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"content": "\u003cp>The coronavirus is on all of our minds, and for some, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808367/coronavirus-lessons-from-veterans-of-the-aids-epidemic\">brings back memories \u003c/a>of another public health crisis, where the federal government was slow to respond and communities had to take care of each other: the AIDS epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman who became an unexpected caregiver is Meridy Volz. Starting in the 1970s, she ran a bakery called Sticky Fingers Brownies. “The business changed,” Meridy says. “It went from something fun and lightweight to something that was a lifeline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Meridy Moves Out West\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meridy arrived in San Francisco in 1975, just in time to have her mind blown on Polk Street on Halloween. “It was filled with costumes and color and drag queens and energy,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy was ready for a scene like this. She’d already been an artist and activist in Milwaukee, protesting for gay liberation and against the war in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And San Francisco was like a land of promise: — liberal and artistic and free,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy was a working artist, but needed a little more income, so she joined a friend selling baked goods and coffee on Fisherman’s Wharf. Today, the wharf is a tourist trap, but back then, it was a haven for street artists, selling handcrafted jewelry and knickknacks on little card tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Barbara Hartman-Jenichen, former baker at Sticky Fingers\"]‘It was that whole time, that whole era, everything seemed magical. Walking next to cops on the wharf and you’ve got magic brownies in your bag and you know, and you feel protected.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friend carried a Guatemalan pouch of marijuana brownies over her shoulder, and that quickly became the most lucrative part of her business. When she decided to move to Europe, she offered the business to Meridy. Like every decision in her life, Meridy consulted an ancient Chinese text, the “I Ching,” used for guidance and wisdom, which involved tossing a brass coin six times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I picked up the coins and I tossed a hexagram,” she says, and then asked, ‘Is it correct to start to sell brownies?’ And very quickly, my answer became clear that this was my destiny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sticky Fingers Is Born\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There was one little problem: Meridy couldn’t cook. But luckily, she met Barbara Hartman-Jenichen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barb had been a costumer for a prominent San Francisco theater, but pretty soon she quit that job and started baking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembers making a lot more than brownies. “Pumpkin bread, blueberry muffins, some little peanut butter things called space balls, cranberry orange bread.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One evening after handling brownies all day, Barb had an idea: “I held my hands up and said, ‘sticky fingers,’ and boom, that was the name of the business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name was perfect: a little sweet, a little dirty, and a little rock ‘n’ roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810549\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1497px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11810549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1497\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut.jpg 1497w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut-800x641.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut-1020x818.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1497px) 100vw, 1497px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barb and Meridy smile together. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The artists at Fisherman’s Wharf started sending Meridy to gallery owners and shop owners in the neighborhood, who sent her to other store owners. Pretty soon, Sticky Fingers was delivering to small businesses all over the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can I tell you? Fools have no fear,” says Barb. “It was that whole time, that whole era, everything seemed magical. Walking next to cops on the wharf and you’ve got magic brownies in your bag and you know, and you feel protected. I never felt threatened at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They consulted the “I Ching” over every decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean we wouldn’t even go to a bar without tossing a hexagram,” says Barb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Meridy Volz\"]‘There were beautiful boys everywhere. There was a style: There were sideburns and mutton chops and mustaches. They were draped over cars and leaning on buildings and sitting on steps.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this time, Meridy was making money. She had good friends and time to paint. The one area of her life that felt unfulfilled was her love life. So Barb set her up on a blind date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had been going to UC Berkeley, but he dropped out to go to the Berkeley Psychic Institute. He was also a painter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug Volz went to Meridy’s house and saw her at the top of these long Victorian stairs, with light beaming behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a very strong impression,” he says. “And that first week with her I did more drugs than I’d done in my life previously up until that point in time. It was pretty wild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They moved in together almost right away, into a firetrap of a warehouse in San Francisco’s Mission District, and Doug joined Sticky Fingers Brownies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810559\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 489px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11810559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut-800x1014.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut-1020x1293.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sticky Fingers crew dressed up in outrageous outfits to deliver their brownies around San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A New Neighborhood Route\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Barb went back to working in theater, so Sticky Fingers hired a new baker, Carmen Vigil, who ramped up production to about 10,000 brownies per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which makes you wonder, why would they draw so much attention to themselves if they’re doing something illegal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug explains, matter-of-factly, “The way to be invisible in a situation is to stand out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’d deliver the brownies wearing outrageous outfits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810565\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 404px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11810565\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut.jpg 1785w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut-160x289.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut-800x1446.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut-1020x1843.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meridy and Doug made hand-drawn designs for the bags the brownies came in. One has a cowboy riding a brownie like a bucking bronco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dressing up played really well in her newest neighborhood route: the Castro. It was the destination of people from across America who wanted to come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were beautiful boys everywhere,” says Meridy. “There was a style: There were sideburns and mutton chops and mustaches. They were draped over cars and leaning on buildings and sitting on steps. Lovely men everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also hand delivered to Castro resident Sylvester, known as the Queen of Disco. Sylvester’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAHULpMXKQ\">breakout hit, “Mighty Real,”\u003c/a> was playing all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy says, “He always had an entourage, and there’d be Sylvester, generally in lounging pajamas or kimono, and they’d buy a massive amount of brownies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sticky Fingers Brownies became so popular in the Castro that Meridy could hardly keep up, so her friends at a neighborhood hotspot called the Village Deli started selling them from behind the counter, friends like Dan Clowry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mer was just coming by with a big smile and her beautiful eyes. I always thought she looked like a mermaid or like a peacock feather,” Dan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan moved to San Francisco on June 11, 1978. He drove his Oldsmobile convertible into the neighborhood and saw the iconic Castro theater sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had such a feeling of excitement and thrill,” Dan says. “I could tell I was starting a new life. And I wasn’t disappointed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours, Dan landed a job at the Village Deli. “And by the end of the day I was stoned on brownies,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this time, Meridy was lugging more than brownies around. In late 1977, she and Doug had a baby daughter, Alia. Meridy would push the baby stroller with brownie bags hanging off the sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have been diaper bags! It was a good place to hang the brownies. They were heavy,” she says. She carried up to 40 dozen brownies at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan says the fact that everyone knew they could pick up Sticky Fingers Brownies at the Village Deli gave the cafe a bit of celebrity status. “This added to the the general feeling of euphoria in the Castro at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810562\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 381px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11810562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42508_8.-Me-and-Dad-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42508_8.-Me-and-Dad-qut.jpg 705w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42508_8.-Me-and-Dad-qut-160x232.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Volz hold his daughter, Alia. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘It All Came Crashing Down’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gay liberation politics were hot and happening in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy frequented most of the stores in the neighborhood, including Castro Camera. It was a tiny, cluttered photo shop, that also served as campaign and organizing headquarters for Harvey Milk, who was becoming the most iconic figure of the gay liberation movement. Harvey had sworn off drugs when he got into politics, but that didn’t mean his employees or campaign volunteers abstained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan remembers, “You know, I got there in June of ‘78, so I only had, what, four or five months of euphoria, then it all came crashing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late November, a young Dianne Feinstein made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NikqzmwbgU\">now-famous statement to the press,\u003c/a> “As President of the Board of Supervisors, it’s my duty to make this announcement. Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can remember standing in the warehouse and going, ‘Oh, my God,’” Meridy says. “I could feel the earth shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan remembers, “You could feel the shock, the stillness on Castro Street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At nightfall, a silent candlelight vigil went from Castro Street down to City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"a message on the last bag of Sticky Fingers Brownies\"]‘Give it up and you get it all, power to the people, we love you, Sticky Fingers Brownies.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The candlelight march was one of the most powerful things I’ve ever been involved in,” Dan says. “It just was the start of a whole new feeling in the Castro. Then it became anger and shock and rebellion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood changed, the city changed, and the Volz family began to change. The “I Ching” hexagrams Meridy threw took an ominous turn. “Suddenly I’m getting hexagrams like shock, thunder, the abysmal,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With other marijuana busts happening in San Francisco, Meridy and Doug thought they’d get caught. Meridy says, when they announced they were closing Sticky Fingers Brownies, people started to panic buy. Offers poured in from people who wanted to buy the business, or buy the recipe, or buy the customer list. Meridy says the “I Ching” hexagrams kept giving the same answer: not right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They decided to give away the recipe. So on that last bag, they printed the recipe and Meridy wrote in cursive: “Give it up and you get it all, power to the people, we love you, Sticky Fingers Brownies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810548\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1358px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11810548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1358\" height=\"1057\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut.jpg 1358w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut-800x623.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42518_Scan_20200401-6-qut-1020x794.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1358px) 100vw, 1358px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brownies wrapped, ready for delivery. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Changing Castro\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meridy, Doug and little Alia moved up to a town called Willits in Mendocino County, but with no plan for making a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty soon it seemed obvious that our money, whatever we had, was running out. It was a matter of months,” says Meridy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She started making monthly runs back down to San Francisco, often with Alia in tow, staying at Beck’s Motor Lodge on the edge of the Castro. It was on these monthly runs that Meridy first started noticing little purple lesions on customers’ skin. It wouldn’t be long before the brownies became much more than a money-making venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe it was 1981, during my run in the Castro. I walked past Star Pharmacy and saw a poster that had somebody showing their lesions with Kaposi, and it was talking about the ‘gay cancer,’ ” says Meridy. The “gay cancer” soon became known as AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vibe in the Castro began to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No longer was that kind of sea of pretty men draped over cars and sitting on steps,” says Meridy. “There was a fear. It was palpable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his post at the Village Deli, Dan Clowry watched the AIDS epidemic unfold. 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And even with his head being all swollen up, he would dress himself up in his outfits and he’d put that little cap on the top of his head and he’d come to the door knowing that I was gonna be there and say, ‘Girl, you look fabulous today.’ You could see him just straighten up and feel, for a few minutes, it wasn’t nearly as bad,” Dan says, tearing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy started losing friends, too. First acquaintances, lovers of friends, and then her best friend, Phillip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Phillip was beautiful, with the kind of smile where his whole face smiles,” she says. “One minute we were going to the opera, the next minute he was dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIDS was still not well understood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t know if that was airborne or to the touch,” says Meridy, “and for me, I didn’t care. I was just there to help. I wasn’t there to judge. I wasn’t there to be afraid. And you had to put your big girl panties on for this. Being in the middle of that plague, my gut never let me down there. I always felt that I would be safe. And that Alia would be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alia Volz\"]‘Pot brownies weren’t going to save anyone’s life over the long term but it brought them relief, and there wasn’t a lot of relief in those days.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the AIDS epidemic killed tens of thousands of people, President Ronald Reagan refused to talk about it for years. Throughout the entire AIDS crisis, there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lgbtq-history-month-early-days-america-s-aids-crisis-n919701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chronic underfunding and a lack of government support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the San Francisco General Hospital opened the first AIDS ward in the country, and activism took many forms. People delivered meals, created hospices, supported emergency funds. Cleve Jones started the \u003ca href=\"https://aidsmemorial.org/theaidsquilt-learnmore/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NAMES Project, \u003c/a>putting together a massive quilt that would appeal to mainstream America. Though it started in New York, the advocacy group ACT UP staged \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2015/06/the-week-act-up-shut-sf-down/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highly visible protests\u003c/a> in San Francisco, too, and campaigned to get early access to experimental drugs and to make sure that when these drugs came out, they’d be affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Clowry says, “When they did come up with AZT, that was the only thing they had. Every place you went in the Castro you would hear ‘doo doo doo doo doo,’ because everybody had the little beeper with their pills in it. Every four hours they had to take their pills. Restaurants, movies, bars, you would just keep hearing: ‘doo doo doo doo doo.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It became clear that AZT wasn’t effective in the long term. It extended some people’s lives for a period, but it was also highly toxic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were sick from the cures,” says Meridy, “and brownies were the one thing that helped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’70s, Sticky Fingers Brownies was all about partying, making art and being subversive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brownies became something else, when AIDS hit,” Meridy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It became a calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helped with depression,” she says. “It helped with the side effects of the drugs. It helped caregivers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan says he would give a sick friend a small piece of a brownie, “and then we’d go out for dinner. It was great for an appetite stimulant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ’90s, Dan left the Village Deli and became a nurse. He eventually helped open the AIDS unit at Mount Zion hospital, “and I ended up using that experience in my nursing because we would let people smoke marijuana out the windows of the hospital. Anything we could do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810567\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1335px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11810567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42516_Scan_20200401-10-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1335\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42516_Scan_20200401-10-qut.jpg 1335w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42516_Scan_20200401-10-qut-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42516_Scan_20200401-10-qut-800x635.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42516_Scan_20200401-10-qut-1020x810.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1335px) 100vw, 1335px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The Wrapettes,” preparing the brownies for delivery. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Finding a Purpose in Providing Some Relief\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Alia was 9, her parents divorced. Mother and daughter moved back to San Francisco, and Alia was deemed old enough to help bake, and sometimes she went with her mom on deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the AIDS crisis, there were a lot of home deliveries,” says Meridy. At this point she’d been delivering to Sylvester at his house for a decade. “After a while delivering at Sylvester’s, I only dealt with his entourage, when he got really sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s another delivery that’s really vivid in my mind,” says Alia. “There was a couple, friends of Sylvester’s, who lived in a beautiful Victorian.” She remembers the man who came to the door being so emaciated she could see every bone in his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not know what we were walking into,” says Meridy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alia says, when she entered the couple’s living room, she noticed a photograph on the mantle. “They were on a beach with their arms around each other, sand on their shoulders, and smiling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a bed in the middle of the room. “It took a while for me to register that what I thought was a pile of blankets on the bed was a person,” Alia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The caregiver was sick and the guy in the bed was on his last leg,” says Meridy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alia says, “His caretaker who was also his partner, who was also dying, woke him up to say, ‘I’ve got those brownies and it’ll make you feel better.’ After that, when I helped my mom bake on the weekends, there was a new reason to do it. Pot brownies weren’t going to save anyone’s life over the long term but it brought them relief, and there wasn’t a lot of relief in those days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"pop_103422\" label=\"Stepping Up In a Time of Need\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Ruth-Brinker-1020x574.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, first lady Nancy Reagan had started the “Just Say No” advertising campaign during the war on drugs. Alia sat through assemblies at school and saw PSAs on television. “Remember that egg hitting a frying pan?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy stayed under the radar. She never got caught. But other people involved with getting marijuana to people with AIDS did jail time and took the fight for medical marijuana public. One of those people was Brownie Mary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy remembers her as being kind of conservative. “She kind of looked like the church lady down the block, you know,” Meridy says. “You wouldn’t look at her and say, ‘Criminal, right there.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time, protease inhibitors came on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They started to have some medicines that seem to be — in some way — helping people live longer with it,” Meridy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next two years, Meridy watched cannabis clubs proliferate throughout San Francisco and realized her brownies just weren’t as necessary as they had been. She left San Francisco and has been making art full time ever since. She’s 72 now, living in Desert Hot Springs, where she paints and teaches art to teenagers and retirees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California today, the adult use of cannabis is legal, but Meridy says she’s totally out of the game, only taking an edible occasionally when she’s at home painting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t talk about the old days that much, but since Alia just wrote a book about her mom’s life, Meridy’s starting to have to reveal her San Francisco days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alia says her childhood was unconventional, “But I was nurtured, I was cared for, and I was surrounded by an enormous amount of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy had that same kind of love for her friends and her community, Alia says, and that led her to do the risky work of making and selling marijuana brownies to help ease the suffering of people with AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy still finds the AIDS crisis stunning. “I look back at how many beautiful people passed. It was a dangerous time, but in this case, it wasn’t a thrill out of danger. It became a sense of, ‘Well, I have a purpose here in this. There’s something I could do to help a little, relieve a little pain.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alia Volz’s memoir, “\u003ca href=\"https://aliavolz.com/\">Home Baked\u003c/a>: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco,” comes out on 4/20, 2020.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://californiafoodways.com/\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is supported by \u003ca href=\"https://calhum.org/\">California Humanities\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"https://thefern.org/\">Food and Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friend carried a Guatemalan pouch of marijuana brownies over her shoulder, and that quickly became the most lucrative part of her business. When she decided to move to Europe, she offered the business to Meridy. Like every decision in her life, Meridy consulted an ancient Chinese text, the “I Ching,” used for guidance and wisdom, which involved tossing a brass coin six times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I picked up the coins and I tossed a hexagram,” she says, and then asked, ‘Is it correct to start to sell brownies?’ And very quickly, my answer became clear that this was my destiny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sticky Fingers Is Born\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There was one little problem: Meridy couldn’t cook. But luckily, she met Barbara Hartman-Jenichen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barb had been a costumer for a prominent San Francisco theater, but pretty soon she quit that job and started baking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembers making a lot more than brownies. “Pumpkin bread, blueberry muffins, some little peanut butter things called space balls, cranberry orange bread.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One evening after handling brownies all day, Barb had an idea: “I held my hands up and said, ‘sticky fingers,’ and boom, that was the name of the business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name was perfect: a little sweet, a little dirty, and a little rock ‘n’ roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810549\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1497px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11810549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1497\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut.jpg 1497w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut-800x641.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42515_Pic-003_Barb-and-Mer-qut-1020x818.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1497px) 100vw, 1497px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barb and Meridy smile together. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The artists at Fisherman’s Wharf started sending Meridy to gallery owners and shop owners in the neighborhood, who sent her to other store owners. Pretty soon, Sticky Fingers was delivering to small businesses all over the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can I tell you? Fools have no fear,” says Barb. “It was that whole time, that whole era, everything seemed magical. Walking next to cops on the wharf and you’ve got magic brownies in your bag and you know, and you feel protected. I never felt threatened at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They consulted the “I Ching” over every decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean we wouldn’t even go to a bar without tossing a hexagram,” says Barb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this time, Meridy was making money. She had good friends and time to paint. The one area of her life that felt unfulfilled was her love life. So Barb set her up on a blind date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had been going to UC Berkeley, but he dropped out to go to the Berkeley Psychic Institute. He was also a painter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug Volz went to Meridy’s house and saw her at the top of these long Victorian stairs, with light beaming behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a very strong impression,” he says. “And that first week with her I did more drugs than I’d done in my life previously up until that point in time. It was pretty wild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They moved in together almost right away, into a firetrap of a warehouse in San Francisco’s Mission District, and Doug joined Sticky Fingers Brownies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810559\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 489px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11810559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut-800x1014.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42510_orange-and-blue2-qut-1020x1293.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sticky Fingers crew dressed up in outrageous outfits to deliver their brownies around San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A New Neighborhood Route\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Barb went back to working in theater, so Sticky Fingers hired a new baker, Carmen Vigil, who ramped up production to about 10,000 brownies per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which makes you wonder, why would they draw so much attention to themselves if they’re doing something illegal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug explains, matter-of-factly, “The way to be invisible in a situation is to stand out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’d deliver the brownies wearing outrageous outfits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810565\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 404px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11810565\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut.jpg 1785w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut-160x289.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut-800x1446.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42512_Bag-2-qut-1020x1843.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meridy and Doug made hand-drawn designs for the bags the brownies came in. One has a cowboy riding a brownie like a bucking bronco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dressing up played really well in her newest neighborhood route: the Castro. It was the destination of people from across America who wanted to come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were beautiful boys everywhere,” says Meridy. “There was a style: There were sideburns and mutton chops and mustaches. They were draped over cars and leaning on buildings and sitting on steps. Lovely men everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also hand delivered to Castro resident Sylvester, known as the Queen of Disco. Sylvester’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAHULpMXKQ\">breakout hit, “Mighty Real,”\u003c/a> was playing all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy says, “He always had an entourage, and there’d be Sylvester, generally in lounging pajamas or kimono, and they’d buy a massive amount of brownies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sticky Fingers Brownies became so popular in the Castro that Meridy could hardly keep up, so her friends at a neighborhood hotspot called the Village Deli started selling them from behind the counter, friends like Dan Clowry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mer was just coming by with a big smile and her beautiful eyes. I always thought she looked like a mermaid or like a peacock feather,” Dan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan moved to San Francisco on June 11, 1978. He drove his Oldsmobile convertible into the neighborhood and saw the iconic Castro theater sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had such a feeling of excitement and thrill,” Dan says. “I could tell I was starting a new life. And I wasn’t disappointed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours, Dan landed a job at the Village Deli. “And by the end of the day I was stoned on brownies,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this time, Meridy was lugging more than brownies around. In late 1977, she and Doug had a baby daughter, Alia. Meridy would push the baby stroller with brownie bags hanging off the sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have been diaper bags! It was a good place to hang the brownies. They were heavy,” she says. She carried up to 40 dozen brownies at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan says the fact that everyone knew they could pick up Sticky Fingers Brownies at the Village Deli gave the cafe a bit of celebrity status. “This added to the the general feeling of euphoria in the Castro at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810562\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 381px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11810562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42508_8.-Me-and-Dad-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42508_8.-Me-and-Dad-qut.jpg 705w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42508_8.-Me-and-Dad-qut-160x232.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Volz hold his daughter, Alia. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Meridy Volz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘It All Came Crashing Down’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gay liberation politics were hot and happening in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meridy frequented most of the stores in the neighborhood, including Castro Camera. It was a tiny, cluttered photo shop, that also served as campaign and organizing headquarters for Harvey Milk, who was becoming the most iconic figure of the gay liberation movement. Harvey had sworn off drugs when he got into politics, but that didn’t mean his employees or campaign volunteers abstained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan remembers, “You know, I got there in June of ‘78, so I only had, what, four or five months of euphoria, then it all came crashing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late November, a young Dianne Feinstein made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NikqzmwbgU\">now-famous statement to the press,\u003c/a> “As President of the Board of Supervisors, it’s my duty to make this announcement. Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. 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It’s just me and my ukulele, saying hi,\" says Wilmurt in her video. \"I thought you could sing with me,” she adds, and then launches into a series of warmup exercises geared specifically for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe title=\"CMC Children's Chorus: Warm-up and "Ride This Train" with Beth Wilmurt\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/7B7WCRSwt8I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statewide order to shelter in place to help slow the spread of the coronavirus has put in-person rehearsals and concerts on hold. 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The Redwood City-based \u003ca href=\"https://ragazzi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ragazzi Boys Chorus\u003c/a>, which provides choral training to around 250 youth ages 5 to 18, is having its members create and send videos of themselves practicing at home to their coaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe title=\"Ragazzi Boys Chorus Young Men’s Ensemble, Concert Group & Choral Scholars\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/aIqJJk2MJCE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We aren't always able to spend this amount of individual time on our choristers,\" said Kent Jue, Ragazzi's executive director and artistic director designate. \"Some of the recordings have been really impressive. I've been very taken by the progress that they've made.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ragazzi member Elliot Lee, 10, said he likes the individual feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The teacher can hear me alone to know what I need to improve at, and what I'm good with,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some groups, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.piedmontchoirs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir\u003c/a>, are even gamely forging ahead with virtual rehearsals, despite the technological challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 290 children, mostly from the East Bay, are enrolled in the organization's 12 vocal groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe title=\"Music of the Pacific Rim: Virtual Concert\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/x3lKO2nvabQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though the online format is different and we can't all sing together and revel in hearing each other's voices, we can continue teaching and learning music,\" said Eric Tuan, the organization's artistic director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are ups and downs with the online forum, but it still keeps them connected and it still inspires them to sometimes break out into song around the house,\" said Aparna Rao, whose daughters Amba and Kiran Beattie sing in the children's choir. \"It also makes me feel less isolated as a parent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the technological shortcomings of the virtual platforms, the students mostly have to keep their video feed on mute throughout rehearsals. 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That depends on how desperate they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media feeds are filled with calls for money, materials and talent to help deliver personal protective equipment to health care workers: from purpose-built organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.makemasks2020.org/volunteer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Make Masks,\u003c/a> to longstanding craft groups like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sbamodernquiltguild.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild,\u003c/a> to social service-minded outfits like the \u003ca href=\"https://edeninterfaith.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eden Area Interfaith Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses with manufacturing capacity are also caught up in the the fervor to donate goods and services. Last week, Gap, the local parent company of a host of clothing brands, announced plans to shift some of its textile production capacity to serve the public good during this pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GapInc/status/1242652699314675713?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a less industrial scale, \u003ca href=\"https://www.roughlinen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rough Linen\u003c/a> of San Rafael is sending about 200 linen face masks a week to Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center and to local firefighters and law enforcement officers. The company typically makes bedding and tableware. But CEO Daiva Finell says, “We are going to be making [face masks] until there is no need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danielle Mallory manages marketing at \u003ca href=\"https://www.chromeindustries.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome Industries\u003c/a>, a Portland-based company that makes messenger bags, backpacks and cycling apparel. In other words, the company’s sewers are familiar working with a durable fabrics. “The shortage of masks is really awful,” says Mallory. “We wanted to challenge ourselves to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/dgd8Mh2gJEU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After shuttering its production of “Ragtime” to conform with shelter-in-place guidelines, \u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TheatreWorks Silicon Valley\u003c/a> donated N95 masks and nitrile gloves the company typically uses for set construction. But the crew wanted to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made sense to produce these much-needed items and keep our workers on the payroll as long as possible,” wrote Jill Bowers, the costume director. “The pleas for help with protective gear and supplies were exploding in my feeds, especially \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/SomethingWeCanDo/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Something We Can Do\u003c/a>. There are several popular patterns circulating. We’re making the pleated style masks — some with elastic loops that go over the ears and some with ties. This style allows us to make the most with the time and materials we have on hand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similar vein, Monica Thakkar, \u003ca href=\"https://www.operasj.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Opera San Jose’s\u003c/a> artistic administrator, says the company’s costume director, Alyssa Oania, sidelined by the cancellation of this spring’s “Magic Flute,” is instead churning out 70 face masks a week on her home sewing machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a huge contribution, but we’re doing what we can to help our community right now,” Thakkar says. Thakker says the \u003ca href=\"http://vmcfoundation.org/covid19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valley Medical Center Foundation\u003c/a> is taking the masks to distribute to health care workers who are not involved in patient care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, the fabric bolts in our costume shop are not medical grade,” Thakkar acknowledged. But she added, “At least you have a physical barrier” to help protect against droplets of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as March 17, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended homemade masks for health care workers as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/face-masks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last resort\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/vmcfoundation/status/1244662681757536259?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/814929294/covid-19-has-caused-a-shortage-of-face-masks-but-theyre-surprisingly-hard-to-mak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR has reported,\u003c/a> making medical-grade face masks is a tricky business. They require a material called melt-blown fabric, an extremely fine mesh of synthetic polymer fibers, for the inner filtration layer. Each machine that makes this fabric costs more than $4 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But given widely \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2020/3/22/21189896/coronavirus-in-us-masks-n95-respirator-doctors-nurses-shortage-ppe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported shortages\u003c/a>, public health students from UC Berkeley found \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/12a5YO0Z9RpHZk9Zkzl4NOj9CbjzhFfoKjPLFFC-21LU/preview#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40 hospitals in California\u003c/a> currently accepting homemade donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one alternative for hospitals and clinics worried about running out of conventional supplies if/when a surge of COVID-19 patients hits in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, N95 respirator masks are still the go-to choice at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scvmc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.\u003c/a> Dr. Sanjay Kurani, the hospital’s medical director, explained, “Out of an abundance of caution, we’re using the N95 mask anytime we think somebody has potentially COVID-19, is going through testing or is COVID-19 positive.” That’s because, like the name suggests, N95 face masks filter out about 95% of airborne particles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11809741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2149px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11809741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Dr.-Sanjay-Kurani-Medical-Director-SCVMC2.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Sanjay Kurani, hospital medical director at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, models a plastic face shield worn over a surgical mask. \" width=\"2149\" height=\"2357\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Dr.-Sanjay-Kurani-Medical-Director-SCVMC2.jpeg 2149w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Dr.-Sanjay-Kurani-Medical-Director-SCVMC2-160x175.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Dr.-Sanjay-Kurani-Medical-Director-SCVMC2-800x877.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Dr.-Sanjay-Kurani-Medical-Director-SCVMC2-1020x1119.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Dr.-Sanjay-Kurani-Medical-Director-SCVMC2-1920x2106.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2149px) 100vw, 2149px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sanjay Kurani, hospital medical director at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, models a plastic face shield worn over a surgical mask. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He added that face masks are just one part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/PPE-Sequence-508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal protection outfit\u003c/a> that health care professionals ideally wear when dealing with patients who have COVID-19. Gloves, gowns, face shields and goggles are also essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Makers Want in on the Action, Too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When it comes to rigid plastics, 3D printers come to mind. Makers of 3D printers, like \u003ca href=\"https://enable.hp.com/us-en-3dprint-COVID-19-containment-applications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, are proving more than happy to help would-be printers of health care equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the Valley Medical Center Foundation and the Sunnyvale nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.makernexus.com/covid1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maker Nexus \u003c/a>announced an initiative to produce 3,000 face shields a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers hashed out the specifications with hospital clinicians at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Dr. Kurani, for one, is thrilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need to go out to our usual vendors, who are right now overwhelmed,” he says. “We can actually go out to the community and use them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a bit of a rag-tag army marshaling this fight, but when you see social media posts from health care workers donning garbage bags to protect themselves, you can see why people who know how to make things want to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandNurse/status/1244651372491898881?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do Health Care Providers Want My Cloth Masks, Then?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The short answer is yes. Chris Wilder is CEO of the aforementioned Valley Medical Center Foundation, which raises dollars, and these days, supplies, for three hospitals and 11 clinics and more in Santa Clara County — one of the hardest hit Bay Area counties during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many needs within a health care system the size of Santa Clara County’s. You know, there are so many nonprofits that are helping to distribute food and supplies and keep people healthy in many, many ways outside of the hospital. And so these masks are absolutely going to be used. We need them. The bottom line is everyone should keep sewing,” Wilder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So, Where Do I Send These Things?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It helps to connect with a group that’s already established a pipeline of product donations to facilities that want the materials. 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"content": "\u003cp>Several weeks ago, when the coronavirus was still just a distant concern, a big crowd gathered at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RoselandVillageNeighborhoodCenter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roseland Village Neighborhood Center\u003c/a> in Santa Rosa to play \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/censoteria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Censotería, \u003c/a>inspired by the popular Mexican card game \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loter%C3%ADa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lotería\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game is sort of like bingo, but with an educational twist. Each of its 54 colorful cards comes with a piece of information in Spanish and English related to the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Santa Rosa resident Raquel Gomez\"]'We need to do activities as a community. It's important. It's cultural. And it helps people understand how much they can help themselves and help the community.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did you know that 100,000 children in California were undercounted in 2010? Let's make sure all our children are counted in 2020,\" said Refugio Mata, reading out the description on Card 26 to a group of players assembled around a big table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up was Card 13: \"Will my information be kept confidential? Yes, under the law, census data can only be used for statistical purposes. Title 13 of the U.S. Code requires respondent's information to be kept confidential, and guarantees information cannot be disclosed for 72 years including names, addresses and telephone numbers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.laluzcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Luz Center\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides resources to roughly 20,000 underserved, mostly Latino immigrant residents in the Sonoma Valley, developed this game. In February alone, the organization hosted more than 40 events related to the decennial count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the nonprofit to completely rethink its approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos, who make up a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/bayarea.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sizable percentage \u003c/a>of the Bay Area's population, have been drastically undercounted in previous censuses. That means millions of dollars in untapped federal funds that aren’t reaching some of the region's most vulnerable communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sonoma Valley stands to lose $17.5 million per year for a decade if not everyone is counted,\" said Angie Sanchez, the community engagement programs manager for La Luz Center, and the brains behind Censotería.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808949\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11808949 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Censoteria cards. Until COVID-19 put an end to live events, the new game was part of La Luz Center's strategy to educate the predominantly Latino immigrant community it serves about the importance of participating in the 2020 census. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez said many of the families she works with are hesitant to answer the census survey because they simply don't trust it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They fear sharing their information, thinking that it might be shared with ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement], with immigration,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came up with the idea for Censotería to build trust and allay those fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to educate the community. So then they feel more comfortable and actually participate,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The face-to-face aspect is key to building a sense of comfort and trust, Sanchez said, noting that many low-income Latino residents in the Sonoma Valley come to community spaces like La Luz Center for a variety of needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Somebody can come in and receive assistance filling out their food stamp application, and they also might be taking one of our ESL classes or a small business workshop,\" she said. \"Then they also participate in community engagement activities, like Cinco de Mayo and Día de los Muertos.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to do activities as a community,\" said Santa Rosa resident Raquel Gomez, who attended the Censotería event with her family. \"It's important. It's cultural. 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With drastically reduced in-person outreach, the nonprofit is focusing on phone banking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're calling those people and saying, 'Hey, you know, have you filled out your census? If not, OK. Would you like us to help you?' \" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez and her team are finding that, not surprisingly, other more pressing priorities have overshadowed the census effort. Many community members have lost jobs because of the pandemic and are struggling to pay rent and buy basic necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more 2020 census coverage\" tag=\"2020-census\"]They don’t have money to go be able to go to the stores to buy all the things that they need,\" Sanchez said, adding that her group has relaunched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.laluzcenter.org/donation-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crisis fund\u003c/a> it started in the wake of the 2017 wildfires to help families now struggling financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On their census outreach calls, La Luz Center staff are now also offering to help provide home-schooling resources and grocery deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to make sure that their needs are met as well,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez said the census can't just be forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The majority of our families don't realize that for each person that doesn't get counted, we lose $1,800 per person, per year for 10 years,\" Sanchez said. \"That is a lot of money that can be lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the phone-banking effort, La Luz Center has also taken to dropping off fliers about the census at local food distribution centers, which have seen a spike in attendance in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808952\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11808952\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-800x587.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-800x587.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-1020x748.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut.jpg 1612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Latinas Who Brunch held a virtual game of Censotería \u003ccite>(Instagram screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Censotería hasn’t gone away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said she’s seeing groups around the country playing the game via social media, such as the Instagram group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B-DVztwgpdJ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latinas Who Brunch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These virtual Censotería games have inspired Sanchez to plan the same type of online event for her own community — on April 2 at 4 p.m. via \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/laluzcenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook live.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>They don’t have money to go be able to go to the stores to buy all the things that they need,\" Sanchez said, adding that her group has relaunched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.laluzcenter.org/donation-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crisis fund\u003c/a> it started in the wake of the 2017 wildfires to help families now struggling financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On their census outreach calls, La Luz Center staff are now also offering to help provide home-schooling resources and grocery deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to make sure that their needs are met as well,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez said the census can't just be forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The majority of our families don't realize that for each person that doesn't get counted, we lose $1,800 per person, per year for 10 years,\" Sanchez said. \"That is a lot of money that can be lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the phone-banking effort, La Luz Center has also taken to dropping off fliers about the census at local food distribution centers, which have seen a spike in attendance in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808952\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11808952\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-800x587.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-800x587.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut-1020x748.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42300_latinas-who-brunch-qut.jpg 1612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Latinas Who Brunch held a virtual game of Censotería \u003ccite>(Instagram screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Censotería hasn’t gone away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said she’s seeing groups around the country playing the game via social media, such as the Instagram group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B-DVztwgpdJ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latinas Who Brunch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These virtual Censotería games have inspired Sanchez to plan the same type of online event for her own community — on April 2 at 4 p.m. via \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/laluzcenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook live.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Some individuals are even booking farm visits to spice up happy hour video calls with their friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11809436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1448px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11809436 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42355_Screen-Shot-2020-03-27-at-3.58.39-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Well hello there, gorgeous. 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It’s not exactly a moneymaker. School Zooms, for instance, are free. Corporate “visits” range from $64 to $150, depending on the length of the engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"zoom\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christie Lagally is the founder and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://rebellyous.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebellyous Foods\u003c/a> out of Seattle, a food tech firm making plant-based chicken nuggets, patties and strips. 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"content": "\u003cp>Without getting out of bed, I chop some wood, maybe craft a fishing rod or a swinging bench. If I run out of materials, I fly to a deserted island and strip all its natural resources. No, I’m not a 17th century European colonizer — I’m just playing “Animal Crossing: New Horizons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The premise of the game is a classic life simulation, except you live on an island inhabited by really cute animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808797\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11808797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/90801030_3091657380845154_8712898775540039680_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/90801030_3091657380845154_8712898775540039680_o.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/90801030_3091657380845154_8712898775540039680_o-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/90801030_3091657380845154_8712898775540039680_o-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/90801030_3091657380845154_8712898775540039680_o-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Villagers gather in my town for the opening of my new town bridge. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s not really a goal to the game, you just slowly collect furniture and clothes, and pay off your debt with a steady income of selling bugs and fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Animal Crossing\" has been around since the mid-2000s, but it’s more than a vessel for childhood nostalgia. Almost all the Gen Zers that I know — including myself — are playing the new release: “New Horizons.” Social media is flooded with wholesome videos and memes about how the game is helping us get through one of the most disruptive events in our collective memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/mercurialHekate/status/1242444144204791808?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/_itsjackielee/status/1242676080135135232\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the perfect obsession for not leaving your house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the creators of the game even said he hopes people use “New Horizons” as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/18/21185608/animal-crossing-new-horizons-nintendo-switch-coronavirus-escape-interview\">escape\u003c/a> during these hard times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“['Animal Crossing'] is a lot nicer than real life in a lot of ways,” said James Rasmussen, one of my best friends from college. We live just a few miles apart from each other, but haven’t seen each other since the statewide lockdown. We connect on FaceTime over our love for \"Animal Crossing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's so peaceful to be able to take some time into this really light hearted world of these little animals,” he said. “It's just been nice and chill, which I think we all need right now.”\u003cbr />\n[aside label=\"The Do (From Home) List\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/thedolist,A Collection of Shelter-in-Place Activities\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/gettyimages-1212241393_wide-5aa9105c64e197a8d3d663dd56241e616f5b5c14-1020x574.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, \"Animal Crossing\" has gotten me through some rough mental health periods. When I moved from Southern California to Western Massachusetts for college, I fell into an intense seasonal depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would stay inside my dorm for days at a time, playing a bootleg version of \"Animal Crossing: Wild World,\" listening to the soothing sleighbells of the winter soundtrack. During those short days, \"Animal Crossing\" was my main source of joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flash forward to now, using \"Animal Crossing\" as an escape feels like second nature. But sometimes, as James mentioned, it stirs up some realistic moments that can blur reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the villagers gave me the hat I always wear, and I was like so struck by this gesture,” he said. “But it's this computer animal, you know. But this action in a game can make you feel really nice and cared for. It does have such a power to comfort you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808790\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11808790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42272_90603170_3090742870936605_1544660669901570048_o-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42272_90603170_3090742870936605_1544660669901570048_o-qut.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42272_90603170_3090742870936605_1544660669901570048_o-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42272_90603170_3090742870936605_1544660669901570048_o-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42272_90603170_3090742870936605_1544660669901570048_o-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James and me, just vibing out. James's face is swollen from a virtual wasp attack. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And you can actually bring your real life friends to your island, voice chat and even send each other presents. This week, James visited my island. We had a great time watching the virtual sun set on a cliff overlooking the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the sun goes down, the whole music and scenescape changes into a magical evening as chill, jazzy music plays (if you want to binge listen, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0637dd6uevo\">YouTube\u003c/a> has your back.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808791\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11808791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42273_90930460_3090744210936471_2870507608068849664_o-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42273_90930460_3090744210936471_2870507608068849664_o-qut.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42273_90930460_3090744210936471_2870507608068849664_o-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42273_90930460_3090744210936471_2870507608068849664_o-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42273_90930460_3090744210936471_2870507608068849664_o-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tender moment between friends. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a reminder of what life can be. “I miss being able to be outside all the time,” James said. “With friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, at least we have \"Animal Crossing.\" And in these times, it’s more than enough for me.\u003c/p>\n",
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Due to COVID-19, we were forced to cancel the show,' \" Berkman told KQED via video chat earlier this week. \"That was when it kind of hit me that this is actually affecting me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was heartbreaking,\" said Wong of the phone conversation she had that day with Berkman. \"He was supportive. He completely understood how difficult the decision must have been.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More cancellations followed. Within a few days, Berkman's schedule had completely emptied out. \"All of my income has halted,\" he said. \"There's no more income from my jobs anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's long been tough for artists like Berkman to make a living in California. The ever-escalating cost of living, coupled with the challenges of doing business as an independent worker under the restrictions created by the new AB 5 employment law, are making it tougher than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes I feel like one of the last-standing full-time musicians in San Francisco,\" Berkman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkman is a multi-instrumentalist who plays keyboards, synthesizers, piano, acoustic and electric guitars, viola de gamba, cello and percussion. He's also a pioneer of music making in virtual reality environments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his favorite instrument is the kora, a West African stringed instrument that looks and sounds like a cross between a lute and a harp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11807579\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11807579\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Musician Daniel Berkman sheltering in place with some of his instruments in his San Francisco apartment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musician Daniel Berkman sheltering in place with some of his instruments in his San Francisco apartment. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Daniel Berkman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I just love how one instrument can produce so much sound and still have such a serene and healing quality,\" said Berkman, who's been playing the kora for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 49-year-old musician lives a hand-to-mouth existence accompanying rehearsals for Bay Area dance companies like \u003ca href=\"https://odc.dance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ODC\u003c/a> and giving kora lessons to a couple of private students. He also picks up scattered paychecks from live gigs, composing and teaching electronic music workshops at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfjazz.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SFJAZZ\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s been able to continue doing what he does in one of the most expensive cities in the world because he keeps a very low overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This little room barely fits all of my instruments,\" Berkman said of his small, rent-controlled studio in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood. \"But it's been good to me for 20 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that COVID-19 has swept away all of his work, Berkman is wondering how he’s going to make his rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, he tried to reach his landlady to discuss the matter. He couldn’t get through. \"But I left a message anyway, basically telling her, what if the situation is such that I may have to miss a month?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of publication, Berkman had not yet heard back. Last week, San Francisco Mayor London Breed issued a moratorium on evictions of tenants who cannot pay rent due to the current public health crisis. Gov. Gavin Newsom followed up this week with an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11807102/newsom-authorizes-california-cities-to-stop-evictions-tenant-advocates-say-more-is-needed\">executive order\u003c/a> asking cities and counties statewide to place a similar freeze on evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkman said he also called his health insurance provider to ask if they’d be willing to cut him some slack. He shared a recording of his conversation with Kaiser Permanente with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Currently, at the moment, there is not anything going on as far as deferments or forgiveness for the premiums,” the customer service agent on the call told Berkman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11807582\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11807582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42190_Screen-Shot-2020-03-17-at-13.03.21-qut-800x718.jpg\" alt=\"A post from Daniel Berkman's Facebook page\" width=\"800\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42190_Screen-Shot-2020-03-17-at-13.03.21-qut-800x718.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42190_Screen-Shot-2020-03-17-at-13.03.21-qut-160x144.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42190_Screen-Shot-2020-03-17-at-13.03.21-qut-1020x915.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42190_Screen-Shot-2020-03-17-at-13.03.21-qut.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A post from Daniel Berkman's Facebook page \u003ccite>(Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkman said he has around $800 in his bank account and no savings. He has no safety net.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's what's so scary,\" he said. \"I don't have a backup plan.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time, Berkman, who said he doesn’t like to feel like he’s in anyone’s debt, is having to get comfortable with asking for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like everybody's helping one another,\" he said. \"Why can't I just accept a little bit of help?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he's applied to a couple of small artists relief funds. He is waiting to hear back about whether his applications have been successful, but he's not feeling optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"https://artistrelieftree.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artist Relief Tree\u003c/a> can safely say that the first 700 people will receive funding. I am 2,140 out 3,545. The second [fund] is administered by a producer friend of mine, and he says they’re doing what they can, but to try \u003ca href=\"https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NzY4NjU=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safety Net Fund\u003c/a>,\" Berkman wrote in a follow-up email. \"I started filing for unemployment yesterday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The musician said he is grateful to the few friends who have recently bought his \u003ca href=\"https://danielberkman.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complete discography online via Bandcamp\u003c/a>. (The digital music service \u003ca href=\"https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> it would waive its revenue share on all sales on Friday, March 20, as part of \"rallying the Bandcamp community to put much needed money directly into artists’ pockets.\") One friend even gifted Berkman $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That generosity just reminds me that we really are in this together,\" Berkman said. \"Despite the bleakness of it all, I feel like there's hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/danielberkman/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media presence\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.danielberkman.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://danielberkman.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sells his records online\u003c/a>, Berkman has always focused more on live music making. But he said if there’s one thing the current public health crisis has shown him, it’s the importance of taking more of his business into the digital realm — into areas like online promotion, virtual lessons and livestreaming gigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkman said he plans to spend the next few weeks of downtime ramping up his online efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This COVID-19 is a wake-up call,\" he said. \"The bottom line is, I need to change how I work as a musician.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Musician and composer\u003ca href=\"http://www.danielberkman.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Daniel Berkman\u003c/a> was on his way home to San Francisco after visiting his parents near Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago, when he decided to check in with a collaborator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Katerina Wong, the co-artistic director of contemporary dance company \u003ca href=\"https://rawdance.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RAWdance\u003c/a>, had been working together on \u003ca href=\"https://rawdance.org/events/tripletake/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a major project\u003c/a> for months. It was about to have its world premiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I called her and said, 'Hey, I'm really excited to get back to work on this.' And she said, 'Well, actually, it's not happening. Due to COVID-19, we were forced to cancel the show,' \" Berkman told KQED via video chat earlier this week. \"That was when it kind of hit me that this is actually affecting me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was heartbreaking,\" said Wong of the phone conversation she had that day with Berkman. \"He was supportive. He completely understood how difficult the decision must have been.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More cancellations followed. Within a few days, Berkman's schedule had completely emptied out. \"All of my income has halted,\" he said. \"There's no more income from my jobs anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's long been tough for artists like Berkman to make a living in California. The ever-escalating cost of living, coupled with the challenges of doing business as an independent worker under the restrictions created by the new AB 5 employment law, are making it tougher than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes I feel like one of the last-standing full-time musicians in San Francisco,\" Berkman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkman is a multi-instrumentalist who plays keyboards, synthesizers, piano, acoustic and electric guitars, viola de gamba, cello and percussion. He's also a pioneer of music making in virtual reality environments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his favorite instrument is the kora, a West African stringed instrument that looks and sounds like a cross between a lute and a harp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11807579\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11807579\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Musician Daniel Berkman sheltering in place with some of his instruments in his San Francisco apartment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42188_daniel-berkman-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musician Daniel Berkman sheltering in place with some of his instruments in his San Francisco apartment. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Daniel Berkman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I just love how one instrument can produce so much sound and still have such a serene and healing quality,\" said Berkman, who's been playing the kora for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 49-year-old musician lives a hand-to-mouth existence accompanying rehearsals for Bay Area dance companies like \u003ca href=\"https://odc.dance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ODC\u003c/a> and giving kora lessons to a couple of private students. He also picks up scattered paychecks from live gigs, composing and teaching electronic music workshops at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfjazz.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SFJAZZ\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s been able to continue doing what he does in one of the most expensive cities in the world because he keeps a very low overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This little room barely fits all of my instruments,\" Berkman said of his small, rent-controlled studio in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood. \"But it's been good to me for 20 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that COVID-19 has swept away all of his work, Berkman is wondering how he’s going to make his rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, he tried to reach his landlady to discuss the matter. He couldn’t get through. \"But I left a message anyway, basically telling her, what if the situation is such that I may have to miss a month?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of publication, Berkman had not yet heard back. Last week, San Francisco Mayor London Breed issued a moratorium on evictions of tenants who cannot pay rent due to the current public health crisis. Gov. Gavin Newsom followed up this week with an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11807102/newsom-authorizes-california-cities-to-stop-evictions-tenant-advocates-say-more-is-needed\">executive order\u003c/a> asking cities and counties statewide to place a similar freeze on evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkman said he also called his health insurance provider to ask if they’d be willing to cut him some slack. He shared a recording of his conversation with Kaiser Permanente with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Currently, at the moment, there is not anything going on as far as deferments or forgiveness for the premiums,” the customer service agent on the call told Berkman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11807582\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11807582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42190_Screen-Shot-2020-03-17-at-13.03.21-qut-800x718.jpg\" alt=\"A post from Daniel Berkman's Facebook page\" width=\"800\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42190_Screen-Shot-2020-03-17-at-13.03.21-qut-800x718.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42190_Screen-Shot-2020-03-17-at-13.03.21-qut-160x144.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42190_Screen-Shot-2020-03-17-at-13.03.21-qut-1020x915.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42190_Screen-Shot-2020-03-17-at-13.03.21-qut.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A post from Daniel Berkman's Facebook page \u003ccite>(Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkman said he has around $800 in his bank account and no savings. He has no safety net.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's what's so scary,\" he said. \"I don't have a backup plan.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time, Berkman, who said he doesn’t like to feel like he’s in anyone’s debt, is having to get comfortable with asking for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like everybody's helping one another,\" he said. \"Why can't I just accept a little bit of help?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he's applied to a couple of small artists relief funds. He is waiting to hear back about whether his applications have been successful, but he's not feeling optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"https://artistrelieftree.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artist Relief Tree\u003c/a> can safely say that the first 700 people will receive funding. I am 2,140 out 3,545. The second [fund] is administered by a producer friend of mine, and he says they’re doing what they can, but to try \u003ca href=\"https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NzY4NjU=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safety Net Fund\u003c/a>,\" Berkman wrote in a follow-up email. \"I started filing for unemployment yesterday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The musician said he is grateful to the few friends who have recently bought his \u003ca href=\"https://danielberkman.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complete discography online via Bandcamp\u003c/a>. (The digital music service \u003ca href=\"https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> it would waive its revenue share on all sales on Friday, March 20, as part of \"rallying the Bandcamp community to put much needed money directly into artists’ pockets.\") One friend even gifted Berkman $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That generosity just reminds me that we really are in this together,\" Berkman said. \"Despite the bleakness of it all, I feel like there's hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/danielberkman/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media presence\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.danielberkman.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://danielberkman.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sells his records online\u003c/a>, Berkman has always focused more on live music making. But he said if there’s one thing the current public health crisis has shown him, it’s the importance of taking more of his business into the digital realm — into areas like online promotion, virtual lessons and livestreaming gigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkman said he plans to spend the next few weeks of downtime ramping up his online efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This COVID-19 is a wake-up call,\" he said. \"The bottom line is, I need to change how I work as a musician.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Amnesia ended its 20-year run as a music venue with a sold-out show Saturday night. The Mission District bar — with capacity for less than 100 people — is another one of San Francisco’s small music venues to shut down in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/bethlaberge/status/1234139246539104259\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>General Manager Adam Del Rio said that there was a combination of problems that led to the venue closing. “The last year has been a struggle. Shows haven’t been as well attended and people have been drinking less,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owners plan to reopen the bar and pledge that it will live on as a neighborhood gathering space, as it has been for the past 100 years. “It’s been a wild and wonderful run, and truly bittersweet to say goodbye,” Craig Wathen, Amnesia’s owner, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804480\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804480\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/024_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9389-1.jpg\" alt=\"Parker Simon plays bass for the band Tong, who opened the final show at Amnesia on Saturday night. This is the band's 10th time playing at the venue and Parker said, "We found our identity as a band at Amnesia." When asked about the closure of the venue and what it means to him he said, "It scares me. Especially seeing somewhere like this to close. As you're coming up as a new band ... these are the only kinds of places where you can start to build. You can't go straight to the Independent or anything like that. These places are so essential because they'll give anybody a chance. It's one less place supporting creativity."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/024_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9389-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/024_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9389-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/024_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9389-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/024_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9389-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band Tong opens during Amnesia’s last show on Feb. 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the final show at Amnesia begins Saturday night, Parker Simon plays bass for the band Tong. This is the band’s tenth time playing at the venue, and Simon said, “We found our identity as a band at Amnesia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the closure of the venue and what it means to him, he said, “It scares me. Especially seeing somewhere like this to close. As you’re coming up as a new band … these are the only kinds of places where you can start to build. You can’t go straight to the Independent or anything like that. These places are so essential because they’ll give anybody a chance. It’s one less place supporting creativity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804491\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/012_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4871.jpg\" alt=\"Patrons dance to the band Novio Electrico during the last night of Amnesia on Saturday.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/012_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4871.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/012_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4871-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/012_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4871-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/012_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4871-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrons dance to the band Novio Electrico during the last night of Amnesia on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804477\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804477\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/023_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9357.jpg\" alt=\"A slim selection of beer remained at Amnesia in San Francisco during the music venue's last night on Saturday. The sign reads, "Thank you! It has been one HELL of a run." The bar will reopen in another capacity in the future, but not as a music venue. In a statement from the current owner Craig Wathen, who also owns City Beer Store, he said "In 2015 we took over the helm at Amnesia. In those five years, we have put on over 4,000 shows, shared countless experiences, served thousands of beers, and created many joyful memories. Amnesia has been a great experience for our families, and we want to thank all the musicians, patrons and employees for that gift." He goes on to say that, "We’ve explored many options over the course of the past two years, but the hard truth is that this business is not fiscally sustainable."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/023_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9357.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/023_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9357-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/023_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9357-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/023_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9357-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The drink board is unusually empty during Amnesia’s last show. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a drink board once full of craft beer choices, only a few remain. The sign reads, “Thank you! It has been one HELL of a run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bar will reopen in another capacity in the future, but not as a music venue. In a statement from Wathen, who also owns City Beer Store, he said, “In 2015 we took over the helm at Amnesia. In those five years, we have put on over 4,000 shows, shared countless experiences, served thousands of beers and created many joyful memories. Amnesia has been a great experience for our families, and we want to thank all the musicians, patrons and employees for that gift. We’ve explored many options over the course of the past two years, but the hard truth is that this business is not fiscally sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804417\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/020_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4839.jpg\" alt=\"Rex Shelverton plays in Novio Electrico during the last night of the small music venue Amnesia on Saturday night. The band has played at Amnesia just about every 6 weeks for the past 1 1/2 years. Rex Shelverton said, "I've been playing here since it was called the Chameleon. It feels like such a neighborhood spot. It doesn't feel like such a destination like the way The Chapel does. I love all those places too. This is just more casual, you can just show up." When asked about the future of small music venue's in San Francisco he said, "City's change. Unfortunately, it's the way it goes."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/020_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4839.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/020_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4839-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/020_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4839-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/020_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4839-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guitarist Rex Shelverton plays with Novio Electrico. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next up on stage is Novio Electrico. Rex Shelverton plays guitar for the band, which has played at Amnesia just about every month for the past one and a half years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been playing here since it was called the Chameleon. It feels like such a neighborhood spot. It doesn’t feel like such a destination like the way The Chapel does. I love all those places, too. This is just more casual, you can just show up,” Shelverton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the future of small music venues in San Francisco, he said, “Cities change. Unfortunately, it’s the way it goes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804485\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11804485 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4894-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Amnesia's General Manager Adam Del Rio (left) hangs out backstage during the last show at the venue on Saturday night. He said that there was a combination of problems that lead to the closure. “The last year has been a struggle. Shows haven’t been as well attended and people have been drinking less in general.” He has many fond memories of the bar, including playing his own music and "watching the kids who cut their teeth here. They're stoked to play and have a rock n roll show."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4894-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4894-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4894-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4894.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amnesia’s General Manager Adam Del Rio (left) hangs out backstage during the last show at the venue on Saturday night. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanging out backstage, Amnesia’s General Manager, Adam Del Rio, talked about his favorite memories of the bar, including playing his own music and “watching the kids who cut their teeth here. They’re stoked to play and have a rock ‘n’ roll show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804486\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11804486 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9511-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Indiana Hale plays during the last night at Amnesia on Saturday night. The bar was known for its eclectic music nights, cozy space and dim red lighting. Mondays were bluegrass and Wednesdays were jazz and other nights could be anything and everything in between.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9511-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9511-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9511-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9511-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indianna Hale plays during the last night at Amnesia on Saturday night. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804425\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804425\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4864.jpg\" alt=\"Regulars, band members and staff fill Amnesia during the last night of music on Saturday.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4864.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4864-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4864-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4864-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regulars, band members and staff fill Amnesia during the last night of music on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bar was known for its eclectic music nights, cozy space and dim red lighting. Mondays were bluegrass, Wednesdays were jazz and other nights could be anything and everything in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804484\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804484\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9533-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Caravan 222 plays during the last night before the venue closes on March 1, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9533-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9533-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9533-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9533.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caravan 222 plays during the last night before the venue closes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804490\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11804490 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/014_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4915-800x533.jpg\" alt='Caravan 222 plays the last set during the last night at Amnesia on Saturday. They announced during their set that due to the closing of Amnesia they would change their name to the Chinatown Mustangs. Guitarist Jacob Landry said, \"this is a huge loss for me.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/014_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4915-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/014_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4915-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/014_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4915-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/014_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4915.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd watches Caravan 222 play on Feb. 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To close the night, Caravan 222 plays the last set for Amnesia’s final show. In between songs, the band announces that due to the closing of Amnesia, they are changing their name to the Chinatown Mustangs. “We’ve had a lot of good times here. And we’ll have a lot of good times in the future,” the band said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for another small venue in the Mission District to see local or underground music? Here are some places to stop by: \u003ca href=\"http://www.makeoutroom.com/\">The Makeout Room\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://theknockoutsf.com/\">The Knockout\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ritespotcafe.net/\">Rite Spot\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amadossf.com/\">Amado’s\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.elriosf.com/\">El Rio\u003c/a> host a consistent rotation of music. Missing gypsy jazz? Check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.revolutioncafesf.com/\">Revolution Cafe\u003c/a>. For an acoustic set, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelostchurch.com/san-francisco.html\">The Lost Church\u003c/a> has you covered. While \u003ca href=\"https://www.thechapelsf.com/\">The Chapel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.brickandmortarmusic.com/\">Brick & Mortar\u003c/a> are larger venues, they book both local and touring bands.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the closure of the venue and what it means to him, he said, “It scares me. Especially seeing somewhere like this to close. As you’re coming up as a new band … these are the only kinds of places where you can start to build. You can’t go straight to the Independent or anything like that. These places are so essential because they’ll give anybody a chance. It’s one less place supporting creativity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804491\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/012_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4871.jpg\" alt=\"Patrons dance to the band Novio Electrico during the last night of Amnesia on Saturday.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/012_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4871.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/012_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4871-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/012_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4871-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/012_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4871-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrons dance to the band Novio Electrico during the last night of Amnesia on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804477\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804477\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/023_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9357.jpg\" alt=\"A slim selection of beer remained at Amnesia in San Francisco during the music venue's last night on Saturday. The sign reads, "Thank you! It has been one HELL of a run." The bar will reopen in another capacity in the future, but not as a music venue. In a statement from the current owner Craig Wathen, who also owns City Beer Store, he said "In 2015 we took over the helm at Amnesia. In those five years, we have put on over 4,000 shows, shared countless experiences, served thousands of beers, and created many joyful memories. Amnesia has been a great experience for our families, and we want to thank all the musicians, patrons and employees for that gift." He goes on to say that, "We’ve explored many options over the course of the past two years, but the hard truth is that this business is not fiscally sustainable."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/023_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9357.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/023_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9357-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/023_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9357-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/023_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9357-1020x679.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The drink board is unusually empty during Amnesia’s last show. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a drink board once full of craft beer choices, only a few remain. The sign reads, “Thank you! It has been one HELL of a run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bar will reopen in another capacity in the future, but not as a music venue. In a statement from Wathen, who also owns City Beer Store, he said, “In 2015 we took over the helm at Amnesia. In those five years, we have put on over 4,000 shows, shared countless experiences, served thousands of beers and created many joyful memories. Amnesia has been a great experience for our families, and we want to thank all the musicians, patrons and employees for that gift. We’ve explored many options over the course of the past two years, but the hard truth is that this business is not fiscally sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804417\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/020_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4839.jpg\" alt=\"Rex Shelverton plays in Novio Electrico during the last night of the small music venue Amnesia on Saturday night. The band has played at Amnesia just about every 6 weeks for the past 1 1/2 years. Rex Shelverton said, "I've been playing here since it was called the Chameleon. It feels like such a neighborhood spot. It doesn't feel like such a destination like the way The Chapel does. I love all those places too. This is just more casual, you can just show up." When asked about the future of small music venue's in San Francisco he said, "City's change. Unfortunately, it's the way it goes."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/020_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4839.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/020_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4839-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/020_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4839-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/020_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4839-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guitarist Rex Shelverton plays with Novio Electrico. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next up on stage is Novio Electrico. Rex Shelverton plays guitar for the band, which has played at Amnesia just about every month for the past one and a half years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been playing here since it was called the Chameleon. It feels like such a neighborhood spot. It doesn’t feel like such a destination like the way The Chapel does. I love all those places, too. This is just more casual, you can just show up,” Shelverton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the future of small music venues in San Francisco, he said, “Cities change. Unfortunately, it’s the way it goes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804485\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11804485 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4894-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Amnesia's General Manager Adam Del Rio (left) hangs out backstage during the last show at the venue on Saturday night. He said that there was a combination of problems that lead to the closure. “The last year has been a struggle. Shows haven’t been as well attended and people have been drinking less in general.” He has many fond memories of the bar, including playing his own music and "watching the kids who cut their teeth here. They're stoked to play and have a rock n roll show."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4894-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4894-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4894-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4894.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amnesia’s General Manager Adam Del Rio (left) hangs out backstage during the last show at the venue on Saturday night. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanging out backstage, Amnesia’s General Manager, Adam Del Rio, talked about his favorite memories of the bar, including playing his own music and “watching the kids who cut their teeth here. They’re stoked to play and have a rock ‘n’ roll show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804486\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11804486 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9511-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Indiana Hale plays during the last night at Amnesia on Saturday night. The bar was known for its eclectic music nights, cozy space and dim red lighting. Mondays were bluegrass and Wednesdays were jazz and other nights could be anything and everything in between.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9511-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9511-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9511-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/013_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9511-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indianna Hale plays during the last night at Amnesia on Saturday night. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804425\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804425\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4864.jpg\" alt=\"Regulars, band members and staff fill Amnesia during the last night of music on Saturday.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4864.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4864-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4864-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/022_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4864-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regulars, band members and staff fill Amnesia during the last night of music on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bar was known for its eclectic music nights, cozy space and dim red lighting. Mondays were bluegrass, Wednesdays were jazz and other nights could be anything and everything in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804484\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804484\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9533-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Caravan 222 plays during the last night before the venue closes on March 1, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9533-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9533-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9533-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_9533.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caravan 222 plays during the last night before the venue closes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804490\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11804490 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/014_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4915-800x533.jpg\" alt='Caravan 222 plays the last set during the last night at Amnesia on Saturday. They announced during their set that due to the closing of Amnesia they would change their name to the Chinatown Mustangs. Guitarist Jacob Landry said, \"this is a huge loss for me.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/014_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4915-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/014_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4915-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/014_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4915-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/014_KQED_SanFrancisco_Amnesia_LastNight_02292020_4915.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd watches Caravan 222 play on Feb. 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To close the night, Caravan 222 plays the last set for Amnesia’s final show. In between songs, the band announces that due to the closing of Amnesia, they are changing their name to the Chinatown Mustangs. “We’ve had a lot of good times here. And we’ll have a lot of good times in the future,” the band said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for another small venue in the Mission District to see local or underground music? Here are some places to stop by: \u003ca href=\"http://www.makeoutroom.com/\">The Makeout Room\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://theknockoutsf.com/\">The Knockout\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ritespotcafe.net/\">Rite Spot\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amadossf.com/\">Amado’s\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.elriosf.com/\">El Rio\u003c/a> host a consistent rotation of music. Missing gypsy jazz? Check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.revolutioncafesf.com/\">Revolution Cafe\u003c/a>. For an acoustic set, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelostchurch.com/san-francisco.html\">The Lost Church\u003c/a> has you covered. While \u003ca href=\"https://www.thechapelsf.com/\">The Chapel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.brickandmortarmusic.com/\">Brick & Mortar\u003c/a> are larger venues, they book both local and touring bands.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "An Eye for the Strange and Wonderful: Remembering KQED’s Patricia Yollin",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ften when Pat Yollin had to break bad news about a piece I had written — as when she had encountered a typo or missing word or some other gibberish in my copy — she’d preface it with a tongue-in-cheek apology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not to be galling and nettlesome,” she’d say, “but there seems to be a word left out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her notes stopped just before Christmas, when doctors told Pat — a KQED News online editor for the past seven years — that she was suffering from an incurable cancer that had already reached an advanced stage. The cancer, complicated by infections and a stroke, rapidly overwhelmed her, and she died last Saturday in Berkeley. She was 69.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11759599,news_11765805,news_11680221,news_11629475,news_11632348\" label=\"Stories From KQED's Patricia Yollin\"]Pat’s illness also ended a 45-year career as a reporter, editor and mentor who was unendingly curious and eager to explore the world with all its quirks, oddities and wonders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat told her longtime partner, San Francisco Chronicle photographer Paul Chinn, that she wanted no formal memorial or tributes after she died. She probably would have insisted that she didn’t want a formal obituary, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now, it’s my turn to apologize to her for something she might well find galling and nettlesome: a look at her life and work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]mong the many things Pat was known for — the precision and clarity in her writing and editing, her eye for detail, her empathy for the people she wrote about — was her sense of fun and love of the oddball story. So in her time editing for KQED, she’d sometimes make time to do pieces like one on \u003ca href=\"//www.kqed.org/news/11513197/its-really-big-and-really-stinks-but-people-cant-wait-to-see-s-f-s-corpse-flower%E2%80%9D\" target=\"”_blank”\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the blooming of a corpse flower\u003c/a> at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers or on the challenges a group of local entrepreneurs faced \u003ca href=\"//www.kqed.org/news/11680221/the-female-orgasm-comes-quietly-to-the-streets-of-san-francisco%E2%80%9D\" target=\"”_blank”\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marketing a smart vibrator\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no prouder parent than Sidney Price,” the corpse flower story began. “On Monday morning, he savored a private visit with his ‘baby’ at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ‘I always thought she'd be an early bloomer,’ said Price, as he gazed at Terra the Titan, a 9-year-old corpse flower poised to unleash an overpowering stench that has been compared to decaying animal flesh, filthy socks, rotting garbage and human feces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even knowing how enthusiastically she embraced the unusual, it’s surprising to dig through Pat’s earliest stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The very first piece I can find carrying her byline is from the summer of 1975 for the San Francisco Examiner’s old Sunday magazine, California Living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story tells the tale of a young woman named Magi (pronounced Maggie), recently hired as a barker for one of the North Beach strip clubs. Pat hung out for an afternoon with the new barker, whose job was to entice (or badger) male passersby to come see the show inside. Business was depressingly slow: The few people strolling down Broadway weren’t interested in Magi’s spiel. And then this happened:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“A short bespectacled white-haired man is approaching at a brisk pace, puffing on a cigar. He breezes past Magi’s pitch, and has almost reached the end of the block when Magi, still persevering, shouts, “Let me show you something really disgusting.” It works. His head whirls around. “Disgusting!” he yelps hopefully in a heavy German accent, and marches back to investigate. He’s on his way once again within a few minutes, but the encounter has revived Magi’s good humor.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I laughed out loud at the line, “Let me show you something really disgusting.” It’s so unexpected, so funny and so Pat. And it’s a little astounding to me to see her, at age 24, showing such a refined eye for the detail that would make the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where did she pick up the affinity for the strange and the knack for conveying it to readers? Pat didn’t talk much about her formative years — spent in and around Philadelphia. After she fell ill, I told her once I’d like to ask her about her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why?” she demanded, as if she knew what I might be up to. I let it drop. But maybe her past holds a few clues to her fundamental enthusiasm for life and her willingness to embrace and learn from whoever and whatever she encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]atricia Leah Yollin was born Aug. 17, 1950, in Abington, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia, the only child of Charles Yollin and Veronica Rita Dugan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat’s father was Jewish, a native of Kiev, Ukraine, whose family emigrated to Pennsylvania during the last years of Czar Nicholas II’s reign. Charlie Yollin left high school after one year and worked as a salesman and electrician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother, the daughter of Irish Catholic immigrants, was born at home in the town of Bristol, just up the Delaware River from Philadelphia. If census records are to be believed, she also dropped out of high school and worked for years as a stenographer at a local Elks Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of that sounds way out there, but of course there’s a lot more to the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlie Yollin was 46 and had two sons from his previous marriage — they were already in their 20s — when Pat came along. Veronica had apparently lived at home into her 30s before marrying Charles. She was 42 when Pat was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends say Pat spoke seldom about her upbringing, but a couple of details stick out. Pat described her mother poring over the Daily Racing Form, the horse players’ bible, as she sipped Schmidt's beer. Veronica, whom Pat described to some as “a hard-drinking, hard-smoking, hard-gambling woman,” would sometimes take her daughter along on her outings to the track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father? My eye is drawn to one particular about him. In the early ‘50s, soon after Pat was born, Charles advertised for a business he had started — raising minks — at the family’s home in the outlying Philadelphia suburb of Ambler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Attention Mink Rancher,” the ads were headlined. “We are looking for live stock. If you have 300 minks or less and would like to sell out before pelting season, call or write. …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlie turned the family’s backyard into a mink farm. Pat said the animals were remarkable for their viciousness and stink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Pat’s household, there was serious trouble in the extended Yollin family. One of her much older half-brothers, Louis Yollin, had been placed in a Philadelphia psychiatric hospital after committing a series of crimes in the late 1940s. In one case, he had stolen a collection of replica diamonds and other gems from a museum in the city and been arrested after trying to sell them to tourists on the Atlantic City boardwalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louis went on to a more sensational crime in 1952, when he was 28. Allowed to leave the psychiatric facility to visit his mother, he got his hands on a .25-caliber pistol and 50 rounds of ammunition and made his way back to Atlantic City. He held up a cab driver, who took him on a long drive to another town. There, Louis opened fire on random strangers, wounding three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press story carried by papers across the country the next day quoted Louis as telling arresting officers that he simply had “an urge to kill.” He was committed to a facility for the criminally insane, where he spent the next 16 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did the case’s notoriety and the fate of Pat’s half-brother affect life in the Yollin household? I don’t know. But one other traumatic episode did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One evening when she was six, Pat was eating nuts. One got stuck in her throat. She told her parents, who didn’t believe her and sent her to bed. The next morning, the pain was worse and Pat complained again. This time, her parents took her to a doctor, who told them Pat needed an emergency tracheotomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembered the date of that operation, Oct. 21, for the rest of her life. And after she fell ill last fall, she said she experienced the first symptoms of her cancer on Oct. 21, 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]at went on to be the woman and journalist she became because of her own innate intelligence and curiosity. But she also got a hand from her Aunt Katie, Veronica Dugan’s older sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Dugan, who was unmarried and had no children, paid for Pat to attend Catholic schools from the first grade on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat said later her aunt’s generosity was not entirely selfless. Katie, a Catholic, also wanted to “counteract” the influence of Charles Yollin, who was Jewish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat finished her schooling at Gwynedd Mercy High School, a highly regarded all-girls school in the Philadelphia suburbs. From there, Pat went on to Northwestern University, graduating with a bachelor’s in politics and government in 1972. She attended UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and earned her master’s in 1976.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worked for the Hayward Daily Review from 1978 through early 1983. With a bent for feature reporting, she also proved adept at breaking news coverage. Among the stories she reported was the 1982 retrial of Sacramento Valley serial killer Juan Corona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That coverage brought her to the attention of Jim Wood, a reporter at the San Francisco Examiner also assigned to the retrial. Wood persuaded his editors to hire Pat, and she joined the Examiner in 1983.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804304\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"Hippos had a special place in Patricia Yollin's heart. The late KQED editor, who died Feb. 22 in Berkeley, had a collection of 200 hippopotamus figures, statuettes and stuffed animals.\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hippos had a special place in Patricia Yollin's heart. The late KQED editor, who died Feb. 22 in Berkeley, had a collection of 200 hippopotamus figures, statuettes and stuffed animals. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Paul Chinn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the next 26 years — first for the Ex and later for the San Francisco Chronicle — Pat covered an extraordinary variety of stories and filled many different newsroom roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1983 through 1987, she covered transportation issues for the Examiner and took over writing the paper’s “Phantom Commuter” column.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pat's hands, the Phantom was a feature that combined her sense of fun with her interest in providing a useful reader service. She would ride transit in the Bay Area and well beyond and report the good, the bad and the ugly she encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every bus and train ride she wrote about was memorable. Here’s her impression of one Muni line, the 27-Bryant, that readers had told her was beset by interminable delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The caped commuter finished her round trip an hour and 35 minutes later, struck by two things: The 27-Bryant makes more turns than bumper cars manned by hyperactive children, and the rather nondescript route provides one of the most spectacular views in the city when it reaches 30th and Castro Street at the end of the line.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Later, she wrote a two-part report on how the region’s transit services were serving people with disabilities. The story featured a Berkeley woman who struggled to ride transit in her wheelchair. The twist: In doing the piece, Pat rode in a wheelchair, too. Her description of boarding one bus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The Phantom enjoyed a flawless lift ride, but then struggled to negotiate a tight right turn past the driver. She had never given much thought to the considerable difficulties of backing down the narrow front of a crowded bus while attempting to slalom between old people’s feet.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Her coverage made enough of an impression that Pat was invited in July 1984 to participate in a KQED-TV show, “Damn This Traffic Jam,” that focused on the Bay Area’s seemingly intractable transportation problems. (Sound familiar?). Here’s the segment, in which Pat appeared in full Phantom disguise: a cape, a floppy hat and a mask that left only her eyes uncovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tagSlECrhKs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in her career, Pat was part of an Examiner team that produced a wide-ranging, 16-day series on the lives of gay and lesbian people in the United States. For the Chronicle, she produced a series on the many issues facing organ transplant recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among topics she returned to repeatedly: zoos. She loved the animals, was concerned about their welfare and was fascinated by how people interact with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"//www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Penguin-frenzy-over-Birds-back-where-they-2665415.php%E2%80%9D\" target=\"”_blank”\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2003 piece\u003c/a> detailing boisterous mating behavior among Magellanic penguins at the San Francisco Zoo, she quoted the birds’ keeper, Jane Tollini: “For me, it's heaven. It's a pleasant time right now. A whole month of foreplay — what's more pleasant than that?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a Siberian tiger fatally mauled a visitor to the zoo and injured two others on Christmas Day 2007, Pat and colleagues at the Chronicle \u003ca href=\"//www.sfgate.com/news/article/S-F-Zoo-visitor-saw-2-victims-of-tiger-attack-3233323.php%E2%80%9D\" target=\"”_blank”\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broke the story\u003c/a> revealing the victims had taunted the animal before it escaped its enclosure and attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne last chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat took a buyout from the Chronicle in 2009. She had little trouble finding freelance work, and did stories for UC Berkeley’s California Magazine and UCSF. She began work as a part-time editor for KQED in 2013, an arrangement that quickly became permanent. Her major contribution to the organization, to her coworkers and to our readers was to improve everything she laid her hands on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among her colleagues, Pat was known as a very clear-headed and constructive editor who treated reporters with respect and criticized their work with a level of tact that was well-beyond the abilities of most of us in the news business. Put another way, she could point out your shortcomings — even mistakes that were galling and nettlesome — in a way that made the point but didn’t make people feel stupid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond all that, Pat was generous with her coaching and encouragement. She was instrumental in setting up and continuing San Francisco State's Raul Ramirez Diversity in Journalism Fund, a scholarship created in honor of KQED's late executive director of news and public affairs. Advocating for the fund was a reflection of her commitment to opening our profession to voices that have been shut out in the past. Pat also took a personal interest in the success of the students who have come to work at KQED as part of the scholarship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyche Hendricks, a colleague at KQED who was among the hundreds of people who responded to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pfc1960/posts/10218472000665805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Facebook post\u003c/a> announcing Pat’s passing this past week, summed her up this way: “Her intelligence, curiosity, beautiful prose, journalistic instincts and ethics, her amazing ability to tell a story, her humor and pithy insights, her sense of justice, her quiet leadership … are irreplaceable and will be terribly missed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides her husband and partner Paul Chinn, Patricia Yollin is survived by two nieces — Jennifer Yollin of San Francisco and Julie Yollin Berk of London — and a nephew, Guy Yollin of Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pat’s illness also ended a 45-year career as a reporter, editor and mentor who was unendingly curious and eager to explore the world with all its quirks, oddities and wonders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat told her longtime partner, San Francisco Chronicle photographer Paul Chinn, that she wanted no formal memorial or tributes after she died. She probably would have insisted that she didn’t want a formal obituary, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now, it’s my turn to apologize to her for something she might well find galling and nettlesome: a look at her life and work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>mong the many things Pat was known for — the precision and clarity in her writing and editing, her eye for detail, her empathy for the people she wrote about — was her sense of fun and love of the oddball story. So in her time editing for KQED, she’d sometimes make time to do pieces like one on \u003ca href=\"//www.kqed.org/news/11513197/its-really-big-and-really-stinks-but-people-cant-wait-to-see-s-f-s-corpse-flower%E2%80%9D\" target=\"”_blank”\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the blooming of a corpse flower\u003c/a> at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers or on the challenges a group of local entrepreneurs faced \u003ca href=\"//www.kqed.org/news/11680221/the-female-orgasm-comes-quietly-to-the-streets-of-san-francisco%E2%80%9D\" target=\"”_blank”\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marketing a smart vibrator\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no prouder parent than Sidney Price,” the corpse flower story began. “On Monday morning, he savored a private visit with his ‘baby’ at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ‘I always thought she'd be an early bloomer,’ said Price, as he gazed at Terra the Titan, a 9-year-old corpse flower poised to unleash an overpowering stench that has been compared to decaying animal flesh, filthy socks, rotting garbage and human feces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even knowing how enthusiastically she embraced the unusual, it’s surprising to dig through Pat’s earliest stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The very first piece I can find carrying her byline is from the summer of 1975 for the San Francisco Examiner’s old Sunday magazine, California Living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story tells the tale of a young woman named Magi (pronounced Maggie), recently hired as a barker for one of the North Beach strip clubs. Pat hung out for an afternoon with the new barker, whose job was to entice (or badger) male passersby to come see the show inside. Business was depressingly slow: The few people strolling down Broadway weren’t interested in Magi’s spiel. And then this happened:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“A short bespectacled white-haired man is approaching at a brisk pace, puffing on a cigar. He breezes past Magi’s pitch, and has almost reached the end of the block when Magi, still persevering, shouts, “Let me show you something really disgusting.” It works. His head whirls around. “Disgusting!” he yelps hopefully in a heavy German accent, and marches back to investigate. He’s on his way once again within a few minutes, but the encounter has revived Magi’s good humor.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I laughed out loud at the line, “Let me show you something really disgusting.” It’s so unexpected, so funny and so Pat. And it’s a little astounding to me to see her, at age 24, showing such a refined eye for the detail that would make the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where did she pick up the affinity for the strange and the knack for conveying it to readers? Pat didn’t talk much about her formative years — spent in and around Philadelphia. After she fell ill, I told her once I’d like to ask her about her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why?” she demanded, as if she knew what I might be up to. I let it drop. But maybe her past holds a few clues to her fundamental enthusiasm for life and her willingness to embrace and learn from whoever and whatever she encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">P\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>atricia Leah Yollin was born Aug. 17, 1950, in Abington, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia, the only child of Charles Yollin and Veronica Rita Dugan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat’s father was Jewish, a native of Kiev, Ukraine, whose family emigrated to Pennsylvania during the last years of Czar Nicholas II’s reign. Charlie Yollin left high school after one year and worked as a salesman and electrician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother, the daughter of Irish Catholic immigrants, was born at home in the town of Bristol, just up the Delaware River from Philadelphia. If census records are to be believed, she also dropped out of high school and worked for years as a stenographer at a local Elks Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of that sounds way out there, but of course there’s a lot more to the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlie Yollin was 46 and had two sons from his previous marriage — they were already in their 20s — when Pat came along. Veronica had apparently lived at home into her 30s before marrying Charles. She was 42 when Pat was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends say Pat spoke seldom about her upbringing, but a couple of details stick out. Pat described her mother poring over the Daily Racing Form, the horse players’ bible, as she sipped Schmidt's beer. Veronica, whom Pat described to some as “a hard-drinking, hard-smoking, hard-gambling woman,” would sometimes take her daughter along on her outings to the track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father? My eye is drawn to one particular about him. In the early ‘50s, soon after Pat was born, Charles advertised for a business he had started — raising minks — at the family’s home in the outlying Philadelphia suburb of Ambler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Attention Mink Rancher,” the ads were headlined. “We are looking for live stock. If you have 300 minks or less and would like to sell out before pelting season, call or write. …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlie turned the family’s backyard into a mink farm. Pat said the animals were remarkable for their viciousness and stink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Pat’s household, there was serious trouble in the extended Yollin family. One of her much older half-brothers, Louis Yollin, had been placed in a Philadelphia psychiatric hospital after committing a series of crimes in the late 1940s. In one case, he had stolen a collection of replica diamonds and other gems from a museum in the city and been arrested after trying to sell them to tourists on the Atlantic City boardwalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louis went on to a more sensational crime in 1952, when he was 28. Allowed to leave the psychiatric facility to visit his mother, he got his hands on a .25-caliber pistol and 50 rounds of ammunition and made his way back to Atlantic City. He held up a cab driver, who took him on a long drive to another town. There, Louis opened fire on random strangers, wounding three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press story carried by papers across the country the next day quoted Louis as telling arresting officers that he simply had “an urge to kill.” He was committed to a facility for the criminally insane, where he spent the next 16 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did the case’s notoriety and the fate of Pat’s half-brother affect life in the Yollin household? I don’t know. But one other traumatic episode did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One evening when she was six, Pat was eating nuts. One got stuck in her throat. She told her parents, who didn’t believe her and sent her to bed. The next morning, the pain was worse and Pat complained again. This time, her parents took her to a doctor, who told them Pat needed an emergency tracheotomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembered the date of that operation, Oct. 21, for the rest of her life. And after she fell ill last fall, she said she experienced the first symptoms of her cancer on Oct. 21, 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">P\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>at went on to be the woman and journalist she became because of her own innate intelligence and curiosity. But she also got a hand from her Aunt Katie, Veronica Dugan’s older sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Dugan, who was unmarried and had no children, paid for Pat to attend Catholic schools from the first grade on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat said later her aunt’s generosity was not entirely selfless. Katie, a Catholic, also wanted to “counteract” the influence of Charles Yollin, who was Jewish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat finished her schooling at Gwynedd Mercy High School, a highly regarded all-girls school in the Philadelphia suburbs. From there, Pat went on to Northwestern University, graduating with a bachelor’s in politics and government in 1972. She attended UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and earned her master’s in 1976.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worked for the Hayward Daily Review from 1978 through early 1983. With a bent for feature reporting, she also proved adept at breaking news coverage. Among the stories she reported was the 1982 retrial of Sacramento Valley serial killer Juan Corona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That coverage brought her to the attention of Jim Wood, a reporter at the San Francisco Examiner also assigned to the retrial. Wood persuaded his editors to hire Pat, and she joined the Examiner in 1983.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11804304\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"Hippos had a special place in Patricia Yollin's heart. The late KQED editor, who died Feb. 22 in Berkeley, had a collection of 200 hippopotamus figures, statuettes and stuffed animals.\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/patyollin2-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hippos had a special place in Patricia Yollin's heart. The late KQED editor, who died Feb. 22 in Berkeley, had a collection of 200 hippopotamus figures, statuettes and stuffed animals. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Paul Chinn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the next 26 years — first for the Ex and later for the San Francisco Chronicle — Pat covered an extraordinary variety of stories and filled many different newsroom roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1983 through 1987, she covered transportation issues for the Examiner and took over writing the paper’s “Phantom Commuter” column.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pat's hands, the Phantom was a feature that combined her sense of fun with her interest in providing a useful reader service. She would ride transit in the Bay Area and well beyond and report the good, the bad and the ugly she encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every bus and train ride she wrote about was memorable. Here’s her impression of one Muni line, the 27-Bryant, that readers had told her was beset by interminable delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The caped commuter finished her round trip an hour and 35 minutes later, struck by two things: The 27-Bryant makes more turns than bumper cars manned by hyperactive children, and the rather nondescript route provides one of the most spectacular views in the city when it reaches 30th and Castro Street at the end of the line.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Later, she wrote a two-part report on how the region’s transit services were serving people with disabilities. The story featured a Berkeley woman who struggled to ride transit in her wheelchair. The twist: In doing the piece, Pat rode in a wheelchair, too. Her description of boarding one bus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The Phantom enjoyed a flawless lift ride, but then struggled to negotiate a tight right turn past the driver. She had never given much thought to the considerable difficulties of backing down the narrow front of a crowded bus while attempting to slalom between old people’s feet.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Her coverage made enough of an impression that Pat was invited in July 1984 to participate in a KQED-TV show, “Damn This Traffic Jam,” that focused on the Bay Area’s seemingly intractable transportation problems. (Sound familiar?). 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A whole month of foreplay — what's more pleasant than that?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a Siberian tiger fatally mauled a visitor to the zoo and injured two others on Christmas Day 2007, Pat and colleagues at the Chronicle \u003ca href=\"//www.sfgate.com/news/article/S-F-Zoo-visitor-saw-2-victims-of-tiger-attack-3233323.php%E2%80%9D\" target=\"”_blank”\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broke the story\u003c/a> revealing the victims had taunted the animal before it escaped its enclosure and attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ne last chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat took a buyout from the Chronicle in 2009. She had little trouble finding freelance work, and did stories for UC Berkeley’s California Magazine and UCSF. She began work as a part-time editor for KQED in 2013, an arrangement that quickly became permanent. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve ever been to Catalina Island, the first thing you spot in the harbor when you come in on the ferry is the Catalina Casino. You can’t miss it. It’s a giant, round, white stone building with a red cone-shaped roof, standing as tall as a 12-story building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside this massive building is the Avalon Theatre. There’s been films shown at the Avalon Theatre since the “talkies” of the 1920s — but not anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Diana Alvarez, a resident of Catalina Island\"]'That one lifeline is being taken away. We feel so much more isolated now.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a chilly December evening, I went on a ride over to the Avalon Theatre island-style, in the back seat of a golf cart. It was two nights before the theater stopped showing movies for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very sad,” said Clara Alvarez. We’ve been friends since elementary school, but were visiting for the holidays. We were on our way to see \"Jumanji: The Next Level.\" “It's the only reason why we're going to see 'Jumanji: The Next Level,' ” she admitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her sister Diana also came. “It honestly seems like a big fuck you to the community,” she said. “That one lifeline is being taken away. We feel so much more isolated now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803730\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41596_11401561_10153491270152975_2126508324516498020_n-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Avalon High School's graduation in the theater is a popular community event. It's the only high school on the island.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41596_11401561_10153491270152975_2126508324516498020_n-qut.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41596_11401561_10153491270152975_2126508324516498020_n-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41596_11401561_10153491270152975_2126508324516498020_n-qut-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41596_11401561_10153491270152975_2126508324516498020_n-qut-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avalon High School's graduation in the theater is a popular community event. It's the only high school on the island. \u003ccite>(Zac Smith)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most people visit Catalina Island as tourists — but over 4,000 people live there year round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For islanders, the theater is a lifeline. On a regular night, going to the movies was one of the only things to do. Catalina is surrounded by water, isolated from Los Angeles by an hour-long boat ride. Seeing a movie meant getting a taste of culture outside our island, being transported to a different place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I even graduated high school inside the Avalon Theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41595_10369722_10205323412902963_9017892495515064760_n-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41595_10369722_10205323412902963_9017892495515064760_n-qut.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41595_10369722_10205323412902963_9017892495515064760_n-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41595_10369722_10205323412902963_9017892495515064760_n-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41595_10369722_10205323412902963_9017892495515064760_n-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41595_10369722_10205323412902963_9017892495515064760_n-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariella Markowitz and her dad, David Markowitz, at Ariella's high school graduation in the theater. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Named after the town of Avalon, the theater felt like\u003cem> our theater. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, we arrived at the Casino. We pulled over and bought our tickets. The film started, and Danny DeVito appeared. I was at peace. It was a normal night, and also a sacred experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sacred really, that's really the word,\" said Melinda Benson, who also grew up on Catalina. She lives in San Francisco now. “It's just breathtaking, you know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past November, Melinda saw a controversial post on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/1138631529487626/\">Catalina Discussion Page\u003c/a>, a Facebook group for local drama. In frank language, it announced, \"We will discontinue showing movies at the Avalon Theatre.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 494px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41598_fb-crop-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41598_fb-crop-qut.jpg 494w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41598_fb-crop-qut-160x136.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Facebook post from the Island Company. The note warranted many angry reactions from community members. \u003ccite>(Facebook Catalina Discussion Page)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I had to read it again,” Melinda said. “I was just in shock and disbelief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, she made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/catalina-island-company-don-t-close-our-beautiful-historic-avalon-theatre-on-catalina-island\">petition on Change.org\u003c/a> that went viral. It has almost 20,000 signatures, which is more than four times the population of Catalina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent the petition to the theater’s owner and operator, the Island Company. The CEO, Randy Herrel, sent her an email, saying, “It’s out of our hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticket sales for movies have been declining since the 1950s. And industry giants, like Disney, take over half of ticket revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theater seats over 1,000 people, but only 36 people show up on an average night — it’s a financial sinkhole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this economic logic feels cold to Melinda. “The kids of Avalon, they're the ones that are going to be hurt the most by this,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803734\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Catalina Casino events bulletin, which usually shows the next movie, is empty. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>William Wrigley Jr., of chewing gum fame, bought the Catalina Island Company in 1919. He had a vision: to turn the livestock farmlands into a glamorous tourist destination. He built the theater and upstairs ballroom in 1929 for $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theater premiered with \"The Iron Mask,\" a part-talkie. Celebrities in the 1930s and '40s flocked to Catalina for film premieres and to escape Los Angeles. Some still do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"\"]In a community designed for cruise ship day-trippers, the theater was for us, the islanders.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicolas Cage called the Avalon Theatre his “favorite theater,” in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcM5tAdHoxc\">2015 interview\u003c/a> for the Catalina Film Festival. “I’ve had some of the best days of my life on Catalina Island,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I went home for the holidays, I got to talk to the guy who spends so much time in the theater that Nicolas Cage would be jealous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Tusak is the resident organist at the Avalon Theatre, but he didn’t start off on the organ. He was an accordion player in jazz bands for years. He even went to accordion school with \"Weird Al\" Yankovic, and has since transitioned to a larger keyboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a signature black ponytail, even the back of his head is an iconic fixture at the Avalon Theatre. He’s been playing a movie overture a few nights a week for the past 21 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came over here on a day trip in 1998. I just kind of latched onto the place,” Tusak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803736\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4032px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217.jpg 4032w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Tusak with the famous 1930s Page Organ. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The theater’s organ was built in the '30s by the Page Organ Company. It’s one of two still in operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon’s sticking around once the theater closes, to restore the organ. He hopes to keep the music of Hollywood’s golden age alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully I will be here for a long time. Maybe I'll be the phantom of the theater,” he chuckled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without nightly movies, locals can pay around $20 to tour the theater. High school graduation will still happen annually, as well as the Catalina and Silent Film Festivals. In the end, islanders can still access the space — but not in the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rebecca Watson, a tour guide at the Casino\"]'There’s probably a light at the end of the tunnel some way, somehow.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On New Year's Eve, folks in fancy attire lined up to attend the New Years’ Eve Ball in the upstairs ballroom. I stood outside the box office, talking to folks on their way to the last movie screening. Some weren’t taking it well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Julie Perlin Lee attended the last showing with her kids. “It doesn’t feel too sad for us, we watch all our movies at home anyways,” she said. Streaming services like Netflix are partly to blame for a drop in nationwide movie attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other folks are hoping to see the theater reopen one day. Rebecca Watson, who gives tours inside the Catalina Casino, is one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s probably a light at the end of the tunnel some way, somehow,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last song organist Jon Tusak plays is always “Avalon.” It’s an old jazz standard about our town. But knowing it’s the last time, it sounded different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was like leaving the house you grew up in after your parents move out, knowing you’ll never be able to come back and have it feel the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a chilly December evening, I went on a ride over to the Avalon Theatre island-style, in the back seat of a golf cart. It was two nights before the theater stopped showing movies for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very sad,” said Clara Alvarez. We’ve been friends since elementary school, but were visiting for the holidays. We were on our way to see \"Jumanji: The Next Level.\" “It's the only reason why we're going to see 'Jumanji: The Next Level,' ” she admitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her sister Diana also came. “It honestly seems like a big fuck you to the community,” she said. “That one lifeline is being taken away. We feel so much more isolated now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803730\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41596_11401561_10153491270152975_2126508324516498020_n-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Avalon High School's graduation in the theater is a popular community event. It's the only high school on the island.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41596_11401561_10153491270152975_2126508324516498020_n-qut.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41596_11401561_10153491270152975_2126508324516498020_n-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41596_11401561_10153491270152975_2126508324516498020_n-qut-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41596_11401561_10153491270152975_2126508324516498020_n-qut-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avalon High School's graduation in the theater is a popular community event. It's the only high school on the island. \u003ccite>(Zac Smith)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most people visit Catalina Island as tourists — but over 4,000 people live there year round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For islanders, the theater is a lifeline. On a regular night, going to the movies was one of the only things to do. Catalina is surrounded by water, isolated from Los Angeles by an hour-long boat ride. Seeing a movie meant getting a taste of culture outside our island, being transported to a different place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I even graduated high school inside the Avalon Theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41595_10369722_10205323412902963_9017892495515064760_n-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41595_10369722_10205323412902963_9017892495515064760_n-qut.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41595_10369722_10205323412902963_9017892495515064760_n-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41595_10369722_10205323412902963_9017892495515064760_n-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41595_10369722_10205323412902963_9017892495515064760_n-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41595_10369722_10205323412902963_9017892495515064760_n-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariella Markowitz and her dad, David Markowitz, at Ariella's high school graduation in the theater. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Named after the town of Avalon, the theater felt like\u003cem> our theater. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, we arrived at the Casino. We pulled over and bought our tickets. The film started, and Danny DeVito appeared. I was at peace. It was a normal night, and also a sacred experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sacred really, that's really the word,\" said Melinda Benson, who also grew up on Catalina. She lives in San Francisco now. “It's just breathtaking, you know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past November, Melinda saw a controversial post on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/1138631529487626/\">Catalina Discussion Page\u003c/a>, a Facebook group for local drama. In frank language, it announced, \"We will discontinue showing movies at the Avalon Theatre.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 494px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41598_fb-crop-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41598_fb-crop-qut.jpg 494w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41598_fb-crop-qut-160x136.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Facebook post from the Island Company. The note warranted many angry reactions from community members. \u003ccite>(Facebook Catalina Discussion Page)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I had to read it again,” Melinda said. “I was just in shock and disbelief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, she made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/catalina-island-company-don-t-close-our-beautiful-historic-avalon-theatre-on-catalina-island\">petition on Change.org\u003c/a> that went viral. It has almost 20,000 signatures, which is more than four times the population of Catalina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent the petition to the theater’s owner and operator, the Island Company. The CEO, Randy Herrel, sent her an email, saying, “It’s out of our hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ticket sales for movies have been declining since the 1950s. And industry giants, like Disney, take over half of ticket revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theater seats over 1,000 people, but only 36 people show up on an average night — it’s a financial sinkhole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this economic logic feels cold to Melinda. “The kids of Avalon, they're the ones that are going to be hurt the most by this,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803734\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41599_IMG_2290-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Catalina Casino events bulletin, which usually shows the next movie, is empty. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>William Wrigley Jr., of chewing gum fame, bought the Catalina Island Company in 1919. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicolas Cage called the Avalon Theatre his “favorite theater,” in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcM5tAdHoxc\">2015 interview\u003c/a> for the Catalina Film Festival. “I’ve had some of the best days of my life on Catalina Island,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I went home for the holidays, I got to talk to the guy who spends so much time in the theater that Nicolas Cage would be jealous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Tusak is the resident organist at the Avalon Theatre, but he didn’t start off on the organ. He was an accordion player in jazz bands for years. He even went to accordion school with \"Weird Al\" Yankovic, and has since transitioned to a larger keyboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a signature black ponytail, even the back of his head is an iconic fixture at the Avalon Theatre. He’s been playing a movie overture a few nights a week for the past 21 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came over here on a day trip in 1998. I just kind of latched onto the place,” Tusak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803736\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4032px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11803736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217.jpg 4032w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41601_IMG_2217-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Tusak with the famous 1930s Page Organ. \u003ccite>(Ariella Markowitz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The theater’s organ was built in the '30s by the Page Organ Company. It’s one of two still in operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon’s sticking around once the theater closes, to restore the organ. He hopes to keep the music of Hollywood’s golden age alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully I will be here for a long time. Maybe I'll be the phantom of the theater,” he chuckled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without nightly movies, locals can pay around $20 to tour the theater. High school graduation will still happen annually, as well as the Catalina and Silent Film Festivals. In the end, islanders can still access the space — but not in the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When you think about internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, you probably don’t think about big bands and dancing. But music — especially swing music — played a big role in incarceration camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Music was infused early on in the internment incarceration experience as a way to bring some normalcy,” said Franco Imperial, artistic director of San Jose Taiko, a performance group with a California take on classical Japanese percussion. “Music was a source of hope. It allowed them to escape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802776\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11802776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41463_PHOTO1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41463_PHOTO1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41463_PHOTO1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41463_PHOTO1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41463_PHOTO1-qut.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members join in on San Jose Taiko's dance for an interactive performance. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Mark Larson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"https://taiko.org/swingposium\">Swingposium,\u003c/a>\" San Jose Taiko's interactive show touring the state, celebrates the big band scene that emerged while Japanese American people were in incarceration camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole show starts with the door swinging open. You've just been transported through time,\" Imperial said. The classic Benny Goodman song, “In the Mood,\" plays courtesy of a live jazz ensemble, and the audience starts dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an audience member, you are not just watching, but you are participating,\" he said. \"Imagine yourself walking onto a movie set from the 1940s, in an internment camp dance hall. And so you're surrounded by actors, dancers, Taiko musicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802779\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11802779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41465_PHOTO3-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41465_PHOTO3-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41465_PHOTO3-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41465_PHOTO3-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41465_PHOTO3-qut.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actors Nicole Ogata and Matt Mori cozy up for a slow dance. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Mark Larson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Swingposium\" employs actors from \u003ca href=\"https://www.epicimmersive.com/\">Epic Immersive\u003c/a> to tell a personal story of internment. Imperial teases the plot: It’s about “love that blossomed between a young man named George and a young woman named Amy.” George is named after real life incarceree and bandleader, George Igawa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more than a love story, \"Swingposium\" explores the complex effects of incarceration on a Japanese American's identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[George is] also navigating being a teenager of 18, wondering if he should go to war,\" Imperial said. \"Why should you fight for a country that incarcerates your family and yourself without due process? And [on] another side, wanting to prove yourself as an American?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>San Jose's Take on Taiko: California Style\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Taiko signifies a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments, but San Jose Taiko’s version of Taiko is different from Japan’s classical forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 1973, San Jose Taiko decided that its sound was meant to be representative of the \"Asian soul of America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we first performed in Japan in the early '90s, the Taiko establishment in Japan saw us from California. We were smiling, being joyful and effusive. And they labeled us 'California Sunshine Taiko,' \" Imperial said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combining swing music with a modern, ensemble-style of Taiko felt like a natural progression, Imperial said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might wonder, how did they choreograph the performances so they could \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1un9X2_sOY\">play a huge taiko drum\u003c/a> and swing dance at the same time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial’s answer: trial and error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802786\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11802786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41468_PHOTO6-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1146\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41468_PHOTO6-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41468_PHOTO6-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41468_PHOTO6-qut-800x478.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41468_PHOTO6-qut-1020x609.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The George Igawa Orchestra perform in Hope Mountain, Wyoming. \u003ccite>(HMWF Collection 2001.007, Gift of Joy Teraoka)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>'Americanization' Versus American Affirmation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Swing bands were sponsored by the War Relocation Authority as a propaganda tool meant to “Americanize\" incarcerees. Bands like the \u003ca href=\"https://everything2.com/title/George+Igawa+Band\">George Igawa Band\u003c/a> in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, were funded by the Recreation Department, and some band members even received a monthly salary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802787\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11802787\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41467_PHOTO5-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41467_PHOTO5-qut.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41467_PHOTO5-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41467_PHOTO5-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41467_PHOTO5-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Internment survivor Naomi Meyers is interviewed by Franco Imperial, Artistic Director San Jose Taiko, before 'Swingposium.' \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mark Larson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you were at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, the only swing band if you wanted to listen to swing music live was the George Igawa Band,” Imperial said. “They played a gig and then bused back into the incarceration camps afterwards. 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You've just been transported through time,\" Imperial said. The classic Benny Goodman song, “In the Mood,\" plays courtesy of a live jazz ensemble, and the audience starts dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an audience member, you are not just watching, but you are participating,\" he said. \"Imagine yourself walking onto a movie set from the 1940s, in an internment camp dance hall. And so you're surrounded by actors, dancers, Taiko musicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802779\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11802779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41465_PHOTO3-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41465_PHOTO3-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41465_PHOTO3-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41465_PHOTO3-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41465_PHOTO3-qut.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actors Nicole Ogata and Matt Mori cozy up for a slow dance. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Mark Larson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Swingposium\" employs actors from \u003ca href=\"https://www.epicimmersive.com/\">Epic Immersive\u003c/a> to tell a personal story of internment. Imperial teases the plot: It’s about “love that blossomed between a young man named George and a young woman named Amy.” George is named after real life incarceree and bandleader, George Igawa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more than a love story, \"Swingposium\" explores the complex effects of incarceration on a Japanese American's identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[George is] also navigating being a teenager of 18, wondering if he should go to war,\" Imperial said. \"Why should you fight for a country that incarcerates your family and yourself without due process? And [on] another side, wanting to prove yourself as an American?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>San Jose's Take on Taiko: California Style\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Taiko signifies a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments, but San Jose Taiko’s version of Taiko is different from Japan’s classical forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 1973, San Jose Taiko decided that its sound was meant to be representative of the \"Asian soul of America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we first performed in Japan in the early '90s, the Taiko establishment in Japan saw us from California. We were smiling, being joyful and effusive. And they labeled us 'California Sunshine Taiko,' \" Imperial said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combining swing music with a modern, ensemble-style of Taiko felt like a natural progression, Imperial said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might wonder, how did they choreograph the performances so they could \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1un9X2_sOY\">play a huge taiko drum\u003c/a> and swing dance at the same time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial’s answer: trial and error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802786\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11802786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41468_PHOTO6-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1146\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41468_PHOTO6-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41468_PHOTO6-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41468_PHOTO6-qut-800x478.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41468_PHOTO6-qut-1020x609.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The George Igawa Orchestra perform in Hope Mountain, Wyoming. \u003ccite>(HMWF Collection 2001.007, Gift of Joy Teraoka)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>'Americanization' Versus American Affirmation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Swing bands were sponsored by the War Relocation Authority as a propaganda tool meant to “Americanize\" incarcerees. 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