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By Gabriel Haaland and Laura Thomas OPINION Last month, President Obama came out swinging against medical marijuana in an interview, defended his raids of law-abiding clubs, and is currently positioning himself to the right of former President George Bush on this issue — despite the fact that nearly 75 percent of Americans support legalized medical marijuana. In Northern California, Melinda Haag, Obama’s US Attorney for the Northern District of California, is resolutely determined to shut down medical marijuana access. Ironically, her district may have the strongest support in the entire country for medical marijuana, from voters, law enforcement, elected officials, businesses, and community members. Why is she so obsessed with shutting down the clubs? She claims that it’s because she is protecting the children of California. Really. So the next time someone is dying of cancer and they don’t have legal access to medical marijuana, we will be sure to remember that the children of California are safe. And let’s be clear: She is going after regulated clubs and the idea of a regulated industry — regulations that communities, sheriffs, Boards of Supervisors, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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and health departments have built. Haag is targeting community leaders, such as Richard Lee, the chief promoter of California’s effort to legalize marijuana, and Oaksterdam, the area where most of the medical dispensaries are in Oakland. She also shut down Mendocino’s ground-breaking regulation of marijuana growers — literally driving past illegal grows to one recently inspected and certified by Mendocino sheriff’s deputies. She subpoenaed Department of Public Health records used to issue licenses for dispensaries here. She is going after dispensaries in San Francisco that are in full compliance with local and state law, merely because they are an arbitrary distance from a school or park, even if the park is unused, or the school opened after the dispensary did. Her actions are not protecting children from the harms of marijuana. She states that dispensaries attract crime, which is not proven by any evidence. What does cause crime is the black market, especially the black market for marijuana imported from Mexico, where 50,000 people have been lost in prohibition-related violence. The less people can produce, purchase, and consume marijuana grown here in California, the worse things get for Mexico. editorials

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She also seems oddly concerned about the evils of capitalism, worried that people may be making a living from the medical marijuana industry. While we may not be the biggest fans of capitalism, we don’t think closing small businesses (or even large ones) in these economic times is a great idea. Haag’s actions have put thousands out of work and eliminated tax revenues for localities and the state. She’s using taxpayer resources to make the local economy a little bit worse. Thanks. In San Francisco, elected officials including the mayor, the Board of Supervisors, the district attorney, the city attorney, Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, State Senator Mark Leno, the Democratic County Central Committee, and most recently, Democratic Congressional Leader Nancy Pelosi, have all spoken out against Obama’s efforts to undermine legal, regulated medical marijuana in California. The San Francisco Chronicle has run not one, but two editorials in the last month on the topic, plus a column from conservative columnist Deb Saunders. What will it take to get Obama to wake up to the fact that his efforts are not supported by three quarters of the country and that, in particular, Melinda Haag is obsessed

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with shutting down any regulated medical marijuana business? But instead of reining her in, Obama is doubling down on one of the most popular causes in America. Medical marijuana is far more popular in the US right now than Congress, the president, or Republican candidate Mitt Romney. The most serious moment at the Correspondents Dinner in Washington, DC last week was when comedian Jimmy Kimmel asked Obama point-blank why he was going after medical marijuana. None of it makes much sense. How much evidence is needed to convince Obama and Haag that their actions are creating harm, not eliminating it? How much evidence is needed that this is not what the voters and taxpayers want? What kind of data do they need that regulation reduces crime? How many patients need to tell their stories? What will it take to change her actions? And when will Obama wake up to the fact that he is making a huge mistake? 2 Gabriel Haaland is a member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee. Laura Thomas works with the Drug Policy Alliance. music listings

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EDITORIAL There’s only one way to say this: The official misconduct case against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has become a one-sided star-chamber proceeding that violates all the basic rules of fairness, decency, and due process. Over the past few weeks, Mayor Ed Lee, acting through the City Attorney’s Office, has been collecting evidence and issuing subpoenas to force witnesses (including some who have only a peripheral involvement in the matter) to give testimony. The mayor is acting as if he’s prosecuting a murder case instead of conducting a hearing on whether an elected official should be thrown out of office for a misdemeanor. And Mirkarimi and his lawyers have absolutely no ability to respond. That’s right: The mayor and the city attorney have subpoena power. The defense in this case doesn’t. If this were a criminal proceeding, in a real court, Mirkarimi would have the same ability to compel testimony as the mayor. And under the rules of discovery, he’d have the right to see all of the evidence compiled against him. But because this in front of an Ethics Commission that hasn’t even adopted evidentiary rules, one side has all the rights, and the other side has none. That puts Mirkarimi at a terribly unfair disadvantage. You can argue all day about Mirkarimi’s conduct, but people charged with the worst horrific crimes have more legal protections than he does. The Ethics Commission needs to immediately adopt rules that level the playing field — and the city attorney should insist on it. If there are going to be witnesses — and clearly the mayor is planning to present them — then Mirkarimi’s lawyers must be allowed to review their statements in advance, as they would in any trial. All evidence against the sheriff should be turned over to the defense, well in advance of the hearing. Until that happens, the mayor and the city attorney should put the inquiry on hold. Because right now, the process is an abomination. 2

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Who is the brick thrower? Jesse Nesbitt, charged with Occupy violence, tell his story. By Yael Chanoff Yael@sfbg.com The brick-throwing man whose projectiles hit two protesters at the Occupy San Francisco takeover of a Turk Street building on May Day has helped spark intense internal debates in the movement about the use of violence. But nobody has heard the alleged hurler’s side of the story. Jesse Nesbitt, 34, was arrested on the scene, and is accused of felony assault, assault on a police officer, and vandalism. I interviewed Nesbitt in San Francisco County Jail May 3. He spoke of his associations with drug addicts and revolutionaries; his previous stints in jails, prisons and psych wards; and his countless arrests on the streets of San Francisco for illegal lodging. What emerged was a picture of a homeless Army veteran who suffers from untreated mental illness and substance-abuse issues — someone who found a degree of help and solace in the Occupy movement but has never fully escaped his problems. His story is, unfortunately, not unusual — there are many thousands of vets who the system has utterly failed. Nesbitt told me he was diagnosed as schizophrenic at 16. “From bad things happening, my mental illness has snowballed since then,” he explained. Nesbitt said he grew up in the projects outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1980s. “It wasn’t too nice,” he explained. When he was 18, he joined the Army. editorials

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“I wanted to join the military all my life. That’s what I wanted to do,” he said. The schizophrenia could have stopped him — but “I lied my way in.” His tour in Korea was during peace time, but he says he still saw combat. “We were supposed to be at peace with North Korea, in a ceasefire. But whenever they got a chance, they shot at us. And whenever we got a chance, we shot at them. “It hardened my heart. And it gave me a sense of duty to uphold our Constitution.” Nesbitt returned from South Korea in 1996. Afterward, “I hitchhiked from coast to coast twice. I got married three times. I have a kid in Pennsylvania. I went to jail in Pennsylvania for — being young and stupid,” he said. Later in the interview, he expanded on his prison time in Pennsylvania. “I did four years and eight months for aggravated assault, theft, and possession of an instrument of crime,” said Nesbitt. “I also did time in Georgia for assault. And I did time in Alameda County for vandalism and weapons.” In fact, as he tells it, Nesbitt’s time in Berkeley was spent mainly in jail, before he got involved with Occupy Berkeley. “I don’t know how much time I did in total in Alameda County. I’d be in jail two, three weeks, get out five, six days, then get arrested again. That was from last April to July,” he says.

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On the days when he was free, “I was doing what I normally do,” said Nesbitt. “I’d squat somewhere. In the daytime I’d panhandle, go to the library. I was doing a lot of drinking. Then I started getting arrested a lot when I started doing meth.” That was his life before joining Occupy. “A friend of mine who was shooting heroin at the time said, let’s go join the revolution. It will help clean you up. It helped pull me out of a drug addiction and keep me healthy,” said Nesbitt. But that wasn’t the only reason he joined. “I’ve always had revolutionary beliefs,” he says. He spoke of his friends in Pittsburgh. They wouldn’t let him go the G20 protests in 2009, fearing he would be incited to violence. “I’ve been involved with anarchists for a long time. They pointed out documentaries I should watch, things I should read,” said Nesbitt. But the example he gave me isn’t your classic Emma Goldman. Nesbitt remembered “The Esoteric Agenda” — a conspiracy-theory film that connects stories about corporate greed with apocalyptic prophecies. “The education was getting me ready for something,” he said. At Occupy Berkeley, even while Nesbitt recovered from his meth addiction, he continued to live in a cycle of violence. “It was in Berkeley out at the Occupy camp. I got into a fight with music listings

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somebody, I was in a black out. It took six cops to hog tie 135-pound me, so I was talking shit. While I was hogtied, they dropped me on my head. I went from talking shit to unconscious. I slept for the next two weeks,” Nesbitt told me. His involvement with Occupy San Francisco increased after the Occupy Berkeley encampment was taken down. Occupy San Francisco, however, didn’t quite progress the way he had hoped. “When they started raiding us in December, I was hoping the numbers would go up. Instead they dwindled,” said Nesbitt. He was part of a small group of people continuing the “occupation” tactic outside the Federal Reserve Building at 101 Market St. Back in the fall, that sidewalk was a spot where dozens of people held protest signs and meetings all day and many slept throughout the night. After a series of police raids, and as most of those organizing with Occupy moved on to different tactics and projects, some decided to remain there. Even when the Justin Herman Plaza camp was in full functional form, it was derided as “nothing but a homeless camp.” There were homeless people there, but many found food and other resources, as well as security from both police and other people they feared on the street, leading many to devote themselves to the goals of the protest movement. The 101 Market camp that emerged in February was mostly a homeless camp — and, although the people there remained fiercely political in their convictions, they certainly didn’t enjoy the safety that the Justin Herman camp once provided. Nesbitt was one of those people. “The SFPD not letting us sleep, telling us sitting on cardboard was lodging, sitting under a blanket to stay warm was lodging, you can only take so much of it,” he said. “They slammed my head against the back of a paddy wagon last time they arrested me for sitting underneath a blanket.” His story is not unusual. “Veterans continue to lead the nation in homelessness,” explained Colleen Corliss, spokesperson for the veterans-aid nonprofit Swords to Plowshares. “There are a lot of factors at play. Those who go to war have a higher instance of mental illness and substance abuse, which ultimately can lead to a vicious cycle of homelessness,” she said. “Even if you serve dur-

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news ing peace time, you can still have really traumatic experiences.â&#x20AC;? Nesbittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience with the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mental health facilities wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough to break this cycle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did get 5150-ed,â&#x20AC;? he said, describing the term for involuntary psychiatric commitment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was in the hospital less than 24 hours, they kicked me out.â&#x20AC;? Why? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I threatened to kill a doctor,â&#x20AC;? said Nesbitt. Nesbittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 24-hour stay was in the overburdened, short-staffed psych ward at San Francisco General Hospital. When the psych wards began closing beds in 2007, it was comprised of four units, each with 30 beds; it is now down to one unit, according to Ed Kinchley, a social worker in the medical emergency department at General. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a floor in the behavioral health center for psychiatric patients with 59 beds, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;they told the staff last week that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re planning to close 29 of those beds.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since [the beds] are full almost every day, the bar or the standard for who stays there or who goes in-patient is a lot higher than it used to be,â&#x20AC;? said Kinchley. Whatever the reason, Nesbitt was not getting treatment the day of the alleged brick-throwing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and he was having problems. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was getting an episode the day before it all happened,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was afraid to go by myself to sleep because I was hearing voices. Normally those voices tell me to hurt people. I try to keep around people I love and trust that wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let me do anything.â&#x20AC;? Mixed with his schizophrenia is a brand of Constitutionalism thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not common on the left. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you join the military or the police department, you take an oath swearing to defend the United States Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic,â&#x20AC;? Nesbitt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re passing the NDAA, Patriot Act and other bills I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re intentionally taking away our constitutional rights. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supposed to defend those rights, not lie down and take it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Abraham Lincoln said, if the government betrays us, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supposed to take them out.â&#x20AC;? Nesbitt insists heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;not a terrorist. No matter what they might say about me in the Chronicle or whatnot, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a terrorist. What is he, then? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a freedom fighter,â&#x20AC;? said Nesbitt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m fighting for the freedom of everyone.â&#x20AC;? 2 editorials

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By Steven T. Jones steve@sfbg.com There’s no doubt that San Francisco is one of the best cities in the United States for bicyclists, a place where near universal support in City Hall has translated into regular cycling infrastructure improvements and pro-cyclist legislation, as a slew of activists and politicians will attest to on May 10 after dismounting from their Bike to Work Day morning rides. But even the most bikefriendly U.S. cities — including Portland, Ore., Davis, Chicago, and New York City — are still on training wheels compared to our European counterparts, such as Amsterdam and Copenhagen, where around 30 percent of all vehicle trips are by bike. By comparison, even the best U.S. cities are still in the low single digits. Board President David Chiu and other city officials proposed to aggressively address that gap two years ago after returning from a fact-finding trip to Europe that also included Ed Reiskin, executive director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), the agency charged with implementing city policies that favor transit riders, cyclists, and pedestrians over motorists. Chiu sponsored legislation setting the goal of having 20 percent of all vehicle trips in San Francisco be by bike by the year 2020 and calling for the SFMTA to do a study on how to meet that goal. It was overwhelmingly approved by the Board of Supervisors and signed by Mayor Ed Lee, who has regularly cited it and proclaimed his support for what it now official city policy. But the city will fail to meet that goal, probably by a significant amount, unless there is a radical change on our roadways. The latest SFMTA traffic survey, released in February, showed that bikes represent about 3.5 percent of vehicle trips, a 71 percent increase in five years. While the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) lauded that gain as “impressive,” it would mean a 571 percent increase in the next seven years to meet the 2020 goal. The SFMTA study on how to meet the goal is long overdue, with sources telling us its potentially controversial conclusions have it mired by internal concerns and divisions. SFMTA spokesperson Paul Rose told us in March that it was coming out in April, and now he won’t say when to expect it and he won’t even make its authors available to answer our questions. SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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What would it really take to meet the city’s ambitious cycling goal — and do leaders have the political will to get there? “We want to make sure everything is addressed before the plan is finalized,” he told us, acknowledging that it’s been a difficult process. “The challenge of reaching the goal is ambitious.” Chiu acknowledges that the goal he set probably won’t be met and expressed frustration with the SFMTA. “I’m disappointed that two years after we set that goal, there is still no plan,” he told us, adding that to make major gains “will take leadership at the top” and a greater funding commitment to this costeffective transportation option: “We’re spending budget dust on something that we say is a priority for the city.” Reiskin also seemed to acknowledge the difficulty in meeting the goal when we asked him about it and he told us, “To get to 20 percent would be a quantum leap, no question, but the good news is there’s strong momentum in the right direction.” Yet on Bike to Work Day, it’s worth exploring why we’re failing to meet our goal and how we might achieve it. What would have to happen, and what would it look like, to have 20 percent of traffic be people on bikes?

Closing the gap SFBC Executive Director Leah Shahum said that all the group’s studies show safety concerns are by far the biggest barrier to getting more people on bikes. Most people are simply scared to share space with editorials

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automobiles, so SFBC’s top priority has been creating more bikes lanes, particularly lanes that are physically separated from traffic, known as cycletracks, like those on a portion of Market Street. “We’ve seen it time and again, when you build, they will come,” Shahum said. “People want to feel safe. They want dedicated space on the roadways.” SFBC’s Connecting the City proposal calls for the creation of four crosstown colored cycletracks totaling 100 miles. Other bike activists emphasize the importance of projects that close key gaps in the current bike network, such as the dangerous section along Oak and Fell streets that separates the Panhandle from the Wiggle, scary spots that deter people from cycling. That safety concern — and the possibilities for making cycling a more attractive option to more people — extends to neighborhood streets that don’t have bike lanes, where Shahum said measures to slow down automobile traffic and increase motorist awareness of cyclists would help. “What we’re talking about is a calmer, safer, greener, neighborhood-focused street,” she said. Bike advocates say the goal is to make cycling a safe and attractive option for those 8 to 80 years old, a goal that will require extensive new bike infrastructure — not just new bike lanes, but also more dedicated bike parking — as well as education programs for all road users.

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“What I hope is on the drawing board is infrastructure that will make more people feel safe riding, particularly women,” SFMTA board member Cheryl Brinkman, a regular cyclist, told us. Shahum also praised the Bay Area Rapid Transit District’s new Bike Plan, which seeks to double the percentage of passengers who bike to stations (from 4 percent now up to 8 percent in 10 years), saying Muni should also take steps to better accommodate cyclists. And she praised the city’s bike-sharing program that will debut in August, making 1,000 bikes available to visitors. But to realize the really big gains San Francisco would need to hit 20 percent by 2020 would take more than just steadily increasing the mileage of bike lanes, says Jason Henderson, a San Francisco State University geography professor who is writing a book on transportation politics. It would take a systemic, fundamental shift, one either deliberately chosen or forced on the city by dire circumstances. “If gasoline goes to $10 per gallon, sure, we’ll get to 20 percent just because of austerity,” Henderson said. But unless energy prices experience that kind of sudden shock, which would idle cars and overwhelm public transit, thus forcing people onto bikes, getting to 20 percent would take smart planning and political will. In fact, it will require the city to stop catering to drivers and accommodating cars. music listings

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Henderson noted that bicycle mode share is as high as 10 percent in some eastern neighborhoods, such as the Mission District, Lower Haight, and in some neighborhoods near Civic Center. “In this part of the city, Muni is crowded and young people get tired of Muni being such a slow option,” Henderson said. “If you live within a certain radius of downtown, it’s easier to bike.” To build on that, he said the city needs to limit the number of parking spaces built in residential projects in the city core even more than it does now, as well as adding substantially more affordable units. “The most bikeable parts of the city have massive rent increases,” he said. “We have to make sure affordable housing is wrapped around downtown.” Henderson said city leaders need to show more courage in converting car lanes and street parking spaces into bike lanes, creating bike corridors that parallel those focused on cars or transit, and exempting most bike projects from the detailed environment review that slow their implementation. At the same time, he said the city needs to drastically expand Muni’s capacity to give people more options and compensate for bike improvements that may make driving slower. “If you want 20 percent bike mode share, you need 30 percent on transit,” he said, noting that public transit ridership in San Francisco is now about 17 percent, far less than in the great bike cities of Amsterdam and Copenhagen, which made a commitment to reducing reliance on the automobile starting in the 1970s. “It’s like a puzzle.”

Barriers and backlash The kind of active urban planning that Henderson advocates would be anathema to many San Franciscans, particularly people like Rob Anderson, the blogger and activist who sued San Francisco over the lack of studies supporting its Bike Plan and created a four-year court injunction against bike projects that just ended two years ago. “The only way you could get to 20 percent is creating gridlock in San Francisco. I don’t think it’s going to happen. City Hall is adopting a slogan as transportation policy,” he told us. “It’s a statement of pro-bike, anti-car principle, but it’s not a realistic transportation policy.” Anderson considers bicycles to be dangerous toys that will never be used by more than a small minority of city residents, believing the majority will always rely on automobiles and there will be a huge political backlash if the city continues

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news to take space from cars for bikes or open space. Many city officials and cycling advocates say making big gains means convincing people like Anderson that bicycles are not just a viable transportation option, but an important one to facilitate given global warming, oil wars, public health issues, and traffic congestion that will only worsen as the population increases. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to help all San Franciscans see cycling as a legitimate transportation option,â&#x20AC;? Chiu said. Or as Shahum put it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prioritizing space for biking, walking, and transit over driving.â&#x20AC;? Shahum said the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political leaders seem to get it, but she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel the same sense of urgency from the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planners. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like the bureaucracy needs to get on board. We have strong political support and the public support is growing,â&#x20AC;? Shahum said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve set ambitious, worthwhile, and I think achievable goals, yet nobody is holding the city accountable....It canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just be a political platitude, it needs to be an actual plan with measureables and people held accountable.â&#x20AC;? She cited studies showing that the most bike-friendly cities in the U.S. are spending between $8 million and $40 million a year on bike infrastructure and education programs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but San Francisco is spending more like $2-3 million, which is peanuts...San Francisco has got to start putting its money where its mouth is to improve biking numbers.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheap and easy to stripe new bike lanes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the best investments we can make in terms of mode share,â&#x20AC;? Reiskin said. That makes cycling advocates question the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true commitment to goals like the 2020 policy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will need more investment,â&#x20AC;? Chiu said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but compared to other modes of transportation, it is far cheaper per mile.â&#x20AC;?

Political will So why then has San Francisco slipped back into a slow pace for doing bike projects following a year of rapid improvements after the bike injunction was lifted? And why does the city set arbitrary goals that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how to meet? The answer seems to lie at the intersection of the political and the practical. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need a more detailed and comprehensive strategy that says this is where we need to be in five years and this is how we get there,â&#x20AC;? Sup. David Campos, who chairs the San Francisco Transportation Authority, told us. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like the editorials

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commitment is there, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a question of what resources you have to devote to that goal.â&#x20AC;? But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a question of how those resources are being used, and whether political leaders are grabbing at low-hanging fruit rather than making the tough choices to complete the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bike network and weather criticisms like those offered by Anderson. It often seems as if SFMTA is still prioritizing political projects or experimenting in ways that waste time and money. For example, the most visible improvement to the bike network in the last year, and the one most often cited by Mayor Lee, is the new cycletracks on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park. But they do little to make cycling more attractive and they may even exacerbate tensions between cyclists and drivers. It was one of two major bike projects that Mayor Lee announced on Bike to Work Day last year, and it seemed to have more to do with politicians announcing more bike lane mileage that with actually improving the bike network. The other project Lee announced, just a few blocks of bike lanes on Fell and Oak streets, really was a significant bike safety advance that SFBC has been seeking for several years. But Lee failed to live up to his pledge to install them by the end of 2011 after neighbors complained about the lost parking spots, and the project was pushed back to next year at the earliest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about three blocks. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relatively small in scope but huge in impacts,â&#x20AC;? Shahum said of the project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the pace of change on these three blocks is replicated through the city, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take hundreds of years to meet the [20 percent] goal.â&#x20AC;? But Lee Press Secretary Christine Falvey said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The mayor is very much committed to the aggressive goals set to get to 20 percent by 2020 and the city is moving in the right direction. He has also always supported the Oak Fell project and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing progress.â&#x20AC;? Yes, but not the kind of progress the city would need to make to meet its own goal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chicago is really the leader right now,â&#x20AC;? Shahum said, noting Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to building 25 miles a year of new cycletracks and the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advocacy for getting more federal transportation money devoted to urban cycling improvements. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where does San Francisco fit in this? Do we want to be at that level or not?â&#x20AC;? 2 picks

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On a family-oriented strip of Cortland Avenue perched halfway up the precipitous heights of Bernal Hill, husband-wife team Karen Weiner and Brett Thurber have invested their all in an enterprise some would deem experimental: the first electric bike shop in San Francisco. “San Francisco is really the perfect place for these bikes,” said Thurber when we went on a test ride with him and Weiner around the city. Iron-thighed fixie fans notwithstanding, he’s right — there are some neighborhoods in this city where the average bear will only be able to bring a bike if he or she pushes it up the final blocks of incline. For older bikers, the e-bikes (as they are lovingly dubbed by their adherents) make it possible to zip around town, car

Sometimes it seems like the Mission has as many bike shops as taquerias, but the neighborhoods east of Potrero lacks the same double-wheelin’ bounty. Sam Kroyer and Renita Taylor met in their Bernal Heights neighborhood, where Kroyer used to run a repair shop out of his garage. Taylor is an avid biker, and the two decided to meld their respective strengths — Kroyer’s mechanical prow-

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and fancy-free. Plus, they are disturbingly fun — when else can you cruise up Twin Peaks and still be breathing easy when you reach that panoramic view? Other stores around town do sell certain models of e-bikes, but Thurber and Weiner’s new New Wheel is the first place to specialize in them. It stocks European and Canadian-made models in addition to retrofitting kits so that normie bikes can be tricked out with motors capable of doubling one’s pedaling power. Thurber says business has been steadily growing, and that he’s noticed that the electric bike is not a purchase taken lightly by consumers — often times a customer will come by the store six or seven times before taking that heady ride into pedal power (perhaps indicative of the bikes’ spendy pricetags.) “People are really making this mindful shift instead of listening to us be like ‘just do it,’” says the man who hopes to be SF’s e-bike proselytizer. (Caitlin donohue) New Wheel, 420 Cortland, SF. (415) 524-7362, www.newwheel.net

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ess and Taylor’s business know-how — and create a service-oriented shop near Potrero Hill for every type of rider. “We’re really trying to make it for everybody, from entry-level commuter bikers to bikers with really crazy exotic $20,000+ bikes,” Kroyer says. Kroyer has 25 year of experience as a bike mechanic, and Taylor is a sharp businesswoman who spent several years working in the entertainment industry. Roll SF seems like an outpost in an area not known, for now, as a cycling nexus, but its atmosphere is friendly and accessible. A long wooden table runs through the center of the shop, welcoming guests to sit down and stay awhile — to use the shop’s free wi-fi while they wait, watch and ask questions, or eat dinner. Kroyer provides you with his utmost attention and quickly diagnoses your bike. If it’s a fast fix, he’ll handle it promptly with the grace cultivated by years spent engaging with a multifaceted machine. “We’re trying to make sure you come away with a great experience — that you feel like you’ve really gotten something taken care of properly,” Kroyer says. (mia Sullivan) 275 Rhode Island, SF. (415) 701-ROLL www.rollsanfrancisco.com

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Twenty years ago, Critical Mass began demonstrating the power and potential of mass bike rides to make a political statement by seizing space from cars and confounding the authorities. Almost 10 years ago, anti-war cyclists in San Francisco borrowed Critical Mass tactics to interfere with business as usual on daily Bikes Not Bombs rides that also proved effective and hard to police. Today, as the tides of protest again rise with the Occupy Wall Street and related movements, Paul Jordan and other founders of the new collective SF Bike Calvary (sfbikecalvary.blogspot.com) are reviving and expanding the concept.

“It’s all kinda new, definitely more of a buzzword at this point,” Jordan, a 38-year-old painting contractor, said when we caught up with him and his cycling comrades during last week’s May Day marches. “But the idea is to use bicycles for activism.” As they demonstrated on May Day, even a dozen or so cyclists can send loud messages to passersby or nimbly create opportunities for marchers to safely seize the streets, all while riding more-or-less legally. And they can use whimsy — silly costumes, funny signs, big smiles, blowing bubbles — to defuse any tensions. “It’s hard to be mad when you’re stuck in traffic if you see bubbles,” Jordan said as he reloaded the bubble machine on the back of his bike. “I see bubbles as a very good activist tool.” The Calvary is a fairly new venture, which Jordan first displayed for big Jan. 20 protests, but he sees it as something with enormous potential: “We want to figure out how to grow this bigger.” (steven T. Jones)

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pantsed, non-fat latte-quaffing riders — but it’s pretty damn funny. (And catchy. It is maniacally catchy. So be warned.) Sons of Science are a freewheeling trio: Ward Evans and John Benson, who direct for Sausage Films (www.sausagefilms.com), and Hector Perez, a.k.a. Horn Solo. “We’ve known each other for years and just recently decided to collaborate for fun, and it clicked. It was a great excuse to do a video. For this track we were also very lucky to feature Tim Brooks, formerly of the Young Offenders, who plays the ‘Angry Commuter’. He brought a pantsload of energy and genuine cyclist cred,” Evan told me Also featured: the guys from that delicious new MASH shop (www.mashsf. com) near Duboce Park. When asked about his own motherfucking bike heroes, Evans replied, “A guy named Joff Summerfield rode a penny farthing around the globe. He’d be right up there.” (Marke B.)

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David Catania We set out to implement a well-regulated system that was still accessible for those who need the medication. As we are the nation’s capital, we knew the spotlight would be on the program. We set out to create a system that worked for patients in need and I believe we are well on our way to accomplishing that goal. SFBG What would you like to see happen with dispensaries in DC? DC The four dispensaries that have been given preliminary approval are in various neighborhoods throughout the District, each with its own needs and concerns. The District Department of Health is doing extensive community outreach and work to involve residents nearby both dispensaries and cultivation centers, to educate them on the program and ensure open lines of dialogue between cultivation center and dispensary owners and their neighbors. Ensuring that positive relationship between the various parties is going to be a vital component of the program’s success. [note: in DC, dispensaries have been regulated as separate from cultivation centers, which are allowed up to 95 plants per location, an amount which was designated as to avoid harsher punishment in the case of federal action.] SFBG What is it like setting up regulations regarding a federally illegal substance here in the shadow of the White House? DC It’s interesting. We were very intentional in how we established the program, as we realized we needed to be extra-sensitive to the fact that we are the home of the federal government. 2

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SarU SUSHi Bar Why couldn’t Saru Sushi Bar have been in Noe Valley all the years I lived right by this 24th Street storefront? The space’s original two sushi incarnations were less than desirable, where I was once subjected to smelly, rubbery fish. The closet-sized restaurant is completely revamped to the unrecognizable point. Still tiny, it feels roomier with large front windows and sleek brown color scheme. Cheery service pleasantly elevates the experience, particularly on a sunny day at lunch. I’d claim the space has finally arrived. There’s not just the usual hamachi and sake (salmon), but rather playful, unique bites prepared with care. “Spicy cracker” ($7) is a sheet of seaweed fried in tempura, topped with spicy tuna and avocado — a textural bite. Bright halibut editorials

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DEuTSCH mAnEuvEr By L.E. LEonE le.chicken.farmer@gmail.com CHEAP EATS “Berlin is awesome,” Kayday writes me, from Berlin. “We should all live here.” Amazingly, I answer her in German. “Genau,” I write. Berlin is awesome, true. But it’s one thing May through September, and something very much else the rest of the time. Is my opinion. Kayday lives in Seattle, and complains about the weather there from September through July. She doesn’t want to live in Germany, I feel certain. When she was here, just a few weeks ago, she wanted to eat at Schmidt’s, maybe for practice. So we did. No complaints from me. Schmidt’s has the best wild boar sausage in all of San Francisco. We also ate at my new favorite Chinese restaurant, in the Richmond, but I’m not going to tell you yet about that. Maybe next week. If you’re good. Wild boar sausage, I’m pretty sure I already told you about. There’s Rice Broker though, in the Mission, which is another place where Kayday and me ciao’d down. “Hi,” I said. “Hello.” “Hola.” And she tried to answer — probably in German — but couldn’t, because something had gone down the wrong pipe. Maybe, I’m thinking, a sesame seed. Or a teeny tiny speck of almond? Both things were in her rice bowl, which was the two skewers of lemongrass beef one, with whole orange slices, string beans, and, yeah, almonds and sesame seeds. Now, I’ve seen people choking in restaurants before. I’ve even been the person choking in restaurants. It’s no big thing. You cough, you turn red, you hold up your finger to let your dining companions know that, no, in fact you don’t need the Heimlich. Yet. And then you drink some water, cough some more, tear up a little, feel like an idiot, and continue eating. So happens, the wrong-pipe problem is a recurring theme for me, in life. I have lots and lots of sympathy and patience, 14 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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and too am ready — if necessary — to spring into action. Ever the nanny, I am trained in CPR and so forth. “Hello?” I said again. “Are you quite sure you don’t need the Heimlich?” “I’m OK,” Kayday said. “I just need to go for a walk.” And she excused herself. “Be right back.” And left. This was a first. I digged into my own bowl, which was rice porridge with porkand-ginger meatballs, bok choy, and cilantro. It was excellent, and went down very smoothly. While I ate, though, I couldn’t take my eyes off of Kayday’s bowl, which was beautiful. The meat, as yet untouched, glistened on its skewers. The orange slices shone forth, like little sunsets. The beans — it was just a beautiful bowl of food. Calling to me. Kayday is a dear and good friend. She’s an important part of my band. It occurred to me she could choke and die outside on the sidewalk. Still, I decided not to eat her food. When she came back, I would ask. And she would share. Then, the hell with it, I reached across the table and tried a piece of meat from her skewer. Tough city, go figure! But, like I says, mine was very good. The meatballs were almost as smooth as the porridge, and good and gingery. And I loved my edamame snack bowl, with dandelion and cane vinegar. Come to think of it, she’d had a snack bowl appetizer too. Pickled daikon and carrots. And I can’t remember now if I even tasted it, but it sounds pretty good, no? Of course, this isn’t Kentucky Fried Chicken. But to its credit it isn’t Spork either. And even though it choked my friend, I like that Rice Broker is there. Here in the hood. And anyway, she survived. She came back. “Hello,” I said. She said, “Hi.” 2 RicE BowL Wed-Sun 6-10pm 1058 Valencia, SF (415) 643-5000 Cash only Beer and wine

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“barbary coast and beyond” see thu/15 “Bitchin’ Camaro,” “The Thing That Only Eats Hippies,” and what would become its biggest mainstream success, “Punk Rock Girl.” After a 13-year break up and the passing of original bassist Dave Schulthise, the band reunited in 2008, and released The King In Yellow last year, bringing back its joyously clever songs and sound for fans to dance around and sing-along with like the old days. (Sean McCourt) With Terry Malts 9pm, $23 Slim’s 333 11th St., SF (415) 255-0333 www.slimspresents.com

Friday 5/11 “The Last Drive-In Presents: 16mm Movie Night”

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and a toothy Tyrannosaurus poking its head through the Conservatory roof — it also features an evolutionary journey through prehistoric plant life, some of which might look familiar (if oddly-proportioned): huge ferns, giant seed pods, etc. Good fun for pint-sized budding paleontologists and full-grown botany nerds alike. (Cheryl Eddy)

Lotus Plaza Lotus Plaza soaks innocent, introspective lyrics in bright, ambient noise. Its sound is somewhat of an Animal Collective meets Real Estate phenomenon, as repetition, staccato, washed out haze, and subtle, ‘60sinspired surfy guitar riffs predominate. Lotus Plaza — the solo project of Deerhunter’s guitarist Lockett Pundt — released its sophomore LP, Spooky Action at a Distance, early last month. You’ll get lost in this album’s consuming drone and echoing vocals, which focus on escape, living with yourself, and the future. Pundt has cited influences ranging from Stereolab to My Bloody Valentine to Gary Numan, so listen up! (Mia Sullivan) With Wymond Miles, Mirror Mode 7:30pm, $12 Rickshaw Stop 155 Fell, SF (415) 861-2011 www.rickshawstop.com

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pianos were banging out civic-pride singalongs like “California, Here I Come” and “Hello, Frisco, Hello”? The SF Symphony is hopping into the sepia-toned wayback machine to bring to life the astonishingly fertile local musical milieu of the period from the Gold Rush to the PanamaPacific Exhibition, full of tunes brought to SF by famous old-time performers like Ole Bull and Luisa Tetrazzini. The journey is narrated by beloved Beach Blanket Babylon emeritus Val Diamond. (Marke B.)

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“Plantosaurus Rex: Prehistoric Plants at the Conservatory of Flowers” If you thought exotic nature sightings in Golden Gate Park were limited to bison, swans, and the occasional coyote, it’s time to put on your Jeff Goldblum sunglasses and stroll over to the Conservatory of Flowers. Not only does “Plantosaurus Rex,” which opens today, host life-sized model dinosaurs — including a baby Stegosaurus chillin’ in the foliage, editorials

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Benefiting Lost Weekend’s Cinecave, this event was set up by a couple of former rep house projectionists, screening so-bad-they’re-good (to mock) 16mm movies complete with classic trailers and snack bar reels to recreate the drive-in experience. (Without, I guess, the car and the crappy metal speakers to hang on the window.) The UK sci-fi double for the night includes The Crawling Eye (1958), which has been described as a surprisingly good picture...until the appearance of the remarkably bad feature creature, and the illogically titled, They Came from Beyond Space (1967). (Ryan Prendiville)

Black Moth Super Rainbow The mysterious TOBACCO flings heavy, analog-laden funk tracks that spark parties and haunt listeners in their dreams. But the progenitor of modern psychedelic-pop brings sunniness (slightly) as the lead of Black

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Moth Super Rainbow. Compared to TOBACCO’s dark and stormy skies, BMSR is a tehnicolor-saturated spring day. Listeners float in fuzzy synths, retro distortions, and vocoded TOBACCO vocals, while a current of punchy beats carries them along. TOBACCO scrapped a BMSR album slated for release in 2011, but fans should be excited that a new album is in the works. (Kevin Lee) With Lumerians, Gramatik, Flako, Zackey Force Funk, Mophone, Annalove, DJ Dials, DJ Sodapop

and percussionist. Born and raised in São Paulo, Baptista floats between jazz and world music. His eye-catching Beat the Donkey project was a multicultural percussion and dance show, featuring Baptista banging on some PVC pipe and buckets. New project Banquet of the Spirits, featuring bassist Shani Blumenkrantz and fingerstyle guitarist Tim Sparks, explores some of Zorn’s previous work dedicated to the Jewish Diaspora, with twists of Brazilian and Middle Eastern styles. (Lee)

fuzzy dude through the rabbithole of deepest SoMa, choose the third key (probably) and enter a musical and artistic wonderland where the spirit number is 13 — not the unlucky 13, the brilliantly Bizarro 13 signifying 13 writhing blocks of neon freakiness and 13 stages pumping ravey local sounds. This is also the thirteenth How Weird Faire (on May 13!), celebrating 13 moons with the costume theme “Time,” which may or may not have something to do with galactic tones or Mayan glyphs, but definitely with “good times” in general. Jam out to the likes of the Sunset, Forward, Pink Mammoth, and tons of other DJ crews, peruse many Vendors from Beyond the Cosmic Edge, and revel in our delightful homegrown insanity. (Marke B.)

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This Boulder, Colo.-based “electro dubstep rock” trio remixes hits from the likes of Chromeo, Dire Straights, and the Beastie Boys with synthesizers and a drum kit. The result is a palpable wall of bass-heavy, dance-your-ass-off-worthy electronic sound. DJs Ben Eberdt and Gray Smith and drummer Mike Kelly have been going at it since their undergrad days at the University of Colorado. Savoy’s influences range from French house music to Phish, and the group has made inroads in the festival scene this year. (It played SXSW and is on the bill for Wakarusa.) Expect a dizzying light show, a high-energy dance party, and ecstasy in all of its forms. (Sullivan)

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Local producer Brendan Angelides creates electronica that somehow manages to sound both tightly produced and expansive at the same time. The easy but fair comparison is to Ninja Tune labelmate Amon Tobin, and the two have collaborated under the guise Eskamon on Angelides’ own Ancestor record label. Many electronic listeners will know Angelides through his alias Eskmo and his multi-layered post-hip hop on 2010’s Eskmo EP, but new work under the moniker Welder is just as provocative. On last fall’s Florescence, classical strings and pianos intertwined with Angelides’ intricate beat production, like a symphony embarking on a mellow jazz jam session. (Lee)

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859 O’Farrell, SF

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444 Jessie, SF

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Sunday 5/13

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Tuesday 5/15 Monday 5/14 Herman Dune Fans of Jonathan Richman, David Berman, Stephin Merritt, or anyone else who expertly blurs the line between twee earnestness and winking sarcasm will find plenty to love about Herman Dune. Recently boiled down to its core as a twopiece, the Parisian group is touring in support of 2011’s Strange Moosic, its latest batch of quirky anti-folk and bouncy indie-pop. Nearly every song in the band’s now impressively deep catalogue contains at least one endearing or sly lyrical gem courtesy of lead singer David-Ivar Herman Dune’s charming vocal delivery. Check out single “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” and its Jon Hamm-starring music video to get a sense of the feel-good world the duo creates. (Landon Moblad)

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... more specifically 1977 New York, representatives from LucasFilm contacted Marvel Comics about creating an adaptation of their upcoming sci-fi flick Star Wars, which of course, went on to be one of the most successful film franchises of all time, but also a beloved and long-running comic title. Artists Howard Chaykin and Steve Leialoha, who worked on those early issues, will be on hand tonight for a 35th anniversary celebration of all things Sith and Jedi in the comic realm, along with a discussion and presentation about their work hosted by comedians Michael Capozzola and Joe Klocek. (McCourt) 7-9pm, $7

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When the title track from Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux’s 1977 played over a montage of perpetual fuckup Jesse Pinkman riding shotgun with Mike the Cleaner on the latest season of AMC’s Breaking Bad, it was the type of moment that TiVo was made for, or maybe just sent viewers to their phones, trying to figure out who was responsible for that particularly cinematic song. Tijoux — who was born in France during Pinochet’s reign — has an infectiously cool flow and a conscious, no bullshit attitude that comes across in any language. Both political and personal Tijoux now returns with the album La Bala featuring “Shock,” a response to the recent student movements in Chile. (Prendiville) With Los Rakas, Raw G 8pm, $15 Independent 628 Divisadero, SF (415) 771-1421 www.theindependentsf.com

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BIKE FROM WORK PARTY

6-9pm, Public works, 161 Erie St (near Mission & 14th) Celebrate San Francisco’s biggest day of bicycling at the SF Bicycle Coalition’s big Bike From Work Party with DJs, a photo booth, fabulous raffle prizes, snacks hosted by Whole Foods and complimentary bicycle valet. $5 for SF Bicycle Coalition members, $10 for non-members. 21+. For more details, see sfbike.org/btwd.

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FIlM The word that comes to mind when thinking of Elliot Lavine’s semiannual film noir programs at the Roxie is inexhaustible. With 30 films packed into 14 days, “I Wake up Dreaming” wisely takes a pass on questions of noir’s quintessence in favor of open-ended research into the mutations and paroxysms of mid-century malaise. There’s no mistaking genuine masterpieces like The Big Combo (1955) and In a Lonely Place (1950), to say nothing of a still unfathomable crossover work like Detour (1945), but Lavine’s series conspires to induce the genre delirium that first inspired the French critics to call a noir a noir. In spite of the preponderance of dead ends and blind alleys, there’s always a trap door leading into the next movie. So this time around we get Shadow of Terror (1945) rather than Reign of Terror (1949), The Underworld Story (1950) instead of Underworld U.S.A. (1961), Killer’s Kiss (1955) instead of The Killers (versions 1946 or 1964) or Kubrick’s own follow-up The Killing (1956), Shoot to Kill (1947) instead of Born to Kill (1947). Chronologies editorials

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matter less than interchangeability. You watch Lee Van Cleef’s icy professional in opening night’s The Big Combo (sparkling in a 35mm restoration by UCLA) return as a foaming killer in closing night’s Guns, Girls, and Gangsters (1959). His kind never has time to develop a character on the margins of these already marginal films, but with repetition comes iconography. John Alton’s rhapsodic cinematography threads four of this year’s selections (The Big Combo; 1948’s Hollow Triumph; 1947’s The Pretender; 1944’s Storm Over Lisbon; and 1948’s He Walked By Night). In the famous finale of Joseph H. Lewis’ The Big Combo, which audaciously sets out to improve upon 1942’s Casablanca’s even more famous conclusion on the tarmac, the plot seems to exist primarily for the lighting. Cops emerge out of the fog and Jean Wallace’s trophy girl freezes Richard Conte’s sociopath in a spotlight — as pure an effect as anything in F.W. Murnau and in this case providing a perfect echo of an earlier scene of killing as silence rather than light. Nicholas Ray and Val Lewton protégé Mark Robson lead Saturday’s bill with message movies impugning society’s guilt for a young man’s

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sins. As with many of the era’s social problem pictures, miles of speechifying script and awkward narrative frames make Knock on Any Door (1949) and Edge of Doom (1950) tough going if still interesting in the particulars. Knock on Any Door is timid next to Ray’s subsequent study in juvenile delinquency, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), but there are premonitions of what’s to come in those moments when the director fully engages his actors’ bodies: when Humphrey Bogart’s world-wary defense lawyer hauls Nick “Pretty Boy” Romano (John Derek) into a back alley to reclaim a debt, for instance, and in the passage when Romano’s wife slumps against the stove after he blows for a robbery. You’re so focused on her balletic movement to the floor that you hardly notice that she’s reaching for the gas. There’s a similar fascination to Farley Granger performance as a loose cannon in Edge of Doom, lashing out at a world that doesn’t forget about money even when you’re trying to bury your poor mother. As in Ray’s indelible They Live by Night (1949), Granger’s palpable insecurity makes him a key figure for the melancholy shading of noir anxiety. music listings

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Prolific director Edward L. Cahn’s Guns, Girls, and Gangsters is the kind of red meat B movie that manages some genuinely weird flourishes in spite of its undeniable limitations as a factory-line commodity. The Vegas heist plot is barely motivation for Mamie Van Doren’s curves, and the film itself blends right in with the roadside motels and cheap nightclubs. It’s a particularly egregious offender in the redundant voice-over category (“It was a moment of great tension for Wheeler”), but then Van Cleef shows up — fresh out of prison with Mamie on the mind. The sight of him lurking outside a motel window at night in his sunglasses is something to remember. Van Doren may be the “merchandise,” as her character says, but Van Cleef conjures noir’s actual libido: leering, desperate, and unpredictable. The same cheap thrills that Cahn serves up with gusto come under close scrutiny in Stanley Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss: here we find pulp as object d’art. Made when Kubrick was 27, the film emulates its Times Square setting in its barrage of perceptual jolts — like a Weegee photograph sprung to life. Plenty of noirs delineate capitalist degradations of the city, but rarely with a cleanness of line as the sequence in which Kubrick cuts between a man being prepped for the boxing ring and a woman making herself up for her nightshift as a dancing partner. It’s all so much meat in Kubrick’s unsparing view, and one might add here that the rain of footsteps trailing down a New York canyon is more eloquent than any of the human dialogue (call it an anti-social problem picture). Kubrick acts as his own cinematographer, making great use of his chops as a magazine photographer to scavenge bitter ironies from street locations. His editing knocks things further lopsided, revealing only mirrors where you expect to find character. You know the hour is late watching Killer’s Kiss and The Big Combo, both of them released in 1955 and both advancing a self-conscious apotheosis of the style in the ruins of its bygone glamour — in a word, modernism. 2 “I Wake Up DreamIng: The French have a name For IT!” May 11-24. $11 Roxie Theater 3117 16th St., SF www.roxie.com

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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)

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emilysavage@sfbg.com mUSiC Burning Brides guitarist Dimitri Coats was in Keith Morrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tip-of-Los Feliz living room one afternoon when he turned to Morris â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Black Flag co-founder and longtime Circle Jerks vocalist â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and asked: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keith, if you were going to start a new band, who would you play with?â&#x20AC;? It was a pretty short list. Bassist? Keith wanted Steven McDonald of Redd Kross. And for drums he listed former pro skater Mario Rubalcaba of Hot Snakes, Earthless, and Rocket From The Crypt fame. All the men were game, and, thus, a supergroup was born. Since its late 2009 formation the band, OFF!, has slowly spawned a reputation for an aggressive punk return to form and wildly entertaining, chaotic live shows. Of course, having four viable and seasoned musicians stuffed in a band has its share of complications. When Morris peeks at the tour schedule grid many of the dates are blacked out due to other commitments, such as children and concurrent bands. Like, say, if Rubalcaba has to be whisked away to Australia to play with Earthless for a week, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to be mad and angry but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a drummer, and any great drummer is not going to be in one band,â&#x20AC;? explains Morris diplomatically. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s these other life obligations that have sped up OFFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s process. Their time is condensed. Two weeks after that living room conversation they were

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already rehearsing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;just banging and clashing and thumping and making loud soundsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it was sounding good, only it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the sound Morris had envisioned, he says. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d wanted it to sound like Black Flag. But he had an epiphany in the car ride home from the rehearsal space after, â&#x20AC;&#x153;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing with these great players â&#x20AC;&#x201D; nobody told Jimi Hendrix what to play, nobody told Greg Ginn what to play,â&#x20AC;? Morris recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done this long enough, continue doing what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing.â&#x20AC;? Soon after that first rehearsal, the group began releasing blistering seven-inches, which were then assembled into the First Four EPs vinyl box set and CD comp. Last year, OFF! was at LAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kingsize Soundlabs, recording a raw, frantic self-titled full-length for VICE Records over a three day period. Morris claims they did it in even less time, thanks to the realities of life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We tell everybody three days, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really three days. You need a break to go to the bathroom, you need a break to go smoke a cigarette, you know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to eat a couple of meals and I mean good meals, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat like, Taco Bell,â&#x20AC;? says the diabetic vocalist. In the end, the album â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which was released this month â&#x20AC;&#x201D; actually does have some powerful elements of early Black Flag â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all rapid tempos, heavy power chords, and Morrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; thick, instantly recognizable holler. Single â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wiped Outâ&#x20AC;? could be a rare, cleaned up B-side music listings

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to Nervous Breakdown, salt-watered, anxiety-driven punk pandemonium, which leads to one to wonder if Morris is perhaps messing with journalists today? Back in that edge of Los Feliz living room â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in a house not too far from the homes of rapper Bronx Style Bob, Gwen Stefani and family, and one of the three musical Haden triplets â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the 56-year-old punk singer is pacing on the phone thanks to another of his five to seven interviews of the day. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just glad he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to do mundane chores at the moment like take a bath, or figure out what to eat for breakfast. And heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s optimistic about the future of this new band. He may not see the precise Black Flag impact on the music, but he says the vibe of OFF! is very similar to his first band at the start, the pioneering act that began 30 years back in surf punk haven Hermosa Beach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was me going all the way back to the very beginning, when I was in Black Flag, when we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what we were doing. It was just â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to do this, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have fun. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to go wherever this can take us,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Morris says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what applies here, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had in my heart, and carried around with me all of these years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just play it by ear.â&#x20AC;? Later, in the same eerily recognizable, nasal-intoned voice he adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not only am I excited, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy being in this band.â&#x20AC;? 2 OFF! With Fidlar, Spider Fever Fri/11, 9pm, $15 Slimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 333 11th St., SF (415) 255-0333 www.slimspresents.com

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sustenance. “I live up there on Potrero Hill. Everything’s there, that’s our home.” While Pierszalowski is ringleader and songwriter, the current incarnation of the band — drummer Nicholas Wolch and bassist Alexander Margitich, both from Santa Rosa, guitarist Aaron Bradshaw, and Solbakken on keys and singing — has been touring the States together for some time. This summer they’ll be back in Oslo briefly, and before that, more tours, including an opening slot for Delta Spirit, which brings the band to the Fillmore this week. Following that, there’s another tour with Nada Surf in June. They’ll traverse the wide-open plains and rather familiar coasts of the U.S. — when not fishing in Alaska, Pierszalowski was raised in tiny coastal Cambria, just south of the Hearst Castle. He wasn’t a surfer like many of the locals, so he found solace in music, taking inspiration from a long line of iconic guitarists and singers, starting with Billie Joe Armstrong in junior high, moving up to Joey Ramone, Thom Yorke, Neil Young, Will Oldham, and his most consistant inspiration, Kurt Cobain. “I’ve always gone on record as saying In Utero is my favorite record of all time,” he says. Nirvana was an influence on Port O’Brien’s sound and a huge influence on WATERS. So what’s next? Pierszalowski is feeling the pressure to start creating new music again, has written a few songs on the sly, and is already fantasizing about the next record — he’s hoping to get back in the studio at the end of the year. It’s his life on the road with the one that he loves, but it’s not just a simple fairytale. There are donuts involved. 2

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tHeAteR A couple of days after the opening of the Cutting Ballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s documentary play, Tenderloin, I spotted independent filmmaker Rob Nilsson crossing the street at Taylor and Eddy, less than a block from the theater. Drawn to the neighborhood and its residents for decades, Nilsson is one of the more prominent artists who have found inspiration, collaboration and a kind of authenticity in the Tenderloin, long among San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poorest and liveliest districts. Director-writer Annie Elias and her Tenderloin team continue this tradition, with a clear concern to do right by their subjects (among whom happens to be Nilsson himself, played by actor Tristan Cunningham). The action emerges from an opening tableau of street life, featuring the colorful sights and harrying sounds of a rowdy inner-city intersection (nicely augmented by sound designer Matt Stines). Upstage rises scenic designer Michael Locherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ceiling-high mound of furniture and bric-abrac, which is fronted by two rows of hanging photographs, loving portraits of local people and places whose panels double as projection screens establishing context for each of the scenes that follow. The play presents a spectrum of Tenderloin denizens whose stories reflect the dire straits normally associated with this congested low-

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income slice of downtown, but also the sense of freedom and community some have found there. We hear from the desperate and lonely but even more often from people who have grown to prefer the Tenderloin to more stifling environs. That positive note lands too forcefully at times, especially when it comes from relatively privileged members of the commuting class (the plugging of the neighborhood by some middle-class patrons at the Nite Cap bar, for instance, begins to sound a little like an ad from the visitors bureau), or professional advocates like Reverend Karen Oliveto (played by Leigh Shaw) at Glide Memorial Church. By contrast, the play excels when the voices are both genuinely local and agenda-free, as is the case with the story by a man from Sixth Street who haplessly agrees to accept responsibility for a newborn baby from an acquaintance on her way to jail (a story as charming and resonant as a well-crafted short story, and beautifully recreated by actor Michael Kelly). A set of discrete interviews naturally runs the risk of becoming an aimless narrative, especially without a single dramatic episode or storyline at the center (as is the case with the better-known works in the docudrama genre, such as Tectonic Theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Laramie Project). Elias sets out to mitigate this problem in several ways, first of all by casting well â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in terms of both the selection of interview subjects and the music listings

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delicate portrayals marshaled by her exceptional ensemble of actordocumentarians (aided by additional writing from David Westley Skillman). In addition to Michael Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standout performance throughout, Rebecca Frank does particularly subtle work with a number of memorable personalities, including Leroy B. Looper, the (recently deceased) owner of the Cadillac Hotel, who appears here with wife and longtime business partner Kathy (played gracefully by David Sinaiko). (Siobhan Doherty rounds out the productionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s admirable ensemble.) Elias also relies on dynamic staging, often setting a couple of interviews in alternating tension with one another, a technique that generally serves the production well â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as in a sly point-counterpoint between former Tenderloin police captain Gary Jimenez (Kelly) and a homeless person (Cunningham) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even if some scenes prove unnecessarily busy. But the narrative that emerges, which lays a heavy emphasis on â&#x20AC;&#x153;stripping back the layersâ&#x20AC;? and revealing the truth of the muchmaligned district, suffers from the accumulation of a familiar liberal slant toward tolerance and understanding. To the extent it undercuts outrage at a larger system of extreme and degrading inequality, such a slant obscures as much as it reveals. 2 Tenderloin Through May 27 Thu, 7:30pm; Fri-Sat, 8pm (also Sat, 2pm); Sun, 5pm, $10-$50 Exit on Taylor 277 Taylor, SF (415) 525-1205 www.cuttingball.com

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HarD to Be a FiLMMaker "MFLTFJ (VFSNBOÂľT GJWF GJMNT GSPN UIF QBTU ZFBST TDSFFO BU :#$" By Dennis Harvey arts@sfbg.com FiLM In 1987, Soviet critics were polled to create a list of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest films. Landing on top was a movie still little-known abroad, whose maker has completed just five features in 45 years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one of which he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even consider truly his own work. My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1984) likely wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have gotten near that exalted status if original, partyline-towing critics had had their way. After its well-received first screening, Aleksei Guermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own studio Lenfilm launched a broadside of attacks and demanded half his film be re-shot, though ultimately (more to spare additional costs than anything else) it remained unchanged. Three years following a belated release, Ivan Lapshin was officially the â&#x20AC;&#x153;best Russian movie ever.â&#x20AC;? It was a remarkable turnabout for a director whose efforts had been â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and in different ways would continue to be â&#x20AC;&#x201D; perpetually thwarted, sometimes banned outright. In personal demeanor Guerman has been called â&#x20AC;&#x153;almost comically grim,â&#x20AC;? doubtless the result of so much uphill struggle. Yet that dour affect runs counter to the tenor of his most striking films, which are anarchic and borderline surreal, couching tragedy in absurdist humor and messy high spirits. Yerba Buena Center for the Artsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; two-week series â&#x20AC;&#x153;War and Remembrance: The Films of Aleksei Guermanâ&#x20AC;? brings to SF all of this slim oeuvre, little of which has been seen outside Russia save in festival appearances, cut form, or poor transfers that diminish the directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mastery of complicated traveling shots in moody black and white. Guerman (sometimes translated as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Germanâ&#x20AC;?) was raised in Leningrad as the son of Yuri editorials

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Guerman, a celebrated author who managed never to fall out of Stalinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favor. Aiming to be a doctor, he hit cinema instead â&#x20AC;&#x201D; first as a student and assistant, then co-directing 1967â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Seventh Companion with the more established Grigori Aronov. The two fought throughout production of this sober drama about a Tsarist military officer converting to Socialist ideals, and Guerman has disavowed the end product. He had sole credit on 1971â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Trial on the Road, another redemption tale â&#x20AC;&#x201D; former Nazi collaborator surrenders to the Red Army, then re-infiltrates Axis forces to destroy an ammunitions train â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but one judged insufficiently â&#x20AC;&#x153;heroicâ&#x20AC;? by the government. It went unseen until 1986, when Gorbachevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perestroika era liberated numerous long-banned films. A second World War II tale, Twenty Days Without War (1976), managed to escape censure with its melancholy portrait of a soldier on hometown furlough. It hinted at the looser, anecdotal, community-asprotagonist approach to come. Still, Ivan Lapshin was a surprise leap toward humor, incident over conventional narrative, childhood memory as warm, boisterous yet melancholy blur ĂĄ la Amarcord (1973) or Mon oncle Antoine (1971). (Though no sensibility could be more purely Russian than Guermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.) Based on stories by the directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, its main event is one that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happened yet when the film begins â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stalinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first â&#x20AC;&#x153;Great Purge,â&#x20AC;? which would sweep away many of the moderately criminal or just eccentric figures portrayed in this fictive 1935 provincial town. Everyone here is a little mad, driven to distraction by the chaos of a grand collectivist experiment, spinning wild as if anticipating the cold smack down they were about to suffer. The amorphous structure some initially found off-putting now seems Ivan Lapshinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s picks

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boldest, defining trait, the thing that keeps it floating in midair. Despite that precedent, beleaguered Khrustalyov, My Car! â&#x20AC;&#x201D; production dogged this time not by Soviet watchdogs, but by unreliable international funders â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was greeted with walkouts and â&#x20AC;&#x153;disasterâ&#x20AC;? judgments at its 1998 Cannes bow. Yet many of the same critics, overwhelmed at first by its wholesale abandonment of realism and coherence for phantasmagoria, pronounced it a masterpiece after second or third viewings. Framed like Ivan Lapshin as a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory of (later) Stalinist life, its 150 minutes lunge still further toward a Fellini-like grotesque-carnival clutter of excesses, from the hospital where â&#x20AC;&#x153;unauthorized death [is] prohibited!â&#x20AC;? to the delivery truck in which our macho surgeon protagonist is shockingly assaulted in a spontaneous gay orgy. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ordered resuscitate the already dead Stalin, an impossible task capping an insane rule; the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last words (the directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own?) are a voiced-over â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fuck it all!â&#x20AC;? Khrustalyov is a monumental clutter of energy and invention, so jerry-built that the fear it might collapse at any moment is part of its indelible rush. Guerman is, logically enough, headed next to outer space â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his adaptation of Soviet sci-fi classic Hard To Be a God took five years (starting in 2000!) to shoot, and is still being edited, thwarting hopes for Cannes premiere this month. Adversity may not have invaded his career by invitation, but one gets the sense that by now, at age 75, it is his most trusted collaborator. 2 War and remembrance: The Films oF aleksei Guerman

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