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Last year, after receiving data from San Francisco, the Wall Street Journal reported on an investigation into the use of health reimbursement accounts by several local restaurants. It showed a group of employers evading the city’s health care law while charging their customers a “Healthy San Francisco” surcharge that is never actually spent on employees’ health care. Rather than providing health coverage to their workers, as customers are led to believe, the restaurants are allocating funds for HRAs — and taking back the funds before they can be used. The numbers speak for themselves: Of the $62 million that was set aside for health care accounts in 2010, more than $50 million was kept by employers. Workers spoke about never being notified about the accounts; being forced to jump through numerous, often onerous hoops to receive reimbursements or never receiving reimbursements; facing severe restrictions on use of the funds; and fearing retaliation for seeking to access the funds. It was clear that as long as employers can take back unspent editorials
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funds they have a large incentive to restrict workers’ access. In response, Supervisor Campos drafted an amendment to the Health Care Security Ordinance (known as Healthy San Francisco) that would have closed this loophole, which was being exploited by a small number of employers. The Chamber of Commerce, accompanied by the San Francisco Chronicle, made hysterical claims about impending job loss and business closures, and after the Board of Supervisors approved the legislation on a 6-5 vote, Mayor Ed Lee vetoed it. Supervisors Malia Cohen and David Chiu then authored “compromise” legislation that actually didn’t address the problem. Their version merely allowed employers to take back workers’ health care dollars after two years instead of one. This cosmetic change did, however, provide enough window dressing to please the Chamber, so the supervisors approved it and Mayor Lee signed it into law. Now, just a few months later, an article in the Public Press showed exactly why we opposed the Cohen/ Chiu amendment in the first place: It doesn’t really close the loophole. Employers can still take money back from the HRAs. This creates a clear incentive to choose HRAs
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over insurance — the worst option for workers. Furthermore, the loophole leaves responsible businesses that provide health coverage to employees through insurance or HSF competing against employers that exploit it by paying less into HRAs. Who’s gaming the system? A complete guide to restaurants with surcharges — and where the money goes — at sfbg.com/hsfscam We find it unconscionable that there are businesses charging customers a health-care surcharge and then keeping the money for profit. What is more unconscionable is that City Hall passed an amendment that continues to let it happen. The Department of Labor Standards Enforcement compliance data for 2011 will be available next month — and if that continues to show abuse of the HRA provision, then it’s time for the Board of Supervisors to end the charade and truly close the loophole once and for all. Healthy San Francisco is about providing health care for workers — not creating additional profit for businesses. 2 Assemblymember Tom Ammiano represents the 13th District. Supervisor David Campos represents District 9.
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EDITORIAL For most of the past year, Mayor Ed Lee had been taking a tough line with California Pacific Medical Center, the healthcare giant that wants to build a state-of-the-art 555-bed hospital on Cathedral Hill. The mayor had been telling a stunningly recalcitrant CMPC management that the outfit would have to put upwards of $70 million into affordable housing and spent millions more on transit, neighborhood and charity-care programs to mitigate the impacts of the massive project. But late in March, something happened. Under immense pressure from the Chamber of Commerce and other big business groups, the mayor buckled and agreed to a deal with woefully inadequate mitigation measures. The supervisors should reject the plan and force CPMC to do better. The biggest problem with a project this size is the mix of jobs and housing. Lee is properly concerned about creating jobs in a city where unemployment in some neighborhoods is stubbornly high. But the proposed deal only guarantees a tiny fraction of the 1,500 permanent new jobs for San Francisco residents. That means a city that has almost zero vacancy in affordable housing is going to have to absorb a workforce much of which won’t be able to buy or rent anything at current market rates. That means more competition for scarcer housing and higher rents and home costs for everyone. By any basic planning logic, CPMC should be on the hook for providing enough affordable housing for at least some reasonable percentage of its workforce. Instead, the hospital chain is offering about $33 million, only $3 million of which will be paid up front. That won’t even address half of the housing impact. Besides, the jobs will be there when construction starts, and more when the hospital opens; the limited affordable housing money will come much later. The highest-paid doctors and administrators may be able to afford the pricey new market-rate condos the city is madly approving — but
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BY YAEL CHANOFF news@sfbg.com Darryl Cherney is determined. “I have a mission in life,” he says. “And that is to find out who bombed Judi Bari.” Cherney was in the car with Bari, a fellow environmental activist from Earth First, when a pipe bomb wrapped with nails exploded, maiming Bari and leaving Cherney with serious injuries. It was 1990, and the two were in Oakland on their way to speak about the upcoming Redwood Summer, three months of picketing, tree-sitting, and otherwise blocking the clear-cutting of the California redwoods. The Redwood Summer went on, but not before Bari and Cherney were arrested. The Oakland Police Department said they had constructed the bomb themselves and were transporting it in the back seat. Before Bari and Cherney went to trial, it became clear that the bomb had been under the front seat (Exhibit A: Bari’s shattered pelvis and the unscathed backseat), and that there was absolutely no evidence Bari or Cherney had known it was there, and the charges were dropped. But the true culprit was never found — and, according to a new legal motion, crucial evidence was never tested for clues. In 2002, Cherney sued the FBI for attempting to frame him and Bari (who died in of breast cancer in 1997), and won. But he’s still set on testing the remaining evidence for DNA. “We rely on the government to examine physical evidence in a violent criminal case, and when they fail to do that, we have to react,” Ben Rosenfeld, Cherney’s attorney, told the Guardian. “It should be an open attempted-murder investigation.” Now the plaintiffs are trying to get that investigation on track. Last year, Cherney’s legal team secured an order preventing the FBI from destroying evidence that could contain the bomber’s DNA and ordering it turned over to an independent lab for testing. The FBI appealed, but on April 2, U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilkens issued an order preserving the material. EDITORIALS
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Now Cherney’s lawyers will ask the judge to certify a private lab to test the material. In August 2010, government lawyers had unceremoniously announced that they planned to destroy the case’s remaining evidence — the remnants of the bomb, a poster found in the car that was near the bomb when it detonated, and fingerprints and other results of fingerprint analysis. Lawyers for Cherney responded with a motion calling instead
Once again, the government was opposed, saying that “fundamentally, the plaintiff’s motion mistakes the absence of a decision for a decision.” But Wilkens disagreed, saying the evidence should be preserved and asking for what should be a noncontroversial proposal allowing the transfer to the Hayward lab. Bari’s case came out at the start of what became a large-scale FBI crackdown on environmental justice movements in the
for testing of the evidence; the government opposed the motion. But at a Sept. 8, 2010 hearing, Magistrate Judge James Larson ordered the FBI to turn the evidence over to an independent analyst for testing. Again, the feds opposed the order, and asked for a de novo review of the case, essentially asking that the court go over all previous briefings once again. The motion seemed like a stalling tactic, and it worked; the motion was pending in court for a year. Recently, it was brought back up again, when the plaintiff’s motioned to move forward with testing the evidence. They suggested a lab in Hayward, Forensic Analytics Laboratories.
1990s and throughout the 2000s. Activists protesting companies that they thought were harmful towards animals and the earth became a special a special target of the FBI in what became known as the “Green Scare.” The era was characterized by crackdowns on the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front, although it also affected groups like Food Not Bombs and Earth First. “The case was an early forerunner of what we call the Green Scare cases, where the government sets out to make examples of people it perceives as leaders to try to chill activism in the environmental movement,” said Cherney. “It was quite a scary season for
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environmental activists.” The Green Scare did a lot to quell environmental activism, and many who were arrested at its peak remain in prison. But it didn’t stop many — including Bari and Cherney — from continuing their work. “Both Judi and I continued right out of jail. Actually, in jail the police wrote in their police report that I was trying to convert them to environmentalism,” laughed Cherney. “But yes, I participated in Redwood Summer, the Headwater Forest Campaign right through 1999 and continued through 2003 and now I’m making a movie about it.” The movie, Who Bombed Judi Bari? has been doing well since it had its world premiere at the SF Green Film Festival March 2. The film’s reception is “definitely very gratifying,” says Mary Liz Thomson, the film’s director, who “spent a lot of time editing it living in a cabin on [Cherney’s] land up in the woods, using solar power.” Now she’s touring California with sold-out screenings, as well as some free screenings, including a well-attended March 26 screening at Occupy Oakland. Thomson says she has gotten positive feedback from occupiers and others currently working in social movements. “We’re just at the beginning of our launch and people are saying that it’s really relevant right now. The timing was great” Indeed, laws that build on the Green Scare have been rapidly passed in recent months, targeting other political groups. Controversy flared after President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows the U.S. to detain suspects without charge. Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that the government can kill its own citizens abroad without trial. And on Feb. 27, The House of Representatives voted in favor of HR 347, the so-called “Anti-Occupy Bill.” Who Bombed Judi Bari? is an important history lesson for those faced with these new challenges. And Cherney may finally be on track to finding out the answer to the title’s question. 2
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But the environmentalists, labor organizers, scientists, and community activists who make up Synbiowatch say this technology not only doesn’t live up to its speculative hype, but that it is being developed too rapidly and without adequate oversight given its potential to alter natural ecosystems in unpredictable ways. “We need a precautionary approach to health and safety,” Jim Thomas — program manager for ETC Group (which stands for Erosion, Technology, and Concentration) and lead author of the 2007 report “Extreme Genetic Engineering: An Introduction to Synthetic Biology” — told journalists during a March 28 briefing at Center for Genetics and Society in Berkeley. He was joined by UC Berkeley microbial ecologist Ignacio Chapela, a researcher who has publicized environmental impacts of the biotechnology industry; Nnimmo Bassey, executive director of Environmental Rights Action in Nigeria and chair of Friends of the Earth International; molecular biologist Becky McClain, who won a $1.4 million civil lawsuit against her old employer, Pfizer, after blowing the whistle on safety violations in its biotech research; Henry Clark of the West County Toxics Coalition; and Richmond activist Gopal Dayaneni of Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project. All took part in a conference the next day entitled “Unmasking the Bay Area Bio Lab and Synthetic Biology: Health, Justice, and Communities at Risk.” Thomas said this coalition formed in recent years to counter the rapid development of what he says is now a $1.6 billion indus-
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try that has successfully resisted meaningful government regulation and oversight, despite the fact that the microbes it produces “have no analog in nature, and they will grow and reproduce.” With no natural predators, the new microbes could reproduce unchecked. “We cannot allow these corporations to play God. They are not God,” said Bassey, who has spent a career combating the false claims and environmental degradation of some of the same big energy corporations (such as Chevron, Shell, and BP) sponsoring this new research. “It’s reckless, it’s out of control, it’s all about money.” The biggest target of these activists’ ire is Jay Keasling, who directs the JBEI program, helped found the Richmond lab, and has pioneered synthetic biology research for LBNL and UC Berkeley, in addition to starting several companies to take advantage of that research. His latest is Lygos, which he formed in February to develop commercial applications for JBEI’s work on developing new fuels. Keasling tells us that his critics are wrong and that these new microbes are basically just modifications of substances that scientists have worked with for decades and know how to safely handle. “What we’re trying to do is make the engineering of biology more reliable, so it’s safer and more predictable,” Keasling told us. He dismissed the idea that these new microbes could threaten ecosystems if they escape from the lab, noting that microbes whose genetic sequencing has been altered in experiments over the last 40 years haven’t proven
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will displace poor people around the world. “Farmers are being tricked to grow crops that are only for industrial uses,” he said. “Farmers that would normally grow crops for food will now be growing it for machines.” Bassey ridiculed claims that such crops would only utilized marginal lands, but Keasling said the idea is to make use of currently nonproductive vegetation such as switchgrass, using the new microbes to extract sugars from their cellulose. “My hope is the plants will be grown on marginal land and the people who own it will make money from growing it,” Keasling said. “In some ways, it’s giving something back to the farmers.” Dayaneni compared the new facility and industry to the short-sighted hubris of the nuclear industry before Japan’s Fukushima disaster: “You don’t build a nuclear power plant on the edge of the ring of fire and you don’t build a synthetic biology laboratory on the edge of the ring of fire either.” Yet Keasling said he and his colleagues are far more aware of these issues and the need for safety and security than activists are giving them credit for. “The synthetic biology community is made up of people who are really concerned about the environment,” Keasling told us. But McClain said her case shows corporations will often disregard worker safety and environmental consequences in pursuit of profits, often with the complicity of scientists enamored by new discoveries. “There is a lack of integrity and leadership in our scientific leadership,” she said, later adding, “The bottom line is we’re giving the scientific community the right to self-regulate, but that comes with responsibility.” Keasling said he thinks there is a middle ground possible because “we’re not against regulation, we believe in regulation, it’s important, but it has to be sensible.” He also defended the role that large energy and biotechnology corporations have played in funding this research and licensing the patented new technologies it produces. “We live in a capitalist system, somebody has to fund this research and science,” Keasling said. “The government doesn’t have the money.” 2 food + Drink
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We anD MR. JoneS 5IF PVTUFE 8IJUF )PVTF HSFFO KPCT BEWJTFS JT SFBEZ GPS NPSF QFPQMF QPXFS By Caitlin Donohue caitlin@sfbg.com the GReen iSSue No one can accuse Van Jones of being a one trick pony. In the early days of his activist career he monitored police violence in the Bay Area, and from there gradually widened the lens of his activist efforts. Jones formed the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland in 1996, then became a green jobs pioneer, promoting environmentally-friendly work in low income communities — a revolutionary tactic that eventually landed him a short-lived adviser position within President Obama’s Council on Environmental Quality. In his new book Rebuild the Dream (Nation Books, 278pp, $25.99) Jones has expanded his talking points to include the ways in which the financial sector has let us down, how Obama only did what we forced him to do (we gotta yell louder, Jones says), and how we can help fix the economy by focusing on “collaborative consumption.� Call it holistic activism. He’s launched a national junket to talk Rebuild that will bring him to the Commonwealth Club on April 16. arts + culture
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It is perhaps this kind of nuanced approach that scared the bejeezus out of the conservative demagogues whose smear campaign convinced Jones to resign from his White House post in 2009. Leave it to Glenn Beck to shame someone for saying he wanted “a whole new system� (as Jones proclaimed in a speech at a youth climate change conference.) The conservative media accused Jones of a communist past — which was accurate enough — and of signing a 9/11 truther petition that said that George Bush had prior knowledge of the World Trade Center attacks. He was innocent of this last point, the organization in question admitted months later, to a deafening media silence. But Jones hasn’t retracted his call for a new system. In fact, in the pages of Rebuild the Dream he seems to step into a post-resignation hybrid role, in which he is no longer an outsider activist, but still has no formal role in Washington, D.C. Accordingly, he seems less fired up by the actions of national politicians as the agenda-pushing energy of the Tea Party and
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Deep iN THe pacific NorTHwesT: caNDy sTripe sHriMp wiTH a criMsoN aNeMoNe, a HarBor seaL scraTcHiNG iTs Back, aND eerie sockeye saLMoN | beneath cold seas photos by david hall
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good at describing things. I went out and bought the best camera I could afford which was a Kodak Instamatic in a plastic housing with flashbulbs. That was how it all started. In those days the bar was very low, if you got an underwater photograph that was somewhat recognizable you could get it published. sfBG: What would you say inspired this project? DH: At first I started going because I loved the diving, I enjoyed being there and getting photographs. But after the first half dozen trips I realized that the material I was getting was good enough for a book. I got the idea for the book about five years ago, but all in all it took about 15 years. sfBG: What was a typical shoot like? DH: I was living on a small boat for a couple of weeks at a time, doing three dives a day, and then reviewing photos at night. The days would be consumed with getting ready for the dive, getting all the equipment on, waiting until the current was just right, getting into the water, diving for an hour, getting back to
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the boat, getting warm â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which takes another hour or two â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and then getting ready to dive again. Altogether I made about 500 dives from 1995 to 2010. Photographing underwater is much more difficult than photographing in air, and photographing in cold water is that much more difficult than photographing in warm water. No one had ever published a good book on underwater photography from a cold water destination in North America before. There are plenty of field guides, and fish ID books for fisherman, but no one had ever published a photographic book that tried to show the character of the ecosystem in an artistic way. The book required getting a lot of wide angle shots to include the scenery as well as the animals. Getting good clear, colorful photographs in cold water is difficult because of visibility issues. Also cold water filters out all of the warm colors in the spectrum (red, orange, yellow) so to see the colors you have to add light back. So I dive with a pair of powerful flash units that attach to the camera by way
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sfBG: So there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t someone handling lighting for you? DH: If I were a National Geographic contract photographer Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d probably have had a few assistants holding lights for me, but I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so lucky. I had to do everything myself. And in most cases I was diving completely alone. sfBG: People donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t associate such colorful and exotic creatures with our coast. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really wonderful that your book is changing that perception. DH: I certainly hope thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening. The book has been very well received, largely because nobody was aware of what was down there. I mean marine biologists and divers were, but ordinary people had no idea. People tend to protect what they know and value. Most Americans and Canadians are familiar with the aquatic species that we eat, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a whole ecosystem there that the great majority of us are completely unfamiliar with. I hope my book will make people aware that these things exist and want to feel more protective toward that whole environment. 2 XXX CFOFBUIDPMETFBT DPN
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the building, given that the facility exists to teach those in the industry how to grow it and operate legally under California law. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to take this out of the hands of violent criminals and into regulated law. We are a school. We train people how to obey the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laws. I hope they are still going after the guys with guns. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m outraged that we are not focused on gun crime,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. Many in Oakland would agree. Oakland City Council member Rebecca Kaplan, who has worked to legitimize and tax the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical cannabis industry, was on hand to signal her disapproval. She has described Oaksterdam and the industry as important to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s struggling economy. Outside the campus building, students of the school said that the training in how to legally produce a small quantity of regulated marijuana was an economic lifeline to them in a city where unemployment remains high. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oakland had a school shooting today, and people are dead and people are hurt,â&#x20AC;? said an Oaksterdam student named Anthony, referring to a shooting spree at Oikos University that left at least seven dead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These cops are here instead, raiding an educational facility.â&#x20AC;? Many in the crowd attempted to block the caravan of departing federal agents with their bodies, some laying in front of cars and others obstructing the road with their wheel chairs as the frustrations of Oaksterdam students and medical marijuana patients simmered. Oakland police intervened to escort the caravan, making two arrests outside the building. Jones said Oaksterdam intended to reopen quickly in the wake of the federal raid. 2
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The dreaM of 1833 By Virginia Miller virginia@sfbg.com aPPeTiTe Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing quite like Montereyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant 1833 in San Francisco. Yes, we boast fantastic food, cocktails, wine and beer lists that are competitive with the best in the world. But 1833â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magical setting sets it apart, truly the whole package. Housed in an adobe structure from 1833 (hence the name), I was captivated from the moment I stood on the patio lined with firepits, beneath a sprawling oak. A giant palm tree and redwoods tower over an expansive side deck. 1833 evokes New Orleans or haunted Savannah in Spanish-influenced California architecture. A broad wood door opens onto a series of enchanting rooms. Red velvet antique couches sit in front of a roaring library fireplace, an absinthe bar is tucked away upstairs, dining rooms are presided over by ghosts that have haunted the house over a century (note Hattieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Room upstairs). Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an intimate, onetable dining room, Gallitanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Room, with a boarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head guarding relics from the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former incarnation as Gallatinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, a restaurant where presidents and movie stars dined in decades past. The bar is mesmerizing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an illuminated white onyx top glows under slanted roof rafters, imbibers perched in coveted raised booths gaze down at the scene. But what about the food? This no style-over-substance scenario. Chef Levi Mezickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s menu wanders from whole-roasted meats to pizzas and pastas. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bone-in ribeye for two ($75) or a real splurge (temporary until the foie ban kicks in this June) of whole roasted lobe of foie gras ($150). Whole truffle chicken ($38) is blissfully decadent. The chicken is brined for two days with truffle butter injected under the skin. Pizzas editorials
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($16-17) are topped with Dungeness crab and leeks or pineapple and sopressatta, while dense, pillowy gnocchi ($22) rest in Parmesan cream with Swiss chard, chanterelles, pickled onions, and crispy croutons. Appetizers shine, like a delicate beet salad ($12) accented with Greek yogurt and hazelnuts, or a heartwarming helping of bone marrow ($16) with horseradish crust. Bites offer more gourmet delights, particularly fresh, raw hamachi ($6) dotted with pickled jalapenos, avocado, oranges. Among the best items on the entire menu are $4 biscuits: sundried tomato feta biscuits with roasted garlic basil butter or a bacon cheddar choice with maple chili butter. Both are flaky, dreamy delights, warm and soft under a smear of butter. Generous portions leave you fat and contented, while drink offerings threaten to outshine the food. Wine director Ted Glennon curates a playful, sophisticated wine list highlighting the best of the Central Coast and the world. His passion and palate have deservedly led to accolades such as being named one of 2012â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Food and Wineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top 10 sommeliers. Glennonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wine list is whimsically annotated with comments such as this one about Chardonnay: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The blonde bombshell has taken the hearts of so many...â&#x20AC;? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no slacker in any of his pairings. I was absolutely smitten with 2000 LĂłpez de Heredia ViĂąa Tondonia RosĂŠ ($50 bottle). This stunning rosĂŠ is unlike any Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever had, crisp and acidic, yes, but also funky, earthy, with notes of mushroom and ripe cheese. As it sits it sweetens, evoking sherry while maintaining its crispness. Local highlights were 2006 Caraccioli Cellars 2006 Santa Lucia Highlands Brut RosĂŠ, a dry, floral, sparkling beauty, and 2007 Pelerin food + Drink
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Death metal fans are eagerly awaiting At the Gate of Sethu, the newest album from South Carolina speeddemons Nile. Influenced, as always, by singer-guitarist Carl Sanders’ exhaustive study of Egyptian history and myth, the band’s new offering is sure to feature Nile’s distinctive traits: impossibly fast blastbeats (courtesy of drummer George Kollias), keening, Middle Eastern chords, and creepy, atmospheric interludes played on traditional instruments. Still, the chief delight for any Nile fan should be witnessing the band’s superhuman stamina and chops in person — despite a truncated opening set, few bands can play more individual notes in a single night.(Ben Richardson)
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Wednesday 4/4 Blank Tape Beloved featuring Brother Ali “Sometimes I don’t write a lot/ I know folks out there call that writer’s block/ I just call it my process/ It comes out when it’s ready to, I guess...” So explains Brother Ali in new single “Writer’s Block,” perhaps as a reply to fans asking about the lengthy stretches between releases.
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Thursday 4/5 Argentine Tango USA Festival not too long ago. Shortly after their hit single “Go Outside” went viral in the blogosphere, however, they landed a record deal and released their first album (Cults). Their vocals, which Follin belts out in a sweet, crooning manner, suggest foreboding themes like senseless depression, unalterable inadequacies, and uneven, entrapping love. You’ll most likely want to slowly sway to these songs — and reverently mimic Oblivion’s steady, controlled head banging. (Mia Sullivan) With Spectrals, Mrs. Magician 8pm, $21 Great American Music Hall 859 O’Farrell, SF
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There are few cities more similar to San Francisco than Buenos Aires — leaving aside the vagaries of bistec versus burrito and geographic shaping (121 compared to 203 square kilometers). The two are major cities with world-class art scenes, passionate histories of social protest, and dammit, we dance. Be you a hippie-shaker or a vogue hand-waver, the motion in your ocean will most surely respond to the sultry allure of tango, brought to us this week in spades in a big-time competition authorized by the Buenos Aires city government. Spring to attend a milonga, which is like a tango jam session, or take a seat to watch the pros pivot it out. (Caitlin Donohue) Thu/5-Sun/8, $20 competition spectator admission Check website for competition times San Francisco Airport Marriott 1800 Old Bayshore Highway, Burlingame www.argentinetangousa.com
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The Minneapolis-based emcee brings a big-picture perspective, striking a lyrical balance between brevity and bookishness. New (and free!) seven-song EP The Bite Marked Heart provides the appetizer for upcoming LP Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color. Ali brings in the band Blank Tape Beloved for what he describes as an impromptu and intimate performance. (Kevin Lee)
husband, director John Landis, for a screening of Three Amigos! (1986) — one of several projects they’ve worked on together over the years. On Friday she will join fellow costume designer Aggie Guerard Rodgers for a talk and screening of the classic American Graffiti (1973). (Sean McCourt)
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in the 1960s, ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s. So melt into the sunny jams that have shaped our fair city’s culture, expose your inner ecstasy, and rub against the person next to you; lovingly. Also, consider this is a prime opportunity to people-watch and swap Jerry Garcia-related personal transformation stories. (Sullivan) 9pm, $35 Great American Music Hall 859 O’Farrell, SF (415) 885-0750 www.slimspresents.com
Friday 4/6 Yours and Mine If contemporary performance originated partly in response to the cultural primacy of visual art, Macklin Kowal’s Yours and Mine suggests a full-circle act of reclamation in which performance shares not only space but a full dynamic partnership with other objets d’art. In it Kowal, a San Francisco
performer-choreographer and current artist-in-residence at Meridian Gallery, responds with capable, thoughtful intelligence to an exhibition by leading Irish contemporary painter Patrick Graham, in an hour-long performance installation involving ten dancers and all three floors of the gallery. The piece promises a further livening of the rooms beyond the already electric effect of Graham’s roiling canvases, as well as an exploration of the way we literally embody the aesthetic experience. (Robert Avila) Fri/6-Sat/7, 7:30pm, $10–$20 Meridian Gallery 535 Powell, SF (415) 624-6765. www.meridiangallery.org
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(The Apples in Stereo and of Montreal among them) are still pushing critically acclaimed music. Core member Jeff Mangum remains among the collective’s most followed musicians, even though his Neutral Milk Hotel released the last of its two LPs fifteen years ago. The everlasting appeal of On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea may stem from a refreshing rawness devoid of glossy production. In these two shows before Coachella, Mangum’s acoustic performances highlight his signature sweet serenade. (Lee)
on). Another key difference, this Thrones is actually just one dude: Seattle’s Joe Preston, the metalgrinding doom bassist/Moog-
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TRASH Nothing dates faster than yesterdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s futurism. Yet particularly at a moment when half the country seems bent on ordering us back to the past â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a past that might variably be identified as the Victorian era, the Inquisition, and the Dark Ages â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there is something comforting in revisiting old visions of the future. For the next seven Thursdays the Vortex Room boldly goes a few places youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve probably been before, several that earn brownie points for foreknowledge, and others that separate the scifi nerd from the sci-fi mega scholar. The familiar titles are still on the cultish side, like the intentionalcamp nirvana created by a double bill of 1980â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flash Gordon and 1968â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Barbarella. Likewise on the spoofy side is John Carpenterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1974 feature debut, Dark Star. Also fairly famous is horror specialist Mario Bavaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1965 Planet of the Vampires, a gorgeous color nightmare. But the rest of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Starship Vortexâ&#x20AC;? series dwells in forgotten netherworlds of cosmic fantasy from the advanced minds of Italian and Danish exploitationists, as well as Communist bloc filmmakers with higher budgets and less strictly-commercial aims. The sole all-Yank effort here is also the earliest, 1961â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s endearing The Phantom Planet, whose brave new universe of 1980 finds an ever-belligerent Ugly American astronaut stranded among Lilliputians (who shrink him down to their size â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the nerve!), whose females fight over this rugged lunk. The assertively bad acting, quaint FX, heavy (and heavy-handed) religious-philosophical overtones, dorky monster, and credit for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Electronic
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Space Equipment by Space Age Rentalsâ&#x20AC;? make this a classic of black and white sci-fi silliness. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, however, people were taking space exploration very seriously â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and no wonder, since the films were state funded, and the U.S.S.R.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s space program was one indisputable success in which (for a while) it even outpaced the West. Typically earnest was 1963â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Czech Voyage to the End of the Universe. Satellite â&#x20AC;&#x153;townâ&#x20AC;? Ikaria XB-1 and its 40 inhabitants are liberated from Earth orbit and sent to the closest star outside our solar system. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much attention to interpersonal relationships (as well as scantily clad gymnastics in the exercise lounge â&#x20AC;&#x201D; hey, fitness is important), and despite desultory suspense around radiation exposure, our interplanetary future ultimately looks bright. Interestingly, an assumption shared by nearly all the features here is that any future enemies we faced would be from â&#x20AC;&#x153;out there.â&#x20AC;? The inevitable sprinkling of jerks aside, humanity would have long since been joined in peace and prosperity by a one-government body Ă la the United Nations. Try floating that concept now. In the Me Decade and after even Socialist sci-fi lightened up, discounting the thesis statements made by Tarkovsky and his ilk. The East German-Romanian In the Dust of the Stars (1976) is a fair riot of silliness as Earth voyagers sample the high life on Tem 4 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; interpretive dancing, flavored inhalers, snakes slithering around party smorgasbords â&#x20AC;&#x201D; until our heroes discover
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By KimBerly Chun arts@sfbg.com muSiC Unable to resist a siren song with dark underpinnings, hanging low with heartbreak then taking you higher? Let Chairlift co-founder Caroline Polachek love you down when it comes to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take It Out on Me,â&#x20AC;? off her Brooklyn bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second album, Something (Kanine/Sony). Maybe it has to do with the choked-up soul with which Polachek wraps her hollowedout vocals around the fat, round syllables of the chorus, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Forget forgiveness / Forget all the rules / Just please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it here / Bring on the fire / Cause business is cruel.â&#x20AC;? Or the way that the trackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear, bell-like synth tones shiver delicately in the background â&#x20AC;&#x201D; icicles pelted by a thunder shower of arpeggios. But the overall effect sounds like a consummate sad girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hit, Ă la Bonnie Tylerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Total Eclipse of the Heart.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of my favorite songs on the record,â&#x20AC;? Polachek, 26, says sincerely as her bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vehicle makes its way to Montreal for a show. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to get all emo on you in an interview, but it was about a frightening series of events in a dream. My dream family was being threatened, and I offered up myself in exchange for them and I was killed. I witnessed my own funeral at the end, too...â&#x20AC;? She abruptly stops. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wow, we just saw an eagle, a big white raptor!â&#x20AC;? A moment later sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all kinds of vultures circling above us. Well, if our vehicle goes missing, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know where we were!â&#x20AC;?
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Edging away from that particular blackened fantasy, Polachek â&#x20AC;&#x201D; part visionary with a watchful, Patti Smith-like eye for opportune inspiration and part down-toearth every-girl happy to start an interview late so she can eat a sandwich â&#x20AC;&#x201D; quickly picks up her thread once more: the blazing hot August 2010 day she and bandmate Patrick Wimberly, 27, worked on the song. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea for the vocal movement came into my head, and I got excited about how it was sounding together, but all I could think about this was this horrible dream I had. The mood of the song was so sexy and fun and grooving, but this mood was so dry and awful and dark â&#x20AC;&#x201D; somehow the two things happening at once was what that was. I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the neat things about this record â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there are layers like that, and darker songs have elements of lightness.â&#x20AC;? The feeling of willingly bearing adulthoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s burdens â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chairlift co-founder Aaron Pfenning is long gone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; combined with Polachekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tendency to gravitate to the uncanny has rarely sounded so sumptuously effervescent than with the compulsively listenable, synth-dominated, and undeniably â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s-hued Something. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re itching for pop hooks, discover â&#x20AC;&#x153;Met Beforeâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amanaemonesia,â&#x20AC;? but if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re yearning for aural thrills and spills, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find those, too â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the spiraling Slinky keyboard runs of opener â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sidewalk Safariâ&#x20AC;? and the tinkling, buzzing textures of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frigid
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Spring.â&#x20AC;? The feeling of hermetic sonic richness, combined with Polachekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s undulating jazz- and R&B pop-touched vocals, stands alongside nothing less than Kate Bushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Dreaming (EMI, 1982) in its epic scope, tapestry of fictions, and blending of pop and prog. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was thinking a lot about textures when I was working on this record,â&#x20AC;? explains Polachek. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I kind of have a mental genre in my own head that kind of sounds like swimming pool music â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with a chorus on it that makes everything sound not culturally cool but literally refreshing. Things that sound frosty and crystalline. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I got into a mental genre of sounds that were acidic and driving, like a dragon opening its mouth and hissing,â&#x20AC;? she continues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was gathering playlists, and some of those ideas found their way into the record. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re living in a really playlist-y age, digging through the crates of history. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really into new age bath-time music.â&#x20AC;? Unfortunately while the pair was busy drawing Somethingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warm bath, Polachekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art-making has fallen by the wayside, apart from Chairlift videos. Still, her creative energies have obviously found a consuming outlet in her band. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about all the desire,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;to play like little kids play.â&#x20AC;? 2 Chairlift With Nite Jewel, Seventeen Evergreen Tues/10, 8pm, $15 Independent 628 Divisadero, S.F. (415) 771-1422 www.theindependentsf.com
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“Everything tasted sweeter there,” said Waag. Jonathan Waters, wine director at Chez Panisse, also took part. “The Japanese approached wine with an open palate. They were not conditioned to attach flavors to a construct — like dry or sweet. They were more open to the ethereal, mysterious qualities in wine.” The Japanese were just as receptive to learning from OPEN members. “It seemed like it was a good time in the psyche of their country to talk about food,” said White. Sourcing of ingredients take on new meaning in a country dealing with the effects of radiation on agricultural areas. But, said White, “Our Japanese friends said to us, ‘We don’t want to make this [event] a memorial to Japan.’ They didn’t want it to be just about radiation. That definitely exists, that’s a real thing, but there’s also a whole country with a future, stuff to hope for, and work towards.” Last fall’s trip continues to have socio-cultural impact. The restaurants they worked with continue to call farmers directly for produce. And Japanese chefs and artists have since come to learn, cook, and do projects here in the Bay Area. “Part of me feels like it’s not over,” said White. “Because what happened was we opened a door.” 2 www.openharvestjapan.com
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ic effects. One beat, where Panahi halts his narration and looks suddenly overcome with frustration, is suspiciously preceded by a change of camera angle. But then, Panahi and Mirtahmasb even discuss the possibility of editing their footage, so even that aspect is a performative extension of the “documentary” content. Furthermore, the notion that Panahi is not directing is repeatedly challenged by the fact that he can’t stop telling Mirtahmasb when to cut. But the work is not nearly as dry as all this analytical babble might imply. It is also deeply funny, in the parts where the camera follows Igi, Panahi’s daughter’s pet iguana. And then, in a startling final sequence, it becomes weirdly claustrophobic and suspenseful as Panahi joins his building’s custodian on a longish elevator ride. There’s a cliché in criticism that certain technically accomplished movies are “pure cinema,” and in a sense, if this is not a film, it’s pure filmmaking. It presents itself as a document, but its authenticity is questionable, and for a man who is banned from filmmaking, so is its legitimacy. But it is a process in action and in dialogue with itself. It is an act of defiance, and the product of an artist’s self-effacing need to express himself. Whether or not this is a film, it is a profound artistic howl. 2 tHIS IS nOt a FILm opens Fri/6 at SF Film Society Cinema.
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