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Fresh evidence that the war in Afghanistan is failing rolls in on a daily basis.

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<;@KFIËJ EFK<J By Tim Redmond tredmond@sfbg.com The best book ever written on car repair (and a lot of other things) was a 1969 paperback called How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot by a Santa Fe writer named John Muir. It’s right up there with Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on my mandatory reading list. Muir talks about how to buy a used car, and after going through a set of diagnostics, he says: “Then dicker, man, dicker, but either way, walk away happy.” His point: Buy the car or don’t, but it’s no shame to leave without it. Sometimes the best deal is no deal at all. Sometimes the price is just too high for what you’re getting. This is a problem that city officials don’t like to address when they’re dealing with sporting events and sports facilities. It’s almost as if no amount of money to is too much to pay to get the team, the stadium, the Super Bowl, the Olympics ... or the America’s Cup. The city made an effort to convince Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison to hold the race in San Francisco Bay. (By the way, other Bay Area cities would also get some of the economic benefits of the 1.2 million visitors who are expected to attend the 2013 event, but none of them are forking over taxpayer cash to help out.) San Francisco offered a hefty sum of money and agreed to give Ellison and a yet-unnamed group of partners long-term development rights and leases on some valuable waterfront property. In the end, the city treasury — that is, the taxpayers — would still be on the hook for more money than it’s likely to take in. In other words, this city, facing a catastrophic budget crisis, is offering to subsidize, with public money and property, one of the richest men in the world so he can

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the same principle to a local purchase law. One of the major complaints small businesses have in San Francisco is their inability to get city contracts. The qualifying process is complicated and expensive — and when big out of town corporations with plenty of resources to put together bids can also offer lower prices, locals get left out. The city spends vast sums of money, hundreds of millions of dollars a year, buying goods and services. Every dollar that leaves town translates into far more than a dollar lost to the local economy. In fact, a 2007 study by Civic Economics showed that 38 percent of the money spent on locally based retailers in Phoenix, Ariz., remained in town and recirculated in the local economy; only 11 per-

FG@E@FE Who will pay for California’s budget woes? For the last three years, Californians have put up with cuts to programs that are critical to our state’s future and our social safety net. Public education, HIV and AIDS programs, state universities, and CalWORKs have all come under the knife. The elephant in the room, as state and federal governments try to balance budgets on the backs of the working and middle class, is the billions of dollars we are wasting on a misguided war in Afghanistan. Fresh evidence that the war in Afghanistan is failing rolls in on a daily basis. While the administration justifies the cost in lives and dollars as necessary to fight Al Qaeda, it also acknowledges that there are only 50 to 100 Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan. Every soldier in Afghanistan costs U.S. taxpayers $1 million per year. With 100,000 soldiers on the ground, that means we’re spending as much as $2 billion a year on each Al Qaeda fighter. Would we dream of spending $2 billion one every needy child in California? Or even $1 million? As U.S. and Afghan casualties rise along with the dollar amounts, with little success to show for it, we need to get our priorities in check. At Governor-elect Jerry Brown’s budget forum this week, we were staring down a $28.1 billion budget deficit over the next 18 months. Compare that to the $46.4 billion Californians have already spent on the war in Afghanistan — $1.2 billion of that right out of San Franciscans’ pockets. The Obama administration is

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Local hiring — and purchasing <;@KFI@8C The local hire ordinance that the Board of Supervisors approved last week once again puts the city on the cutting edge of progressive policy. San Francisco’s law, sponsored by Sup. John Avalos, is the strongest in the country, and ultimately will mandate that 50 percent of all the people hired on public works projects live in the city. The politics of the bill were tricky; the local building trades unions opposed it on the grounds that many of their members live out of town and that hiring decisions should be based on seniority, not on residence. But eight supervisors recognized that a local hire law not only benefits the large numbers of unemployed San Franciscans; it’s also good economic policy for the city. Numerous studies have shown

that money paid out to local residents gets spent in town, and circulates in town, and creates more economic activity. That translates into fewer social and economic costs for the city and increased tax revenue. There are costs to the law. Someone has to monitor compliance, and that requires additional city spending. Training local workers for union jobs may raise the price of some projects. But in the end, the studies all show that keeping money in the community is worth the price. Avalos deserves tremendous credit for negotiating with labor and other interested parties, accepting compromises that don’t damage the impact of the measure and lining up eight votes to pass it, so even if Mayor Gavin Newsom vetoes it, the board can override the veto. Now the board ought to apply

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hold his yacht race in town. Makes me kinda sick, but I know how these things go. There’s no doubt that the hospitality industry would benefit from the deal and money would flow into private companies that would hire some new workers (at least for a few weeks). And it would be awfully festive with all those boats in the bay, and it’s worth making an effort to seal the deal. But Ellison has come back and said the city’s offer isn’t good enough — and even though he doesn’t have another bidder right now, he can go out and look for one and see if any other suitable port town is willing to give him more. San Francisco could lose the race. That would be too bad. Unemployed dockworkers and waiters and bartenders could use the work. Ellison’s money would help revitalize the northern waterfront. Maybe, if Sup. Ross Mirkarimi is right, San Francisco could host the race not just this time but next time and the time after that — and it would not only add to the local economy but to our reputation as a city that does something worthwhile with its port. I’m for bringing the America’s Cup races here. I hope the mayor and the supervisors can come to terms with Ellison and make it happen. But if it comes down to extortion — if Ellison wants more than the city can afford, and the deal pencils out fine for him but badly for San Francisco’s public treasury — then it’s also okay to say no thanks. And walk away happy. That’s not a failure; that’s just good business. 2

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cent of the money spent at chain stores stayed in town. That’s a huge difference, and would translate into many millions of dollars for the San Francisco economy. (Over time, the impact of local hire and local purchase laws would be much greater than the one-time burst of income expected from the America’s Cup race.) There are complications with any local purchase law. Not everything the city needs can be bought locally. Nobody in San Francisco, for example, makes train cars or 6 J8E =I8E:@J:F 98P >L8I;@8E s J=9>%:FD s @E;<G<E;<EK# CF:8CCP$FNE<; s ;<:<D9<I (, $ )(# )'('

fire engines. But on everything from office supplies and cars to uniforms and consulting contracts, there are (or could be) local companies handling the city’s business. As with the Avalos law, there would be costs. Some small local suppliers would be unable to match the price that big chains offer. But the overall economic benefits to the city would greatly exceed those price differentials. San Francisco currently gives a modest preference in bidding to local firms. But if the supervisors applied the Avalos principle and mandated that, within five years, a certain percentage of everything the city buys would have to go to local firms, city officials would be forced to do what they ought to do anyway: look local first. Every year during the holiday season, the mayor and business leaders urge residents to shop locally. When the new Board of Supervisors takes over in January, the members should start looking beyond rhetoric and start working on legislation that would keep the city’s money in the city. 2

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conducting a strategy review this month that is expected to rubber stamp an approach that keeps soldiers in harm’s way — when doing so is not likely to make Americans or Afghans safer. At the same time, the president’s deficit commission chairs are also passing down recommendations to save money by cutting benefits for our most vulnerable citizens. I would like to tell the taxpayers in my district who are shelling out these dollars that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, but the president is now proposing ending the “combat mission” in 2014, which could mean there will be tens of thousands of troops on the ground even after four more years have passed. I will continue to fight for our real needs in Sacramento. But it’s time for our representatives in Washington to put an end to this disastrous war and bring our troops home as quickly and responsibly as possible. Our tax dollars should be making life in California sustainable and safe for all. We can’t afford any other way. Assemblymember Tom Ammiano represents the 13th District.

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the new option than the original plan because the financial terms were not as attractive. Although expectations have been high all along that San Francisco would be selected to host the next Cup, the team cast doubt on the outcome by publicly criticizing the new plan. According to a source familiar with negotiations, that move came as a jarring surprise to city officials. Nonetheless, supervisors approved the proposal at a Dec. 13 special meeting and sent it on to the full board. Newsom’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) spent about four months in negotiations with Ellison’s BMW Oracle Racing Team and the ACEA to hash out a host city agreement. The Northern Waterfront scenario emerged in late November after Budget & Legislative Analyst Harvey Rose cautioned in a fiscal impact assessment that the original deal would have cost the city an estimated $128 million, including impacts to the general fund and losses from entering into rent-free leases. The fundamental shift in the plan at this late stage, less than three weeks before the deadline for a final decision, reflected some deft maneuvering on the part of the board even in the face of intense pressure to approve a binding long-term agreement

on an unusually short timeline. Sup. Ross Mirkarimi and Board President David Chiu, who expressed reservations about the original proposal but strongly favored the idea of bringing the race to San Francisco, were able to deflect a deal that would have harmed the city in favor of a wiser alternative by reshaping the proposal at the 11th hour. “I was a little bit surprised by some of the recent press,” Mirkarimi noted at the Dec. 13 meeting, referencing reports that the team was considering rejecting the bid. He asked everyone to keep in mind that “we’re working with public dollars and purse strings.” But the Mayor’s Office supported the modified deal. Press Secretary Tony Winnicker told the Guardian: “The Northern Waterfront bid is good for the city, great for the port, and will provide a spectacular experience for the America’s Cup. Hosting the America’s Cup will bring more than $1 billion in economic activity and thousands of jobs to San Francisco and showcase the city unlike almost any other event.” Speaking at the Dec. 8 committee meeting, Chiu also voiced his support for hosting the Cup. “Obviously this will have enormous benefits,” Chiu said. “If this were to come to San Francisco,

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The America’s Cup would dominate the San Francisco waterfront when it occurs in late 2012 and the summer of 2013.

this will mean $1 billion and likely $1.2 billion in economic activity during the greatest recession since the Great Depression. We cannot ignore this opportunity.” The difference in the two scenarios amounts to tens of millions of dollars in savings. According to a fiscal feasibility analysis released Dec. 13 by the Budget Analyst, the net loss to the city under the Northern Waterfront alternative would be $11.9 million, compared to $57.8 million under the prior agreement (not including costs relating to the rent-free leases proposed earlier). However,

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Hiring at home <^YN[_R\X[\ VJTN QR\]X[b `R]Q VJWMJ]X[b UXLJU QR[N UJ` By Sarah Phelan sarah@sf bg.com The lame duck Board of Supervisors made history Dec. 7 when it voted 8-3 to approve mandatory local hire legislation for city-funded construction projects. The measure ends a decade-long effort to reach 50 percent local hiring goals through good-faith efforts. “That’s a sea change in our local hiring discussion,� said Sup. John Avalos, who launched the legislation in October as part of the LOCALSF (Local Opportunities for Communities and Labor) campaign, which seeks to strengthen local hiring, address high unemployment rates, and boost the local economy. The veto-proof passage of Avalos’ measure comes in the wake of a city-commissioned study indicating that San Francisco has failed to meet good-faith local hiring goals for public works projects even as unemployment levels rise in the local construction industry and several local neighborhoods face concentrated poverty. Although Cleveland also has a local-hire law, the Avalos measure will be the strongest in the nation. Avalos’ legislative aide Raquel Redondiez told the Guardian that Cleveland’s 2003 legislation requires 20 percent local hire. “This legislation doesn’t just have a mandated 50 percent goal,� Avalos explained, noting that San Francisco will require that each trade achieve a mandated rate and that 50 percent of apprentices be residents. “This will ensure that our tax dollars get recycled back into the local economy, and that San Franciscans who are ready to work are provided the opportunity to do so,� Avalos said. Avalos’ groundbreaking legislation phases in mandatory requirements that a portion of San Francisco public works jobs go to city residents and includes additional targets for hiring disadvantaged workers. N?F ><KJ ), 9@CC@FE6 The legislation replaces the city’s First Source program, under which contractors were required only to

make good faith efforts to hire 50 percent local residents on publiclyfunded projects. But the measure begins slowly by mandating levels some contractors are already reaching. According to a study commissioned by the city’s Office of Employment and Workforce Development and released in October, 20 percent of work hours on publicly-funded construction projects are going to San Francisco residents. Avalos’ legislation, which is supported by a broad coalition of labor and community groups including PODER, the Filipino Community Center, Southeast Jobs Coalition, Kwan Wo Ironworks Inc., Rubecon, and Chinese for Affirmative Action, comes at a critical moment for the recession-battered construction industry. Under the city’s capital plan, more than $25 billion will be spent on public works and other construction projects in the next decade — and two-thirds of this money will be spent over the next five years. The measure has environmental benefits too. Transportation still accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions generated in the Bay Area than any other source, and San Francisco residents are more likely to take transit, walk, or bike to work than residents of other Bay Area counties. “When local citizens are able to work locally, there are fewer cars on the road and less air pollution,� Avalos said. Sup. Ross Mirkarimi said that Avalos’ legislation is “just a start.� “People have talked a good game about local hiring,� observed Mirkarimi, whose district includes the high unemployment-affected Western Addition. “We are going to have to go beyond construction and start thinking about delving into the private sector,� Mirkarimi continued, pointing to the need to build 100,000 housing units over the next 25 years if the city is to keep up with a projected population increase. “Who is going to build that housing?� he asked. Sup. Eric Mar noted that “the Sierra Club endorsed the measure early on because of the environmen-

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tal benefits of having people work close to where they live.� Sup. David Campos, whose district includes the Mission, said the measure was one of the most significant pieces of legislation to emerge from the board in recent years. “In the past, a lot of obstacles got in the way, including some legal challenges,� said Campos, who credited Avalos for navigating a complicated legal structure. “At the end of the day, I think this is going to benefit everyone.� Mike Theriault, secretary-treasurer for the San Francisco Building Trades Council, told the Guardian he remains opposed to the legislation because the union presers to allocate jobs based on seniority, not residency. But he said the amendments make the measure “less harmful and more survivable in the short-term.� K?< <:FEFD@: >8G Termed-out Sup. Sophie Maxwell, who represents the city’s economically distressed southeast sector, has often noted that the construction industry provides a path to the middle class for people without advanced degrees or facing barriers to employment. She thanked Avalos for pushing legislation that promises to provides opportunities for “growing the middle class instead of importing it.� “This industry closes the economic gap,� she said. Board President David Chiu and termed-out Sups. Chris Daly and Bevan Dufty also supported Avalos legislation. But Dufty, who is running in the 2011 mayoral race, cast the eighth vote, which gave the measure a veto-proof majority.

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The board’s Dec. 7 vote came a few hours after Bayview-based Aboriginal Blacks United founder James Richards and a score of unemployed local residents rallied at City Hall in the hopes of securing Dufty’s vote. ABU has recently been protesting at UCSF’s Mission Bay hospital buildings site on 16th and Third streets. Its members also triggered a shut down at the Sunset Reservoir last month after a court ruled that locals promised jobs installing solar panels at the plant be replaced by higher-skilled engineers, “It’s been too long that we have been protesting and fighting this good faith effort,� Richards told the Guardian. “We need a mandatory policy.� Dufty is also hoping the Avalos measure could spread to other cities and benefit workers nationwide. “At a certain point I looked at labor and said, ‘Yes, I’m going for this legislation. But not just for San Francisco — you want to take this concept to other cities,’ “ Dufty said, as he made good on his promise to Richards to vote to support Avalos’ law. Dufty seemed hopeful that Mayor Gavin Newsom would get behind the legislation. “But I respect that there may be a little bit of coming together between now and the second reading.� Newsom spokesman Tony Winniker told the Guardian that the mayor has 10 days to review Avalos’ legislation after its Dec. 14 second reading. “He supports stronger local hire requirements but does want to review the many amendments that were added before decid-

ing,� Winnicker said. But will Newsom, who is scheduled to be sworn in as California’s next lieutenant governor Jan. 3, issue a veto on or before Christmas Eve on legislation that has been amended to address the stated concerns of the building trades? That would be ironic since the amended legislation appears to match recommendations that the Mayor’s Taskforce on African American Outmigration published in 2009. The California Department of Finance projected that San Francisco’s black population would continue to decline from 6.5 percent (according to 2005 census data) to 4.6 percent of the city’s total population by 2050 — in part because of a lack of good jobs. N@CC E<NJFD M<KF6 Avalos originally proposed to start at 30 percent and reach 50 percent over three years. But after the building trades complained that these levels were unworkable, Avalos amended the legislation to require an initial mandatory participation level of 20 percent of all project work-hours within each trade performed by local residents, with no less than 10 percent of all project work-hours within each trade to be performed by disadvantaged workers. He also amended his legislation to require that this mandatory level be increased annually over seven years in 5 percent increments up to 50 percent, with no less than 25 percent within each trade to be performed by disadvantaged workers in the legislation’s sixth year. A Dec. 1 report from city economist Ted Egan estimated that the local hire legislation would create 350 jobs and cost the city $9 million annually. But Egan clarified for the Guardian that this cost equals only 1 percent of the city’s spending on public works in any given year. Vincent Pan of Chinese Affirmative Action, which supports Avalos’ local hiring policy, suggested that the mayor “check the temperature.� “It would be leadership on the part of the mayor not to veto legislation that’s about San Francisco,� Pan said. And Mindy Kener, an organizing member of the Southeast Jobs Coalition breathed a deep sigh of relief when Dufty’s vote made the law veto-proof. “It’s gonna go across the country,� Kener said. “We just made history.� 2

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infrastructure improvements. Rose’s office also found that the city would realize a net gain by transferring development rights for Piers 30-32 and Seawall Lot 330 with commercially reasonable rents, generating a net $12.3 million in new tax and lease revenues. “This deal has significantly improved from the prior deal that went before you,� Rose noted at the Dec. 13 Budget & Finance Committee meeting. The main reason for the reduction in costs was that under the original plan, ACEA would have been granted rent-free development rights to Pier 50, a 20-acre waterfront parcel needing costly renovations, for 66 years. Removing that costly improvement and shifting dredging costs from the city to race organizers made the prospect more feasible for San Francisco.

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Piers 26 and 28 were added to the equation late in the game, too. Under the new plan, ACEA has the option to spend an additional $25 million renovating those piers in exchange for leasing them for 66 years with rent credits. Ted Egan, an economic analyst with the City Controller’s office, noted that the piers were expected to last for only 15 years if they weren’t renovated. “Without the America’s Cup stepping forward, we lose them, and we lose any potential development that could take place at those piers,� he noted. Port Director Monique Moyer also praised the plan at the Dec. 8 meeting, saying piers that would have continued to deteriorate could now be revitalized. Chiu amended the agreement to secure greater assur-

ance that the city would receive a $32 million contribution from the America’s Cup Organizing Committee (ACOC), the fundraising arm of the race organizing team, to defray municipal costs. Prior to Chiu’s amendment, there was no guarantee that the city and county would receive that money, Rose pointed out. Jennifer Matz, director of OEWD, noted that ACOC was “committed to using best efforts� to raise $32 million over the course of three years. Under the agreement, if the committee hasn’t successfully raised $12 million by one week after the environmental review has been completed, the city reserves the right to call off the deal. The new plan seemed likely to pass muster even with Sup. Chris Daly, the most vocal opponent of the original plan. “One thing that’s clear is that it’s a whole lot better than the previous proposal,� Daly said. Ellison, who captured the 33rd America’s Cup off the coast of Spain and holds exclusive power to choose which city will host the next sailing match, has set Dec. 31 as the deadline for his final decision. But a source familiar with the negotiations told the Guardian an announcement was expected even sooner. Ironically, there was little doubt that Ellison would select San Francisco until the very end of the process, when the city finally reached an agreement that seemed to satisfy the Mayor’s Office, the Board of Supervisors, and the economic analysts. At press time, it was still an open question whether Ellison will go for it. “With this latest bit of vetting by us, I think the city has done the utmost it possibly could do in putting forth the best plan it possibly could craft in such a short period of time,� Mirkarimi said at the close of the Dec. 13 meeting. “I think that San Francisco stands to be the best contender for hosting America’s Cup, and let that message ring well toward Mr. Ellison, and around the country, and abroad.� 2 DFI< 8K J=9>%:FD

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ration date, the documents show, CDCR officials — all the way up to Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate — were involved in an all-out scramble to get more of the drug. At one point, a Sept. 16 e-mail — from an official whose name is blacked out — notes that CDCR had contacted between 80 and 100 hospitals to try to buy some sodium thiopental, but “none of them have a drop.” The docuof a large volume of ments note material. that CDCR Those docuofficials even ments, now availsuggested able at aclunc. that there org, are heavily were supplies redacted, and much of sodium of the material we thiopental expected to see is in Pakistan. missing. But the An Aug. documents contain 17 e-mail some remarkable from John revelations. McAuliffe, For starters, a contract there’s an internal worker helping timeline going CDCR with back to 2007 executions, showing that says the agency CDCR officials is trying to get knew back then, federal governwhile the drug ment approval protocol was to import the being develdrug. oped, that there One would be probe-mail even lems. The Drug suggests that Enforcement an unnamed Administration Truly sick: CDCR’s Scott Kernan thanks Arizona CDCR will only allow employee was officials for giving California some death drugs, a doctor to in the area and saying the Arizona folks are “lifesavers.” order the class could make III controlled a side trip to substances. And the federal receiver overseePakistan to pick up the stuff. ing the prison system wouldn’t allow any of K?< CFE;FE :FEE<:K@FE the three doctors on staff at San Quentin There are, of course, serious issues with State Prison to sign the order forms, although importing controlled substances into the United the documents didn’t say why. States, and the documents show efforts by In January 2007, CDCR tried to recruit CDCR to get the DEA to approve imports. outside doctors to order the drugs — but physiThe Pakistan deal apparently went nowhere cians in California have traditionally declined — but later e-mails show CDCR officials conto assist in executions. Indeed, the American tacting a supplier in London. The name of the Medical Association policy bars doctors from supplier is blacked out on all the documents, participating in capital punishment in any way, but CDCR’s deputy press secretary, Terry including “prescribing or administering tranThornton, later confirmed that the manufacquilizers.” turer was Archimedes Pharma. It wasn’t until May 2010 that CDCR was Immediately after the California order for able to find doctors willing to order the deadly 521 grams of sodium thiopental went through, drugs; the names of those physicians are not in Britain’s secretary of state for business, Vince the documents. Cable, issued an order barring any further The timeline shows that in June 2010, exports of the drug for use in executions. CDCR became aware that there was a shortage Like most of the civilized world, the United of sodium thiopental, but there was no public Kingdom does not allow the death penalty. discussion of the situation. Plans to execute In the meantime, Scott Kernan, CDCR’s Albert Greenwood Brown, a convicted murderundersecretary for operations, was trying to get er set to die in September 2010, went forward. enough of the death drug domestically to carry But the courts weren’t rushing the execuout at least one execution. A series of e-mails tion — and the last batch of sodium thiopental show contacts between California and Arizona, in CDCR’s possession expired Oct. 1. which recently had imported its own supply As the clock ticked down toward that expi-

Mysteries of the death-drug scramble

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— and there are indications that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was willing to call his counterpart in Arizona to help consummate the deal. “I’m sure either the secretary or even the governor could make a call,” a Sept. 9 e-mail from Kernan to McAuliffe notes. Then on Sept. 29, Kernan sent an e-mail to Assistant Secretary Anthony Chaus discussing a “secret and important mission.” Kernan wanted Chaus to send a team to a state prison complex in Florence, Ariz., a desert town about 40 miles southeast of Phoenix, to pick up 12 grams of the death drug. At midnight Sept. 30, the warden in Florence gave the CDCD agents 24 vials, each containing half a gram of sodium thiopental. The agents drove it to Bakersfield, where another team picked up the vials and drove the rest of the way to San Quentin. In a stomach-turning e-mail, Kernan sent a note Sept. 29 to an unnamed Arizona official saying “you guys in Arizona are life savers” and offering to “by [sic] you a beer next time I get that way.” By then, a federal judge had delayed Brown’s execution until 2011. Among the most startling revelation was the sheer quantity of sodium thiopental California eventually ordered from the firm in London. Even with training supplies and backup, it only takes between six and 12 grams of sodium thiopental to render a prisoner unconscious — meaning that the 521 grams that CDCR purchased for $36,413 are enough to kill between 43 and 86 people. The expiration date on the chemical is 2014. It’s highly unlikely, given the legal hurdles and time involved in even one execution, that California would schedule more than three over the next three years. What possible use could the state have for so much death drug? Thornton, CDCR’s press person, wouldn’t respond to our queries. But Natasha Minsker, the director of the ACLU’s Death Penalty Project, said she’s concerned that California will try to become a supplier for other prison systems. “It certainly raises questions,” she told us. There’s a lot missing from the documents. In many instances, the names of the officials who sent and received e-mails are redacted. And there are obvious pieces of the puzzle missing from the files CDCR has released. “There’s no e-mail from the DEA or the FDA,” Minsker said, “although CDCR was clearly contacting them. There’s nothing from the governor’s office, although it’s likely they were also involved.” Overall, Minsker said, the documents “show how sneaky CDCR was trying to be about all of this.” The ACLU filed another suit Dec. 13 seeking the release of some of the redacted material as well as records of CDCR’s efforts between October and December. If those documents are ever released, they may address some of the looming questions about the material the state uses to kill people. 2

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Au bon roof By Paul Reidinger paulr@sfbg.com ;@E< Although I deplored Julie & Julia — a dreadful bit of movie pap, except for the scene where Julie discovers that Julia hates her bloody blog; priceless! — I was mesmerized by the al fresco dinner cooked and served by the unsinkable Julie on a Brooklyn rooftop. There is a magic like no other in floating motionless above the nighttime city, with a soundtrack of soft conversation, gently clicking tableware, and the odd horn honking on the street below. The street below the rooftop dining patio at Passion CafÊ — opened not quite a year ago by Steve Barton and Jacques Andre — is Sixth Street, between Market and Mission, and it has more than its share of honking horns, along with speeding traffic, trash spread like autumn leaves in sidewalk tree wells, and a Danteesque population of the shattered and lost. Sitting under an umbrella at a long picnic table 50 feet above all this on a rooftop patio framed by trellised vines and with a tall potted ficus at the end of the next table, is slightly surreal (though pleasant). If there is indeed a stairway to heaven, as Led

Zeppelin once suggested, it might well begin here. Passion CafÊ will never be confused with the Fifth Floor, a few blocks away. Fifth Floor is higher up, totally enclosed, and all but lacking a ground-level presence. Passion CafÊ, on the other hand, has its feet solidly planted on terra firma: there’s a large ground-level dining area, complete with exposed brick and oil paintings (for sale), just inside the door. But the draw of the place is definitely the roof, which you attain by climbing two flights of wide wooden stairs that creak. At the landing between the flights is a small tea table set for two — the perfect spot for a civilized break up, or maybe (for the less civilized) a discreet shove. The food carries mostly French nomenclature and takes a variety of familiar French forms — the menu offers a variety of tartines, along with plates of charcuterie and patÊ — but the execution is strongly Californian. Many of the plates come heaped with mixed green salads, and white rice is served on a scale I have never remotely seen in France. The ratatouille ($14), for instance, included a berm of rice that looked like something left behind by a Tonka-truck snowplow working its way through a blizzard. The vegetable

stew itself, meanwhile, wasn’t a stew at all but more of what appeared to be a stir-fry of long, rather tough eggplant strips, lengths of red bell pepper, zucchini chunks, and tomato, but not enough tomato. It was as though the kitchen had thoughts of transforming a peasant’s dish, a way of using up the end-of-summer surplus from a vegetable garden, into a gourmand’s delight, as in the movie Ratatouille, but lost its nerve after a few hesitant steps. I would have liked a bit more thyme and garlic, too, but the dish was still flavorful. Napoleons are typically confections of layered pastry one finds on the dessert cart, but Passion’s version ($14.50) was savory and made with pasta — lasagna, basically, with ground beef, baked in an oblong crock. Beside it rose a low mountain of mixed greens dotted with olives and croutons and dressed with a cumin-inflected vinaigrette. Cumin, an easterly breeze, reminds us of the French connection in the Middle East and so it wasn’t completely surprising to find yet another hint of it in Passion’s patÊ ($5). The spice added a note of exotic excitement, but the patÊ itself (mounted on yet more salad) fell short of an ideal creaminess; despite the thinness of the slice, its texture was almost leathery. It was like a bit of old shoe sole that had fallen away into a clump of wet grass.

Views were mixed on the tomatomozzarella salad ($5). You might wonder how anything could possibly go wrong with such a straightforward preparation — slices of ripe red tomato alternating with slices of cheese, and perhaps a drizzling of balsamic vinegar over the top — and the answer would be the bits of arugula the kitchen scattered about. Arugula has a nuttiness with a slightly bitter edge, and here the bitterness seemed to assert itself to the dismay of the table, though once we figured out what the little green flecks were, I came to admire their feistiness. Desserts weren’t served with mountains of rice or salad (yay) or even dribblings of berries (boo). Chocolate mousse cake ($5) was fluffy and light as laundry taken fresh from the dryer, though on the sweet side, while a Granny Smith apple crisp ($5) could have used more apple character. Maybe they should look up one of Julia’s old recipes. 2 3$66,21 &$)e =^N\ ¸=Q^[\ J V ¸" Y V $ /[R J V ¸ # Y V $ <J] " J V ¸ # Y V $ <^W " J V ¸" Y V ! <Ra]Q <] </ " ``` YJ\\RXWLJON WN] +NN[ JWM `RWN *. -< 6, ? 9UNJ\JW] WXR\N @QNNULQJR[ JLLN\\ ]X P[X^WM OUXX[

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In San Francisco, Sprinkle’s “whore holy high holiday� will be marked by a City Hall vigil for all the sex workers affected by discrimination and violence this year and performance art, followed by a march to the Center for Sex and Culture (sexandculture.org). All the events are free and open to everyone. This year, event organizers have a dangerously prude city policy in their sights: the toxic San Francisco Police Department practice of checking suspected prostitutes’ pockets for condoms to serve as proof of intent to have sex for money. It’s a policy that Mayor Gavin Newsom and the state’s first Latina attorney general, Kamala Harris, support. Sprinkle finds it completely at odds with the mission of promoting safe sex among anyone who could be walking down the street with a rubber in their pocket, as well as dangerous to sex workers. “It’s nasty, and really stupid, and so counterproductive — is that the message that we want to be sending?� Which is not to say that Friday will be devoid of sweet, sexy joy entirely. After all, where would be the fun in gathering up SF’s sex-posi-

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burlesque star Dottie Lux; sex worker activist Robyn Few; Lady Monster herself (who’ll be reading from Some Girls, the memoir of Jillian Lauren, the American who lived and worked in a Brunei harem); and Sprinkle, among others. Readers must be accomplished writers, have public speaking experience, and — perhaps the most obvious — they’ve got be down to make the scene in the all together. “Three hundred and sixty-four days a year we talk about how much we like our work, and one day a year we take time to realize that there are real victims out there,â€? Sprinkle says. It may be the oldest profession, but even in Gomorrah by the Bay, sex work is still a far cry from society’s respected elder. 2 ,17(51$7,21$/ '$< 72 (1' 9,2/(1&( $*$,167 6(; :25.(56 /[R -NL Y V O[NN ,R]b 1JUU ,R_RL ,NW]N[ </ ``` \`XY^\J X[P 1$.(' *,5/6 5($',1* " Y V ¸ ,NW]N[ OX[ <Na JWM ,^U]^[N " 6R\\RXW </ "" ``` WJTNMPR[U\[NJMRWP LXV \JWO[JWLR\LX

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P<8I @E DLJ@: The past year brought dozens of excellent albums, and hip-hop sounds topped the list. This wasn’t inevitable. Please recall 2009, when critics cited precious little rap in their favorites, save for Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx ... Part 2 and Mos Def ’s The Ecstatic. But in 2010, both rockists and heads reserved space for Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Big Boi’s Sir Lucious Left Foot: Son of Chico Dusty, the Roots’ How I Got Over, Drake’s Thank Me Later, and Flying Lotus’ Cosmogramma. And let’s not forget minor but important recordings such as Curren$y’s Pilot Talk and Yelawolf ’s Trunk Muzik 0-60. This winning slate confirmed that major label-backed rap is undergoing a renaissance. Nearly every artist made an impact by keeping their eye on the mainstream, from security guard-turnedbad actor Rick Ross recruiting Erykah Badu and Cee-Lo Green for his Teflon Don, to Bun B allowing Canadian teen idol Drake to call himself an “honorary member of UGK” on the former’s Trill O.G. Some complained that these rappers focused too much on claiming the hearts of soccer mama grizzlies and teens raised on Bratz dolls. But after years of boorish thugs peddling Dboy anthems and R&B gimmicks, this new pop sensibility sounded refreshing. (The sole exception may be Ludacris, who found success with Battle of the Sexes by offering a slick and familiar mix of strip club anthems and babymaker suites.) B.o.B’s The Adventures of Bobby Ray was the most extreme product of these pop mirages. The Atlanta rapper scored two No. 1 hits (“Nothin’ but You” and “Airplanes”), but divided critics and fans by recruiting emo-rock burnout Rivers Cuomo and Hot Topic heroine Hayley Williams for his collection of gooey ballads. At its best, The Adventures of Bobby Ray had a charming innocence; at worst,

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independence as an end unto itself has been forgotten. In Robin D.G. Kelley’s 2002 book Freedom Dreams, a rapturous appreciation of 20th century black intellectualism, he writes, “Unfortunately, too often our standards for evaluating social movements pivot around whether or not they ‘succeeded’ in realizing their visions rather than on the merits or power of the visions themselves. ... And yet it is precisely these alternative visions and dreams that inspire

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barely coherent mess. It proved that despite Nicki’s talent for ear-catching stunts, from her star turn as the bisexual chick who’ll do you and your man on Usher’s “Lil’ Freak” to her cipher-destroying rhymes on Kanye West’s “Monster” and Ludacris’ “My Chick Bad,” she was still a disappointingly underdeveloped songwriter. Lost in the intense debate over the rap major domo was the demise of Definitive Jux. Once the mighty inheritor to the Fondle ’Em tradition of B-boy nonconformity, and the source of key early-2000s works by Cannibal Ox, Aesop Rock, and Mr. Lif, it sagged under the weight of subpar and underpromoted releases before label head El-P mercifully pulled the plug last February. The news lit up the Internet for a day or two and then was seemingly forgotten. When Noz from cocaineblunts. com asked Yelawolf if he was “heartbroken” over Definitive Jux’s demise, the Alabama rapper answered: “I didn’t even know it ended. Well ...

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a Pitchfork essay hyping Los Angeles collective Odd Future. “In its stead, a different brand of homespun rappers have taken hold. Consider Lil B and Soulja Boy, who have been prolifically working the Web ... to achieve their own kind of teenage heroism.” Underground rap is not dead. It thrives with Bay Area imprints such as Interdependent Media (Truthlive’s Patience) and national players such as Duck Down Records (Skyzoo & Illmind’s Live from the Tape Deck) and Alpha Pup Records (Nocando’s Jimmy The Lock). Some of these labels subsist on scattershot independent distribution. Others recruit majors to achieve wider market penetration, including Stones Throw and EMI Label Services (Guilty Simpson’s OJ Simpson and Aloe Blacc’s retro-soul gem Good Things), and Decon and E1 Music (Black Milk’s Album of the Year). And who can blame them? These days, labels need all the help they can get. However, the principal philosophy of economic and artistic

new generations.” Kelley could have referred to the many critics that marked Little Brother as hopelessly elitist for insisting that hip-hop should address more than the spoils of drug wars; dismissed the late Eyedea, Sage Francis, and others as silly white boys for addressing suburban middle-class concerns; and buried Definitive Jux as a repository of uncool, impossibly dense superscientific lyricism. By many measures, the indie-rap scene has been a failure. Unlike the network of homespun labels built by punks in the 1980s, the indie-rap scene didn’t create a thriving community without considerable financing from youth-targeting corporations, lifestyle brands, and advertising firms. And perhaps its denizens wrongly castigated dirty South rappers as ignorant, claimed that mainstream superstars like Jay-Z and Diddy were sell-outs, and turned the underground movement into a kind of purity test — all past conflicts that continue to bedevil it today. Yet

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these dreamers courageously imagined hip-hop culture as not only a way to entertain people and make money, but as a transformative experience that can help instill positive growth and change lives. They built a culture that holds key lessons for future rap generations. The blog-rap generation doesn’t hold any illusions of being alternative, unless it’s manufacturing limp blasphemy like Odd Future’s use of Nazi imagery. (As Anti-Defamation League spokesman Abraham Foxman told The New York Times in a story on the Holocaust documentary Shoah, “To most kids growing up today, Hitler could be Genghis Khan.â€?) They’ll use any trope to be successful, from falsely claiming that they’re coke barons to bragging about their limited-edition sneaker collection and how much weed they smoke. There’s a gleeful egalitarianism in their digital miscellany. The beats bang but are same-y and indistinct, and the voices are barely distinguishable. As Wiz Khalifa simply said on his breakout single, “Black & Yellowâ€?: “You can do it big.â€? Some critics separated wheat from chaff with technical criteria such as internal rhyme schemes and double-time flow, as if MCs were ice skaters or guitar wankers. But the best artists simply illuminated their money hunger by any means necessary, effortlessly adding interesting twists to tired rap clichĂŠs. When Drake crooned on Thank Me Later, “I want this shit forever, man,â€? he evoked a poor man’s Nat King Cole. And when Curren$y ranted, “A gee is what I am, a jet is what I beâ€? like a Southern Popeye on Pilot Talk II, he was insistent enough that you almost believed him. And then there was Kanye West and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. He created a spectacle out of an hour-long justification for his obnoxiousness, invited the genre’s biggest stars to support his meanderings on chauvinism and virility (or “my black ballsâ€?) and, most provocatively, continued a public call-andresponse with Gil Scott-Heron. The conversation began with West’s sampling of Scott-Heron’s melancholy “Home Is Where the Hatred Isâ€? for his 2005 album Graduation. Then Scott-Heron replied by using West’s “Flashing Lightsâ€? melody for “On Coming from a Broken Home,â€? the bittersweet coming-of age tale from Scott-Heron’s valiant yet muddled comeback, I’m New Here. West ended Fantasy by sampling a large section from Scott-Heron’s

1970 spoken-word performance “Comment #1,� and retitling it “Who Will Survive in America?� The poem originally captured the COINTELPRO era and the U.S. government’s eradication of black radicals, but West seemed to use it for a different point. Perhaps he’s saying that fame serves as a protective armor against systemic racism and how “at the airport they check all through my bag and tell me that it’s random.� Or maybe he’s making a wry comment on celebrity culture as the only way to survive in America. Fantasy’s cryptic epilogue perfectly summarized this year’s rap dreamers, lost in the pop Matrix. 2

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be K-Whoa’s match. You must love a high-profile 20-year-old who tells us how she really feels about, say, alleged ex John Mayer, singing, “Don’t you think I was too young to be messed with?� and “I’ll look back and regret how I ignored when they said, ‘Run as fast as you can,’ “ in the appropriately soggy “Dear John.�

edly enter Swift’s sights. But the real tribute to her skills lie with infectious story songs like Speak Now’s title track, and its opener, “Mine,� songs that would be an asset on any country-pop performer’s recording — and not at all beholding to Behind the Music speculation or tabloid gossip. Now if only she could hook up with one talented, directional producer with a musical opinion — when it comes to country-pop, Daniel Lanois comes to mind, but why not Rick Rubin or even Jack White? To be as memorable as country music’s singer-songwriter greats, Swift needs to find challeng-

The provocateur known as Peaches continued to morph this year with Peaches Christ Superstar, her stage revision of Andrew Lloyd Webber. What does Peaches Christ think?

Mocking rocker “Better Than Revenge� is better, despite the cheesy megaphone-like vocal effects, as Swift takes her poison pen to perceived romantic rival Camille Belle (for former flame Joe Jonas’ affections) and cleverly, self-consciously complains, “She thinks I’m psycho/ Because I like to rhyme her name with things/ But sophistication isn’t what you wear, or who you know/ Or pushing people down to get you where you wanna go.� Jonas (“Last Kiss�), West (“Innocent,� yawn), Taylor Lautner (“Back to December�), and even industry insider-newsletter scribe Bob Lefsetz (“Mean�) all suppos-

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ing sounds to pair with her provocative lyrics. Ke$ha lacks little in the provocation department. “Now that I’m famous/ You’re up my anus/ Now I’m gonna eat you, fool!� she whinnies in the title track of her Cannibal EP (RCA), the disappointing rejoinder to her debut, Animal (RCA). It’s as throwaway as a Mr. T punchline, but the rhymes also plug into the fear and loathing inspired by Kesha Sebert, who has gone from a hick-from-the-sticks, baby celeb-inwaiting to Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie in The Simple Life to an icon worthy of YouTube parodies and frothing hater commenting. Sure,

she looks a hot mess, as personified by her trash-talkin’, fall-outta-thesack, smashed-dolly turns with “Tik Tok� and “Your Love Is My Drug.� Her image seems to define “hot mess�: picture hipster Barbie gone wild — and drunk on old Lil’ Kim raps — and then dragged over miles of rough road. Yet the criticism Ke$ha catches — Rolling Stone described her debut as “repulsive, obnoxious, and ridiculously catchy� — reads more like easy misogyny, and at moments bourgie envy, of the type that’s so often aimed at the highly visible village slut. Streaming the archetypal ho to Swift’s less-sullied like-a-virgin, Cannibal nevertheless feels like leftovers, doubtless culled from the hundreds of songs Ke$ha is said to have written in the years leading up to Animal. The girl isn’t above slapping the glib “man-gina� tag on a dismissible male in “Grow a Pear.� But even this brief EP has a few insinuating tracks: the jokey “Blow,� with its silly-giggly allusions to — ooh, naughty — backdoor fun, crackin’ hoedowns, and “letting the crazy out�; baby-house hit “We R Who We R,� a going-out-hard anthem infinitely preferable to the Black-Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling�; and the sassy proclamation of slatternly white-trash, um, identity, “Sleazy.� The latter two tunes’ adenoidal raps are reminiscent of both Ke$ha’s spiritual cool aunt, Peaches, and even her very remote agent-provocateur relation M.I.A. “I was happy being the retarded cousin of rap,� M.I.A. told Billboard this year. “Now I’m the retarded cousin of singing.� Likewise, who isn’t tired of complaints about Maya Arulpragasam’s ragged performances and bumpy raps — she makes a virtue of the rugged and raw with Maya (Interscope/XL), easily the most musically compelling recording by any of the aforementioned divas (with production by Blaqstarr, Rusko, Switch, Diplo, and Sleigh Bells’ Derek E. Miller, among others). The iPhone and Google shoutouts; dark, grating, and metallic samples; and a gory, not-altogethersuccessful Romaine Gavras video for the hardcore-inspired “Born Free� add up to what might be considered her most American album. Maya is an intriguingly selftitled reassertion of identity, made amid growing fame and privilege — all things she was somewhat absurdly criticized for by Lynn Hirschberg in her “Trufflegate�spurring cover story in the May

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25 issue of The New York Times Magazine, a piece that takes M.I.A. to task for her frank — and ironic — comments, castigates her as both politically naive and artistically manipulative and offers up several head-scratching, what-year-is-this observations like “the record business in 2010 demands touring to ensure record sales� and “the oddity of using a garment linked to mercenaries to convey a very different message seemed to elude Maya.� If M.I.A. felt needlessly crucified by Hirschberg, then she should sign up for the latest great idea coming from another original, Peaches. On the heels of her unjustifiably neglected I Feel Cream (XL, 2009) — and a super trooper performance at the Regency during a major power outage — she reprises her one-woman take on Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Peaches Christ Superstar, in SF this week. Faith is blonde and semi-mohawked here, as Peaches performs the entire album — much as she did as a 15year-old singing along with the record — with Chilly Gonzalez on piano. This after the production was first scuttled because it wasn’t conventional — and a woman was playing all the roles. Considering the steamy mess of projects in Peaches’ recent past and future—a decade after her debut, The Teaches of Peaches, she’s cowritten songs with Christina Aguilera for Bionic (RCA); appeared in the Flaming Lips’ version of Dark Side of the Moon (Warner Bros., 2009); contributed to the upcoming R.E.M. album, Collapse Into Now (Warner Bros.); recently debuted a career-encompassing, mega-vaginariddled opera, Peaches Does Herself ; and played laser harp with her band Sweet Machine — 2010’s blondes can only hope to be as prolific as she is, 10 years along. She’s still dreaming, too. “I feel like quoting a Feist line,� Peaches says by phone from New York City, referring to her ex-housemate’s song, “Mushaboom.� “Hopefully, ‘my dreams will match up with my pay’ so I can bring these productions to audiences. I get complaints from fans on Facebook and my blog, ‘Why do you do everything in Berlin? Why don’t you bring it to my town?’ It’s the dream of money.� 2 3($&+(6 &+5,67 683(567$5 <J] ! ! Y V 1N[K\] =QNJ][N ?JW 7N\\ </ ``` JYNLXWLN[]\ LXV

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tory that recently belonged to their younger colleagues. Traditional doom metal was robustly resurrected; cult late-1970s acts St. Vitus and Pentagram both graced the stage at DNA Lounge, with mixed results. Considering the promise evinced by its summer 2009 appearance at the same venue, Pentagram was disappointing, though a last-minute lineup change was made the scapegoat. St. Vitus was another matter, thundering forth on the strength of guitarist Dave Chandler’s divebombing psychedelia and singer Scott “Wino� Weinrich’s booming baritone. The renewed vigor of the legendary L.A. outfit made the recent death of original drummer Armando Acosta especially poignant, though he had not played with the band for some time. Metal was robbed of another sainted figure this year: Ronnie James Dio, whose inimitable voice and boundless energy made him one of the best-liked musicians in the business. His performances remained impeccable almost to the bitter end, which exacerbates the

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drums is no longer limited to hoary veterans. This year also witnessed a crop of new bands that drew heavily on late-1970s and early-1980s inspiration to craft a compelling crop of fiery LPs. Sweden’s Enforcer (Diamonds) and Steelwing (Lord of the Wasteland) and L.A.’s Holy Grail (Crisis in Utopia) all took advantage of their klaxon-throated singers to release albums that draw heavily on classic Judas Priest, with a particular focus on high-register vocal melody and a bevy of shredding. Breakout Olympia, Wash., group Christian Mistress took a slightly different approach. The group’s EP Agony & Opium leavens influential British outfit Diamond Head with the unique, melancholy delivery of singer Christine Davis. If metal spends 2011 in this same archaeological mind-set, the Blue Cheer comparisons will start to fly fast and thick. But while some may decry the stultification that accompanies veneration of the retro, they cannot deny its curatorial power. Like Dio himself, the metal of the past is destined to live again, in the overburdened eardrums of the present. 2

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ing tacky Internet wheeling and dealing in 2004.) That over-the-top scene made me think about how far dance music and club culture have come, both in terms of mainstream acceptance — throw in a verse by Drake and a goofy bassline and “The Sound of Violence� could be Ke$ha’s next paycheck — and alternative options. Despite a few fun parties and a strong sense of underground unity, 2004 really was a low point for dance music, the spinning-wheels moment before a host of now-ubiquitous styles like dubstep, minimal techno, global funk, and nudisco hit the scene. Sure, the current pop charts are a commercial dance juggernaut of kookily styled, sexlessy sex-obsessed, materialistic AutoTuned clubkid wannabes, hating on haters and looking for love all up in the VIP. But this is fine! First, thanks to the Internet, it’s all so easy to ignore. Second, anything’s better than the whine-rock males electro-pop replaced. And third, pop homogeneity has helped bring about an alternative renaissance of brain-tickling party music and club events for people who want more out of nightlife than Cristal bottle-service and a new Facebook profile pic. In fact, it was a bit hard to keep up with all the ingenious debauchery

in 2010. Despite the continued recession — more probably because of it — partying was rampant, with new venues like Public Works and Jones (and revamped ones like 222 Hyde, Holy Cow, and SOM) joining established ones in presenting some of the most innovative programming in the world. I can’t tell you how many times I heard New Yorkers, Londoners, and Berliners sigh lovingly and praise the scene here. It sure didn’t take a lot of traveling though, for me to see how good we have it right now, partywise. The homofuturist techno of Honey Sundays, Tormenta Tropical’s spiky electro-cumbia, the twisted funk of Loose Joints, Some Thing’s post-ironic showtunes, Icee Hot’s UK bashment, DJ Bus Station John’s various bathhouse unearthings, Kontrol’s live minimal showcase, Phonic’s classic house, the global funk of Afrolicious, Frequency’s Dilla-influenced hiphop, Change the Beat’s future-bass soul, Love Letters’ intelligent techno, Nachtmusik’s dark wave, Ritmos Sin Fronteras’ global house, Braza!’s deep samba, Ritual’s anarcho-dubstep, Go Bang!’s disco bliss.... I could go on and on — suffice it to say the only bad nights out I had this year in the city were the ones I can’t remember. (Even my brief forays into the Lady

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cultural level — whenever I tried to explain to someone in their teens how rave culture was a deliberate rebellion against commercial culture, or how independent music differed from that put out by major labels, they looked at me like I was from the ’90s!) But in 2010, DJs and musical archeologists tried to fill in that almost with a vengeance — they wanted everything, from the past as well as the present, to be available on the Internet. Uploading and sharing history-altering vinyl rarities was this year’s badge of honor. Suddenly I found myself hearing so many songs on the dance floor that I’d forgotten, I’d sometimes enter a kind of dream state, unsure of my own historical timeline. The “waveâ€? phenomenon, which brought utterly unheralded synth and proto-goth acts from the age of hand-to-hand cassette culture to light (and various dance floors) was the most literal manifestation of this, but there were others as well. Old-school SF DJs who’d spent years building their record collections — Gavin Hardkiss, James Glass, Solar, JenĂś, Garth, Ken Vulsion, Steve Fabus — sounded incredible this year, both for their vinyl gold and mixing acumen. Across the board, DJs slowed the tempos of their sets, as if all the rapidly accumulating sonic history was dragging them back, their laptops churning from the weight of it all. Tunes somehow became wider, thicker, luminous. Suddenly songs were fields. This led to some

fantastic developments — presaged by the reemergence of UK disco and “electro-funk� DJ pioneer Greg Wilson after decades of silence, the edit scene was bananas, with a plethora of music makers releasing contemporary-sounding versions of forgotten classics. (Edits are made by simply rearranging or removing a song’s individual parts, unlike remixes that usually rebuild a song from the ground up). Going one step further, folks like Soul Clap, Wolf + Lamb, Tensnake, and our own Mr. Intl took individual elements of half-remembered, halfheard soul, funk, house, and R&B gems and combined them with each other in uncanny ways — a little acid house melody here, the sax solo from a Chris Isaak song, a Danny Xtravaganza bassline, a New Edition drum breakdown, a snatch of Vicious Pink — as if populating a timeframe that didn’t quite exist. Funnily enough, all this digging up and soldering together helped produce a heady, signature sound that crossed genre borders — dubstep (somewhat sadly) slimmed down its postapocalyptic multiculti bombast and became more psychedelic and introspective; future bass ripped a few bong hits and got more soulful; minimal techno astringency disappeared into full-on sing-along melodies; indie acts like Toro Y Moi, Delorean, and Crystal Castles embraced rave and glitch aesthetics; abrasive hardcore electro and filter house politely fled the scene. The overall effect was

breezy, brainy, and Balearic. And yes, somewhat monolithic. Pity the poor fool who tried to be different. The overheated reaction to the coining of “witch houseâ€? as a genre — think glitchy crunk beats distorted with spooky effects and the occasional static-masked rap — showed that the current scene has no taste for standouts (perhaps that’s why there was no world-dominant club this year as well). We’ll see how well “moombahtonâ€? (don’t ask) fares in the coming months, but for now it’s enough to navigate the smart, chill wave cresting on SF dancefloors. We’re all CEO, bitches. 2 D8IB< 9%Ă‹J LE898J?<; KN@IC @EKF (( KFG ((

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