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She could no longer make rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11693805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/KSRO-photo.jpg\" alt=\"A destroyed arts space in Sonoma County.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/KSRO-photo.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/KSRO-photo-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/KSRO-photo-800x332.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/KSRO-photo-1020x423.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/KSRO-photo-1200x498.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/KSRO-photo-1920x797.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/KSRO-photo-1180x490.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/KSRO-photo-960x398.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/KSRO-photo-240x100.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/KSRO-photo-375x156.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/KSRO-photo-520x216.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A destroyed arts space in Sonoma County. \u003ccite>(KSRO)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So after November, we had to give it up, just because there wasn’t enough funds to continue being in that space,” Lopez said in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Lopez runs the collective out of her home office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Katz, a spokeswoman for \u003ca href=\"https://ncg.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern California Grantmakers\u003c/a>, which commissioned the \u003ca href=\"https://ncg.org/resources/north-bay-fires-and-arts-one-year-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“North Bay Fires and the Arts, One Year Later”\u003c/a> study with funding from the \u003ca href=\"https://hewlett.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hewlett Foundation\u003c/a>, said her organization plans to further investigate why groups like the Raizes Collective were so disproportionately hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really begs for more investigation,” Katz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found heavy losses among individual artists living and working in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 25 percent of the nearly 100 artists who responded to the survey reported losing their homes, studios and workplaces in the disaster. And more than half lost at least two of these spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693880\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11693880 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires.jpeg\" alt=\"Helena Donzelli's property in Sonoma was destroyed in North Bay Fires.jpeg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-900x1200.jpeg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-1180x1573.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-960x1280.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-240x320.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-375x500.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-520x693.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helena Donzelli’s home and studio in Sonoma were destroyed in North Bay Fires. \u003ccite>(Helena Donzelli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sonoma sculptor \u003ca href=\"https://helenadonzelli.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helena Donzelli’s\u003c/a> home and studio were reduced to rubble. She estimates around $150,000 in damage and she didn’t have renter’s insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had nothing,” Donzelli said. “I had nothing to work with. I had no place to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donzelli set about finding a new space. In January, she moved into a warehouse in the city of Sonoma. One of her main activities since last October has been making art out of debris rescued from the flames. Now she’s teaching others to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m planning on holding some workshops for as many fire survivors who are interested to bring whatever they sifted from their property, and I will help them make art,” Donzelli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arts and culture are an important economic driver in Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino counties. The nonprofit arts and culture industry generates more than $80 million in annual economic activity in Sonoma County alone, according to the arts service organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.creativesonoma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Sonoma\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arts also emerged from the study findings as an important way to help the affected North Bay communities to heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Through art, through spoken word, through community gatherings, we’re able to heal and talk about all of these things that are affecting our communities,” Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Katz, a spokeswoman for \u003ca href=\"https://ncg.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern California Grantmakers\u003c/a>, which commissioned the \u003ca href=\"https://ncg.org/resources/north-bay-fires-and-arts-one-year-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“North Bay Fires and the Arts, One Year Later”\u003c/a> study with funding from the \u003ca href=\"https://hewlett.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hewlett Foundation\u003c/a>, said her organization plans to further investigate why groups like the Raizes Collective were so disproportionately hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really begs for more investigation,” Katz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found heavy losses among individual artists living and working in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 25 percent of the nearly 100 artists who responded to the survey reported losing their homes, studios and workplaces in the disaster. And more than half lost at least two of these spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693880\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11693880 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires.jpeg\" alt=\"Helena Donzelli's property in Sonoma was destroyed in North Bay Fires.jpeg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-900x1200.jpeg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-1180x1573.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-960x1280.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-240x320.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-375x500.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Helena-Donzellis-property-in-Sonoma-was-destroyed-in-North-Bay-Fires-520x693.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helena Donzelli’s home and studio in Sonoma were destroyed in North Bay Fires. \u003ccite>(Helena Donzelli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sonoma sculptor \u003ca href=\"https://helenadonzelli.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helena Donzelli’s\u003c/a> home and studio were reduced to rubble. She estimates around $150,000 in damage and she didn’t have renter’s insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had nothing,” Donzelli said. “I had nothing to work with. I had no place to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donzelli set about finding a new space. In January, she moved into a warehouse in the city of Sonoma. One of her main activities since last October has been making art out of debris rescued from the flames. Now she’s teaching others to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m planning on holding some workshops for as many fire survivors who are interested to bring whatever they sifted from their property, and I will help them make art,” Donzelli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arts and culture are an important economic driver in Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino counties. The nonprofit arts and culture industry generates more than $80 million in annual economic activity in Sonoma County alone, according to the arts service organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.creativesonoma.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Sonoma\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arts also emerged from the study findings as an important way to help the affected North Bay communities to heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Through art, through spoken word, through community gatherings, we’re able to heal and talk about all of these things that are affecting our communities,” Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Sunday, members of San Jose's Chicano community gathered on the East Side to express frustration and call for action after one of the city's oldest murals was painted over under cover of darkness late last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three decades, \"Mural de la Raza\" decorated the wall of 2048 Story Road, a former Payless shoe store, with epic scenes from Aztec history, Chicano legends like Cesar Chavez and local sports heroes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A view of the mural as it looked before being painted over:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php%3Ffbid%3D2154938024794810%26set%3Da.1512542262367726%26type%3D3&width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist Jose Meza Velasquez created the mural in 1985 with the help of local youth. He says he could not have predicted how important the piece would become to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We, as artists, paint the work and we never know what will happen later on,\" says Meza Velasquez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building changed hands several times over the years, and it was recently sold once again. Jose Valle, a community organizer with local advocacy organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley De-Bug\u003c/a>, says that despite his organization's efforts to preserve the mural, one morning it was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, almost all of it. Workers initially left the Virgin of Guadalupe, but she was eventually painted over, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I guess the first round of workers didn't have the heart to finish the job,\" says Valle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mural was painted over with a solid gray layer of paint, but the wall is now tagged with graffiti. Some of the new messages reflect the mural's original themes of unity and pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This says, 'Down for My Raza,' so that's a message right there,\" says Valle. \"The youth are angry, they're hurt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692882\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11692882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6801-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Meza Velasquez addresses a crowd near the spot where his mural, \"Mural de La Raza,\" stood for 33 years until it was painted over late last month.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Valle and others that grew up here, there's a sense that they are the ones getting painted over amid the pressures of gentrification and divisive political rhetoric on the national stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm gonna be honest. Chicano studies is something that unfortunately a lot of us don't get to learn,\" says Valle. \"The only way for someone like me to know my culture and my history is murals like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valle is asking the city to either help restore the mural or to help organize a similar art project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the mural was painted over, Magdalena Carrasco, San Jose's vice mayor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/VM.MagdalenaCarrasco/posts/2154938238128122?__tn__=C-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted a message on Facebook\u003c/a> saying that she was working with a coalition of community members to restore the mural in some way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We \"will be working with the community to strategize a solution to restore the mural and or preserve the space. We hope the new property owner is willing to collaborate with us on this opportunity,\" Carrasco wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist Meza Velazquez says he's also exploring legal action over the destruction of his work.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The book intersperses stories of six American soldiers, one American nurse and one Vietnamese refugee with explanatory chapters on key players and events from the era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebecca Solnit, nonfiction, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2018-nf-solnit-call-them-by-their-true-names.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: The Novato-raised and San Francisco-based Solnit's new collection of essays looks at some of the biggest issues facing the United States today including electoral politics, climate change and gentrification. 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KQED Arts' book columnist Ingrid Rojas Contreras \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13831050/a-lucky-man-a-feminist-approved-book-about-masculinity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote of the collection\u003c/a>, \"Brinkley explores black men under both the pressurized violence and bottled up tenderness that undoes them at every turn. This is a book that acknowledges male stereotypes while subverting them and exploring the psychic damage they leave in their wake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daniel Gumbiner, fiction, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2018-fic-gumbiner-boatbuilder.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Boatbuilder\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Born and raised in Northern California and a graduate of UC Berkeley, Gumbiner sets his debut novel in a fictional coastal town in Northern California, where the main character, Berg, has fled to from San Francisco. Struggling with opioid addiction, Berg befriends and becomes an apprentice to an older artisan boatbuilder who tries to help him through his addiction. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/books/review-boatbuilder-daniel-gumbiner.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times review\u003c/a>, \" 'The Boatbuilder' offers a decidedly gentle, sometimes quietly rewarding window onto the attempted recovery of an American opioid addict.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tommy Orange, fiction, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2018-fic-orange-there-there.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"There There\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Oakland native Tommy Orange's debut novel chronicles the experiences of urban Indians living in Oakland. Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma, and the book weaves the stories of 12 different characters until they collide at the Big Oakland Powwow. Orange's book, along with the films \"Sorry to Bother You\" and \"Blindspotting\" by fellow Oakland natives Boots Riley and Daveed Digs, was part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679230/boots-riley-tommy-orange-and-the-summer-of-the-oakland-artist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surge in national attention\u003c/a> toward Oakland and gentrification thanks to work by artists of color this year. \"Oakland is in no way destroyed in my mind. It’s different,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835114/tommy-oranges-novel-there-there-is-a-gripping-portrait-of-oakland\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange told KQED Arts' Ingrid Rojas Contreras\u003c/a>. \"But it’s always been changing. The loss of people who called it home for so long due to rising rent and gentrification for me is the biggest loss.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elizabeth Partridge, young people's literature, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2018-ypl-partridge-boots-on-the-ground.html#.W57WbVVKiUk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Berkeley's Elizabeth Partridge brings the immensity of the Vietnam War to younger readers in \"Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam.\" Partridge, who was a high school and college student in Berkeley in the 1960s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/03/boots-on-the-ground-gives-young-people-perspective-on-the-vietnam-war/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> that she was inspired to write the book after visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the first time. The book intersperses stories of six American soldiers, one American nurse and one Vietnamese refugee with explanatory chapters on key players and events from the era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebecca Solnit, nonfiction, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2018-nf-solnit-call-them-by-their-true-names.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises\"\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: The Novato-raised and San Francisco-based Solnit's new collection of essays looks at some of the biggest issues facing the United States today including electoral politics, climate change and gentrification. Several of the essays tie directly to the Bay Area including one on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gentrification-the-killing-that-shamed-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014 police killing of Alex Nieto\u003c/a> and another on her time with \u003ca href=\"https://www.lionsroar.com/the-key-to-freedom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jarvis Masters\u003c/a>, a death row inmate at San Quentin State Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several non-Bay Area authors with California connections also earned spots on the longlists:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jos Charles, poetry, \"feeld\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tahereh Mafi, young people's literature, \"A Very Large Expanse of Sea\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Diana Khoi Nguyen, poetry, \"Ghost Of\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jeffrey Stewart, nonfiction, \"The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Adam Winkler, nonfiction, \"We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eugene Yelchin, young people's literature, \"The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED’s reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q’ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11690787/when-oakland-was-a-chocolate-city-a-brief-history-of-festival-at-the-lake\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When Oakland Was a ‘Chocolate City’: A Brief History of Festival at the Lake\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-800x639.jpg\" alt='\"#Oakland’s finest at Festival at the Lake 1994,\" writes @noblesaa in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake.' width=\"800\" height=\"639\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692134\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-800x639.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-1020x815.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-960x767.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-240x192.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-375x300.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-520x416.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘#Oakland’s finest at Festival at the Lake 1994,’ writes @noblesaa in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @noblesaa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I moved to Oakland about a month ago, and I love it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my favorite things to do is go for a run around Lake Merritt. The views of the city over the water are beautiful, and it really feels like the heart of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Merritt has been a witness — and some would say a big player — in the city’s ongoing story of race and space. Earlier in the year, the lake went viral when a white woman \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh9D_PUe7QI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called the police\u003c/a> on two black men for barbecuing there. Black Oakland responded with a massive “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBQ’n While Black\u003c/a>” event, which reminded some people of a Lake Merritt summer event that was the place to be in the 1980s and 1990s: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11690787/when-oakland-was-a-chocolate-city-a-brief-history-of-festival-at-the-lake\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Festival at the Lake\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Sandhya Dirks talked to the people who were there to reminisce about Festival at the Lake and what the lake means to people today.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692380/brennans-berkeley-closing-september-15-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saying goodbye to Brennan’s, a Berkeley institution\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-800x625.jpg\" alt=\"Irish coffee was the signature offering at Brennan's, a bar closing Saturday, Sept. 15, just short of its 60th anniversary. \" width=\"800\" height=\"625\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692434\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-800x625.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-1020x796.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-1200x937.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-1180x921.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-960x750.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-240x187.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-375x293.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-520x406.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish coffee was the signature offering at Brennan’s, a bar closing Saturday, Sept. 15, just short of its 60th anniversary. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Dan Brekke is our resident Bay Area historian (see his fantastic piece on the mysterious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689504/uncovering-the-real-story-behind-the-mysterious-east-bay-walls\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Walls\u003c/a>), and if I were a Bay Area institution, Dan is the man I would want to write my eulogy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brennan’s in Berkeley, which closed this weekend, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692380/brennans-berkeley-closing-september-15-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">received that honor\u003c/a>. It’s worth a read even if, like me, you’ve never been to Brennan’s and now, never will.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691757/golden-state-plate-the-unsavory-history-of-green-goddess-dressing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turns out Green Goddess Dressing has a kind of racist past\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-800x672.jpg\" alt='British actor George Arliss starred in the play and film versions of \"The Green Goddess.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"672\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691806\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-800x672.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-1020x857.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-1200x1008.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-1180x991.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-960x807.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-240x202.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-375x315.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-520x437.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">British actor George Arliss starred in the play and film versions of ‘The Green Goddess.’ \u003ccite>(Flickr: National Library NZ on The Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They tell you to never meet your heroes, you’ll just be disappointed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sasha Khokha, the amazing host of the California Report Magazine, that hero was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691757/golden-state-plate-the-unsavory-history-of-green-goddess-dressing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Goddess Dressing\u003c/a>. She grew up thinking of it as “hippie salad dressing” that she got at the health food store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now she knows that it was inspired by a 1920s play and film called “The Green Goddess” featuring a lot of British white guys playing Indians. Not great. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692123/criminal-convictions-vex-8-million-californians-advocates-see-hope-for-relief\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">‘They won’t hire felons’\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/amika-1-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Amika Mota with her 3-month-old daughter in Oakland. Mota was a firefighter in prison but can’t get a similar job on the outside because she’s one of 8 million Californians with a criminal conviction on their record.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692164\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amika Mota with her 3-month-old daughter in Oakland. Mota was a firefighter in prison but can’t get a similar job on the outside because she’s one of 8 million Californians with a criminal conviction on their record. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">good year\u003c/a> for supporters of criminal justice reform in California. Several major pieces of legislation — ending cash bail, opening up police records and making it harder to prosecute teens as adults, to name a few — passed the state Legislature and await Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the 8 million Californians (that’s one out of every five people in the state) with a criminal conviction on their record, there are thousands of other laws that make their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692123/criminal-convictions-vex-8-million-californians-advocates-see-hope-for-relief\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lives very hard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new report shows just how hard things can be for Californians with criminal convictions, and some advocates are hoping the report acts as a call to push for even more reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691500/could-creating-one-bay-area-city-solve-the-housing-crisis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Should the Bay Area become one megacity?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/GettyImages-492064780-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"The Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay are seen from above in San Francisco, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691517\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay are seen from above in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here’s a wild solution to the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis: turn the region into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691500/could-creating-one-bay-area-city-solve-the-housing-crisis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one giant megacity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of leaving it up to the region’s 101 cities to try and solve — or ignore — the housing issues in their communities, a megacity in theory could direct resources where they need to go across the region. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could bypass local NIMBYism and finally make a dent in the housing problem. While it’s at it, it could build a truly regional transit system that connects us all in a way that makes commuting easier and better for the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, communities could still find ways to block development and public transit in the major cities might actually get worse with resources diverted to other parts of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the result would be, it’s highly unlikely that it would ever happen. But it’s a fascinating thought experiment.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED’s reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q’ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11690787/when-oakland-was-a-chocolate-city-a-brief-history-of-festival-at-the-lake\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When Oakland Was a ‘Chocolate City’: A Brief History of Festival at the Lake\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-800x639.jpg\" alt='\"#Oakland’s finest at Festival at the Lake 1994,\" writes @noblesaa in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake.' width=\"800\" height=\"639\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692134\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-800x639.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-1020x815.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-960x767.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-240x192.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-375x300.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2-520x416.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘#Oakland’s finest at Festival at the Lake 1994,’ writes @noblesaa in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @noblesaa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I moved to Oakland about a month ago, and I love it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my favorite things to do is go for a run around Lake Merritt. The views of the city over the water are beautiful, and it really feels like the heart of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Merritt has been a witness — and some would say a big player — in the city’s ongoing story of race and space. Earlier in the year, the lake went viral when a white woman \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh9D_PUe7QI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called the police\u003c/a> on two black men for barbecuing there. Black Oakland responded with a massive “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBQ’n While Black\u003c/a>” event, which reminded some people of a Lake Merritt summer event that was the place to be in the 1980s and 1990s: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11690787/when-oakland-was-a-chocolate-city-a-brief-history-of-festival-at-the-lake\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Festival at the Lake\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Sandhya Dirks talked to the people who were there to reminisce about Festival at the Lake and what the lake means to people today.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692380/brennans-berkeley-closing-september-15-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saying goodbye to Brennan’s, a Berkeley institution\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-800x625.jpg\" alt=\"Irish coffee was the signature offering at Brennan's, a bar closing Saturday, Sept. 15, just short of its 60th anniversary. \" width=\"800\" height=\"625\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692434\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-800x625.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-1020x796.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-1200x937.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-1180x921.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-960x750.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-240x187.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-375x293.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913b-520x406.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish coffee was the signature offering at Brennan’s, a bar closing Saturday, Sept. 15, just short of its 60th anniversary. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Dan Brekke is our resident Bay Area historian (see his fantastic piece on the mysterious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689504/uncovering-the-real-story-behind-the-mysterious-east-bay-walls\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Walls\u003c/a>), and if I were a Bay Area institution, Dan is the man I would want to write my eulogy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brennan’s in Berkeley, which closed this weekend, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692380/brennans-berkeley-closing-september-15-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">received that honor\u003c/a>. It’s worth a read even if, like me, you’ve never been to Brennan’s and now, never will.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691757/golden-state-plate-the-unsavory-history-of-green-goddess-dressing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turns out Green Goddess Dressing has a kind of racist past\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-800x672.jpg\" alt='British actor George Arliss starred in the play and film versions of \"The Green Goddess.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"672\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691806\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-800x672.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-1020x857.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-1200x1008.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-1180x991.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-960x807.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-240x202.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-375x315.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32764_Screening_at_a_country_town_1931_6297430030-qut-520x437.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">British actor George Arliss starred in the play and film versions of ‘The Green Goddess.’ \u003ccite>(Flickr: National Library NZ on The Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They tell you to never meet your heroes, you’ll just be disappointed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sasha Khokha, the amazing host of the California Report Magazine, that hero was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691757/golden-state-plate-the-unsavory-history-of-green-goddess-dressing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Goddess Dressing\u003c/a>. She grew up thinking of it as “hippie salad dressing” that she got at the health food store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now she knows that it was inspired by a 1920s play and film called “The Green Goddess” featuring a lot of British white guys playing Indians. Not great. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692123/criminal-convictions-vex-8-million-californians-advocates-see-hope-for-relief\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">‘They won’t hire felons’\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/amika-1-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Amika Mota with her 3-month-old daughter in Oakland. Mota was a firefighter in prison but can’t get a similar job on the outside because she’s one of 8 million Californians with a criminal conviction on their record.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692164\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amika Mota with her 3-month-old daughter in Oakland. Mota was a firefighter in prison but can’t get a similar job on the outside because she’s one of 8 million Californians with a criminal conviction on their record. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">good year\u003c/a> for supporters of criminal justice reform in California. Several major pieces of legislation — ending cash bail, opening up police records and making it harder to prosecute teens as adults, to name a few — passed the state Legislature and await Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the 8 million Californians (that’s one out of every five people in the state) with a criminal conviction on their record, there are thousands of other laws that make their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11692123/criminal-convictions-vex-8-million-californians-advocates-see-hope-for-relief\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lives very hard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new report shows just how hard things can be for Californians with criminal convictions, and some advocates are hoping the report acts as a call to push for even more reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691500/could-creating-one-bay-area-city-solve-the-housing-crisis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Should the Bay Area become one megacity?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/GettyImages-492064780-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"The Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay are seen from above in San Francisco, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691517\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay are seen from above in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here’s a wild solution to the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis: turn the region into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691500/could-creating-one-bay-area-city-solve-the-housing-crisis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one giant megacity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of leaving it up to the region’s 101 cities to try and solve — or ignore — the housing issues in their communities, a megacity in theory could direct resources where they need to go across the region. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could bypass local NIMBYism and finally make a dent in the housing problem. While it’s at it, it could build a truly regional transit system that connects us all in a way that makes commuting easier and better for the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, communities could still find ways to block development and public transit in the major cities might actually get worse with resources diverted to other parts of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the result would be, it’s highly unlikely that it would ever happen. But it’s a fascinating thought experiment.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>California is the birthplace of many iconic dishes and drinks, from cioppino to mai tais to the fortune cookie. So \u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> decided to look into the origin stories of some of those classics with a new series: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/golden-state-plate\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Plate\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco is historically notable in a number of ways, including as a place where a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/105407/death-of-a-president-san-francisco-style\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sitting president of the United States died\u003c/a>. It’s also the birthplace of a famous California recipe: Green Goddess Dressing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ve likely seen the dressing on the shelves at the grocery store, but you may not know the story behind the condiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two people who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> know a lot about Green Goddess Dressing are Renee Roberts, who’s worked with the Palace Hotel for more than 20 years, and Laura Borrman, author of the new book \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781625859587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iconic San Francisco Dishes, Drinks & Desserts.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Roberts and Borrman at the Palace’s Garden Court Restaurant to try some of the famous dressing at its birthplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Garden Court at the Palace Hotel. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sitting here makes you feel sort of automatically connected to history,” says Borrman. “I think about all of the other people who have sat at these tables.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts agrees: “There’s a lot of history here… A lot of people have been through these doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hotel, back in its day, was a place where lots of well-known and wealthy people stayed, like opera star \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Tetrazzini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luisa Tetrazzini\u003c/a>. The hotel claims to have invented \u003ca href=\"https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/37784/easy-turkey-tetrazzini/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turkey tetrazzini\u003c/a>, named after her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-800x1002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-1020x1278.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-958x1200.jpg 958w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-1180x1478.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-960x1203.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-240x301.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-375x470.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-520x651.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luisa Tetrazzini was a famous opera singer who stayed at the Palace Hotel. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons: Bain News Service, publisher Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Likewise, Green Goddess Dressing was inspired by another star guest: George Arliss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arliss was the lead actor in the 1920s play, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Goddess_(play)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Green Goddess\u003c/a>. While he was staying at the Palace Hotel for a performance, Head Chef Philip Roemer created the special dressing to be served on the starter salad — and the rest is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a favorite,” Roberts says. “There was a point when someone thought they could change it, and took it off the menu. It lasted for like a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t ignore how there’s something really enchanting about the phrase ‘The Green Goddess,'” says Bormann, who loves the dressing so much, she served it at her wedding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you wear a green dress to work, everybody’s calling you the green goddess,” Roberts laughs. “It’s just kind of a thing around here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how do you make Green Goddess Dressing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Executive Banquet Chef Juan Rojas throws all the ingredients in a blender: ice, pasteurized eggs, whole grain mustard, shallots, capers, chives, spinach, fresh tarragon, chopped parsley, tarragon vinaigrette, salt and pepper, some olive oil and lemon juice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a tangy, bright green dressing that is a far cry from the original invented in this kitchen almost 100 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Banquet Chef at the Palace Hotel, Juan Rojas, with freshly made Green Goddess Dressing. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Roberts, the original recipe was heavy on the mayonnaise, and was served on a canned artichoke, considered a luxury in those days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-800x620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-800x620.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-1020x791.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-1200x930.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-1180x915.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-960x744.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-240x186.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-375x291.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-520x403.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut.jpg 1433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Goddess Dressing was invented at The Palace Hotel in 1923. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Renee Roberts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, the Palace has lightened the dressing with olive oil. And there are no canned vegetables in sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Goddess Dressing as its served today at the Palace Hotel’s Garden Court. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Renee Roberts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what about the dressing’s namesake? What exactly was the Green Goddess?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where things get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the play finished, two film versions of The Green Goddess were made. And in them, Arliss — a white British actor — starred as an Indian maharajah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-800x1735.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1735\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-800x1735.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-160x347.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-1020x2212.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-553x1200.jpg 553w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-1180x2559.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-960x2082.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-240x520.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-375x813.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-520x1127.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">English actor George Arliss (1868-1946) in his “Raja” costume. \u003ccite>(George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the other actors were white too. They faked horrendous Indian accents. The film portrayed some of them as savages running around in afros, waving swords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Green Goddess? She was a made-up deity in a bad Hollywood version of a Hindu temple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hldKQSUpgg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s honestly kind of a blow to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love this dressing. I grew up thinking of it as hippie salad dressing, seeing it in the health food store, throwing it on my salads with sunflower seeds and carrots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my family is Hindu, my dad is from India. And this racist movie from nearly 100 years ago is straight-up worse than Apu on the Simpsons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes digging into California food history isn’t so savory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Green Goddess is a California classic because of the things that make it so Californian: the fresh herbs, an obsession with Hollywood celebrity, and simply how good it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m still trying to work through the fact that something so seemingly innocent as salad dressing can carry baggage when my salad arrives: a big mountain of crab on a bed of shaved zucchini on one side of the plate, some greens on the other and a gravy boat full of electric green dressing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691773\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palace Signature Salad comes with crab and Green Goddess Dressing on the side. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to deny: the dressing is really good, despite the problematic origins of its name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Borrman and Roberts describe it is as being “so Californian.” And they’re right: the dressing is clean and bright. It’s herbaceous and tangy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you don’t need to spend $40 on a salad at the Palace Hotel to try Green Goddess Dressing. You can find it pretty much anywhere at any supermarket — or make it yourself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Palace Green Goddess Dressing:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2 bunches of Italian flat leaf parsley (finely chopped)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2 bunches fresh chervil (finely chopped)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>5 bunches tarragon (finely chopped)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>5 cups fresh spinach\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/2 bottle chopped capers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/4 bottle Worcestershire sauce\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/2 cup chopped garlic\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/4 cup shopped shallots\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 tbsp. sugar\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>6 ea anchovies\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3 cups tarragon vinegar\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/2 cup Dijon mustard\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3 egg yolks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>6 cups corn oil\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCombine all ingredients (except oil) in blender or in container using immersion blender. Blend on high until smooth. While blending, slowly drizzle oil into mixture. Keep drizzling until oil is gone, then season with salt and pepper to taste. This recipe is for a one gallon batch of dressing. Can be stored in refrigerator for up to 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>California is the birthplace of many iconic dishes and drinks, from cioppino to mai tais to the fortune cookie. So \u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> decided to look into the origin stories of some of those classics with a new series: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/golden-state-plate\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Plate\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco is historically notable in a number of ways, including as a place where a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/105407/death-of-a-president-san-francisco-style\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sitting president of the United States died\u003c/a>. It’s also the birthplace of a famous California recipe: Green Goddess Dressing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ve likely seen the dressing on the shelves at the grocery store, but you may not know the story behind the condiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two people who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> know a lot about Green Goddess Dressing are Renee Roberts, who’s worked with the Palace Hotel for more than 20 years, and Laura Borrman, author of the new book \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781625859587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iconic San Francisco Dishes, Drinks & Desserts.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Roberts and Borrman at the Palace’s Garden Court Restaurant to try some of the famous dressing at its birthplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32620_0E324908-3861-4EE3-AABF-2CF8D737D239-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Garden Court at the Palace Hotel. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sitting here makes you feel sort of automatically connected to history,” says Borrman. “I think about all of the other people who have sat at these tables.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts agrees: “There’s a lot of history here… A lot of people have been through these doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hotel, back in its day, was a place where lots of well-known and wealthy people stayed, like opera star \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Tetrazzini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luisa Tetrazzini\u003c/a>. The hotel claims to have invented \u003ca href=\"https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/37784/easy-turkey-tetrazzini/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turkey tetrazzini\u003c/a>, named after her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-800x1002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-1020x1278.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-958x1200.jpg 958w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-1180x1478.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-960x1203.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-240x301.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-375x470.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32761_Luisa_Tetrazzini_1910-1915-qut-520x651.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luisa Tetrazzini was a famous opera singer who stayed at the Palace Hotel. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons: Bain News Service, publisher Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Likewise, Green Goddess Dressing was inspired by another star guest: George Arliss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arliss was the lead actor in the 1920s play, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Goddess_(play)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Green Goddess\u003c/a>. While he was staying at the Palace Hotel for a performance, Head Chef Philip Roemer created the special dressing to be served on the starter salad — and the rest is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a favorite,” Roberts says. “There was a point when someone thought they could change it, and took it off the menu. It lasted for like a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t ignore how there’s something really enchanting about the phrase ‘The Green Goddess,'” says Bormann, who loves the dressing so much, she served it at her wedding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you wear a green dress to work, everybody’s calling you the green goddess,” Roberts laughs. “It’s just kind of a thing around here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how do you make Green Goddess Dressing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Executive Banquet Chef Juan Rojas throws all the ingredients in a blender: ice, pasteurized eggs, whole grain mustard, shallots, capers, chives, spinach, fresh tarragon, chopped parsley, tarragon vinaigrette, salt and pepper, some olive oil and lemon juice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a tangy, bright green dressing that is a far cry from the original invented in this kitchen almost 100 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32607_alt_780-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Banquet Chef at the Palace Hotel, Juan Rojas, with freshly made Green Goddess Dressing. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Roberts, the original recipe was heavy on the mayonnaise, and was served on a canned artichoke, considered a luxury in those days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-800x620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-800x620.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-1020x791.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-1200x930.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-1180x915.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-960x744.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-240x186.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-375x291.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut-520x403.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32760_GreenGoddessSalad-qut.jpg 1433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Goddess Dressing was invented at The Palace Hotel in 1923. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Renee Roberts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, the Palace has lightened the dressing with olive oil. And there are no canned vegetables in sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32759_Palace-Green-Goddess-Dressing-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Goddess Dressing as its served today at the Palace Hotel’s Garden Court. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Renee Roberts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what about the dressing’s namesake? What exactly was the Green Goddess?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where things get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the play finished, two film versions of The Green Goddess were made. And in them, Arliss — a white British actor — starred as an Indian maharajah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-800x1735.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1735\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-800x1735.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-160x347.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-1020x2212.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-553x1200.jpg 553w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-1180x2559.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-960x2082.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-240x520.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-375x813.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32762_George_Arliss_in_sultan_costume-qut-520x1127.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">English actor George Arliss (1868-1946) in his “Raja” costume. \u003ccite>(George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the other actors were white too. They faked horrendous Indian accents. The film portrayed some of them as savages running around in afros, waving swords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Green Goddess? She was a made-up deity in a bad Hollywood version of a Hindu temple.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/2hldKQSUpgg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/2hldKQSUpgg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s honestly kind of a blow to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love this dressing. I grew up thinking of it as hippie salad dressing, seeing it in the health food store, throwing it on my salads with sunflower seeds and carrots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my family is Hindu, my dad is from India. And this racist movie from nearly 100 years ago is straight-up worse than Apu on the Simpsons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes digging into California food history isn’t so savory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Green Goddess is a California classic because of the things that make it so Californian: the fresh herbs, an obsession with Hollywood celebrity, and simply how good it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m still trying to work through the fact that something so seemingly innocent as salad dressing can carry baggage when my salad arrives: a big mountain of crab on a bed of shaved zucchini on one side of the plate, some greens on the other and a gravy boat full of electric green dressing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691773\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32615_93004DA1-C92F-48DF-8742-F5D599410B79-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palace Signature Salad comes with crab and Green Goddess Dressing on the side. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to deny: the dressing is really good, despite the problematic origins of its name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Borrman and Roberts describe it is as being “so Californian.” And they’re right: the dressing is clean and bright. It’s herbaceous and tangy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you don’t need to spend $40 on a salad at the Palace Hotel to try Green Goddess Dressing. You can find it pretty much anywhere at any supermarket — or make it yourself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Palace Green Goddess Dressing:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2 bunches of Italian flat leaf parsley (finely chopped)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2 bunches fresh chervil (finely chopped)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>5 bunches tarragon (finely chopped)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>5 cups fresh spinach\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/2 bottle chopped capers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/4 bottle Worcestershire sauce\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/2 cup chopped garlic\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/4 cup shopped shallots\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 tbsp. sugar\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>6 ea anchovies\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3 cups tarragon vinegar\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/2 cup Dijon mustard\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3 egg yolks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>6 cups corn oil\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ake Merritt, the man-made lake at the center of Oakland, has been called the city’s beating heart. It is more than a body of water — it is where people gather to celebrate and protest, to party and to mourn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the election of President Trump, the lake is where liberal Oaklanders showed up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/11/13/protesters-join-hands-around-lake-merritt-in-oakland-to-protest-trump-hate-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hold hands\u003c/a> around the 3.4-mile circumference. When the Ghost Ship fire took 36 lives in December 2016 — many deeply connected to the community — the lake is where people came to hold \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2016/12/06/ghost-ship-fire-mourners-gather-at-lakeside-vigil-to-grieve-those-lost/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vigil\u003c/a>. And for 16 years — from 1982 until 1997 — the beloved Festival at the Lake captured the essence of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you stand at the amphitheater on the lake’s southwest corner and look left, you’ll see the Alameda County courthouse. In 1968,\u003ca href=\"http://picturethis.museumca.org/pictures/members-black-panthers-march-outside-alameda-county-courthouse-oakland-during-huey-newtons-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> protesters and Black Panthers party members\u003c/a> stood on \u003ca href=\"http://picturethis.museumca.org/pictures/two-black-panther-men-standing-steps-alameda-county-court-house-during-huey-p-newtons-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the courthouse steps\u003c/a>, holding signs that said “Free Huey,” during the murder trial of Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton. Turn your head, and you see 1200 Lakeshore Avenue. Newton later lived in the penthouse there, with an all-too-perfect view of those same steps, as he descended into drugs and paranoia and the party crumbled around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also here in 2015, right at the amphitheater, that \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/who-owns-communal-space-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a group of black and brown drummers celebrating a red moon\u003c/a> had police called on them by a white resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of the lake tells a story of race and space, who gets to belong and who is permitted access to public space in Oakland. Lake Merritt has been fought over and policed, controlled and patrolled, by residents and city officials alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lake became a flashpoint this summer, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668335/oaklands-response-to-grillingwhileblack-electric-slide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a white woman called the police on two black men who were barbecuing\u003c/a>. One of those men was Kenzie Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This lady said that she owned Lake Merritt,” Smith said. “She also told us we were trespassing. Do you not understand how crazy this is?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11692159 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-1020x573.jpg\" alt=\""This was when Lake Merrit used to be poppin'!" writes @liljohn1tdk in an Instagram post about his experience at Festival at the Lake in the 80's.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“This was when Lake Merrit used to be poppin’!” writes @liljohn1tdk in an Instagram post about his experience at Festival at the Lake in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @liljohn1tdk )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smith said it was here at the lake, a place he’d been coming to since he was a child, that he saw his life flash before his eyes as he watched the woman on the phone with police. “In my mind, psychologically, I’m gonna be honest, I thought I was going to die,” he said. “I was like, this is how it ends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident went viral, becoming a kind of metaphor for the erasure and pushing out of black people by gentrification and a rising tide of racism. It also became one of a wave of stories of black people having police called on them by white people, for what many said was just being in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, specifically black Oakland, did not stay quiet. People gathered at the lake to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668335/oaklands-response-to-grillingwhileblack-electric-slide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dance the electric slide\u003c/a>, and then on a Sunday in May, hundreds came here to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/us/oakland-bbq-while-black.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBQ while black\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travis Watts lives by the lake, and he said that morning he headed out, like he does almost every Sunday morning, to hang out. “I packed up my baby girl, we got the stroller set up, I had a chair, a little bag and we just took a walk down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts said he could smell the barbecue smoke from his house, and as he drew closer he saw more and more people, gathering and grilling, even early in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was brothers out here, no shirt, flipping slabs of ribs, like he was in his backyard,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw people bringing out brand-new grills,” Watts said with obvious joy. “They went to Target and Home Depot to buy a grill.” It was as if, Watts said, the whole community came together to say, “Oh no no. We’re going to BBQ today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts organizes an event called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OAKFAMBAM/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fam Bam\u003c/a> at Lake Merritt every Fourth of July. But the “BBQing While Black” event transported him back in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts stood by the pillars on the northeast side of the lake and pointed across the water and over the rolling green and concrete walkways at its edges. “From right here, it was just packed, packed. It was the best,” he said smiling. “That was the closest feeling to Festival at the Lake I have gotten to since then. That denseness of, and that variety of, black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692145\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11692145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya6-1020x1219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"925\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Festival at the Lake was part music festival, part block party. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @willsap324)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Festival at the Lake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Festival at the Lake was part music festival, part block party. From 1982 to 1997 it was a gathering of folks from across the town — a multicultural meeting point for all of Oakland to come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many who grew up in Oakland in the ’80s and ’90s, it was “the place to be,” said Nicole Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who grew up in Oakland and went to the festival in the ’90s, now organizes \u003ca href=\"https://youthradio.org/arts/510-day-reclaiming-gentrified-spaces-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">510 Day at Lake Merritt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The daytime was kind of like Art + Soul Festival, or the county fair,” Lee said. “There were booths, and your Girl Scout troop, or your dance class from Mosswood Park might perform there and everyone would come out. There were also blues singers, I remember. I think I saw Etta James, actually.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of those signature events,” said Davey D Cook, known as Davey D. He’s a journalist, DJ and Lake Merritt resident. Like \u003ca href=\"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/04/the-oral-history-of-freaknik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freaknik in Atlanta\u003c/a>, or Taste of Chicago in Chicago, Festival at the Lake was a destination for black people to see and be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have a full appreciation of it, until you look back and be like, ‘Wow,’ ” Davey D said. “This is when black folks really came out, were here in full tilt, when Oakland was a chocolate city. And anybody who was anybody would come to this festival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acts like Etta James performed on the main stages during the day, the draw for many young people came later. “I never even went to the festival. It wasn’t even about the festival for me,” Travis Watts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evening would be when all the teenagers and young adults would come out,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was sitting with Kenzie Smith, who joined in laughing. “Yes, we would,” he said. “My first Festival at the Lake was like when I was 14. I’m not even gonna lie to you all, I went to Festival at the Lake ‘cause of girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11692143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3.jpg\" alt='\"Back when Festival at the Lake was poppin!\" says @Caliqueen35 in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake. ' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3.jpg 643w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Back when Festival at the Lake was poppin!” says @Caliqueen35 in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @caliqueen35)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That is one of the reasons Watts went, too. “It was just bonkers,” Watts said. “Streets packed, sidewalks packed, people overflowing into the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers dressing up in his finest outfits, like one baby-blue number he described as a giant raincoat, deeply impractical and like a sauna in the hot summer sun. There was “a lot of flirtation, a whole lot,” he said. “You wore your best. You got cut, shaved up, you had your best outfit on, the women were looking good. And everybody was out flirting, strolling around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had to bring your A-game,” Smith said. “When I say your A-game, I mean you had to have your shoes matching with your outfit. You had to have your hair done, if you had gold ones in your mouth, you had to make sure they were super clean. ‘Cause like, women knew, they knew dirty gold. They were dudes walking around the lake with snakes wrapped around them. Like, literally, it was just going down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young women got all dolled up, too, said Nicole Lee: “You would put your cutest outfit on, and at that time, you know, best friends would match. So we would like go to Bayfair and get special.” She paused and shook her head, laughing. “So embarrassing. We would get airbrushed T-shirts and matching outfits and go to Festival of the Lake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a beautiful, beautiful event,” said Watts, sitting on the benches by the pillars. “I mean, right here. It’s like it was yesterday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692176\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11692176\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10.jpg\" alt='\"Me playing firefighter at #FestivalAtTheLake,\" writes @_raven_nevermore in an Instagram post about her experience in 1987 at the Festival at the Lake.' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10.jpg 612w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Me playing firefighter at #FestivalAtTheLake,” writes @_raven_nevermore in an Instagram post about her experience in 1987 at the Festival at the Lake. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @_raven_nevermore)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trouble at the Festival\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many things from one’s childhood, Festival at the Lake is now tinged in the rose-gray light of nostalgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all think of that in some ways as the renaissance era of our lifetime in Oakland,” Lee said. “It also was a challenging era. The early ’90s was a hard time in Oakland, you know. It was the height of the crack epidemic. So yeah, it was a complex time in the city of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a time when the war on drugs was amplifying the over-policing of black bodies, especially when they gathered en masse, said Boots Riley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679230/boots-riley-tommy-orange-and-the-summer-of-the-oakland-artist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland activist\u003c/a>, frontman of The Coup, and director of this summer’s breakout film, “\u003ca href=\"http://sorrytobotheryou.movie/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sorry to Bother You\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Festival at the Lake, like every year, there was something where at about 6 o’clock, the police would be like, ‘OK everybody go home,’ ” Riley said. “And people are there standing, and they’d start trying to clear people out. It would get to pushing, then pepper-spraying, and that happened a few times before there was rebellion in ‘94.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fights broke out and other types of violence, too. In a video posted on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p2EwQL4wyY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube from around this time\u003c/a>, you can see some young men sexually harassing and possibly assaulting young women. Eventually, cruising laws made it criminal to drive more than once around the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People would drink and sometimes become violent, said Davey D. But he said it didn’t have to be that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692162\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11692162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9.jpg\" alt='\"My mom told me she found this in her office,\" writes @erikalizette in a post on Instagram. \"I need these back in my life.\"' width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9.jpg 612w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“My mom told me she found this in her office,” writes @erikalizette in a post on Instagram. “I need these back in my life.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @erikalizette)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The festival itself, he said, was geared toward older people, even though it was clear young people from across the city were hungry for this kind of celebration. “When the Festival of the Lake was happening, I had meetings at my house with some of the people who were really reluctant to have hip-hop acts and acts for younger people … they didn’t know how to deal with that ’cause they were getting a large influx of younger people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of saying, ‘Hey, there are popular groups out that would appeal to them,’ ” Davey D said, listing off Digital Underground, Souls of Mischief, Too Short, “they were like, ‘No, we’re not going to go there.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you have 100,000 people at Festival at the Lake, you have a good percentage of them being younger folks, and you had very reluctant folks who were putting it together to do something to be very intentional about occupying and accommodating them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving young people something to do, Davey D said, could have changed what happened next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tactics used to try and contain and control was a form of social engineering,” he said. “You could of socially engineered it another way, like putting a good party together and making sure that everyone leaves happy and satisfied, versus frustrated and angry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival was disbanded after violent incidents broke out, and the organizers ran out of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really got disbanded,” Davey D said, “because after long days, in the evening, about 6 o’clock when everything was shutting down, people were just hanging out, you’d have a crowd control problem. And one year I was out here, you had aggressive police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11692155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya1-1020x1275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"960\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People dressed in their finest to come to Festival at the Lake. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @cottonturner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Black Folks Love This Lake’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What many remember so vividly about Festival at the Lake was a time when the lake was occupied by everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, just people being out, enjoying the city, looking cute, feeling like they could take up space, public space, in the city that belongs to us,” Nicole Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Davey D, it was a lost opportunity. “I don’t think the city of Oakland at that time could fully appreciate how significant that was. I think the city has always kind of — in its leadership over the years — has always kind of taken for granted or downplayed things of significance that have a very different perception elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692173\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11692173\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya4-1020x1275.jpg\" alt=\""'Member this? #RealOakland. Where the playas showed up and showed out and the women came out to do one another in they biker shorts and asymmetrical perms... BUT still family friendly really bring the kiddies out," writes @antmooak in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"960\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“‘Member this? #RealOakland. Where the playas showed up and showed out and the women came out to do one another in they biker shorts and asymmetrical perms… BUT still family friendly really bring the kiddies out,” writes @antmooak in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @antmooak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the ’90s Oakland was a cultural center for the country,” Lee said. “Like the music that came out of this city changed the face of hip-hop music. Really, literally. This city and black history, black culture and the legacy of black radical activism, you cannot separate those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sundays after church, this is still where many black families come to grill and hang out. That has taken on a different meaning as many of them have moved out to surrounding areas and return home to Oakland on Sunday to go to church, and afterward to meet up at the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black folks love this lake,” Travis Watts said. “This is a place where we have great memories, this is where we get to see each other en masse. That’s very important, especially in these times where we are kind of being marginalized even in our own city. This is a city where we really felt like, OK, this is where I’m home. Outside of Oakland I feel like a minority, on my job site I feel like a minority, but in Oakland we were the majority, we were the majority population here. And it felt like a place of rest. It was a place where we could just be comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland was never quite a majority black city. At the height of its black population in 1980, two years before the Festival at the Lake started, Oakland was 47 percent black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 20 years since the Festival at the Lake ended in 1997, that number has been in steep decline, and is now just under 25 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travis Watts pauses. He knows that some of the newer festivals, like his own Fam Bam, or 510 Day, have worked to keep the lake alive for all of Oakland. But even he can’t escape the deeper changes in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just used to be … you could just see more of a black presence, you know,” Watts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you get dirty looks walking into a restaurant in Oakland, and you’re like the only black person in a restaurant in Oakland, that’s weird.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lake became a flashpoint this summer, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668335/oaklands-response-to-grillingwhileblack-electric-slide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a white woman called the police on two black men who were barbecuing\u003c/a>. One of those men was Kenzie Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This lady said that she owned Lake Merritt,” Smith said. “She also told us we were trespassing. Do you not understand how crazy this is?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11692159 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-1020x573.jpg\" alt=\""This was when Lake Merrit used to be poppin'!" writes @liljohn1tdk in an Instagram post about his experience at Festival at the Lake in the 80's.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya8.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“This was when Lake Merrit used to be poppin’!” writes @liljohn1tdk in an Instagram post about his experience at Festival at the Lake in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @liljohn1tdk )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smith said it was here at the lake, a place he’d been coming to since he was a child, that he saw his life flash before his eyes as he watched the woman on the phone with police. “In my mind, psychologically, I’m gonna be honest, I thought I was going to die,” he said. “I was like, this is how it ends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident went viral, becoming a kind of metaphor for the erasure and pushing out of black people by gentrification and a rising tide of racism. It also became one of a wave of stories of black people having police called on them by white people, for what many said was just being in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, specifically black Oakland, did not stay quiet. People gathered at the lake to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668335/oaklands-response-to-grillingwhileblack-electric-slide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dance the electric slide\u003c/a>, and then on a Sunday in May, hundreds came here to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/us/oakland-bbq-while-black.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBQ while black\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travis Watts lives by the lake, and he said that morning he headed out, like he does almost every Sunday morning, to hang out. “I packed up my baby girl, we got the stroller set up, I had a chair, a little bag and we just took a walk down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts said he could smell the barbecue smoke from his house, and as he drew closer he saw more and more people, gathering and grilling, even early in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was brothers out here, no shirt, flipping slabs of ribs, like he was in his backyard,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw people bringing out brand-new grills,” Watts said with obvious joy. “They went to Target and Home Depot to buy a grill.” It was as if, Watts said, the whole community came together to say, “Oh no no. We’re going to BBQ today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts organizes an event called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/OAKFAMBAM/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fam Bam\u003c/a> at Lake Merritt every Fourth of July. But the “BBQing While Black” event transported him back in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts stood by the pillars on the northeast side of the lake and pointed across the water and over the rolling green and concrete walkways at its edges. “From right here, it was just packed, packed. It was the best,” he said smiling. “That was the closest feeling to Festival at the Lake I have gotten to since then. That denseness of, and that variety of, black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692145\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11692145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya6-1020x1219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"925\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Festival at the Lake was part music festival, part block party. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @willsap324)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Festival at the Lake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Festival at the Lake was part music festival, part block party. From 1982 to 1997 it was a gathering of folks from across the town — a multicultural meeting point for all of Oakland to come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many who grew up in Oakland in the ’80s and ’90s, it was “the place to be,” said Nicole Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who grew up in Oakland and went to the festival in the ’90s, now organizes \u003ca href=\"https://youthradio.org/arts/510-day-reclaiming-gentrified-spaces-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">510 Day at Lake Merritt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The daytime was kind of like Art + Soul Festival, or the county fair,” Lee said. “There were booths, and your Girl Scout troop, or your dance class from Mosswood Park might perform there and everyone would come out. There were also blues singers, I remember. I think I saw Etta James, actually.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of those signature events,” said Davey D Cook, known as Davey D. He’s a journalist, DJ and Lake Merritt resident. Like \u003ca href=\"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/04/the-oral-history-of-freaknik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freaknik in Atlanta\u003c/a>, or Taste of Chicago in Chicago, Festival at the Lake was a destination for black people to see and be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have a full appreciation of it, until you look back and be like, ‘Wow,’ ” Davey D said. “This is when black folks really came out, were here in full tilt, when Oakland was a chocolate city. And anybody who was anybody would come to this festival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acts like Etta James performed on the main stages during the day, the draw for many young people came later. “I never even went to the festival. It wasn’t even about the festival for me,” Travis Watts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evening would be when all the teenagers and young adults would come out,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was sitting with Kenzie Smith, who joined in laughing. “Yes, we would,” he said. “My first Festival at the Lake was like when I was 14. I’m not even gonna lie to you all, I went to Festival at the Lake ‘cause of girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11692143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3.jpg\" alt='\"Back when Festival at the Lake was poppin!\" says @Caliqueen35 in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake. ' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3.jpg 643w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Back when Festival at the Lake was poppin!” says @Caliqueen35 in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @caliqueen35)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That is one of the reasons Watts went, too. “It was just bonkers,” Watts said. “Streets packed, sidewalks packed, people overflowing into the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers dressing up in his finest outfits, like one baby-blue number he described as a giant raincoat, deeply impractical and like a sauna in the hot summer sun. There was “a lot of flirtation, a whole lot,” he said. “You wore your best. You got cut, shaved up, you had your best outfit on, the women were looking good. And everybody was out flirting, strolling around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had to bring your A-game,” Smith said. “When I say your A-game, I mean you had to have your shoes matching with your outfit. You had to have your hair done, if you had gold ones in your mouth, you had to make sure they were super clean. ‘Cause like, women knew, they knew dirty gold. They were dudes walking around the lake with snakes wrapped around them. Like, literally, it was just going down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young women got all dolled up, too, said Nicole Lee: “You would put your cutest outfit on, and at that time, you know, best friends would match. So we would like go to Bayfair and get special.” She paused and shook her head, laughing. “So embarrassing. We would get airbrushed T-shirts and matching outfits and go to Festival of the Lake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a beautiful, beautiful event,” said Watts, sitting on the benches by the pillars. “I mean, right here. It’s like it was yesterday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692176\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11692176\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10.jpg\" alt='\"Me playing firefighter at #FestivalAtTheLake,\" writes @_raven_nevermore in an Instagram post about her experience in 1987 at the Festival at the Lake.' width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10.jpg 612w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya10-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Me playing firefighter at #FestivalAtTheLake,” writes @_raven_nevermore in an Instagram post about her experience in 1987 at the Festival at the Lake. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @_raven_nevermore)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trouble at the Festival\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many things from one’s childhood, Festival at the Lake is now tinged in the rose-gray light of nostalgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all think of that in some ways as the renaissance era of our lifetime in Oakland,” Lee said. “It also was a challenging era. The early ’90s was a hard time in Oakland, you know. It was the height of the crack epidemic. So yeah, it was a complex time in the city of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also a time when the war on drugs was amplifying the over-policing of black bodies, especially when they gathered en masse, said Boots Riley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679230/boots-riley-tommy-orange-and-the-summer-of-the-oakland-artist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland activist\u003c/a>, frontman of The Coup, and director of this summer’s breakout film, “\u003ca href=\"http://sorrytobotheryou.movie/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sorry to Bother You\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Festival at the Lake, like every year, there was something where at about 6 o’clock, the police would be like, ‘OK everybody go home,’ ” Riley said. “And people are there standing, and they’d start trying to clear people out. It would get to pushing, then pepper-spraying, and that happened a few times before there was rebellion in ‘94.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fights broke out and other types of violence, too. In a video posted on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p2EwQL4wyY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube from around this time\u003c/a>, you can see some young men sexually harassing and possibly assaulting young women. Eventually, cruising laws made it criminal to drive more than once around the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People would drink and sometimes become violent, said Davey D. But he said it didn’t have to be that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692162\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11692162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9.jpg\" alt='\"My mom told me she found this in her office,\" writes @erikalizette in a post on Instagram. \"I need these back in my life.\"' width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9.jpg 612w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya9-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“My mom told me she found this in her office,” writes @erikalizette in a post on Instagram. “I need these back in my life.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @erikalizette)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The festival itself, he said, was geared toward older people, even though it was clear young people from across the city were hungry for this kind of celebration. “When the Festival of the Lake was happening, I had meetings at my house with some of the people who were really reluctant to have hip-hop acts and acts for younger people … they didn’t know how to deal with that ’cause they were getting a large influx of younger people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of saying, ‘Hey, there are popular groups out that would appeal to them,’ ” Davey D said, listing off Digital Underground, Souls of Mischief, Too Short, “they were like, ‘No, we’re not going to go there.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you have 100,000 people at Festival at the Lake, you have a good percentage of them being younger folks, and you had very reluctant folks who were putting it together to do something to be very intentional about occupying and accommodating them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving young people something to do, Davey D said, could have changed what happened next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tactics used to try and contain and control was a form of social engineering,” he said. “You could of socially engineered it another way, like putting a good party together and making sure that everyone leaves happy and satisfied, versus frustrated and angry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival was disbanded after violent incidents broke out, and the organizers ran out of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really got disbanded,” Davey D said, “because after long days, in the evening, about 6 o’clock when everything was shutting down, people were just hanging out, you’d have a crowd control problem. And one year I was out here, you had aggressive police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11692155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya1-1020x1275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"960\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People dressed in their finest to come to Festival at the Lake. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @cottonturner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Black Folks Love This Lake’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What many remember so vividly about Festival at the Lake was a time when the lake was occupied by everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, just people being out, enjoying the city, looking cute, feeling like they could take up space, public space, in the city that belongs to us,” Nicole Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Davey D, it was a lost opportunity. “I don’t think the city of Oakland at that time could fully appreciate how significant that was. I think the city has always kind of — in its leadership over the years — has always kind of taken for granted or downplayed things of significance that have a very different perception elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692173\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11692173\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/sandhya4-1020x1275.jpg\" alt=\""'Member this? #RealOakland. Where the playas showed up and showed out and the women came out to do one another in they biker shorts and asymmetrical perms... BUT still family friendly really bring the kiddies out," writes @antmooak in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"960\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“‘Member this? #RealOakland. Where the playas showed up and showed out and the women came out to do one another in they biker shorts and asymmetrical perms… BUT still family friendly really bring the kiddies out,” writes @antmooak in an Instagram post about the Festival at the Lake. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of @antmooak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the ’90s Oakland was a cultural center for the country,” Lee said. “Like the music that came out of this city changed the face of hip-hop music. Really, literally. This city and black history, black culture and the legacy of black radical activism, you cannot separate those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sundays after church, this is still where many black families come to grill and hang out. That has taken on a different meaning as many of them have moved out to surrounding areas and return home to Oakland on Sunday to go to church, and afterward to meet up at the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black folks love this lake,” Travis Watts said. “This is a place where we have great memories, this is where we get to see each other en masse. That’s very important, especially in these times where we are kind of being marginalized even in our own city. This is a city where we really felt like, OK, this is where I’m home. Outside of Oakland I feel like a minority, on my job site I feel like a minority, but in Oakland we were the majority, we were the majority population here. And it felt like a place of rest. It was a place where we could just be comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland was never quite a majority black city. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou’ve heard this one before: A much-beloved bar, regarded by many as a community and cultural treasure, gets a rent increase. The owners call it quits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a last round of teary, boozy excess, the regulars — and the folks who remember when they were regulars, and those who wish they had been — crowd the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, as the lights are turned out and the doors are locked for the last time, they wander out, savoring the memories but maybe wondering whether they’ll see such a good time again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the process — a sort of community wake — occurring right now at Brennan’s, in Berkeley. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/08/16/almost-60-year-old-brennans-restaurant-in-berkeley-is-closing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">word went around last month\u003c/a> that the proprietors had been hit with a 25 percent rent increase and would shut the doors on Sept. 15. That's tomorrow, if you're checking your calendar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My wife and I — we've had a long run at Brennan's — dropped in on a weekend afternoon just after we heard about the closing and found the place jammed. Lots of gray heads — and lots of younger people, too, a strikingly diverse crowd — lining up for a last chance at a turkey-mashed potato-lots-of-gravy dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Day after day, night after night, the parade of last-chancers has continued. We saw it again on a second visit with one of our kids’ friends, whose grandparents had been among the establishment’s first customers in the late 1950s. While we sat at the bar, members of his extended family filtered in for a final Brennan’s afternoon. It was a reminder of Brennan's roots — originally a magnet for workers in all-but-vanished industrial West Berkeley, a place that was friendly to families and, well, just friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692423\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-800x572.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-1200x858.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-1180x844.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-960x687.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The long, long line Thursday night for dinner at Brennan's. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bar’s winding down has made me reflect a little on my own history with the place. Mostly, it was the same connection most of us have with a place where we socialize. But there was something more — something that made me reflect on the declining arc of Brennan’s more than a decade ago. Now, I’ll turn over the rest of this piece to \u003ca href=\"http://infospigot.com/2007/04/15/elegy_for_a_wat/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my 2007 self\u003c/a>, and what I wrote then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 2.5em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">* * *\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he first place I went out and had a drink in Berkeley after I got here in the mid-'70s was a bar down under the University Avenue overpass called Brennan's. \"Had a drink\" is true if a little off the point, because the reason friends took me there, and the reason the place was probably very profitable, was the Irish coffee it served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the Irish coffee and beer and the rest of the alcohol, it also featured — still does — a cafeteria-style buffet; and the buffet featured turkey and corned beef and mashed potatoes and gravy; you know, stick-to-your-ribs stuff, and cheap. The bar is a 50-foot-long ellipse down by the buffet line, and the rest of the barnlike room is open and filled with plain, low wooden tables and chairs and a couple of big-screen TVs. The walls are hung with large photo portraits of a jowly but good-natured-looking middle-aged guy with assorted family members and an assortment of bovines in cattle-show settings; I figure he's the Brennan who started up the bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692442\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692442\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-800x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-800x574.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-1200x861.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-960x689.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typical Brennan's: Inexpensive, basic, stick-to-your-ribs stuff. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I first started to go down to Brennan's — often enough but never too often — it always seemed to have a crowd. If you happened in at noontime, local workers (Berkeley had an industrial district back then, though one that was already in decline) were loading up on turkey neck lunches and grabbing beers. Early in the evening almost any night you'd find families enjoying the cheap eats. Later, the place would get going; on Friday and Saturday nights it wasn't unusual to find virtually every seat at every table taken and a crush of bodies waiting for drink orders that four or five bartenders would be hustling to fill. The business seemed to run full bore nearly till closing time, 2 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tastes and habits change. Over time, going into Brennan's after a softball game, maybe, or when my wife and I would go in for an Irish coffee after an evening out, we started to notice the crowds weren't quite so big. Some nights, just two bartenders were working, even on the weekends. Then just one. And the place would be virtually deserted by midnight; and then, if you got there at midnight, it would be closed. It would take a long time-lapse to capture the process, but the nighttime business has evaporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's about to change in other ways, too: A developer showed up and bought the property upon which Brennan's plebeian box of a building sits. A big residential and commercial project is planned for the site. As part of the deal, the bar will be relocated to the old Southern Pacific station across the parking lot, a building that last housed a very good Asian fusion restaurant called Xanadu that went belly up several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not sure where everyone went. Probably to establishments that are about more than getting a drink, draining it, and getting a refill and another refill and another, long into the night, talking about whatever you're going to talk about as you get less lucid and more eloquent. Berkeley has some nice bistros that serve food in elegant and pricey bites; you order alcohol off a wine menu or choose from a list of microbrews and retro and nouveau cocktails. Everything is well thought out and modern, everything tastes good, and the atmosphere tends toward the genteel; enough so that I think you'd get a funny look from the sharply dressed drinkologist across the zinc bar if you asked for an Irish coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last night, after a day of little jobs around the house and finally getting the taxes done, my wife asked if I wanted to go out and get an Irish coffee, shorthand for, \"Do you want to go down to Brennan's?\" Through one thing and another, we didn't leave the house until just after 11. We drove over to University, then headed west toward the freeway. When we got to Fourth Street, the Brennan's corner, I looked over at the place. The lights inside were on, but there was something about the scene that said \"closed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We parked and went up to what used to look like the main entrance. The doors were locked. But we could see people inside, and we knew that sometimes those doors aren't used at night. So we walked to a side entrance off the street. Locked again. Then around into the parking lot, and finally, an open door. It was 11:20, and there were about eight people inside, mostly grouped in pairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We walked up to the bar, where one of the proprietors, a woman I believe is one of the founders' granddaughters, kept her back to us as she studied papers on a clipboard. Then a guy who might have been the bartender, said, \"Sorry, folks, we're closed.\" So no Irish coffee for us. We drove around Berkeley a little afterward and decided that there was no place we could think of that would both serve an Irish coffee and fit our notion of comfort. So we wound up stopping at the store, buying the ingredients, and making our own at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But: a real, honest-to-goodness bar locked up at 40 minutes to midnight?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, you can hardly blame the proprietors for saying \"last call\" as they watch eight die-hards nurse their drinks as the clock drags toward midnight. That level of patronage doesn't even pay the electric bill. On the other, the whole point of Brennan's for me was a place you could stop by without thinking about the time. That part of the business is dead, and it's hard to imagine that new quarters, without some fundamental change in the business — Brennan's bistro? Chez Brennan's? — will bring it back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know: a small loss in the big scheme. The meaning is entirely personal. Still, the place had a good run, and it gave me somewhere to make a proposal one night a long time ago. Long life to the memories.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It was a reminder of Brennan's roots — originally a magnet for workers in all-but-vanished industrial West Berkeley, a place that was friendly to families and, well, just friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692423\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-800x572.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-1200x858.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-1180x844.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-960x687.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913a-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The long, long line Thursday night for dinner at Brennan's. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bar’s winding down has made me reflect a little on my own history with the place. Mostly, it was the same connection most of us have with a place where we socialize. But there was something more — something that made me reflect on the declining arc of Brennan’s more than a decade ago. Now, I’ll turn over the rest of this piece to \u003ca href=\"http://infospigot.com/2007/04/15/elegy_for_a_wat/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my 2007 self\u003c/a>, and what I wrote then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 2.5em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">* * *\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he first place I went out and had a drink in Berkeley after I got here in the mid-'70s was a bar down under the University Avenue overpass called Brennan's. \"Had a drink\" is true if a little off the point, because the reason friends took me there, and the reason the place was probably very profitable, was the Irish coffee it served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the Irish coffee and beer and the rest of the alcohol, it also featured — still does — a cafeteria-style buffet; and the buffet featured turkey and corned beef and mashed potatoes and gravy; you know, stick-to-your-ribs stuff, and cheap. The bar is a 50-foot-long ellipse down by the buffet line, and the rest of the barnlike room is open and filled with plain, low wooden tables and chairs and a couple of big-screen TVs. The walls are hung with large photo portraits of a jowly but good-natured-looking middle-aged guy with assorted family members and an assortment of bovines in cattle-show settings; I figure he's the Brennan who started up the bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692442\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11692442\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-800x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-800x574.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-1200x861.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-960x689.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/brennans180913c-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typical Brennan's: Inexpensive, basic, stick-to-your-ribs stuff. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I first started to go down to Brennan's — often enough but never too often — it always seemed to have a crowd. If you happened in at noontime, local workers (Berkeley had an industrial district back then, though one that was already in decline) were loading up on turkey neck lunches and grabbing beers. Early in the evening almost any night you'd find families enjoying the cheap eats. Later, the place would get going; on Friday and Saturday nights it wasn't unusual to find virtually every seat at every table taken and a crush of bodies waiting for drink orders that four or five bartenders would be hustling to fill. The business seemed to run full bore nearly till closing time, 2 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tastes and habits change. Over time, going into Brennan's after a softball game, maybe, or when my wife and I would go in for an Irish coffee after an evening out, we started to notice the crowds weren't quite so big. Some nights, just two bartenders were working, even on the weekends. Then just one. And the place would be virtually deserted by midnight; and then, if you got there at midnight, it would be closed. It would take a long time-lapse to capture the process, but the nighttime business has evaporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's about to change in other ways, too: A developer showed up and bought the property upon which Brennan's plebeian box of a building sits. A big residential and commercial project is planned for the site. As part of the deal, the bar will be relocated to the old Southern Pacific station across the parking lot, a building that last housed a very good Asian fusion restaurant called Xanadu that went belly up several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not sure where everyone went. Probably to establishments that are about more than getting a drink, draining it, and getting a refill and another refill and another, long into the night, talking about whatever you're going to talk about as you get less lucid and more eloquent. Berkeley has some nice bistros that serve food in elegant and pricey bites; you order alcohol off a wine menu or choose from a list of microbrews and retro and nouveau cocktails. Everything is well thought out and modern, everything tastes good, and the atmosphere tends toward the genteel; enough so that I think you'd get a funny look from the sharply dressed drinkologist across the zinc bar if you asked for an Irish coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last night, after a day of little jobs around the house and finally getting the taxes done, my wife asked if I wanted to go out and get an Irish coffee, shorthand for, \"Do you want to go down to Brennan's?\" Through one thing and another, we didn't leave the house until just after 11. We drove over to University, then headed west toward the freeway. When we got to Fourth Street, the Brennan's corner, I looked over at the place. The lights inside were on, but there was something about the scene that said \"closed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We parked and went up to what used to look like the main entrance. The doors were locked. But we could see people inside, and we knew that sometimes those doors aren't used at night. So we walked to a side entrance off the street. Locked again. Then around into the parking lot, and finally, an open door. It was 11:20, and there were about eight people inside, mostly grouped in pairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We walked up to the bar, where one of the proprietors, a woman I believe is one of the founders' granddaughters, kept her back to us as she studied papers on a clipboard. Then a guy who might have been the bartender, said, \"Sorry, folks, we're closed.\" So no Irish coffee for us. We drove around Berkeley a little afterward and decided that there was no place we could think of that would both serve an Irish coffee and fit our notion of comfort. So we wound up stopping at the store, buying the ingredients, and making our own at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But: a real, honest-to-goodness bar locked up at 40 minutes to midnight?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, you can hardly blame the proprietors for saying \"last call\" as they watch eight die-hards nurse their drinks as the clock drags toward midnight. That level of patronage doesn't even pay the electric bill. On the other, the whole point of Brennan's for me was a place you could stop by without thinking about the time. That part of the business is dead, and it's hard to imagine that new quarters, without some fundamental change in the business — Brennan's bistro? Chez Brennan's? — will bring it back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Though less well-known than its San Francisco counterpart, Oakland Pride is seen as more family-friendly and has become a go-to event for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691299/oakland-pride-expects-to-draw-record-number-of-families\">queer families\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say more than 50,000 people attended this year, making it one of the biggest Oakland Pride’s since the celebration started nine years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11691410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6749-e1536529265300.jpg\" alt=\"BART Board President Robert Raburn says it's going to be a tough budget year for BART, but he "twisted arms" to make sure the BARTmobile could take part in Oakland Pride on Sunday.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART Board President Robert Raburn says it’s going to be a tough budget year for BART, but he “twisted arms” to make sure the BARTmobile could take part in Oakland Pride on Sunday. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11691411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6750-e1536529391704.jpg\" alt=\"Legacies of the Pacific prepare to hula their way through Oakland Pride.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legacies of the Pacific prepare to hula their way through Oakland Pride. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11691412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6738-1-e1536529569907.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Left to Right: Jon Sarriugarte, Krysten Mate, Lauren Winter and Zolie Sarriugarte (on top of the snail). This crew built their ‘Snail/The Golden Mean’ mobile 10 years ago when Zolie was 2-years-old, it contains a place she used to sleep inside when she was small. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11691413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6739-2-e1536529779378.jpg\" alt='Jerry Edwards has been selling at pride for seven years. \"The people are great,\" he said.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry Edwards has been selling at pride for seven years. “The people are great,” he said. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6741-1-e1536529854262-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11691414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6741-1-e1536529854262-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6741-1-e1536529854262-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6741-1-e1536529854262-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6741-1-e1536529854262-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6741-1-e1536529854262-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6741-1-e1536529854262-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6741-1-e1536529854262-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6741-1-e1536529854262-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6741-1-e1536529854262-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to Right: Parents Nikkole Gadsen and Paula Williamson of Richmond with 19-month old twins Kingston (left) and Cayman (right) and 5-year old Croix (left). It’s the family’s first Oakland Pride parade. Croix signals his “thumbs up” to the event. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Though less well-known than its San Francisco counterpart, Oakland Pride is seen as more family-friendly and has become a go-to event for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691299/oakland-pride-expects-to-draw-record-number-of-families\">queer families\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say more than 50,000 people attended this year, making it one of the biggest Oakland Pride’s since the celebration started nine years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11691410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6749-e1536529265300.jpg\" alt=\"BART Board President Robert Raburn says it's going to be a tough budget year for BART, but he "twisted arms" to make sure the BARTmobile could take part in Oakland Pride on Sunday.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART Board President Robert Raburn says it’s going to be a tough budget year for BART, but he “twisted arms” to make sure the BARTmobile could take part in Oakland Pride on Sunday. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11691411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6750-e1536529391704.jpg\" alt=\"Legacies of the Pacific prepare to hula their way through Oakland Pride.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legacies of the Pacific prepare to hula their way through Oakland Pride. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11691412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/IMG_6738-1-e1536529569907.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Left to Right: Jon Sarriugarte, Krysten Mate, Lauren Winter and Zolie Sarriugarte (on top of the snail). 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No one came. She took to slipping her number to other cool moms at birthday parties, something she laughingly refers to as platonic “mom dating.” She eventually started her own blog, called \u003ca href=\"http://queertribe.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queer Tribe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve joined tons of mommy groups and spend a bunch of time at the park, and it’s still rare to see queer families,” Kaplan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renata Moreira heads up Our Family Coalition, a nonprofit that’s working to fill that void across the region, connecting queer families to essential resources and to each other. She says her group is doing more and more work in the East Bay, including a doubling of attendance at play groups and parent education seminars over the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreira says \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634601/is-the-castro-getting-less-gay\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">despite changing demographics\u003c/a>, a lot of support is still focused on San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of LGBTQI immigrant families in the East Bay, and a lot of our families end up seeking support in faith-based organizations, but then they go back in the closet,” Moreira says. “They end up really not sharing out their family composition, receiving less than ideal support because they’re going to face yet again relentless homophobia and transphobia. 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It’s really just a beautiful community space,” says Moreira.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that family spirit, while Dykes on Bikes lead the San Francisco parade, the Oakland celebration will be led by Tykes on Trikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Pride co-chair Carlos Uribe says the event has plenty for people of all ages who want a sex-positive experience, including four stages and tents for seniors and teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day’s festivities start with a pre-pride pancake breakfast near Oakland City Hall. The parade and festival kick off at 11 a.m. in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The ninth annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandpride.org/page/about-oakland-pride/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Pride\u003c/a> will be taking over downtown Oakland on Sunday. Here’s what you need to know before you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is Oakland Pride?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part parade and part festival, the event is dedicated to showcasing “the cultures and diversity of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) community in Oakland and the East Bay” through education and community building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When is it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade and festival both open on Sunday, Sept. 9 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where is it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade goes up Broadway, starting at 14th Street and ending at 20th Street in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11691255 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-800x407.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland Pride parade route.\" width=\"800\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-800x407.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-160x81.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-1020x520.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-1200x611.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-1180x601.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-960x489.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-240x122.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-375x191.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg-520x265.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/a.jpg.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Pride parade route. \u003ccite>(Oakland Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The festival is right next to the parade finish area, with a main entrance at Broadway and 20th Street. The festival includes a “Family and Children’s Garden,” and there will be four stages with their own unique lineups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does it cost to attend?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>General admission to the festival is $10, and tickets for children under 12 are $5. The parade is free unless you want VIP seating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What should you bring?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone, money for admission, sunscreen and transit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there any age restrictions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no age restrictions at Oakland Pride, which calls itself one of the “most diverse and family friendly” pride celebrations in the country. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandpride.org/page/pride-family-fun-zone/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family and Children’s Garden\u003c/a> will be open from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., featuring programs and activities specially designed for children and their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11691283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11691283 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-800x800.jpeg\" alt=\"The Family and Children's Garden at Oakland Pride.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-240x240.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-375x375.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-520x520.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Oakland-Pride-Family.jpeg-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Family and Children’s Garden at Oakland Pride. \u003ccite>(Oakland Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How should you get there?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is your best bet to get Oakland Pride, with the 12th Street/Oakland City Center and 19th Street stations in Oakland being the closest stops. 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The festival includes a “Family and Children’s Garden,” and there will be four stages with their own unique lineups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does it cost to attend?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>General admission to the festival is $10, and tickets for children under 12 are $5. The parade is free unless you want VIP seating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What should you bring?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phone, money for admission, sunscreen and transit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there any age restrictions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no age restrictions at Oakland Pride, which calls itself one of the “most diverse and family friendly” pride celebrations in the country. 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"content": "\u003cp>When wildfires ripped through California’s Napa Valley in October 2017, local artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.correavalencia.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arleene Correa Valencia\u003c/a> was shocked to hear that farm workers were continuing to work in the vineyards — even as smoke surrounded the area, and the locals were evacuating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outraged, Correa turned to her art — painting — to highlight the dangerous conditions in which immigrant workers, particularly undocumented ones, are forced to labor. She took photos of the scene to create oil paintings, which are the focus of her upcoming series, \u003cem>En Tiempo de Crisis, In Times of Crisis.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing on the edge of a manicured vineyard on Silverado Road, the main road of Napa Valley’s world-renowned wineries, Correa recalls what she saw as the fires raged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The moon was out, it was red orange, highlighted by the fires, it was something out of a movie, it was beautiful,” says Correa. “But underneath all that, there were people, and they were not safe. They were hustling up and down these long stretches of vineyard, just running to save the grape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correa was born in Michoacán, Mexico, and raised in Napa Valley. Now 24, she is a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA — the program that allows undocumented immigrants brought here as children to live and work in the U.S legally. Growing up, she experienced firsthand the contradictions of living in a wealthy area as an undocumented immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents, two siblings and I shared a two-bedroom apartment with 16 people,” says Correa. “We lived in this tiny little place and everybody there were my uncles, my aunts, my cousins. Everybody was just working so that we could all pay rent collectively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of her family members worked in the vineyards. Immigrants play a crucial role in the Napa economy, making up a majority of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/us/california-fires-immigrants.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">55,000\u003c/a> people employed by its wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/arleene3_enl-22c3597a6abb520526d6f705aed8842cdae9fe4b-e1535835667110.jpg\" alt=\"In one of Correa's oil paintings, a woman harvesting grapes at night ties a bandana around her mouth and nose to protect herself from the smoke permeating the fields.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11690088\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In one of Correa’s oil paintings, a woman harvesting grapes at night ties a bandana around her mouth and nose to protect herself from the smoke permeating the fields. \u003ccite>(Rachael Bongiorno for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But when a natural disaster strikes, undocumented immigrants are ineligible for most disaster aid or unemployment benefits. Even if an undocumented parent has U.S-born children who are eligible for federal emergency relief funds, the personal information required by these agencies can discourage \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Some-immigrant-fire-victims-forgo-aid-fearing-12306830.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">them from applying.\u003c/a> During the 2017 fires, rumors circulated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was going to local evacuation centers. Those rumours were unfounded, but they \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article178502386.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deterred\u003c/a> undocumented immigrants all the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last year’s fires, Correa recalls seeing “a flock of people sleeping in the Walmart parking lot in their cars, because they were too afraid to go down to the community college and get a couple of blankets and a cot for their children. … The fear of being deported is keeping them from being helped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correa documented what she saw, and the photographs she took inspired her latest oil paintings. In one painting, a woman is bent over a large bin of freshly cut grapes. It’s dark, so she’s wearing a neon orange safety vest, a headlamp to see her work and a bandana tied around her mouth and nose to protect herself from the smoke permeating the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correa, who has asthma, says when she shot the photo the painting is based on, in a local vineyard, she was wearing a particulate respirator mask, yet she still struggled to breathe. But she says the workers she saw were not wearing masks, and only some — like the woman in the painting — wore a bandana over their faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone was coughing, especially because they were running up and down, but no one was complaining,” says Correa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winemakers were under pressure to save the grapes from the fires, as well as from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/12/13/570188980/winemakers-worry-wildfires-will-leave-whiff-of-ashtray-in-their-wine\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smoke damage\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/10/how_the_fires_might_affect_california_wine.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">.\u003c/a> The wine country fires of 2017 proved to be among the costliest in California’s history, generating nearly \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fire-insurance-claims-california-20180131-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$10 billion\u003c/a> in insurance claims. Farmworkers felt the pressure, too, Correa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is when they were making the most money,” says Correa, so farmworkers “don’t have the luxury to say, ‘I’m leaving town because it’s unsafe’ or because ‘I don’t want to breathe the air.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Correa asked the woman she photographed how much money she was making, she said she didn’t know. The woman told her that laborers make around $2,000 per ton of grapes, but this is divided among a complex arrangement of subcontractors, as well as the 20 or so grape pickers for that shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re independent contractors, so they don’t have to provide them with health insurance, living assistance. They don’t have to provide any of the benefits any normal worker would get,” says Correa. “At the end of the day, these people are doing extremely rigorous physical labor for absolutely nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/arleene2_enl-8018745d9d2a0777c97b9daf39e63a4d6a261d74-e1535835704700.jpg\" alt=\"Arleene Correa Valencia stands by the creek on the Silverado Trail in Napa Valley.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11690089\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arleene Correa Valencia stands by the creek on the Silverado Trail in Napa Valley. \u003ccite>(Rachael Bongiorno for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s been 10 months since the Napa fires, and organizations that serve the local immigrant communities say that undocumented immigrants are still fearful of accessing services, despite the significant challenges which they experience \u003cstrong>— \u003c/strong>including family trauma, unemployment and a lack of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Landlords have said they need to renovate the apartments after the fires, and then they jack up the rent,” says Josefina Hurtado, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.puertasabiertasnapa.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Puertas Abiertas Community Resource Center\u003c/a>, an organization which offers counseling, disaster relief, English classes and other social services. “We have families moving from entire apartments to just one room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When fires burned earlier this summer across central and northern California, ICE issued a statement saying it would suspend routine immigration enforcement operations in the affected areas. 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