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SF’s foreclosure crisis EDITORIAL Here’s a great issue for the San Francisco mayor’s race: The big banks that the city uses to hold nearly half a billion in cash deposits are part of a group of financial institutions that are costing the taxpayers $115 million.

That’s the amount the city will wind up paying to cover the lost property taxes and other costs associated with home foreclosures, according to a new report.

And the authors of the report, the Community Reinvestment Coalition and the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, estimate that San Francisco homeowners are going to lose a total of $6.9 billion in value because of the foreclosure crisis.

Most of the discussion around foreclosures has focused on the national picture — but there’s plenty the city can do.

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Foreclosures also drive down the value of neighboring property — which means the city collects less property tax. The cost of sending deputy sheriffs out to evict families, of patrolling and monitoring vacant houses, dealing with increased crime in the area — all of that adds up. According to the report, every foreclosure costs the city $19,229. Add up the loss of property taxes and the direct costs to taxpayers and the bill exceeds $115 million.

Two of the top four banks involved in foreclosures in California are Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Those just happen to be two of the three banks that have to contract to handle the city’s cash accounts — which contain $406 million, according to an Aug. 16, 2011 report by Budget Analyst Harvey Rose. So the city is giving its money to banks that are costing the city money.

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A case for Avalos, Yee and Dufty

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OPINION Like all of us, SEIU 1021 can take three dates to the prom when it comes to voting for mayor, but narrowing it down in a field of so many candidates was still challenging. After a month-long process, we arrived at a dual endorsement of Supervisor John Avalos and State Senator Leland Yee for first and second choice, and Supervisor Bevan Dufty for our third choice.

It’s a diverse slate, and the choices are representative of the constituencies, perspectives and priorities in our membership.

Yee’s record on labor issues in Sacramento has been impeccable, and he has long been a staunch supporter of our union, so endorsing him was a no-brainer. The Guardian asked me personally, as I am also a transgender activist, how I could support Leland after his vote against transgender health benefits.

Frankly, I was disappointed in how my response was framed.

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So the people who advise President Obama have finally figured out that he was on the road to becoming a one-term president — and the United States was on the road to ruin under President Perry.

Whatever combination of self-preservation and fear was at work, it worked, at least for the moment.

Obama is now on record as refusing to accept any cuts in entitlements for poor people unless the rich people give a little, too. It’s a pretty good political statement — in every single major poll taken in the past year, an overwhelming majority of Americans agreed that higher taxes on the wealthy should be part of any deficit-reduction package. And it’s a no-brainer economic statement — the fundamental problem with the U.S. economy is a lack of consumer demand, which is tied directly to the fact that all of the wealth over the past 20 years has gone to the top and the middle class doesn’t have enough money to spend.

But what’s it’s really done is kicked the proverbial tax can — and thus, unfortunately, economic recovery — down the proverbial road another 13 months. Because the Republicans won’t accept higher taxes, and if Obama keeps his newfound spine, he won’t accept any cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, and nobody is talking about cutting the military, so nothing is going to happen.

Instead, this is the launch of Campaign 2012. Obama’s got a tough sell — the number on issue for most voters is jobs, and while I personally believe that the first stimulus plan kept the recession from getting worse, that’s not enough.

Things are supposed to get better, and when they don’t, the guy at the top gets the blame.

So Obama has a problem: It’s all his fault, but he can’t do anything about it, and that’s what the Republicans are counting on. His only choice is to come roaring out like Harry Truman, and blame the “do-nothing” Republican Congress for blocking economic growth (and, if he has any sense, will say that the GOP is holding a jobs program hostage to protect the interests of the millionaires), and the Democrats will try to use that message to take back the House — and if it works, we might just possibly get things back on track in 2013. If it doesn’t, it’s going to be a very ugly decade. 2 september 21 - 27, 2011 / SFBG.com

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either — and have accepted huge amounts of federal tax money. B of A and Wells together received $270 billion in bailout money — and both are now making nice profits (enough that the CEO of Wells, John Stumpf, earned $17 million last year). They can afford to write down the underwater mortgages and arrange for foreclosure relief for people behind on the bills.

The report suggests that the banks be charged a fee — between $10,000 and $20,000 — for each foreclosure. That would offset the costs and provide a disincentive for throwing families out on the street. The candidates for mayor ought to be pushing that — but the city can do more.

The supervisors ought to call a hearing on the crisis and demand that the B of A and Wells executives come down and explain why they’re moving so slowly on writedowns and relief. And they should be told, in very clear terms, that the city will no longer put a penny of its money in banks that are damaging, instead of investing in, San Francisco. 2 a case for avalos, yee and dufty CONT>>

apologized for his vote. Instead of denying or rationalizing like other politicians might do, he had the courage to come to a community meeting of transgender activists, stand in front of us, admit he was wrong, and apologize. For people to continue to attack an individual for having a true change of heart is very discouraging. We would never make any advancement of our rights if we continued to shun those who have come to understand and support the transgender fight for equality. In fact, Yee’s support was critical to the collective effort to save Lyon-Martin, a clinic that is a key service provider for trans folks, after it almost closed earlier this year.

That’s why so many in the transgender community now support Yee so strongly and why he has become an even closer, tested ally through this experience.

SEIU 1021 has always had a very close relationship with John Avalos.

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Last year, he introduced a Local Hire ordinance that is becoming a real jobs generator in our city and a national model. Like many of our members when they first started working for the city, workers hired under the Local Hire ordinance may for the first time have a living-wage job with benefits.

And while some in labor have been critical of this legislation — in fact, it cost him the endorsement of the San Francisco Labor Council — that’s a short-sighted criticism.

As more people are employed in San Francisco with living wage jobs, they spend money in San Francisco, boosting tax revenues and in turn creating more jobs across the city.

Moreover, this visionary legislation has other benefits — workers coming from low-income communities bring a new found pride in and community spirit to what could be otherwise economically depressed areas. That’s why SEIU 1021 supports Avalos, and why I am proud to endorse him as well.

Rounding out SEIU’s endorsements in this campaign is former Supervisor Bevan Dufty. Dufty has a history of supporting preserving city services. Some have argued that Dufty can’t handle downtown pressure, and yet, Dufty has consistently supported public power, took a stance against Sit-Lie despite intense pressure, and several years ago, at a critical juncture for Tom Ammiano’s signature health care legislation, Healthy San Francisco, he didn’t blink when we called on him to be our 8th vote. In fact, he committed to the bill, unequivocally, and called on other supervisors, like Fiona Ma, to say it was time. She immediately co-sponsored and eventually it was a unanimous 11-0 vote.

For labor and progressives, Ammiano’s Healthy San Francisco legislation was the single most important piece of legislation of the last decade. And while history has been rewritten, and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom now takes credit for the legislation, then-Mayor Newsom did not come on board until after Dufty declared his support, and as the 8th supporter, created a veto-proof majority.

Each of these candidates have shown their capacity to grow and transform as leaders making them the best choices for progressive labor, and we believe for the San Francisco.

Whatever you do, you have three votes, make them count. 2 Gabriel Haaland is a transgender labor activist and the SEIU 1021 San Francisco political coordinator.

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Central Subterfuge While supporters of the controversial Central Subway project — from Mayor Ed Lee and his allies in Chinatown to almost the entire Board of Supervisors — dismiss the growing chorus of critics as everything from ill-informed to racist, they refuse to address the biggest concerns about the project.

In a nutshell, the main concerns center on serious design flaws (such as the lack of direct connections to either Muni or BART), the city’s responsibility for any cost overruns on this complex $1.6 billion project, its estimated $15.2 million increase to Muni’s already strained annual operating budget (a figure used by the Federal Transportation Administration, well over the local estimate of $1.7 million), and the city’s unwillingness to implement its own plans for improving northsouth transit service on congested Stockton Street rather than relying solely on such an expensive option for serving Chinatown that doesn’t start until 2019.

Judge Quentin Kopp, a longtime former legislator, called this summer’s grand jury report, “Central Subway: Too Much Money for Too Little Benefit,” the best he’s ever read and one that should be heeded. He recently wrote a letter to top state officials urging them to reconsider the $488 million in state funding pledged to the project. As we reported last week, mayoral candidate Dennis Herrera is also challenging a project that he supported before its most recent cost overruns and design changes.

But supporters of the project pushed back hard on Sept. 14, using taunts and emotional rhetoric that avoided addressing the core criticisms. “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,” Norman Fong and Mike Casey wrote in an op-ed in last week’s Guardian.

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A city renedering of the new Union Square Station; can Muni build this without busting the budget? runs are likely, citing the myriad risks from tunneling and SFMTA’s administrative shortcomings and history of mismanagement, including on this project’s less-complicated first phase, the T-Third line, which was 22 percent over budget and a year and half late in completion. Even with the contingencies built into the Central Subway budget, the report notes that a similar overrun would increase the local share of this project from $124 million to more than $150 million.

Mayor Lee purportedly addressed criticism of the project during the Question Time session in the Sept. 14 Board of Supervisors meeting, prompted by a loaded question from Sup. Sean Elsbernd offering Lee the “opportunity to move beyond the clichés and oneliners of political campaigns.”

But Lee’s answer was classically political, touting the estimated 30,000 jobs it would create, praising those who have pushed this project since the 1980s, offering optimistic ridership estimates (that exceed current FTA figures by about 9,000 daily riders), and ignoring concerns about whether the city can cover the ever-increasing capital and operating costs.

“Now is the time to support the Central Subway,” Lee said, flashing his trademark mustachioed grin.

We called the normally responsive Elsbernd, who prides himself on his fiscal responsibility, twice, to ask about financial concerns surrounding the project and he didn’t call back. During their mayoral endorsement interviews with the Guardian last week, we also asked Sups. John Avalos and David Chiu editorials

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Once Congress gives final approval to $966 million in federal funding for this project sometime in the next couple months, the city will be formally committed to the Central Subway and all its costs. It’s too bad that, even during election season, all its supporters have to offer to address valid concerns are “clichés and oneliners.”(Steven T. Jones)

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15 forum hosted by the Harvey Matthews Bayview Hunters Point Democratic Club. Whereas debates hosted in the Castro and Mission Bay, for instance, featured questions on how candidates planned to clean up city streets, what they thought about AT&T’s plan to place utility boxes on city sidewalks, or how they’d promote a more business-friendly environment, residents brought a thornier set of concerns to the Bayview Opera House.

One question pointed to an alarming statistic based on U.S. Census data and cited by racial justice advocates, showing that residents of the predominantly African American Bayview Hunters Point have a life expectancy that’s 14 years lower, on average, than that of residents of the more well-to-do Russian Hill.

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bers struggling with post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD). High unemployment figured in as a key concern. And one member of the audience wanted to know how candidates planned to “improve the behavior of the police,” alluding to the mid-July officer-involved shooting that left 19-year-old Seattle resident Kenneth Harding dead, triggering community outrage.

Mayor Ed Lee attended the beginning of the forum but left early to attend an anniversary celebration for the Bayview Hunters Point Foundation; other participants included Terry Joan Baum, Jeff Adachi, Bevan Dufty, Dennis Herrera, David Chiu, Michela Alioto-Pier, and Joanna Rees.

Answers to Bayview residents’ sweeping concerns varied, yet many acknowledged that the southeastern neighborhood had been neglected and ill-served by city government for years.

“There is no economic justice here in Bayview Hunters Point,” Adachi said. “There never has been.

That’s the reality.” He pointed to his record in the Pubic Defender’s Office on aggressively targeting police misconduct, and played up his pension reform measure, Prop.

D, as a vehicle for freeing up public resources for critical services.

Dufty, who has repeatedly challenged mayoral contenders to incorporate a “black agenda” into their platforms, spoke of his vision for a mayor’s office with greater African American representation, and emphasized his commitment to improving contracting opportunities for minority-owned businesses.

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Herrera, meanwhile, was singled out and asked to explain his support for gang injunctions, an issue that has drawn the ire of civil liberties groups. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I only support gang injunctions as a last resort,â&#x20AC;? he responded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to use them. But ... people should be able to walk around without being caught in a web of gang violence. I put additional restrictions on myself to go above and beyond what the law requires, to make sure that I am balancing safe streets with protecting civil liberties.â&#x20AC;?

Herrera asserted that gang violence had been reduced by 60 percent in areas where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d imposed the controversial bans on contact between targeted individuals, and noted that the majority of those heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d sought injunctions against in Oakdale werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t San Francisco residents.

Baum brought questions about a lack of services back to the overarching issue of the widening income and wealth gaps. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now, the money is being sucked upward as we speak,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to bring that money back down.â&#x20AC;?

She closed with her signature phrase: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tax the rich. Duuuuh.â&#x20AC;?

(Rebecca Bowe)

Dufty remembers The selection of Ed Lee as interim (or not-so-interim) mayor of San Francisco was one of those moments that left just about everyone dazed â&#x20AC;&#x201D; how did a guy who wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even in town, who had shown no interest in the job, who had never held elective office, suddenly wind up in Room 200?

Well, former Sup. Bevan Dufty, who was going to nominate Sheriff Mike Hennessey and switched to providing the crucial sixth vote for Lee at the last minute, told us the story during his mayoral endorsement interview last week.

Remember: Lee, as recently as a few days earlier, had told people he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be mayor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;An hour before the meeting, Gavin (Newsom) called Michela (AliotoPier) and me into his office and said Ed Lee had changed his mind,â&#x20AC;? Dufty told us. He walked out of the Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office uncommitted, he said, and even Newsom wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure where Dufty would go.

After two rounds of voting, with Dufty abstaining, there were five votes for Lee. So Dufty asked for a recess and went back to talk 10 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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to Newsom â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where he was told that the mayor thought the reason the progressives were supporting Hennessey was that the sheriff had agreed to get rid of about 20 mayoral staffers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including Chief of Staff Steve Kawa, â&#x20AC;&#x153;who had engineered Ed Lee running.â&#x20AC;?

So Kawa, with Newsomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help, preserved his job and power base. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all turnabout,â&#x20AC;? Dufty said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I figure Mike Hennesseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had a couple of beers and a couple of good times thinking about my vote. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s politics.â&#x20AC;? (Tim Redmond)

Almost free?

Friends and supporters of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were kept in a state of agonizing suspense over whether the two men, both 29, would be released from the Iranian prison where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been held for more than two years following an ill-fated hiking trip in Iraqi Kurdistan.

On Sept. 13, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated publicly that Bauer and Fattal could be freed â&#x20AC;&#x153;in a couple of days.â&#x20AC;?

The announcement brought hope for family and friends who, just weeks earlier, had absorbed the news that the men were sentenced to eight years in prison after an Iranian court found them guilty of committing espionage, a charge that the hikers, the United States government, religious leaders, and human rights advocates have characterized as completely baseless.

Reports followed that the Iranian judiciary would commute the hikersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sentences and release them in exchange for bail payments totaling $1 million. But by Sept. 16, when supporters gathered in San Francisco in hopes that of an imminent announcement, they were instead greeted with new delays.

The constantly shifting accounts hinted at internal strife within the Iranian government, and contributed to the sense that Bauer and Fattal were trapped as pawns in a power struggle. By Sept.

19, their Iranian lawyer remained in limbo, awaiting the signature of a judge who was scheduled to return from vacation Sept. 20. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shane and Joshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s freedom means more to us than anything and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge relief to read that they are going to be released,â&#x20AC;? the hikersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; families said in a statement Sept. 13. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re grateful to everyone who has supported us and looking forward to our reunion with Shane and Josh. We hope to say more when they are finally back in our arms.â&#x20AC;? (RB) 2 music listings

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By Claire Mullen news@sfbg.com The San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance, although it sounds bright and cheery, remains shrouded in a cloud of inaction. Meant to increase transparency in city government, it hasn’t emerged from the bureaucratic fog since its establishment in 1994. Cases wait years to be heard and even blatant violations go unpunished, due to infighting and power disputes between the commissions that are supposed to enforce government compliance.

The Sunshine Ordinance outlines citizen’s rights to request document and information. Citizens can take their complaints about request denials to the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, an 11-member committee appointed by the Board of Supervisors to ensure government compliance. If the task force decides a violation has occurred the case is handed over to the Ethics Commission, a five-member appointed board that will supposedly enforce the rulings with fines or ordering documents to be made public.

George Wooding, reporter for the Westside Observer and president of the West of Twin Peaks Central Council, is the complainant in one of the task force’s most recent cases.

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emails from the Recreation and Park Department multiple times but was told the documents did not exist.

What RPD didn’t know was that Wooding had the emails all along.

The task force unanimously found RPD guilty of withholding emails. This is the third major sunshine violation by RPD in three years. Even more surprising, not one RPD employee has been fined, suspended, or faced any kind of punishment or corrective action.

The episode is a case study in the total eclipse of sunshine enforcement in the city, and how one embattled department — the RPD, which has come under heavy scrutiny for efforts to monetize park resources (see “Parks Inc.”, July 12) — used that dysfunction to stifle dissent.

Diluting Dissent George Wooding v. RPD began when Wooding was asked to be a panelist at a Commonwealth Club event on May 11. The event, titled “Golden Gate Park Under Siege,” was to be a discussion about possible development projects in the park.

Other panelists were representatives of environmental and anti-development groups who claimed they were not given time to voice their concerns in Board of Supervisors meetings, and wanted a forum to do so.

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barded with phone calls and emails weeks before the discussion.

“They were saying our panel was one-sided, which is really unusual, and the Commonwealth Club told us they were getting a lot of heat for such a little panel discussion,” Wooding said. “It was not going to be a big deal, in all honesty.”

The emails that Wooding had and the department denied include correspondence from Sarah Ballard, RPD’s director of policy and public affairs, to Kerry Curtis, cochair of the Commonwealth Club Environment & Natural Resources Forum, indicating she had phoned the club as well and asked that the discussion be canceled due to its “deeply biased panel that has no interest in discussing facts.”

There are also emails between Susan Hirsch, director of the City Fields Foundation, a private group that has been installing artificial turf in public parks, from her business email address to the panel moderator Jim Chappell’s private email, urging him to reconsider the event.

“You and I discussed this project years ago; the private sector is contributing far more than $20 million to provide safe, accessibly, and yes, environmentally sound fields for kids all across San Francisco to use.

We have a unique private/public partnership with Rec and Park; it’s too bad the focus is on something negative, rather than the positive impact,” Hirsch wrote.

Mark Buell, president of the Recreation and Park Commission, also emailed Greg Dalton, Commonwealth Club’s COO, from his private email address: “I find the title inflammatory, the participants biased, and the fact that no one from the Rec and Park Department invited hard to understand. As president of the Commission I would like to urge the club to both alter the title of the event to ‘issues facing the park’ and have the club ask a representative of the department to be on the panel.”

Shortly thereafter, Buell was added to the panel and the event was renamed “Golden Gate Park Under Siege?”

Buell says the situation has been blown out of proportion. “I got on the panel because I’ve been active with the Commonwealth Club for years and all of a sudden I read a very slanted title about something tantamount to the ruination of Golden Gate Park, and a panel of people who are all critics,” Buell told us.

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the last minute changes. He asked around for any information about what happened and got the emails through a knowledgeable source close to the RPD. “[RPD] has pissed off a lot of people because they came in with a hammer when they didn’t need a sledge hammer. One of the people they pissed off was really upset and ended up giving me the correspondence,” Wooding told us.

As a journalist, Wooding said, “I was thinking, ‘this is a great story but wait, I can’t use any of this information,’ so I thought about how I could get the information legitimately?”

Wooding immediately emailed Olivia Gong, a RPD secretary, making clear that he was requesting the emails in accordance with the Sunshine Ordinance. Gong replied that the department did not have any documents matching the request.

Because of the ethics commission’s lack of enforcement, no city employee has Been disciplined for failing to adhere to the sunshine ordinance.

– civil grand Jury report “Imagine how amazed I was when they claimed they didn’t exist,” Wooding said.

After a second request turned up nothing, Wooding knew they were hiding the emails. He then asked Gong how she had determined the emails did not exist. Gong forwarded emails she had sent to department members who replied they did not have responsive documents.

Wooding then filed a complaint with the task force, which voted unanimously that RPD was in the wrong. Not only did it claim the emails did not exist, but when it became clear that they did, the department said that members deleted the emails because some were sent on private accounts and did not directly pertain to RPD affairs.

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says. “It’s not that I did anything, it’s just that I didn’t know the rules that you’re supposed to keep everything.”

Task Force Chair Hope Johnson says she was shocked by this argument. The California Public Records Act, which is more lenient than the Sunshine Ordinance, clearly lists emails as a form of government document that must be handed over on request. The Sunshine Ordinance covers emails as well, and all officials who serve on city boards were required to undergo sunshine training last year, outlining what public documents are and noting that it’s illegal under state law to destroy them.

“Just switching over to another email address lends itself to the idea that this is something they knew was underhanded and would not be received positively by the public,” Johnson said.

She says this is becoming a problem throughout city government.

“There’s not a lot of specificity about keeping emails. They need a retention policy,” Johnson says.

“Obviously I think that they prefer it to be as vague as possible.”

Possible Punishment?

Although the task force found RDP in violation, punishment is up to the Ethics Commission, a separate entity at City Hall.

Enter bureaucratic gloom and doom.

Since 1993 the task force has given the Ethics Commission 19 sunshine violation cases. Only one has even been heard. The other 18 were dismissed or are still “pending investigation.” Government officials are therefore under no serious threat if they disobey the law.

Richard Knee, former chair of the task force, says there is obvious animosity between the task force and commission staff. Rather than enforcing punishment, the Ethic Commission staff claim that cases can be dismissed on the grounds of insufficient evidence, or require additional investigation, which stalls the process indefinitely.

“I don’t think there’s any confusion, I think it’s merely resistance,” Knee said. “We are not asking the Ethics Commission to re-adjudicate something we have already adjudicated. When we refer a matter to the Ethics Commission we are asking them to tack some kind of enforcement action on a violation we have already found exists.”

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on any government official that the task force found guilty.

A report released in August by the Civil Grand Jury, entitled “San Francisco’s Ethics Commission: The Sleeping Watchdog,” criticizes the body’s record of inaction on both sunshine and campaign finance complaints.

“Because of the Ethics Commission’s lack of enforcement, no city employee has been disciplined for failing to adhere to the Sunshine Ordinance. The Commission has allowed some city officials to ignore the rulings of the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force,” the report says.

Johnson says that since the report came out, her correspondence with the Ethics Commission has shifted slightly.

“They used to send us letters back saying they dismissed it, but recently we’ve sent over two cases and they agreed that there had been a violation,” Johnson said. “But they said they wouldn’t be able to do enforcements of any kind.”

She says that the Sunshine Ordinance won’t be taken seriously until the very people it is meant to monitor begin to enforce its stipulations.

“It’s difficult with the Ethics Commission because they keep all of their investigations secret,” Johnson says. “There is no external oversight, it is all the politicians, all of the people who appointed them, they are the only people who monitor what they’re doing.”

In response to the report, Johnson hopes the Ethics Commission will be urged to actually hear sunshine cases, and Wooding’s could be one of the first.

“The George Wooding case is a good example of how the Sunshine Ordinance can reveal oppression of a group of people who wanted to come together and have a constructive analysis,” Johnson said. “That should be something that’s allowed, and here’s the very entity that they want to have an analysis and discussion about shutting them down. And here are some documents that prove it.”

Wooding’s case will be heard once more by the task force on Sept. 27. It will almost certainly be sent to the Ethics Commission, but Wooding may be waiting awhile for any resolution.

“It’s probably going to take forever,” Wooding says. “Either I’ll just end up being another file in a cabinet somewhere, or this may even become an example, if it moves through, of how things should be done. There might be a lot more life in this than anyone ever imagined.” 2

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Condoms primary location at Customer Serviceâ&#x20AC;? reads a small sign surrounded by empty shelves that once held condoms, pregnancy tests, and other important sexual health products at the Safeway on Potrero Avenue.

Because of concerns about theft, the condoms now sit among the Nicorette and razors in a row of glass cases near Customer Service, amid the chaos of hurried shoppers headed to and fro. Although Safewayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent condom lock-up may have reduced theft, it has also reduced accessibility, and may have deterred customers from buying a product crucial for the prevention of pregnancy and STDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

The increased security measures are not contained to the Potrero store, or even San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Safeways. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a number of products (Oil of Olay for example)

that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had to secure under lock and key because of theft,â&#x20AC;? Susan M. Houghton, Safewayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Northern California spokesperson tells the Guardian. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It varies by store and city, but yes, condoms were recently added â&#x20AC;&#x201D; due to theft.â&#x20AC;?

Houghton would not go into any further detail about when or why the condoms were locked, but the move has raised concerns by public health advocates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We fully understand the position that Safeway is in, but we really would advocate for people having pregnancy tests, condoms â&#x20AC;&#x201D; anything that really helps people manage their lives better â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to be much more accessible,â&#x20AC;? Adrienne Verrilli, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood in San Francisco tells the Guardian. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Accessibility is often key, especially for young people.â&#x20AC;?

Kyriell Noon, executive director of San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s STOP AIDS project, says he believes locked cases could deter people from buying con-

doms, â&#x20AC;&#x153;especially for young people who are shy or could be embarrassed about asking for help...Condoms should be as easy for people to access as any other item available for purchase on the market. When there are barriers between people and condoms, I think many people will shrug and give up. But if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re easy to access thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no excuse to not use them.â&#x20AC;?

STOP AIDS knows the importance of condoms in the prevention of HIV, and distributes free condoms to 90 locations throughout San Francisco.

Safeway representatives and staff members refused to say which Safeways have moved condoms behind glass, but a visit to four San Francisco Safeways found condoms locked in cases at each of them, some even locked behind the Customer Service counter.

At the Safeway at Church and Market streets, we found that there is often a line at Customer Service, which customers must now wait in to purchase condoms. The process of acquiring condoms requires requesting the case be unlocked, making a selection under the watchful eye of an employee, and having the employee remove it from the case and walk it back to Customer Service where it can be purchased.

Ten minutes had passed before I was leaving with my $8.99 12-pack of Trojan ENZ. This challenge could affect teenagers more than adults due to embarrassment, hassle, or the now public process of choosing and purchasing condoms at Safeway. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It puts young people in a very awkward situation,â&#x20AC;? says Leah LaCroix, president of the San Francisco Youth Commission. LaCroix says she does not believe condoms should be locked up, even if it means a company loses profits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think public safety is more important than that,â&#x20AC;? she tells the

Guardian. LaCroix and the rest of the Youth Commission are currently urging the San Francisco Unified School District, â&#x20AC;&#x153;to reevaluate and come up with a new curriculum for health education,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure safe sex will be a component of their new curriculum.â&#x20AC;?

A 2009 Center for Disease Control survey found that 43.5 percent of high school students did not use a condom during sex, and 85.6 percent did not use birth control pills the last time they had sex, making sex education and birth control availability increasingly vital. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure you can criticize Safeway for protecting their merchandise,â&#x20AC;? says Beth Brown, manager of San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Generation Health Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a larger issue of a lack of resources and lack of resourcefulness.â&#x20AC;?

Brown says she believes the Department of Public Health is responsible for providing these resources. One resource that is available is a service called Family PACT, which provides reproductive health services to low-income residents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The state of California pays for young people who need confidential services...and you can get all the birth control you want,â&#x20AC;? she tells the Guardian. The New Generation Health Center enrolls teenagers and young adults in the service, and gives away free condoms to nonenrolled teenagers as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The state of California is actually a very good place to be if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re young and sexually active,â&#x20AC;? says Brown, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because they will pay for it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interesting about that,â&#x20AC;?

Verrilli said of Safewayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s condom lockup, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of going backwards to where we used to be as opposed to moving forward to where we are.â&#x20AC;?

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Here in the Bay, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re blessed (up) with some good ones. I recently kicked it backstage with Lymie Murray before his performance at Sebastopolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Monday Night Edutainment at the Hopmonk Tavern. That showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been attracting reggae heads to the tiny Sonoma County town for over a decade now, which gives you a good idea of how dedicated the genreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fans are. And new shows pop up all the time â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for proof, check out the fresh-this-year Boomshot Saturdays at Tope Lounge in North Beach.

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If you’ve read these columns through the years, then you’ve read quite a few columns, and you’ve counted quite a few years passing by. In a better world, you would get a rebate check for all your trouble. Reading is, if not trouble, at least effort; it is a form of work that requires exertion, and it also — unfortunately — reminds too many people of school, with syllabi, assigned texts, pop quizzes, and other such outrages. “Required reading” has always seemed to me to be one of life’s great oxymorons, along with “military intelligence.”

Nonetheless I have always posited the existence of readers, people who would take the time to sit down and concentrate for a few minutes on a piece about a restaurant in a free alt-weekly so that they might discern, and maybe even pleased by, the texture of the piece, the flavors of the language, the sense of a place conveyed, the images and jokes. And I have editorials

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Readers, as I imagined them, would take pleasure in what they had just read, and they would also have been expanded by it, however slightly. Their effort would have been repaid. As I writer, I have always tried to keep this transaction, the basic transaction of all literary life, in mind.

Never was I an awarder of stars, nor, as I understood things, a recommender. Those tasks fell to others, and in a city stuffed like a fat sausage with people keen to write about food and restaurants, leaving tasks for others struck me as an essential survival skill. The greater good is not served by everyone descending on the same place to write more or less the same thing, as quickly as possible. That is simply hype, and we are dying of hype. I meant to write about places others weren’t writing about. Sometimes I managed this and sometimes I didn’t, but the idea was always in my mind, and when I found myself in the midst of a 10-car pile-up anyway, as happened from time to time, I deducted five points from my account.

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My basic philosophical orientation was that of a cook, setting forth to look for ideas and even a sort of instruction. I’ve been the cook of my little household for more than a quarter-century, and someone in that position naturally is going to be looking for ideas, twists and wrinkles that can politely, or at least discreetly, be taken home and used. Often, when looking at menus, I would find myself wondering: have I made that, or could I, should I try to? And when this or that dish reached the table, I would wonder how it compared to my own version.

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is a personal responsibility and that the connection between diet and well-being is as basic as it gets, then there is no substitute for buying and cooking your own food rather than paying somebody else to do it. Restaurant meals should be treats, not staples.

Restaurants are about more than food, of course. They are social fora, gathering places full of talk and clothes and interior design; they are cultural statements, business endeavors, entertainment venues, and labors of love. They are, above all, sensual experiences — great outings for the senses — and describing sensual experience is one of the trickiest and most absorbing operations any writer will ever undertake. The difference between doing it well and doing it badly is often fine and very often involves the presence or absence of cliché.

Rote expressions and tired imagery are lethal to sensual description — it seems particularly and bitterly ironic to find the freshness of food being written about in language as stale as month-old bread — and in my small way I have been a committed warrior against these toxins of banality.

Down the weeks, months, and years, I have tried to summon language as lively, exact, and unexpected as I could think to make it, so that it might delight the reader and, not coincidentally, stick in the mind.

There is nothing more powerful in language than a phrase, sometimes a single word, that helps you see something you hadn’t seen before, or helps you see something you had seen before, even if it’s just a burrito, in a surprising new way. These glints of words kindle the imagination, and imagination, I would say, is basic to our prospects as a species. This is why good writing, whatever its subject, will always be not just important but central, even when, as now, its value is eclipsed by a rising culture of gadgets and gizmos, of YouTube clips played on smartphones. The heart of human intelligence, of human knowing, is and will remain language, and writing is language’s most potent distillate. What we feed our minds is as important as what we feed our bodies — or at least that is what I believe, since I am a writer and couldn’t possibly believe otherwise.

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It’s strange: to pride oneself on one’s gullibility. Nevertheless, I grabbed the bread that I wanted, and walked whistling with it to the back of the store, through the storage area past the back of the store, beyond the bathrooms, back outside into the loading zone on the opposite side of the building from the parking lot, through some bushes, under an overpass, entirely outside of the city and into the desert, where I took my spot at the end of the line and said to the person in front of me, “Hi.” “Hi,” he said. It was a cold crisp night with stars and moons all over the place. And behind me the line kept getting longer, all the while time passing.

The line did not move at all.

Apparently, people were buying houses and cars. They had to talk to their lawyers and spouses, and wait for bank loans to be approved. Inspections.

Before long I had finished all the bread and was standing in line with an empty paper bag. The city was nowhere in sight, not to mention the cashiers. Nor could I tell if the line of people who had lined up behind me stretched longer than the line still in front of me. I was, as usual, in the middle.

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Many of my girlfriends met their future husbands while waiting in lines. It’s true that for the most part their future husbands didn’t notice them; they just went about their business, as it is in man’s nature to do. But there are exceptions to every rule, I’m told, so who’s to say I wasn’t going to be one of them?

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“No,” I said. This was a lie.

“Well,” he said, then, “what is your story?”

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“Once upon a time,” I said.

“Don’t give me that shit,” said my future husband.

“Once upon a time,” I said again, because that’s the kind of storyteller I am, and, as if on cue, the rest of the line of people dissolved into the night, and all around us coyotes yipped and yapped.

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Thursday 9/22 Wednesday 9/21 Veronica Falls Apparently, this UK indie rock band found its relaxed retro pop sound right from the get-go. Singles “Found Love in a Graveyard” and “Beachy Head” combined jangly, propulsive rhythms with light, morbid lyrics for a result that could easily find an anachronistic home in the recent remake of Brighton Rock (and not just because every video for the band looks like it was ran through a Hipstamatic app.)

Now with a self-titled debut album on Slumberland Records, Veronica Falls is scheduled to tour in support of the Drums and Dum Dum Girls next month. This will be their West Coast record release show. (Ryan Prendiville) With The Mantles, Brilliant Colors

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Teengirl Fantasy at Icee Hot They put something in the water over at Oberlin. Beach House, Blondes, Teengirl Fantasy. Now at work in the real world, which includes opening for Crystal Castles, Teengirl Fantasy has found a style that’s just as likely to draw from the pop charts as it is from their academic pedigree. A little Lil Jon on one track, a little Raymond Scott on the next. With cooled, slo-mo beats and hyped up MCs turned down, the result is an aural muscle relaxant, allowing you to focus on making bedroom eyes across the dance floor.

Teengirl Fantasy comes our way to play monthly party Icee Hot. (Prendiville) With Total Freedom, Magic Touch (Damon Palermo), Shawn Reynaldo, and Rollie Fingers 10 p.m., $5-10 Public Works 161 Erie, SF

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The late Michael Smuin was not one of my favorite choreographers.

But he left behind a substantial inheritance that gained him respectable audiences. Smuin choreographed one of his most serious pieces, “Stabat Mater” — Dvorak’s response to the death of his infant daughter — in the aftermath of 9/11. He also loved to play with pop eroticism; “The Eternal Idol” — you can see its inspiration at the Legion of Honor — and “Tango Palace” showcase that propensity. Amy Seiwert premieres what she calls her “most “Smuinesque” piece yet — to Patsy Cline. Not the least of the company’s attractions these days is the quality of its dancers. Parking around the Palace — because of the Doyle Drive reconstruction — is somewhat restricted, so plan for extra time. Muni 43 goes there as well. (Rita Felciano) 9/23-Oct.1 $25-62 Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco

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Though this is the San Francisco Film Society’s first-ever Hong Kong Cinema mini-fest, there’s no shortage of HK film fanatics in this town, what with the SF International Asian American Film Festival, the programming at Frank Lee’s Four Star Theatre, and even the occasional HK flick that arrives via Hollywood. If you dug Benny Chan’s now-at-theFour-Star Shaolin, you won’t want to miss his City Under Siege, about bank-robbing, superpowered circus performers. Also on tap: another superhero action comedy, Vincent Kok’s (Pixar-inspired?) Mr. and Mrs. Incredible; Clement Chan and Yan Yan Mak’s multigenerational drama Merry-Go-Round; All About Love, from Ann Hui (her latest, A Simple Life, has been tearing up the international fest circuit); Law Wing-cheong’s kidnap thriller Punished (starring Anthony Wong, always full of win); Alex Law’s coming-of-age drama Echoes of the Rainbow; and rom-com Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, a genre departure for action man Johnnie To. (Cheryl Eddy) Through Sun/25, $13–$20 San Francisco Film Society New People Cinema 1746 Post, SF www.sffs.org

Friday 9/23 SF Cocktail Week: Barbary Coast Bazaar San Franciscans have long enjoyed a romance with alcohol — from the debauchery of the Barbary Coast era, to the modern renaissance of the artisan cocktail, the city knows how to knock ‘em back. Celebrate this high-proof music listings

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history with SF Cocktail Week, which features a variety of tastings, dinners, seminars, and parties, including “Barbary Coast Bazaar,” a huge fete inside the Old Mint. Expect a roaring 1920s themed party, with vintage circus acts such as stilt walkers, jugglers, contortionists, magicians, and carnival games, along with food, and of course, a wide variety of tasty cocktails. (Sean McCourt) SF Cocktail Week events run through 9/25, pricing varies Barbary Coast Bazaar, 9/23 8-11 p.m., $85–$95 The Old Mint 88 5th St., SF www.sfcocktailweek.com

Saturday 9/24 Moving Planet Worldwide Rally Day You can make yourself sick thinking about it: what are you going to tell your kids (or — hey sexy single! — the neighbor’s kids) when they ask you what you did to stop climate change back when we still had a chance and the Bayview-Sunset commute didn’t call for a rowboat? Are we creeping you out? Then let us recommend Moving Planet Day. A worldwide rally for sustainability, it’s sponsored by 350.org and will include Sept. 24 actions from Buenos Aires to Nairobi. In SF, a march of self-propelled peoples on foot, bike, and skate will trek from Justin Herman Plaza to the Civic Center, where an afternoon

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Ladytron photo by Michele Civetta; Hank 3 photo Courtesy of Hank3 Records; Dr. ruth Photo by marianne rafter; nurses photo by tyler kohlhoff

With SONOIO, Polaris at Noon, and DJ Omar 8 p.m., $25 The Regency Ballroom 1300 Van Ness, SF (800) 745-3000 www.theregencyballroom.com

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of speakers, music, and other events awaits. (Caitlin Donohue)

set at each barn burning show.

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10-a.m.-6 p.m., free March starts at Justin Herman Plaza, SF Afternoon activities at Civic Center Plaza, SF www.moving-planet.org

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Saturday 9/24 Hank 3 The grandson of country music royalty, Hank Williams III, or as he’s now known, Hank 3, continues to hone his own brand of diverse music, releasing not one, but four brand new albums this month: Ghost to a Ghost/ Guttertown, a double record in a country vein, Attention Deficient Domination, with more of a “hellbilly” feeling, and Cattle Callin, which is more on the metal side of things. The modern torch bearer of outlaw country is promising that this tour will touch on all of them, which he released through his own label, Hank 3 Records, and that fans can expect a two-and-a-half to thee-hour editorials

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The superchill but often splendidly goofy Bay rapper, a former member of the Psychokinetics crew, hails from one of the golden ages of local hip-hop — that late ‘90s-early ‘00s period when earnest showmanship and a healthy dose of good humor trumped aggro attention-seeking, niche genre overload, and crass product placement. Cel’s kept himself busy through Bay rap’s recent twists and turns, though, traveling the world and dropping some ace tracks, all the while staying true to his roots. This release party for his poppin’ second solo album, Life Well Spent (which features a nice roster of collaborators including Dirt Nasty, iLL MEDiA, and Baby Jaymes) will showcase his grin-inducing verbal dexterity, be loaded with special guest appearances, and serve as a convention of true school heads. (Marke B.) 9 p.m., $10 (includes copy of album) Shattuck Downlow 2284 Shattuck, Berk.

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The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has an exhibit going on called “Daily Lives,” a group showing by local Asian American artists that takes prosaic trinkets and uses them to express the psychic winds that ruffle our insides.

This weekend, “Daily Lives” is taking this exploration of the private, public. Put on your dark glasses and check out the sidewalk art exhibit in Chinatown — where your ambling will be soundtracked by a day of rad live music; traditional tunes from the SF Guzheng Society and pianist Jon Jang (who will be sharing his recently-penned homage to the Xinhai Revolution of 1911), plus more modern grooves by the grown-up local kids in Jest Jammin’ and the SF Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble. (Donohue) 1-7 p.m., free Portsmouth Square Kearny between Clay and Washington, SF www.apiculturalcenter.org

Sunday 9/25 Ladytron Given the harder direction that Ladytron has gone in over the last few albums — even touring with Nine Inch Nails — I was not expecting what I heard on Gravity the Seducer: ABBA. Whether or not they were invoking the Swedish gods of pop on purpose, the opener “White Elephant” sets a tone for a lighter album.

Not simply a step backwards to the sounds of Ladytron’s early albums, it’s its most synthetically dreamy, spaced out record yet. Of course, harder and softer are relative terms with the band, which has generally stuck to a distinctive sound, becoming electronic pop mainstays and developing a cult following in the process.

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We all fondly recall Dr. Ruth Westheimer as the funny, entertaining, and educational “sexpert” that hit the mainstream media in the 1980s and 90s, but did you know her amazing background before she was a household name?

Born in 1928 Germany, she lost her parents in the Holocaust, and actually fought (and was wounded) as a sniper during Israel’s war of independence. The icon will be touching on all these subjects, along with her new book, Heavenly Sex: Sexuality in the Jewish Tradition, at tonight’s special event. (McCourt) 7 p.m., $20–$35 Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St., SF (415) 292-1200 www.jccsf.org

Tuesday 9/27 Tony Bennett Night As San Francisco Giants fans know, whenever the team wins a game here at home, the crowd exits the ballpark to the sounds of the legendary crooner Tony Bennett’s signature song “I Left My Heart In San Francisco.” The 85-year-old icon performed the song live at last year’s World Series, and the team is honoring him with this special event where he will be celebrated in a pre-game ceremony. He also will perform a short set, and fans will receive a “Tony Bennett” bobblehead that has a sound chip that plays his beloved ode to our city by the bay. (McCourt) film listings

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If you listened to Nurses’ earliest album, you might not recognize the groovy melodic rock trio that stands before you today, presenting 2011’s Dracula (Dead Oceans).

In the past five years, the harmonic freak-folk band — with a penchant for toy instruments and pianos — has gone through lineup changes, sound modifications, and location shifts. The two Nurses mainstays, singer-guitarist Aaron Chapman and singerkeyboardist John Bowers, have lived in the sweet sunshine of San Diego, close quarters during cold winters — the tour van in Chicago — and finally, settled in the dewy DIY spirit of Portland, Oreg., where they gained drummer James Mitchell, and further developed their technique. But that’s the test of a true musician, isn’t it? The ability to roll with the punches, to grow, to evolve.

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Princess Donna chokes out vanilla porno, here in a still from a Kink.com production.

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ON THE COVER: Cover model Leo Forte (www.twitter.com/leofortexxx) is an adult performer who has worked on the NakedKombat series from Kink.com, Titan Studio, and Raging Stallion. He’ll be appearing at the Falcon Video 40th anniversary party at Mezzanine on Sat/24 (www.mezzaninesf.com) and at the Naked Sword and Kink.com booths at th Folsom Street Fair. guardian photo by matthew reamer

Because the princess says so The mastermind behind Kink.com’s “Wired Pussy” and “Public Disgrace” sites finds power in perversion

By Caitlin Donohue caitlin@sfbg.com SEX I saw Donna Dolore for the first time at a Hard French queer soul dance party at El Rio. I remember because she took my drink so authoritatively that I had no choice but to be okay with it.

She sipped it, handed it back, and strode away. Can I get a thank you? Throughout the whole, sloppy afternoon, I noticed it was kind of her theme.

But no one seemed to care.

Part of it was obvious: Dolore is a Sophia Loren with wider eyes, maybe a little taller, with the same generous tendencies towards sharing glimpses of the bust line.

Only — I reflected, shortly before falling back into cheap-beer-andgo-go-dancer melee — that attitude. Who the hell is this woman?

Weeks later, I’m telling her the story in person in the cavernous break room at Kink.com’s headquarters in the San Francisco Armory (everything at the Armory is cavernous). It turns out that Delore is in fact, a pretty big deal.

Just ask her legions of heavybreathing fans who know her as Princess Donna, the Kink.com director and star queer dominatrix.

“Oh my gosh, I did that?” At the office from where she plans shoots for the three Kink websites she heads, Delore is a less formidable figure. She’s not wearing any makeup. Her black outfit makes 24 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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her look like she’s about to take off for a light jog around the Mission.

But she might just be being coy. After all, I’d stalked her up good before our appointment and had come across this gem in a video interview she did a few years back: “I’m pretty true to form — Princess Donna acts a lot like I do.”

Delore double majored at New York University, perfectly enough, in gender and sexuality studies and photography. She became a stripper while at school, and then on a tip from a coworker, got into professional BDSM shoots. Although she had been to some BDSM play parties, the work was the first time she’d ever been tied up.

“I was immediately into the challenge of being in a really stressful position — being flogged or caned, total sensory overload,” she remembers. “I would leave a shoot feeling really invigorated, a stronger person. It made me want to see what my body was capable of.”

Nowadays, Princess Donna sits — utterly sexily, usually in a short skirt and fuck-me heels — atop the Internet BDSM porn puppy pile.

At Kink she is the mind behind no less than three sites.

For “Public Disgrace,” Delore makes trips around the world to supervise the stripping-down, feeling-up, and penetration of beautiful women in town squares and busy bars. On “Wired Pussy,” she plays with electrical equipment, music listings

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inducing screaming orgasms in her female partners.

In her latest endeavor, “Bound Group Gang Bang,” Delore supervises teams of horny men and one or two women in fantasy-type shoots: high school nerds get their revenge on the bitchy mean girls, a prison warden drops her key and winds up giving head to inmates through a chain link fence. She has guest-starred in many of Kink’s different sites, usually as a top, sometimes as a bottom.

“I get stressed out because we have so much content to produce,” says Delore, who works on one or two shoots a week. “But it’s a challenge that I enjoy.” One gets the sense that at Kink, Delore has found a place that can nurture her talent for perversion.

Like most of Kink’s offerings, Delore’s sites are unapologetically brutal. Women are dominated, wind up covered in ejaculate and with bound breasts that are agonizing to look at (well, at least for the BDSM newbie).

This is exactly the kind of stuff that sends shivers — the bad kind — up the spines of anti-porn feminists. But Delore is a feminist too. As articulate as she is and as prominent she is and as wild as her porns are, she’s often called on to defend BDSM’s treatment and portrayal of women.

“I think the exact opposite of the people that think that BDSM CONTINUES ON PAGE 26 >>

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would promote violence against women,” she says. That tired question — “is porn degrading to women?” — is something that Delore finds degrading. Why, she asks, don’t the anti-porn musketeers ask the same of men in the industry?

“What is going on in our society that we continue to see sex as something that is put on women that they don’t desire? Why can’t we fathom it being a dream job for a woman?”

Kink is doing its part to raise awareness about the sexual pleasure that can be experienced by submissive actors. Before and after each shoot, the man or woman who you’ve watched screaming, a cattle prod or vibrator pressed against their genitals, is interviewed. That familiar dazed aftersex look is all over their faces, and their endorphin-heavy perk is really all you need to know what Delore says is true: the models at Kink really, really love their job.

Delore contests the notion that only people who have been sexual abused take pleasure in pain, although she says you’ll find abuse victims in porn studios, just like any other workplace.

“Unfortunately, you could look to any profession and say a lot of them were abused as kids.

You could look at secretaries and say that. Personally, I wasn’t sexually abused.” She smiles. “I’m just a natural pervert.”

Delore’s a regular on the queer party circuit — this week, you can catch her stealing drinks at Sunday’s “Deviants” Folsom Street Fair closing party. Her exuberance in exploring the outer realms of sexuality haven’t gone unnoticed in the San Francisco sex community.

Kelly Lovemonster, editor of the queer quarterly sexuality zine [SSEX BBOX] is a close friend of Delore, and calls her a “super heroine.”

“Even when she is portraying a submissive bottom, being cattle prodded, nipples clamped down and attached to electric cords, you can tell she is absolutely in control,” says Lovemonster. “She shows us that our dirtiest, scariest, and wildest sexual fantasies can come true through healthy communication and BDSM play. She rescues us all from a world where sexuality is suppressed and made shameful.”

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“i wasn’t sexually abused.” she smiles. “i’m just a natural pervert.” that get turned on by being slapped across the face know that they’re not the only ones.

For the dis-empowered and isolated BDSM fan, that can be heady stuff. “You can explore your rape fantasy in a way that the woman is in control of what’s happening to their body — it’s a way to relive a situation where you had no control and relive it in a way in which you do have control,” says Delore.

In a direct repudiation of the claims that abuse victims fall into BDSM for unsavory reasons.

Delore says she’s seen rough sex and power play rehabilitate partners whose sexuality seems terminally fucked. “I’m not a therapist but I feel like I am sometimes.”

But when I ask her if she considers herself an activist, she says no.

“When I think of the word activist, I think of people who are more outspoken than I am. I do my thing on my website, and people can come watch it if they want to.”

Which is not to say that the forward girl at Hard French doesn’t think she’s affecting change. Says the princess: “I’m just happy that I can help people be honest about what they want in bed.” 2 deviants: official folsom street fair closing party Sun/25 4 p.m.-3 a.m., $20-30 Public Works 161 Erie, SF www.publicsf.com

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SEX Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a writer, mother, and social science researcher (in chronological order) who is passionate about poking and prodding at perceived cultural norms while raising two tweenage sons.

Bawdy is the best outlet for my raucous compulsion for over-sharing. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tale I shared at a recent installation of the series: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a sex geek. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m working on a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in sexuality studies at a local university. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a social justice program focused on oppression and stigma.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really careful to tell people that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m studying sexuality as opposed to sex. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m researching how you specifically have sex, but more like how you cry about it in the shower afterwards. Really. Not. Sexy. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten used to deflecting peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexual advances based on my field of study.

Except there was this one time. I had an assignment to keep a seven day sex diary. I had to record all of my sexual encounters for one week, then write up a summary looking for patterns of behaviors. Our professor doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t read the diaries, just the summaries.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a competitive student.

Most of the students in my program are in their mid-twenties and fucking every night in the Castro. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t compete with that, I have kids! But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be damned if I let them show me up for an assignment.

This was going to require a strategy.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been flirting this really hot guy Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d met online for a while, but we hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to hook up â&#x20AC;&#x201D; yet. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a single parent in grad school and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a consultant traveling all over. But since he was finally going to be in town, I messaged him saying I needed his help with an assignment: I needed to cram seven days of sex into one night together. He said he willing to do anything for the sake of academia.

We meet for drinks and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m all about it. First a hand job under his jacket at the bar, then we walk to a park where he goes down on me.

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enough. It was hot and awesome, but was it grade A material? Then he tells me he has 24-hour access to an office building downtown, we could fuck in a really nice bathroom there.

Perfect! So we make our way there, and as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the stairwell heading to the bathroom, I can hear our footsteps echoing above and below us. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m beginning to think that bathroom sex isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really all that unique either.

People fuck in bathrooms at bars all the time.

I got a new idea. I say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to have sex in the bathroom.â&#x20AC;? You should have seen his face! He says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, okay, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not into it, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s go...â&#x20AC;? Then I grab him, pull him close and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I

want to do it here, right here, in the stairwell.â&#x20AC;?

He smiled and we started kissing and grinding and clothing is starting to be removed, and then I have the best idea yet: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wait! In the ass, fuck me in the ass! Yes, that is perfect.â&#x20AC;?

So he flips me around, bends me over and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m holding onto the metal steps for dear life as I think to myself â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m having butt sex in the stairwell of an office building with a man I met on Twitter. I am so going to get the best grade.â&#x20AC;?

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1. The Condor Club

the balcony was the cruisiest, bleachiestsmelling place in town.

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The first topless dance took place in 1964 at the Condor when Carol Doda took to the stage in designer Rudi Gernreichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revolutionary â&#x20AC;&#x153;monokini.â&#x20AC;? The bathing suit never really caught on, but topless dancing became an export that would become synonymous with San Francisco.

A peep at our fair cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s filthy-gorgeous history

By Michael Stabile culture@sfbg.com

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This still-operational vintage magazine shop has never shied away from porn. And since few museums find it palatable to save smut, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a living archive of the sexual revolution, balls, and all.

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SEX In 1969, San Francisco became the first city in the country to permit the exhibition and sale of hardcore pornography. Although â&#x20AC;&#x153;permitâ&#x20AC;? isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly right. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vice squad (with the help of Supervisor Dianne Feinstein) fought it every step of the way. But by the time a rag-tag band of hippies with cameras began harnessing the Free Speech movement to challenge obscenity laws, San Francisco had already become, in the words of the New York Times, â&#x20AC;&#x153;a sort of Smut Capital of the United States.â&#x20AC;?

Earlier this year, director Ben Leon and I produced Smut Capital of America, a documentary short about San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flesh-filled reign as the center of U.S. hardcore. (The skin flick industry didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move down to San Fernando Valley until the 1980s, when VHS took over and Los Angeles stopped arresting filmmakers.) The film industry itself may have been shaved and plucked, but San Francisco never lost its filthy patina, thank god.

Smut Capital screens Tue/20 at the Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Fest (www.gv-ixff.org). Here are a few of the filthy great places, classic and new, that any self-respecting San Francisco pervert and/or fan might want to map. 2

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In 1970, the Screening Room became the first theater in America to show hardcore pornography, with a law-skirting documentary about the free-loving Danes called Pornography in Denmark. Director Alex deRenzy set off a cinematic revolution, and earned a profile in Time magazine. Perhaps fittingly, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now the Power Exchange sex club.

The good olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; boys from Antioch made a fortune with movies like Behind the Green Door, but when obscenity busts began taking their toll, they moved to live shows.

The place still give a great lap dance, but the days when you could eat a girl out for a dollar are long gone.

6. The Roxie and the New Follies

3. The Strand 1127 Market

I once heard it referred to as a stop on the underground gay railroad â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and for good reason. While this theater showed big Hollywood movies and noir retrospectives,

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house, the Roxie showed soft-and hardcore 16mm loops shot by the Mitchell Brothers, then just out of college. The New Follies, just down the street on then smut-filled 16th Street (itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now the Victoria), pioneered bottomless dancing, and later, live sex shows.

7. The Sutter Theatre 369 Sutter

Arlene Elster and Lowell Pickett plotted the International Erotic Film Festival at their theater off Union Square in 1970, when the area was still known as the downtown Tenderloin. The films themselves screened at the prestigious Presidio Theater in the Marina with a red carpet covered by KPIX. Even smut-opponent Dianne Feinstin showed up to rant against the duoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;very depraved wares.â&#x20AC;?

8. Le Salon 1118 Polk street.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;There out to be a plaque on the building,â&#x20AC;? says Bay Area Reporter porn critic John Karr, who went to this bookstore to cruise and flip through dirty magazines. Store owner Roland Boudreaux eventually opened a non-smut operation next door with a connecting doorway so that customers could leave and enter without attracting stares from high-society queens.

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11. The Armory Does anyone not realize that this former munitions warehouse now houses an arsenal of dildo-equipped robots and that the National Guard training hall is used to film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wired Pussyâ&#x20AC;? episodes? Thanks, Kink.com for making sure San Francisco is still known as the Smut Capital of America. 2

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Back after some time off — and exploding into its new home on the Oakland Coliseum grounds — this giddy giant of an outdoor daytime parade and festival was made for free hugs from something purple and fuzzy. Oh, and crowd-pleasing music: Glitch Mob, Moby, Pendulum, Plump DJs, King Britt and, of course, an outpouring of golden local talent. Riding around on floats, no less.

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The Cat Club is always one of my favorite places to pop into for a breather during the Sunday Folsom Street Fair madness. (Favorite vision from a few years ago: a gorgeous creature on crutches somehow managing to roller skate around the dance floor in a latex mankini. Edge play!) This year, the Cat’s going big the Saturday night before the fair, as the ever-delicious Princess Pandora hosts an indie, goth, and 1980s electro gala with DJs Aaron Axelsen, Nako, and the monthly Temptation party resident DJs. Sat/24, 9:30 p.m.-3 a.m., $8. Cat Club, 1190 Folsom, SF. www.sfcatclub.com..

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DeVIaNTS Good lord! Folsom Street Fair keeps expanding its musical palette (Billy Ray Martin, In Flagranti, HOTTUB, and more perform this year) and scandalous party options. Check out, for instance, this Deviants gig: three of the best queer party crews in SF — Hard French, Honey Soundsystem, and Some Thing — are joining forces for this official after-Folsom Street Fair party, outside and inside Public Works.

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Ruiz’s films have typically been the province of hardcore cinephiles, but this splendid epic holds wider appeal. It’s difficult to think of another movie that so satisfyingly captures the intricacies and volatilities of the 19th century novel — anyone enthralled by the teeming creations of Balzac and Dickens will find that Mysteries of Lisbon’s fourand-a-half hours stream by. Ruiz was no stranger to the 19th century — his recent films included Klimt (2006) and the Proustian Time Regained (1999) — but the ornately plotted trio of novellas by Portuguese author Camilo Castelo editorials

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The story sweeps across dozens of characters and several generations of doomed love, revenge plots, disguised identities, uncertain parentages, and religious vows. We even glimpse the Napoleonic Wars. It’s gripping stuff, in other words, and Ruiz meant it that way — the film refutes the idea that an analytical narration style upbraids narrative pleasure (a cornerstone of much structuralist film theory). One hesitates to launch into describing Mysteries of Lisbon’s plot, not only because there’s such an awful lot of it, but also because it risks underselling the brilliant means by which information is divulged.

It begins with an adolescent searching out his origins. Pedro da Silva lives under the care of kindly and knowing Father Dinis.

The boy becomes dimly aware of his mother, Angela de Lima, when he’s sick with fever (realized with a neat impressionistic distortion).

In the film’s first flashback, to the near past, we learn of her cruel treatment at the hands of her husband, the Count of Santa Bárbara.

She eventually flees to the church, whereupon her history of misfortune tumbles out in a deeper flashback narrated by Dinis: her passion for Pedro’s father and the

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iron disapproval of her father, the Marquis de Montezelos. After contracting the elder Pedro’s murder to his thug, Knife Eater, Marquis arranges for the man to snuff out his daughter’s bastard child at birth. A gypsy bargains for the baby’s life from Knife Eater, and that gypsy, we later learn, is one and the same as Father Dinis.

The priest’s shadowy transformations provide a recurring template for Mysteries of Lisbon, as does his eventual commitment to God. An intermission is shrewdly positioned so that the beginning of the second half begins with another origin story — Dinis’s own. The Samsaric wheel of lost love and filial abandonment turns again. A new set of characters emerge, including a mysterious capitalist posing as a Brazilian import who eventually marries the Count of Santa Barbara’s mistress, Eugénia, and takes a peculiar interest in Pedro’s well-being. His former lover, the bewitching Duchess of Cliton, lives for revenge and arouses the idealistic romance of Pedro, now a young man: it seems we’ve spun through the past long enough for him to age.

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Pedro’s frame of reference, Ruiz suggests that every doomed love is its own even as they are invariably connected. The immersive nature of the flashbacks all but obliterates any semblance of Pedro’s narrative through line, and leaves us vulnerable to alluring déjà vu (key repetitions of specific objects, framings, and dialog within different spheres of the plot). If Ruiz is partly poking fun at literary convention by repeatedly framing eavesdroppers in the extreme foreground and backgrounds of the frame, for instance, he’s also giving us tangible figures of the thread that connects these disparate stories.

Ruiz’s narrations are commonly likened to labyrinths, but for Mysteries of Lisbon’s vigorous expansion I reach for the cosmos: one luminous sphere rotates another which in turn rotates a larger system, the whole of it spreading outwards in all directions at once. There are many other ways one could model the narrative’s abundance — in interviews Ruiz cited the mathematical concept of overflow — but the point is not so many films inspire this kind of reflection.

And if complexity is one measure of the film’s greatness, flexibility is surely another. Throughout, Ruiz demonstrates that a distant long take need not be emotionally remote; that a shot can reveal as it conceals; that dramatic irony can fluctuate, giving knowledge itself an almost textural quality.

In one of the few scenes set outside a gilded room or convent, the older Pedro searches out his mother’s grave. There he meets his grandfather, the formerly imposing Marquis, now a deluded blind beggar. It’s the umpteenth case of a character cropping up in a different mask, and this one seems the most obvious kind of poetic justice. As the Marquis exits, his beggar companion approaches Pedro. He redundantly recounts the Marquis’ fall, but then adds his own insight, that nobility’s great tragedies are simply the stuff of life for beggars. Ruiz remains light on his feet well past the four hour mark, always prepared with another shift in perspective.

Mysteries of Lisbon is not the kind of masterpiece you expect of an old man, but then Ruiz clearly had little use for such a simplistic concept of time. 2 MySTerIeS oF lISBoN opens Sept. 30 in San Francisco.

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By Jen Verzosa arts@sfbg.com MUsIC The term â&#x20AC;&#x153;emoâ&#x20AC;? has become synonymous with whiny, tightjeans-wearing 13-year-olds with asymmetrical haircuts. (Thanks, Hot Topic.) But stereotypical B.S. aside, in the beginning, emo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; short for â&#x20AC;&#x153;emotional punk rockâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was a compelling music movement in the early 1990s and 2000s typified by melodic guitar, motley rhythms, and expressive, pouryour-heart-out lyrics. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It went from being this really powerful, emotional movement into, like, the annoying little brother of music,â&#x20AC;? says Kristopher Hannum who co-runs Diary, an emo, screamo, and pop punk music night held every third Saturday of the month at Popâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I feel like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slowly coming back in a good way â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not in a Hot Topic-y, YouTube bands they call emo [way]. There are good things happening and they are slowly bubbling up to the surface, like [San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] Clarissa Explains It All.â&#x20AC;? He adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a band I point out to people that is kind of taking that [emo] scene and doing good things with it.â&#x20AC;?

But ever since the term was coined in the mid-80s Washington, D.C. hardcore punk scene, initially to describe bands such as Rites Of Spring, emo has been considered a four-letter word. editorials

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have never met a band in what I would consider the emo genre that ever copped to calling themselves â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;emo.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weird. Fans throw that around really easily but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never hear, for the most part, a band describe themselves as emo,â&#x20AC;? explains Leslie Simon, co-author of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide To Emo Culture (Harpers, 2007) and former MTV. com editor.

Jim Adkins, lead vocalist-guitarist of Jimmy Eat World, which is heralded as a seminal emo band, rejects the label. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pretty much done trying to deflect or change that perception. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really consider us to be [emo]. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a long conversation,â&#x20AC;? Adkins says, curtly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just flattering that anyone pays attention to what we do. To explain what we do, [I say] guitar-based, melodic rock music.â&#x20AC;?

Adkinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sentiment notwithstanding, Jimmy Eat Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1999 release Clarity (Capitol) is often lauded as one of the most significant emo albums of the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s, heavily influencing the third wave of emo (2000 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; present) which includes bands like My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and AllAmerican Rejects.

In 2001, as emo broke into mainstream media, Jimmy Eat World released its platinumselling album, Bleed American (Dreamworks/Geffen). In its intro-

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ductory title track, Adkins wails â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not alone â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cause the TVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on, yeah / Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not crazy because I take the right pills everydayâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; perfectly encapsulating the angst and disillusionment of Gen Yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ers. With its empowering lyrics (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just do your best / do everything you can /And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you worry what the bitter hearts are gonna sayâ&#x20AC;?), the anthemic â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Middle,â&#x20AC;? another track off Bleed American, reached #1 on Billboardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Modern Rock Tracks, galvanizing wallflowers everywhere to stay true to themselves. With its impeccably relatable themes, it is no wonder why the album was the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest commercial success.

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of its release, Jimmy Eat World will play Bleed American in its entirety at the Fillmore on Monday, Sept. 26 and Tuesday, Sept. 27. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Bleed American] is a special record for a lot of people. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just been kind of a fan request that we do it, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it in areas where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always had a good time playing,â&#x20AC;? Adkins explains.

Coincidentally, Saves The Day released its first studio album in four years, Daybreak, last week.

And the once-disbanded-nowreunited Get Up Kids â&#x20AC;&#x201D; also wildly popular in the early-2000s â&#x20AC;&#x201D; released There Are Rules earlier this year, making a stop on its tour in San Francisco, playing a show with Dashboard Confessional, another music listings

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iconic emoter, most famous for its single, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Screaming Infidelities.â&#x20AC;?

Heart it or hate it, in the past year second-wave emo bands seem to be making a comeback. So this begs the question: What is behind the resurgence of this style of music? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Playing music is an awesome opportunity. Maybe all of these people that are coming back together kind of miss it. We were really lucky that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to continually do it,â&#x20AC;? Adkins says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The more interesting question is why did they stop?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really like to think that it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t about making money which, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure, half of those bands are doing it just because there are ticket sales in it, you know?â&#x20AC;? Hannum says with a hint of disillusion in his voice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[But] I like to think that they are in a position where they can still get back together and tour to give access to these kids that couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t access it back then.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It does come off sometimes like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it for the paycheck. But, at the end of the day, who cares?â&#x20AC;? Simon replies, laughing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I still love hearing Chris Conley (of Saves The Day) sing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fireflyâ&#x20AC;? and I get a kick out of watching the Get Up Kids play â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Hate Meâ&#x20AC;? because those were songs that meant something to me when I was younger. And I am 22 again. It is wonderful.â&#x20AC;? 2 Jimmy Eat World With Kinch Mon/26 and Tues/27, 8 p.m., $35 The Fillmore 1805 Geary, SF www.thefillmore.com

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Dance What makes watching the Mark Morris Dance Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dido and Aeneas such a satisfying â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and ultimately profound â&#x20AC;&#x201D; experience? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really simple: give a story of love and war to a poet, who creates a rhythmically and imagistically suggestive libretto, which then gets into the hands of a genius composer, and finally ends up with Mark Morris, who just happens to be a great choreographer and company director.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it.

Morris created Dido in Brussels in 1989, where the Opera de la Monnaie had everything he needed: a budget for production, support for a large group of dancers, and the freedom do what he wanted. That experience decisively shaped the 33-year-old choreographer and put him on the world stage to which the controversy surrounding the premiere probably did its part.

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the characters interpreted by the same dancer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Morris injected an intriguing Freudian note, though it added little to the tragedy.

However, it gave Morris, a superb dancer, the role of his life. He did the part until 2000. In his companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance at Berkeleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Zellerbach Hall Sept. 16-18, he put his stamp on the production by conducting the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale (performing Henry Purcellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 17th century score) in the pit. He did it well â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not surprising, since heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renowned for his musicality.

In this incarnation of Dido and Aeneas, Amber Star Merkens dances the double role convincingly, making it her own, though she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have Morrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; solid physique and bone-deep expressivity. You couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but see Morris in the jaunty lift of her chin and the way she placed her hands. As a Sorceress, throwing her arms up in mock desperation at the antics of her fellow witches, Merkens becomes every inch the aging Madam in a roadside whorehouse. music listings

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Opposite Merkens, Domingo Estrada Jr. gave Aeneas just a touch of vanity and self-involvement. He seemed very young.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not only the leads who need to switch emotional gears back and forth; the ensemble of courtiers, witches, and soldiers has to follow suit. Despite some initial hiccups, Morrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dancers did themselves proud.

What continues to surprise in this remarkable work â&#x20AC;&#x201D; certainly one of Morrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; finest, if not his greatest â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is the economy of means with which he weaves this tale, drawn from Virgilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aeneid, of the outsized passion and grief of Dido, Queen of Carthage and Aeneas, Founder of Rome. The dancers wear black tops and skirts except for Aeneas, who is topless. Robert Bordoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s set consists of two benches and a washed-out curtain that looks like it might have belonged to a traveling theater group.

Though Morrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vocabulary includes some of his more literal responses to the music that (as a more mature choreographer) he now pretty much foregoes, the depth of his imagination is breathtaking. He plants the legs even as the arms fly out as far as the body can reach. He draws on Martha Grahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use of the ground, Irish folk dancing, and balletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toe work, and makes them his own. The dances, whether in strict unisons or opposing and interlocking patterns, are stenciled into space.

Most unusual is the way Morris infuses Dido with a sense of absence, of negation. We see the dancers in half-profile or with their backs to us. Even the witches cover their eyes. When Aeneas arrives, Dido turns away. In their love duet, he holds her hand, yet looks over his other outstretched hand across the ocean. It is as if the passion and pain were too much for us to witness.

Much like a Greek tragedy, Dido proclaims a sense of order and restraint that is disturbed but ultimately restored. But at what prize. At the end of her lament â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Purcell at his most lyrical â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dido, with her arms outstretched, lies on the bench that became her bier. Her retinue processes out two-by-two except for the Second Woman (Rita Donahue). She looks at Belinda (Maile Okamura), her lover and Didoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faithful confidante. Then she turns and leaves.

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But then with the quartet of Gerry (2002), Elephant (2003), Last Days (2005), and Paranoid Park (2007) he was back making films as small, idiosyncratic, personal, and (but for his name) less commercial than anything he’d done since 1986’s Mala Noche.

You could call them brilliant, baffling, or boring, but they weren’t works of careerist complacency.

Milk (2008) was something else, crafted to reach as many as possible politically. It was a very good rather than great movie, coaxing a warmth and ebullience previously unseen from Sean Penn.

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What is notable, however, is that it’s bad in ways Van Sant hasn’t hazarded before, and which you might reasonably have thunk he never would. Yes, Psycho, and maybe 1993’s excessively dissed Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, is still worse. But Restless is pandering and insufferable: it’s got a case of the cutes so advanced the protagonists might as well be puppies and kittens.

Making use of a certified “eccentric” identifier that (if you swap in 12 step meetings, etc.) is already an overexposed narrative gimmick, Jason Lew’s script introduces pettable Enoch (Henry Hopper) as a teenage loner so affectedly angst-ridden his primary occupation is attending the funerals of complete strangers.

At one such he meets the perky, equally quirky Annabel (Mia Wasikowska), who finds his surliness delightful and presses friendship upon him. It’s not going to be a major commitment, as she soon explains she’s in treatment for cancer with a very limited remaining lifespan.

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They do moderately wacky things and share secrets, the latter including his conversations with imaginary friend Hiroshi (Ryo Kase), the ghost of a fictive downed World War II kamikaze pilot. (Adding to the Charlie St. Cloud like levels of twee, despite his made-up status wise Hiroshi sometimes knows things Enoch doesn’t yet, and eventually Annabel can see him, too.) Both have plenty of time on their hands because, well, she’s dying and he’s been expelled from school for reasons that naturally turn out to be rather noble.

All young lovers fancy themselves in their own special world beyond others’ full understanding. But Restless buys into that specialness with a vengeance. Its romanticism is that an arrestedadolescent type spanning the tuberculic etherealism of those wasting Victorian heroines Edward Gorey parodied, the girl-dyingfrom-too-much-spiritual-radiance Love Story (1970) formula, and the smiley face noncomformism of Harold and Maude (1971) and its ilk, wherein acting childish was a rebellious act of sticking it to the Man. In such narratives our protagonists almost never have jobs, likable relatives, or other realworld responsibilities, the better to act out fey fanasties together, then wallow in picturesque pathos

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alone. They’re their own Make a Wish Foundation, 24/7.

Puppies and kittens are cute, and getting suckered by this kind of enterprise is hardly the worst form of audience manipulation.

But why is Van Sant playing enabler? One suspects there was something irresistible about firsttime scenarist Jason Lew, just as there doubtless was to Matt ‘n’ Ben (Good Will Hunting) and to Milk’s Dustin Lance Black.

But those choices were solid ones, at least. Always a fan of youth, the director is to be applauded for encouraging fledgling talent offscreen as well as on it. Still, occasional traces of his recognizable style hardly dilute the sugary sentimentality at the core of Restless, lend it actual gravitas or even the kind of fanciful mood that might excuse potential preciousness as fable.

Twenty-two-but-passingfor-younger of the moment Wasikowska is fine, though she has been and will be better.

Hopper, son of Dennis — how did such scrubbed, nonthreatening blond adorability arise from that gene pool? — is less evidently an actor in his first film than a prepube’s pinup successor to Justin and Zac. Not that he’s asked to act so much as pose fetchingly, of course.

It may be Lew’s idea to make Annabel the “mature one,” but it feels very much Van Sant’s to let the camera fawn so devotedly over Enoch. 2

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Alfred Hitchcockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PSYCHO

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Friday September 23, 8pm (Doors open 7pm) Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) rents a room from Norman Bates (Tony Perkins) and takes the last shower of her life. Plot twists, false realities and subtle clues misdirect the audience to the jaw-dropping conclusion.

Paramount Movie Classics include live Wurlitzer organ serenade, Dec-O-Win rafï¬&#x201A;e, newsreel, cartoon and previews.

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2025 Broadway, Oakland

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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.

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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

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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.

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L#113452., September 14, 21, 28 and October 5th 2011 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Date of Filing Application: September 6, 2011. To Whom It May Concern: The name of the applicant is: Chevys Restraurants LLC . The applicant listed above is applying to The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 3251 20th Ave, STE 182, San Francisco CA 94132-1918. Type of License Applied for: 47 - ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE . Publication dates: September 21, 2011 L#113453 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: CNC-11-547977.

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Endorsed Filed San Francisco County Superior Court on August 9, 2011 by Param Natt, Deputy Clerk. Publication dates: September 21, 28, October 5, 12 2011. L#113429<*rb(.25, 0, K, 100%, 0, 0, 1.7 pt)> 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

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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.

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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.

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