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R A I S I N G H E L L S I N C E 1 9 6 6 THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM | MAY 8 - 14, 2013 | VOL. 47, NO. 32 | FREE MURAL AT OLIVE AND LARKIN STREETS Get out there! The bicycle future, bike plan hot spots, BY BEN SLOW, DAVID POLKA, AND ESK EVAN WILSON high-tech street art, sidewalk fashion, CURATED BY TOVA LOBATZ AND LAUREN NAPOLITANO cool new buildings, and the official OF BIGG PROJECTS Bike to Work Day map. A Streets GUARDIAN PHOTO BY SIXTEENTH AND BROADWAY Issue extravaganza. 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Major Patrons, Penny and James G. Coulter, David Davies and Jack Weeden, Cynthia Fry Gunn and John A. Gunn, and Burgess and Elizabeth B. Jamieson in memory of John E. Buchanan, Jr. Opening Week Major Patron, Diane B. Wilsey. Major Sponsor, The Bernard Osher Foundation. Additional support provided by The Selz Foundation, Inc., The Richard C. von Hess Foundation, Phoebe Cowles and Robert Girard, and The Netherland-America Foundation. Supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Media Sponsors Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring (detail), ca. 1665. Oil on canvas. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, Bequest of Arnoldus des Tombe, 1903 (inv. no. 670) SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN eDItORIAlS NewS FOOD + DRINk the SeleCtOR mUSIC StAGe ARtS + CUltURe FIlm ClASSIFIeDS eDItORIAlS NewS FOOD + DRINk the SeleCtOR mUSIC StAGe ARtS + CUltURe FIlm ClASSIFIeDS mAY 8 - 14, 2013 / SFBG.COm INTELLIGENCE “I’M HAPPY TO BE ANYWHERE BUT WASHINGTON DC.” POLITICAL ALERTS WARRIORS UNDER WATER WEDNESDAY 8 AAsssseemmbbllyymmeemmbbeerr TToomm AAmmmmiiaannoo iiss nnoott hhaappppyy wwiitthh tthhee ppllaannss ffoorr aa nneeww WWaarrrriioorrss aarreennaa oonn tthhee wwaatteerrffrroonntt,, aanndd hhee’’ss nnoott ggooiinngg ttoo ssuuppppoorrtt aa bbiillll bbyy hhiiss SSaann FFrraanncciissccoo ccoolllleeaagguuee,, AAsssseemmbbllyymmeemmbbeerr PPhhiill TTiinngg,, tthhaatt wwoouulldd rreemmoovvee tthhee TALES FROM THE MISSION DISTRICT aauutthhoorriittyy ooff tthhee SSttaattee LLaannddss CCoommmmiissssiioonn oovveerr tthhee pprroojjeecctt aanndd eesssseennttiiaallllyy aallllooww tthhee LLeeggiissllaattuurree ttoo ggiivvee iitt aa ggrreeeenn 518 Valencia, SF. www.shapingsf. lliigghhtt.. ““TThheeyy’’rree ssaayyiinngg tthhiiss ddooeessnn’’tt ggoo aarroouunndd llooccaall iinnppuutt aanndd llooccaall ccoonnttrrooll,, bbuutt org. 7:30pm, free. Adriana Camarena, a longtime Mission District resident II’’vvee sseeeenn tthhee ssttaattee ddoo tthhiinnggss lliikkee tthhiiss bbeeffoorree aanndd II ddoonn’’tt lliikkee iitt,,”” AAmmmmiiaannoo ttoolldd famous for interviewing everyone in BARBARA LOVES DC us. The Ting bill would still allow the Bay Conservation and Development her midst, unveils her new multimedia Commission to approve or reject the project, and Ammiano sent BCDC work, “Unsettlers: Migrants, Homies, and Mammas in the Mission.” Join a list of questions, including this: “I think it’s imperative that we consider US Sen. Barbara Boxer was hon- Shaping SF for an evening of storytell- potential ramifications of the environment. That is, not only do we have to ored as Woman of the Year by ing featuring the Mission’s most pre- consider earthquakes, as we always must in San Francisco, but we must Emerge California during a May carious residents: Indigenous migrant workers from Mexico, day laborers, war consider the potential effects of the global climate change of which we 2 ceremony in City Hall. Boxer veterans, and youth in gangs. are increasingly aware. If a high tide can lap at the Embarcadero now, said she was thrilled to be here THURSDAY 9 what can we expect from rising sea levels that accompany polar warming accepting the honor from a group and melting ice caps? How will this project accommodate those potential that encourages women to run DEBATE: HACK THE SKY? issues? Is this really the best place for this project, or merely the most for office, but warned that they Richard and convenient one for the project developers?” shouldn’t read to much into that: Rhoda Goldman Theater, David (He also told us he would be happy to support the project “if “I’m thrilled to be anywhere but Brower Center, every member of the Warriors followed Jason Collins and came TOM AMMIANO Washington DC.” | AP PHOTO BY 2150 Allston, out.”) | GUARDIAN PHOTO BY MIKE KOOZMIN JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION Berkl. www. earthisland.org/ events/skyhack. TAKE THAT, 7pm, $10. Join FROM LICK TO MAIN Earth Island ACCREDITATION Journal and Grist.org for COMMISSION “The names tell stories that you an important debate about couldn’t make up if you tried: geoengineering: Controversial propos- Teachers at San Francisco City duels, saloon shootouts, mob als to artificially reduce the amount College have a new tactic in the strug- justice, espionage, overnight mil- of sunlight filtering through earth’s atmosphere, using technological fixes, gle over re-accreditation: They’re lionaires, explorers, tycoons, bat- to solve climate change. Atmospheric trying to get the feds to drop the tles, rebellions,” Web developer scientist Ken Caldeira and Australian accreditation of the accrediting agen- Noah Veltman tells us of his awe- professor of ethics Clive Hamilton will debate this timely, provocative issue. cy. The Novato-based Accrediting some, just-launched interactive SHOUT! ART BY WOMEN VETERANS Commission of Community and SF street name map (sfstreets. San Francisco Women’s Building, Junior Colleges has threatened to noahveltman.com). “I used to 3543 18th St, SF. www.swords-to- yank the certificate that lets City walk down these streets all the plowshares.org. 6-9pm, free. RSVP requested. Hosted by Swords to College get federal money, allows time and never had any idea that Plowshares, a San Francisco-based students to get financial aide, and they all pointed to so many larger- veteran service organization, the guarantees that credits from the than-life characters and pivotal fifth annual SHOUT aims to engage with women veterans and bring about two-year college can be transferred events. I made the map because greater public awareness to the issues to four-year schools. But the ACCJC, I thought it would be a neat way they face. The event, which began as which is under attack for its broad- to take San Francisco’s colorful an annual art show and celebration of women veterans, was inspired by the based crackdown on community history and connect to everyday intersections of art, community, health, colleges, has to get the Department experience, give you a new sense and healing. of Education’s stamp of approval of your neighborhood and your FRIDAY 10 to continue operating — and the city.” Read our full interview with California Teachers Association has Noah at sfbg.com/pixel_vision JEREMY SCAHILL LECTURE ON DIRTY WARS filed a legal challenge against it. First Congregational Church of Oakland, Among other things, the teachers say 2501 Harrison St, Oakl. 7:30pm, $12 that ACCJC is neglecting the over- advance / $15 door. 800-838-3006 sight of classroom instruction and www.kpfa.org/events. KPFA Radio hosts JUST FRACKING STOP IT! WHEN PG&E IS SOL author and journalist Jeremy Scahill, instead focused on administration author of the New York Times best-seller and finance, which is not its mission. Blackwater. Scahill will discuss his Three bills that impose a moratorium on fracking — that environ- Solar energy could be the death of the private electric latest book, Dirty Wars, tracing the con- ACADEMY SHUTS mentally horrible practice of using water and chemicals to break up utility industry. Sound like crazy lefty enviro talk? sequences of the declaration that “the world is a battlefield.” From Afghanistan DOWN THE GAME rocks and extract oil and gas — have cleared a state Assembly com- Actually, no: It’s the conclusion of a blockbuster report to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, Scahill mittee, creating a potential showdown with Gov. Jerry Brown. The by the utility industry’s research arm that has received reports from the frontlines of his high- bills don’t halt fracking forever — just until a full study of the envi- almost zero news media attention. We learned about stakes investigation. The California Academy of Sciences ronmental impacts can be completed, which it thanks to David Roberts at the Grist (grist.org), who SUNDAY 12 hosts nightlife adult events on sounds awfully reasonable. If the Legislature points out that “It is a rare thing to hear an industry tell Thursday nights, featuring local CONFLICT KITCHEN: passes anything that slows down the new oil the tale of its own incipient obsolescence.” artists and musicians and bars THE TWO KOREAS through the facility. On May 2, it rush in California, Brown — who was once The Electric Power Research Institute’s January, Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 known as a pretty good environmentalist 2013 report looks at how the growth of “distributed Simmonds Rd, Sausalito. tinyurl. even showed the Warriors-Nuggets — will have to decide: Go with the frack- generation” — that’s people putting solar panels on com/2koreas. 6:30pm, $35. RSVP NBA playoff game, which rivaled requested. Artists Jon Rubin and Dawn the albino alligator in attracting a ers (so far, he’s said the gooey their roofs — is a serious threat to an industry that’s Weleski bring their Pittsburgh-based subterranean wealth can be been fat and happy for 100 years. See, if people project, Conflict Kitchen, to the large crowd. But then, a few minutes extracted safely) or go with the can generate their own power, they won’t need, for Marin Headlands’ Mess Hall. Serving after the 10pm closing time — with cuisine from countries with which the the Warriors up by six points with vast majority of the Democratic example, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which will then United States is in conflict, the artists Party, i.e., the folks who have to raise rates on everyone who doesn’t have solar present flavors from North and South less than two minutes on the clock elected him. You want oil on panels to protect its profits, which will drive more Korea. Featuring three courses, as well —off A thcea dsecmreye no,f feicliicaitlsin agb bruopotsl,y h sihsuset s, JERRY your next official portrait, guv? | people to buy solar panels ... and soon, PG&E is SOL. apso lgituiicdse, da nddis icsussuseiso na to snt athkee cwuitlhtuinre t,h e BROWN AP PHOTO BY RICH PEDRONCELLI Nice. | GETTY IMAGES PHOTO BY DAVID MCNEW two countries. and grumbles. 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When San Franciscans passed OPINION Last year the Accrediting Proposition A overwhelmingly Commission for Community and last November, it was a ray of light Junior Colleges harshly sanctioned for those of us who have devoted City College of San Francisco and our lives to City College and its gave us just nine months to shape students. Providing $15.2 million, up or face the consequences. This the tax was designed to reverse the was pushed on the community cuts to classes and employees in our even though the quality of educa- starved public educational system, tion provided at City College was helping sustain our college for San never in question. Franciscans. Now the administra- Since then, CCSF has changed tion is diverting millions of these student assessment metrics and dollars and pumping additional addressed the governance, institu- money into consultants, lawyers, tional planning, and enrollment computers, and maintenance. Under management issues cited. We have the administration plan, next year done so even as we have also docu- less than a third of that money will mented disquieting information go toward the educational purposes about the ACCJC’s damaging role voters were promised. at CCSF and at community col- Meanwhile, the race to down- leges throughout California. size continues. At the negotiating Our research into ACCJC table and in the press, the adminis- found that the commission failed tration uses the need to retain the to respect the law and public college’s accreditation—something policy of the state and violated fed- all of us agree is crucial—as reason, eral common-law due process and excuse, and threat. It has shirked California common-law fair proce- its duties at the bargaining table, dure. Further, at CCSF and in dis- imposing pay cuts and implement- tricts around the state, the ACCJC ing premature and damaging lay- often acts arbitrarily, capriciously, offs of staff and faculty. unfairly, and inconsistently in eval- We face a host of other dramatic uating colleges, thereby harming changes that cut into our ability the schools and their communities. to serve student needs, including a San Francisco has shown reorganization that pushes faculty Toward a slower city valiant support for City College expertise and voices further into the despite the drumbeat of negative background and a shocking lack of publicity around our accreditation substantive dialogue or transparent status. processes. Our trustees now preside Recently, the San Francisco over meetings that squelch public EDITORS NOTES It’s a good Bernal Hill. The late train back we should (which would mean Board of Supervisors voted unani- speech, restricting access to a too- thing the Giants were at home was party central, with the bridge changing not only the lane pat- mously in support of preserving the small meeting room with the win- Friday night, or I might have and tunnel crowd all decked out terns but the directions of some quality and diversity of education dows literally papered over so that tried to drive across the Bay in club finery and a woman sing- streets) cars would almost always at City College of San Francisco, no one can see in or out. Bridge. Always a bad idea after ing full-volume along with her be the worst and slowest way to of tackling the achievement gap Thankfully, we are not alone work, always a worse idea on a phone. go most places. and ensuring equitable opportuni- in this fight. In Chicago, in Seattle, Friday, when the backup starts “How was I?” she asked me. Either way, in this Bike to ties for students, and of utilizing and in communities around the somewhere around SF General “Ready for American Idol,” I said. Work Day issue, were explore Proposition A funds as intended. country afflicted with disingenu- Hospital. I spent almost two I could have been stuck in the idea that speeding around In the age of the 24-7 corporate ous “reforms” and diminished hours getting past Berkeley one traffic. town at 30 miles an hour in news cycle, educators and unions access, we are gathering strength Friday when I thought we could This is how life is going to your personal can isn’t a natural are too often portrayed as the and allies and standing up for leave at 3:30 and beat the traffic. have to be in the future, and it’s right of all people. In fact, Jason opposition in attempts to push the principles that inform our When the Giants are in town, it’s not a bad picture. One of the Henderson, a professor at San austerity, undermine the public work as educators, responsible for impossible. main reasons I like riding my Francisco state who I interviewed sector, and efface the important defending and improving quality, It’s so crowded nobody drives bike in San Francisco, and I hate (see p. 12) argues that the most educational work we do for stu- accessible public education for the there any more. Or something driving, is that I know exactly environmentally sound thing we dents. We will not apologize for public good. like that. I didn’t. how long it’s going to take me to can do in urban areas might be resisting the downsizing of our To join the fight to save our City Instead, I got on my bike and get somewhere on two wheels. to ... slow down. students’ educations, for saving College, email [email protected] 2 rode to BART, took the Richmond On four, it could be fifteen min- Hard to imagine, that. This jobs, and for protecting educa- train to North Berkeley, and utes, or it could be an hour. city runs on speed: Tech speed, tional programs that benefit our Alisa Messer is an English instructor rode a few blocks to a birthday The thing is, we’re so used work speed, party speed, frenetic students—particularly our most at City College of San Francisco and party on University Ave. Cost to the idea that cars are the fast- speed ... I can’t imagine not being vulnerable students. We will not president of AFT Local 2121, which $7.70, I think, for the round trip. est way to get around — and in in a serious rush for a large part apologize for attempting to sustain represents instructors, counselors, and Took less than an hour each some places, sometimes they are. of my day. 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San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr spent the first part of his appearance WARRIORS ARENA: YOU CAN’T GET THERE at the Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee May 2 clearing up the confusion from a misleading The Warriors and the all-star lineup of nearly every political consultant in Warriors first proposed back in November, 2012. That’s why the Chronicle story. For the record: No, town launched a new public relations offensive this week with the release Waterfront Alliance is asking that the scoping sessions for the environ- the local cops aren’t looking to put of a spiffy set of drawings and a rewritten plan for a waterfront arena. And mental impact report on the project ought to go back to square one. all of Market Street under real-time opponents of the project pretty much shrugged and said: So, what? No matter what you think about the design, or the views, or the video surveillance. So you can still Sure, it looks nicer than it did before. Sure, there’s a pedestrian walk- impact on the city’s priceless waterfront, there’s a problem that’s glaringly sneak into a lunch spot or a bar with way around the arena. Yeah, there’s glass on the inside that will give obvious, and Sup. Scott Wiener made the point very clearly: an illicit lover and feel, well, sort of spectators a nice view of the Bay. Oh, and there’s room for a cruise ship This absolutely has to be a transit-first arena. There’s no way that part safe. At least from Chief Suhr. terminal, to give the whole thing a veneer of maritime use. of the city can handle even half of the 5,000 cars that have been counted Suhr does want an inventory But the problems with this project have never been the architecture at the Warrior’s current home, Oracle Arena in Oakland. And much of of all the existing video cameras of the 12-story structure or the inevitably dubious links to the water. that impact is going to fall on the subway, or light-rail vehicle system. downtown; that way, if there’s some “The design was never the point,” Randy Shandobil, a spokesman for the “It absolutely has to have good LRV service,” Wiener said. horrifying event like the Boston Waterfront Alliance, told us. “Is this the best place to put a big arena?” The problem: “Our current system is not even meeting our current Marathon bombing, the cops will The new plan calls for a slightly smaller arena — 125 feet high instead needs. I have a lot of constituents who say, when there’s a Giants game be able to do what the authorities in of 135 — with slightly less retail space and seating inside. The glass sides you just don’t take the subway because there’s not going to be any capac- Boston did — find footage, in that will not only allow fans to look out, but allow people walking around the ity. We’re close to a breaking point now, even past it. And our ten-year case from a private department- outside to view in and see something going on inside. The scoreboard will capital plan puts to the side most of Muni’s unmet capital needs.” store camera, and track down the probably be visible; the actually play on the floor less so. Jennifer Matz, the Mayor’s Office point person on waterfront develop- bad guys. The visuals presented by the architects, Snøhetta and AECOM, indi- ment, said she agreed with Wiener. “I recognize this challenge,” she said. “Right now, we only look at cate that the arena will perch on a large pad raised significantly above the “There needs to be more of a holistic approach.” footage in retrospect,” Suhr told the level of the current Piers 30-32. From the ground level, the arena looks But Wiener wasn’t backing down. Adding the capacity that will be supervisors, adding that he has no like a giant flying saucer, taller than AT&T Park, that’s plopped down needed to serve the new arena, and the new Giants development, and the objections to seeking a court war- below the Bay Bridge. new residents moving into the waterfront neighborhood, is not going to rant to obtain that footage because Craig Dykers, a representative of the architects, told a Board of be cheap. “Where,” he asked, “is the money going to come from?” “we do want it to be admissible.” Supervisors committee May 6 that the arena will fill a need for some sort Peter Albert, who works for the Municipal Transportation Agency, is Yet Suhr and Deputy Chief of project along the open stretch of waterfront from the Ferry Building looking into the number of passengers that will be riding Muni — and James Loftus also revealed that to AT&T Park. His presentation made it sound as if that undeveloped BART, and Caltrain — and the capacity those systems plan to add. But he SFPD will be deploying an undis- area was by nature a blight; thousands of joggers, walkers, bicyclists and had no answer to Wiener’s question. closed number of temporary people enjoying the unimpeded views of the Bay might disagree. That’s because there is only one answer: The taxpayers will have to real-time video surveillance cam- In fact, the project will change more than the two piers; it will create come up with something in the range of a billion dollars to solve Muni’s eras atop long poles at the Bay to a busy residential and commercial shopping district that will increase foot capacity problems in the next few years — or else the developers will. Breakers footrace May 19, as it did and vehicle traffic even when there are no games or concerts scheduled. And right now, there’s not a lot of political will at City Hall to ask for last fall during the World Series and This is, by any standard, a very different project from what the either. (Tim Redmond) the big parade down Market Street celebrating the Giants victory. Cameras on sticks. We didn’t SFPD will be employing at Bay to When Sup. Eric Mar, who called balance to strike, but it anyone and changes of clothing. Yet for know about that. Breakers and other large events the hearing, asked about those last can strike that balance, I think San those concerned about the creeping “We always want more video,” include technology that uses video two items, Loftus said he wouldn’t dis- Francisco can.” He also expressed police state, including several people Suhr told the Guardian, although cameras on police cars to capture cuss them publicly, but “I could talk concerns about plans to ban back- who spoke during the public com- he said that he also understands license plate numbers and run them to you about it offline if you’d like.” packs at Bay to Breakers: “I don’t ment period, there was little conso- the civil liberties sensitivities of San through a DMV database, what Sup. David Campos said that know if that’s going to address the lation offered in the presentations, Franciscans, which is why he isn’t Loftus vaguely described as “special- he doesn’t want San Francisco to problem.” and the supervisors said this would now seeking a permanent increase ized resources from surrounding be reactionary after incidents like Loftus said the ban only applied be an important ongoing discussion. in SFPD’s real time video surveil- jurisdictions” (watch out for the the Boston Marathon bombing and to large backpacks (larger than “This is a discussion that goes lance capabilities. “I’m from San drones, y’all), and unspecified “FBI said this should be a model city for 8.5x11x14 inches) and that runners beyond San Francisco,” Campos Francisco, I get it.” assets [that] will be present and balancing security with civil liber- and spectators will still be allowed said. “We as a country need to have Other security tools that the assisting in event security.” ties: “I think that’s a very difficult to use small backpacks to hold water this discussion.” (Steven T. 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