Podcasts about Mission Street

One of Aarron's first jobs as a kid was performing magic shows, and it taught him a surprising amount about creativity. Magic is, at its core, the art of storytelling. It's about directing attention, making people question assumptions, and blending creativity with technology to change how we see the world. That's why it's no surprise that Andrew Evans, founder of the Magic Patio, draws on his training from Stanford's d.school to craft truly mesmerizing experiences.  We dive into Andrew's journey, from his childhood dream of designing roller coasters, to creating treehouses, working at IDEO and Nike, and eventually launching a magic show in his own backyard. We also explore how he's honed the art of engaging an audience, and we share tips on how to craft presentations that pull people in and make them feel part of the experience. Watch the video version of this episode on our Substack: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/andrew-evans Bio Andrew Evans is founder and magician at The Magic Patio, a uniquely San Francisco magic experience. After entering what appears to be a strange library/candy store on Mission Street, guests discover the hidden wonders of a hand-crafted, secret magic theater with one-of-a-kind magic performances. More than designing and performing magic, my passion is creating unexpected experiences that transport people into new worlds and shift their perspective on what they perceive to be impossible. Think Urban Disneyland rather than David Copperfield. A trip to The Magic Patio will fill you with inspiration and wonder as you witness unexplainable feats in an intimate setting. Buy tickets to The Magic Patio *** Premium Episodes on Design Better This is a premium episode on Design Better. We release two premium episodes per month, along with two free episodes for everyone. Premium subscribers also get access to our monthly AMAs with former guests, ad-free episodes, discounts and early access to workshops, access to our (small but growing!) library of books and participation in book giveaways, and our new enhanced newsletter The Brief that compiles salient insights, quotes, readings, and creative processes uncovered in the show.  Upgrade to paid *** Visiting the links below is one of the best ways to support our show: Adobe's In the Making: As a Design Better listener, we have another podcast we think you'll enjoy. Adobe's In the Making hosted by Teresa Au takes an honest look at the challenges and rewards of being part of the creator economy. Building a business around your creative pursuits ain't easy. Wouldn't it be great to learn from those who have done this before? Check out In the Making from Adobe to learn more about how to build a creative career and life. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. Bluehost: When you upgrade to Bluehost Cloud, you can start managing multiple sites and domains. Not only that, you also get 100% uptime, enhanced security, and priority 24/7 support to keep you online no matter what. That means no crashing from heavy traffic. Go to Bluehost.com and start building your dream website today. Methodical Coffee: Roasted, blended, brewed, served and perfected by verified coffee nerds

Mission Street founder Artem Korolev discusses how he has quietly built one of the UK's market leaders in innovation real estate. He tells Andrew Teacher why navigating tech transfer and underwriting for emerging science is key to succeeding in a nascent market.

According to news reports, San Francisco Harley-Davidson, located at 3146 Mission Street, shut its doors for good last month. The closure appears to be sudden, as social media pages were still promoting deals and events at the dealership through the end of June. However, the dealership has shut down after being in operation since 1914, KRON4 confirmed on its website. Previously known as Dudley Perkins Harley-Davidson, the business was founded in 1914 by Dudley Perkins Sr. The motorcycle business “was the world's longest-running family-owned Harley-Davidson dealership until being sold in January 2018.” It was one of the oldest dealers in San Francisco.

According to news reports, San Francisco Harley-Davidson, located at 3146 Mission Street, shut its doors for good last month. The closure appears to be sudden, as social media pages were still promoting deals and events at the dealership through the end of June. However, the dealership has shut down after being in operation since 1914, KRON4 confirmed on its website. Previously known as Dudley Perkins Harley-Davidson, the business was founded in 1914 by Dudley Perkins Sr. The motorcycle business “was the world's longest-running family-owned Harley-Davidson dealership until being sold in January 2018.” It was one of the oldest dealers in San Francisco.

Part 2 picks up right where we left off in Part 1, with Reem describing finding the anti-imperialist women's soccer team. Through that, she met her partner, who's now her co-parent.   Reem worked in the nonprofit sector until around 2010, when she burned out. She'd moved to Oakland upon her return to the Bay Area, though she was still connected to The City through her work with AROC. She found herself wanting to take care of her community in other ways than what nonprofits were offering.   She and her father had been estranged, but after leaving work, she joined him on a trip to the Middle East. The two were joined by Reem's youngest sister on a visit she calls "transformative." Besides gaining insight into who her dad was as a person, she truly discovered and fell in love with the food of her people. She knew right away that she wanted to create that feeling for others. Her Syrian family took note of her interest, and took her to bakeries in that country to get a glimpse of the kitchens after-hours.   She returned to the Bay Area wanting to do two things: To combat tropes and negative stereotypes about Arab culture and people, and to do that by creating a sense of hospitality. Those two ideas would eventually form the foundation of what Reem's California does today.   But she had to begin somewhere, and so she enrolled in a baking class at Laney College. Out of that class, she got a job with Arizmendi in Emeryville, where she got experience in a co-op and a kitchen. She started forming the idea of what her place would be, and while that came together, she settled on basing it around man'oushe, the street food of her people.   Over a number of years and various kitchen and bartending jobs, Reem took as many entrepreneur classes as she could. The last of these was with La Cocina. The program helped steer her toward more practical, lower-cost methods of doing business. And that's where the saj comes into play. It's what Reem uses to make her man'oushe. "It's like an inverted tandoor," she says.   An uncle in Lebanon was able to have two custom-made sajes for Reem. They arrived and that's what set it all in motion. They were approved for the 22nd and Bartlett market and the farmer's market at the Ferry Building around the same time. At both locations, they served Arabic tea and played Arabic music, creating that vibe Reem had been seeking. Within 16 months, they had grown from one market to five.   Then La Cocina told Reem that it was time to take the operation brick-and-mortar. The first location was in Fruitvale in Oakland in 2017 and lasted a couple of years. Then, after a brief foray into fine-dining, the women owners of Mission Pie asked Reem if she wanted to take over their spot at Mission and 25th. She said yes and started doing the work to get open.   And then the pandemic hit.   Once the Mission location was able to open, Reem's California did better than a lot of nearby restaurants, partly because the food lends itself to take-out so easily. But for Reem, not being able to share space and that hospitality that was at least as important as the food itself was hard. Still, they found ways to connect with the community.   In 2023, they opened a second location in the Ferry Building. They started appearing at Outside Lands a few years ago (and will be there again this year). Reem decided to start transitioning the business to a worker-owned model.   Visit Reem's Mission location, 2901 Mission Street, Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and again for dinner from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Ferry Building location is open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Follow them on social media at @ReemsCalifornia and follow Reem herself @reem.assil. Her cookbook, Arabiyya, is available on her website.   We end the podcast with Reem's interpretation of this year's theme on Storied: San Francisco—We're all in it.   Photography by Jeff Hunt

In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1. After getting his credentials, Danny bounced around, teaching at a couple of San Francisco public schools before landing at Live Oak (a K–8 school in Potrero Hill). He stayed teaching kindergarten and first grade there for a total of 11 years.   We shift gears in the recording to talk about how Danny met his wife. Full disclosure: I've known Erin Feher since around 2004 when we were both in the Journalism program at SF State. Back in 2020, Erin reached out to me on behalf of her new orgranization—REPCO, or Represent Collaborative. Periodically, our podcasts run on REPCO and it's been an honor to collaborate with them. Check them out and donate if you're able.   Danny and Erin met around the time I lost touch with Erin (2005, when I graduated from State). He was DJing and the night Erin and some friends walked in, Danny broke one of his own rules by talking to a woman at a bar he was deejaying. Their first date involved riding bikes around SF.   Years later, they had their first kid. Erin had to go back to work before Danny did, so he was able to stay home and take care of their infant. But after a year, he was both itching to do something and needed to when his wife got laid off. And this is how Butterfly Joint was founded. It married his two passions—woodworking and teaching.   The first location was on Mission Street and lasted there for years. But when Danny and his wife moved their little family to the Outer Richmond and found a new-to-them community there, he decided to bring the shop with him.   Danny shares the story of opening the café and learning to make vegan donuts. These days, the café is open every day. Donuts are now his No. 1 seller. They focus on hyper-local goods and like to do pop-up events once a month.   Follow Butterfly Joint and Café on Instagram. Visit them at 4411 Cabrillo. For those with kids who are interested, go to their website.   Photography by Jeff Hunt

Carnaval San Francisco is a two day - May 25 & 26 - extravaganza celebrating the many Latin and Caribbean cultures represented in the Bay Area, through dance, music, culture and cuisine. The unique parade takes place on Mission Street on Sunday May 26. The theme is Honor Indigenous Roots and the Grand Marshal of the parade is Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, also a winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message

Artem is the founder and chief executive of Mission Street which he founded in 2017.Over a short period, he has built the company into one of the UK's leading specialist investors and developers in science and innovation real estate, with a committed development pipeline in excess of 1.5million sq ft.Building on an extensive track record across investment, development and finance, Artem has overall strategic responsibility for the growth of the company, project delivery and management.Prior to Mission Street, Artem was Head of UK Acquisitions and a member of the founding team of GreenOak Real Estate (now BGO), a major international real estate investment and asset management firm.He previously worked for Morgan Stanley in their UK Real Estate team.Artem's track record spans development, asset management, real estate private equity and finance.He graduated with an MA (First Class Honours) in Land Economy from the University of Cambridge and sits on the Investment and Development Committee of the Institute of Cancer Research.

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep It focuses specifically on the fake, "android-infested" Hall of Justice located not on Lombard Street but on Mission Street, where Deckard is taken after he attempts to use the Voight-Kampff empathy test on Luba Luft. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler You can get a copy of Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep here -https://amzn.to/47ZcoWU

L'ultimo terremoto che ha scosso la Silicon Valley si è scatenato lo scorso venerdì 17 novembre. Epicentro al 601 di Mission Street, San Francisco, sede di OpenAI, la società leader nel settore dell'Intelligenza artificiale. In meno di una settimana, il CEO Sam Altman è stato defenestrato e poi reintegrato nella sua carica. Le convulsioni che scuotono i vertici di OpenAI sono l'atto finale della guerra sotterranea che contrappone la fazione tecno-entusiasta alla tendenza tecno-critica, preoccupata che l'intelligenza artificiale sfugga al controllo del genere umano. Ma il vero colpo di scena è l'ingresso nel board della società di Lawrence Henry Summers, l'Equilibrista, il grande Tessitore: colui che da più di trent'anni è l'eminenza grigia del capitalismo a stelle e strisce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sidewalk vendors in San Francisco's Mission District came together Friday to push back against a temporary ban.The small business owners say the temporary ban on street vendors in the neighborhood is crippling them.Several members of the city's street vendors association marched from Mission Street to San Francisco City HallThey agree Mission Street has become violent and even deadly - because of illicit sales by illegal vendors. But the members of one group made up of vendors, who have legal permits from the city to operate say they are not the problem."it's kind of hard to say. It's really complicated. Because the city makes us look like criminals. We are not criminals. We are families," said street vendor Rodrigo Lopez.Support the show

San Francisco has banned street vending on Mission Street for 90 days, citing concerns about crime and sales of stolen goods. It's the latest in a long saga around public safety in the neighborhood. KQED's Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman explains how we got here and what this means for vendors. Links:  Episode transcript KQED: SF's Mission Street Ban Begins KQED: On First Day of Mission Street Vending Ban, Vendors Implore City to Reconsider This episode was produced by Alan Montecillo and Maria Esquinca, and hosted by Ericka Cruz Guevarra.

Police made a major bust of a fencing operation that sold items stolen from Victoria's Secret and other major retailers - which still had their price tags - on a San Francisco street corner.On October 7, 2023, the San Francisco Police Department, in collaboration with retail loss prevention partners, cracked down on a suspected stolen merchandise operation, resulting in the recovery of approximately $17,880 worth of stolen goods and the arrest of three individuals.Police said the vendors had a permit issued by the city Public Works Department allowing them to set up shop.The operation took place in the 1800 block of Mission Street at an open-air market where street vendors have taken to selling merchandise that is oftentimes stolen in retail thefts.Support the show

Happy Filipino History Month!!! I was born, raised, and work in San Francisco, but I actually currently live one mile south of SF in a heavily Filipino suburb called Daly City!  That said, I find it strange that I've never gone to a sit down Filipino restaurant before... until now! We also tried something else new this week!  We recorded on location inside a restaurant!  It was a bit noisy, but it was a good learning experience, and perhaps we'll have more "in situ" recordings in the future! Vlogger Anne, Glenn, and I tried Pampanguena Cuisine on Mission Street in San Francisco, recommended by Glenn, and it did not disappoint!  Anne loves Patio Filipino in Millbrae for their sisig and pretty much everything or Lechon Manila in Union City for the crispy roast pork.  I love Fil-Am for their quick and cheap meat skewers that will only cost you a few bucks, but will satisfy your sweet and savory cravings! For sweets, Anne recommends House of Silvanas in Daly City for their silvanas (frozen meringue cookies stuffed with buttercream) or Patio Filipino for the Halo Halo dessert served in a fresh coconut.   My daughters love Ling Nam Starbread in Daly City for buttery senorita bread. We will need to get together again and try more dishes since the waiter/owner wouldn't let us order more sensing that our eyes were bigger than our stomachs!  Does anyone want to come next time? Thanks again to Glenn for hanging out with us! And shout out to Anne, who posts her food videos @alwayshannegry on Instagram or TikTok! Thanks for listening!  Write to us at Infatuasianpodcast@gmail.com and follow us @theinfatuasianpodcast over at Instagram or Facebook  Listen to us at Spotify, Apple or Google Podcasts, etc #filipino #filipinofood #sisig #pampanguena #dalycity #filipinohistorymonth  #infatuasian #infatuasianpodcast #asianpodcast #asianamericanpodcast #asianpopculture #asianamerican #representationmatters #veryasian  

Ready to explore the urban jungle of San Francisco in its raw, unfiltered form? Get set as we journey through the city's crumbling infrastructure, moving from the shuttered doors of CVS at 601 Mission Street to the deserted Nordstrom at Union Square. We break down the local market dynamics, unpacking the city's socio-economic issues and revealing how they're influencing businesses. This is a tough look at a city in transition, facing rising crime, homelessness, and a police force recruitment crisis. We'll also be taking a deep dive into the implications of the store's closure and its proximity to the Tenderloin district. As we switch coasts, we step into the tumultuous city of Portland, currently grappling with the '100 Nights of Antifa' protests, a police shortage, and blatant drug use on the streets. Hear firsthand the challenges faced by citizens, business owners, and the beleaguered police force. Our journey continues to Seattle, where we discuss an unusual incident involving a tree-dragging individual and the city's response. Like a detective piecing together a puzzle, we'll thread all these stories together, circling back to the CVS closure and examining the role of theft and public safety in such decisions. This is not an episode for the faint-hearted, but for those eager to understand the gritty realities of urban America.Support the show

Artem Korolev - Founder & CEO at Mission Street. Mission Street is a specialist investor, operator and developer focused on the delivery of creative solutions for the evolving Science and Innovation sector. Mission Street have a rapidly growing development portfolio, with more than 1.3m sq ft of committed projects in strategic locations within Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol. Artem founded Mission Street in 2017 and leads the Mission Street team, with overall responsibility for the company's investment activities and delivery of its rapidly growing portfolio. He was previously Head of UK Acquisitions and a member of the founding team of BentallGreenOak. I sat down with Artem to discuss a broad range of subjects which covered some of the following topics: Innovation Real Estate Reality of starting a business Becoming a niche specialist Assembling an advisory board Gaining LP & GP experience Building propriety data Oh and one last question - who are the People, what Property, and in which Place Artem would invest should he have £500m of equity at his disposal. Catch the full episode which will be live on Spotify and Apple from Thursday this week. People Property Place Podcast is powered by Rockbourne Who do you want to see on the Podcast?  

Linds, Steph and Mar are headed to the arcade in this episode of Cutscenes and Cupcakes, and who better to bring to the arcade than our good friend Brian Alexander! We have a good chat about retro games and what makes a game "retro". We also talk Street Fighter and share our experiences with the fighter genre as well as our time playing Street Fighter II. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The San Francisco Police Department is investigating after nine people were shot in the city's Mission District Friday night. Police looking for person of interest in SF Mission District mass shooting:

As Beege pointed out earlier this week, the owners of Westfield Mall in downtown San Francisco have announced that they'll be giving the property over to the lender. The mall had already lost Nordstoms last month and this week the Cinemark movie theater also announce it was closing. In fact, today is the theater's last day.The Cinemark movie theater complex sent an email to its customers announcing its final films would play Thursday, and the complex would close on Friday.In a statement to The Standard, Cinemark confirmed the decision to permanently close the Century San Francisco Centre 9 and XD theater shortly before the conclusion of its lease term, attributing the shutdown to a “comprehensive review of local business conditions.”What kind of business conditions? Oh, those kind of conditions.Seeing feces on the ground is not uncommon in the city by the bay. But human waste has been showing up somewhere else: the elevators in Downtown San Francisco's Westfield Centre.“It's like twice a week now. It used to be once a month,” said Abimael Garcia, who manages janitors at Westfield. “So lately, it's increased.”…Kim said she saw feces in one of the elevators that leads from the theater to Mission Street about two weeks ago, and that someone appeared to have stepped in it.Support the show

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Rodrigo Ehecatl Duran Executive Director of Carnaval San Francisco 2023 talks about the 45th two day extravaganza of live music and dance culminating with a parade down Mission Street, May 27 and 28. With headliner bands from Colombia and Cuba, dozens of other performers, artists and culinary experts will appear in a 17 block area of San Francisco's historic Mission District, Saturday and Sunday May 27 and 28 to celebrate Hispanic culture. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message

Empty storefronts have peppered neighborhoods across San Francisco and the Bay for decades. One stretch of Mission Street, from 19th to 30th streets, has more than 70 commercial vacancies. In the last few years, the pandemic exacerbated the problem as hundreds of small businesses have closed up shop for good. Cities and business owners are grappling with how to bring back foot traffic to support small businesses, but they face a multitude of challenges. We'll talk about why so many retail spaces remain vacant and whether blight has seeped into your neighborhood. Guests: Heather Knight, columnist, San Francisco Chronicle Sharky Laguana, former president, San Francisco Small Business Commission; founder and CEO, Bandago; founder and CEO, Campago Ilana Preuss, founder and CEO, Recast City LLC; author, "Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing" Alice Kim, owner, Joe's Ice Cream Ryen Motzek, president, Mission Merchants Association Michael Gaines, membership secretary, Lower Haight Merchants and Neighbors Association

As California's homelessness problem continues to get worse andworse, lawmakers are introducing new ideas to try to get more housing built. But even some existing ideas are running into roadblocks, even asthe state throws billions at the issue. State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco introduced legislation today to bypass zoning restrictions to expedite housing construction in cities that are not meeting their housing goals. State Senator Dave Cortese of San Jose has a bill that would streamline environmental review. There's a deepening sense that existing solutions just aren't getting enough done, quickly. Oakland has embraced building more “tiny homes” or “cabins,” tuff sheds to house people in places like the sprawling Wood Street encampment. But even that idea may not fly, as it turns out, in San Francisco. For more, KCBS Radio political analyst Doug Souvern along with news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart spoke to San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who has been behind a plan for tiny cabins in a parking lot on Mission Street, but now says neighborhood opposition may scuttle the idea.

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In today's episode we meet three candidates for Santa Cruz City Council: Hector Marin, Gregory Hyver and Scott Newsome. They're running for the District 4 seat on the Nov. 8 ballot. You'll vote in the District 4 council race if you live in these areas: Downtown; Beach Flats; part of the Upper Westside, east of Bay Street and south of High Street; and areas along Mission Street generally east of Laurent Street. We explain what a council member does. Then we press the candidates on the issues important to Santa Cruz residents. Read the transcript with links to our related stories. https://santacruzlocal.org/ Read Santa Cruz Local's Election Guide. https://tinyurl.com/election-guide-ep-100 Santa Cruz Local's Election Guide for Santa Cruz City Council with map of District 4: https://santacruzlocal.org/election/2022-nov-08/santa-cruz-city-council/ Santa Cruz Local is supported by its members. Join us! Keep local journalism strong with a membership today. https://tinyurl.com/ep-100-membership Make a one-time donation to Santa Cruz Local's newsroom. https://tinyurl.com/ep-100-donate Support Santa Cruz Local on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/santacruzlocal Subscribe to Santa Cruz Local's email newsletter for free. We're in your inbox twice a week. https://tinyurl.com/ep-100-newsletter

Like many businesses, Secession Art and Design had to pivot in 2020. In this special episode between seasons, Secession's founder, Eden Stein, shares stories of opening a gallery in the Mission/Bernal 15 years ago. Starting Aug. 4 and running through Aug. 7, Secession will celebrate 15 years of business with a four-day pop-up up the hill on Cortland. Details about the event can be found below and on Secession's site. Eden grew up in Santa Rosa and moved to The City in 1999. In her hometown, she did a zine for many years called 7th Street. Her work on the zine helped her travel the country and to Europe. When she moved to San Francisco, she ended up on Mission Street across from El Rio. She went to SF State and worked at The Drug Store, which back in the day was a vintage store. Eden rented a booth there and sold vintage jewelry. It was her first inspiration to working with artists as a business. During this time, Eden became a teacher at a pre-school in The City. She got close with some of the parents, even nannying a little bit. One of the parents owned an architecture firm on Mission Street. He offered that space for Eden to do holiday art pop-ups. She was also selling jewelry, both vintage and some she made herself, at street fairs around town. These were the seeds of what would later become Secession. The original location opened in 2007. Then, in 2014, Eden lost her lease and miraculously managed to find a new spot a little further north on Mission. There's a fun overlap with Season 4 guest of the show Emmy Kaplan in the story of Secession's move. Earlier this year, after nearly two years of moving the gallery and events online, Eden gave up on her shift to things like 20-minute goat hugs in the gallery. The pandemic proved that her family's spot a few blocks from the gallery was too small, and an opportunity for them to move back to her hometown opened up. But that wasn't the way she wanted Secession to go out. As mentioned earlier, from August 4 through 7 on Cortland Street, Eden will be hosting a pop-up to celebrate 15 years of Secession Art and Design. Details: Featured Artists: Amos Goldbaum, Andreina Davila, Dianne Hoffman, Heather Robinson, Hilary Williams, Jenny Feinberg, Joshua Coffy, Nate Tan, Nathalie Fabri, Olena McMurtrey, Phillip Hua, Rachel Znerold, Silvi Alcivar, Shannon Amidon, and Stephanie Steiner. Hours: Thursday, August 4: 12-8pm Friday, August 5: 12-8pm - Anniversary Party 6-8pm Saturday, August 6: 12-8pm Sunday, August 7: 12-6pm Address: 307 Cortland Ave (at Bocana), SF ​ Photography by Jeff Hunt

In this episode, Emmy picks up where she left off in Part 1, with the story of opening her own place. She'd been kicking around the idea of opening her own restaurant. Her classmates had more or less shot it down. Her dad, a restaurant-owner himself, wasn't crazy about the idea either. He couldn't see her raising the kind of money she'd need. But Emmy started saving. And saving. And saving. She worked on getting her credit score up. And in 2001, one of her dad's spots had an opening coming up. She decided to go for it. Her partner at the time was a bartender and she asked him to collaborate. They menu planned, got their supplies, hired a chef, brought in decorations Emmy already had, and opened the doors. About a week before they opened, Emmy found out she was pregnant. She waitressed well throughout her pregnancy, in fact. And after she had her kid, she'd serve tables carrying the child. Maybe some of you reading this will remember that unforgettable and awesome sight. Emmy says that having her own child inspired her to make her restaurant kid-friendly. But she always wanted to also cater to late-night service industry workers—her friends, essentially. And so she'd bring in DJs in the later hours. We talk a little about shopping at thrift stores back in the '80s and '90s. Emmy intentionally decorated the place with stuff she'd find at shops that used to exist in San Francisco back then. Emmy's dad was a tough landlord. He noticed the clumps of folks waiting to get into the Spaghetti Shack and responded by raising his daughter's rent. This happened enough times to prompt Emmy to look for a new location. About eight years ago, she opened in a new space—this time on Mission Street in the former El Zocalo space. The story of how Emmy got the space is one you just gotta hear. The bigger space meant shorter wait times for diners. In the move, they were closed only one day. We discuss the importance for Emmy of keeping the menu and the decor the same between spaces. Jeff will attest that they've been 100 percent successful at that. One difference is a much bigger kitchen, which has allowed them to expand the menu. We talk about some of the folks who've worked at Emmy's over the years and then gone on to open restaurants of their own. Sarah and Josey of Front Porch and Jay of Farmer Brown's (among others) come to Emmy's mind. The conversation inevitably ends up touching on the pandemic. Emmy goes into detail about the struggles that her and other restaurants continue to face. Things like mounting debt due to a lack of government assistance continue to take their toll. Emmy says she's able to retain staff and keep paying them and that's her take-away. We end the episode with Emmy's thoughts on what it means to still be here in San Francisco running a business. Follow Emmy's on Twitter and Instagram. Their current hours are Friday/Saturday, 5–9:30; Tues.-Thurs./Sunday 5–8:30; Monday takeout only. We recorded this podcast at Emmy's Spaghetti Shack in the Mission in April 2022. Photography by Michelle Kilfeather

Emmy Kaplan and her friends in the restaurant business just wanted somewhere to go after their shifts. In this podcast, Jeff fulfills a 20ish-year dream meeting and recording with Emmy, the namesake behind Emmy's Spaghetti Shack. Today located on Mission Street just below Cesar Chavez, the restaurant recently celebrated 21 years in business. Emmy was born in San Francisco and shares her and family's stories with us. Her mom is from Alameda. That family goes back generations in the East Bay, coming from places like Germany, Scotland, and Ireland. Emmy's mom came to SF State in the '60s—"a real, bona fide hippie." Her parents met at SF State. Later, her dad was a cable car driver. His family also went back a few generations here in The City. Both her parents were young free spirits, and didn't stay together for very long. After having Emmy and her brother, they split up. Then her mom took Emmy and her brother up to Sonoma, where Emmy grew up. Later in life, her dad owned several restaurants in the Mission—Bruno's and Mission Villa, to name a couple. When she was a kid, Emmy would often join him at his restaurants. When she was 17, after splitting time between The City and Sonoma, Emmy moved back to her hometown. As a teenager, she started working in restaurants, first in Sonoma, and later, in San Francisco. She realized that she needed to fend for herself at an early age. Without going into too much detail, Emmy says that her teen years were "wild." She and her friends were punk rockers—they went to shows and got into trouble, as you do. Her mom threatened her with either incarceration or joining her brother in Europe. She chose Europe. Her time overseas taught her that the world is a big place. When she got back home, her priorities had shifted. She graduated high school early and worked a lot in The City. She toyed with art school, but that didn't stick. She took a business class at City College, where she pitched an idea that essentially was the restaurant she has today. The idea didn't go over well in class, though. She worked at the Flying Saucer, a long-gone restaurant at 22nd and Guerrero. It was while Emmy worked there that the first location of Emmy's Spaghetti Shack opened. ​Check back Thursday for Part 2 and more stories from Emmy Kaplan. We recorded this podcast at Emmy's Spaghetti Shack in the Mission in April 2022. Photography by Michelle Kilfeather

In this episode Brett talks with Branden Berns (@mission_street_cards) about he chase around Panini Revolution Galactics, buying rare soccer cards, and how to be more focused as a collector. Sign up for the Stacking Slabs Weekly Rip Newsletter using this linkSign up for Card Ladder and show your support for the show by using this linkFollow Stacking Slabs: | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | TiktokFollow Mission Street Cards: | Instagram

This week we are heading to San Francisco to meet Creative Strategist Nat Gunn. And, when I say strategist I do mean strategist! Moving to San Francisco in 2014 Nat came equipped with a game plan that she took that seriously, throwing herself in to the dating world. It was this very plan that led her to meet her partner Bridget, and their first date together brought them to Virgil's Sea Room, a queer bar on Mission Street that recently closed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. We caught up to talk about astrology, online dating profiles and the importance of queer spaces. Do you have memories of clubbing in San Fransisco? Anything about today's episode that you want to talk about? Well, I'd love to hear from you. Get in touch and let's have a chat about the show and where we should go next on Lost Spaces. I'm on facebook, instagram and twitter with the userhandle is @lostspacespod

My guest today is engineer, former studio owner, author, and vintage gear dealer, Dan Alexander. Dan was a fixture of the Bay Area recording scene in San Francisco for many years. He ran the same studio space I did, the former Coast Recorders building on Mission Street in San Francisco as well as Coast on Harrison. He’s spent many years of his life buying and selling vintage guitars and vintage recording equipment which we will talk about. He’s got a new book out called “Dan Alexander Audio: A Vintage Odyssey" He talk s to us from his home in Los Angeles. In this episode, we discuss: Radical Parents House UnAmerican Activities Committee  The Rockets Eddie Money Bay Area Music Selling Guitars Grocery Store Studio Vintage Recording Gear Wheeling and Dealing Hyde Street Studios Coast Recorders Coast on Harrison Bill Putnam The Drain of The Studio Business Getting Evicted Divorce Rising Gear Prices Gear Clones Matt's Rant: Getting out of the Chair! Links and Show Notes Dan's Site: https://danalexanderaudio.com/ Dan's Book: Dan Alexander Audio: A Vintage Odyssey WCA on Instagram: @working_class_audio Connect with Matt on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattboudreau/ Current sponsors & promos: https://bit.ly/2WmKbFw Credits: Guest: Dan Alexander Host: Matt Boudreau  Engineer: Matt Boudreau Producer: Matt Boudreau Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau & Matt Boudreau WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell  Announcer: Chuck Smith Additional Music: The License Lab

It’s no secret that much of San Francisco’s trash — especially so in neighborhoods like the Mission, Tenderloin and Mission Dolores — ends up on the sidewalks.Christine, a property owner who lives on 21st Street near Mission Street, was outside her home picking up small pieces of detritus with a pincer-armed grabbing tool one morning. “In an ideal world, people would have somewhere to put their trash,” she says.But in San Francisco, that place would be on the sidewalk or the steps of Christine’s property where she regularly cleans up trash — and sometimes has to call the city’s 311 hotline when it’s human feces and diarrhea. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic.Support the show (https://buymeacoff.ee/seattlepodcast)

PODCAST: 25 Oct 2020 01 Disinfectant – Robb Johnson and The Irregulars – Pandemic Songs 02 Shiney-O – The Teacups – In Which… 03 Wreck On The Highway – The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will The Circle Be Unbroken [Disc 1] 04 The Times They Are Changing – Martin Simpson – Home Recordings 05 Monksgate – Brian McNeill – Monksgate  06 The Blacksmith – Déanta – Whisper Of A Secret 07 Mbube (Wimoweh / The Lion Sleeps Tonight)  – The Kronos Quartet and Friends – Celebrate Pete Seeger 08 When First I Came To Caledonia – Jim Malcolm – The Corncrake 09 The Bleacher Lassie Of Kelvinhaugh – The Tweed Project – The Tweed Project 10 Mayo To Manchester – Marie Fielding – The Spectrum Project 11 Napoleon Crossing The Rhine – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Cry Of The Mountain 12 Hot Asphalt – Bob Davenport & The Rakes – Three Score And Ten: A Voice To The People 13 Joseph’s Hands – Ralph McTell  – Allan Taylor & Ralph McTell – Live At Pately Bridge 14 Talk To Me Of Mendocino – Kate and Anna McGarrigle – The McGarrigle Sisters 15 McCaffery – Paddy Grant – Good People, Take Warning 16 Lord Franklin – Eileen McGann – Heritage 17 Two Sisters – Wood Wilson Carthy – Wood Wilson Carthy 18 Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still – The Teacups – In Which… 19 The Murroe Polka / The Taur Polka / Mick Duggan’s Polka – Caroline Keane – Shine 20 We Tend Our Garden – Marc Block – Faerie Fire Dances 21 The Early Morning – Rachel Newton – To The Awe 22 This Is Not My Tribe – Jez Lowe – Crazy Pagan 23 Talk To Me Dirty In Geordie – Jez Lowe – Crazy Pagan 24 Calums Road – Sharon Shannon / Mike McGoldrick / Frankie Gavin / Jim Murray – Tunes 25 Killing The Blues – John Smith & Clive Carroll – Strings That Nimble Leap 26 Nothing To Show For It – Kern Halpin – Mission Street

Full integration while expanding your product line with Michael Bostarr, Director of Strategy and Implementation of SPARC. Michael is a passionate organizer who produced Blunt Talks San Francisco, and helped bring to life Meadow's first-ever camping retreat -Meadowlands. He is former Chief of Staff at Kin Slips and Michael is now the Director of Strategy and Implementation at SPARC. He is a vocal advocate for cannabis and can often be seen at local city council meetings. SPARC, whose roots began back as early as 1998 when CA Prop 215 was passed, opened its first retail facility in 2010 on Mission Street in San Francisco.

Full integration while expanding your product line with Michael Bostarr, Director of Strategy and Implementation of SPARC. Michael is a passionate organizer who produced Blunt Talks San Francisco, and helped bring to life Meadow's first-ever camping retreat -Meadowlands. He is former Chief of Staff at Kin Slips and Michael is now the Director of Strategy and Implementation at SPARC. He is a vocal advocate for cannabis and can often be seen at local city council meetings. SPARC, whose roots began back as early as 1998 when CA Prop 215 was passed, opened its first retail facility in 2010 on Mission Street in San Francisco.

Apple Podcasts Rate and Review for SpotOn Today, on Spot on Insurance we have 2 guests from the CBIZ Organization. CBIZ has over 100 offices in the US and 4800 employees and serves over 90,000 clients. Our first guest is Timothy Kolgen who serves as a Business Development Manager for the Tangible Asset Practice of CBIZ Valuation Group. Joining us as well is Jeb Phillips who holds the role of Manager in CBIZ Valuation Group’s Tangible Asset Practice. Jeb has 15 years of insurance inspection and valuation experience. His responsibilities include project management, loss control and builder’s risk inspections, quality control, and report compilation.  Connect with Tim and Jeb: Timothy J. Kolgen Business Development Manager 10616 Scripps Summit Ct., Suite 250 San Diego, CA 92131 Phone: 858.795.2257 tkolgen@cbiz.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothykolgen/ Company Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cbiz-valuation-group/ Company Linked: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cbiz/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/TimothyKolgen Company Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBIZ_Valuation Company Twitter: https://twitter.com/cbz Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cbizservices/   Jeb Phillips, ASA Manager 535 Mission Street, 14th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 Phone: 312.602.6656 jeb.Phillips@cbiz.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeb-phillips-asa-46821229 This episode was brought to you by….. Insurance Licensing Services of America (ILSA), America’s Premier Insurance Compliance and Licensing experts. To learn more about ILSA and their services, visit ILSAinc.com. Connect, Learn, Share Thank you for joining us on this week’s episode of Spot On Insurance. For more resources and episodes, visit SpotOnInsurance.com. Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Love what you’re learning, Spot Light your review on Apple Podcasts Rate and Review For SpotOn and share your favorite episodes with friends and colleagues!  

Happy Khao Thai has an address on San Francisco's Mission Street, but don't go there looking for a storefront. A sign on the sidewalk reading “Food pick up here” points, improbably, through the maw of a demolished theater, of which all that's left is the marquee. Behind it, in what would have been the lobby, is a parking lot, and way in the rear—backstage, perhaps—are a pair of portable toilets and a trailer.

Brittany Couch believes you matter. What's more important, God believes you matter.Thoughts on Legacy living from Brittany Couch: * You matter. We need you here. I want every person I meet to know this.  * Your legacy is not something you achieve, it’s someone you are. In other words, it’s not about checking the boxes and getting a gold star in achievement. It is who you are, not what you did. There is a big difference.  * In a healthy community, you are heard, you are needed, you are missed, you are equipped, you are empowered. Those in healthy community receive all these, and at the same time give all these as well.  * Characteristics of a healthy community:  Listen and ask good questions, with the intention of really getting to know someone. (They will instantly feel they matter, which leads to trust). Trust. Creating a safe environment. Collaboration. Unity and working together with a common goal.Surrendering my expectations and judgments of a circumstance or person, and trusting God to work His perfect plan and perfect timing.  * I would say my biggest obstacle is me.  -What I mean by that, is my stubbornness, my lack of patience, my expectations, all get in the way of really seeing people. Man, I’ve come along way. I can kinda of laugh in embarrassment, but I hid expectations and disappointment in so-called love. You know, that’s not even possible. Think about it, if you judge someone or their circumstance, you miss out on loving them, listening to them, understanding them, being with them.   -This past Fall some unhealed ugliness reared its head in my life. I shuddered at my actions, but when I owned those ugly actions, sought forgiveness, a deeper aspect of the abundant life we get to live was revealed. It’s kind of like an aha moment, a revelation, or a gift.  * If you don’t believe you matter or that you are needed, do the work: hire a professional life coach, a therapist, ask a trusted friend, and take steps to explore what you believe about yourself, God, and what I think you’ll discover is a legacy life. A legacy life, as I said above, doesn’t start when you reach come older magical age, it starts today. brittanycouch.com Hello, Locals!Brittany and Jenni, a dynamic duo, are offer coaching seminars. The first one was last week, but they will do it again. Just contact them at me@brittanycouch.com  or hello@jennilanier.com1/29 Visioning and goals • 2/26 Boundaries • 3/26 Creating a life you love A community of inspiring women. Motivation for the future. $39 per event or $100 for all threeReserve your spot at http://venmo.com/coaching_youLight appetizers and drinks • 5:30–8 pm • 777 Mission Street, SLO Questions: me@brittanycouch.com or hello@jennilanier.com  I love Brittany's go-to recipe which starts with gluten-free, dairy-free frozen meatballs and makes the house smell like her mom's!  Meatball Sliders from Brittany I keep the big bag of frozen Italian meatballs from Costco (GF dairy-free, but you could use any other frozen meatball) in my freezer and jars of Rao’s spaghetti sauce in my pantry ready to put in a big pot on the stove (I add a cup or 2 of chicken stock because it simmers better)… and if guests are coming over it makes the house smell like my mom’s. I usually do meatball sliders, using the big bag of Costco dinner rolls, or Hawaiian rolls. Put a piece of mozzarella on top and sprinkle with parsley or basil. Add a salad on the side. Bon appetite!  :::::::::::To share your thoughts:Leave a note in the comment section below.Share this show on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest.To help out the show:Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.Subscribe on iTunes or subscribe to our list now and never miss an episode or blog.How to invest in what matters beyond ourselves. We have one life - let’s make the most of it for God, others, and eternity.Subscribe:Choose one of these popular free listening services, and subscribe there:     

Taj Stansberry is one of musics biggest video directors, He has filmed videos for Nas, Young Jeezy, Rhianna and many others including J Lo which was Youtubes most viewed video at one time. From the highlights to the low lights and now taking on his biggest project to date a movie entitled "Mission Street". Listen to Taj talk about his past and future on NO VULTURES

Click here to buy: https://adbl.co/2FlhimZ Kate Reese is a single mother fleeing an abusive relationship by starting over in a new town, with her young son Christopher. But Mill Grove, Pennsylvania, is not the safe place they thought it would be... Their world begins to unravel after Christopher vanishes into the Mission Street Woods - where 50 years earlier an eerily similar disappearance occurred. When he emerges six days later, unharmed but not unchanged, he brings with him a secret: a voice only he can hear and a warning of tragedy to come. What follows is a moving, thrilling, chilling modern masterpiece - a work of towering imagination and emotional depth which unfolds on an epic canvas.

Two state housing bills, AB411 and SB330, are poised to impact Santa Cruz. AB411 would bring $16 million to the city to fund affordable housing projects. SB330 may foil the city council's effort to prevent higher density on Soquel Avenue, Mission Street and Ocean Street. The two bills are on the governor's desk, awaiting his decision. We break down what you need to know about these and other noteworthy state housing bills.

My guest for this episode is Erica Moshe, the founder and director of the Brave Warrior Project, a nonprofit dedicated to serving the needs of kids with chronic conditions like cancer and developmental disabilities. They have a resource center, deliver educational programs for parents and professionals, and have an inclusive play space in the old Press Room Theater space at 18 N. Mission Street. This nonprofit is going places. Erica talks about what inspired her to start the nonprofit and how it has evolved into a program that is helping more than 200 families in our valley. They’re holding an open house on Tuesday July 30 at 6 p.m.  This conversation will touch your heart and give you another reason to feel hopeful and proud of our community.

La Cocina serves as a resource for women of color and lower-income women who want to start a food business. Rosie Ortiz sure could cook, but she needed to learn business and other kitchen skills she didn't already have in order to get Mission Boricua off the ground. In this podcast, Rosie talks about her experience in the La Cocina program, which she began three years ago. She hopes to launch her food truck later this summer. Oh, and Rosie's pop-up restaurant is open every Wednesday from 11 to 1 at Homey, 2221 Mission Street near 18th. If you missed Part 1, please go back and listen. We recorded this podcast at Rosie's home in Richmond, California, in April 2019. Film photography by Michelle Kilfeather

Speaker: Tom Morris The millennium Tower at 301 Mission Street opened in 2009 (A high end residential 58 storey sky scraper) in San Francisco has sunk 18 inches and is cause for concern. A 500-million-dollar fix is in the works. Cost of the initial build 550 million. The reason for the sinking? They only went down 80 feet into the dense SAND instead of drilling down into bed rock 200 feet. A new spin on an old story. As we talk about universal laws we are reminded of the metaphor of building on sand or rock. Jesus used this to connect the point of acting on what he said and taught not just listening to what he said. It was, in the end. about action. Universal laws are important because they affect what we do, how we act, how we behave. Delay gratification...simple not easy. To donate to this podcast and support the making of more of these please visit www.friendschurch.ca/podcast

With us today is Will Wong, the VP of marketing for Disney streaming services. Prior to his current role, Will has worked as a growth marketer for the likes of eBay, Etsy, Twitch, Dropbox. He also launched Mission Street, which is his professional marketing service consultancy. Episode Transcript   Connect with: Will Wong: Linkedin // Website The MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // Twitter Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn//  Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

With us today is Will Wong, the VP of marketing for Disney streaming services. Prior to his current role, Will has worked as a growth marketer for the likes of eBay, Etsy, Twitch, Dropbox. He also launched Mission Street, which is his professional marketing service consultancy. Episode Transcript   Connect with: Will Wong: Linkedin // Website The MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // Twitter Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn//  Twitter

Wildlife Photography and Adventure! Dr. Summer Watson feature Michelle Liles, who is a brilliant photographer of wildlife and weddings. Michelle has a Master's in Business Administration with a Marketing emphasis, she has run her own business and magazine, she currently resides in Las Vegas, and she has 13 years of extensive field-training in photographic skills, where her photography has taken her on some amazing journeys to South Africa, Brazil, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Japan, North Pole, Antarctica and multiple trips to Alaska.   Michelle will also have an exhibit at University Business Park, 2801 Mission Street, in Santa Cruz, CA starting on September 7th, 2018. This beautiful venue is owned and operated by William and Erica Ow and where Michelle will be curating her stunning show.   To contact Michelle, you can go to her website: www.michellelilesphotography.com   IG page: longlensforyoutoview2   Thank you for taking the time to listen to the KORE Women podcast and being a part of the KORE Women experience. You can listen to The KORE Women podcast on your favorite podcast directory - Pandora, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Stitcher, Podbean, and at: www.KOREWomen.com/podcast. Please leave your comments and reviews about the podcast and check out KORE Women on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. You can also learn more about Dr. Summer Watson and KORE Women at: www.korewomen.com

Alyce Murphy turned 100 this May. The third-generation San Franciscan spent her early life in a tiny, crowded house behind St. Luke's Hospital with her grandmother after her mom died when she was very young. It was from that home that Alyce experienced the Great Depression and got into her fair share of mischief, as young kids tend to do. In this very special podcast, Alyce talks about the Mission District back in the 1920s and 1930s, watching people go in and out of St. Luke's, and going to Playland and Sutro Baths (where her dad was a manager). Then she compares going out for a Saturday night walking down Mission Street to getting dressed up for a trip downtown to her favorite store—the Emporium. Check back Thursday for Part 2, when Alyce will talk about meeting and marrying her husband, raising a family, and various jobs she had, including as a toll taker on the Bay Bridge shortly after it opened. We recorded this podcast in Alyce's Noe Valley home in May 2018. Film photography by Michelle Kilfeather

This week, we have Linda Ayers-Frederick, the owner and founder of the Phoenix Theatre (www.phoenixtheatresf.org), a theater that has been in existence for 32 years. Along with talking about her upbringing, Linda, Norman and I talk about Hurricane Harvey and the pros and cons of giving to the Red Cross; the business of owning a theater house and how Linda balances being a playwright, a director and an Equity actress. Birthday shoutouts: Scott Munson, Christy Newsom, Michael Vega, Erica Smith, Joya Corrie, Linda Tillery and Susan Jane Harrison. Shows to look out for: Ubuntu's Rashomon (www.ubuntutheaterproject.com) - running August 25-Sep 17;The Fisher King Project (https://allevents.in/san%20francisco/the-fisher-king-project/1586805001351386), by the Magic Theater, running 9/7 - 9/10; TMI Sex Worker Confidential (Center for Sex & Culture - 1349 Mission Street, SF) 9/2 8-11pm; Stories High XVII (www.bindlestiffstudio.org) running 8/31 through 9/16; The Unveiling by Linda Ayers-Frederick - that will be from Oct 5-28; and the Musical Cafe (www.musicalcafe.org) will feature four new musicals - Love The Struggle, the Loving Tree, Pickpocket and my musical, Nia. That will be at the PianoFight from Oct 26-28.

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Guests: 1. Echo Brown is a dynamic writer, performer, and community activist who uses story to inspire and transform, joins us to talk about her solo performance up at the Marsh SF, Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters (through June 6). For tickets ($15-$100), the public may visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-282-3055 2. Amikaeyla joins us to speak about her music and peace work (July 26, 2014 archive). 3. Intima artist collaboarators: choreographer, Gregory Dawson and Ilyas Iliya, composer, join us to talk about the multidimensional work which looks at the epic story of King Gilgamesh. Intima is a fusion of visual art by Ali Kaaf, choreography by Gregory Dawson and dawsondancesf, and music directed by Ashraf Kateb, that investigates themes of self-discovery, conflict, loss, and resolution. Tayeb Al-Hafez of Al'Myra Communications was inspired by his roots to bring these artists together to highlight the universality inherent in Syria's current struggles for political freedom.http://zspace.org/guest-shows/intima 4. Mable Negrete joins us to speak about Conceiving Place with Mable Negrete/Counter Narrative Society in the Room for Big Ideas at YBCA,May 1 - Aug 16. Opening Reception Fri, May 8, 5-8 PMat the Front Door Gallery, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, 415-978-2787 or ybca.org and http://mabelnegrete.com/blog/archives/1641  

In this week's Mission Local, we discuss the fire that destroyed a building at 22nd and Mission Street.

Brothers in Pen is the collective name of the writers included in the fiction and memoir anthologies of the Wednesday Night Creative Writing Class at San Quentin State Prison. The Prison Arts Project has been featured in the Bay Area Now7 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, in San Francisco, 6-7 p.m. It is a free event. Joining us on the air are members of Brothers in Pen with facilitator, Zoe Mullery: Ernie Laszlo, Henry Montgomery, Talib Brooks, Carl Irons & Jerry Elster. José Navarrete speaks about The Anastacio Project: Stories of Immigration, Border Violence, Resistance and Hope, having its world premiere Sept. 19-21, 8 p.m. nightly,at EastSide Arts Alliance Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd. in Oakland.Navarrete's NAKA Dance Theater, in a multidisciplinary performance investigating race relations, state brutality and border violence. Combining interactive video and sound, a large-format mural, spoken word and dance.Dam/aged, the Musical is a theatrical performance that intentionally addresses the harsh realities or urban blight that exist in communities of color across America. Social issues that include prostitution, gang violence, substance abuse, domestic violence, and absent fathers, are weaved into an abstract multimedia musical to explore the struggles of several young people as they attempt to rise above the social inequities that have traditionally plagued communities of color. We speak to playwright & actor, Bronche Tayson (Jeremiah), and actors:Deaunte Imani White (Ivan; he's choreographer too), Donna Marie (Michelle Oday), Denmark Gatewood (Tremain Soulless). Performances: 9/14 @2:30; 9/20 @ 4 p.m.Visit sffringe.org    

This morning we played excerpts from a few achived interviews: Joanna Haigood, co-founder of Zaccho Dance Theatre speaks about Sailing Away, which opens at Market Street & Powell, Sept. 13 and continues through Sept. 16, with free performances at 12noon, 1:30pm and 3 pm. Follow the dancers along Market from Powell to Battery Streets as they illuminate the lives of selected historic characters who tell the story of a black migration 150 years ago from San Francisco to Victoria, British Columbia. These prominent citizens charter a ship and literally sail away. There is a free reception following a panel discussion Thursday, Sept. 13, at 5 p.m. at the CA Historical Society, 678 Mission Street. Visit zaccho.org Jorge Argueta joins us live in the studio to talk about a wonderful children's poetry and music festival in El Salvador Nov. 14-16, and the first annual Flor y Canto this weekend, Sept. 15, 9 AM to 12 noon at Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street in San Francisco. The event, which is for children, is a prelude to the reception at 5 p.m. which will feature food, rides by low riders and Aztec dancers. That evening at 7, is the poetry reading and fundraiser for the El Salvador event hosted by Jorge Argueta, Talleres de Poesia founder, children's author and poet. Talleres is the group that hosts the event in El Salvador. We close with a few minutes of a longer interview with Jacqueline Stewart about LA Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema at Pacific Film Archive. Haile Gerima's Bush Woman screens Sept. 13, 7 p.m. with an introduction by Cornelius Moore, CA Newsreel. This really short clip is followed by an excerpt of the interview with SF Latino Film Festival Director, Lucho Ramirez and directors: Kimberly Baustista and Catherine Murphy.

It is sometimes referred to as the “San Francisco Exodus of 1858” a little-known part of the City's history in which hundreds of African Americans fled discrimination and the threat of slavery for the safety of a Canadian exile. Choreographer Joanna Haigood and her Zaccho Dance Theatre (www.zaccho.org) are marking the iconic event with free public performances of her powerful work Sailing Away. Performances will be given in three continuous cycles, September 13, 14, 15, and 16 at 12noon, 1:30pm and 3pm daily starting at Market Street and Powell. Tuesday, School Assembly with performance at Bayview Opera House, 4705 Third Street, San Francisco, Tuesday, September 11, 10:30 a.m. The artists from Sailing Away will perform excerpts, joined by a lively discussion, and a performance from Dr. Susheel Bibbs' one woman performance portraying 19th Century civil rights activist, Mary Ellen Pleasant.  Panel Discussion at California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street (at 3rd Street), san Francisco. Thursday, September 13 at 5 p.m; post event reception, 6 p.m. Music: Meklit Hadero's A Day Like This: "Walk Up" and "Call."

Jeff Silverman and Nicholas McConnell helped Spectrum present a three part Astronomy survey explaining the ideas, experiments, and observation technology that are transforming Astronomy. This is part three of three. We discuss Dark matter and dark energy.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly [00:00:30] 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Hello and good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift. I'm joined today by spectrum contributors, Rick Karnofsky and Lisa [inaudible]. Our interview is with Dr Jeff Silverman, a recent phd in astrophysics from UC Berkeley and Nicholas McConnell, a phd candidate, unscheduled to be awarded a phd in astrophysics by UC Berkeley this summer. [00:01:00] Jeff and Nicholas have been helping spectrum present a three part astronomy survey, explaining the big ideas, recent experiments, collaborations and improvements in observation technology that are transforming astronomy. This is part three of three and we discuss dark matter, also known as dark energy. Before we talk about dark energy, let me ask you, how do you Speaker 4: relate to time, the human lifetime and then universe lifetime as a scientist [00:01:30] and as a human being, how do you do that? How do you make that stretch? I can't say that I necessarily have an intuitive sense for just how much time has elapsed between the dawn of the universe and me. But I think you can extend it a little bit. You can think of your parents and your parents' parents. And the idea of having ancestry and lineage as a person is a fairly familiar concept. And so I'm the product of generations of people who have done things. And similarly our planet and the conditions that we have and experience every day [00:02:00] are the product of generations and generations of stars being formed and galaxies being formed throughout the universe. And so I think this idea of generations where one thing spawns another and conditions change slightly and gradually over time, but some of the same processes like new stars forming happen over and over and over again is one way to sort of access the, the notion of time throughout the universe. Speaker 5: I think one of the hardest issues for astronomers in astronomy research in general [00:02:30] is the further away we look, the further back in time we look. As Nicholas mentioned, it takes light time to get to us. So if you look at something very far away, it looks like it did much younger in the past, but we can't just watch two galaxies collide and merge. We can't watch a cloud of gas collapse on itself and form a new star and then evolve and then explode as a supernova. We can't wash those processes. We get a snapshot in time, affectively a still of all these processes [00:03:00] all over the universe at different stages. And then the astronomers have to put these pictures in the right order of what's going on, which picture corresponds to which age and how you go from one to the other. And I think that's something that I've had trouble with trying to think about it. Speaker 5: You know, I want to sit down as a scientist and just watch a star evolve and watch it grow up and then die. And then you take your notes and figure it out. Then you're lucky you do get to actually watch them die. I do watch the dying part and you know, with Supernova, with certain kinds of astronomy of phenomena, we [00:03:30] can watch things change on a reasonable basis, on a daily, monthly, yearly basis. But that's the very last bit of a star that has maybe lived for 10 million years or 4 billion years. And one of the things we tried to do is by looking at the death in for a lot about the life, but it is only that small part portion. And there's lots of astronomy where it is basically static and you just see the same thing without any kind of change. There are certain parts of astronomy that do change a little bit with time and we can learn from that. [00:04:00] But the bulk of the star's life, we don't see any change or we just see that tiny bit at the end. Speaker 6: This is spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. We're talking with Dr Jeff Silverman and Nicholas McConnell, astrophysicists from UC Berkeley talking about dark energy. [00:04:30] Let's talk about dark Speaker 4: dark matter. And in so doing, talk about how dark energy or dark matter have become important to astronomy. So one of the interesting things that's happened over the past say half century is that we've profoundly changed our perspective of what the universe contains and what it's fundamentally made of. And so Jeff mentioned through the Supernova in the late nineties we discovered that the universe was expanding faster [00:05:00] and faster and faster. And we think that is due to something that we refer to as dark energy, which we believe makes up about 70 75 5% of the overall mass and energy in the universe. And then when we look at things that we think are sort of more classically as matters stuff that admits gravity and causes things to orbit around it, we've also learned that a very large percentage of gravitational stuff in the universe is made up of this mysterious stuff called dark matter that we know is there [00:05:30] in very large quantities. Speaker 4: It dominates the gravity of how galaxies, for instance, interact with one another. However, we don't know what it's made of. Unlike other kinds of matter, it doesn't emit any light whatsoever. So using telescopes we can learn very little about its actual composition. But on the other side of physics and astronomy, particle physicists have been coming up with theoretical models of the various subatomic particles that constitute universe. And there are certainly space in those [00:06:00] particle models to have particles that are responsible for creating the dark matter. But even though there are a bunch of theories that describe what this dark matter particle might be, it's still not constrained by experiment. We haven't detected definitively any dark matter particle yet, but there are experiments ongoing that are trying to determine what some of these very fundamental particles are. And one that I'll mention because it's led at Berkeley and had an interesting, although definitely not definitive result a couple of years ago is called the cryogenic [00:06:30] dark matter search or cdms. Speaker 4: Uh, and this is an interesting experiment that takes tablets of pure Germanium and buries them, deepen a mine in Minnesota with a lot of equipment and the Germanium is cooled to almost absolute zero as close to absolute zero as we're technologically able to get it. And just sits there waiting for a dark matter particle to come along and collide with one of the atomic nuclei in one of these tablets and the thing about these theorize dark matter particles is that they're extremely noninteractive [00:07:00] to a certain degree. The earth and the galaxy are swimming in a sea of dark matter particles, but they pass through us and never have any noticeable effect on us almost entirely all of the time, but on very, very, very rare occasions you actually do get an interaction in principle between a dark matter particle in something else and so we have these tablets just sitting there waiting for one of these collisions to happen so that we can detect it. Speaker 4: Now there are a bunch of other things that cause collisions in Germanium, things like cosmic rays, which you kind [00:07:30] of get out of the way of by bearing a deep underground electrons and light from other sources, radioactive decay, all of these can set off signals that with a lot of processing and principle, you can distinguish from the ones you expect from having a dark matter particle. Anyway, in 2009 CMS released a statement that they'd been collecting data on collisions inside these tablets for roughly a year's time period and what they found was that based on the best efforts they could do between weeding out [00:08:00] all of the background sources that they're not interested in, they estimated that they would have one false detection that on average statistically they would have missed one background source and classified as a real source. I mean in that same year time period they had found two detections. Speaker 4: So in a very, very, very non-statistical sense, you say, well we found two and we think that one of them statistically is probably false. Maybe we found a dark matter particle. Of course, this is far below the standards of rigor that science requires [00:08:30] for actually saying, yes, we found dark matter, but it's an interesting start and there are certainly ongoing experiments to try to detect these very, very rare interactions between the mysterious dark matter that makes up most of the gravitational stuff in the universe and the ordinary matter that we do know about that. For the large part, it never actually does get to experience it. Are Neutrinos part of dark man or is that another issue entirely? Neutrinos. So I think that some of these particle models suggest that the dark [00:09:00] matter particle is what's called a super symmetric version of a neutrino. So something that has a lot of similar properties to a neutrino but is much, much, much more massive than neutrinos that we do know about have almost no mass whatsoever similar to the dark matter. They also almost never interact with ordinary particles, but there were models run basically saying how would the universe evolve and what would it look like today if dark matter were made up of these neutrinos that we do know about. And those models predict the [00:09:30] overall structure of the universe being very different from what we observe. So we're pretty sure that neutrinos are at most a very small fraction of this dark matter. Speaker 5: Yeah, getting talking a little bit more about the neutrinos. As Nicholas said, they probably are not a huge component of what classically we're referring to as dark matter and that these big experiments are looking for, but they are very interesting weird particles that don't interact very much. They're very hard to detect. They're going through our bodies all the time. The Sun produces them a supernovae produce them [00:10:00] in large amounts as well and even though they're not rigorously really much of this dark matter, they are very interesting and large experiments around the world have been conducted over the past few years to try and detect more of them, to try and classify them and learn more about these neutrino particles. One that Berkeley is very heavily involved in in the, in the Lawrence Berkeley lab is called ice cube down in Antarctica actually. So if you're a poor Grad student in that group, you get to a winter over for six months in Antarctica with lots and lots of DVDs is what I've been told. Speaker 5: [00:10:30] But basically what they do down there is they drill huge vertical holes into the ice shelves and drop down detectors, a photo multiplier tube type devices, things that should light up if they get hit by a neutrino or something like that. And they do a ton of these at various depths and make a greed under the ice. A three dimensional cube under the ice of these detectors could imagine a cubic ice cube and you poke one laser beam through [00:11:00] it. You'll light up a bunch of these detectors in the line and you can connect all of those points with a straight line and sort of see where it's coming from in the sky. And so connecting back a little bit to supernovae. If the Supernova goes off very, very close by, we could possibly detect neutrinos from some of these supernovae and perhaps little deviations from where it goes through and which detectors that lights up could be telling us some interesting information about the neutrinos that are produced in the supernova about our detectors. Speaker 5: So it's a very nice, uh, play back and forth. [00:11:30] Ice Cube has not found neutrinos from a supernova yet. Hopefully we'll have even closer supernovae in the near future and ice cube and other types of neutrino experiments. We'll see possibly some of these and so another great example of big international collaborations even from different types of physics and astronomy getting together the supernova hunters and Supernova Observer, astronomers talking to these neutrino detector particle and trying to come together and answer these questions about the universe from two different sides. Basically two different kinds of science [00:12:00] almost, but coming together with similar observations or related observations is a very interesting prospect. Speaker 6: The show is spectrum. The station is KALX Berkeley. We're talking with Dr Jeff Silverman and Nicholas McConnell there explaining dark matter, dark energy, Speaker 7: dark matter and dark energy as [00:12:30] you called it. Are there other experiments and avenues of research for uncovering this phenomenon or particle, however you want to refer to it? Speaker 8: The direct particle detection experiments that are on earth and we mentioned one of them led by Berkeley are probably the main avenues we have right now for discovering what particle is responsible for the dark matter. There are other ways that we can still collect additional evidence, [00:13:00] although we already have quite a bit for the fact that some strange particle and not ordinary protons and neutrons and electrons are responsible for a lot of the gravitational forces that we see in the universe. One other avenue that might be interesting is the idea that if dark matter is made of subatomic particles, there could be cases where two of those particles interact with one another and Gamma Ray radiation by annihilating them and in that case we have [00:13:30] gamma ray telescopes set up in space that spend a lot of their time detecting more prosaic Cammeray sources. Things like exploding stars, but it's possible perhaps in the near future that these telescopes can also detect gamma ray signatures from the centers of galaxies that we would be able to analyze in such a way that we determined was more likely to be from dark matter particles annihilating one another than from these other astrophysical sources that we already know about. Speaker 8: I'm not sure if that would reveal the identity [00:14:00] of what the dark matter particle is, but it would be more evidence that they do exist. Speaker 7: Dark matter has been hypothesized so that the theory of relativity works or is it devised to prop up the standard model, Speaker 5: the strongest pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter and sort of the reason that we added it into our pictures of the cosmos is there's not enough stars and gas in galaxies. If you [00:14:30] add up all of the gravity, it's not enough gravity force to hold all those stars and gas together in a galaxy and so we need some other matter that exists that exerts the gravitational force to hold everything together, but it doesn't glow. It's not bright. We can't see it with our normal telescopes at any wavelengths in space or on the ground. And so we've sort of given it this name, dark matter, these dark particles that exert a gravity force but don't give off light in any sense of that word. [00:15:00] We found some candidates over the years. Those have been interesting but they don't add up to enough matter out there and so we hypothesize that there is some other particles, something we haven't figured out yet in particle physics since that is out there and we're not detecting it with our telescopes, we're not detecting it with these other experiments that find subatomic particles and I can see very rare subatomic particles, but I personally think in the next decade we will directly detect one of these particles or a handful of these [00:15:30] particles. Speaker 5: If we don't with these experiments that are online and coming online. If we don't detect these dark matter particles then we're going to have to really rethink how these galaxies, our own galaxy included can exist in their current form with all their stars and gas that we can observe. There'll be some serious issues in our understanding of galaxies and the study of the universe in general, but I think we will find dark matter particles. I think it will match to at least some of the models and theories we have and I like to think that everything is nice and [00:16:00] ordered in. That gives me comfort when I go to sleep at night. Speaker 7: So on that personal level and trying to understand the standard model and your confidence in all that, is there a part of you that's open to the idea that it may not really be as you've as has been imagined for the past 30 years? Speaker 8: I think that at one level of detail or another it's actually very likely that the models we've constructed over the last century, in the case of particle physics in the last 30 years, in [00:16:30] the case of adding dark matter as an ingredient to the universe that we see as astronomers, I think it's very likely that some of those details are going to fall by the wayside and be replaced by a different and more accurate description that people aren't thinking of yet. I think if the history of science teaches us anything, it's that as soon as we get over confident that we've put all the pieces together. If something comes in really forces us to rethink how the universe works as far as dark matter goes. I'd like to point out that there's sort of two [00:17:00] different theories in play and that either one of them I think could be revised in order to explain observations if we do fail to detect dark matter particles soon. Speaker 8: And one of them is Einstein's theory of relativity saying that if we know how much stuff there is that we actually understand the literal force of gravity well enough to determine how mass interacts with one another and how the force of gravity works. And then the other one is different particle physics theories that say that if you have stuff coming and gravity like a dark [00:17:30] matter particle, what are the, the limiting things for what that particle could actually be. And I'm not well versed enough to know whether there's a lot of room for dark matter particles to exist that we wouldn't be able to detect with this generation or the next generation of experiments. But one possible way to fail to detect matter particles now and not have to revise general relativity as if particle physics can come up with a particle that is responsible for dark matter but is well beyond our capacity to detect [00:18:00] at this point. Speaker 3: Nicholas and Jeffrey, thanks very much for coming on spectrum. Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. Speaker 6: For people who are interested in getting involved in amateur astronomy, let me mention a few avenues to pursue. The astronomy connection has a website that will lead you to a wide range of observing individuals and groups in the bay area. Their website is observers.org [00:18:30] for those who want to get involved in a crowdsource astronomy project, go to the website, Galaxy zoo.org the University of California observatories have a website that has a great deal of information, particularly under the links heading. Their website is used, c o lik.org or [00:19:00] regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening in the bay area. Over the next few weeks. I'm joined by Rick Kaneski and Lisa Katovich for the calendar. Speaker 9: The science of art is the spring open house at the crucible. This event we'll highlight the scientific principles, inquiry and exploration behind the fine and industrial arts processes taught there. This event will bring together crucible faculty, guest artists, and a curated gallery of exhibits and demonstrations. Also projects from local schools [00:19:30] as well as special performances, food and the participation of a number of other local art and science related organizations and university programs. This event will happen on Saturday, April 7th from 12 to 4:00 PM and the crucibles located at 1260 seventh street in Oakland. Speaker 3: The Oppenheimer Lecture, the Higgs particle pivot of symmetry and mass. The Speaker is [inaudible] to [inaudible] professor of theoretical physics [00:20:00] at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Professor to Hoeft was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1999 in this lecture, professor to Hoeft will reflect on the importance of the as yet undetected Higgs particle and speculate on the Subatomic world once the particle is observed in detail. The lecture is April 9th at 5:00 PM in the Chevron Auditorium at International House [00:20:30] on the UC Berkeley campus. On Monday, April 9th the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco at five nine five market street is hosting Barb Stuckey, the author of taste, what you're missing. The passionate eaters guy too. I good food. Tastes good. Some reviewers say that this book bring science to the of taste. In the same Speaker 10: way that Harold McGee's book on food and cooking popularized food science. She will talk about understanding the science and senses of what you eat. You'll better understand both the psychology and physiology of taste [00:21:00] and learn how to develop and improve your tasting pellet by discerning flavors and detecting and ingredients. A five-thirty checkin proceeds. The 6:00 PM program, which is then followed by a book signing at seven the event is free for members, $20 standard admission and a $7 for students. Visit www.commonwealthclub.org for more info Speaker 9: pioneers in engineering. A nonprofit high school robotics competition organized by UC Berkeley students is holding its fourth annual robotics competition. [00:21:30] The Big Day is Saturday, April 14th at the Lawrence Hall of science in Berkeley. The competition begins at 10:00 AM and continues all day until five. This year's challenge is titled Ballistic Blitz for the seven weeks leading up to the final event. 200 high school students in teams from 21 East Bay high schools each work to design and build a robot. Come see the dramatic culmination of their hard work. This event is included in the price of admission. Admission is [00:22:00] free for UC Berkeley students and staff. For more information, go to the Lawrence Hall of Science website and Click on events. Mount Diablo Astronomical Society presents member planets, our solar system, neighbors, Venus and Mars through telescopes and find out why earth has abundant life but not Mars and Venus. Saturday, April 14th 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM the rendezvous is at Mount Diablo lower summit parking lot [00:22:30] summit road. Speaker 9: Clayton. For more details and contact information, go to the website, m d a s. Dot. Mitt. On Wednesday, April 18th ask a scientist. A monthly lecture series will be co launching the wonder Fest Book Club with USI Professor, biological anthropology and neuroscience, Terrence Deacon's book, incomplete nature, how mind emerged from matter. Professor Deacon's presentation will focus on the idea that key elements of consciousness, [00:23:00] values, meanings, feelings, etc. Emerge from specific constraints on the physical processes of a nervous system. The lecture will be located at the California Institute of Integral Studies at Namaz Day Hall, 1453 Mission Street in San Francisco. It will start at 7:00 PM and it's free. Speaker 10: Cal Day, UC Berkeley's free annual open house will be on Saturday, April 21st 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM there'll be a ton of science related events this year, including [00:23:30] tours of the labs and shops used for molecular and cell biology, synthetic biology, mechanical engineering, Quantum Nano Electronics, space sciences, star dust, nuclear engineering, automation, science, and more. There'll be lectures on diverse topics such as environmental design, geology, and the art and science of prehistoric life, as well as tables for various science and engineering majors and student groups. For more information. Visit [inaudible] dot berkeley.edu [00:24:00] now on to the news, Speaker 9: a February NASA study reports that climatic changes in the polar regions are occurring at a magnitude far greater than the rest of the planet. The oldest and thickest Arctic Sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than the younger and thinner eyes at the edges of the Arctic oceans floating ice cap, the thicker ice known as multi-year ice survived through the cyclical summer melt season when young ice that has formed over winter. Just as quickly melt again, [00:24:30] Joey Comiso, senior scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and author of a study recently published in the Journal of climate says the rapid disappearance of older ice makes Arctic Sea ice even more vulnerable to further decline in the summer. The surface temperature in the Arctic is going up, which results in a shorter ice forming season. It would take a persistent cold spell for most multi-year CIS and other ice types to grow thick enough in the winter to survive the summer melt season and reverse the trend. [00:25:00] This warming in the Arctic is the warmest 12 month on record. For the region. This means that the region is moving closer to, if not already, breaching climatic tipping points which could see the Arctic's current ecological state being shifted to an entirely new one, having severe ramifications, not only for the biodiversity and ecosystems of the region but also for the rest of the planet. Speaker 10: The April 2nd issue of the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has an article by Francesco Burma of Boston University [00:25:30] and others that reports evidence that humans acquired fire at least 200,000 years earlier than previously believed. The evidence is in the form of sediments from the wonderware cave in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. They were studied by micro morphological and foray transform infrared micro spectroscopy and data to be 1 million years old. The sediment contained burn, sharp bone fragments and plant ashes. The bone seems to have been exposed to temperature is found by a small cooking fires under about [00:26:00] 700 degrees Celsius. Previous to this finding, there was consensus that the earliest fires dated to only 790,000 years ago, and so these reporting older fires tended to be controversial as it is difficult to demonstrate that fires were small and intentional and use for cooking rather than acts of nature. Speaker 9: More than half of all cancer is preventable. Experts say science daily reports that in a review article published in Science Translational Medicine on March 28th the investigators outlined obstacles. [00:26:30] They say stand in the way of making a huge dent in the cancer burden in the u s and around the world. Epidemiologists, Graham Colditz, MD professor at the Washington University School of Medicine and associate director of prevention and control. The Siteman cancer center says, we actually have an enormous amount of data about the causes and preventability of cancer. It's time we made an investment in implementing what we know. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 1,600,000 new cancer cases will be diagnosed this year in the u s [00:27:00] also this year, approximately 577,000 Americans are expected to die of cancer according to Kolditz and his co authors individual habits and the structure of society itself from medical research, funding to building design and food subsidies influences the extent of the cancer burden and can be changed to reduce it. Speaker 10: Science news reports on a paper presented at the cognitive neuroscience society by Andrew met her, Ellie, Mika, and CN Beilock. [00:27:30] Both of the University of Chicago. The team use brain scans to find areas in a person's brain whose activity you will predict how well that person functions under pressure. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the team gave both low and high stakes math problems to volunteers. Stakes were determined by both the size of financial reward and a social pressure via a financial penalty imposed upon teammates. In the case of failure, well, easy questions could be answered regardless of the stakes in the study. More difficult [00:28:00] questions led to a 10% average decrease in performance for volunteers who had decreased performance. There is greater activity in the enterprise [inaudible] circus and the inferior frontal junction of the brain area is linked to working memory. Furthermore, the more the ventral medial prefrontal cortex and area linked with emotions work to keep these two areas in sync, the more likely the volunteer was to choke under pressure. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [00:28:30] a special thanks to Dr Jeffers Silverman and Nicholas McConnell for spending the time with us. Degenerate three shows on astronomy. 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Jeff Silverman and Nicholas McConnell helped Spectrum present a three part Astronomy survey explaining the ideas, experiments, and observation technology that are transforming Astronomy. This is part three of three. We discuss Dark matter and dark energy.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly [00:00:30] 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Hello and good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift. I'm joined today by spectrum contributors, Rick Karnofsky and Lisa [inaudible]. Our interview is with Dr Jeff Silverman, a recent phd in astrophysics from UC Berkeley and Nicholas McConnell, a phd candidate, unscheduled to be awarded a phd in astrophysics by UC Berkeley this summer. [00:01:00] Jeff and Nicholas have been helping spectrum present a three part astronomy survey, explaining the big ideas, recent experiments, collaborations and improvements in observation technology that are transforming astronomy. This is part three of three and we discuss dark matter, also known as dark energy. Before we talk about dark energy, let me ask you, how do you Speaker 4: relate to time, the human lifetime and then universe lifetime as a scientist [00:01:30] and as a human being, how do you do that? How do you make that stretch? I can't say that I necessarily have an intuitive sense for just how much time has elapsed between the dawn of the universe and me. But I think you can extend it a little bit. You can think of your parents and your parents' parents. And the idea of having ancestry and lineage as a person is a fairly familiar concept. And so I'm the product of generations of people who have done things. And similarly our planet and the conditions that we have and experience every day [00:02:00] are the product of generations and generations of stars being formed and galaxies being formed throughout the universe. And so I think this idea of generations where one thing spawns another and conditions change slightly and gradually over time, but some of the same processes like new stars forming happen over and over and over again is one way to sort of access the, the notion of time throughout the universe. Speaker 5: I think one of the hardest issues for astronomers in astronomy research in general [00:02:30] is the further away we look, the further back in time we look. As Nicholas mentioned, it takes light time to get to us. So if you look at something very far away, it looks like it did much younger in the past, but we can't just watch two galaxies collide and merge. We can't watch a cloud of gas collapse on itself and form a new star and then evolve and then explode as a supernova. We can't wash those processes. We get a snapshot in time, affectively a still of all these processes [00:03:00] all over the universe at different stages. And then the astronomers have to put these pictures in the right order of what's going on, which picture corresponds to which age and how you go from one to the other. And I think that's something that I've had trouble with trying to think about it. Speaker 5: You know, I want to sit down as a scientist and just watch a star evolve and watch it grow up and then die. And then you take your notes and figure it out. Then you're lucky you do get to actually watch them die. I do watch the dying part and you know, with Supernova, with certain kinds of astronomy of phenomena, we [00:03:30] can watch things change on a reasonable basis, on a daily, monthly, yearly basis. But that's the very last bit of a star that has maybe lived for 10 million years or 4 billion years. And one of the things we tried to do is by looking at the death in for a lot about the life, but it is only that small part portion. And there's lots of astronomy where it is basically static and you just see the same thing without any kind of change. There are certain parts of astronomy that do change a little bit with time and we can learn from that. [00:04:00] But the bulk of the star's life, we don't see any change or we just see that tiny bit at the end. Speaker 6: This is spectrum on k a l x Berkeley. We're talking with Dr Jeff Silverman and Nicholas McConnell, astrophysicists from UC Berkeley talking about dark energy. [00:04:30] Let's talk about dark Speaker 4: dark matter. And in so doing, talk about how dark energy or dark matter have become important to astronomy. So one of the interesting things that's happened over the past say half century is that we've profoundly changed our perspective of what the universe contains and what it's fundamentally made of. And so Jeff mentioned through the Supernova in the late nineties we discovered that the universe was expanding faster [00:05:00] and faster and faster. And we think that is due to something that we refer to as dark energy, which we believe makes up about 70 75 5% of the overall mass and energy in the universe. And then when we look at things that we think are sort of more classically as matters stuff that admits gravity and causes things to orbit around it, we've also learned that a very large percentage of gravitational stuff in the universe is made up of this mysterious stuff called dark matter that we know is there [00:05:30] in very large quantities. Speaker 4: It dominates the gravity of how galaxies, for instance, interact with one another. However, we don't know what it's made of. Unlike other kinds of matter, it doesn't emit any light whatsoever. So using telescopes we can learn very little about its actual composition. But on the other side of physics and astronomy, particle physicists have been coming up with theoretical models of the various subatomic particles that constitute universe. And there are certainly space in those [00:06:00] particle models to have particles that are responsible for creating the dark matter. But even though there are a bunch of theories that describe what this dark matter particle might be, it's still not constrained by experiment. We haven't detected definitively any dark matter particle yet, but there are experiments ongoing that are trying to determine what some of these very fundamental particles are. And one that I'll mention because it's led at Berkeley and had an interesting, although definitely not definitive result a couple of years ago is called the cryogenic [00:06:30] dark matter search or cdms. Speaker 4: Uh, and this is an interesting experiment that takes tablets of pure Germanium and buries them, deepen a mine in Minnesota with a lot of equipment and the Germanium is cooled to almost absolute zero as close to absolute zero as we're technologically able to get it. And just sits there waiting for a dark matter particle to come along and collide with one of the atomic nuclei in one of these tablets and the thing about these theorize dark matter particles is that they're extremely noninteractive [00:07:00] to a certain degree. The earth and the galaxy are swimming in a sea of dark matter particles, but they pass through us and never have any noticeable effect on us almost entirely all of the time, but on very, very, very rare occasions you actually do get an interaction in principle between a dark matter particle in something else and so we have these tablets just sitting there waiting for one of these collisions to happen so that we can detect it. Speaker 4: Now there are a bunch of other things that cause collisions in Germanium, things like cosmic rays, which you kind [00:07:30] of get out of the way of by bearing a deep underground electrons and light from other sources, radioactive decay, all of these can set off signals that with a lot of processing and principle, you can distinguish from the ones you expect from having a dark matter particle. Anyway, in 2009 CMS released a statement that they'd been collecting data on collisions inside these tablets for roughly a year's time period and what they found was that based on the best efforts they could do between weeding out [00:08:00] all of the background sources that they're not interested in, they estimated that they would have one false detection that on average statistically they would have missed one background source and classified as a real source. I mean in that same year time period they had found two detections. Speaker 4: So in a very, very, very non-statistical sense, you say, well we found two and we think that one of them statistically is probably false. Maybe we found a dark matter particle. Of course, this is far below the standards of rigor that science requires [00:08:30] for actually saying, yes, we found dark matter, but it's an interesting start and there are certainly ongoing experiments to try to detect these very, very rare interactions between the mysterious dark matter that makes up most of the gravitational stuff in the universe and the ordinary matter that we do know about that. For the large part, it never actually does get to experience it. Are Neutrinos part of dark man or is that another issue entirely? Neutrinos. So I think that some of these particle models suggest that the dark [00:09:00] matter particle is what's called a super symmetric version of a neutrino. So something that has a lot of similar properties to a neutrino but is much, much, much more massive than neutrinos that we do know about have almost no mass whatsoever similar to the dark matter. They also almost never interact with ordinary particles, but there were models run basically saying how would the universe evolve and what would it look like today if dark matter were made up of these neutrinos that we do know about. And those models predict the [00:09:30] overall structure of the universe being very different from what we observe. So we're pretty sure that neutrinos are at most a very small fraction of this dark matter. Speaker 5: Yeah, getting talking a little bit more about the neutrinos. As Nicholas said, they probably are not a huge component of what classically we're referring to as dark matter and that these big experiments are looking for, but they are very interesting weird particles that don't interact very much. They're very hard to detect. They're going through our bodies all the time. The Sun produces them a supernovae produce them [00:10:00] in large amounts as well and even though they're not rigorously really much of this dark matter, they are very interesting and large experiments around the world have been conducted over the past few years to try and detect more of them, to try and classify them and learn more about these neutrino particles. One that Berkeley is very heavily involved in in the, in the Lawrence Berkeley lab is called ice cube down in Antarctica actually. So if you're a poor Grad student in that group, you get to a winter over for six months in Antarctica with lots and lots of DVDs is what I've been told. Speaker 5: [00:10:30] But basically what they do down there is they drill huge vertical holes into the ice shelves and drop down detectors, a photo multiplier tube type devices, things that should light up if they get hit by a neutrino or something like that. And they do a ton of these at various depths and make a greed under the ice. A three dimensional cube under the ice of these detectors could imagine a cubic ice cube and you poke one laser beam through [00:11:00] it. You'll light up a bunch of these detectors in the line and you can connect all of those points with a straight line and sort of see where it's coming from in the sky. And so connecting back a little bit to supernovae. If the Supernova goes off very, very close by, we could possibly detect neutrinos from some of these supernovae and perhaps little deviations from where it goes through and which detectors that lights up could be telling us some interesting information about the neutrinos that are produced in the supernova about our detectors. Speaker 5: So it's a very nice, uh, play back and forth. [00:11:30] Ice Cube has not found neutrinos from a supernova yet. Hopefully we'll have even closer supernovae in the near future and ice cube and other types of neutrino experiments. We'll see possibly some of these and so another great example of big international collaborations even from different types of physics and astronomy getting together the supernova hunters and Supernova Observer, astronomers talking to these neutrino detector particle and trying to come together and answer these questions about the universe from two different sides. Basically two different kinds of science [00:12:00] almost, but coming together with similar observations or related observations is a very interesting prospect. Speaker 6: The show is spectrum. The station is KALX Berkeley. We're talking with Dr Jeff Silverman and Nicholas McConnell there explaining dark matter, dark energy, Speaker 7: dark matter and dark energy as [00:12:30] you called it. Are there other experiments and avenues of research for uncovering this phenomenon or particle, however you want to refer to it? Speaker 8: The direct particle detection experiments that are on earth and we mentioned one of them led by Berkeley are probably the main avenues we have right now for discovering what particle is responsible for the dark matter. There are other ways that we can still collect additional evidence, [00:13:00] although we already have quite a bit for the fact that some strange particle and not ordinary protons and neutrons and electrons are responsible for a lot of the gravitational forces that we see in the universe. One other avenue that might be interesting is the idea that if dark matter is made of subatomic particles, there could be cases where two of those particles interact with one another and Gamma Ray radiation by annihilating them and in that case we have [00:13:30] gamma ray telescopes set up in space that spend a lot of their time detecting more prosaic Cammeray sources. Things like exploding stars, but it's possible perhaps in the near future that these telescopes can also detect gamma ray signatures from the centers of galaxies that we would be able to analyze in such a way that we determined was more likely to be from dark matter particles annihilating one another than from these other astrophysical sources that we already know about. Speaker 8: I'm not sure if that would reveal the identity [00:14:00] of what the dark matter particle is, but it would be more evidence that they do exist. Speaker 7: Dark matter has been hypothesized so that the theory of relativity works or is it devised to prop up the standard model, Speaker 5: the strongest pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter and sort of the reason that we added it into our pictures of the cosmos is there's not enough stars and gas in galaxies. If you [00:14:30] add up all of the gravity, it's not enough gravity force to hold all those stars and gas together in a galaxy and so we need some other matter that exists that exerts the gravitational force to hold everything together, but it doesn't glow. It's not bright. We can't see it with our normal telescopes at any wavelengths in space or on the ground. And so we've sort of given it this name, dark matter, these dark particles that exert a gravity force but don't give off light in any sense of that word. [00:15:00] We found some candidates over the years. Those have been interesting but they don't add up to enough matter out there and so we hypothesize that there is some other particles, something we haven't figured out yet in particle physics since that is out there and we're not detecting it with our telescopes, we're not detecting it with these other experiments that find subatomic particles and I can see very rare subatomic particles, but I personally think in the next decade we will directly detect one of these particles or a handful of these [00:15:30] particles. Speaker 5: If we don't with these experiments that are online and coming online. If we don't detect these dark matter particles then we're going to have to really rethink how these galaxies, our own galaxy included can exist in their current form with all their stars and gas that we can observe. There'll be some serious issues in our understanding of galaxies and the study of the universe in general, but I think we will find dark matter particles. I think it will match to at least some of the models and theories we have and I like to think that everything is nice and [00:16:00] ordered in. That gives me comfort when I go to sleep at night. Speaker 7: So on that personal level and trying to understand the standard model and your confidence in all that, is there a part of you that's open to the idea that it may not really be as you've as has been imagined for the past 30 years? Speaker 8: I think that at one level of detail or another it's actually very likely that the models we've constructed over the last century, in the case of particle physics in the last 30 years, in [00:16:30] the case of adding dark matter as an ingredient to the universe that we see as astronomers, I think it's very likely that some of those details are going to fall by the wayside and be replaced by a different and more accurate description that people aren't thinking of yet. I think if the history of science teaches us anything, it's that as soon as we get over confident that we've put all the pieces together. If something comes in really forces us to rethink how the universe works as far as dark matter goes. I'd like to point out that there's sort of two [00:17:00] different theories in play and that either one of them I think could be revised in order to explain observations if we do fail to detect dark matter particles soon. Speaker 8: And one of them is Einstein's theory of relativity saying that if we know how much stuff there is that we actually understand the literal force of gravity well enough to determine how mass interacts with one another and how the force of gravity works. And then the other one is different particle physics theories that say that if you have stuff coming and gravity like a dark [00:17:30] matter particle, what are the, the limiting things for what that particle could actually be. And I'm not well versed enough to know whether there's a lot of room for dark matter particles to exist that we wouldn't be able to detect with this generation or the next generation of experiments. But one possible way to fail to detect matter particles now and not have to revise general relativity as if particle physics can come up with a particle that is responsible for dark matter but is well beyond our capacity to detect [00:18:00] at this point. Speaker 3: Nicholas and Jeffrey, thanks very much for coming on spectrum. Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. Speaker 6: For people who are interested in getting involved in amateur astronomy, let me mention a few avenues to pursue. The astronomy connection has a website that will lead you to a wide range of observing individuals and groups in the bay area. Their website is observers.org [00:18:30] for those who want to get involved in a crowdsource astronomy project, go to the website, Galaxy zoo.org the University of California observatories have a website that has a great deal of information, particularly under the links heading. Their website is used, c o lik.org or [00:19:00] regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening in the bay area. Over the next few weeks. I'm joined by Rick Kaneski and Lisa Katovich for the calendar. Speaker 9: The science of art is the spring open house at the crucible. This event we'll highlight the scientific principles, inquiry and exploration behind the fine and industrial arts processes taught there. This event will bring together crucible faculty, guest artists, and a curated gallery of exhibits and demonstrations. Also projects from local schools [00:19:30] as well as special performances, food and the participation of a number of other local art and science related organizations and university programs. This event will happen on Saturday, April 7th from 12 to 4:00 PM and the crucibles located at 1260 seventh street in Oakland. Speaker 3: The Oppenheimer Lecture, the Higgs particle pivot of symmetry and mass. The Speaker is [inaudible] to [inaudible] professor of theoretical physics [00:20:00] at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Professor to Hoeft was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1999 in this lecture, professor to Hoeft will reflect on the importance of the as yet undetected Higgs particle and speculate on the Subatomic world once the particle is observed in detail. The lecture is April 9th at 5:00 PM in the Chevron Auditorium at International House [00:20:30] on the UC Berkeley campus. On Monday, April 9th the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco at five nine five market street is hosting Barb Stuckey, the author of taste, what you're missing. The passionate eaters guy too. I good food. Tastes good. Some reviewers say that this book bring science to the of taste. In the same Speaker 10: way that Harold McGee's book on food and cooking popularized food science. She will talk about understanding the science and senses of what you eat. You'll better understand both the psychology and physiology of taste [00:21:00] and learn how to develop and improve your tasting pellet by discerning flavors and detecting and ingredients. A five-thirty checkin proceeds. The 6:00 PM program, which is then followed by a book signing at seven the event is free for members, $20 standard admission and a $7 for students. Visit www.commonwealthclub.org for more info Speaker 9: pioneers in engineering. A nonprofit high school robotics competition organized by UC Berkeley students is holding its fourth annual robotics competition. [00:21:30] The Big Day is Saturday, April 14th at the Lawrence Hall of science in Berkeley. The competition begins at 10:00 AM and continues all day until five. This year's challenge is titled Ballistic Blitz for the seven weeks leading up to the final event. 200 high school students in teams from 21 East Bay high schools each work to design and build a robot. Come see the dramatic culmination of their hard work. This event is included in the price of admission. Admission is [00:22:00] free for UC Berkeley students and staff. For more information, go to the Lawrence Hall of Science website and Click on events. Mount Diablo Astronomical Society presents member planets, our solar system, neighbors, Venus and Mars through telescopes and find out why earth has abundant life but not Mars and Venus. Saturday, April 14th 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM the rendezvous is at Mount Diablo lower summit parking lot [00:22:30] summit road. Speaker 9: Clayton. For more details and contact information, go to the website, m d a s. Dot. Mitt. On Wednesday, April 18th ask a scientist. A monthly lecture series will be co launching the wonder Fest Book Club with USI Professor, biological anthropology and neuroscience, Terrence Deacon's book, incomplete nature, how mind emerged from matter. Professor Deacon's presentation will focus on the idea that key elements of consciousness, [00:23:00] values, meanings, feelings, etc. Emerge from specific constraints on the physical processes of a nervous system. The lecture will be located at the California Institute of Integral Studies at Namaz Day Hall, 1453 Mission Street in San Francisco. It will start at 7:00 PM and it's free. Speaker 10: Cal Day, UC Berkeley's free annual open house will be on Saturday, April 21st 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM there'll be a ton of science related events this year, including [00:23:30] tours of the labs and shops used for molecular and cell biology, synthetic biology, mechanical engineering, Quantum Nano Electronics, space sciences, star dust, nuclear engineering, automation, science, and more. There'll be lectures on diverse topics such as environmental design, geology, and the art and science of prehistoric life, as well as tables for various science and engineering majors and student groups. For more information. Visit [inaudible] dot berkeley.edu [00:24:00] now on to the news, Speaker 9: a February NASA study reports that climatic changes in the polar regions are occurring at a magnitude far greater than the rest of the planet. The oldest and thickest Arctic Sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than the younger and thinner eyes at the edges of the Arctic oceans floating ice cap, the thicker ice known as multi-year ice survived through the cyclical summer melt season when young ice that has formed over winter. Just as quickly melt again, [00:24:30] Joey Comiso, senior scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and author of a study recently published in the Journal of climate says the rapid disappearance of older ice makes Arctic Sea ice even more vulnerable to further decline in the summer. The surface temperature in the Arctic is going up, which results in a shorter ice forming season. It would take a persistent cold spell for most multi-year CIS and other ice types to grow thick enough in the winter to survive the summer melt season and reverse the trend. [00:25:00] This warming in the Arctic is the warmest 12 month on record. For the region. This means that the region is moving closer to, if not already, breaching climatic tipping points which could see the Arctic's current ecological state being shifted to an entirely new one, having severe ramifications, not only for the biodiversity and ecosystems of the region but also for the rest of the planet. Speaker 10: The April 2nd issue of the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has an article by Francesco Burma of Boston University [00:25:30] and others that reports evidence that humans acquired fire at least 200,000 years earlier than previously believed. The evidence is in the form of sediments from the wonderware cave in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. They were studied by micro morphological and foray transform infrared micro spectroscopy and data to be 1 million years old. The sediment contained burn, sharp bone fragments and plant ashes. The bone seems to have been exposed to temperature is found by a small cooking fires under about [00:26:00] 700 degrees Celsius. Previous to this finding, there was consensus that the earliest fires dated to only 790,000 years ago, and so these reporting older fires tended to be controversial as it is difficult to demonstrate that fires were small and intentional and use for cooking rather than acts of nature. Speaker 9: More than half of all cancer is preventable. Experts say science daily reports that in a review article published in Science Translational Medicine on March 28th the investigators outlined obstacles. [00:26:30] They say stand in the way of making a huge dent in the cancer burden in the u s and around the world. Epidemiologists, Graham Colditz, MD professor at the Washington University School of Medicine and associate director of prevention and control. The Siteman cancer center says, we actually have an enormous amount of data about the causes and preventability of cancer. It's time we made an investment in implementing what we know. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 1,600,000 new cancer cases will be diagnosed this year in the u s [00:27:00] also this year, approximately 577,000 Americans are expected to die of cancer according to Kolditz and his co authors individual habits and the structure of society itself from medical research, funding to building design and food subsidies influences the extent of the cancer burden and can be changed to reduce it. Speaker 10: Science news reports on a paper presented at the cognitive neuroscience society by Andrew met her, Ellie, Mika, and CN Beilock. [00:27:30] Both of the University of Chicago. The team use brain scans to find areas in a person's brain whose activity you will predict how well that person functions under pressure. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the team gave both low and high stakes math problems to volunteers. Stakes were determined by both the size of financial reward and a social pressure via a financial penalty imposed upon teammates. In the case of failure, well, easy questions could be answered regardless of the stakes in the study. More difficult [00:28:00] questions led to a 10% average decrease in performance for volunteers who had decreased performance. There is greater activity in the enterprise [inaudible] circus and the inferior frontal junction of the brain area is linked to working memory. Furthermore, the more the ventral medial prefrontal cortex and area linked with emotions work to keep these two areas in sync, the more likely the volunteer was to choke under pressure. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [00:28:30] a special thanks to Dr Jeffers Silverman and Nicholas McConnell for spending the time with us. Degenerate three shows on astronomy. Thanks to Rick Karnofsky who helps produce the show and Lisa Katovich for her health Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: the music heard during the show is by Los Donna David and album titled Folk and Acoustic [00:29:00] made available by a creative comments 3.0 attributional license. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 6: thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum dot k@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same [00:29:30] time. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 11: [inaudible]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The San Francisco Arts Commission in conjunction with the Museum of the African Diaspora are hosting an ART IMPACT speaker series event featuring renowned, musician Martin Luther. In keeping with ART IMPACT's mission of providing a platform to explore and discuss the impact of arts education through the lens of high profile individuals, the evening will include an intimate look at how arts education has impacted Luther's musical journey by hearing intimate stories of the singer's life and listening to selections from previous and forthcoming releases. Martin Luther's music encompasses a universal appeal and the rudiments of rock and roll and classic soul music, unique to many legendary San Francisco musicians. The event is Tuesday, February 14, 2012|7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), 685 Mission Street @3rd Street, Couple General Admission: $35.00. General Admission: $20.00. For tickets visit: http://MLmoadvalentines.eventbrite.com/

Today we are joined by author and journalist Joanne Griffith who will is on tour with her book: Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America with foreward by Pacifica Radio Archives director Brian DeShazor. Feb. 8, 7 p.m., she will be at MoAD, 685 Mission Street (at Third), San Francisco. There is a cost for adults. Feb. 9, 6:30-8 p.m. she will be at Marcus Books in Oakland, 40th & MLK Jr. Way. This event is free. Join the conversation. Visit http://redefiningblackpower.com/?page_id=14 Our next guest is African American Quilt Designer Helen Anderson, whose work as a part of the ACTA Apprenticeship program debuts Feb. 4, 1-3 p.m. at East Bay Church of Religious Science in Oakland. The program is free. Marc Bamuthi Joseph's "When Words Become Flesh" opens Black Choreographers Here and Now at Laney College in Oakland, Feb. 11. We are joined by Bamuthi and two members of the cast: Khalil Anthony & Daveed Diggs. Visit http://www.bcfhereandnow.com/Oaklandinfo12.html We close with Mahen Sophia Bonetti, founder and director of African Film Festival, Inc. Each year http://www.africanfilmny.org/ collaborates with UC Berkeley Pacific Film Archive to host the African Film Festival on tour Jan. 26 and continues through Feb. 29. Visit http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/african_2012  

Maryam Farnaz Rostami, She will join us to talk about her show this weekend at CounterPULSE: Persepolis, Texas: FOBspring to Drag Queen in One Generation! Friday July 15th, Saturday July 16th, Sunday July 17th, at CounterPULSE 1310 Mission Street @ 9th, San Francisco, Counterpulse.org or 1-800-838-3006, www.maryamrostami.com  The San Francisco based drag queen and contemporary performance artist from Texas. Her work deals with the complexities of the modern condition through the lens of an overachieving child of model minorities. Trained as an architect, Maryam exacerbates and collides her many hats when making performance, and engages audiences on a visual, intellectual and emotional level. She is dedicated to artistic engagement as an invitation for thinking about, looking at and talking to one another differently. Her drag persona, Mona G. Hawd, uses lipsync, movement, narrative and dance and an exaggerated high femme medium to question ownership of images in our culture.  While in architecture school at the University of Texas at Austin, Maryam joined a group of dancers performing Iranian folk dance, and co-choreographed and performed traditional dances with a modern twist on and off campus. We close with a rebroadcast of an interview with cast from Lynn Nottage's Pultizer Prize Winning Play, Ruined, at Berkeley Rep in April 2011, Oberon K.A. Adjepond as Christian and Tonye Patano as Mama Nadi. Music: Fely's "Topaz" from Maturite.

We open with a short excerpt of a conversation with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre member, Kirven James Boyd; Catherine Murphy, director, Maestra (teacher), with Dr. Ruth Guillard follow. Murphy's film, which commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Literacy Project, is screening at La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, in Berkeley, CA. Alice Walker opens the program, which is hosted by Amy Alison. Visit lapena.org and www.maestrathefilm.org We close with a conversation with choreographer, Amara Tabor Smith about her latest show: Our Daily Bread, premiering at CounterPulse, April 14-24, 2011, 1310 Mission Street @ 9th Street, in San Francisco. April 14, 2011 is pay-what-you-can. Visit www.counterpulse.org

We are fighting for our place in the sun . . . and we will never rest until that place is secure” (Brother Malcolm X May 19, 1925-Feb. 21, 1965). On the eve of the tragic murder of a man whom Ossie Davis, called “our Prince,” El Hajj Malik El Shabazz was killed as he stood speaking in Manhattan at the Audubon Ballroom, in front of his family, friends, numerous witnesses and of course enemies, in the San Francisco Bay Area there was a People's Tribunal which looked at government surveillance as well as police brutality, and how to make the government accountable. Also on the eve of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz's murder, we had the opportunity to speak to a surviving freedom fighter, a spiritual child of Brother Malcolm, Robert Hillary King, whose life exemplifies the resistance Brother Malik inspired world wide, a resistance to tyranny and oppression exemplified here in California and Wisconsin, as well as in Tunisia and Egypt and Libya. King whose tenth anniversary just passed, February 8, 2011, speaks about the recent and exciting news about Albert Woodfox's case, and by extension Herman Wallace, the three men collectively known as the Angola 3. He also speaks about recent travel and upcoming appearances such as the screening in Washington DC Film Festival (Feb. 2 to March 2, 2011), Wed., Feb. 23, 2011 with director Vadim Jean of the film, “The Land of the Free,” which tells the story of these three men: Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, together known as the Angola 3. The film is narrated by Samuel Jackson. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is screening "In the Land of the Free," at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (at Third Street), San Francisco, CA March 31, 2011, 7:30 PM, (415) 978-ARTS. Visit www.hrw.org/en/united-states/us-program/prison-and-detention-conditions

Claude Marks is the Project Director of The Freedom Archives, a political, cultural oral history project in SF. He is a former political prisoner who served time for a conspiracy to break a Puerto Rican political prisoner out of Leavensworth. Claude taught ESL, literacy, writing and history inside. He will speak about the the San Francisco Premiere of COINTELPRO 101, Sunday, October 10, 2010, at 4 and 7 pm at Mission Cultural Center of Latino Arts in San Francisco, CA, 2868 Mission Street. Suggested donation $10, youth $5. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Soffiyah Elijah and the filmmakers we speak after the program. Regina Y. Evans is a Poet, Storyteller and Playwright from Oakland, Ca. She is the Writer of Echo: A Poetic Journey Into Justice, a theatrical performance designed to bring awareness to the horrors of sex trafficking/slavery. "Echo: A Poetic Journey into Justice," braids together the fabric of poetry, Negro Spirituals and movement in an effort to shine a light upon the extraordinarily similar threads that run between present day sex trafficking/slavery and past day African-American slavery. The work has two performances, Saturdays, Oct. 9 & 16, both at 7 PM at the City of Refuge United Church of Christ, 1025 Howard Street, San Francisco. It is a fundraiser for several organizations combating child sexual exploitation. Visit echopoeticjustice.blogspt.com; Executive Director: Mbarouk Saad & Project Director: Alice Aida Ayers of creativesolutionszanzibar.co.tz join us to talk about an event this weekend: Creative Solutions Africa, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010, 6-9 PM at the Afrikan Children's Advanced Learning Center, 959-33rd Street, Oakland. We close with Barbara Thompson, Ph.D., Phyllis Wattis Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas, about two exhibits: Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas and the new exhibition opening Wed., Oct.13,2010: "Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of Initiates." There is a blessing at 5.

Jo Kreiter and her collaborators have nationally recognized expertise in creating site-specific and apparatus-based performance work. Their current production, the result of Flyaway Productions' 2010 Arts and Activism Apprenticeship premieres: July 21-22, 7at CounterPulse in San Francisco. This summer program for girls is inspired by the company's mission to make dances that live at the intersection of acrobatic spectacle and social justice. 15 young artists received a paid summer apprenticeship, facilitating both dance-making and community–based activism. The young artists come to Flyaway from the Mission, Bayview Hunter's Point, the Avenues, South of Market and Oakland. Shows are: Wednesday-Thursday, July 21-22, 2010, 7 PM, at CounterPulse,1310 Mission Street @ 9th, San Francisco. Visit www.flyawayproductions.com Tickets:$6-12 sliding-scale, Youth (14 & under) free. Visit counterpulse.org or call 1-800-838-3006 We close with a special interview with Angela Bofill who is bringing "The Angela Bofill Experience," narrated and written by her to the RRazz Room at Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street (between Ellis and O'Farrell)San Francisco, July 22-24, 2010. For tickets visit:www.therrazzroom.com or call: 415.394.1189. Continuing her miraculous recovery from two devastating strokes (2006 and 2007), legendary Classic Soul/R&B/Jazz singer Angela Bofill will be appearing in a mini-tour with friends. The show will mark Angela's first public appearance since her stroke. Singing the songs of Angela's career will be award winning vocalist Maysa (Stevie Wonder's female backup group Wonderlove and British jazz/funk/R&B band Incognito), and Grammy-winning jazz flutist Dave Valentin, who played an important part in Angela's early career, will provide his own stories as well as perform. Special friends Phil Perry and Norman Connors will also perform. Sounds like a happy reunion.

Former students call into show to pay tribute to scholar, Dr. Albirda Rose, whose retirement concert is Saturday, April 17, 2010, 8 PM at San Francisco State University's McKenna Theatre; Camille T. Dungy, editor of BLACK NATURE: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, joined in the studio with Joyce Jenkins, editor of Poetry Flash and one of the principle organizers of the Northern CA Bay Area Book Awards, this weekend, April 18, 1 PM at the SF Main Library's Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street in San Francisco. Professor Dungy is receiving the Special Recognition Award. The event is free and all are welcome. Valerie Trout as been called one of the few modern young singers creating stylistic change in the Vocal Jazz Tradition. She concludes a two session workshop Saturday, April 17, 11 AM to 2 PM at the MoAD-SF. She also hosts an all women showcase on Third Fridays in Oakland called Shepeople's: A Rare Breed, at Divinity and Voice, 3609 Maple Avenue, Oakland, valvoice@gmail.com. We close the show with another conversation with filmmaker Chike C. Nwoffiah, and cast: Kenesha Mayfield, who plays: "Fatimah," and Curtis Campbell who plays: "Martin." Nwoffiah's award winning film, Sabar: Life is a Dance, is a part of a FREE two day screening also at MoAD April 23, 5 & 7:30 PM, and April 24, 4 PM (VIP screening, invitation only with a general admission overflow) & 7 PM. MoAD is located at 685 Mission Street, at Third in San Francisco. Visit http://www.sabarthemovie.com/ and become a fan on Facebook.com

Tisha Kenny, Executive Director Health & Human Resource Education Center, Project Director, Health through Art Signs of Recover, whose current billboard campaign,just launched, "STOP RAPING AND BREAKING HEART," is in 23 bus stops for 1 month (March 24-April 24, 2010). Visit www.healththroughart.org Ms. Kenny is joined by Ramona Jones, who will speak about Victory Outreach Church of Oakland's "2010 I Love My City Crusade" and its kick-off event: Hear My Cry: Exposing Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Candlelight Vigil in downtown Oakland, 5-7 PM, Friday, April 2, at City Hall, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza. Call (510) 385-4794, (510) 677-6364, (510) 434-1951. We close with a conversation with Ms. Dowoti Desir and Bryan Wiley, two artists featured in "African Continuum: Sacred Ceremonies and Rituals" at the Museum of the African Disapora through August 28, 2010. Visit moadsf.org or call (415) 358-7200. MoAD is located at 685 Mission Street (at Third Street), in San Francisco. Saturday, March 27, 2010, Mr. Wiley will give a talk in the gallery from 2-3 PM. Next week Friday-Saturday, April 2-3, their will be a film screening and lecture by Dr. Marta Morena Vega. The film screening, "When the Spirits Danced Mambo" followed by a talk with the director, Dr. Vega, is 4/2, 6-9 PM, the lecture or talk is 4/3 from 2-4 PM.

8:00 AM: "Beyond the Odds with Anita Johnson HIV/AIDS." Beyond the Odds is a multimedia arts project designed to illuminate the perspectives and personal stories of young people living with HIV/AIDS. Visit www.beyondtheodds.org Anita Johnson is a nationally-recognized, award-winning broadcast journalist and producer. 8:30 AM: Perfect Love with Michael Buck and Joey Tranchina. Michael Buck is an Inspirational Speaker, Peer Counselor, Community Activist, Founder & Creator of Perfect Love. He is also the creator and founder of ‘SISTHAS Supporting SISTHAS', ‘Hepatitis C Info Series', ‘NOT LISTENING', ‘HIV/AIDS Nutritional Series' and ‘UFAHAMU HIV, Swahili for understanding, is a collaboration of African and African American artists for the prevention of HIV & AIDS. Michael is a past board member of CAL-PEP, AIDS Community Research Consortium (ACRC). Joey Tranchina: Founding Executive Director, AIDS Prevention ACTION Network, (of which Michael is a board member), formerly CEO Hepatitis C Global Foundation. Joey is also: Co-Director Project Mali. The greatest natural resource in Africa is Africans. Tuesday, Dec. 1, World AIDS Day Perfect Love is hosting a free Community AIDS Awareness Breakfast in East Palo Alto at New Sweet Home Church, 2170 Capitol Ave., (650) 325-1467. 9:00 AM: Loretta Devine, opening @ The Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko, Friday, November 27 through Sunday, November 29, 2009, 8 PM Fri/Sat. and 7 PM Sun. The Rrazz Room is located at 222 Mason Street in San Francisco, CA 94102. Visit www.therrazzroom.com 9:30: Marc Bamuthi Joseph curator of Left Coast Leaning, Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 3-5, in YBCA's “Forum Theatre,” 701 Mission Street, 8 p.m., www.ybca.org. Joining Bamuthi is musician, composer, Ambrose Akinmusire who is performing December 5, with Holcombe Waller, Denizen Kane, Erica Chong Shuch, Sean San José, Chinaka Hodge.

Sara Tavares' "Xinti" tour brings to SFJAZZ this evening (11/06) in concert at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco www.sfjazz.org; Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance Theatre continues with "Beautiful Me" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts tonight and tomorrow evening. He is also on a panel (free) Saturday, November 7, 10 AM to 11:30 AM at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street, SF.RSVP@ http://performingdisaporasymposium.eventbrite.com/

Anthony Myint, founder and head chef of SF's innovative street food pop-up, talks about his story, trends in food, and running a pro-social business.

We celebrate the legacy of Casper Banjo this morning with Akili Banjo (Casper's niece), and friends Lee Williams, Tomye, and Charles Blackwell. We'll speak about Casper's life and work which is being celebrated in the exhibit: "3 Worlds, Myth, Bricks, Prints," Arias, Fuentes, Banjo, August 14 - September 19, 2009, at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco. The commemoration is Saturday, August 29, 3-5 PM., (415) 821-1155, www.missionculturalcenter.org. Next we are joined by scholar poet, Kathryn Waddell Takara and her daughter, poet, educator, activist, Karla Brundage. They will speak about the Hurricane Katrina Fundraiser/Reportback, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, 3-5 PM, at Shashamane Restaurant, 2507 Broadway in Oakland. Big Chief Kevin Goodman speaks to us about the Mardi Gras Indian tradition and his life now in the Diaspora post-Katrina in Austin. Visit http://www.myspace.com/bigchiefkevingoodman We close with a conversation with David Alston, archivist, journalist, photographer about Michael Jackson, whose birthday is Aug. 29 (8/29/1958-June 25, 2009)

Today we will speak to the wonderful photographer, Howard Bingham, who has documented the Black Panther Party in his book: Howard L. Bingham's Black Panther's 1968, just released on AMMO (www.ammobooks.com) Unfortunately his exhibit, by the same title, just closed last week at the California African American Museum (CAAM).Visit http://www.caamuseum.org/past32.htm and http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2009/02/a_moment_in_time_binghams_blac.html and http://www.wavenewspapers.com/community/calendar/46131142.html. An interview with director Johnny Symmonds follows. His film: "Ask Not," airs on the PBS Series, Independent Lens, Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at 10 p.m. The film is about the U.S. Military's controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Visit http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/asknot Our next guests are storytellers: Linda Gorham and Kirk Waller who are performing stories of Freedom, Change and Hope at the Storytelling Association of Alta California, Saturday, June 13, 7-9 PM at Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Avenue, in Oakland. Visit www.storySAAC.org and also www.LindaGorham.com and www.kirkwaller.com Anna Maria Flechero, singer/songer writer, closed the show. She shared stories about being Filipina and African American and how music has been a way for her to discover her roots. Today is also Filipino Independence Day, the date of a wonderful fundraising benefit concert tonight @ Club Anton, 428 3rd Street (at Broadway) in Jack London Square. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the concert is from 8-10 p.m., with a raffle at 9:30 p.m. DJ music closes the evening from 10-12 midnight. The event is a preview and features besides Flechero: Little Brown Brother, Raquel and Ann Marie Santos. Tickets are $12—  Anna Maria Flechero is also headlining the 2nd Annual San Francisco Filipino American Jazz Festival Sunday, August 8, 2009, 5-9 p.m. at The Forum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street.

GALLERY CRAWL visits Mission Street at Third, in the heart of San Francisco's Yerba Buena Arts District. We check out "Ghosts in the Machine," the inaugural exhibition for SF Camerawork's new space and "Deluge," Robin Ward's show at Lisa Dent Gallery.

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