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OPINION When Mayor Ed Lee announced in February 2011 that he understood both the critical importance and the severe dangers inherent in the current bicycle infrastructure along the dual three-block stretches of Fell and Oak between Scott and Baker, a shot went through the community of people who had worked for so long to bring awareness to this troubled path.

Finally, it seemed, we had a mayor who understood that if San Francisco was serious about living up to its own nearly 40-year-old pledge to be a transit-first city, a narrow bike lane sandwiched between parked cars and fast-moving traffic on Fell Street and a complete absence of any bicycle infrastructure on Oak simply wouldn’t do.

Finally, we had a mayor who wouldn’t be satisfied with mere

Sometimes I love my Internet trolls. Not very often — mostly, the anonymous folks who call me a success-hating commie who’s just jealous because he wasn’t smart enough to start Facebook seem to come from somewhere far to the right of San Francisco. And they’re rude. And they won’t give their names. And fuck all of you, ya know?

But someone came along the other day and made a comment that so perfectly summarizes everything that’s wrong with American political economics today that I just wanted to wave it around like a flag and tell everyone: This is it. This is the problem we’re facing. Wrapped up in two perfect sentences.

I had written a blog about how little tax Mark Zuckerberg will pay on his massive wealth when Facebook goes public.

According to the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Zuckerberg intends to exercise $5 billion worth of stock options (out of $28 billion he will own). If he does that, he’ll pay almost 40 percent in state and federal taxes — that’s $2 billion — making him perhaps the single largest taxpayer in US history.

But he may never pay a penny of tax on the other $23 billion.

So his actual effective tax rate is about 7 percent — far less than even low-income Americans typically pay.

Now, my trolls complained that I hate America and all that, and they said taxes are too high anyway. Then came this, from someone named DanO: “I can’t get too upset about a guy’s tax rate when he has already dedicated the bulk of his fortune to worthwhile causes. In this case, I have more faith in Z getting his money into beneficial hands than I do the State of CA.” There — right there. That’s the Republican mantra, going back to Ronald Reagan: American families know what to do with their money better than the government (that’s gummint to you) does. Better to let the rich give their money to charity than to tax it and let the corrupt politicians give it away.

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Saving money on sunshine EDITORIAL We hate to keep picking on Scott Wiener, who is a polite guy who always takes our calls and takes public policy seriously.

He’s got an extensive legislative agenda — good for him — and he’s effective at getting bills passed. We’re with him on nightlife, and even on nudity towels in the Castro.

But he’s been taking on some more disturbing causes of late — he’s managed to tighten the rules for the use of Harvey Milk Plaza and now he’s asking for an audit of the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force that looks at how much each city department spends responding to sunshine requests.

We’re not against audits or government efficiency, but this could lead to a lot of mischief.

There are plenty of problems with the task force, which hears complaints against city agencies that are denying the public access to documents. The biggest picks

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problem is that the task force has no enforcement authority — when the members find an agency or official to have willfully defied the law, the best they can do is turn those findings over to the Ethics Commission, which simply drops the case.

Nobody ever gets charged with anything or gets in any trouble for refusing to follow what every public official in town piously insists is an excellent law.

And yeah, the meetings run long, and sometimes city employees have to sit around for hours waiting for their cases to come up.

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public spending — through the use of the Sunshine Ordinance.

Nor is anyone talking about the immense amount of time activists and journalists have to spend fighting over records that should have been public in the first place — or how much money the Task Force has saved the city by creating a forum for resolving these issues out of court.

We can see the outcome here: The audit will show some large number, some cash amount with a bunch of zeros behind it, and the Chronicle will run a big headline about the high cost of this sunshine bureaucracy — and someone will suggest we find ways to streamline the process by clipping the task force’s wings.

That’s the wrong approach — particularly when there’s a much easier answer. Why not do what sunshine activists have suggested for years — make electronic copies of every document created by any city agency and post them in a database on the web? No more secrecy, no more hassle. It’s easy — if anyone at City Hall is serious about saving money on sunshine requests. 2

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The community of people who had waited nearly 40 years for the city to live up to its own word kept on waiting throughout 2011, patiently allowing the Municipal Transportation Agency to perform its due diligence, attending multiple public meetings in the hundreds, and delivering a resounding verdict: bring us our separated bike lanes. Make this neighborhood a better place to live. Begin the long work of preparing our city for a way of living SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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that doesn’t center around the automobile.

With the public process complete and the calendar turning to nearly one year since Lee called for the MTA to “move quickly” to create separated bike lanes on Fell and Oak, the MTA handed down a jarring announcement.

The Fell and Oak Bikeways were being delayed because the agency needed to take extra time to do all that could be done to find nearby replacements for the 80 parking spots set to be removed for the bike lanes.

That’s right — in a city that has for 40 years had an explicit policy of giving preference to transit options that weren’t the automobile, in a city that, nevertheless, has over 440,000 public parking spots and zero safe, accessible bike routes from the east side of town to the west, the creation of a separated bikeway that the vast majority of the community wants, and that the mayor’s own newly appointed District Supervisor, Christina Olague, is in support of, was being delayed by nearly a year so that the loss of private automobile parking would be as small as possible.

How does this happen? In a word: fear. The mayor and MTA are afraid of ruffling a few feathers to do what they know is right.

Cities like New York, Portland and Minneapolis are leapfrogging us in building the cities of tomorrow. Chicago is creating 100 miles of separated bike lanes in the next four years. Don’t call us America’s Greenest City — you’re thinking of the San Francisco of 40 years ago. 2 Morgan Fitzgibbons is co-founder of the Wigg Party. editor’s notes CONT>>

I feel as if I’m being transported back to the Middle Ages, when the noble king, the monarch of the realm, would upon occasion grant a boon to his loyal subjects — maybe free some peasant farmer of his debts, or hand out a few extra barrels of mead. Drink up, commoners, then kneel and bow to your lord.

Representative democracy sucks, and tax money is wasted and decisions by elected officials are often wrong. But it’s still better than living under economic monarchy, no matter how bountiful is the grace of our masters. 2

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By Luke Thomas news@sfbg.com A complicated civil lawsuit alleging corruption and fraud and involving several prominent current and former city officials — including Mayor Ed Lee, who took the witness stand to discuss actions he took as city purchaser a decade ago — could end up costing city taxpayers as much as $10 million.

City and County of San Francisco vs. Cobra Solutions and Telecon was being deliberated by jurors in Superior Court at press time. It centers on a fraud and kickback scheme engineered by convicted felon Marcus Armstrong, a former Department of Building Inspection information technology manager who bilked the city out of at least $482,000 between 1999 and 2001 (see “Dirty Business,” 2/8/11).

His scheme was exposed by an FBI investigation following a whistleblower’s complaints in September 2001 that sub-contractors were not being paid.

The City Attorney’s Office accused Cobra Solutions of participating in Armstrong’s fraud, but Cobra’s owners denied being part of the scheme and they say their business was wrongfully damaged when their contracts were frozen by city officials.

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Cobra Solutions to use the phony sub-contractor companies to provide technology services to the city’s Computer Store (a list of approved contractors) under an agreement awarded to Cobra by the Committee on Information Technology (COIT). It also partnered with another company alleged by the city to be fraudulent, Government Computer Sales, Inc. (GCSI), whose principals fled and whose whereabouts are unknown.

Cobra Solutions founder and president James Brady had raised questions about Armstrong as early as 2000, questions that triggered an unfruitful investigation by the city.

Brady maintained in court testimony that Cobra, unaware of Armstrong’s fraud, relied on him to sign off on work services that Armstrong’s phony companies were supposed to have supplied to the city.

The Computer Store was set up by then-Purchaser Ed Lee under the administration of then-Mayor Willie Brown to centralize technology procurement across departments. Mayor Lee was deposed in the case and called to the witness stand on Feb. 6, where he said he awarded Cobra Solutions the highest-rated ranking among several vendors being evaluated by COIT for master contract award status. Each of the other city evaluators, including Deputy Controller Monique Zmuda, also ranked Cobra the top service provider.

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with Armstrong to defraud the City out of $240,000. Deborah Vincent James — then-director of COIT and now deceased — testified in a pre-trial deposition that GCSI was “fraudulent,” that city staffers recommended against certifying the company, and that it was only awarded master contract status because of its political ties to Brown, who directed Lee to overrule the staff recommendation. In his deposition, Lee claimed he could not remember GCSI. Vincent-James and former Purchasing Directory Judith Blackwell forwarded whistleblower complaints about GCSI to the City Attorney’s Office in early 2001, but neither that office nor the Controller’s Office acted on the complaints until GCSI had gone bankrupt and GCSI’s owners, two foreign nationals, had disappeared.

Of note, Lee was not questioned about his and Brown’s involvement in awarding GCSI its master contract status in 1998. Time restrictions placed on attorneys by Judge James McBride limited the scope of witness examinations, so the most politically explosive charges went largely unexplored in court.

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Herrera demanded an audit of Cobra which Cobra refused, citing a conflict of interest. Herrera had previously represented Cobra in private practice before he was elected City Attorney in 2001.

A trial court ruled in July 2003 that Herrera had a conflict of interest, disqualifying Herrera and his office from participating in the Cobra case, a ruling later upheld by the California Supreme Court. Yet the suit alleges Herrera and his office continued to supply work to various City agencies and to effectively prevent Cobra from doing further business with city. By withholding the $2 million Cobra was owed by the City, COIT was able to debar Cobra from entering into master contract agreements with the city, claiming Cobra was fiscally “non-responsible,” according to court testimony.

Blackwell, in her testimony at trial, said the determination of Cobra’s non-responsibility was used as a “pretext” for Cobra’s debarment, a procedure that should have triggered a hearing to allow Cobra to defend itself against debarment.

That never happened.

An FBI investigation into Armstrong’s kickback scheme resulted in Armstrong pleading guilty to mail fraud, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice in July 2003. No criminal charges were ever brought against Cobra Solutions or Telecon and yet the city’s outside law firm, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP, which tried the case on behalf of the city, held on to the city’s allegation of fraud committed by Cobra and Telecon throughout the case and trial until closing arguments on Feb. 9.

In his closing arguments, attorney Ara Jabagchourian made no mention of Telecon, effectively dropping the city’s claims against Telecon, and constricted the city’s damage claims against Cobra. He asked the jury to award the city up to $266,000, money paid to Cobra for work authorized and signed-off by the city, via Armstrong, for breaching a provision in the contract agreement between the city and Cobra that requires the master contractor to “supervise” sub-contractors.

But Cobra’s lawyers — the firm of Gonzalez & Leigh, which includes former Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez, who took a leave from his current job as deputy public defender to consult on the case — says it is the city that should pay for fatally harming a business without just cause.

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Herrera canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t comment on the case, but his office previously told the Guardian, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Immediately upon discovery of Cobraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role, the office screened Herrera off from further involvement in the investigation and all matters related to it in accordance with a stringent ethical screening policy Herrera established when he took office.â&#x20AC;?

Then-City Controller Ed Harrington, who exerted significant influence over contract awards and debarment proceedings as chair of COIT, conceded in court testimony that internal controls failed to detect Armstrongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scheme. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the case of Marcus Armstrong, the control within the city failed and the control within Cobra failed,â&#x20AC;? Harrington, now head of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told the court. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had both controls in place. If they had worked, the city would have been protected. Both failed.â&#x20AC;?

Cobra is seeking damages for breach of contract (the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to pay monies owed Cobra), and civil rights due process violations in connection with the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apparent conspiracy to bar Cobra from doing further business with the city.

A business valuation expert testified Cobra Solutions was valued between $5.2 million and $8.8 million based on future lost profits from the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debarment. With attorney fees and court costs, the city could be on the hook for as much as $10 million.

The city has subsequently established more stringent controls as it relates to the authorization of work assigned to master contractors and sub-contractors.

The jury was expected to resume deliberations on Feb. 14 and deliver its verdict by weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end.

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By Steven t. JoneS steve@sfbg.com San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future is in the process of being written, once again using lines of computer code and blips on the screens of electronic gadgets, the same as during the last dot-com boom. Its proponents insist it will be different this time â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that Boom 2.0 wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t displace the working class, that the bubble wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t burst â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but critics have their doubts.

After all, the city completely screwed up the last boom by favoring flashy tech development and growth over the needs of existing, often vulnerable residents. There are already signs that displacement is creeping back, rents are soaring housing prices are driving people out of town â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and even the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own economist admits that nobody knows whether the tax-cut driven development will pay for itself.

In many ways, Zendesk, which recently moved to the area, is a poster child for the main obsession of Mayor Ed Lee and other city leaders, who are pushing policies that will make San Francisco the center of a new high-tech expansion. They hope to use that economic growth to create good jobs and address challenges such as revitalizing the midMarket area.

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Lee and Sups. David Chiu and Jane Kim a year ago led the creation of a business-tax exclusion zone intended to keep Twitter from leaving town. The companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planned growth and relocation to mid-Market, they argued, would be a magnet for more tech companies.

The city would give up payroll taxes on the new jobs and provide other taxpayer-financed incentives â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but big companies in the zone would be required to enter into community benefits agreements that would help low-income residents and small businesses benefit from the influx of well-paid tech workers.

In fact, a Guardian review of documents (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Behind the tweets,â&#x20AC;?

3/15/11) found that Twitter resisted the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to get a substantial community benefits package, and that deal was pushed back to a later time. The agreement isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually due until the company occupies the new site, and Twitter officials are upbeat about their interactions.

Twitter spokesperson Robert Weeks told us by email that the company is working with others to improve mid-Market: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Based on early meetings weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having with various entities, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great collective energy that can bring positive change to the neighborhood.â&#x20AC;?

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pany that makes help-desk support software from an airy third floor office near Market and Sixth streets â&#x20AC;&#x201D; seems to be offering a lot to the gritty neighborhood where it opened up shop last year. In January, Zendesk became the first company to take advantage of the tax break and sign a community benefits agreement with the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is about forming a longstanding relationship with the neighborhood,â&#x20AC;? said Tiffany Maleshefski, the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community benefits manager who negotiated with the city.

The agreement has both general goals and a number of specific requirements. The company will contribute $5,000 to mid-Market community gardens, use local businesses for at least 40 percent of its events, hire two paid interns from the neighborhood, donate equipment to local groups, coordinate several specific outreach events a year, help staff the Tenderloin Tech Lab, and participate in local nonprofit organizations and ventures.

Avoiding payroll taxes on the 66 new employees itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hired will save the company about $30,000 in its first year, Maleshefski said, and the company plans to grow from about 110 employees in San Francisco now up to about 200 employees by the end of the year.

But CEO Mikkel Svane told us the tax break wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a big factor in choosing this location. He knew they wanted to be in San Francisco and he just liked the space. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people here want to be a part of a dynamic culture and not on a big campus in Silicon Valley,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a technology company, being here where everything is happening is important.â&#x20AC;?

And even though the new bubble has yet to reach its full proportions, small businesses and nonprofits in the area are already finding landlords jacking up rents in anticipation of the well-heeled new arrivals.

As with the last dot-com boom, some people are going to make a lot of money and spend it around town, and some of it will probably trickle down to the rest of us. But what price will the city and its residents pay for that bump, and what kind of city will this become? Have we really learned anything from the disaster of the first tech boom?

Dueling economiStS The question of whether this tech bubble â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and Mayor Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus on jobs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is good for San Francisco involves many realms, but at its center is a question of economics. Does

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Even with a 70 percent tax rates, these folks would still be filthy, stinking rich.

it make economic sense to offer public subsidies and other incentives to boost the tech sector?

We consulted three San Francisco economists with expertise on the situation and a range of perspectives: Tapan Munroe, a business-oriented economist and the author of DotCom to Dot-Bomb: Understanding the Dot-Com Boom, Bust, and Resurgence; Peter Donohue, a longtime consultant to cities and unions and principal of PBI Associates; and Ted Egan, the city’s economist.

“I think San Francisco is sitting pretty right now,” Munroe said, noting that tech companies and employees are naturally drawn to this vibrant, culturally rich city.

“Young people like to be in San Francisco more than the Silicon Valley...It’s such a unique place, we are so fortunate to live here.”

Monroe said San Francisco is in a league of its own and it doesn’t really have any direct competitors in the region, so tax breaks and other incentives to lure businesses here don’t make much of a difference.

High rents and living costs are a factor, he said, but “the main thing the city can provide is quality of life.”

He also doesn’t believe this current tech bubble is going to burst like last time, when the Internet was still new and venture capitalists were throwing money at every kid with a good idea or cool URL. “We’re not seeing anything like that this time,” he said. “Last time, people went crazy.”

This time around, the seemingly crazy stock valuations on tech companies might make more sense: “The global economy is very much being guided by mobile technology.

The world is moving to mobility so the valuations have some justification,” he said.

But he added: “The market will speak. If they can’t make money in the next five years, they’ll be gone.”

That’s precisely the concern that many people have voiced, that Twitter will avoid paying taxes to the city as it beefs up and goes public — creating another litter of young millionaires in the process — and that it may fold before its six-year tax holiday ends, leaving little in city coffers. And along the way, the bubble will raise rents and displace the working class.

“Rising prices displace people, that’s just a fact of life,” Monroe said. “That’s the way the market works, but it has social impacts.”

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San Francisco’s new gazillionaires will keep most of their wealth while the public sector shrinks

By Tim Redmond tredmond@sfbg.com Eight of the people who are projected to attain great wealth from Facebook’s initial public stock offering live in San Francisco, and — based on their stock ownership and the projected market capitalization — three are expected to become billionaires. That would bring the total number of billionaires to 19 in a city that can’t house its homeless and can’t adequately fund its schools and has to rent out the parks to raise cash.

The tax law for stock compensation, stock options, and vested stock options is immensely complicated. In general, Leo Martinez, a tax-law professor at Hastings Law School, told me that if a company pays its employees in stock, they have to pay income tax — the same as if the stock were cash — on the value of the stock at the time.

If the stock options don’t actually become the property of the employee until after, say, an IPO, then they aren’t taxable until then.

But often, stock options aren’t taxable at all until they’re exercised. Tax lawyer David S. Miller noted in a Feb. 7 New York Times story that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg plans to exercise $5 billion in options, meaning he might have a tax bill of roughly $2 billion. That sounds like a lot, except that the total worth of his stock will be close to $28 billion — and he may not have to pay any taxes at all on that at all until he sells it — if he ever does.

So much of his wealth will be income-tax free, and his effective tax rate will be about 7 percent

— far lower than most workingclass Americans pay.

And if Zuckerberg or his heirs sell some of that stock later, the profit will be taxed as a capital gain — at a much lower tax rate.

For much of the 20th Century, high incomes were taxed at relatively high rates. In the World War II era and the post-war years, marginal tax rates on the richest people reached as high as 91 percent, but they were typically in the 70 percent range. Capital gains taxes — on money earned not through labor but by selling off investments at a profit — were as high as 39.5 percent.

But now the highest federal income tax rate is 35 percent. The highest earners in California pay about 10 percent in combined state and local taxes. And the highest combined state and federal capital gains tax is about 25 percent.

Of course, the very rich always manage to park their money in tax shelters and find ways not to pay even the relatively modest taxes that they owe. Some of the Facebook stock will be given to foundations or put in trusts that will protect it from most tax liability.

So at maximum, these new 1 percenters will by paying about 45 percent on their money, and most will pay a lot less. On average, it would be shocking if many of them paid more than the 25 percent capital gains tab on their total wealth; some will pay far less than that.

If the very rich were taxed at a fair rate — say, income of more than $20 million (including capital gains) was taxed at 70 percent — the public would see a huge revenue boom at the state and federal level. And the rich people would still be very, very rich.

We’ve done a chart of who San Francisco’s new members of the 1 percent are and how much they are (or aren’t) paying in taxes at a time of huge federal deficits and desperate money shortages in state and local government. We’ve assumed that every one of these people will ultimately pay 25 percent in state and federal income taxes — which, given the Zuckerberg example, is highly unlikely. So our figures on what the public is losing are very conservative. Then we looked at what they would pay if stock grants and capital gains of more than $20 million were taxed at 70 percent.

Guess what? Even with a 70 percent tax rate, even if the IPO winners were taxed the day the stock went public, every one of the Facebook peter thiel Eight would be $2.55 billion filthy, stinking rich, with more money than they could ever spend in a lifetime, more than their kids could spend.

Their grandkids would never have to work. These $1.785 billion are huge fortunes, and after reasonwhat he’ll keep: able taxes, they’d $765 million still be huge fortunes. 2

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$2.38 billion what he’ll keep: $1.02 billion

$1.275 billion what he’ll keep: $1.275 billion

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what he’ll keep: $510 million

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what he’ll keep: $510 million

Minimum amount the taxpaying public is losing (if every one of these eight actually paid capital gains tax on all of their stock): $6.063 billion (enough to pay 80,000 teachers). And that’s for just eight people.

Source: Facebook SEC filing, Whoownsfacebook.com; sean parker photo by andrew mager; matt cohler photo by Eirik Solheim; Reid Hoffman photo by Robert Scoble

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San Francisco but a certain brand speculative, monopolistic capitalism that is being aggressively pushed by a handful of wealthy investors and their political partners.

In the latest Harper’s Magazine cover story, “Killing the Competition: How the new monopolies are destroying open markets,” writer Barry Lynn argues that the consolidation of wealth and dismantling of fair trade and pro-labor laws has allowed the Bay Area tech industry to unfairly dominate small competitors and control the labor market.

That trend has been masked by political euphemisms that fool the public. “Corporate monopoly? Let’s just call that the ‘free market.’ The political ravages of corporate power?

Those could be recast as the essentially benign workings of ‘market forces,’” Lynn wrote.

Donohue has been calling out such rhetoric for decades. He told us the city’s economic development policies are mostly a boon to politically connected landlords and investors, and there’s been remarkably little discussion at City Hall about gentrification, increased demand for

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city services, or other problems created by economic bubbles.

“People say it’s different this time, but they say that every time.

It’s not different,” Donohue told us.

He said economic bubbles usually hurt the poor and working class by driving up the cost of living. And he also said, “Even the most conservative economists don’t like the idea of subsidizing businesses because they think it’s a distortion of the market.”

Yet the “jobs” rhetoric and assumption that government should actively promote and subsidize the private sector has broad support in City Hall these days, even though Donohue said few people are stopping to ask whether a new tech bubble is actually good for the city.

“When you bring a lot of people into an area, you’re going to create a demand for public services,” Donohue said. “I don’t think anyone has done a very good assessment of what this will cost the city.”

Donohue worked on a political campaign in the mid-’80s to require a study of the costs to the city of serving commercial growth that was occurring in the Financial District at the time, but he said it was bitterly opposed by then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein and her downtown allies.

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“Nobody seems to want to know what that figure is,” Donohue said.

“Nobody at City Hall is even asking the question.”

City Economist Ted Egan confirmed that his analysis of the mid-Market tax break and other economic development schemes don’t include the cost of increased demands on city services. “I’ve never dealt directly with that argument,” Egan told us.

Based on his assumption that Twitter’s move to the SF Mart building (owned by the politically connected Shorenstein family) on Market between Ninth and 10th Streets will fill up commercial vacancies throughout the area and generate increased sales, property, and payroll taxes, Egan concluded the city will more than make up for the lost business tax revenue over the long run.

He minimized the importance of costs to the city, such as increased police or sanitation services, and impacts to city infrastructure from water and sewer to roads and public transit. “It can’t be that running more transit is bad in a transit-first city,” Egan said, noting the relatively fixed cost of operating a Muni station.

Yet Donohue and others say the

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fact that the city and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency have huge budget deficits to close every year, even after years of cutting services and raising fees, indicates the city has a structural budget deficit that will only get worse as growth places more demands on government.

“I don’t think these things are well-thought-through, ever,” Donohue said.

Lee, Kim, and representatives from the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development didn’t return our calls, but Chiu did and he said he believes in actively courting the tech industry with public incentives: “My support for these policies is a belief that it will broadly benefit San Franciscans.”

Yet when asked why the city doesn’t consider its costs or the impacts of rising rents and living costs, Chiu spoke only in generalities, saying that he’s been engaged in many recent meetings “to make sure we do heed the lessons of the last tech boom and make sure a rising tide lifts all boats.”

Rising tide One of the most obvious negative impacts of the last tech boom was

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residents, nonprofits, and small businesses being hurt by rising rents and other costs, and there are some indications that’s already happening again.

The director of a venerable local nonprofit in the mid-Market area that is in the process of renewing its office lease told us their landlord is trying to nearly double the rent of $18 a square foot. “There’s all this venture capital now and people are willing to pay $33 per square foot, so landlords are just seeing green,” said the director, who asked not to be identified because negotiations are ongoing. “The speculation is hitting us big time. The neighborhood is all aTwitter, and they’re treating us like junk mail.”

Egan said he predicted those rising rents, but he didn’t think they would happen so quickly. “In principal, it doesn’t surprise me, but it does surprise me that it’s happened that far and that fast,” Egan said.

“The idea was to create employment, rather than rising rents.”

Chiu said he was also surprised.

“Jane Kim and I very much want to monitor the situation. We will look into city policies that will mitigate this trend,” he said. When asked what the city can do, he made

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several vague statements before saying, “If we’re serious about diversity, we may want to talk about rent subsidies at some point.”

That would be one more cost to the city, adding to a toll that Donohue and others say is being ignored. Chiu, Egan, and other city officials seem to think growth is the only way forward. As Egan said, “If we don’t do development in a city like San Francisco, what happens?”

But others say San Francisco should take care of its own first to maintain the city’s diversity. Asked what the city’s approach to economic development should be, Donohue said, “I’d presume you want to serve the people who live here already.”

It was an idea echoed by Chris Daly, who was a housing activist during the last dot-com bubble before being part of wave of progressive politicians its backlash propelled onto the Board of Supervisors. He is now political director for SEIU Local 1021, which represents city workers.

“If your priority is to care for the fabric of the city as it’s been built, you invest in what’s here now,” Daly told us. “My view is when the city courts the high-tech industry to try to jumpstart the city’s economy, there are significant ramifications to what kind of city you’re building.”

Local progressive activists, people who often work to counter the impacts of those who see San Francisco as simply a place to make money, agree that there is a perverse logic at play these days.

“We already have more jobs than people,” said Marc Salomon, a computer programmer and longtime community activist, noting that the city has about 800,000 residents and about 1.3 million people who work here. “And we have lots of unemployed San Franciscans, and we have a budget deficit.”

Tom Radulovich, executive director of Livable City, said the simplistic rhetoric coming out of City Hall masks the more complex realities that the city faces. “When they say ‘jobs,’ everyone’s critical thinking sensibilities are supposed to shut off,” Radulovich said Rather than focusing solely on whether a proposal creates private sector jobs, he said that a more complete analysis involves what he calls the “three Es: equity, environment, and economy.” In other words, does the proposal have broad, leveling benefits (equity), what are its impacts to the natural and built worlds (environment), and what are its fiscal implications (economy).

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From armed forces recruitment, educational opportunities — your Internet is profiling you

By Caitlin Donohue caitlin@sfbg.com Something to make you feel better about all your compulsive newsfeed scanning: Facebook is watching you, too. And just like you as you click through so-and-so’s party photos from last weekend, it’s getting judge-y.

“One of the things we’re concerned about, as we have an increasingly tailored Internet experience, is whether people with certain backgrounds experience a different Internet than other folks,” says Rainey Reitman, activism director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in a phone interview with the Guardian. Her organization is a Bay Area-based Internet rights group that defends online privacy, free speech, and consumer rights through law, activism, and policy work. “Online marketers use invisible tracking mechanisms to create a virtual portrait of someone and show them advertisements based on that,” Reitman says.

Social networking sites and search engines like Google have in their electronic possession inordinate amounts of our personal information, obviously. The location of our IP addresses, our educational backgrounds, the most intimate details of what TV shows we enjoy, how often we contact our family — the list goes on. And many sites use that data to sell you things.

But it’s not just consumer issues. Health insurance companies can obtain access to the records on some sites — a Feb. 4 New York Times op-ed by law professor Lori Andrews suggested that searches we conduct on medical conditions can lead to raised premiums. Our credit limits can be affected by spending patterns tracked by websites, and there’s the well-known employer practice of performing web searches to screen job applicants.

As we add to our online identities, we become the

subject of what is known as “weblining” — specific targeting based on our patterns of Internet usage.

Over the past week, I tracked the ads that Facebook fed me. Many were site-specific — San Francisco arts and culture listings (a good bet for advertisers, given the amount of events I view on a daily basis). There was a wine delivery service, an invitation to a 1920s-style speakeasy, announcements of free gym memberships, my collegiate alma mater’s ceaseless plugs for cash, and the tantalizing whiffs of various graduate school programs.

This last category is a part of what should give us pause about the intense specialization of our Internet experience. The average American, according to a December 2011 survey by Forrester

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Research, spends 13 hours a week on the Internet — roughly the same amount we spend watching TV. And even if you don’t think that the ads that lurk on the edges of our vision for 13 hours a week will affect our behavior, there are other ways our Internet morphs to fit companies’ expectations of us. Search results, for example, vary between web surfers — Google’s been tailoring them since 2009.

A college graduate with a professional job in a creative field, I am being fed graduate school ads by my social network of choice. But not everyone’s seeing their opportunities for an advanced degree in sustainability. The Army advertises on Facebook.

I don’t see those ads, but who does? Who gets the farmer’s market directory ads and who sees McDonald’s latest deal? You can see where I’m going with this. In the 2011 book The Filter Bubble (Penguin Books, 294 pp, )author Eli Pariser talks about how weblining can lead to a more isolating Internet that doesn’t live up to its promise as a place where we can go to learn about anything.

But, says Reitman, there are ways to fight the system. By supporting her organization, for one: EFF pushes websites from Facebook to Google to OkCupid to clarify who gets to see your data, tighten up chinks in your privacy armor, and delete people’s information promptly when it all gets to be too much and they opt out of a network entirely. Currently, the group is working on a campaign to encourage the government to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a dinosaur piece of legislation that was created in 1986 — a time when we hardly could have imagined the multifarious ways we live online today.

You can also opt out of certain attempts to track you easily by going to the Do Not Track site (donottrack.us), an online relative of the Do Not Call directory. My Google Chrome doesn’t support the service — but that didn’t come as any surprise. Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari do, however. And for a more free and open search function, check out DuckDuckGo (www.duckduckgo.com), a search engine that eschews cookies and does not save your search history or personal information. 2

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Somehow, we thought we’d timed it perfectly. We’d saved up for decades (or at least my husband had — I’m a writer).

We’ve lived in San Francisco for close to 20 years, sometimes holding down three jobs at a time and spending every available hour enmeshing ourselves in the cultural fabric of the city. Mortgage rates are insanely low; credit is loosening up again.

We’re not looking for anything extra-fancy, just somewhere with a little charm to finally set down financial roots and maybe even have enough room to start a family.

So boring! And yet, in the era of Zynga and Facebook ... so seemingly impossible.

Hunky Beau and I have spent the last year looking for a two-bedroom condo, and it has been hilarious. Sometimes Three Stooges hilarious, like when open houses are so mobbed you almost catch picks

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a flying checkbook in the eye. Sometimes Saturday Night Live hilarious, like the broker who introduced himself with, “If you know what gentrification means, then you’ll know the rapidly gentrifying Bayview neighborhood might be for you!”

But mostly The Office hilarious, like the time we excitedly put in a bid on a place right after the open house, only to be told there were seven bids already in, three of them $50,000-plus above asking, two all cash. Sad honk.

Of course, we’re being a little fussy.

If my husband and I are going to spend more than half a million for somewhere to live in San Francisco — and $500K is pretty much the base price here for a non-studio condo — then we want it to be situated somewhere we can bike to work in less than 30 minutes, easily accessible by Muni or within stumbling distance of the clubs, and built before 1940 with some charm intact. We may not be rich but,

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dammit, we’re still gay. (Dear quickie-flip contractors: whoever told you all to slap horrid sandstone travertine tile into every bathroom and kitchen was wrong in the 1990s, and still is.)

And yes, we’re small potatoes, too, and definitely more fortunate than most: I moved here when a tragic confluence of AIDS, earthquake, recession, and urban population incarceration made San Francisco real estate cheap, and it’s only by virtue of a rent controlled apartment, one I’ve been basically trapped in since the first Internet Boom raised rents skyhigh, that I’ve been able to stay in the city I love. Yet it’s become especially obvious in the past three or four months — since Zynga went public in fact, and Facebook announced its IPO — that the market has become almost absurdly competitive.

Paula Gold-Nocella, managing broker at Vanguard Properties, confirmed my observations. “On top of the

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notoriously low inventory that’s part of the winter season here, we’re seeing an incredible interest due to recent technology developments,” she said in a phone interview. “With Twitter moving in downtown, Saleforce, the Facebook IPO announcement ... the seller’s market is especially hot right now. I have a broker down the Peninsula who’s fielding offers where they’re waiving the inspection contingency. And some sellers are most likely waiting to see what happens with Facebook. It’s kind of a perfect storm that’s brewing.”

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a time of a lot of uncertainty for the medical marijuana (although you could make a compelling argument that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never been on completely solid footing). Various tactics are being taken to shore up its legality, including a passel of proposed ballot initiatives that have varying chances of presenting themselves to California voters in November, from bids to legalize weed entirely to proposals for a statewide regulatory body for the existing medical system. Hey, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even reality TV shows (the Discovery Channelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Weed Wars, which focused on Oaklandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Harborside Health Center) out there on which earnest dispensary staffers let the United States public in on just how above-board working in a cannabis center can be.

Henry Wykowski is not a signature collector. Nor is he a television producer. Wykowski is actually a San Francisco-based trial attorney, one that specializes in the field of cannabis tax law. This fact makes him the perfect candidate for the endeavor he is currently embarking on: to kickstart a nationwide campaign to convince the federal government to change a part of the national tax code that disallows cannabis dispensaries from deducting business expenses on their taxes. The offending tax code Section 280E was recently harnessed by the IRS to demand $2.4 million from Harborside in â&#x20AC;&#x153;owedâ&#x20AC;? taxes (Wykowski represented Californians Helping to Alleviate Medical

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Problems in a similar case in 2007, in which a court decided that business expenses were deductible for cannabis dispensaries except where they pertained to the actual dispensing of marijuana).

How does Wykowski hope to enthuse a nation over tax code quibbles? The Guardian contacted him via email to find out. His answers were somewhat tax lawyerly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which definitely doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t applaud his efforts.

San Francisco Bay Guardian: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the goal of the 280E reform campaign? henry Wykowski: To have IRS Section 280E modified to exclude state authorized medical cannabis dispensaries. 280E was instituted to deprive drug dealers from being able to deduct their business expenses before any states passed laws authorizing the sale of medical marijuana.

There are now 16 states and the District of Columbia that have authorized the use of medical marijuana. It was not intended to deprive dispensaries of the right to deduct ordinary and necessary expenses and should not be used to do so.

SFBG: How do you plan to make this campaign go forward? hW: By letting people know that there is an organized effort to change this punitive provision and enlisting their support in doing so.

SFBG: Do you imagine itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be difficult to get people behind an imitative to change the tax code? hW: No. The majority of people support the legalization of medical cannabis. Once the patients and other supporters learn that the unfair application of 280E could tax dispensaries out of business, the support will come. Right now most people arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t aware of Section 280E or its potential consequences.

SFBG: How will you activate people that arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cannabisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; traditional base? Will you need to? hW: By getting the message out. We welcome everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support. 2 Find out more about Wykowskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign at www.280ereform.org

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The actual soundtrack is more Johnny Cash than John Coltrane: this fits the casual, toned-down setting, with pegboard walls and a front kitchen where cooks greet your arrival. After multiple visits since the restaurant opened two months ago, the staff remembers me, and Brioza is up front with a warm welcome.

A short, thoughtful selection of bottled beers, teas, wines by the glass, and rotating house lassis (fennel salted yogurt, coconut milk persimmon) helps orient visitors. And for those who fear the unknown, the menu lists a handful of â&#x20AC;&#x153;mainâ&#x20AC;? dishes. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d recommend you go elsewhere if you want predictability. God knows thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than enough comfort food and traditional menus out there.

The joy of State Bird is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unlike anywhere else. I find larger plates satisfying, even habit-forming, particularly the must-order CA State Bird (a quail, in case you were wondering). This is the one carryover from Briozaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rubicon days, the bird crusted in pumpkin seeds and cumin. But small plates offer the wider range of thrills. I am reluctant to even use the played-out term â&#x20AC;&#x153;small plates,â&#x20AC;? so keep that free-flowing, dim sum spirit in mind. Most dishes fall within the $5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$9 range, and everything on the menu is roughly $2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$18. When one adds up the final check, the variety is amazing given the per person price (on my visits, $30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$40 without drink).

In any case, a full printed list wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do the dishes justice. Take, for example, the basic-sounding seven pepper flatbread with oxtail (peppers used include long pepper and madras). Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen a lot of oxtail and even more flatbread. This one is different. Upon first visit, the flaky, twisted bread, which forms a bit of bowl in which to pour braised, tender oxtail, transported me to Eastern Europe. It recalled crispy, fried langos bread from my travels in Hungary. (Chef Nick Balla at Bar Tartine does a top notch langos, by the way.). It speaks to the depth of Briozaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s influences and talent that a dish could evoke tradition while being one-of-a-kind. By my next visit, the dish shifted in shape, now topped with lentils and cream. This time its spice profile conjured Morocco and Spain, another time India. Whatever the incarnation, this may be my favorite.

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Bites (less than $6) are equally interesting. Celery root curd shows up in different ways: in a raw chicken â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;salad,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; bright with Buddhaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand citrus, or in a jar of creamy smoked sturgeon and sea urchin.

Krasinski extends the inspiration to unusual desserts, sometimes with welcome savory notes. Twodollar shots of peanut milk gently sweetened with muscovado (an unrefined brown sugar) are imperative. They call it â&#x20AC;&#x153;world peaceâ&#x20AC;? peanut milk because of the happy feelings it invokes. Milk chocolate and sesame mix with candied clementines and cocoa jam, the clincher being a crispy little wafer of chocolate, sesame, and tahini. Pear brandy and long pepper make winning companions in sabayon form -- a finish on a high note. 2 STATE Bird ProViSionS 1529 Fillmore, SF. www.statebirdsf.com

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By L.E. LEonE le.chicken.farmer@gmail.com CHEAP EATS Yeah, ever since they shot Prop 8 tentatively down, I have had to hire grad students and interns to sift through all the marriage proposals. Their job is to weed out the ones with typos in them, suspected vegetarians, those that contain the words â&#x20AC;&#x153;growthâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;cicadas,â&#x20AC;? and most importantly any that arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t from Hedgehog, the dyke of my dreams.

As you might imagine, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grueling work. And since Hedgehog is not one to repeat herself, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;slush pileâ&#x20AC;? is rapidly taking over our apartment.

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Meanwhile, I think I understand now why the queers I play flag football with in San Francisco hate the idea of ever playing co-ed. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always saying, at our under-if-at-all-attended practices out at Big Rec, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some boys over there with a football. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play them.â&#x20AC;? And my teamies look at me like I just suggested charades, or voting Republican.

Well, my New Orleans flag football team is co-ed. And very straight, at that. Although our team color is pink, and our name is Piggy and the Conch Shells, and we lost our first game 63-6.

(I could go on and on: I play for us, blazzy blazzy blah.) Anyway, so, last night, en route to winning our second straight game, I found out why no one I know votes Republican.

I was rushing the quarterback, see, and I was getting to him. If it was football football, I would have wrapped him up around the legs or waist, toppled him or driven him to the turf, and then done a funky fuck-you-I-kicked-your-ass dance. But no. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flag football. So you have to reach for and pull off one of three flags we all wear on a belt around our waist: thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one on each hip, and one on the butt.

So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m reaching for his left hip, and, understand, please: there are alleged blockers trying to be in my way, one of my blitzing teammates reaching for the right hip, and (does anyone see where this is going?) as soon as I make my grab, the quarterback twists away from the other rusher, leaving me with a handful not of flag, but of man-junk. Yes, I missed the sack, but did yank me some penis. music listings

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Note: accidentally. And shortsenshrouded. Nevertheless, he threw an interception.

Which is of course an even better result than a sack. But I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find it in me to do a dance, or celebrate, or even smile.

I just stood there and felt squirgly.

And hoped he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get his way with the ref, at whom he was screaming. In vain, thank God. What would the penalty have been? ... Holding?

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Later in the game, I did get called for roughing the quarterback when I popped him in the face, trying to block his pass. That time (wisely) he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let go of the ball, and I pulled his flag.

And the ref threw his. Still, the dude was so mad he kicked the ball into the stands â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at which my 15-yard penalty became offset by his, ha ha.

In summary: I now know first-hand (ha ha again) why my queers back home no like play football with the boys. It was a disturbing moment for me, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m theoretically bisexual! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve held that shit before â&#x20AC;&#x201D; albeit not on a football field. Not to mention he was a complete stranger. I mean: eww.

I did apologize to him after the game, and hinted that if he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like to play rough, he might consider a boys-only league. Sike. I just said I was sorry I hit him in the face, I was trying to block the pass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ok,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was mad at the ref, not you.â&#x20AC;? And he asked me out. (So I guess it was better for him than me.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, thanks. Prop 8 went down,â&#x20AC;? I explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a betrothalled woman.â&#x20AC;?

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Friday 2/17 The FP Ever since Snake Plissken played a sadistic life or death version of HORSE in 1996’s Escape from L.A., one question above all has been on the mind of serious filmmakers: what formerly non-threatening competition will inevitably become a bloodsport in our twisted future dystopia? With their directorial debut , The FP, the Trost Brothers have perhaps answered the question once and for all: Dance Dance Revolution (or at least something very similar to avoid trademark violations.) Make sure to strap on your most hardcore head band for the SF IndieFest’s 21+ DDR afterparty at 518 Valencia, where you can scout recruits for your video gang. (Ryan Prendiville)

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The title he borrowed from an Of Montreal song. The result is an ingenious, giddy “mega fiction” that follows the tortuous careers of four 20somethings in Buenos Aires over a single decade, 1999 to 2009, with its intervening economic meltdown and a million other matters expected and unimagined — the detritus of an unwieldy but irresistible urge to meaning. Pensotti makes his San Francisco debut with this low-tech picks

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Jam the playlist on the website for the Bay Area Video Coalition’s BUMP Records youth-run label and you’ll get a sampling of catchy R&B and hip-hop songs, polished sound from young people who produce and perform their own work, learning about the importance of having a voice in society along the way. But they’re not just radio-ready, these kids. At this SF MOMA event of creative souls established and onthe-rise, BUMP artists will reinterpret hair stylist cum artist Mark Bradford’s character exploration of a Teddy Pendergrass-Pinnochio character, Pinnochio is on Fire. To warm up the crowd, artist Reneke Djikstra will talk about the spirit behind her luminous portrait work. (Caitlin Donohue) 6 p.m.-9:45 p.m.

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If she brings anything like that kind of intensity to her new “Sol y Sombra” for her not even twoyear-old Project B company, we should be in for a treat. In one of their early SF performances Finwall Dance Theater’s quartet of women in “Wide Time” just about bounced off the walls. Yet despite its wildness, the work also was tightly controlled. Turns out that Finwall has choreographed for over 10 years. In this program she will premiere the duet “Angel”.

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Doug Stanhope simply tells it like it is on a variety of cultural and societal subjects, all with hilarious results. Since he won the San Francisco International Comedy Competition in 1995, he has earned a well deserved, wild reputation for his routines and shows, captured most recently on his live DVD/CD Oslo: Burning The Bridge To Nowhere (Roadrunner 2011). Last September Stanhope performed in a maximum security prison in Iceland, telling fans that if they committed a heinous enough crime to be sent there, they could see him for free — thankfully you’ve got an easier option tonight. (Sean McCourt)

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Friday 2/17 Trainwreck Riders Trainwreck Riders: a collision of country twang and good old rock’n’roll interspersed with hints of bluegrass and notes of garage punk.

Their songs feel nostalgic, even upon first listen, and tend to focus on heartbreak. Yet they sing the blues in a way that makes you want to jam out instead of tear up. Yeah, these guys aren’t your run-of-the-mill indie act; but there is something quintessentially indie about them.

Maybe it’s their preference for flannel. Or that Peter Frauenfelder’s voice bears a striking resemblance to Isaac Brock’s. Clearly, they’re from San Francisco. Ghost Yards, the band’s fourth full-length release, drops this spring. (Mia Sullivan) With the Blank Tapes, and the Human Condition 9 p.m., $14 Independent 628 Divisadero, SF (415) 771-1421 www.theindependentsf.com

Saturday 2/18 Bonobo Bonobo, aka Britain’s Simon Green, has long reigned as one of the masters of the post-party, chillout tracks that deters drinking headaches in both lounge and living room. With his 2010 release Black Sands (Ninja Tune), Green opted for a more lush, jazzy, and spontaneous sound that edged slightly away from downtempo and toward the dancefloor.

Ninja Tune has just released a remix CD of Black Sands that uses Green’s tracks and vocals from Andreya Triana as rich source material.

Green could stick in a slow burning rework to begin the set, such as with Letherette’s sublime version of “All In Forms,” then turn up the energy a notch with a track like Machinedrum’s percussive-heavy production on “Eyesdown.” (Lee)

Partly a 71-minute long music video centered around Girl Talk’s latest mashup album All Day, Girl Walk // All Day is also an ecstatic musical feature following young one dancer as she bursts out of the confines of ballet class and dances her way across New York City. Financed through Kickstarter and filmed largely on the sly in public and not so public (Bloomingdales) spaces, GW//AD involves over 100 dancers, and takes a fanciful poke at the tendency of people to ignore the exceptional, even when it breaks, two steps, or tumbles into their daily life. This screening — followed by a set from CHERYL (NY) — will be suitably projected over the dance floor. (Prendiville)

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The co-op’s mission is, simply, to cultivate a San Francisco film community equipped to make better films by connecting people who want to make films, and actually making them. (Genius?) Scary Cow has helped fund local films since 2007 and is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a screening of 13 shorts the co-op deems its “prime cuts.” Chosen shorts span the genres — from mockumentary to horror/comedy to sci-fi rock musical —and range from three to 24 minutes in length. (Sullivan) Castro Theater

Valdes has spent four decades wowing audiences as performer, composer, and arranger. A cofounder of the legendary Latin American jazz-rock band Irakere, Valdes has won four Grammy awards, including one for his most recent album, Chucho’s Steps (Four Quarters). In Steps, Valdes pays homage to several renowned musicians, including John Coltrane, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Joe Zawinul. His current band references Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, which produced driving, bebop sounds and served as a platform for younger jazz musicians to showcase their skills.

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The crucial music fest this year features returning champs like Cursive (left) and newer artists such as Grimes.

Everlasting noise

It’s 20 years of Noise Pop; tender memories with Archers of Loaf, Cursive, Thao, and more

By Emily Savage emilysavage@sfbg.com NOISE POP Thao recalls hosting impromptu beer trivia with Mirah during their joint show a few years back, a festive moment she says is telling of Noise Pop. Cursive vocalist Tim Kasher retained playing one of the “most hungover shows imaginable” many years ago at Bottom of the Hill and it still being one of his favorite shows. Archers of Loaf bassist Matt Gentling has a fuzzy memory of playing the fest in 1997 with Spoon and Knapsack. Roddy Bottum and Jone Stebbins of Imperial Teen once declared themselves “King and Queen of Noise Pop” due to a tireless week creeping nearly every show.

Chances are, if you’ve been in a touring band at any point in the past two decades, or you’re a Bay Area music fan, you’ve got a Noise Pop memory or 20. My own? That incredible moment a couple years back when Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon were rejoined on the ornate Fox stage by Deerhoof, Petra Haden, Harper Simon, and a half dozen more for a stage-audience sing-along of “Give Peace a Chance.”

Longtime Noise Pop co-producer Jordan Kurland clearly has endless stories from the fest. Sitting casually in the bright, spacious Mission office of his own Zeitgeist Artist Management, he smiles as he quietly recounts his life within Noise Pop; Guided By Voices at Bimbo’s in 2002 playing an encore of the first eight editorials

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songs off 1994’s Bee Thousand, taking duel legends Frank Black and John Doe out to breakfast the morning after their co-headlining show, watching Joanna Newsom — a soon to be star — play her third ever show opening for Cat Power.

He then begins methodically ticking off great shows of NP past: Flaming Lips, Granddaddy, Creeper Lagoon, Death Cab, Rodriguez (M. Ward’s early act) at Great American Music Hall, Two Gallants, Superchunk at Bimbo’s, Wolf Mother at Bottom of the Hill — Lars Ulrich happened to be in the crowd for that one. “When you look back at some of the bills, it’s pretty amazing — and the fact that people still come and appreciate it, it’s gratifying,” he understates. Later he mentions, “we’ve had some misses over the years too, stuff that just doesn’t connect.” But he’s too polite to indulge those.

The Noise Pop festival began in 1993, founded by Kevin Arnold who continues to this day, along with Kurland, to produce it. That first year, there were five bands playing one venue, one day. This year, there are 128 bands, playing 19 venues spread out over six days. Plus there’s the Noise Pop-Up pre-events, and the Thurs/16 pre-party with Class Actress, a Painted Palms DJ set, and Epicsauce DJs at the California Academy of Sciences.

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scene that really wasn’t well recognized, and most of the bands were like Hüsker Dü or Replacements, you know, noisey pop.” Now, he says, “it’s really just about independentlyminded artists. It doesn’t mean that every band that plays the festival is on an independent label, it’s just a certain approach to the craft.”

He adds that they’ve expanded over the years to include electronic music, dance music, and underground hip-hop. “I feel like we’re all getting older — I know, weird. But our staff is immersed in the culture of this so we have a good sense of what people are listening to — I mean, we’re not going to start booking yacht rock.”

Kurland joined Arnold in 1998, the sixth year of Noise Pop. “At that point, Kevin had been saying for the past five years, ‘this is the last year,’ ‘this is the last Noise Pop, I can’t do it anymore.’ He had a day job in the technology industry, but I was working for another management company so it was easier to weave [booking bands] into the fabric of my day.”

The year Kurland joined, the Flaming Lips did the momentous boombox experiment (pre-Zireka) at Bimbo’s, and Modest Mouse played its first show at Great American Music Hall. In the years that followed, the organizers introduced the Noise Pop Film Festival, which screens music-enwrapped flicks, and have toyed with different music education forums. There was once Noise

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Pop Night School, this year, there’s Culture Club at Public Works, where you can learn how to bounce with Big Freedia, or all about art, animation, and film with Aaron Rose and Syd Garon. The fest, which began a small indie music creature, is now a many-headed culture beast.

This year is a significant year for Noise Pop, as Kurland is well aware. “You only get one 20th anniversary...so for this year it was a big effort to bring back bands that have played.” He and Arnold called up acts such as Flaming Lips, Archers of Loaf, Bob Mould, and Imperial Teen, all of which played early on.

There’s also Thao and John Vanderslice, locals who have both separately played Noise Pops past in different incarnations, and who this year will co-headline Bottom of the Hill. At that show Thao will be testing out five to six new songs, and says “depending on the reaction, they may or may not go on the new album.”

There is, however, one act that will be brand new to Noise Pop this year and yet, is still part of the tradition in a sense. Kurland has been trying to nab Built to Spill for the fest for the past 14 years, to no avail, though it did once play Treasure Island (also part of Noise Pop Industries). His annual reach-out for the act has become a tradition in its own right. “Every year it’s like a joke, I call them up, and it actually worked this year!”

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Fillmore, however, is long sold out, as are many of the big names — Flaming Lips, Atlas Sound, Imperial Teen, even comparatively newer acts like Grimes. Though those who purchased badges will still have the opportunity to check them out, and there are dozens of other impressive lineups. “It’s definitely moving quicker this year,” Kurland says when the rate of sell-outs is pointed out. “I think there’s more attention on the festival.”

“It seems obvious, but I feel every year we get a little more established,” he adds. “I feel like not that long ago people who should know what Noise Pop is, didn’t.”

Noise Pop also inevitability brings a whole batch of artists wandering the city. Stebbins from Imperial Teen is hoping to catch Archers of Loaf at Great American Music Hall, Christie Front Drive at Cafe Du Nord, and Craig Finn at Bottom of the Hill, among other fellow artists. Interestingly, Kasher from Cursive also mentions those exact shows. Kurland, the eternal music fan, is also ready to haunt SF’s venues yet again. “I’m kind of stressed about some of the nights, I’m like, okay, Saturday night I’ve got Surfer Blood, but also Archers of Loaf...”

Time again to start marking those schedules, fanatics. 2 Noise Pop Feb. 21-26 Various venues, SF 2012.noisepop.com

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Abstract sound experiments take shape on Johnny Jewel’s latest.

More Noise Pop events to check out Snob Theater

Noise Pop isn’t all studied, somber plucking, ethereal soundscapes, or morose, twisting in the night song lyrics; there are solid yucks to be had. Kata Rokkar and Noise Pop are presenting another installment of Snob Theater at the Noise Pop-Up Shop pre-main events. Hosted by comedian-music blogger Shawn Robbins, it’s a mashup of indie rockers and indie comics, a real giggle fest for the musically-inclined. Brendon Walsh (Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel), Dave Thomason (SF Sketchfest), Janine Brito (Laughter Against The Machine), and Chris Thayer (Bridgetown Comedy Festival) bring the comedy, rockers the Ferocious Few and Bobby Ebola and the Children MacNuggits bring the raucous tunage. (Emily Savage) Feb. 17, 8 p.m., $10 Noise Pop-Up Shop 34 Page, SF 2012.noisepop.com

Die Antwoord

Symmetry

Is Glass Candy producer Johnny Jewel’s recent project his allegedly scrapped Drive score?

By Michael Krimper arts@sfbg.com NOISE POP It’s been a few months since I’ve seen Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, and while many have dedicated countless hours selflessly contributing to the Ryan Gosling meme, which continues to grow and mutate like an uncontained bacterial infection, I’m still utterly and helplessly seduced by the score.

Allow me to draw a rash conclusion in the limited space allotted: Few films have coalesced around a form of sound as succinctly as Drive. On the one hand, the melancholy synth-pop music magnetizes the sense of nostalgia that saturates the film in a mythically neon Los Angeles of the 1980s, or the sprawl imagined in ‘50s noir. On the other hand, the score motivates the emotional awakening of a lonely Gosling stricken by an unfolding love for his neighbor of angelic innocence.

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Hollywood — a disturbance that nevertheless satisfies waves of desire as much as it unsettles.

Although Drive’s score owes much to Cliff Martinez’s stark drum programming and warm synthetic melodies, some of the most arresting moments are due to Desire’s “Under Your Spell” and The Chromatics’ “Tick of the Clock.” Both songs belong to the musical vision of Johnny Jewel, a tireless producer also behind the Portland group of night stalkers, Glass Candy, and in general, much of the output from the Euro disco revivalist imprint, Italians Do It Better.

If you’re like me, and fiended for more Jewel after stumbling out of the theater under the spell, then you might have come across a few online interviews regarding his own mysteriously scrapped soundtrack for the film, encrypted with announcements for an unspecified future release date.

Then, just at the end of last year, 37 songs comprising nearly two hours of cinematic music quietly appeared like a gift from the void, under the appropriately vague title Symmetry / Themes for an Imaginary Film. The official statement in the press blurb insists, however, that this is not the allegedly trashed Drive score.

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abstract experiments culled over the past three years from Jewel and partner Nat Walker on tone, mood, and structure, stripped of the lyrical motifs and pop formulas that tend to mark their signature work.

I have to admit I’m not entirely convinced by this back-story, but for all listening purposes, it doesn’t much matter. Symmetry draws on the same affective narrative underpinning Drive: As soon as a sense of artificial enclosure reaches the limit of relentless claustrophobia, a rupture slowly deflates from within, without any grand arrival or explosion. And while we may feel the euphoria of its release, the anticipation of an event ever more devastating to come, still crawls wonderfully under our flesh. 2 Glass Candy, and the Chromatics With Soft Metals, Omar and BT Magnum (DJ) Feb. 28, 8 p.m., $19 Mezzanine 444 Jessie, SF mezzaninesf.com Noise Pop Culture Club Johnny Jewel on scoring, Glass Candy, and more Feb. 25, 11:30 a.m., $10 Public Works 161 Erie, SF 2012.noisepop.com

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The chances that this South African freak-hop duo will roll onstage with LED-tricked wheelchairs, wearing onesies that make flat-topped emcee Ninja and devil-pixie singer Yo-Landi Vi$$er look like plushies are not high — it already worked that look for the “Umshini Wam” video, accessorizing with a telescope-sized joint and firearms. No matter, this hot-ticket sell-out show will have a gonzo pack of hipsters twerking to the weird-ass lyrics like there’s no tomorrow.

Die Antwoord, like most hip-hop these days, is plagued by questions of authenticity (it reps for South Africa’s working-class demographic that members may not actually hail from), but the performative aspect of its schtick makes it a cultural artifact regardless of where Ninja went to school. Hot tip for those that dig a long shot: keep one eye peeled for Celine Dion. Die Antwoord’s pegged her as their dream collaborator. Weirdos. (Caitlin Donohue) Feb. 22, 7 p.m., sold out.

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Hit So Hard: The Life and NearDeath Story of Drummer Patty Schemel

Along with Last Days Here, currently screening as part of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival, Hit So Hard is one of the most inspiring rock docs in recent memory. Patty Schemel was the drummer for Hole circa Live Through This, coolly keeping the beat amid Courtney Love’s frequent Lollapalooza-stage meltdowns after Kurt Cobain’s 1994 death. Offstage, however, she was neck-deep in substance abuse, weathering several rounds of rehab even after the fatal overdose of Hole bandmate Kristen Pfaff just months after Cobain (who appears here in Schemel’s own remarkable home video footage). P. David Ebersole’s film gathers insight from many key figures in Schemel’s life — including her mother, who has the exact voice of George Costanza’s mother on Seinfeld, and a garishly made-up, straight-talking Love — but most importantly, from Schemel herself, who is open and funny even when talking about the perils of drug addiction, of the heartbreak of being a gay teen in a small town, and the ultimate triumph of being a rock ‘n’ roll survivor. If you miss Hit So Hard at Noise Pop, it’ll be back around for a San Francisco theatrical run starting April 27. (Cheryl Eddy) music listings

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Grimes

After listening to Grimes on heavy rotation for the past couple years I still find myself mesmerized by Claire Boucher’s voice. It leaps and falls, circles words in repetitive motions, ciphering their sonic texture and tone into a perpetual undoing of sound. Grimes consistently induces this siren effect, inhabiting that mysteriously seductive threshold somewhere between waking life and dream world.

Its third full-length, Visions (Arbutus/4AD), is no different. It continues to draw resources from spectral pop wherever it can, from the processed rhythms underpinning a constellation of electronic dance genres, to the gushing melodies of New Age cassette tapes and 1990s R&B, and even disparate psychedelic folk from across the globe. What holds Grimes’s aesthetic together though is, simply put, mood: whirling awfully close to planetary rapture. (Caitlin Donohue) Feb. 22, 8 p.m., $10, sold out Grimes and oOoOO With Born Gold, Yalls Rickshaw Shop 155 Fell St., SF 2012.noisepop.com

The Budos Band

Few bands working within the new wave of funk revivalism during the past decade are as tight as The Budos Band. The Brooklyn-based outfit has released all three of their records, each simply self-titled and numbered, on Daptone Records, home to powerhouse soulstress, Sharon Jones. But The Budos Band has a bit more of a worldly spectrum than other Daptone releases firmly rooted in 1960s R&B. They take influence ultimately from the funk diaspora launched by James Brown: Fela Kuti’s afrobeat jams and the Latin soul of Fania, to the psychedelic ethio-jazz culled by Mulatu Astatke. The drums are deep in the pocket, wah-wah guitars get gritty, and the horn section hits hard, all with the frenetic urgency of a score straight out of a Melvin Van Peebles’ blaxpoitation flick. (Michael Krimper) Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m., $20 With Allah-Las, Pickwick, Big Tree Independent 628 Divisadero St., SF 2012.noisepop.com

Jolie Holland

This longtime San Franciscan (and seventhgeneration Texan) may call the road her home — with brief pauses for righteous swimming holes — but we’ll always think of her as a perfectly impure product of the Bay’s musical bohemia, the latest in long line of city songsmiths succored on prog politics, cultural patchwork, and high times. Whether Holland’s warbling about her mind reeling, blood bleeding on “Black Stars,” that wicked good “Old Fashioned Morphine,” or real-world psychic vampires (referenced in the title of her latest long-player, Pint of Blood (Anti), she taps a deep vein of blues —one related to a familial history steeped in Texas swing and her own soulful explorations here and abroad. This waltz around, she alights in trio form, playing with Carey Lamprecht and Keith Cary. Long may she ramble and roam. (Kimberly Chun) With Will Sprott of the Mumlers, Dreams, and Emily Jane White Feb. 24, 7 p.m., $16.50–$18.50 Swedish American Hall 2174 Market, SF 2012.noisepop.com

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Appearing in her nationwide debut performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last month Big Freedia, born Freddie Ross, possibly brought bounce back into the lives and sets of people outside of NOLA, but they may not have been getting the whole picture. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I get a lot dirtier when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a club performance, and I can really get raw,â&#x20AC;? Big Freedia said in a phone interview last week, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but that was for TV so it was a little more PG.â&#x20AC;? Freedia, who answers most questions with Southern politeness and a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes, sir,â&#x20AC;? is nothing but grateful for the experience in which her dancers worked with â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of Beyonceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choreographers,â&#x20AC;?

Frank Gatson, for the segment, but to an observer at all familiar with her reputation for wild live performances, it was pretty tame.

In part it was just a matter of skin. One of Big Freediaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature songs at this point is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Azz Everywhereâ&#x20AC;? and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the scantily clad dancers in particular that bring the idea to life, making moves and taking positions not unlike a 2 Live Crew show (or the Kama Sutra).

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For Big Freedia, who comes with her own crew of male and female dancers, call and response isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just lyrical â&#x20AC;&#x201D; meaning that when she yells â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got that gin in my systemâ&#x20AC;? you should probably retort â&#x20AC;&#x153;somebody gonna be my victimâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but also that people might get called out for not getting down on the dance floor. At her shows, â&#x20AC;&#x153;everyone is involved.â&#x20AC;? Big Freedia said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whoever wants to get onstage can get a chance to come on stage. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very connected with the audience so I try to make everyone involved.â&#x20AC;?

This interaction with her audience was the other thing missing from the Jimmy Kimmel performance, where a crowd looked on more as spectators than participants. For her part, Freedia tries to meet people at her shows halfway, saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put them all on stage so I have to put myself on the floor with them.â&#x20AC;?

Effort means a lot for Big Freedia, who has long been known for doing shows at least six nights a week in New Orleans and continues to run a successful decorating company. She considers it part of her message that one can â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make the impossible happen being gay.

Working really hard at things you have dreams behind and succeeding no matter what color, creed, walk of life.â&#x20AC;? Idealistic as that is, it also explains in part her egalitarian approach to dancing. Unlike some artists (::cough:: Sir Mix-A-Lot :: cough::) itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about a certain type of butt; everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got one, you just have to know how to bounce it.

And if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that, well, she also offers classes. 2 With hard French dJs, Vogue & tone, double duchess 9Â p.m., $16; Culture Club bounce session, 11:30Â a.m., $10 Public Works 161 Erie, SF 2012.noisepop.com

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SATAn’S fAvoRiTe movie? Ken RuSSell’S The Devils. | courtesy of the vortex room

SucceSS in exceSS TRASH The demise of Ken Russell late last year at age 84 blew a few cobwebs off appreciation of his career, which had ever been beloved by cult-minded buffs but forgotten by most everyone else for some years. He hadn’t had a theatrical feature for two decades, and in his last years had been reduced to glorified home movies with titles like Revenge of the Elephant Man (2004) and The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002). But for a while he was an inescapable, flamboyant, exasperating, and utterly unique presence in film, with even his detractors (who were legion) admitting his work could never be confused with anyone else’s.

In 1971 he was at his zenith as the scandal and big noise (frequently self blown) of British cinema, having had a great international success with 1969’s D.H. Lawrence adaptation Women in Love, which won a previously little-known Glenda Jackson her first Oscar, and a qualified one the next year with The Music Lovers, one of the increasingly outrageous classicalcomposer biopics he’d commenced making on the BBC and continued through 1975’s Lisztomania.

(Which, featuring as it did Roger Daltry as pop star Franz Liszt having lovers dance like Rockettes on his giant phallus in one fantasy scene, and Wagner reincarnated as a Nazi Frankenstein in another, presumably exhausted that genre’s desecration possibilities even for Russell.)

At the time, it seemed that 1971 was the year that killed off Old Hollywood and shat on editorials

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its corpse. Movies like Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, Roman Polanski’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs, John Boorman’s Deliverance, Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Mike Nichols’ Carnal Knowledge, Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie, Alan J. Pakula’s Klute, and Dusan Makavejev’s WR: Mysteries of the Organism all pushed the envelope in terms of sex, violence, and nihilism.

Even in such company, Russell’s The Devils — which closes “The Second Coming of the Vortex Room,” the venue’s February series of religion-themed films — was an outstandingly bad trip, an assaultive experience as tainting and unwelcome to most as that phone-receiver tongue licking Heather Langenkamp’s ear in the original Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). The words “hallucinogenic,” “appalling,” and “tasteless” would be applied to nearly all Russell’s films, but never with such genuine revulsion as this one. Today, The Devils can be seen as perhaps his greatest, most cohesive work — being about hysteria, religious and sexual, it justified his trademark surreal excesses as no subject ever would again.

Based on an Aldous Huxley novel about actual historical events, it takes place in a 17th century France beset by plague, persecution, church corruption, and court decadence. Scheming to end walled city Loudon’s independence, Cardinal Richelieu seizes on an accusation made by an unstable abbess that the leading

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local priest had seduced her entire convent via black magic. After considerable torture, said priest, Urbain Grandier, was burned at the stake, despite recanted testimonies and widespread belief that only “crime” was being in ambitious Richelieu’s way.

Russell depicts Grandier (played by his go-to bulldog Oliver Reed, practicing more restraint than usual) as a lusty breaker of celibacy vows, but also as a man of true conviction compared to the hypocritical displays of faith, morality, and community-mindedness around him. Mother Superior Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave as you’ve definitely never seen her before) is a hunchback lost in fantasy and spite, having like many of her wards not chosen this vocation, but instead been abandoned to it — back then, well-born females whose family didn’t have enough dowry money to marry them off were forcibly “married” to Jesus instead.

The Devils is a fevered nightmare, unrelentingly grotesque and claustrophobic. (Russell had the inspiration of hiring Derek Jarman as his production designer — not yet a director himself, the latter devised studio bound, abstract monochrome sets more vividly oppressive than any actual historic sites could have been.) It had to be heavily cut even before getting slapped with an X rating in the U.S., excised sequences like a mad convent orgy dubbed “The Rape of Christ” assumed lost until their re-discovery a decade ago.

In England the film was banned from several districts. Nearly everywhere, critical response was bilious — reviewers felt violated, music listings

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polluted, disgusted. The L.A. Times called it “a degenerate and despicable work of art,” others “pornographic” and “Satanic” outright.

Those gag reflexes were understandable. The Devils is flawed, mostly in its crudely satirical aspects. And its scalding majority impact is achieved in a hyperbolic manner that makes it very hard to separate the depiction of blasphemy from the embodiment of it.

Yowling “I want to shock people into awareness. I don’t believe there’s any virtue in understatement!” to Time magazine that year, Russell cared little about clarifying that distinction.

A visual statement as singularly alarming as any canvas by Bosch or Bacon, its disturbance further heightened by avantgarde composer Peter Maxwell Davies’ striking score, The Devils would doubtless be more highly regarded today had it been one isolated case of delirium in an otherwise relatively sane director’s oeuvre. But the baroque excesses Russell flaunted under any circumstance, no matter how apt, made it seem just more of his reliable too muchness. The neglect his work has fallen into benefits this most serious of his features, as it allows The Devils to be seen clearly as a caterwaul of horror — not at supernatural possession but at the infinite human cruelty power and sanctimony can allow. (Dennis Harvey) 2 The Devils Feb. 23, 8 p.m. (double-feature with 1SJWJMFHF 1968), $7 donation Vortex Room 1082 Howard, SF Facebook: The Vortex Room

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By Rita Felciano arts@sfbg.com Dance On the opening night of its eighth year, the three-weekend â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Choreographers Festival: Here and Nowâ&#x20AC;? deserved its name. The quality of the choreography and the confident performances more than confirmed that BCF is a celebration of excellent contemporary African American choreography. Four out of the five works starred as fine world premieres by local artists.

They were stylistically about as diverse as you would want, but this was an evening to rejoice.

The Feb. 10 audience at Oaklandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Laney College more than agreed.

Reginald Ray-Savageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Savage Jazz Dance Company looked better than it has in a long time. For Friday, February 10 he reached for an idiosyncratic collage of scores.

Except for the finale, there seemed to be little jazz; still, the selections made sense, starting with a passage of pizzicato violins that played as Lavante Cervantes ceremoniously walked across the stage. But almost immediately, that calm exploded into intense, relentlessly shifting encounters among six dancers.

Though tightly choreographed individually, the passages followed each other without internal logic.

Transitions were sublimated into the commitment and clarity of individual moments â&#x20AC;&#x201D; fierce turns, huge extensions, and traveling leaps. Every phrase had to stand on its own.

One of Ray-Savageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gifts is setting in relief individual talents: Melissa Schumannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tearing into space, Jarrod Mayoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s floating elevations and whiplash turns. Two duets showcased the magisterial Alison Hurley. With Evan Kharazzi, Hurley assertively reversed danceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s traditional male-female relationships; her dramatic-lyrical encounter with Mayo brought out a quasi-maternal quality. Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only misstep was to bring on Suman Wilson at the very end. Why, if at all, only then?

With a largely changed cast and on a different stage, Robert Mosesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2008 Approaching Thought looked like new. The current crop of dancers performed the whirlwind choreography clearly and assertively. To see Katherine Wells and Crystaldawn Bell â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both of them reed-thin, long-limbed and fierce â&#x20AC;&#x201D; next to each other was breathtaking. I still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what the title means, but Moses must have had something in mind along the lines of contrarian relationships, since he built the work around duets. editorials

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Approaching is packed with movement ideas â&#x20AC;&#x201D; unisons that splinter, duets that evaporate; a hip-hop gesture here, a ballet turn there.

People send each other packing, and they embrace.

Norma Fong was a one-woman threat to anything in her way; no wonder she sent a cowering Wells into the wings.

Susana Arenas Pedrosoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new version of Yemaya, Ocean Mother, with live music, including her as the lead singer, evoked the give and take of the ocean with mesmerizing intensity. Supported by seven fellow dancers, Regina Tolbertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Yemaya rolled her shoulders and swayed her skirts, gathering and releasing energy. Playful one moment and ferocious the next, she kept joining a larger whole but also metamorphosed out of it.

Kendra Kimbrough Barnes showed an excerpt of In the meantime. Performed by six women, of divergent physical make-ups and approaches to dance, the work appeared to be the next step in what Barnes has explored in earlier pieces: the internal and external life of African American woman, and by extension other wives, mothers, matriarchs, and burden-carriers. She has a special ability to combine text that speaks softly about momentous issues and pair it with choreography that expands on the language.

The complete work will premiere this fall.

The enthusiastically received Ndozi: Ancient Truths Revealed paired Congolese drummer Kazi Malonga and longtime Dimensions Dancer Theater performer Latanya d. Tigner in a coming-of-age story. The overly long opening, with blackouts and too-somber lighting, was awkward as it introduced us to either a dream or the resurrection of a young girl who has to find herself. But to watch Tigner, guided by Malonga, being initiated into the all-male drum ensemble was seeing transformation in action. Tigner was magnificent as she first found her feet and then her rhythm.

For the next two weekends, BCF will be at Dance Mission Theater with new programs, including special performances of Marc Bamuthi Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Word Becomes Flesh. 2 Black choreographers Festival: here and now 2012 Fri/17-Sat/18 and Feb. 24-25, 8 p.m.; Sun/19, 4 p.m.; Feb. 26, 7 p.m., $10-$25 Dance Mission Theater 3316 24th St., SF www.bcfhereandnow.com

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By Cheryl eddy cheryl@sfbg.com FIlM Bay Area filmmakers Steve and Ann Dunsky (2005’s The Greatest Good) have a pair of documentaries making waves right now: Green Fire, about conservationist Aldo Leopold, which plays at the upcoming San Francisco Green Film Festival; and Bulldozers and Butterflies, an exploration of the decades-long fight to save San Bruno Mountain.

Bulldozers screened at the 2011 Green Film Festival, and has a coveted slot amid the 20th anniversary programming at Washington, D.C.’s Environmental Film Festival later this spring. (It also features Guardian editor and publisher Bruce B. Brugmann among its interviewees.) I chatted with the busy couple about their latest projects.

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[we] decided to take some time off from our regular jobs, with the U.S. Forest Service making films, and maybe do an independent film. At that time we’d been living in Brisbane for about 20 years, and we’d heard about this amazing story that had national implications, both historically and in a contemporary sense. And since that’s what we do — we make films about conservation and conservation history — we thought we’d look into it.

SFBG What was the biggest challenge you faced?

Ad What intrigued us was the heart of the story, which is what you’re always looking for: the wonderful relationship and dynamic between [film subjects] Fred [Smith] and David [Schooley], these two really good friends who bonded over their joint efforts to save the mountain, and ultimately had a major falling-out about the best way to do that. So we thought, “There’s the thread that we would like to weave throughout he film.”

Sd The reason we chose that Leopold quote at the beginning is that we ultimately realized that it’s a story about compromise. It’s an uncomfortable subject for a lot of people, especially in the environmental community, because it does create a lot of tension over where you draw the line. At what point do you say it’s OK to have

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some development in exchange for other protections?

Ad It was a challenge to find that proper balance where we were very respectful to all sides. Telling the story completely without any narration is a very hard way to make a film, but ultimately I think it’s much more satisfying, because our voices aren’t in there trying to tell the viewer what to think.

SFBG The film discusses how San Bruno Mountain was, in some ways, ground zero for the environmental movement.

Sd The early 60s were a formative time for the environmental movement, and San Bruno Mountain and Save the Bay played a critical role in that. And then, you have this whole second layer of the story, which deals with the Endangered Species Act and the Habitat Conservation Plan amendment, which is also very historically significant.

SFBG What’s next for San Bruno Mountain?

Sd It’s really a success story, despite the compromises that were made. As we say in the film, it is one of the largest open spaces in any urban area in the United States. Most of the mountain, 2,000 acres, is state and county park. And that was the result of these protests, as well as the political and legal processes that went on in the 1970s behind the scenes. [Currently] a developer music listings

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SFBG Do you hope the movie will inspire people to take up the fight?

Sd For people in the Bay Area, what I would like them to do is — when they drive by San Bruno Mountain, they don’t look at it as a big, ugly, brown lump, but actually realize that it’s a haven for biodiversity, and also that there was this 50-year ongoing struggle to save it. I think it’s important for people to know the history of their surroundings.

From a national perspective, we really hope that it gets people to think about these deeper issues of conservation, questions about compromise, and questions about development versus preservation.

Ad One of my favorite Leopold quotes is “Conservation without a keen realization of its vital conflicts fails to rate as authentic human drama; it falls to the level of a mere utopian dream.” I love that because I think it’s so easy to say “No development anywhere!” A lot of us would like things to be that easy, but they’re not. And I think this film, hopefully, will help people recognize that it’s not that simplistic. 2 Green Fire screens March 5 at the Green Film Festival (www.sfgreenfilmfest.org) and March 8 at the Randall Museum (www.sfns.org).

For more information on Butterflies and Bulldozers, visit www.butterfliesandbulldozers.com; DVDs available for institutional and home use at www.bullfrogfilms.com.

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By Matt SuSSMan arts@sfbg.com FILM â&#x20AC;&#x153;The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail,â&#x20AC;? wrote Marc Feigen Fasteau in The Male Machine, a 1975 Gloria Steinem-approved polemic (she wrote the introduction) that attempted to catalyze American men into joining their sisters in the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movement in reexamining and casting off traditional gender roles.

Masculinity of the variety rhapsodized by Ernest Hemingway and scrutinized by Fasteau is now something talked about in scare quotes (see Old Spiceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s man on a horse) or presented as a relic of an earlier time Ă la Don Draper, even if magazines such as GQ routinely make it into a fetish object. Even a cursory scan of contemporary pop culture, from Drakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s broody makeover of hip-hop swagger to Will Arnettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stay-at-home dad in Up All Night, shows that men today seemingly have more options, and consequently different sets of expectations, when it comes to being a man.

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programs in Yerba Buena Center for the Artsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ongoing series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bros Before Hos: Masculinity and its Discontents,â&#x20AC;? a collection of leftfield representations of masculinity, often under duress.

The hitchhiking bisexual hustler at the center of Meat Rack (1968), a gritty piece of Gay Libera San Francisco film history, protests the loudest. Director Michael Thomas, who appears in person at the screening, has his boy-toy clanking his can against the prison bars of pop Freudian psychology as he works out his Mommy issues, turning tricks in Market Street cinemas (appropriate, given that Thomas owned the infamous Strand Theater and later founded its namesake, indie film distributor Strand Releasing).

Although the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexual politics are at times as confused as its protagonistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Meat Rack depicts with lysergic abandon the panic that can happen when the injunction to be a man is simply too much to bear.

That pressure is also touched on again and again by the various Finnish men Joonas BerghĂŁll and Mika Hotakainen interviewed for their tender documentary Steam of Life (2011). Within the steam-filled confession booth of a sauna, men talk candidly and emotively about their lives, loves, and losses, their famous Scandinavian reserve seemingly melting away into streams picks

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of tears with each new puff of steam. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What are the options for boys?â&#x20AC;? a solider asks a benchmate, reflecting on his inability to mourn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silence and drinkingâ&#x20AC;?

Steam of Life wears its nationalism, as well as its heart, on its sleeve, intercutting gorgeous long shots of the Finnish countryside between its in-the-buff interviews, and ending with a dedication, not merely to its subjects, but to, â&#x20AC;&#x153;all Finnish men.â&#x20AC;?

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HaIRy EyEBaLL Aside from its prime Cow Hollow location, the modest single floor, above-garage residence at 3020 Laguna Street is a largely unremarkable piece of real estate. Over its 150-year existence it has served as a home to people now forgotten, any relations of its last known occupants having cut all ties to this particular place. What’s left is the building itself, which, judging from its dingy stucco exterior and the tidy beaver dam of exposed lath covering what had been a bay window, looks as if it has an imminent appointment with the wrecking ball.

The house is indeed slated for demolition due to structural instability. But the lath-work exterior is in fact one of nine installations built in, on, and outside the house for Highlight Gallery’s inaugural site-specific project “3020 Laguna Street in Exitum.”

Real estate developer and Highlight Gallery founder-director Amir Mortazavi, along with cocurator David Kasprzak gave each participating artist the stipulation that, aside from fasteners, they could only use materials sourced from the house itself. The resulting pieces turn the space inside out, making visible the domicile’s history as well as its bones, while also bringing in new bodies to reside — however temporarily editorials

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— within its walls. In short, 3020 Laguna Street in Exitum returns something of the “home” to this house in its final days.

Starting from the outside, Randy Colosky’s “Quantum Entanglement of the Carpenters Union Local,” a clean line cut into the building’s stucco exterior with two rotary saw blades protruding from either end, is a visual chicken-egg puzzle. The blades appear as if they were cutting their way out or had been simply left there mid-job.

Upon entering a narrow hallway, one is immediately drawn into the front room on the right where Chris Fraser’s “Outline” — the aforementioned beaver dam — can be properly experienced.

Fraser stripped the exterior wall to its studs and lath, producing a Venetian blind-style grating that turns the brightly whitewashed walls into a canvas for shadow and sunlight to play off.

When I visited the site late on a sunny afternoon, visitors understandably congregated near “Outline.” It is a serene, almost patio-like space in which the outside world, still so near, is transformed into flickering bands of movement. Afternoon shadows create moiré patterns of interference on the walls.

The other focal point was Andy Vogt’s “Drawn Out,” perhaps the most technically involved and architecturally ambitious installation aside from

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Fraser’s. Vogt cut a diagonal path into the floorboards between the kitchen entrance and what had been a window, excavating it as a single piece. He then decreased the height of the floor joists below the cut and put the floor back in place, creating a ramp to nowhere that draws the eye from the kitchen down to the where the wall had been to a patch of scrubby bamboo that has taken root in the crevice between the house and the neighbors’.

Not all the interventions are as heavy on reconstruction as Fraser’s and Vogt’s. For “Nothing to No Thing” Jesse Schlesinger camped out in what was the bedroom for 28 days, from new moon to new moon, using elements from the room—mainly a baseboard and door trim — to create a bed frame and stools, and invited visitors to join him for tea and coffee. Aside from the furniture itself, the only traces of these visits are the used tea leaves and coffee filters, a guest log, and, in a decidedly homey touch, the height of each guest recorded on the doorframe.

Christine M. Peterson’s “Shift (Plane),” which transforms a large storage area off of the kitchen by detaching and radially shifting the facade of closet doors that covered one wall, and Yulia Pinkusevich’s “Data Mass Projection,” a basement installation created out of telephone and data wires found throughout the music listings

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house that have been stripped and hung to resemble a light spectrometer, are formally pleasing yet don’t quite reveal the space anew.

If this project can said to be haunted, it is by the ghost of Gordon Matta-Clark, the 1970s New York-based artist and architect best known for those works in which he dissected existing buildings, often slicing into and opening them up, or engaged with marginal and neglected urban spaces he termed “nonsites.”

I’m not sure if 3020 Laguna, or if any piece of marketable property in our 7x7 real estate bubble, would qualify as the latter. Matta-Clark was working at a time when New York City developers were throwing money into large corporate construction projects that sought to bulldoze and build over much of the Big Apple’s infrastructural rot and many Americans were fleeing to the suburbs. His pieces at both urban and suburban sites were informed by — and drew attention to — this shifting architectural landscape.

Despite the elegiac overtures of some the pieces, the stakes at 3020 in Exitum feel smaller even if the project is engaging as a series of formal experiments in spatial perception. 2 3020 Laguna Street in exitum 3020 Laguna, SF Sat/18 and Sat/25, 2 p.m.-7 p.m.

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The Lex is a classic. But letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stumble through some of the new joints in town that have just thrown open their bar doors. Social Study (1795 Geary, SF. 415-292-7417) in the Fillmore is a chill, evening nook where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll meet your dream sexy librarian. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beer and wine only: buy her a couple glasses so sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll let down her hair and flip it around the brick-walled space like a Van Halen video. In Bernal Heights, Iron and Gold (3187 Mission, SF. 415-824-1447) took over the old Argus space â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all spruced up pleasantly, with one of those trendy Olde Tyme Californy wood stoves in the back, but has yet to find its flavor in the crowd and cocktail department, IMO. Dear Mom (2700 16th St., SF. 415625-3362), meanwhile, is blowing up faster than your Facebook wall did with shocking Whitney tributes from your punk pals. (They can care!) I had to slyly elbow my way through a pack of future indie rock cautionary tales to the bar, whose major architectural innovation is an extra corner for hanging onto.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012 5PM - 7PM Live music featuring Bobble Webb at the Fillmore Center Plaza 7PM - MIDNIGHT Live music, food and drink specials at venues along Fillmore Street including: The Fillmore Center Plaza, 1300 on Fillmore, Fat Angel Food and Libations, Brunoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizzeria, Sheba Piano Lounge, Yoshiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Club, Rasselas Jazz Club, Gussies Chicken and Waffles, and The Social Study

Purchase $5 wristband on eventbrite fattuesdayinthefillmore.eventbrite.com

A portion of proceeds will benefit the Jazz Heritage Center.

Check in to the Jazz Heritage Center located at 1320 Fillmore to pick up your Fat Tuesday in the Fillmore wristband. Wristbands will be available for purchase at door. (All attendees must purchase a wristband in order to receive specials at participating venues.)

Questions? Please contact: Meaghan@thefillmoredistrict.com or 415.218.3434

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