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A people’s great treasure is Coit With murals by painters adroit They, I’m sure you’ll agree, Belong to the com-mun-i-ty Art no one should ever exploit!

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the people who currently work in San Francisco can’t afford to buy a house here, and many of them can only rent if they pay for more than the federal standard of onethird of their income for housing. So people who work in hotels and restaurants and city, state and federal offices and hospitals and even financial district companies wind up living far from the city and commuting. Nobody thinks that’s a sound environmental policy. And this kind of full-scale rezoning and development will only make it worse. According to the City Planning Department, the Hines project will pay about $27 million into the city’s affordable housing fund, enough to pay for maybe 60 or 70 housing units. That won’t even begin to cover the need created by the thousands of employees who will fill that tower. The market-rate housing on the site will almost certainly be beyond the reach of most San Franciscans, and probably many of the office workers who fill the Hines building. And only 35 percent of the new hous-

OPINION An ominous sign suddenly appeared outside Coit Tower one afternoon last spring. It read: “Tower Closed To Public.” Visitors from around the world were turned away from their longplanned visits to Coit Tower. San Franciscans were sent home, prohibited from seeing the 27 historic WPA murals that adorn the walls inside Coit Tower or sharing them with friends. Why? Was this for a good reason, perhaps because the city was finally beginning a badly needed restoration of the Coit Tower frescoes, damaged from neglect, water corrosion, and gashes from heavy equipment repeatedly banging against them? No. Recently disclosed city documents reveal that Coit Tower was shut down to the public during regular operating hours that day so that powerful Republican real estate investor Thomas J. Coates and a group of his friends could enjoy a fancy candlelight dinner party right next to some of the most fragile Coit Tower murals. The 1 percent got Coit Tower that day. The 99 percent got turned away. This discovery comes at an important time. The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, which oversees Coit Tower, is in the process of implementing plans to dramatically increase the use of the tower as a private party venue for corporations and wealthy individuals. Rec-Park wants a new concession company to take over Coit Tower and rent it out every month for private parties and corporate events, with just 1 percent of the revenue generated used to benefit the Coit Tower murals. Next month, San Francisco voters will have the chance to weigh in on how Coit Tower should be treated and decide whether it should become a private party pal-

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EDITORIAL It’s something of a civic shame that the only way San Francisco can build a new transit terminal is to sell a private developer the rights to stick a 1,070-foot highrise office tower on public land. In fact, it’s a sad statement on the city, state, and local government: Once upon a time — and it wasn’t the long ago — tax dollars collected through a progressive system paid for major infrastructure projects. But there’s no easy way to raise $4 billion in tax money for the Transbay Terminal — even though it ought to be seen as part of the high-speed rail project, and the federal and state government ought to be picking up the tab. So San Francisco ambles forward, selling land and lease rights to the highest bidder. In this case, Gerald Hines of Houston won the right to build the largest highrise west of the Mississippi on property owned by the Transbay Joint Powers Authority. There are all sorts of drawbacks to the deal — among other things, it will cast shadows on a number of city parks, all the way to Portsmouth Square editorials

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in Chinatown. Like any massive office complex, it will put pressure on Muni, on city streets, on police and fire and other city services — and no commercial office building ever pays its fair share of that burden. And since in this case the major recipient of the money from the project will be the TJPA, the city’s General Fund will suffer. Oh, and the building is ugly. Meanwhile, city planners want to increase height limits all around the Transbay Terminal and allow hundreds of units of new (luxury) housing and more commercial office space. It’s going to be a new highrise neighborhood, complete with a rooftop park and a few little patches of ground-level open space, which won’t get a whole lot of sun, particularly in the morning and evening. And at this point, there’s been very little focus on what ought to be the defining issue of this and the other major developments on the city’s planning horizon, and that’s affordable housing. This city has a terrible jobshousing mix. The vast majority of

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ing — at maximum — will be affordable. San Francisco has to get a grip. The city can’t keep allowing more high-end housing and highrise office space without a plan to meet its housing needs. We’re glad to see the mayor talking about a $50 million a year fund, but that will barely meet existing

needs; it can’t possible keep pace with new development. So before the supervisors rush ahead to approve this ambitious new downtown district, they need to ask Hines, and the TJPA, and any other developer who comes along, how it intends to meet the demonstrated need for affordable housing that these projects will create — and demand a much higher level of payment that what’s currently on the city’s books. 2

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ace for rent to the highest bidder or remain a public place for all to enjoy. Proposition B on the June 5 ballot would enact a new city policy stating that commercial activities or private events at Coit Tower must be strictly limited. The measure would also direct the city to prioritize the funds already generated by Coit Tower — the city

receives an average of $633,000 a year in income primarily from visitors paying to ride the elevator to the top of the tower — for preserving the historic murals, maintaining the Coit Tower building, and beautifying the park around Coit Tower. Opposing Prop. B are the Chamber of Commerce, the Republican Party, and a handful of powerful city bureaucrats who view Coit Tower primarily as a cash cow whose primary purpose should

be maximum profitability — rather than as a priceless treasure that must be respected and protected. On June 5th let’s pass Proposition B and ensure that Lillie Hitchcock Coit’s generous gift to the city she loved so much remains a public place for all the people to enjoy. Jon Golinger is Chair of the Protect Coit Tower Committee, a coalition of artists, environmentalists, and neighborhood leaders. Learn more at www.ProtectCoitTower.org 2

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HANC has followed the city’s idea of building community gardens. on the city’s edges, with a few in the Outer Sunset and Excelsior, although most are located in Bayview-Hunters Point. But the commission doesn’t seem concerned with potential nuisance to neighbors in directing more traffic to these other recycling centers, or with the difficulty poor recyclers have in getting out there. “The San Francisco Department of the Environment is confident that recyclers that use the facility will take their material to another existing site for proper handling,” according to the meeting’s minutes. The commission is, however, concerned about a nuisance that the recycling center creates for Haight-Ashbury neighbors, according to the minutes. The notes cite “neighborhood noise, truck traffic, litter, and public safety concerns as negative impacts related to continuing operations at the site.”

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HANC challenges the city’s eviction rationale by adding a community garden to its embattled recycling operation By Yael Chanoff yael@sfbg.com Greg Gaar knows the names, characteristics, and birds and butterflies attracted by every plant in the native plant nursery that he tends. Last week, he proudly toured me through the garden, pointing out plants like Yarrow (“great for bees and butterflies”) and the beautiful flowers of the Crimson Columbine, of which Gaar believes there are “only two others left in San Francisco.” Gaar has been working at 780 Frederick St., where he now tends the garden, for decades. His mother went to high school on the same block, the old site of Polytechnic High. Before Gaar became the gardener, he ran the recycling center that Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council (HANC) operates next to the garden. Now, the pioneering green operation he helped build may shut down. At the center, people can recycle their bottles, cans, paper products, and even used vegetable oil, and make some cash along the way. Those who use the center say it’s a green and dignified way to make some money. But residents in the surrounding area have complained for years that the center is loud and attracts homeless people. They also say that, due to their proximity to the recycling center, the chance that their trash will get rifled through at night is greater than in other parts SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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money was used to build the current community garden. The city had laid out a $250,000 budget for the garden after it was approved and designed in 2010. A bundle of documents containing arguments against HANC, provided by RPD, includes details of the Golden Gate Park Master Plan, surveys indicating a great need for community gardens in San Francisco, and letters and statements from neighbors complaining about the recycling center. A 2004 survey discussed in the documents found that comDelivering the garden munity gardens are among the top RPD officials cite neighbor concerns, “recreation facilities most imporclaims that the recycling center’s tant to respondent households.” services are outdated and obsolete, Community gardens came in fifth and the idea of planting a commuin importance, after walking and nity garden in its place. In fact, the biking trails, pools, fitness facilities, Planning Commission approved a and running and walking tracks. community garden in the place of The documents include a detailed the recycling center last year. map of the “Golden Gate Park comSince then, HANC staff got to munity garden preliminary plan,” work building its own community imagined at HANC’s current site. garden. In just a year, they erected The map was drawn up in 50 beds from recycled wood, and November 2010, the same month according to Gaar, about 100 that a meeting of the Recreation neighbors have plots that they curand Parks Commission laid out rently tend. the reasons that HANC had to go. As the recycling center’s Minutes from the meeting include director, Ed Dunn, tells it, the the city’s need for community infrastructure already in place at gardens as well as some neighbors’ the recycling center made building disdain for the recycling center in the garden come naturally. HANC that site. It argues that the needs of was able to fund it with income recyclers can be well met with other from the recycling operation, and recycling centers in the city. plant it with seeds from the native Seventeen other recycling plant nursery. centers operate in San Francisco. Dunn emphasizes that no city Most are located in neighborhoods

of the city. Citing these concerns, the center’s landlord, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department (RPD), has spent the past few years trying to evict the HANC recycling center. The center got an eviction notice in December 2010. HANC’s lawyer, Robert DeVries, successfully challenged the eviction. RPD sued for eviction again in June 2011, and that matter may finally come to a close June 6 when it will be heard by a three-judge panel in SF Superior Court.

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But is this really just another case of resentment against people who are poor and homeless? HANC’s Dunn argues that, in fact, much of the material that those who use the center bring in isn’t taken from residential waste bins. Besides, it’s not technically “HANC’s CRV redemption program” that encourages recycling as a revenue source for the less fortunate. State law requires that consumers be able to redeem bottles and cans for cash. The meeting minutes argue that the recycling center “enables illegal camping and illicit and unhealthy behavior in Golden Gate Parks’ eastern end and in neighborhoods in close proximity to the site.” Supposed evidence for the position cites letters to the editor published in the San Francisco Chronicle, a frequent outlet for anger at the homeless. One concerned resident, Karen Growney, asserts that the center “provides no benefit to people living in Haight/ Cole Valley.” HANC disputes this, saying that many neighbors use the center. They have beneficial relationships with many nearby businesses, including New Ganges restaurant just across the street. Its website, kezargardens.com, shows many smiling neighbors who use the center to recycle. Notable among them is actor/ activist Danny Glover, a Haight resident since 1957. In a video on the website, Glover — interviewed while in his car dropping off recycling at the center — says, “I would be dismayed and not happy if we close this wonderful recycling music listings

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center down...It would be a tragedy, and a great loss to this city and this community.” In her letter, Growney also laments that her family “had to pay a considerable amount to build a wrought-iron, locked gate to keep people out of our trash.” Another letter, written by neighborhood resident Curtis Lee, asks that the city “eliminate the Haight Ashbury Recycling Center,” saying that, “It is a blight on the neighborhood and an attraction to rodents and homeless carts.” Of course, those carts come with people. HANC takes issue with the assertion that their services “enable” or “encourage” homelessness, as well as the assumption that the recycling center only serves the homeless. Dunn says that many of the recycling center’ clientele are elderly immigrants, often housed, who contribute to their family income with cash from recyclables. He also insists that “most of the people that use the recycling center don’t camp in the park.” Homeless people certainly do use the center, but it’s not clear whether its presence truly “enables illegal camping and illicit and unhealthy activity.” Dunn finds it laughable to say that “the center creates homelessness.” It’s a lot of work to cart around recyclables all day, he says, and the dedicated recyclers are generally not the same people that ask tourists on Haight Street for spare change.

The recyclers There is a great diversity in how homeless San Franciscans spend their days, and recycling is in many ways a specialized, committed way of life. In her 2010 ethnography of homeless San Franciscans, Hobos, Hustlers and Backsliders, Teresa Gowan focuses on the “recyclers,” the segment of the homeless population who have made a habit of collecting bottles and cans as a way of getting by. “The phenomenon that captured my interest was the steady stream of shopping carts loaded high with glass, cans, cardboard, and scrap metal rolling past my door,” she wrote. Some of her interview subjects show disdain for the recyclers, who work hard all day and don’t get much cash out of it. Dealing drugs, stealing, or panhandling can be more lucrative and less backbreaking. One subject, a man named Del who, according to Gowan, mostly stayed in the Tenderloin, thought the “20, 25 bucks on a big load” that recyclers usually made was pathetic. “ ‘And that’s for heaving

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news around a big old rattling buggy all day,’ Del said pityingly. ‘I can make 15 bucks inside’a two minutes.’� But many of her interview subjects prefer to recycle anyway. Gowan describes another subject, Sam, as “a champion recycler, muscular and persistent, who often put in nine, ten hours on the trot.� She quotes Sam saying, “Without this, I’d kill myself. Couple a days, I’d do myself in.... You get some guys, seems like they can deal with homelessness. I’m not one of them.� The book argues that “pro recy-

clers� included a “large core group who had created an intense web of meaning around their work as a kind of blue-collar trade.�

Pioneering HAnC Recycling for cash may not be a respected or taxed job “blue collar� job. But it’s certainly green. Since the center began operating in the 1970s, mainstream attitudes towards environmentalism and sustainability have shifted dramatically. The HANC recycling center was a product of the envi-

ronmental movement, and helped usher in the widespread support for recycling. Now, with curbside recycling fully functional in San Francisco, many call the recycling center’s work obsolete. But HANC argues that the city needs all the help it can get if it is to reach its goal for zero waste in 2020. It also employs 10 people, and Dunn argues that it would be foolish of the city to eliminate those stable green jobs. HANC has also helped move along the trend towards community

gardens that RPD is now embracing so thoroughly that, ironically, it could lead to the recycling center’s demise. HANC helped underwrite the Garden for the Environment project as well as the Victory Garden planted outside City Hall in 2008. Dunn says that the staff enjoyed the challenge of building the garden, and would be interested in helping the city by creating more gardens without city money. Gaar says he’s committed to continuing to work for a healthier planet, regardless of what happens

to the center. He and the other HANC staff have come to see the eviction process as symbolic of a direction in which the city’s heading, that also includes last year’s SitLie Ordinance: decisions designed to shuffle homeless people out of wealthy neighborhoods. The arguments for the community garden, however, seem to indicate a strong desire for a greener city. It’s not easy balancing environmental initiatives with NIMBY woes — especially when your backyard is Golden Gate Park. 2

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After a secret whirlwind courtship that lasted a mere five months, Mayor Ed Lee and the Golden State Warriors tied the knot May 22 at Piers 30-32, announcing their unexpected union at the site they intend to occupy with a new basketball arena by 2017. The Warriors’ entrepreneurial new owners — Joe Lacob and Peter Guber — say they love this “iconic site” and promised to build a “spectacular sports and entertainment complex” that is “architecturally significant.” But what about Oakland, the team’s unceremoniously jilted current homemaker? The perception from the East Bay is that Lacob and Guber were duplicitous and underhanded in their dealings with city officials that were desperately trying to retain the city’s three main sports franchises — the Oakland Athletics baseball club, the Oakland Raiders football team, and the Golden State Warriors basketballers — all of whom have recently signaled interest in moving. Several sources told us that the Warriors’ new owners have been misleading Oakland officials about their intentions for months. For example, Oakland City Councilmember Larry Reid told me “that when our staff had conversamusic listings

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tions with the new owners, they always indicated they hadn’t yet come to a final decision.” Reid told me what happened next. “I get a call Sunday night at 9:30 telling me about their move like a thief in the night.” Reid said. “It’s upsetting.” On the fan site GoldenStWarriors, Lacob seemed to belittle Oakland. In an 18-minute video, Lacob predicts that Oakland will be left with only one sports team someday. “I think they’re challenged,” he said when asked what’s wrong with Oakland, adding the city is in “a difficult situation.” Sports talk radio hosts, fan sites, and bloggers, however, seem to be evenly divided on the move. Even hardcore Oakland and Warriors blogger Ethan Sherwood Strauss prefers the San Francisco site. At his Warriorsworld site, Strauss wrote: “I’d never leave Oakland.... I have everything at arm’s length. There’s food from around the world, teeming farmers markets, lush green hills, Redwood trees, Mosswood Park, Grand Lake Theatre — this is all within two miles.” But: “Guess which is the better place for the Golden State Warriors? It’s that west bay city national broadcasters keep showing during Warriors games while pretending Oakland doesn’t exist.” Thus far, neither Oakland Mayor Jean Quan nor Mayor Lee have

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news made any comments regarding the Reid told me that Oakland bears other side’s situation or whether some responsibility for this fiasco. their mutually reported “good rela“I’ve been agitating for 10 years to tionship� has been strained. But it get this Coliseum project going. But must be devastating to Quan, given let me tell you about two critical all of her work and hoopla over her mistakes Oakland has made over recent announcements surroundthe last decade,� he said. “One, ing her ambitious plans for the Oakland has always taken the posi“Coliseum City� project. tion that these teams had no place Not unlike the Warriors’ “world to go. Well, you see where that class arena� planned for their new thinking got us today...Two, 10 years San Francisco home, Coliseum City, ago the decision was made to invest according to Quan, will be a “worldin the old [Oakland] Army Base. Yet, class sports and entertainment disto this day, not one spade of dirt trict.� Ryan Phillips, writing on the has been unearthed to symbolize Oakland North blog in March, said any kind of progress is underway that the project includes “building there. In fact, the whole project is at hotels, retail, office and residential a standstill.� space in the Coliseum complex...as Maybe, but Oakland and well as building an Oakland Airport Warriors’ fans should not despair. It Business Park just across the freeis not a done deal because a million way on the way to the airport. The things could go wrong. For example, business park will be developed to this will be the fifth attempt to attract tech companies.� develop Piers 30-32 into something Mayor Quan issued a press spectacular over the last several years. release following the Warriors’ Also, environmental groups and bombshell to announce that she local activists are already squawking remains “bullish� on her Coliseum about the site. It has to pass a notoCity project. Her new spin is riously tough approval process of at that, “Coliseum City is a long-term least four major agencies. Financing development project that was never might fall through, at least until dependent on any one tenant. It Warriors ownership present to the was always a larger project than just press, government, and citizens one sports team.� some details: Tuesday’s press conferBut if there’s even one team ence was basically a pep rally — the missing from the original trinonly thing missing were the pomity, then they have no choice but poms. Finally, Pier 30-32 and the to lower their expectations and site have yet to pass muster over the scale back their plans. Therefore, environmental and safety concerns the Warriors’ move could trigger a and myriad other requirements complete unraveling of not only her of the California Environmental recent plans to keep the Oakland A’s Quality Act (CEQA). baseball team in Oakland, but also If any obstacle dooms the efforts to keep any team there. Warriors’ plans, Oakland’s Assistant For example, a case study pubCity Administrator Fred Blackwell lished by the Airport Area Business said they’d keep the door open for Association (AABA) in conjuncthese prodigal owners: “And in the tion with Coliseum City principal end, we will leave a space for the and manager Oakland-based JRDV Warriors after they are exhausted Urban International, and students from the CEQA litigation and cost at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of increases required to be on the San Business found, “The Coliseum Francisco Waterfront.� complex presents a unique oppor“In a nutshell,� according to tunity to prepare a pioneering busia City Hall press aide, Blackwell ness model that generates revenue “means that waterfront development for both public and private interests.� is expensive and requires an extenPresciently, in the wake of this sive and complex environmental announced move by the Warriors review and permitting process and how that hurts Oakland, the involving review and approval by study asked: “Are the withdrawal of a number of local, state, and someredevelopment monies, the negative times federal agencies.� perception of Oakland (and espeBut what if it is a success? cially Deep East Oakland) by invesOakland loses even more than just tors and the soft commercial real the Warriors. At least one politician estate market insurmountable? Can pointed out, and I also heard this on the City of Oakland and Alameda 95.7 FM The Game, that what’s to County garner the public support stop circuses, ice shows, and major required to approve the necessary rock stars from ditching Oakland public financing and inspire invesand following the Warriors to this tor confidence?� splashy and scenic new entertainManning up, Councilmember ment venue? 2 editorials

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By Bruce B. Brugmann bruce@sfbg.com As an advocate for the passage of the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance in the early 1990s, I felt obligated to take my first and only City Hall position and serve as a founding member of the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force. I served for l0 years and helped with many other good members to build the task force into a strong and respected agency for helping citizens get access to records and meetings and hold city officials accountable for suppressing access and information. The task force is the first and best local sunshine task force of its kind in the country, if not the world. It is the only place where citizens can file an access complaint without an attorney or a fee and force a city official, including the mayor, to come before the task force for questioning and a ruling on whether they had violated sunshine laws. The task force lacked enforcement powers, but it still annoyed city officials, including Mayor Willie Brown. In fact, Brown spent a good deal of time trying to kick me off the task force. He used one jolly maneuver after another, even getting an agent to make a phony complaint 12 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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against me for violating the ordinance with an email (The complaint went nowhere). I refused to budge and decided to stay on until Brown left office—on the principle that neither the mayor nor anybody else from City Hall could arbitrarily kick members off the task force. That principle held until about 3pm last Thursday (May 17) at the meeting of the Board of Supervisors Rules Committee to appoint candidates to the task force. At that meeting, without proper notice, advance warning, explanation, apology, or even a nice word or two, the supervisors suddenly turned a normal drowsy committee meeting into an unprecedented bloodbath for the task force and its independence. Sup. Mark Farrell played the heavy, Jane Kim was the facilitating chair, and David Campos was the reluctant third party, working together to bring Willie Brownism back at the task force with a vengeance. The committee rejected four qualified candidates from three organizations who are mandated by the Sunshine Ordinance to choose representatives for the task force because of the organizations’ special open government credentials. (Doug Comstock, editor of the West of Twin Peaks Observer; Attorney Ben Rosenfeld from the Northern music listings

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California chapter of Society of Professional Journalists, sponsor of the ordinance; Allyson Washburn from the League of Women Voters and Suzanne Manneh from America New Media.) The committee without blushing asked the organizations to come up with a “list of names,” a whiff of grapeshot aimed at members and organizations who had served the public well for years. Who wants to go before the supervisors on a list of names for a bout of public character assassination? Meanwhile, while knocking off the qualified, knowledgeable candidates, the committee approved four neophytes without experience and then unanimously appointed David Pilpel, a former task force member known for delaying meetings with bursts of nitpicking. He almost always comes down on the side of City Hall and against citizens with their complaints. Farrell also tried to bounce Bruce Wolfe, an excellent member, but Kim and Campos supported him and his name was sent on to the full board for approval. Then, when Wolfe’s name got to the board on May 22, it was a repeat of Willie Brownism and this time to the max. Sup. Scott Wiener moved to amend the motion and substituted Todd David. Farrell seconded. The vote was 6-5, meaning that Willie Brownism wiped the sunshine slate clean of anybody who would raise a pesky question of city officials and the City Attorney’s Office. The infamous votes against Wolfe: Wiener (ah, yes, the heir of the Harvey Milk and Harry Britt seat in the Castro), Farrell (where is Janet Reilly when we need her?), Malia Cohen (who comes from the Potrero Hill/Bay View/Hunters Point district that needs all the sunshine it can get in facing an Oklahomastyle land rush of development), David Chiu (who was reportedly angry over the unanimous task force opinion finding he violated the Sunshine Ordinance with late submission of documents before the controversial vote to redevelop Parkmerced), Carmen Chu and Sean Elsbernd (neighborhood supes way out in West Portal and the Sunset who almost always vote the downtown line at City Hall). The good votes for Wolfe: John Avalos, Eric Mar, Cristina Olague, Jane Kim, and David Campos. Campos told me that the organization candidates were “eminently qualified,” that they should have been appointed, and that he would

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news fight for them. He advised the organizations to “stand by their candidates.� He is urging that the issue of organization candidates come back to the next Rules Committee. Rick Knee, SPJ’s mandated journalist on the task force surveying the carnage, said the supervisors’ actions stem “partly from a desire by some supervisors to sabotage the task force and ordinance itself, and partly from a vendetta by certain supervisors after the task force found several months ago that the board violated local and state open

meeting laws when it railroaded some last minute changes to a contract on the Parkmerced development project without allowing sufficient time for public review and comment.� Knee is right, and it isn’t just Parkmerced, but all the highstakes development deals flowing through City Hall these days, with their advocates preferring to cut backroom deals rather than being subjected to the full scrutiny of the public and the task force. James Chaffee, a former chair

of the task force, watched the board proceedings with outrage and fired off a letter to all supervisors later that day. He charged that the board in sacking Wolfe violated the Sunshine Ordinance on several counts. Among them: the board changed the committee recommendation on Wolfe without allowing public comment and it passed over Wolfe even though the ordinance requires at least one member of the task force to be “physically handicapped.� That was Wolfe. Thus, Chaffee wrote, the

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Head over to Görlitzer Park in the trendy Kreuzberg neighborhood and you can score baggies of dry cannabis in a flash. Marijuana is openly smoked in many of the town’s world-famous, dirty-as-hell techno churches. But it’s no cannabis culture capital. After all, this is a place where entering “marijuana” as a search term on the website of Berlin’s reigning English-language culture magazine turns up only one result: an interview with Evidence, of LA underground hiphoppers Dilated People. (He’s making a pun off of “bagpipes.”) So those looking for a conversation about weed that goes deeper than “you want” and “how much” should drop through Udopea. In addition to klassy US products, you can find Germany’s finest glass company Roor (www.roor.de). Glassblower Martin Birzle’s brand inspires fierce adherents — you should have heard the Udopea sales assistant’s roar of disbelief when I told him I was unfamiliar with the product. (Nationalists.) Plus, stuff for growing so that you don’t have to keep heading out to Görlitzer. The quantity of lights, fertilizers, and various other accoutrements that Udopea deals will actually sound the death knell for their most idiosyncratic of its five Germany-wide locations. More space is needed to properly stock the grow section, so the Berlin store is moving to a more spacious location in another neighborhood. Later, tourists. 2

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lOCal’S COrner Local’s Corner just opened in March on a mellow corner of the Mission’s east side. The sunny space is mostly white, evoking a cozy-chic New England seafood restaurant serving exquisite California fare. Dinner service was just launched mid-April, a delicate array of tastes of the mostly seafaring kind, though the menu simultaneously lists a “land” section. Prior to opening, I was excited for this new seafood restaurant offering the likes of sardines and smaller, more sustainable fish, and they do deliver. The immediate downside is how quickly dishes add up. Small plates hover in the low teens while no dish tops more than the mid-20s, but as you finish each plate, hunger is not exactly satiated. There is little in terms of heartier fare, which is fine — you don’t come here for “hearty.” But $100 later (for two with a glass of wine), I left a couple dishes away from satisfied. Crisp and bright as the equally crisp, bright space, a nice range of rosés and white wines pair ideally with fish offerings and rotating oysters ($2.50-3.50 each). A small plate of uni ($14) is alluringly punctuated by English peas, preserved Meyer lemon, and mint leaves, while Dungeness crab ($13) arrives glistening with snap peas, Cara Cara oranges, and spring onion. Cured halibut ($13) dances with radishes, grapefruit, and dill. Each is delicate, 16 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

slight, tickling the taste buds. Two flavorsome bites are cured anchovies and guanciale (Italian bacon made from pig’s jowl or cheek) on toasts ($10), or a dollop of smoked trout rillettes and crème fraîche ($12), also with toasts. Both delight, but are so small-portioned, one is just hooked when they’re gone. For $22, an entree of black cod on top of leeks, carrots, and watercress is likewise minimal and subdued. I was more satisfied with a “land” offering of beef tartare in a small pot, topped with quail egg ($15). Bread is (again) the filler, while the raw beef is glisteningly fresh. Brunch is such a pleasant experience in the sunny space, it is tough having few seafood choices (just one currently) and a prix fixe only: now $18 for toast, two courses, and coffee or juice. Weekday lunch offers more seafood, which is primarily what one comes here for, though still few options compared to dinner. Local’s Corner is still in its infancy, exhibiting promising meticulousness and fresh tastes. I realize upping portions of the likes of uni and abalone is a costly thing while maintaining delicacy is crucial with such ingredients. It seems a worthy mission: satisfying appetite alongside artistry. 2500 Bryant, SF. (415) 800-7945, www.localscornersf.com

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Before I left this last time, Hooli and me dropped onto Blue Fig for lunch or some such. I don’t remember anything. I remember the coffee was good. I remember we talked about Life, and Careers, how Hooli hoped to produce the theater one day, and I’m pretty sure I encouraged her in this. I’m pretty sure I said, Do what is in your heart, at all costs. Never mind rent. She wasn’t asking for advice, but — for the record — people do. These days. Me being 49 and all. Maybe this is just the chicken shit talking, but I think I might even have an air of wisdom about me, when there isn’t hay in my hair. But after the accident, all my memories got erased — except how to make frittatas, oddly enough, since I didn’t know I knew how to make them before the accident. Also worth noting: I didn’t hit my head. At all. So apparently my memories were being stored in my left arm. Anyway, when wind got back to SF that we were hurting down here, and how, Hooli wrote and said, “Can I help?� “You can write my review!� I said. “Remember that meal?� “Blue Fig?� she said. I said tell me. “You got the egg sandwich,� she said. She wrote: I like Blue Fig because the food is very fresh and flavorful. I’ve always been greeted by a smile, she wrote. She wrote: they cook the food right there in the tiny kitchen behind the counter. It’s all open. It’s fun to watch them. They make the eggs for the egg sandwich on the little burner right behind the cash register. The first time we went there, she wrote, they were sugaring the pecans for one of the salads, which made the whole restaurant smell so — Thank you, I wrote. That’ll be enough. I have me a new favorite restaurant. 2 Blue Fig Mon-Fri 7am-7pm; Sat-Sun 7:30am-7pm 990 Valencia St., SF (415) 875-9622 Cash only No alcohol

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for more visit sfbg.com of Attractions-era Elvis Costello with the tenderness of Belle and Sebastian. Featuring production from guitarist-solo artist-Papini’s husband Nathan Michel and Shane Stoneback (Vampire Weekend, Sleigh Bells), the resulting album is ten tracks of unimpeachable pop, immediately relatable to anyone that’s endured a third decade of ennui, reevaluating friendships and that useless degree. (Ryan Prendiville) With Waterstrider, Popscene DJs 9:30pm, $13 Rickshaw Stop 155 Fell, SF (415) 861-2011 www.rickshawstop.com

Thursday 5/31 “The Water is Clear and Still” Liss Fain has always chosen her visual and musical collaborators with great care. A choreographer of uncommon intelligence and taste, every new work is the result of careful deliberations and satisfying for that reason alone. Last year she stepped away from the proscenium stage into an installation format inside YBCA’s Forum. In her new “The Water is Clear and Still,” based on Jamaica Kincaid’s tiny but hugely resonating short stories, she is taking the concept further by using the more complex space of Z Space’s lobby and theater. Again the audience will be invited to wander. Joining Fain’s seven dancers will be actor Delia MacDougall for Kincaid’s text. Longtime collaborator Matthew Antaky has signed on one more time for the lighting and set design. Dan Wool composed the score. (Rita Felciano) Through Sat/2, 8pm; Sun/3, 2pm; $15–$25 Z Space

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Martin McDonagh, Oscar-winning author of the movie In Bruges and the equally dark hit play Pillowman, brings us another demented fable, already receiving rave reviews from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. All we need to know is that protagonist Carmichael has lost his hand, and although it has been more than 30 years, he is still pissed as hell. Violence and sexually twisted elements are guaranteed in any McDonagh production, and this stage performance includes special effects as gruesome as you could find on the big screen. Do not be too scared off by the talk of gore though — his work is psychologically thrilling as well, and this black comedy brings some fantastic actors to the stage. (Shauna C. Keddy)

These Kids embrace the idea that a simple pop song can be so much more — their music contains darker lyrics hidden under sunny melodies. Their records are captured on analog tape and harken back to the days when Phil Spector was recording bands in New York’s famous Brill Building, and not just a crazy-haired freak. Based on a driving drum line and drenched in reverb guitar, this Crime Spree creates all the messy fun you could ask for, but it’s safe to say you can walk away from this controlled chaos without any trouble with the law. This is not just the sound of kids having some rowdy fun, the Oakland rockers have some truly memorable tunes. (Keddy)

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Thursday 5/31 Hospitality One of the highlights at the most recent Noise Pop festival, Brooklyn’s Hospitality is also responsible for one of the best releases this year, its self-titled debut on Merge Records. Amber Papini sings with an appealing lilt and unlocatable accent, and her storytelling style has the punch

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Owned by the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation, the circa 1910 Vogue Theatre is, appropriately, a single-screen theater smack-dab in the middle of a neighborhood — no shopping malls need apply. With SFNTF partners CinemaSF at the programming helm, the Vogue shows first-run films, but also hosts unique cultural events you won’t find elsewhere. Case in point: CinemaSF’s new venture with promoters folkYEAH, “City Scenes,” which pairs local musicians with SF-centric films for two nights of rockin’ and moviewatchin’. Tonight, Vetiver curates the 1978 Goldie Hawn-Chevy Chase comedy Foul Play; tomorrow, Chuck Prophet presents Francis Ford Coppola’s tense drama The Conversation (1974). (Cheryl Eddy)

Thursday 5/31 2012 San Francisco Nightlife Awards This is your chance, San Francisco, to throw your tired arms up then bend over and take a vote. More accurately: to celebrate all your creative nightlife creatures, venues, and parties with awards and accolades. The California Music and Culture Association is throwing this second annual meeting of the nightlife minds, where DJs from some of SF’s favorite parties will spin, and all the voting will take place during the actual event. Yes, attendees get in on that hot voting action (Best Live Venue, Best Festival, Best Designer, etc). The winners will then be announced on the spot in a grand ceremony hopefully befitting for such luster. (Emily Savage) With DJs from Debaser, Future Perfect, Hard French, Lights Down Low Hosted by Anna Conda and Marke B. 8pm-midnight; Members $5, Non-Members $10

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The water is still and clear photo by RJ Muna; Hospitality photo by Kyle Dean Reinford; annie bacon and her oshen photo by Julie Michelle; reap what you zoa image courtesy of the flux foundation; kids on a crime spree photo by Claude Cardenas; balam acab photo by erez avissar; barn owl photo by Jon Porras.

kids on a crime spree see wed/30 Friday 6/1 Annie Bacon and Her OSHEN Some nights you need to rock out to hardcore, other nights you want sweet and tender vocals over a folk-y melody, the kinds of songs in which the lyrics mean something, and the music carries you right along. Annie Bacon, also known for her “Folk Opera” work, offers that soothing sound you may yearn for at her album release show with Her OSHEN band (for new album Light to See Dark). Think Americana, with an emotionally driven undertone. (Keddy) With Adios Amigo, Al Lover, the Hates, My Second Surprise 9pm, $10 Cafe Du Nord 2170 Market, SF

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“Reap What You Zoa” If you’ve visited Oakland Art Murmur — the city’s super-cool monthly art walk, which last month turned into an Occupy-style dance party that took over Telegraph Avenue for hours — then you’ve probably seen the flaming Fluxcycle and its beautiful, stylish crew from Flux Foundation. Wanna go home with them? Mmm, of course you do. You’ll get the chance after this month’s Art Murmur when the crew brings the party back to its home base at American Steel for a rockin’ afterparty to benefit Zoa, its creation for this year’s Burning Man. 18 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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The event features live music, a gallery show, Chester the Fire Breathing Art Car, the Front Porch, Oaktown Hall, a full bar staffed by the legendary Flash Hopkins, and other artsy surprises, all in a fantastic industrial warehouse. (Steven T. Jones)

The prominent ambassador of Syrian folk-dance-party-Dabke music to the US, Omar Souleyman is perhaps known best for his live performances. Releases on the Sublime Frequencies record label — drawing from reportedly over 500 cassettes created over the course of a decade plus, the majority of which were recorded at weddings and parties — has brought increased exposure for the musician and his band, and some ire from more “traditional” world music fans. Souleyman’s style of overdriven, synthesizer-embracing, unrelenting beats and firespitting vocals inevitably leads to those who immediately can’t stand it, and those who can’t resist it. Incidentally, this category includes Bjork, for whom Souleyman recently remixed a series of songs including “Crystalline.” (Prendiville) With DJ Dragonfly, 3 Leafs 8pm, $20 Mezzanine 444 Jessie, SF (415) 625-8880 www.mezzaninesf.com

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Tri Angle Records wunderkind Alec Koone, better known as Balam Acab, creates hauntingly beautiful music. The 2011 LP Wander / Wonder solidified Koone as a singular player in the vogue witch house scene. Although the term “witch house” is a four-letter word among some contemporaries, Balam Acab’s music fits all the criteria: inherently electronic, atmospheric, warped, hazy and dragged out. The 20-something Pennsylvanian embarked on a sound that has helped characterize the Tri Angle aesthetic; label mates include Clams Casino, How to Dress Well, Holy Other and oOoOO. Koone made his San Francisco debut with a live performance at Public Works in December. This time around, Elbo Room should prove to be a more intimate experience for fans of his moody music, sure to be set to fog and lasers. (Julia B. Chan) With S4NtA_MU3rTE, Nako, PLANET DEATH, oOoOO

Barn Owl is often marginalized as a “drone” outfit, but its much too versatile for that description. Evoking the thick-as-molasses stoner sludge of Sunn O))), the astral jazz explorations of Alice Coltrane, and the shimmery moodiness of Can via Future Days, the SF duo has always incorporated the tonal shifts and genre-hopping necessary to keep its hypnosis in check. Having just finished a European tour, in sup-

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port of its critically acclaimed 2011 album Lost in the Glare, this homecoming appearance ought to be a wild, unpredictable ride through Barn Owl’s veritable maze of sonic influences. (Taylor Kaplan) With Suishou No Fune, Tone Volt

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Ernest Ranglin Legendary Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin helped form what would become the ska scene back in the 1950s with his distinctive “scratching” style of playing, and has performed with everybody from Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff to the Skatalites. Help the musical icon celebrate his 80th birthday tonight here in the city with a special concert featuring Ranglin backed by local favorites Vinyl performing hits from his massive back catalog along with selections from his newest album, Avila, which hit stores this week. (Sean McCourt) 9pm, $20–$24

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POTUS exultant: Nixon in China. Photo by tim matheson/vancouver opera

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Nixon in China director Michael Cavanagh on diplomacy’s greatest opera

By Marke B. marke@sfbg.com MUSIC Compared with the smooth operator currently installed in the Oval Office, how nervous Richard Nixon looks now as a representative of America abroad, all stiff grins, rumpled shiftiness, outbursts of awkward rhetoric. Reviewing vintage footage of him recently, I half expected a rappin’ granny to suddenly appear, and goofy Uncle Dick to start “breaking it down.” And yet, 40 years after California’s second-most problematic political progeny (pace, zombie Reagan) went to Beijing to “open China” — ending 25 years of separation and going on to win re-election in a landslide, despite the growing Watergate scandal — might it be time to look past the jerky, jowly image of Tricky Dick and reassess the character of the man and the moment, to keep us on our toes? “Nixon was an incredibly complicated man, whose intellect constantly got in his way,” Canadian opera director Michael Cavanagh told me over the phone during a wide-ranging interview. “And it’s especially relevant to examine him now in that light, with a certain distance of history. We tend to stop at the jowls, the scandal, and the Republicanism. But it’s often been remarked during this election cycle that there’s no way in hell Nixon would ever be considered for the Republican ballot 20 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

now. He was too small ‘r’ republican, tion — many families escaped Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Do you feel any too centrist. So there’s this complexparticular pressure bringing this proity to him that confronts lefties duction here, now? with their own stereotypes, assuming most patrons of the arts lean left. Michael Cavanagh I feel a tremendous amount of responsibility, but That’s something I really like.” I also feel a lot of freedom. Of Cavanagh’s complexifying occacourse, the events the opera depicts sion will be his production of John and its roots in the Bay Area will Adams’ 1987 Nixon in China, part resonate, and that’s hugely exciting. of the San Francisco Opera’s niftyBut this isn’t a documentary, it’s looking summer season. The opera, a rumination, more of a poem. As with a luminescent libretto by poet Nixon says in the beginning of the Alice Goodman and an engrossing, opera, “News has a kind of mystery” fever-dream score by Adams, whose melodies, time signatures, and musi- — and I feel that’s what Adams and Goodman were really expanding cal reference points churn and shift upon with this. like memory itself, takes us from the I do think that this production, moment Nixon’s Spirit of ‘76 touches especially, will bring up memories down on the tarmac (Kissinger in for a lot of people. I myself had an tow), through his historic meetings inkling of this whole thing happenwith Chou En-Lai and Mao Tseing when I was really young — it’s Tung, along with First Lady Pat on something that a lot of the world an eventful factory tour, and finally into the major characters’ bedrooms, shares, a memory of this iconic moment, even if that memory is memories, and fantasies. It’s a only a glimpse of pavement or a sensually intoxicating work, full of handshake, kind of like my own. barnstorming arias sung by a multiThe opera works with that abstracethnic cast (you will have “I am the tion, those fuzzy frames of memory wife of Mao Tse-Tung” stuck in your that overlay images of the past, head for days) that examines media while still sharpening some of the spectacle, modern myth-making, more historically relevant moments. and cultural difference on a truly, I hope people can relate to it on all well, operatic scale. of those levels. San Francisco Bay Guardian Nixon SFBG Twenty-five years separate us was Californian, Adams is a longtime from the opera’s premiere in Houston Bay Area resident. It’s the 40th anniin 1987 — and yet China remains, to versary of the China visit, and also an use a slightly loaded term, as inscruinsanely contentious election year. The table as ever to many Americans, yet Bay Area as a huge Chinese populaeditorials

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as enmeshed in their daily lives as ever. What relevance do you think the opera may hold today? MC I think it has an eerie relevance. Even back when Nixon in China premiered, China was still remote and threatening to many, and this was before the reform machine revved into life, before China’s emerging economic dominance. In one scene, in Mao’s library, Mao goes off quite poetically about the revolution, and how things were changing, and he plays fast and loose with the concepts of capitalism and communism, almost as if he foresees the necessary reforms ahead, that came to pass. Beyond that, the opera is very prescient about the evolution of the media — this was one of the first major world events to be broadcast on a global scale, to be covered as the kind of spectacle we base much of our opinions and thoughts on today. We think of Nixon as shiftyeyed, but he was really just trying to figure out where the cameras were most of the time, trying to acclimate to this new kind of fishbowl environment in which political figures were treated like movie characters. The opera records the beginnings of all that, and ends with them reviewing their memories of everything that’s occurred as if it was all this footage, which it is quite actually on stage. Basically, though, the deepest relevance a work can have is by conmusic listings

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necting to the audience through its characters. Take Pat Nixon. We hurt for Pat Nixon. She’s been betrayed. Nixon promised her a simple home life, the comforts of family and a man at home, and here she is traveling all the way to China! She’s bewildered, but as First Lady there’s really no place for that, so she forges her own, I think very American kind of resolve that cracks a couple times, but still gets her through. It’s a very poignant psychological and emotional study, projected on the world stage, and amplified as only opera can. That’s what opera does better than any other art form: it amplifies life. SFBG You’re a Canadian — have you caught any flack for interpreting these events that are so associated with the US? MC You know, despite appeals to the contrary, our two countries really share the same history. This version of the opera was premiered in Vancouver during the Olympic Festival — it’s what Canada chose to represent itself will to the entire world. And when it comes down to it, really, everything you do effects us Canadians just as much. We sleep with the elephant. 2 NIXON IN CHINA June 8-July 3, times and prices vary War Memorial Opera House 301 Van Ness, SF. (415) 861-4008 www.sfopera.com

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oN utopiaN frequeNcies 4USFFUPQJB 4' SFBDIFT PVU BOE VQ By Nicole GlucksterN arts@sfbg.com culture It’s the tangible buzz I notice first, a tingling awareness of something important about to occur, followed swiftly by the realization that there are free quesadillas courtesy of the Great Tortilla Conspiracy, silk-screened with chocolate sauce and rabble-rousing sentiment: “Eat the Rich.� It’s opening night for the ambitious Streetopia festival, and the scene outside the Luggage Store Gallery is vibrant and chocolatescented. On the sidewalk, Brontez Purnell scrawls ritual sigils in bright pink chalk, while a watchful Amara Tabor-Smith, in Butoh face paint and bare feet, leans against a tree, waiting to enter the circle and begin her ceremonial dance. Festival co-curator (with Kal Spelletich and Erick Lyle) Chris Johanson is overheard gushing unselfconsciously about the “vibe,� and among the gathered throng of artists and tourists, Sixth editorials

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Street residents and urban activists, bookworms and cinephiles, tastemakers and thinkers, old punks and new parents, it’s as apt a descriptor of the electric excitement as any. Inside the Luggage Store itself, a fanciful reimagining of the space awaits, just past the heavily-graffitied stairwell and the bright shock of Day-Glo paint and black light of the entryway. A multi-level, wooden loft structure dominates the gallery itself, crammed with little nooks in which one might find a contemplative interactive art project involving paper boats, a tribute to Valerie Solanas, a solitary disco ball, a pirate radio set-up, a “live open letter office,� and countless murals, photographs and sculptures — frankly too much to absorb in one sweep through. Down Market Street, beneath the Renoir Hotel, the cacophonous screech and throb from Shaun O’Dell’s noise installation “THE SOMETHING� attracts the curious, with amplifier knobs to twiddle, an picks

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out-of-tune ukulele to bang, synthesizers to desynchronize, and numerous cameras to record the emphatically spontaneous proceedings on. A rare opportunity for the public to visit the San Francisco Drug Users Union to view an art installation by Barry McGee, plus the promise of free food at the Tenderloin National Forest/Luggage Store Annex at 509 Ellis, entices the intrepid to wander further afield, into the TL night. Impressively all-encompassing by any measure, Streetopia’s first weekend (it opened May 18) included nods to almost every possible artistic discipline with participants from all corners of the country. It gave space to panel talks, such as AIDS chronicler and former ACT UP activist Sarah Schulman’s “A Gentrification of the Mindâ€? (an event co-curator Erick Lyle was eager to point out represented “the multi-generational teaching and sharing aspect of Streetopiaâ€?). It reinvigorated the idea of food as communion with Sy Wagon’s Free CafĂŠ, the previously-mentioned Great Tortilla Conspiracy, and the War Gastronomy Food Cart; precipitated an off-site “spirit gardeningâ€? event at the Hayes Valley Farm with performance artist-musician Ryder Cooley; and hosted the kickoff to “enduranceâ€? performer Marshall Weber’s 72-hour poetry reading — a marathon that made that morning’s Bay to Breakers run look even more inconsequential than usual. My favorite moment of the project thus far, however, came on the evening of May 20 at the Tenderloin National Forest during an all-too rare performance by dark folk minstrels Hazy Loper, currently a duo comprised of Devon Angus and Patrick Kadyk. Torn between our desire to listen to the mournful melodies and observe the onset of the solar eclipse, the entire crowd wound up in the street squinting at the sun through postcard pinholes, loosely-clenched fists, the holes of a colander, and the leaves of a nearby tree, while the band gamely finished their set out on the curb for the whole neighborhood to enjoy. It was an experience that, for me, best encapsulated a straying from the script that the entire Streetopia project seems designed to encourage: offering a framework for building lasting interpretations of an urban utopia, rather than an experience ready-made and soon forgotten. 2

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what the shamans of South America say is the proper dose. It’s not fun.� Matos says after he emerged from his heroic experience, he felt completely reborn. “I didn’t want to do coke. I didn’t care about being famous, and I really, really felt high. I was so high that people thought I was losing it.� He says his consumption of the heroic dose, coupled with a series of vision quests, spawned the creation of his enlightened self — Trans Van Santos — and drew him toward the concept of communal musicianship. The Trans Van Santos identity came to Matos during a vision quest in the desert. He remembers big hands lifting him onto a pyramid, and voices beckoning him to embrace his spirit name, Trans Van Santos. “Santos is my grandmother’s maiden name, and in our [Portuguese] tradition we often take the matriarch’s name. When I think ‘Santos,’ it reminds me to honor the feminine.� Coyote and the Crosser, Mark Matos & Os Beaches’ recent release, tells the story of Matos’ transformation into Trans Van Santos and his quest for “the ball of light� — a metaphor for illumination and MUSIC LISTINGS

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Dance Moving, especially when it’s not by choice, is never fun. Losing your home after some 30 years of relative comfort and security is really the pits. That’s how I felt when I heard that the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival — my first encounter with the Bay Area’s voluptuous dance culture — would not be able to continue performing at the Palace of Fine Arts because of the Doyle Drive reconstruction. Yet EDF has survived; the new, smaller, more varied venues have encouraged the re-thinking of what had become a comfortable format. One more time EDF is taking its shows on the road — to Fort Mason Center’s Cowell Theater and Firehouse, and to the de Young Museum, the Asian Art Museum, and the Novellus Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Presentations range from intimate lecture formats to full-throttle multi-company performances. Unlike previous years, however, the popular January auditions (where you could get your fill, or a least a taste of what world dance is all about, for a $10 day pass) had to be cancelled for financial reasons. Like other arts organizations, EDF is struggling, though the 34-year-old fest has been hit particularly hard. “We were forced into an expansion of projects at a time when the economy was contracting,� says Carlos Carvajal, EDF’s co-artistic director along with CK Ladzepko.

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The Novellus Theater also seats 200 fewer people than the Palace, a significant loss of earned income. The Ghana-born Ladzekpo founded his African Music and Dance Festival in 1973 and has introduced generations of artists into the intricacies of African rhythms and traditions. Carvajal started folk dancing when he was in high school in San Francisco and has performed with SF Ballet and European and South American companies. Both men have been closely involved with the Festival for years — as adjudicators and observers and now as artistic directors. The absence of auditions allowed the two curators to go for the best and the brightest for this year’s 30 slots. They were particularly looking for innovation because, as Carvajal quotes Ladzekpo, “We can’t hide behind tradition.� Master artists whose primary concern was the preservation and dissemination of specific traditions started many of these ensembles. But more and more, this generation of ethnic dancers feels free to reinterpret and experiment what used to be considered inviolate practices. Today’s artistic directors very likely have not only encountered other global dance forms but probably have studied modern dance, choreography, and even ballet. Many of them are as willing to test the boundaries of their fields as their colleagues in other art forms. This year’s line-up, while still offering plenty of what we all have come to love — Chinese Dragon dance, music listings

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Native American hoop dance, rites of passages rituals from Liberia, temple ceremonies from Bali — offers plenty of contemporary choreography grounded in specific cultural traditions. It’s global dance in all its complexity. Two different gamelans working together — as the Balinese Gamelan Sekar Jaya and the Sundanese Pusaka Sunda are for the new Bayangan Jiwa — would have been unheard of two decades ago (not to speak of them using very cutting-edge shadow-light technology). Neither would you have had an Uzbek percussionist (Abbos Kosimov) pair up with a Tajikistani dancer (Mariam Gaibova). And, “We specifically asked Abhinaya Dance Company to return with San Jose Taiko,� Carvajal says. It took guts and imagination to bring (successfully) together Japanese Taiko and Indian Bharata Natyam. Carvajal is also delighted by how Carola Zertuche has revitalized Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco. For EDF, the Company will perform flamenco barefoot, milonga style, reconnecting the dance with its Moorish and Gypsy roots and also reminding us that flamenco’s percussive qualities originated in a musician’s use of a cane and not the dancer’s heels. Maybe OngDance Company personifies EDF at its most sophisticated. At Dance Mission Theater in January they showed themselves profoundly steeped in Korean tradition, absolutely contemporary in their perspective and brilliant in the art of stagecraft. They’ll present Shadow of Cheoyong during the festival’s third weekend of performances. 2 San FranciSco Ethnic DancE FEStival June 2-July 1, $12-$20 Various venues, SF www.worldartswest.org

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church play (Noye’s Fludde, Britten’s operatic version of Noah and the ark), pre-teen Khaki Scout Sam (newcomer Jared Gilman) instantly falls for the raven-suited, sablehaired Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward, ditto). It’s not hard to understand why — Hayward’s sad doe eyes and petulant mouth bring to mind a mini-version of the prototypical Godard femme fatale; she’s Anna Karina in a training bra. The two become pen pals, and quickly bond over the shared misery of being misunderstood by both authority figures and fellow kids. The bespectacled, corncob pipe–smoking Sam is an orphan, ostracized by his foster parents and scout troop (much to the dismay of its straight-arrow leader Edward Norton). Suzy despises her clueless attorney parents, played with gusto by Bill Murray and Frances McDormand in some of the film’s funniest and best scenes (they both call each other “counselor” when arguing). Suzy’s mother has cuckolded her dad by having an affair with island cop Bruce Willis (in full middle-age-man mode, looking a bit like a decrepit Tintin), who takes an interest in the troubled Sam. picks

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But that interest can’t stop the two kids from running off together into the woods to play Blue Lagoon. It’s hard to blame them. “Does it concern you that your daughter’s just run away from home?” Mrs. Bishop asks her husband. “That’s a loaded question,” he responds after a significant beat. The whole thing begins to resemble a kind of tween version of Godard’s 1965 lovers-on the-lam fantasia Pierrot le Fou. (Suzy even stabs a boy with scissors in a pivotal scene.) But like most of Anderson’s stuff, it has a gauzy sentimentality more akin to Truffaut than Godard. Imagine if the sequence in 2001’s The Royal Tenenbaums where Margot and Richie run away to the Museum of Natural History had been given the feature treatment. It’s a simple yet inspired idea. And it becomes a charming little tale of the perils of growing up and selling out the fantasy. It’s also very funny — any movie that features Tilda Swinton, bedecked in navy cape and jaunty hat, as a soulless bureaucrat who refers to herself exclusively as “Social Services,” can’t be all wrong. Still, something is missing. Much of Anderson’s wit and charm stems from a postmodern out-oftime quality, a sense of existence just this side of real. But that ironic detachment seems to be methodically sapping his ability to make a different kind of love connection: the one between his onscreen romance and his audience’s collective heart. Yes, it’s beautiful, exotic, lovely, and romantic (in both the lower-case and upper-case “R” senses). But it doesn’t feel remotely risky. And so it doesn’t seem real. In a word, it’s simply too damn tame. Even when Hurricane Maybelline descends on the island, there is never any sense of mortal danger, emotional or otherwise. At one point Sam gets cold-cocked by a bolt of lightning, quickly rises as his head still smokes, and announces, “I’m okay.” I don’t think anyone in the audience was surprised. Even the possibility of the Great Flood itself washing everything away seems a bit of a skin game. As his characters do, Wes likes his toys. I like his toys as well. But I wonder if it might be time for him, like Sam and Suzy, to grow up a little and put away some childish things. He can feel free to hold onto the portable turntable, though — especially if he puts on some old Stones records. 2 MOONriSe KiNGDOM opens Fri/1 in San Francisco.

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feel shy about asking for favors, and I wanted to paint a picture of someone who is so not shy about asking.” Though the film is as talky, anxious, and self-revising as anything from the mumblecore school, to help move her stuff out of her Perry and Altman possess more professor ex-boyfriend’s place. maturity and even more cynicism Inevitably, their Northeastern road than their profligate classmates. trip follows other tangents, takOn the converse, their characters, ing the pair on a hilarious and sad filterless with no desire to grow up journey that raises more questions or shut up, are far behind everyone than answers about their fraught they encounter, from Colin’s harpy relationship. They meet a lot of high school crush to JR’s haughty jerks, but no one more so than celebrity idol. themselves. With all its zeitgeisty humor “We were both really cranky and lovably awful people, The Color filming,” Altman recalled. “It Wheel takes some dark turns. What [really] felt like we were brother begins as a charming, dour comand sister.” edy ends up viscerally queasy and Both characters have had little pitiful, with its two leads as mixedpersonal and professional success, up as ever. though JR, a would-be news anchor, “The ending was my idea from even less than her brother. the very beginning. It was easy to Many of the characters’ repelbuild it in a way that was natural lant mannerisms and frustrating and organic,” Perry said of the film, habits are hewn from the real-life which encourages, almost immediPerry and Altman — with exagately, a repeat viewing. gerations, of course. Applauded by Cahiers du “JR is more representative of Cinéma and Mubi, among other what both of us actually feel and cinephilic publications, The Color how we perceive ourselves in her Wheel, a film that begins and ends creative ideas and lack of shame,” in transit, no doubt has a long Perry said. “My character reprelife ahead. sents the cautious side, what both In the meantime, Altman wants of us feel like we should be doing.” to make a documentary about her Altman took the name of her Lionhead rabbit. And Perry, initially character from a scrappy tomboy rejected by myriad producers and she once met at summer camp. “In investors, hopes “there will be some terms of personality, my character traction after my two films,” he said. is kind of my worst nightmare,” “Maybe someone will help this guy.” Altman said of JR, who is really Maybe someone will help aggressive about success but has no these guys. 2 specific passions of her own. “She’s THE COLOR WHEEL opens Fri/1 at the like ‘Hey, look at me!’ but, oh my Roxie; also plays Sun/3 at the Smith Rafael Film Center. god, there’s nothing to look at. I

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Deep dish By Marke B. marke@sfbg.com SUPER EGO Ooh, she’s windy! And everybody knows it. I’m writing you from Chicago, specifically and improbably from the Hard Rock Hotel in the gorgeous old Union Carbide building. It’s not so tacky (I’m staying on the Prince Floor, displaying several of his blouses), even though it’s brimming with hopefuls for the International Mr. Leather Competition-related “Grabbys,” the big annual gay porn awards. OMAR SOULEYMAN Are you ready to completely lose it, hypnotic synth-groove hi-NRG Syrian folk-pop style? Even just thinking of how this hyper-energetic, legendary Middle Eastern singer somehow came to be embraced by Western ravers makes me smile — but we’ll all be too busy bouncing and trying to sing along to deconstruct all that. Fri/1, 8pm doors, $20 advance. Mezzanine, 444 Jessie, SF. www.mezzaninesf.com STOMPY 20-YEAR REUNION The Stompy label, party crew, and music production powerhouse has helped keep the chunky, funky, banging SF house sound alive (DJ Deron, Stompy’s honcho, is one of my favorites when I just wanna let loose). To celebrate its second decade, Berlin’s sunny tech-house wiz Ian Pooley is joining Jonene, Tasho, Sweet P, and Deron to stomp us good. Fri/1, 9pm, $10 before 11pm, $20 after. Monarch, 101 Sixth St., SF. www.stompy.com DOPPLEREFFEKT Keepers of the true mad scientist techno flame, this mysterious, essential group — headed by mental lab technician Heinrich Mueller, a.k.a. Gerald Donald, a.k.a. Rudolf Klorzeiger — was all the rage, and one of the actual quality offspring, of the electro clash scene, which is now experiencing a full-blown revival. Dark thoughts and porn dreams burble up through insanely catchy melodies and sci-fi Kraftwerk affect. With C.L.A.W.S., Robot Hustle, Josh Cheon, Caltrop, and the No Way Back crew. Sat/2, 10pm, $25. Monarch, 101 Sixth St., SF. www.monarchsf.com

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Someone please tell their hairdressers that 2005 was seven years ago! No more gay porn cockatoos, please. It is also big, hairy bear week here — officially called Bearpawcalypse 2012, I shit you not — so everything is thuper-thuper-gay. I’ll be back to join you at the following ragers, but right now I’m off to “grabby” me some drinks in the stunning Second City. First stop: a strong sidecar and some live Latin jazz at Al Capone’s favorite hang, the Green Mill. Straight mobbin’, y’all. 2 KONTROL GRAND FINALE What would the city’s techno scene be like without Kontrol? Ace new crews like As You Like It and Rocket might not be around if it hadn’t been for the seven-year-old monthly blast of live news from the global techno underground. Originally started at the storied Rx Gallery as a clean, minimal-pumping break from all the baroque, bombastic clutter that was techno in the early 2000s (and as a showcase for the burgeoning international touring circuit created by the Internet and advancing digital technology), Kontrol grew at the EndUp into one of our invaluable electronic faces to the world. Now the Kontrollers — Greg Bird, Alland Byallo, Sammy D, Nokloa Baytala, and Craig Kuna — have way too much going on, damn their popular talents! This seventh anniversary event is also the end of the line for the monthly party, although Kontrol will live on in other forms, including, I’m sure, one day, a 21st anniversary party, at which I will be raving in my hover-wheelchair. Berlin master Heiko Laux performs. Danke and aufweidersehn! Sat/2, 10pm-6am, $20. EndUp, 401 Sixth St., SF. www.tinyurl.com/kontrolbye WICKED 21-YEAR ANNIVERSARY After last year’s incredible reunion (and a hugely successful world tour) one of SF’s original rave crews — the one that brought a tasty touch of pagan British psychedelia to its eclectic productions — gathers again to howl. DJs Garth, Jeno, Thomas, and Markie, plus a signature cast of beloved characters, get devilish all night. Sat/2, 10pm-7am, $20. Mighty, 119 Utah, SF. www.mighty119.com

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