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There aren’t a lot of contested races in the Oakland/Berkeley area. Every member of the county Board of Supervisors is running essentially unopposed. When termed-out Assemblymember Sandra Swanson decided not to challenge state Senator Loni Hancock, the East Bay left avoided a bruising primary fight. In essence, voters will be addressing a series of no-contest primaries and two statewide ballot measures. So there’s not a lot to drive the voters to the polls. But there are two important races — a contest for Swanson’s 18th Assembly seat and a rare election for an open seat on the Alameda County bench. Our recommendations follow.

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A seat in Congress for the 99 Percent

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For the first time in two decades, voters north of the Golden Gate will choose a new member of Congress. Given the overwhelming party registration, a Democrat will fill the open seat. But what kind of Democrat? We need a truly independent, progressive Democrat — determined to support the party leadership when it upholds our principles, and just as willing to challenge when it doesn’t. We can’t defeat a heartless Republican agenda by being spineless. Rather than letting the reactionary GOP define “national security” or “fiscal responsibility,” we’ve got to stand tall for our core beliefs. That’s why I’m running for Congress. The retirement of Lynn Woolsey, a stalwart champion for peace and social justice, means that an open seat is up for grabs — and corporate interests are eager to grab it. I’m convinced that the only way to beat corporate AstroTurf is genuine grassroots. And that’s the ongoing commitment of the Solomon for Congress campaign in this new North Coast district, which stretches from Marin County to the Oregon border. Our campaign has become the grassroots leader in the race. While refusing to accept a penny from editorials

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corporate PACs or lobbyists, we’ve relied on thousands of individuals to build our campaign from the ground up. That’s why more than 1,000 volunteers are engaged in our campaign, why more than 5,100 individuals have contributed — and why the latest poll shows me on track to advance to the general election under California’s new top-two primary system. This is a deep-blue, very progressive district. We must do much better than just sending a check-thebox Democrat to Washington. Like so many in our district, I’m outraged at perpetual war and misplaced federal priorities that bail out Wall Street banks while pushing millions of homeowners into foreclosure. I insist that we must fully uphold habeas corpus and other precious civil liberties, not throw them under the bus. Nuclear power plants, including Diablo Canyon and San Onofre, must be closed. Nuclear energy isn’t safe or green; it’s not sustainable, and its radioactive waste is not an acceptable legacy for future generations. We need a serious commitment to conservation and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. And we must reject the austerity program that has wrecked budgets

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and ripped vast holes in safety nets from Sacramento to Washington. We need a Green New Deal that combines job-creating public investment with a deep commitment to sustainability — while defending the ecosystem instead of big corporations. North of San Francisco, with an open congressional seat at stake, wealthy interests have put big money on my main opponents. While I’m outpolling her, multimillionaire Stacey Lawson is dumping huge quantities of money into TV and radio commercials touting her “middle class” values — while declining to mention her enormous wealth, much less the fact that she couldn’t be bothered to vote in twothirds of a dozen elections. The elections when Lawson failed to vote included the historic November 2008 contest that decided on the presidency and the anti-gaymarriage Prop 8 as well as a state measure seeking to undermine young women’s right to choose. Genuine social change requires fighting for our ideals. Please help me occupy a seat in Congress for the 99 percent. Let’s work together to make it happen. 2 Norman Solomon is a candidate for Congress in the new North Coast district that stretches from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border.

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Always solid on the issues, Hancock has taken a lead role in fighting bogus foreclosures and takes on the often-challenging job of killing bad bills as chair of the Public Safety Committee. She’s been a strong advocate for ending the death penalty.

State Assembly, 15th District Nancy Skinner Another strong progressive, she’s currently pushing to preserve affordable education in the UC system. She’s also a leader in the campaign to tax online sales.

State Assembly, 18th District Abel Guillen Several strong candidates are seeking this seat, which represents one of the most progressive districts in the state. Our choice is Abel Guillen, a member of the Peralta College Board. Guillen has a strong record in the progressive community and the support of the teacher’s and nurse’s unions. He’s a strong advocate for education and speaks about aggressively seeking new revenue (including a split-role modification of Prop. 13). We were a little concerned about

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editorials his reluctance to support state Sen. Mark Leno’s efforts to allow local government more authority to raise revenue (Guillen’s worried about statewide equity) but on balance, he’s the best candidate. We were also impressed with Rob Bonta, vice-mayor of Alameda, who is strong on transit issues and understands the needs of local government. But although he told us he would support repeal of the “three-strikes� law, he’s the candidate of law-enforcement and has the support of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, the dangerous statewide cop union that tries to block nearly every piece of progressive criminaljustice reform. He told us that in the past he’s supported the death penalty because “it’s the voters’ choice.� On the relatively simple question of legalizing pot, he said he “probably� would vote for it. Thanks to the two-two primary system, it’s likely these two will be facing off again in November. Vote for Guillen.

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shared economy Catbird turned me onto Airbnb almost two years ago, long before I’d ever heard of the “sharing economy” or “collaborative consumption,” terms the tech industry is now using for companies that facilitate peer-to-peer rentals or otherwise take transactions once done through Craigslist to a glitzy new commercial level. We were working together to build the Temple of Flux for Burning Man 2010 and chatting in the shop one evening. I mentioned wanting to find someone to sublet my apartment for the nearly three weeks that I was to spend on the playa that year, and she sang the praises of Airbnb, which she had recently started using to make some extra cash by renting out a room in the house she owns on Potrero Hill. “The reason I decided to do it instead of a full-time roommate is it fits my lifestyle better,” Catbird, aka Cathryn Blum, told me recently as we discussed her beloved Airbnb in light of recent controversies over whether such rentals should pay the city’s 14 percent hotel tax. Catbird loves to meet visitors from around the world and help show them sides of San Francisco hidden from downtown hotel dwellers, as well as being able to keep her guest room vacant for visiting friends or family. “Airbnb has been a godsend, and it’s invigorated a lot of the neighborhoods that tourists might not come and visit,” she said. “We’re not competing with the hotels, the hotels don’t provide that kind of experience.” That’s what she and other Airbnb customers argued last month at a San Francisco Tax Collector’s Office hearing on the issue, which editorials

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resulted in the hotel tax [aka Transient Occupancy Tax] being applied to Airbnb and similar companies. Airbnb was a godsend for me as well, a simple easing of my economic woes. At the time, I was just getting serious with a new girlfriend and spending most nights at her place. So we moved some of my stuff over there to clear space and protect my valuables, took some photos of my small studio apartment in the Mission, and created an Airbnb listing. We initially listed my place for $75 per night, which more than covered my rent but was cheaper than most hotels, the sweet spot that would create enough demand that I could pick and choose guests to meet my needs. And it worked perfectly. Not only did I find tenants to fill most of my Burning Man vacancy, but I kept it up periodically throughout the fall, moving in with my girlfriend for days or weeks at a stretch and splitting the proceeds with her. It seemed too good to be true. And as I began to learn, perhaps it was.

Law and taxes Something Airbnb doesn’t tell you when you sign up is that you may be breaking the law and/or your lease (its spokesperson says that warning is in its terms of service, but I never saw it). Frankly, I knew that my lease didn’t allow subletters, but my building is big, I really needed the money, and I figured that I wouldn’t get caught, a calculation that many thousands of customers of Airbnb and other companies regularly make as well. Later, well into by first foray as a landlord, thanks to Airbnb, I began to learn about some other complications that this business model cre-

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ates in big, popular cities like San Francisco and New York that have complicated laws regulating landlord-tenant relations. For example, it’s illegal in San Francisco to sublet your apartment out for more than you pay in rent. I felt a little guilty about that one. In a city where almost twothirds of residents are renters, yet where property owners wield tremendous economic and political power, there are good reasons for rent control, limits on converting apartments into condominiums, eviction protections, and the whole slew of complicated laws and regulations that govern the often-contentious relationship between landlords and tenants. But nobody seemed to be getting hurt and this was easy money, thanks to an elegantly simple dotcom idea. Sure, there were risks, both from the powers-that-be and from the strangers moving into my home. A good friend of mine in San Francisco who used Airbnb kept his valuables in a locked closet, which his temporary tenants — who had used fake identities and fraudulent credit cards — broke into, stealing thousands of dollars worth of equipment and getting away with it. By the end of the year, it began to dawn on me that this business model wasn’t as simple as it initially seemed, triggered partially when the company sent me a 1099 federal tax form for the thousands of dollars I earned in 2010. Oh yeah, taxes, shit. So I paid my state and federal taxes on what had once seemed like free money, and I began to wonder what this “godsend” really meant for San Francisco, just as various advocacy groups were beginning to explore the issue. “We began working on this issue a few years ago when we saw a big music listings

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number of tourist conversions,” said Ted Gullicksen, executive director of the San Francisco Tenants Union. He discovered thousands of apartments — sometimes even entire buildings, usually those covered by rent control laws — were being taken off the rental market for use by tourists, sometimes after evictions to clear them of tenants. If I could use these sites to make money, unscrupulous landlords could as well. “It shouldn’t even get to a tax issue because much of this is illegal,” Gullicksen said, noting that landlords opposed legislation a few years ago to give tenants more rights to sublet their apartments or add additional roommates. “This talk of shared economy strikes me as the wealthy asking the less wealthy to sacrifice.” Advocates of the sharing economy argue that it’s just the opposite, making environmentalist and even socialist arguments that it’s a smart way of using fewer resources that empowers working class people. “This idea of supplementing the formal economy with an economy based on sharing and bartering is very powerful. If you supplement a formal economy with an economy based on sharing you will have a lighter economic footprint and you would rely on relationships with people and actually, with less income, have a higher standard of living,” progressive activist Van Jones — whose new book The Green Collar Economy, discusses collaborative consumption — told us last month. But it doesn’t usually feel quite so populist. Ron Conway, the billionaire angel investor who helped funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in tech money to groups supporting Mayor Ed Lee’s election CONTINUES ON PAGE >>

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campaign last year, has significant investments in Airbnb and other “shareable� companies that Lee opposes taxing, as The New York Times reported last month. Around that same time, I, along with other local journalists was invited to a fancy round-table dinner hosted by SparkPR to facilitate schmoozing with a half-dozen collaborative consumption start-ups, an event that felt more like the decadent peak of the last dot-com bubble than the launching of a people-powered economic revolution.

Wined and dined Over fine wine and a seated gourmet dinner in a private room in Perbacco Ristorante + Bar, journalists representing the New York Times, San Francisco Examiner, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and other media outlets chatted with representatives from Love Home Swap, Getaround, Zimride, Event Up, and DogVacay. This was the latest event in the public relations blitz by advocates of “The Sharing Economy,� which was the title of an event at the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association two weeks earlier, which featured representatives from Airbnb, TaskRabbit, Shareable, Vayable, and Getaround (representatives of this car-sharing company do indeed seem to get around). Our dinner began with introductions, and Love Swap Home founder Debbie Wosskow said she had come all the way from London for this dinner and some related meetings, on the ground just 36 hours. “I thought I could learn a lot from you guys out here,� she said in her charming British accent, later calling San Francisco the world hub for this new economic approach. “Our business model is very simple: it’s like online dating for homes,� she said, explaining how the company registers people with cool homes that they can vacation-swap with others they meet through the site. Contrasting it with Airbnb, she said, “We’re swapping purists...I was less interested in turning my home into a money-making machine than moving my home to places around the world.� The company caters mostly to those with higher-than-average incomes, while others at the table seem to be giving more structure to underground transactions pursued by the average Craigslist or Yelp user. “We have a platform of trusted folks who watch your dogs in their own homes,� was how Dog Vacay owner Aaron Hirschhorn described food + Drink

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the business he started with his wife, which attracted $1 million in venture capital financing and now has 10 employees. “I want to be the premiere national pet services company,� Hirschhorn said. “That’s the longterm play, but in the near-term we’re solving an immediate problem. And we’re giving people a chance to make money.� As dinner was served, SparkPR’s Jamie Walker played hostess and encouraged us to chat about our common issues, so I offered an apparently impertinent topic for guests to address: “How do you all feel about taxes?� An uncomfortable silence chilled the room, but I asked them to humor me because it was Tax Day and I was curious how they all felt about being required to pay taxes on the economic transactions they were facilitating. Again, silence, before someone finally ventured an answer. “There are other societal benefits to this collaborative consumption industry,� was how Getaround’s Avery Lewis answered my question, talking about the many economic and environmental benefits of people being able to share their cars or avoid having to own a car for only occasional use. And that be true, but it doesn’t really answer the question: Why should these economic transactions be exempt from the taxes charged on most other economic transactions?

Some thingS don’t change Airbnb spokesperson Kimberly Rubey and Airbnb customers who testified at the tax hearing also speak of the wide variety of social and economic benefits of the service, and they make a compelling case that this company — with 100 employees here and 300 around the world facilitating 5 million nights booked in four years, up from just 1 million a year ago — is a boon to San Francisco. But when you push them on the tax issue, they don’t know quite what to say. Rubey abruptly ended two short phone interviews when I pressed for an answer, both times saying she was late for meetings and would get back to me. The third time, she had this statement prepared: “We do not shy away from tax obligations, nor do we believe that all types of private residential rentals should be excluded from transient occupancy tax in all situations. That said, we do think that staying in someone’s spare bedroom or in someone’s home while they are away is different in a variety of ways than staying in a hotel.� music listings

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heRBWiSe On the occasion of leaving our gentle green bubble in the Bay, I often find myself in the position of explaining what it is I write about. Sometimes I am satisfied with focusing on my federally legal interests as the Guardian’s culture editor. But other times I am compelled to stretch the limits of my extended family’s imagination, which usually leads to some pretty interesting conversations. I’m sure I’m not the only person interested in demystifying cannabis issues to their loved ones. Which is why I’m happy to introduce you to a 2011 documentary that might prove useful: Lynching Charlie Lynch, a DVD release you can find on Amazon or director Rick Ray’s website (www.rickrayfilms.com). The film even starts with a world history of cannabis usage: look guys, early Mormons used the stuff! Charlie Lynch is a total goober (a word I use lovingly.) A suburbanite from Arroyo Grande, Calif., Lynch takes pleasure in winning stuffed animals from claw machines and rocking out to self-penned anti-drunk driving ballads in his DIY home studio. When he began medicating for his atrocious migraines with cannabis, Lynch decided to open a dispensary close to his home town, eventually starting one in 10,000-person Morro Bay. It was the only dispensary in San Luis Obispo County. Ray shows us Lynch’s adorably earnest and thorough process of setting up shop. Lynch goes so far as to call the DEA office, and is directed to four different numbers before an agent gruffly tells him that cities and counties are tasked with “dealing� with such enterprises. Thus enthused, Lynch obtains proper permitting from city and county administrations and holds a ribboncutting ceremony. The mayor and other city officials attend, the chamber of commerce is represented in

cheerful photos from that day. At this point one might pause the film and explain to friends and family that the California medical marijuana industry is not without its complicated issues, and that despite his phone calls, Lynch might have expected trouble from the federal government. But these caveats aside, what happens next is awful enough that “might-haves� and “could-dos� will probably dissipate from their minds. A San Luis Obispo sheriff’s RV surveils patients and staff coming and going from Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers until sufficient evidence is gathered to obtain a federal search warrant. Your educational audience will cringe as law enforcement raids not just Lynch’s dispensary, but his home. He is taken into federal custody and released only when his family posts $400,000 in bail. There’s a media storm, the feds threaten his landlord, the business is ruined, and finally, Lynch puts his house — the same one where he once warbled cautionary notes to drunk drivers — on the market. It is worthwhile to note that the Morro Bay raid occurred in 2007, and as an update to the fam you might want to mention the Oaksterdam debacle last month. (A scene from the Oakland cannabis school is included in Lynching Charles Lynch — prophetically, it is an in-class roleplay meant to teach students how to interact with federal agents.) We say in the Bay Area that we are the epicenter of the cannabis movement, which in some senses may be true. But in some ways it’s not. Regardless of how conscious we are in Oakland, Marin, and San Jose of the hypocrisy of the federal government, national change is not going to take place until awareness of the issue is raised nationally. Or maybe I’m just trying to justify that post-Lynching joint with my aunt in Maryland. Meh! 2

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aPPeTiTe I’m constantly asked what my favorite restaurant is. It’s an impossible question. Inquire about my favorite taqueria, German spot, tea house, French bistro, and I’m ready to talk. There’s a favorite for every style and mood in a metropolitan city such as ours. My current home is on the cusp of Haight-Ashbury and Cole Valley, which, like every neighborhood in our food-rich city, has its treasures. We’ll breeze past the touristy swill and explore its best here. Visit the Pixel Vision blog at SFBG.com for more Upper Haight and Cole Valley recommendations.

aleMBiC Thank God for The Alembic. The bar has been one of SF’s best since it opened, thanks to bar manager Daniel Hyatt, whose expertise in American whiskeys equals an ahead-of-the-curve selection. Alembic claims many gifted bartenders, like Danny Louie and Janiece Gonzalez, and I’m never disappointed when asking for an off-menu cocktail creation. The food is destination-worthy in its own right — maybe the best in the Haight. Whether at the bar with jerk-spiced duck hearts and a bowl of shishito peppers, or dining on caramelized scallops and sweetbreads over kabocha squash spaetzle, I continue to be satisfied. 1725 Haight, SF. (415) 666-0822 www.alembicbar.com

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Owner and brewmaster Dave McLean opened Magnolia Brewery more than 14 years ago, brewing the best beers in SF (in my humble opinion). Magnolia’s space has Old World, gastropub charm in black leather and wood booths and antique floor tiles. It serves the best brunch in the area — sorry, Zazie and Pork Store — which includes BBQ belly over Anson Mills cheddar grits, or quinoa hash and eggs food + Drink

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if you want to cut down the fat quotient. For lunch and dinner, house sausages delight (rabbit currywurst!) as does savory mushroom bread pudding or a near-perfect Magnolia pub burger. 1398 Haight, SF. (415) 864-7468 www.magnoliapub.com

Upper Haight’s best hidden gem is Giovanni’s, a pizza kitchen in the back of Club Deluxe (eat in the bar or take-out). Giovanni’s pies aren’t so much Neapolitan perfection as a mix between Italian and East Coast styles, with a classic margherita and spicy Diavola, laden with pepperoncini, salami, Parmigiano, and a Belizean hot sauce. Save room for a West Coast rarity: a fresh cannoli, sweet ricotta stuffing brightened with orange blossom oil. Club Deluxe’s drinks are of the mojito, greyhound kind. Not exactly a cocktailian destination. What makes Deluxe special? Nightly live jazz in a well-loved bar that thankfully hasn’t changed decor for decades, with a 1950s, cozy bar feel. Bands rotate: trios, duos, quartets, even organ acts, providing some of the best jazz in the city, usually free. If only, like New Orleans, our neighborhoods were lined with such clubs. 1511 Haight, SF. (415) 552-6948 www.sfclubdeluxe.com

iCe CreaM Bar anD SODa FOUnTain I wrote much of Ice Cream Bar back in February, so I’ll send you to this article online at SFBG.com for links detailing my fascination with this oneof-a-kind, 1930s-era soda fountain. It’s my top pick for dessert. 815 Cole, SF. (415) 742-4932 www.theicecreambarsf.com

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Haight-Ashbury has two unexpectedly strong Thai spots serving authentic dishes. Ploy II is upstairs in an old Victorian space, with weathered carpet and decor (elephants, tapestries) straight out of Chang Mai’s Night Bazaar. It does standards well, and I crave the mango panang curry: spicy, creamy with coconut milk and peanut sauce. Siam Lotus also is reliable on Thai classics, though it’s the daily changing chef’s special board that sets it apart. Thankfully on the permanent menu, the Thai tacos are a must. Though the paper thin crepes fall apart at the touch, a filling of ground chicken, shredded coconut, mini-shrimp, and peanuts makes for one of the more fun Thai dishes anywhere. Ploy II: 1770 Haight, SF. (415) 387-9224 www.ployii.com Siam Lotus: 1705 Haight, SF www.siamlotussf.com

HaMa-KO Hama-Ko husband-and-wife owners Tetsuo and Junko Kashiyama open only when they feel ready and usually treat regulars best, service is slow, and certainly there are no California rolls. But this nearly 30-year-old classic is one of those neighborhood secrets that locals return to and sushi devotees enjoy. It’s straightforward sushi: silky scallops, bright-as-the-sea tai (red snapper), melt-in-your-mouth unagi avocado maki. You won’t find the variety of rare fish found at Zushi Puzzle (www.zushipuzzle. com), but you will find impeccable freshness — Tetsuo sources his fish from the same place The French Laundry and Chez Panisse gets theirs, he proudly tells me — from a couple who cares. 108 Carl, SF. (415) 753-6808

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Wednesday 5/2 Loom of Ruin reading Sam McPheeters has a way with language that has translated from lyrics to journalism and now: his first official solo novel, The Loom of Ruin. The former frontperson of a trilogy of punk and experimental acts (Born Against, Mens Recovery Project, Wrangler Brutes) has long written columns for the likes of Vice, and put out his own

fanzines. But his first published output came at age 12 — a local legends book assembled with a pal. Now he comes full circle, back to book publishing, though this time it’s a bit different. He’s rather grown, and writing exquisitely detailed dark Los Angeles fiction about the angriest man in the world. Far from grumpy himself — the facetious gent was once known to recite Patrick Henry’s famous speech — McPheeters brings his words to the Bay this week on a book tour, including a spoken word stop at the Secret Alley tonight at 7pm after Needles+Pens. (Emily Savage) 5-7pm, free Needles+Pens 3253 16th St., SF (415) 255-1534 www.needlesandpens.com Thu/3, 7:30pm, free 1234Go Records 420 40 St., Oakl. (510) 985-0325 www.1234gorecords.com

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guy I’ve seen successfully pull off the shirtless blazer look, dreamt up this alternate identity after getting over a serious drug addiction and shirking his reverence to the punkish concept of rebellion. On stage this ten-piece folky, psychedelic rock tribe looks like a ragtag flurry of ecstasy. There’s a lot going on when these guys perform, but somehow it’s always hard to take your eyes off Jade Castrinos, whose sultry voice and free form movements lull you into a blissful, calming trance. (Mia Sullivan) With Aaron Embry 8pm, $32.50 Fox Theater 1807 Telegraph, Oakl. (510) 302-2250 www.thefoxoakland.com

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Hendrix on a tribalistic march and then starting to jam with a death metal version of Phish. If you carry deep-seated nostalgia for the epic rock shows you missed during the ‘60s — or listen to the Velvet Underground’s Bootleg series on repeat — you should probably check these guys out. Expect luscious guitar riffs, sexy bass lines, compulsory dancing, and a wonderfully spaced out experience. (Sullivan) With Blues for Carl Sagan, and Douglas 9pm, $6 Hemlock Tavern

Spain may have won the last World Cup, but as a new documentary by Kelly Candaele and students from Chico State University shows, there’s no love lost between passionate fans of the country’s two biggest club teams. When Real Madrid and FC Barcelona clash (in a game so monumental it is referred to as “El Clásico”), they bring to the field some of the world’s greatest players (Messi! Ronaldo!) — and decades of history that go way beyond fútbol and into weighty

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Friday 5/4 JackHammer Disco with Tiga, Damian Lazarus, & Light Year Let’s indulge in some squelchiness, shall we? Montreal-based Tiga and UK-born, Los Angeles resident Damian Lazarus share an affinity for acid-y, electro house. In the early 2000s, Lazarus played a prominent role at the UK label City Rockers, where he oversaw the release of Tiga & Zyntherius’ cover of Corey Hart’s “Sunglasses at Night.” Since gaining fame from that release, Tiga has been a busy producer and remixer, keeping a Euro-glam tone reminiscent of the synth-y works Giorgio Moroder pushed in the ‘70s. Recent Lazarus works have a more strippeddown, minimal feel that sometimes wander into leftfield, like in his 2009 album Smoke the Monster Out. (Kevin Lee) With Light Year 10pm, $15–$20 Public Works 161 Erie, SF (415) 932-0955 www.publicsf.com

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Here in the Bay Area, we like to complain about public transportation. There are BART horror stories and Muni diaries tossed around like old war stories, used as social currency. But really, when you compare our rapid transit systems with the snarled mess of cars elsewhere in California, we come out on top. That’s why LA-based hardcore group It’s Casual got so much traction with an ode to its own local bus line, “The Red Line.” The song, and sentiment, struck a nerve: “The freeways/are not so nice.” The band itself is growly loud, with classic CONTINUES ON PAGE 16 >>

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I always wonder about the drummer. They’re usually the life of the party but, at the same time, are often concealed behind a wall of instruments, and you rarely hear them sing, or say, anything. Ex-Fleet Foxes drummer Joshua Tillman has said that drumming for his former superstar band began to bore him. So he exited, took up the moniker “Father John Misty,” and started creating lush, lyrically based Americana folk ballads laden with lucid imagery and social commentary. He played SXSW this year, made a surprise appearance at Café Du Nord in April, and his debut, Fear Fun, came out Tuesday. (Sullivan)

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Talk about versatility. Cuban pianist and composer Omar Sosa splits his time between Oakland and Spain and incorporates musical influences from just about everywhere in between. On last year’s Calma: Solo Piano &... Sosa displayed his introspective and meditative side with floating piano melodies flanked by the occasional electronic accent or sampled sound. Contrast the solo effort on Calma with Sosa’s performance as lead of the Afreecanos Quartet, where technical dynamism

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becomes the name of the game. At live shows, Sosa becomes a grinning whirlwind, playing classical piano on one hand and electronic piano on another, trading looks and body language with his fellow musicians, and fostering a joyful, collective, improvisational spirit. (Lee) With Marque Gilmore, Childo Tomas and Peter Apfelbaum 1pm, free Yerba Buena Gardens 760 Howard, SF (415) 543-1718 www.ybgfestival.org

Monday 5/7 “La Bamba: Latinos in Vintage Rock, Pop, and Soul” Local rock music historian and author Richie Unterberger, whose books include White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day and Music USA: The Rough Guide, will once again share his extensive knowledge with music fans at his presentation “La Bamba: Latinos in Vintage Rock, Pop, and Soul.” Featuring film clips of performers such as Ritchie

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Valens, Santana, Linda Ronstadt, and Los Lobos, the evening promises to be a unique look at the contributions of Latinos in rock from the earliest days of the 1950s up through the ‘80s. (McCourt) 6:30-8:30pm, free SF Public Library, Mission Branch 300 Bartlett, SF www.sfpl.org

Tuesday 5/8 Steve Coll Longtime journalist Steve Coll won a Pulitzer Prize and widespread acclaim for his 2004 account on the CIA and the agency’s history in Afghanistan leading up to 9/11. In his latest investigative effort, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, Coll explores the global influence of the Texas-based oil corporation. According to Coll, big-money donations and a sophisticated DC lobbying machine have allowed ExxonMobil to shift the debate on climate change. At the same time, the oil corporation continues to expand its foothold in developing countries. A twotime Pulitzer Prize winner, Coll currently serves as president of the New American Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that maintains a significant presence in California. (Lee) In conversation with Greg Dalton 6pm, $7–$20 Commonwealth Club 595 Market, SF (415) 597-6700 www.commonwealthclub.org 2

beloved Bay Area show Creature Features is being resurrected once again to satiate fans’ undying thirst for the creepy, kooky, and campy. John Stanley, who hosted the KTVU program from 1979-‘84, will be on hand for CreaturesCon One, a day of special screenings, Q&As, and more, along with archivist and documentary filmmaker Tom Wyrsch and Ernie Fosselius of Hardware Wars fame. For all you monster kids out there, this will be a nightmare, er, dream come true. (McCourt)

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Performances by AXIS Dance Company (USA) with Marc Brew Company (UK) Carpetbag Brigade (USA) Cid Pearlman Performance Project (USA & Estonia) Compagnie 7273 (Switzerland) with Sir Richard Bishop (USA) Dance Elixir (USA & The Netherlands) The Earplay Ensemble (USA, China & Germany) inkBoat with Ko Murobushi (USA& Japan) Liquid Theatre (Russia) Mansaku no-Kai (Japan)

Marc Brew Company (United Kingdom) Post:Ballet (USA) Raices Profundas (Cuba) Susanna Leinonen Company (Finland) Teatro Taller de Colombia (Colombia) Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos (USA & Spain) and a cast of stars of the San Francisco Stage perform White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour

The US debut of legendary Afro-Cuban ensemble Raices Profundas.

Kyogen by Japanese Living National Treasure Mansako Numura and Mansaku-no Kai.

Campo Santos’ Sean San Jose brings a genial touch to

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit.

Liquid Theatre of Russia perform the US Premiere of Antidot.

Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos present a tribute to the legendary Cuevas Room founders Ernesto Hernendez, Freddie Mjia and Isa Mura.

AXIS Dance Company in collaboration with Marc Brew Company from the UK.

Allison Lovejoy, one of over a dozen Bay Area music ensembles to perform at the Festival Central Lounge.

Japan’s Ko Murobushi and inkBoat invoke the spirit of Ikkyu Sojun in The Crazy

Earplay premieres the work of composers from Germany, China and the USA.

American guitarist Sir Richard Bishop in collaboration with Cie 7273 of Switzerland.

Dance Elixir presents Thieves, an international collaboration between Lars J. Brouwer and Leyya Mona Tawil.

Cid Pearlman reports back from her research trip on frigid Estonian weather conditions in

San Francisco’s Post:Ballett presents the world premiere of

Teatro Taller de Colombia share the stage with the Bay Area’s Carpetbag Brigade in a FREE show at Yerba Buena Gardens.

Local artist Paul Morin shows a number of works at the Festival Lounge: large scale portraits that capture all available light in their environment.

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This is What We Do in Winter.

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arts + culture: visual art

the aRtiSt (CenteR) FlankeD By imaGeS FRom The DeaTh Ray anD GhosT WoRlD. Daniel Clowes photo by terry lorant

for more arts content visit sfbg.coM/pixel_vision a character is alive or not. It’s not something you can consciously do. I don’t really know what the secret to that is, except you have to sort of believe that they’re alive. SFBG How do you feel about having your work preserved in a museum? DC I think of the museum iteration of this work as being a temporary thing. I don’t see that as being where this work would end up. I would hope that [in the distant future] it would end up in book form, that people [will] still knew how to manipulate the pages of books and read them.

CaRtooniSt ConFiDential " OFX FYIJCJU IPOPST UIF XPSL PG Ghost World BVUIPS %BOJFM $MPXFT By Cynthia SalaySay arts@sfbg.com ViSUal aRt Daniel Clowes draws eyes that are eerily human. Dotting the pages of his well-regarded graphic novels, they are by turns embittered, despairing, and vulnerable. So it’s fitting that the Clowes’ first major retrospective is at the Oakland Museum of California. Oakland is an underdog city, and Clowes — a longtime resident — champions underdogs. After its Bay Area run, the exhibition will go on to major cities in the U.S. and Europe. It spans his career to date, with panels from Ghost World and Wilson, as well as work for the New York Times and the New Yorker. A book, The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist, was recently published in conjunction with the show, and is already in reprint.

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I recently spoke with Clowes about the dream-like experience of seeing his subconscious from 20 feet away. San Francisco Bay Guardian Comic book art goes through cycles of popularity. Where do you think we’re at right now? Daniel Clowes It’s always like I’m at the eye of the hurricane. I can’t see what the zeitgeist is in terms of how comics are being taken by the public, you know? The feeling that people are going to inherently dismiss comics because they’re comics seems to be evaporating. People who 20 years ago would have nothing but disdain or horror if you told them that you drew comics are now sort of interested and see that as a viable means of expression. But I can’t tell if we’re in a bubble and it’s all going to disappear, or if it’s just going to get bigger.

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SFBG Do you experience your own art differently at the museum? DC I never see my artwork from a distance. The farthest I can get from my artwork in my studio is like 10 feet at the most, and I wouldn’t even do that. And so to see it on a wall, you see it in a very different way. You see the way it works compositionally. It’s just an abstract grouping of black shapes on a page. If I were intending work to go on a wall, I would do it very differently: it would be all about making those black shapes appealing from 20 feet away. And now it’s just sort of luck if that happens or not. It doesn’t have anything to do with what I’m trying to do. SFBG The panels get larger as you progress through the show from the early work to the later work. They seemed more dense with subtext but with fewer lines. DC That’s something I’m working

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toward. A certain kind of efficiency. I feel like any extra line distracts from the reading of a comic. I really want the reader to feel immersed in the story. I think the reason why the artwork got bigger over the years is, when I started, I couldn’t afford the paper. I had to try to squeeze like four pages onto one big sheet of paper. Also I used to have to send my artwork to the publisher — this was all before scanning. And so, if the artwork was really big it would cost a lot more money to send and it would get bent in half in the mail. SFBG What’s the process you go through when you draw the eyes of your characters? DC That’s always the last thing I do on a drawing. I leave the eyes blank. And people have come over and seen my work on the drawing board and found it very disconcerting and very weird that there are these faces with no eyes. But [the eyes are] the key to the drawing. That’s by far the most important part. And the eyes have to show some humanity behind them — even if they’re very simple circles. That’s how you can tell if

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SFBG Has anything about the show surprised you? DC Walking into that room was a strange experience. I really felt claustrophobic, like I was trapped in my own brain somehow. It was very dream-like. Last week was the most dream-like week I’ve had. Right after I went to the opening the other night, I came home and my son and I were out on our porch and we saw a car going 90 miles an hour. It hit the median right in front of the house, flew through the air, turned upside-down, and landed on its roof. It was the most horrific thing I’ve ever seen. And then, miraculously — there were little kids [inside], and [they] crawled out of this broken car. The next day I was like, was all that a dream? I was in a room with all my artwork and then I saw a car fly through the air. It was just so odd. SFBG It was the same week as that thunderstorm. DC Yes, it was all that stuff. It was very surreal. 2 Modern cartoonist: the art of daniel clowes Through Aug. 12 Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak, Oakl. (510) 318-8400 www.museumca.org

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Paul FrenCh: SolvIn’ CrImeS, wrITIn’ BookS.

BIG TrouBle In old ChIna "VUIPS 1BVM 'SFODI JOWFTUJHBUFT B EFDBEFT PME NVSEFS JO .JEOJHIU JO 1FLJOH By Cheryl eddy cheryl@sfbg.com lIT It was a cold, windy January morning in 1937 when a horrifically mutilated body was found sprawled at the base of a rumoredto-be-haunted watchtower in what was then called Peking. Intrigued yet? Paul French’s Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China (Penguin Books, 260 pp., $26) reads like a mystery thriller, with its dramatic cast of characters (a Chinese-British detective team, a cranky old father with something to prove, a budding beauty filled with secrets, and multiple sinister figures with shadowy pasts) and exotic setting (Peking’s fusty, foreigners-only Legation Quarter — and utterly lawless Badlands district — on the eve of China’s occupation by Japan). As he wrote Midnight, the Shanghai-based Brit was able to solve the long-cold case — or at least present a rather convincing theory about who killed 19-yearold Pamela Werner. Satisfying closure in a true-crime book about an unsolved murder? Read it and weep, Black Dahlia obsessives. I caught up with French amid his tour to promote Midnight’s American release. San Francisco Bay Guardian How did you research what it would have been like to live in 1937 Peking? Paul French There are quite a lot of both Chinese and foreign memoirs — all of the diplomats, and a lot of the journalists, scholars, and missionaries wrote them. editorials

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People wrote travel guides. There’s a lot of Chinese literature from that time, too. SFBG Was the story of Pamela’s murder mentioned in one of the memoirs? PF I was reading a biography of [journalist] Edgar Snow, which was very dry and boring. The first time I saw the Pamela story was in a little footnote: “and then this girl was murdered, and there was a British detective who worked with a Chinese detective.� There was a whiff of opium, and a bit of sex floating around it, and scandal, and I just thought, “Wow! That sounds really interesting.� SFBG Was it difficult to dig up more information? PF At first, I was able to dive in and get all the newspaper reports and the autopsy. I was doing quite well. Then I sort of hit a wall, and thought, “This is all I’m gonna get. I’m going to write a book, but it’s not really going to have an ending. It’ll just be lots of atmosphere, hopefully, and at the end I’ll just say, murders don’t always get solved.� Right on the brink of this collapse of civilization to barbarism, this one girl briefly becomes a kind of symbol of the horrors that China’s about to go into. So I thought I’d get away with that. But I was in the National Archives in London, and that’s when I completely stumbled across these 150 pages of evidence that Pamela’s father [a former diplomat named E.T.C. Werner] had put together for his own investigation. It had been filed and forgotten for 75 years. picks

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At that moment, the project moved to a whole other level. I looked through everything, and — of course the official line is that I solved the crime, but the truth is, her father really solved it. I compared [his findings] with what the police knew at the time, what the newspapers reported at the time, and the autopsy, and I managed to find four or five people still alive who knew Pamela. When you cross-reference all of that, I think that it stacks up, which is why I footnoted the back of the book. If people want to have a look at the documents themselves, they’re more than welcome to. And since the book came out — it came out in Australia and Asia first — I have had a few people come to me with new bits of information that sort of confirm what Pamela’s father discovered. Werner was cold, unemotional, and wrapped up in his scholarship; he didn’t pay enough attention to Pamela [while she was alive]. But in the end, he dedicated his whole life, all of his money, and all of his health, to try and track down some kind of justice for her. I came to admire him in the end. 2 Paul French May 9, 7pm, free Books Inc. 1760 Fourth St., Berk. (510) 525-7777 May 10, 7pm, free Book Passage 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera (415) 927-0960 www.midnightinpeking.com

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ARTS + CULTURE: MUSIC

GABRIEL TEODROS, MEKLIT HADERO, AND BURNTFACE OF COPPERWIRE. | PHOTO BY PETER VARSHAVSKY

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Copperwire’s Meklit Hadero waxes intergalactic BY MIRISSA NEFF arts@sfbg.com MUSIC Singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero’s album On a Day Like This garnered tons of praise and cemented her status as SF’s flower-adorned local celebrity. As a TED fellow and the Red Poppy Art House’s former artistic director, Hadero also established an ability to cross-pollinate her far-reaching talents. But with her latest project, Copperwire, it now appears that the chanteuse is ready to cross into music’s final frontier. Copperwire’s music tells stories about connection and distance through cosmic metaphors. The group just released its debut album Earthbound and is currently bringing its hip-hop space opera to life-forms across the country. SFBG: What is Copperwire? MEKLIT HADERO: Copperwire is myself and two Ethiopian-American emcees, Gabriel Teodros and Burntface. The whole project started with a song called “Phone Home.” We were sitting on a couch and we just looked at each other and suddenly put our index fingers out, and when they touched we all said “phone home.” We were like wait a minute, because ET also stands for Ethiopia. It started from that spark, and we ended up writing the song in two to three hours. SFBG: From there you decided to make a full-length album? MH: Well, we didn’t want to just make a record. We wanted to tell a story in a way that felt relevant and fresh to all of us. Earthbound uses metaphors of intergalactic distances to talk about diaspora and cultural connection and disconnection. Last December I became a member of the SF Amateur Astronomers. I was hosting the deYoung’s Van Gogh Starry Night event and the Amateur Astronomers were around the pond outside. They had about nine or 10 different telescopes that you could look through. I saw the moon, but I also saw Jupiter and four of its moons. It was an incredibly impactful moment for me, especially since I’d been thinking about 20 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

the reality of these distances that we talk about. Gabriel had been reading a book by Neti Okorafor, who’s a Nigerian science fiction writer who wrote a book about the Sudan in the future. And all three of us are total science fiction buffs. I love Star Trek. SFBG: You’re a Trekkie? MH: The Next Generation... TNG, that’s my era. Yes, I know that I’m revealing my inner dorkiness. Anyway we’d been talking about making a record together for years, and after being in Ethiopia together we were just like it’s time. Crossing that distance while these metaphors were churning kind of came out in the story. SFBG: Do you relate Copperwire to intergalactic ‘70s acts like Funkadelic? MH: Definitely. It’s also in the line of Outkast, Janelle Monae, David Bowie. It definitely feels like it’s in an intergalactic lineage. SFBG: Tell me about the star sounds that factor into Earthbound. MH: While we were recording I saw a posting by one of my fellow TED fellows about an installation in the Bavarian forest that had been done with star sounds. I sent her an email asking “What are these star sounds and how can I get some?” We figured out how to use them in our beats using a program called the isotope spectrum, and used the star sounds in combination with a whole bunch of instruments.

SFBG: What about the star guitar? MH: The idea for the star guitar came after we’d stopped recording and I’d been wanting to figure out how to do it live. Jon Jenkins from NASA’s Keppler Mission made the star sounds based on their oscillations of light. You can say I want 50 percent star and 50 percent guitar, or you can say I want 30 percent star and 70 percent guitar. You can also hybridize just the highs or just the lows. I’m still experimenting. There are a bunch of different sounds, but I’ve chosen a few that I particularly like. SFBG: How many different stars are you working with? MH: Right now I’m working with two stars. SFBG: Do you know their names? MH: I don’t and I don’t know where they are, that’s one thing I want to talk with Jon about. But he’s also posting a whole host of new star sounds so I’ll have a lot more to choose from pretty soon. 2 COPPERWIRE With Bocafloja Sat/5, 9pm, $12 Rickshaw Stop 155 Fell, SF (415) 861-2011 www.rickshawstop.com

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(eOne Music) Named for a fictional book of spells for conjuring tentacled beasties — H.P. Lovecraft fans know what’s up — High on Fire’s sixth album, produced by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, doesn’t sonically evolve much from 2010’s Snakes for the Divine. Not that fans of the Oakland-based trio’s crushing riffs will mind; heavy headbangers like “Fertile Green” and “Spiritual Rights” are 100 percent suited to be blasting from your speakers during the apocalypse. Prepare thyself, as Matt Pike growls, for “ancient fire” and “forgotten magic.” Can’t wait to hear these new songs live. (Cheryl Eddy)

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(Rvng Intl.) It’s so hard to find a place in sound that is past, present, and future. On Ekstasis, Julia Holter created songs that feel like lullabies transmitted from a distant past, yet held with a presence and immediacy that is interested in moving into uncharted territories. There is a folk-like earnestness at the core of these songs, but the way in which she weaves and layers the sounds and her vocals creates a dense, bubbling sensation that intoxicates in such pleasurable ways. Much like her mentor and big-time fan, Linda Perhacs, she has the ability in just one song to take you from the salt of the earth all the way to the stars and sky. She allows these songs the room to breathe and melt with a subtlety and warmth that slowly injects itself into your subconscious. (Irwin Swirnoff) EDITORIALS

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(Pirates Press Records) Local punks Harrington Saints have returned with an excellent second album, Pride & Tradition, further cementing their well-earned reputation for being one of the best Oi and streetpunk bands around today. Produced by Rancid’s Lars Frederiksen, and co-released by San Francisco’s Pirates Press Records, the disc is truly a Bay Area-bred effort. From the opening salvo and count off chorus of “O.C.D.,” to the pro-union anthem “Bread and Roses,” the record by the fierce fivepiece proudly shows off their working class punk roots with a collection of fist-pumping, sing-along anthems that makes them a band to watch when they play your town. (Sean McCourt)

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(Permanent Vacation) It’s fitting that this warm, rolling LP by Barcelona’s John Talabot has been released by Permanent Vacation, because from start to finish this is an album that takes you far away from the dull realities of everyday life. Most dance records aim to take you to a sweaty club filled with strobe lights and packed with people. Talabot is much more interested in that special place between you, alone in your bedroom drifting and dreaming away from the world outside and then finding that magnificent moment at the beach late at night when you and a few friends dance, twirl, and bliss out under radiating moonlight. It’s the kind of record that transcends scenes, as anyone, from the most dedicated house-head to those who lean toward guitars or drone or pop can equally be swept away by these gliding vibrations. (Swirnoff) 2

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By Rita Felciano arts@sfbg.com Dance How do you keep a performance festival alive in a city known for its fractured arts community? A place where officialdom is not exactly ready to jump on the bandwagon, especially when belt-tightening by cutting the arts has become a national sport? Simple. You enlist the people who have always been the arts’ biggest supporters — the artists themselves. They know how to work with limited resources; they are risk-takers and have accepted that what they love to do will never make them rich. The approach seems to work. “This year, we have had the biggest advance ticket sales ever,” says Andrew Wood, executive director of the San Francisco International Arts Festival. What Wood has done since 2003 is develop his own version of “think globally, act locally.” The British-born impresario has programmed discoveries from around the world that often erase traditional boundaries between theater and dance. They bring a whiff of global artistic trade winds and broaden our sometimes narrow perspectives. In 2009 it was South Korea’s stunning ChoIn Theatre, which performed The Angel and the Woodcutter without speaking a single word. Last year, Polish import Teatr Zar’s multivenue performance of The Gospels of Childhood Triptych seared itself into memory. Sometimes, glimpses into non-American cultural productions can look eerily prescient, as with 2006’s The Solitary — an exchange between a prisoner and his jailer — by Syria’s Al-Khareef Theatre Troupe. Engagements by international companies are only possible because they bring a lot of their own funding, either from their own governments or cultural organizations in this country. Sasha Waltz and Guests’ 2009 Travelogue I, for instance, would not have been possible without the Goethe-Institut’s support. “Most people [abroad] don’t realize how under-resourced we are in this country,” Wood explains. In terms of performance fees he tells the artists that “this

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aFRo-cuBan music anD Dance tRoupe Raices pRoFunDas makes its ameRican DeBut at sFiaF. | Photo by Mary Kent is what I can offer if we get the money, otherwise I’ll pay you what I can.” One of Wood’s biggest challenges, besides patching together the money for the companies he wants to present, is getting them here at all. The State Department has its own ideas of who should be seen by Bay Area audiences. Last year an Iraqi group’s engagement fell short when only two of its company members received visas. This year the “permission slips” for Cuba’s Raices Profundas, SFIAF’s opening act, came through at the last minute. Raices’ mixed program will offer a perspective on Afro-Cuban dance grounded in both its ritualistic and popular social dance traditions. While he greatly admires the breath and depth of their artistry, bringing this company to the fest “is as much a political act as any thing else,” Wood says. “We have to maintain the human connection [with these artists]. They are in such difficult positions, and they work so hard living in a kind of netherworld where rules don’t work.” One of the festival’s hallmarks has become the shared programs between local and guest dancers. One can only image the backstage cross-cultural fertilizations that must take place between artists music listings

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that previously may have known very little of each other. This year the Swiss company Cie 7273’s Listen and Watch is sharing an evening with Thieves by Oakland’s Dance Elixir. Both works are based on the intimate relationships with music performed live on stage. Two first US showings and a world premiere (created in Tallinn, Estonia; San Francisco; and Helsinki) are on a triple bill with Cid Pearlman Performance Project, Post: Ballet’s Robert Dekkers, and Susanna Leinonen Company. A welcome opportunity to see two previously shown pieces will come from AXIS Dance Company’s astounding 2011 collaboration with Marc Brew Company, Full of Words. Brew will also dance the American premiere of his solo Remember When. In 2010, inkBoat’s The Crazy Cloud Collection, named after a 15th century Zen monk — the purported subject of this astounding collaboration with Butoh artist Ko Murobushi — looked anarchic, maddeningly obscure, and totally mesmerizing. I’ll attend this encore performance for sure. 2 san Francisco international arts Festival May 2-20, free-$70 Various venues, SF www.sfiaf.org

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White Rabbit, Red Rabbit RequiRes no set, diRectoR, oR ReHeARsAls. | Photo Courtesy sFAIF

i’m not tHeRe *SBOJBO QMBZXSJHIU /BTTJN 4PMFJNBOQPVS NBSLT IJT #BZ "SFB EFCVU ± CZ QSPYZ ± JO 8IJUF 3BCCJU 3FE 3BCCJU BU 4'*"' By RoBeRt AvilA arts@sfbg.com tHeAteR Political borders have their way with the bodies of ordinary people, but ideas are harder to stop at an airport or checkpoint. So when Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour found himself unable to leave Iran (having demurred from mandatory military service, the state demurred in providing him a passport), he decided to send on a play that would stand in for him, and maybe stand for something more. A group of local theater and performance artists have gamely joined in the endeavor, as yet unsure of exactly what they’re taking on. Such is the design of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit — which premieres this week as one of several tantalizing international theater productions at this year’s San Francisco International Arts Festival — that a different artist will deliver a completely unrehearsed performance of the play each night over the course of the run. White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a humorously sly piece of meta-theater, half allegory and half action, meant to incite a spontaneous collaboration between performer and audience without need of a director or a set, let alone rehearsals. Audiences wary of so cavalier a lack of structure, however, will be reassured by a lineup that includes many astute local artists of a decidedly political bent, among them San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Velina Brown and Michael Gene Sullivan, self-titled Red Diaper Baby Josh Kornbluth, performer-choreographer Keith Hennessy, and Campo Santo’s Sean San José. Soleimanpour, who comes from a literary family, originally studied theater in school and now teaches scenic design at Tehran University. Born in 1981, he is part of a generation that has grown up since the 1978–79 revolution that put clerical authority in power. Soleimanpour expressed to me his delight with the Bay Area premiere and gave editorials

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some insight into the genesis and purpose of his unusual play in a recent email exchange. san Francisco Bay Guardian Where did the play first premiere outside Iran and how was it received? How did you receive news of its reception? nassim soleimanpour A very early version of Rabbit was performed in New York. In March 2011, the Brick Theater [in Brooklyn] sponsored an Iranian Theater Festival that included it. The new version of the play premiered simultaneously at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Toronto SummerWorks Theatre Festival on August 5, 2011. Winning awards in both festivals was a good start in marketing the show. Our spreadsheet for next year shows productions in more than 20 cities and 15 counties in more than seven languages. We are getting used to performing simultaneously in different countries and languages. I was lucky to receive thousands of touching emails from my audiences, actors, and producers. People send me photos of the show or report to me what has happened in my absence. I also read reviews. sFBG What makes theater compelling to you as an artist? ns To me theater is/was never a way to represent my understanding of things. Instead, it is/was the best way to understand. I guess I will continue making theater as long as I have questions, or as long as I don’t find a better way to look for answers in my life. picks

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sFBG Audiences here are more likely to be familiar with Iranian cinema, which travels widely. Is there much connection between the stage and film in Iran/ Tehran today? ns Sort of, but we have to remember that cinema can easily travel to different worlds. Even ordinary people know most cinema actors and directors in Iran. Theater cannot travel that easily. We rarely see well-made domestic or international theater productions in Iran. We don’t have nonprofit theater companies in Iran. We don’t have national theater in Iran. sFBG Do you know any of the people involved with the San Francisco production? ns I never contact my performers before their performance. That’s a rule. The play asks them not even to see the show or read about the play beforehand. Local producers who have been in contact with play rights holders invite actors to read the play. It’s always fun for me to check the list of actors who are going to perform the show. Sometimes actors write me emails. It’s the same story in SF. I have just seen the names and read about them. I wish them all success. And I hope they enjoy their performance. 2 san Francisco international arts Festival May 2-20, free-$70 Various venues, SF www.sfiaf.org

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Over the top: scenes from On the Silver Globe (1988) and Szamanka (1996). | Photos courtesy of the Polish Cultural Institute New York

This is your brain on Zulawski YBCA feeds the Possession obsession with a tribute to the Polish director By Dennis Harvey arts@sfbg.com FILM To the extent he’s known at all, Polish director Andrzej Zulawski is known in the U.S. for the only movie of his that’s gotten any real exposure here: Possession, a scandalous 1981 Cannes prize-winner considered to have some commercial potential due to its “horror” elements, including a creature designed by FX master Carlo Rambaldi. Its American distributor cut the film from 127 to 80 minutes, radical surgery turning an already logicdefying narrative into a complete madhouse abstraction with its own considerable charms — though don’t tell that to Zulawski, who hated the truncated results. Thrown into 1983 grindhouse bills, this version flummoxed mainstream horror fans (too arty) and critics (too distasteful), but earned a cult following eventually surprised to learn there was a very different, longer, at-least somewhat-coherent Possession also in existence. One making it clear that for all its bloody, fantastical, even mystical flights, this movie was what Zulawski claimed all along: a portrait of a marriage in painful dissolution, with Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill standing in for the director and his first wife (Polish actress Malgorzata Braunek). Even if dramatizing that relationship’s collapse somehow required such metaphorical leaps as Adjani keeping dismembered body parts in her refrigerator and being fucked (happily!) by a tentacled slime monster. Repaying endless viewings (bonus: after a few you can actually decipher Adjani’s impenetrably accented English), brilliantly acted, and oddly touching despite its myriad outrages, Possession is like nothing else — except, that is, the director’s other films. Five will be shown in the Yerba Buena Center 24 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

for the Arts series “From A Whisper to a Scream: Discovering Andrzej Zulawski” this week and next. Watching more than one in close proximity may be hazardous to your mental health, but what the hell. Now apparently retired at 71, Zulawski was born in Lvov, educated all over Europe thanks to his intellectual family’s diplomatic ties, and assisted Andrzej Wajda on several 1960s films. His first feature, The Third Part of the Night (1971), set the precedent: it was as fevered as its hero, already fragile when the senseless murder of his wife (Braunek) and child by Nazi occupiers turns him into a dervish of frantic motion and impulse. Is he mad? Hallucinating? Already dead? “You behave like the wind,” a friend tells him, a judgment applicable to almost any Zulawski feature or character. This debut won acclaim, but was warily viewed by the Polish government. His next, 1972’s The Devil, an even more berserk Pilgrim’s Progress through war-torn 18th century Poland, was banned outright. Zulawski responded by moving to France, where 1975’s The Most Important Thing: Love, a heated cry against (and of) present-day orgiastic perversity — “Force yourself to look at what revolts you the most,” as one participant puts it — was a success. As a result, Polish authorities invited him back to adapt a great-uncle’s literary sci-fi epic. An allegorical tale of Earth’s civilization grotesquely recreated on another planet, On the Silver Globe was two years into production and 80 percent shot in 1977 when the same authorities shut it down, destroying sets and costumes for good measure. A decade later, Zulawski turned the striking extant footage into both a semi-realized spectacular and a chronicle of its own undoing — 166 minutes’ auto archaeology. These films are screening at YBCA, though unfortunately the editorials

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director’s eight French ventures (apart from French-German co-production Possession, showing in an uncut, new 35mm print) were unavailable for inclusion. Most starring subsequent on and off-screen partner Sophie Marceau, they range from 1985’s astonishing Parisian-gangster Dostoyevsky update L’amour Braque to the overblown soap operatics of 2000’s Fidelity, his last work to date. A sole later Polish endeavor completes YBCA’s quintet. Szamanka’s sheer extremity — of cinematic and performance frenzy, of often literal wrestling with sex, violence, religion, philosophy, and politics — crystallizes the best, worst, and most purely Zulawskienne (an actual French coinage meaning “over the top”) of this singular career. An older anthropology prof (Bouguslaw Linda) and gorgeous, unlikely engineering student (Iwona Petry) fuck, fuck, fuck around Warsaw, as compulsively and destructively as the duo in 1976’s In the Realm of the Senses, with an endpoint anticipating Hannibal’s cannibal-licious last supper. Reviled in Poland, barely glimpsed elsewhere, the 1996 film was notorious before it was finished, with Zulawski accused of wildly mistreating 20-year-old “discovery” Petry. She refused to comment, but immediately abandoned acting and reportedly sought spiritual succor in India. Even the sturdier Adjani said it took her years to get over making Possession. What to say about a director who drives actors over the brink? Only that the emotions — as is sometimes said of the millions spent on lavish productions — are all right up there on screen. 2

“From a Whisper to a Scream : Discovering Andrzej Zulawski” May 3-13, $6-$8 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission, SF (415) 978-2878 www.ybca.org

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SUPER EGO The everywhere nightlife talk last month, as reported by the UK Guardian, was that Berlin politicians had pledged one million shiny euros to preserve clubs from the growing threat of gentrification and rising real estate prices in that once cheap-as-curbside-currywurst berg. If only in SF. What would you do with all that clubby money? Create a B&T party-bus dropoff zone between First and Fifth Streets and Mission and Brannan for shrieking singles (“Fluorescent Tube Dress Island”)? Fix all the bad pants at tech networking mixers? Cork wedge police? Eyebrow wax ban? DJ-with-a–$-in-theirname annihilation? New face for Heklina? (Kidding, love you and your Sarah Jessica barker, girl.) Really, the possibilities. Jesse Saunders Dear Housepitality, you are killing me with classic loveliness every week — this one for instance, bringing in Chicago’s “originator of house” Jesse Saunders, whose 1986 “Love Can’t Turn Around” with Farley Jackmaster Funk and Darryl Pandy (RIP) changed mine and about 300 million others’ lives. Wed/2, 9pm, free before 11pm with RSVP at www.housepitalitysf.com/rsvp, or $5 before 11pm, $10 after. Icon, 1192 Folsom, SF.

Style from Within, Vol. 1 If you’re going to turn it out for summer on the runway of life, you could do no better than to hit up this free musical fashion show extravaganza at the Clift from boutiquista-nightlife heroine Bianca Starr. Slay-worthy looks from Sui Generis, Wonderland, Density Dept, and Top Shelf. Groovy tunes from J-Boogie and DJ Ry Toast(!), plus a performance by blowing-up Bay star B. Bravo. Thu/3, 9pm cocktails, 10:30 fashion show, free. Clift Hotel, 495 Geary, SF. www.biancastarr.com

A One Night Stand with Carrieondisco and Doc Sleep Two of my favorite queer female house and techno DJs teaming up for an extravaganza music listings

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at 222? This I like, and would like to see more of. Both throw down some expansive knowledge of current electronic textures and historical subcultural connotations — but nevermind all that, this will be total funzo. Fri/4, 10pm, $3. 222 Hyde, SF. www.222hyde.com

Triple Threat Love, love, love me some classic Bay turntablism action from the mindblowing threesome. But wait, Shortkut, Vinroc, and Apollo are hip-hop tripleteaming on the decks all night for free — with an open bar from 9pm-10pm? On a Friday night? Whoever’s sponsoring this insanity, but I will kiss you.

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Levon Vincent The NYCer has been rightly lauded for helping to lead dance music into sophisticated new directions. His obsessively detailed creations meld moody post-minimal techno with classic deep house flow, flooding the floor with pure, cool tones that sometimes dunk you under into rhythmic experimentalism. He’ll be joined at the Icee Hot monthly by Rem Koolhaus from Brooklyn’s awesome Turbotax party. Sat/5, 10pm-3am, $10. Public Works, 161 Erie, SF. www,publicsf.com

Cinco De Moz-o Because who loves Morrissey more than Mexicans? Why, drunk Americans at the fantastically hip Britpop and Swinging London-themed Club Leisure monthly, that’s who. Piñatas! Smiths karaoke! Someone named Union Jackoff! Sat/5, 10pm-3am, $8. Cat Club, 1190 Folsom, SF. www.sfcatclub.com

Blessed More good news from Oakland’s great house scene: your Cinco de Mayo celebration (mess?) will get some soulful uplift as this great monthly from the Divinyl Echo collective celebrates three years. Beloved special guest DJ Julius Papp headlines, and Soul Camp treasure Teejay Walton supports. Let’s get down. Sat/5, 9pm, free before 11pm, $5 after. Somar Bar, 1727 Telegraph, Oakl. www. tinyurl.com/blessedcinco 2

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CNC-12-548584. SUPERIOR COURT, 400 McAllister St. San Francisco, CA 94102. PETITION of Maricel Mondala for change of name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Maricel Mondala filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name Camila Merce Mondala - Latoza. Proposed Name: Camila Merce Mondala Latoza . THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: June 19, 2012. Time: 9:00 AM room - 514. Signed by Donald Sullivan, Presiding Judge on April 16, 2012. Endorsed Filed San Francisco County Superior Court on April 16, 2012, by The Deputy Clerk. Publication dates April 18, 25, May 2 and 9, 2012. L#113579 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED NO. A-0342069-00 The following person is doing business as Grandma’s Deli & CafÈ 1551 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date N/A. Signed by Francisca Upvall. This statement was filed by Susanna Chin, Deputy County Clerk on April 27, 2012. L#113590 May 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED NO. A-0342190-00 The following person is doing business as Originate Travel 247 16th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date March 20, 2012. Signed by Maggie Eskicioglu. This statement was filed by Magdalena Zevallos, Deputy County Clerk on March 22, 2012. L#113585, April 25, May 2, 9 and 16, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED NO. A-0342268-00 The following person is doing business as Electroportal 2515 Kirkham Street, San Francisco, CA 94122. This business is conducted by husband and wife. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date March 26, 2012. Signed by Samuel E. Wonderly. This statement was filed by Elsa Campos, Deputy County Clerk on March 26, 2012. L#113575, April 18, 25, May 2 and 9, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED NO. A-0342282-00 The following person is doing business as Salle Musical Arts 1632 C Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date March 27, 2012. Signed by Tibor Szabo. This statement was filed by Magdalena Zevallos, Deputy County Clerk on March 27, 2012. L#113568, April 11, 18, 25 and May 2, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED NO. A-0342287-00 The following person is doing business as TAL Diamonds Royal Design & Jewelry Maker 3463 Freeman Road, Walnut Creek CA 94595. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant commenced business under the abovelisted fictitious business name on the date March 21, 2012. Signed by Michael Tal. This statement was filed by Elsa Campos, Deputy County Clerk on March 27, 2012. L#113574, April 18, 25, May 2 and 9, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED NO. A-0342289-00 The following person is doing business as Tacos El Paisano 3480 Cesar Chavez Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date N/A. Signed by Heriberto Jimenez. This statement was filed by Elsa Campos, Deputy County Clerk on March 27, 2012. L#113584, April 25, May 2, 9 and 16, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED NO. A-0342349-00 The following person is doing business as Blackwood Thai 2150 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date N/A. Signed by Hoyul S. Choi, CEO. This statement was filed by Susanna Chin, Deputy County Clerk on March 29, 2012. L#113565, April 11, 18, 25 and May 2, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED NO. A-0342387-00 The following person is doing business as Happy Dogs Go Walking 840 Van Ness Ave. #106, San Francisco, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date N/A. Signed by Emily Leduc. This statement was filed by Magdalena Zevallos, Deputy County Clerk on March 30, 2012. L#113564, April 11, 18, 25 and May 2, 2012

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