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OPINION

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PRESS ON This is only the beginning.

Hope and History We still have work to do BY D. SCOT MILLER ‘uncontrollably’ in much of the U.S. — but not California.” It went on to say that, “More than half of all states now fall into the ‘uncontrolled spread’ category, according to data gathered by the COVID Exit Strategy. California, by contrast, is one of eight states where transmission is decreasing or flat.”

Furthermore, it stated that, “California currently has 75 coronavirus cases per million population, according to the COVID Exit Strategy. It has also seen a 4% decrease in total hospitalizations and 3% decrease in ICU admissions over a 14-day period, Gov. Gavin

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wo days ago, I was asked to write an editorial about the 2020 election for this issue of the East Bay Express. Like many journalists placed in this position, I’ve had to muster the ability to foretell the tone of a historic day that has yet to happen. The task is a daunting one, but no less daunting than the political and social climate of the country this year. Many of the issues we must face going forward will be with us regardless of who occupies the seats of government.

On Oct. 20, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on the “Coronavirus spreading

Newsom said at a news conference Monday.”

As of this writing, there are 9,528,353 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 236,805 Covid-related deaths in the United States, with rising numbers all over the country as regions experience second and third waves of the virus. The lack of a national response has not only put the onus on states, but on everyday citizens as well. Whether or not support is on the way, our individual decisions make the ultimate difference.

The Right-wing extremist terror will remain with us after the election results, too. As the nation boards up its businesses today in preparation for riots should Trump win, there has been no preparation against the probable and likely violence if he loses. In “Right-wing militias are gearing up for an armed response on Election Day” Salon reports, “according to the report by Politico’s Tine Nguyen, ‘Fueled by

allegations of mail-in ballot fraud, shouted from the president’s Twitter feed and conservative media outlets, a new spate of racial justice protests in places like Philadelphia and paranoia over further coronavirus restrictions, some militias have begun doomsday prepping for Election Day.” Over the last few days leading up to the election, caravans of trucks bearing Trump flags and known as “Trump Trains” have paraded through the predominantly Black neighborhood of Marin City, blocked traffic on bridges in New York and New Jersey, and boxed in a Biden campaign bus in Texas, forcing Biden to cancel an event due to intimidation. Regardless of who is President of the United States today, the white supremacist/fascist underpinnings of this country will continue to escalate until they are directly addressed and expunged from all facets of American life; a moral revolution within the hearts and minds of us all. Once again, it’s on us.

The extrajudicial killings of Black people, by police, with no accountability, will remain as well.

George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake and countless others have yet to see their day in court, much less actual justice. While Floyd’s killers are out on bail, no one has yet been held accountable for Taylor’s death, or even named in Blake’s. As long as these affronts to truth and justice in the name of white supremacist violence persist, the American people have two choices: to remain silent in compliance, or to use their voices to demand change.

I don’t know who the new President is as I write this, but I do know that whomever it is cannot change the decisions we must make to end these plagues, or the bravery we must find to foster the glimmers of hope that have always been with us. Like the poet, Seamus Heaney, wrote: “History says, don’t hope On this side of the grave.

But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.” l

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UNPRECEDENTED The Bay Area added its voice to the historic voter turnout.

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Despite the pandemic, East Bay residents stepped up as poll workers and watchers in record numbers BY DARCY BROWN-MARTIN

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ver the last four years, the word “unprecedented” has been called into action so frequently—and also mangled, by a notable Twitter user who complained in 2016 about China’s “unpresidented” actions— that it might be charitable to let the overworked adjective rest. But here’s another instance where we need it: The number of Bay Area citizens who applied to serve as in-person poll workers and poll watchers this year, in the midst of

a pandemic, was—that’s right— unprecedented.

“It’s a historic high,” said Rusty Hicks, chair of the California Democratic Party (CADEM), referring to the 300 attorneys, including many Bay Area residents, who volunteered this year as poll observers with the CADEM Voter Protection Team.

“Turnout has been amazing,” said Alameda County Registrar of Voters Tim Dupuis, referring to both the number of applications his

office received from prospective poll workers—4,800 for 1,800 slots— and the region’s extraordinary earlyvoting tallies. (As of Oct. 30, Dupuis reports, 52 percent of registered voters in Alameda County had already voted, as had 60 percent of voters in Marin County.)

What’s more, Dupuis added, “Our story is not unique.” San Francisco, San Mateo and other counties were also inundated with poll-worker applications.

“You can see the enthusiasm

all over California,” Dupuis said.

“People really want to get involved, and they really want this election to go off without hitches.”

Oakland resident Ann Richardson Berkey was one of those motivated to serve because of concerns about election safety, and despite fears about Covid-19. A retired senior vice president of communications for McKesson, Berkey worked four long days as a poll captain in an Accessible Voting Location (AVLs are the new polls) in West Oakland.

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Although Berkey spent her career in government and government relations, starting as a Nixon-administration appointee in the early 1970s, this was her first stint as an election worker. “When you have a candidate, and in this case an entire administration, instilling fear in people about whether or not the election process will be legitimate, that is very concerning,” Berkey said.

Election officials across the country realized early in the pandemic that the seniors and retirees who long comprised the majority of poll workers might sit out this election to safeguard their health. Younger people, considered to be at lower risk of complications from Covid-19, stepped up to serve.

That didn’t happen by accident.

State and county agencies collaborated this year to increase their recruiting efficacy by replacing fragmented county-by-county pollworker recruitment and sign-up systems with a statewide messaging campaign and application portal. In addition, said Sam Mahood, press secretary to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, “our office partnered with the group Power the Polls, to provide information they collected from prospective poll workers to county elections officials.”

According to CNN, Power the Polls is a non-partisan poll-worker recruitment initiative that is itself powered by high-profile companies including Comedy Central, Levi Strauss & Co., Patagonia, MTV, Uber and others. The group’s socialmedia-centric approach proved effective at attracting younger prospective poll workers.

“I started seeing encouraging messages about becoming a poll worker in my Twitter feed in early August,” said Oakland resident Christa Dahlstrom, a content strategy consultant who first left the political-action sidelines in the 2018 midterms. “They were welcoming and eye-catching, and within days they were being retweeted by so many celebrities that I like. So one

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GAINING GROUND Church Members break new ground thanks to the Oakland Community Land Trust.

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This Land is Your Land

East Bay community land trusts look to post-Covid future BY JANIS HASHE

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re-pandemic, the story of unhoused Oakland mothers and their children calling themselves “Moms4Housing” and moving into a long-vacant house became national, and then international, news. Yet the resolution of whom or what should take possession of the house the

group was occupying is perhaps the most important part of the story.

After convoluted negotiations that lasted for months, in January 2020, the Oakland Community Land Trust (OCLT) was officially allowed to purchase the home for renovation. This drew attention to a concept for creating affordable

housing and fighting gentrification that is taking hold nationwide—but which already has established roots in the East Bay. Community land trusts are nonprofit corporations that purchase buildings and land to develop into affordable housing, among their other work. Because

their focus is on preservation of neighborhoods and communities, they are looked to as an example of how to combat both homelessness and gentrification.

“New CLTs are emerging all the time,” said OCLT Executive Director Steve King. “The state now has more than 20.”

OCLT has several projects in the pipeline, including a sevenunit building on 12th Avenue, and a donated 10-unit property on Fairmount Avenue that was once a single-family home.

“We are also close to closing on a 25-unit live/work property on 5th Ave., south of Jack London Square,” King said. In each case, residents approached OCLT for help in saving and upgrading their homes.

“Some of the residents have lost jobs as a result of the pandemic,” King said. “Many are concerned about the speculative investors who are coming in.” The pandemic has caused multiple project delays— but it has also renewed interest in “inventing the policies and procedures to facilitate the work,” he said.

The 47-year-old, Berkeleybased Northern California Land Trust currently has 15 projects in the works in both Berkeley and Oakland, totaling approximately 90 units, according to Executive Director Ian Winters. The NCLT also acts as a land trust “incubator,” helping community organizations navigate the complexities of the development process. It’s currently incubating projects in Richmond and Vallejo.

Winters pointed to a property on 10th Street in Berkeley, acquired by the NCLT just before the pandemic hit. “The owner had been selling it to be ‘repositioned,’” inviting the unhousing of eight households of color as well as gentrification, Winters said. “Because of Measure O money, we bought it at the last minute, and now eight households have permanently affordable housing,” he said. Measure O, passed by the Berkeley community in 2018, authorized $135 million in bonds for low-to-middle-income housing.

HOUSING HOPES People look at prospective projects as they take an OCLT housing tour.

Avenue Baptist Church. Acquired in 1978 by the church to provide affordable housing for low-income church members, the Stuart Street Apartments building fell vacant as the congregation dwindled and members moved away. “I used to ride by that building on my bike. It’s been boarded up for more than 20 years,” Lewis said.

Then, said Derrin Jourdan, church board chair, “A year ago, our church celebrated signing a funding agreement to renovate the longneglected residences, partnering

with both the Bay Area Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and the City of Berkeley. The church also teamed with the Bay Area Community Land Trust to coordinate the construction project and later manage our apartment rentals after construction completion.”

However, like ongoing OCLT and NCLT projects, the pandemic has affected, though not halted, progress. Finalizing the building permit for the Stuart Street project has been difficult, Lewis

acknowledged, because of the lack of quick, direct communication with city departments. “And site meetings with residents have had to be done virtually,” he said. “Even trying to set up minor repairs has been slowed down.”

Yet, although, as Jourdan described it, the process has been “a long, winding road,” the end goal is in sight.

“Hopefully, the crew will be there starting work on the apartments this week,” he said on Oct. 8. “It’s really uplifting to have finally >8 reached this point, and

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The Berkeley-based Bay Area Community Land Trust (BACLT) has also been in the news recently for its acquisition of a sevenunit building on 12th Avenue in Oakland. Tenants in the circa-1880 building approached the BACLT, and with funding from the City of Oakland, “we were able to purchase it affordably,” said BACLT Executive Director Rick Lewis.

That project is just one of several BACLT is facilitating, including a South Berkeley building that remains the property of McGee

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THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES Demonstrations in support of Housing As A Human Right are growing all over the country.

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we’re all looking forward to providing just a little of the desperately needed housing to the South Berkeley Community.”

When complete, the property will include eight single-bedroom units, one fully ADA compliant, and all eventually home to South Berkeley residents under threat of displacement, whose incomes are 80, 60 and 30 percent of the area median income. The units will be all-electric and have solar panels, Lewis said, helping residents manage their monthly costs.

That community land trusts are dedicated to working with existing residents, fighting displacement and helping to preserve the character of both buildings and neighborhoods is part of why local and state governments, as well as private donors, see them as a vital component—and investment—in solving the housing crisis.

“Someone called me out of the blue and donated $3,500 from the sale of their house,” said OCLT’s King. Another donor willed her house to the OCLT. “There

is definitely growing interest associated with our work,” he said.

“But there is much more that needs to be done.”

According to a white paper published in April 2019 by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, “CLT leaders face difficulty growing their organization’s impact without sustained, robust public support, which suggests that ‘a consistent source of funding, continued municipal partnerships, and ongoing public education

campaigns will allow more CLTs to scale up their operations and create more affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income households.’”

East Bay community members are already on board with the concept. Will state and national resources open up for support?

“Absolutely,” King said. “We are getting to that point.”

“CLTs are an extremely effective model,” Winters said. “It’s the most stable form of ownership there is.” l

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LOVER’S LEAP A scene from ‘The Joy of Life.’

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The films of Jenni Olson dive deeply into San Francisco and the mysteries of love BY KELLY VANCE

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hat is it about the Bay Area that brings out the “doomed dreamer” in writers and artists?

That elusively unanswerable critical question springs to mind when one considers the work of filmmaker Jenni Olson. In her contemplative documentaries The Joy of Life (2005) and The Royal Road (2015), both shot in 16mm, Olson follows in the tradition of all the artists who were ever carried away by the light, the topography, the fog, the faces, the voices and the

melancholy mystique of the Bay. We recognize the type—those who rhapsodize with a straight face about getting lost on Mt. Tam in the rain, or about the way the four o’clock sun hits that grove of trees where they first met someone who changed their life, if only for a day.

Olson’s films don’t just celebrate San Francisco and its environs, they succumb to their spell. Cue Bret Harte, Alfred Hitchcock, Diane di Prima, Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails, Jerry Garcia, Ina Coolbrith (poetic admirer of “the cool gray city of

love”), Jack London, Gary Kamiya and Jack Kerouac. Or Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who contributes a poem to The Joy of Life, one of the five titles collected in “Films by Jenni Olson,” now on the Criterion Channel.

When The Joy of Life debuted at the 2005 Frameline film festival, it caused the audience to rethink the definition of “documentary.”

The film is laid out over a tapestry of quiet, almost ghostly, views of overlooked corners of the city— would-be establishing shots for a downbeat movie about everybody’s favorite downbeat location. Sophia Constantinou’s cinematography and Marc Henrich’s editing lulled viewers into a languorous state.

In the first half, performance artist Harriet “Harry” Dodge indulges in a voiceover confession (it’s always Olson’s writing)—she’s in love with a certain woman but can never quite consummate her feelings.

The second half is a meditation on the Golden Gate Bridge and

its notoriety as the world’s No. 1 suicide landmark. Sandwiched in between is the short, dark-screen reading by Ferlinghetti. Every few minutes, Dodge pauses her narration and lets the slow montage of San Francisco vistas take over, in silent, rhythmic expansiveness. The message is timeless: Falling in love is risky yet imperative. “In the moment of desiring and being desired, you actually know you’re okay.”

If anything, 2015’s The Royal Road is even more the lovelorn diary entry. Using a similar rhythmic montage of landscapes, Olson traces the path from her “humble apartment” in the Mission to her inamorata’s “sunny bungalow” in Los Angeles, with the Spanish “Camino Real” as her lodestone. As with the creative spirits of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kerouac and Frank Capra in the earlier film, our heroine’s companions are Old Hollywood’s most evocative sagas of obsessive devotion—Vertigo, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity and The Children’s Hour. Olson’s insistent romanticism delineates the difference between San Francisco and Los Angeles: “This city [S.F.] was built on people like me, pilgrims trying to find themselves in a place where crazy chosen paths are a virtue, and self-discovery is a civic value.” Also included in Criterion’s retrospective are three early Olson shorts: Blue Diary, 575 Castro St. (a tribute to Harvey Milk) and In nomine Patris.

Longtime San Francisco resident Olson, who hails from the suburbs of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and now lives in South Berkeley, is working on a memoir as well as the script of a new film, to be titled The Quiet World. Audiences enchanted by her oeuvre can discover more about her on the Criterion Collection website, where “Jenni Olson’s Top 10” takes us on a guided tour of her favorite movies. Says the director in a phone conversation: “I’m trying to help people slow down and be in the moment, to be here now.”

“Films by Jenni Olson” streams on the Criterion Channel.

MUSIC

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ALL GROWN UP Los Mocosos’s new album has a mature sound and a youthful voice.

Los Mocosos Snotty-nosed brats come of age BY J. POET

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“Soul Mocosos'' was an energetic fusion of ska and surf music. Jed the Fish, a DJ at L.A.’s KROQ, put the song in heavy rotation. Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, a Latin ska band from Buenos Aires, called asking Los Mocosos to open their upcoming American tour.

“The joke was that there was no Mocosos,” Sanchez said. “It was the name I made up for the compilation.

Victor helped me get a band together.

We wrote a bunch of songs, made an album—Moco Locos—and hit the road. Our ska version of Herb Alpert’s ‘Lonely Bull’ is still getting airplay.”

When Aztlan folded, the band signed with Six Degrees, a San Francisco world-music logo. Their second album, 2001’s Shades of Brown, got rave reviews and the band kept touring.

“Around that time, I got a call from a publisher in New York City,” Sanchez

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hen bass player Happy Sanchez and trombonist Victor Castro started playing together as Los Mocosos in 1997, they had no grand career plans.

They’d both been making music in various Mission District bands since they were teenagers and, although they knew each other well, they’d never collaborated before.

“The band grew out of Aztlan Records,” Sanchez said. “I started the label with a friend in 1995. We wanted to document the growing “rock en español” movement. Latinos were playing rock, punk and ska. In 1997, we put out a compilation called Puro Eskañol, Vol. 1, with tunes by various Latin ska bands.

I had a song of my own, ‘Soul Mocosos,’ that I wanted on it, so I called Victor and asked him to go into the studio with me.

It came out pretty good.”

said. “They specialized in music for movies and TV. I sent him some songs I’d been working on for the next Mocosos album and did a deal with them. I quit Los Mocosos and started Hip Spanic Productions with Karl Perazzo, percussionist from Santana’s band.

“We created the Latin Soul Syndicate and put out three albums. Our publisher promoted us as a real band, but we were a studio group. We got music in over 150 TV shows and movies, including Dexter and The Devil Wears Prada.”

When Sanchez and Perazzo started writing music with the musicians they’d been working with in the studio, they created The Hip Spanic Allstars. They made two albums, Jazzy Afro Latin Funk and Old School Revolution. When the band was invited to play at the Fillmore Street Jazz Festival, the studio musicians were all touring, so Sanchez turned to Castro and Gordon “Shorty” Ramos, from the now defunct Los Mocosos.

“Once we reunited, the chemistry kicked in and the urge to get the band back together set in,” Sanchez said. “Shorty knew a young singer, Juan Ele Perez. He told us he’d make a great front man and he still had hair. He thought he’d be a shot of musical Viagra for us old guys.”

Perez came to a rehearsal of the reformed Mocosos and blew people away. He grew up playing organ in a Black Baptist church, while listening to Mexican folk music at home.

“We wanted a more soulful sound, and he has a great youthful voice that’s perfect for Latin and soul music,” Sanchez said. “Mocosos loosely translates as ‘little snotty-nosed brats.’

Since it’s been 15 years since we last recorded, we called the new album All Grown Up. It’s rock, soul and R&B, with a Latin influence and intricate harmonies. It’s an honor to get together with guys I’ve known all my life and make music again.”

Sanchez said the band composed the music together, with everyone contributing musical and lyrical ideas as the arrangements developed. Since everyone in the band plays in other groups, the songs were assembled slowly, building on the bass lines and drum loops Sanchez laid down.

As in the past, the band combines humor and astute perceptions of the current political situation. “United We Stand,” a funky R&B anthem, examines the anti-immigrant hysteria generated by the current administration. Perez delivers an uplifting message supported by the ensemble’s backing harmonies, sustained chords from the Hammond B3 and multi-layered percussion.

Twangy surf guitar and a cumbia meets dancehall reggae beat drives “Mirala,” a racy song that praises true love—even in a time when the rent is unpaid.

“Viva Los Mocosos” combines ska and salsa, played at breakneck speed.

Blazing horn stabs and Perez’s punk/ rap vocal help kick the tune into high gear. The hardships of immigration and a prayer for a better tomorrow make “Brothers & Sisters” the album’s most uplifting track. The salsa/ska/funk groove gives the tune an international feel, in keeping with its message of economic justice and global unity.

The band had a record release party planned for Yoshi’s, but they’re readjusting to the new reality created by the pandemic. “We’ll do some virtual stuff around the release, but it’s not easy,” Sanchez said. “Nobody seems to have the answer to how things are going to go right now.”l

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SKEWERED The chicken kababs plate at Mama Lamees.

Mama Lamees

Emeryville’s authentic Palestinian food BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

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amees Dahbour beamed a smile at me as she gathered my order.

The chef and owner of Mama Lamees, she took the time to explain what was inside each container while one of her employees answered the telephone. When she opened the lid on the falafel plate, it was perfectly composed. Each serving of hummus and mutabal—a dip made from eggplant and tahini—glistened with freshly cut onions and parsley.

In a separate container, basmati rice had turned a golden color after simmering in a seasoned broth.

Dahbour pointed out that it should be served with the mnazzalet zahra, fried cauliflower stewed in a labaneh—a thick, yogurt-like cheese—and tahini sauce. She assigned slices of pita bread to the falafel plate. And then noted

that both pita and rice accompany the chicken kababs.

Since opening her kiosk in 2019, Mama Lamees has received local and national press notices for the recipes Dahbour learned from her mother and grandmother. In Bon Appétit, Amiel Stanek described the mnazzalet zahra as “the most comforting roasted cauliflower lounging in spiced labneh.”

But to achieve these comforting flavors, the cooking is time-consuming and labor-intensive. When we spoke on the phone a few days after my visit, the chef remembered I’d ordered it. “You can’t believe how long it takes to get the real taste of it,” she said.

When she began her year-long residency at the Emeryville Public Market, she worked up to 16 hours a day.

“The hardest part in opening is finding

labor,” Dahbour said. But for her, labor means something more than merely finding someone to take orders or to prep food in the kitchen. It means finding loyal employees who not only believe in the product but who will also present the dishes with the chef’s careful instructions.

For the first six months, that part of the business was stable. But after a twoweek closure due to the initial Covid-19 lockdown, many of the employees at Mama Lamees didn’t return to work.

Dahbour recalled that, “We had to start over again to find people.”

After Mama Lamees reached its oneyear anniversary at the Public Market in August, Dahbour signed a six-month extension for her kiosk. While she admitted that running a small business isn’t easy, the stand remained open during 2020 as a result of her tenacity.

“I’m not a person who gives up easily,” she said, adding: “I’m a single mother with three kids.”

Dahbour described the dishes she makes as authentic Palestinian food.

Although she lived in Kuwait before coming to the U.S., the chef said she learned the right way “to cook a Kuwaiti dish and the right way to cook a Palestinian dish. But I never mixed them.” La Cocina, the San Francisco restaurant incubator that helped Dahbour secure the Emeryville kiosk, also published two of her recipes in the organization’s 2019 cookbook We Are La Cocina: Recipes in Pursuit of the American Dream. Dahbour said that one recipe (maqluba) is from Palestine and the other (samak mashwe bilforn) is Kuwaiti.

She spoke confidently about the subtle distinctions between similar dishes from different Middle Eastern countries. “We make grape leaves in Palestine. We stuff them with meat and rice and parsley,” she said. In Lebanon, they make the same dish—but it’s vegetarian. “They serve it cold and we serve it as a hot dish,” she said.

Her mujaddarah, a lentil, rice and onion dish, has an equivalent in Egypt called koshari. “It’s the most flavorful, lovely dish in Egypt,” Dahbour said.

“They add one other component to it, a small pasta. Otherwise, it’s the same.”

Earlier this year, Ligaya Mishan wrote a New York Times article titled “The Rise of Palestinian Food.” In it she mentioned a number of recent cookbooks that present the following problem, “How to speak of the cuisine, given the political context?” The eloquent answer Mishan articulated for the cookbook authors was, “If cooking is in part an act of preservation, a way to sustain cultural identity across time and distance, it is also an art of resilience, demanding the ability to adapt.”

In the context of this troubled and troubling year, Dahbour stayed true to her original vision: to serve the traditional flavors and dishes of her Palestinian heritage. “I want people to have the real taste,” she said. “I’m cooking the same way my grandma used to cook.”

Mama Lamees, open 11am to 8pm Monday to Sunday, 5959 Shellmound St., Emeryville.

510.350.7391. mamalamees.com.

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Sip or Smoke?

Wine and weed industries, agricultural frenemies BY DAN MITCHELL

industries sometimes compete for resources, and at backyard parties, where some people use them together, while others have traded in their pinot noir for pineapple express. With market and consumer preferences still unclear, vintners don’t know what to make of the pot people: friends or foes?

Even so, the Wine Industry Network, based in Healdsburg, decided three years ago to create the Wine & Weed Symposium, an annual event bringing together people from both industries in an effort to iron out differences and find areas of cooperation and mutual benefit. As this year’s virtual symposium

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he wine and cannabis industries have always had a fraught relationship in California, particularly in the Napa Valley, where both grapes and cannabis are grown.

Before voters approved Proposition 64 in 2016, legalizing weed for adult use, it was simple: the wine industry had little use for its neighbors who were then involved in illicit activities. Since legalization, though, the relationship has grown more complex.

The industries can now best be described as frenemies. This is true in the agricultural areas where the

revealed last week, there’s still plenty of work to do, all across the state.

The cannabis industry is still relatively tiny in the Napa Valley. That’s partly by design—county and city governments have been slow to approve licenses, even in areas where they are allowed.

In Napa County, cannabis cultivation is prohibited, and retail shops are sparse. Some of this is due to pressure from some old-school vintners who don’t want weed sullying their brand.

Santa Barbara has seen an explosion of cannabis producers since weed was legalized, and is now dealing with backlash from some in the city’s wine industry and from everyday residents.

Meanwhile, many other vintners are climbing on the weed train, and more than a few wine growers in the state are cultivating both wine and cannabis where that’s allowed.

Stephanie Honig is perhaps the perfect representative of the new cooperation. A wine-industry veteran and director of communications for the Honig Vineyard and Winery, she

also is president of the Napa Valley Cannabis Association (NVCA), a group she helped found.

She talked about the problems in Santa Barbara during a panel in the symposium, highlighting the more careful approach the NVCA wants to take in Napa County. An ordinance sponsored by the group would allow a pot industry to thrive, but would include many restrictions designed to keep it from interfering with the wine business, and even from allowing it to grow too big.

“Napa is all about wine and always will be,” she said, but added that the Napa Valley could benefit from diversifying because, “things go really wrong if you put all your eggs in one basket.”

And while Santa Barbara’s cannabis industry is thriving, she cautioned it should be seen less as a model than as an object lesson. “We’re Napa,” she said. “We don’t look at Santa Barbara or how they make wine, so I’m not sure why we should look at them for how to grow cannabis.”

Fellow panelist Corey Beck, CEO and chief winemaker for The Family Coppola, agreed.

In Santa Barbara, “they rushed through it,” and in just a few years, that city’s population of pot growers has grown to 800, he said. By way of comparison, Humboldt County— historically the state’s pot-growing capital—has about 1,100 cultivators.

In Santa Barbara, “the community feels like it just kind of got shoved on them,” Beck said.

Napa vintners are particularly worried about cannabis wrecking their brand. The answer to this, Honig said, is to create an industry that offers “premium, luxury outdoor-grown” weed. She said the wine industry must adapt, especially if it wants to appeal to younger consumers. Otherwise, “Napa Valley will just be the place their grandparents used to go.”

Beck concurred, noting that the Napa Valley evolved into wine to meet demand in the first place, and it can’t stop there. “We evolved from walnuts and prunes because if we were to have relied on them, the Napa Valley would not be where it is today,” he said. l

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SAVAGE LOVE

Old Times Let it go BY DAN SAVAGE

I

’m a 45-year-old straight woman in a monogamous relationship with a 48-year-old straight man. One thing that keeps playing over in my mind is something he said to me three months into our relationship. He spent the night for the first time at my place. We were laying in my bed the next morning when his phone beeped. He read a text and then said, “That was my friend Susan. I can’t wait for you to meet her. I think you’re really gonna like her— oh, and she sucked my dick 25 years ago at a rest stop in New Jersey.” It turns out “Susan” is his best friend. This was the first thing I knew about her. When I asked why he told me this, his response was that he was half asleep. He wasn’t.

When I pressed further he told me it was something that happened a long time ago and that they laugh about it now but then told me it was none of my business! I agree!

It’s none of my business! So why did he feel the need to tell me? Then he told me Susan can never know I know because she would feel humiliated. But that’s exactly how I feel! Are Susan’s feelings more of a priority to him than mine? I’ve hung out with him and Susan three times. I have asked if we can get together again, as a group, so I would feel less insecure about the times they get together without me, but there’s always some excuse for why it’s not possible. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a relationship, and I’ve invested a year in this man. He is a decent guy, but this nags at me.

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Your boyfriend was either playing head games or lacked the emotional intelligence and/or impulse control to realize why sharing something like that, at a moment like that, was a bad idea.

If he’s the kind of guy who enjoys tormenting women, BLAB, he would’ve done similar or worse things by now. (And a woman he dated a quarter of a century ago probably wouldn’t be one of his closest friends.) Assuming he hasn’t done similar or worse, perhaps he deserves the benefit of the doubt here: he said something stupid and thoughtless, he couldn’t come up with a good explanation for why he said it, and doesn’t like to be reminded of it. As for Susan … he’s known her for 25 years. If he wanted to be with her, he’d be with her. And he may be reluctant to get together as a group because he worries that you might bring it up. If he’s given you no other reason to suspect he might be cheating on you, cram this ancient blowjob down the memory hole. mail@savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage. On the Savage Lovecast, Dan chats with Adam Sass, author of “Surrender Your Sons,” an escape from conversion camp thriller. www.savagelovecast.com

ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of November 4

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Aries poet Charles Baudelaire championed the privilege and luxury of changing one’s mind. He thought it was natural and healthy to always keep evolving beyond one’s previous beliefs and attitudes, even if that meant one might seem inconsistent or irrational. “It is lamentable,” he once proclaimed, “that, among the Rights of Human Beings, the right to contradict oneself has been disregarded.” I bring these thoughts to your attention, dear Aries, so that you will feel at peace with the prospect of outgrowing rules, strategies and approaches that have worked well for you up until now—but that have outlived their usefulness.

In the 1970s, an Englishman named Stephen Pile founded the Not Terribly Good Club. It was designed to be a gathering place for mediocre people whose lives were marked by inadequacy and incompetence. To organize his thoughts about the club’s themes, Pile eventually published a book entitled The Book of Heroic Failures. Unfortunately, it sold so many copies that he got expelled from his own club.

He had become too successful! I suspect that in the coming months, you may have an experience akin to his. The odds are good that you’ll find interesting success in an area of your life where you have previously been just average.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The horoscopes I write are my love letters to you. As I compose them, my goal is to celebrate your beauty and strength even as I discern what’s lacking in your life and what confusions might be undermining you. In my philosophy of life, that’s how love works at its best: remaining keenly aware of the good qualities in the beloved while helping them deal with their problems and heal their wounds. I suggest that in the coming weeks you adopt my approach for use with your own close relationships. Your allies are in special need of both your praise and your rectifications.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When Charles de Gaulle was 15 years old, he wrote “General de Gaulle,” a short story in which he envisioned himself, many years in the future, as a general in the French army. Thirty-five years later, his imaginary tale came true, as he became a general of the free French army fighting against Germany in World War II. In the spirit of de Gaulle’s prophecy and in accordance with current astrological omens, I encourage you to compose a comparable tale about your own destiny. Have fun as you visualize in great detail a successful role you will play months or even years from now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1903, archaeologists digging in a cave in Cheddar Gorge, England found the fossilized remains of “Cheddar Man,” a person who had lived there 9,000 years earlier.

In 1997, DNA tests revealed that a teacher named Adrian Targett, who was living a half-mile from the cave, was a direct descendant of Cheddar Man. I propose that we invoke this scenario to serve as a metaphor for you in the coming months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your ancestors are likely to play a bigger role in your life than usual. Connections between you and them will be more vivid and influential and worthy of your meditations.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to the film Amadeus, composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) and Antonio Salieri (1750– 1825) were adversaries who disliked and undermined each other. But there’s evidence that this was not entirely true. In fact, they collaborated on creating a cantata that was performed by Nancy Storace, a famous singer they both admired. It’s unlikely they would have cooperated in such a way unless they had a working relationship. I suspect that a comparable correction is due in your world, Leo. It’s time to dissolve a misunderstanding or restore a lost truth or fix an old story that got some of the facts wrong.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to ask for help and seek support. I urge you to be forthright in doing so! Resources that have been inaccessible before may be more available now. I suspect you will be able to capitalize on the luck and skill of allies who have benefited from your favors in the past. Their successes could bring you blessings and their breakthroughs should inspire you to instigate breakthroughs in your own life.

Be straightforward: Ask them to lend their influence on your behalf.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder,” wrote Scorpio poet James Broughton. I believe that’s stirring advice for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. Broughton’s words inspired me to come up with a corollary for you to heed, as well: “At every turning point, be ready to stumble into an opportunity disguised as a problem.” I’ve got one more clue for you. Last night in my dream, my Scorpio poetry teacher offered a thought that’s well-suited for you right now: “Whenever you want to take a magic twisty leap into the big fresh future, be willing to engage in one last wrestling match with the past.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Actor Gary Busey is quirky and kooky, but his peculiar rants sometimes make good sense. Here’s one that I suspect might be useful for you to consider during the next two weeks: “It’s good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.” I don’t mean to imply that your adversaries and nemeses are totally accurate in their critiques of you. But there may be a thing or two you can learn from them right now that would truly improve your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Musician John Coltrane described one of his life goals as follows: “There are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world,” he said. “But I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.” Even if that’s not an intention at the core of your long-term plans, Capricorn, I recommend you consider adopting it during the next few weeks. Being a vigorous and rigorous force for good will be especially needed by the people with whom you associate—and will also result in you attracting interesting benefits.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Known as “the bad boy of bridge,” Aquarian-born Geir Helgemo is a champion in the card game of bridge. At times he has been the top-rated player among Open World Grand Masters. But in 2019, he was suspended from the World Bridge Federation for a year because he tested positive for taking testosterone supplements that are banned. Why did he do it? He hasn’t said. There is some scientific research suggesting that testosterone may boost cognitive function, but other evidence says it doesn’t. I’d like to use Helgemo’s foolishness as a teaching story for your use, Aquarius.

According to my astrological analysis, you’re approaching the peak of your competence and confidence. There’s no need for you to cheat or sneak or misbehave in a misplaced effort to seek an even greater advantage. In fact, righteous integrity will enhance your intelligence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I might really have gone round the bend,” confessed Botswana author Bessie Head. “I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can’t be all there, but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it’s much better than being unhappy and sane.” Although I don’t expect your state of mind in the coming weeks will be as extreme as Bessie Head’s, Pisces, I do suspect it will have resemblances to her dreamy cheerfulness. If I had to give a title to this upcoming phase, it might be “Wise Folly.” And yes, I do think your “craziness” will generate useful insights and fertile revelations.

Homework: At what moment in your past were you happiest about the person you were? Can you recreate it? FreeWillAstrology.com

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