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If you want to create jobs, cutting the payroll tax for businesses is a risky proposition. Most new jobs in the United States are created by small businesses -- and the payroll tax, while significant, isn't a dramatic hindrance to job growth. I work for a small business, and I ran the numbers with our controller, and if the Obama stimulus bill passes, the Bay Guardian will probably have enough extra money to hire one parttime employee -- as long as we don't pay that person much more than the city's minimum wage. That's something, I suppose. But even multiplied by the millions of small businesses in the country, there's no guarantee it will lead to millions of jobs -- particularly since so many small businesses in this country are deeply in debt, scraping for profits and likely to use the extra money for something other than hiring. And a lot of big businesses already have the cash on hand to hire new workers, but they aren't doing it. That's because businesses don't make hiring decisions based just on taxes and cash -- they hire people when they need workers to fill demand for their products and services. And the fundamental problem with the American economy today is that the very rich, who don't spend most of their money, keep getting more of it, and the middle class doesn't have enough to stimulate demand. Here's what makes me crazy: The government knows how to create jobs. If that's what Obama wants to do, why not just .. do it? Let's say you want to create a million new jobs that pay a living wage (say, $0,000). If, instead of hoping that the private sector will CONTINUES ON PAGE >> The core costs for the Central Subway have not changed since 2008, when it was approved with broad support. Central Subway: justice and jobs By Norman Fong and Mike Casey OPINION The Central Subway is a result of years of grassroots environmental transit justice organizing that San Francisco should be proud of. But in recent weeks, politicos and the media have stirred up a string of unfounded criticisms of the Central Subway -- an essential project that will upgrade transit for the long term, create thousands of jobs in the midst of a recession, and expand opportunity for tens of thousands of San Franciscans who need to get to work everyday. Politicians who supported the project for years are now reversing themselves and calling it a "subway to nowhere" and a "boondoggle." And short staffed newspapers find it easy paint a cartoon picture of City Hall and Chinatown "powerbrokers" who conspired to sell the city on an expensive project it doesn't need. But San Franciscans should ignore the overheated rhetoric of the moment and see the future value and need for this critical project -- particularly when the Republicans in Congress are attacking us from the right. We need to unite as one city and not squander what might be the last opportunity to access federal funding to make the economic center of the city more transit accessible for all San Franciscans. In this limited space, we offer some of the facts about the project that seem to be missing in the present reporting. The number of recent critics and media attention about the subway makes it appear that the subway's costs and design were new news. Planning for the project began more than 20 years ago, and the essential CONTINUES ON PAGE >> Cops go after the press The BART Board and the new general manager, Grace Crunican, have become so clueless it's almost mind-boggling. For weeks, demonstrators have been taking to the BART stations to complain about a policy that never should have been in place (the shutoff of cell phone service during an earlier demonstration). The response of the BART Police (and, unfortunately, the San Francisco Police Department) has been so heavy handed and out of scale that it's just making the situation worse. For starters, BART could have easily avoided most of the trouble if the agency had simply apologized for cutting off phone service and instituted a policy to ensure that it would never happen again. And the new civilian police auditor can go a long way to establishing public credibility by expediting review of the shooting of Charles Hill and BEER + WINE 20 FOOD + DRINK 27 releasing a report quickly. But BART is doing nothing but further agitating the protesters -- and the events of Sept. 8 were a case in point. The BART Police, with the help of the SFPD, began arresting people who were doing nothing but protesting in an area that BART had previously said would be open for demonstrations. The activists were peaceful -- loud at times, but peaceful. And the police had nothing to charge them with except an old state statute that bars interference with the operation of a railroad. The arrests came without warning -- as Rebecca Bowe reported on sfbg.com, the police never declared an unlawful assembly, never warned protesters that they would be arrested if they didn't leave and never followed normal, proper, legal procedures. Then the cops went after the press. Reporters who were wearing PICKS 32 ARTS + CULTURE 34 passes issued by the SFPD were told to line up and present their credentials -- at which point the San Francisco cops confiscated the press passes. That left reporters in a bind -- if they stayed around to continue to cover the events, they would be subject to arrest. If they left, they'd miss the story -- which may have been exactly what BART had in mind. The episode is just the latest evidence that the BART police lack the training and experience to handle difficult situations. Crunican needs to get a handle on this immediately -- and the BART Board, which has been far too hands-off when it comes to police abuse, needs to demand tighter procedures and more direct and effective discipline for the subway system cops. The SFPD brass knows better than this -- and while some officers CONTINUES ON PAGE >> EDITORIALS NEWS 8 MUSIC LISTINGS 46 STAGE LISTINGS 0 ON THE CHEAP LISTINGS 1 FILM LISTINGS 2 independent, locally-owned | SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | EDITORIALS Women's Recovery Association proudly celebrates For over 40 years, Women's Recovery Association has helped women reclaim their lives with treatment options tailored to their needs and circumstances. Call (650) 348-6603 www.womensrecovery.org be the middleman, Obama directed federal, state and local governments to hire people to rebuild the nation's infrastructure, teach in public schools etc, that would cost .... oh, about $500 billion. So for $447 billion, you might only get 800,000 jobs. But that increased economic activity, and the demand it would create, would almost certainly lead to more jobs, probably at least another 400,000 jobs. That's more than a million; the unemployment rate just dropped a full percentage point, and the recovery is well under way. Why is nobody even talking about this? 2 privately say that detaining the press was a mistake, Chief Greg Suhr has been silent on the issue. He needs to speak out, now -- apologize to the reporters and announce a policy change that strictly limits the ability of officers to arrest or detail credentialed journalists (and that bars the confiscation of press passes in all but the most unusual circumstances). Meanwhile, the incident raises again a question the Society of Professional Journalists, and San Francisco officials, ought to be taking up: Why are the cops the ones who issue credentials for reporters? 2 alignment and projected costs have been agreed to and consistent since 2008. There is no new news. The claims about skyrocketing costs are misleading, comparing different project proposals. The Civil Grand Jury and others fail to do an apples-to-apples comparison. The project costs have increased primarily because, in response to public feedback, the final project is a different project. It has a new alignment, new stations, and more contingency funds built in. The core costs for the project have not changed since 2008, when it was approved with broad support, including some of its present critics. The critics who claim that not building the project will save future Muni operating costs fail to address the costs of doing nothing. The environmental impact report SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2011 showed that the no-project option would cost even more. The absence of a subway would require Muni to run and maintain more buses on streets that will be more crowded and more gridlocked. (Ten years from now, if the critics succeed in killing the project, when you are stuck in traffic and late for work you will know who to blame). Beneath the unfounded criticism about costs is actually a disagreement over values. The grand jury report relied upon by critics makes a only brief and superficial criticism about costs. The report actually devotes more attention and criticism to the location of the Chinatown station. The grand jury prefers a subway that runs closer to the financial district. For critics, the present project is a "subway to nowhere." But for the Asian, black, and working class neighborhoods that will be connected via the subway and the T-line, this is a subway to jobs and economic opportunity. Finally, we need to be clear that this is probably the last chance in many of our lifetimes for San Francisco to grow its transit system. While critics talk about alternate uses for the $940 million dollars of federal funding, the reality is we cannot redirect those dollars. The funding process for the subway is nearing the finish line after an arduous tenyear competitive federal application process. Given the federal budget, re-starting that application process may not merely mean a multi-year delay, it will likely mean there will be no funding to apply for and the loss of 30,000 jobs over the life of the project. We urge all the mayoral candidates and our media pundits to tone down the rhetoric around the subway. We should not let shortterm thinking and the heat of political passion of this campaign season kill a project that has had broad support for 20 years and will provide new transit that we desperately need for our city's future. Ultimately the subway is an issue about justice and access to jobs. Justice for some of the most densely populated neighborhoods in San Francisco, where 80% of the residents don't own cars and rely entirely on public transportation. And we're talking about the potential loss of thousands of construction jobs and access to jobs for those who need the transit to their workplaces. Stand firm, San Francisco, for jobs and justice. 2 Rev. Norman Fong is the incoming director of the Chinatown Community Development Center. Mike Casey is the head of UNITE HERE Local 2. VALENCIA CYCLERY ONE DAY sells more bikes than any other s.f. Bike Dealer... there must be a reason! seleCtion, pRiCe, seRviCe! SALE! Sat., Sept. 17th Style. Without Spending A Pile. Hybrid/City Bikes Kids Bikes 50 % Off Frames Road Bikes Mountain Bikes Plus, FREE 2nd Pair! HUGE BIKE SALE ON NOW! 300 West Portal (at 14th Avenue) Book an eye exam appointment online today. 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The commenters on sfbg.com are arguing about whether the pantsless men are shedding scrotal hair, or whether they're mostly shaved. For the record, we haven't checked. And for the record, in a couple of months it's going to get way too cold and rainy for this sort of thing anyway. (Tim Redmond) City Attorney Dennis Herrera has always been limited by his office's neutral role in criticizing city policies and officials. But as a mayoral candidate, he seems to have really discovered his political voice, offering more full-throated criticisms of Mayor Ed Lee and his policies than any of the other top-tier candidates. "I think it's kind of liberating for him that he can talk policy instead of just about legal issues," Herrera's longtime spokesperson Matt Dorsey, who recently took a leave from his city job to work on the campaign full-time, told the Guardian. Perhaps not surprisingly, Herrera's shift began a little more than a month ago when Lee bowed to pressure from Willie Brown, Rose Pak, and other top power brokers to get into mayor's race, prompting Herrera's biting analysis that, "Ed Lee's biggest problem isn't that he's a dishonest man -- it's that he's not his own man. The fact is, if Ed Lee is elected mayor, powerful people will continue to insist on things. And I don't think San Franciscans can be blamed for having serious doubts about whether Ed Lee would have the courage to say no." Herrera followed up last week by providing an example of something Lee and most other mayoral candidates don't have the courage to say no to: the Central Subway project, with its runaway price tag and growing number of critics that say it's a wasteful and inefficient boondoggle that will worsen Muni's operating budget deficit. "Fiascos aren't born that way. They typically grow from the seeds of worthy idea, and their laudable promise is betrayed in subtle increments Continues on paGe 10 >> THIS WEEk AT PSYCHIC DREAm ASTROlOGY, COmPlETE EvENTS, AlERTS, ART, AND mUSIC lISTINGS, HOTlIST, COmmENTS, AND SO mUCH mORE! FOllOW US ON TWITTER: WWW.TWITTER.COm/SFBG ON THE BlOGS POlITICS � Our reporter gets arrested at the BART protests � and lives to tell the tale � The Chron's war on nudity makes us want to streak � Endorsement interviews: Chiu, Avalos, Herrera, and more � All the latest developments in the mayoral race Herrera's smackdowns San Francisco and BART police officers were out in force to deal with a protest on Sept. 8. Guardian photo by Mirissa neff On Guard! Our perspective on the week's most notable San Francisco news By Guardian News Staff email@example.com For weeks now, protesters have descended on Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) stations to denounce the fatal July 3 shooting of homeless passenger Charles Hill by a BART Police officer, and to call for the agency's long-controversial police force to be disbanded. Commuters have had to contend with service disruptions and delays, and costs to the transit agency have exceeded $300,000. Yet it isn't just bullhorn-wielding protesters who've been thrust into the spotlight -- BART's police force is also facing scrutiny for its conduct under pressure. BART drew the ire of numerous media outlets after a Sept. protest when transit cops detained members of the press along with protesters on suspected violation of California Penal Code Section 369i, which prohibits interfering with the operations of a railroad. Most journalists were eventually released, but the protest resulted in 24 arrests. Although BART police later contended that they issued dispersal orders prior to closing in, many who were encircled and detained (including me) insisted they'd heard BART's crackdown no such announcement. BART police also instructed San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officers who were on hand to assist to seize reporters' SFPD-issued press passes -- a move that SFPD spokesperson Troy Dangerfield later told the Guardian was an error that went against normal SFPD protocol. In a Sept. 10 editorial, the San Francisco Chronicle blasted BART police for placing Chronicle reporter Vivian Ho in handcuffs despite being informed that she was there as a journalist. Ho's experience was mild compared with that of Indybay reporter David Morse (aka Dave Id), who told the Guardian he was singled out for arrest by BART Deputy Police Chief Daniel Hartwig and isolated from the scene -- even though Hartwig is familiar with Morse and knows he's been covering protests and BART board meetings for the free online publication. Asked why Morse was arrested when other journalists detained for the same violation were released, BART spokesperson Jim Allison told us, "The courts will answer that, won't they?" No Justice, No BART -- a group that was instrumental in organizing the Sept. protest -- telegraphed to media and police at the outset that they intended to test BART's assertions that people's constitutionally guaranteed rights to free speech would be upheld as long as they remained outside the paid areas of the station, in what was dubbed a "free speech zone." (Rebecca Bowe) Scott Wiener tried to do something eminently reasonable, and ask the naked guys in the Castro to put down a towel before they sit on public benches. Although the Department of Public Health hasn't made any statements about the issue (and people put their naked butts on public toilet seats without creating major social problems), it's pretty much an ick factor thing -- and using a towel is an unwritten (sometimes written) rule at almost every nudist resort in the country. The whole thing is a bit ironic, since it's already illegal for fully clothed poor people to sit on the street -- but so far, it's not illegal for naked people to sit on benches. So far. Wiener's move set off an anti-nudity campaign at the San Francisco Chronicle, starting with columnist C.W. Nevius suggesting that the nudies are all perverts: "If these guys were opening a trench coat and exposing themselves to bystanders in a supermarket parking lot we'd call them creeps." 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"Let's look at this thing and see if it still makes sense," Herrera told us, a stand that was greeted as blasphemy from the project's supporters in Chinatown, who called at least two press conferences to decry that they called a "cheap political stunt." While the stand does indeed help distinguish Herrera from a crowded mayoral field, he insists that it was the grand jury report and other critiques that prompted him to raise the issue. "Good policy is good politics, so let's have a debate on it and let the validity of the project stand or fall on its merits," he said. Herrera and fellow candidate John Avalos were also the ones who called out Lee on Sept. 2 for praising Pacific Gas & Electric Co. as "a great company that get it" for contributing $250,000 to a literacy program, despite PG&E's deadly negligence in the San Bruno pipeline explosion and its spending of tens of millions of dollars to sabotage public power efforts and otherwise corrupt the political process. "It shows insensitivity to victims' families, and poor judgment for allowing his office to be used as a corporate PR tool. No less troubling, it ignores the serious work my office and others have done to protect San Franciscans from PG&E's negligence," Herrera said in a prepared statement. Now, his rhetoric isn't quite up to that of Green Party mayoral candidate Terry Baum, who last week called for PG&E executives to be jailed for their negligence, but it's not bad for a lawyerly type. Herrera insists that he's always wielded a big stick, expressed through filing public interest lawsuits rather than campaign missives, "but the motivation in how I do either is not really different." (Steven T. Jones) The mayor's race just got a new player, someone who is guaranteed to liven things up. His name is Jack Davis -- and he's already gone on the attack. Davis, the infamous bad boy of political consulting who is so feared that Gavin Newsom paid him handsomely just to stay out of the 2003 mayor's race, has been keeping a low profile of late. But he's come out of semi-retirement to work for Jeff Adachi, the public defender who is both running for mayor and promoting Prop. D, his pension-reform plan. Davis and Adachi first bonded when Adachi ran against appointed incumbent Kim Burton in 2002. Now, Davis has begun firing away at Mayor Ed Lee, with a new mailer that calls the competing Lee pension plan a "backroom deal." The piece features a shadowy figure (who looks nothing like Ed Lee) slipping through a closing door, a fancy ashtray full of cigars and an allegation that Lee gave the cops a sweet pension deal in exchange for the police union endorsement. Trust us, that's just the start. (tr) Meanwhile, Adachi sent Lee a letter on Sept. 8 challenging him to debate the merits of their rival pension measures -- Lee spearheaded the creation of Prop. C, with input from labor unions and other stakeholders -- sometime in the next month. "I believe there is a vital need -- if not an obligation -- for us to ensure that the voters of San Francisco understand both the severity of our pension crisis as well as the significant differences between our two proposals," Adachi wrote, later adding, "As the two principals behind the competing ballot measures, I hope that we can work together to increase awareness of this important issue and work toward a better future for our city." Lee's campaign didn't respond directly to Adachi, but Lee's evercaustic campaign spokesperson Tony Winnicker told the Guardian that the request was "the oldest political trick in book" and one they were rejecting, going on to say, "Voters deserve to hear from all the candidates on pension reform, not just two of them." Perhaps, but given the mindnumbing minutiae that differentiates the two measures, some kind of public airing of their differences might be good for all of us. Or I suppose we can just trust all those dueling mailers headed our way, right? (stj) 2 By Claire Mullen email@example.com Pension pals trans-siberian CBSU road to zanzibar YXOC CALL 800 970 7299 intrepidtravel.com Jack is back 2 10 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2011 HALFOFF!wine OFF! OFF! HALF &&sHALF & sAke, wine sAke, spirits ke, wine ndAys And tuesd mOndA Secession Art & Design Gallery. Boutique. 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Only individuals with legaly recognized medical cannabis identification cards or a verifiable, written recommendation from a physicial for medical cannabis may obtain cannabis from medical cannabis dispensaries. independent, locally-owned | SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | NewS 11 NewS By Tim Redmond firstname.lastname@example.com Over the past three months, the Guardian has been hosting a series of forums on progressive issues for the mayor's race. We've brought together a broad base of people from different communities and issue-based organizations all over town in an effort to draft a platform that would include a comprehensive progressive agenda for the next mayor. All told, more than 100 people participated. It was, as far as we know, the first time anyone tried to do this -- to come up with a mayoral platform not with a few people in a room but with a series of open forums designed for community participation. The platform we've drafted isn't perfect, and there are no doubt things that are left out. But our goal was to create a document that the voters could use to determine which candidates really deserve the progressive vote. That's a critical question, since nearly all of the top contenders are using the word "progressive" on a regular basis. They're fighting for votes from the neighborhoods, the activists, the independent-minded people who share a vision for San Francisco that isn't driven by big-business interests. But those of us on what is broadly defined as the city's left are looking for more than lip service and catchy phrases. We want to hear specifics; we want to know that the next mayor is serious about changing the direction of city policy. The groups who endorsed this effort and helped plan the forums that led to this platform were the Harvey Milk LGBT Club, SEIU Local 1021, the San Francisco Tenants Union, the Human Services Network, the Community Congress 2010, the Council of Community Housing Organizations, San Francisco Rising, Jobs with Justice, and the Center for Political Education. The panelists who led the discussions were: Shaw-san Liu, Calvin Welch, Fernando Marti, Gabriel Haaland, Brenda Barros, Debbi Lerman, Jenny Friedenbach, Sarah Shortt, Ted Gullicksen, Nick Pagoulatos, Sue Hestor, Sherilyn Adams, Angela Chan, David Campos, Mario Yedidia, Pecolio Mangio, Antonio Diaz, Alicia Garza, Aaron Peskin, Saul Bloom, and Tim Redmond. We held five events looking at five broad policy areas -- economy and jobs; land use, housing and tenants; budget and social services; New construction in Mission Bay: Are we building a community -- or building a city for rich people? GUArdIAN PhOTO by MIrISSA NEff A new progressive agenda A series of community forums helped us craft a platform for the next mayor immigration, education and youth; and environment, energy and climate change. Panelists and audience participants offered great ideas and the debates were lively. The results are below -- an outline of what the progressives in San Francisco want to see from their next mayor. ECONOmY AND jOBS Background: In the first decade of this century, San Francisco lost some 51,000 jobs, overwhelmingly in the private sector. When Gavin Newsom was sworn in as mayor in January 2004, unemployment was at 6.4 percent; when he left, in January 2011, it was at 9.5 percent -- a 63 percent increase. Clearly, part of the problem was the collapse of the national economy. But the failed Newsom Model only made things worse. His approach was based on the mistaken notion that if the city provided direct subsidies to private developers, new workers would flock to San Francisco. In fact, the fastest-growing sector of the local economy is the public sector, especially education and health care. Five of the 10 largest employers in San Francisco are public agencies. Local economic development policy, which has been characterized by the destruction of the blue-collar sector in light industry and maritime uses (ironically, overwhelmingly privately owned) to free up land for new industries in business services and high tech sectors that have never actually appeared -- or have been devastated by quickly repeating boom and bust cycle. Instead of concentrating on our existing workforce and its incredible human capital, recent San Francisco mayors have sought to attract a new workforce. The Mayor's Office has, as a matter of policy, been destroying blue-collar jobs to promote residential development for people who work outside of the city. There's a huge disconnect between what many people earn and what they need. The minimum wage in San Francisco is $9.92, when the actual cost of living is closer to $20. Wage theft is far too common. There is a lack of leadership, oversight and accountability in a number of city departments. For example, there is no officiating body or commission overseeing the work of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development. Similarly the Arts Commission, the chartered entity for overseeing cultural affairs, is responsible for less than 25 percent of the budget reserved for this purpose. There's no accountability in the city to protect the most vulnerable people. The city's main business tax is highly regressive -- it's a flat tax on payroll but has so many exceptions and loopholes that only 8,500 businesses actually pay it, and many of the largest and richest outfits pay no city tax at all. AgendA items: 1. Reform the Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development to create a department with workforce development as a primary objective. Work with the San Francisco Unified School District, City College and San Francisco State to create sustainable paths to training and employment. 2. Create a municipal bank that offers credit for locally developed small businesses instead of relying on tax breaks. As a first step, mandate that all city short-term funds and payroll accounts go only to banks or credit unions that will agree to devote a reasonable percentage of their local loan portfolios for small business loans. 3. Reform procurement to prioritize local ownership. 4. Link economic development of healthcare facilities to the economic development of surrounding communities. 5. Link overall approval of projects to a larger economic development policy that takes as its centerpiece the employment of current San Francisco residents. 6. Enforce city labor laws and fund the agency that enforces the laws. 7. Establish the Board of Supervisors as the policy board of a re-organized Redevelopment Agency and create community-based project area oversight committees. 8. Dramatically expand Muni in the southeast portion of the city and reconfigure routes to link neighborhoods without having to go through downtown. Put special emphasis on direct Muni routes to City College and San Francisco State. 9. Reform the payroll tax so all businesses share the burden and the largest pay their fair share. 10. Consolidate the city's various arts entities into a single Department of Arts & Culture that includes as part of its mandate a clear directive to achieve maximum economic development through leveraging the city's existing cultural assets and creative strengths and re-imagining San Francisco's competitive position as a regional, national and international hub of creative thinking. Sponsor and promote signature arts programs and opportunities to attract and retain visitors who will generate maximum economic activity in the local economy; restore San Francisco's community-based cultural economy by re-enacting the successful Neighborhood Arts Program; and leverage the current 1-2 percent for art fees on various on-site building projects to be directed towards non-construction-site arts activity. LAND USE, hOUSING AND tENANtS Background: Since the office market tanked, the big land-use issue has become market-rate housing. San Francisco is building housing for people who don't live here -- in significant part, for either very wealthy people who want a short-term pied a terre in the city or for commuters who work in Silicon Valley. The city's own General Plan calls for 60 percent of all new housing to be below-marketrate -- but the vast majority of the new housing that's been constructed or is in the planning pipeline is highend condos. There's no connection between the housing needs of city residents and the local workforce and the type of housing that's being constructed. Family housing is in short supply and rental housing is being destroyed faster than it's being built -- a total of 21,000 rental units have been lost to condos and tenancies in common. Public housing is getting demolished and rebuilt with 2500 fewer units. "Hotelization" is growing as housing units become transitory housing. Planning has become an appendage of the Mayor's Office of Economic Development, which has no commission, no public hearings and no community oversight. CONTINUES ON PAGE 14 >> 12 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SepteMBer 14 - 20, 2011 independent, locally-owned | SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | NewS 13 Agenda Projects are getting approved with no connection to schools, transit or affordable housing. There's no monitoring of Ellis Act evictions. Transit-oriented development is a big scam that doesn't include equity or the needs of people who live in the areas slated for more development. Cities have incentives to create dense housing with no affordability. Communities of concern are right in the path of this "smart growth" -- and there are no protections for the people who live there now. rich and the poor, which is destroying the national economy, exists in San Francisco, too. But while city officials are taking a national lead on issues like the environment and civil rights, there is virtually no discussion at the policy level of using city policy to bring in revenue from those who can afford it and to equalize the wealth disparities right here in town. : There have been profound cuts in the social safety net in San Francisco over the past decade. One third of the city's shelter beds have been lost; six homeless centers have closed. Homeless mental health and substance abuse services have lost $32 million, and the health system has lost $33 million. None of the budget proposals coming from the Mayor's Office have even begun to address restoring the past cuts. There's not enough access to primary care for people in Healthy San Francisco. Nonprofit contracts with the city are flat-funded, so there's no room for increases in the cost of doing business. The mayor has all the staff and the supervisors don't have enough. The supervisors have the ability to add back budget items -- but the mayor can then make unilateral cuts. The wealthy in San Francisco have done very well under the Bush tax cuts and more than 14 billionaires live in this city. The gap between the : In the past 10 years, San Francisco has lost 24,000 people ages 12-24. Among current youth, 5,800 live in poverty; 6,000 have no high school degree; 7,000 are not working or attending school; 1,200 are on adult probation. A full 50 percent of public school students are not qualified for college studies. Too often, the outcome is dictated by race; school-to-prison is far too common. Trust between immigrants and the police is a low point, particularly since former Mayor Gavin Newsom gutted the sanctuary ordinance in 2008 after anti-immigrant stories in the San Francisco Chronicle. Some 70 percent of students depend on Muni, but the price of a youth pass just went from $10 to $21. : When it comes to land use, the laws on the books are pretty good. The General Plan is a good document. But those laws aren't enforced. Big projects get changed by the project sponsor after they're approved. Land use is really about who will live here and who will vote. But on a policy level, it's clear that the city doesn't value the people who currently live here. Climate change is going to affect San Francisco -- people who live near toxic materials are at risk in floods and earthquakes. 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The cards, a result of a recent contract Bank of America won to implement the EDD's new debit card system, replace the monthly unemployment check residents receive. The cards are also being used for disability insurance and paid family leave payments. "We wanted a faster, safer, more convenient way for our customers to access their benefits," Stephens says. But figuring out the new system takes time, usage fees can surface, and complaints have arisen. "Now I have against my will been forced to become a B of A customer, which I don't like," says Cliff Liehe, a part time business teacher at City College who collects unemployment benefits during the summer. "I don't want to do business with B of A. I hate them, and there's a lot of staff members that feel the same way, throughout the state, not just City College." Liehe says that he dislikes B of A because it has a "corporate philosophy that I've disagreed with," as well as, "terrible customer service and high fees." 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Interchange fees are received from businesses that use the ATM network," Stephens says. With 1.7 million Californians receiving unemployment benefits and using their cards at ATMs and retail establishments, Bank of America will be receiving a percentage off all this money spent, as well as gaining more than a million new customers, unless recipients have the know-how to have their money transferred to a different bank. This adds up to a substantial potential profit for America's richest bank. "We generally don't comment on the profitability of individual programs or products, but we are pleased to be working with the EDD to provide more secure and convenient benefit payments to its constituents," bank spokesperson Jefferson George told us. What consumers don't consider when using a credit or debit card to make purchases is that with each purchase, the merchant is paying a percentage back to the bank or other credit card processor. Here at the Guardian, for instance, we lose a significant percentage of our ad profits when advertisers pay with a credit card. With MasterCard and Visa, we lose 3.5 percent of the sales amount, and with American Express it's 4.15 percent, on top of monthly processing fees. "The issues with credit card charges in general is that it's all about the small print," says Hut Landon, Executive Director of Northern California Independent Booksellers Association. As with the Bank of America EDD card, unadvertised fees can occur through usage of debit and credit cards. On top of a base percentage, merchants must pay fees for rewards cards, mileage cards, and are sometimes charged for transactions, Landon explains. There is even a fee for manually entering credit card information instead of swiping it. The debit card fee is sometimes less, but merchants still could be suffering from the EDD's new system. "While this may be a good situation for Bank of America," says Landon, "[for merchants] its definitely not a good deal." Joel Bleskacek, co-owner of Potrero Hill favorites Plow and Ruby Wine, tells the Guardian he pays between 1.5 percent and 3 percent for credit card transactions at his restaurant and wine store. That's a significant amount of money lost with each transaction, money that goes directly to the banks or credit card processors. "For what we're paying at the restaurant, I could hire a general manager to work if we only accepted cash," Bleskacek says. But credit cards are more popular than cash at both his establishments. "A vast majority is credit card sales. People don't seem to carry cash anymore. Same at the restaurant. An overwhelming majority of sales are through the credit card machine." Credit card company's earnings quickly add up. "Basically 2.5 to 3 percent of our entire economy is going to credit card companies...," he says. 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The moment comes after hundreds of pages of violence and paranoia. D'Souza's James is a successful freelance journalist rendered financially obsolete in the Crash Which Dare Not Speak It's Name. Reduced from an Alist Austin lifestyle, he decides to drive a pound of marijuana across the country, literally to make ends meet for himself and his young family. His surprising ambition leads to mansions in Florida and reliance on the money-sick and power-mad for business. Mule reads like an episode of The Wire, drawing from Weeds for some background material. And like those two series, what it has to say about the times we're living in is worth hearing. James is a deal-shoot-angst protagonist, a thoroughly middle class character. He wears Lacoste. He can't get a byline to save his life, hence the drug running. His white skin is an advantage as a mule because it keeps him from being profiled by highway cops. But if the Obama job plan passes, if unemployment was no longer at 9.1 percent, would James still be hustling? This is where Mule succeeds, its sheer ambiguity making it so much a product of this rightnow. In 2011, it's not clear if we should be taking deep breathes and job hunting through the madness or straight up losing our shit in the face of economic meltdown, environmental heart attack, and vitriolic culture war. And yes, Mule is also about marijuana itself. This too is important. CA MEDI $ L M A R I J U A N A E VA L U ATIO NS 45 50 $ RENEWALS NEW PATIENTS How many Cali children have saved their skins by trimming in Mendo? This is the same substance that supports the professional photographers and glamour shots we profiled in last week's column. Only in Mule, double murders are performed over the stuff, people lose their minds to transport it. These are the same things that are happening across the hemisphere, despite our privileged Bay Arean cradle where we smoke in the streets and get prescriptions to stoke our appetites. Medicine, felony: marijuana is ambivalence incarnate these days. If you're looking for a novellength iteration of why cannabis WE MATCH COMPETITORS' PRICES (VALID WITH THIS AD ONLY) ALL RECOMMENDATIONS DONE BY A CA LICENSED MD 100% PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL � TWENTY-FOUR HOUR VERIFICATION � HIGH QUALITY PHOTO ID CARDS AVAILABLE BEST CHOICE EVALUATIONS (415)529-4850 MON - SAT: 11AM-7PM + 2967 MISSION ST. (BETWEEN 25TH & 26TH) SF, CA 94110 Tony D'Souza's protagonist in Mule is terrified of car searches -- or is he tripping over the economy? should be legalized, you could do worse than Mule. But you could also do better. That's because of the book's omnipresent ghoul, the generation-derailing R-word. Sure, if selling pot wasn't grounds for a felony or worse in most of the country, James would never have to smack around that snotty college dealer with the kid's own textbooks, or been rendered paralyzed by fear in a grotty hotel room in San Angelo, Tex. -- but would his world morph into emerald green good vibes? If weed were legal, wouldn't it be assimilated into that other source of our brave protagonist's dread? Would it be just one more job field described by our dismal unemployment levels? Mule is a drug novel. But it's also a recession novel and it's not a recession novel and the novel's about fear from the recession and the novel is not about fear from the recession. In other words, read it. 2 18 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2011 (877) 912-8452 independent, locally-owned | SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | ARtS + CUltURe 19 Beer + wine BeeR + wINe guardian photo by matthew reamer been serving up their in-house pickles, matzo ball soup, pastries and -- most importantly -- their weeklong-brined, spice-rubbed, hickory smoked pastrami with home made rye bread to San Francisco and at many of our beer socials since the year 5771. Our Squid Ink is made with darker grains than traditional IPAs and uses West Coast hops to give it a traditional West Coast IPA hop aroma and bitterness. The richness and spices of the pastrami pair perfectly with the citrus-y, hoppy and roasted flavors of the Black IPA. Finish with a house fermented pickle for the perfect sandwichbeer-pickle experience." MISSION ChINeSe FOOD + tRUMeR pIlSNeR "Anthony Myint and Danny Bowien have created one of the most creative and community minded pop-up restaurant in the nation with Mission Chinese Food (Thu-Tue, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5 p.m.-10:30 p.m., at Lung Shan, 2234 Mission, SF. (415) 863-2800, www.missionchinesefood. com). Their delicious twists on traditional Chinese and Asian cooking include kung pao pastrami, thrice-cooked bacon, tingling lamb noodle soup, salt cod fried rice and cold-poached chicken with chicken hearts. Mission Chinese Food also contributes $0.75 from each entr�e to the San Francisco Food Bank. The Trumer (www.trumer-international.com) from Berkeley, with its high carbonation, crisp malt backbone and good hop bitterness, offers a good counterpoint to the exotic flavors and spices of Danny's cuisine. As the heat and tingling build from chilies and Szechwan peppercorns, a pilsner can really satisfy. (And if you need to douse a flaming palate, the low alcohol content allows for a few brews with minor effect.)" NOSh thIS ChOCOlAte + 21St AMeNDMeNtS MONk'S BlOOD Beer and chocolate go together like Bert and Ernie or peanut butter, bananas, and Elvis. Kai Kronfield of Nosh This (noshthis.com) makes some of the most creative chocolates in San Francisco. Butter toffee Bacon Crack, salted caramels made with balsamic vinegar, Meyer lemon, or salt & pepper... not to mention the Bacon Bourbon Rocky Road. These chocolates are the perfect balance of sweet, salty, and chocolate-y and pair well with darker, maltier beers. 21st Amendments Monk's Blood (www.21st-ammendment.com), a dark Belgian ale, fits this bill well. Made with the traditional hops and barley, it also contains figs, vanilla, and cinnamon. It's a complex beer, in a can, that complements the richness and intricate flavors of Kai's creations. This combo is a perfect end to an evening, a mid-day snack, or breakfast -- whatever, nobody's judging. pIzzA hACkeR + MOONlIGht DeAth AND tAxeS "Pizza and beer is typically a no-brainer pairing, but often most choose an IPA, pale ale, or lager to go with their cheesy slice. Moonlight's Mooonlight's Death and Taxes (www.moonlightbrewing.com) is a dark lager -- but its roasty, crisp and malty flavors lends itself perfectly to the olive oil and salt-covered crust and Rogue pairings The Pacific Brewing Laboratories guide to DIY food and local brews firstname.lastname@example.com BeeR + wINe The other week, I hit up one of the free, bi-weekly Thursday night tasting parties put on by San Francisco nanobrewery Pacific Brewing Laboratories, located in a small garage on a side street deep in SoMa--and was completely smitten. The adventurous atmosphere and swell-looking crowd were part of that, of course. But the small-batch beers on offer (I quickly downed a gorgeously smooth black IPA), the rogue food vendors (I then dove into a box of Nosh This Bacon Crack chocolate), and the almost-steampunk assemblage of tangled brewing equipment, scuffed kegs, and illustrative blackboards really sealed the deal. Since they seemed exquisitely attuned to the underground brew-plus-food equation, I asked the guys behind Pac Brew Labs, Patrick M. Horn and Bryan Hermannsson, to tell us a bit about themselves and give us a wee menu of street pairings. Here's what Patrick came up with for us. (Marke B.) "Pacific Brewing Laboratory started in a garage as a place for us to experiment with new beer flavors, styles, and brewing techniques. What started out as a place to share new creations with friends grew into a twice-monthly, totally free event with hundreds of our "new" friends and great local street food vendors. "We brew small, 10-gallon batches which allows for constant beer experimentation. Some of our more exotic beer styles include Hibiscus Saison, Squid Ink Black IPA, Chamomile Ale, Lemongrass IPA, Szechwan Peppercorn Red ale, and wine-soaked oak-aged Brown Ale. We're always on the lookout for new ingredients and inspirations that will lead us to palate-pleasing creations. For our tastings, we often invite a local food cart to attend, in order to pair our beers against some of the amazing varieties of flavors produced by DIY local food vendors. Below are a few of our favorites, which include beers we enjoy from other local breweries." Read about Pac Brew Lab's upcoming free Thursday Night Beer Nights at www.pacbrewlab.com. wISe SONS DelI pAStRAMI + pACIFIC BRewING lABORAtORIeS SqUID INk BlACk IpA "Leo Beckerman and Evan Bloom of pop-up Wise Sons Deli (Saturdays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at Beast and Hare, 1001 Guerrero, SF. www.wisesonsdeli. com) are on a mission from God to bring to us mere mortals the best in Jewish deli. They've 20 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SepteMBer 14 - 21, 2011 Rogue pairings culture@sf bg.com BEER AND WINE The other week, I hit up one of the free, bi-weekly Thursday night tasting parties put on by San Francisco nanobrewery Pacific Brewing Laboratories, located in a small garage on a side street deep in SoMa--and was completely smitten. The adventurous atmosphere and swelllooking crowd were part of that, of course. But the small-batch beers on offer (I quickly downed a gorgeously smooth black IPA), the rogue food vendors (I then dove into a box of Nosh This Bacon Crack chocolate), and the almoststeampunk assemblage of tangled brewing equipment, scuffed kegs, and illustrative blackboards really sealed the deal. Since they seemed exquisitely attuned to the underground brew-plusfood equation, I asked the guys behind Pac Brew Labs, Patrick M. Horn and Bryan Hermannsson, to tell us a bit about themselves and give us a wee menu of street pairings. Here's what Patrick came up with for us. (Marke B.) "Pacific Brewing Laboratory started in a garage as a place for us to experiment with new beer flavors, styles, and brewing techniques. What started out as a place to share new creations with friends grew into a twice-monthly, totally free event with hundreds of our "new" friends and great local street food vendors. "We brew small, 10-gallon batches which allows for constant beer experimentation. Some of our more exotic beer styles include Hibiscus Saison, Squid Ink Black IPA, Chamomile Ale, Lemongrass IPA, Szechwan Peppercorn Red ale, and wine-soaked oak-aged Brown Ale. We're always on the lookout for new ingredients and inspirations that will lead us to palate-pleasing creations. For our tastings, we often invite a local food cart to attend, in order to pair our beers against some of the amazing varieties of flavors produced by DIY local food vendors. Below are a is looking favorites, The SF Bay Guardian few of our Patrick M. Horn and Bryan Hermannsson of Pac Brew Labs. smoky essence of the Pizza Hacker's (www.thepizzahacker.com) pies. Jeff, the nominal Pizza Hacker and self-described "occasional Pazi (Pizza nazi)", has built a custom-made portable wood fired brick oven called the FrankenWeber. He wheels it up outside bar or brewery, assembles, and bakes fresh pizzas on the sidewalk. His sauce is from organic heirloom tomatoes and he uses a method pioneered by Tartine for kneading the dough. Best tasted with a full bodied, flavorful pint of brew! Almanac's Summer 2010 Belgian golden (www.almanacbeer.com) is made with blackberries and aged in red wine oak barrels for 11 months. Brian Kimball of Magic Curry Kart (www.magiccurrykart.com) wheels around two burners and two rice cookers on his bike, and whips up the most incredibly Thai-influenced curries in front of you with amazing precision. The ingredients are fresh and the spices are delicious. Almanac's golden ale will add a nice fruity finish to the spicy and flavorful red or green curry. With an eight percent alcohol count and naturally carbonated in the bottle, Summer 2010 will refresh your palette after every sip without overpowering it, enabling new tastes in every luscious bite of curry. Cheers! 2 for the Bay Area's HOTTEST ASS to publish in our SEX ISSUE coming out September 21. Readers have submitted their buns now it's your turn to vote! The Bay Buns 2011 winner will receive a mixed bag of delights for their body from our favorite adult retailer, Good Vibrations and fame as the Bay budonkadonk king or queen! Vote at www.sfbg.com/baybuns2011 by midnight on Sunday, September 18th! independent, locally-owned | SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | ARtS + CUltURe 21 At Russian Hill's Biondivino wine store, natural pours are prime. | Get naked By Caitlin Donohue email@example.com The high priestess of natural wines and I are going out for a glass. As is to be expected of a meeting with a thought leader, it's a learning experience. Alice Feiring peruses the bar menu in front of her. It's a nice enough place, the restaurant we're at, and the wine list includes a few organic pours -- but even these, Feiring says, were made with foreign yeasts and an excess of sulfur. The bartender tries lamely to help her order, but it's apparent that even he is not sure what her criteria for an acceptable wine is. Finally, she finds a rose that will work. Um, I'll have the same. "I'm kind of a bitch when it comes to wine," she apologizes to me. Her disclaimer is unnecessary -- I've invited her here to teach me about a movement in the wine world that is turning conceptions of sustainable viniculture practices on their head. The bartender is to be excused for not knowing about it yet. Feiring's new book Naked Wine (231 pp, Da Capo, $24) is a declaration of her personal preference towards wines grown organically -- as many wines are, particularly in California where you can find organic vintages wherever local, seasonal foods are favored -- but it goes beyond that. Although a wine's bottle may tell you it's "made with organic grapes," this says nothing about its life post-vine. Reverse osmosis, chemical additives, foreign yeasts, and more are all common practices in wineries. Feiring's beloved natural wines don't use any of these artificial aides. For locavores, natural wine would seem like the, yeah, natural choice. But even when bottles say "made from organic grapes," it's hard to know what happened to the wine after it left the vine. As Naked Wine puts it, "A truly natural wine, most natural wine proponents agree, is not possible in every year, but no one ever needs gum arabic, tannin addition, micro-oxygenation, or strong doses of sulfur at every stage." In the back of the book, a list of chemical additives determined permissible for wine by the FDA are listed. There are over 60 of these, including ferrocyanide compounds and colloidal silicon dioxide. Each time one of these substances are added, your wine is further away from a true expression of the terroir in which it was grown. All these chemicals are legal in wine "made from organic grapes." Many conventional producers claim that without these crutches, winemaking can be neither cost-effective or competent -- but to natural adherents, their presence obstructs the connection between terroir and taste. The day after drinking with Feiring, I attended a screening of a new documentary on Californian natural wines, Wine From Here. After we watched the film (a lovingly shot, low budget homage to vignerons who spend their lives in pursuit of purity), the winemakers profiled were invited onstage for a Q&A. They represented some of the best natural wineries in the state -- Clos Saron, Coturri, Old World Winery, Edmunds St. John, Dashe Cellars, La Clarine Farm, and the Salina and Natural Process Alliance. A few of the vignerons said at various points they'd attempted to add an ingredients section to their labels that would read, simply, "grapes." Officials balked, however, saying that the labels "would imply that other wines were made with things other than just grapes." But how do natural wines taste? Even Feiring writes in Naked Wine that "how one treated a wine was not a moral issue, after all." (A view which possibly negates the environmental dimensions of viniculture; the link between more sustainable, organic farming practices and impact on ecosystems being fairly well established.) The answer is: varying. Eschewing artificial chemicals and fermentation agents often means giving up standardized product. Natural wine can oxidize more easily than wine treated with sulfites. Reliance on natural yeast means that whatever Mother Earth brings to your grapes is what you end up tasting in the glass. But for natural wine proponents, this kind of variation can be thrilling. After my chat with Feiring, we hopped over to Biondivino, a fetchingly designed Russian Hill wine shop that specializes in Italian pours. Owner Ceri Smith stocks many natural wines, which she arranges like books in a library -- a visual connection that's strengthened by the rolling ladder Smith uses to access the top racks. The tasting featured natural selections from the Spanish wine catalog of importer Jos� Pastor. The man pouring us our sips seemed to be a bit cautious of the wines' effect on newbies. "Now this one is really, really unusual," he told me, doling out a finger of Vinos Ambiz Air�n from Madrid vigneron Fabio Bartolomei. He wasn't kidding -- it was probably the most distinctive wine I've ever tasted. Although Air�n is the most-harvested white wine grape in Spain, it's usually made into nondescript wine sold in bulk. Not so with Bartolomei's version. The winemaker eschews all additives besides some sulfur spray in his vineyard, and bottles the wine unfiltered. The result was a mouthencompassing herbal wash, almost Fernet-like in its grassy, spicy taste. I was still wide-eyed when the next wine that found it's way into my glass: Catalonia producer Laureano Serres' "5 Anys i un Dia" ("Five Years and One Day" in Catalan). "Is that... gasoline?" I asked Feiring, who was standing at my side. "You're tasting sherry," she smiled. Wild. But even more wild? All the bottles featured in the tasting were $25 and under. Will Feiring become the wine world's Michael Pollan, launching a thousand natural vignerons? Only time will tell -- but regardless of the movement's future, natural winemakers certainly pour a glass worth writing home about. 2 22 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2011 Over 120 BEERS from all over the World! S . Ma y's P The dollar is still strong at Tommy's Joynt! Get dinner and a couple beers or top shelf drinks for about $15! BEST PLACE TO DRINK AROUND THE GLOBE! A San Francisco tradition for over 60 years! 1101 Geary @ Van ness www.tommysjoynt.com � (415) 775-4216 Discounted validated parking at AMC Theater Garage Swell Drinks-Immaculate Service B rna Heights Under New Ownership 3845 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110 acupuncture herbs massage double happiness health doublehappinesshealth.com 415-255-2252 Initial Acupuncture Visit Offer is valid for first time clients only. Call to schedule appointment. Mention offer to activate. $40 off 2 independent, locally-owned | SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | ARtS + CUltURe 23 23 A lovely lunch and limestone caves at Kelly Fleming Wines in Calistoga. | Generation cork By Virginia Miller email@example.com It's a unique time in Bay Area winemaking. We see more California winemakers finding harmony between New and Old World-style production, laying off heavier-handed extremes of overly-oaked or high alcohol wines, honing in on our region's true terroir. While global love for big, bold California wines isn't going anywhere, it's ever more apparent that our range is far beyond what might be assumed. Small, family-run wineries have long undergirded our region's greatness, and today there are many new wines, from Sonoma to Napa, adding nuance to the landscape. As is the case historically, many wineries are a family affair where parents and children share in the work, from production to business operations. Here are a few we felt you should know about; you can order most of their wines through their websites. Cellars. He walks the fine line of approachability and Old Worldinfluenced production style. At 22nd Street and Illinois sits a funky warehouse winery where he throws Jug Sundays, tapping barrels and selling jugs or liters of wine (email directly through its website -- www.suttoncellars.com -- to be added to the event email list). Carl corrals Dogpatch neighbors to supply grub, like Olivier's Butchery or the TomKat Asian street food truck. His wife Sharon often pours and works with him, both of them wine aficionados and passionate global travelers. His grapes grow mostly in Sonoma County (with a little Mendocino in the mix), and are often single vineyard wines. At a time when many claim personal care, Sutton's brown label wines are actually filled and corked by hand. Often this kind of care implies high costs, but Sutton stays amazingly affordable at $14� $21 a bottle. Sutton is heavily influenced by France and Spain. He offers a full-bodied Rattlesnake Ros� ($15), but also the stunning Fiz�, a 2010 ros� of organic Carignane grapes. It unfolds with each sip: tart cranberry and pomegranate notes, and a crisp effervescence. 24 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2011 San Francisco holds a treasure in the person of Carl Sutton of Sutton With no yeast or sulfites added, fermentation actually happens in the bottle. It possess a bready nose, with a profile far beyond typical ros�s on either end of the sweet/dry spectrum (find this beauty at the winery, Bi-Rite, Rainbow Grocery, D&M). As of last week, he has keg preview of the 2010 Rattlesnake Ros� on tap at Magnolia Pub and Brewery. His 2007 Carignane is an acidic, balanced, food-friendly red (barrel fermented in neutral oak). The aged La Solera is an elegant after-dinner imbibement and one of Sutton's best creations. A blend of syrah, zin, and carignane wines from 1999-2006, it at turns evokes Madeira, Banyuls, sherry, even whiskey, with whispers of burnt orange, and a golden richness from its time resting in the sun, a classic method he picked up in Spain. La Solera is at the top of his price range at a mere $30, a steal for such a complex wine. Sutton's Brown Label Vermouth (unaged brandy-fortified neutral white wine, infused with 17 botanicals, bottled fresh weekly) is a winner. The Alembic was the first place to serve this refreshing aperitif on tap, enjoyed on the rocks, Italian-style. Sutton bubbles over with visions for a wide range of wines and liqueurs, including at least one new aperitif/digestif wine due before year's end. JUST IN TIME FOR FOLSOM STREET FAIR,WE HIGHLIGHT THE BAY AREA'S SEXIEST AND SLEAZIEST PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS. IT'S A GUIDE TO ALL THAT'S LOOSE AND ON THE LOOSE IN THE BAY. Advertising Deadline: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 Issue Date: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 POTRERO HILL'S PREMIERE COCKTAIL LOUNGE & RESTAURANT The Classic Menu Favorite classics in timeless presentations: Negronis, Caipirinhas and Old Fashioneds Circolo's Signature Menu Our own summery creations for the season: Blackberries and Mezcal, Basil Vodka, Pineapple and more The San Francisco Classics Menu Great recipes that have made San Francisco famous worldwide: Pisco Punch, Chartreuse Swizzle and much more Head off Silverado Trail, past vines and olive trees, onto a dirt road that leads to a gate. Beyond a sea of cabernet vines, lies Kelly Fleming's stone winery (www.kellyflemingwines.com), evoking an Italian villa, similar to many I explored in Tuscany. The winery's stone walls and wood shutters imbue the space with a rustic character far beyond its years. In an open-air dining room, I sat under stone arches at a handmade wood table crafted from one tree off the 300-acre property. Kelly and her daughter Colleen, who also works for the company, served a Mediterranean-style spread for lunch, using ingredients from their garden (like a silky jam from their fig trees). We sipped Fleming's 2009 Sauvignon Blanc (50 percent French oak, 50percent stainless steel), representative of the Renowned Mixologist H. Joseph Ehrmann H. Joseph Ehrmann's World-class selection of signature cocktails @CircoloSF 500 Florida St (between Mariposa & 18th St) SF, CA (415) 553-8560 www.circolosf.com independent, locally-owned | SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | ARtS + CUltURe 25 50 KICK ASS BEERS ON DRAUGHT Over 100 different bottles, specializing in Belgians Family wineries Oakville soil from which these grapes grow. It's a balanced white with a f loral and fruity (pear, pineapple) profile, rounded out by a hint of vanilla. 2007 Cabernet is 100 percent estate and CCOF organically grown, rested in 85 percent new French oak. Though fruit plays prominently (warm, dusty raspberries), hints of wood, nuts and spice give it contrast. Winemaker Celia Welch works with the region's terroir (this is cabernet country, after all), from vines planted in 1999. The wild beauty of the property's forests and creeks is kept intact with only 12 of the 300 acres planted with vines. Inside limestone caves, the air is naturally cool, storing barrels and bottles of past vintages (unreleased but which they've been perfecting for nearly a decade). At a mere 850 cabernet and 675 sauvignon blanc cases a year, these are truly small production wines. Kelly is hands-on in so many aspects from harvesting to forklift operation. She and Colleen both were recently certified in forklift driving, highlighting the involved, familial nature of the winery. They are gracious hosts, welcoming guests by appointment. Alexis Cabernet), or a potato chip topped with creme fraiche and Hackleback sturgeon caviar (lovely with their Chardonnay). The 2010 Chardonnay was my favorite, and a complete surprise as a mineral, French-inspired chardonnay, reminiscent of Chablis. Neutral oak allows crisp, green apple notes to shine, while honey adds a tinge of cream to the finish. At a pricey $45, this one is only available at the winery or to wine club members. Of the reds, Swanson's signature 2007 Merlot offers the best price-to-taste ratio at $38 per bottle. It's unexpectedly balanced with tart tannins, hints of black cherry, currant and mocha. On the pricier end, the 2007 Alexis Cabernet ($75) is bold and layered, while a open daily from 11:30am - 2:00am 547 HAIGHT STREET (NEAR FILLMORE) � 415-863-2276 � www.toronado.com 26 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2011 Think Parisian carnival, classic French estate, Napa's rich nature, New Orleans' roots, and you'll begin to get an idea of the influences on Swanson Vineyards (www.swansonvineyards.com). The winemaker is Chris Phelps -- Clarke Swanson founded the winery back in 1985, planting his first merlot grapes. His daughter, Alexis, works as the winery's creative director. Wife Elizabeth buzzed about as we sipped wine in their enchanting garden, greeting each guest. The first sign Swanson is different comes when you enter the Sip Shoppe, with red-and-white striped tented walls, Old World French artwork, and Billie Holiday playing soothingly in the background. Elizabeth and Alexis designed the shop themselves, imparting a playful Parisian spirit to what could just be another tasting room. One wants to linger for flights like "Some Like it Red," paired with the likes of warm pistachios, Alexis bonbons (made by Vosges with curry and Swanson's Swanson Vineyards' Parisianspirited salon. | 2006 Petite Syrah ($70) goes the earthier, spice and gentle black pepper route. Make an appointment to visit the winery for a Salon tasting ($65) or Sip Shoppe flight (around $25), then finish by lingering in the garden. You can taste at dozens of wineries but the Swanson's chic shoppe and salon deliver a fun, Parisian spirit to the Napa countryside. 2 Virginia Miller writes about the latest food and drink news at The Perfect Spot, www.theperfectspotsf.com food + drink Neatly tucked away from the Valencia Street h-words, Radish stages well-crafted feats of new all-American -- like this old world salad with tomatoes, goat cheese, arugula, and summer squash. | 5T c a f e LocaL organic coffee & Pastries 1477 Van ness aVe (@ Pine st) cafe Lucifer's crucifer? By Paul Reidinger email@example.com On a recent midsummer's eve, I found myself gazing down the Valencia Street corridor and (with a slight squint of the eye) thought: this is just like the Strip! This is like Vegas for hipst -- but no. No more H-bombs from me. The question does remain, however, whether a neighborhood can be as utterly transformed as this part of the Mission has been and still remain a neighborhood. One sunny bit of proof that the answer might be yes is the recent opening of Radish, one of those small, slightly-off-thebeaten path, homemade-with-style places that have long made this city such an appealing place to eat. Just as some of the better restaurants in Las Vegas are off the Strip, so Radish is a few but important steps off the parade route. It occupies a classic corner spot, an L of windows (including transom windows that have been carefully cleaned -- not something you see every day), at 19th Street and Lexington. It feels rather far from the madding crowd -- Lexington is a lovely, leafy lane -- but it is central. There are some impressive oil paintings on the walls, something else you don't see every day. The radish as a foodstuff has won mixed reviews down the ages. It is a crucifer and is therefore believed by some to have anti-cancer properties. But Pliny the Elder (the Roman writer and admiral who perished at Pompeii 1932 years ago last month) found the little root to be "vulgar" and a cause of "flatulence and eructation." Oh dear. Luckily, the menu at Radish doesn't emphasize radishes. In fact I spotted just one, a lone coin lurking in a side salad amid a swarm of halved pear tomatoes. Maybe it was a stray. Otherwise, the food is a cheerful m�lange that moves winningly between all-American and new American -- new-all American, if one is permitted to put it that way, with a slight Southern twist -- n'all? -- since the chef, Adam Hornbeck, grew up in Tennesee. But someone in the kitchen has been to the north, all the way to Canada, judging by the poutine ($8) we found chalked onto the specials board one evening. Poutine is the dubious but wildly exciting friend your mother always wanted you to stay away from. Radish's version was a huge plate of French fries doused with gravy (almost a b�chamel sauce, it seemed to me) and topped with shreds of crisp bacon and plenty of ripe avocado slices. "There are 10,000 calories on this plate," came the complaint from across the table. Yes. And that was not too high a price to pay. If I were a budget-cutter, I might have dealt away the avocado, which brought some pretty color but otherwise was too subtle for such a muscle-y mess of a dish. Mac `n' cheese ($4.50) seemed to be nearly as calorie-dense as the poutine, but because it was served in a much more modest portion, in a small crock, it didn't send the needle on our calorimeter spinning. A nice alternate home for the poutine's avocado slices, incidentally, would have been the boldly tangy old world salad ($9), a neatly arranged English garden of sliced heirloom and cherry tomatoes, rounds of summer squash, smears of goat cheese, arugula leaves, and a full-throated balsamic vinaigrette that, like a compelling speaker, brought the constituents together and held them rapt. Hornbeck's baby back ribs ($14) are really first in show. We found them to be spicy, smoky, and -- most important -- juicy. It was as if the meat were oozing liquid smoke. It doesn't matter how tasty your sauce or marinade is if you dry the ribs out when roasting them, and it is awfully easy to dry them out. To find them beautifully cooked and smartly seasoned, as here, was a real treat. The accompanying potato salad was, like its partner (a lone cob of grilled corn), very much a sidekick, but it had been carefully made with big, irregular chunks of new potato and plenty of paprika for color and kick. A steak sandwich ($13) was served on focaccia, and the flaps of meat were tucked in with strips of orange bell pepper and melted cheddar cheese. The side salad of arugula and spinach turned out to be the home of the fugitive radish coin; finding it was like the culmination of an Easter egg hunt. One of the desserts deserves a special mention, the shortbread ($6), festooned with strawberry meringue and whipped cream. The shortbread had some of the sublime crispy-spongy quality of a cinnamon bun, and I wondered if it might be some version of brioche. No, we were told, it was a biscuit, the same kind the kitchen uses for its breakfast dishes. This is frugal and prudent -- also brilliant, or, as the h-folk sometimes put it, rad. 2 Seasonal American food Local, organic commitment 2814 19th st./ Bryant 821-4608 universalcafe.net hecho en san francisco 3071 16th st., sf @Valencia (415) 864-8840 365 B st., san Mateo (650) 343-4123 independent, locally-owned | SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | FOOD + DRINk 27 1998 2006 1998 2007 TAQUERIA CAN-CUN BEST TAQUERIA BEST VEGGIE BURRITO IN SAN FRANCISCO! Ms. Mirliton By L.E. Leone firstname.lastname@example.com First time I went to Criolla was with Coach and company and I was just tickled to death to be eating chicken and waffles within walking distance from my home. Chicken and waffles! I forgave them the dry chicken, even though it was all dark meat and dark meat is of course harder to overcook, because the waffle was good. And they offered real, true Vermont maple syrup for one worth-it dollar more. And it was chicken and waffles. And walking distance. And so forth: sweet potato tater tots, limeade, sunshine, just a beautiful sidewalky San Francisco day at Market and Noe. I thought: OK, new favorite restaurant. It ain't Farmer Brown's Little Skillet, or even Auntie April's, but it ain't Baghdad Caf� anymore, either. It's chicken and waffles! In the Castro, and that was overall a happy thought. Next time I went was with Hedgehog on an also-beautiful day, but we sat inside. In the window, and looked out upon the sidewalk there. It's a colorful corner. Men stroll by naked. Nobody blinks. All right. But if you are going to make fried chicken anywhere in the world, including the Castro, including walking distance to my house, you are going to need to make it to order. Fried chicken don't sit well. It never has, and it never will. So unless you're a place that sells it as fast as you can crank it out, you're going to serve some hit-or-miss soggy-breading-ed and dry-meat fried chicken. Most of the time. I don't know if Criolla Kitchen fries or tries to fry their chickens to order. If they do, they better get better at it. The good news is, since it isn't just a chicken and waffle place, or even a fried chicken place, you've got plenty of other options. And a lot of them sound kinda good. Almost all of them, besides the chicken and waffles, sound Louisianic: chicken gizzards with pepper jelly, mirliton salad, red beans and rice, shrimp po'oy ... I got the Louisiana farm-raised catfish mojito isle�o on the sheer strength of the number of words in 2009 Bay Guardian "Best of the Bay" 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 � OPEN EVERYDAY � 2288 Mission St. @ 19th 1003 Market St. @ 6th (415) 864-6773 Come visit our newest location: (415) 252-9560 3211 Mission St. @ Valencia A resource guide for your vegetarian restaurant and shopping needs! It's A Fact! Don't kid yourself about eating local food. We applaud the idea of eating food grown locally. But, few major crops originated in the United States. We claim sunflower seeds, wild rice, acorns and some berries. Most of the rest comes from somewhere else. But, you can shop locally at Rainbow Grocery. Find more information about the benefits of wholesome foods at our website www.rainbow.coop its name. If there were green olives in the tomato-ey, onion-y smother as advertised, I didn't see or taste them. But it was pretty good anyway. Hedgehog's chicken was soggytopped and dry inside. I'd warned her, but she had to see for herself, poor li'l prickly. Anyway, the red beans and rice that came with it were good. Warning: the black beans are vegetarian, and therefore not very good. Unless maybe if you're a vegetarian, but even then I think they might could use a little something. The best thing I've had, in my two visits to Criolla, was the mirliton salad. Hedgehog, being an issue-taker by nature, took issue with our waiterperson's mispronunciation of mirliton. She's also a former and future resident of New Orleans, so has heard the word more than most of us'ns. The way she says it sounds like mella tone, as in melatonin -- which has helped me sleep once or twice, so I like it. But the salad is something else entirely: almost see-through, thinly sliced strips of mirliton -- or chayote, a kind of gourd with crunch, which tastes pretty much exactly like whatever you put on it, in this case a lemoncumin vinaigrette. And avocado, which needs no introduction. Yum! So that was the best thing I have had at my new favorite restaurant. A little tiny starter salad. Still, I will go back, I'm sure, because even though I'm mad at them for their fried chicken, and disappointed in the catfish, there are still the shrimp po'oys and charbroiled oysters to be tried. 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Fake your own death, watch it on TV," the band sings on one listless, sonorous track recalling the National. Dying is easy, what comes after is harder. (Ryan Prendiville) With Bruises, Excuses for Skipping, DJ Neil Martinson (SMiLE!) 9:30 p.m., $10 Cafe Du Nord 2170 Market, SF (415) 861-5016 www.cafedunord.com MUSIC have taken music to its heaviest extremes, defying genre boundaries in favor of sheer crushing aggression. Formed by members of 90s sludge innovators Damad, Kylesa obliterates the boundaries between punk and metal, drawing fans of loud and heavy from all over the spectrum -- its Pushead-designed logo is practically required adornment on black denim vests worn by crusties and longhairs alike. Last year's Spiral Shadow, the band's fifth full length album, proves that Kylesa shows no sign of mellowing out, even as they explore new horizons and incorporate increasingly psychedelic twists to their booming Southern sound. (Cooper Berkmoyer) With Deafheaven and Castle 8 p.m., $15 859 O'Farrel, SF (415) 885-0750 www.gamh.com before we have even discovered them. Thank you, Chris Black. Her latest five-person dance installation, "Extinction Burst: a dance of lost movement" brings back to life -- sort of -- animals who are gone. She is a smart, experienced choreographer who can peek below of just about anything and twist her findings into dance theater that smiles as it informs. (Rita Felciano) 7:30 p.m., $10�$12 California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park,SF (415) 379-8000 www.calacademy.org EVENT tion varieties for aficionados to enjoy. (Sean McCourt) 6-9 p.m, free admission, tasting flight $21 Press Club 20 Yerba Buena Lane, SF (415) 744-5000 www.pressclubsf.com MUSIC DANCE THURSDAY Sept. 15 DANCE Kylesa Set your head to banging as Kylesa returns to San Francisco. The Savannah, Ga. double-drummed metal titans "Extinction Burst: a dance of lost movement" How refreshing! For once we don't have to feel guilty about contributing to the extinction of so many threatened species. Think those bottom-of-theocean crawlers who will be gone Bonny Doon Press Club Attention local oenophiles! As part of Press Club's Visiting Vintner Series, Randall Grahm, the founder of Bonny Doon Vineyards (located just to our south in Santa Cruz County) will be on hand tonight for a meet and greet -- and to lead tastings of his outstanding wines. The independent owner and author of Been Doon So Long (University of California Press, 2009) has gained a well-earned reputation for innovative ideas in several areas of his business, including the introduction of screw cap bottles and unique labels. His delicious wines, however, remain the real reason for his success, and he'll be bringing along several limited produc- Part Time Part Time, San Francisco's lo-fi darling of the moment, is a visitor from another time, a dimension in which the early 80s never soured and the party lived on forever. The debut album What Would You Say?, released by Mexican Summer earlier this year, plays like some fabled bedroom pop gem, thought lost for decades until rediscovered one sunny day at a flea market, wedged between a Barbra Streisand Christmas album and The Return of Bruno. Don't be fooled into thinking it's just a novelty band, though. The vintage aesthetic belies Part Time's innovation on a retro template and the captivating pop goodness it crafts -- danceable tunes that sound like home recorded Prince demos with a teenage goth edge. (Berkmoyer) With Pamela, Surf Club and Permanent Collection 9 p.m., $5 1600 17th St., SF (415) 252-1330 www.theeparkside.com Project Bandaloop A vertical dance floor ain't no thing for Project Bandaloop. They've been soaring across mountains, skyscrapers, and other breathtaking sites for two decades with work inspired by the possibilities of climbing and rappelling. For the group's 20th anniversary season, it will take on the Great Wall of Oakland in Bound(less), a multimedia event, synthesizing years of creativity under the direction of Amelia Rudolph. The free performance features a live band in addition to fearless physicality and grace. After years of interacting with environments and audiences around the world, Project Bandaloop's aerial dance brings a daring artistic edge to the notion of climbing as the vertical ballet. (Julie Potter) Thurs/15-Sat/17, 8:30 p.m., free The Great Wall West Grand Ave. at Broadway, Oakl. (415) 421-5667 talking about when they knew they'd made it big. It happened on Craigslist actually. Members of the Latin-hip-hop-soulfunk-reggae-country (yeah, it goes there) big band spotted an ad from an SF high school bandleader that was looking for new musicians "with a Bayonics-style sound." Such a tale could only come from a crew with a strong sense of place -- and the group (which shares tonight's bill with Samoa-via-Compton island reggae smoothie J. Boog) sure enough struts its Bay cred during its live shows. Guaranteed to be an ass-shaker, the longawaited release party for the new album Mission Statement celebrates urban SF sound. (Caitlin Donohue) With J. Boog 9 p.m., $25 Mezzanine 444 Jessie, SF www.mezzaninesf.com SATURDAY Sept. 17 EVENT FRIDAY Sept. 16 MUSIC Bayonics On a cold San Francisco summer night in a Bayview recording studio, Bayonics were Rock Make Street Festival There are so few things in this life that are truly good and free without some sort of hitch. The Rock Make Street Festival -- now in its fourth year -- is a genuinely fun (and free) outdoor party in the 32 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SepteMBer 14 - 20, 2011 Bass-ically it's a three ring circus 6 7 8 Mission, presented by the Bay Bridged blog, the band Tartufi, and accessory makers Cookie and the Dude. Live bands this year include mainstay Tartufi, along with Birds & Batteries, Bare Wires, Battlehooch, Cannons & Clouds, and more ampersand-less acts. There also will be not-free food truck eats and crafts made by local merchants. True story: I bought my brother a heather gray shirt with a huge California screen-print at the first Rock Make Street Festival and he's worn that thing into the ground -- it's nearly threadbare. (Emily Savage) Noon-7 p.m., free Treat at 18th St., SF www.rockmake.com MUSIC for it. DJs Juanita More, the Honey Soundsystem queens, and very special person DJ Bus Station John will provide diverse sounds. Appearances by Adonisaurus, Chica Boom, Philip Huang, the Vagine Regime from Bay Area Derby Girls, and Titland will surely tickle. There will be a fashion forest OMG hi. (Marke B.) Noon-6 p.m., free Golden Gate Park Music Concourse 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., SF www.byoq.org MUSIC showcase for the man's influential bass style. (Prendiville) With Oona, DJ Tomas Diablo (Strangelove) 9 p.m., $22 Mezzanine 444 Jessie, SF (415) 625-8880 www.mezzaninesf.com MUSIC SUNDAY Sept. 18 MUSIC TUESDAY Sept. 20 MUSIC Bring Your Own Queer You can either load your favorite rainbow-flavored, genderhopping, sexually transgressive buddy into your bright red Radio Flyer wagon and haul zhim down to this wild free daytime outdoor dance party and arts festival at the Golden Gate Park bandshell -- or you can just polish the unicorn horn on your own inner Q until it becomes a blinding beacon and go mingle with a planetload of other fabulosities. (Say, is "Planet Unicorn" retro yet?) In any case: come here, be queer, get shoes Peter Hook and the Light performing Closer The odd thing about New Order's disintegration in 2007, with Peter Hook leaving seemingly for good, is that he would tour on Joy Division material. Perhaps it's simply a commentary on the state of affairs: Hook has attributed illegal downloading to shrinking royalties and live performance are the way to work the back catalog. In any case, his band will perform Joy Division's final album Closer, a highly acclaimed, darker work that appears on tshirts less often than Unknown Pleasures, which he played to a packed crowd last year. Obviously, it's no more Joy Division than upcoming New Order dates without Hook will be New Order, but it will be a Basscenter III Tempo-mashing electronic artist Bassnectar returns to the Bay Area for the first time since last year's sold out show at the Fox Theater. This time, however, he's bringing his Basscenter event started in 2010, previously held in Broomfield, Colo. and Asheville, NC. Bass-ically it's a three ring circus (no really -- the Vau de Vire Society will be performing) with an eclectic lineup of support. With a more straightforward electro sound, it should be interesting to hear how Wolfgang Gartner works the crowd. And while I don't generally think of wobbly bass when I think of Dan Deacon, his Tim and Eric musical aesthetic brings a certain ADHD liveliness that only the headliner can match. (Prendiville) With Bassnectar, Big Gigantic, Wolfgang Gartner, Dan Deacon 7 p.m., $40 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium 99 Grove, SF www.apeconcerts.com Rorschach Listening to Rorschach is like being held down and methodically punched in the face. The powerviolence progenitor from New Jersey paved the way for the last two decades of hardcore, alternating between breakneck blast-beat assaults and almost unbearably heavy breakdowns. The 1991 Rorschach/Neanderthal split is a classic of the genre: four songs in under five minutes that helped launch the race to make the meanest music in the world. Although Rorschach called it quits in 1993 after only four years, the band's varied catalogue has remained an important influence in both the punk and metal scenes; after jumpstarting 90s hardcore, Rorschach went on to lay the foundations of metalcore. Reformed in 2009 for a short East Coast tour, Rorschach is making its way to the bay for what's sure to be a memorable, if brutal, night. (Berkmoyer) With Early Graves, Kowloon, Walled City, and Kicker 9 p.m., $10 Thee Parkside 1600 17th St., SF (415) 252-1330 www.theeparkside.com Laudanum Laudanum is the East Bay king of doom and gloom, a four piece of the most crushing proportions that features members of Asunder, the other heaviest band in the bay, as well as the now defunct Graves at Sea. If a regent of hell ever enslaved the earth, or a zombie monarch rose to reclaim its throne, it would make sense for Laudanum to compose the coronation march. The slow atmospheric drone is notably more sinister sounding that most contemporaries, drawing black metal influences into the rigor of stoner metal with tortured vocals and dissonant progressions. It's what an evil bearded wizard riding on the shoulders of a club wielding giant puts on his iPod to jam out to as he lays waste to his enemies and slaughters the innocent. Or, ya' know, it could be a Zune: evil wizards don't have brand loyalty. (Berkmoyer) With the Body and Braveyoung 9 p.m., $7 Hemlock Tavern 1131 Polk, SF (415) 923-0923 www.hemlocktavern.com 2 The Guardian listings deadline is two weeks prior to our Wednesday publication date. 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(1) Fake Your Own Death (see Weds/14); (2) Kylesa (see Weds/14); (3) "Extinction Burst: a dance of love movement" (see Thurs/15); (4) Part Time (see Thurs/15); (5) Bayonics (see Fri/16); (6) Cannons & Clouds play the Rock Make Street Festival (see Sat/17); (7) Peter Hook and the Light (see Sat/17); (8)Laudanum (see Tues/20) Fake Your own Death photo bY Julie SchucharD; kYleSa photo bY GeoFF l. JohnSon.; "extinction burSt: a Dance oF love movement" photo bY Glenn motowiDlak; part time photo bY bil .e truJillo independent, locally-owned | SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | PICKS 33 www.doranshelley.com arts + culture The author (center, f lanked by book covers) drinks a "Vic Valentine" cocktail at Alameda's Forbidden Island Tiki Lounge. Wed 9/14 9:30pm no Cover! modS v. roCkerS dJS: older BroTher � GrAnd GATeAu ChriSpy CArlSTone roCkS! � ShAmeleSS GArAGe/pop/punk/indie/pSyCh/neW WAve Write what you know By Sean McCourt arts@sf bg.com Most fans probably associate Will "The Thrill" Viharo with Thrillville, the awesomely cool series of B movie screenings he hosted at the Parkway (now closed) and Cerrito (now operating under new ownership) theaters. But in recent years, Viharo's become "The Quill," shifting his focus to his first love: writing. He's written several novels and numerous short projects in a retro, neo-pulp vein; he's currently working on new material as well as publishing several of his older novels, some of which go back decades. He started his first novel, Chumpy Walnut -- about a foot-tall boy lost in a world of macabre make-believe -- when he was only 16. "I am a born writer, as pretentious as that may sound. I'm basically unemployable, possess no other marketable or practical skills, and so realistically, my career options are severely limited. It's a matter of simple survival: sink or swim, write or die," the 48-yearold Alameda resident explains. "Once I started writing, I just couldn't stop. It's how I respond to life and the world in general, my natural mode of expression. I really have no choice." Viharo's first published novel, Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me, was released in 1995 by Wild Card Press. Movie rights to the book, which introduced recurring character Vic Valentine, have been owned by the actor Christian Slater for the past ten years -- though Valentine, a San Francisco private eye, has yet to make his big-screen debut. Undeterred, Viharo has penned a slew of other killer, colorfullytitled books, including A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge, Fate is My Pimp, Romance Takes a Rain Check, and Diary of a Dick. All are written in a feverish style that recalls not only the hard-boiled detective novels of authors like Raymond Chandler, but also a wide variety of cinematic influences. "My work has always been informed and creatively inspired by films, particularly exploitation cinema, and all kinds of `mood music,' even more so than my sundry literary influences," Viharo says. "I think that's why my stuff has a keen visual sense and fluent rhythm unique to the form, kind of like graphic novels, sans the graphics." It makes perfect sense then that Viharo has made a book trailer to help promote his work. The clip, posted on his website (www.thrillville.net), recalls a classic film noir narrated by tempting excerpts from Viharo's books. The brand-newest Viharo tome, Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up To The Room, is a blistering tale he describes as "gonzo bizarro pulp;" it's due out in November. He's selfreleasing it, as he has all his works since Love Stories. "My stuff is good, I know it, and I'm taking it directly to the audience I know is already out there, bypassing the corporate middleman," Viharo says. He's learned that the mainstream publishing industry is a conservative, fickle beast -- and he's done trying to win the hearts of corporate titans. "I'm actually riding a new wave since digital publishing has usurped the marketplace, opening doors for many neglected talents at both ends of the scale." Thu 9/15 6pm Free! ABSoluTely koSher reCordS hAppy hour! dJ JeremiAh & The AFro-BeAT nATion! AFro-BeAT, AFro-Funk, AFro-CuBAn! AFro-BeAT no Go die! Fri 9/16 7:30pm $8 9pm Free! CArloS ForSTer (For STArS) mike CoykendAll (old Joe ClArkS) every FridAy 10pm $5 looSe JoinTS! W/ dJS Tom Thump, dAmon Bell & CenTipede rAre Groove/Funk/Soul/hip-hop & more! neiGhBorly deedS every SATurdAy niGhT! 10pm $5 SAT 9/17 7:30pm $8 el SuperriTmo! Sun 9/18 7:30pm $8 roGer mAS y el kool kyle CumBiA, dAnCehAll, SAlSA, hip-hop The diSpoSiTion � morph dWArF � unCle reBel mon 9/19 7pm $25 SeAWeed SWAy ShoWCASe! AndreW Bird roCk For kidS FundrAiSer Tue 9/20 9:30pm no Cover! loST & Found deep & SWeeT 60S Soul 45S dJS luCky & primo & FriendS 3225 22nd ST. @ miSSion SF CA 94110 415-647-2888 � www.makeoutroom.com Viharo's novels are available online through Lulu as eBooks or print-on-demand paperbacks, and he recently got approval to sell Down a Dark Alley on iTunes after a period of "special review" -- it seems his more lurid material had triggered an additional vetting before being given the green light. "Basically, after several decades of self-exploration, I have no more inhibitions, at least artistically," Viharo says. "My brain has been irrevocably damaged over the years, via sustained exposure to the insanity of our world as well as endless viewings of seriously fucked-up movies, and it shows, but I'm shameless by nature." Although his books can feature sensationalistic and savage settings, events, and characters, they are still meant to be simply entertaining -- a goal that they exceedingly achieve, thanks to Viharo's artistic outlook. "Even the most graphic depictions of XXX kinky sex and ultraviolence are presented in a satirical, cartoonish context, not meant to be taken too seriously," says Viharo. "I'm a softie at heart; my hardboiled veneer is pretty transparent, I think. It's impossible for me to remove my tongue from my cheek no matter how twisted my subject matter happens to be." 2 34 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | INDEPENDENT, LOCALLY-OWNED | SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2011 Three is the so-so number Take a look at your favorite games from the past few years and you'll find most were released not only on one system, but on two or three. The days of platform exclusivity are waning, and all these multi-platform releases mean console exclusives like Resistance 3 are increasingly important to manufacturers interested in maintaining their position in the industry. Sony's Resistance saga traces the path of a space virus sent to Earth to turn humans into alien-beings called the Chimera. The first two games follow Nathan Hale, a soldier who battles the virus across Europe, and eventually America. Resistance 3 kicks off where the second game ended (Resistance 2 spoiler warning): virusstricken Hale is shot dead by his secondin-command Joseph Capelli. Capelli is a more interesting protagonist than his predecessor, and killing off the main character allows developer Insomniac Games to create a more compelling story that deviates from the military action of the first two titles, but it also robs the story of its building tension, and the final product doesn't have the oomph needed for an epic end to a purported trilogy. Visually, Resistance 3 boasts some impressive animations and lots of detail. Little things, like trees bent backwards and street signs trembling during a windswept shootout on small-town Main Street, create an uncanny atmosphere that is not unlike Half Life 2 -- a game that the cross-country trek of Resistance 3 evokes in more than just atmosphere. Where Resistance 2 had a more modern shooter attitude (maximum of two guns, regenerative health), the third entry flips the switch in a positively old-school way. Health is distributed via health packs and you can carry a vast and devastating weapons arsenal for the duration of the campaign. Much like Insomniac's other series Ratchet & Clank, the devil is in the arsenal. 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But in a sea of options, it's hard not to be wary of the sinking ship. 2 * facebook.com/bampfa * PFa TheaTer: 2575 bancroFT way coMing sePTeMber 30 MaTrix liVe ocTober 7 randoM roTaTions l@te Media Sponsor: l@Te is made possible in part by the continued support of the BAM/PFA Trustees. Friday Nights @ INDEPENDENT, LOCALLY-OWNED | SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | TRASH 35 Deerhoof will appear at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art No shushing By Emily Savage email@example.com Something unexpectedly noisy is happening in the museums of San Francisco. There are two shows taking place in the next couple of weeks that will defy expectations of appropriate gallery sound levels. The idea for one event was born when artist-quilter Ben Venom wrote a proposal to bring heavy metal music to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Venom's massive heavy metal quilt, See You on the Other Side, is currently on display in between two motorcycle gang-inspired jackets as part of the ongoing BAN6 exhibition. The Bay Area metal scene is woven into the fabric of See You on the Other Side. Shirts donated to Venom from local bands such as Hightower, Black Cobra, and Walken -- along with old tees for his own collection -- were cut up and sewn into his most ambitious design yet: a skull with seven Medusa-style snakes with slithering tongues, multiple pyramids, and lightning bolts. Venom sewed four other (smaller) heavy metal quilts in the past, so his own collection of vintage shirts has nearly run dry. Along with his friends' bands, acts such as Gwar, Kylesa, and Red Fang have approached Venom, offering support for his vision or their own collections of shirts to include in future quilts. So far, the only criticisms Venom has faced are from those pissed off that he's cutting up classic shirts -- some of which, like his vintage Testament shirt, can sell for upwards of $80 on Ebay. But he doesn't see it as destroying something, he's sees it as giving shirts a new life, a new function. "At the very end of the day, even the beasts of metal need a warm blanket," he says smiling. Likely very warm at 13x15-feet, See You on the Other Side includes more than 125 repurposed shirts with vivid and macabre imagery; the red of the snakes' tongues popping against the white bulls-eye quilting pattern. The Mission resident takes inspiration from his life growing up in deeply religious, creative family in Southern Georgia, conversely citing heavy metal, the occult, and alchemy imagery as similarly over-the-top exalting. "The way I look at my work is a collision of the outrageous stage antics of Ozzy Osborne collided together with the domestic nature of crafts," says Venom, arms folded, peering at his work on the high-ceilinged wall. Another artistic collision of sorts will take place in a few weeks to compliment Venom's pieces: three local heavy metal bands will play in the sculpture garden at YBCA on Sept.22, just outside the gallery where Venom's work hangs. Venom came up with the event idea when the curator sent out a query to the artists involved in the BAN6 exhibition, to see if anyone wanted to tack on a lecture or performance. "It totally ties into what I'm doing. It's like, heavy metal at the museum -- that's a little weird," Venom chuckles. "I contacted Hightower, Black Cobra, and Walken and they were all super amped on it." Those three bands are also represented with imagery in the quilt, having donated shirts to Venom, something that the artist notes as meaningful to the spirit of the piece. "I'm hosting the event, but the bands are playing -- it's their night." There will be a uniquely different live rock show in a nearby museum this month. The formerly San Franciscan foursome, Deerhoof, is flying in from across the country (New York City, Portland, Oreg., Albuquerque, N.M) to play in the main lobby of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this Thursday, Sept. 15, as part of the SFMOMA: Now Playing series. Deerhoof -- Greg Saunier, John Dieterich, Ed Rodriguez and Satomi Matsuzaki -- was documented by filmmaker Adam Pendelton for his video installation, BAND, a reinterpretation of Jean-Luc Godard's 1968 film Sympathy for the Devil. Godard's original included scenes of the Rolling Stones working on the track from Beggar's Banquet, interlaced with clips of the Black Panthers. Pendelton's three channel video installation, shot in 2009 while Deerhoof was working on its most recent record Deerhoof vs. Evil, includes beautiful close-ups of the avant-garde musicians working on a song, mixed with audio footage of a day in the life of a politically conscious teenager. The eight-hour shoot caught the band's first tinkering with "I Did Crimes For You," a deceptively upbeat, repetitious pop track that kicks off with clean guitar, handclapping, and Matsuzaki's recognizably high girlish vocals explaining: this is a stick-up/this is a stick-up/ smash the windows. "I don't know what other bands are like when they're working on music, but it can be pretty high tension," says Dieterich, from his new home in Albuquerque, "It's not like we're in a war zone or something, but at the time it can pretty nervewracking." Despite the nerves and early unfounded fears about being filmed, Dieterich says the band ended up enjoying the experience. "It's good to do things like that, to force yourself to be transparent...to be able to operate under any circumstance." Deerhoof does have a track record of flexibility, whether it be taking risks with new tones or equipment, switching instruments during live shows, or reaching out beyond the traditional album-concert rock band format. The band created and performed an original score to Harry Smith's silent film Heaven and Earth Magic during the San Francisco International Film Festival a few years back, and its album Milk Man was turned into a piece of modern dance theater by schoolchildren who performed it in Maine. The SFMOMA event will include Deerhoof's performance along with a screening of BAND. There `See You on the Other Side' includes shirts from Hightower, Black Cobra, and Walken also will be a projection of a different Pendelton project; footage of David Hilliard (former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party) touring landmark Black Panther Party sites in Oakland, and an onstage interview with Hilliard. Deerhoof hasn't performed in conjunction with Pendelton's film since the premiere in New York City last year; Dieterich says he's looking forward to taking it to the museum. "We're going to be playing in this big entryway, I don't know acoustically what that room is like -- just thinking from a sound perspective, it will have its own strong character." 2 THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER THROUGH SepTeMBeR 17 Special performance welcoming the LGBT Community on Thu., Sep. 15 DIRecT FROM LAS VeGAS AU S T R A L I A' S Wednesdays & Thursdays 2 for 1 Use code "Thunder" No Drink Minimum On Wednesdays and Thursdays 800-380-3095 www.TheRrazzRoom.com 36 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2011 ANR's Brian Robertson and Michael John "MJ" Hancock power through the pain. Miami sound machine By Emily Savage email@example.com Michael John "MJ" Hancock is in a silly mood. Out on the road with his band ANR (which stands for Awesome New Republic), the drummer-singer picks up my call and says, "Awesome New Republic answering service." I give pause, waiting a tick for the beep, assuming this was an answering machine. But he was there, in the van in Grand Rapids, Mich., on the phone after a "long, deep night drive." Flustered from the confusion, I chattily ask about the current tour. "It's going very well," he says. "We're all getting along swimmingly aside from the 50 percent of the time when we're yelling at each other. Most of the yelling is just passionate arguments about important sociopolitical issues though -- the way a good American tour should go." His curious mood might be due to the odd freak accident that happened to ANR a few days before they left for tour. While filming a music video in the band's Miami home base for the song "It's All Around You" off the deluxe version of its album Stay Kids, keyboardist-effects pedal charmer Brian Robertson was trying his hand at some modern dance choreography and ended up breaking his foot on the hard cement floor. "[The song] is about hurricanes and earthquakes pummeling the East Coast -- which coincidentally has been happening -- and he was spinning a girl around in a conceptual imitation of a hurricane," explains Hancock. Now here's where you need to bring in the suspension of disbelief. This story could be bogus, the modern dance, the hurricane imitation, it all just sounds too darkly comedic to be true. And yet, I choose to believe. And that goes for the music ANR makes as well. The songs off Stay Kids -- and the deluxe version released this week -- are about the magnificent and horrifying scope of natural disasters, and yet, thanks to the synthy-pyschadelic pop tones, they exude futuristic glee. It's less haha funny, more thought-provoking amusing. A black comedy. The duo enlisted a friend to come on tour and help with the things Robertson cannot do with his injury -- set up equipment, lift heavy machinery, drive the van. "Brian just sits on a nice golden stool and tells us what to do," Hancock says. But he can still press the effects pedals with his booted foot. Hancock may be in a mirthful mood, but he takes his work seriously. The band's next couple of releases sound as divergent as their sound stretches; one is a live instrumentation rock record influenced by violence around the world, the other an electronic R&B and pop record they've been recording in motel rooms along the tour. Along with playing three keyboards and a Moog, Robertson also mixes and masters all their albums. Hancock and his partner in psychedelic pop crime, Robertson, met and began creating beat-heavy music with soulful melodies after both relocated to South Florida a decade ago to attend the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. In between then and now the duo has released a smattering of well-received records and EPs, toured heavily, and opened for Animal Collective, Neon Indian, and No Age. They got a mention in a New York Times article a few years back about the rise of the Miami indie scene, and have recently been mentioned in the same breath with fellow Miami up-and-comers Jacuzzi Boys. This tour takes ANR to San Francisco proper for the first time (there was an Oakland show three or so years ago) this Thursday, Sept.15. "Hopefully we'll make it," Hancock jokes. "You've got a lot of hills and our van doesn't go up hills very well -- I guess we're playing Bottom of the Hill, so we'll be okay." Pause, "If you see three guys pushing a big white creepy stalker van up a hill, you know, that's us." Despite the constant touring and songwriting, the duo says it hasn't changed all that much in the past eight years. "It's only really evolved as far as our ability to record better, and lyrically, it's evolved," says Hancock. "It used to be a lot more intentionally funny -- I guess some people still think we're pretty funny. But we're not joking, we're serious now," he says with a laugh. Got it, ANR is no laughing matter. 2 independent, locally-owned | SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | ARtS + CUltURe 37 Intimate exteriorities: Brice Bischoff's "Cave X" (left) and Colin Christy's "Wild and Scenic" turn the outside inward. Caves of forgotten dreams By Matt Sussman firstname.lastname@example.com If you follow Canyon Drive from Hollywood Boulevard all the way up into the hilly territory of Los Angeles' Griffith Park, you'll reach a cul-de-sac. Beyond that, accessible by foot, is a small stone bridge which leads to a dirt trail that eventually lets you out in what's known as Bronson Valley. This is where you'll find the Bronson Caves. Even if you've never visited the caves in person, you've probably at least seen them: they've been used in countless motion pictures and television shows. One of the mouths served as the exterior shot for the Bat Cave in the original `60s Batman TV series. Natalie Wood's long lost Little Debbie is discovered in one of the caves in 1956 flick The Searchers. The caves also make cameos in plenty of schlocky, B-grade sci-fi and fantasy cheese of both classic (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956) and more recent (The Scorpion King, 2002) vintage. Given their status as one of the film industry's leading landscape doubles, it's only fitting that the caves aren't actually caves. There's nothing natural about them: they're all that remains of an early 1900s quarrying operation to supply stone with which to pave the streets of a rapidly-growing LA. On a clear day, from the other side of one of the tunnels, you can get a seemingly eye level view of the Hollywood sign. This long history of artifice amid geologic permanence is both everywhere and nowhere in Brice Bischoff's series of large-scale Cprints of the Bronson Caves currently hanging at Johansson Projects. The caves are the photographs' crispest formal feature, although it's the dazzling and seemingly supernatural rainbow-hued blurs within and near them that first catch your eye. The colorful shapes -- which vary in form from blasts of light to smoky wisps -- evoke both the caves' history as a site for staged close encounters of the third kind, as well as nineteenth century spirit photography. They're also simply beautiful to look at. Their origin, however, is more mundane: wearing raggedy costumes made from colored paper, Bischoff gestures before his stationary camera using the space of the caves to suggest a course of movement. The time lapse captured by the camera's long exposure renders his presence ghostly while setting into relief the surrounding rocky proscenium, although the artist never disappears entirely. (In one photograph, there is the suggestion of a human form wrapped in the Jamaican flag.) Even though Bischoff's presence before the camera is required to create each image, his photographs are the opposite of performance documentation. Rather, they are formally and thematically similar to Hiroshi Sugimoto's ghostly black and white portraits of old movie palaces, for which the photographer left his exposure open for the duration of a projected feature so that the screen appears as a glowing white light that illuminates the ornate architectural decor around it. So to do Bischoff's photographs collate an accretion of instances which, individually, are less important than the location in which they've occurred. They bring to the fore a history which, at 24 frames per second, has always been relegated to the background. The Bronson Caves aren't the only natural feature on display in this exhibit organized around California landscapes. Tabitha Soren's carbon pigment prints that combine crashing Pacific waves into vertiginous tsunamis and Ellen Black's videos of doctored beach-scapes and mating snakes pack plenty of visual punch but lack the elegant conceptual underpinnings of Bischoff's series. For a more strenuous walk in the wild, you have to trek down Broadway to Jack London Square where at Swarm Gallery Colin Christy's living installation "Wild and Scenic" throws scare quotes around both terms. For this non-earthwork earthwork Christy transplanted native and invasive plants found around the American River from Coloma, California to a dirt mound in the gallery. The plants are watered on a regular basis, and they're painted with a bio-luminescent pigment to differentiate between native and non-native plants, so that Christy can track their growth patterns by taking long exposure time lapse photographs at night. Of course, there's another contender in this battle royale: humans. The pile of wood, glinting with patches of gold spray paint, that forms a sort of bulkhead on one side of the mound, references the role the American River was forced to play during the Gold Rush, itself a massive piece of terraforming that has indelibly altered California's landscape. While drawing attention to this history of environmental degradation, Christy's piece -- in all of its gratuitousness -- cannot help but be somewhat complicit in perpetuating its legacy. There's life on the line, here, even if it isn't human. 2 MUsIC sfbg CLAssIfIEDs NEWs LIsTINgs LIsTINgs DININg bLOgs fILM 38 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2011 fUN MORE AND EDITORIAL It's people! By Robert Avila firstname.lastname@example.com Last Thursday afternoon, the floor before the stage at Z Space was strewn with dollar-store paraphernalia, neoncolored wigs, and the odd piece of kitchenware. On the stage itself, near the front, ran a long makeshift video screen about four-and-a-half feet high. Immediately behind that, at regular intervals, four small video cameras on thin stands faced the back of the stage. Caden Manson, New York�based Big Art Group's artistic director, had been leading a workshop all week in performance media techniques for about 15 locals (most of them active in the danceperformance scene) but today they were crafting something that would actually be a part of this week's much anticipated Big Art Group premiere, The People: San Francisco. To that end, performers picked through the detritus on the floor and fashioned neo-classical costumes for themselves: a broom brush for a centurion's plume, pot lids for shields, a colander for a battle helmet, a table cloth for a toga, an incongruous toy gun, a festive pair of streamers on sticks, a black cap with beaded veil, swords, plastic flowers, and other pop neoclassical accoutrement. "If anybody wants a Molotov cocktail, there's four of them right there," offers one of the group's members helpfully. By the time they had assembled themselves on stage they had become a strikingly photogenic band of miscreants and martyrs, like the crew of the Bad Ship Lollipop. Manson, a 40ish blond with an equanimous mien and contrastingly subdued in black coat and blue sneakers, announces they have ten minutes to produce a narrative tableau in an epic vein. Maybe because most of these folks -- among them Evan Johnson, Ben Randle, Honey McMoney, Maryam Rostami, Laura Arrington, Rachael Dichter, and Sara Kraft -- have worked together before, this all happens surprisingly on schedule. Manson -- who with a few directorial adjustments soon has them all grandly and neatly materializing on the video screen at the front of the stage -- explains to me that the pop-up tableau of civil strife the performers have just concocted will act as one of several backdrops to passages from the Oresteia, the ancient trilogy of plays by Aeschylus, which itself acts as counterpoint to the series of contemporary interviews of random Bay Area citizens that forms a key component of The People. The results you can see for yourself this weekend, as Florida Street outside Z Space (formerly Theater Artaud) becomes a reimagined public square where a localized discussion of democcamp send-up and critique of this culture's media-immersive materialism and its social ramifications. The People: San Francisco takes Big Art's fundamental approach to performance and democratizes it. The fourth installment of a serial project begun in 2007 in Polverigi, Italy (before moving onto Halle, Germany and Salzburg, Austria), The People was designed with two goals in mind, according to Manson. One was to craft a collaborative project that might allow Manson and Nelson greater contact with the communities they've been regularly traveling through on Big Art's annual performance tours. The tradeoff would be some but notes the remainder will be archived online). The other goal was related but more specific and immediate: "At the time we started this, in 2007, Bush was in office and he was always talking about promoting democracy," explains Manson. "We were touring all over Europe at this time, and we're wondering: What exactly does that mean, democracy? So we started asking. It's the first time we've asked here, in the United States." The timing, coming just after the 10th anniversary of 9/11, is auspicious (if coincidental). As a localized act of public discussion of words like terrorism, justice, SEPT 14TH SEPT 23RD SEPT 27TH SEPT 30TH OCT 1ST Power to `em: Big Art Group's The People is coming to a wall near you. | racy gets played out in a big way, through massive video projections, personal perspectives, and live performance in a dazzlingly intricate and thought-provoking merger of bodies and images, the epic and the mundane, the spectacular and the quotidian. Big Art Group's last appearance in the Bay Area was 2009's deft and rowdy "action media performance," SOS, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Founded and led by Manson and executive director and writer Jemma Nelson, Big Art's distinctive, highly integrated blend of theater and media into something it calls "real-time film" was the basis then for a rousing of the precision and expertise on display in shows like SOS for an immediate and interactive bead on a specific locale. In the Bay Area, this contact was managed through three host organizations: Marin's Headlands Center for the Arts (where Manson and Nelson were in residency a few months ago), YBCA, and Z Space. Through this relationship, the project gathered some 40 hours of taped interviews with 42 subjects (including this writer) who were asked an identical set of questions about terrorism, justice, democracy, and war. (Manson was last week still carefully whittling down those 40 hours to a manageable 16 minutes, democracy, and war, The People reclaims from the centers of power and their diffuse mouthpieces the shibboleths and catchwords that normally act as so many parade floats leading us all down blind alleys, if not over cliffs. Wasn't this the real discussion we should have had ten years ago? Some did; some tried and were shouted down. 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Android app coming 10/1 Follow us on 40 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2011 independent, locally-owned | SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | ARtS + CUltURe 41 Fighting to be free: Lenora Lee and Collin Wong in Lee's Reflections. Imagination and identification By Rita Felciano arts@sf bg.com This past weekend, an unlikely double bill once again proved how fertile the Bay Area soil is for dancers' imaginations. FACT/SF's Pretonically Oriented v.3 was steeped in critical theory yet physically grounded. Drawing on local history, Lenora Lee Dance's Reflections offered a window into self-assertion. While employing Asian American images -- martial arts and lion dancing -- the work resonated beyond its specific cultural context. Both works were developed during summer residencies at CounterPULSE. "Pretonic," a program note explained, refers to the unstressed ("pre") syllable which precedes a stressed one ("tonic) in a word. Charles Slender used this linguistic precept to fold his rehearsal process into the actual piece. While his trio of exceptionally focused dancers -- James Graham, Erin Kraemer, and Catherine Newman -- performed variations of material they had accessed through free-writing, we also watched and listened to streamed videos, including Slender at his most slyly professorial, of the rehearsal material that had gone into the making of Pretonically. These layers of information sometimes looked as solid as what happened in real time, sometimes as evanescent as memory floating by. The idea of conjoining process and product is intriguing. Pretonically could prove utterly absorbing. Watching the trio in one corner of the stage in front of videos taken in exactly the same spot (but depicting different movements) suggested a fascinating sense of simultaneity. Listening to Slender's voice while his face on the wall clearly spoke different words created a disconnect between two modes of communication. Toward the end, just as the work seemed to have run its course, the dancers returned and went into a retrograde mode, performing some of their material backwards. It looked as if someone had pushed the reverse button, and they had joined their own selves in a different reality. At 40 minutes, however, 42 42 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2011 Pretonically could not sustain itself. Once you understood the complex structure, the piece needed to communicate beyond what it became. Like so much conceptual art, the idea behind it often proved more intriguing than its physical realization. Having said that, the dancers were mesmerizing by the sheer force of their presence. Moving glacially, they inexorably focused on something ungraspable. Perhaps Kraemer's energy originated from the bottom of her spine, Graham lived off percussive lines, and, though ground-hogging, Newman fixated on the above. Slender is lucky to have dancers as excellent as these; they could run circles around most Butoh practitioners. Lee's fine Reflections also benefited from excellent dancers. Translating to the stage the difficulties of retaining or creating one's identity in an unwelcoming environment is a theme that runs through much of contemporary dance and theater. Lee has previously examined the topic with her Chinese American background in mind; she based 2010's Passages on her grandmother's life. In Reflections she strikes a fiercer note as she examines the ferocious, even brutal strength required for self-assertion. A male narrator's voice movingly personalized the struggle of escaping the bondage of being "the good son." Lee made a brilliant choice in enlisting two martial arts group, Kei Lun Martial Arts and Enshin Karate, South San Francisco Dojo. They were the warriors who fought each other in the "cold streets of Chinatown," but also embodied the ongoing struggle within. Raymond Fong, who is as fine an actor as he is at practicing karate, became Reflections' everyman. Lee's mixing of her own choreography with pure martial arts worked well; seeing the real thing onstage (and not often-vacuous "martial arts inspired moves") was thrilling. At the same these performers looked more nuanced than they might otherwise. Weakest was the choreography for the two women characters, Marina Fukushima as the unattainable dream and Lee herself as a compassionate woman warrior. Making fine use of a lion dance, including bamboo lion heads that imprisoned, Lee strung together the work's seven scenes rather straightforwardly. 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The film's three directors spent a couple of years in the passenger seat, long enough for their verit� portrait of the scrappers' lives at work to be anchored in extenuating circumstances: a deportation scare for Oscar, a hospital stay for Otis, and most significantly the collapse of scrap prices as a result of dwindling home construction (the same ton of metal that sold for $200�$300 in 2007 only brought in 20 bucks in 2008). Without recourse to a voice-over, Scrappers details economic unrest as well as the complex race and class hierarchies of Chicago's scrap scene. This is all secondary, however, to the film's enduring interest in learning how Oscar and Otis actually go about their work -- noteworthy in a documentary field crowded with predigested arguments. The filmmakers take liberties in editing together the scrappers' talk into poetic monologues, but it's a small price for granting them autonomy in defining not only the necessities but also the dispensations of their work. While Scrappers works to convey layers of ongoing experience, the Oscar-nominated Waste Land is witness to an exceptional intervention. The film follows Vik Muniz, a successful Brooklyn-based artist originally from S�o Paolo, as he spearheads a collaborative art project in Jardim Gramacho, a gigantic landfill outside Rio de Janeiro. Muniz first contemplates the site from his Brooklyn studio using land art's modern surveying tools, Google Earth and YouTube. Once on the ground, his initial disbelief at the scale of the landfill gives way to the more modest realization that many of the pickers working there don't view themselves as the wretched of the earth. Waste Land director Lucy Walker omits Muniz's selection of a handful of the pickers as collaborators and subjects -- a thorny process, one imagines -- instead fleshing out the backstories of the (admittedly remarkable) chosen ones. They gather material from the dump to help Muniz fashion their iconic portraits back in the studio, with the proceeds of the finished work benefiting the pickers' labor association. Muniz's giving act is more personal and sustained than a benefit concert, but the difference is one of quality not kind. He repeatedly stresses the project as a joint effort in making art of garbage, but the real magic consists of turning garbage into something priced as art, a conversion which undoubtedly helps the pickers but also solidifies Muniz's privileged position in the world marketplace. In view of this, it's worth pointing out that many other artists have adapted scavenger aesthetics as a means of dissenting from patronage systems (art or otherwise). In 1965, for instance, Brazilian director Glauber Rocha issued his "Aesthetic of Hunger" manifesto to define Third Cinema's difference. Some years later filmmakers associated with the Tropic�lia movement went a step further and called for an "Aesthetics of Garbage." Needless to say, they envisioned something different than Waste Land's sympathetic detachment. It's not a fair comparison perhaps, but days after seeing the film I'm still bothered by the way it maintains a wry distance from Muniz's earnest struggle for moral clarity while itself indulging in artsy portraiture of the pickers at work (scored to death by Moby). In any case, magnificent unsigned art grows out of landfill closer to home at the Albany Bulb. There's a documentary about that too -- Bum's Paradise (2003). 2 287 Ellis Street, SF GUARDIAN DEALS ON THE FLY @ FORKFLY. 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Whether structured as an exploded city symphony (1930's � Propos de Nice), commissioned portrait (1931's Taris), anarchic boarding school farce (1933's Z�ro de Conduite) or multivalent love story (1934's L'Atalante), they crack open the known world and flash epiphanies like jewels before the camera. Vigo's most famous sequences -- the pillow-fight processional in Z�ro de Conduite, the lovers' s�ance in L'Atalante -- are lyrical outbursts expressing deep yearning. That desire can be sensual or social; the toppling effect is the same. One might take a page from Vigo's first film, � Propos de Nice (co-directed with Boris Kaufman, Dziga Vertov's brother and a brilliant cinematographer in his own right), and consider the intense flux of Vigo's films as pushing towards carnival. The film's witty comparison of the idle rich and vibrant working class of Nice goes up in smoke with the fade-in to the street fair. The social fabric suddenly tears, egged on by lusty low-angle shots and intoxicating cuts (more than that, Vigo himself appears doing the cancan). In Vigo's little-seen short Taris, the titular French swimmer and early media celebrity demonstrates strokes while explaining their form in voice-over. This instructive track is periodically interrupted by the filmmaker's beautiful (and at times absurd) close-ups and slow-motion shots. In the end the libidinal again wins out, as Vigo takes advantage of a portal window to film Taris underwater turning corkscrews and circles. This sweet celebration of the body is recast as the more famous underwater idyll in L'Atalante, but here seeing Taris at play here provides a striking contrast from his more regimented 44 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | independent, locally-owned | SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2011 athleticism. Stepping outside the rules of the sport, he doesn't even need to come up for air. Plenty of ink has already been spilled on Z�ro de Conduite's joyful student revolt, though I've always appreciated that when the emboldened kids hail garbage down on dress, clutching a litter of kittens or showing off his tattoos generates a turbulent vitality that's a full partner in the film's romance. L'Atalante is a giving film, with a musical sense of character, a wondrous balancing of melancholy and mischief, and always something new to tell you about love. Criterion Collection's "The Complete Jean Vigo" compiles digital restorations of the filmmaker's four films, plus a host of extra features. the authorities of church and state, some of the figures below are actual puppets. Even when Vigo's films are deadly serious, they don't take themselves too seriously. The censors certainly did: the film was banned for its many blasphemies, though it surfaced sooner than the long shipwrecked L'Atalante. The story of a married couple coming together and apart on a barge is simplicity itself, and yet Vigo embroiders it with delicate shifts in mood and setting. The carnival spirit is here embodied by indelible P�re Jules (Michel Simon), the salty sailor who whether playing a record with his finger, trying on a There are some who might grumble about the obvious irony of seeing Vigo's freewheeling work packaged as a tidy commodity, but it's humbling to think what earlier generations of film lovers would have made at being able to stuff his collected works in their coat pockets (also, Criterion's transfers are stellar). It's marvelous being able to explore these particular films at leisure -- which is to say every which way. 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A-0337745-00 The following person is doing business as Dog In Training ,889 Corbet Ave.., San Francisco, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant commenced business under the abovelisted fictitious business name on the date N/A. Signed by Brenda Crawley. This statement was filed by Mariedyne L. Argente on August 22, 2011. L#113446., September 7, 14, 21 and 28th 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0337872-00 The following person is doing business as IsThatSo?, 601 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date N/A. Signed by Patricia Farrell This statement was filed by Magdalena Zevallos on August 30, 2011. L#113445., September 7, 14, 21 and 28th 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0337874-00 The following person is doing business as Greenbelt Alliance, 631 Howard St. Suite 510, San Francisco, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date January 1, 2000. Signed by John Hewett Chapman, President of People for Open Space. This statement was filed by Maribel Jaldon on August 30, 2011. L#113450., September 14, 21, 28 and October 5th 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0337890-00 The following person is doing business as ICreation, 1139 Taraval St., San Francisco, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date N/A. Signed by Wen Min Jiang and Richard Li Xiang This statement was filed by Mariedyne L. Argente on August 30, 2011. L#113443., September 7, 14, 21 and 28th 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0337958-00 The following person is doing business as Artists Moving, 1383 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant commenced business under the abovelisted fictitious business name on the date 9/1/2011. Signed by Thomas Flanagan. This statement was filed by Susanna Chin on September 1, 2011. L#113447., September 7, 14, 21 and 28th 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0338045-00 The following person is doing business as Plume & Ledger, 625 8th Ave.., San Francisco, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant commenced business under the abovelisted fictitious business name on the date September 7, 2011. Signed by Patricia Le. This statement was filed by Magdalena Zevallos on September 7, 2011. L#113449., September 14, 21, 28 and October 5th 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0338127-00 The following person is doing business as Universal Dreamcatcher, 50 Argonaut Ave, San Francisco, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individaul. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date September 8, 2011. Signed by Artem Moshke. This statement was filed by Maribel Jaldon on September 8, 2011. L#113451., September 14, 21, 28 and October 5th 2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. A-0338177-00 The following person is doing business as Properties Unlimited ,846 Kansas Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individaul. Registrant commenced business under the above-listed fictitious business name on the date April 21, 2003. Signed by Alyce Cardinale. This statement was filed by Jennifer Wong on September 12, 2011. L#113452., September 14, 21, 28 and October 5th 2011 Notice of creditors of bulk sale Notice is hereby give to creditors of the within named Seller that a bulk sale is about to be made of the assets described below. The names and the business address of the seller is Faiq Khouri and Adib Khouri, 16 Valencia Street, San Francisco CA 94103-1102. As listed by the seller, all other business names and addresses used by the seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the buyers are none. Th names and the business address of the buyers are Mission Bubbles, LLC, 8 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1102. The assets to be sold are described in general as: furniture, fixtures, equipment and inventory located at #8 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA. The business name used by sellers at that location is: Valencia Coin Op. The anticipated dare of the bulk sale is October 1st, 2011 at the offices of Shamiyeh and Shamieh. The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code section 6106.2. If so subject, the name and the address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: law office of Shamiyeh and Shamieh, 2221 Olimpic Boulevard, Walnut Creek, CA 94595, and the last date for filling claims shall be September 30, 2011, which is the business day before the sale date specified above. Dated September 8, 2011 ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS (Amended). CASE NUMBER FDI-11-774806 Petitioner: Juan Jose Rojas Respondent: Tabitha Marie Ingram Upon reading and filing the evidence consisting of a declaration as provided in Section 415.50 CCP by Petitioner Juan Jose Rojas, and it satisfactorily appearing therefrom that the Respondent Tabitha Marie Ingram, cannot be served with reasonable diligence in any other manner specified in Article 3, Chapter 4, Title 5 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and it also appearing from the verified complaint or petition that a good cause of action exists in this action in favor of the Petitioner, therein and against the Respondent, and that the said Respondent Tabitha Marie Ingram, is a necessary and proper party to the action. NOW, on motion of Juan Jose Rojas Pro Per or Attorney (s) for the, Petitioner, IT IS ORDERED that the service of said amended summons in this action be made upon said Respondent by publication thereof in Bay Guardian a newspaper of general circulation published at San Francisco, California, hereby designated as the newspaper most likely to give notice to said Respondent; that said publication be made at least once a week for four successive weeks. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of said amended summons or citation and of said complaint or amended petition in this action be forthwith deposited in the United States Post Office, postpaid, directed to said Respondent, if his/her address is ascertained before expiration of the time prescribed for the publication of this amended summons and a declaration of this mailing or the fact that the address was not ascertained be filed at the expiration of the time prescribed for the publication. On the fourth week of publication, 28 days after the first publication is made, the Court shall acquire jurisdiction over said Respondent. Endorsed FILED San Francisco County Superior Court on August 11, 2011 by Frances Yakota, Clerk, signed by Patrick J. Mahoney, Judge of the Superior Court. #L 113436. August 24, 31, September 7 and 14th 2011 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CNC-11548039. SUPERIOR COURT, 400 McAllister St. San Francisco, CA 94102. PETITION of Marthese Irene Espinoza for change of name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Marthese Irene Espinoza filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name Marthese Irene Espinoza. Proposed Name: Marthese Irene Marina-Espinoza . THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: November 3, 2011. Time: 9:00 AM room - 514. Signed by Ellen Chaitin, Presiding Judge on August 29, 2011. Endorsed Filed San Francisco County Superior Court on August 29, 2011 by Dennis Toyama, Deputy Clerk. Publication dates: September 7, 14, 21 and 28th, 2011. L#113441 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CNC-11548049. SUPERIOR COURT, 400 McAllister St. San Francisco, CA 94102. PETITION of Joshua James Smith for change of name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Joshua James Smith filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name Joshua James Smith. Proposed Name: Joshua James Hepburn. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: November 10, 2011. Time: 9:00 AM room � 514. Signed by Ellen Chaitin, Presiding Judge on September 1, 2011. Endorsed Filed San Francisco County Superior Court on September 1, 2011 by Deputy Clerk. Publication dates: September 7, 14, 21 and 28th, 2011. L#113442 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: RG11590558. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF Alameda, 1225 Fallon St. Oakland, CA 94612. PETITION OF Lisa Marguerite Dwight for change of name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Lisa Marguerite Dwight filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: Lisa Marguerite Dwight. Proposed Name: Jahnavi Lisa Marguerite Dwight. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 12/9/2011. Time: 11:00 AM, DEPT. 31. Signed by Jon R. Rolefson, Judge of Superior Court on August 15, 2010. Endorsed Filed, Alameda County on August 15, 2011 by Barbara LaMotte, Deputy Clerk. 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