San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 46.35

2012·39.5 MB·English

by  San Francisco Bay Guardian

celebrating 45 years
the san francisco
the clean
bay guardian | sfbg.com
may 30 - june 5, 2012
Vol. 46, no. 35 | Free
slate
a cliP-out endorsement
guide to take to the Polls
for the June 5 election.
President district 19
barack obama (west side)
Mike Alonso
u.s. senate
Wendy Aragon
dianne feinstein
Kevin Bard
u.s. congress, Chuck Chan
Kelly Dwyer
district 2
Peter Lauterborn
norman solomon Hene Kelly
Eric Mar
u.s. congress,
Trevor McNeil
district 12
Arlo Hale Smith
nancy Pelosi
State ballot
u.s. congress, meaSureS
district 12
ProPosition 28
barbara lee
yes
u.s. congress,
ProPosition 29
district 13
yes
Jackie sPeier
San FranciSco
state senate,
ballot
district 11 meaSureS
mark leno
ProPosition a
state assembly, yes
district 17
ProPosition b
tom ammiano
yes
state assembly,
eaSt bay
district 19
enDorSementS
Phil ting
state senator,
Democratic
9th district
county
central loni hancock
committee
state assembly,
district 17 15th district
(east side)
nancy skinner
John Avalos
state assembly,
David Campos
David Chiu 18th district
Petra DeJesus abel guillen
Matt Dorsey
Chris Gembinsky suPerior court,
Gabriel Robert Haaland office number 20
beyonD traDition
Leslie Katz
tara flanagan
Rafael Mandelman
Carole Migden county
Justin Morgan suPervisor,
New venues and a line-up offering bold, sophisticated twists on tradition
Leah Pimentel
5th district
energize the 34th San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival (p.24). By Rita Felciano Alix Rosenthal
Jamie Rafaela Wolfe keith carson
Persian american dancer-choreograPher shabnam, a five-time san francisco ethnic dance festival Performer. Photo by rJ muna
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editorials
this city has a terrible jobs-housing Mix
in this issue COIt tOweR
IS FOR the
news
P8
food and drink peOple
P15
picks
P17
A people’s great treasure is Coit
arts and culture
P20 With murals by painters adroit
They, I’m sure you’ll agree,
Music listings 27 / stage listings 30 Belong to the com-mun-i-ty
filM listings 31 Art no one should ever exploit!
— from the poem “Oh, what a won-
der Coit Tower!” by Lincoln Bergman
this week at
BY JON GOlINGeR
OpINION An ominous sign sud-
sfbg.coM denly appeared outside Coit
Tower one afternoon last spring.
It read: “Tower Closed To Public.”
FOllOw US ON twItteR: Visitors from around the world
www.twItteR.COm/SFBG were turned away from their long-
planned visits to Coit Tower. San
ON the BlOGS
Franciscans were sent home, pro-
hibited from seeing the 27 historic
politics WPA murals that adorn the walls
inside Coit Tower or sharing them
Mayor Lee shows his pro-biz chops,
with friends. Why? Was this for
but how is his balance?
a good reason, perhaps because
the rich get richer: a few (more) the city was finally beginning a
problems with Facebook badly needed restoration of the
Coit Tower frescoes, damaged from
neglect, water corrosion, and gash-
hOUSING AND hIGhRISe OFFICeS
es from heavy equipment repeat-
edly banging against them?
No. Recently disclosed city
eDItORIAl It’s something of a in Chinatown. Like any massive the people who currently work in documents reveal that Coit Tower
civic shame that the only way office complex, it will put pres- San Francisco can’t afford to buy was shut down to the public dur-
San Francisco can build a new sure on Muni, on city streets, on a house here, and many of them ing regular operating hours that
transit terminal is to sell a private police and fire and other city ser- can only rent if they pay for more day so that powerful Republican
developer the rights to stick a vices — and no commercial office than the federal standard of one- real estate investor Thomas J.
1,070-foot highrise office tower building ever pays its fair share third of their income for housing. Coates and a group of his friends
on public land. In fact, it’s a sad of that burden. And since in this So people who work in hotels and could enjoy a fancy candlelight
statement on the city, state, and case the major recipient of the restaurants and city, state and dinner party right next to some of
local government: Once upon a money from the project will be federal offices and hospitals and the most fragile Coit Tower murals.
noise time — and it wasn’t the long ago the TJPA, the city’s General Fund even financial district companies The 1 percent got Coit Tower
— tax dollars collected through a will suffer. wind up living far from the city that day. The 99 percent got
Live shots from recent gigs headlined
progressive system paid for major Oh, and the building is ugly. and commuting. Nobody thinks turned away.
by spiritualized and ash Reiter
infrastructure projects. Meanwhile, city planners that’s a sound environmental This discovery comes at an
snap sounds: Bullion’s But there’s no easy way to want to increase height limits all policy. important time. The San Francisco
Love Me Oh Please Love Me raise $4 billion in tax money for around the Transbay Terminal And this kind of full-scale Recreation and Park Department,
and Lone’s Galaxy Garden the Transbay Terminal — even and allow hundreds of units of rezoning and development will which oversees Coit Tower, is in
though it ought to be seen as part new (luxury) housing and more only make it worse. According to the process of implementing plans
of the high-speed rail project, and commercial office space. It’s the City Planning Department, to dramatically increase the use of
pixel Vision
the federal and state government going to be a new highrise neigh- the Hines project will pay about the tower as a private party venue
the Performant cycles along on the ought to be picking up the tab. borhood, complete with a rooftop $27 million into the city’s afford- for corporations and wealthy indi-
Midnight Mystery Ride So San Francisco ambles forward, park and a few little patches of able housing fund, enough to viduals. Rec-Park wants a new con-
selling land and lease rights to ground-level open space, which pay for maybe 60 or 70 housing cession company to take over Coit
New movies: OMG Piranha 3DD! Plus,
the highest bidder. won’t get a whole lot of sun, units. That won’t even begin to Tower and rent it out every month
more. Not involving killer fish, though
In this case, Gerald Hines of particularly in the morning and cover the need created by the for private parties and corporate
Houston won the right to build evening. thousands of employees who will events, with just 1 percent of the
sex sf the largest highrise west of the And at this point, there’s been fill that tower. The market-rate revenue generated used to benefit
Mississippi on property owned very little focus on what ought to housing on the site will almost the Coit Tower murals.
Chatting with sex educator by the Transbay Joint Powers be the defining issue of this and certainly be beyond the reach of Next month, San Francisco vot-
Niko kowell, creator of
Authority. There are all sorts of the other major developments on most San Franciscans, and prob- ers will have the chance to weigh
transmenformen night at eros
drawbacks to the deal — among the city’s planning horizon, and ably many of the office workers in on how Coit Tower should
other things, it will cast shadows that’s affordable housing. who fill the Hines building. And be treated and decide whether it
on a number of city parks, all This city has a terrible jobs- only 35 percent of the new hous- should become a private party pal-
the way to Portsmouth Square housing mix. The vast majority of CONTINUES ON PAGE  >> CONTINUES ON PAGE  >>
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housing needs; it can’t possible keep pace coit receives an average of $633,000 a be maximum profitability — rather
CONT>> with new development. CONT>> year in income primarily from visi- than as a priceless treasure that
So before the supervisors tors paying to ride the elevator to must be respected and protected.
rush ahead to approve this ambi- the top of the tower — for preserv- On June 5th let’s pass
ing — at maximum — will be ace for rent to the highest bidder
tious new downtown district, ing the historic murals, maintain- Proposition B and ensure that
affordable. or remain a public place for all to
they need to ask Hines, and the ing the Coit Tower building, and Lillie Hitchcock Coit’s generous
San Francisco has to get a enjoy.
TJPA, and any other developer beautifying the park around Coit gift to the city she loved so much
grip. The city can’t keep allowing Proposition B on the June
who comes along, how it intends Tower. remains a public place for all the
more high-end housing and high- 5 ballot would enact a new city
to meet the demonstrated need Opposing Prop. B are the people to enjoy.
rise office space without a plan policy stating that commercial
for affordable housing that Chamber of Commerce, the Jon Golinger is Chair of the
to meet its housing needs. We’re activities or private events at Coit
these projects will create — and Republican Party, and a handful Protect Coit Tower Committee, a
glad to see the mayor talking Tower must be strictly limited. The
demand a much higher level of of powerful city bureaucrats who coalition of artists, environmentalists,
about a $50 million a year fund, measure would also direct the
payment that what’s currently on view Coit Tower primarily as a cash and neighborhood leaders. Learn more
but that will barely meet existing city to prioritize the funds already
the city’s books.2 cow whose primary purpose should at www.ProtectCoitTower.org 2
generated by Coit Tower — the city
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on the city’s edges, with a few in center down...It would be a tragedy,
the Outer Sunset and Excelsior, and a great loss to this city and this
although most are located in community.”
Bayview-Hunters Point. In her letter, Growney also
But the commission doesn’t laments that her family “had to pay
seem concerned with potential a considerable amount to build a
nuisance to neighbors in directing wrought-iron, locked gate to keep
more traffic to these other recycling people out of our trash.” Another
centers, or with the difficulty poor letter, written by neighborhood
recyclers have in getting out there. resident Curtis Lee, asks that the
“The San Francisco Department city “eliminate the Haight Ashbury
of the Environment is confident Recycling Center,” saying that, “It is
that recyclers that use the facility a blight on the neighborhood and
will take their material to another an attraction to rodents and home-
existing site for proper handling,” less carts.”
according to the meeting’s minutes. Of course, those carts come with
The commission is, however, people. HANC takes issue with the
concerned about a nuisance that assertion that their services “enable”
the recycling center creates for or “encourage” homelessness, as well
Haight-Ashbury neighbors, accord- as the assumption that the recycling
ing to the minutes. The notes cite center only serves the homeless.
“neighborhood noise, truck traffic, Dunn says that many of the
litter, and public safety concerns as recycling center’ clientele are elder-
negative impacts related to continu- ly immigrants, often housed, who
reDuCe, re-use, replaCe ing operations at the site.” contribute to their family income
with cash from recyclables. He also
against the poor?
insists that “most of the people that
But is this really just another case
use the recycling center don’t camp
HANC challenges the city’s eviction rationale by adding a community garden of resentment against people who
in the park.”
are poor and homeless?
to its embattled recycling operation Homeless people certainly do
HANC’s Dunn argues that, in
use the center, but it’s not clear
By yael Chanoff of the city. money was used to build the cur- fact, much of the material that whether its presence truly “enables
[email protected] Citing these concerns, the rent community garden. The city those who use the center bring in illegal camping and illicit and
center’s landlord, the San Francisco had laid out a $250,000 budget for isn’t taken from residential waste unhealthy activity.” Dunn finds it
Greg Gaar knows the names, Recreation and Parks Department the garden after it was approved bins. Besides, it’s not technically laughable to say that “the center
characteristics, and birds and but- (RPD), has spent the past few years and designed in 2010. “HANC’s CRV redemption program” creates homelessness.” It’s a lot of
terflies attracted by every plant in trying to evict the HANC recycling A bundle of documents con- that encourages recycling as a rev- work to cart around recyclables
the native plant nursery that he center. The center got an eviction taining arguments against HANC, enue source for the less fortunate. all day, he says, and the dedicated
tends. Last week, he proudly toured notice in December 2010. HANC’s provided by RPD, includes details State law requires that consumers recyclers are generally not the same
me through the garden, point- lawyer, Robert DeVries, successfully of the Golden Gate Park Master be able to redeem bottles and cans people that ask tourists on Haight
ing out plants like Yarrow (“great challenged the eviction. RPD sued Plan, surveys indicating a great for cash. Street for spare change.
for bees and butterflies”) and the for eviction again in June 2011, need for community gardens in The meeting minutes argue that
beautiful flowers of the Crimson and that matter may finally come San Francisco, and letters and state- the recycling center “enables illegal the reCyClers
Columbine, of which Gaar believes to a close June 6 when it will be ments from neighbors complaining camping and illicit and unhealthy There is a great diversity in how
there are “only two others left in heard by a three-judge panel in SF about the recycling center. behavior in Golden Gate Parks’ homeless San Franciscans spend
San Francisco.” Superior Court. A 2004 survey discussed in eastern end and in neighborhoods their days, and recycling is in many
Gaar has been working at 780 the documents found that com- in close proximity to the site.” ways a specialized, committed way
Delivering the garDen
Frederick St., where he now tends munity gardens are among the top Supposed evidence for the of life. In her 2010 ethnography of
the garden, for decades. His mother RPD officials cite neighbor concerns, “recreation facilities most impor- position cites letters to the editor homeless San Franciscans, Hobos,
went to high school on the same claims that the recycling center’s tant to respondent households.” published in the San Francisco Hustlers and Backsliders, Teresa
block, the old site of Polytechnic services are outdated and obsolete, Community gardens came in fifth Chronicle, a frequent outlet for Gowan focuses on the “recyclers,”
High. Before Gaar became the gar- and the idea of planting a commu- in importance, after walking and anger at the homeless. One con- the segment of the homeless popu-
dener, he ran the recycling center nity garden in its place. In fact, the biking trails, pools, fitness facilities, cerned resident, Karen Growney, lation who have made a habit of
that Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Planning Commission approved a and running and walking tracks. asserts that the center “provides no collecting bottles and cans as a way
Council (HANC) operates next to community garden in the place of The documents include a detailed benefit to people living in Haight/ of getting by.
the garden. Now, the pioneering the recycling center last year. map of the “Golden Gate Park com- Cole Valley.” “The phenomenon that captured
green operation he helped build Since then, HANC staff got to munity garden preliminary plan,” HANC disputes this, saying my interest was the steady stream
may shut down. work building its own community imagined at HANC’s current site. that many neighbors use the cen- of shopping carts loaded high with
At the center, people can recycle garden. In just a year, they erected The map was drawn up in ter. They have beneficial relation- glass, cans, cardboard, and scrap
their bottles, cans, paper products, 50 beds from recycled wood, and November 2010, the same month ships with many nearby businesses, metal rolling past my door,” she
and even used vegetable oil, and according to Gaar, about 100 that a meeting of the Recreation including New Ganges restaurant wrote.
make some cash along the way. neighbors have plots that they cur- and Parks Commission laid out just across the street. Its website, Some of her interview subjects
Those who use the center say it’s a rently tend. the reasons that HANC had to go. kezargardens.com, shows many show disdain for the recyclers, who
green and dignified way to make As the recycling center’s Minutes from the meeting include smiling neighbors who use the cen- work hard all day and don’t get
some money. director, Ed Dunn, tells it, the the city’s need for community ter to recycle. much cash out of it. Dealing drugs,
But residents in the surround- infrastructure already in place at gardens as well as some neighbors’ Notable among them is actor/ stealing, or panhandling can be
ing area have complained for years the recycling center made building disdain for the recycling center in activist Danny Glover, a Haight more lucrative and less backbreak-
that the center is loud and attracts the garden come naturally. HANC that site. It argues that the needs of resident since 1957. In a video on ing. One subject, a man named Del
homeless people. They also say was able to fund it with income recyclers can be well met with other the website, Glover — interviewed who, according to Gowan, mostly
that, due to their proximity to the from the recycling operation, and recycling centers in the city. while in his car dropping off recy- stayed in the Tenderloin, thought
recycling center, the chance that plant it with seeds from the native Seventeen other recycling cling at the center — says, “I would the “20, 25 bucks on a big load”
their trash will get rifled through at plant nursery. centers operate in San Francisco. be dismayed and not happy if we that recyclers usually made was
night is greater than in other parts Dunn emphasizes that no city Most are located in neighborhoods close this wonderful recycling pathetic. “ ‘And that’s for heaving
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around a big old rattling buggy all clers” included a “large core group ronmental movement, and helped gardens that RPD is now embracing to the center. He and the other
day,’ Del said pityingly. ‘I can make who had created an intense web usher in the widespread support for so thoroughly that, ironically, it HANC staff have come to see the
15 bucks inside’a two minutes.’” of meaning around their work as a recycling. could lead to the recycling center’s eviction process as symbolic of a
But many of her interview kind of blue-collar trade.” Now, with curbside recycling demise. HANC helped underwrite direction in which the city’s head-
subjects prefer to recycle anyway. fully functional in San Francisco, the Garden for the Environment ing, that also includes last year’s Sit-
Pioneering HAnC
Gowan describes another subject, many call the recycling center’s project as well as the Victory Lie Ordinance: decisions designed
Recycling for cash may not be a
Sam, as “a champion recycler, mus- work obsolete. But HANC argues Garden planted outside City Hall to shuffle homeless people out of
respected or taxed job “blue collar”
cular and persistent, who often that the city needs all the help it in 2008. Dunn says that the staff wealthy neighborhoods.
job. But it’s certainly green.
put in nine, ten hours on the trot.” can get if it is to reach its goal for enjoyed the challenge of building The arguments for the commu-
Since the center began oper-
She quotes Sam saying, “Without zero waste in 2020. It also employs the garden, and would be interested nity garden, however, seem to indi-
ating in the 1970s, mainstream
this, I’d kill myself. Couple a days, 10 people, and Dunn argues that in helping the city by creating more cate a strong desire for a greener
attitudes towards environmental-
I’d do myself in.... You get some it would be foolish of the city to gardens without city money. city. It’s not easy balancing envi-
ism and sustainability have shifted
guys, seems like they can deal with eliminate those stable green jobs. Gaar says he’s committed to ronmental initiatives with NIMBY
dramatically. The HANC recycling
homelessness. I’m not one of them.” HANC has also helped move continuing to work for a healthier woes — especially when your back-
center was a product of the envi-
The book argues that “pro recy- along the trend towards community planet, regardless of what happens yard is Golden Gate Park. 2
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the WarriOrs plan tO mOve tOsan FranciscO’s WaterFrOnt,
But the prOpOsal is little mOre than a draWing at this pOint.
Oakland gets jilted
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By Frank artrage tions with the new owners, they
[email protected] always indicated they hadn’t yet
come to a final decision.”
After a secret whirlwind courtship Reid told me what happened
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY®
that lasted a mere five months, next. “I get a call Sunday night at
Mayor Ed Lee and the Golden State 9:30 telling me about their move
Warriors tied the knot May 22 at like a thief in the night.” Reid said.
Piers 30-32, announcing their unex- “It’s upsetting.”
NOW OPEN
pected union at the site they intend On the fan site
to occupy with a new basketball GoldenStWarriors, Lacob seemed to
arena by 2017. belittle Oakland. In an 18-minute
ON 4TH STREET AT THE METREON
The Warriors’ entrepreneurial video, Lacob predicts that Oakland
new owners — Joe Lacob and Peter will be left with only one sports
Guber — say they love this “iconic team someday. “I think they’re chal-
site” and promised to build a “spec- lenged,” he said when asked what’s
tacular sports and entertainment wrong with Oakland, adding the
complex” that is “architecturally city is in “a difficult situation.”
significant.” Sports talk radio hosts, fan sites,
But what about Oakland, the and bloggers, however, seem to be
team’s unceremoniously jilted cur- evenly divided on the move. Even
rent homemaker? The perception hardcore Oakland and Warriors
from the East Bay is that Lacob and blogger Ethan Sherwood Strauss
Guber were duplicitous and under- prefers the San Francisco site. At his
- A nonprofi t, WASC-accredited university handed in their dealings with city Warriorsworld site, Strauss wrote:
- Online and on-campus associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degree programs officials that were desperately trying “I’d never leave Oakland.... I have
to retain the city’s three main sports everything at arm’s length. There’s
- Talk with an advisor and create the right education plan to meet your goals
franchises — the Oakland Athletics food from around the world, teem-
- Experience the fl exibility of taking an online class baseball club, the Oakland Raiders ing farmers markets, lush green hills,
- Learn about fi nancial aid options football team, and the Golden Redwood trees, Mosswood Park,
State Warriors basketballers — all of Grand Lake Theatre — this is all
whom have recently signaled inter- within two miles.”
Learn more at the Westfi eld Metreon est in moving. But: “Guess which is the better
National University 161 4th Street Several sources told us that place for the Golden State Warriors?
Online Information Center San Francisco, CA 94103 the Warriors’ new owners have It’s that west bay city national
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