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"content": "\u003cp>I saw my first TEPCO dish at the Alameda Antiques Fair. A stack of floral patterned plates sat on a table, waiting to be bought. The pink glaze glistened in the sun. I immediately fell in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TEPCO dishes are ceramic, dense and glossy; the types of dishes you might find at a diner. From 1930 to 1968, TEPCO — the Technical Porcelain and Chinaware Company — made dishes like these out of their factory in El Cerrito, north of Berkeley. And though they look pretty ordinary, TEPCO dishes are actually really meaningful to a small band of collectors all over California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandi Genser-Maack and her husband, Lynn Maack, are TEPCO collectors. For years, they’ve been scouring flea markets and estate sales, in search of these heavy, kitschy dishes. Sandi remembers when she and Lynn scored a rare TEPCO find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always go antiquing wherever we go. And way down low, in a cabinet where you could hardly see were two Doggie Diner mugs! We bought them, and we were so excited we were quivering,” Sandi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandi and Lynn have an outdoor shed filled with TEPCO dishes. They had a newsletter called the TEPCO Tribune, and started the TEPCO Collectors Club. Every few months, club members would get together, and visit restaurants that still use TEPCO dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a cafe in El Cerrito, Sandi and Lynn flip through a binder full of images from the original TEPCO catalogue. They have pictures of every plate ever made, in every pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some dishes sport wild decorations: bamboo leaves, wagon wheels, flowers, and pagodas. 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TEPCO was El Cerrito’s biggest employer. Hundreds of people worked at the factory, making tens of thousands of pieces of pottery every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TEPCO was founded in 1930 by Italian immigrant John Pagliero. He started out making porcelain kitchen appliances, like toilets and sinks. But Pagliero realized he could do a lot more business by selling everyday items, like plates and cups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pagliero made a name for himself as a great salesman, and TEPCO dishes were everywhere. Local Bay Area restaurants like Louie’s Restaurant Club, Doggie Diner and Spenger’s Fish Grotto asked Pagliero to create custom designed plates. TEPCO dishes were even used at the Kaiser shipyards. The U.S. Army and Navy used full sets of TEPCO in their mess halls and on their ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local families also used TEPCO dishes in their kitchens. El Cerrito mothers, the story goes, used to tell their kids to bike down to the TEPCO factory to pick up an extra table setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The factory was going strong, until John Pagliero died in 1968. Tom Panas from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.elcerritohistoricalsociety.org/\">El Cerrito Historical Society\u003c/a> says rumor has it that the family was squabbling over who would take over. And, at the same time, El Cerrito was changing, becoming more residential. Some neighbors didn’t want to live next to a big, noisy factory. Whatever the reason, the factory closed down in 1968.*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, all that’s left of the factory is a place affectionately known as TEPCO Beach. Factory workers used to drive the broken plates over to Point Isabel, in Richmond, and dump them along the shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The porcelain pieces were never cleaned up, and now, multicolored TEPCO shards are piled in a thick layer on top of the sand, mixed in with dried seaweed. 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It’s something Sandi and I did together, and now I can’t even look at some of it,” Lynn says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People with a passion for TEPCO are getting harder and harder to find, and, it’s even more difficult to find people who remember life at the factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was going to interview a man named Frank Storno, the last living TEPCO factory worker. But the day before our interview, he died. He was 101 years old. As TEPCO fans start to disappear, Lynn’s TEPCO collection has taken on even more meaning, a sort of ode to the factory and the people that handmade these dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynn has considered that, to some people, his TEPCO collection is just a set of ugly dishes, nothing more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re probably not going to be important to someone else when I’m gone,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, it’s important to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve started collecting TEPCO dishes now. They’re pretty easy to find at flea markets all around California, especially the Alameda Antiques Fair. But I think it’s more fun to see TEPCO dishes in use, in the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every so often, I sit down to eat at a diner, and think I see a TEPCO plate. I now flip dishes over to check if they have the green TEPCO stamp on the back. They rarely do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, I’ll keep flipping dishes over. Because one day, I might find a TEPCO plate. And that will be really nice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed the factory’s closure in 1968 to a kiln fire. While there was a fire in 1946, Pagliero rebuilt the factory then. We regret the error.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Walk on the beach, and you hear the crunch of porcelain underneath your feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31276_Plotnick_TEPCOBeach-qut-1200x900-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Shards amongst seaweed and sand on TEPCO beach.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31276_Plotnick_TEPCOBeach-qut-1200x900-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31276_Plotnick_TEPCOBeach-qut-1200x900-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31276_Plotnick_TEPCOBeach-qut-1200x900-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31276_Plotnick_TEPCOBeach-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31276_Plotnick_TEPCOBeach-qut-1200x900-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31276_Plotnick_TEPCOBeach-qut-1200x900-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31276_Plotnick_TEPCOBeach-qut-1200x900-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31276_Plotnick_TEPCOBeach-qut-1200x900-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31276_Plotnick_TEPCOBeach-qut-1200x900-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shards amongst seaweed and sand on TEPCO beach. \u003ccite>(Ariel Plotnick/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>TEPCO beach is tucked away off the Point Isabel bike path, but those who know of this secret spot like to come and hunt for special treasures: patterned pieces, handles broken off from teacups and, if you’re lucky, a full-sized plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent day at TEPCO beach, Lynn Maack is watching the tide wash in over the shards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife, Sandi, passed away a few months earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know I look at some of my TEPCO collection, and it’s lost some of its luster. It’s something Sandi and I did together, and now I can’t even look at some of it,” Lynn says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People with a passion for TEPCO are getting harder and harder to find, and, it’s even more difficult to find people who remember life at the factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was going to interview a man named Frank Storno, the last living TEPCO factory worker. But the day before our interview, he died. He was 101 years old. As TEPCO fans start to disappear, Lynn’s TEPCO collection has taken on even more meaning, a sort of ode to the factory and the people that handmade these dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynn has considered that, to some people, his TEPCO collection is just a set of ugly dishes, nothing more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re probably not going to be important to someone else when I’m gone,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, it’s important to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve started collecting TEPCO dishes now. They’re pretty easy to find at flea markets all around California, especially the Alameda Antiques Fair. But I think it’s more fun to see TEPCO dishes in use, in the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every so often, I sit down to eat at a diner, and think I see a TEPCO plate. I now flip dishes over to check if they have the green TEPCO stamp on the back. They rarely do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, I’ll keep flipping dishes over. Because one day, I might find a TEPCO plate. And that will be really nice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n a serene, leafy street in north Pasadena, a 70-year-old man has lived a quiet life in a well-preserved Craftsman house since his family bought it in 1963.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He keeps the lawn mowed, he chats with the neighbors, and sometimes he smokes Parliament cigarettes with his tea on the front porch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a June day 50 years ago, one of his older brothers left this same house with a loaded .22 pistol. He got into his pink and white ’56 DeSoto and drove to a gun range. Later that evening, he headed to the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Robert F. Kennedy had just won California’s Democratic primary election. He concluded his rousing victory speech with the words, “My thanks to all of you and now it’s on to Chicago and let’s win this!” and stepped from the ballroom into a small, crowded kitchen pantry surrounded by excited supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never made it to Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shots rang out and Kennedy was down, taking two bullets in the back and one in the head. Members of the crowd jumped on the shooter and slammed him onto a steam table. A hotel employee grabbed his wrist as the gun emptied, the shots firing at random, wounding five others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy was rushed to a hospital. Twenty-six hours later, he was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged assassin was identified as Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a 24-year-old Arab Palestinian. He was not a U.S. citizen, but had been living in Pasadena for 12 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the nation stood in shock at the second Kennedy killing in five years, the media became consumed with the question: Who was this person?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671974/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments\">The L.A. Busboy Who Cradled a Dying RFK Recalls Those Final Moments\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671974/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/romeronpr1_custom-aae2056fb7c478c80e59ad38e4680c2581f3b3a4-1020x641.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He was just a fun-loving guy. He liked life, and he liked family,” says Munir Sirhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s the brother of Kennedy’s convicted assassin. “If anybody was trying to do me any harm, he’d go up and confront the people and tell’em, ‘Listen, this is my little brother. I don’t want anybody hurting him.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan Sirhan was tried and sentenced to the gas chamber, a sentence that was commuted to life in 1972. Since then, he’s been denied parole 15 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know what? I just want to hug him,” his brother Munir says. “Hug him and tell him, ‘Welcome home.’ I’d just like to see him reading a book on that chair like he used to when we were kids, and just walk around the block with him. I’d be happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 50 years, Munir has waited for his brother to return to this house in Pasadena. And for the last 50 years, he’s lived in the wake of his brother’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir leads a solitary life. He never got married, never had a career. He worked odd jobs and was supported by his family, who always pooled their modest resources. He keeps the furniture in the house pretty much as it was the day Sirhan drove away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the family’s parents and six children, Munir and his older brother are the only ones left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, yeah, Sirhan and I. It’d be pretty rough without him, even if it’s just letter-writing,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Munir Sirhan next to a photo taken during a prison visit with his brother Sirhan Sirhan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munir Sirhan next to a photo taken during a prison visit with his brother Sirhan Sirhan. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s, the Sirhan family — who were Arab Palestinian Christians — were living in Jerusalem, an area experiencing continued upheaval in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Munir says this was the violent backdrop for his early childhood memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[There was] a lot of hecticness,” he says. “A lot of air raid sirens going off every other day. I remember going to my best friend’s home, and they’re telling me he’s not coming to school today and wondering why, and then the next day you find out he got blown away from a bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a program initiated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the United Nations, a ship overcrowded with seasick refugees brought the family to America in 1956, leaving the Holy Land for the paradise of Pasadena where their sponsor lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ya know, we got along, we made friends, it was OK, but you couldn’t be an Arab here, you couldn’t be an Arab at all,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His devout mother Mary got a job in the nursery at Westminster Presbyterian Church, walking distance from the house. His father returned to the old country, unable to adapt to life in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Munir Sirhan, younger brother of convicted Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, at the family home next to his brother's lemon tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munir Sirhan, younger brother of convicted Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, at the family home next to his brother’s lemon tree. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sirhan and Munir, their two youngest sons, attended local public schools and got paper routes for the Pasadena Star-News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan was a reader, and spent a lot of time holed up in his bedroom at the back of the house. At John Muir High School in Pasadena — the same school Jackie Robinson attended — he joined the ROTC and learned to shoot a .22 rifle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir had bad eyesight and quit school after 6th grade. He watched a lot of TV: “Felix the Cat,” “The Three Stooges” and “Yogi Bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was becoming an American. He loved music and he loved records, and he really loved song parodist Stan Freberg, the Weird Al Yankovic of the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I adored that guy,” says Munir. “I think that’s what I would have been, some sort of comedy songwriter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I had no idea it would have this kind of an outcome, no idea at all. You start looking inward to see if you were part of the blame for this thing happening.’\u003ccite>Munir Sirhan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got a job at F.C. Nash department store in Pasadena as a stock clerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet this mundane position was not without dark significance. Through a co-worker, Munir got his brother a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He asked me if I could get a gun. Sirhan used to belong to the ROTC at Muir, I said, ‘sure, I’ll ask,'” Munir recalls. “At work I asked a fellow employee and he said, ‘Yeah, I have a friend that has one he wants to sell.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to LAPD interview transcripts from 1968, Munir tried to talk his brother out of buying the .22, finally demanding that he swear on their dead sister’s memory that he would “go to the rifle range one time and then throw it away.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan did swear, but, as Munir told the cops, “he didn’t carry it through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just after graduating from Eliot Junior High School in Pasadena.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673063\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert F. Kennedy’s convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just after graduating from Eliot Junior High School in Pasadena. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So one night in January, Munir’s work buddy drove over to the house in a Corvair, pulled up and honked. He had an eight-shot Iver Johnson revolver in a box. Sirhan came out on the porch and they made the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as Munir was concerned, it was no big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no idea it would have this kind of an outcome, no idea at all,” he says. “You start looking inward to see if you were part of the blame for this thing happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A weekday morning in June 1968: Munir got on the bus and went to work at Nash’s. He stepped into the employees lounge before clocking in. For him, at this point it was still just another workday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The TV was on loud and the room was full and usually it’s not that full unless it’s somebody’s birthday, and I’m thinking it’s too early to celebrate a birthday,” he recalls. “I walked over and put coins in the coffee machine and took a couple sips of my coffee and looked at the screen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he saw stunned him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘None of us were politically inclined. If you would’ve told me any of my brothers did anything like this, especially Sirhan, I’d call you the biggest liar in the world.’\u003ccite>Munir Sirhan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It looked like Sirhan. I said, ‘Whoa!’ Picture came on again and I said, ‘That’s my brother.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, within a matter of seconds, Munir’s day goes from another eight hours in housewares to the shock that his brother is being held for shooting Robert F. Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What went through his mind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought when this thing happened, they got the wrong guy,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir borrowed his boss’s car, picked up his brother Adel from home and they headed for the Pasadena police station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officer didn’t seem too interested, so we walked away, and Adel happened to gaze at a newsstand and there it was, Sirhan’s picture on the front page,” says Munir. “So he grabbed the paper and went back to the desk sergeant, told him, ‘This is my brother.’ I remember the guy’s look. He said, ‘Oh!’ Then all hell broke loose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police quickly camped out on Munir’s street — and would remain for the next six months — to protect the family, though Munir says there were never any acts of vengeance. Nevertheless, it turned the neighborhood upside down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is from a televised interview in front of the family house a few days later:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police Chief Redden said the Sirhan family has been most cooperative in the investigation. ‘We know very little. [Sirhan] has been noncommunicative and he hasn’t told the family about what he’s been up to at all. So we don’t know anything more than you do.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“When things somewhat cooled down, after we spoke with the FBI, after we spoke with the L.A. police and Pasadena police, mother and I went down to see him,” says Munir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The book shelf in the Sirhan family home, including Munir's Kennedy volumes and his brother Sirhan's copy of "Controlling the Human Mind." Sirhan was interested in hypnotism at the time of the assassination.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673064\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book shelf in the Sirhan family home, including Munir’s Kennedy volumes and his brother Sirhan’s copy of “Controlling the Human Mind.” Sirhan was interested in hypnotism at the time of the assassination. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Did his brother say anything about shooting Kennedy or not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, no, no, no,” Munir says. “Mother asked him, ‘What happened?’ He said, ‘I don’t remember. I don’t know. All I know is my leg hurts,’ and I think it was one of his thumbs that were hurting. He specifically said, ‘I don’t remember what happened.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This lack of memory of the actual shooting of Kennedy is something that Sirhan has continued to maintain, though in a 1989 TV interview with David Frost he said his motivation to target Kennedy was the senator’s support of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frost asked, “Why did Robert Kennedy, the friend of the downtrodden, become the focus of this hatred?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because to me he was my hero,” Sirhan Sirhan responded. “He was my champion. He was the protector and the defender of the downtrodden and the disadvantaged and I felt that I was one. And to have him say that he was going to send 50 Phantom jets to Israel to deliver nothing but death and destruction on my countrymen, that seemed as though it was a betrayal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir says his brother never shared those feelings with him and that he never heard him express any negative feelings toward Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no, no,” he emphasizes. “None of us were politically inclined. If you would’ve told me any of my brothers did anything like this, especially Sirhan, I’d call you the biggest liar in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the “Manchurian Candidate” theory, that Sirhan was acting under hypnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This could explain his calm demeanor that witnesses remarked upon immediately after the shooting, and the notebook police later found in his bedroom with “RFK must die” scrawled repeatedly, something hypnotism advocates say was automatic writing done during a trance state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know this sounds like a cliché,” says Munir, “but he had played around with hypnotism and somewhere along the line he learned how to self-hypnotize himself, or somebody got into his head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the living room of the family house, there are glass-doored shelves filled with books. Stuck between yellowing copies of “Word Power Made Easy” and “How to Win Friends and Influence People” is an old hardback that belongs to Sirhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a book here that deals with personality or something,” says Munir, leaning in to find the book. He plucks out a volume called “The Laws of Mental Domination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked him about it one day but I never got any clear answers,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hypnosis and brainwashing and conspiracies aside, forensic evidence states that the shot that killed Kennedy came from no more than three inches from the back of his head, where an armed, private security guard had drawn his weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyewitnesses place Sirhan as never closer than a few feet away and approaching Kennedy from the front. An audio tape recorded that night surfaced in 2004. Experts say it reveals up to 13 shots fired. Sirhan’s gun held eight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This knowledge and its implications — the possibility that a second gunman was responsible for Kennedy’s murder — are what Munir clings to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t there but the people that were, they all say that they heard more shots, Sirhan wasn’t close enough,” Munir says. “These are eyewitnesses, it was not us, the family, making these things up. When we heard those things it gave us a little bit of hope that maybe Sirhan didn’t do it, like we thought all along. It wasn’t Sirhan. Not my brother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At moments like this, sitting in the still and quiet dining room as his cigarette burns slowly in the ashtray, you can feel the helpless frustration that’s weighed upon Munir for decades over a situation he didn’t ask for, but one he has accepted as best he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Sirhan family tape recorder purchased in the '60s. Before the assassination, it was used to record family sing alongs. Later, the Sirhans recorded audio from TV news reports. It's no longer running.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673062\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sirhan family tape recorder purchased in the ’60s. Before the assassination, it was used to record family sing alongs. Later, the Sirhans recorded audio from TV news reports. It’s no longer running. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eileen Sloman, her husband Peter and son Ernie have lived next door to Munir for almost 30 years. To her, he’s just “Manny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love Manny. He’s a really nice guy,” she says. “He’s a great neighbor, and when we’re gone he watches the house, when he’s gone we’ll watch his house, and just a few years ago he gave me his phone number. He’s let me in, a little bit at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, she’s seen the odd tour bus cruise by, and Munir once cautioned her to move her trash bins away from his on pickup day. Souvenir hunters sometimes root through the garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the assassination, Munir says his neighbors were very supportive, and even in public his last name has never brought him trouble. No altercations, no curses, no nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he does get recognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah, I had jobs that my name would be printed on my shirt,” he says. “I’ve never had anybody that held any animosity toward us at all. In fact, I didn’t like it, but a lot of people would say, ‘You’re famous,’ or go out of their way to help because of the notoriety and I’d tell them, ‘Please, I have my own individuality.’ That’s been going on for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his individuality is a buried and private thing. Hang around with him for a while, and he seems like a regular guy. But a regular guy is a very hard thing to be when your brother was convicted of killing a Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the outside he’s friendly, he loves to talk,” offers Sloman, “I don’t understand really what he’s been going through, but to know that his last brother has been serving the last 50 years of his life in prison has got to be just horrible. Tearing him apart basically, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan is currently residing in his fifth California prison since 1968, the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving is hard for Munir these days given his failing vision, so it’s mostly phone calls and letters between him and Sirhan, and even those are random.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they do come, he’s still talking to his big brother. The guy who used to look out for him so long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“’Stop smoking, it’s bad for you,’” Munir says his brother tells him. “’It’s the number one killer in the United States. Take care of yourself … I need you alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Munir marks time in the house, alone. Ask him what his days are like and he shrugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talks to the lawyers when they need something, and spends his dwindling eyesight reading and rereading boxes of briefs and transcripts, still trying to make sense of everything that’s consumed him for 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He seems to take it all in stride, but every now and again, just for a moment, something else comes to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have a life of your own at all,” says Munir Sirhan. “I’m lost, still am. Did he do it? Didn’t he do it? People were there that say this and people were there that say that. I wasn’t there. I have to rely on my brother, and he says ‘I don’t remember.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been generations since that night in 1968. Who was Sirhan? Who was Robert Kennedy, even? What is unforgettable to older Americans has become vague or simply unknown to younger people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, California state prisoner B21014, will have his next parole hearing in 2021. His brother will be waiting.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never made it to Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shots rang out and Kennedy was down, taking two bullets in the back and one in the head. Members of the crowd jumped on the shooter and slammed him onto a steam table. A hotel employee grabbed his wrist as the gun emptied, the shots firing at random, wounding five others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy was rushed to a hospital. Twenty-six hours later, he was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged assassin was identified as Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a 24-year-old Arab Palestinian. He was not a U.S. citizen, but had been living in Pasadena for 12 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the nation stood in shock at the second Kennedy killing in five years, the media became consumed with the question: Who was this person?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671974/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments\">The L.A. Busboy Who Cradled a Dying RFK Recalls Those Final Moments\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671974/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/romeronpr1_custom-aae2056fb7c478c80e59ad38e4680c2581f3b3a4-1020x641.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He was just a fun-loving guy. He liked life, and he liked family,” says Munir Sirhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s the brother of Kennedy’s convicted assassin. “If anybody was trying to do me any harm, he’d go up and confront the people and tell’em, ‘Listen, this is my little brother. I don’t want anybody hurting him.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan Sirhan was tried and sentenced to the gas chamber, a sentence that was commuted to life in 1972. Since then, he’s been denied parole 15 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know what? I just want to hug him,” his brother Munir says. “Hug him and tell him, ‘Welcome home.’ I’d just like to see him reading a book on that chair like he used to when we were kids, and just walk around the block with him. I’d be happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 50 years, Munir has waited for his brother to return to this house in Pasadena. And for the last 50 years, he’s lived in the wake of his brother’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir leads a solitary life. He never got married, never had a career. He worked odd jobs and was supported by his family, who always pooled their modest resources. He keeps the furniture in the house pretty much as it was the day Sirhan drove away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the family’s parents and six children, Munir and his older brother are the only ones left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, yeah, Sirhan and I. It’d be pretty rough without him, even if it’s just letter-writing,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Munir Sirhan next to a photo taken during a prison visit with his brother Sirhan Sirhan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munir Sirhan next to a photo taken during a prison visit with his brother Sirhan Sirhan. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s, the Sirhan family — who were Arab Palestinian Christians — were living in Jerusalem, an area experiencing continued upheaval in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Munir says this was the violent backdrop for his early childhood memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[There was] a lot of hecticness,” he says. “A lot of air raid sirens going off every other day. I remember going to my best friend’s home, and they’re telling me he’s not coming to school today and wondering why, and then the next day you find out he got blown away from a bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a program initiated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the United Nations, a ship overcrowded with seasick refugees brought the family to America in 1956, leaving the Holy Land for the paradise of Pasadena where their sponsor lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ya know, we got along, we made friends, it was OK, but you couldn’t be an Arab here, you couldn’t be an Arab at all,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His devout mother Mary got a job in the nursery at Westminster Presbyterian Church, walking distance from the house. His father returned to the old country, unable to adapt to life in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Munir Sirhan, younger brother of convicted Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, at the family home next to his brother's lemon tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munir Sirhan, younger brother of convicted Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, at the family home next to his brother’s lemon tree. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sirhan and Munir, their two youngest sons, attended local public schools and got paper routes for the Pasadena Star-News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan was a reader, and spent a lot of time holed up in his bedroom at the back of the house. At John Muir High School in Pasadena — the same school Jackie Robinson attended — he joined the ROTC and learned to shoot a .22 rifle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir had bad eyesight and quit school after 6th grade. He watched a lot of TV: “Felix the Cat,” “The Three Stooges” and “Yogi Bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was becoming an American. He loved music and he loved records, and he really loved song parodist Stan Freberg, the Weird Al Yankovic of the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I adored that guy,” says Munir. “I think that’s what I would have been, some sort of comedy songwriter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I had no idea it would have this kind of an outcome, no idea at all. You start looking inward to see if you were part of the blame for this thing happening.’\u003ccite>Munir Sirhan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got a job at F.C. Nash department store in Pasadena as a stock clerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet this mundane position was not without dark significance. Through a co-worker, Munir got his brother a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He asked me if I could get a gun. Sirhan used to belong to the ROTC at Muir, I said, ‘sure, I’ll ask,'” Munir recalls. “At work I asked a fellow employee and he said, ‘Yeah, I have a friend that has one he wants to sell.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to LAPD interview transcripts from 1968, Munir tried to talk his brother out of buying the .22, finally demanding that he swear on their dead sister’s memory that he would “go to the rifle range one time and then throw it away.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan did swear, but, as Munir told the cops, “he didn’t carry it through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just after graduating from Eliot Junior High School in Pasadena.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673063\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert F. Kennedy’s convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just after graduating from Eliot Junior High School in Pasadena. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So one night in January, Munir’s work buddy drove over to the house in a Corvair, pulled up and honked. He had an eight-shot Iver Johnson revolver in a box. Sirhan came out on the porch and they made the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as Munir was concerned, it was no big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no idea it would have this kind of an outcome, no idea at all,” he says. “You start looking inward to see if you were part of the blame for this thing happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A weekday morning in June 1968: Munir got on the bus and went to work at Nash’s. He stepped into the employees lounge before clocking in. For him, at this point it was still just another workday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The TV was on loud and the room was full and usually it’s not that full unless it’s somebody’s birthday, and I’m thinking it’s too early to celebrate a birthday,” he recalls. “I walked over and put coins in the coffee machine and took a couple sips of my coffee and looked at the screen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he saw stunned him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘None of us were politically inclined. If you would’ve told me any of my brothers did anything like this, especially Sirhan, I’d call you the biggest liar in the world.’\u003ccite>Munir Sirhan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It looked like Sirhan. I said, ‘Whoa!’ Picture came on again and I said, ‘That’s my brother.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, within a matter of seconds, Munir’s day goes from another eight hours in housewares to the shock that his brother is being held for shooting Robert F. Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What went through his mind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought when this thing happened, they got the wrong guy,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir borrowed his boss’s car, picked up his brother Adel from home and they headed for the Pasadena police station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officer didn’t seem too interested, so we walked away, and Adel happened to gaze at a newsstand and there it was, Sirhan’s picture on the front page,” says Munir. “So he grabbed the paper and went back to the desk sergeant, told him, ‘This is my brother.’ I remember the guy’s look. He said, ‘Oh!’ Then all hell broke loose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police quickly camped out on Munir’s street — and would remain for the next six months — to protect the family, though Munir says there were never any acts of vengeance. Nevertheless, it turned the neighborhood upside down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is from a televised interview in front of the family house a few days later:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police Chief Redden said the Sirhan family has been most cooperative in the investigation. ‘We know very little. [Sirhan] has been noncommunicative and he hasn’t told the family about what he’s been up to at all. So we don’t know anything more than you do.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“When things somewhat cooled down, after we spoke with the FBI, after we spoke with the L.A. police and Pasadena police, mother and I went down to see him,” says Munir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The book shelf in the Sirhan family home, including Munir's Kennedy volumes and his brother Sirhan's copy of "Controlling the Human Mind." Sirhan was interested in hypnotism at the time of the assassination.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673064\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book shelf in the Sirhan family home, including Munir’s Kennedy volumes and his brother Sirhan’s copy of “Controlling the Human Mind.” Sirhan was interested in hypnotism at the time of the assassination. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Did his brother say anything about shooting Kennedy or not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, no, no, no,” Munir says. “Mother asked him, ‘What happened?’ He said, ‘I don’t remember. I don’t know. All I know is my leg hurts,’ and I think it was one of his thumbs that were hurting. He specifically said, ‘I don’t remember what happened.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This lack of memory of the actual shooting of Kennedy is something that Sirhan has continued to maintain, though in a 1989 TV interview with David Frost he said his motivation to target Kennedy was the senator’s support of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frost asked, “Why did Robert Kennedy, the friend of the downtrodden, become the focus of this hatred?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because to me he was my hero,” Sirhan Sirhan responded. “He was my champion. He was the protector and the defender of the downtrodden and the disadvantaged and I felt that I was one. And to have him say that he was going to send 50 Phantom jets to Israel to deliver nothing but death and destruction on my countrymen, that seemed as though it was a betrayal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir says his brother never shared those feelings with him and that he never heard him express any negative feelings toward Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no, no,” he emphasizes. “None of us were politically inclined. If you would’ve told me any of my brothers did anything like this, especially Sirhan, I’d call you the biggest liar in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the “Manchurian Candidate” theory, that Sirhan was acting under hypnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This could explain his calm demeanor that witnesses remarked upon immediately after the shooting, and the notebook police later found in his bedroom with “RFK must die” scrawled repeatedly, something hypnotism advocates say was automatic writing done during a trance state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know this sounds like a cliché,” says Munir, “but he had played around with hypnotism and somewhere along the line he learned how to self-hypnotize himself, or somebody got into his head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the living room of the family house, there are glass-doored shelves filled with books. Stuck between yellowing copies of “Word Power Made Easy” and “How to Win Friends and Influence People” is an old hardback that belongs to Sirhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a book here that deals with personality or something,” says Munir, leaning in to find the book. He plucks out a volume called “The Laws of Mental Domination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked him about it one day but I never got any clear answers,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hypnosis and brainwashing and conspiracies aside, forensic evidence states that the shot that killed Kennedy came from no more than three inches from the back of his head, where an armed, private security guard had drawn his weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyewitnesses place Sirhan as never closer than a few feet away and approaching Kennedy from the front. An audio tape recorded that night surfaced in 2004. Experts say it reveals up to 13 shots fired. Sirhan’s gun held eight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This knowledge and its implications — the possibility that a second gunman was responsible for Kennedy’s murder — are what Munir clings to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t there but the people that were, they all say that they heard more shots, Sirhan wasn’t close enough,” Munir says. “These are eyewitnesses, it was not us, the family, making these things up. When we heard those things it gave us a little bit of hope that maybe Sirhan didn’t do it, like we thought all along. It wasn’t Sirhan. Not my brother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At moments like this, sitting in the still and quiet dining room as his cigarette burns slowly in the ashtray, you can feel the helpless frustration that’s weighed upon Munir for decades over a situation he didn’t ask for, but one he has accepted as best he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Sirhan family tape recorder purchased in the '60s. Before the assassination, it was used to record family sing alongs. Later, the Sirhans recorded audio from TV news reports. It's no longer running.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673062\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sirhan family tape recorder purchased in the ’60s. Before the assassination, it was used to record family sing alongs. Later, the Sirhans recorded audio from TV news reports. It’s no longer running. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eileen Sloman, her husband Peter and son Ernie have lived next door to Munir for almost 30 years. To her, he’s just “Manny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love Manny. He’s a really nice guy,” she says. “He’s a great neighbor, and when we’re gone he watches the house, when he’s gone we’ll watch his house, and just a few years ago he gave me his phone number. He’s let me in, a little bit at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, she’s seen the odd tour bus cruise by, and Munir once cautioned her to move her trash bins away from his on pickup day. Souvenir hunters sometimes root through the garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the assassination, Munir says his neighbors were very supportive, and even in public his last name has never brought him trouble. No altercations, no curses, no nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he does get recognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah, I had jobs that my name would be printed on my shirt,” he says. “I’ve never had anybody that held any animosity toward us at all. In fact, I didn’t like it, but a lot of people would say, ‘You’re famous,’ or go out of their way to help because of the notoriety and I’d tell them, ‘Please, I have my own individuality.’ That’s been going on for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his individuality is a buried and private thing. Hang around with him for a while, and he seems like a regular guy. But a regular guy is a very hard thing to be when your brother was convicted of killing a Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the outside he’s friendly, he loves to talk,” offers Sloman, “I don’t understand really what he’s been going through, but to know that his last brother has been serving the last 50 years of his life in prison has got to be just horrible. Tearing him apart basically, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan is currently residing in his fifth California prison since 1968, the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving is hard for Munir these days given his failing vision, so it’s mostly phone calls and letters between him and Sirhan, and even those are random.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they do come, he’s still talking to his big brother. The guy who used to look out for him so long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“’Stop smoking, it’s bad for you,’” Munir says his brother tells him. “’It’s the number one killer in the United States. Take care of yourself … I need you alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Munir marks time in the house, alone. Ask him what his days are like and he shrugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talks to the lawyers when they need something, and spends his dwindling eyesight reading and rereading boxes of briefs and transcripts, still trying to make sense of everything that’s consumed him for 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He seems to take it all in stride, but every now and again, just for a moment, something else comes to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have a life of your own at all,” says Munir Sirhan. “I’m lost, still am. Did he do it? Didn’t he do it? People were there that say this and people were there that say that. I wasn’t there. I have to rely on my brother, and he says ‘I don’t remember.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been generations since that night in 1968. Who was Sirhan? Who was Robert Kennedy, even? What is unforgettable to older Americans has become vague or simply unknown to younger people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In recent years, there have been a lot of political battles over public sculptures, mostly because those sculptures lionize figures from a past we’re not so proud of anymore. But in San Jose, debate has bubbled for decades over a sculpture that was intended to celebrate the city’s Mexican-American heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a coiled snake made of Plaster of Paris and colored a dull earthy black. The snake is prominently placed on the south end of the Plaza de Cesar Chavez, a place where San Jose locals come to party, protest and just hang out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you stand near the sculpture long enough, local children will walk by and do a double take, before asking their parents, “Is that … poop?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I probably heard this story before, but it hasn’t stick [sic] to me and I keep wondering what it means,” says Daniel Fonseca. He is an interior designer and musician originally from Columbia who has lived in downtown San Jose for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\""Quetzalcoatl" by Robert Graham in San Jose's Plaza de Cesar Chavez, seen from behind.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Quetzalcoatl” by Robert Graham in San Jose’s Plaza de Cesar Chavez, seen from behind. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I have a little bit of sense. I mean, it’s related to the Mexican-American community, to the Aztec community, I want to think. But I never really stared at it and spend time with it and find out what the significance of it is,” says Fonseca.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Winged Serpent God\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The sculpture is of Quetzalcoatl (say que-tzal-coh-what-l), the Aztec god of wind and wisdom, commonly referred to as “the feathered serpent.” This iconic, dragonlike deity hails from Mesoamerican Teotihuacan, an ancient metropolis that once flourished northeast of modern-day Mexico City. Teotihuacan dominated the regional cultural landscape for centuries, and the art from Teotihuacan continues to resonate today throughout the Americas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ve seen Quetzalcoatl or his name, whether you realize it or not, all over the place, including on some Aeromexico planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF745ZrUDys]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quetzalcoatl also shows up as a colorful monster in video games, and there’s a chocolate bar by Bay Area confectioners Guittard that is named \u003ca href=\"https://www.guittard.com/our-chocolate/detail/quetzalcoatl-bittersweet-chocolate-72-cacao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quetzalcoatl\u003c/a>. (I tasted one for research purposes, and it was good.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, there are so many gorgeous depictions of Quetzalcoatl many people wonder how a sculpture that invites laughter plopped down in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How It Came To Be\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There is a plaque by the base of this sculpture, but as we’ll explain shortly, it doesn’t really do a good job of describing the sculpture. Instead, we ask for the backstory from Scott Herhold, a retired columnist for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/author/scott-herhold/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercury News\u003c/a> who periodically conducts tours of the public art in downtown San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells us that, back in the 1980s, San Jose’s Redevelopment Agency wanted a statue to honor Thomas Fallon, the 10th mayor of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an adventurer, an Irishman, one of the first Anglo settlers here,” Herhold says. “In 1846, he raised the flag, the American flag. Remember, this was part of Mexico still. From that point on, of course, San Jose really has been Anglo rather than Mexican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, it’s been Anglo \u003cem>and\u003c/em> Mexican-American, but Anglos dominated San Jose’s civic narrative for more than 100 years. But by 1988, when artist Robert Glen was commissioned to create a tribute to the Anglo hero, attitudes had changed. The Redevelopment Agency got blowback from the Mexican-American community. A new committee was established to pick a new artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herhold continues, “They eventually settled on a man by the name of \u003ca href=\"http://www.robertgraham-artist.com/biography/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Graham\u003c/a>. Graham had originally designed some work for the Redevelopment Agency. He was also part Latino himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose State alum was highly regarded nationwide. His sculptures are on view all over the United States, including a commanding bronze memorial to \u003cspan class=\"bold\">Duke Ellington in New York’s Central Park and \u003c/span>a couple diminutive nudes outside the Federal Building in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30924_Photo-Mar-12-12-59-55-PM-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two bronze nudes by Robert Graham at the western entrance of the federal building at 300 S. First Street in San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30924_Photo-Mar-12-12-59-55-PM-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30924_Photo-Mar-12-12-59-55-PM-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30924_Photo-Mar-12-12-59-55-PM-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30924_Photo-Mar-12-12-59-55-PM-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30924_Photo-Mar-12-12-59-55-PM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30924_Photo-Mar-12-12-59-55-PM-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30924_Photo-Mar-12-12-59-55-PM-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30924_Photo-Mar-12-12-59-55-PM-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30924_Photo-Mar-12-12-59-55-PM-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30924_Photo-Mar-12-12-59-55-PM-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two bronze nudes by Robert Graham at the western entrance of the Federal Building on S. First Street in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Graham’s first drawings of Quetzalcoatl were of a winged creature. “They liked it very much,” Herhold says, pausing for effect. “It came out differently than they thought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a plaque at the base of the sculpture, but it doesn’t describe what you’re looking at. It describes a concept that was killed. “The winged serpent showed him sort of upright, with the wings out. Think almost of a peacock. It had that kind of feel to it,” Herhold says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About six weeks before the unveiling, he says, Graham told the Redevelopment Agency that his concept had changed. “It was just a change in his artist conception.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Conflicting Stories\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I should stop here and tell you that’s not what Blanca Alvarado remembers. The retired San Jose politician was on the committee that worked with Graham, and her story differs from Herhold’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Scott and I need a little bit of time, and he needs a little more education, so that as he describes the piece on his tour, he’ll be better informed,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"The plaque at the base of the sculpture talks about the “plumed serpent,” but this is no plumed serpent. Confusing. Former Mercury News columnist Scott Herhold explains the plaque is referring to artist Robert Graham’s original concept. \" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-800x491.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-1020x626.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-1200x737.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-1180x724.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-960x589.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-240x147.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-375x230.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-520x319.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13.jpg 1898w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plaque at the base of the sculpture talks about the “plumed serpent,” but this is no plumed serpent. Confusing. Former Mercury News columnist Scott Herhold explains the plaque is referring to artist Robert Graham’s original concept. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Michael Ogilvie)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says she also preferred Graham’s first, winged take on Quetzalcoatl. “It was quite elegant. It was a very, very beautiful piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says that Graham’s original sculpture was axed by the Redevelopment Agency. They worried that the domed pedestal he proposed would become an attractive place to sleep for homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was very frustrated by that objection. So he went to Mexico, and he stood there for three months at Teotihuacan, and he studied the stonework,” says Alvarado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His second proposal stems directly from that study. The coiled, stylized rattlesnake version of Queztecoatl was a thing, is a thing. \u003cem>Coatl\u003c/em>, after all, means serpent in the Aztec language Nahuatl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graham made a small version of his final sculpture as a gift for Alvarado. She doesn’t know what material he used, but it’s green, the color of oxidized copper. It now sits in her backyard and it’s quite lovely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11668293 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-800x898.jpg\" alt=\"She doesn’t know what material he used but it’s green, the color of oxidized copper, and it’s quite lovely.\" width=\"800\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-800x898.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-160x180.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-1020x1145.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-1069x1200.jpg 1069w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-1180x1324.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-960x1078.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-240x269.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-375x421.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-520x584.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca Alvarado doesn’t know what material was used but it’s green, the color of oxidized copper, and it’s quite lovely. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The thing is, Graham opted for his sculpture in the park to be that earthy black and, coiled as it is, it suggests something else. Intentionally so? That’s an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Graham’s (Possible) Revenge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s fundamentally an act of revenge,” Herhold says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is Herhold telling us Graham wanted revenge because his fabulous proposal for a winged serpent got the ax? No. Herhold thinks it’s revenge for an entirely different project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Robert Graham had designed, as I mentioned, some work for the Redevelopment Agenc\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">y. The initial idea was to build gateways on the four sides of the city. So one on the south, one on the north, one on the west and one on the e\u003c/span>ast. And the Redevelopment Agency showed the media some pictures of this, and the Mercury News in particular sort of said thumbs-down to this. This is a silly idea, these gateways. So Graham had to withdraw that idea. And the feeling, at least among the Redevelopment Agency people I know, was that this was his act of revenge for the loss of that earlier commission,” says Herhold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has written about this in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/16/quetzalcoatl-sculpture-back-in-the-public-eye/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercury News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can he be so sure that the Quetzalcoatl sculpture is indeed an act of revenge?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herhold acknowledges, “I don’t think you can be sure. Graham is now dead, and as far as I know, he never specifically said this was an act of revenge. But I can tell you the people that I know who were very well placed in the Redevelopment Agency, and even his mother, say this was his revenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That prompts this response from our Bay Curious question asker Daniel Fonseca. “If it was an act of revenge, I think it was very well captured, you know, because that is the first reaction: poop!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then Fonseca adds, “There must be a way to elevate this sculpture, to not have ‘poop’ be the first thing that you think. Like add some gardens around. Something that will bring out its significance. It’s set on a pedestal, so even the pedestal could be painted. It clearly needs some work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that score, at least, Blanca Alvarado agrees. “It needs some sprucing up,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sculpture was recently power-washed, but that’s it for the foreseeable future, according to San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseculture.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/Public-Art-Plumed-Serpent-Plaza-de-Csar--498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of Cultural Affairs, \u003c/a>which maintains the installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Alvarado is a veteran political activist, and she says she’s fixing to get busy at City Hall, pushing for some imaginative improvement to San Jose’s Queztecoatl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In recent years, there have been a lot of political battles over public sculptures, mostly because those sculptures lionize figures from a past we’re not so proud of anymore. But in San Jose, debate has bubbled for decades over a sculpture that was intended to celebrate the city’s Mexican-American heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a coiled snake made of Plaster of Paris and colored a dull earthy black. The snake is prominently placed on the south end of the Plaza de Cesar Chavez, a place where San Jose locals come to party, protest and just hang out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you stand near the sculpture long enough, local children will walk by and do a double take, before asking their parents, “Is that … poop?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I probably heard this story before, but it hasn’t stick [sic] to me and I keep wondering what it means,” says Daniel Fonseca. He is an interior designer and musician originally from Columbia who has lived in downtown San Jose for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\""Quetzalcoatl" by Robert Graham in San Jose's Plaza de Cesar Chavez, seen from behind.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30926_Photo-Mar-08-9-43-06-AM-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Quetzalcoatl” by Robert Graham in San Jose’s Plaza de Cesar Chavez, seen from behind. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I have a little bit of sense. I mean, it’s related to the Mexican-American community, to the Aztec community, I want to think. But I never really stared at it and spend time with it and find out what the significance of it is,” says Fonseca.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Winged Serpent God\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The sculpture is of Quetzalcoatl (say que-tzal-coh-what-l), the Aztec god of wind and wisdom, commonly referred to as “the feathered serpent.” This iconic, dragonlike deity hails from Mesoamerican Teotihuacan, an ancient metropolis that once flourished northeast of modern-day Mexico City. Teotihuacan dominated the regional cultural landscape for centuries, and the art from Teotihuacan continues to resonate today throughout the Americas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(I tasted one for research purposes, and it was good.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, there are so many gorgeous depictions of Quetzalcoatl many people wonder how a sculpture that invites laughter plopped down in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How It Came To Be\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There is a plaque by the base of this sculpture, but as we’ll explain shortly, it doesn’t really do a good job of describing the sculpture. Instead, we ask for the backstory from Scott Herhold, a retired columnist for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/author/scott-herhold/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercury News\u003c/a> who periodically conducts tours of the public art in downtown San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells us that, back in the 1980s, San Jose’s Redevelopment Agency wanted a statue to honor Thomas Fallon, the 10th mayor of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an adventurer, an Irishman, one of the first Anglo settlers here,” Herhold says. “In 1846, he raised the flag, the American flag. Remember, this was part of Mexico still. From that point on, of course, San Jose really has been Anglo rather than Mexican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, it’s been Anglo \u003cem>and\u003c/em> Mexican-American, but Anglos dominated San Jose’s civic narrative for more than 100 years. But by 1988, when artist Robert Glen was commissioned to create a tribute to the Anglo hero, attitudes had changed. The Redevelopment Agency got blowback from the Mexican-American community. A new committee was established to pick a new artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herhold continues, “They eventually settled on a man by the name of \u003ca href=\"http://www.robertgraham-artist.com/biography/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Graham\u003c/a>. Graham had originally designed some work for the Redevelopment Agency. He was also part Latino himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose State alum was highly regarded nationwide. His sculptures are on view all over the United States, including a commanding bronze memorial to \u003cspan class=\"bold\">Duke Ellington in New York’s Central Park and \u003c/span>a couple diminutive nudes outside the Federal Building in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30924_Photo-Mar-12-12-59-55-PM-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two bronze nudes by Robert Graham at the western entrance of the federal building at 300 S. 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First Street in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Graham’s first drawings of Quetzalcoatl were of a winged creature. “They liked it very much,” Herhold says, pausing for effect. “It came out differently than they thought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a plaque at the base of the sculpture, but it doesn’t describe what you’re looking at. It describes a concept that was killed. “The winged serpent showed him sort of upright, with the wings out. Think almost of a peacock. It had that kind of feel to it,” Herhold says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About six weeks before the unveiling, he says, Graham told the Redevelopment Agency that his concept had changed. “It was just a change in his artist conception.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Conflicting Stories\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I should stop here and tell you that’s not what Blanca Alvarado remembers. The retired San Jose politician was on the committee that worked with Graham, and her story differs from Herhold’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Scott and I need a little bit of time, and he needs a little more education, so that as he describes the piece on his tour, he’ll be better informed,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11668278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"The plaque at the base of the sculpture talks about the “plumed serpent,” but this is no plumed serpent. Confusing. Former Mercury News columnist Scott Herhold explains the plaque is referring to artist Robert Graham’s original concept. \" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-800x491.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-1020x626.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-1200x737.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-1180x724.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-960x589.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-240x147.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-375x230.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13-520x319.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/file-13.jpg 1898w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plaque at the base of the sculpture talks about the “plumed serpent,” but this is no plumed serpent. Confusing. Former Mercury News columnist Scott Herhold explains the plaque is referring to artist Robert Graham’s original concept. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Michael Ogilvie)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says she also preferred Graham’s first, winged take on Quetzalcoatl. “It was quite elegant. It was a very, very beautiful piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says that Graham’s original sculpture was axed by the Redevelopment Agency. They worried that the domed pedestal he proposed would become an attractive place to sleep for homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was very frustrated by that objection. So he went to Mexico, and he stood there for three months at Teotihuacan, and he studied the stonework,” says Alvarado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His second proposal stems directly from that study. The coiled, stylized rattlesnake version of Queztecoatl was a thing, is a thing. \u003cem>Coatl\u003c/em>, after all, means serpent in the Aztec language Nahuatl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graham made a small version of his final sculpture as a gift for Alvarado. She doesn’t know what material he used, but it’s green, the color of oxidized copper. It now sits in her backyard and it’s quite lovely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11668293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11668293 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-800x898.jpg\" alt=\"She doesn’t know what material he used but it’s green, the color of oxidized copper, and it’s quite lovely.\" width=\"800\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-800x898.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-160x180.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-1020x1145.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-1069x1200.jpg 1069w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-1180x1324.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-960x1078.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-240x269.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-375x421.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS30923_IMG_6491-2-qut-520x584.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca Alvarado doesn’t know what material was used but it’s green, the color of oxidized copper, and it’s quite lovely. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The thing is, Graham opted for his sculpture in the park to be that earthy black and, coiled as it is, it suggests something else. Intentionally so? That’s an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Graham’s (Possible) Revenge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s fundamentally an act of revenge,” Herhold says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is Herhold telling us Graham wanted revenge because his fabulous proposal for a winged serpent got the ax? No. Herhold thinks it’s revenge for an entirely different project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Robert Graham had designed, as I mentioned, some work for the Redevelopment Agenc\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">y. The initial idea was to build gateways on the four sides of the city. So one on the south, one on the north, one on the west and one on the e\u003c/span>ast. And the Redevelopment Agency showed the media some pictures of this, and the Mercury News in particular sort of said thumbs-down to this. This is a silly idea, these gateways. So Graham had to withdraw that idea. And the feeling, at least among the Redevelopment Agency people I know, was that this was his act of revenge for the loss of that earlier commission,” says Herhold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has written about this in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/16/quetzalcoatl-sculpture-back-in-the-public-eye/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercury News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can he be so sure that the Quetzalcoatl sculpture is indeed an act of revenge?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herhold acknowledges, “I don’t think you can be sure. Graham is now dead, and as far as I know, he never specifically said this was an act of revenge. But I can tell you the people that I know who were very well placed in the Redevelopment Agency, and even his mother, say this was his revenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That prompts this response from our Bay Curious question asker Daniel Fonseca. “If it was an act of revenge, I think it was very well captured, you know, because that is the first reaction: poop!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then Fonseca adds, “There must be a way to elevate this sculpture, to not have ‘poop’ be the first thing that you think. Like add some gardens around. Something that will bring out its significance. It’s set on a pedestal, so even the pedestal could be painted. It clearly needs some work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that score, at least, Blanca Alvarado agrees. “It needs some sprucing up,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sculpture was recently power-washed, but that’s it for the foreseeable future, according to San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseculture.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/Public-Art-Plumed-Serpent-Plaza-de-Csar--498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of Cultural Affairs, \u003c/a>which maintains the installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Alvarado is a veteran political activist, and she says she’s fixing to get busy at City Hall, pushing for some imaginative improvement to San Jose’s Queztecoatl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. presidents usually have to wait until after they’re out of office before getting their presidential libraries. But visitors to San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.clusterfest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clusterfest\u003c/a> this weekend got to see at least one version of a Donald Trump presidential library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The folks at Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” brought their The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium following \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-daily-show-twitter-library-is-just-one-of-many-art-projects-about-trumps-tweets/2017/06/20/4e2e0b34-55c4-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2241a5813437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stints in New York City\u003c/a> and Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library was one of five interactive attractions at the second annual three-day comedy and music festival. Exhibits at the library included a memorial to “deleted but not forgotten” tweets by the president, a wall of “verified survivors” of President Trump’s Twitter battles and a map of countries the president has tweeted about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main attraction inside the library was a replica Oval Office featuring a golden toilet where visitors were presented a crisis situation and given 30 seconds to tweet about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a reminder of how absolutely ridiculous this president is,” said Tina Suca, who was attending her second Clusterfest. “It’s my favorite festival. I laughed so hard last night, my face hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672296 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-800x701.jpg\" alt=\"Diana Gaffney from San Francisco sits on a golden toilet inside a replica of the Oval Office at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest in San Francisco. Visitors were presented with a crisis situation which they then have 30 seconds to tweet about.\" width=\"800\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-800x701.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-1020x894.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-1200x1051.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-1180x1034.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-960x841.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-240x210.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-375x329.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-520x456.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Gaffney from San Francisco sits on a golden toilet inside a replica of the Oval Office at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest in San Francisco. Visitors were presented with a crisis situation which they then have 30 seconds to tweet about. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11672297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A memorial dedicated to "deleted but not forgotten" tweets by President Trump at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest. The library, presented by Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show,' had made previous appearances in New York City and Chicago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial dedicated to “deleted but not forgotten” tweets by President Trump at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest. The library, presented by Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show,’ had made previous appearances in New York City and Chicago. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672290\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11672290\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Zach Waldrop from Los Angeles checks out a map of countries like Colombia and Kenya that President Trump has tweeted about. 'It shows you that how ridiculous it is, how he’s spending so much time tweeting instead of focusing on important matters,' he said.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zach Waldrop from Los Angeles checks out a map of countries like Colombia and Kenya that President Trump has tweeted about. ‘It shows you that how ridiculous it is, how he’s spending so much time tweeting instead of focusing on important matters,’ he said. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672292 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. talks to a festival goer inside the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest. Wood Jr. performed three times during the weekend.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. talks to a festival goer inside the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest. Wood Jr. performed three times during the weekend. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The festival featured numerous \u003ca href=\"https://www.clusterfest.com/lineup/#/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marquee comedy acts\u003c/a> including Jon Stewart, Amy Schumer, The Lonely Island, Trevor Noah, John Mulaney, Tiffany Haddish and many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672288 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Australian-born comedian Jim Jefferies, who hosts 'The Jim Jefferies Show” on Comedy Central performs inside the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at Clusterfest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Australian-born comedian Jim Jefferies, who hosts ‘The Jim Jefferies Show” on Comedy Central performs inside the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at Clusterfest. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672281 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"'The Daily Show' correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. emcees karaoke at Clusterfest as the first singer, Em Rodenski of Concord gets ready to perform 'Semi-Charmed Life' by Third Eye Blind.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Daily Show’ correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. emcees karaoke at Clusterfest as the first singer, Em Rodenski of Concord gets ready to perform ‘Semi-Charmed Life’ by Third Eye Blind. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672289 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Marine biologist turned stand-up comedian Forrest Shaw performs onstage inside Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at Clusterfest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut.jpg 1859w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marine biologist turned stand-up comedian Forrest Shaw performs onstage inside Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at Clusterfest. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were five themed interactive attractions spread across the festival, including the Trump Twitter library. The other four were all based off of beloved television shows: a county fair based off of Comedy Central’s “South Park,” a chance to relive Nickelodeon’s “Double Dare” show from the 1980s and 1990s, a recreation of Paddy’s Pud from FX’s “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” and a Bluth’s Frozen Banana Stand from the Netflix’s “Arrested Development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672283 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tina and Nick Bravo (R-L) from San Jose at the 'South Park' county fair at Clusterfest. They said the highlight of the festival for them was the outdoor games such as balloon darts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tina and Nick Bravo (R-L) from San Jose at the ‘South Park’ county fair at Clusterfest. They said the highlight of the festival for them was the outdoor games such as balloon darts. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672282 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The 'Kill Kenny' balloon darts, one of several activities at the 'South Park' county fair at Clusterfest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘Kill Kenny’ balloon darts, one of several activities at the ‘South Park’ county fair at Clusterfest. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672284 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Festivalgoers play Skee-Ball at the 'South Park' county fair at Clusterfest, one of five themed interactive attractions at the festival.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Festivalgoers play Skee-Ball at the ‘South Park’ county fair at Clusterfest, one of five themed interactive attractions at the festival. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672285 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Festivalgoers relax at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco during Clusterfest. The festival premiered in June 2017, and organizers said more than 45,000 people attended over its initial three-day run.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Festivalgoers relax at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco during Clusterfest. The festival premiered in June 2017, and organizers said more than 45,000 people attended over its initial three-day run. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672286 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Summers, the original host of 'Double Dare,' the game show that premiered in 1986 on Nickelodeon, pulls a string to slime Brad Koelling of Dublin, California, at Clusterfest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marc Summers, the original host of ‘Double Dare,’ the game show that premiered in 1986 on Nickelodeon, pulls a string to slime Brad Koelling of Dublin, California, at Clusterfest. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672287\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672287 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Koelling from Dublin, California, emerges from a tank after being slimed, his prize for beating out a dozen contestants on an obstacle course from 'Double Dare,' the classic '80s and '90s television show on Nickelodeon at Clusterfest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Koelling from Dublin, California, emerges from a tank after being slimed, his prize for beating out a dozen contestants on an obstacle course from ‘Double Dare,’ the classic ’80s and ’90s television show on Nickelodeon at Clusterfest. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>U.S. presidents usually have to wait until after they’re out of office before getting their presidential libraries. But visitors to San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.clusterfest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clusterfest\u003c/a> this weekend got to see at least one version of a Donald Trump presidential library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The folks at Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” brought their The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium following \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-daily-show-twitter-library-is-just-one-of-many-art-projects-about-trumps-tweets/2017/06/20/4e2e0b34-55c4-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2241a5813437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stints in New York City\u003c/a> and Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library was one of five interactive attractions at the second annual three-day comedy and music festival. Exhibits at the library included a memorial to “deleted but not forgotten” tweets by the president, a wall of “verified survivors” of President Trump’s Twitter battles and a map of countries the president has tweeted about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main attraction inside the library was a replica Oval Office featuring a golden toilet where visitors were presented a crisis situation and given 30 seconds to tweet about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a reminder of how absolutely ridiculous this president is,” said Tina Suca, who was attending her second Clusterfest. “It’s my favorite festival. I laughed so hard last night, my face hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672296 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-800x701.jpg\" alt=\"Diana Gaffney from San Francisco sits on a golden toilet inside a replica of the Oval Office at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest in San Francisco. Visitors were presented with a crisis situation which they then have 30 seconds to tweet about.\" width=\"800\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-800x701.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-1020x894.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-1200x1051.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-1180x1034.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-960x841.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-240x210.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-375x329.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31270_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-520x456.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Gaffney from San Francisco sits on a golden toilet inside a replica of the Oval Office at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest in San Francisco. Visitors were presented with a crisis situation which they then have 30 seconds to tweet about. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11672297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A memorial dedicated to "deleted but not forgotten" tweets by President Trump at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest. The library, presented by Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show,' had made previous appearances in New York City and Chicago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31267_IMG_0150-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial dedicated to “deleted but not forgotten” tweets by President Trump at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest. The library, presented by Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show,’ had made previous appearances in New York City and Chicago. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672290\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11672290\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Zach Waldrop from Los Angeles checks out a map of countries like Colombia and Kenya that President Trump has tweeted about. 'It shows you that how ridiculous it is, how he’s spending so much time tweeting instead of focusing on important matters,' he said.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31259_IMG_0153-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zach Waldrop from Los Angeles checks out a map of countries like Colombia and Kenya that President Trump has tweeted about. ‘It shows you that how ridiculous it is, how he’s spending so much time tweeting instead of focusing on important matters,’ he said. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672292 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. talks to a festival goer inside the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest. Wood Jr. performed three times during the weekend.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31266_IMG_0154-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. talks to a festival goer inside the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest. Wood Jr. performed three times during the weekend. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The festival featured numerous \u003ca href=\"https://www.clusterfest.com/lineup/#/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marquee comedy acts\u003c/a> including Jon Stewart, Amy Schumer, The Lonely Island, Trevor Noah, John Mulaney, Tiffany Haddish and many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672288 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Australian-born comedian Jim Jefferies, who hosts 'The Jim Jefferies Show” on Comedy Central performs inside the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at Clusterfest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31257_IMG_0162-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Australian-born comedian Jim Jefferies, who hosts ‘The Jim Jefferies Show” on Comedy Central performs inside the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at Clusterfest. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672281 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"'The Daily Show' correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. emcees karaoke at Clusterfest as the first singer, Em Rodenski of Concord gets ready to perform 'Semi-Charmed Life' by Third Eye Blind.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31248_IMG_0188-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Daily Show’ correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. emcees karaoke at Clusterfest as the first singer, Em Rodenski of Concord gets ready to perform ‘Semi-Charmed Life’ by Third Eye Blind. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672289 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Marine biologist turned stand-up comedian Forrest Shaw performs onstage inside Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at Clusterfest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31258_IMG_0156-qut.jpg 1859w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marine biologist turned stand-up comedian Forrest Shaw performs onstage inside Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at Clusterfest. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were five themed interactive attractions spread across the festival, including the Trump Twitter library. The other four were all based off of beloved television shows: a county fair based off of Comedy Central’s “South Park,” a chance to relive Nickelodeon’s “Double Dare” show from the 1980s and 1990s, a recreation of Paddy’s Pud from FX’s “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” and a Bluth’s Frozen Banana Stand from the Netflix’s “Arrested Development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672283 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tina and Nick Bravo (R-L) from San Jose at the 'South Park' county fair at Clusterfest. They said the highlight of the festival for them was the outdoor games such as balloon darts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31250_IMG_0185-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tina and Nick Bravo (R-L) from San Jose at the ‘South Park’ county fair at Clusterfest. They said the highlight of the festival for them was the outdoor games such as balloon darts. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672282 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The 'Kill Kenny' balloon darts, one of several activities at the 'South Park' county fair at Clusterfest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31249_IMG_0184-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘Kill Kenny’ balloon darts, one of several activities at the ‘South Park’ county fair at Clusterfest. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672284 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Festivalgoers play Skee-Ball at the 'South Park' county fair at Clusterfest, one of five themed interactive attractions at the festival.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31251_IMG_0181-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Festivalgoers play Skee-Ball at the ‘South Park’ county fair at Clusterfest, one of five themed interactive attractions at the festival. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672285 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Festivalgoers relax at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco during Clusterfest. The festival premiered in June 2017, and organizers said more than 45,000 people attended over its initial three-day run.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31253_IMG_0179-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Festivalgoers relax at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco during Clusterfest. The festival premiered in June 2017, and organizers said more than 45,000 people attended over its initial three-day run. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672286 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Summers, the original host of 'Double Dare,' the game show that premiered in 1986 on Nickelodeon, pulls a string to slime Brad Koelling of Dublin, California, at Clusterfest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31255_IMG_0173-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marc Summers, the original host of ‘Double Dare,’ the game show that premiered in 1986 on Nickelodeon, pulls a string to slime Brad Koelling of Dublin, California, at Clusterfest. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11672287\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11672287 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Koelling from Dublin, California, emerges from a tank after being slimed, his prize for beating out a dozen contestants on an obstacle course from 'Double Dare,' the classic '80s and '90s television show on Nickelodeon at Clusterfest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31256_IMG_0174-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Koelling from Dublin, California, emerges from a tank after being slimed, his prize for beating out a dozen contestants on an obstacle course from ‘Double Dare,’ the classic ’80s and ’90s television show on Nickelodeon at Clusterfest. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It hasn’t been replaced for me by the new San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing into these spaces, like the old Pall Mall Bar on Haight Street, for instance, allowed me to remember things I hadn’t thought about in almost 40 years. … It was as if the process of writing conjured them into existence for me again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>On working with women prisoners\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I got involved with an Oakland-based human rights organization called \u003ca href=\"https://www.justicenow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice Now\u003c/a> whose board is in part — if not primarily — made up of people serving life sentences in the women’s facilities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I became good friends with people and started corresponding with them and talking to them on the phone and, you know, they mentored me insofar as they taught me a lot about what their lives were like in prison. 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She went there right when it opened. As she puts it, she “broke ground” on that prison and was there for 23 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she has this very specific and deep expertise of that place. And so part of culling all these details from her was valuing that knowledge and giving it life in the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>On choosing a white narrator for a novel about life in a women’s prison\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I needed to construct a central character who I could understand in depth. I made her a girl from the Inner Sunset who grew up with these Irish kids in this world. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachel Kushner’s “The Mars Room” takes readers from a San Francisco strip club to a fictional women’s prison in the Central Valley largely based on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/CCWF.html\">Central California Women’s Facility\u003c/a> in Chowchilla. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report Magazine’s Sasha Khokha spoke with Kushner in our San Francisco studio. Excerpts from the interview have been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>On California as the setting for ‘The Mars Room’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I wanted to write a novel that was my take on contemporary times, and that also really reckons with the idea of being a Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In certain ways, even though the novel definitely processes and deals with some dark material, it’s really about the complexity of the state — the long stretch between L.A. and San Francisco, and what’s there in the Central Valley. So for me it is a kind of love letter to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>On how both she and her main character, Romy, grew up in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset district, a largely working-class Irish-American neighborhood in the ’80s\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I went to public schools and so did all my friends. I wasn’t aware that there was this other San Francisco happening right alongside but not at all contiguous with our San Francisco. I didn’t know any people who went to private schools until I went to college. There was a lot of violence, just kind of a certain type of culture … I’m actually quite nostalgic for it in a way, but it had an intensity that may have been somewhat unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It hasn’t been replaced for me by the new San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing into these spaces, like the old Pall Mall Bar on Haight Street, for instance, allowed me to remember things I hadn’t thought about in almost 40 years. … It was as if the process of writing conjured them into existence for me again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>On working with women prisoners\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I got involved with an Oakland-based human rights organization called \u003ca href=\"https://www.justicenow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice Now\u003c/a> whose board is in part — if not primarily — made up of people serving life sentences in the women’s facilities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I became good friends with people and started corresponding with them and talking to them on the phone and, you know, they mentored me insofar as they taught me a lot about what their lives were like in prison. 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She went there right when it opened. As she puts it, she “broke ground” on that prison and was there for 23 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she has this very specific and deep expertise of that place. And so part of culling all these details from her was valuing that knowledge and giving it life in the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>On choosing a white narrator for a novel about life in a women’s prison\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I needed to construct a central character who I could understand in depth. I made her a girl from the Inner Sunset who grew up with these Irish kids in this world. These kids had no power at all, but they had this identity that’s very much a white identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I made her from that paradigm, and that gave me a range, and maneuverability and depth in terms of understanding her, that I don’t think I would have had if I tried to make a narrator who would typify who’s in the prison in Chowchilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, I do think that she is typical in a certain way. If you go to Chowchilla, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/Offender_Information_Services_Branch/Annual/Census/CENSUSd1306.pdf\">one-third white women\u003c/a>. So why would I feel I had to make the narrator a woman of color?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>On ‘Orange is the New Black,’ which also features a white main character\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I haven’t seen the show. I don’t watch TV really, but also, I didn’t want to see it because I was worried I would accidentally take something from that show without realizing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I’ve read some of the description of it. Some of the pushback is not really about [Piper Chapman]’s race, but the fact that she’s upper class. My narrator doesn’t have that kind of power. Also, [in the Netflix show], it’s a minimum-security federal facility. People are there for low-level drug crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m interested in the reality and the truth. In California, 90 percent of people in state prisons are there for what the state considers serious, violent felony convictions. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://fbcpaloalto.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Baptist Church of Palo Alto\u003c/a> is a progressive church. There’s a giant banner welcoming refugees strung across the front steps. The bathrooms inside are gender-neutral. \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/admin-account-54888311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recent sermon titles\u003c/a> include “Listening to the Earth” and “Empathy and Economic Equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the righteous judgment here is more likely to be lobbed from the political left than the right. And lobbed it was, by a 28-year-old associate pastor named Gregory Stevens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve come to find that Palo Alto is not only wealthy, but extremely wealthy, and so the arguments that happen here are between millionaires and billionaires. Then on Sunday, at First Baptist Palo Alto, we are singing and worshipping about a homeless Jew,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens resigned from First Baptist after a series of tweets he wrote criticizing the people of Palo Alto came to light. But he’s not really apologizing for calling the city “disgusting” or an “elitist shit den of hate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m making a moral claim against Palo Alto, and so for those people who think buying Teslas is going to save the world, [and they] want to make a moral claim to me because I used the wrong word? I mean this is exactly what I mean by elitist Palo Alto liberalism. In a liberal’s mind in Palo Alto, it’s civility that you’re supposed to have, and not a passion and a fire for equality, for equity and for justice,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11670687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Gregory Stevens says he's headed to San Francisco next, in hopes of finding more kindred spirits in a more diverse community than he's found in Palo Alto.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Stevens says he’s headed to San Francisco next, in hopes of finding more kindred spirits in a more diverse community than he has found in Palo Alto. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Backstory\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens was fresh out of the Claremont School of Theology in Southern California when he arrived in Palo Alto nearly three years ago. He says he found many locals in this \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/paloaltocitycalifornia/PST045216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gilded city of 67,000 souls\u003c/a> \u003ci>profess\u003c/i> to care about social justice, but fail to walk the walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though, at 28, you could say he’s young enough to know he should have been using Snapchat, Stevens says he felt safe tweeting with brutal candor to what he describes as a “small group of leftist ministers and radical organizers, activists.” He adds, “Those are actually the people I’ve come to know, I’ve come to love, and those are people I’m going to miss the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His disdain for the progressive liberals of Palo Alto came to light during a \u003ca href=\"http://padailypost.com/2018/05/15/pastor-slams-palo-alto-in-unholy-tweets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City Council discussion\u003c/a> on May 14 ahead of a vote on non-religious activities at First Baptist, like singing lessons and dance classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many houses of worship in Palo Alto, it’s tucked into a residential neighborhood where homes now sell for $1 million to $14 million. Not too long ago, some neighbors complained about the noise and traffic, and the city’s planning commission cracked down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led the broader religious community to rise up in protest. Renting out church space helps shrinking, aging congregations all over the country cover their costs, but in Palo Alto, where it’s increasingly impossible for many community service providers to operate at all, many churches feel renting out space is a form of community service, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11670689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"First Baptist Church has been in Palo Alto in some form or fashion since 1893.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Baptist Church has been in Palo Alto in some form or fashion since 1893. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The matter headed to the City Council. Someone submitted \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/65063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">screen shots\u003c/a> of Stevens’ tweets into the public record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened next didn’t sink the church’s hopes before the council, but it did stir up some hard feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Rick Mixon has led First Baptist for the last 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a big rookie mistake that he’ll learn a lot from,” Mixon says. “I don’t know. It’s easy to jump on the poor choice of words and the bad use of language, and miss that there might actually be a critique here that’s worth looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds, “I don’t think it’s ever really appropriate — or it’s rarely appropriate — to talk about hating. You know, that’s not what our tradition is about. Our tradition is about love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But … “I work in the most expensive neighborhood in Palo Alto. I walk out my door and, you know, it’s billionaires. The challenges of doing Christian ministry — given what Christianity is about as I understand it in a neighborhood, in a community like this — are enormous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11670705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Social justice is a philosophical pillar of Rev. Rick Mixon's ministry at First Baptist. He says the gentrification of the neighborhood has forced deep reflection on what modern Christian ministry means in this economic environment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Social justice is a philosophical pillar of the Rev. Rick Mixon’s ministry at First Baptist. He says the gentrification of the neighborhood has forced deep reflection on what modern Christian ministry means in this economic environment. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others aren’t so sure. “My friends and work here is with authentic people, and this gives me hope,” former Palo Alto Mayor Nancy Shepherd counters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One commenter in the Palo Alto Daily Post wrote: “A pastor with hate in his heart, filth in his mouth, and contempt for the place he lives and the people he serves does not deserve to be a member of the clergy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shock over the tweets notwithstanding, the \u003ca href=\"https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/05/15/first-baptist-church-wins-councils-blessing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">council allowed\u003c/a> First Baptist to continue hosting non-church activities — for now. It’s a relief to Mixon, even though that permit comes up for renewal in five years, and gentrification continues to refashion Palo Alto with no let-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ironic thing is that, because this has now blown up to international proportions, his message is getting a whole lot more play than it ever got when he was just trying to labor away in the vineyards of the Lord,” Mixon says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Stevens? He has relaunched his temporarily shuttered \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hellogregory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter feed\u003c/a>, for one thing, featuring links to the flurry of stories about recent events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s currently working in Palo Alto on a project called Mosaic South Bay, an interfaith community, and he plans to move to San Francisco when his Palo Alto lease is up in a few months. He says he thinks he’ll find more class diversity there.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://fbcpaloalto.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Baptist Church of Palo Alto\u003c/a> is a progressive church. There’s a giant banner welcoming refugees strung across the front steps. The bathrooms inside are gender-neutral. \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/admin-account-54888311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recent sermon titles\u003c/a> include “Listening to the Earth” and “Empathy and Economic Equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the righteous judgment here is more likely to be lobbed from the political left than the right. And lobbed it was, by a 28-year-old associate pastor named Gregory Stevens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve come to find that Palo Alto is not only wealthy, but extremely wealthy, and so the arguments that happen here are between millionaires and billionaires. Then on Sunday, at First Baptist Palo Alto, we are singing and worshipping about a homeless Jew,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens resigned from First Baptist after a series of tweets he wrote criticizing the people of Palo Alto came to light. But he’s not really apologizing for calling the city “disgusting” or an “elitist shit den of hate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m making a moral claim against Palo Alto, and so for those people who think buying Teslas is going to save the world, [and they] want to make a moral claim to me because I used the wrong word? I mean this is exactly what I mean by elitist Palo Alto liberalism. In a liberal’s mind in Palo Alto, it’s civility that you’re supposed to have, and not a passion and a fire for equality, for equity and for justice,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11670687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Gregory Stevens says he's headed to San Francisco next, in hopes of finding more kindred spirits in a more diverse community than he's found in Palo Alto.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31150_Photo-May-23-2-37-18-PM-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Stevens says he’s headed to San Francisco next, in hopes of finding more kindred spirits in a more diverse community than he has found in Palo Alto. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Backstory\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens was fresh out of the Claremont School of Theology in Southern California when he arrived in Palo Alto nearly three years ago. He says he found many locals in this \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/paloaltocitycalifornia/PST045216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gilded city of 67,000 souls\u003c/a> \u003ci>profess\u003c/i> to care about social justice, but fail to walk the walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though, at 28, you could say he’s young enough to know he should have been using Snapchat, Stevens says he felt safe tweeting with brutal candor to what he describes as a “small group of leftist ministers and radical organizers, activists.” He adds, “Those are actually the people I’ve come to know, I’ve come to love, and those are people I’m going to miss the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His disdain for the progressive liberals of Palo Alto came to light during a \u003ca href=\"http://padailypost.com/2018/05/15/pastor-slams-palo-alto-in-unholy-tweets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City Council discussion\u003c/a> on May 14 ahead of a vote on non-religious activities at First Baptist, like singing lessons and dance classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many houses of worship in Palo Alto, it’s tucked into a residential neighborhood where homes now sell for $1 million to $14 million. Not too long ago, some neighbors complained about the noise and traffic, and the city’s planning commission cracked down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led the broader religious community to rise up in protest. Renting out church space helps shrinking, aging congregations all over the country cover their costs, but in Palo Alto, where it’s increasingly impossible for many community service providers to operate at all, many churches feel renting out space is a form of community service, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11670689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"First Baptist Church has been in Palo Alto in some form or fashion since 1893.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31151_Photo-May-23-2-38-31-PM-2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Baptist Church has been in Palo Alto in some form or fashion since 1893. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The matter headed to the City Council. Someone submitted \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/65063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">screen shots\u003c/a> of Stevens’ tweets into the public record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened next didn’t sink the church’s hopes before the council, but it did stir up some hard feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Rick Mixon has led First Baptist for the last 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a big rookie mistake that he’ll learn a lot from,” Mixon says. “I don’t know. It’s easy to jump on the poor choice of words and the bad use of language, and miss that there might actually be a critique here that’s worth looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds, “I don’t think it’s ever really appropriate — or it’s rarely appropriate — to talk about hating. You know, that’s not what our tradition is about. Our tradition is about love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But … “I work in the most expensive neighborhood in Palo Alto. I walk out my door and, you know, it’s billionaires. The challenges of doing Christian ministry — given what Christianity is about as I understand it in a neighborhood, in a community like this — are enormous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11670705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Social justice is a philosophical pillar of Rev. Rick Mixon's ministry at First Baptist. He says the gentrification of the neighborhood has forced deep reflection on what modern Christian ministry means in this economic environment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31152_Photo-May-23-3-09-28-PM-2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Social justice is a philosophical pillar of the Rev. Rick Mixon’s ministry at First Baptist. He says the gentrification of the neighborhood has forced deep reflection on what modern Christian ministry means in this economic environment. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others aren’t so sure. “My friends and work here is with authentic people, and this gives me hope,” former Palo Alto Mayor Nancy Shepherd counters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One commenter in the Palo Alto Daily Post wrote: “A pastor with hate in his heart, filth in his mouth, and contempt for the place he lives and the people he serves does not deserve to be a member of the clergy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shock over the tweets notwithstanding, the \u003ca href=\"https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/05/15/first-baptist-church-wins-councils-blessing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">council allowed\u003c/a> First Baptist to continue hosting non-church activities — for now. It’s a relief to Mixon, even though that permit comes up for renewal in five years, and gentrification continues to refashion Palo Alto with no let-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ironic thing is that, because this has now blown up to international proportions, his message is getting a whole lot more play than it ever got when he was just trying to labor away in the vineyards of the Lord,” Mixon says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Stevens? He has relaunched his temporarily shuttered \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hellogregory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter feed\u003c/a>, for one thing, featuring links to the flurry of stories about recent events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s currently working in Palo Alto on a project called Mosaic South Bay, an interfaith community, and he plans to move to San Francisco when his Palo Alto lease is up in a few months. He says he thinks he’ll find more class diversity there.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Music meshed with voices and percussion instruments during \u003ca href=\"http://www.carnavalsanfrancisco.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carnaval San Francisco’s\u003c/a> 40th anniversary celebrations in the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tied to the Caribbean, Central and South America, the event is a place for people to celebrate their heritage through dance, music and food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival started Saturday, with vendors and performers taking over Harrison Street, from 16th to 24th Streets. The parade itself took place Sunday morning, with groups arriving at staging areas along Bryant Street before marching down 24th Street to Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11671041 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/IMG_7806-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Stacie Ibuki, with dance group Samba Funk, says the group theme was 'roots.' 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It’s one of the largest and longest running yo-yo competitions in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really prestigious,” said competitor Chris Godsey. “There’s the best players here out of all the contests in the country besides nationals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more than 50 competitors, ranging in age from 10-25, performed two-minute choreographed freestyle routines set to thumping electronic music in five different divisions including two-handed yo-yoing, offstring and counterweight. The winners will move onto the \u003ca href=\"http://nationalyoyocontest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Yo-Yo Contest\u003c/a> in Chicago next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the contest feel,” said Johnnie DelValle, the contest organizer and one-time yo-yo world champion. “The people that come here, it’s just a Bay Area vibe. People just really click. 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Even though it’s a competition, many of the participants said it’s fun just to be around other people who love yo-yoing as much as they do. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11670983\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A vendor talks with a couple of yo-yo fans at the Bay Area Classic. Some of those in attendance came to get inspiration from the competitors in hopes of qualifying for the event next year.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vendor talks with a couple of yo-yo fans at the Bay Area Classic. Some of those in attendance came to get inspiration from the competitors in hopes of qualifying for the event next year. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1000528105025388544\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11670981 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Hsieh, 23, works a vendor booth at the Bay Area Classic. He has his own line of yo-yos called UNPRLD. He said he didn't like the models that were available when he started yo-yo-ing 10 years ago, so he started his own brand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Hsieh, 23, works a vendor booth at the Bay Area Classic. He has his own line of yo-yos called UNPRLD. He said he didn’t like the models that were available when he started yo-yo-ing 10 years ago, so he started his own brand. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11670980 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31175_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-21-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A wide variety of yo-yos were for sale at the Bay Area Classic. Top yo-yos can cost nearly $200.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31175_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-21-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31175_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-21-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31175_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-21-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31175_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-21-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31175_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-21-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31175_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-21-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31175_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-21-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31175_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-21-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31175_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-21-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31175_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-21-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wide variety of yo-yos were for sale at the Bay Area Classic. Top yo-yos can cost nearly $200. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11670985 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31180_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-15-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Lorenzo Peñacerrada, known as LorenzYo Cubing on YouTube, practices his yo-yo skills in Jack London Square. He invented his own trick called the boba straw. 'It's a slacky trick that makes it look like a straw is being punctured into a boba cup,' he said.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31180_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-15-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31180_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-15-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31180_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-15-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31180_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-15-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31180_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-15-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31180_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-15-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31180_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-15-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31180_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-15-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31180_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-15-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31180_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-15-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorenzo Peñacerrada, known as LorenzYo Cubing on YouTube, practices his yo-yo skills in Jack London Square. He invented his own trick called the boba straw. ‘It’s a slacky trick that makes it look like a straw is being punctured into a boba cup,’ he said. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1000555019446378497\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DelValle said hundreds came out throughout the day to watch the competitions, check out vendors selling a wide variety of yo-yos and get inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Always remember that you could be yo-yo-ing too,” DelValle said. “It looks really complicated when they’re doing it, but just a little free time and some fun and you could be doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670984\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11670984\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31179_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Numerous participants and spectators in the Bay Area Classic hang out and show off their yo-yo tricks. Even though it's a competition, many of the participants said it's fun just to be around other people who love yo-yoing as much as they do.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31179_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31179_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31179_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31179_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31179_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31179_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31179_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31179_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31179_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31179_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-16-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Numerous participants and spectators in the Bay Area Classic hang out and show off their yo-yo tricks. Even though it’s a competition, many of the participants said it’s fun just to be around other people who love yo-yoing as much as they do. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11670983\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A vendor talks with a couple of yo-yo fans at the Bay Area Classic. Some of those in attendance came to get inspiration from the competitors in hopes of qualifying for the event next year.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31178_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-17-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vendor talks with a couple of yo-yo fans at the Bay Area Classic. Some of those in attendance came to get inspiration from the competitors in hopes of qualifying for the event next year. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He said he didn't like the models that were available when he started yo-yo-ing 10 years ago, so he started his own brand.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31176_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-19-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Hsieh, 23, works a vendor booth at the Bay Area Classic. He has his own line of yo-yos called UNPRLD. He said he didn’t like the models that were available when he started yo-yo-ing 10 years ago, so he started his own brand. \u003ccite>(Muna Danish/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11670980 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31175_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-21-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A wide variety of yo-yos were for sale at the Bay Area Classic. 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