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She left him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" link=\"file\" ids=\"11021333,11021334\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the place is founded on breakups, it’s ironically become a dating hot spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people come in sometimes as a joke on a first date,” Hyde says. “They kind of come in as like, ‘Oh, this is going to be ironic,’ and then they leave feeling very endeared to each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Hyde, the museum has the same effect on long-term couples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Established relationships come in, a lot of married couples and people who’ve been dating for a long time and it’s just a regular day. ‘Let’s go to a museum and get cultured,’ and then about a quarter of the way through it’s hand-holding. And then a little bit further in it’s locked arms, and then about three-quarters of the way through is when I’ve got pretzels and/or makeout spots going on. They leave and they’re just all over each other physically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the museum held a preview show at the Ace Hotel in downtown L.A. The place was packed, mainly, it seemed, with couples. Trevor Donn and Jose Cera were among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was like a really cute fourth-date idea,” says Donn. “This is our fourth date, so time to bring him to the Museum of Broken Relationships. I got a lot of morbid satisfaction out of it, just watching them all crumble. This could be us!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"11021481,11021479,11021480,11021478\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for friends Mike Burns and Katie Chaffey, the exhibit wasn’t all fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her first reaction was, ‘That sounds depressing,’ ” says Burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And was it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah,” agrees Chaffey. “We only made it through one exhibit because I think it’s the combination of having the object and the story behind it that made it a little bit too emotionally intense for me, and I was like, ‘OK, let’s get a drink.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since donations are anonymous, you don’t know who submitted what. You also don’t know when a donor might be standing next to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I submitted a tie from a seven-year relationship that I used to sleep with,” says a young woman who has just toured the exhibit (and wants to remain anonymous). “I painted this tie, it was very symbolic and I felt like it was a noose, so then I had to let it go. Now it’s going to live in the Museum of Broken Relationships. No longer tied to the tie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it’s a museum devoted to broken relationships, it’s also a tribute to the bond of heartbreak that links almost everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You go through these experiences and you feel so profoundly alone,” says Hyde, “and no one wants to talk to you about it anymore, no one’s ever hurt this bad before in their life and you’ll never get back on the horse. Then you walk through here and you’re like, ‘Oh no, I have so many friends.’ And they’re all over the world. And they’re all different ages and races and creeds and sexualities, and this is incredible, and we’re all in this together. It’s just so profoundly human.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>For kids under 18 who want to see great bands play for a few bucks, the options in Los Angeles are limited to a handful of warehouse spaces, backyards or strip mall venues. Most underground all-ages music spots never last more than a few years — a combination of rising rent prices, the challenge of getting permits and licenses, and police interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet downtown L.A.’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesmell.org/\">The Smell\u003c/a> has been open since 1998, spawning a local music scene and launching bands like No Age, HEALTH, Abe Vigoda, Mika Miko and dozens of others. The venue has developed a fierce loyalty among young purveyors of noise, punk and underground music, and its policy of not allowing drugs or alcohol makes it a safe hangout for teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is somewhere that kids can come and be together, and I think that’s really cool,” said Violet Romero, 19, singer and bass player of the local band Celebrity Crush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272821770″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s understandable that there was a huge outpouring of support from the local music community when news broke over Memorial Day weekend that The Smell’s owner, Jim Smith, found a demolition notice posted on the entrance to the club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice from L&R Group of Companies, the parking lot developer that owns Joe’s Auto Parks and WallyPark, stated that an application to demolish The Smell’s one-story building had been filed with the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. Other businesses on the block, including the Downtown Independent movie theater and the New Jalisco Bar, a gay Latino dive bar, also received notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012480\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Smell posted this photo of the demolition notice to its website.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Smell posted this photo of the demolition notice to its website. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The building was purchased last year and Smith said he started to see immediate changes. His rent changed overnight from $2,375 to $4,000 a month — an increase of 68 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like there’s a hell of a lot of parking lots on this block,” Smith said. “And I’ve never seen them full, so I just don’t know what the reason is. And it’s like, OK, great, knock down the block, you’ve got plenty of parking, but is there anything left that’s going to draw people down here that are going to want to pay for parking? In that regard, it just doesn’t make any sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the property owner insists there are no plans to turn The Smell into a parking lot — or anything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a fellow lover of music, I appreciate the history of The Smell and its impact on the music community,” said Kevin Litwin, chief operating officer for L&R Group of Companies, in an email interview. “As of today, there are no development plans at all for this site or these buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012529\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20112_IMG_1574-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers take a break from taking donations at the door of The Smell.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20112_IMG_1574-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20112_IMG_1574-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20112_IMG_1574-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20112_IMG_1574-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20112_IMG_1574-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers take a break from taking donations at the door of The Smell. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Litwin expressed regret over how Smith learned of the demolition notice. In an email sent to Smith, he wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have reached out earlier to communicate our intent to all our tenants so that they understood the process. The notice that was posted on your door last Friday was merely a formality to keep our options open. It is required to obtain a demolition permit in the event that it may be needed in the future. We support you and your message of providing a community within Los Angeles. We look forward to continuing our relationship with you. If at some time in the future we decide to develop the properties at that site, we will provide you ample time. If we’re able to help, we will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday night, the alley between a parking garage and a row of brick buildings was full of young people. The show was sold out, and attendees stood outside in circles, some smoking cigarettes and others checking their phones, while they waited for the next band to start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11012482 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20113_IMG_1539-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Outside The Smell, the all-ages music venue in downtown L. A.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20113_IMG_1539-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20113_IMG_1539-qut-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20113_IMG_1539-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20113_IMG_1539-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20113_IMG_1539-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside The Smell, the all-ages music venue in downtown L.A. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those just arriving stood in line, then entered and handed over five bucks to a couple of volunteers at a table, who were blowing soap bubbles and eating candy in between affixing wristbands. Another volunteer sold candy bars, bags of chips and water bottles. The walls are spray-painted, and kids sat on busted-out couches or stood in clusters as the music poured out from the stage. As bands filled the small room with raucous, blistering noise, a mosh pit formed and the smell of dozens of sweaty bodies filled the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Smell opened around the same time that another all-ages venue, Jabberjaw, closed. Many venues have closed in recent years, or have been threatened with closure. Just a week after The Smell received its demolition notice, another volunteer-run, all-ages venue 2 miles away called Pehrspace received a \u003ca href=\"http://www.laweekly.com/music/pehrspace-evicted-after-a-decade-of-joyful-noise-7009600\">60-day eviction notice\u003c/a>. Church on York, an all-ages space in Highland Park, was shut down in 2014 after being open for one year, because of noise complaints, a lack of permits and underage drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the fans of The Smell acknowledged that as rent prices increase in downtown L.A. and across the city, closures are to be expected. “It happened in New York with CBGB’s,” said Adam Weintraub, 17. “It’s kind of inevitable in any city that’s going through change and gentrification. But I think it takes away a huge part of the culture, and it just makes it another bland city. And it takes away a lot of the creative aspects of L.A.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to think that a good city needs an element of danger,” added Baron Rinzler, 18. “But they’re robbing us of all that goodness. Who wants to come to a city that’s gentrified, that’s full of high-rises? That takes the heart out of the city, really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11012507 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20110_IMG_1534-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Gina Basile, 14, and Simon Landau, 15. “It’s very rare to find a place that treats the performers well and allows all ages,” Landau said.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20110_IMG_1534-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20110_IMG_1534-qut-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20110_IMG_1534-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20110_IMG_1534-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20110_IMG_1534-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gina Basile, 14, and Simon Landau, 15. ‘It’s very rare to find a place that treats the performers well and allows all ages,’ Landau said. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the dislocation of some businesses may be inevitable as downtown changes. “This is an example of the mixed blessing of urban revitalization,” said Dan Rosenfeld, a real estate developer with the Trust for Public Land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Preserving these ventures is going to be difficult in a purely economic age. The value of the land has increased, rental prices have increased, to some degree the demographics have changed,” Rosenfeld said. “On the other hand, the demand for the cutting edge, for the next and the newest, will not abate. I suspect that cultural venues like The Smell will pop up in other neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musician Nick Rattigan agrees. His bands, Current Joys and Surf Curse, play regularly at The Smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just the nature of DIY venues,” Rattigan said. “It’s amazing that this one was open for as long as it was. Normally they get shut down in one or two years. There are still these kids in L.A. and they still want to play shows and need places to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said there are plans in the works to keep the club open, including an effort to have The Smell declared a cultural landmark. That may not save it from demolition, Smith acknowledged, but it could buy time. There are also plans to host benefit concerts and a music festival with some of the more successful bands that have played at The Smell over the years. Smith has also launched a GoFundMe page with a $1.4 million goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11014268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SmellBand-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"The band Celebrity Crush performs inside The Smell.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11014268\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SmellBand-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SmellBand-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SmellBand.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SmellBand-1180x755.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SmellBand-960x614.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band Celebrity Crush performs inside The Smell. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If The Smell is forced to relocate, Smith said he hopes to find a location close to a Metro station. “Downtown is great because it’s central to transit, and we get people coming here from all over the region — the [San Fernando] Valley, South L.A., East L.A., San Gabriel Valley, Orange County — and downtown is kind of central to all of that,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s tenacity and altruism is one of the reasons The Smell has lasted this long, said David Scott Stone, a friend of Smith’s and a patron of the club since it opened. “Jim works full time, and he comes here every night to open up the space, clean the bathroom, kick kids out that are trying to sneak booze into the place,” he said, “It’s an absolute labor of love for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But The Smell has been through this before. It originally opened in North Hollywood in 1998. Within a couple of years, it was priced out — and moved to its current location downtown.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For kids under 18 who want to see great bands play for a few bucks, the options in Los Angeles are limited to a handful of warehouse spaces, backyards or strip mall venues. Most underground all-ages music spots never last more than a few years — a combination of rising rent prices, the challenge of getting permits and licenses, and police interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet downtown L.A.’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesmell.org/\">The Smell\u003c/a> has been open since 1998, spawning a local music scene and launching bands like No Age, HEALTH, Abe Vigoda, Mika Miko and dozens of others. The venue has developed a fierce loyalty among young purveyors of noise, punk and underground music, and its policy of not allowing drugs or alcohol makes it a safe hangout for teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is somewhere that kids can come and be together, and I think that’s really cool,” said Violet Romero, 19, singer and bass player of the local band Celebrity Crush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272821770″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272821770″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s understandable that there was a huge outpouring of support from the local music community when news broke over Memorial Day weekend that The Smell’s owner, Jim Smith, found a demolition notice posted on the entrance to the club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice from L&R Group of Companies, the parking lot developer that owns Joe’s Auto Parks and WallyPark, stated that an application to demolish The Smell’s one-story building had been filed with the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. Other businesses on the block, including the Downtown Independent movie theater and the New Jalisco Bar, a gay Latino dive bar, also received notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012480\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Smell posted this photo of the demolition notice to its website.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20111_demonotice_thesmell-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Smell posted this photo of the demolition notice to its website. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The building was purchased last year and Smith said he started to see immediate changes. His rent changed overnight from $2,375 to $4,000 a month — an increase of 68 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like there’s a hell of a lot of parking lots on this block,” Smith said. “And I’ve never seen them full, so I just don’t know what the reason is. And it’s like, OK, great, knock down the block, you’ve got plenty of parking, but is there anything left that’s going to draw people down here that are going to want to pay for parking? In that regard, it just doesn’t make any sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the property owner insists there are no plans to turn The Smell into a parking lot — or anything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a fellow lover of music, I appreciate the history of The Smell and its impact on the music community,” said Kevin Litwin, chief operating officer for L&R Group of Companies, in an email interview. “As of today, there are no development plans at all for this site or these buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11012529\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20112_IMG_1574-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers take a break from taking donations at the door of The Smell.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20112_IMG_1574-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20112_IMG_1574-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20112_IMG_1574-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20112_IMG_1574-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20112_IMG_1574-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers take a break from taking donations at the door of The Smell. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Litwin expressed regret over how Smith learned of the demolition notice. In an email sent to Smith, he wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have reached out earlier to communicate our intent to all our tenants so that they understood the process. The notice that was posted on your door last Friday was merely a formality to keep our options open. It is required to obtain a demolition permit in the event that it may be needed in the future. We support you and your message of providing a community within Los Angeles. We look forward to continuing our relationship with you. If at some time in the future we decide to develop the properties at that site, we will provide you ample time. If we’re able to help, we will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday night, the alley between a parking garage and a row of brick buildings was full of young people. The show was sold out, and attendees stood outside in circles, some smoking cigarettes and others checking their phones, while they waited for the next band to start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11012482 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20113_IMG_1539-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Outside The Smell, the all-ages music venue in downtown L. A.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20113_IMG_1539-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20113_IMG_1539-qut-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20113_IMG_1539-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20113_IMG_1539-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20113_IMG_1539-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside The Smell, the all-ages music venue in downtown L.A. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those just arriving stood in line, then entered and handed over five bucks to a couple of volunteers at a table, who were blowing soap bubbles and eating candy in between affixing wristbands. Another volunteer sold candy bars, bags of chips and water bottles. The walls are spray-painted, and kids sat on busted-out couches or stood in clusters as the music poured out from the stage. As bands filled the small room with raucous, blistering noise, a mosh pit formed and the smell of dozens of sweaty bodies filled the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Smell opened around the same time that another all-ages venue, Jabberjaw, closed. Many venues have closed in recent years, or have been threatened with closure. Just a week after The Smell received its demolition notice, another volunteer-run, all-ages venue 2 miles away called Pehrspace received a \u003ca href=\"http://www.laweekly.com/music/pehrspace-evicted-after-a-decade-of-joyful-noise-7009600\">60-day eviction notice\u003c/a>. Church on York, an all-ages space in Highland Park, was shut down in 2014 after being open for one year, because of noise complaints, a lack of permits and underage drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the fans of The Smell acknowledged that as rent prices increase in downtown L.A. and across the city, closures are to be expected. “It happened in New York with CBGB’s,” said Adam Weintraub, 17. “It’s kind of inevitable in any city that’s going through change and gentrification. But I think it takes away a huge part of the culture, and it just makes it another bland city. And it takes away a lot of the creative aspects of L.A.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to think that a good city needs an element of danger,” added Baron Rinzler, 18. “But they’re robbing us of all that goodness. Who wants to come to a city that’s gentrified, that’s full of high-rises? That takes the heart out of the city, really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11012507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11012507 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20110_IMG_1534-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Gina Basile, 14, and Simon Landau, 15. “It’s very rare to find a place that treats the performers well and allows all ages,” Landau said.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20110_IMG_1534-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20110_IMG_1534-qut-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20110_IMG_1534-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20110_IMG_1534-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/RS20110_IMG_1534-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gina Basile, 14, and Simon Landau, 15. ‘It’s very rare to find a place that treats the performers well and allows all ages,’ Landau said. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the dislocation of some businesses may be inevitable as downtown changes. “This is an example of the mixed blessing of urban revitalization,” said Dan Rosenfeld, a real estate developer with the Trust for Public Land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Preserving these ventures is going to be difficult in a purely economic age. The value of the land has increased, rental prices have increased, to some degree the demographics have changed,” Rosenfeld said. “On the other hand, the demand for the cutting edge, for the next and the newest, will not abate. I suspect that cultural venues like The Smell will pop up in other neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musician Nick Rattigan agrees. His bands, Current Joys and Surf Curse, play regularly at The Smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just the nature of DIY venues,” Rattigan said. “It’s amazing that this one was open for as long as it was. Normally they get shut down in one or two years. There are still these kids in L.A. and they still want to play shows and need places to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said there are plans in the works to keep the club open, including an effort to have The Smell declared a cultural landmark. That may not save it from demolition, Smith acknowledged, but it could buy time. There are also plans to host benefit concerts and a music festival with some of the more successful bands that have played at The Smell over the years. Smith has also launched a GoFundMe page with a $1.4 million goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11014268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SmellBand-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"The band Celebrity Crush performs inside The Smell.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11014268\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SmellBand-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SmellBand-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SmellBand.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SmellBand-1180x755.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SmellBand-960x614.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band Celebrity Crush performs inside The Smell. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If The Smell is forced to relocate, Smith said he hopes to find a location close to a Metro station. “Downtown is great because it’s central to transit, and we get people coming here from all over the region — the [San Fernando] Valley, South L.A., East L.A., San Gabriel Valley, Orange County — and downtown is kind of central to all of that,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s tenacity and altruism is one of the reasons The Smell has lasted this long, said David Scott Stone, a friend of Smith’s and a patron of the club since it opened. “Jim works full time, and he comes here every night to open up the space, clean the bathroom, kick kids out that are trying to sneak booze into the place,” he said, “It’s an absolute labor of love for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When you think of California wine, you probably think Napa, Sonoma or maybe Paso Robles, but the state’s first major wine hub was in Los Angeles back in the 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot has changed since then, but one vine from that era is still producing grapes, and local winemakers are eager to work with that fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, the vine is on Olvera Street -- the backbone of L.A.'s oldest neighborhood. And it's right out in the open, but most shoppers and tourists are too busy checking out the swirl of stalls selling brightly colored blankets, guitars, masks and T-shirts to notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s actually not an uncommon experience,\" said Michael Holland. \"They're not necessarily looking up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272822714\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vine is part of a massive arbor shading a section of the famed walkway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By day, Holland is L.A.’s official archivist, cataloguing the city's historic records, old photos, even sheet music praising the wonders of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By night, he’s an amateur winemaker. So when he saw grapes growing on this historic site, he knew he had to harvest them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just from the heritage perspective ... this is a highly unique opportunity, and I'd be a fool not to take advantage of it,\" Holland said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Olvera Street vine stretches from the market to the Avila Adobe, the city’s oldest standing residence. Holland said the vine was probably planted around the same time that house was built, in 1818.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11014150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11014150\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OlveraStVine-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Winemakers Michael Holland and Wes Hagen working with the Olvera Street vine.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OlveraStVine-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OlveraStVine-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OlveraStVine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OlveraStVine-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OlveraStVine-960x638.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winemakers Michael Holland and Wes Hagen working with the Olvera Street vine. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He enlisted fellow DIY winemakers to help prune and tend to the overgrown plant. He also got advice from Wes Hagen, the consulting winemaker for J. Wilkes Wines in Santa Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The vine wants to grow up, absorb sunlight, produce sugar and attract birds,\" Hagen said. \"We want to get to the fruit \u003cem>before\u003c/em> the birds, and get the sugar that would have attracted them and turn it into delicious, delicious alcohol.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help the vine produce those grapes, Hagen and Holland have been climbing onto a roof above the back patio of the Avila Adobe, where they cut off dead branches and help healthy ones take hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hagen said the heart of the vine hasn't been getting enough sun to produce the compounds that make for sweeter grapes. Instead, they can have too much of something called pyrazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fruit that’s grown in shade tastes like green bell peppers ... it's the exact same compound,\" he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Michael Holland harvested as many of these grapes as he could to make some wine. He also took some leave clippings and sent them to UC Davis to have their DNA analyzed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out this scraggly old vine is a direct genetic match to one known as \"Vina Madre.\" It's a plant first grown at the San Gabriel Mission, founded in 1771.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11014199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11014199\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/GrapesGrow-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Grapes growing from the vine at Avila Adobe.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/GrapesGrow-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/GrapesGrow-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/GrapesGrow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/GrapesGrow-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/GrapesGrow-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grapes growing from the vine at Avila Adobe. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jerry Dangl, manager of the plant identification lab at UC Davis, says it’s a very important and interesting vine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Scientifically, it’s a first-generation hybrid between \u003cem>Vitis vinefera\u003c/em>, the European wine grape, and \u003cem>Vitis girdiana\u003c/em>, the wild desert grape in Southern California,\" he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means this plant is a cross between the grapes brought over by early European settlers and hearty local plants. Dangl says that unique blend likely helped it survive all the pests and disease that eventually wiped out most of L.A.’s wine industry in the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Olvera Street plant was probably a clipping from that Vina Madre vine at the mission, which means it could be older than the state of California itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Vina Madre is not a vine associated with winemaking. In fact, the Olvera Street plant was most likely put there for shade -- a function it still provides today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangl knows of one other location where this grape grows, and it is also used in an arborlike setting, not a vineyard. If there \u003cem>were\u003c/em> evidence it was used for making alcohol, that could be an important moment in the history of California wines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would be very interested in finding Vina Madre in what looks like a production situation,\" Dangl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t stopped city archivist Holland from trying to make wine with these grapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He used a recipe borrowed from a friend at Gypsy Canyon Winery. It was reputedly written in 1891, making it somewhat contemporary with the vine itself. The result is a fortified dessert wine called an angelica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what the padres would have made,\" Holland said. \"This is what they would have served at Mass.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holland opened a bottle and served some to Rachel Macalisang, lead sommelier at a Beverly Hills foodie haven, The Bazaar by José Andrés.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a very pretty color. It’s lighter than I thought it would be,\" Macalisang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11014204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11014204\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/WineGlass-800x579.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Macalisang, lead sommelier at the Beverly Hills foodie-haven The Bazaar by José Andrés, tries a wine made from the Olvera Street grapes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/WineGlass-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/WineGlass-400x289.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/WineGlass.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/WineGlass-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/WineGlass-960x695.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Macalisang, lead sommelier at the Beverly Hills foodie-haven The Bazaar by José Andrés, tries a wine made from the Olvera Street grapes. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She is one of the first people to try the new wine. Macalisang said older vines often produce more complex flavors than younger plants and that can enhance a wine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is that the case with Holland's angelica? Macalisang takes a sip -- and smiles. She says it's full of fruity flavors like candied apple, cherry, fig and raspberry jam, but it's not cloyingly sweet like some dessert wines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It finishes a little drier than I thought it would,\" she adds between sips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macalisang thinks if people back in the 1800s did use these grapes for wine, it could have been a decent one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We may never know if that happened, but at least now, these grapes are something worth toasting to.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When you think of California wine, you probably think Napa, Sonoma or maybe Paso Robles, but the state’s first major wine hub was in Los Angeles back in the 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot has changed since then, but one vine from that era is still producing grapes, and local winemakers are eager to work with that fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, the vine is on Olvera Street -- the backbone of L.A.'s oldest neighborhood. And it's right out in the open, but most shoppers and tourists are too busy checking out the swirl of stalls selling brightly colored blankets, guitars, masks and T-shirts to notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s actually not an uncommon experience,\" said Michael Holland. \"They're not necessarily looking up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272822714&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272822714'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vine is part of a massive arbor shading a section of the famed walkway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By day, Holland is L.A.’s official archivist, cataloguing the city's historic records, old photos, even sheet music praising the wonders of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By night, he’s an amateur winemaker. So when he saw grapes growing on this historic site, he knew he had to harvest them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just from the heritage perspective ... this is a highly unique opportunity, and I'd be a fool not to take advantage of it,\" Holland said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Olvera Street vine stretches from the market to the Avila Adobe, the city’s oldest standing residence. Holland said the vine was probably planted around the same time that house was built, in 1818.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11014150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11014150\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OlveraStVine-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Winemakers Michael Holland and Wes Hagen working with the Olvera Street vine.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OlveraStVine-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OlveraStVine-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OlveraStVine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OlveraStVine-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/OlveraStVine-960x638.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winemakers Michael Holland and Wes Hagen working with the Olvera Street vine. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He enlisted fellow DIY winemakers to help prune and tend to the overgrown plant. He also got advice from Wes Hagen, the consulting winemaker for J. Wilkes Wines in Santa Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The vine wants to grow up, absorb sunlight, produce sugar and attract birds,\" Hagen said. \"We want to get to the fruit \u003cem>before\u003c/em> the birds, and get the sugar that would have attracted them and turn it into delicious, delicious alcohol.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help the vine produce those grapes, Hagen and Holland have been climbing onto a roof above the back patio of the Avila Adobe, where they cut off dead branches and help healthy ones take hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hagen said the heart of the vine hasn't been getting enough sun to produce the compounds that make for sweeter grapes. Instead, they can have too much of something called pyrazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fruit that’s grown in shade tastes like green bell peppers ... it's the exact same compound,\" he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Michael Holland harvested as many of these grapes as he could to make some wine. He also took some leave clippings and sent them to UC Davis to have their DNA analyzed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out this scraggly old vine is a direct genetic match to one known as \"Vina Madre.\" It's a plant first grown at the San Gabriel Mission, founded in 1771.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11014199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11014199\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/GrapesGrow-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Grapes growing from the vine at Avila Adobe.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/GrapesGrow-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/GrapesGrow-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/GrapesGrow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/GrapesGrow-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/GrapesGrow-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grapes growing from the vine at Avila Adobe. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jerry Dangl, manager of the plant identification lab at UC Davis, says it’s a very important and interesting vine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Scientifically, it’s a first-generation hybrid between \u003cem>Vitis vinefera\u003c/em>, the European wine grape, and \u003cem>Vitis girdiana\u003c/em>, the wild desert grape in Southern California,\" he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means this plant is a cross between the grapes brought over by early European settlers and hearty local plants. Dangl says that unique blend likely helped it survive all the pests and disease that eventually wiped out most of L.A.’s wine industry in the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Olvera Street plant was probably a clipping from that Vina Madre vine at the mission, which means it could be older than the state of California itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Vina Madre is not a vine associated with winemaking. In fact, the Olvera Street plant was most likely put there for shade -- a function it still provides today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dangl knows of one other location where this grape grows, and it is also used in an arborlike setting, not a vineyard. If there \u003cem>were\u003c/em> evidence it was used for making alcohol, that could be an important moment in the history of California wines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would be very interested in finding Vina Madre in what looks like a production situation,\" Dangl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t stopped city archivist Holland from trying to make wine with these grapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He used a recipe borrowed from a friend at Gypsy Canyon Winery. It was reputedly written in 1891, making it somewhat contemporary with the vine itself. The result is a fortified dessert wine called an angelica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what the padres would have made,\" Holland said. \"This is what they would have served at Mass.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holland opened a bottle and served some to Rachel Macalisang, lead sommelier at a Beverly Hills foodie haven, The Bazaar by José Andrés.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a very pretty color. 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"content": "\u003cp>Women don't land in prison at nearly the same rate as men, and those who do are a lot less likely to commit another crime when they get out. But women do face a host of unique challenges that can make reintegration into society a lot harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no one there for me. I kept going back and forth to prison for almost 20 years,” says Susan Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/269688078\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her life began to spiral out of control in 1982, the same year her 5-year-old son was killed in a car accident in South L.A. She started drinking hard. That turned to hard drugs -- and that’s what eventually landed her in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, Burton says, she couldn’t find help for her addiction or the emotional pain fueling it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why isn't there a therapist that I could've went to, to resolve my grief and my pain and my suffering?\" asks Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question that would her set her off on a 20-year criminal justice crusade to help hundreds of other women just like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-800x484.jpg\" alt=\"Susan Burton (L) at recent criminal justice reform event. A New Way of Life sponsors regular workshops, forums and legal clinics each month in the L.A. area\" width=\"800\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-800x484.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-400x242.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-1180x714.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-960x581.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton (L) at a recent criminal justice reform event. A New Way of Life sponsors regular workshops, forums and legal clinics each month in the L.A. area \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Burton was released from prison, she says she couldn’t find the help she needed in her own community of South Central L.A. But she did find it about 25 miles away, near the Pacific Ocean in the much more affluent city of Santa Monica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I went there were all of these services,” recalls Burton. \"And people in Santa Monica wasn't going to prison for what we were going to prison for in South L.A. Why do they go to treatment and I get chains?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Determined to not let other women in similar circumstances fall through the cracks, Burton scraped together what little savings she had -- and swung open the doors of her own home in South L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She named it \u003ca href=\"http://www.anewwayoflife.org/\">A New Way of Life\u003c/a>: a shelter, a waystation for women exiting prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"81S1A7BACHxjBlU1aIjtbeOenhr890f0\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I slept in the dining room and I put beds in the other three bedrooms, so there were 11 of us in that house and it created a community of women helping women,” says Burton. \"All women who've been incarcerated and just needed a place to rebuild their lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A New Way of Life now includes five transitional homes and a constellation of other services. There’s help with the big stuff you’d expect, like family reunification, job referrals, drug rehab. But there’s also attention to the little things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let them cook for maybe the first time in a long, long time,” says Burton. \"You don't get to smell the fresh fruit in the grocery store (in prison), all of these things you've known that you don't get.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-800x536.jpg\" alt=\" Susan Burton (R) with a client at one of the Los Angeles-area transitional homes operated by A New Way of Life. \" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton (R) with a client at one of the Los Angeles-area transitional homes operated by A New Way of Life. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Women might stay at A New Way of Life for just a few months or for a couple of years. A couple of former clients have even gone to replicate the New Way of Life model in other parts of Southern California where such resources are hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton doesn’t have an exact count of how many have come through the doors -- close to 1,000, she thinks -- but she does keep the letters sent from behind prison walls, hundreds of them neatly filed in enormous cabinet drawers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She keeps every piece of correspondence. I ask her why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton seems a little unsure how to answer at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992449\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Susan Burton in her modest but always buzzing office at the A New Way of Life Compton-area headquarters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-1920x1271.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW.jpg 1962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton in her modest but always buzzing office at A New Way of Life's Compton-area headquarters. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Well, sometimes I keep them because after a woman comes, and she doesn't want to respond to the program, sometimes I go back and get the letter and I'll say, 'Do you remember writing this letter?' ” Burton asks with a firm tone as if the woman were in the room. \"What’s changed?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's that unwaveringly firm yet supportive tone that's helped guide scores of women back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was the first face I saw when I came home,\" says Ingrid Archie, a resident and community organizer at A New Way of Life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Burton) came and got me from that bus station and brought me to A New Way of Life,” says Archie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Archie landed back in prison not long after completing a stint at A New Way of Life, she hesitated to reach out to Susan Burton again. She wrote anonymously from prison, hoping to conceal her identify as long as possible. When Archie called to her confirm her spot, Burton answered the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992399\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-800x587.jpg\" alt=\"Ingrid Archie in an ad for one of the many services offered by the A New Way of Life Re-entry Project \" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-800x587.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-400x294.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-1180x866.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-960x705.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ingrid Archie in an ad for one of the many services offered by the A New Way of Life Re-entry Project \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"And we talked and I told her I was ashamed and she explained to me that she understands that life happens, but to stay connected, so that when things are going on you have people you can reach out to,\" says Archie. \"And I didn’t do that. I wanted to handle it on my own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A New Way of Life says the majority of women who come through its doors stay out of prison. But associate director Tiffany Johnson says there are some, like Archie, who need a second or third try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can be there to hold her hand and guide her into the right direction of things to do; talking to an attorney, having somebody who could represent her,\" says Johnson. \"That's what A New Way of Life offers. We’re not the solution. We can just be there to assist in the solution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992397\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992397\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"A New Way of Life associate director Tiffany Johnson (L) with resident and organizer Ingrid Archie outside the organization’s Compton area headquarters. \" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-400x285.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-1920x1367.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-960x683.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A New Way of Life associate director Tiffany Johnson (L) with resident and organizer Ingrid Archie outside the organization’s Compton-area headquarters. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since it opened its doors 20 years ago, A New Way of Life has gone far beyond offering just a warm bed and a hot meal. About 10 years ago it launched a \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/student-life/student-organizations/el-centro-legal-clinics/reentry-legal-clinic/\">legal clinic with the help of the UCLA School of Law\u003c/a>. It's helped scores of women remove nonviolent felonies from their records. That can make it easier to get work and qualify for public housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says demand for services is growing in the aftermath of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-prop-47\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the voter-approved state initiative that qualified thousands of nonviolent felons for early release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide all these resources for all these people but we can’t. But provide for you can and it opens up,” says Johnson. “You know, we have a limited capacity. But when Miss Burton started, she only had a capacity of three rooms, I think maybe six people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson first came to A New Way of Life as a client after doing time for manslaughter. She killed a man in self-defense during an argument. It was her mother’s longtime boyfriend -- a predator, says Johnson, who sexually abused her for years when she was a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lacked self-esteem for years. I will venture to say that all of my life I didn't have it, but they helped me,\" says Johnson of A New Way of Life. \"I started to get dreams back. I didn't have dreams before. Or I had nightmares.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing Johnson never dreamed of is taking over for Susan Burton. But she is. After 20 years at the helm, Burton is stepping down from the organization. Tiffany Johnson will be taking over as executive director. She’s nervous and excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know what, there’s a lot of the same emotions that I had when I came home from prison, something new, unfamiliar,\" says Johnson with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992401\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 485px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10992401\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-2014-susan-in-selma-top.png\" alt=\"Susan Burton speaking at an 2015 event in Selma, Alabama commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Marches from Selma to Montgomery\" width=\"485\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-2014-susan-in-selma-top.png 485w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-2014-susan-in-selma-top-400x254.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton speaking at an 2015 event in Selma, Alabama, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot behind the title. And Susan Burton is big shoes to fill.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Susan Burton, she’s now in her early 60s and getting a little weary of the long hours and the long trips across the country lobbying on behalf of the organization and the women it assists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She plans to keep a seat on the board of A New Way of Life, but her reform-minded drive will take new forms. That includes a project that will take her back inside prisons, around the world, to research how they can be better designed and managed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago Burton also submitted the first draft of a memoir to her publisher -- a process that meant reliving those long days of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Prison leaves a stain in your consciousness,” says Burton, her voice a bit weary. \"It leaves a stain in you that you just don't forget. You have to kind of detox that.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why isn't there a therapist that I could've went to, to resolve my grief and my pain and my suffering?\" asks Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question that would her set her off on a 20-year criminal justice crusade to help hundreds of other women just like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-800x484.jpg\" alt=\"Susan Burton (L) at recent criminal justice reform event. A New Way of Life sponsors regular workshops, forums and legal clinics each month in the L.A. area\" width=\"800\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-800x484.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-400x242.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-1180x714.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONs-susan-and-women-BW-960x581.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton (L) at a recent criminal justice reform event. A New Way of Life sponsors regular workshops, forums and legal clinics each month in the L.A. area \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Burton was released from prison, she says she couldn’t find the help she needed in her own community of South Central L.A. But she did find it about 25 miles away, near the Pacific Ocean in the much more affluent city of Santa Monica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I went there were all of these services,” recalls Burton. \"And people in Santa Monica wasn't going to prison for what we were going to prison for in South L.A. Why do they go to treatment and I get chains?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Determined to not let other women in similar circumstances fall through the cracks, Burton scraped together what little savings she had -- and swung open the doors of her own home in South L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She named it \u003ca href=\"http://www.anewwayoflife.org/\">A New Way of Life\u003c/a>: a shelter, a waystation for women exiting prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I slept in the dining room and I put beds in the other three bedrooms, so there were 11 of us in that house and it created a community of women helping women,” says Burton. \"All women who've been incarcerated and just needed a place to rebuild their lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A New Way of Life now includes five transitional homes and a constellation of other services. There’s help with the big stuff you’d expect, like family reunification, job referrals, drug rehab. But there’s also attention to the little things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let them cook for maybe the first time in a long, long time,” says Burton. \"You don't get to smell the fresh fruit in the grocery store (in prison), all of these things you've known that you don't get.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-800x536.jpg\" alt=\" Susan Burton (R) with a client at one of the Los Angeles-area transitional homes operated by A New Way of Life. \" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-a-new-way-of-life-KITCHEN-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton (R) with a client at one of the Los Angeles-area transitional homes operated by A New Way of Life. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Women might stay at A New Way of Life for just a few months or for a couple of years. A couple of former clients have even gone to replicate the New Way of Life model in other parts of Southern California where such resources are hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton doesn’t have an exact count of how many have come through the doors -- close to 1,000, she thinks -- but she does keep the letters sent from behind prison walls, hundreds of them neatly filed in enormous cabinet drawers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She keeps every piece of correspondence. I ask her why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burton seems a little unsure how to answer at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992449\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Susan Burton in her modest but always buzzing office at the A New Way of Life Compton-area headquarters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-1920x1271.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Susan-office-BW.jpg 1962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton in her modest but always buzzing office at A New Way of Life's Compton-area headquarters. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Well, sometimes I keep them because after a woman comes, and she doesn't want to respond to the program, sometimes I go back and get the letter and I'll say, 'Do you remember writing this letter?' ” Burton asks with a firm tone as if the woman were in the room. \"What’s changed?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's that unwaveringly firm yet supportive tone that's helped guide scores of women back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was the first face I saw when I came home,\" says Ingrid Archie, a resident and community organizer at A New Way of Life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Burton) came and got me from that bus station and brought me to A New Way of Life,” says Archie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Archie landed back in prison not long after completing a stint at A New Way of Life, she hesitated to reach out to Susan Burton again. She wrote anonymously from prison, hoping to conceal her identify as long as possible. When Archie called to her confirm her spot, Burton answered the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992399\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-800x587.jpg\" alt=\"Ingrid Archie in an ad for one of the many services offered by the A New Way of Life Re-entry Project \" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-800x587.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-400x294.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-1180x866.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-ingrid-ad-960x705.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ingrid Archie in an ad for one of the many services offered by the A New Way of Life Re-entry Project \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"And we talked and I told her I was ashamed and she explained to me that she understands that life happens, but to stay connected, so that when things are going on you have people you can reach out to,\" says Archie. \"And I didn’t do that. I wanted to handle it on my own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A New Way of Life says the majority of women who come through its doors stay out of prison. But associate director Tiffany Johnson says there are some, like Archie, who need a second or third try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can be there to hold her hand and guide her into the right direction of things to do; talking to an attorney, having somebody who could represent her,\" says Johnson. \"That's what A New Way of Life offers. We’re not the solution. We can just be there to assist in the solution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992397\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10992397\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"A New Way of Life associate director Tiffany Johnson (L) with resident and organizer Ingrid Archie outside the organization’s Compton area headquarters. \" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-400x285.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-1920x1367.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SOLUTIONS-Tiffany-J-and-Ingrid-Archie-color-960x683.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A New Way of Life associate director Tiffany Johnson (L) with resident and organizer Ingrid Archie outside the organization’s Compton-area headquarters. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since it opened its doors 20 years ago, A New Way of Life has gone far beyond offering just a warm bed and a hot meal. About 10 years ago it launched a \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/student-life/student-organizations/el-centro-legal-clinics/reentry-legal-clinic/\">legal clinic with the help of the UCLA School of Law\u003c/a>. It's helped scores of women remove nonviolent felonies from their records. That can make it easier to get work and qualify for public housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says demand for services is growing in the aftermath of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-prop-47\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the voter-approved state initiative that qualified thousands of nonviolent felons for early release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide all these resources for all these people but we can’t. But provide for you can and it opens up,” says Johnson. “You know, we have a limited capacity. But when Miss Burton started, she only had a capacity of three rooms, I think maybe six people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson first came to A New Way of Life as a client after doing time for manslaughter. She killed a man in self-defense during an argument. It was her mother’s longtime boyfriend -- a predator, says Johnson, who sexually abused her for years when she was a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lacked self-esteem for years. I will venture to say that all of my life I didn't have it, but they helped me,\" says Johnson of A New Way of Life. \"I started to get dreams back. I didn't have dreams before. Or I had nightmares.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing Johnson never dreamed of is taking over for Susan Burton. But she is. After 20 years at the helm, Burton is stepping down from the organization. Tiffany Johnson will be taking over as executive director. She’s nervous and excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know what, there’s a lot of the same emotions that I had when I came home from prison, something new, unfamiliar,\" says Johnson with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10992401\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 485px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10992401\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-2014-susan-in-selma-top.png\" alt=\"Susan Burton speaking at an 2015 event in Selma, Alabama commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Marches from Selma to Montgomery\" width=\"485\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-2014-susan-in-selma-top.png 485w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/solutions-2014-susan-in-selma-top-400x254.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Burton speaking at an 2015 event in Selma, Alabama, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A New Way of Life Re-entry Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot behind the title. And Susan Burton is big shoes to fill.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Susan Burton, she’s now in her early 60s and getting a little weary of the long hours and the long trips across the country lobbying on behalf of the organization and the women it assists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She plans to keep a seat on the board of A New Way of Life, but her reform-minded drive will take new forms. That includes a project that will take her back inside prisons, around the world, to research how they can be better designed and managed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago Burton also submitted the first draft of a memoir to her publisher -- a process that meant reliving those long days of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Billy Famine remembers the “old days” of the East L.A. backyard punk scene in the mid-1990s, when he was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back then I just had this fascination with just trashing everything and smashing everything,” says Famine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because you’re young, you’re angry, you can break a bone and you just don’t care,” says Famine “If you like punk rock, kids that are angry, primal stuff, backyards are like the place to do it. Nobody’s going to tell you what to do. They’re going to applaud you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/268544098″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Famine is in his early 30s now, a punk rock lifer; fan, show organizer and vocalist in the metal-tinged hardcore band \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/withdrawalsymptomspunk/timeline\">Withdrawal Symptoms\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also among the expansive cast of characters who turn up in Angela Boatwright’s documentary, “\u003ca href=\"http://lospunksfilm.com/\">Los Punks: We Are All We Have.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Famine (R) with fellow members of band Withdrawal Symptoms.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy Famine (R) with fellow members of band Withdrawal Symptoms. \u003ccite>(Photo: Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was so excited by the music and by the fact they’re playing on like dirt hills and backyards and drummers sitting on lawn chairs,” says Boatwright, herself a veteran of punk and metal scenes on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her crew spent about four years embedded in the East and South Central L.A. punk scene and befriending the people who propel it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have the balls to strap on a guitar and go out there and play for people anywhere, then more power to you because I’m not doing it. Just get your noise out and play. That’s the first step,” says Boatwright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of young women at a backyard show in L.A.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of young women at a backyard show in L.A. \u003ccite>(Photo: Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a way to have a voice and communicate and to go out and play backyard. And you might get $30 for gas and there’s a lot of heart, a lot of passion, so to me that felt important and valid and vital,” says the director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film depicts a scrappy, off-the-grid music underworld, one that doesn’t rely on record labels, conventional venues or established promoters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985172\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985172\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The band CXA and fans live at backyard show. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band CXA and fans live at backyard show. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A sprawling dirt backyard in a gritty working-class Latino enclave like Monterey Park or Boyle Heights will do. News of a show spreads via social media and word of mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los Punks” introduces us to kids like April, a 15-year-old backyard show promoter from the south L.A. community of Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m 15,” giggles April in the film. “I’m probably like the only one’s that’s like young in the scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her age may set her apart, but April shares a lot with her contemporaries in the scene: a conflicted home life, working-class background and living in a community rife with grinding poverty and street violence. But “Los Punks” also captures a fierce DIY, entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to the scene and the larger community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So who would let a young kid like Amy transform their dusty backyard into a churning mosh pit for two or three hours on a Saturday night?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985174\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-April-bandana-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"April, a teenage show promoter from Watts who is profiled in Los Punks. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-April-bandana.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-April-bandana-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April, a teenage show promoter from Watts who is profiled in ‘Los Punks.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Billy Famine says most times it’s just regular people. Working moms and dads, migrant families from Mexico or Nicaragua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And someone’s like, ‘Hey, would you like to make some money on the side, because you have a nice backyard. We’re going to give you a cut and hopefully everything goes well,’ ” explains Famine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there are times the house owners are just like; wait, what? This is what you were planning? Was I supposed to tell my neighbors this was going to happen because I think they’re gonna call the cops!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985176\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985176\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Rooster Cabrillo (on knees) performing with his now-defunct band PTSD. \" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rooster Cabrillo (on knees) performing with his now-defunct band PTSD. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Shows rarely tip past 11 p.m. or midnight. But run-ins with neighbors do happen. “Los Punks” captures all of it. Most times, though, the neighbors are pretty cool, says Rooster Cabrillo, vocalist of the band \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/freedombombs123/info/?tab=page_info\">PTSD. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had this lady and she didn’t speak any English. And she’s like, well I just don’t want them sitting on the side because they knocking bottles over,” recalls Cabrillo. “You guys can have your party, I just really don’t really want to call the cops because I’m afraid of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrillo is in his early 20s. He was born in Sinaloa, Mexico. He crossed into the U.S. with his parents without papers when he was a child. He’s also gay. Writing and performing music, he says, helped him come out — not just as gay and undocumented but also as an advocate for his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our songs have to do with mental illness, drug abuse. We even have a song about being queer. I’m queer and undocumented, and so our environments can really mess with our heads,” says Cabrillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"PTSD vocalist Rooster Cabrillo in performance makeup. \" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PTSD vocalist Rooster Cabrillo in performance makeup. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director Boatwright reveals who these young people are the morning after a show; struggles with parents, unemployment, mental health or substance abuse, and how they can find a way forward within the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A million things that can make you angry as young person, you can find solace in punk, hardcore or metal or whatever you like,” says Boatwright. “So I prefer to let the punk explain where they are coming from themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting just a few feet away from Boatwright during this interview, Rooster Cabrillo hesitantly expresses some apprehension over the film, financed, by Orange County-based apparel and lifestyle company \u003ca href=\"http://livingoffthewall.vans.com/angela-boatwright/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a huge problem with gentrification in Boyle Heights right now,” explains Cabrillo. “There’s a lot of folks that love making movies that are from East L.A., who go to backyard shows, and it would have been cool to see them get an opportunity to tell that story for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985182\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A moshpit in full force at backyard punk show somewhere in L.A. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mosh pit in full force at backyard punk show somewhere in L.A.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boatwright says she’s aware of some of the grumbling over the film within the scene, but believes “Los Punks” can actually help open up discussions of issues like gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The positive thing that I see coming out of this is that there are some really important discussions being started because of this,” says Boatwright. “And I think if that benefits them to have those dialogues and to better their community, I think that’s great. Then my job has been done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with more scrutiny from the “outside” world, the scene is unlikely to diminish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one telling scene from the movie, the cops break up a backyard show after calls of an alleged stabbing, which turned out to be false. But the kids and the bands were sent packing anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within minutes though, the text messages are flying back and forth. Another backyard is secured at 83\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup> and San Pedro. Gear is hauled off to the new location and the blast of music resumes, roaring up and out over the rooftops of South L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10985181 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"he band Corrupted Youth, a lynchpin in the East and South L.A. backyard punk scene. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band Corrupted Youth, a linchpin in the East and South L.A. backyard punk scene. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Los Punks: We Are All We Have” screens at \u003c/em>\u003cem>San Francisco Doc Fest \u003c/em>\u003cem>Sunday June 12 and Wednesday June 15 at the Roxie Theatre. The film is also available for download now on iTunes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also among the expansive cast of characters who turn up in Angela Boatwright’s documentary, “\u003ca href=\"http://lospunksfilm.com/\">Los Punks: We Are All We Have.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Famine (R) with fellow members of band Withdrawal Symptoms.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BillyFamine-960x636.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy Famine (R) with fellow members of band Withdrawal Symptoms. \u003ccite>(Photo: Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was so excited by the music and by the fact they’re playing on like dirt hills and backyards and drummers sitting on lawn chairs,” says Boatwright, herself a veteran of punk and metal scenes on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her crew spent about four years embedded in the East and South Central L.A. punk scene and befriending the people who propel it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have the balls to strap on a guitar and go out there and play for people anywhere, then more power to you because I’m not doing it. Just get your noise out and play. That’s the first step,” says Boatwright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of young women at a backyard show in L.A.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PunkRockGirls-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of young women at a backyard show in L.A. \u003ccite>(Photo: Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a way to have a voice and communicate and to go out and play backyard. And you might get $30 for gas and there’s a lot of heart, a lot of passion, so to me that felt important and valid and vital,” says the director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film depicts a scrappy, off-the-grid music underworld, one that doesn’t rely on record labels, conventional venues or established promoters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985172\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985172\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The band CXA and fans live at backyard show. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKX-cxa-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band CXA and fans live at backyard show. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A sprawling dirt backyard in a gritty working-class Latino enclave like Monterey Park or Boyle Heights will do. News of a show spreads via social media and word of mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los Punks” introduces us to kids like April, a 15-year-old backyard show promoter from the south L.A. community of Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m 15,” giggles April in the film. “I’m probably like the only one’s that’s like young in the scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her age may set her apart, but April shares a lot with her contemporaries in the scene: a conflicted home life, working-class background and living in a community rife with grinding poverty and street violence. But “Los Punks” also captures a fierce DIY, entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to the scene and the larger community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So who would let a young kid like Amy transform their dusty backyard into a churning mosh pit for two or three hours on a Saturday night?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985174\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-April-bandana-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"April, a teenage show promoter from Watts who is profiled in Los Punks. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-April-bandana.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-April-bandana-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April, a teenage show promoter from Watts who is profiled in ‘Los Punks.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Billy Famine says most times it’s just regular people. Working moms and dads, migrant families from Mexico or Nicaragua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And someone’s like, ‘Hey, would you like to make some money on the side, because you have a nice backyard. We’re going to give you a cut and hopefully everything goes well,’ ” explains Famine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there are times the house owners are just like; wait, what? This is what you were planning? Was I supposed to tell my neighbors this was going to happen because I think they’re gonna call the cops!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985176\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985176\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Rooster Cabrillo (on knees) performing with his now-defunct band PTSD. \" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-on-knees-PTSD-live-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rooster Cabrillo (on knees) performing with his now-defunct band PTSD. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Shows rarely tip past 11 p.m. or midnight. But run-ins with neighbors do happen. “Los Punks” captures all of it. Most times, though, the neighbors are pretty cool, says Rooster Cabrillo, vocalist of the band \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/freedombombs123/info/?tab=page_info\">PTSD. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had this lady and she didn’t speak any English. And she’s like, well I just don’t want them sitting on the side because they knocking bottles over,” recalls Cabrillo. “You guys can have your party, I just really don’t really want to call the cops because I’m afraid of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrillo is in his early 20s. He was born in Sinaloa, Mexico. He crossed into the U.S. with his parents without papers when he was a child. He’s also gay. Writing and performing music, he says, helped him come out — not just as gay and undocumented but also as an advocate for his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our songs have to do with mental illness, drug abuse. We even have a song about being queer. I’m queer and undocumented, and so our environments can really mess with our heads,” says Cabrillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"PTSD vocalist Rooster Cabrillo in performance makeup. \" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ROOSTER-close-up-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PTSD vocalist Rooster Cabrillo in performance makeup. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director Boatwright reveals who these young people are the morning after a show; struggles with parents, unemployment, mental health or substance abuse, and how they can find a way forward within the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A million things that can make you angry as young person, you can find solace in punk, hardcore or metal or whatever you like,” says Boatwright. “So I prefer to let the punk explain where they are coming from themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting just a few feet away from Boatwright during this interview, Rooster Cabrillo hesitantly expresses some apprehension over the film, financed, by Orange County-based apparel and lifestyle company \u003ca href=\"http://livingoffthewall.vans.com/angela-boatwright/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vans.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a huge problem with gentrification in Boyle Heights right now,” explains Cabrillo. “There’s a lot of folks that love making movies that are from East L.A., who go to backyard shows, and it would have been cool to see them get an opportunity to tell that story for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985182\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A moshpit in full force at backyard punk show somewhere in L.A. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-pit-slam-1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mosh pit in full force at backyard punk show somewhere in L.A.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boatwright says she’s aware of some of the grumbling over the film within the scene, but believes “Los Punks” can actually help open up discussions of issues like gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The positive thing that I see coming out of this is that there are some really important discussions being started because of this,” says Boatwright. “And I think if that benefits them to have those dialogues and to better their community, I think that’s great. Then my job has been done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with more scrutiny from the “outside” world, the scene is unlikely to diminish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one telling scene from the movie, the cops break up a backyard show after calls of an alleged stabbing, which turned out to be false. But the kids and the bands were sent packing anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within minutes though, the text messages are flying back and forth. Another backyard is secured at 83\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup> and San Pedro. Gear is hauled off to the new location and the blast of music resumes, roaring up and out over the rooftops of South L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10985181 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"he band Corrupted Youth, a lynchpin in the East and South L.A. backyard punk scene. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LOS-PUNKS-corrupted-youth-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band Corrupted Youth, a linchpin in the East and South L.A. backyard punk scene. \u003ccite>(Angela Boatwright)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In 1976, musician John Doe set out from his home in Baltimore, bound for Los Angeles. He was behind the wheel of “a yellow 1970 International Travelall with a 1960 Fender Jazz ass, a Traynor bass amp, records, stereo, clothes, a few pots, pans and dishes,” offers Doe. “No furniture that I can recall and probably $1,500, which seemed like a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would prove to be an eventful move. Within the next year, he would meet Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom and DJ Bonebrake. Together they would form the band X, a group that would play an integral part in the germinating L.A. punk scene. Almost 40 years later, that vibrant, creative, influential period is the focus of “Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk,” a book wrangled together by Doe and music industry veteran Tom DeSavia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266809431″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chapters are written by the musicians, scene makers and music critics who populated the surprisingly small scene centered in Hollywood around a vortex of low-rent apartments, dingy clubs and discount liquor stores. It was the unholy union of fading L.A. noir and the kinetic, upstart world of punk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So these people had to talk about what the city looked like and what it felt like and what it smelled like,” says Doe of the contributors. And what did L.A. punk smell like in 1977?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sweat, beer, a little bit of throw up on the side. Just a smattering of vomit! You know what? Punk rock smelled like Los Angeles and that was dusty and there was sun and when it rained it was beautiful and it was the same kind of smell that you got from any good book.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/DeSaviaDoe-800x542.jpg\" alt='\"Under the Big Black Sun\" co-authors Tom DeSavia (L) and John Doe.' width=\"800\" height=\"542\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/DeSaviaDoe-800x542.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/DeSaviaDoe-400x271.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/DeSaviaDoe.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/DeSaviaDoe-1180x799.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/DeSaviaDoe-960x650.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Under the Big Black Sun” co-authors Tom DeSavia (L) and John Doe. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Named for the 1982 X song “Under the Big Black Sun,” the book was the brainchild of DeSavia, a self-confessed “record nerd” from the Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not in the punk scene,” he says. “I was a fan, I went with other kids to the shows, I bought the albums, I was a consumer.” He witnessed his first show in ’82. He was 15, he was wearing an argyle sweater and it changed his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First time I saw X I was terrified,” recalls DeSavia. “I thought I was going to get pummeled. And then at some point everything refocused and I watched it and I got completely hypnotized by it and the poison seeped in. I remember standing out back and seeing John load some gear that night and thinking he was just the coolest guy on the planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I quickly found out 90 percent of what I thought I knew was wrong, and everything had a better story than I could have ever imagined.’\u003ccite>Tom DeSavia\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to work for Elektra records and the first project I worked on there was something I begged to do, which was an X anthology called ‘Beyond and Back.’ ” While co-producing the album with the band, he became friends with the coolest guy on the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started asking questions about the golden years of the L.A. punk world, which was fast becoming a footnote to New York and London’s scenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I quickly found out 90 percent of what I thought I knew was wrong, and everything had a better story than I could have ever imagined,” DeSavia says. “So at that moment I was like, ‘John, you got to write a book.’ He had no interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to do the work,” admits Doe. “It’s hard. It’s discipline. I’m not the most disciplined person. So, in a bolt of inspiration, I thought, ‘I know, I’ll get other people to write, ’cause I’m also not comfortable with being the authority and the historian. So everybody has their truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Exene-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"Exene Cervenka of X performing at a show in 1980.\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Exene-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Exene-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Exene.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Exene-1180x756.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Exene-960x615.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exene Cervenka of X performing at a show in 1980. \u003ccite>(UCLA Library Special Collections/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Forty years ago, Hollywood was filthy, cheap, and dangerous, which made it the perfect spawning ground for punk rock. And in late ’70’s Los Angeles, the term “punk” threw a wide embrace that included the raw, edgy power of bands like Fear to the blues and rockabilly infusion of the Blasters to the Go-Go’s hooky power pop. The only rule was to be outside the mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasant Gehman, who refers to herself as “an aging punk rock lady,” was a fixture on the scene. She published the fanzine Lobotomy, and wrote for most of the local publications that delved into the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those days it felt really communal,” she says, “so whatever you did, you were doing it with a lot of people.” Gehman — the only author in the book who still lives in Hollywood proper, in view of the iconic sign on the hill — reveals a time travel glimpse of that communal scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PleasantG-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"Pleasant Gehman, still a Hollywood resident, was a fixture of the early punk scene.\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PleasantG-800x466.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PleasantG-400x233.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PleasantG.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PleasantG-1180x688.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PleasantG-960x560.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pleasant Gehman, still a Hollywood resident, was a fixture of the early punk scene. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s Saturday night in 1977, and I would be in a room either at somebody’s apartment, like Joan Jett’s apartment across the street from the Whisky, or at the Canterbury [an apartment building notorious for its punk tenants] with a bunch of other people,” she recalls. “We’d all be putting on makeup, all putting on different badges and primping and drinking and gossiping and screaming and yelling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’d be the Clash or the Damned playing on the stereo and we’d all be getting ready to go out. The feeling of excitement was so insane that now, about 40 years later, I still can’t differentiate whether it was my own adolescent excitement or if it really was that electric. It just felt different than any other time in my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueled by all those yelling, primping, drinking people, bands and audiences were often interchangeable, something San Pedro’s Minutemen discovered when they first ventured north on the 110 freeway to investigate rumors of something happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this scene up in Hollywood where people write their own songs. We’re like, whoa!” bassist Mike Watt says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go up there and the Bags and the Weirdos were playing four bands for four bucks at the Whisky. And you didn’t sit, actually the guy playing could be standing next to you, they’re like taking turns. And you could tell dudes were just learning, too. And no fear! I looked at D. Boone and go, we can do this! You get something going with like-minded people who don’t fit in, and you make a kind of parallel universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Minutemen-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"The Minutemen in 1982.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Minutemen-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Minutemen-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Minutemen.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Minutemen-1180x741.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Minutemen-960x603.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Minutemen in 1982. \u003ccite>(UCLA Library Special Collections/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Wasn’t it a great time?!” says vocalist Teresa Covarrubias. “It really felt like something different was happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covarrubias and her group, The Brat, came from East L.A., an area of largely Mexican-American neighborhoods across the Los Angeles River from Hollywood, and a long way from punk rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In East L.A. in Boyle Heights, that community is very isolated in a way, as far as what gets in there and popular culture, so I really felt alone,” says Covarrubias. “I was really the only person I knew who was aware of that type of music. It was a great epiphany, to know that this was a way for you to get your voice heard, and that punk vehicle — which was very in your face and aggressive — just seemed perfect for the situation I was in at that time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just seemed like there wasn’t a lot of limits,” she continues. “It kind of blew the whole performance thing wide open and changed what it meant to be onstage. You didn’t have to be a virtuoso on guitar, it was more like the spirit behind it and the heart behind what you wanted to do, and the expression. Just the act of expressing yourself, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/TheBrat80-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"The Brat in 1980, with Robert Soto, Rudy Brat, Teresa Covarrubias, Sid Medina and Lou Soto.\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/TheBrat80-800x569.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/TheBrat80-400x285.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/TheBrat80.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/TheBrat80-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/TheBrat80-960x683.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Brat in 1980, with Robert Soto, Rudy Brat, Teresa Covarrubias, Sid Medina and Lou Soto. \u003ccite>(TheBrat.net)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with acts like Los Lobos and Robert “El Vez” Lopez, The Brat was redefining the East L.A. stereotype of what Covarrubias says was “all about gangs and violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people would look at Chicano music or that culture, there was a certain thing that they expected to see,” she continues. “And I think us doing this music that was not as traditional was kind of invigorating because it wasn’t what people expected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hailing from the foreign land of blue-collar Downey, a whopping 20 miles from Hollywood and Vine, the roots-fueled Blasters at first found themselves stonewalled by unresponsive club bookers, says songwriter and guitarist Dave Alvin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nuts and bolts of breaking into Hollywood from Downey or wherever was difficult,” Alvin says. “In those days I was the guy driving around from club to club with a little demo cassette saying, ‘Uh, we got a band, we sorta play blues and rockabilly, ya know …’ and I would get rejected constantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The musicians, on the other hand, were a big supportive family.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘When people would look at Chicano music there was a certain thing that they expected to see. And I think us doing this music… was kind of invigorating because it wasn’t what people expected.’\u003ccite>Teresa Covarrubias, The Brat\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The scene was very, very diverse. It accepted women, it accepted gays, it accepted straights, you had a lot of phony anarchists and communists, you even had one or two Republicans. Every race, every gender, every political persuasion, every everything was united by the music and that was a great thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back to X, and back to John Doe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where I’m going to get a little spiritual on you,” he says, a dark and fancy beer at his elbow. “I think if you can envision something and see something and imagine it, you can do it. A lot of people saw themselves in the future doing stuff, saw themselves on stage doing stuff, saw themselves inhabiting this character that they invented. I wasn’t born John Doe, but I created John Doe out of something. I think if you see it and you feel it and you just know it, you’ll find a way to get there. And I think that’s what we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BigBlackSunBook-800x619.jpg\" alt='Tom DeSavia, co-author of \"Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"619\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BigBlackSunBook-800x619.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BigBlackSunBook-400x310.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BigBlackSunBook.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BigBlackSunBook-1180x913.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BigBlackSunBook-960x743.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom DeSavia, co-author of “Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk.” \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Singer-songwriter Exene Cervenka — Doe’s partner in X for 39 years and counting — sums it up in her chapter in the audio version of “Under the Big Black Sun”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nWe were a living spectacle that terrified and confused the traffic on Sunset and Vine, that broke the TV, replaced the radio, infiltrated the record companies, became the big stories the media was forced to tell, and maybe gave the government a bit of a scare. But the best thing we had going for us was originality. Nothing quite like L.A. punk had ever existed, or would, ever again.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a moment in time that began with a handful of bands on a handful of stages, and ended when those bands either fell apart or got bigger. But the voices in this book never let you forget one thing: It was all a hell of a lot of fun.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1976, musician John Doe set out from his home in Baltimore, bound for Los Angeles. He was behind the wheel of “a yellow 1970 International Travelall with a 1960 Fender Jazz ass, a Traynor bass amp, records, stereo, clothes, a few pots, pans and dishes,” offers Doe. “No furniture that I can recall and probably $1,500, which seemed like a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would prove to be an eventful move. Within the next year, he would meet Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom and DJ Bonebrake. Together they would form the band X, a group that would play an integral part in the germinating L.A. punk scene. Almost 40 years later, that vibrant, creative, influential period is the focus of “Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk,” a book wrangled together by Doe and music industry veteran Tom DeSavia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266809431″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/266809431″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chapters are written by the musicians, scene makers and music critics who populated the surprisingly small scene centered in Hollywood around a vortex of low-rent apartments, dingy clubs and discount liquor stores. It was the unholy union of fading L.A. noir and the kinetic, upstart world of punk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So these people had to talk about what the city looked like and what it felt like and what it smelled like,” says Doe of the contributors. And what did L.A. punk smell like in 1977?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sweat, beer, a little bit of throw up on the side. Just a smattering of vomit! You know what? Punk rock smelled like Los Angeles and that was dusty and there was sun and when it rained it was beautiful and it was the same kind of smell that you got from any good book.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/DeSaviaDoe-800x542.jpg\" alt='\"Under the Big Black Sun\" co-authors Tom DeSavia (L) and John Doe.' width=\"800\" height=\"542\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/DeSaviaDoe-800x542.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/DeSaviaDoe-400x271.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/DeSaviaDoe.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/DeSaviaDoe-1180x799.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/DeSaviaDoe-960x650.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Under the Big Black Sun” co-authors Tom DeSavia (L) and John Doe. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Named for the 1982 X song “Under the Big Black Sun,” the book was the brainchild of DeSavia, a self-confessed “record nerd” from the Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not in the punk scene,” he says. “I was a fan, I went with other kids to the shows, I bought the albums, I was a consumer.” He witnessed his first show in ’82. He was 15, he was wearing an argyle sweater and it changed his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First time I saw X I was terrified,” recalls DeSavia. “I thought I was going to get pummeled. And then at some point everything refocused and I watched it and I got completely hypnotized by it and the poison seeped in. I remember standing out back and seeing John load some gear that night and thinking he was just the coolest guy on the planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I quickly found out 90 percent of what I thought I knew was wrong, and everything had a better story than I could have ever imagined.’\u003ccite>Tom DeSavia\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to work for Elektra records and the first project I worked on there was something I begged to do, which was an X anthology called ‘Beyond and Back.’ ” While co-producing the album with the band, he became friends with the coolest guy on the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started asking questions about the golden years of the L.A. punk world, which was fast becoming a footnote to New York and London’s scenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I quickly found out 90 percent of what I thought I knew was wrong, and everything had a better story than I could have ever imagined,” DeSavia says. “So at that moment I was like, ‘John, you got to write a book.’ He had no interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to do the work,” admits Doe. “It’s hard. It’s discipline. I’m not the most disciplined person. So, in a bolt of inspiration, I thought, ‘I know, I’ll get other people to write, ’cause I’m also not comfortable with being the authority and the historian. So everybody has their truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Exene-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"Exene Cervenka of X performing at a show in 1980.\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Exene-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Exene-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Exene.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Exene-1180x756.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Exene-960x615.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exene Cervenka of X performing at a show in 1980. \u003ccite>(UCLA Library Special Collections/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Forty years ago, Hollywood was filthy, cheap, and dangerous, which made it the perfect spawning ground for punk rock. And in late ’70’s Los Angeles, the term “punk” threw a wide embrace that included the raw, edgy power of bands like Fear to the blues and rockabilly infusion of the Blasters to the Go-Go’s hooky power pop. The only rule was to be outside the mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasant Gehman, who refers to herself as “an aging punk rock lady,” was a fixture on the scene. She published the fanzine Lobotomy, and wrote for most of the local publications that delved into the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those days it felt really communal,” she says, “so whatever you did, you were doing it with a lot of people.” Gehman — the only author in the book who still lives in Hollywood proper, in view of the iconic sign on the hill — reveals a time travel glimpse of that communal scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PleasantG-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"Pleasant Gehman, still a Hollywood resident, was a fixture of the early punk scene.\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PleasantG-800x466.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PleasantG-400x233.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PleasantG.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PleasantG-1180x688.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/PleasantG-960x560.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pleasant Gehman, still a Hollywood resident, was a fixture of the early punk scene. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s Saturday night in 1977, and I would be in a room either at somebody’s apartment, like Joan Jett’s apartment across the street from the Whisky, or at the Canterbury [an apartment building notorious for its punk tenants] with a bunch of other people,” she recalls. “We’d all be putting on makeup, all putting on different badges and primping and drinking and gossiping and screaming and yelling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’d be the Clash or the Damned playing on the stereo and we’d all be getting ready to go out. The feeling of excitement was so insane that now, about 40 years later, I still can’t differentiate whether it was my own adolescent excitement or if it really was that electric. It just felt different than any other time in my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueled by all those yelling, primping, drinking people, bands and audiences were often interchangeable, something San Pedro’s Minutemen discovered when they first ventured north on the 110 freeway to investigate rumors of something happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this scene up in Hollywood where people write their own songs. We’re like, whoa!” bassist Mike Watt says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go up there and the Bags and the Weirdos were playing four bands for four bucks at the Whisky. And you didn’t sit, actually the guy playing could be standing next to you, they’re like taking turns. And you could tell dudes were just learning, too. And no fear! I looked at D. Boone and go, we can do this! You get something going with like-minded people who don’t fit in, and you make a kind of parallel universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Minutemen-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"The Minutemen in 1982.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Minutemen-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Minutemen-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Minutemen.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Minutemen-1180x741.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Minutemen-960x603.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Minutemen in 1982. \u003ccite>(UCLA Library Special Collections/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Wasn’t it a great time?!” says vocalist Teresa Covarrubias. “It really felt like something different was happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covarrubias and her group, The Brat, came from East L.A., an area of largely Mexican-American neighborhoods across the Los Angeles River from Hollywood, and a long way from punk rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In East L.A. in Boyle Heights, that community is very isolated in a way, as far as what gets in there and popular culture, so I really felt alone,” says Covarrubias. “I was really the only person I knew who was aware of that type of music. It was a great epiphany, to know that this was a way for you to get your voice heard, and that punk vehicle — which was very in your face and aggressive — just seemed perfect for the situation I was in at that time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just seemed like there wasn’t a lot of limits,” she continues. “It kind of blew the whole performance thing wide open and changed what it meant to be onstage. You didn’t have to be a virtuoso on guitar, it was more like the spirit behind it and the heart behind what you wanted to do, and the expression. Just the act of expressing yourself, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/TheBrat80-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"The Brat in 1980, with Robert Soto, Rudy Brat, Teresa Covarrubias, Sid Medina and Lou Soto.\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/TheBrat80-800x569.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/TheBrat80-400x285.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/TheBrat80.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/TheBrat80-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/TheBrat80-960x683.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Brat in 1980, with Robert Soto, Rudy Brat, Teresa Covarrubias, Sid Medina and Lou Soto. \u003ccite>(TheBrat.net)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with acts like Los Lobos and Robert “El Vez” Lopez, The Brat was redefining the East L.A. stereotype of what Covarrubias says was “all about gangs and violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people would look at Chicano music or that culture, there was a certain thing that they expected to see,” she continues. “And I think us doing this music that was not as traditional was kind of invigorating because it wasn’t what people expected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hailing from the foreign land of blue-collar Downey, a whopping 20 miles from Hollywood and Vine, the roots-fueled Blasters at first found themselves stonewalled by unresponsive club bookers, says songwriter and guitarist Dave Alvin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nuts and bolts of breaking into Hollywood from Downey or wherever was difficult,” Alvin says. “In those days I was the guy driving around from club to club with a little demo cassette saying, ‘Uh, we got a band, we sorta play blues and rockabilly, ya know …’ and I would get rejected constantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The musicians, on the other hand, were a big supportive family.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘When people would look at Chicano music there was a certain thing that they expected to see. And I think us doing this music… was kind of invigorating because it wasn’t what people expected.’\u003ccite>Teresa Covarrubias, The Brat\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The scene was very, very diverse. It accepted women, it accepted gays, it accepted straights, you had a lot of phony anarchists and communists, you even had one or two Republicans. Every race, every gender, every political persuasion, every everything was united by the music and that was a great thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back to X, and back to John Doe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where I’m going to get a little spiritual on you,” he says, a dark and fancy beer at his elbow. “I think if you can envision something and see something and imagine it, you can do it. A lot of people saw themselves in the future doing stuff, saw themselves on stage doing stuff, saw themselves inhabiting this character that they invented. I wasn’t born John Doe, but I created John Doe out of something. I think if you see it and you feel it and you just know it, you’ll find a way to get there. And I think that’s what we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/BigBlackSunBook-800x619.jpg\" alt='Tom DeSavia, co-author of \"Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. 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