929_121734-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210929_121734-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210929_121734-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210929_121734.jpeg 1890w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When searching for the Bay Bridge troll, you’ll find that there are at least two on the bridge. The lower troll is considered “the” troll. \u003ccite>(Christopher Beale/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Head out onto the \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/biking/bay-bridge-trail\">Bay Bridge Trail\u003c/a>, a few miles in, \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/WSghR5uRTkX3w5rn8\">where the cable connects to the bridge deck\u003c/a>, look down under the roadway, and you’ll spot the modern Bay Bridge troll in the shadows, spinning magic to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892167 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210929_121724-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"An angular dark metal figurine with legs and arms, holding tools, its feet affixed to the cement below it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210929_121724-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210929_121724-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210929_121724-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210929_121724-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210929_121724.jpeg 1890w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The troll is always in shadow. Apparently trolls don’t like the sun. \u003ccite>(Christopher Beale/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The original troll, from the old bridge, now lives in retirement at the Caltrans office in Oakland, where Ney said the troll never allows himself to be forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be dead and gone and people will still be talking about the troll,” Ney said. “Every time I get off the elevator and I see him there, I just have to give him a wink. I never miss him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’d like to visit the original troll, visit him at the Caltrans office at 111 Grand Ave. in Oakland, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892168 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210930_095400-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A smiling man in a black jacket and black pants poses in front of a glass case that hold a metal figurine of a fairly human-looking troll.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210930_095400-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210930_095400-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210930_095400-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210930_095400-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/20210930_095400.jpeg 1890w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talking about the troll can be a bit of an annoyance for Bart Ney, the chief of public affairs at Caltrans District 4. 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Speaking confidently at a charged hearing, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043207218/whistleblower-to-congress-facebook-products-harm-children-and-weaken-democracy\">accused the company\u003c/a> of being aware of apparent harm to some teens from Instagram and being dishonest in its public fight against hate and misinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy,” Haugen said. “The company’s leadership knows how to make Facebook and Instagram safer but won’t make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congressional action is needed,” she said. “They won’t solve this crisis without your help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former employee challenging the social network giant with 2.8 billion users worldwide and nearly $1 trillion in market value is a 37-year-old data expert from Iowa with a degree in computer engineering and a master’s degree in business from Harvard. Prior to being recruited by Facebook in 2019, she worked for 15 years at tech companies including Google, Pinterest and Yelp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haugen said the company has acknowledged publicly that integrity controls were crucially needed for its systems that stoke the engagement of users, but then it disabled some of those controls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dialogue with receptive senators of both parties, Haugen, who focused on algorithm products in her work at Facebook, explained the importance to the company of algorithms that govern what shows up on users’ news feeds. She said a 2018 change to the content flow contributed to more divisiveness and ill will in a network ostensibly created to bring people closer together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the enmity that the new algorithms were feeding, she said Facebook found that they helped keep people coming back — a pattern that helped the social media giant sell more of the digital ads that generate most of its revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senators agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has profited off spreading misinformation and disinformation and sowing hate,” said Democratic Sen. 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But “in the end, the buck stops with Mark,” she said referring to Zuckerberg, who controls more than 50% of Facebook’s voting shares. “There is no one currently holding Mark accountable but himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)\"]‘Facebook’s answers to Facebook’s destructive impact always seems to be more Facebook.’[/pullquote]Haugen said she believed that Zuckerberg was familiar with some of the internal research showing concerns for potential negative impacts of Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government needs to step in with stricter oversight of the company, Haugen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like fellow tech giants Google, Amazon and Apple, Facebook has enjoyed minimal regulation. A number of bipartisan legislative proposals for the tech industry address data privacy, protection of young people and anti-competitive conduct. But getting new laws through Congress is a heavy slog. The Federal Trade Commission has adopted a stricter stance recently toward Facebook and other companies.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThe subcommittee is examining Facebook’s use of information from its own researchers on Instagram that could indicate potential harm for some of its young users, especially girls, while it publicly downplayed the negative impacts\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some of the teens devoted to Instagram, the peer pressure generated by the visually focused platform has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13897329/facebook-calls-links-to-depression-inconclusive-these-researchers-disagree\">led to mental health and body-image problems\u003c/a> and, in some cases, eating disorders and suicidal thoughts, the research leaked by Haugen showed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One internal study cited 13.5% of teen girls saying Instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse and 17% of teen girls saying it makes eating disorders worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the drive for user engagement, Haugen testified, “Facebook knows that they are leading young users to anorexia content … It’s just like cigarettes. Teenagers don’t have any self-regulation. We need to protect the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11891045\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920-1020x681.jpg\"]Haugen has come forward with a wide-ranging condemnation of Facebook, buttressed with tens of thousands of pages of internal research documents she secretly copied before leaving her job in the company’s civic integrity unit. She also has filed complaints with federal authorities alleging that Facebook’s own research shows that it amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest but the company hides what it knows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company intentionally hides vital information from the public, from the U.S. government and from governments around the world,” Haugen said. “The documents I have provided to Congress prove that Facebook has repeatedly misled the public about what its own research reveals about the safety of children, the efficacy of its artificial intelligence systems and its role in spreading divisive and extreme messages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After recent reports in The Wall Street Journal based on documents she leaked to the newspaper raised a public outcry, Haugen revealed her identity in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview aired Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the public relations debacle over the Instagram research grew last week, Facebook put on hold its work on a kids’ version of Instagram, which the company says is meant mainly for tweens age 10 to 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haugen said that Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and incitement to violence after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump last year, alleging that contributed to the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the November election, Facebook dissolved the civic integrity unit where Haugen had been working. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve spent any time at all in Redwood City, you know what we’re talking about: The sign! (Or signs, plural.) They say “Redwood City” across the top, and, in smaller font, is the city’s slogan: “Climate Best by Government Test.” Been there forever. Sounds kinda official. But is it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does Redwood City actually have the best weather?” asks Lauren Tankeh of San Carlos, which lies just north of Redwood City. “I think it’s a little nicer in San Carlos. I think we actually have nicer weather.” There seems to be a somewhat competitive quality to Tankeh’s query. Time for a climate throw-down here in the Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Michael Svanevik, historian and retired professor at the College of San Mateo, the sign’s origin dates back to 1925. At the time, Peninsula farmland had long given way to the suburbs of San Francisco, thanks to two things: the railroad that runs from San Francisco to San José (where Caltrain runs today), and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Camino Real\u003c/a>, then called the County Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mood of the day was growth. Many of the city founders owned a lot of real estate they bought on the cheap, and they were keen to sell it for profit. 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His father, Clarence, was president of the George H. Rice Abstract Company, which is pictured here. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Redwood City Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Mateo built an amusement park, the ill-fated Pacific City, which may have been the most ambitious concept. Many cities just came up with slogans. Our question-asker Tankeh knows the one for her hometown, San Carlos: “The City of Good Living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11705654,news_11621122,news_11747125\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]In 1925, the Redwood City Chamber of Commerce and the Real Estate Board sponsored a contest for a slogan that would sum up the charms of Redwood City. Conveniently, the guy who won the contest was heavily involved in organizing the contest, in thick with the city founders because he was one himself: Wilbur Doxsee, the president of the Redwood City Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doxsee’s winning slogan? The one that beat out 78 other entries? “By Government Test, Our Climate Is Best” — later shortened to the somewhat catchier “Climate Best by Government Test.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Svanevik said, “Immediately, somebody came forth and said, ‘Wilbur Doxsee, how do you know that’s true?’ And he said, ‘I don’t. I made it up.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doxsee made the slogan up, but Svanevik suspects he was thinking of his friend, amateur meteorologist Henry C. Finkler. “He owned all the property that is today [Edgewood Park],” said Svanevik. 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Finkler was a bicyclist. And he became, I have to say, fanatically interested in weather. And he recorded, every day he rode down the hill, what the air temperature was, what the winds were, the number of days of rain,” Svanevik said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Finkler who first claimed there were only three parts of the world that had perfect weather: the Canary Islands off the coast of northwestern Africa, North Africa’s Mediterranean Coast, and anything within a 20-mile radius of Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finkler was buddies with a fellow cyclist, Franklin Lane, who was secretary of the interior under Woodrow Wilson when the U.S. got involved in World War I. Lane remembered his buddy Finkler with the weather research and, on the basis of that, convinced President Wilson to establish one of the first military bases on the West Coast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705654/wwi-and-the-peninsulas-forgotten-contribution-to-the-war-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camp Fremont\u003c/a>, in Menlo Park. (This put Menlo Park on the map, so to speak.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another way Doxsee may have been inspired comes from a nonmilitary, German weather survey conducted before World War I by the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, a government research outfit in Berlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1912, the German government asked counselor agents all over the world to send in statistics about weather in their area. Need I tell you not many people keep weather statistics. Well, Henry Finkler has it all,” Svanevik said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theory goes: Doxsee read an article in The San Francisco Chronicle about the climate survey, and this was how Finkler’s assessment of Redwood City got national, and even international, attention. Doxsee’s slogan sealed the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel almost cheated,” said our listener upon learning how bogus the science behind the sign was. She was thinking this story would go in an entirely different direction: “You know, is this test outdated? Has climate change shifted the best weather a little bit north to San Carlos?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, of course, a good argument to be made that “best” weather is a purely subjective title. Lots of people love rain and fog. Some people like it hot. Speaking for myself, I think the weather on the Peninsula sits in the Goldilocks Zone: not too hot, not too cold, most of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is to say, I think Finkler and Doxsee got it right. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve spent any time at all in Redwood City, you know what we’re talking about: The sign! (Or signs, plural.) They say “Redwood City” across the top, and, in smaller font, is the city’s slogan: “Climate Best by Government Test.” Been there forever. Sounds kinda official. But is it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does Redwood City actually have the best weather?” asks Lauren Tankeh of San Carlos, which lies just north of Redwood City. “I think it’s a little nicer in San Carlos. I think we actually have nicer weather.” There seems to be a somewhat competitive quality to Tankeh’s query. Time for a climate throw-down here in the Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Michael Svanevik, historian and retired professor at the College of San Mateo, the sign’s origin dates back to 1925. At the time, Peninsula farmland had long given way to the suburbs of San Francisco, thanks to two things: the railroad that runs from San Francisco to San José (where Caltrain runs today), and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621122/el-camino-not-so-real-the-true-story-of-the-ancient-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">El Camino Real\u003c/a>, then called the County Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mood of the day was growth. Many of the city founders owned a lot of real estate they bought on the cheap, and they were keen to sell it for profit. Also, there was lots of competition among the cities on the Peninsula, all vying for new residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right after [World War I], they started a number of advertising campaigns to attract people into their different communities,” Svanevik said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11890232 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A black-and-white photo of an office, with high windows along one wall, file cabinets, and a few desks. A man sits at one desk, a woman at another, and a second man leans against a cabinet.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-1536x1013.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-2048x1351.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Doxsee-Family-@-G.-Rice-Title-Co.-1920x1266.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The younger man, standing in this photo, is likely to be Wilbur Doxsee, the man who coined the phrase Redwood City is known for today. His father, Clarence, was president of the George H. Rice Abstract Company, which is pictured here. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Redwood City Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Mateo built an amusement park, the ill-fated Pacific City, which may have been the most ambitious concept. Many cities just came up with slogans. Our question-asker Tankeh knows the one for her hometown, San Carlos: “The City of Good Living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/hidden-gems\">\u003cem>Read more from The California Report Magazine’s ‘Hidden Gems’ series.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Just off Highway 99, halfway between Fresno and Bakersfield, lies the small community of Goshen. It’s mostly known for its ethanol plant, but among the warehouses and agricultural supply stores that line its commercial streets, there’s a jewel of a joint whose popularity goes well beyond even state lines: a food truck that serves Lao fried chicken and rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck sits in the parking lot of a large store that sells plastic dinosaurs, stuffed animals and novelty items for vending machines. Lady Chicken & Rice is hand painted in candied red letters on its front. Lady Chicken is named for the woman who created the deep-fried Lao chicken recipe that’s so popular here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889486\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889486 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1725-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling man in a ball cap and glasses standing inside a food truck puts two small plastic containers into a plastic bag.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1725-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1725-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1725-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1725-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1725-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1725-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bounthong Sang prepares an order for a customer. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I call her Lady. She’s my Lady,” said Bounthong Sang, who runs the business. He was talking about his wife, Bounleuk. Bounthong didn’t give her the nickname, though — fame did. Well, fame among the locals here in Goshen who love her chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t know her name. They call, ‘Oh, that’s Lady Chicken,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food truck serves as many as 500 customers a day. It’s open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and lines form as soon as the first batch of chicken is out of the fryer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bounthong said he’s met travelers from as far away as Virginia and Texas who find rave reviews on Yelp or other food apps. But there are also plenty of regulars, like Tony Solis, a UPS driver who comes here at least once a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Great food, good price, friendly people, awesome,” Tony said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friendly people include Bounthong’s employees, whom he calls family even though they’re from Mexico and he’s from Laos. Ramona Villa, who was inside the truck prepping the $3 plates of golden brown chicken and sticky rice, said they stay busy all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never stop cooking until it’s time to go home,” she said. Ramona has a large colorful tattoo just below her neck that says “Robert.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband,” she said, looking down at the word and smiling. Robert. Lady Chicken. Love is written all around here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ramona Villa, Works at Lady Chicken & Rice\"]‘Everybody always comes back over and over and that’s the first thing they always say is the chile.’[/pullquote]Speaking of love, people also return for the homemade green jalapeño sauce that goes with the chicken, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody always comes back over and over and that’s the first thing they always say is the chile,” Ramona said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villa packed two wrapped plates in a brown paper lunch bag, threw in a couple containers of sauce and handed them to Marbella Sotelo. Marbella ran the cash register and took orders, sometimes in English and sometimes in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Un pollo con arroz, unas spring rolls, y — gracias,” she said to a customer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said everyone who works here knows how to do all the tasks: ring up orders, make rice, deep-fry the egg rolls, deep-fry the chicken, twice. The second time, it’s fried at a higher temperature to make it extra crispy, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889487 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1737-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two women, backs turned, stand inside a food truck, one wearing an apron and pulling chicken from a deep fryer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1737-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1737-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1737-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1737-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1737-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_1737-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bounleuk Sang, nicknamed ‘Lady,’ fries chicken at the food truck. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s the flavor, you know, they’ve got something,” she said, explaining why the chicken is so popular. “The chicken, you know, it’s a good flavor and the way that they cook, it’s crispy, and soft inside. So it’s really good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from the chicken, fresh spring rolls also are on the menu. Egg rolls, too. That’s why Erendira Aranzazu comes here. Often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More often than I should!” she said, laughing loudly. “Very, very good food. You can taste the authenticity of it, and my favorite are the egg rolls. Egg rolls by far are the best in town. For sure. Hands down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few other customers in line shared why they visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s close by, the food is good, and the ladies are friendly,” said one woman ordering for herself and her co-workers who work at a nearby grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"hidden-gems\" label=\"More Stories From the California Report Magazine's Hidden Gems Series\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Quality, I guess you could say. Because I’ve tried a lot of chicken and rice and it’s not the same,” said a young man named Brian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The authenticity of it. It’s not like anything else. You can’t really get this anywhere else other than here,” said Jonathan Zavaleta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bounthong knows he’s got a good thing going here: regulars he greets daily, people who come from far away to enjoy the food, employees he views as family and a popular chicken recipe created by the woman he loves\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, maybe I say, ‘Hey, Lady, I love you.’ Something like that every day,” he said. “We have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have to, he said, because how can you run a popular food truck without letting the woman behind it know how much she’s appreciated? Without Lady Chicken, he said, there would be no Lady Chicken & Rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/hidden-gems\">\u003cem>Read more from The California Report Magazine’s ‘Hidden Gems’ series.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>To be honest, The Shuei-Do Manju Shop is not quite a \u003cem>hidden\u003c/em> gem. It was established in 1953, and word has been out for almost 70 years now. But hidden or not, it’s certainly a \u003cem>gem — \u003c/em>There’s almost always a line at this little shop on Jackson Street, the main drag in San José’s Japantown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mochi made here by hand is so soft, so pillowy, one Instagram follower described them as “baby cheeks,” and this journalist (cough) can confirm the description is accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re some of the best I’ve ever had. It’s always nice and fresh,” said Gene Takahashi from the Takahashi Market in San Mateo (\u003cem>another\u003c/em> hidden gem, by the way). “I have a legion of addicts that come shopping at my store, looking for this.” He drives down twice a week to pick up 40 pieces of mochi for his store on Thursdays, and 80 to 90 on Saturdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Takahashi miscalculates demand, and the treats don’t sell out, he’ll be unable to resist eating what’s left, especially the Kinako (top row, center in the photo below): That’s the mochi filled with white lima bean paste, covered on the outside with a blizzard of soybean flour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a trick to eating it,” Takahashi advised. “You have to make sure and take a breath first before you bite it, so you don’t inhale, and sneeze, and get brown powder in the air!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886965 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_0783-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Six pieces of mochi, from top left, pink, sandy-colored with powder topping, white, dark gray, and two gray mochis with white sugar powder topping.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_0783-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_0783-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_0783-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_0783-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_0783-1536x1151.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_0783-2048x1535.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/IMG_0783-1920x1439.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Which to pick? There’s no wrong choice at Shuei-Do Manju Shop in San José’s Japantown. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Japanese teatime sweets are called \u003ca href=\"https://sakura.co/blog/what-is-japanese-wagashi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wagashi,\u003c/a> and there are hundreds of varieties, many regional and seasonal. Here in the U.S., much of what you’ll find in supermarkets has been shipped directly from Japan. There are even Japanese chains like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kitchoan.com/shop/all/in-store-pickup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K. Minamoto\u003c/a> that feature stores in California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But stores run by Japanese Americans are a special breed, and there are a vanishing few. \u003ca href=\"http://www.benkyodocompany.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Benkyodo\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Japantown is expected to close at the end of the year. More widely, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837511/whats-lost-in-bay-area-asian-culture-when-sf-eviction-moratorium-ends\">the Japantown mall has had a rough pandemic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom and Judy Kumamaru, the owners at Shuei-Do, specialize in mochi. Those are the sweets made with glutinous rice pounded into a paste and steamed, sometimes flavored and cut into squares, more often molded into something the size of a golf ball, filled with white lima or red adzuki bean paste, and lightly dusted so they don’t stick to your hand or the little paper cups they come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kumamarus also make manju (baked) and chichi dango (made with rice flour, versus rice). On the day I visited, wobbly pink squares of strawberry chichi dango were the featured special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their kitchen is tiny, packed with ancient copper kettles, giant steaming baskets, a baker’s oven and a simple wooden table for assembly. The two of them move with steady, practiced ease: pinching off the mochi paste, pressing with fingers to make a space for the filling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886968 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A whiteboard details the treats at Shuei-Do, saying \"chichidango flavors\" in multicolored marker, with a drawing of a bear with a mask on top of a mochi pastry. ' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The teatime treats at Shuei-Do are made fresh, sans preservatives. Plan to eat them within three days, presuming you make it home without having finished them all. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no real recipe. Everything is by look, feel and timing,” said Judy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_10459596,news_11636018,arts_13814125\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]The Kumamarus didn’t start out in sweets. Judy was a dental technician. Tom worked for an electronics company. It so happens, Judy’s parents were pals with the original husband-and-wife team, the Ozawas, who launched Shuei-Do Manju Shop in 1953. So when they were ready to retire, in the late 1980s, Judy’s parents lined up a transfer of ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shop was well known,” Tom explained. “It was already established. No competition. No other shops are around, until you go to San Francisco or LA or Fresno.” In short, they knew there was already an established, loyal customer base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tom and Judy had to say yes to taking over the business before the Ozawas taught them the trade, and it turns out to be a lot of work. “I get here about 5 [a.m.], and I don’t get home till 8, 9 [p.m.],” said Tom. The couple downsized the menu of varieties from around 20 to around a dozen, but still struggle to meet consumer demand. They pull all-nighters ahead of major holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.taiwantrade.com/product/commercial-mochi-maker-machine-high-quality-good-design-1142679.html#\">machines now that can churn out thousands of mochi in an hour\u003c/a>, the Kumamarus looked into them years ago, and decided against the mechanical mochi-makers. They didn’t like the prospect of just running a wholesale business, spending their days on the computer, on the phone, managing accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11886969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Tom and Judy Kumamaru make the peanut butter mochi, introduced into their lineup by customer demand.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1922\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-800x601.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-1020x766.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-1536x1153.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-2048x1538.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-1920x1442.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom and Judy Kumamaru make the peanut butter mochi, introduced into their lineup by customer demand. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also, in a world where many mochi can be prettier to look at than tasty to eat, it matters to the Kumamarus that their preservative-free, “country-style” mochi tastes the way they like it: soft, fresh, not too sweet. They’re so particular, so focused on quality, they get relatives in Japan to ship them specialty ingredients that aren’t available in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kumamarus like the simple delight it brings customers. “I love it when someone bites into it and they just go, ‘Ooooh.’ They like it, you know?” said Judy. She added she’s seen people open their boxes right outside the store and down several mochi immediately, unable to wait until they get home. They get customers from Los Angeles and Japan. NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shueidomanju/posts/flashbackfriday-when-former-us-secretary-of-transportation-norman-mineta-and-act/10158660461832679/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">profiled the shop\u003c/a> a few years back, delighting Judy’s relatives in Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886974\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886974\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-10-43-06-AM-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"The outside of Shuei-Do, a mochi shop, with its door wide open. It has blue awning and beige lettering. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-10-43-06-AM-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-10-43-06-AM-800x556.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-10-43-06-AM-1020x709.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-10-43-06-AM-160x111.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-10-43-06-AM-1536x1068.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-10-43-06-AM-2048x1424.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-10-43-06-AM-1920x1335.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When they first started, Tom and Judy Kumamaru were open six days a week, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Now, it’s four days a week, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Somehow, 34 years have passed since the Kumamarus started. The original owners, the Ozawas, lasted 35 years. Who is going to continue this critical community service if Tom and Judy can’t convince their kids to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are four kids to choose from. Like other family members, the Kumamaru “children” (they’re grown now) already help, when they aren’t busy with their own jobs. Like that \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shueidomanju/\">Instagram account\u003c/a> keeping Shuei-Do current with younger foodies? That’s the kids. But it’s not a sure bet one of them wants do this for another 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The minute we get in here, it’s nonstop till we close. It’s hard for just one to take over. You would need a few people, in order to get all this done. So it’s still up in the air. They’re still not saying!” Judy said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But stores run by Japanese Americans are a special breed, and there are a vanishing few. \u003ca href=\"http://www.benkyodocompany.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Benkyodo\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Japantown is expected to close at the end of the year. More widely, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837511/whats-lost-in-bay-area-asian-culture-when-sf-eviction-moratorium-ends\">the Japantown mall has had a rough pandemic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom and Judy Kumamaru, the owners at Shuei-Do, specialize in mochi. Those are the sweets made with glutinous rice pounded into a paste and steamed, sometimes flavored and cut into squares, more often molded into something the size of a golf ball, filled with white lima or red adzuki bean paste, and lightly dusted so they don’t stick to your hand or the little paper cups they come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kumamarus also make manju (baked) and chichi dango (made with rice flour, versus rice). On the day I visited, wobbly pink squares of strawberry chichi dango were the featured special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their kitchen is tiny, packed with ancient copper kettles, giant steaming baskets, a baker’s oven and a simple wooden table for assembly. The two of them move with steady, practiced ease: pinching off the mochi paste, pressing with fingers to make a space for the filling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886968 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A whiteboard details the treats at Shuei-Do, saying \"chichidango flavors\" in multicolored marker, with a drawing of a bear with a mask on top of a mochi pastry. ' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-06-20-AM-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The teatime treats at Shuei-Do are made fresh, sans preservatives. Plan to eat them within three days, presuming you make it home without having finished them all. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no real recipe. Everything is by look, feel and timing,” said Judy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Kumamarus didn’t start out in sweets. Judy was a dental technician. Tom worked for an electronics company. It so happens, Judy’s parents were pals with the original husband-and-wife team, the Ozawas, who launched Shuei-Do Manju Shop in 1953. So when they were ready to retire, in the late 1980s, Judy’s parents lined up a transfer of ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shop was well known,” Tom explained. “It was already established. No competition. No other shops are around, until you go to San Francisco or LA or Fresno.” In short, they knew there was already an established, loyal customer base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tom and Judy had to say yes to taking over the business before the Ozawas taught them the trade, and it turns out to be a lot of work. “I get here about 5 [a.m.], and I don’t get home till 8, 9 [p.m.],” said Tom. The couple downsized the menu of varieties from around 20 to around a dozen, but still struggle to meet consumer demand. They pull all-nighters ahead of major holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.taiwantrade.com/product/commercial-mochi-maker-machine-high-quality-good-design-1142679.html#\">machines now that can churn out thousands of mochi in an hour\u003c/a>, the Kumamarus looked into them years ago, and decided against the mechanical mochi-makers. They didn’t like the prospect of just running a wholesale business, spending their days on the computer, on the phone, managing accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11886969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Tom and Judy Kumamaru make the peanut butter mochi, introduced into their lineup by customer demand.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1922\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-800x601.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-1020x766.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-1536x1153.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-2048x1538.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Photo-Aug-19-9-58-20-AM-1920x1442.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom and Judy Kumamaru make the peanut butter mochi, introduced into their lineup by customer demand. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also, in a world where many mochi can be prettier to look at than tasty to eat, it matters to the Kumamarus that their preservative-free, “country-style” mochi tastes the way they like it: soft, fresh, not too sweet. They’re so particular, so focused on quality, they get relatives in Japan to ship them specialty ingredients that aren’t available in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kumamarus like the simple delight it brings customers. “I love it when someone bites into it and they just go, ‘Ooooh.’ They like it, you know?” said Judy. She added she’s seen people open their boxes right outside the store and down several mochi immediately, unable to wait until they get home. They get customers from Los Angeles and Japan. 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