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JANUARY 12-18, 2017 • VOLUME 36 • NUMBER 2
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Thrilling and Electrifying:
SIMONE LAMSMA
Mussorgsky’s A Night
Conductor James Gaffigan leads
on Bald Mountan aexhiilarnating program featuring
the “absolutely stunning”
(Chicago Tribune) Simone Lamsma
performing Prokofiev’s passionate
James Gaffigan conductor Experience an exhilarating
THU JAN 19 10AM Violin Concerto No. 2 and
Simone Lamsma violin program featuring the “absolutely
Katharine Hanrahan showcasing the San Francisco
Open Rehearsal San Francisco Symphony stunning” (Chicago Tribune) Simone
Symphony in the original
THU JAN 19 8PM Lamsma performing Prokofiev’s
Mussorgsky A Night on Baoldr c hestration of Mussorgsky’s
FRI JAN 20 7:30PM Mountain A Night opn aBsaslido Mnaoteu nVtaioinli.n Concerto No. 2
SAT JAN 21 8PM and showcasing the San Francisco
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
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Mozart Symphony No. 36, Linz
orchestration of Mussorgsky’s
R. Strauss Dance of the Seven
A Night on Bald Mountain.
Veils from Salome
Katharine Hanrahan Open Rehearsal is a working rehearsal. The pieces rehearsed are at the conductor’s discretion.
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NEWS AROUND THE BAY
Box City Homeless
Encampment Gets Evicted
The pilot project was envisioned as a solution to S.F.’s homelessness problem.
By Joe Kukura coordinated trash pick up, and having
rules and agreements about storage and
Box City, the transitional hous- space,” Amy Farah Weiss, a Box City
ing experiment that banned tents and re- community liaison and advocate for the
quired residents to build solid structres, homeless, tells SF Weekly. “But unfortu-
has been cleared by city officials as of Jan. nately, the city did not want to try that.”
10. Residents of the encampment have The Box City residents have all been
checked into the Navigation Center at offered a 30-day stay at the Navigation
1950 Mission Street, and the Department Center, a temporary housing shelter
of Public Works has provided short-term near 16th Street and Mission Street.
storage for the large shelter structures at Some have taken that offer, others are
Pier 50, though residents and volunteers trying to negotiate storage arrange-
had to transport the items themselves. ments for their structures before mov-
Items left behind were crushed and ing in. “If we take care of that issue,
thrown into dumpsters, according to a then it’s not as much of a barrier to get
statement from the Coalition on Home- people into the Navigation Center,” Far-
lessness. ah Weiss says.
Organizers of the collection of But some homeless San Franciscans
nearly 25 sheds and wooden carts near remain skeptical of the shelters and
the Caltrain tracks in Mission Bay had Navigation Centers. “There are certain
aspired to provide a new model for things we don’t like,” a former Box City
responsibility and self-management in resident who identified himself only as
the San Francisco homeless community. Rolando tells SF Weekly. “Some shelters
But the San Francisco Department of don’t have ventilation. The air is not
Homelessness felt the safety risks and rotating inside. People are sick, and you
neighborhood complaints justified don’t know who’s sick.”
clearing the encampment, and Box City “I’ll try the Navigation Center,” he
residents have been scrambling to store adds. “If it’s good, if it’s nice, I’ll stay.”
their possessions. Photo by Joe Kukura The problem, though, is that he can
On Jan. 6, government workers af- “The City and County of San Francis- ters, and/or garbage from the area. Per- the site. Obviously, organizers and resi- only stay for 30 days.
fixed notices to all the buildings in Box co will conduct a clean-up of the area,” sons who refuse to vacate the area may dents reacted with disappointment.
City, warning that officials intended the notice announced, “including the be subject to citation and/or arrest.” “I wish we would have been able to Joe Kukura is an SF Weekly news writer.
to shut down the camp by Jan. 10 at 7 removal of all individuals, personal or True to their word, DPW arrived have DPW and city services support
a.m. abandoned property, temporary shel- that morning to clear what was left of a pilot project where we were having [email protected] | @ExercisingDrunk
LOCAL TEEN SCORES AUDIENCE regardless of their background,” Ji of their families to pursue a post-sec- ly released 2013 memo they say proves the Alliance of Californians for Com-
said in a statement. “I will continue ondary degree. JK Mnuchin illegally foreclosed tens of munity Empowerment. “No one who
WITH MICHELLE OBAMA
my mission to ‘better make room’ for thousands of California homes. oversaw the defrauding of thousands
those voices that remain unheard. WATCHDOGS HIT TRUMP PICK The leaked 2013 memo from the of homeowners should be allowed to
Higher education should not just be California Attorney General’s office, serve watch over our country’s money
Gunn High School senior Kev- for the privileged.” OVER MORTGAGE FRAUD first published this week by The Inter- as Treasury Secretary.”
in Ji, a 17-year-old from Palo Alto, Young Mr. Ji already had quite a cept, found that OneWest Bank illegally The Alliance of Californians for
skipped school this past Friday. He had resume before his selection to the backdated foreclosure notices. In some Community Empowerment and other
a pretty good reason. He was in Wash- first lady’s student board. He served One of the great mysteries of cases, they backdated the notices to watchdog groups are also calling on
ington, D.C., meeting with first lady for three years on the Palo Alto Youth the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 is dates before OneWest Bank was even Rep. Xavier Becerra, who has been
Michelle Obama discussing strategies Council, receiving numerous mini- why none of the bankers who engaged in in existence. selected to be California’s new attorney
to expand access to higher education. grants from the Palo Alto Think Fund fraud were ever sent to jail. Donald OneWest Bank also has the distinc- general, to prosecute Mnuchin and
Ji was one of only 17 high school and founding the Palo Alto Teen Histo- Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, tion of foreclosing a 90-year-old wom- OneWest Bank based on these new
students nationwide to be selected to ry Bowl in 2016. Steve Mnuchin, has the unfortunate an’s home because her mortgage check findings.
Michelle Obama’s Better Make Room As a member of the Student Advi- nickname “the king of foreclosures.” was 27 cents short. Former Attorney General Kamala
Student Advisory Board, the student sory Board, Ji is tasked with creating That’s because Mnuchin served as the “How can the king of foreclosures, Harris declined to prosecute Mnuchin
panel of the first lady’s initiative to more of a college-bound culture at his CEO of Pasadena-based OneWest Bank, who has made his living off of the or OneWest Bank when presented with
encourage and expand access to higher school. Of the 17 students selected to which foreclosed on 35,000 California misery he personally caused on tens these findings in 2013. She’ll have her
education to kids in underserved com- the Better Make Room Student Advi- homes between 2009 and 2012. of thousands of families like mine, be chance again, as she’s now a California
munities. sory Board, two-thirds are from pri- Now that he is being sent to head considered Treasury secretary?” One- senator who will vote on Mnuchin’s
“I want to usher in a culture of marily low-income high schools, and the U.S. Treasury, California consumer West foreclosure victim Peggy Mears confirmation as Treasury secretary. JK
empowerment among American youth most plan to be the very first members watchdog groups have seized on a new- said, according to a statement from
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NEWS SUMMER OF LOVE
Courtesy of Jim Marshall
2017 Marks revelation of unity for all mankind,”
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the paper read.
50 Years Since The event was very Beat-centric,
featuring writers Allen Ginsberg,
Gary Snyder, and Lawrence Ferling-
S.F.’s Summer
hetti, who spoke on themes of per-
sonal and spiritual empowerment,
Of Love encouraging the approximately
30,000 attendees to question author-
ity. Ginsberg, who was in his mantra
But did you know the
phase, was said to have chanted,
shenanigans started
“This is really it, and it is all perfect”
happening as early as over and over again to the crowds. ael
January 1967? By the time Spring Break rolled Mich
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San Francisco and specifically the By October, the crowds began
Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, cele- to dwindle as students returned to Courtesy of mortaljourney.com
brating music, fashion, civil rights, and school and rainy weather set in. A
ample drug use. ceremony dubbed “The Death of the
You could say 1967 was fated Hippie” was staged on Oct. 6, 1967,
from the get-go to be an important to signal the end of the Summer of
year: Only two weeks into January, Love. But Mary Kasper, one of the
thousands gathered in Golden Gate event’s organizers, perhaps put it
Park for a Human Be-In (also called best when she closed out the year
the Gathering of the Tribes) as a with this eulogy:
direct response to the illegalization “We wanted to signal that this
of LSD that had taken place the prior was the end of it, to stay where you
fall. are, bring the revolution to where
The Human Be-In was announced you live, and don’t come here be-
to the masses in a story published in cause it’s over and done with.”
the San Francisco Oracle, an under- Throughout 2017, SF Weekly will
ground newspaper that was passed take a look back five decades at these
around the Haight-Ashbury neigh- and other events that put San Fran-
borhood. cisco solidly on the counterculture
“A new concept of celebrations map.
beneath the human underground
must emerge, become conscious, Nuala Sawyer is a staff writer at SF
and be shared, so a revolution can be Weekly and the Examiner.
formed with a renaissance of com-
passion, awareness, and love, and the [email protected] | @LightExposures
Courtesy of Jim Marshall
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