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The problem with the tax initiatives EDITORIAL The Occupy movement — despite police abuse, official hostility and dismissive media — is changing the mainstream of discussion in American politics. For the first time in years, it’s actually possible to talk about raising taxes on the very wealthy. All the polls show strong, and growing, public sentiment in favor of economic equality. It’s a great opportunity to reform California’s tax system — but Gov. Jerry Brown seems unwilling to take advantage of what could be the most important moment in his political career. At least five groups are preparing tax-reform measures for the November, 2012 ballot. One of them — the so-called Think Long proposal supported by billionaire Nicolas Berggruen and Google executive Eric Schmidt — is largely regressive. Much of the $10 billion it would raise would come from sales taxes on services, which amounts to a whopping new tax on the middle class. Another, known as the Clean Energy Jobs Act (also backed by a billionaire, hedge fund manager Tom Steyer) would force corporations to pay taxes based on sales in picks

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the state, which in and of itself isn’t a terrible idea. But that’s the beginning and end of the measure, and half of the $1 billion it would raise would be earmarked for (private sector) clean energy projects. Then there are the income tax proposals. One, sponsored by a Los Angeles attorney named Molly Munger (whose father happens to be a billionaire investor) would raise almost everyone’s income taxes, although the wealthy would pay more; every penny of the $10 billion in new revenue would be earmarked for education. The Courage Campaign and the California Federation of Teachers want to raise taxes on incomes of more than $1 million, with the money also dedicated to education. Then there’s the governor’s plan. Brown’s offering a mix of a half-cent sales-tax hike and higher income taxes to raise about $7.5 billion. Some major labor groups are already on board — as are some business groups, which would rather see a tax on consumers than higher taxes on big corporations and the wealthy. CONTINUES ON PAGE >>

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stop downtown’s attack on RCV by Tom Ammiano

OPINION The long-time foes of political reform at the Chamber of Commerce and San Francisco Chronicle have launched an effort to repeal ranked choice voting (RCV) and public financing of campaigns. Supervisors Sean Elsbernd and Mark Farrell have introduced a June 2012 charter amendment to repeal RCV, with public financing also in their crosshairs. Many of us fought hard to pass these reforms, and I am reminded of when the downtown corporate interests repealed district elections in 1980. They blamed the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone on district elections and the election of Supervisor Dan White. San Francisco has a history of the anti-reformers waiting for their moment of opportunity. Now these same corporate interests think that moment has arrived again. The Guardian first reported about an anti-RCV campaign in 2009, when a meeting of downtown CONTINUES ON PAGE >>

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The private sector that Republicans see as our economic savior has been creating jobs. Not a lot, a few hundred thousand a month, but some. And yet the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high. There’s a reason for that, one politicians from San Francisco to Washington D.C. don’t want to talk about. But The New York Times put it nicely in a Dec. 5 editorial: “While the private sector has been adding jobs since the end of 2009, more than half a million government positions have been lost since the recession. ... “The cutbacks hurt more than just services. As Timothy Williams of The Times reported last week, they hit black workers particularly hard. Millions of African-Americans — one in five who are employed — have entered the middle class through government employment, and they tend to make 25 percent more than other black workers. Now tens of thousands are leaving both their jobs and the middle class.” Remember: Most of the biggest employers in this city are not corporations; they’re government agencies. The City and County of San Francisco, the University of California, the State of California, the United States Postal Service, City College and the San Francisco Unified School District drive the local economy more than any one private company. Between them, those public-sector operations employ more than 60,000 people. The largest single private employer, Wells Fargo, has fewer than one sixth of that number. Most of the those public-sector jobs are unionized and offer decent benefits. They are such an important part of the city’s economic development future that it’s impossible to talk about jobs in San Francisco unless you start the conversation with the public sector. Mayor Ed Lee is about to enter negotiations with unions representing 24,000 city employees. His office is already indicating that cost savings will be a big part of the discussion. I know there are cost savings out there — you can’t spend $2 billion on payroll and not have some waste somewhere in the package. But if he’s serious about his campaign mantra — jobs, jobs, jobs — I hope he remembers what the Republicans don’t: Government jobs count, too. 2 december 7 - 13, 2011 / SFBG.com

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His plan may seem pragmatic — but it’s hardly progressive and won’t solve the state’s $13 billion budget shortfall for this year, much less restore funding to the services that have been cut in past budget battles. All of the plans have problems. While we’re much more aligned with the Courage Campaign’s goal of taxing the rich, and we agree that education is a critical need, there are other critical needs in the state, too (affordable housing, health and social services, for example) and we’re not sure the education earmark makes sense. And most of them don’t go beyond personal income taxes, when taxes on big businesses are often scandalously low. Brown ought to be taking the best of the various proposals, adding other ideas that have been put forward by Democrats in the Legislature, and producing a final product that would shift the state’s tax burden onto those who can most afford it. That means scrapping the sales tax and replacing it with steeper income tax increases on the highest earners and an oil-severance tax (which could alone bring in as much as $8 billion a year). Higher taxes on financial institutions ought to be part of the deal, too. With the presidential election driving a high turnout in California, and public anger at the greed of the top one percent defining the electoral debate, it’s foolish to put forward a half-assed measure that doesn’t amount to real reform. Brown and his team need to make some major changes before a tax measure heads to the Nov. 2012 ballot. 2 stop downtown’s attack on rcv CONT>>

business leaders was hosted by Steve Falk, Chamber of Commerce CEO (and past publisher of the Chronicle) to discuss repealing RCV. As part of that effort, polling also was done to see if they could repeal district elections and public financing. They also filed a bogus anti-RCV lawsuit which was unanimously rejected by two courts. Elsbernd’s repeal legislation is the culmination of their calculated efforts. It’s clear what these special interests want: a return to the days when local races were decided in low-turnout December elections, and those who had the most money pounded their opponents into submission. An Ethics Commission report in 2003 found that independent expenditures increased by a SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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factor of four during December runoffs, while another study found that voter turnout dropped by more than a third in 10 of the 14 December runoff races held from 2000-2003. Turnout in one city attorney runoff dropped to 16 percent. Just as importantly, the December electorate did not represent the diversity of San Francisco’s population. Voters in the runoffs were overwhelmingly whiter, older and more conservative than the city as a whole, as voter turnout plummeted in December among racial minorities, the poor and young people. Simply put, a return to December runoffs will allow groups like the Chamber and its allies to dump huge amounts of money into negative campaigns aimed at the more conservative December electorate when most San Franciscans don’t vote. In the era of unlimited independent expenditures by corporations (thanks the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United), political reforms like RCV are crucial for protecting our democracy. Both RCV and public financing have greatly improved local elections — since their inception San Francisco has doubled the number of racial minorities elected to the Board of Supervisors. Elections are now decided in higher turnout November contests, allowing more people to have a voice in choosing their local representatives. Winning candidates in RCV contests have won with an average of 30 percent more votes than winners in the old December runoffs. San Francisco has saved $10 million in taxes by not holding second elections, money used for other public needs. Candidates also haven’t needed to raise money for a second election, which helps level the playing field. Progressive candidates have never done well in citywide elections, but this year in RCV contests Ross Mirkarimi was elected sheriff and John Avalos mobilized and finished a strong second. That bodes well for progressives’ future. It’s no coincidence that Supervisor Elsbernd is trying to get his charter amendment on a lowturnout June ballot, when the electorate is more conservative. The downtown corporate interests are clear on what they must repeal in order to elect the candidates they want — RCV, public financing, and ultimately district elections. Progressives need to be just as clear on what reforms we must defend. 2 Assemblymember Tom Ammiano represents the 13th District.

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Another Occupy offshoot sprung up at San Francisco State University Dec. 1 when about 150 students attended a march and rally that culminated at Malcolm X Plaza, now the site of the San Francisco’s newest Occupy camp. Students symbolically blocked off ATMs, wrapped Chase Bank machines in cellophane and plastered nearby Wells Fargo and Bank of America ATMs with “meet the one percent” flyers profiling wealthy University of California Trustee Monica Lozano and California State University Regent Bill Hauck. The highlight of the action came when SF State President Robert Corrigan arrived on the scene. The group was using the people’s mic to read a letter addressed to Corrigan, penned by the Occupy SF State General Assembly, demanding that he write two letters. One should be directed to the school’s chancellor and CSU Board of Trustees, “urging them to repeal the 9 percent tuition fee increase” that the board passed Nov. 16, and another should go to “the presidents of every other CSU campus asking them to also contact the chancellor and Board of Trustees regarding a repeal of the 9 percent tuition fee increase.” Corrigan listened, then participated in a frank question-andanswer session with protesters, urging them to contact Sacramento legislators. Yet he refused to write those letters or declare support for Occupy SF State. editorials

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Afterwards, the students returned to Malcolm X Plaza and erected about 15 tents, which organizers said would contain “books, food, and homework help” along with providing shelter for sleeping protesters.

Occupy La Misión In the Mission, where city officials have been encouraging OccupySF to relocate from its current home in the Financial District, a separate new Occupy effort could be underway. Organizer Enrique Del Valle says he and other organizers have been distributing flyers and talking to people and organizations throughout the neighborhood. “We’re getting it together to have a General Assembly,” he told us. The effort is unrelated to the OccupySF General Assembly’s Nov. 29 decision to decline the city’s offer to utilize an abandoned lot at 1950 Mission Street, he added. Before the city made that offer, Del Valle, a community volunteer with connections with many Mission groups, says he was already working on forming a neighborhood occupation. If Occupy SF had set up shop in the space offered by the city, “We would have worked with them,” he explained, “but set up somewhere else.” Meanwhile, Mayor Ed Lee and OccupySF are still waiting for one another’s next moves. On the evening of Dec. 1, when San Francisco Police officers surrounded the camp in steel barricades, protesters felt another raid was underway. But they resisted and took down some barricades, causing police to suddenly back down and remove the rest. “They’ve just been mindfucking us,” OccupySF protester Markus

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Destin told us. “As soon as they spend all that money breaking us down, we’ll just come back in a week and re-encamp.” Mayoral Press Secretary Christine Falvey said Lee wasn’t aware OccupySF rejected his offer: “We haven’t heard back one way or another from the group. The offer is still out there and the group has all of the information they need from us. We are awaiting a decision. Mayor Lee has made it very clear to the group that he supports their first amendment rights and their right to assemble, but that overnight camping at Justin Herman Plaza is not an option for the long term because of the health and safety problems it creates.”

Occupy against foreclosure Community members rallied outside a foreclosed Visitacion Valley home Dec. 1 before moving their protest to the offices of the company that purchased the property. At 11 a.m., dozens gathered in front of the residence where 75-yearold Josephine Tolbert had lived for nearly 40 years. A day earlier, Tolbert had arrived home with three young grandchildren in tow to find her locks changed. Organizers say the evicted resident needs to access the house to retrieve food and medicine. The crowd — which included neighbors, friends, and members of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), OccupySF, and Occupy the Hood — demanded that Tolbert be let back in. According to Bayview resident and self-proclaimed “foreclosure fighter” Vivian Richardson, “They would not let her in to get food, diapers, or her diabetes medicine.” music listings

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Tolbert had run a daycare business from her home for 20 years. One of her regular clients, a mother with two young children, arrived during the rally. She was surprised to find that Tolbert was locked out of her home and unable to care for her children that day. “I want to get in my home so I can resume my business,” Tolbert said. “That’s my occupation there, I don’t have any other way of caring for myself.” The group then headed to the offices of True Compass Loan Services, LLC, the new owners of Tolbert’s home. About 20 supporters gathered at the Ocean Ave office, where ACCE organizer Grace Martinez singled out True Compass owner Ashok Gujral, who owns a $2.75 million home and multiple restaurants, according to a press release from a group calling itself the Foreclosure Fighters. “The man is worth $10 million, and he has a bunch of limited liability companies,” said Martinez. “Everyone has been shocked at how this man could do this, he knows she is a senior.” According to Martinez, Gujral personally refused to let Tolbert into her home Nov. 30. He and others from the company “don’t want her in there because they say she’ll refuse to leave,” Martinez added. Calls to Gujral’s office were referred to attorney Jak Marques, who did not return Guardian requests for comment. A True Compass representative informed protesters “there’s no one here to talk to you,” then swiftly shut the door. But when a few protesters went around through a side entrance and let everyone else in, the group took their protest to the hallway inside. They remained there for almost an hour, chanting, pounding rhythmically on the walls, and flooding the office on the other side of a locked door with phone calls, demanding Tolbert be allowed to return to her home to retrieve her medicine and belongings. Five police officers arrived almost immediately as protesters entered company offices. One explained to the protesters that if they didn’t leave, they would face arrest for trespassing. A heated but measured back-and-forth ensued, in which protesters insisted that if Tolbert was his mother, the officer would feel differently. The officer, Lieutenant C. Johnson, responded, “If it was my mother — I don’t know. I have a house for my mother. But I feel for Josephine, and for the

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news millions of other Americans in the same situation.� Martinez quieted groans from protesters, replying, “You’re part of the 99 percent, and we’re not going to shoot the messenger.� Organizers conferred and decided to leave the building voluntarily. Sergeant R. Young, who was also at the scene, told the Guardian, “It’s heartbreaking to do this. Their freedom of speech is a constitutional right that we take a sworn oath to protect.�

The seeds of a new america? Does the Occupy movement signify a new beginning for America? Is history repeating itself? Is violence inevitable? These were some of the big questions pondered by a handful of prominent Bay Area writers, thinkers, artists, and activists Dec. 1 during a panel discussion organized by Salon.com. Dan Siegel, who most recently made headlines for resigning as Oakland Mayor Jean Quan’s legal advisor because he disagreed with her decision to order a police raid of the Occupy Oakland encampment, was a panelist. “The perspective of Mayor Quan and other mayors, besides reflecting the 1 percent, reflects a misguided paradigm,� Siegel said. “The nation’s clearly in an economic crisis that this country has not seen since the 1930s. The mayors should be on the side of the 99 percent. They ought not be the lapdogs of Wall Street.� Renowned author Rebecca Solnit also participated in the panel discussion. Asked if she thought Occupy symbolized a new beginning, she reflected on the past. “Huge mis-

takes were made on the left,� in past social movements, she said. “It was supposed to be the revolution, but the women were still expected to make the coffee.� She offered that Occupy represented an evolved manifestation that had benefitted from lessons learned over the years. “It’s a culmination of decades of refining, searching, and building coalitions,� Solnit said. “It’s the beginning in the sense that summer’s the beginning. We’re reaping the fruit of ... what’s been imagined.� It’s also provided a spark for campus-based organizing. “The Occupy movement has given a tremendous amount of wind to the sails of the student movement and had a consciousness-raising aspect,� said Matt Haney, executive director of the University of California Student Association. “Now they are prepared in a new way to join all of those other folks who are also suffering.� A key question put to panelists was whether Occupy ought to consider running candidates for office. In response, panelist Melanie Cervantes, an artist and activist, got to the heart of the issue. “What is political power? Is it just representation?� she asked. Cervantes pointed out that autonomous social movements in Latin America have given rise to leftist political leaders, and she spoke of the past successes of massbased organizations. “There were things that preceded us generationally, and they worked,� she pointed out. “There’s a lot of different ways people are experienced in trying to change things.�

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Occupy Oakland organizers have been engaged in planning yet another shutdown of the Port of Oakland on Dec. 12, which will coincide with attempts to shut down West Coast ports in San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Longview, Tacoma, and Anchorage. “On December 12, the Occupy movements in different cities will ... effectively shutdown the hubs of commerce, in the same fashion that Occupy Oakland shut down the Port of Oakland on November 2nd, the day of our general strike,� according to a Call to Action on WestCoastPortShutdown.org. “The message to you from Occupy Oakland in the face of police raids and continued disruptions of workers lives by the 1 percent is the following: The Occupy movement will strike back and rise again! We will blockade all of the West Coast Ports on December 12th in solidarity with longshoremen, port workers and truckers in their struggle against the 1 percent!� 2

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Fed up with foreclosures and evictions, the Occupy SF Housing coalition fights back By Shawn Gaynor news@sfbg.com Pressed by foreclosures, evictions, and an economic crisis with the gnawing tenacity of an early winter flu, San Franciscans protested in neighborhoods throughout the city on Saturday, Dec. 3. Marches from four of the city’s most impacted neighborhoods merged in the Financial District to pressure landlords, banks, and what the Occupy movement has dubbed the 1 percent to ease the spreading hardship surrounding housing in San Francisco. “The 99 percent tenants and homeowners can no longer let the 1 percent banks and real estate speculators destroy our city and our lives so we’re marching in the neighborhoods and on the streets today,” asserted the statement read by the Occupy SF Housing coalition to the crowd gathered in the Financial District. The message echoed through the glass and granite corridors in front of Wells Fargo, passed along in a thousand voices by the now ubiquitous “mic check” style of Occupy crowd communication. Housing advocates warned that a steady stream of foreclosures, climbing rents, and lagging job opportunities are driving even native San Franciscans out of the city for the relatively affordable housing in the East Bay or forcing them out of the region altogether, transforming the face of San Francisco into an older, whiter, wealthier demographic. Throughout the economic crisis, San Francisco as a whole has posted lower foreclosure rates than surrounding counties. At first glance, San Francisco, with one in 880 homes facing foreclosure, looks like a safe harbor in the state’s troubled residential real estate market com10 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

pared with the statewide foreclosure rate of one home in 243, according RealtyTrac. That represents 55,312 residential units across the state. Nationally, one in 563 homes was in some stage of foreclosure as of October 2011, the most recently released numbers. However, a near absence of foreclosures in affluent, stable, San Francisco neighborhoods like Pacific Heights and Noe Valley hide troubling foreclose rates in the city’s blue collar ZIP codes that far exceed national and statewide levels. In the 94124 zip code that includes the Bayview and Hunters Point, one in 180 homes received foreclosure filings, higher then Oakland’s overall average rate of one in 245 homes — levels that reflect the experience of some of the nation’s most hard hit areas. Of the 1,513 homes currently listed on the San Francisco housing market, 1,255 were in the pre-foreclosure, auction, or bank-owned stages of the foreclosure process, representing roughly 82 percent of the available housing stock. At the downtown headquarters of Wells Fargo, Occupy protesters were placing some of the blame for the deepening hardship at the feet of the big banks. According to the Occupy SF Housing coalition, Wells Fargo is the mortgage lender for 226 homes in San Francisco that are in some stage of foreclosure. That represents about 18 percent of the total homes in San Francisco under foreclosure. In neighborhoods like Hunters Point, these evictions have turned into an economic cascade of household wealth in decline, even for those who have managed to hold onto their homes. With foreclosures flooding the editorials

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market, the median sales price for homes in Hunters Point from Aug. 11 to Oct. 11 was $167,500. This represents a decline of 13.2 percent, or $25,500 per home on average, compared to the prior quarter. Sales prices have depreciated 62.6 percent over the last five years in Hunters Point, wiping out equity families have built over years, and leaving those who hang on stuck in underwater mortgages, where their debt far exceeds the value of their home. “Predatory equity loans make a quick profit (for the lender) at the expense of home owners in the Bayview,” said Grace Martinez of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE). “There are 11 homeowners on a twoblock stretch of Quesada in default or have already lost their homes.” While the Obama administration has tried to ease the foreclosure crisis through the federally subsidized Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), only a small percentage of people who apply through their mortgage holder for relief under the program receive a loan adjustment. At Wells Fargo, only one in five borrowers applying for HAMP relief have received a loan modification. Protesters sitting in the streets in front of Wells Fargo demanded that the company establish a moratorium on all foreclosures until it reforms their loan modification practices, halts the eviction of homeowners who have faced foreclosure, and instead offers them a rental option to keep them in their homes — a solution they say will ease the suffering of those caught in the middle of the banking crisis. The banking and real estate driven economic crash has lead to the largest drop in home owner-

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ship nationally since the Great Depression. At the same time that home ownership has become increasingly out of reach for many San Franciscans, increases in rental rates and high competition for rental units are driving out many blue collar San Franciscans from the transit-friendly Mission District, in favor of a generally younger, wealthier, more educated, techsavvy population. As rallies took place across the city Saturday in the lead up to the afternoon’s Wells Fargo protest, a group of concerned residents and community groups gathered at 24th and Mission to highlight San Francisco’s other housing crisis — the rental market. The other marches started in the Castro, the Bayview, and the Tenderloin. Much of the turnover of longoccupied rent controlled housing units in San Francisco comes as a result of the Ellis Act, a state law that allows evictions when an owner’s family wants to move in or when the unit is taken off the rental market. Brenda Nedina’s family is facing an Ellis Act eviction at 874 Shotwell Street. “I’ve lived in that unit my whole life. My family has lived in the unit for 28 years,” said the tearful, 25year-old San Franciscan native. “We would love to stay here, but with rents so high, it is not likely that we would find a place in San Francisco.” Nedina, who works a service industry job at Pier 39, says the economic crisis has made it more difficult for her survive in San Francisco. She has had to cut down her college course load to get by in the tough economy. The troubles will get more complicated if her family is priced out of the city, as critical health services that they rely on are available through their San Francisco residency. “A lot of people suffer through this as a private problem, but we are making it a public problem, music listings

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and if the problem belongs to all of us then so does the solution,” said Maria Poblet of Just Cause, hugging a tearful Nedina as she addressed a crowd gathered at 24th and Mission streets. Latino families like Brenda’s continue to be forced out of the Mission District by rising rent, and less economic opportunity for them in the recession. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the past decade has seen a 22 percent decrease in the Mission’s Latino population. “Landlords often abuse the Ellis Act as a way to remove tenants from rent controlled units,” Just Cause organizer Maria Zamudio told the Guardian. “I’m occupying Kaleidoscope free speech zone art space on 24th and Folsom. My slumlord landlord is not down with that mission,” said artist and gallery proprietor Sara Powell, also facing a Ellis Act eviction after pressuring her landlord to address substandard building maintenance issues. Powell’s landlord withdrew a standard eviction process that housing advocates said was unlikely to succeed before launching the Ellis Act eviction. “With the help off the 99 percent and with right on our side we are going to fight this and we are going to win,” said Powell, whose gallery next door to Philz Coffee is a cornerstone of the neighborhood’s multi-ethnic arts scene. The San Francisco Rent Board has received more than 4,000 petitions to remove rental units from the real estate market since 1999 through the Ellis Act. While Ellis Act evictions have seen some decline during the economic crisis, more Ellis Act evictions are now concentrated in the Mission District, where 40 percent of all Ellis Act petitions are now filed. At the same time, evictions based on breach of lease throughout the city are on track to double pre-recession numbers this year as more and more San Franciscans are have trouble earning enough to keep up with the city’s exorbitant rental rates. According to Just Cause, the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in the Mission District is now $2,497. “The only way to keep our Chinese, Latino, Arabic, English speaking neighborhood is to fight like hell for our homes,” said Poblet. “Even before Wall Street was occupied, we have been defending this neighborhood. This is the neighborhood of the 99 percent.” 2

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-POHUJNF BDUJWJTU TPVHIU UP SBMMZ QFPQMF BSPVOE B QSPHSFTTJWF BHFOEB GPS 4BO 'SBODJTDP By DeBra Walker news@sfbg.com San Francisco lost a valued champion of progressive causes on Dec. 2 when Michael Goldstein lost his battle with stage 4 lymphoma after surviving nearly 20 years living with HIV, a disease that helped awaken his political activism. Michael was born in 1953 in New Mexico, where he was raised. His grandparents had come to New Mexico after surviving the Holocaust, and Michael came to the San Francisco in the early 1980s. Like many gay men of his generation, Michael came here to find community, to create family, and to be welcomed when much of the country was still hostile to the LGBT community. He worked at Neiman Marcus, dressing “the San Francisco A list,” as he used to say. He studied at City College towards a paralegal certificate and was heavily involved in student politics. He landed a job at AIDS Legal Research Panel, where he worked when he was diagnosed HIV-positive in the mid-’80s. The news hit hard, and the treatment he began took its toll. The HIV drugs were harsh then and there were many horrible side-effects with these early drugs. At that time, there was very little information or education about HIV/AIDS and there was even less support, from families and from the public. Our San Francisco political community became Michael’s family. He was also blessed with an amazing friend in Lorae Lauritch. They worked together at NM, became roommates, and lived together with some incredible cats that were dear to him, including Paloma, Huey, Cadeau and Missy. Michael was a proud feminist who valued the women in his life and community, leading him to endorse a pair of successive female candidates for the Castro’s District 8 seat on the Board of Supervisors: Eileen Hansen in 2002 and Alix Rosenthal in 2006. Over the years, Michael served as an elected member of the Democratic County Central Committee (serving as vice president), served as President of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, and was appointed to a San Francisco City College citizen overfood + Drink

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sight board, where his questioning helped bring attention to mishandling of funds at that institution. Michael was determined, opinionated, persistent, intolerant of bullshit, prickly, always questioning. He challenged us all to move a common agenda, come together beyond our own personal ambitions, but to also never back down out of convenience or feigned civility. “Civility doesn’t make change,” he often said. I came to know Michael as many came to know him. Michael always showed up in support of every one of our causes. He not only showed up, he advised, opined, debated, argued, protested, got arrested, drafted policy, and so much more. Campaign after campaign, issue after issue — our friendships grew around our passion for politics, our deep concerns about everything, and a strong and unwavering belief that anyone can help make change. Michael believed that and Michael lived that. In the past few years, many of us noticed that Michael wasn’t feeling well. We pushed him to go to the doctor. This is a man who spent hours fighting to push through HIV/AIDS policy and funding, healthcare reform, Healthy SF — and he did not have healthcare, had not seen a doctor in nearly 10 years and was not treating his HIV. As many know, Michael and I were like brother and sister...often bickering back and forth on whatever was going on. We “debated” like the dear friends we had become. His lack of healthcare was one of the more important issues I would bring up often. As a long term survivor of this condition, Michael knew the score. As the symptoms of this disease ravaged his body, he retreated from us and attempted to make sense of the unimaginable alone. Finally at the end of September, Michael was admitted to General Hospital. With the amazing care of Ward 5A, Diane Jones, and all the amazing General Hospital workers, as well as Laguna Honda Staff and at his final resting place UCSF — his care, though coming too late, was the best in the world and gave Michael a fighting chance. He was clearly comforted and supported by his community in his music listings

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final days, support that mattered so much to him. If you knew Michael, you know there is a “what comes out of this” part. We all got to really see the results of the hard work we all participated in to rebuild General Hospital, to rebuild Laguna Honda, and to provide healthcare access to everyone, even the poorest amongst us. Michael, personally, was able to experience the fruits of our collective labor over these years. He also experienced some areas where there really is a need for some work. We need to remember that AIDS/HIV is still killing people every day. We must improve people’s access to healthcare. We need to protect patients’ access to medical cannabis, even in General Hospital. We need services and we need housing, particularly affordable housing for those who need it, people struggling through this bad economy. These are our issues and this is our agenda on the left that we have been fighting for. I will never forget Michael. One of the last real discussions we had about politics was around election time, with Michael remembering the 2010 elections. Michael was probably more upset about what has come out of that election — the beginning of a political shift to the right in San Francisco — than many. He has been such an integral part of the work that brought our progressive community together and he was devastated by the events tearing it apart. More than anything, he wanted to bring us together, but he ran out of time. Michael had an agenda. His agenda was to move forward our agenda. It is time to come together and do that. 2 Debra Walker is an artist, activist, DCCC member, and city commissioner who ran for the District 6 seat on the Board of Supervisors last year.

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ing new kiddie studio-cafe, Seesaw (www.seesawsf.com). With minimal hours (Fri-Sun), it seems to be closed or booked with a private party each time I’ve come by to try the unusual offering of Danish Smørrebrød (“butter and breadâ€?): open-faced pumpernickel rye with topping choices like egg salad or herring. Kids, or rather, their parents, sure seem to like the place. Here are some other new Hayes Valley spots that are rising to the top:

PeaCeFUl Tea reTreaT, SUrPriSing DiM SUM Taste (535 Octavia, SF. 415-5525668, www.tasteteasf.com) is an Asian tea house with soothing atmosphere serving impeccable teas in a gaiwan (personal covered bowl) with housemade baked goods, run by husband and wife team (she’s the baker). Early stand-outs include soft, grassy Misty Mountain tea from Jiangxi, China ($5 gaiwan, or $8 gong fu cha for sharing). Dim sum staples like pork buns ($2.50) are OK, but unusual items shine. A red bean wheat bun ($2.75) and veggie curry wheat bun filled with potato, carrot, cabbage ($2.75) taste both healthy and comforting, warm with a dreamy, doughy texture. Tea plays prominent in pu-er macarons ($1.75), while scones are made with fresh tea leaves ($2.50). I like the earthy oolong version. To sample more for less than it costs individually, try tea pairings for one ($18), two ($38), or three ($58) people. Order for one includes picks

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SeXy eUrO-STyle CaFe WiTH aPeriTiFS anD BOOKS What: One of the charming sisters behind Two Sisters Bar and Books (579 Hayes, SF. 415-863-3655, www.2sistersbarandbooks.com) greets you as you enter this narrow strip of a cafe, lined in classic wallpaper, with a cozy window seat, a handful of small tables, and a tiny bar — all bathed in early jazz music and inspired by European travels (including a bookstore in Krakow, a cafe in Vienna, and a bar in Paris), mixed with Brooklyn funk and NorCal roots. Perfect for a casual date or performance aperitif, this is the kind of neighborhood cafe I’ve been waiting for. Sans full liquor license, the sisters offer inspired amaro-, beer-, and wine-based cocktails. The Iggy ($7) is a salty aperitif of silky Punt e Mes vermouth and grapefruit juice with salt rim. Port of SF ($7) is likewise refreshing with Madeira, lime, ginger, and Pilsner beer. For a husky Manhattan stand-in, go with The Duke’s Son ($9): Amontillado sherry, Carpano Antica vermouth and bitters. Food is made with care in a tiny kitchen. A blanched brussel leaf salad ($8) is my dish of choice. Freshly laden with creamy French feta, cherry tomatoes, and roasted corn, it sings in lemon vinaigrette. Savory bread pudding ($6) is made with fennel, tomato, Manchego cheese, roasted garlic, and black truffle oil.

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eaST COaST SPiriT in a CaliFOrnia BiSTrO Debuting two weeks ago, Dobbs Ferry (409 Gough, SF. 415-5517700, www.dobbsferrysf.com) comes from restaurateurs with an East Coast background (Dobbs Ferry in Westchester County, NY, is the hometown of two of the owners). Executive chef Mike Yakura, formerly of Ozumo Restaurant Group www.ozumo. com, helms: they’re dubbing the place a “California bistro� with “small town� New York cooking. The three-room space is decorated in muted browns and black with white walls. Skip the unbalanced cocktails, and head for the dishes. Salads are crisp and straightforward. Eggplant parm pizza ($14) is a pleasant pie of breaded eggplant and basil. Kudos to my waiter for offering extra red sauce: without it the slices are too bready. Crispy sweetbreads ($12) over mustard sauce with bacon are unexpectedly satisfying, while a juicy half ($22) or whole ($35) chicken scarpariello somehow evoked childhood. (Half is enough chicken for two, with gently fried potato cubes like elevated tator tots, Molinari Italian sausage, sweet peppers and a peperoncini for good measure. The broth is the clincher: tart, zingy, savory, it ties the whole uniquely comforting dish together. 2 Subscribe to Virgina’s twice-monthly newsletter, The Perfect Spot, www. theperfectspotsf.com film listings

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attract national and international presenters, these artists will not heel, nor do they know how to sit. No kennel can hold them. They can be difficult, willful, and disrespectful of authority, but that’s also what makes them your best friends. Probably safest to show no fear, and expect the unexpected. (Robert Avila)

Jonathan Richman & Tommy Larkin Jonathan Richman is a magnetic character on stage. You could probably guess as much by listening to the ex-Modern Lover’s solo albums, or, by glimpsing at the titles of his songs (“I Eat With Gusto, Damn! You Bet “). Indeed, watching Richman on stage with drummer Tommy Larkin is at once intimate, heartbreaking, and often comedic. Songs like “If You Want To Leave Our Party Just Go,” from his latest album, O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth, always stir laughter in the crowd: “This aint’ school/you don’t have to stay/if you want to leave our party just go,” he sings. Then, setting down his guitar, he shakes his body around to the drums, frowning. (James H. Miller) With Rad Cloud 8 p.m., $16 Great American Music Hall 859 O’Farrell, SF (415) 885-0750 www. slimspresents. com

Thursday 12/8 “Drag Queens on Ice” It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s ... er, definitely something, flying at you with the unstoppable momentum of a two-story wig and a pair of birdseed-filled balloons. You already know what’s green and ice skates (Peggy Phlegm) now come find out what’s queen and ice wobbles — all those years in man-stilletos can’t help you out on the

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rink, honey. This cherished annual hoot features a wealth of San Francisco’s beloved gender clown personalities threading their way through bewildered tourist families in Union Square, and ends with a powerhouse performance by Mutha Chucka and a “Dizzy on Ice” extravaganza by this year’s Gordeeva and Grinkov: Lil Miss Hot Mess and Anna Conda. Grab a warming adult beverage from nearby Emporio Rulli Il Caffe and join in the fun. But don’t you dare judge, or you might get Nancy Kerrigan’d. Skates are blades, remember. (Marke B.) 8-9:30 p.m., $10 entrance, $5 rentals Union Square Skating Rink Post and Geary, SF Facebook: Drag Queens on Ice

Thursday 12/8 “The Dog Show” The pieces comprising this program represent the newest work and the biggest productions so far for Bay Area-based choreographers and contemporary performance-makers Laura Arrington and Jesse Hewit/Strong Behavior, who once again share a double bill following their memorable residency shows at CounterPULSE in the summer of 2010. Poised to

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Thursday 12/8 “Mortified” “What is youth,” novelist Evelyn Waugh once asked, “except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?” The comedy stage show “Mortified” has been aware of this for some time, and that knowledge has made it into one of the most awkward and gut-busting shows around. Now celebrating six years of “personal redemption through public humiliation,” “Mortified” brings on another night of disgrace and shame wherein brave souls present artifacts from their adolescence before the audience — sexually frustrated love letters, melancholy diaries, photos, and whatever else that hasn’t been cast into the fire. Look out for the television series, “The Mortified Sessions,” on the Sundance Channel beginning Dec. 5. (Miller)

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Thursday 12/8 Ganglians “I’m just gonna riff around now,” says Ganglians vocalist Ryan Grubbs on “Things to Know” from the band’s sophomore fulllength, Still Living (Lefse). “Riffing around” could be this indie acidpop quartet’s modus operandi. As Beach Boys-esque vocal harmonies and surf rock guitars drift into weird pysch-folk freak out territory, it’s clear that these Sacramento hippies are simply doing what feels right. All the free associative genre-melding is anchored by heavily echoed guitar and Grubbs’ colorful vocals. Ganglians invite you on a spirit journey. I suggest you come along. (Frances Capell) With Young Prisms 8 p.m., $14 Independent 628 Divisadero, SF (415) 771-1421 www.theindependentsf.com

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Friday 12/9 “Tricycle Records Holiday Party” Now in its fifth year, Tricycle Records’ annual holiday party has become something of a winter tradition, prompting one to wonder aloud each year, “Why aren’t we throwing them the party?” Founded in 2006 by Julie Schuchard and Don Joslin, the independent label has graciously served the local music community by representing do-ityourself, local acts like the Frail, Geographer, and the Blacks. In doing so, it has become an indispensable fixture. At this year’s holiday bash, DJs Just Blaz of Geographer, Mario Muse (Wave Not Wave, Queen is Dead), and Julie T. (of Tricycle) spin records, with an open vodka bar from 910 p.m. sponsored by Pearl Vodka and sweets by Queen of Pops at midnight. Free with online RSVP at Eventbrite. So, why aren’t we throwing them the party? Because Tricycle Records simply does it better. (Miller) Milk Bar 1840 Haight, SF

If anyone needed more evidence that nightlife can change the world — or proof that a group of insanely talented and gorgeous people on a stage can change your life, for that matter — glorious, Tony-showered Broadway musical Fela! provides in spades. Now playing at the Curran Theatre (go see it), Fela! stages the life of puckish 1970s Nigerian dissident and manically creative Afrobeat inventor Fela Anikulapo Kuti as a live concert in his famous club, the Shrine. Fitting, then, that on the final weekend of the show’s run there’s going be a major party. One of our own finest Afrobeat purveyors, DJ Said of Fatsouls Records, will play along with members of the Fela! band, featuring members of the famed Antibalas Orchestra. It should be

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Friday 12/9 José James José James is a rarity in an era when the words “male, jazz, vocalist” might make a person think of Michael Bublé and run. After he

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was “discovered” a few years back by BBC1 super-DJ Gilles Peterson, James (who fittingly appears at both Yoshi’s and the New Parish this week) gained recognition as the “hip-hop” jazz singer. James’s previous album, 2010’s Black Magic, was a blend of traditional and forward-looking sounds, featuring production from Flying Lotus and remixes by SBTRKT, among others. But whatever he’s singing over, the guy’s baritone is immediately recognizable and memorable, with an easy intimacy that recalls Curtis Mayfield as much as Lou Rawls. (Ryan Prendiville)

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Saturday 12/10 Tycho San Francisco’s own Scott Hansen, a.k.a Tycho, has had a busy autumn, playing two September festivals in Seattle, touring the East Coast with a full band in support of Sweden sensation Little Dragon, and releasing his new album Dive (Ghostly International). Dive has the inviting feel of the Boards of Canada’s The Campfire Headphase — a collage of expansive synths and spacey guitar chords, presented mostly at an unhurried pace. When not creating music, Hansen is updating his design blog with his hand-crafted album covers and posters as well as visuals that accompany his shows. Hansen’s live performance is really audiovisual — the melodic and playful “Hours” is synchronized with vintage footage of surfers, while the sparse and deliberate “Adrift” is paired with clips of massive glaciers. (Kevin Lee)

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as such: Denver-based musicians Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore meet in college, get married, spend half a year exploring the Eastern seaboard together on a sailboat, and then return home to write a charming pop album based on their travels. Luckily, upon hearing Cape Dory, worries about the kitschy and cutesy means in which it was conjured up fade away in a hurry. All the trendy staples of modern indiepop can be found in spades — from the jangly surf guitar and AM radio melodies, to the reverbheavy lo-fi production — but they’re balanced well enough to rightfully keep Moore’s dreamy lead vocals as the main focus. (Landon Moblad)

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Saturday 12/10 American Steel Studios, located in the heart of the East Bay’s industrial arts landscape, has been known for churning out some of the biggest and baddest-ass pieces to hit the playa in recent years. But under artist and manager Karen Cusolito’s direction, the sprawling space has been polishing up its act, adding

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floor marks the spot for a onenight mini-marathon of 100 artistic moments. Unfolding in rapid succession from 5:59 p.m. until midnight, the two-minute performances include commissioned work by artist Jennifer Locke and Allan deSouza, chair of San Francisco Art Institute’s new genres department, addressing the human body. Few rules contain site specific Third Strike, the third iteration of the time-based art biennial with a history of radical self expression and experimentation. It’s the brainchild of SOMArts curator and gallery director Justin Hoover, serving as an open forum reflecting contemporary media and pop culture. (Julie Potter)

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Avey Tare (a.k.a. Dave Portner) stated that he had no plans to tour alone. His haunted swamp of a record took Tare to a dark place he didn’t care to revisit every night. It’s been over a year since its 2010 release, and Tare’s finally embarking on a brief tour featuring the warped and murky jams of his solo full-length debut. If I’m gonna be dragged to hell, I like to imagine I’ll be escorted by this bog monster, dancing all the way Down There. (Capell)

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Yee-haw! Not only is the recent Pacific Film Archive series “Southern (Dis)Comfort: The American South in Cinema” making the jump ‘cross the bay to the Roxie, it’s bringing a few bonus selections tailor-made for lovers of deliciously trashy movies (literally so in some cases, like 1957 bucket of bayou sleaze Poor White Trash). Nip over to the Roxie’s website for the full schedule, but as far as I’m concerned, the main event is Herschell Gordon Lewis’ 1964 tribute to Southern hospitality, Two Thousand Maniacs! In one of his finest (and, allegedly, favorite) efforts, the Godfather of Gore roasts a damn Yankee in a barbecue and rolls another one down a hill in a nailfilled barrel. He also penned theme ditty “The South Will Rise Again,” which bests even a certain tune from Deliverance (1972) as the creepiest, catchiest song ever to emanate from a banjo. (Cheryl Eddy) 5:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m., $6.50–$10 Roxie 3117 16th St., SF

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(Pete Quirk and Ryan Sollee) with voices that ring like mouthfuls of copper pennies and percussionists whose driving, swashbuckling rhythms would not be out of place at the pirate hoedown at the end of the world (there will be one, you know). Simultaneously conjuring images of encroaching darkness and unquenchable light, their raw, desperate, yet strangely hopeful songs will drag you two steps closer to damnation—and three steps nearer to redemption. (Nicole Gluckstern)

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choice nuns in 3-D flights of fashion fancy. The looks practically leap offstage! (Watch your eyes.) The Sisters are paired with more than 25 designers, coordinated by Jarred Garza of Archetype. And the resulting rainbow-hued cascades of folds, pleats, bulges, and other fabricated tumescences will astound you in a slightly lascivious way. No prudish Perpetual protrusions here, Patty. Jane Weidlin of the Go-Gos provides fun and catty commentary and a who’s-who of the SF underground takes notes for its next outfits. (Marke B.) 3 p.m.-9 p.m., $9–$20 Beatbox 314 11th St., SF. Facebook: Project Nunway III

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Tuesday 12/13 The Best American Nonrequired Reading Think of The Best American Nonrequired Reading as some amalgamation of an almanac, a literary anthology and a bunch of scattered “Best American” lists, including “Best New American Band Names” and “Best American Wikileaks Revelations.” Series editor Dave Eggers, founder of McSweeney’s and 826 Valencia, collaborates every year with high school students to piece together the annual compendium. Three writers will read from their contributions to this year’s version. The Bay Area’s Daniel Alarcón and Tom Barbash will read some of their recent fiction, while Hollywood’s Joshuah Bearman will sample a piece he produced for Wired Magazine. Sure, the tome is the latest in a “nonrequired” reading series, but for readers who want a sizable, 500-page chunk of Americana, this book is absolutely essential. (Lee) Benefit for the 826 National nonprofit With Daniel Alarcón, Tom Barbash, and Joshuah Bearman 9 p.m., $20 Books Inc. 601 Van Ness, SF (415)776-1111 www.hmhbooks.com

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OUR BOOKROOM, OURSHELVES: A LENDING LIBRARY IN VIRACOCHA IS STOKING A READING BOOM GUARDIAN PHOTOS BY CAITLIN DONOHUE

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Ourshelves turns over a new leaf for broke bookworms BY CAITLIN DONOHUE caitlin@sfbg.com LIT On a Wednesday night in a Mission basement, a group of new friends has gathered to celebrate a library. Onstage, a man and a woman struggle to maintain their solemnity while reading a passage from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest on the fallacy of video phone calls. In the dimness, the rest of the members of Ourshelves sit in chairs and on benches, everyone doubtless reflecting on the power of the written word. Kristina Kearns has reinvigorated the concept of the lending library in the back room of Viracocha — a Mission antique store that since its opening has been a comfortable hangout for the young artist-types who sell their chapbooks and jewelry lines there. Given the enthusiastic turn out for the Ourshelves open mic reading appreciation night, her project appears to toss aside the notion that physical books are on the out in the electronic age. This summer, with the permission of Viracocha owner Jonathan Siegel, Kearns built a beauty-loving bibliophile’s dream. Spines of tomes by hard-to-find European authors and easily-located Bay Area favorites are immaculately arranged on shelves she built herself of wood and pipe. Local artists brushed a mural of a tree made out of books on the back wall, right by the built-in bench, desk, 22 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

and ever-present bottle of whiskey that lucky reader-members can steal nips from time to time. Ourshelves’ membership has expanded to 100, though not everyone pays the full $10 a month fee for checking out an unlimited amount of books. Member requests determine the new titles that come in, but Kearns had a specific vision for her catalog when she created the space, born out of her own wants in a time of need. The story of how she got the idea for Ourshelves is appropriately literary. Kearns had been living on the small Grecian island of Santorini living and working in a bookshop during the off-season. Political unrest forced her to suddenly and abruptly return to the States. Where she was broke. And — egads! — couldn’t afford books. “It’s hard to find international books in the library,” she says one afternoon amongst her shelves. “And I realized I didn’t love reading, I needed reading.” Like meditation, she found, it makes her a happier person. And she was perplexed with friends in the publishing world that called print dead. Perhaps all books needed, she thought, was a jolt in the distribution area. “What if we just try?” she remembers asking herself. “What if we don’t complain and just try? Jonathan let me try, and I think that’s awesome.” EDITORIALS

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It turned out that Kearns wasn’t the only person who yearned for a place with a wellselected inventory that could be perused for a pittance. Publishing houses and even author Michael Chabon donated to Ourshelves, and local authors now curate their own sections in the space. The results were so awesome, in fact, that now she’s hoping to re-create them across the city in family shelters and other nonprofits that need more reading material. First up is the Riley Center, a resource facility for battered women located in the Women’s Building. A January 11 ice cream social has been planned as its opening party. Next, she and volunteers will rehab two of the Dolores Community Resource shelters’ libraries (currently “bookcases with random books,” in her words) and create a third from scratch. Kids enrolled in the 826 Valencia writing program will aide in curating a children’s section, and foreign language titles will figure prominently. Kearns has words of advice for anyone proclaiming the death of the printed page. “One of the things we can do is flex our idea of what a bookshop is. Why do people go to bookshops in the first place?” At Ourshelves, the answer is simple: curation, creation, and good old-fashioned community. 2 OURSHELVES Located inside Viracocha, 998 Valencia, SF. (415) 705-9950, Facebook: Ourshelves

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TWO SISTERS BAR AND BOOKS A wholesome menu of harvest pie, savory bread pudding, and local brews draws happy hour diners, and during the day this skinny restaurant’s the perfect spot for a coffee and a tome snatched from one of the shelves that line its walls. Two actual sisters dreamed up the spot as a cross between Parisian bars, Brooklyn DIY restaurants, Viennese coffeehouses, and something totally different. A “books and booze club” meets monthly to tipsily discuss treatises like Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld (November’s selection). 579 Hayes, SF. (415) 863-3655, www.2sistersbarandbooks.com

ALLEYCAT BOOKS Outdoor fixin’s are wondrously un-cute — lime green paintjob over the old Wizard Smoke Shop signage — but inside the newest member of Kate Rosenberger’s bookstore family (which includes Dog Eared Books) is more than cozy. Vintage pulp novels lounge by the counter, new and used titles are arranged fetchingly throughout, and the back area’s construction zone (at the time of the Guardian’s visit) promises to be converted shortly into an area for gallery showings, readings — maybe even ping-pong between pages?

ROCK AND ROLL ALWAYS FORGETS By Chuck Eddy Duke University Press 352 pp., paper, $24.95 Chuck Eddy glides through music criticism like a grumpy fanatic. Each article included in Rock and Roll Always Forgets — culled from Eddy’s vast back catalogue of music journalism articles, beginning with the early 1980s — is packed with cultural references, touchstones, facts, witty asides, a dash of snark, and acknowledgments of once-obscure acts. Yet, he approaches each band like he’s the first to have discovered it. He’s a musical anthropologist, but also, archeologist, digging up the remains of musicians past, lest we forget. Take a piece on a Marilyn Manson show, written in 1996. More than simply describing the stage and the crowd (which he does, expertly: “[they] wore too much black makeup, but they didn’t scare me — most seemed to be uppermiddle-class Catholic school teens from the burbs...”). He wanders near profundity, dissecting Manson’s overall persona, his ticks, his own cultural references, and those who came before him, namely Alice Cooper, but a great many more. Most importantly, Eddy alludes to why that all matters in the least. (Emily Savage)

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TROPIC OF CHAOS By Christian Parenti Nation Books 295 pp., hardcover, $25.99 Through historical research and on-theground reporting in Kenya, war-torn areas of Afghanistan, and other regions marked by intense conflict, Christian Parenti offers an unusual and compelling analysis of violence through the lens of the environment. Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New CONTINUES ON PAGE 24 >>

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WHAT’S A “BLOG�? THE ZINE FIEND SCENE IS STRONGER THAN EVER | GUARDIAN PHOTO BY MIRISSA NEFF

LIT For the winter holidays many years back, I received a long-arm stapler. It wasn’t a surprise, I’d expressly asked for it. And no, I was not a teenage office supply fetishist. I wanted the stapler because I wrote, cut-and-pasted, and handassembled my own zine, and that process was about to get a lot more efficient, thanks to my new long-arm. Those who’ve crafted

their own DIY booklets know the thrill of the further-stretching stapler that meets the paper crease. While the Web has undoubtedly taken some oomph away from the world of paper zines (though in some cases, it simply enhances viability), there are people, shops, and art collectives that remain dedicated to the physical craft. It’s all for that undeniable, hold-in-your-hands, flip the pages, hard copy appeal of print. And not all zines are of the cut-and-paste, photocopied variety, mind you; some are works of elaborate graphic art, others speak to controversial topics that tend to get ignored by mass media. Some, like Put An Egg on It, which I picked up at Dog Eared Books (900 Valencia, SF. 415-282-1901, www.dogearedbooks.com) in the Mission District, offer cooking tips matched with eye-popping color photos. Additionally at Dog Eared, I grabbed a zine on the history of wigs, an infographic on young Marlon Brando, and a booklet with pencil drawings of octogenarians alongside live-long advice. In San Francisco, you also can buy fresh zines at Needles & Pens (3253 16th St., SF. 415editorials

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255-1534, www.needlesandpens. com), among other locally owned bookshops — co-owner Andrew M. Scott estimates that the store has between 75 and 100 zines in-house at any given moment. Some of the newest acquisitions include Victoria Yee Howe’s Let’s Get Lost Freight Train Diary (a 72page zine of train hopping stories), Gabe Connor’s photocopied music fanzine Thick Fog, and Marissa Falco’s META — a fanzine all about SF artist Margaret

Kilgallen. Cometbus, Burn Collector, Jay Howell’s Punks Git Cut, and Finn Cunningham’s Mental Health Cookbook are some of the store’s all-time bestselling zines. Says Scott, “Despite popular belief, people still appreciate tangible items.� Jennie Tanouye, an assistant manager at Oakland magazine mecca, ISSUES (20 Glen, Oakl. 510-652-5700 www.issuesshop. com ), concurs. The majority of the zines that ISSUES sells are physically brought in by creators to sell on assignment. The store’s main criteria for zines is that they must be made locally. Other than that, topics are all over the place: graffiti, cooking, photography, a cat-rabbit psychic detective (Roman Muradov’s P/d Indigest). One new zine Tanouye points out is by a Japanese artist who was visiting the Bay Area. Junya Matsumera’s San Franshizuko is a dialogue between a character called Shizuko and passages from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, interspersed with photos. There also is No Gods No Matress #15, an autobiographical zine by Enola D. with a theme this issue of breakups and their aftermath. Trans male quar-

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terly Original Plumbing, feminist political punk zine Doris, and parenting and fatherhood zine Rad Dad are some of the perennially popular offerings at the store. Tomas Moriz is the force behind Rad Dad, a series he created six years back that’s now past 20 issues. Before Rad Dad, he created Boxcutter, and now, he’s starting a new one about teaching and the East Bay — and he’s looking for contributors. He’s a longtime preacher on the beauty of zines,

but also doesn’t disparage blogs. “I don’t believe the zine/blog dichotomy is antithetical. Blogs are cool. But...there’s something sexy about zines, something private and personal, which a blog will never have,� he says, adding, “One of the main contributors to Rad Dad found a copy of it on BART. He read it and then became a key contributor. You will never find a blog in a park or shake hands and exchange blogs at a punk show.� This weekend, Moriz is hosting one of a few local zine fairs — the East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair (the unaffiliated San Francisco version was back in fall, and the Rock Paper Scissor collective’s East Bay Zine Fest was a few weeks back). The fair will include 39 full tables and 16 half table vendors, and this year — it’s the event’s second time around — Rad Dad’s teenage daughter, Zora Moniz, will be tabling a zine. 2 EAST BAY ALTERNATIVE PRESS BOOK FAIR Sat/10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., free Berkeley City College 2050 Center, Berk. Facebook: East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair

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The United States Army collects the bodies of Peoples Temple members (left); Jim Jones (in sunglasses) joins a bucket brigade in Jonestown. | Photos courtesy AP (left); California Historical Society (right).

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A Thousand Lives’ harrowing, heartfelt Jonestown journey By Cheryl Eddy cheryl@sfbg.com LIT “As one survivor told me,” author Julia Scheeres writes in her introduction to A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown (Free Press, 320 pp., $26), “nobody joins a cult.” I remembered this refrain, possibly spoken by the same survivor, from Stanley Nelson’s 2006 Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple. Recent works like Nelson’s film and Scheeres’ book suggest perceptions about Jonestown are shifting away from sensationalism. The broad strokes are well-known: a charismatic, maniacal preacher; a jungle settlement; over 900 people dead, including a Congressman; a vat of poisoned punch. But the story — explored in A Thousand Lives as a deeply disturbing human tragedy on a nearly unthinkable scale — neither starts nor ends there. Scheeres, who keeps an office in the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, pored through recently-released FBI files while researching A Thousand Lives. “The FBI released its files on three CDs, without a real index. So a letter that started on CD one, page 20, could end on CD three, page 350,” she remembers. “Organizing the material — 50,000 pages of documents — a lot of it was really boring shipping manifests. Crop reports. But then, oh, hey! Here’s a memo from the camp doctor discussing with [Jim] Jones how they’re gonna kill everyone.” Building from this material, the book focuses on five Peoples Temple members and views the experience of Jonestown through their eyes. editorials

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“[I chose my subjects] based on whether they were still alive, and I was able to interview them at length, or whether they had left a lot of primary source documents behind,” she says. “I also wanted to talk about the different demographics of the church, so you have old, young, black, white. A woman who has an MFA from San Francisco State, and a young black man with a GED from Oakland.” Though A Thousand Lives does offer some background on Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones, “I wanted to know what it was like to be a rank-and-file member of the church,” Scheeres says. She uncovered powerful evidence that Jonestown was not a mass suicide, as the unfortunate phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” suggests. Instead, she says, “it was a mass murder.” As suggested by that sinister memo from the camp doctor, A Thousand Lives’ most startling revelation is that Jones had been fixated on killing his followers long before the events of November 18, 1978. According to Scheeres, he considered loading his congregation onto buses and plunging them off the Golden Gate Bridge, or onto a plane “and having someone shoot the pilot.” (Eerily, he even sent one of his followers to flight school in preparation.) Soon, though, he was consumed by the idea of Jonestown: “a new society in the middle of the virgin jungle, a utopia that would be free of sexism, racism, elitism, and all other evil-isms,” Scheeres writes. The promises of Jonestown echoed Jones’ seemingly progressive message of equality, which is what picks

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attracted most Peoples Temple members to the church in the first place. It was also what had endeared Jones to San Francisco politicians, who were in awe of his ability to “mobilize thousands of people to vote,” according to Scheeres. But in reality, “he had no desire to see his followers flourish in South America. He was already fantasizing about their deaths. Would his people die for him if he asked them to?” Turns out they had no choice. While she was writing A Thousand Lives, Scheeres took a trip to Guyana and visited what’s left of Jonestown. “It’s remote, dense jungle,” she says. “Everything looks the same. It would be so easy to get lost. And as you’re walking through, you can hear things slithering in the leaves. Jim Jones told [his followers] that if they tried to escape, they’d be killed by ‘mercenaries’ — really, his sons that were [hiding and] shooting on the camp — or they would be killed by the jungle animals.” Of course, when they left San Francisco, more or less willingly, Peoples Temple members — like Scheeres subject Hyacinth Thrash, an elderly African American woman who dreamed of a place where racism didn’t exist — expected to find a “utopia,” as they’d been promised. “[Jones] was so suave and gentle in San Francisco, and would tell you what you wanted to hear, like the ultimate caring father figure. Then once he got down to Jonestown and had everyone trapped there, he just turned. You can hear him on those tapes just screaming, you know. ‘You old bitch, you’re gonna die!’,” Scheeres shudders. “The rank-andfile had no idea that he had this

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ideation of ‘revolutionary suicide’ until it was too late. They couldn’t escape. They were surrounded by guards holding crossbows, and behind them, a circle of guards with guns, and basically told, ‘If you don’t drink the poison, we’re going to shoot you.’ ” Though she has no direct personal connection to Jonestown, Scheeres’ own background, detailed in her 2005 memoir Jesus Land, made her an unusually sympathetic outsider. “The interests aligned: race, religion, seclusion. When I was a teen, my brother and I were sent to this religious reform school in the Dominican Republic, where all of our communications with the outside world were censored, where all of these horrible things were happening that we couldn’t let anybody know about,” she says. “Obviously my situation wasn’t as bad [as Jonestown]. The head of the school wasn’t goading us toward revolutionary suicide. But the whole sense of powerlessness and feeling trapped and helpless — I could identify with that.” Decades later, Jonestown continues to fascinate; dozens of books have been written by survivors, relatives of survivors, conspiracy theorists, cult experts, and scholars of macabre history. A Thousand Lives — meticulously researched, and written with clear-eyed, sensitive perspective — is a valuable resource for readers seeking truth, not misinformation, about the tragedy. “Most people under 40 probably don’t remember Jonestown well, if at all. But most people have heard the phrase ‘drinking the Kool-Aid.’ I find that phrase very offensive, film listings

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because they didn’t drink the KoolAid. First of all, it wasn’t Kool-Aid, it was Flavor Aid. Second of all, they were forced to drink the poison. ‘Drinking the Kool-Aid’ implies naïve, stupid, not thinking, kind of dumb, following the leader, and not questioning. And they were questioning. That’s what my book argues throughout,” the author says. “They argued with Jones: ‘We didn’t come down here to die. We came down here for a better life for ourselves and our kids.’ So I think ‘drinking the Kool-Aid’ needs to be excised from the cultural lexicon.” What’s more, “I hope people will reconsider the conclusions of Jonestown after reading the book,” Scheeres says. “I think it’s a tremendously compelling tale; 918 people died that day, as a result of Jim Jones, and younger generations need to be cognizant of that. Again, he had his people trapped in Guyana, so by the time they were saying, ‘I want to go home’ — and that’s another heartbreaking thing, was finding all these notes from people to Jim Jones, saying ‘I want to go home. I want to go back to San Francisco. I hate it here. I’m miserable. My children are afraid and I don’t know how to tell them that death is a good thing’ — [it was too late]. Reading all of those notes, these voices have been silenced. Now, finally, I feel like I am the loudspeaker, or their medium for letting their voices be heard. It’s too late [to save them]. They’ve been dead for 33 years. But for the record — they did not want to die.” 2 www.juliascheeres.com

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(FOEFS IPQQJOH QSPUBHPOJTU 7BOFTTB .JDIBFM .VOSPF JT CBDL JO UISJMMFS The Innocent BY TIM REDMOND tredmond@sfbg.com LIT If you’re shopping for that special thriller fan on your list, you might want to pop an I.O.U. into his or her stocking: the best thriller of the year doesn’t hit bookstores until Dec. 27. That would be The Innocent (Crown, 336 pp., hardcover $24) by Taylor Stevens, who came out of nowhere to hit the New York Times bestseller list with her first novel, The Informationist. Stephens back with the same series character (Vanessa Michael Munroe), the same edgy but brilliant prose, and a plot that takes us into the real — and chillingly autobiographical — world of an abusive apocalyptic cult. That’s where Stevens grew up: she was born into the Children of God, where nobody was allowed more than a fifth-grade education, adults took sexual advantage of teenagers, young women were forced into prostitution (all in the name of recruiting new members), and adults were almost as frightened to leave as to stay. There’s a bit of a J.K. Rowling story here: Stevens started writing The Informationist when she arrived in Houston with her then-husband and two kids. With no job skills, just out of the cult, her family was living on minimum-wage jobs, barely scraping by — and after buying a Robert Ludlum book at a garage sale, she decided to write a thriller. “I was really, really just scraping by, it was horrible,� she told me in a recent phone interview. picks

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Three new lit releases by hip-hop greats put forth visions of change BY CAITLIN DONOHUE caitlin@sfbg.com LIT The Occupy movement, though it’s been criticized by many for the lack of racial diversity among protesters, has certainly attracted its share of black rappers. Here in the Bay, Boots Riley has been a vocal supporter, participating in Oakland’s November 2 general strike. On the other side of the country Occupy Wall Street has met Kanye West, not to mention music mogul Russell Simmons (okay, he’s not a rapper) making space in his predatory debit card-selling schedule to stage rants over the influence of lobbyists on the federal government. And how could forget the furor that erupted over Jay-Z’s line of OWS-inspired Rocawear T-shirts? Boots, we love you man — but there was a time when all of hip-hop was going to save the world, not just sell its most vital revolutions for $22 a shirt. The time is ripe, it seems, for some books to pay homage to that fact. And although they vary in the specifics, there are a few that are doing just that.

THE PLOT AGAINST HIP HOP By Nelson George (Akashic Books, 176pp, paper, $15.95)

Hip hop academic par excellence Nelson George is occupying the bottom half of a computer screen for a Skype-conducted interview with the Guardian. George’s latest novel (his third, though he’s better known for his non-fiction, including the seminal Death of Rhythm and Blues) follows the adventures of D. Hunter, a security guard from the projects of Brownsville, Brooklyn. Hunter is embroiled in the murder of Dwanye Robinson, a hip hop academic who bears more than a passing resemblance to George himself. To solve the crime, Hunter must plunge into the untoward world of the hip-hoperati — the movers and shakers and producers and makers that may or may not be out to annihilate the culture’s populist powers. George isn’t an adherent of all the conspiracy theories in the book. But he is concerned about a “chill factor” that has artists considering the views of corporate sponsors before penning 28 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

lyrics that speak truth to power. “This stuff they’re making,” he says, speaking of today’s radio stars in his characteristically familiar tone (he is, after years of writing about them and producing VH1’s Hip Hop Honors awards show, on a first name basis with many of the big guns). “They’re not even hoping for art. They’re just hoping to sell sugar water, T-shirts — whatever Jay(-Z)’s selling this week. I don’t think people were feeling that way about L.L., Eazy E. “There was a whole period when every success, every commercial was a cause for celebration,” he says. “Now, the whole game has to change.” And in Occupy, he sees an opportunity. Emcees have made their way down to Zuccotti Park — and not just Simmons and Jigga. Talib Kweli, Lupe Fiasco, and David Banner (of “Whisper Song” fame) have performed and listened at their local Occupy encampment. “I think this will goose people to deal with a lot of things that are going on,” says George. Reading the rife-with-history Plot Against Hip-Hop can’t hurt one’s knowledge of the institutional forces behind what we hear on the radio. Says George before signing off: “Every book I write is a tool of education.”

THE LEGENDS OF HIP HOP By Justin Bua (Harper Design, 160pp, hardcover, $34.99)

Of course, not every one believes in the institutional approach to social change. Hip-hop artist and author Justin Bua follows the personal habit gospel. “Veganism, that would really change the world,” he says. “Everyone should have a garden if they can. When people lead, the leaders follow.” This individualized vision of change makes sense in relation to Bua’s art. He is a portraitist, famous for “The DJ,” a print of which went viral in the college-dorm-room-poster sense of the word. Though he started out by painting jazz scenes, he created “The DJ” after convincing his distributor that there was a chance that hiphop images would sell just as well. He was right — that initial foray turned out to be one of the top selling posters of all time. EDITORIALS

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His most recent project is a love ode to similarly meteoric rises: to the B-boys, graffiti artists, emcees, and producers that made it to the top of the pack. In Legends of Hip-Hop, Bua pairs his trademark expressive faces and limbs with kind-of journal entries that sum up what they to him, or to the world of hip-hop at large. Veganism doesn’t make an appearance — but that’s not to say the book is without social significance for him. “These people are part of our history,” Bua says during his Guardian interview at vegan Mexican restaurant Gracias Madre. “It’s really in the tradition of the Grecos, the Raphaels, the Rubins.” And where the old masters painted kings and queens, Bua paints Biggie and Queen Latifah. To Bronx-bred Bua, they are royalty and more than that, the meter sticks of our time. Hip-hop’s effects can even be seen in the Oval Office (President Obama’s is the face that concludes Legends of Hip-Hop). Bua thinks this power can be harnessed. “If you look at all the money generated by hip-hop — that could change the world.” And by no means does he think that the animal-productfree lifestyle and that of beats and breaks are unrelated. “I think being vegan is the ultimate expression of hip-hop,” he says before rattling off a list of dairy-free icons. (KRS-ONE, Russell Simmons, Dead Prez, DJ Qbert, and famous breakdancer Mr. Wiggles the are all vegans.) “It’s irreverent, subversive, truth — it’s about having a clear head and mind. The ultimate form of respect is to not eat each other. That’s fucking weird.”

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including the acclaimed August, elevating local cuisine in forward-thinking ways. His original book My New Orleans is a striking post-Katrina ode to one of the greatest cities in the world and its vibrant culinary history. It’s a gorgeous coffee table volume packed with photos of the region’s people, places, and foods — more than 200 recipes from Mardi Gras specialties to gumbo, many with a contemporary twist. Besh just released, My Family Table, with welcoming, everyday recipes he cooks with his family that are healthy, fresh, simple, and heartwarming. Besh’s star power (Iron Chef champion and James Beard award-winner that he is) never dominates. Like New Orleans, it’s a visually beautiful book, but this time themed by “School Nights,” “Breakfast with my Boys,” and recipes like “Curried Anything” or “Creamy Any Vegetable Soup.” Closing with the key element of cooking, the communal, he writes: “If asked what my last meal would be, I’d reply, ‘Any Sunday supper at home, cooked with love, for people I love.’” (Virginia Miller)

SOME DAY, IT’LL ALL MAKE SENSE By Common (Atria Books, 320pp, hardcover, $25)

Common’s autobiography (which he penned with the help of ghostwriter Adam Bradley) debuted in the 20th spot of the New York Times’ hit parade. The book itself is heartrendingly earnest — you’ll find none of the sly jabs of Bua or George hidden among its pages. But in a way, it is the more personal ode to the curative powers of hip-hop than either of those authors’ tomes. Putting aside the namedropping of ex-lovers (Erykah Badu) and current brothers (Kanye West), Some Day exposes a shocking truth. Common, he himself insists, is no more godly than the rest of us — he just chose the music as the rope that would pull him to that level. Sure, he wrote the woman-worshipping “The Light,” but don’t you still hear him using the word ‘bitch’? Common has perhaps the most call of the three authors to strike out against Tea Party tomfoolery and mechanized mediocrity in American government. (Lest we forget, when Obama invited him to perform at the White House, the Fox News Palin-Hannity-O’Reilly cabal screeched he was a “vile rapper” in part due to his song for Assata Shakur — something he speaks frankly about.) He also seems to have realized something that many haven’t: hip-hop can be, in fact has proven itself to be, a tool towards whatever ends an artist has in mind. The player shapes the game. Which is something, I fear, that will take a long time to start making sense to some. 2

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for more music content visit sfBg.com/noise One Way Station #PPN #PPN 3PPN QN Ash Reiter, Peach Kings &M 3JP QN Jonathan Richman (SFBU "NFSJDBO .VTJD )BMM QN

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cafedunord .com Available for Private Rental Dinner ‘til 11PM FRiDAY DeceMBeR 9th 8PM $18/$20 (SiNgeRSONgwRiteR) ALL AgeS

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FRiDAY DeceMBeR 9th 9PM $12 (cOUNtRY)

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Thurs, Dec 8, 8pm

the weSt cOASt RAMBLeRS DJ tANOA

SAtURDAY DeceMBeR 10th 9:30PM $12 (ROck)

eRic McFADDeN AND FRieNDS / cON BRiO

John Waite

+ Raquel auRilia

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Thurs, Dec 8, 10:30pm

JoSe JameS band

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SAtURDAY DeceMBeR 10th 8PM $15/$20 (SiNgeR-SONgwRiteR) ALL AgeS

Fri, Dec 9

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SUNDAY, MONDAY, tUeSDAY & weDNeSDAY DeceMBeR 11th, 12th, 13th & 14th 7:30PM $12-$20 SLiDiNg ScALe (ROck) ALL AgeS

Mon, Dec 12

RobeRta donnaY JaSS enSemble + chelle! & FRiendS ................................................

BLUe BeAR SchOOL OF MUSic BAND ShOwcASeS thURSDAY DeceMBeR 15th 9PM $10-$20 SLiDiNg ScALe (ROck)

Tues, Dec 13

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Thurs, Dec 15 10:30pm

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Wed, Dec 7 traditional Jewish surf rock

FRiDAY DeceMBeR 30th 9PM $35 (ROck)

SAtURDAY DeceMBeR 31St 9:30PM $50 (ROck)

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Thurs, Dec 8

Duke Ellington holiday concert & Dance

weDNeSDAY JANUARY 4th 9:30PM $8 (DANce/ eLectRO) 18+

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Mon-Tues, Dec 12-13

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maRianne FaithFull

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Wed, Dec 14

SUNDAY JANUARY 8th 8:30PM $10 (FOLk/BLUeS)

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Fri-Sat, Dec 16-17

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EDINBURGH CASTLE PUB 950 Geary (415) 885-4074 ELBO ROOM 647 Valencia (415) 552-7788. ELEMENT LOUNGE 1028 Geary (415) 571-1362 ENDUP 401 Sixth St (415) 357-0827 FILLMORE 1805 Geary (415) 346-6000 540 CLUB 540 Clement (415) 752-7276 FLUID ULTRA LOUNGE 662 Mission (415) 615-6888 GLAS KAT 520 Fourth St (415) 495-6626 GRANT AND GREEN 1371 Grant (415) 693-9565 GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL 859 O’Farrell (415) 885-0750 HEMLOCK TAVERN 1131 Polk (415) 923-0923 HIFI 2125 Lombard (415) 345-TONE HOTEL UTAH SALOON 500 Fourth St (415) 546-6300 ICON ULTRA LOUNGE 1192 Folsom (415) 626-4800 INDEPENDENT 628 Divisadero (415) 771-1421 INFUSION LOUNGE 124 Ellis (415) 421-8700 IRELAND’S 32 3920 Geary (415) 386-6173 JOHNNY FOLEY’S 243 O’Farrell (415) 954-0777 KIMO’S 1351 Polk (415) 885-4535 KNOCKOUT 3223 Mission (415) 550-6994 LASZLO 2526 Mission (415) 401-0810 LEXINGTON CLUB 3464 19th St (415) 863-2052 MADRONE ART BAR 500 Divisadero (415) 241-0202 MAKE-OUT ROOM 3225 22nd St (415) 647-2888 MEZZANINE 444 Jessie (415) 625-8880 MIGHTY 119 Utah (415) 626-7001 MILK 1840 Haight (415) 387-6455 MISSION ROCK CAFé 817 Terry Francois (415) 626-5355 MOJITO 1337 Grant (415) 398-1120 NICKIE’S 466 Haight (415) 255-0300

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