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THIS MSIIIH W#1LH by TOM TOMORROW I) IMPOSE NEW REGULATIONS ON 2) RISK-TAKING WILL BE DIS¬ Too Vital to Fail TOP FIVE THE BANKING INDUSTRY? WHAT¬ COURAGED! EVER FORI AND of COURSE WE REFER TO REASONS WE ADMITTEDLY MISTAKES HAVE BEEN THE SORT Of "RISK-TAKING" WHICH By Burt Dragin This was a staggering loss to MADE—BUT THAT'S ALL BEHIND DOES Not LEAD TO THE NEAR- US NOW! COLLAPSE of THE ENTIRE FINANCIAL the community, the clients, and DO NOT NEED OPINION The “too big to fail” system; heh heh; the employees. We agreed to con¬ OBAMA’S rationale is a mystery to citizens tinue the battle for funds. I sug¬ forced to fund these billion-dollar PROPOSED gested renaming the building the . ventures. CONSUMER Chauncey Bailey Center, to which Suppose an entity is not too FINANCIAL Peggy readily agreed. It would big but “too vital to fail”? Which be Bailey’s perfect legacy (not to PROTECTION power broker bestows standing to mention the irony). even ask for a bailout? I started A week later the Oakland BROUGHT TO YOU BY YOUR GOOD thinking about “too vital to fail” FRIENDS IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY Tribune ran the center’s obit. I was when two seemingly unrelated amazed at just how vital this place incidents intersected in my con¬ 3) INNOVATION WILL BE STIFLED! H) IT IS AN INSULT TO CON¬ 5) AN INJURY TO CREDIT CARD COM¬ was. “The nonprofit ... provided SUMERS! PANIES IS AN INJURY TO ALL! sciousness, one a tragedy, the critical support, case manage¬ THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T THINK AS LONG AS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS other simply heart-breaking. YOU'RE SMART ENOUGH TO SUCH AS OURS SUFFER THE INJUS¬ ment, mental health counseling, SORT THROUGH OUR SCAMS ON TICE of NEEDLESS REGULATORY The first incident happened in YOUR OWN! OVERSIGHT— hot meals, and much more in one Oakland, eight blocks from where location to low-income and home¬ I teach journalism. A local edi¬ less clients with HIV and AIDS,” tor was gunned down in a brazen the article said. In fact, the center daytime assassination. Chauncey was saving Alameda County mil¬ Bailey was supposedly about to lions of dollars since it prevented publish a story in the Oakland Post AIDS- and HIV-infected people on the financial misdeeds of the from going to a hospital emergen¬ local Your Black Muslim Bakery. cy room, which cost the county Bay Area journalists (includ¬ $10,000 a day. ing the Guardian) formed the My first crack at fundrais¬ Chauncey Bailey Project, a group ing led me to a celebratory video effort to dig up facts of the kill¬ health care law — involved serious made when the center opened last ing and keep the story prominent. Newsom’s leak legal issues, and it’s almost certain September. Local politicians were that Herrera formally warned the Two years after Bailey’s slaying — on hand, smiling radiantly and supervisors and the miyor that with the shooter agreeing to tes¬ EDITORIAL At the heart of the But Mayor Gavin Newsom, not welcoming this wonderful addi¬ going ahead could lead to lawsuits. tify against the man who ordered conflict over Sup. David Campos’ content with arguing the merits of tion to the Golden Gate neighbor¬ Newsom, properly, proceeded with him to pull the trigger — the case recent sanctuary legislation is a basic the legislation (a battle he would hood. When the funding dried the legally risky moves. is close to a trial date. issue of civil rights: Should a young clearly lose), has taken the remark¬ up, none of our “public servants” And while we haven’t seen The second incident involved San Francisco immigrant arrested able step of leaking to the San was to be seen. One more irony Herrera’s memo, people familiar Daily Bread, a nonprofit for which by the local police be treated as Francisco Chronicle a confidential was noted in the Tribune article: with it agree that it never said that I transported food each Tuesday innocent until proven guilty — or opinion from City Attorney Dennis the Congressional representative the existing sanctuary law is at any from a Berkeley market to an should that person face deportation, Herrera that warned of the poten¬ of the district, Barbara Lee, “has real risk. Yes, some anti-immi¬ AIDS center on Shattuck Avenue. even if the arrest is bogus and no tial legal downside of the Campos made the fight against AIDS one grant group could sue the city over In summer of 2008, the AIDS formal charges are ever filed? measure. The Chron quickly turned of her biggest issues.” All Campos wants to do is the memo into a front-page story, Campos’s bill. And yes, some court center closed, and reopened in I continue my battle for establish that an arrest is not a proclaiming that the legislation could conceivable invalidate not new quarters on San Pablo Avenue funding in these financially conviction — and, as anyone who “would violate federal law and could only this law but a lot of other city in downtown Oakland. perilous times. Do I qualify as works with youth or immigrants doom [the city’s] entire sanctuary immigration policies. But nobody The first day I delivered food merely a citizen to get a hear¬ in the city knows, thousands of city policy.” Newsom was quick has ever successfully sued to over¬ I realized it was the old Black turn the current law, which has ing in Washington for a bailout? innocent people are picked up by to chime in: “The supervisors are Muslim Bakery building, bought been in effect for almost 20 years. Will someone (or foundation) step the police every year, sometimes putting at risk the entire Sanctuary and renovated at huge expense by Of course, there are, and will forward and launch the Chauncey because of simple mistakes, more City Ordinance, which we’ve a local AIDS activist-philanthro¬ be, legal issues with the Campos Bailey Center, a place “too vital often because the local cops have a worked hard to protect,” the Chron pist. Employees took pride in their bill. But now that the mayor has to fail”? SFBG propensity to arrest young people of quoted the mayor as saying. new surroundings. Then came color in disproportionate numbers. For starters, that’s blowing the leaked the confidential memo laying Tuesday, May 5. With my bags of (The center video and more can be seen And under current city policy, situation way, way out of propor¬ out those concerns, any right-wing food on the sidewalk, I tried the at www.vitalcalifornia.org.) anyone arrested on felony charges tion. Herrera’s office writes these nut who does want to sue will have door and found the place locked who lacks proper documentation memos all the time. Any piece the ammunition prepared. And up. “We’re closed,” announced Burt Dragin teaches journalism at can be turned over to federal immi¬ of legislation that might have Newsom’s action makes the prospect Peggy, executive director of Vital Laney College in Oakland and is the gration authorities. And even if the legal ramifications gets this sort of a suit — one that will cost the city Life Services. “Today?” I asked. author o/’Six to Five Against: A suspect turns out to be innocent, he of review — and in many, many a lot of money — far more likely. “For good,” she replied. “Our Gambler’s Odyssey. (bdragin@per- or she can be deported. That’s not cases, the supervisors and the In other words, the mayor has put funding is no longer there.” alta.edu) fair, not consistent with the city’s mayor simply go ahead anyway. his own city’s treasury at risk, possibly sanctuary policy — and, according Two of Newsom’s biggest initiatives violating city law in the process, in to the ACLU, not legally defensible. — same-sex marriage and the city’s CONTINUES ON PAGE 6 »

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order to undermine a piece of legisla¬ tion that he doesn’t support. This has all the hallmarks of the mayor’s new gubernatorial campaign team, led by consultant Garry South, who is known for his vicious, scorched-earth battles. South, we suspect, advised MD-SEll'tllflPE Newsom that appearing soft on ille¬ gal immigrants would play poorly in the more conservative parts of the IDILTrFBEE state — and that a tactic that puts his own city at risk was an appropriate Fasruofi way to respond. And Newsom, to his immense discredit, went along. This is a big deal, a sign that the mayor is putting his higher ambitions far ahead of his duty to San Francisco. “In my eight years in office, I saw hundreds of these memos,” former Board President Aaron Peskin told us. “I saw plenty of material that I could have leaked that would have been use¬ ful to me politically. But all of us on the board, across the political spectrum, understood that you just don’t do that. Because if you do, it tears the government apart.” We’re journalists here, and we never support government secrecy. MISSION DISTRICT: HAIGHT-ASHBURY: 1555 Haight St. 1210 Valencia St. (at 23rd St.) 415-64J-8332 (W. of Ashbury) 415-431-1133 2585 Telegraph Ave. (at ParKer) 510-644-9202 BUFFAlOEXCHANGE.COM We have consistently defended reporters who publish leaked docu¬ ments (and would do so here, too, despite our criticism of the way the 1 Yeah. OK. I was one of those l' Graduate Education at the Frontier Chron played this story). And there people who thought that Bugs are times, many times, when it’s best of Psychology and Spirituality Bunny looked hot in drag. There for city attorneys and the officials was something about the way who get their advice to let the public his bucked teeth looked with lip¬ know what those memos say. We stick. the way his large, mascara support whistleblowers and prin¬ Alicia is passionate about eyes gave a come hither look cipled city employees and officials the healing power of creative that gave me a tingle. And when who defy the rules of secrecy and I tell the public what’s really going on. expression in psychotherapy. his disguise would inevitably come off, often exposing his But Newsom was serving no After receiving her PhD, Alicia cotton-tail to Elmer Fudd, my grand public interest purpose here. He was simply using confidential plans to enrich her dance therapy pre-adolescent self would get a goose. legal advice to attempt to thwart a work in New York City among - from “Furverts: the book” political opponent, for the purpose urban women of all ages. of promoting his own ambitions. posted by D. Scot Miller That’s alarming. If Newsom wants if* / •, ■ in the Sex SF blog “ITP is a beacon of alternative to be taken seriously as a candidate perspectives in psychology. SFBG COM for governor, he needs to demon¬ I believe so deeply in the school’s SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN ONLINE strate that he can stand up to his mission that I made a life-changing political advisors — and so far, he’s failing, miserably. move across the country to study here. ” P.S.: Sup. John Avalos has asked the Ethics Commission and the Find out more: www.itp.edu/alicia city attorney to investigate the leak, which is fine — but this shouldn’t become an attack on the right of PhDs • MAs • Certificates the press to publish confidential On Campus & On-Line Learning documents. None of the investi¬ gators should try to question the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology Chron reporters to seek the source 1069 East Meadow Circle, Palo Alto CA 94303 of the leak — particularly since Comment on all of our articles. Newsom has as much as admitted, [ph] 650.493.4430 [email] [email protected] to the Guardians Sarah Phelan, Hake it /our site. that he was the one who authorized ACCREDITED BY THE WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES his staff to hand out the memo, sfbg

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By Sarah Phelan court finds that they have commit¬ [email protected] ted a felony. The Campos proposal, which The week started off in celebra¬ was introduced during a week-long tory mood for members of the local effort to revive immigration reform immigrant rights community who efforts at the federal level, seeks attended an Aug. 18 rally outside to amend a policy shift that the City Hall to support legislation by Mayor’s Office rammed through last Sup. David Campos that would summer after somebody leaked con¬ extend due process rights to immi¬ fidential juvenile criminal records to grant youth. And it ended, as this the San Francisco Chronicle. issue has a way of triggering, in con¬ Those leaks revealed that city troversy and division. officials had been harboring adoles¬ “Si sepuede,” chanted the crowd, cent crack dealers instead of referring hoping that “yes, we can” reform city them to Immigration and Customs Sup. David Campos addresses an Aug. 18 rally for supporters of his legislation to restore due policies on deporting undocumented Enforcement (ICE) for deporta¬ process rights to undocumented immigrant youths accused of crimes. young people accused of crimes tion. Within days, Mayor Gavin GUARDIAN PHOTO BY SARAH PHELAN before their trials. Dozens of immi¬ Newsom — who had just announced grant and civil rights leaders repre¬ his gubernatorial bid — ordered a referred to ICE, even when there as they learned that the Mayor’s allegedly allowed Edwin Ramos, senting 70 community groups made change in policy. was misconduct. Office had leaked to the Chronicle now 22, to kill Tony Bologna and his powerful speeches, buoyed by the In the year since that shift took Instead, Campos’ proposal seeks a confidential memo from the City two sons last year. It also reportedly knowledge that seven other supervi¬ place, city officials have reported to reform the policy that Newsom Attorney’s Office about the legal cautions that the Campos proposal sors — John Avalos, Chris Daly, an estimated 180 to 190 youths to ordered and the city’s Juvenile vulnerabilities of Campos’ pro¬ could affect city officials who are Bevan Dufty, Eric Mar, Sophie ICE. But immigrant rights advocates Probation Department implemented posed legislation. The paper ran being probed by a federal grand jury Maxwell, Ross Mirkarimi, and say Newsom has refused to meet last July without public debate. As a long, high-profile story on the on whether the city’s previous policy Board President David Chiu — sup¬ with more than 70 local community Avalos observed at the Aug. 18 rally, memo along with critical quotes violated federal law. port the proposal, giving Campos organizations to hear their concerns “The policy that was introduced from Newsom, Police Chief George Missing from the Chronicle's the eight votes needed to override a about how the change in policy vio¬ last year only produced a semblance Gascon, and U.S. Attorney Joseph coverage was any mention that the mayoral veto of his proposed legisla¬ lates due process rights. of public safety. It caved in to the Russoniello. Ramos case is stalled, with Ramos tion. “I hope Newsom will look at politics of intolerance. It was not in As of press time, the Guardian claiming that he drove the car but Campos, an attorney who came this proposal and see it for what it line with the city of St. Francis. A had not been furnished a copy of did not fire the fatal rounds in the to the United States as an undocu¬ is: a balanced and measured pro¬ veto-proof majority has made sure the leaked memo. But it reportedly Bolognas triple slaying, and that the mented teenager from Guatemala, cess grounded in the values of San this legislation passes. Young people warns that passage of Campos’ leg¬ shooter has gone underground and is told the crowd that he hopes to Francisco,” Campos told his support¬ deserve better.” islation could jeopardize the city’s believed to have fled the country. ensure that undocumented juve¬ ers, noting that his proposal does not But the next day, the mood in defense against the Bologna fam¬ Nor did the Chronicle note that niles can only be referred to federal seek to revert to the city’s original the immigrant community soured ily, who claim that the city’s policy authorities for deportation after a policy, under which no youths were CONTINUES ON PAGE 10 »

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NEWS + CULTURE I3I.A 13 AC 20 YEARS OF DEFINITIVE SKATEBOARDING PHOTO ers; and the probation officer makes source,” Newsom Press Secretary a recommendation to the court and Nathan Ballard told the Guardian, the court agrees that ICE should be ' claiming that “the Campos bill paints notified. a target on us and puts our entire Reached shortly after the Mayor’s sanctuary city policy at risk.” Office leaked the City Attorney’s But by week’s end, pressure was confidential memo, Campos building on Newsom to reveal who¬ expressed shock at the manner in dunit. . which it was released. “It’s an elected “While I welcome the issuance - official’s obligation to protect the of the City Attorney’s legal guidance city, and elected officials also have a reminding the Mayor’s Office and FTC SF Blabac Photo Book Exhibition Party 1632 Haight St. fiduciary duty,” Campos said. the Board of Supervisors of their Food, drinks, music & photos! San Francisco, CA 94117 Confident that his legislation is obligation to keep attorney-client Friday, August 28th 7-10pm (415)626-0663 legal, Campos observed that “legal privileged information confidential, challenges are a reality any time you a thorough investigation is needed try to do anything about immigra¬ to hold those responsible account¬ tion. able,” Avalos stated, asking the City “But it’s interesting that we are Attorney’s Office and the Ethics talking about fear of being sued, Commission to get involved. when San Francisco has a long and Shortly after Avalos asked for an Submit your HI g §| film proud history of facing legal chal¬ investigation, I covered the swear¬ lenges when we believe that we are ing-in ceremony for Gascon at City correct,” he added, pointing to the Hall, during which Gascon told the to www.disposablefilmfestival.com city’s willingness to fight for same- assembled that “safety without social sex marriage, domestic partner ben¬ justice is not safety.” 5 s 55 •• ■ **Q 9* efits, and universal health care. Struck by the chiefs words, I *«&.. ::: :: “The very same people who say asked the mayor if he was concerned ralbm SUee 55 that they are afraid of being sued about the apparent breach of security • ••• '••••• 99 ** 999 999 here had no problem defending those that occurred in his office when the • • • ** «••* 9..9 999 **«*9 •• ••• 19* *999 ** e*9 9*9 flaw*999 *•*. Hi ** *** 09**99 *••*** 9.V»« T -. ~ \ rr *99 *99 999 *9* ZZZ issues,” Campos said. “Perhaps it is memo was leaked. Newsom respond¬ 00 too *w*a* .f,«9«9 9*9 *9* 99* 999 555 »» ••• ••* ***** 9«* sssiVi sssSvS ••***. Tt **••** * 9 9 9 9 555 • 9 999 •*9 »%•# 9*9 ***** 999B.I999 ed angrily, noting that clients, in an 99 999oaBA 9*9 9BO 9*9 ••• ••• «: ft not so popular to defend the right 99 9997.. 99 *9**^A •*• ••• 9*9*9* &/A&J**99** of an undocumented child as those attorney-client privilege arrange¬ other issues. But that does not negate ment, can release memos if they so the fact that we are right on this choose. issue. We should stand up for what is “So, you did leak the memo to right and we should not be afraid of the Chronicle?” I asked. litigation.” “I handed it,” Newsom answered, Avalos was equally appalled by pausing to look at Ballard, “to some this seemingly unethical leak by the of my people.” Chronicle reporter Mayor’s Office. “I thought we just Heather Knight was also there and had something to celebrate, having a wrote in a story published the next rally to support David Campos’ legis¬ day that Newsom “authorized the lation and now we have memos being leak.” leaked,” Avalos said. “It’s unfeeling at When I asked if leaking the best. By leaking a confidential memo memo was a preemptive strike that contains privileged attorney-cli¬ against the Campos legislation, the ent'information, you are undermin¬ mayor went into a rant about how ing the city’s legal position on an Campos’ proposal could open the city issue. 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the vendor of these meters. “It was the best system for the time and the Hacking meters price,” says True. “They are huge improvements over the mechanical Trio cracks SF’s “smart” parking meters, machines.” San Francisco is currently exposing their flaws planning with MacKay about next-generation meters that will be By Gabrielle Poccia skimmed during collection than capable of processing credit cards. [email protected] with high-tech attack. They wanted “As long as the credit card’s info to understand the mindset of the is processed right away and not Joe Grand and his accomplices, people perpetrating these attacks. stored, then there is no real chance Jacob Appelbaum of Noisebridge They were already looking for simi¬ of fraud,” Grand said. But plans for and Chris Tarnovsky of Flylogic lar types of fraud.” purchasing such meters are far in Engineering, have had their way To defend against fraud, the the future, and no decisions have with San Francisco’s new “smart” SFMTA monitors the audit logs of been made about which model will parking meters, hacking their way all the meters. If a card has been be used. into the systems, exposing how easily they are manipulated, and sharing the entire experience with whoever would listen. The three men, all highly skilled computer programmers, built a smart card capable of fooling San Francisco’s parking meter sys¬ tem into giving up that sweet park¬ ing space for free, and right in front of our eyes. “You can do pretty 100th Anniversary Party much anything on the streets. No a FREE progressive event one in San Francisco cares,” Grand, who also goes by Kingpin and is spanning 1 hostel locations head of Grand Idea Studios, told the Guardian. The three men shared their Saturday, August 19,1009 account in a PowerPoint presenta¬ tion at Black Hat Conference, a Stage I • I 1:30am • 1:30pm security conference held in Las Vegas last month. “We found out Pancake & Nimosa Brunch through the media,” said Judson S.F. DOWNTOWN HOSTEL True, spokesperson for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation 111 Nason Street Agency, which administers the city’s parking system. Stage 1 • 1:00 ■ 3:00pm In three days the trio managed to create a device that could infil¬ Wine & Cheese Reception trate the meter and then, using an with DJ Chris Taylor oscilloscope (a device used to trans¬ S.F. CITY CENTER HOSTEL late electronic signals into readable The hackers were able to max out credit on the new smart data), they recorded the communi¬ meters, or to erase credit. I photo courtesy of grand idea studios 085 Ellis Street cation between the meter and card. Grand was then able to ana¬

Stage 3 • 1:30 - 0:00pm lyze the communication and, by used more than its possible value The plan to replace all the old Bayside BBO & Concert adjusting it, created a new card (cards are sold in denominations meters with smart meters by early with a value of $999.99, the highest of $20 and $50) then the city can next year. The smart meters are a amount a meter can display. with The Jenny Kerr Band block the card and these crimes are key element to the SFMTA’s SF S.F. FISHERMAN'S WHARF HOSTEL San Francisco has spent $35 avoided. “We have not found any Park pilot program, which uses million to deploy 23,000 smart fraud,” says True. market pricing and other tools to Fort Nason, Building 140 meters throughout the city and the This smart meter technology control parking demand (see “The hack was intended to get city offi¬ is used in cities across the country. Politics of Parking” cover package, cials to improve the system. “San Prize giveaways throughout the day. In Massachusetts, several MIT July 1). Francisco has been grasping for students were able to find ways The hackers’ PowerPoint Admission, food & drink are FREE! straws for what to do with metered to manipulate smart meters in presentation’s “Final Conclusions” parking. We wanted to enlighten Boston. Two of the three men who offered a couple of hints into people to the potential problems,” Hostelling International • San Francisco found the vulnerabilities in SF’s their worldview. They began with Grand told us. Celebrating 100 years of hostelling worldwide meters live in the city. “We’re San “Systems need to be fully tested Since the news about their and 75 years of Hostelling International USA! Francisco residents and we want our before deployment” and ended with findings has gone public, Grand money to be used well. We need a “Consider a world without parking has met with SFMTA officials. secure system that will protect its www.sflMStels.nm meters. Ride a bicycle!” sfbg “They were very responsive, more citizens. A system that is at risk so than many other security groups. trickles down to the taxpayers.” Sponsored by: GUARDIAN They seemed to be more concerned SFMTA met with J.J. MacKay, with vandalism and money being

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By Wendi Jonassen four pieces of children’s furniture. to directly ban the use of toxic fire industry leaders.” Indeed, Jacobson [email protected] After reviewing years of data, the retardants. SB 706 was named the says he has no problems accepting Bureau of Home Furnishings found Crystal Golden-Jefferson Act, in funding from the same companies GREEN CITY Profit-driven com¬ that bassinets, nursing pillows, memory of a 41-year-old firefighter that manufacture the chemicals in panies are fighting strollers, and infant pillows have who died of work-related, non- question. Leno believes Citizens for an expensive and never caused fire causality. Leno Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It is believed Fire Safety is a “concerted business underhanded battle contends, “There is no need to pour she developed the condition after effort to confuse the public.” TO CUT COSTS to keep their toxic chemicals into products that are not breathing in dioxin (a highly toxic This nonprofit front is just fire retardants in fire risks.” carcinogen) that was released from one of the extraordinary efforts of Paul Wermer Sustainability Consulting California’s furniture. Numerous studies and agencies, burning flame-retardants. Oregon, the chemical companies to stop 415-929-1680 [email protected] • www.pw-sc.com Senate Bill 772, authored by including the National Toxicology Vermont, Washington, and Maine bills of this nature. According to Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), Program and the California have already passed bills banning Holober, the bromine companies seeks to exempt certain children’s Environmental Protection Agency, dioxin and have started phasing it spent between $6 million and $9 THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN furniture from California’s fire have linked halogenated chemicals out. million on lobbyists and efforts to & TEMPLE PRESENT code, thereby allowing manufactur¬ to cancer, thyroid disease, repro¬ derail SB 706. This is the largest ers the option of forgoing toxic fire ductive problems, ADHD, child amount spent by a consumer-inter¬ retardants and giving consumers autism, and long list of other ail¬ est group in lobbying efforts, Leno the opportunity to raise their babies ments. Some, like Seth Jacobson, and Holober say. around chemical-free furniture. But spokesperson for Citizens for Fire Public records show that the lobbying efforts last week Safety, argue that the studies are This nonprofit front two biggest lobbying efforts on stalled the bill in the Assembly exaggerated and “not scientifically is just one of the behalf of Citizens for Fire Safety Appropriations Committee, where valid”. represent the Citizens for Fire it will be reconsidered Aug. 26. Any manifestation of these extraordinary efforts of Safety Institute, (which is funded California’s onerous stan¬ GREEN diseases may take years to see or by chemical corporations) and a PR dards for fire safety are unique. are complicated by other factors, the chemical companies group representing the Bromine According to Technical Bulletin making correlations to specific Science and Environmental Forum. 117, established by the California chemicals difficult to pinpoint. to stop bills of this HAPPY The BSEF represents all the major Bureau of Home Furnishings, Russell Long of Friends of the nature. brominated flame-retardant com¬ all furniture manufactured in Earth believes that this is a compa¬ panies. California must be able to with¬ rable scenario to the asbestos crisis Joe Kerr, president of Orange HOURI stand an open flame for 12 seconds of the 1980s. Asbestos was a com¬ County Professional Firefighters without igniting. mon household chemical long sus¬ Association Local 3631, makes THURSDAY, While there are other methods pected of toxicity and in 1989, after more reasonable objections to SB that meet California’s standards, numerous health and legal battles, Banning chemicals is hard 772. Kerr opposes the deregulation AUGUST 27, such as barriers and safer chemicals, the EPA banned it. Decades later to do. Richard Holober of the until “all the principals are brought the cheapest way for manufacturers the federal government is still Consumer Federation of California to the table. Get the burn ward 2009 to meet TB 117 is to pour toxic, spending billions in liability law¬ says that the petrochemical industry doctors, and the environmentalists, halogenated chemicals that act as suits affecting more than 600,000 will slightly alter a banned chemi¬ EPA, and Mark Leno together — 5pm - 8pm fire retardants into all upholstered people. cal, “sort of chasing one version because there are good arguments furniture. Another issue is bioaccumula¬ after another.” In the United States, on both sides.” In the meantime, Free & open to This means that fire retardants tion — these chemicals don’t stay chemicals are mass-produced and Kerr doesn’t want to “throw the are put in most things in your put. According to Leno, these distributed until they are found to baby out with the bathwater.” He the public! house — your couch, your mattress, chemicals don’t bind to materi¬ be dangerous. In Europe, chemicals also voices concern that some con¬ your baby’s pillows and strollers. als. Instead they fall to the floor must be proven safe first. sumers will stop buying California Explore, discuss, The companies producing the fire and become part of dust. In 2006, The most outspoken opposi¬ products if the state’s fire standard network with other retardants are huge multina¬ the California EPA reported that tion to both bills, SB 706 and SB is lowered. tional corporations — Albermarle, eco-innovators! Enjoy “PBDEs have been measured in 772, is a group called Citizens for SB 772 is a deregulatory, pro¬ Chemtura, ICL Industrial Corp. house and office dust, indoor air, Fire Safety. The group, headed by environment bill that gives the discounted drink and Tosoh — spending millions on plant and animal-based foods, ter¬ Jacobson, argues that fire retar¬ market the option to decide. Any specials and lobbying and in drafting nonprofit restrial and marine animals, and in dants saves lives, noting that since product that does not meet regula¬ fronts. groovy tunes. human breast milk, blood, and fat.” California established TB 117 tions will be labeled accordingly. The fire retardants go by a vari¬ In 2008, scientists from UC California structure fires have Leno voiced concern that the labels ety of technical names: polybromi- Community Berkeley, Harvard, and the Silent dropped by about 60 percent. will confuse the issue and many nated diphenyl ether, halogenated Spring Institute found that the Records from the National Fire amendments have been made about Open Mic! substances, TRIS, BFRs, CFRs levels of PBDEs in Californians are Protection Association show a where the labels should be placed. Sign up with Temple’s ... the list goes on. That chemical twice as high as other U.S. regions. drop of 32 percent between 1980 Although the bill was approved Director of Sustainability family is halogenated chemicals. The California EPA has reported and 2000. Yet other states, includ¬ by the full Senate in June, heavy The only one that is legal in all Mike Zuckerman to share that the highest tissue concen¬ ing New York, show a drop of lobbying efforts prevailed in consumer products is decabromi- your green story, business, trations of PBDEs are found in 40 percent without a similar fire the Assembly and it fell three nated diphenyl ether, referred to event or cause !6:30pm) California aquatic life, with rising regulation. The drop can easily be votes short in the Assembly as DECA. Some of the chemicals levels in San Francisco Bay harbor ascribed to an increase in smoke Appropriations Committee last that are known to be toxic are only seals. Long believes “this is one detectors, better education, and week. Reconsideration has been banned from certain products, such of the biggest'toxic threats facing more regulations on cigarettes: the granted for next week when the bill as pajamas in the case of TRIS, but Californians today”. number one fire instigator. will need nine votes before it can are still being poured into everyt- 540 Howard btw 1st & 2N0 This is Leno’s second attempt Citizens for Fire Safety’s fund¬ proceed to the Assembly floor. If ing from electronics to clothing to at passing a bill involving these ing is suspicious. Its Web site clear¬ SB 722 does not get nine votes, it TempleSF.com upholstery. particular issues. The first, SB ly states “a portion of our fund¬ will be another year before it can be SB 772 specifically focuses on GUARDIAN 706, introduced last year, sought ing... comes from various chemical heard again, sfbg

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One might terrorism brought the always a fame-hungry reporter and (Tony Papanikolas) www.theroxie.com week the back room of Q Bar is present politicism — national¬ his uncle, head of the U.S. ponder this whimsical knot and With Necrite, Embers, Cyanic, transformed into an eye-pop- find something sublime in it. ist and other — of the Games Department of Super Secret Desecrion STAGE ping wonderland, and patrons The band itself, a San Francisco to the fore in a way that can’t Projects. Come watch as this 8 p.m., $7, all ages Happiness are snapped in various stages quintet, seems to enjoy these be erased and shouldn’t be for¬ cautionary tale — three years Oakland Metro After touring New York, of tipsy undress by ace shot- quizzical constructions. Their gotten. The directors include in the making — finally comes 630 Third St., Oakl. Denver, and even Kathmandu, hound Brandon Norris. But the whip-smart pop music, chock Milos Forman, Arthur Penn, to life. (Victoria Nguyen) (510) 763-1146 Heather Harpham’s solo show young Norris is moving beyond full of unusual hooks, time John Schlesinger, and Kon 8 p.m. (continues through Sept. www.oaklandmetro.org Happiness makes its West after-dark outlandishness with signatures, and lyrics, are pre¬ Ichikawa, who follows his full- 5), $15 Coast premiere. The 75-min¬ his first solo show, "A Sobering cocious notions molded into length Tokyo Olympiad (1965) Stage Werx Theatre FILM ute semiautobiographical Affect,” ditching the props focused entities most commonly with a bravura sequence 533 Sutter, SF tale begins when a woman and shining a realistic eye on called songs. (Nathan Baker) that stretches a 100-meter Women Make Movies Festival many of SF clubland’s queer dash to 10-minute duration. (415) 433-7827 When Kathryn Bigelow gets gives birth to a baby girl. and genderfuck denizens. The With the Famous, Billy and Weightlifting tension, sore los¬ www.stagewerx.org headlines for directing The Within hours of being born, results are more sultry than Dolly ers’ follies, a tribute to female Hurt Locker (look, a woman the child is transferred to a sobering, with feather-light 9 p.m., $10 athletes and more can be found FRIDAY actually directing an action larger hospital in critical condi¬ post-production work rhyming Cafe Du Nord within this keepsake. Plus, the movie!), something’s gotta tion, where her undiagnosed his beautifully candid celebra¬ 2170 Market soundtrack’s by Henry Mancini! AUG. 28 give. In celebrating the tal¬ blood disease leaves doc¬ tions with Renaissance por¬ (415) 861-5016 (Johnny Ray Huston) ent and spirit of female film¬ tors scratching their heads. www.cafedunord.com MUSIC traiture. (Marke B.) makers, the Women Make Alternately sad and humor¬ 7:30 p.m., $8 Bestial Incarnation Movies Festival also show¬ ous, the play features a visit FILM__ 6—8 p.m. (continues through Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Fact: it’s too damn hot these cases controversial subjects to limbo with tour guide Lana Sept. 5.), free. “Beyond ESPN: Visions of Screening Room days, especially outside of San like compulsory drafting of Turner and a guest appear¬ Electric Works Eight” 701 Mission, SF Francisco’s comfortable fog women in Israel and female ance by Ghandi. Using the 130 Eighth St., SF An Olympics film is a neces¬ (415) 978-2787 blanket. Metal fans, not matadors facing misogyny in improvisational elements of (415)626-5496 sary part of “Beyond ESPN,”

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(1) Heather Harpham in Happiness (see Fri/28); (2) Henry Mancini’s soundtrack to Visions of Eight (see Thurs/27); (3) Take This Hammer’s James Baldwin (see Sat/29); (4) still from She is the Matador (see Fri/28); (5) Clipse (see Sat/29); (6) Dead Prez (see Sun/30); (7) photo by Brandon Norris (see Thurs/27)

HAPPINESS PHOTO BY BENJAMIN

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Action Theater, writer-director With X-Billion and Beetiki; San Francisco Museum of MONDAY $24.95) in last week’s graphic portrait of an impov¬ Harpham makes every perfor¬ part of “Sneaker Pimps: World’s Modern Art Guardian issue on drugs erished mountain community, mance a unique and visceral Largest Sneaker Show” 151 Third St., SF AUG. 31 demonstrated some of the his Las Hurdes (1933) takes experience for her audience. 8:30 p.m., $15 (415) 357-4000 reasons why he is a writer aim at the audience’s credu¬ FILM (Nguyen) Mighty www.sfmoma.org and not just a mere reviewer lity. “Reality emerges from 119 Utah SF State 49th Film Finals — with a voice that’s direct this encounter stripped to the 8 p.m. (continues through A poet or painter, say, gener¬ www.mightyll9.com but also capable of a simple bone,” Octavia Paz remarked, Sun/30), $10-$20 SUNDAY ally doesn’t have to beg, bor¬ (415) 762-0151 turn of phrase that causes though it only does so through Shotwell Studios AUG. 30 row, or steal massive chunks you to linger and contemplate, the manifest falseness of its 3252-A 19th St., SF FILM of cash to produce his or her he knows how to tell a story. representation. Alain Resnais’ (415)920-2223 EVENT/MUSIC art, but such is often the case Take This Hammer He also knows how to write a ode to plastics, Le Chant de www.ftloose.org for filmmakers. To that end, From the popular appeal of the Dead Prez and Mistah F.A.B.: poem and how to put together Styrene (1958), and Georges it’s infinitely gratifying to see classic Another Country (1962) 2nd Solar-Powered Hip-Hop and self-publish an excellent Franju’s troubled portrait of a a film triumph over budget¬ and the pioneering homo¬ Concert magazine, as evidenced by Big veteran’s hospital. Hotel des SATURDAY ary limitations through sheer romanticism of Giovanni’s When I meditate on the scope Bell, which reaches its third Invalides (1952), roupd out AUG. 29 creativity and MacGyver-like Room (1956) to the collection of hip-hop (a daily indulgence issue with this release party. this intriguing triple bill, pro¬ ingenuity. The SF State 49th of knife-edged puzzle pieces of mine), the idea of “green The publication also includes grammed by local filmmaker MUSIC annual Film Finals makes its that is his meditation on the conscious” rarely comes to a DVD curated by youth from and projectionist Paul Clipson. Clipse way to the Red Vic for an Atlanta child murders, 1985’s mind. So when I saw a blazing Bay Area Video Coalition’s (Max Goldberg) “Patty cake patty cake / encore screening, showcasing underrated The Evidence flyer toting a free “solar-pow¬ Next Gen program, so there I’m the baker’s man / I bake what the trailer describes as Noon, free of Things Not Seen, James ered hip-hop concert” featur¬ will be a screening mixed in them cakes / as fast as I can,” a “bold and cutting-edge mix San Francisco Museum of Baldwin stood strong as one ing the supremely healthy with the reading and partying. spit Virginia’s Clipse on their of short narratives, documen¬ Modern Art of 20th century America’s Brooklyn duo Dead Prez and (Huston) Neptunes-flipped ’02 anthem taries, experimental work, 151 Third St., SF most vital writers. He did so local favorite Mistah F.A.B., “Grindin’.” Those two bars mixed media, and animation.” 6:30 p.m., free (donations (415) 357-4000 by honoring his sense of self I got interested quick. The - merely suggest the potent lyri¬ After the endless cavalcade requested) and community and refusing event is hosted by Bay Area www.sfmoma.org sfbg cal abilities of brothers Malice of shit-blowing-up that is the San Francisco Museum of to kowtow to cant. As contem¬ nonprofit Grind For the Green, The Guardian listings deadline is and Pusher T, who effortlessly summer movie season, a night Modern Art poraries lost their ability to an organization committed two weeks prior to our Wednesday infect stagnant phrases with of film at its scrappy, heartfelt 151 Third St., SF publication date. To submit an item write to alcohol, or went into to making the environmental for consideration, please include the new, multilayered resonance. essence sounds pretty appeal¬ (415) 861-3282 seclusion, Baldwin added his movement relevant to youth title of the event, a brief description Indeed, their last effort Hell ing. (Papanikolas) of the event, date and time, venue voice to increasingly conten¬ of color. Personally, I’m look¬ www.bavc.org Hath No Fury (Jive, 2006) name, street address (listing cross tious arguments. The 1964 ing forward to the radical 7 and 9 p.m., $6-9 streets only isn’t sufficient), city, could stand as a paradigm les¬ greenification of the MC battle telephone number readers can call for KQED documentary Take This Red Vic Movie House son in Borgesian constructions TUESDAY more information, telephone number Hammer accompanies him as and turf dance competitions. for media, and admission costs. Send of meaning. Clipse builds a 1727 Haight St. he visits community leaders (Krimper) SEPT. 1 information to Listings, the Guardian self-referential world of words (415) 668-3994 Building, 135 Mississippi St., SF, CA in SF’s black neighborhoods. fueled on an internally circling With Fiyawata, Lil 0, and DJ www.redvicmoviehouse.com FILM 94107; fax to (415) 487-2506; or Directed by Richard Moore, it’s e-mail (paste press release into e-mail text of endless interpretations. Anthony Marshall accompanied by another look LIT/FILM “Subversive Documentaries” body — no text attachments, please) But that text even crosses the 12-4 p.m., free Ironists everywhere should to [email protected]. We cannot at the Bay Area, the Oakland guarantee the return of photos, but threshold into a more con¬ Yerba Buena Gardens Big Bell Release Party with youth portrait Losing Just the smile on the fact that Luis enclosing an SASE helps. Digital pho¬ ventional environment, where NextGen Screening tos may be submitted in jpeg format; Same. (Huston) Mission at Fourth, SF Bunuel corrupted documenta¬ “Keys Open Doors” and other Jason Morris’s assessment • the image must be at least 240 dpi (415)820-3550 ry convention a mere 10 years and four inches by six inches in size. of the new book Righteous pragmatic things almost hap¬ 3 p.m., $5 www.grindforthegreen.com/ after Nanook of the North We regret we cannot accept listings pen. (Michael Krimper) Phyllis Wattis Theater Dopefiend (University of (1922). Ostensibly an ethno¬ over the phone. California Press, 392 pages,

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Punks gone Broadway? With the musical version of American Idiot, Green Day — with help from Tony-winning Spring Awakening director Michael Mayer — is poised to conquer a different kind of stage. fall arts preview GREEN DAY IMAGE COUTESY OF WARNER BROS. RECORDS: AMERICAN IDIOT REHEARSAL PHOTO BV DOUG HAMILTON

American Idiot appears poised for and a lot of adaptations are main¬ critical and popular success when it stream or traditional — and it doesn’t opens Sept. 4. appeal to rebellious youth.” American Idiot arrives at a time Young people also might have 4 when musical theater is going a hard time springing for costly through a wave of growing pains. theater tickets — yet the kids were american idiot , The genre is casting about for ideas, out in force, filling the HP Pavilion whether they are from films like last week when Green Day played Shrek and Billy Elliot (to cite a Tony to a hometown crowd with a show success from last year), or — as with punctuated by pyrotechnic pillars of Spring Awakening, which spotlit flames and fireworks-style explosions, music by Duncan Sheik — from rock gleeful costume changes, and squirt- songwriters more comfortable with gun shenanigans with Armstrong’s the life of gritty clubs, merch tables, mom. It was a big-room amplification & Ce/^one5 00 and tour buses than the mountain- of the string of Bay club dates Green plea** ' moving, time-devouring, and costly Day played earlier this spring at inti¬ group mechanics of putting on a mate venues like the Independent, full-tilt musical. Unlike singularly DNA Lounge, and the Uptown. conceived rock operas like the Who’s Below a cleverly conceived 3-D Tommy, the first notable union of an urban skyscape backdrop, Armstrong established rock band and theater on fully embraced his onstage ham and Broadway, so-called juke box musicals flexed his crowd-control abilities a la — collections of songs by one group Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes car¬ like Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys toon, taking running leaps from the — have met with mixed results. monitors, stage-diving, soloing in the “There’s a whole variety, like Ring bleachers, donning a faux police cap of Fire, the Johnny Cash one, that and mooning each side of the audi¬ No brainer just haven’t made it,” opines Michael ence, and entreating all assembled to Kantor, writer of the Emmy-winning raise their fists or sing along, before 2005 PBS documentary Broadway: launching into more serious numbers Green Day’s American Idiot is made over for the Berkeley Rep stage The American Musical. “It’s very much like “Murder City,” written about dependent on the conception of the the Oakland riots that followed the stop in Green Day’s arena tour for Mayer radiates a similar high- By Kimberly Chun director and the book writer who Oscar Grant killing. Live, the band wattage intensity, one that’s fully a&eletters(®sfbg.com 21st Century Breakdown (Reprise), is putting together the story that’s couples the playfully goofy, childlike the follow-up to American Idiot. prepared to kick out the jams. Wide- going to encapsulate the music. I do comedy that tickles the 14-year-olds FALL ARTS PREVIEW Who eyed and unblinking behind his “There’s a real old-school craft to it,” think Broadway right now is keenly up front with the palpable sense of would have pictured he continues, measuring that quality black frame specs, clad in a Justice scavenging from movies or recordings morality — driven by a beaten yet Green Day’s anthe- against Shrek, Legally Blond, and other League T-shirt and floppy shorts, — anything they feel like they can still beating anarchist heart — found mic 2004 punk-rock recent disposable Broadway musicals. he’s hiding out with me in what get quality material from as a launch¬ on its increasingly serious-minded, concept album, “That’s kind of a corny way of doing looks like an old classroom within ing point.” idealistic recordings. American Idiot things, but when you see something the downtown Berkeley building With the closing of a host of Armstrong won’t be onstage (Reprise), as the like Spring Awakening, it’s...- it’s real enlisted for rehearsals of the musical musicals earlier this year, producers for the American Idiot musical stuff of musicals? It life, and it’s something that every¬ version of American Idiot. “I feel like are looking for the new and innova¬ '— though the production includes took merely two unlikely kindred body relates to, and it’s inspiring and where we connect is old school,” he tive. “Many of the most important a live band — and it’s not the Billie spirits, meeting in the fall of 2007 emotional. American Idiot was really says of Armstrong, slapping the table musicals,” Kantor theorizes, “have Joe Armstrong or Green Day Story. for the first time: the Oakland band’s tailor-made for something like this to for emphasis. “Tin Pan Alley.” Slap. come from the most unexpected Instead, the musical is embedded in lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary happen to it, y’know.” “Vaudeville.” Slap. “That’s the music sources or most unusual approaches.” a specific time and hybridized with songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong and At the same time that Armstrong he grew up with. He became a punk- And there’s the scramble for the youth video-screen projections that simulate Tony-winning Spring Awakening tried to heal the ailing with music — rocker — I became a theater homo!” entertainment dollar, as the High a familiar media-saturated landscape: director Michael Mayer. and ’80s-era punks everywhere greet¬ Together, Armstrong and Mayer School Musical TV-music franchise, it’s 2004, in the dark years. America Armstrong — that punk-rock die¬ ed “Morning in America” with a snarl are making a piece of theater that taps into the passion so many kids has sent its idiot back to the White hard who even now plays Gilman with — the generation-older Mayer was combines the musical’s narrative have for song, dance, and drama. House, and we’re on the brink of his side project Pinhead Gunpowder? earning his MFA on the other side tradition and holy union of song “Kids are always attracted to musi¬ Hurricane Katrina. Across that stage Turns out that as a tyke growing up in of the country in theater at NYU. and dance with a breed of feisty cals,” Kantor muses, “but once they comes a series of almost archetypal Rodeo, he serenaded the elderly and No surprise, then, that Mayer “felt alternative rock fed by the streetwise get into their midteens, a lot of them characters one recognizes from the infirm in local hospitals with stan¬ such a surprising kind of simpatico” political punk of Gilman Street. A lose their interest in musicals as an art album: the Jesus of Suburbia, here dards and show tunes from musicals on meeting the Green Day leader. musical that unites the ironclad craft form and gravitate to other stuff. High dubbed Johnny for the lead actor it like Oliver! and Annie Get Your Gun. “Even though we come from different of the American Songbook and the School Musical catches them at their was written for, John Gallagher Jr., “That’s how I learned how* to worlds and are such different people,” heady, arena-sized artistic ambition natural inclination for that kind of who won a Tony for his portrayal sing,” says Armstrong, laid back and Mayer says, “you know, at the end of of classic rock. Now, in the wake of entertainment. The question is, will a of Moritz in Spring Awakening-, his low-key in stark contrast to the manic the day, Billie Joe is such a showmanl the Broadway acclaim of Los Angeles show like [American Idiot] capture that antagonist St. Jimmy; and the rebel rabble-rouser who’ll soon take com¬ Such a theatrical guy. Not since A1 punk vet Stew’s Passing Strange much-sought-after 18- to 30-year-old girl Whatshername. mand over a stage at San Jose’s HP Jolson have I seen someone so in love (which also got its start in at Berkeley demographic, which is when musicals Just about a week before the con¬ Pavilion. He’s on the phone from with the audience and with putting Repertory in 2006 and has just been tend to lose people. Kids go off to col¬ cert, the hyperactive, pogo-friendly his Oakland home during a brief on a performance for them.” transferred to film by Spike Lee), lege, it’s not too cool to like musicals, CONTINUES ON PAGE 18 >>

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Start the colors! Fall brings (from left, clockwise): the orgasmic splendor of Conrad Ruiz’s paintings, the barbed masculinity of Luke Butler’s collages, the singing of John Lennon fans in Candice Breitz’s videos, the Tropicalia of Beatriz Milhazes, and illustrations by the late Charley Harper.

CONRAD RUIZ, PUBLIC DISPLAY OF AFFECTION AND LUKE BUTLER, LEADER OF MEN 1701: ROCKET MAN, COURTESYOF SILVERMAN GALLERY;

visual art CANDICE BREITZ, STILL FROM WORKING CLASS HERO (A PORTRAIT OF JOHN LENNON), COURTESY OF SFMOMA; BEATRIZ MILHAZES, MEGA

BOX. COURTESY OF YBCA; CHARLEY HARPER, PAINTING, COURTESY OF ALTMAN SIEGEL GALLERY

Contemporary Arts, www.wattis. org roberttat.com) Johan Hagemeyer includes work from the late 1950s Electric truth 4. “On View: Candice Breitz” A turns now-endangered California through the 1970s, a time span that working class hero is something to nature into a subject of eternal awe. includes his beginnings as an artist be. Breitz’s video portrait o£25 John (Sept. 9-Nov. 3, Scott Nichols Gallery, and his work with Spiral, a group 10 strong currents within Bay Area Lennon fans singing along to John www.scottnicholsgallery.com) Hiroshi of black artists including Romare Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (Apple/ Sugimoto captures the surreal Bearden. Oct. 9-Jan. 10, 2010; fall visual arts Epic, 1970) sounds derivative of Phil beauty of lightning in a manner Jean Museum of the African Diaspora, www. Collins’ karaoke vids of Smiths fans, Painleve might admire. (Sept. 10-Oct. moadsf.org. By Johnny Ray Huston of all, I’m looking forward to Conrad but in pop, no ideas are original, and 31, Fraenkel Gallery, www fraenkelgal- 10. Solo and duo shows a go go Ara [email protected] Ruiz’s sure-to-be-orgasmic debut SF all ideas are meant to be stolen and lery.com) And San Francisco itself is solo show. {Dec. 11-Jan. 23, 2010; Peterson proves once again that few transformed. Plus the musical source the subject of the first entry in the FALL ARTS 1. New wave of Silverman Gallery, www.silverman- people chart — and bring dimension is so damn good. A side video, 2005’s vast retrospective “An Autobiography California painting gallery.com) to — color with such power. {Nov. Mother— the title of one of John of the San Francisco Bay Area.” Sept. ! % thoughts on 2. “When Lives Become Form: 6-Dec. 18, Ratio 3, www.ratio3. Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’s best songs 10-0ct. 31, SF Camerawork, www. I gaBBr 1 the topic are still Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s org) David Hevel gathers hideously — mines cinema. Oct. 1-Dec. 20, sfcamerawork. org y J percolating, but it to the Present” Tropicalia can’t be pretty sculptures of Bernie Madoff, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 7. “There’s a Mystery There: will soon be time to revived often enough, even if Os Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, www.sJmoma.org Sendak on Sendak” Where are the take on the inspiring Mutantes have —• shame, shame and Brangelina. (Sept. 10-Oct. 17, 5. “Wonderland” Lance Fung’s cura¬ wild things this fall? On the movie subject of new California —■ soundtracked a McDonald’s com¬ Marx & 7-avattero, ww.marxzav.com) torial idea to bring,together 52 artists screen — thanks to Spike Jonze’s painters. Amanda KirkhufFs superb mercial. This survey, which includes The late illustrator Charley Harper (43 from San Francisco and nine from adaptation of a children’s classic oil portrait of Lorena Bobbitt, cur- fashion and architecture in addition — beloved by Todd Oldham — gets other countries) for 10 site-specific by Maurice Sendak — and in the rently up at [2nd Floor Projects], is to visual art and music, has been a tribute. (Sept. 24-Oct. 31, Altman projects in the Tenderloin has greater museum, where this show presents one touchstone. Neil Ledoux’s brown traveling the globe. Finally, SF gets Siegel Gallery, www.altmansiegel. potential than any standard museum watercolors, sketches, drawings and invocations at Silverman Gallery ear¬ a chance to see the movement Hlio com) Local minimalist Todd Bura or gallery show. Oct. 17-Nov. 14, vari¬ dummy books. Sept. 8-Jan. 19, 2010; lier this year is another. The next few Oiticica built. Nov. 5-Jan. 31, 2010; presents another open puzzle. (Sept. ous sites, www.wonderlandshow.org Contemporary Jewish Museum, www. months bring a blitz of lively, original Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, www. 18-Oct. 25, Triple Base, www.base- 6. Photography Decades of work thecjm.org paintings. Brendan Lott serves up ybca.org basebase.com) Pop goes berserk in the by an autodidact who learned from 8. “Bellwether” As New Langton ugly-beautiful America. (Oct.-17- 3. “Moby Dick” After last fall’s show works of John De Fazio, and Daniel Warhol, studied under Irving Penn Arts goes down amid dissent and Nov. 14, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, devoted to L. Frank Baum’s The Minnick reinvents the American and at least briefly influenced criticism, the vibrant but at times dif¬ www.baerridgway.com) Alika Cooper Wizard ofOz, CCA Wattis Institute’s photo booth (fall, [2ndfoot projects], Larry Clark comes together in “Ari fuse Southern Exposure introduces continues her film femme fatale trilogy of shows inspired by novels www.projects2ndjloor. blogspot. com) Marcopoulos: Within Arm’s Reach,” a new Mission District home space fascination with some Farrah. (Sept. goes fishing for Herman Melville’s Katya Bonnenfont proves — with a Marcopoulos’s first midcareer survey with a 10-artist show that includes 3-Oct. 17, Mark Wolfe Contemporary biggest catch. The range of artists light and lovely touch, and against (Sept. 23-Feb. 7, 2010; Berkeley Art contributions by Renee Gertler and Art, www.wolfecontemporary.com) taking part is impressive, with the most evidence in galleries — that Museum, www.bampfa.org) Charles Lordy Rodriguez. Oct. 17-Dec. 12, — Kim Cogan pictures San Francisco. likes of Tacita Dean placed next to design can be art. (Oct. 22-Dec. Gatewood’s raw and candid portraits Southern Exposure, www.soex.org (September, Hespe Gallery, www.hespe. local talents such as Colter Jacobsen. 24, Haines Gallery, www.hainesgal- of celebrities — no, he doesn’t only 9. “The Art of Richard Mayhew” com) Nancy Chan sets friends float¬ A number of works by filmmak¬ lery.com) And last, Luke Butler aim his camera at naked bodies with The Museum of the African ing in space and Matt Momchilov ers — including Buster Keaton, brings hotness and comedy together piercings — are gathered to form Diaspora plays host to one-third of confronts weird normality head on. Jean Painleve, Peter Hutton, and through razor-sharp collage. Sept. a countercultural scrapbook. (Sept. a three-part retrospective of the art¬ (Sept. 11-Oct. 17, Eleanor Harwood, Kenneth Anger — are on deck. Sept. 11-Oct. 17, Silverman Gallery, www. 3-Oct. 31, Robert Tat Gallery, www. ist and activist’s career. The show www.eleanorharwood.com) But most 22-Dec. 12, CCA Wattis Institute for silverman-gallery.com. sfbg

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FALL INTO DANCE: DANCE CRITIC RITA FELCIANO’S '09 PICKS Stage four trust, gay activism, gender identity, talking to the dead, and the privi¬ Recession or not, dancers gotta do what they gotta do. Here are 10 performanc¬ leged culture’s pursuit of happiness.” es that will reward your time and dollars. Theatrical picks for 2009’s final act Oct. 9-18, Zellerbach Playhouse; http:// Capacitor It’s been a decade since Jodi Lomax brought her (at the time) odd events, berkeley. edu. mix of science, dance, and circus arts to the Bay Area. Previous works have By Robert Avila Conservatory Theater; www.act-sf.org. South Pacific Speaking of musicals, been inspired by astrophysics, plate tectonics, and forest systems. The new The Perfect Flower promises a more intimate experience. Sept 18-19, Cowell Theater; [email protected] Ghosts of the River The mysteri¬ the big fat Rodgers and Hammerstein www.capacitor.org. ous, insubstantial and quintessentially luau revived to critical acclaim last You Can't Get There from Here Margaret Jenkins Dance Company If you saw the gorgeous first section of human realm of shadows and borders year — and for the first time since Margaret Jenkins’ Other Suns at Theater Artaud, you don’t want miss the now Prized Bay Area come together in a uniquely poeti¬ its 1949 premiere — comes to the finished piece, created and performed with China’s renowned Guangdong Modern performer Anne cal, politically charged evening of Pacific Coast this fall, courtesy of Dance Company. Sept. 24-26, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; www.mjdc.org. Galjour’s latest solo “Twilight Zone-like vignettes” set SHN’s Best of Broadway series. Contemporary dance from Africa French-born Maimouna Couliblay {Sept 25- play suggests you along the snaking Rio Grande. The Celebrated director and SF homeboy 27, Dance Mission Theater; www.dancemission.com) found her artistic voice in are where you live, world premiere of Ghosts of the River Bartlett Sher pilots this Tony winner Mali; her Heee Mariamou is inspired by growing up in the ’hood, Parisian style. while unearthing the re-teams leading SF-based playwright for Best Musical Revival 2008, set on Soweto’s Gregory Maqoma {Nov. 4-7, YBCA; www.ybca.org) brings solos inspired real class and cultural divides under¬ Octavio Solis with Larry Reed’s a frisky but fraught tropic isle during by Akram Khan, Faustin Linyekula, and Vincent Mantsoe. neath American feet, in this intensely Suzanne Farrell Ballet Farrell, the high priestess of the Balanchine legacy, Shadowlight Productions in a theatri¬ WWII with classic themes in the air, rjy- researched and sharply amusing map¬ programmed and narrates an intriguing selection of the master’s pas de deux’ cal experience combining Balinese including the baldly asserted “There and solos. Should be a treat for all Balanchine lovers. ping of the nation 2009 courtesy of shadow theatre technique, the scale of Oct. 24-25, Zellerbach Hall; Is Nothin’ Like a Dame.” Sept. 18- www.calperfs.berkeley.edu. Z Space. Sept. 10-27, Theatre Artaud; film, and live performance accessible Oct. 25, Golden Gate Theatre; www. Trey McIntyre Project McIntyre has done well as freelancer of fast-paced, •www. zspace. org. to both Spanish- and English-speak¬ shnsf.com. musical, and accessible ballet choreography. His brand-new company includes, Brief Encounter American ing audiences. Oct. 1-11, Teatro Vision; The Creature SF playwright Trevor among others, former Lines Ballet dancer John Michael Schert. Oct 30, Jewish Conservatory Theater’s new season Oct. 28-Nov. 8, Brava Theater Center; Allen has created a monster. It began Community Center for San Francisco; www.jccsf.org. opens with a wildly successful British www.shadowlight.org. in 2006 as a staged reading and a Monique Jenkinson As ODC residency artist, this dancer/performer and fashion import, Kneehigh Theatre’s inspired Dead Boys The world premiere live radio play, then a podcast. Now maven — best known for impersonating a man impersonating a woman — has production of Noel Coward’s Brief of a new musical by writer-direc¬ The Creature, a fresh take on Mary been hard at work on Luxury, which extols the guilty pleasures of life. Nov. 7-8, Encounter, a mashup of film, theater, ODC Theater; www.odcdance.org. tor-choreographer Joe Goode leads Shelley’s Frankenstein, is a full-blown and song adapted by Emma Rice DV8 Physical Theatre Choreographer Lloyd Newson is the John Osborne (Look off the new main stage season at UC walking, talking, play-thing mak¬ from Coward’s own words and music. Back in Anger) of dance. He’s tough, and he hits hard. In To Be Straight with You Berkeley’s Department of Theater, ing its world premiere in time for he takes on religion, sexuality, and prejudice. Nov 12-14, YBCA; dv8.co.uk. This limited engagement coincides Dance, and Performance Studies, Halloween. Stitched together from Performing Diaspora This event rethinks culturally specific dance such as with the 100-year anniversary of the where Goode is faculty by day (and some prime parts, including direc¬ Haitian, Cambodian, or Kathak. The three weekends showcase artists who love former Geary Theater’s legacy as a otherwise artistic director of famed tion from Cutting Ball Theatre’s Rob the genres they were raised in but want to put their own 21st century stamp on movie theater, and is something of a SF dance-theater company Joe Goode Melrose and no less than venerable them. Nov. 5-22, CounterPULSE; www.counterpulse.org. must-see (Nota bene: ACT is offering Performance Group). Collaborating Bay Area actor James Carpenter in San Francisco HipHop Dance Fest The combination of kids, adult aficionados a limited number of $10 sweet and with Portland-based composer-song¬ the title role, The Creature promises to and professional hip-hoppers make this one of the fall season’s juiciest festivals. vertiginous second-balcony seats for writer Holcombe Waller, Dead Boys be lively, to say the least. Oct. 23-Nov. What started as a local blast has also turned into a global encounter. Nov. 20-21, this show). Sept. 11-Oct. 4, American Palace of Fine Arts; www.sfhiphopdancefest.com. is billed as “a freak folk musical about CONTINUES ON PAGE42’»

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Runs Thurs-Sat,8pm.ThroughSept12.NCTC's Francisco ShakespeareFestivalpresentstheclas¬ Sept 7,2:30pm.Through20.TheSan Opens Aug29.RunsSat,7:30pm:Sun,2:30pm. Ground Lawn,GrahambetweenLincolnand The ComedyofErrorsPresidioMainPostParade www.sfbg.com. Moraga; 558-0888,www.sfshakes.org.Free. OPENING for [email protected] to confirm.ReviewersareRobertAvila,Rita THEATER ings, seePicks.Forthecompletelistings,goto information onhowtosubmititemsforthelist¬ Felciano, andNicoleGluckstern.Submititems Performance timesmaychange;callvenues Stage listingsarecompiledbyMollyFreedenberg. rethinking ofanotherSteveReichscorefromlastyear.(RitaFelciano) designs. TheweekendprogramiscompletedbyFain’salmostnewResolved,a tends towardtheabstractandcoolincorporationofelegantvisual use ofnarrativeasaspringboardforphysicaltheater.”Inherownworkshe company wastouringEasternEuropeandfoundherselfimpressed“byhis ist muchadmiredinPoland).FainmetKalinowskithissummerwhileher Theatre. 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By Stephen Elliott share office space. I still had a a&eletters(®sfbg.com bunch of pills left and occasionally I would take one, just to know the EXCERPT My psychiatrist lives writer’s block was real. Then I lost just down the street all the pills when my bag was stolen from me. I can at a bar on 22nd Street six months walk there. I see ago, and that was the end of that. her once a month, If you asked me what happened or once every three this past year I’m not sure I could months, and she pre¬ tell you. I could say I moved into scribes my pills. The pills make me this apartment on the edge of the crazy, I know that, but I don’t see city where I can hear children and the alternative. It’s really just speed, dogs in the morning and I despise no different from the original it. I could say I was with and not ^.amphetamine salts Gordon Alles with Lissette, getting together injected in June, 1929, and almost and breaking up every couple of identical to the Pervitin used by months. At one point I called her German paratroopers in World the love of my life. I could say hon¬ War II as they dropped behind estly I started to write a novel every enemy lines in a state the British day. I could say I went on tour for newspapers described as “heavily six weeks with the Sex Workers drugged, fearless, and berserk.” Art Show and that a compilation of It’s the same stuff injected in high previously written essays and stories doses in the Haight Ashbury that about my predilection for — my Allen Ginsburg was talking about addiction to — violent sex was in 1965 saying, “Speed is antisocial, released to silent reviews. paranoid-making, it’s a drag, bad I could say I watched the first for your body, bad for your mind.” three seasons of The Wire on DVD Without the Adderall I have and on Sunday nights I went to a a hard time following through on friend’s house nearby and ate dinner a thought. My mind is like a man and watched HBO. pacing between the kitchen and I ran a reading series in the the living room, always planning same bar where my bag was stolen. something in one room then leav¬ It was part of a literary organiza¬ ing as soon as he arrives in the tion I founded to raise money for other. Adderall is a compound of progressive candidates running for four amphetamine salts. The salts congress in 2006. metabolize at different rates with I edited an anthology of politi¬ diverse half lives, so the amphet¬ cal erotica. amine uptake is smoother and the I could say I did all these things come down lighter. And I wonder if and if it sounds like a lot I can I’m not still walking back and forth attention deficit. Her essay was and she would be off with the clients quiet town north of Berkeley, near assure you it isn’t. I’m not mar¬ in my head, just faster, so fast it’s as written as a love letter and was most of the day. She would leave the highway. She’s standing on the ried and I have no children. I have if I’m not walking at all. completely absent of hate or envy them in the rooms to undress. When back of a couch, grabbing a toy friends but they don’t know where I My psychiatrist is tall and or any of the things that make us she returned they would be kneel¬ from above a row of lockers. She’s am most of the time. I don’t work. thin and her skin hangs loosely human. It was missing everything ing on the floor, their naked backs wearing panties with lace along the I live on money I made before, around her face. I like her quite a we try to hide. facing her. She might walk carefully bottom and high heels and we’re all money that is almost gone. bit though I’ve never spent more “How are you feeling?” my psy¬ toward them, sliding the toe of her staring at the back of her thighs, Last year I made $10,000. than 15 minutes with her. She chiatrist asks. boot across the carpet. Or she might amazed. I live in San Francisco. Rents works from her home and a small “Better,” I reply. stand away from them, letting their When I was taking Adderall are going up. waiting room is always open on anticipation build, as she pulled a all I thought about was Lissette I’m teaching a couple of classes — the side of her house. There are I had stopped taking the pills for a single-tail from the rack. She loved and when I stopped taking the to get by. I know I should get a job, magazines there, one in particular year, maybe more. Three weeks ago to be adored and the best clients Adderall I started thinking about but it’s hard to do that after a while. ADD Magazine. The magazine is I started taking them again. When I made her feel happy and complete. other things. Lissette noticed and full of tips for organizing your life. quit taking Adderall I was still dat¬ The walls were thin and I could hear we broke up. Then we got back From The Adderall Diaries: A There’s even an article suggesting ing Lissette. I would go to her house the paddles landing on the client’s together, then we broke up again. Memoir of Moods, Masochism, that maybe too much organization in Berkeley during the day while her back with a thud sometimes followed Over the course of last year, after I and Murder (Graywolf Press, 212 is not a good thing. Mostly though, husband was gone, and wrap myself by a scream. When she was done had stopped, I often felt suicidal. 1 pages, $23), published in September. ~ it’s about children. How to deal around her feet while she worked. she might come downstairs and sit had time, but I didn’t know what to with your attention deficit child Or I would visit her at the dungeon on my lap for a while, and then we do with it. I was a writer but I had STEPHEN ELLIOTT With Tobias Woiff and the child’s teacher, who might she worked at on the weekends as would go. forgotten how to write so I sat with and Bucky Sinister. Thurs/27, 7 p.m., be skeptical. a professional dominatrix. I would I have a memory of Lissette in my computer. I sat in coffeeshops or $20 (free copy of The Adderall Diaries In the writing class I teach, a sit in the dressing room with the the dungeon, which was really just I sat at home or I sat at the Writer’s for attendees). Amnesia, 853 Valencia, woman recently turned in an essay women and we would watch televi¬ a four-bedroom basic Californian Grotto, an old building near the SF. (415)970-0012. about her son who suffers from sion. Lissette was the most popular with a driveway and a yard in a ballpark where a group of authors www.amnesiathebar.com

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His work led him to Taiji, yes, soulful. Cold Souls is likely the best Paul Japan, where a secret dolphin harvest has been to drive the point home, they went and set it in South Africa. Here's the set-up: 20 years VISION - A BOLD MIX OF Giamatti comedy since Sideways, due not only going on behind barbed wire. The town fisher¬ men have been corralling dolphins in an exqui- ago, an alien ship arrived and got stuck, hover¬ NARRATIVE ELEMENTS THAT ing above the Earth. Faster than you can say “apartheid,” the alien refugees were confined WORKS BRILLIANTLY. Discover the film that critics are calling to a camp — the titular District 9 — where Goldthwait manages a virtuoso feat.” uniquely thought-provoking and hysterical! they have remained in slum-level conditions. As - Kurt Loder, MTV science fiction, it’s creative; as a metaphor, it’s effective. What's most surprising about District “GRADE A- “A DELICIOUS 9 is the way everything comes together. 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As the fatalistic Citron says, “There is no justice or injustice. Just war." THE EDGE JIMMY PAGE JACK WHITE The pair’s clandestine lifestyle begins to take Lx-. a toll on both men’s personal lives — Citron “A CRAZY, struggles to support his family while the Flame “STIRRING... strives to trust Ketty (Stine Stengade), a FOUL-MOUTHED beguilingly beautiful courier. As the duo close A FASCINATING JOURNEY. in on Hoffman (Christian Berkel), the head of BLAIK THE MYSTIQUE OF THE ELECTRIC GUITAR IS the Gestapo, self-doubt looms over them as the Nazi plays on their greatest fear of being used COMEDY AS DURABLE AS ANYTHING IN ROCK ’N’ ROLL’’ as pawns. Though the film’s voice-over narra¬ that blows up every -A.0. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES ,, tion borders on heavy-handed, Lindhardt and rule of taste and Mikkelsen’s vulnerable and intensely visceral common sense and performances set Flame and Citron apart from somehow gets “ELECTRIFYING!” some of the more gratuitous and emotionally exploitative Nazi films released this year. (2:10) away with it.” ( -Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE ,> •» Clay. (Swanbeck) - Owen Gleiberman, Food, Inc. (1:34) ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLV m C “GRADE: A! Opera Plaza. Funny People (2:20) 1000 Van Ness, Shattuck. ' MARVELOUS! WISTFUL, TASTY, AND G-Force (1:30) SF Center. ‘ JAM-KICKING AT THE SAME TIME! PURE CANDY ;V:* G.l. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (1:47) 1000 Van Ness, SF Center. FOR THE GUITAR HERO IN ALL OF US.” * *'• The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (1:30) 1000 -Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Van Ness. □ The Hangover (1:45) a thomas tull production directed by davis guggenheim 1000 Van Ness. □ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2:33) 1000 Van Ness. 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Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) ignites a media rich color palette, painstakingly hand-drawn firestorm, since it seems to suggest war is animation, and beautiful original score by Joe Empire West Portal/Vicente. 661-2539. imminent even though Brit and U.S. govern¬ Hisaishi. Nevertheless, despite the imaginative Four Star Clement/23rd Ave. 666-3488. ments are downplaying the likelihood of the world where goldfish-turned-girls can run on Kabuki Cinema Post/Fillmore. 929-4650. Iraq invasion they’re simultaneously preparing the crests of waves and toy boats transform for. 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(Harvey) • Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler’s Wife Inglourious Basterds With Inglourious Basterds as “chick lit,” but those who have read the Quentin Tarantino pulls off something that book know that it’s darker, more complex, and seemed not only impossible, but undesirable, certainly more original that that term suggests. and surely unnecessary: making yet another Pity about the film. As adaptations go. The of his in-jokey movies about other movies, Time Traveler’s Wife is fairly straightforward albeit one that also happens to be kinda about and sticks close to its source material — with REST IN PIECES the Holocaust — or at least Jews getting their plenty of edits. Fair enough: no one wants an own back on the Nazis during World War II eight-hour movie. This is still the story of Henry — and (the kicker) is not inherently repulsive. DeTamble, a librarian cursed with a genetic For your chance As Rube Goldbergian achievements go, this is disorder that makes him involuntarily travel up there. Nonetheless, Basterds is more fun, through time, and Clare Abshire, the artist who with less guilt, than it has any right to be. The loves him. Lost in the translation, however, to receive two “basterds" are Tennessee moonshiner Pvt. is the depth that made the book a success. Brad Pitt’s unit of Jewish soldiers committed These characters are unapologetically flat, in to infuriating Der Fuhrer by literally scalping all love because the screenplay says so. There complimentary tickets, the uniformed Nazis they can bag. Meanwhile is no progression to their relationship as the a survivor (Melanie Laurent) of one of insidious film careens toward its weepy conclusion. Eric SS “Jew Hunter” Christoph Waltz’s raids, now Bana and Rachel McAdams are both solid as the each admits one, to see passing as racially “pure” and operating a Paris romantic leads, but the effort as a whole feels cinema (imagine the cineaste name-dropping lazy — it banks on the bestseller’s buzz instead possibilities!) finds her venue hosting a Third of on its own merits. (1:48) Shattuck, Sundance the film in San Francisco, Reich hoedown that provides an opportunity to Kabuki, 1000 Van Ness. (Peitzman) nuke Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, and Goering in The Ugly Truth (1:41) 1000 Van Ness, SF Center. one swoop. 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