San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 47.09

2012·22.7 MB·English

by  San Francisco Bay Guardian

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Another Hole in the Head fest gores up Xmas P24 West Portal’s delicious homestyle secret, Orexi P16 Singer Ash Reiter’s love letter to the best coast P22
celebrating 46 years
the san francisco bay guardian | sfbg.com
nOvembeR 28 - decembeR 4, 2012 | vOl. 47, nO. 9 | FRee
Tech mogul Ron Conway
has spent big bucks trying to
buy San Francisco politics.
His agenda is alarming.
By Joe Fitzgerald and
Tim Redmond. PAGE 10
Guardian illustration by aaron drath
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NOV. 28, 2012 “EVERY POLITICIAN SHOULD DO LSD AT LEAST ONCE.” – LARRY HAGMAN, 1931-2012
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(cid:72)(cid:54)(cid:67)(cid:73)(cid:54)(cid:22) SUPERPOWERMENT
Assembly member Leland Yee, the San Francisco
Democrat known for not playing well with his fel-
The 34th annual Celebration
low legislators, this week formally announced his
of Craftswomen adds a film
intention to run for California Secretary of State in
GUARDIAN element this year (Sat/1) by
2014, the first to jump in the race seeking to replace
screening local filmmaker
termed-out incumbent Democrat Debra Bowen. In
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s
INTELLIGENCE doing so, he praised himself for his legislation creat-
hour-long doc, Wonder Women!
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The Untold Story of American
upped the ante: “As Secretary of State, I want to
Superheroines, and an inter-
What you expand on this success and explore the possibility of
national shorts program pre-
one day not just registering online, but in fact voting
sented by Lunafest. Wonder
need to know online. If we can safely pay our bills via the inter-
Women! looks at the history of
net and board an airplane with a smart phone, we
feminist characters in comic
should be able to securely and easily vote electroni-
books, television, and action
cally as well.” With Yee overseeing efforts to become
movies, using the ever-evolving
QUEEN BEE the first state where voters can cast ballots from their
character of Wonder Woman
iPhones, what could possibly go wrong? | GETTY IMAGES
as a signpost, but also looking
For four long, uproarious PHOTO OF LELAND YEE VOTING IN SAN FRANCISCO BY JUSTIN SULLIVAN
at examples like The Bionic
seasons of RuPaul’s Drag
Woman, Buffy the Vampire
Race, local viewers have
Slayer, and 1991’s Thelma and
wondered, “Where the SHE AIN’T
Louise. Famous faces (Lynda
dickens are the queens
TRASH Carter, Gloria Steinem) offer
from San Francisco?” Are
insights, and though the film
we too punk rock, too
Former SF club kid is too brief to be considered a
“out there,” too real for the
and renowned junk complete survey, it’s energetic
Will and Grace world of
collagist Jason and offers plenty of food for
Logo Television? Is it that
Mecier once again thought. High points of the
we can’t “lip sync for our
seized the viral Lunafest program include
lives” without involving a
world’s imagination a pair of British tales: Chalk,
live chicken and a bucket
last week with his about a pair of teen gymnasts
of stage blood? Wonder no
inspired and not-so- struggling with the inevitable,
more! Glamorous social
metaphorical por- complicated arrival of puberty;
worker, soul chanteuse,
trait of child reality and Lunch Date, about the
and Guardian Queer Issue
TV star/sign of the unlikely friendship that forms
cover girl with legs for days
impending apoca- between a youth and the
Honey Mahogany will be
lypse Alana “Honey girl his older brother has just
representing our fair burg
Boo Boo” Thompson, dumped. Complete program
for the first time, soon to
done entirely in trash information at www.celebra-
be tearing up season five
and detritus. www. tionofcraftswomen.org.
beginning in January. Hang
jasonmecier.com
on to your wig, Ru — SF is
coming for you. POLITICAL ALERTS
CHEESES IS THE REASON
ROCK’N WINTER FORMAL
THURSDAY/29
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EDITORIALS
IN THIS ISSUE YOUNG
NEWS
P8
PEOPLE
FOOD AND DRINK
P16
PICKS
P18
FOR OBAMA
ARTS AND CULTURE
P20
MUSIC LISTINGS 28 / STAGE LISTINGS 32 BY ANH LÊ
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OPINION On November 5th, elec-
tion eve, my son Minh Jeffrey sent
me an e-mail note: “Awesome! I
THIS WEEK AT am so ready to vote!”
It was his first election — and
voters like him made a huge dif-
SFBG.COM
ference.
On Election Day, I spent the
evening at Obama campaign
PSYCHIC DREAM ASTROLOGY, COMPLETE
headquarters in San Francisco.
EVENTS, ALERTS, ART, AND MUSIC LIST-
Throughout the evening, new
INGS, HOT LIST, COMMENTS, AND SO
Electoral College projections
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were called as voting returns
WWW.TWITTER.COM/SFBG
were coming in, state by state. By
ON THE BLOGS 8pm, Obama had 243 votes, Rom-
ney 188.
The excitement among the
POLITICS volunteers in the room intensi-
fied. You could feel the heat and
Where will you be when the world
energy in the room rise.
ends? What to expect on December
When Ohio, with its 18 elec-
21s, according to Steven T. Jones
toral votes, was called for Obama,
And, as always: Breaking news, point- putting the president at 274
ed analysis, ample things to argue votes, the volunteers cheered and
about with anonymous strangers applauded loudly, many jump-
ing up and down, embracing and
HATING THE GUMMINT — BUT NOT TAXES
hugging each other, telling each
NOISE
other, “We did it!” A few were
wiping tears of joy; I was among
BY TIM REDMOND but because it doesn’t get rid of Around here, the property
them.
[email protected] the insurance companies. taxes are serious. My brother’s
The large number of young
(Oh, and by the way — house cost about a third what
EDITOR’S NOTES Greetings from nobody cares who gets married to mine did, and his property taxes volunteers at Obama campaign
Putnam Valley, New York, where whom. They have, as my brother are triple what I pay. It kills him; headquarters reflected their
they hate the government but not says, real problems to worry he’s a carpenter and small busi- vital role in re-electing President
taxes. about.) ness owner (who doesn’t worry Obama. The number of first-time
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SEX SF — not to sell a house After 10 pm, upstairs at
This week in sex events: where to take because it knows that. Obama campaign headquarters,
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HATING THE GUMMINT — think about in California, where
BUT NOT TAXES so much of the state is so socially
CONT>> enlightened, and we love to sup-
port gun control and we all voted
His monthly nut is less than for Obama — and we just can’t get
mine; it’s just that more goes to rid of this local anti-tax disease.
the local schools and parks and And we need to start looking
less goes to the bank. for a cure now, because it’s kill-
You get what you pay for ing us.
— nobody around here goes to In other news: The Municipal
private schools. Why? The pub- Transportation Agency votes
lic schools are the equivalent of Dec. 4 on allowing free Muni for
fancy, expensive private places kids. The primary opponent is
— and for his two kids, he pays Sup. Scott Wiener, who thinks we
about 20 percent of what private- should get the rest of the system
school parents in San Francisco running better first. It’s a bogus
pay. It’s a great deal. choice — the money to transform
And other than the usual grip- how low-income kids get around
ing at tax time, even the people at a time when the public schools
who fear the Patriot Act and think can’t afford buses (see above)
Obama has got a secret United won’t make Muni a lot faster or
Nations army ready to seize more reliable — that’s a much big-
control and create a repressive ger chunk of change. But it will
Commie World Order don’t think create a new generation of riders,
it’s a bad idea to fund the local who might grow up to demand
schools and the baseball field and that the wealthy pay some money
the senior center. to fund the transit system. That’s
It’s a mindset we need to real change. 2
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As San Francisco issues fines against tiny living spaces.
wiener’s nudiTy ban approved on CLose voTe
Uber, SideCar, and Zimride’s Lyft for % Sup. Scott Wiener has
using peer-to-peer connections to finally won approval for the
bypass city regulations on taxicabs, Over the objections of progressive supervisors and patrols to deal with a recent spate of violent crimes in the “efficiency units” that he’s
the San Francisco Chronicle cast it under threats of a lawsuit from nudists and civil liber- Mission, which shares a police station with the Castro. been pushing for months,
as, “The latest battle pitting disrup- ties advocates, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Avalos said it was absurd to focus city resources on apartments with living space
tive high-tech innovators against voted 6-5 to outlaw public nudity in the city. this victimless issue when the city is wrestling with far as small as 150 square feet
old-school industries and regula- Supervisors voting against the ban were David Campos, more serious problems, such as poverty and violence, for up to two people (the
tors,” casting the taxicab industry Christina Olague, John Avalos, Eric Mar, and Jane Kim. and he played a clip from the film Catch 22 where a sol- total square footage with
and the people who oversee it in Sup. Scott Wiener, who sponsored the measure, cast dier goes naked to a ceremony to highlight that absur- closets and counters will be
the position it as a last resort to deal with what has become daily dity. “I will refuse to put on this fig leaf, I just can’t do at least 220 square feet, with
of being displays of nudity in the Castro district he represents it,” Avalos said. an extra 100 square feet
dinosaurs (and most recently around City Hall as his legislation Mar said he sympathized with Wiener’s concerns, required for each additional
fighting was being considering in committees), noting that, but agreed with Campos that Wiener could have done resident), to be made avail-
against an “Public nudity is part of San Francisco and is appro- more to mediate this situation before both sides dug in: able for monthly rents in the
inevitable priate in some circumstances.” His legislation makes “I really don’t think we need citywide legislation, par- $1,200–$1,400 range.
new world. exceptions for permitted events such as the Folsom ticularly overbroad legislation, to deal with a problem Some progressive
But Street Fair and Bay-to-Breakers. isolated to one neighborhood.” supervisors have expressed
this has so But Wiener said that “public nudity can go too far,” as Wiener seemed stung by the comments and said concerns about the vaguely
little to do he says it has over the last two years in the Castro’s Jane he could cite example of each supervisor pushing Orwellian idea of cramming
with smart Warner Plaza, and that “freedom of expression and accep- resolutions or ordinances that dealt with similarly the city’s worker bees into
phones and tance does not mean you can do whatever you want.” trivial issues, comparing it to refusing to deal with a ever-smaller living spaces, so
apps and Campos echoed some of the legal concerns that constituent’s pothole complaint until that supervisor the legislation initially caps
GPS sys- critics of the legislation have raised, noting that, “As a fixed Muni and solved the city’s housing problem. But the creation at 375 units and
tems. Those lawyer, I do worry about when you ban specific con- Campos pushed back, calling the comparison ridicu- requires the city to study
are tools duct and then you have exceptions to that.” He also lous and saying there was no reason for a citywide ban how it’s all working out. “As
that anyone questioned whether Wiener has done enough to try to deal with such an isolated issue. we do this, it’s important
can use, and the local cab compa- to mediate the increasingly divisive conflict he’s been Nudists at the hearing reacted angrily to the that we carefully study this,”
nies ought to and will soon anyway. having with the nudist community and whether this approval and started to disrobe before President David Sup. Jane Kim, whose down-
What it’s about is the notion was an appropriate use of scarce police resources. Chiu ordered deputies to intervene and abruptly town District 6 is expected to
that there are such things as public “I don’t believe we’re at the point of saying this recessed the hearing. Now, it will likely be up to the absorb most of these experi-
utilities that ought to be regulated becomes a priority over violent crime,” Campos said, courts to decide whether Wiener’s concerns about wie- mental new units, said today.
in a way that protects the public. noting that he’s been unable to get more police foot ners can withstand legal scrutiny. — Steven T. Jones But the legislation was
San Francisco decided as a city approved on a 10-1 vote, with
many, many years ago that you only Sup. John Avalos voting
can’t just stick a sign on your car, interest rate you want. You can’t call most important, an oversight system drivers. no. “Overall, this does not
call yourself a taxi, and start charg- yourself a dentist and start pulling that allows people to complain about Perhaps the city ought to have a make a lot of sense in the
ing people for rides. That’s fairly teeth, either. There are good reasons incompetent or dangerous drivers centralized computerized dispatch San Francisco I know,” Avalos
standard practice in American cities, for these rules. — and have those complaints investi- system, with GPS on all the cars and said. “I cannot stomach sup-
where cabs are considered part of Even conservatives agree that gated and addressed by a government an app to get the one that’s closest porting this idea.” — Steven
the transportation system — and a there needs to be some form of busi- agency. to you (and even more important, T. Jones
ness regulation — and when it comes There are good reasons why San give you honest, real-time informa-
service that, without regulation, is
to cabs in a major urban center, those Francisco limits the number of cabs tion about when the ride will arrive).
ripe for consumer fraud and safety
regulations include safety tests and on the streets — and it’s not just These are technological changes that
problems.
standards on the vehicles, safety industry corruption and influence. are coming, and that the city can
Not to make too broad a case,
checks for drivers (a DUI in the past Too many cabs chasing too little mandate.
but in California, you can’t just
three years will make you ineligible money leads to bad behavior — and But you can’t just let anyone with
hang out a sign and call yourself
to drive a cab in SF), a system to to bad drivers. You can’t get someone a smart phone be a cab driver. That’s
a contractor and start applying
regulate fares (so tourists who don’t to drive a cab for so little money that not innovation against old-school;
for building permits. You need a
speak English or understand US cur- they can’t pay the rent, and the lower that’s just good common sense.
license. You can’t just open a bank
rency don’t get cheated) and, perhaps the pay, the lower the quality of the — Tim Redmond
and start making loans, at any
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NEWS RON CONWAY HAS SPENT MORE ON THE LAST TWO ELECTIONS THAN ANY OTHER SAN FRANCISCAN. FOR MORE NEWS CONTENT VISIT
GETTY IMAGES PHOTO BY STEVE JENNINGS SFBG.COM/POLITICS
BY TIM REDMOND AND JOE FITZGERALD THE PLUTOCRAT active in San Francisco politics as a
[email protected], [email protected] Democrat, Conway got involved in
local Republican politics as a teenager
NEWS On October 6, 2010, longtime and worked on Nixon’s 1968 cam-
civic leader and financier Warren paign for president, telling Rivlin that
Hellman stood before the Bay he and his twin brother were “dyed-
Area Council’s annual dinner and Tech mogul Ron Conway is trying to buy San Francisco politics in-the-wool conservatives.”
announced the presence of a special That ideology apparently stayed
guest. MC Hammer stepped forward and sell his pro-business agenda with Conway, who records show
to introduce the man of honor. gave $50,000 to George W. Bush’s
His name was Ron Conway, and, putes that he’s a billionaire. Business registered Republican before switching insiders say, this unelected, unap- 2000 presidential campaign and
according to the SF Business Times, Insider obtained a leaked list of to decline-to-state as he became politi- pointed operative is helping under- $90,000 to Schwarzenegger, his
he’d moved to San Francisco from his investments in 2011 and it cal active here in early 2011), wants mine progressive policy and send city “recover team,” and the California
Atherton six years earlier. included 228 companies. A report things done his way, and sees no need politics in a very different direction. Republican Party in 2005-06.
But now, he was acting like he on his investments that appeared on for community accountability. But, Rivlin noted, “he was hard-
WEALTHY, CONSERVATIVE ROOTS
owns the place. Crunchbase.com quantified many “Warren Hellman was interested ly someone you would describe as
Conway declined to be inter-
Former Mayor Art Agnos was in of Conway’s investments, including in children’s issues, public education, politically engaged.” On the issues,
viewed for this piece, with his press
the audience, and he remembers the $10 million each in Square (the SF- he wanted to invest in building com- Conway told him, “I could care
spokesperson — Aaron McLear,
moment well. “This guy stood up and based startup by a Twitter founder), munity,” Sup. John Avalos told us. less.” He cares about government,
who served as press secretary to
said that we have to take the city back Stitcher, Yammer, and Pinterest; $20 “Conway is all about the bottom line Rivlin noted, “to the extent it has an
then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
from the progressives,” Agnos told us. million in AddThis, $8.3 million in of his industry, and nothing more.” impact on the business climate.”
and other prominent Republicans
“I barely knew who he was. I’ve been AirTime; $8 million in BuzzFeed; Avalos complained that Conway
— offering up a canned statement GETTING HIS WINGS
in San Francisco since 1966, and here and $5 million each in Twitter, (like many in his industry) disdains
for print. So what little we can glean Conway worked for National
he comes telling us what to do.” Friend.ly, and Magnetic, among openness and public access. “It’s
of Conway’s beginnings come from Semiconductor in the 1970s and
Agnos minces no words about the more than 200 tech investments. all behind the scenes,” he told us.
public records, other media reports, cofounded Altos Computer Systems
man who is, by some accounts, now It’s difficult to discern his precise “That’s how he likes to operate.”
and Gary Rivlin’s insightful book in 1979, selling it in the early ‘90s
the most powerful unelected person financial worth — but nobody doubts In each of the last three years,
The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ron and using its proceeds to become
at City Hall despite suddenly bursting that it’s more than enough to funnel Conway has doubled or quadrupled
Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms. an “angel investor,” providing early
onto the political scene just last year, vast amounts into local politics, as his political contributions. He’s the
Ronald Crawford Conway was capital in exchange for an owner-
shortly after that event. “He’s come to Conway has been more willing to do first big spender to operate in the
born in San Francisco on March ship stake, in small tech startups in
San Francisco using his multimillions than anyone in these last couple years. city in the post-Citizens United era,
09, 1951. The middle child in an the early years of the Internet.
of dollars to buy systems and people There have always been wealthy when one rich person can play an
Irish-Catholic family of 12 siblings, To Conway, being an angel seemed
to effectively mandate his views, to people in San Francisco who have outsized role in politics, creating
Conway also has a twin brother, to be about helping the rich get richer
project his way of doing things onto tried to throw their money — and independent expenditure commit-
Rick. Ron Conway went to St. by pumping up the first big tech bub-
liberal San Francisco.” political weight — around. Walter tees that can throw around unlim-
Stephen’s boys high school in San ble. His Angel Investors, LP consisted
So who is this guy? He’s one of Shorenstein, the developer and ited amounts of money.
Francisco until he was 15, when the of Conway and a number of already
Mayor Ed Lee’s closest advisors. He’s commercial landlord, dominated And right now, a lot of City Hall
family moved to the wealthy nearby wealthy Internet and film luminaries,
poured more than $1 million into Democratic Party politics for decades.
enclave of Atherton. from hardcore investors and disinter-
the last two local elections — drop- Warren Hellman and Gap founder
Conway’s father was a top exec ested tinkerers, each contributing to
ping at least $625,000 in this year’s Don Fisher put money and time into
at the then-Oakland-based American the pot that was controlled by Conway.
election cycle (journalist Larry Bush political initiatives. The list goes on.
President Lines, which today is To be a part of his exclu-
reports this year’s total at about But most of them were fairly
a major shipping company for sive investment club you had to
$800,000). That includes $275,000 homegrown — they’d been
Walmart’s goods. The elder Conway have a minimum net worth of at
to help pass Prop. E, which lowered active in the city for many
cashed out for what Conway least a million dollars, or have a
the business tax rates for technology years before they became
described as “a couple million famous name, according to Rivlin.
companies in which he’s invested, political players. And they
dollars,” according to Rivlin. Countless of the Internet’s rising
and $69,000 to help oust Sup. tended to make their mark
Driving through Atherton, stars joined Angel Investors and
Christina Olague for defying Lee and in major charitable and
you get a feel for how starkly its successor companies. Cobbled
Conway on a couple of key votes. philanthropic efforts as well
different it is from San Francisco. from myriad business journals is
Conway is one of the Silicon as partisan politics.
Stone walls 10-feet high surround a small list from among many of
Valley’s preeminent angel inves- Conway, while he does
most homes, many that look like Conway’s chosen: Dean Morton of
tors since just after the dawn of the give money to charities like
Spanish villas or small castles to the Hewlett Packard, golfer Tiger Woods,
Internet, parlaying his early suc- Ronald McDonald House, is
eye of a San Francisco native. The Stanford University Engineering
cesses bankrolling Google, PayPal, a different type, part of the
Conways home there was valued at Dean Jim Gibbons, Twitter CEO Biz
and Facebook into investments impatient tech generation that’s
$18 million in 2001. Stone, entertainer MC Hammer,
with a vast array of SF-based tech right-wing on economic
It was in wealthy, conservative venture capitalist Frank Quattrone,
companies, including Twitter, Digg, policy (Conway was a
Atherton that Conway found his and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.
Airbnb, and Zynga.
political voice, according to Rivlin’s For a man who made his fortune
His net
book. “It was in high school where investing in the hottest names in
worth is
I became more outspoken,” Conway tech, Conway is often described as
widely
told him. While studying political sci- a bit of an anti-tech Luddite. Not
reported
ence at San Jose State, Conway served relying on product knowledge,
at $1.5
on the Atherton City Council start- his strategy boils down to this:
billion,
ing at the age of 21, mostly Conway trusts his first impression
but he
to “counteract the noisy of a startup’s CEO. He goes with his
dis-
student protesters at gut, as he explains in a free Stanford
nearby Stanford,” YouTube class featuring Conway.
Rivlin wrote. And though sometimes his
While his companies would fail, the successes
father had been more than made up for those fail-
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