David Bowie in September of 1974 onstage in Los Angeles. (Terry O'Neill/Getty Images)
To say that 1974 was a year of change and challenge for David Bowie and his fans is an understatement as extreme as the lurid outfits he’d worn as his just-abandoned alter ego, Ziggy Stardust. The incubator for the evolution was Bowie’s U.S. tour that year, which began in Montreal on June 14 — 40 years ago this weekend.
In July of 1973, at the peak of his success, Bowie unexpectedly retired Ziggy — the character and vehicle he’d ridden to fame after nearly a decade of trying. In the months that followed, he abandoned his band, his home and the city (London) and country that spawned him. By the spring of 1974, he’d ditched the zipper haircut, platform heels and vivid glam fashions that he, more than anyone, had brought to the mainstream. And by the end of that year he’d basically abandoned rock ‘n’ roll altogether.
While the Beatles had acclimated the even-then largely complacent rock audience to changes of sound and vision, at the fateful age of 27, Bowie — fueled by exploding creativity, success and not least the white powder to which he’d become addicted — would try the patience of even his most dedicated fans, producing music that wasn’t dauntingly strange and experimental (that would come later), but instead too normal and everyday for many of his fans: the R&B that saturated FM radio at the time. That style might have seemed exotic to a Brit, but it was the exact sound that most American rock fans were trying to escape.
That the two studio albums associated with the tour — Diamond Dogs, released in March of ’74 was already a departure, being musically more subtle than its comparatively garish predecessor, Aladdin Sane, and Young Americans, put out a year later and featuring Bowie’s first U.S. No. 1 single, “Fame” — made him into a star in America is perhaps the strangest twist of all.
The 73-date tour also underwent a stylistic change every bit as tectonic as the one Bowie’s music was undergoing. At its outset, the Diamond Dogs tour was by far the most extravagant and expensive rock outing ever mounted: designed by Broadway veterans Jules Fisher and Mark Ravitz and choreographed by Toni Basil, it featured a towering set depicting the post-apocalyptic city in which the loosely conceptual album was based. It included a catwalk that lowered from the rafters to stage level and a cherry-picker that lofted Bowie 40 feet above the first dozen rows of the audience (and occasionally failed to bring him back). But after 10 weeks of shows, due to expense or boredom, he abandoned the set and the setlist, going for a more stripped-down presentation and an overhauled R&B sound.
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“I sunk myself back into the music that I considered the bedrock of all popular music: R&B and soul,” Bowie recalled to writer David Buckley years later. “I guess from the outside it seemed to be a pretty drastic move. I think I probably lost as many fans as I gained new ones.”
It’s one of the most drastic image/sound changes in the modern era, and it was just the beginning of the transformations Bowie would make over the next several years. Over the course of the tour, Bowie would drive himself, his band and his audience to the brink: himself to the edge of exhaustion via the physical challenges of the show, overwork and drug abuse; his band to the brink of its musical abilities, energy and salary requirements; his audience to the brink of its patience.
“I went to the Diamond Dogs show [in June] expecting something like Ziggy Stardust,” said fan John Neilson, who caught both incarnations of the tour in Detroit. “And then in October I expected to see something like Diamond Dogs, and it was the soul revue. It might as well have been a completely different artist.”
The basis for the tour and its initial extravagant set lay in Diamond Dogs‘ post-apocalyptic world of street urchins and nefarious characters, like Halloween Jack; the album was the end result of an unsuccessful attempt to create a rock musical from George Orwell’s 1984, which had been blocked by Orwell’s widow. While the album — and its classic lead single, “Rebel Rebel,” which was finishing a Top 5 run in the U.K. at the time Bowie arrived in New York on April 11 — retained elements of the aborted musical, like Ziggy Stardust, it’s a loose concept album not bound to a straight storyline; the songs act as signposts around which listeners can create their own narrative.
“I had in my mind this kind of half Wild Boys/1984 world, and there were these ragamuffins, but they were a bit more violent than ragamuffins,” Bowie told Buckley. “They’d taken over this barren city, this city that was falling apart. … I had the Diamond Dogs living in the streets. They were all little Johnny Rottens and Sid Viciouses, really.”
That storyline carried over to the show. Framed by towering skyscrapers, Bowie moved from one elaborate scenario to another: He performed “Sweet Thing” from the catwalk as it gradually lowered to the stage floor; was projected over the audience via the cherry-picker as he sang “Space Oddity” into a red telephone microphone; French-kissed a skull during “Cracked Actor”; sang “Time” behind a giant hand festooned with blinking light bulbs that dropped to reveal Bowie inside a neon light box; performed an elaborate walking mime during “Aladdin Sane” very reminiscent of Michael Jackson’s world-famous Moonwalk, unveiled a decade later (Jackson attended one of Bowie’s shows in Los Angeles in September). The Ziggy-era platforms and costumes were replaced by a suave new Bowie, clad in an Yves St. Laurent suit and flat shoes, with a bright orange but calm soul-boy haircut.
Bowie’s new band was equally state of the art. Herbie Flowers — who’d worked with Bowie since the mid-’60s and played the timeless bassline on Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” — and drummer Tony Newman were veteran British session musicians who’d played on Diamond Dogs. Virtuoso pianist Michael Garson and backing singer Geoff MacCormack (aka Warren Peace) remained from Bowie’s 1973 band. Classically trained New Yorker Michael Kamen — a future Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated film composer whose scoring work for the Joffrey Ballet had impressed Bowie — was enlisted as musical director. Kamen brought along two musicians from his former rock bands: future superstar jazz saxophonist David Sanborn and 22-year-old guitarist Earl Slick, who would work with Bowie many times in the coming decades, and also performed on John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy.
The latter got a call from Kamen one day in April and was told he’d be hearing from an important musician he refused to identify.
“I get a phone call from the Bowie people the next day and they set up an audition — which is the weirdest f- – -ing thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Slick, who speaks in a Brooklynese as rapid-fire as his solos, recalls. “David’s personal assistant meets me at RCA Studios in New York, and she walks me not to the control room, which is dark, but into the main studio. I get out my guitar and I hear a voice with an American accent saying, ‘Hey, how ya doin’? Put the headphones on. We’re gonna play you some tracks, just play along.’ I say, ‘What key are they in?’ He says, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ And he just starts rolling tape! I’m playing over tracks from Diamond Dogs, which [hadn’t been released yet] — I’ve never heard these songs, I don’t know what I’m doing.
“I’m out there for maybe 15 minutes and there’s a little bit of chatter between me and this American guy — who turns out to be [longtime Bowie producer] Tony Visconti — and about two minutes later Bowie walks in,” he continues. “We hung out for about half an hour, fiddling around with guitars. His assistant says, ‘We’ll call you in the next couple weeks.’ But the phone rang the next day and they said, ‘If you want it, you got it.’ ”
Over the following weeks, the band — filled out by saxophonist Richard Grando, percussionist Pablo Rosario and backing singer Gui Andrisano — worked up radically new arrangements of Bowie’s catalog, which were strongly influenced by New York City nightlife. Bowie had become friends with guitarist Carlos Alomar — a veteran of James Brown’s and Wilson Pickett’s bands, as well as the Apollo Theater’s house band — who took the singer to the Apollo and elsewhere to see The Temptations, The Spinners and Marvin Gaye; he also hit Latin clubs and other nightspots in the city’s budding disco scene, as well as rock haunts like Max’s Kansas City.
That influence was immediately felt not just in the soul covers the band played on the first leg of the tour — Eddie Floyd’s 1966 classic “Knock on Wood,” the Ohio Players’ 1968 song “Here Today and Gone Tomorrow” — but also in the reinventions of Bowie’s catalog, which went far beyond the blistering power-trio rock of the Ziggy era. “Aladdin Sane” received a Latin treatment driven by Garson’s manic piano; “Jean Genie” slowed to a lounge crawl on the verses and completely dispensed with its signature riff; even the brand-new “Rebel Rebel” got a looser tempo and jazzy backing vocals.
“He was hanging out a lot in New York,” fan Kathy Miller recalls. “I remember seeing him and his entourage snowed in during a blizzard at a [April 22] New York Dolls show at Kenny’s Castaways, and friends of mine saw him at Puerto Rican discos, black discos. So it was not such a shock to New Yorkers that he gravitated toward that kind of music.”
After dress rehearsals at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, N.Y. — “Two days? Maybe more, because that was one complicated f- – -ing thing,” Slick says — the entire production headed up the Northway to Montreal for the first of what would ultimately be 30 dates of the initial leg of the Diamond Dogs tour. Not surprisingly, the opening night had more than a few rough spots. The sound system was distorted, and the catwalk plummeted dangerously to the stage floor with Bowie on it, a problem that happened more than once.
The kinks were gradually worked out and the tour carried on across the Northeast and South, playing major venues — Cleveland’s Public Auditorium for two nights, Detroit’s Cobo Hall, Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium — but also many smaller, less-likely markets and theaters, like Charleston, W.Va.; Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; Norfolk, Va. While most nights went off without a hitch, the complexity of the set continued to cause problems.
At the Norfolk show, Rob Holland, then 14, recalls, “I remember the cherry-picker got stuck: It moved for a minute and then it moved again to the side of the stage, but then it got stuck and he had to get off of it.”
On at least one other night, the cherry-picker extended to its full length but failed to retract, leaving Bowie stranded over the audience. “When he finished the song he had to shimmy along the [cherry-picker’s hydraulic] arm back to the stage,” Tony Visconti writes in the David Live liner notes. “Members of the audience were standing on their seats trying to grab him and pull him down. On that night, this was perceived as part of the show: David made it seem to look that way, climbing back in a dramatic, purposeful way.”
While many were dazzled by the stage and the theatrics, some weren’t so impressed. “I really liked the set, but I’ve always felt it would have been a much better show if they had really exploited it, doing Diamond Dogs semi-theatrically and really using the staging,” John Neilson says. “He did use it for ‘Sweet Thing,’ but the rest of the time it just sorta loomed in the background. It was a kind of wasted opportunity.”
Brad Elvis, formerly of The Elvis Brothers and currently in The Romantics and The Handcuffs, caught shows in Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio. “It got a good reaction, but it wasn’t like pandemonium,” he remembers. He and a couple of friends did, however, spend time with Bowie and band members at a hotel-room party after the Toledo show — where he witnessed the growing R&B influence firsthand.
“There were about five other people in this cramped little room, and they had this big boombox,” he says. “Kind of dancey R&B was playing, and one of the [backing singers] was showing Bowie these dance moves. Everybody’s dancing, having fun, getting loose, except us — we’re watching, wide-eyed.”
Occasionally parts of the set would be too large for a venue, forcing the crew to scale down the show, but only once on the tour’s first leg did Bowie perform without it completely. En route to Tampa, Fla., one of the drivers was stung by a bee and crashed a truck carrying key elements of the set into a swamp. Cancellation was considered but “David would not hear of it,” according to an announcement made to the crowd, and the show proceeded. During the set Bowie apologized for it not being “the show I’d hoped to bring you” and played a rare encore.
As the tour’s first leg reached its home stretch in mid-July, with a run of six shows at Philadelphia’s fabled Tower Theater, the show was beset by a problem that had nothing to do with technology. Eager to get a live album on the market before the tour concluded, Bowie’s then-manager, Tony Defries, arranged to have the Tower shows recorded. Live recordings ordinarily entitle the musicians to a much higher fee than Bowie’s touring group was receiving (Slick recalls getting $300 per week), but Defries attempted to sidestep that issue.
“Back in the day, if you were recording, there were two microphones on everything: one would go to the [venue’s] sound, and one would go to the [mobile recording] truck,” Slick says. “At sound check, I didn’t think anything of it, but Herbie picked up on it right away. Tony Defries was one of the biggest f- – -ing shysters on the planet, and [earlier that day] I had gotten a letter pushed under my hotel door offering me $300 basically to give my rights over. Not long after that, Herbie is on the phone with everybody saying, ‘This is bulls- – -, we’re not gonna do this.’ Basically, with Herbie being the spokesperson, we said we ain’t going onstage until we get an agreement for X amount of money, period. They agreed to it, we signed it — and we didn’t get paid, so we sued David. We won, but it took a long, long time to get the money. I know David pitched a serious fit on Herbie, and I think he was kinda s- – – -y for a couple of days, but then everybody got past it.”
Still, the bad vibes come through on David Live, released in the fall. Bowie’s voice is strained, and the band, while competent, played better on other nights of the tour, as bootleg evidence shows.
The tour wrapped with two nights at Madison Square Garden, Bowie’s first performances at the venue.
“The stage show got a lot of advance buzz,” Kathy Miller remembers. “We couldn’t wait to see this set, and it really lived up to the expectations, it was gorgeous. But the [cherry-picker] reminded me of a telephone repairman — it was not glamorous; it was actually very Spinal Tap! It looked dangerous and rickety — there really was a sense of, ‘Oh, my God, is this going to work?'”
The shows were a triumph, and an after party was held at The Plaza, during which Bowie, Mick Jagger and Bette Midler reportedly disappeared into a walk-in closet for an hour.
“It was quite an unbelievable, unbelievable headache, that tour, but it was spectacular,” Bowie told Buckley. “It was truly the first real rock ‘n’ roll theatrical show that made any sense. A lot of people feel it has never been bettered. It was something else, it really was.”
Despite its enormous expense and problems, the tour helped drive Diamond Dogs to No. 5 in the U.S. — by far his highest chart position at the time.
In early August, many of the band members gathered in Philadelphia to begin work on the album that would become Young Americans, which is where the R&B transformation truly took hold.
While Bowie had originally intended to work with the house band at the city’s Sigma Sound — which had spawned hits by The O’Jays, Lou Rawls, The Three Degrees and Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes — they were unavailable due to a scheduling conflict, and he brought in several members of his touring band, as well as some key new collaborators who would play a huge role in the album: Alomar; his wife, soul singer Robin Clark; and a young friend, future R&B superstar Luther Vandross. The latter two, along for the ride, were playfully riffing on one of the songs in the studio; Bowie loved it and had them sing on nearly every song. It was the first high-profile work of Vandross’ career.
Although Bowie was raised on American R&B, like most British musicians of his generation — and he’d even performed James Brown’s “You Got to Have a Job” during the Ziggy Stardust era — the resulting sessions produced music that resembled nothing he had ever done before. Alomar, Sanborn and the singers became Bowie’s primary musical foils, often working in a soulful call-and-response role with him on songs like “Fascination” (a rewrite of Vandross’ composition “Funky Music”), “Somebody Up There Likes Me” and the title track. Bowie, fueled by cocaine, taxed the energy of the musicians by working largely from 11 p.m. until late the following morning.
(The album sessions, which resumed in November and again in January, featured two more star appearances. Bruce Springsteen, whom Bowie had admired since seeing a New York performance in 1972, visited the sessions but ultimately did not contribute to Bowie’s cover of his “It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City.” More fruitful was a visit from Bowie’s new friend John Lennon, who was lured to the studio by being asked to contribute to Bowie’s excruciatingly overblown cover of Lennon’s “Across the Universe,” but ended up co-writing “Fame” — a studio creation conjured from Bowie’s cover of the Flares’ 1961 R&B hit “Footstompin’.”)
While he dismissed the album as “plastic” not long after its release, Bowie later recanted. “In 1976 I spouted some nonsense about the album being ‘synthetic radio stuff.’ I don’t believe that for one moment now,” he told Buckley. “I was living and breathing soul and R&B at this time. I listened to nothing else. It became America for me.”
While Bowie’s cocaine appetite was severe before the ’74 tour began, it had escalated dramatically by the time dates resumed at the end of the summer. A brief second leg of the tour kicked off with a seven-night run at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, and it was at this time that director Alan Yentob interviewed Bowie and filmed the shows for the hourlong BBC documentary Cracked Actor. The Bowie on display there is an unsettling sight: fidgety, awkward and alarmingly thin and pale, he’s intelligent but remote and removed; at other times he’s in the throes of cocaine paranoia, wondering whether his car is being followed, sniffling and licking his gums. At one of the Universal concerts, captured on the A Portrait in Flesh bootleg, Bowie speaks to the crowd almost exclusively in a bizarre pseudo-Italian accent, making inscrutable jokes.
The Bowie that emerges in the documentary is so odd and otherworldly that it convinced Nicolas Roeg he’d found the perfect person to portray the alien in his forthcoming film The Man Who Fell to Earth, which would mark Bowie’s feature-length debut the following year.
While the set and setlist were retained for the Universal shows and a few more Southwest dates, the show was completely re-conceived during a break over the second half of September. The city set was abandoned, and the new staging relied on dramatic lighting and clever use of silhouettes (a 50-foot shadow of Bowie was projected onto a screen behind the stage for “1984”). Bowie changed his wardrobe and hairstyle yet again, adopting a sweeping pompadour, jackets embellished with shoulder pads, a thick checkered tie, suspenders, baggy pants and occasionally a cane.
Most of all, the band was overhauled to re-create the Young Americans sound: Alomar, Vandross, Clark and three other singers who performed on “Young Americans” were brought on board; and Bowie recruited his fifth different rhythm section in a year’s time: rock-solid drummer Dennis Davis (who, like Alomar, would be with Bowie for the rest of the decade) and bassist Emir Ksasan. Garson was made musical director, and Bowie’s revamped backing band became the opening act for the tour, cruising through a 30-minute set of smooth takes on songs like “Stormy Monday,” The O’Jays’ “Love Train” and Vandross’ “Funky Music” before concluding, strangest of all, with a lite-R&B treatment of Bowie’s own “Memory of a Free Festival,” a hippie anthem from his 1969 Space Oddity album. The crowds hated them.
While the Bowie set that followed kicked off reassuringly with either “Rebel Rebel” or “Space Oddity,” it then headed straight into R&B and ballad territory: a funked up version of “John I’m Only Dancing,” a samba-fied “Sorrow,” “Changes.” Rocked-up versions of “Moonage Daydream” and “Diamond Dogs” were thrown in, but a huge dollop of the unreleased Young Americans was aired on most nights — along with “Footstompin’,” which would form the basis of “Fame” — before the shows concluded with a one-two punch of “Suffragette City” and “Rock and Roll Suicide.”
The tour, beginning on Oct. 5 in St. Paul, Minn., soldiered across the Midwest, East and South over the ensuing seven weeks, setting up residencies in several cities — seven nights at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, six in Detroit, three in Boston — before closing in Atlanta on Dec. 1. Bowie’s precious voice, ravaged by cocaine abuse and months of touring, was hoarse on at least a few occasions. Audiences were nonplussed at best by the new production.
“I’d bought a really glam outfit: a top with bell sleeves, skin-tight jeans and mile-high, red-leather platform boots,” recalls Lisa Seckler-Roode, who attended one of the Radio City shows. “People came dressed as Ziggy Stardust, with the Aladdin Sane lightning bolt on their faces. It was sort of like Wigstock: I remember the cops looking at the crowd and shaking their heads.
“But when Bowie came out in that suit,” she sighs, “I mean, he looked glorious, but it was such a change that the crowd was totally thrown — the atmosphere was just, ‘Huh? What’s he doing now?’ In retrospect it was a very bold move, but the initial reaction was really confused. I remember going to school the following Monday: ‘How was the show?’ ‘It sucked!'”
Neilson recalls a similar reaction in Detroit. “The soul show threw everyone, since the album wasn’t out yet and there was a lot of new material,” he says. “The audience reaction was more polite than [hostile], for the most part, because obviously everyone loved Bowie and gave him the benefit of a doubt. But it was muted appreciation at best and probably some quiet disapproval.”
At least one musician onstage shared the sentiment. “I gotta be honest with you, I wasn’t terribly thrilled with it,” says Slick, whose guitar roars out at a searing volume on bootlegs during the rare occasions he got the spotlight. “[During the opening set] there wasn’t a whole lot for me to do. For the Bowie set I was back on it, but even with that, the way it was being played wasn’t rock ‘n’ roll anymore.”
Bowie’s appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, taped early in November during the Radio City stint, is fascinating, mixing new, (relatively) old and obscure: The band charges through a fast “1984,” Bowie straps on his Ziggy-era 12-string acoustic as the singers groove for “Young Americans,” and concludes with the still-unreleased “Footstompin’.”
While Bowie is in strong form, if a bit hoarse, when performing, his interview with Cavett could function as an anti-cocaine ad. He fidgets relentlessly with a cane he used as a prop during the performance, sniffles and appears completely ill at ease — at one point Cavett asks him if he’s nervous. “Um … oh, let’s carry on talking,” he replies. “Don’t ask me that. Otherwise I’ll wonder, you see. I’d rather not know if I’m nervous until … ” he trails off.
During the interview, he’s perhaps most cogent when explaining his rationale for his new look and sound. “We did the Diamond Dogs tour and took it from New York to Los Angeles, and I felt that that was enough, really. Rather than come back with the same thing, I wanted to give myself an opportunity just to work with the band. … I got a lot of fulfillment from working in productions like Diamond Dogs or Ziggy Stardust. But now that I’m working with just a band and singing, which is something I haven’t done for years, I’m finding a new kind of fulfillment.”
Judging from the reaction of fans and the tepid-to-negative reviews the show received, Bowie’s audience was not yet ready for that new kind of fulfillment.
Somehow, from such unpromising origins, from such a turbulent, tumultuous, drug-addled year — one that saw Bowie poised for enormous success yet opting not just to challenge his audience but almost to defy it — after 73 concerts and against daunting odds, the tour helped accomplish the ultimate goal: breaking David Bowie in America. Diamond Dogs reached No. 5 on the Billboard charts. David Live went to No. 8. The Young Americans album hit No. 9, and the title track was his first U.S. Top 40 single, peaking at 29. And “Fame” was a global hit single, became Bowie’s first U.S. No. 1 and made him into a superstar. In 1975, he relocated to Los Angeles, launched his movie career, and became an all-around entertainer who appeared on both Soul Train and Cher.
(Despite its now-legendary status, Bowie’s 1974 tour is tragically ill-documented. Apart from fan-filmed super-8 footage, the only video documentation of the Hunger City set that has surfaced is Fisher and Ravitz discussing this scale model in the 1996 BBC documentary Hang on to Yourself. (the Cracked Actor documentary shows frustratingly little of the stage). Likewise, apart from a one-minute-long, professionally filmed segment from a Radio City show that aired in a VH1 Legends episode, no footage from the soul concerts has emerged, although the Cavett show at least documents some performances. While some sources say Bowie filmed rehearsals and the Garden shows, and the VH1 footage suggests there’s more somewhere, Slick says he has no recollection of any shows being filmed.)
And while many, including this writer, consider Young Americans to be his weakest 1970s studio album, that is hardly an insult. In terms of influence, it’s hard to know where to begin: Virtually every artist bearing a trace of white soul since its release — from Robert Palmer to Duran Duran, from George Michael to Robbie Williams and far beyond — owes more than a “sho’nuff” and some hair gel to it.
Ultimately, Young Americans and the Soul Tour were way stations: like everything Bowie had done before, he ingested and used them as a foundation for what came next. In this case, it was the pioneering ice-funk of Station to Station, arguably one of his two best albums, and one that paved the way not only for thousands of artists who were influenced by it, but also for the brilliant wave of experimentation that followed over the next five years: Low, Heroes, Lodger and Scary Monsters. But that’s another story …
Sources: David Buckley’s stellar liner notes to the deluxe editions of Diamond Dogs and Young Americans, and Tony Visconti’s for David Live; Kevin Cann’s David Bowie: Any Day Now, The London Years 1947-74; Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray’s David Bowie: An Illustrated Record; Chris Carter’s “The Young American” site; Chris O’Leary’s “Pushing Ahead of the Dame” site; and especially Roger Griffin’s “Golden Years” site.
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Special thanks to Ira Robbins, Jennifer Kennedy, Julian Stockton and especially everyone who took the time to be interviewed for this article.
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Among the entertainers are original disco DJ Steve Fabus, who’s been spinning since the ’70s; drag diva (and fashion designer to the drag stars) Glamamore, performing an homage to the late \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13929572/heklina-castro-memorial\">Heklina\u003c/a>’s beloved party T-Shack; and multi-hyphenate artist Honey Mahogany, a Stud co-owner deeply involved in San Francisco politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Stud gears up for its grand reopening, Mahogany spoke with KQED’s Adhiti Bandlamudi about what lies ahead in this new iteration of San Francisco’s oldest queer bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey Mahogany speaks during a rally after the Trans March in San Francisco on June 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/strong> The Stud has such a rich history, and the theme of tomorrow’s opening night party reflects that. Can you tell us more about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Honey Mahogany:\u003c/strong> The Stud first opened in 1966. It’s been the living room for so many people, not just in the neighborhood, but across the country. During the ’60s, it really started off as a leather bar, and then really became more of a Western bar. But it quickly evolved into a place where everyone felt welcome — whether it be women, queers, hair fairies or trans people. So many different groups and communities feel welcome at the Stud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My favorite story of the Stud is that during the ’60s … Huey Newton, who was one of the leaders of the Black Panther Party, made this incredible speech where he talked about building unity between the women’s movement and the LGBTQ movement. One of the first places that the LGBTQ Liberation Front and the Black Panther Party actually met was at the Stud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Stud has faced several closures in the past. And every time that idea became more of a reality, it sounds like community members who really care about the bar came together to keep it alive. In 2016, when the previous owner was going to retire, you and other artists, DJs and performers got together and started the Stud Collective. As I understand it, it’s one of the first co-op nightclubs in the country. How has this collective model made a difference as you get ready to open the state again?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was sort of, I don’t want to say an act of desperation, but so many LGBTQ nightlife venues were closing all across the country, and especially here in San Francisco. LGBTQ venues were being priced out. Certainly, that was the case with the Stud, where the previous owner was just like, “I can’t afford to pay triple what I was paying in rent. So I can’t do this anymore.” And he really made a callout to the community, hoping that someone would come and save the Stud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stud has always been kind of a dive bar \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">— \u003c/span>more of a community space than a big moneymaker. So a bunch of us who could not have afforded to buy the bar on our own \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">— \u003c/span>a group of 17 \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> worked to build the collective, set up a system of rules, come up with a plan for how we were going to save the Stud, and we were successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I won’t say that it was easy. It was lots of long nights, lots of arguments, lots of personalities and ideas. But ultimately, I do think that having collective ownership of a space like the Stud is really important because it ensures that the space remains open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/First-Stud-gay-pride-float-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/First-Stud-gay-pride-float-.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/First-Stud-gay-pride-float--160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Stud’s first Pride float in 1974. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Stud)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m curious to understand more about that journey, especially because of COVID and the aftereffects of it. What has that journey been like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID was a real bummer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>To say the least. \u003c/strong>[aside postid='arts_13936556']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We actually shut down relatively early, because we didn’t know what was going to happen or how soon we were going to open up. We also knew that we couldn’t afford to keep going. Actually, we did not go completely dark. We very quickly hopped online, hosting drag shows and DJ parties on the weekends, so people could safely enjoy performance art and drag and music from their own homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There’s also been some fundraising that’s been going on. \u003ca href=\"https://givebutter.com/c/Stud2024\">The crowdfunding goal\u003c/a> is $500,000, and last I checked, like $74,000 had been donated. And people are still donating.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowdfunding is just one part of where we’ve been raising money. We’ve been raising money through other spaces as well — selling some assets and things like that. And so right now we’re just above $425,000 that we’ve been able to pull together. So that leaves about $75,000 left that we have to raise. And we are really excited, because it’s enabled us to get this far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 655px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/The-Stud-1991-photo-by-Melissa-Hawkins.jpg\" alt=\"A black-and-white photo of a drag queen nun and two mustached men partying.\" width=\"655\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/The-Stud-1991-photo-by-Melissa-Hawkins.jpg 655w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/The-Stud-1991-photo-by-Melissa-Hawkins-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Partygoers at the Stud, including a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence, in 1991. \u003ccite>(Melissa Hawkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that $75,000 is going to be really key into seeing the longevity of the Stud, and also to really make the Stud what it used to be, which was not just a dance bar or a dance space, but also a place where there were epic, life-changing performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space that we’ve taken over now is so cool, but it is not a performance space. We’ve got two separate bar areas and dance floors. But we do not have a stage. We do not have a dressing room. We do not have an area for the performers to be able to use the restroom and get changed and all of that stuff. So we want to take out the industrial kitchen that takes up a quarter of the bar currently, convert that into dressing rooms and bathrooms for the performers, and then also build out a stage so that we can bring back those epic Stud drag shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the ways in which we are incentivizing people to help us get to that $500,000 goal is we have the Stud’s opening night party this Saturday. We released tickets on Monday and, within six minutes, all sold out. There will be some tickets at the door. But folks are definitely planning on getting there early. [aside postid='arts_13953497']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The new Stud won’t just be a nightclub, right? There are plans to include a school that will teach the art of drag. Can you tell me more about that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are planning on opening the drag school. It’s going to be a collaboration between the Stud and CounterPulse. It’s going to be a bit of an interesting model because a lot of the classes will probably be off-site. But we are definitely going to train people in the art of drag, help them get their starts, provide them with mentors, bring specialists in — costuming, makeup, hair and performance and dance — and really give them the tools that they need to be successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Stud is located at 1123-1125 Folsom Street. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stud-time-machine-tickets-883890850327\">The Stud Time Machine\u003c/a> reopening party begins at 5:30 p.m. on April 20. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/studsf\">Follow the Stud on Instagram\u003c/a> for updates on business hours and future events.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The historic bar's new SoMa location debuts with a time machine-themed party celebrating its different eras.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713559167,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1384},"headData":{"title":"The Stud, SF's Oldest Queer Bar, Gears Up for a Grand Reopening | KQED","description":"The historic bar's new SoMa location debuts with a time machine-themed party celebrating its different eras.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Stud, SF's Oldest Queer Bar, Gears Up for a Grand Reopening","datePublished":"2024-04-19T18:34:21.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-19T20:39:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/7fc79c25-862e-45d6-a298-b157011425d9/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13956246/the-stud-san-francisco-lgbtq-bar-reopening","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.studsf.com/\">the Stud\u003c/a> closed its doors at the onset of the pandemic in 2020, its worker-owner collective vowed to one day return. After all, the legendary LGBTQ+ bar had been around in various incarnations since 1966, nurturing the weird, alternative and experimental pockets of queer performance in San Francisco ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stud’s official reopening at its new South of Market location (1123-1125 Folsom Street) finally arrives this Saturday, April 20, with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stud-time-machine-tickets-883890850327\">Stud Time Machine\u003c/a> party celebrating its different eras. After a blessing from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, festivities kick off at 6 p.m. with a 1960s cowboy-themed DJ set and performance. Each hour of the party will be dedicated to a different decade (“The Disco Era,” “The Club Kid Era”), culminating with a look into the future at midnight. Among the entertainers are original disco DJ Steve Fabus, who’s been spinning since the ’70s; drag diva (and fashion designer to the drag stars) Glamamore, performing an homage to the late \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13929572/heklina-castro-memorial\">Heklina\u003c/a>’s beloved party T-Shack; and multi-hyphenate artist Honey Mahogany, a Stud co-owner deeply involved in San Francisco politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Stud gears up for its grand reopening, Mahogany spoke with KQED’s Adhiti Bandlamudi about what lies ahead in this new iteration of San Francisco’s oldest queer bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13915269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/RS56925_024_KQED_SFTransMarch_06242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey Mahogany speaks during a rally after the Trans March in San Francisco on June 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adhiti Bandlamudi:\u003c/strong> The Stud has such a rich history, and the theme of tomorrow’s opening night party reflects that. Can you tell us more about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Honey Mahogany:\u003c/strong> The Stud first opened in 1966. It’s been the living room for so many people, not just in the neighborhood, but across the country. During the ’60s, it really started off as a leather bar, and then really became more of a Western bar. But it quickly evolved into a place where everyone felt welcome — whether it be women, queers, hair fairies or trans people. So many different groups and communities feel welcome at the Stud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My favorite story of the Stud is that during the ’60s … Huey Newton, who was one of the leaders of the Black Panther Party, made this incredible speech where he talked about building unity between the women’s movement and the LGBTQ movement. One of the first places that the LGBTQ Liberation Front and the Black Panther Party actually met was at the Stud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Stud has faced several closures in the past. And every time that idea became more of a reality, it sounds like community members who really care about the bar came together to keep it alive. In 2016, when the previous owner was going to retire, you and other artists, DJs and performers got together and started the Stud Collective. As I understand it, it’s one of the first co-op nightclubs in the country. How has this collective model made a difference as you get ready to open the state again?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was sort of, I don’t want to say an act of desperation, but so many LGBTQ nightlife venues were closing all across the country, and especially here in San Francisco. LGBTQ venues were being priced out. Certainly, that was the case with the Stud, where the previous owner was just like, “I can’t afford to pay triple what I was paying in rent. So I can’t do this anymore.” And he really made a callout to the community, hoping that someone would come and save the Stud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stud has always been kind of a dive bar \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">— \u003c/span>more of a community space than a big moneymaker. So a bunch of us who could not have afforded to buy the bar on our own \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">— \u003c/span>a group of 17 \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> worked to build the collective, set up a system of rules, come up with a plan for how we were going to save the Stud, and we were successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I won’t say that it was easy. It was lots of long nights, lots of arguments, lots of personalities and ideas. But ultimately, I do think that having collective ownership of a space like the Stud is really important because it ensures that the space remains open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/First-Stud-gay-pride-float-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/First-Stud-gay-pride-float-.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/First-Stud-gay-pride-float--160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Stud’s first Pride float in 1974. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Stud)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m curious to understand more about that journey, especially because of COVID and the aftereffects of it. What has that journey been like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID was a real bummer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>To say the least. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13936556","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We actually shut down relatively early, because we didn’t know what was going to happen or how soon we were going to open up. We also knew that we couldn’t afford to keep going. Actually, we did not go completely dark. We very quickly hopped online, hosting drag shows and DJ parties on the weekends, so people could safely enjoy performance art and drag and music from their own homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There’s also been some fundraising that’s been going on. \u003ca href=\"https://givebutter.com/c/Stud2024\">The crowdfunding goal\u003c/a> is $500,000, and last I checked, like $74,000 had been donated. And people are still donating.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowdfunding is just one part of where we’ve been raising money. We’ve been raising money through other spaces as well — selling some assets and things like that. And so right now we’re just above $425,000 that we’ve been able to pull together. So that leaves about $75,000 left that we have to raise. And we are really excited, because it’s enabled us to get this far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 655px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/The-Stud-1991-photo-by-Melissa-Hawkins.jpg\" alt=\"A black-and-white photo of a drag queen nun and two mustached men partying.\" width=\"655\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/The-Stud-1991-photo-by-Melissa-Hawkins.jpg 655w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/The-Stud-1991-photo-by-Melissa-Hawkins-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Partygoers at the Stud, including a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence, in 1991. \u003ccite>(Melissa Hawkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that $75,000 is going to be really key into seeing the longevity of the Stud, and also to really make the Stud what it used to be, which was not just a dance bar or a dance space, but also a place where there were epic, life-changing performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space that we’ve taken over now is so cool, but it is not a performance space. We’ve got two separate bar areas and dance floors. But we do not have a stage. We do not have a dressing room. We do not have an area for the performers to be able to use the restroom and get changed and all of that stuff. So we want to take out the industrial kitchen that takes up a quarter of the bar currently, convert that into dressing rooms and bathrooms for the performers, and then also build out a stage so that we can bring back those epic Stud drag shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the ways in which we are incentivizing people to help us get to that $500,000 goal is we have the Stud’s opening night party this Saturday. We released tickets on Monday and, within six minutes, all sold out. There will be some tickets at the door. But folks are definitely planning on getting there early. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13953497","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The new Stud won’t just be a nightclub, right? There are plans to include a school that will teach the art of drag. Can you tell me more about that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are planning on opening the drag school. It’s going to be a collaboration between the Stud and CounterPulse. It’s going to be a bit of an interesting model because a lot of the classes will probably be off-site. But we are definitely going to train people in the art of drag, help them get their starts, provide them with mentors, bring specialists in — costuming, makeup, hair and performance and dance — and really give them the tools that they need to be successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Stud is located at 1123-1125 Folsom Street. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stud-time-machine-tickets-883890850327\">The Stud Time Machine\u003c/a> reopening party begins at 5:30 p.m. on April 20. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/studsf\">Follow the Stud on Instagram\u003c/a> for updates on business hours and future events.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13956246/the-stud-san-francisco-lgbtq-bar-reopening","authors":["11387","11672"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_3226","arts_5351","arts_1146"],"featImg":"arts_13934323","label":"arts"},"arts_13956218":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13956218","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13956218","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"late-night-taiwanese-beef-noodle-soup-stinky-tofu-oakland-chinatown","title":"This Sleek Taiwanese Street Food Lounge Serves Beef Noodle Soup Until 2:30 a.m.","publishDate":1713487017,"format":"aside","headTitle":"This Sleek Taiwanese Street Food Lounge Serves Beef Noodle Soup Until 2:30 a.m. | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956224\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown.jpg\" alt=\"Two men devouring a bowl of soup noodles and a plate of fried tofu, with chopsticks in their hands.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lounge Chinatown serves an array of Taiwanese street food classics — including stinky tofu — until 2:30 a.m. every night. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/the-midnight-diners\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Midnight Diners\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and artist Thien Pham. Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been written about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/americas-chinatowns-are-disappearing/581767/\">demise of the American Chinatown\u003c/a>, as well as the specific troubles that have plagued Oakland Chinatown in recent years — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/01/oakland-chinatown-faces-a-dual-pandemic-of-violence-covid/\">double whammy\u003c/a> of pandemic-related doldrums and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/02/12/oakland-chinatown-policing-hate-crimes-community/\">fears about anti-Asian violence\u003c/a>. These days, the neighborhood feels like a ghost town anytime after 6 o’clock at night, to say nothing of the late-night jook and roast duck feasts I remember enjoying even just five or six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d never guess at any of this, though, if your only data point was Lounge Chinatown, a stylish Taiwanese bar and restaurant that opened in December of 2022 with the explicit intention of being a late-night destination: It serves its massive menu of Taiwanese and Chinese street food specialties until 2:30 a.m., seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Run by the folks behind Dragon Gate (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13918993/dragon-gate-oakland-taiwanese-restaurant-reopening-karaoke\">another classic Oakland night spot\u003c/a>), Lounge stands out like a gaudily neon-lit, bamboo-bedecked beacon amid the well-weathered storefronts and boarded-up windows of 8th Street, in the heart of Chinatown. At a little past 9 o’clock on a recent Thursday night, it was one of just a small handful of places in the entire neighborhood that was still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing you notice about Lounge Chinatown is the decor, which is so hiply and aggressively Asia-fied in its aesthetics that 20-year-old me, at the very height of my AZN pride, would have \u003ci>eaten it up\u003c/i> — all sleek red leather booths, lucky cat figurines and sexily back-lit Taiwanese whiskey bottles. Five or six different kinds of light fixtures, all designed to resemble various paper lanterns, bask the dining room in a nightclub-like glow. Meanwhile, a mural running the length of the restaurant depicts an unidentified Asian night market scene in such a way that the night market looks like the coolest damn place in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the kind of restaurant where you might imagine Jet Li — or Son Goku, at the height of his powers — strolling in for a late-night bowl of noodles. And, honest to God, even middle-aged me found the whole vibe to be pretty badass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956225\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956225\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2.jpg\" alt='Exterior of a restaurant on a dark street. The sign reads \"Lounge Chinatown,\" and the entrance is suffused in glowing purple light.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The restaurant’s aggressively Asia-fied aesthetics are a whole vibe. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The main reason we’d come, however, is because I can never resist the siren call of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13940133/stinky-tofu-childrens-book-ra-pu-zel\">stinky tofu\u003c/a> — or of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13897272/bay-area-taiwanese-food-scene-nostalgia\">Taiwanese street food\u003c/a>, more broadly. Even more so when it’s still available hours after midnight. As it turns out, the menu covers a surprisingly (and intimidatingly) vast range of Chinese and Taiwanese food genres, running the gamut from meat skewers to hot pot and malatang. You’ll do very well for yourself if you stick to the most famous Taiwanese classics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you aren’t unnecessarily squeamish, you’ll start, as we did, with an order of the fried stinky tofu, which arrives at the table crisp-edged and deliciously pungent, served with all the standard accompaniments: pickled cabbage, soy paste dressing and a dollop of chili sauce. It’s about as tasty a version as you can find in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13955884,arts_13951914,arts_13952823']\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/span>The best way to sample a bunch of things is to order one of the bento boxes, which come with a big scoop of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13897498/mama-liu-lu-rou-fan-taiwanese-food-comic\">lu rou fan\u003c/a> (braised pork rice), pickles, sautéed greens and a marinated egg. We went with the fried pork chop — a nostalgic classic for anyone who’s ever bought a boxed lunch at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eater.com/2019/3/6/18241749/bento-box-best-food-train-stations-taiwan\">train station in Taiwan\u003c/a>. Lounge’s version hits all the right notes: the jolt of five-spice powder on the crunchy batter, the juiciness and lavish fattiness of the thick, bone-in chop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the star of the menu has got to be the beef noodle soup, a faithful rendition of one of Taiwan’s most famous dishes. The noodles are thick and chewy. The generous chunks of beef shank and tendon are slow-cooked to a jiggly, luxurious tenderness. And the broth? Spicy and savory, heavy on the tongue-numbing Sichuan peppercorn — almost \u003ci>too \u003c/i>boldly flavorful for me to finish the entire bowl, making it perfect for sharing. It’s pure comfort food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll have to come back again, with more stomach space or a larger group, to try the extensive selection of lu wei, a uniquely Taiwanese genre of cold, braised street snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My usual worry with a place like Lounge Chinatown is that it’ll be too loud or too trendy — too many weekend karaoke warriors singing badly in public. But the truth is, the restaurant was busy during our visit but not exceptionally so. The vibe was more Chill Place for Quiet Conversation than it was Loud Party Zone. Like the rest of Chinatown, it seems, the restaurant is just starting to get things rolling again. And I, for one, am ready to see what it looks like when it really hits its stride.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lounge Chinatown is open 10:30 a.m.–2:30 a.m. daily at 366 8th St. in Oakland.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Oakland Chinatown nightlife is alive and well — and delicious — at Lounge Chinatown. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713487054,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":943},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Chinatown Late-Night Restaurant Serves Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup and Stinky Tofu | KQED","description":"Oakland Chinatown nightlife is alive and well — and delicious — at Lounge Chinatown. 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Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been written about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/americas-chinatowns-are-disappearing/581767/\">demise of the American Chinatown\u003c/a>, as well as the specific troubles that have plagued Oakland Chinatown in recent years — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/01/oakland-chinatown-faces-a-dual-pandemic-of-violence-covid/\">double whammy\u003c/a> of pandemic-related doldrums and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/02/12/oakland-chinatown-policing-hate-crimes-community/\">fears about anti-Asian violence\u003c/a>. These days, the neighborhood feels like a ghost town anytime after 6 o’clock at night, to say nothing of the late-night jook and roast duck feasts I remember enjoying even just five or six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d never guess at any of this, though, if your only data point was Lounge Chinatown, a stylish Taiwanese bar and restaurant that opened in December of 2022 with the explicit intention of being a late-night destination: It serves its massive menu of Taiwanese and Chinese street food specialties until 2:30 a.m., seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Run by the folks behind Dragon Gate (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13918993/dragon-gate-oakland-taiwanese-restaurant-reopening-karaoke\">another classic Oakland night spot\u003c/a>), Lounge stands out like a gaudily neon-lit, bamboo-bedecked beacon amid the well-weathered storefronts and boarded-up windows of 8th Street, in the heart of Chinatown. At a little past 9 o’clock on a recent Thursday night, it was one of just a small handful of places in the entire neighborhood that was still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing you notice about Lounge Chinatown is the decor, which is so hiply and aggressively Asia-fied in its aesthetics that 20-year-old me, at the very height of my AZN pride, would have \u003ci>eaten it up\u003c/i> — all sleek red leather booths, lucky cat figurines and sexily back-lit Taiwanese whiskey bottles. Five or six different kinds of light fixtures, all designed to resemble various paper lanterns, bask the dining room in a nightclub-like glow. Meanwhile, a mural running the length of the restaurant depicts an unidentified Asian night market scene in such a way that the night market looks like the coolest damn place in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the kind of restaurant where you might imagine Jet Li — or Son Goku, at the height of his powers — strolling in for a late-night bowl of noodles. And, honest to God, even middle-aged me found the whole vibe to be pretty badass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956225\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956225\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2.jpg\" alt='Exterior of a restaurant on a dark street. The sign reads \"Lounge Chinatown,\" and the entrance is suffused in glowing purple light.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Lounge-Chinatown-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The restaurant’s aggressively Asia-fied aesthetics are a whole vibe. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The main reason we’d come, however, is because I can never resist the siren call of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13940133/stinky-tofu-childrens-book-ra-pu-zel\">stinky tofu\u003c/a> — or of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13897272/bay-area-taiwanese-food-scene-nostalgia\">Taiwanese street food\u003c/a>, more broadly. Even more so when it’s still available hours after midnight. As it turns out, the menu covers a surprisingly (and intimidatingly) vast range of Chinese and Taiwanese food genres, running the gamut from meat skewers to hot pot and malatang. You’ll do very well for yourself if you stick to the most famous Taiwanese classics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you aren’t unnecessarily squeamish, you’ll start, as we did, with an order of the fried stinky tofu, which arrives at the table crisp-edged and deliciously pungent, served with all the standard accompaniments: pickled cabbage, soy paste dressing and a dollop of chili sauce. It’s about as tasty a version as you can find in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13955884,arts_13951914,arts_13952823","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/span>The best way to sample a bunch of things is to order one of the bento boxes, which come with a big scoop of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13897498/mama-liu-lu-rou-fan-taiwanese-food-comic\">lu rou fan\u003c/a> (braised pork rice), pickles, sautéed greens and a marinated egg. We went with the fried pork chop — a nostalgic classic for anyone who’s ever bought a boxed lunch at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eater.com/2019/3/6/18241749/bento-box-best-food-train-stations-taiwan\">train station in Taiwan\u003c/a>. Lounge’s version hits all the right notes: the jolt of five-spice powder on the crunchy batter, the juiciness and lavish fattiness of the thick, bone-in chop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the star of the menu has got to be the beef noodle soup, a faithful rendition of one of Taiwan’s most famous dishes. The noodles are thick and chewy. The generous chunks of beef shank and tendon are slow-cooked to a jiggly, luxurious tenderness. And the broth? Spicy and savory, heavy on the tongue-numbing Sichuan peppercorn — almost \u003ci>too \u003c/i>boldly flavorful for me to finish the entire bowl, making it perfect for sharing. It’s pure comfort food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll have to come back again, with more stomach space or a larger group, to try the extensive selection of lu wei, a uniquely Taiwanese genre of cold, braised street snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My usual worry with a place like Lounge Chinatown is that it’ll be too loud or too trendy — too many weekend karaoke warriors singing badly in public. But the truth is, the restaurant was busy during our visit but not exceptionally so. The vibe was more Chill Place for Quiet Conversation than it was Loud Party Zone. Like the rest of Chinatown, it seems, the restaurant is just starting to get things rolling again. And I, for one, am ready to see what it looks like when it really hits its stride.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lounge Chinatown is open 10:30 a.m.–2:30 a.m. daily at 366 8th St. in Oakland.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13956218/late-night-taiwanese-beef-noodle-soup-stinky-tofu-oakland-chinatown","authors":["11743","11753"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_12276"],"tags":["arts_2654","arts_21727","arts_10278","arts_1297","arts_8805","arts_1143","arts_14396","arts_15151","arts_21928"],"featImg":"arts_13956223","label":"source_arts_13956218"},"arts_13955953":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13955953","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13955953","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"free-ice-cream-ben-jerrys-april-16","title":"You Can Get Free Ice Cream on Tuesday — No Catch","publishDate":1713201034,"format":"standard","headTitle":"You Can Get Free Ice Cream on Tuesday — No Catch | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>If free ice cream sounds like a rewarding encore to finishing your taxes, look no further: Ben & Jerry’s is giving away free ice cream at its storefronts for eight hours, from noon–8 p.m., on Tuesday, April 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors get one cone or cup each per visit and, notably, can come back as many times as they want on Tuesday for more. There is no catch — just walk up and leave with any flavor of your choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company started Free Cone Day at its U.S. shops in 1993, and boasts that by 2015, it began giving away over 1 million cones in a single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13933705']\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/span>Ben & Jerry’s has also given away free ice cream on special occasions to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Ben-Jerry-s-giving-away-ice-cream-for-police-15350523.php\">support police accountability\u003c/a>, and to marijuana buyers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/04/19/4-20-ben-jerrys-offers-free-ice-some-california-pot-buyers/3520130002/\">raise awareness about racial inequities in the criminal justice system\u003c/a>. Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ufcw.org/actions/campaign/ben-jerrys-union/\">Ben & Jerry’s workers\u003c/a> in Vermont ratified their \u003ca href=\"https://www.rakevt.org/2024/01/18/ben-jerrys-workers-ratify-landmark-first-union-contract/\">first union contract\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual free ice cream day went on hold during the pandemic, but returned in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See the Ben & Jerry’s locations giving out free ice cream on April 16 below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nHaight-Ashbury (1480 Haight Street, San Francisco)\u003cbr>\nFisherman’s Wharf (Pier 41, San Francisco)\u003cbr>\nThe Argonaut Hotel (475 Jefferson Street, near Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nJack London Square (505 Embarcadero W., Oakland)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDowntown Napa (1136 Main St., Napa)\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ben & Jerry's reprises its annual Free Cone Day.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713201188,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":246},"headData":{"title":"Free Ice Cream at Ben & Jerry's on Tuesday, April 16 | KQED","description":"Ben & Jerry's reprises its annual Free Cone Day.","ogTitle":"You Can Get Free Ice Cream on Tuesday — No Catch","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"You Can Get Free Ice Cream on Tuesday — No Catch","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Free Ice Cream at Ben & Jerry's on Tuesday, April 16 %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"You Can Get Free Ice Cream on Tuesday — No Catch","datePublished":"2024-04-15T17:10:34.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-15T17:13:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Food","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/food","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13955953/free-ice-cream-ben-jerrys-april-16","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If free ice cream sounds like a rewarding encore to finishing your taxes, look no further: Ben & Jerry’s is giving away free ice cream at its storefronts for eight hours, from noon–8 p.m., on Tuesday, April 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors get one cone or cup each per visit and, notably, can come back as many times as they want on Tuesday for more. There is no catch — just walk up and leave with any flavor of your choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company started Free Cone Day at its U.S. shops in 1993, and boasts that by 2015, it began giving away over 1 million cones in a single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13933705","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/span>Ben & Jerry’s has also given away free ice cream on special occasions to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Ben-Jerry-s-giving-away-ice-cream-for-police-15350523.php\">support police accountability\u003c/a>, and to marijuana buyers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/04/19/4-20-ben-jerrys-offers-free-ice-some-california-pot-buyers/3520130002/\">raise awareness about racial inequities in the criminal justice system\u003c/a>. Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ufcw.org/actions/campaign/ben-jerrys-union/\">Ben & Jerry’s workers\u003c/a> in Vermont ratified their \u003ca href=\"https://www.rakevt.org/2024/01/18/ben-jerrys-workers-ratify-landmark-first-union-contract/\">first union contract\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual free ice cream day went on hold during the pandemic, but returned in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See the Ben & Jerry’s locations giving out free ice cream on April 16 below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nHaight-Ashbury (1480 Haight Street, San Francisco)\u003cbr>\nFisherman’s Wharf (Pier 41, San Francisco)\u003cbr>\nThe Argonaut Hotel (475 Jefferson Street, near Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nJack London Square (505 Embarcadero W., Oakland)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDowntown Napa (1136 Main St., Napa)\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955953/free-ice-cream-ben-jerrys-april-16","authors":["185"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_12276"],"tags":["arts_1297","arts_659","arts_22078","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13955963","label":"source_arts_13955953"},"arts_13956178":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13956178","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13956178","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"minnie-bells-soul-food-restaurant-fillmore-sf-opening","title":"Minnie Bell’s New Soul Food Restaurant in the Fillmore Is a Homecoming","publishDate":1713465326,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Minnie Bell’s New Soul Food Restaurant in the Fillmore Is a Homecoming | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Chef Fernay McPherson has been serving her take on Southern comfort foods, like crispy rosemary fried chicken and apparently the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/an-ode-to-minnie-bell-s-gooey-mac-and-cheese-16012173.php\">best mac and cheese\u003c/a>, at her stall at The Public Market Food Hall in Emeryville since 2018. But she has long \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11800814/a-black-chefs-dream-of-returning-to-the-fillmore\">dreamed\u003c/a> of running a restaurant in her hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My quest was to find a space in San Francisco and preferably in the Fillmore,” McPherson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She grew up in that neighborhood, once known as the “Harlem of the West,” which used to be full of Black-owned businesses. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">urban renewal\u003c/a> efforts from the 1950s through the 1970s forced tens of thousands of families to leave, and most businesses shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>WATCH KQED’s 1999 documentary on the history of Fillmore:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8h2meDtdm8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few have remained, and in recent years, a citywide effort — the Dream Keeper Initiative — is trying to revitalize the area and help bring back Black-owned businesses, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954111/longtime-fillmore-resident-hopes-to-restore-commerce-with-black-led-marketplace\">In The Black\u003c/a>, a shared retail space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13900855,arts_13916044,arts_13874853']\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/span>The program helped make it possible for McPherson to realize her dream. On Friday, she’ll welcome the public to dine at Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement — a stand-alone brick-and-mortar version of the East Bay stall, featuring a similar menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to be able to educate people who may not know what was here before,” says McPherson, wearing a blue-gray apron and a graphic T-shirt emblazoned with a photo of Whitney Houston, from inside the 40-seat establishment in the heart of the Fillmore District. “Share those stories that my dad, my aunt share with me about how rich this was and be able to represent the culture and look forward to seeing more of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her, food is personal, and the restaurant pays homage to her family history. One wall is decorated with a large mural of a photo of Fillmore Street in its heyday in the 1960s. Another wall has two large-scale photographs of her biggest inspirations — her grandma Lillie Bell and her great-aunt Minnie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956186\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A fresh batch of fried chicken is pulled out of the deep fryer.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pulling a fresh batch of rosemary fried chicken out of the fryer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I picked these photos because I wanted a photo of them in their youth, like my aunt has on her cap and gown. She was graduating high school. My grandmother was about 21 and it was a professional portrait,” she says. “I just think they look so beautiful, and when I look up at these pictures, it just gives me all the strength that I need to get through my day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPherson talked more about how important the past has been toward shaping her present with KQED’s Adhiti Bandlamudi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi: Tell me more about your grandma and great aunt. How did their story manifest when it came to creating a menu and thinking about what experience you wanted to give at Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Fernay McPherson:\u003c/b> While I may add a little twist to it, everything that I cook is food that I grew up eating. Before my family left Texas in the 1960s, my grandma made the chicken and pound cake for their journey into San Francisco. So we have that pound cake that she made — but [with] the addition of the caramel. I make it the same way that she taught me to make it. It was one of the cakes that everyone in the family wanted for their birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have fried chicken, which is the highlight of what we do, [and] the addition of the rosemary, is very San Francisco with so many rosemary bushes here. So those two married together — the flavors that migrated during the Great Migration with the fried chicken and then the freshness of the rosemary in the city, where I was born and raised. It’s like a perfect blend of Chef Fernay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>It almost seems like your approach to soul food is tradition with a little twist.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly! It’s tradition with a little twist. But the twists are not so much that it doesn’t display a homestyle comfort meal. That was so important for me, for people to eat the food and feel the comfort of home. In Emeryville, people would come and say, “Well, I’m from the South, so I’ll let you know how it tastes.” And I’m like, “Okay, that’s cool.” I know how it tastes [too], you know? But they would always come back and say, “That was so good, that really reminds me of home.” That is definitely the experience that I want people to get. Not too much of a twist, but the perfect twist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956187\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A chef picks fresh rosemary leaves.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McPherson prepares rosemary alongside Mundo Pérez at her new Fillmore restaurant. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You’ve been operating out of Emeryville since 2018, and now you’re getting ready to open up in San Francisco. You’ve wanted this for so long. What’s going through your mind right now?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a surreal experience. [To] be in the Fillmore, the community where I was born and raised, but also in a neighborhood that was rich in African-American culture, ownership, businesses, jazz clubs, just means so much, because I want to be able to represent a bygone era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am third generation. My aunt and dad talk about the history of the neighborhood. Then, I have my own history. So it’s three layers to what that history used to be. And by the time I was a teenager and walking around these streets, it was minimal Black businesses; whereas now, it’s almost nonexistent. So being a part of that revitalization is important, so that we can learn about the culture and know what used to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are any of your relatives, like Aunt Minnie, coming to the restaurant’s grand opening? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a private grand opening party on Thursday, when my Aunt Minnie will see her face on this wall for the first time. My parents, they’re still in the neighborhood. My aunt lives with them, so they’ll all be here. My brothers will be here. My children will be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956189\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A paper-lined basket of fried chicken on a countertop.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McPherson’s famous rosemary fried chicken, ready to be eaten. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What do you plan to serve to Aunt Minnie ?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her, I will do candied yams, fried chicken, cornbread and greens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How might she respond? Are you ready for her critique?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She critiques it all the time! She tells me all the time you’re getting better and better. She has the food often. So when she comes in, it won’t be anything new. It just has to be right. Because if it’s not, she will let me know. But when she tells me, “This was delicious,” that’s all the validation I need.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.minniebellssoul.com/\">\u003ci>Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is located at 1375 Fillmore St. in San Francisco.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Chef Fernay McPherson brings comfort classics like fried chicken and mac and cheese to her old neighborhood.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713466316,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1225},"headData":{"title":"Minnie Bell’s New Soul Food Restaurant in the Fillmore Is a Homecoming | KQED","description":"Chef Fernay McPherson brings comfort classics like fried chicken and mac and cheese to her old neighborhood.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Minnie Bell’s New Soul Food Restaurant in the Fillmore Is a Homecoming","datePublished":"2024-04-18T18:35:26.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-18T18:51:56.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Food","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/food","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/fa7e7425-862b-4a0d-92c1-b15601046432/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13956178/minnie-bells-soul-food-restaurant-fillmore-sf-opening","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Chef Fernay McPherson has been serving her take on Southern comfort foods, like crispy rosemary fried chicken and apparently the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/an-ode-to-minnie-bell-s-gooey-mac-and-cheese-16012173.php\">best mac and cheese\u003c/a>, at her stall at The Public Market Food Hall in Emeryville since 2018. But she has long \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11800814/a-black-chefs-dream-of-returning-to-the-fillmore\">dreamed\u003c/a> of running a restaurant in her hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My quest was to find a space in San Francisco and preferably in the Fillmore,” McPherson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She grew up in that neighborhood, once known as the “Harlem of the West,” which used to be full of Black-owned businesses. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">urban renewal\u003c/a> efforts from the 1950s through the 1970s forced tens of thousands of families to leave, and most businesses shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>WATCH KQED’s 1999 documentary on the history of Fillmore:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/a8h2meDtdm8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/a8h2meDtdm8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few have remained, and in recent years, a citywide effort — the Dream Keeper Initiative — is trying to revitalize the area and help bring back Black-owned businesses, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954111/longtime-fillmore-resident-hopes-to-restore-commerce-with-black-led-marketplace\">In The Black\u003c/a>, a shared retail space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13900855,arts_13916044,arts_13874853","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/span>The program helped make it possible for McPherson to realize her dream. On Friday, she’ll welcome the public to dine at Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement — a stand-alone brick-and-mortar version of the East Bay stall, featuring a similar menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to be able to educate people who may not know what was here before,” says McPherson, wearing a blue-gray apron and a graphic T-shirt emblazoned with a photo of Whitney Houston, from inside the 40-seat establishment in the heart of the Fillmore District. “Share those stories that my dad, my aunt share with me about how rich this was and be able to represent the culture and look forward to seeing more of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her, food is personal, and the restaurant pays homage to her family history. One wall is decorated with a large mural of a photo of Fillmore Street in its heyday in the 1960s. Another wall has two large-scale photographs of her biggest inspirations — her grandma Lillie Bell and her great-aunt Minnie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956186\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A fresh batch of fried chicken is pulled out of the deep fryer.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pulling a fresh batch of rosemary fried chicken out of the fryer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I picked these photos because I wanted a photo of them in their youth, like my aunt has on her cap and gown. She was graduating high school. My grandmother was about 21 and it was a professional portrait,” she says. “I just think they look so beautiful, and when I look up at these pictures, it just gives me all the strength that I need to get through my day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPherson talked more about how important the past has been toward shaping her present with KQED’s Adhiti Bandlamudi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi: Tell me more about your grandma and great aunt. How did their story manifest when it came to creating a menu and thinking about what experience you wanted to give at Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Fernay McPherson:\u003c/b> While I may add a little twist to it, everything that I cook is food that I grew up eating. Before my family left Texas in the 1960s, my grandma made the chicken and pound cake for their journey into San Francisco. So we have that pound cake that she made — but [with] the addition of the caramel. I make it the same way that she taught me to make it. It was one of the cakes that everyone in the family wanted for their birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have fried chicken, which is the highlight of what we do, [and] the addition of the rosemary, is very San Francisco with so many rosemary bushes here. So those two married together — the flavors that migrated during the Great Migration with the fried chicken and then the freshness of the rosemary in the city, where I was born and raised. It’s like a perfect blend of Chef Fernay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>It almost seems like your approach to soul food is tradition with a little twist.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly! It’s tradition with a little twist. But the twists are not so much that it doesn’t display a homestyle comfort meal. That was so important for me, for people to eat the food and feel the comfort of home. In Emeryville, people would come and say, “Well, I’m from the South, so I’ll let you know how it tastes.” And I’m like, “Okay, that’s cool.” I know how it tastes [too], you know? But they would always come back and say, “That was so good, that really reminds me of home.” That is definitely the experience that I want people to get. Not too much of a twist, but the perfect twist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956187\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A chef picks fresh rosemary leaves.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McPherson prepares rosemary alongside Mundo Pérez at her new Fillmore restaurant. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You’ve been operating out of Emeryville since 2018, and now you’re getting ready to open up in San Francisco. You’ve wanted this for so long. What’s going through your mind right now?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a surreal experience. [To] be in the Fillmore, the community where I was born and raised, but also in a neighborhood that was rich in African-American culture, ownership, businesses, jazz clubs, just means so much, because I want to be able to represent a bygone era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am third generation. My aunt and dad talk about the history of the neighborhood. Then, I have my own history. So it’s three layers to what that history used to be. And by the time I was a teenager and walking around these streets, it was minimal Black businesses; whereas now, it’s almost nonexistent. So being a part of that revitalization is important, so that we can learn about the culture and know what used to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are any of your relatives, like Aunt Minnie, coming to the restaurant’s grand opening? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a private grand opening party on Thursday, when my Aunt Minnie will see her face on this wall for the first time. My parents, they’re still in the neighborhood. My aunt lives with them, so they’ll all be here. My brothers will be here. My children will be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956189\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A paper-lined basket of fried chicken on a countertop.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-47-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McPherson’s famous rosemary fried chicken, ready to be eaten. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What do you plan to serve to Aunt Minnie ?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her, I will do candied yams, fried chicken, cornbread and greens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How might she respond? Are you ready for her critique?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She critiques it all the time! She tells me all the time you’re getting better and better. She has the food often. So when she comes in, it won’t be anything new. It just has to be right. Because if it’s not, she will let me know. But when she tells me, “This was delicious,” that’s all the validation I need.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.minniebellssoul.com/\">\u003ci>Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is located at 1375 Fillmore St. in San Francisco.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13956178/minnie-bells-soul-food-restaurant-fillmore-sf-opening","authors":["11672","11724"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_12276","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_6357","arts_10278","arts_1806","arts_1297","arts_1050","arts_1146","arts_14729"],"featImg":"arts_13956188","label":"source_arts_13956178"},"arts_13956128":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13956128","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13956128","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"best-mysteries-and-thriller-novels-spring-2024","title":"5 New Mysteries and Thrillers for Your Nightstand This Spring","publishDate":1713390986,"format":"standard","headTitle":"5 New Mysteries and Thrillers for Your Nightstand This Spring | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Welcome back, mystery and thriller devotees! These books will take you from murder in present-day Texas to cryptography in Cold War Berlin to an online community that might hold the solution to a missing-person case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy reading!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Listen for the Lie’ by Amy Tintera\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 834px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.42.17-PM.png\" alt=\"A red book cover illustrated with a winding aux cord.\" width=\"834\" height=\"1212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.42.17-PM.png 834w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.42.17-PM-800x1163.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.42.17-PM-160x233.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.42.17-PM-768x1116.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Listen for the Lie’ by Amy Tintera. \u003ccite>(Celadon Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Savannah Harper, the sweetheart of Plumpton, Texas, died from blows to her head. A few hours later, her best friend forever, Lucy Chase, was found wandering the town streets covered in blood. While Lucy was never formally charged with the murder, the community convicted her lock, stock and a full plate of barbecue. Five years later, Lucy has come home just as true-crime podcaster Ben Owens arrives to produce an episode of his show, \u003cem>Listen for the Lie.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13956050']As Ben encourages the tetchy, secretive Lucy to share her side of the story with him, she relaxes beneath his sunny, handsome gaze and starts to look at the truth. Unfortunately, truth doesn’t matter much to the residents of Plumpton, who long ago made up their minds about a young woman whose persona chafes against their ideas of femininity. Fortunately, by the time you meet the Plumptonites, you’ll have been mesmerized by Lucy’s hilarious, self-deprecating first-person narration. “It’s probably unfair to say that a podcast ruined my life,” she tells readers, and then, as she talks about making dinner during which she’ll break up with her clueless boyfriend: “Let this be a lesson to all the men out there who can’t handle conflict — man up and dump your girlfriend, or you might end up living with a suspected murder indefinitely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Podcast episodes interspersed between Lucy’s chapters form a clever way for Tintera (already a bestselling YA author; this is her debut for adults) to draw out the suspense. Revealing too much about the other characters might ruin that cleverness, but it’s important to note that even when the story has ended and the murderer found, there are secrets within secrets, the kind that women have long used to protect each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Where You End’ by Abbott Kahler\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 832px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.44.04-PM.png\" alt=\"A book cover illustrated with winding bare tree branches and two rabbit masks.\" width=\"832\" height=\"1214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.44.04-PM.png 832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.44.04-PM-800x1167.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.44.04-PM-160x233.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.44.04-PM-768x1121.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Where You End’ by Abbott Kahler. \u003ccite>(Henry Holt and Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abbott Kahler’s debut centers on a young woman named Katherine “Kat” Bird, who has a near-death experience after her car collides with a deer, and wakes to near-total amnesia. She remembers her twin sister, Jude, who tries to fill in all of the blanks in Kat’s memory, but as Kat slowly recovers, she realizes Jude’s recounting of events contradict her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did the sisters have an idyllic childhood, or were they raised in a cult? If the latter is true, why would Jude be trying to pretend it never happened? Kahler (who has written acclaimed nonfiction as Karen Abbott) constructs a thriller so perfectly paced that you actually will not be able to put it down. You’ll be longing at each step to see how much Kat remembers and how much Jude complicates the memories. Each clue (there are few pictures of the sisters together, for example) has a flip side, a structural technique that works particularly well since the book is set in 1970s Philadelphia, with all of that city’s grittiness, community, and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kahler based her novel on the real-life story of Alex and Marcus Lewis, 18-year-old British identical twins. In 1982, Alex awoke from a coma following a motorcycle accident and remembered nothing except his brother’s name and face; Marcus decided to use the opportunity to invent new lives for them both. Kahler expands on their situation by going deeper into the effects of trauma for women and girls, making \u003cem>Where You End\u003c/em> incredibly relevant, right up to the truly shocking ending.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘The Night of the Storm’ by Nishita Parekh\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 832px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956156\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.46.08-PM.png\" alt=\"A book cover depicting a large house surrounded by water with a storm raging overhead.\" width=\"832\" height=\"1214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.46.08-PM.png 832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.46.08-PM-800x1167.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.46.08-PM-160x233.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.46.08-PM-768x1121.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Night of the Storm’ by Nishita Parekh. \u003ccite>(Dutton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Answer to a question you didn’t ask: In the UK, the board game Clue is known as Cluedo, a portmanteau word for “clue” plus “ludo,” the Latin for “I play.” In Nishita Parekh’s debut, a locked-room mystery that toys with everyone’s memories of playing Clue, readers may want to keep that active verb in mind. Set in Houston among a group of upperclass suburban Desi friends, \u003cem>The Night of the Storm\u003c/em> puts family drama above anything resembling, say, \u003cem>Cape Fear\u003c/em>-style hijinks — but the word “storm” in the title can mean so many things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13955903']Protagonist Jia Shah, single mom to Ishaan, decides they’ll both shelter from Hurricane Harvey at her sister Seema’s large home in Sugar Land. Seema’s husband Vipul and some of his relatives make things more complicated for Jia, through both their busy presence and because Jia and Vipul have some sexual tension going on; one of the things that makes this book fascinating is the look at a second-generation immigrant family enjoying their new country while also feeling the pull of hereditary expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for a thriller — and this book is labeled one — you’ve come to the wrong place. \u003cem>The Night of the Storm\u003c/em> resembles nothing so much as a Golden Age mystery, and if you appreciate those, you’ve come to the right place. Parekh has clearly read her Christie, Marsh, and Allingham; she also clearly relishes those authors and their attention to cohesion and convention. Come on in and shelter from this \u003cem>Storm\u003c/em> with a truly unreliable cast of characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Rabbit Hole’ by Kate Brody\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 838px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.47.47-PM.png\" alt=\"A book cover depicting a woman's face partially obscured by a finger print. \" width=\"838\" height=\"1210\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.47.47-PM.png 838w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.47.47-PM-800x1155.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.47.47-PM-160x231.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.47.47-PM-768x1109.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Rabbit Hole’ by Kate Brody. \u003ccite>(Soho Crime)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A decade ago, Teddy Angstrom’s older sister Angie disappeared at age 18. When their father chooses suicide on the anniversary of Angie’s death, the now 26-year-old Teddy leaves the private school in Maine where she teaches English for home to sort out family matters with her grieving mother. Teddy discovers Mark Angstrom had grown obsessed with Reddit boards about true crime, some of them specifically about Angie’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13955214']Her initial look at the discussions soon turns into an obsession equaling her father’s, one that will pull her into the orbit of 19-year-old Mickey, a local college student with multiple tattoos and perhaps multiple motives for the assistance she gives Teddy. The weird friendship these women create reflects the darkness into which Teddy descends, continuing her addiction to the internet as she develops an addiction to alcohol, and accidentally outing herself as Angie’s sister to the various members of the Reddit boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brody wisely builds the suspense around Teddy’s dissolution and paranoia, rather than focusing on the details of Angie’s fate, creating an atmosphere so suffocating and panicky that readers will feel the effects of loss, grief, and confusion as surely as if they were inside Teddy’s very smart and once better-adjusted mind. Teddy’s longing not just for her sister’s survival but for their ability to share life as 20-somethings marks her more indelibly than Mickey’s body ink.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘The Berlin Letters’ by Katherine Reay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 820px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.49.15-PM.png\" alt=\"A book cover depicting a woman dressed in conservative 1980s-era clothing stands, arms folded in front of a small yellow car and a wall of graffiti.\" width=\"820\" height=\"1212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.49.15-PM.png 820w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.49.15-PM-800x1182.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.49.15-PM-160x236.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.49.15-PM-768x1135.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Berlin Letters’ by Katherine Reay. \u003ccite>(Harper Muse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brilliant cryptographer Luisa Voekler, whose talent was nurtured by her grandfather’s frequent code-based scavenger hunts, wants to move up in the CIA, but finds her career sidelined in the late 1980s as she translates World War II documents. One day she recognizes a tiny symbol that will lead her down a dangerous path. Her discovery involves her father, Haris, who remains in the East Berlin his family left in 1961 as the East German government put up a wall dividing the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13955156']Reay has written a number of novels based on Brontë and Austen characters, as well as a couple of lighthearted looks at women’s friendships in Illinois, but in 2021 she turned to darker territory, setting books about spycraft in London, Moscow — and now Berlin and Washington, D.C. The cover of \u003cem>The Berlin Letters\u003c/em> announces both its relatively recent time period, with the figure of a young woman dressed in contemporary clothing, yet also nods to the singularity of modern Berlin, with a backdrop of the Wall covered in graffiti and the trunk of an iconic East German Trabant or “Trabi” auto (known for being constructed from lightweight resin).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author knows East and West Berlin inside out, discussing details like the houses on Bernauer Strasse that allowed inhabitants, for a time, to easily defect simply by walking out of their front doors. However, those details never overwhelm a fast-paced story told by father and daughter from their different vantage points, as Luisa learns the truth of her past, and both stories reach the shocking, history-making night when The Berlin Wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bethanne Patrick is a freelance writer and critic who tweets \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thebookmaven\">\u003cem>@TheBookMaven\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and hosts the podcast Missing Pages.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=5+new+mysteries+and+thrillers+for+your+nightstand+this+spring&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"These thrilling new books will take you from murder in present-day Texas to cryptography in Cold War Berlin.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713390986,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1583},"headData":{"title":"Best New Mystery and Thriller Novels for Spring 2024 | KQED","description":"These thrilling new books will take you from murder in present-day Texas to cryptography in Cold War Berlin.","ogTitle":"5 New Mysteries and Thrillers for Your Nightstand This Spring","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"5 New Mysteries and Thrillers for Your Nightstand This Spring","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Best New Mystery and Thriller Novels for Spring 2024%%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"5 New Mysteries and Thrillers for Your Nightstand This Spring","datePublished":"2024-04-17T21:56:26.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-17T21:56:26.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Bethanne Patrick","nprImageAgency":"NPR","nprStoryId":"1239716585","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1239716585&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1239716585/5-new-mysteries-and-thrillers-spring-2024-reading-list-recommendations?ft=nprml&f=1239716585","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:29:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:49:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:29:14 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13956128/best-mysteries-and-thriller-novels-spring-2024","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Welcome back, mystery and thriller devotees! These books will take you from murder in present-day Texas to cryptography in Cold War Berlin to an online community that might hold the solution to a missing-person case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy reading!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Listen for the Lie’ by Amy Tintera\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 834px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.42.17-PM.png\" alt=\"A red book cover illustrated with a winding aux cord.\" width=\"834\" height=\"1212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.42.17-PM.png 834w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.42.17-PM-800x1163.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.42.17-PM-160x233.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.42.17-PM-768x1116.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Listen for the Lie’ by Amy Tintera. \u003ccite>(Celadon Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Savannah Harper, the sweetheart of Plumpton, Texas, died from blows to her head. A few hours later, her best friend forever, Lucy Chase, was found wandering the town streets covered in blood. While Lucy was never formally charged with the murder, the community convicted her lock, stock and a full plate of barbecue. Five years later, Lucy has come home just as true-crime podcaster Ben Owens arrives to produce an episode of his show, \u003cem>Listen for the Lie.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13956050","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As Ben encourages the tetchy, secretive Lucy to share her side of the story with him, she relaxes beneath his sunny, handsome gaze and starts to look at the truth. Unfortunately, truth doesn’t matter much to the residents of Plumpton, who long ago made up their minds about a young woman whose persona chafes against their ideas of femininity. Fortunately, by the time you meet the Plumptonites, you’ll have been mesmerized by Lucy’s hilarious, self-deprecating first-person narration. “It’s probably unfair to say that a podcast ruined my life,” she tells readers, and then, as she talks about making dinner during which she’ll break up with her clueless boyfriend: “Let this be a lesson to all the men out there who can’t handle conflict — man up and dump your girlfriend, or you might end up living with a suspected murder indefinitely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Podcast episodes interspersed between Lucy’s chapters form a clever way for Tintera (already a bestselling YA author; this is her debut for adults) to draw out the suspense. Revealing too much about the other characters might ruin that cleverness, but it’s important to note that even when the story has ended and the murderer found, there are secrets within secrets, the kind that women have long used to protect each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Where You End’ by Abbott Kahler\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 832px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.44.04-PM.png\" alt=\"A book cover illustrated with winding bare tree branches and two rabbit masks.\" width=\"832\" height=\"1214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.44.04-PM.png 832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.44.04-PM-800x1167.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.44.04-PM-160x233.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.44.04-PM-768x1121.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Where You End’ by Abbott Kahler. \u003ccite>(Henry Holt and Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abbott Kahler’s debut centers on a young woman named Katherine “Kat” Bird, who has a near-death experience after her car collides with a deer, and wakes to near-total amnesia. She remembers her twin sister, Jude, who tries to fill in all of the blanks in Kat’s memory, but as Kat slowly recovers, she realizes Jude’s recounting of events contradict her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did the sisters have an idyllic childhood, or were they raised in a cult? If the latter is true, why would Jude be trying to pretend it never happened? Kahler (who has written acclaimed nonfiction as Karen Abbott) constructs a thriller so perfectly paced that you actually will not be able to put it down. You’ll be longing at each step to see how much Kat remembers and how much Jude complicates the memories. Each clue (there are few pictures of the sisters together, for example) has a flip side, a structural technique that works particularly well since the book is set in 1970s Philadelphia, with all of that city’s grittiness, community, and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kahler based her novel on the real-life story of Alex and Marcus Lewis, 18-year-old British identical twins. In 1982, Alex awoke from a coma following a motorcycle accident and remembered nothing except his brother’s name and face; Marcus decided to use the opportunity to invent new lives for them both. Kahler expands on their situation by going deeper into the effects of trauma for women and girls, making \u003cem>Where You End\u003c/em> incredibly relevant, right up to the truly shocking ending.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘The Night of the Storm’ by Nishita Parekh\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 832px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956156\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.46.08-PM.png\" alt=\"A book cover depicting a large house surrounded by water with a storm raging overhead.\" width=\"832\" height=\"1214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.46.08-PM.png 832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.46.08-PM-800x1167.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.46.08-PM-160x233.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.46.08-PM-768x1121.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Night of the Storm’ by Nishita Parekh. \u003ccite>(Dutton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Answer to a question you didn’t ask: In the UK, the board game Clue is known as Cluedo, a portmanteau word for “clue” plus “ludo,” the Latin for “I play.” In Nishita Parekh’s debut, a locked-room mystery that toys with everyone’s memories of playing Clue, readers may want to keep that active verb in mind. Set in Houston among a group of upperclass suburban Desi friends, \u003cem>The Night of the Storm\u003c/em> puts family drama above anything resembling, say, \u003cem>Cape Fear\u003c/em>-style hijinks — but the word “storm” in the title can mean so many things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13955903","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Protagonist Jia Shah, single mom to Ishaan, decides they’ll both shelter from Hurricane Harvey at her sister Seema’s large home in Sugar Land. Seema’s husband Vipul and some of his relatives make things more complicated for Jia, through both their busy presence and because Jia and Vipul have some sexual tension going on; one of the things that makes this book fascinating is the look at a second-generation immigrant family enjoying their new country while also feeling the pull of hereditary expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for a thriller — and this book is labeled one — you’ve come to the wrong place. \u003cem>The Night of the Storm\u003c/em> resembles nothing so much as a Golden Age mystery, and if you appreciate those, you’ve come to the right place. Parekh has clearly read her Christie, Marsh, and Allingham; she also clearly relishes those authors and their attention to cohesion and convention. Come on in and shelter from this \u003cem>Storm\u003c/em> with a truly unreliable cast of characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Rabbit Hole’ by Kate Brody\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 838px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.47.47-PM.png\" alt=\"A book cover depicting a woman's face partially obscured by a finger print. \" width=\"838\" height=\"1210\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.47.47-PM.png 838w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.47.47-PM-800x1155.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.47.47-PM-160x231.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.47.47-PM-768x1109.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Rabbit Hole’ by Kate Brody. \u003ccite>(Soho Crime)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A decade ago, Teddy Angstrom’s older sister Angie disappeared at age 18. When their father chooses suicide on the anniversary of Angie’s death, the now 26-year-old Teddy leaves the private school in Maine where she teaches English for home to sort out family matters with her grieving mother. Teddy discovers Mark Angstrom had grown obsessed with Reddit boards about true crime, some of them specifically about Angie’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13955214","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Her initial look at the discussions soon turns into an obsession equaling her father’s, one that will pull her into the orbit of 19-year-old Mickey, a local college student with multiple tattoos and perhaps multiple motives for the assistance she gives Teddy. The weird friendship these women create reflects the darkness into which Teddy descends, continuing her addiction to the internet as she develops an addiction to alcohol, and accidentally outing herself as Angie’s sister to the various members of the Reddit boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brody wisely builds the suspense around Teddy’s dissolution and paranoia, rather than focusing on the details of Angie’s fate, creating an atmosphere so suffocating and panicky that readers will feel the effects of loss, grief, and confusion as surely as if they were inside Teddy’s very smart and once better-adjusted mind. Teddy’s longing not just for her sister’s survival but for their ability to share life as 20-somethings marks her more indelibly than Mickey’s body ink.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘The Berlin Letters’ by Katherine Reay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 820px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.49.15-PM.png\" alt=\"A book cover depicting a woman dressed in conservative 1980s-era clothing stands, arms folded in front of a small yellow car and a wall of graffiti.\" width=\"820\" height=\"1212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.49.15-PM.png 820w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.49.15-PM-800x1182.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.49.15-PM-160x236.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-17-at-2.49.15-PM-768x1135.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Berlin Letters’ by Katherine Reay. \u003ccite>(Harper Muse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brilliant cryptographer Luisa Voekler, whose talent was nurtured by her grandfather’s frequent code-based scavenger hunts, wants to move up in the CIA, but finds her career sidelined in the late 1980s as she translates World War II documents. One day she recognizes a tiny symbol that will lead her down a dangerous path. Her discovery involves her father, Haris, who remains in the East Berlin his family left in 1961 as the East German government put up a wall dividing the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13955156","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Reay has written a number of novels based on Brontë and Austen characters, as well as a couple of lighthearted looks at women’s friendships in Illinois, but in 2021 she turned to darker territory, setting books about spycraft in London, Moscow — and now Berlin and Washington, D.C. The cover of \u003cem>The Berlin Letters\u003c/em> announces both its relatively recent time period, with the figure of a young woman dressed in contemporary clothing, yet also nods to the singularity of modern Berlin, with a backdrop of the Wall covered in graffiti and the trunk of an iconic East German Trabant or “Trabi” auto (known for being constructed from lightweight resin).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author knows East and West Berlin inside out, discussing details like the houses on Bernauer Strasse that allowed inhabitants, for a time, to easily defect simply by walking out of their front doors. However, those details never overwhelm a fast-paced story told by father and daughter from their different vantage points, as Luisa learns the truth of her past, and both stories reach the shocking, history-making night when The Berlin Wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bethanne Patrick is a freelance writer and critic who tweets \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thebookmaven\">\u003cem>@TheBookMaven\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and hosts the podcast Missing Pages.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=5+new+mysteries+and+thrillers+for+your+nightstand+this+spring&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13956128/best-mysteries-and-thriller-novels-spring-2024","authors":["byline_arts_13956128"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_5221","arts_769","arts_585","arts_11718"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13956129","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13955410":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13955410","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13955410","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"world-naked-bike-ride-2024-where-to-meet-420-dress-code","title":"The World Naked Bike Ride Is Happening on 4/20 in San Francisco","publishDate":1712613910,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The World Naked Bike Ride Is Happening on 4/20 in San Francisco | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Ah, April 20. A hallowed day on the Bay Area calendar that has long been used to celebrate marijuana in all its forms and glory. Well, this year, the very stoned humans of San Francisco can celebrate the day by bearing witness to scores of cyclists who’ll be baring it all on bicycles. That’s right! This year’s World Naked Bike Ride falls on 4/20. Which almost — almost! — makes up for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980820/san-franciscos-annual-420-celebration-on-hippie-hill-canceled-for-2024\">cancellation of Golden Gate Park’s annual Hippie Hill event\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11613510']As usual, the city’s wheelie nude adventure will start at the giant bow and arrow in Rincon Park — Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s \u003ci>Cupid’s Span\u003c/i>. It will then sojourn past Chase Center and Oracle Park, head up to North Beach, circle back past City Hall, before heading on over to the Haight and ending in the Castro. All told, the ride lasts 16.5 miles and finishes with a naked party at (of all places) Castro Street’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gyroxpresssf.com/\">Gyro Xpress\u003c/a>. (Careful where you drop that tzatziki, riders!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naked Bike Ride organizers ask that cyclists keep inside the right lane as much as possible, refrain from throwing objects at passing cars, and make sure bicycles are fully tuned before the ride starts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1868px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955430\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone.jpg\" alt=\"A group of naked people riding bicycles, led by two women wearing strategically placed body paint.\" width=\"1868\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone.jpg 1868w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1868px) 100vw, 1868px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Though rain is forecast, sunblock is probably still a wise move for riders. \u003ccite>(Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For those cyclists thinking about participating, but nervous about going full birthday suit, don’t worry. While full nudity is encouraged, an ethos of “as bare as you dare” is embraced as well. Organizers even suggest bringing transparent ponchos or windbreakers in case of rain, which is currently forecast on the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year marks the 20th anniversary of the World Naked Bike Ride, which was started by \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Schmidt_(social_activist)\">Conrad Schmidt\u003c/a> in Vancouver, Canada. Since then, cyclists in 36 countries around the globe have been taking the annual opportunity to protest climate change and highlight the vulnerability of cyclists and pedestrians. The ride also seeks to endorse body positivity, community building and renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The April 20 ride was organized specifically to coincide with Earth Day (April 22). The Northern Hemisphere chapters of World Naked Bike Ride — including San Francisco — will also ride on June 8, 2024. Plenty of time, then, should you need to make an extra cushion for your saddle…\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/index.php?title=San_Francisco\">San Francisco’s World Naked Bike Ride\u003c/a> leaves Rincon Park (Embarcadero and Folsom) at noon on April 20, 2024. \u003ca href=\"https://ridewithgps.com/routes/46069540\">The full route\u003c/a> is available online now.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The next World Naked Bike Ride is happening on 4/20. Here’s where San Francisco cyclists will be baring it all.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712613910,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":440},"headData":{"title":"World Naked Bike Ride San Francisco: All You Need to Know | KQED","description":"The next World Naked Bike Ride is happening on 4/20. Here’s where San Francisco cyclists will be baring it all.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"World Naked Bike Ride San Francisco: All You Need to Know %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The World Naked Bike Ride Is Happening on 4/20 in San Francisco","datePublished":"2024-04-08T22:05:10.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-08T22:05:10.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13955410/world-naked-bike-ride-2024-where-to-meet-420-dress-code","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ah, April 20. A hallowed day on the Bay Area calendar that has long been used to celebrate marijuana in all its forms and glory. Well, this year, the very stoned humans of San Francisco can celebrate the day by bearing witness to scores of cyclists who’ll be baring it all on bicycles. That’s right! This year’s World Naked Bike Ride falls on 4/20. Which almost — almost! — makes up for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980820/san-franciscos-annual-420-celebration-on-hippie-hill-canceled-for-2024\">cancellation of Golden Gate Park’s annual Hippie Hill event\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11613510","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As usual, the city’s wheelie nude adventure will start at the giant bow and arrow in Rincon Park — Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s \u003ci>Cupid’s Span\u003c/i>. It will then sojourn past Chase Center and Oracle Park, head up to North Beach, circle back past City Hall, before heading on over to the Haight and ending in the Castro. All told, the ride lasts 16.5 miles and finishes with a naked party at (of all places) Castro Street’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gyroxpresssf.com/\">Gyro Xpress\u003c/a>. (Careful where you drop that tzatziki, riders!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naked Bike Ride organizers ask that cyclists keep inside the right lane as much as possible, refrain from throwing objects at passing cars, and make sure bicycles are fully tuned before the ride starts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1868px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955430\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone.jpg\" alt=\"A group of naked people riding bicycles, led by two women wearing strategically placed body paint.\" width=\"1868\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone.jpg 1868w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/nipple-be-gone-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1868px) 100vw, 1868px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Though rain is forecast, sunblock is probably still a wise move for riders. \u003ccite>(Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For those cyclists thinking about participating, but nervous about going full birthday suit, don’t worry. While full nudity is encouraged, an ethos of “as bare as you dare” is embraced as well. Organizers even suggest bringing transparent ponchos or windbreakers in case of rain, which is currently forecast on the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year marks the 20th anniversary of the World Naked Bike Ride, which was started by \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Schmidt_(social_activist)\">Conrad Schmidt\u003c/a> in Vancouver, Canada. Since then, cyclists in 36 countries around the globe have been taking the annual opportunity to protest climate change and highlight the vulnerability of cyclists and pedestrians. The ride also seeks to endorse body positivity, community building and renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The April 20 ride was organized specifically to coincide with Earth Day (April 22). The Northern Hemisphere chapters of World Naked Bike Ride — including San Francisco — will also ride on June 8, 2024. Plenty of time, then, should you need to make an extra cushion for your saddle…\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/index.php?title=San_Francisco\">San Francisco’s World Naked Bike Ride\u003c/a> leaves Rincon Park (Embarcadero and Folsom) at noon on April 20, 2024. \u003ca href=\"https://ridewithgps.com/routes/46069540\">The full route\u003c/a> is available online now.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955410/world-naked-bike-ride-2024-where-to-meet-420-dress-code","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_11615"],"featImg":"arts_13955596","label":"arts"},"arts_13956177":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13956177","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13956177","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-lowrider-cruise-in-honor-of-selena-the-queen-of-tejano-in-san-francisco","title":"A Lowrider Cruise in Honor of Selena, the Queen of Tejano, in San Francisco","publishDate":1713465612,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Lowrider Cruise in Honor of Selena, the Queen of Tejano, in San Francisco | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>It’s been almost 30 years since Selena, the undisputed Queen of Tejano Music, was tragically murdered — but a group of lowriders are ensuring her memory isn’t forgotten. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, April 20, a lowrider cruise in San Francisco’s Mission District will pay tribute to the widely beloved singer of hits like “Como La Flor” and “Amor Prohibido.” The cruise will start at 4 p.m., and run along Mission Street between Cesar Chavez and 20th Streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11966254']The annual cruise is organized by the San Francisco Lowrider Council. This year, it takes place directly following the group’s Blessing of the Cars, or La Bendicion, a 1 p.m. ceremony at 24th and Mission BART Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in freshly painted classic cars and creative hydraulics are expected to come from all over Northern California to ride slow and low at the event, which carries the tagline: “Anything for Selenas.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Texas-raised singer, one of the most popular Latin music stars in the world, would have been 53 this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A lowrider cruise in the Mission District will pay tribute to the widely beloved singer.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713465612,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":187},"headData":{"title":"A Lowrider Cruise in Honor of Selena, the Queen of Tejano, in San Francisco | KQED","description":"A lowrider cruise in the Mission District will pay tribute to the widely beloved singer.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A Lowrider Cruise in Honor of Selena, the Queen of Tejano, in San Francisco","datePublished":"2024-04-18T18:40:12.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-18T18:40:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13956177/a-lowrider-cruise-in-honor-of-selena-the-queen-of-tejano-in-san-francisco","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s been almost 30 years since Selena, the undisputed Queen of Tejano Music, was tragically murdered — but a group of lowriders are ensuring her memory isn’t forgotten. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, April 20, a lowrider cruise in San Francisco’s Mission District will pay tribute to the widely beloved singer of hits like “Como La Flor” and “Amor Prohibido.” The cruise will start at 4 p.m., and run along Mission Street between Cesar Chavez and 20th Streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11966254","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The annual cruise is organized by the San Francisco Lowrider Council. This year, it takes place directly following the group’s Blessing of the Cars, or La Bendicion, a 1 p.m. ceremony at 24th and Mission BART Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in freshly painted classic cars and creative hydraulics are expected to come from all over Northern California to ride slow and low at the event, which carries the tagline: “Anything for Selenas.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Texas-raised singer, one of the most popular Latin music stars in the world, would have been 53 this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13956177/a-lowrider-cruise-in-honor-of-selena-the-queen-of-tejano-in-san-francisco","authors":["185"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_11615","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_22093","arts_10278","arts_22092","arts_1257","arts_22091","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13956180","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13955476":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13955476","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13955476","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"coolest-san-francisco-skate-shop-low-key-tenderloin-art-walk","title":"How Low Key Became the Coolest Skate Shop in San Francisco","publishDate":1713378081,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How Low Key Became the Coolest Skate Shop in San Francisco | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Skateboarders do not look at the city — any city — the same way that non-skaters do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skateboarders have brains that make instant calculations using principles of geometry and physics, and are hardwired to evaluate ways around obstacles and over gaps. Present a crew of skaters with a patchwork of hostile architecture — objects specifically designed to keep them out of a space — and the problem-solving that spills forth would put professional architects to shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happens when a lifelong skateboarder gets a degree in architecture? \u003ca href=\"https://www.lowkeysanfrancisco.com/\">Low Key Skate Shop\u003c/a> owner Justin Marks can tell you. For seven years, the 35-year-old worked for \u003ca href=\"https://www.hornbergerworstell.com/\">Hornberger and Worstell\u003c/a>, a San Francisco architecture firm. Marks had grown up in the Lower Haight, both immersing himself in skate culture and nerding out over urban landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13916267']“When you’re skateboarding, you’re at a 1:1 scale with the city and your built environment,” Marks told me on a recent visit to Low Key. “I’ve always been interested in architecture, and I’ve been advocating for skateparks since I was in high school. I would go to community meetings and wait for public comment and talk about how positive skating is for the youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, opportunities arose that prompted Marks to leave office life behind for good. After Hornberger and Worstell, he worked with the San Francisco Planning Department, eventually becoming a contractor to help build out the skatepark Playland at 43rd Avenue. (The site has since been developed as \u003ca href=\"https://www.midpen-housing.org/shirley-chisholm-village-2024/\">affordable housing for San Francisco teachers\u003c/a>.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, he was invited to take over the day-to-day operations of \u003ca href=\"https://everydaysfc.com/\">Everyday\u003c/a> — a Tenderloin skate shop that’s since moved downtown. The move made sense. Even while working as an architectural junior designer, Marks was running his own skate company \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/leftsidesf/\">Left Side\u003c/a>, selling his skateboards and shirts around the city at stores like \u003ca href=\"https://shop.ftcsf.com/\">FTC\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://dlxskateshop.com/\">DLX\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://missionsk8shop.com/\">Mission Skate Shop\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2019, Marks was ready to strike out on his own. He wanted to open a storefront that would serve as both a skate shop and small art gallery. Marks’ first choice for a business partner was \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/turtlesmashersucks/?hl=en\">Zachariah “Turtle” Dawson\u003c/a>. (“If you use my actual name,” Turtle quips, “no one will know who the fuck you’re talking about.”) At the time, the two were both volunteering at Playland. Not only was Turtle a beloved sponsored skater, Marks knew he was also an SFAI graduate who would see Low Key’s potential as an art space. The pair quickly opened the shop on Geary Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1820px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955760\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side.png\" alt=\"A white man with glasses and scruffy beard stands in the doorway of a small shop front. He is wearing a black beanie, sweater and pants.\" width=\"1820\" height=\"1062\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side.png 1820w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side-800x467.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side-1020x595.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side-160x93.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side-768x448.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side-1536x896.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1820px) 100vw, 1820px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turtle, one of the owners of Low Key Skate Shop, hanging out in April 2024. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The impact the tiny new store had on the local community was immediate. From day one, Low Key has been a gathering place for skaters, as well as an outlet for local small businesses whose products are frequently handmade. (“We try and keep everything as homegrown as possible,” Turtle notes.) Low Key’s on-site screenprinting equipment is used by the shop, as well as friends and associates who have their own creative projects. (When the corner store up the street wanted to start selling its own shirts, Low Key printed them.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, the skate shop fulfills its art goals by hosting monthly shows to coincide with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sffirstthursday/\">Tenderloin Art Walk\u003c/a>. Artists and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CzceKQDP4AC/?hl=en&img_index=1\">photographers\u003c/a> who reflect Bay Area street culture — the likes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953119/george-crampton-glassanos-has-pendletons-paint-and-passion\">George Crampton Glassanos\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/todthebunny/\">Tod the Bunny\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hiericbro/\">Eric Broers\u003c/a> and most recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/austenzombres/?hl=en\">Austen Zombres\u003c/a> — take priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the many who’ve directly benefited from Low Key’s existence is skateboard photographer and videographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/excellentquestion/\">Theodore Maider\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13919506']“Low Key has given me a platform to film and photograph the skaters affiliated with their shop,” Maider says. “But they’ve also given me a place to put my artwork on display, and promoted my work on social media. I wouldn’t be in the position I’m currently in if it wasn’t for Low Key.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the store, Marks and Turtle have kept mindful about donating merchandise to skateboard events around Northern California, as well as to local fundraisers, like a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936204/dave-glass-tenderloin-museum-san-franciso-street-photography\">Tenderloin Museum\u003c/a> campaign to stage a play about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835520/a-new-generation-gathers-strength-from-the-courageous-queens-of-the-comptons-cafeteria-riot\">Compton’s Cafeteria riot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13956023 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Karl-and-Justin-e1713218591580.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man with long locs stands with his arm around a white man with beard and glasses inside a skateboard shop. They are both smiling.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1183\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karl Watson, San Francisco skateboarder, video director and author, hanging at Low Key with owner Justin Marks. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Low Key Skate Shop)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From Maider’s perspective, it’s the duo of Marks and Turtle that makes Low Key such an impactful place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Turtle is very much the presence in the streets,” Maider explains. “Turtle has spent so much of his time lurking at the spots that are considered the proving grounds of the city, and because of that, he has a reputation and presence that people love and respect. And then Justin is very much the red-tape guy,” Maider continues. “He gets parks built and makes sure the skate community has a voice in a meaningful way both socially and politically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not an exaggeration. In 2011, before Marks had even received his Architecture B.A. from \u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu/\">California College of the Arts\u003c/a>, he succeeded in getting a corner of \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/1640/Waller-Street-Skate-Park-Project\">Waller Street established as a designated skatepark\u003c/a> by working with landscape architect John Bela (one of Marks’ teachers at the time) and Phil Ginsburg, now the general manager of San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13931352']“We came up with a simple design that used repurposed granite ledges from the city yard at Waller,” Marks says, adding that later, in 2022, “working with Rec [and] Park we teamed up with DLX to make Waller what it is today — a newly paved skatepark plaza with more found skate objects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years into its existence, Low Key stands as a business that goes against almost every stereotype about skateboarders being destructive and hedonistic slackers. By all appearances, Marks and Turtle constantly brainstorm new ways to be of service. Currently, Marks is putting together a skate jam at the new U.N. Plaza skatepark, near the Civic Center, to be held this summer. Turtle is excited about the imminent release of a skate video that Low Key has spent years putting together. (When I ask him how many local skaters were involved in the making of the film, he half-smiles and says, “I’d say the whole city.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Skateboarding made me an explorer of the city, its history and people,” Marks says. “But what first attracted me to skateboarding was the sense of camaraderie and creativity. I’d like to continue advocating for skateboarding, the arts and public spaces that encourage creativity and” — negative stereotypes be damned — “healthy recreation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lowkeysanfrancisco.com/\">Low Key Skate Shop\u003c/a> is located at 679 Geary Street. Austen Zombres’ ‘Corner Store’ exhibit is currently on display through May 2, 2024. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In 2019, an architectural designer and a guy named Turtle opened a tiny Tenderloin shopfront. Its impact was immediate.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713396734,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1203},"headData":{"title":"What’s the Coolest Skate Shop in San Francisco? Low Key | KQED","description":"In 2019, an architectural designer and a guy named Turtle opened a tiny Tenderloin shopfront. Its impact was immediate.","ogTitle":"How Low Key Became the Coolest Skate Shop in San Francisco","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"How Low Key Became the Coolest Skate Shop in San Francisco","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"What’s the Coolest Skate Shop in San Francisco? Low Key %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How Low Key Became the Coolest Skate Shop in San Francisco","datePublished":"2024-04-17T18:21:21.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-17T23:32:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13955476/coolest-san-francisco-skate-shop-low-key-tenderloin-art-walk","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Skateboarders do not look at the city — any city — the same way that non-skaters do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skateboarders have brains that make instant calculations using principles of geometry and physics, and are hardwired to evaluate ways around obstacles and over gaps. Present a crew of skaters with a patchwork of hostile architecture — objects specifically designed to keep them out of a space — and the problem-solving that spills forth would put professional architects to shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happens when a lifelong skateboarder gets a degree in architecture? \u003ca href=\"https://www.lowkeysanfrancisco.com/\">Low Key Skate Shop\u003c/a> owner Justin Marks can tell you. For seven years, the 35-year-old worked for \u003ca href=\"https://www.hornbergerworstell.com/\">Hornberger and Worstell\u003c/a>, a San Francisco architecture firm. Marks had grown up in the Lower Haight, both immersing himself in skate culture and nerding out over urban landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13916267","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When you’re skateboarding, you’re at a 1:1 scale with the city and your built environment,” Marks told me on a recent visit to Low Key. “I’ve always been interested in architecture, and I’ve been advocating for skateparks since I was in high school. I would go to community meetings and wait for public comment and talk about how positive skating is for the youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, opportunities arose that prompted Marks to leave office life behind for good. After Hornberger and Worstell, he worked with the San Francisco Planning Department, eventually becoming a contractor to help build out the skatepark Playland at 43rd Avenue. (The site has since been developed as \u003ca href=\"https://www.midpen-housing.org/shirley-chisholm-village-2024/\">affordable housing for San Francisco teachers\u003c/a>.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, he was invited to take over the day-to-day operations of \u003ca href=\"https://everydaysfc.com/\">Everyday\u003c/a> — a Tenderloin skate shop that’s since moved downtown. The move made sense. Even while working as an architectural junior designer, Marks was running his own skate company \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/leftsidesf/\">Left Side\u003c/a>, selling his skateboards and shirts around the city at stores like \u003ca href=\"https://shop.ftcsf.com/\">FTC\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://dlxskateshop.com/\">DLX\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://missionsk8shop.com/\">Mission Skate Shop\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2019, Marks was ready to strike out on his own. He wanted to open a storefront that would serve as both a skate shop and small art gallery. Marks’ first choice for a business partner was \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/turtlesmashersucks/?hl=en\">Zachariah “Turtle” Dawson\u003c/a>. (“If you use my actual name,” Turtle quips, “no one will know who the fuck you’re talking about.”) At the time, the two were both volunteering at Playland. Not only was Turtle a beloved sponsored skater, Marks knew he was also an SFAI graduate who would see Low Key’s potential as an art space. The pair quickly opened the shop on Geary Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1820px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955760\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side.png\" alt=\"A white man with glasses and scruffy beard stands in the doorway of a small shop front. He is wearing a black beanie, sweater and pants.\" width=\"1820\" height=\"1062\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side.png 1820w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side-800x467.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side-1020x595.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side-160x93.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side-768x448.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Turtle-Low-Key-Close-Side-1536x896.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1820px) 100vw, 1820px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turtle, one of the owners of Low Key Skate Shop, hanging out in April 2024. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The impact the tiny new store had on the local community was immediate. From day one, Low Key has been a gathering place for skaters, as well as an outlet for local small businesses whose products are frequently handmade. (“We try and keep everything as homegrown as possible,” Turtle notes.) Low Key’s on-site screenprinting equipment is used by the shop, as well as friends and associates who have their own creative projects. (When the corner store up the street wanted to start selling its own shirts, Low Key printed them.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, the skate shop fulfills its art goals by hosting monthly shows to coincide with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sffirstthursday/\">Tenderloin Art Walk\u003c/a>. Artists and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CzceKQDP4AC/?hl=en&img_index=1\">photographers\u003c/a> who reflect Bay Area street culture — the likes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953119/george-crampton-glassanos-has-pendletons-paint-and-passion\">George Crampton Glassanos\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/todthebunny/\">Tod the Bunny\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hiericbro/\">Eric Broers\u003c/a> and most recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/austenzombres/?hl=en\">Austen Zombres\u003c/a> — take priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the many who’ve directly benefited from Low Key’s existence is skateboard photographer and videographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/excellentquestion/\">Theodore Maider\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13919506","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Low Key has given me a platform to film and photograph the skaters affiliated with their shop,” Maider says. “But they’ve also given me a place to put my artwork on display, and promoted my work on social media. I wouldn’t be in the position I’m currently in if it wasn’t for Low Key.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the store, Marks and Turtle have kept mindful about donating merchandise to skateboard events around Northern California, as well as to local fundraisers, like a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936204/dave-glass-tenderloin-museum-san-franciso-street-photography\">Tenderloin Museum\u003c/a> campaign to stage a play about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835520/a-new-generation-gathers-strength-from-the-courageous-queens-of-the-comptons-cafeteria-riot\">Compton’s Cafeteria riot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13956023 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Karl-and-Justin-e1713218591580.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man with long locs stands with his arm around a white man with beard and glasses inside a skateboard shop. They are both smiling.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1183\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karl Watson, San Francisco skateboarder, video director and author, hanging at Low Key with owner Justin Marks. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Low Key Skate Shop)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From Maider’s perspective, it’s the duo of Marks and Turtle that makes Low Key such an impactful place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Turtle is very much the presence in the streets,” Maider explains. “Turtle has spent so much of his time lurking at the spots that are considered the proving grounds of the city, and because of that, he has a reputation and presence that people love and respect. And then Justin is very much the red-tape guy,” Maider continues. “He gets parks built and makes sure the skate community has a voice in a meaningful way both socially and politically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not an exaggeration. In 2011, before Marks had even received his Architecture B.A. from \u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu/\">California College of the Arts\u003c/a>, he succeeded in getting a corner of \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/1640/Waller-Street-Skate-Park-Project\">Waller Street established as a designated skatepark\u003c/a> by working with landscape architect John Bela (one of Marks’ teachers at the time) and Phil Ginsburg, now the general manager of San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13931352","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We came up with a simple design that used repurposed granite ledges from the city yard at Waller,” Marks says, adding that later, in 2022, “working with Rec [and] Park we teamed up with DLX to make Waller what it is today — a newly paved skatepark plaza with more found skate objects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years into its existence, Low Key stands as a business that goes against almost every stereotype about skateboarders being destructive and hedonistic slackers. By all appearances, Marks and Turtle constantly brainstorm new ways to be of service. Currently, Marks is putting together a skate jam at the new U.N. Plaza skatepark, near the Civic Center, to be held this summer. Turtle is excited about the imminent release of a skate video that Low Key has spent years putting together. (When I ask him how many local skaters were involved in the making of the film, he half-smiles and says, “I’d say the whole city.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Skateboarding made me an explorer of the city, its history and people,” Marks says. “But what first attracted me to skateboarding was the sense of camaraderie and creativity. I’d like to continue advocating for skateboarding, the arts and public spaces that encourage creativity and” — negative stereotypes be damned — “healthy recreation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lowkeysanfrancisco.com/\">Low Key Skate Shop\u003c/a> is located at 679 Geary Street. Austen Zombres’ ‘Corner Store’ exhibit is currently on display through May 2, 2024. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955476/coolest-san-francisco-skate-shop-low-key-tenderloin-art-walk","authors":["11242"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_11615","arts_13238"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_1146","arts_1442","arts_1020","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13956022","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13955688":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13955688","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13955688","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"healdsburg-jazz-festival-lineup-2024-samara-joy-joshua-redman-ambrose-akinmusire-brandee-younger","title":"Best Bets for the 2024 Healdsburg Jazz Festival","publishDate":1713551915,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Best Bets for the 2024 Healdsburg Jazz Festival | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955692\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_.jpg\" alt=\"A black woman in a red dress sings into a microphone while tilting her head upward, eyes closed\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samara Joy will headline an opening weekend concert for the Healdsburg Jazz Festival on June 16 at Kendall-Jackson winery. \u003ccite>(Gabriele Bifolchi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a Sonoma County resident and jazz fan, I’ve gone to the Healdsburg Jazz Festival nearly every year for the past 20 years. When the lineup drops, \u003ca href=\"https://healdsburgjazz.org/schedule/\">like it recently did for the 2024 festival\u003c/a> running June 15–23, I make notated lists of what to see. What follows are my picks for the best shows to see among the formidable lineup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first: If you’ve heard about the festival but never attended, let me try to tell you what makes it special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take last year’s free show in the town plaza with Charles McPherson. Where else could farmworkers and wine tourists alike sit in the shade on the grass, listening to an 83-year-old jazz saxophone legend? Or last year’s tribute to Pharoah Sanders, with Gary Bartz and Sanders’ son Tomoki reverently playing “The Creator Has a Master Plan” under the stars and among the vineyards?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13953845']Over its history, Healdsburg has hosted up-and-coming talent, like Esperanza Spalding, who played in a restaurant’s backyard at the festival when she was brand-new on the scene. For several years, Santa Rosa-raised guitarist Julian Lage was a local opener at the festival, before he became a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=ad9616c29454c2b8&q=julian+lage+magazine+cover&uds=AMwkrPtc7PyXK2WRiJ0T8Fn6QQyoDLDS_R5vB2RasiRzgL7GfSHmnjqxyC_SllFIMWH8gk1rwQ6Ib2VsM5YLrqpNvPIu3UrHbCJssIdIk6CmIbWTReA3P1dLz0uviMFuoVegwY-7e9YqQrTxuDro_w8j5l7wRRsnQg1UAgmdLJZ5nUkMkCSLWpHKBhVHAr5_szKq4HsVi-Lj5Ciosc2qR_oz2wJBBTX5bsmpCAGuadalMXNUOnAxs8gKikCL5iKE_rxuwuifj-__Jzvi7_R0T1HfFOSbBWa9QgNvrAob49MFZgRHehqhrQPcgu6Z0bHrOqGzfZ43IptS&udm=2&prmd=isvnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjW2ICSpraFAxVSOTQIHQDCDeQQtKgLegQICxAB&biw=1053&bih=537&dpr=2.5\">Blue Note recording artist who graces magazine covers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, naturally, there are the legends. Past years have included Jackie McLean, Ron Carter, Kenny Burrell, Charles Lloyd, Geri Allen, Charlie Haden — the list goes on. In Healdsburg, these artists get the treatment and crowds they deserve, and in an unusually scenic, intimate setting. (I’ll never forget the year I literally bumped into \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cyrille\">drummer Andrew Cyrille\u003c/a> in the cramped back kitchen of a coffee shop just off the downtown plaza.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, if you want to start easy, there’s the return of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/event.asp?eid=120753&s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c\">Juneteenth in the Plaza concert\u003c/a> on June 15, this year featuring trombonist Steve Turre with his sextet and soul-jazz saxophone veteran Houston Person. The plaza concerts (hosted by KCSM’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13930273/liner-notes-greg-bridges-and-the-jazz-voice\">Greg Bridges\u003c/a>) are among my favorites at the festival — they’re completely free, the grass fills up with all types of people, and the music blankets the entire downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662335\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11662335\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Hart at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, June 4, 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy Hart at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, June 4, 2016. \u003ccite>(George B. Wells)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Want to go big? After a sold-out performance at last year’s festival, hot-streak vocalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">Samara Joy\u003c/a> will headline the festival’s opening weekend with a June 16 show at Kendall-Jackson winery. The cheapest seats are $125, but lawn seating is $35–$55 — and feels more befitting of a winery show, in my opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bacchus Landing’s outdoor courtyard, situated among the vineyards, is a relatively new venue for the festival; though the sun can heat the folding-chair seating, it’s hard to beat the cool open air after sundown. I have my eyes on rising vocalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">Jazzmeia Horn\u003c/a>, and her performance with festival director Marcus Shelby and his orchestra on June 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13885595']Also at Bacchus Landing is the remarkable \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">Chief Adjuah\u003c/a> (née Christian Scott) in a double bill with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">The Cookers\u003c/a> (Cecil McBee, George Cables, Billy Hart, Craig Handy, Eddie Henderson, Donald Harrison Jr. and David Weiss) on June 21; the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">Joshua Redman Quartet featuring Gabrielle Cavassa\u003c/a> on June 23; and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">Ambrose Akinmusire, Bill Frisell and Herlin Riley\u003c/a> with opener the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953845/review-brandee-younger-alice-coltrane-san-francisco-sfjazz\">Brandee Younger\u003c/a> Trio on June 22. Redman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11661739/live-review-creative-risks-pay-off-at-healdsburgs-billy-hart-tribute\">tends to shine in Healdsburg\u003c/a>, and Younger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953845/review-brandee-younger-alice-coltrane-san-francisco-sfjazz\">blew my mind last month\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuban pianist \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">Omar Sosa and his Quarteto Americanos\u003c/a> will perform on June 17 at Healdsburg’s venerable Raven Theater, a charming former movie theater built in 1949. And then there’s the small shows scattered all over town. My picks would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13951290/howard-wiley-gospel-jazz\">Howard Wiley\u003c/a>’s quartet at The Elephant in the Room on June 15, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/event.asp?eid=120759&s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c\">Jazz Mafia\u003c/a>’s “New Directions in Brass” at Spoonbar on June 19, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/event.asp?eid=119630&s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c\">tribute to Duke Ellington with Tiffany Austin\u003c/a> at St. Paul’s Church on June 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for food? Other people will be happy to gush about Healdsburg’s world-class dining and wine. I’m more likely to recommend the no-frills \u003ca href=\"https://elsombrerohbg.com/\">El Sombrero\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.flakeycream.com/menu\">Flakey Cream\u003c/a> for lunch, and either Healdsburg’s Goodwill or a Russian River swimming hole for cheap thrills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for a week in June, at least, we can all agree on the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The 26th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival runs June 15–23, 2024, at various venues in and around Healdsburg. \u003ca href=\"https://healdsburgjazz.org/schedule/\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A festival veteran picks this year's top shows, including Samara Joy, Ambrose Akinmusire, Houston Person and more.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713552007,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":800},"headData":{"title":"Best Bets for the 2024 Healdsburg Jazz Festival | KQED","description":"A festival veteran picks this year's top shows, including Samara Joy, Ambrose Akinmusire, Houston Person and more.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Best Bets for the 2024 Healdsburg Jazz Festival","datePublished":"2024-04-19T18:38:35.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-19T18:40:07.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13955688/healdsburg-jazz-festival-lineup-2024-samara-joy-joshua-redman-ambrose-akinmusire-brandee-younger","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955692\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_.jpg\" alt=\"A black woman in a red dress sings into a microphone while tilting her head upward, eyes closed\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Samara_Joy_3_-_credit__Gabriele_Bifolchi_fratticioli.com_-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samara Joy will headline an opening weekend concert for the Healdsburg Jazz Festival on June 16 at Kendall-Jackson winery. \u003ccite>(Gabriele Bifolchi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a Sonoma County resident and jazz fan, I’ve gone to the Healdsburg Jazz Festival nearly every year for the past 20 years. When the lineup drops, \u003ca href=\"https://healdsburgjazz.org/schedule/\">like it recently did for the 2024 festival\u003c/a> running June 15–23, I make notated lists of what to see. What follows are my picks for the best shows to see among the formidable lineup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first: If you’ve heard about the festival but never attended, let me try to tell you what makes it special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take last year’s free show in the town plaza with Charles McPherson. Where else could farmworkers and wine tourists alike sit in the shade on the grass, listening to an 83-year-old jazz saxophone legend? Or last year’s tribute to Pharoah Sanders, with Gary Bartz and Sanders’ son Tomoki reverently playing “The Creator Has a Master Plan” under the stars and among the vineyards?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13953845","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Over its history, Healdsburg has hosted up-and-coming talent, like Esperanza Spalding, who played in a restaurant’s backyard at the festival when she was brand-new on the scene. For several years, Santa Rosa-raised guitarist Julian Lage was a local opener at the festival, before he became a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=ad9616c29454c2b8&q=julian+lage+magazine+cover&uds=AMwkrPtc7PyXK2WRiJ0T8Fn6QQyoDLDS_R5vB2RasiRzgL7GfSHmnjqxyC_SllFIMWH8gk1rwQ6Ib2VsM5YLrqpNvPIu3UrHbCJssIdIk6CmIbWTReA3P1dLz0uviMFuoVegwY-7e9YqQrTxuDro_w8j5l7wRRsnQg1UAgmdLJZ5nUkMkCSLWpHKBhVHAr5_szKq4HsVi-Lj5Ciosc2qR_oz2wJBBTX5bsmpCAGuadalMXNUOnAxs8gKikCL5iKE_rxuwuifj-__Jzvi7_R0T1HfFOSbBWa9QgNvrAob49MFZgRHehqhrQPcgu6Z0bHrOqGzfZ43IptS&udm=2&prmd=isvnmbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjW2ICSpraFAxVSOTQIHQDCDeQQtKgLegQICxAB&biw=1053&bih=537&dpr=2.5\">Blue Note recording artist who graces magazine covers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, naturally, there are the legends. Past years have included Jackie McLean, Ron Carter, Kenny Burrell, Charles Lloyd, Geri Allen, Charlie Haden — the list goes on. In Healdsburg, these artists get the treatment and crowds they deserve, and in an unusually scenic, intimate setting. (I’ll never forget the year I literally bumped into \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cyrille\">drummer Andrew Cyrille\u003c/a> in the cramped back kitchen of a coffee shop just off the downtown plaza.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, if you want to start easy, there’s the return of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/event.asp?eid=120753&s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c\">Juneteenth in the Plaza concert\u003c/a> on June 15, this year featuring trombonist Steve Turre with his sextet and soul-jazz saxophone veteran Houston Person. The plaza concerts (hosted by KCSM’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13930273/liner-notes-greg-bridges-and-the-jazz-voice\">Greg Bridges\u003c/a>) are among my favorites at the festival — they’re completely free, the grass fills up with all types of people, and the music blankets the entire downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662335\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11662335\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Hart at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, June 4, 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/HBGJazz.Billy_-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy Hart at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, June 4, 2016. \u003ccite>(George B. Wells)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Want to go big? After a sold-out performance at last year’s festival, hot-streak vocalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">Samara Joy\u003c/a> will headline the festival’s opening weekend with a June 16 show at Kendall-Jackson winery. The cheapest seats are $125, but lawn seating is $35–$55 — and feels more befitting of a winery show, in my opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bacchus Landing’s outdoor courtyard, situated among the vineyards, is a relatively new venue for the festival; though the sun can heat the folding-chair seating, it’s hard to beat the cool open air after sundown. I have my eyes on rising vocalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">Jazzmeia Horn\u003c/a>, and her performance with festival director Marcus Shelby and his orchestra on June 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13885595","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Also at Bacchus Landing is the remarkable \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">Chief Adjuah\u003c/a> (née Christian Scott) in a double bill with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">The Cookers\u003c/a> (Cecil McBee, George Cables, Billy Hart, Craig Handy, Eddie Henderson, Donald Harrison Jr. and David Weiss) on June 21; the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">Joshua Redman Quartet featuring Gabrielle Cavassa\u003c/a> on June 23; and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">Ambrose Akinmusire, Bill Frisell and Herlin Riley\u003c/a> with opener the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953845/review-brandee-younger-alice-coltrane-san-francisco-sfjazz\">Brandee Younger\u003c/a> Trio on June 22. Redman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11661739/live-review-creative-risks-pay-off-at-healdsburgs-billy-hart-tribute\">tends to shine in Healdsburg\u003c/a>, and Younger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953845/review-brandee-younger-alice-coltrane-san-francisco-sfjazz\">blew my mind last month\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuban pianist \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/seatmap.asp?s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c&a2=\">Omar Sosa and his Quarteto Americanos\u003c/a> will perform on June 17 at Healdsburg’s venerable Raven Theater, a charming former movie theater built in 1949. And then there’s the small shows scattered all over town. My picks would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13951290/howard-wiley-gospel-jazz\">Howard Wiley\u003c/a>’s quartet at The Elephant in the Room on June 15, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/event.asp?eid=120759&s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c\">Jazz Mafia\u003c/a>’s “New Directions in Brass” at Spoonbar on June 19, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vbotickets.com/v5.0/event.asp?eid=119630&s=ef201ce0-568f-4437-8aa7-6d86afd9ab4c\">tribute to Duke Ellington with Tiffany Austin\u003c/a> at St. Paul’s Church on June 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for food? Other people will be happy to gush about Healdsburg’s world-class dining and wine. I’m more likely to recommend the no-frills \u003ca href=\"https://elsombrerohbg.com/\">El Sombrero\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.flakeycream.com/menu\">Flakey Cream\u003c/a> for lunch, and either Healdsburg’s Goodwill or a Russian River swimming hole for cheap thrills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for a week in June, at least, we can all agree on the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The 26th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival runs June 15–23, 2024, at various venues in and around Healdsburg. \u003ca href=\"https://healdsburgjazz.org/schedule/\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955688/healdsburg-jazz-festival-lineup-2024-samara-joy-joshua-redman-ambrose-akinmusire-brandee-younger","authors":["185"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_22068","arts_6786","arts_2683","arts_1420","arts_3584","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13955695","label":"arts"},"arts_13956315":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13956315","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13956315","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sol-blume-festival-postponed-until-2025","title":"Sol Blume Festival Postponed Until 2025","publishDate":1713809281,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Sol Blume Festival Postponed Until 2025 | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>One of the West Coast’s biggest annual R&B events, Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://solblume.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sol Blume Festival\u003c/a>, has been postponed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, event organizers announced that due to damage from winter storms that flooded Sacramento’s Discovery Park, the event, originally scheduled for May 3–5, will be postponed until the weekend of August 15–17, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second year in a row the festival has changed dates due to issues with flooding in the park. Sol Blume officials announced that in an effort to avoid future flooding, the festival’s dates will move to the late summer for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13955802']The postponement caused a gut-punch for fans looking forward to seeing this year’s headliners of SZA, Snoh Aalegra and Kaytraminé, a duo comprised of lyricist Aminé and producer Kaytranada. Other artists scheduled to perform at the three-day weekend festival also included PARTYNEXTDOOR and Ari Lennox, as well as SiR, PinkPantheress, and Sacramento’s Nate Curry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets for the postponed 2024 featival will be honored at the 2025 festival, event organizers announced. Weekend pass holders who chose to retain their tickets will automatically receive upgrades to the next higher tier: GA passes will be upgraded to GA+ passes, GA+ passes to VIP passes, and VIP passes to Returnable VIP passes. (Returnable VIP pass holders will receive a $100 voucher for 2025 merch and concessions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival is also offering refunds for the 2024 festival. Fans looking to request a refund will have until May 17 to do so. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information and further updates, check \u003ca href=\"https://solblume.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sol Blume’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sacramento's three-day R&B festival won't be held in 2024 due to flooding issues in Discovery Park.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713809281,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":281},"headData":{"title":"Sol Blume Festival Postponed Until 2025 | KQED","description":"Sacramento's three-day R&B festival won't be held in 2024 due to flooding issues in Discovery Park.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Sol Blume Festival Postponed Until 2025","datePublished":"2024-04-22T18:08:01.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-22T18:08:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13956315/sol-blume-festival-postponed-until-2025","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the West Coast’s biggest annual R&B events, Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://solblume.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sol Blume Festival\u003c/a>, has been postponed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, event organizers announced that due to damage from winter storms that flooded Sacramento’s Discovery Park, the event, originally scheduled for May 3–5, will be postponed until the weekend of August 15–17, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second year in a row the festival has changed dates due to issues with flooding in the park. Sol Blume officials announced that in an effort to avoid future flooding, the festival’s dates will move to the late summer for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13955802","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The postponement caused a gut-punch for fans looking forward to seeing this year’s headliners of SZA, Snoh Aalegra and Kaytraminé, a duo comprised of lyricist Aminé and producer Kaytranada. Other artists scheduled to perform at the three-day weekend festival also included PARTYNEXTDOOR and Ari Lennox, as well as SiR, PinkPantheress, and Sacramento’s Nate Curry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets for the postponed 2024 featival will be honored at the 2025 festival, event organizers announced. Weekend pass holders who chose to retain their tickets will automatically receive upgrades to the next higher tier: GA passes will be upgraded to GA+ passes, GA+ passes to VIP passes, and VIP passes to Returnable VIP passes. (Returnable VIP pass holders will receive a $100 voucher for 2025 merch and concessions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival is also offering refunds for the 2024 festival. Fans looking to request a refund will have until May 17 to do so. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information and further updates, check \u003ca href=\"https://solblume.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sol Blume’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13956315/sol-blume-festival-postponed-until-2025","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_22068","arts_5779","arts_22097"],"featImg":"arts_13956316","label":"arts"},"arts_10137764":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_10137764","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"10137764","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"who-can-i-be-now-how-david-bowie-spent-1974","title":"Who can I be now? How David Bowie Spent 1974","publishDate":1402942776,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Who can I be now? How David Bowie Spent 1974 | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>To say that 1974 was a year of change and challenge for David Bowie and his fans is an understatement as extreme as the lurid outfits he’d worn as his just-abandoned alter ego, Ziggy Stardust. The incubator for the evolution was Bowie’s U.S. tour that year, which began in Montreal on June 14 — 40 years ago this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July of 1973, at the peak of his success, Bowie unexpectedly retired Ziggy — the character and vehicle he’d ridden to fame after nearly a decade of trying. In the months that followed, he abandoned his band, his home and the city (London) and country that spawned him. By the spring of 1974, he’d ditched the zipper haircut, platform heels and vivid glam fashions that he, more than anyone, had brought to the mainstream. And by the end of that year he’d basically abandoned rock ‘n’ roll altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Beatles had acclimated the even-then largely complacent rock audience to changes of sound and vision, at the fateful age of 27, Bowie — fueled by exploding creativity, success and not least the white powder to which he’d become addicted — would try the patience of even his most dedicated fans, producing music that wasn’t dauntingly strange and experimental (that would come later), but instead \u003cem>too\u003c/em> normal and everyday for many of his fans: the R&B that saturated FM radio at the time. That style might have seemed exotic to a Brit, but it was the exact sound that most American rock fans were trying to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That the two studio albums associated with the tour — \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em>, released in March of ’74 was already a departure, being musically more subtle than its comparatively garish predecessor, \u003cem>Aladdin Sane\u003c/em>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em>, put out a year later and featuring Bowie’s first U.S. No. 1 single, “Fame” — made him into a star in America is perhaps the strangest twist of all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 73-date tour also underwent a stylistic change every bit as tectonic as the one Bowie’s music was undergoing. At its outset, the \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> tour was by far the most extravagant and expensive rock outing ever mounted: designed by Broadway veterans Jules Fisher and Mark Ravitz and choreographed by Toni Basil, it featured a towering set depicting the post-apocalyptic city in which the loosely conceptual album was based. It included a catwalk that lowered from the rafters to stage level and a cherry-picker that lofted Bowie 40 feet above the first dozen rows of the audience (and occasionally failed to bring him back). But after 10 weeks of shows, due to expense or boredom, he abandoned the set and the setlist, going for a more stripped-down presentation and an overhauled R&B sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sunk myself back into the music that I considered the bedrock of all popular music: R&B and soul,” Bowie recalled to writer David Buckley years later. “I guess from the outside it seemed to be a pretty drastic move. I think I probably lost as many fans as I gained new ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of the most drastic image/sound changes in the modern era, and it was just the beginning of the transformations Bowie would make over the next several years. Over the course of the tour, Bowie would drive himself, his band and his audience to the brink: himself to the edge of exhaustion via the physical challenges of the show, overwork and drug abuse; his band to the brink of its musical abilities, energy and salary requirements; his audience to the brink of its patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to the \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> show [in June] expecting something like Ziggy Stardust,” said fan John Neilson, who caught both incarnations of the tour in Detroit. “And then in October I expected to see something like \u003cem>Diamond Dogs,\u003c/em> and it was the soul revue. It might as well have been a completely different artist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>The basis for the tour and its initial extravagant set lay in \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em>‘ post-apocalyptic world of street urchins and nefarious characters, like Halloween Jack; the album was the end result of an unsuccessful attempt to create a rock musical from George Orwell’s \u003cem>1984\u003c/em>, which had been blocked by Orwell’s widow. While the album — and its classic lead single, “Rebel Rebel,” which was finishing a Top 5 run in the U.K. at the time Bowie arrived in New York on April 11 — retained elements of the aborted musical, like \u003cem>Ziggy Stardust\u003c/em>, it’s a loose concept album not bound to a straight storyline; the songs act as signposts around which listeners can create their own narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10137767\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/482119303_master_vert-69d403a3c9185e94733faff07a6c88c8e8cbd2a4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10137767 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/482119303_master_vert-69d403a3c9185e94733faff07a6c88c8e8cbd2a4-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"David Bowie in February 1974 in the Netherlands.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/482119303_master_vert-69d403a3c9185e94733faff07a6c88c8e8cbd2a4-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/482119303_master_vert-69d403a3c9185e94733faff07a6c88c8e8cbd2a4-1079x1440.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Bowie in February 1974 in the Netherlands. \u003ccite>(Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I had in my mind this kind of half \u003cem>Wild Boys/1984\u003c/em> world, and there were these ragamuffins, but they were a bit more violent than ragamuffins,” Bowie told Buckley. “They’d taken over this barren city, this city that was falling apart. … I had the Diamond Dogs living in the streets. They were all little Johnny Rottens and Sid Viciouses, really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That storyline carried over to the show. Framed by towering skyscrapers, Bowie moved from one elaborate scenario to another: He performed “Sweet Thing” from the catwalk as it gradually lowered to the stage floor; was projected over the audience via the cherry-picker as he sang “Space Oddity” into a red telephone microphone; French-kissed a skull during “Cracked Actor”; sang “Time” behind a giant hand festooned with blinking light bulbs that dropped to reveal Bowie inside a neon light box; performed an elaborate walking mime during “Aladdin Sane” very reminiscent of Michael Jackson’s world-famous Moonwalk, unveiled a decade later (Jackson attended one of Bowie’s shows in Los Angeles in September). The Ziggy-era platforms and costumes were replaced by a suave new Bowie, clad in an Yves St. Laurent suit and flat shoes, with a bright orange but calm soul-boy haircut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowie’s new band was equally state of the art. Herbie Flowers — who’d worked with Bowie since the mid-’60s and played the timeless bassline on Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” — and drummer Tony Newman were veteran British session musicians who’d played on \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em>. Virtuoso pianist Michael Garson and backing singer Geoff MacCormack (aka Warren Peace) remained from Bowie’s 1973 band. Classically trained New Yorker Michael Kamen — a future Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated film composer whose scoring work for the Joffrey Ballet had impressed Bowie — was enlisted as musical director. Kamen brought along two musicians from his former rock bands: future superstar jazz saxophonist David Sanborn and 22-year-old guitarist Earl Slick, who would work with Bowie many times in the coming decades, and also performed on John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s \u003cem>Double Fantasy\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter got a call from Kamen one day in April and was told he’d be hearing from an important musician he refused to identify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get a phone call from the Bowie people the next day and they set up an audition — which is the weirdest f- – -ing thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Slick, who speaks in a Brooklynese as rapid-fire as his solos, recalls. “David’s personal assistant meets me at RCA Studios in New York, and she walks me not to the control room, which is dark, but into the main studio. I get out my guitar and I hear a voice with an American accent saying, ‘Hey, how ya doin’? Put the headphones on. We’re gonna play you some tracks, just play along.’ I say, ‘What key are they in?’ He says, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ And he just starts rolling tape! I’m playing over tracks from \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em>, which [hadn’t been released yet] — I’ve never heard these songs, I don’t know what I’m doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out there for maybe 15 minutes and there’s a little bit of chatter between me and this American guy — who turns out to be [longtime Bowie producer] Tony Visconti — and about two minutes later Bowie walks in,” he continues. “We hung out for about half an hour, fiddling around with guitars. His assistant says, ‘We’ll call you in the next couple weeks.’ But the phone rang the next day and they said, ‘If you want it, you got it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the following weeks, the band — filled out by saxophonist Richard Grando, percussionist Pablo Rosario and backing singer Gui Andrisano — worked up radically new arrangements of Bowie’s catalog, which were strongly influenced by New York City nightlife. Bowie had become friends with guitarist Carlos Alomar — a veteran of James Brown’s and Wilson Pickett’s bands, as well as the Apollo Theater’s house band — who took the singer to the Apollo and elsewhere to see The Temptations, The Spinners and Marvin Gaye; he also hit Latin clubs and other nightspots in the city’s budding disco scene, as well as rock haunts like Max’s Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That influence was immediately felt not just in the soul covers the band played on the first leg of the tour — Eddie Floyd’s 1966 classic “Knock on Wood,” the Ohio Players’ 1968 song “Here Today and Gone Tomorrow” — but also in the reinventions of Bowie’s catalog, which went far beyond the blistering power-trio rock of the Ziggy era. “Aladdin Sane” received a Latin treatment driven by Garson’s manic piano; “Jean Genie” slowed to a lounge crawl on the verses and completely dispensed with its signature riff; even the brand-new “Rebel Rebel” got a looser tempo and jazzy backing vocals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was hanging out a lot in New York,” fan Kathy Miller recalls. “I remember seeing him and his entourage snowed in during a blizzard at a [April 22] New York Dolls show at Kenny’s Castaways, and friends of mine saw him at Puerto Rican discos, black discos. So it was not such a shock to New Yorkers that he gravitated toward that kind of music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After dress rehearsals at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, N.Y. — “Two days? Maybe more, because that was one complicated f- – -ing thing,” Slick says — the entire production headed up the Northway to Montreal for the first of what would ultimately be 30 dates of the initial leg of the \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> tour. Not surprisingly, the opening night had more than a few rough spots. The sound system was distorted, and the catwalk plummeted dangerously to the stage floor with Bowie on it, a problem that happened more than once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kinks were gradually worked out and the tour carried on across the Northeast and South, playing major venues — Cleveland’s Public Auditorium for two nights, Detroit’s Cobo Hall, Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium — but also many smaller, less-likely markets and theaters, like Charleston, W.Va.; Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; Norfolk, Va. While most nights went off without a hitch, the complexity of the set continued to cause problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Norfolk show, Rob Holland, then 14, recalls, “I remember the cherry-picker got stuck: It moved for a minute and then it moved again to the side of the stage, but then it got stuck and he had to get off of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On at least one other night, the cherry-picker extended to its full length but failed to retract, leaving Bowie stranded over the audience. “When he finished the song he had to shimmy along the [cherry-picker’s hydraulic] arm back to the stage,” Tony Visconti writes in the \u003cem>David Live\u003c/em> liner notes. “Members of the audience were standing on their seats trying to grab him and pull him down. On that night, this was perceived as part of the show: David made it seem to look that way, climbing back in a dramatic, purposeful way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many were dazzled by the stage and the theatrics, some weren’t so impressed. “I really liked the set, but I’ve always felt it would have been a much better show if they had really exploited it, doing \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> semi-theatrically and really using the staging,” John Neilson says. “He did use it for ‘Sweet Thing,’ but the rest of the time it just sorta loomed in the background. It was a kind of wasted opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brad Elvis, formerly of The Elvis Brothers and currently in The Romantics and The Handcuffs, caught shows in Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio. “It got a good reaction, but it wasn’t like pandemonium,” he remembers. He and a couple of friends did, however, spend time with Bowie and band members at a hotel-room party after the Toledo show — where he witnessed the growing R&B influence firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were about five other people in this cramped little room, and they had this big boombox,” he says. “Kind of dancey R&B was playing, and one of the [backing singers] was showing Bowie these dance moves. Everybody’s dancing, having fun, getting loose, except us — we’re watching, wide-eyed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10137766\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/105742923_master_vert-31c00bc8e6efa97f3c636bad2fe55b57d5919d3d.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/105742923_master_vert-31c00bc8e6efa97f3c636bad2fe55b57d5919d3d-400x532.jpg\" alt=\"David Bowie onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 20, 1974\" width=\"400\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10137766\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/105742923_master_vert-31c00bc8e6efa97f3c636bad2fe55b57d5919d3d-400x532.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/105742923_master_vert-31c00bc8e6efa97f3c636bad2fe55b57d5919d3d-225x300.jpg 225w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/105742923_master_vert-31c00bc8e6efa97f3c636bad2fe55b57d5919d3d-1080x1440.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Bowie onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 20, 1974 \u003ccite>(Ron Galella/WireImage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Occasionally parts of the set would be too large for a venue, forcing the crew to scale down the show, but only once on the tour’s first leg did Bowie perform without it completely. En route to Tampa, Fla., one of the drivers was stung by a bee and crashed a truck carrying key elements of the set into a swamp. Cancellation was considered but “David would not hear of it,” according to an announcement made to the crowd, and the show proceeded. During the set Bowie apologized for it not being “the show I’d hoped to bring you” and played a rare encore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the tour’s first leg reached its home stretch in mid-July, with a run of six shows at Philadelphia’s fabled Tower Theater, the show was beset by a problem that had nothing to do with technology. Eager to get a live album on the market before the tour concluded, Bowie’s then-manager, Tony Defries, arranged to have the Tower shows recorded. Live recordings ordinarily entitle the musicians to a much higher fee than Bowie’s touring group was receiving (Slick recalls getting $300 per week), but Defries attempted to sidestep that issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back in the day, if you were recording, there were two microphones on everything: one would go to the [venue’s] sound, and one would go to the [mobile recording] truck,” Slick says. “At sound check, I didn’t think anything of it, but Herbie picked up on it right away. Tony Defries was one of the biggest f- – -ing shysters on the planet, and [earlier that day] I had gotten a letter pushed under my hotel door offering me $300 basically to give my rights over. Not long after that, Herbie is on the phone with everybody saying, ‘This is bulls- – -, we’re not gonna do this.’ Basically, with Herbie being the spokesperson, we said we ain’t going onstage until we get an agreement for X amount of money, period. They agreed to it, we signed it — and we didn’t get paid, so we sued David. We won, but it took a long, long time to get the money. I know David pitched a serious fit on Herbie, and I think he was kinda s- – – -y for a couple of days, but then everybody got past it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the bad vibes come through on \u003cem>David Live\u003c/em>, released in the fall. Bowie’s voice is strained, and the band, while competent, played better on other nights of the tour, as bootleg evidence shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tour wrapped with two nights at Madison Square Garden, Bowie’s first performances at the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stage show got a lot of advance buzz,” Kathy Miller remembers. “We couldn’t wait to see this set, and it really lived up to the expectations, it was gorgeous. But the [cherry-picker] reminded me of a telephone repairman — it was not glamorous; it was actually very \u003cem>Spinal Tap\u003c/em>! It looked dangerous and rickety — there really was a sense of, ‘Oh, my God, is this going to work?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shows were a triumph, and an after party was held at The Plaza, during which Bowie, Mick Jagger and Bette Midler reportedly disappeared into a walk-in closet for an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was quite an unbelievable, unbelievable headache, that tour, but it was spectacular,” Bowie told Buckley. “It was truly the first real rock ‘n’ roll theatrical show that made any sense. A lot of people feel it has never been bettered. It was something else, it really was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite its enormous expense and problems, the tour helped drive \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> to No. 5 in the U.S. — by far his highest chart position at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>In early August, many of the band members gathered in Philadelphia to begin work on the album that would become \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em>, which is where the R&B transformation truly took hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Bowie had originally intended to work with the house band at the city’s Sigma Sound — which had spawned hits by The O’Jays, Lou Rawls, The Three Degrees and Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes — they were unavailable due to a scheduling conflict, and he brought in several members of his touring band, as well as some key new collaborators who would play a huge role in the album: Alomar; his wife, soul singer Robin Clark; and a young friend, future R&B superstar Luther Vandross. The latter two, along for the ride, were playfully riffing on one of the songs in the studio; Bowie loved it and had them sing on nearly every song. It was the first high-profile work of Vandross’ career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Bowie was raised on American R&B, like most British musicians of his generation — and he’d even performed James Brown’s “You Got to Have a Job” during the Ziggy Stardust era — the resulting sessions produced music that resembled nothing he had ever done before. Alomar, Sanborn and the singers became Bowie’s primary musical foils, often working in a soulful call-and-response role with him on songs like “Fascination” (a rewrite of Vandross’ composition “Funky Music”), “Somebody Up There Likes Me” and the title track. Bowie, fueled by cocaine, taxed the energy of the musicians by working largely from 11 p.m. until late the following morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The album sessions, which resumed in November and again in January, featured two more star appearances. Bruce Springsteen, whom Bowie had admired since seeing a New York performance in 1972, visited the sessions but ultimately did not contribute to Bowie’s cover of his “It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City.” More fruitful was a visit from Bowie’s new friend John Lennon, who was lured to the studio by being asked to contribute to Bowie’s excruciatingly overblown cover of Lennon’s “Across the Universe,” but ended up co-writing “Fame” — a studio creation conjured from Bowie’s cover of the Flares’ 1961 R&B hit “Footstompin’.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he dismissed the album as “plastic” not long after its release, Bowie later recanted. “In 1976 I spouted some nonsense about the album being ‘synthetic radio stuff.’ I don’t believe that for one moment now,” he told Buckley. “I was living and breathing soul and R&B at this time. I listened to nothing else. It became America for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>While Bowie’s cocaine appetite was severe before the ’74 tour began, it had escalated dramatically by the time dates resumed at the end of the summer. A brief second leg of the tour kicked off with a seven-night run at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, and it was at this time that director Alan Yentob interviewed Bowie and filmed the shows for the hourlong BBC documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnIBBkgkO5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cracked Actor\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. The Bowie on display there is an unsettling sight: fidgety, awkward and alarmingly thin and pale, he’s intelligent but remote and removed; at other times he’s in the throes of cocaine paranoia, wondering whether his car is being followed, sniffling and licking his gums. At one of the Universal concerts, captured on the \u003cem>A Portrait in Flesh\u003c/em> bootleg, Bowie speaks to the crowd almost exclusively in a bizarre pseudo-Italian accent, making inscrutable jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bowie that emerges in the documentary is so odd and otherworldly that it convinced Nicolas Roeg he’d found the perfect person to portray the alien in his forthcoming film \u003cem>The Man Who Fell to Earth\u003c/em>, which would mark Bowie’s feature-length debut the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the set and setlist were retained for the Universal shows and a few more Southwest dates, the show was completely re-conceived during a break over the second half of September. The city set was abandoned, and the new staging relied on dramatic lighting and clever use of silhouettes (a 50-foot shadow of Bowie was projected onto a screen behind the stage for “1984”). Bowie changed his wardrobe and hairstyle yet again, adopting a sweeping pompadour, jackets embellished with shoulder pads, a thick checkered tie, suspenders, baggy pants and occasionally a cane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of all, the band was overhauled to re-create the \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em> sound: Alomar, Vandross, Clark and three other singers who performed on “Young Americans” were brought on board; and Bowie recruited his fifth different rhythm section in a year’s time: rock-solid drummer Dennis Davis (who, like Alomar, would be with Bowie for the rest of the decade) and bassist Emir Ksasan. Garson was made musical director, and Bowie’s revamped backing band became the opening act for the tour, cruising through a 30-minute set of smooth takes on songs like “Stormy Monday,” The O’Jays’ “Love Train” and Vandross’ “Funky Music” before concluding, strangest of all, with a lite-R&B treatment of Bowie’s own “Memory of a Free Festival,” a hippie anthem from his 1969 \u003cem>Space Oddity\u003c/em> album. The crowds hated them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Bowie set that followed kicked off reassuringly with either “Rebel Rebel” or “Space Oddity,” it then headed straight into R&B and ballad territory: a funked up version of “John I’m Only Dancing,” a samba-fied “Sorrow,” “Changes.” Rocked-up versions of “Moonage Daydream” and “Diamond Dogs” were thrown in, but a huge dollop of the unreleased \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em> was aired on most nights — along with “Footstompin’,” which would form the basis of “Fame” — before the shows concluded with a one-two punch of “Suffragette City” and “Rock and Roll Suicide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tour, beginning on Oct. 5 in St. Paul, Minn., soldiered across the Midwest, East and South over the ensuing seven weeks, setting up residencies in several cities — seven nights at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, six in Detroit, three in Boston — before closing in Atlanta on Dec. 1. Bowie’s precious voice, ravaged by cocaine abuse and months of touring, was hoarse on at least a few occasions. Audiences were nonplussed at best by the new production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d bought a really glam outfit: a top with bell sleeves, skin-tight jeans and mile-high, red-leather platform boots,” recalls Lisa Seckler-Roode, who attended one of the Radio City shows. “People came dressed as Ziggy Stardust, with the Aladdin Sane lightning bolt on their faces. It was sort of like Wigstock: I remember the cops looking at the crowd and shaking their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But when Bowie came out in that suit,” she sighs, “I mean, he looked glorious, but it was such a change that the crowd was totally thrown — the atmosphere was just, ‘\u003cem>Huh?\u003c/em> What’s he doing now?’ In retrospect it was a very bold move, but the initial reaction was really confused. I remember going to school the following Monday: ‘How was the show?’ ‘It sucked!'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8TnXRBkYt8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neilson recalls a similar reaction in Detroit. “The soul show threw everyone, since the album wasn’t out yet and there was a lot of new material,” he says. “The audience reaction was more polite than [hostile], for the most part, because obviously everyone loved Bowie and gave him the benefit of a doubt. But it was muted appreciation at best and probably some quiet disapproval.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one musician onstage shared the sentiment. “I gotta be honest with you, I wasn’t terribly thrilled with it,” says Slick, whose guitar roars out at a searing volume on bootlegs during the rare occasions he got the spotlight. “[During the opening set] there wasn’t a whole lot for me to do. For the Bowie set I was back on it, but even with that, the way it was being played wasn’t rock ‘n’ roll anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8TnXRBkYt8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appearance on \u003cem>The Dick Cavett Show\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, taped early in November during the Radio City stint, is fascinating, mixing new, (relatively) old and obscure: The band charges through a fast “1984,” Bowie straps on his Ziggy-era 12-string acoustic as the singers groove for “Young Americans,” and concludes with the still-unreleased “Footstompin’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Bowie is in strong form, if a bit hoarse, when performing, his interview with Cavett could function as an anti-cocaine ad. He fidgets relentlessly with a cane he used as a prop during the performance, sniffles and appears completely ill at ease — at one point Cavett asks him if he’s nervous. “Um … oh, let’s carry on talking,” he replies. “Don’t ask me that. Otherwise I’ll wonder, you see. I’d rather not know if I’m nervous until … ” he trails off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the interview, he’s perhaps most cogent when explaining his rationale for his new look and sound. “We did the \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> tour and took it from New York to Los Angeles, and I felt that that was enough, really. Rather than come back with the same thing, I wanted to give myself an opportunity just to work with the band. … I got a lot of fulfillment from working in productions like \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Ziggy Stardust\u003c/em>. But now that I’m working with just a band and singing, which is something I haven’t done for years, I’m finding a new kind of fulfillment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judging from the reaction of fans and the tepid-to-negative reviews the show received, Bowie’s audience was not yet ready for that new kind of fulfillment.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>Somehow, from such unpromising origins, from such a turbulent, tumultuous, drug-addled year — one that saw Bowie poised for enormous success yet opting not just to challenge his audience but almost to defy it — after 73 concerts and against daunting odds, the tour helped accomplish the ultimate goal: breaking David Bowie in America. \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> reached No. 5 on the Billboard charts. \u003cem>David Live\u003c/em> went to No. 8. The \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em> album hit No. 9, and the title track was his first U.S. Top 40 single, peaking at 29. And “Fame” was a global hit single, became Bowie’s first U.S. No. 1 and made him into a superstar. In 1975, he relocated to Los Angeles, launched his movie career, and became an all-around entertainer who appeared on both \u003cem>Soul Train\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Cher\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Despite its now-legendary status, Bowie’s 1974 tour is tragically ill-documented. Apart from fan-filmed super-8 footage, the only video documentation of the Hunger City set that has surfaced is Fisher and Ravitz discussing this scale model in the 1996 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qKP4oVraDA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC documentary \u003cem>Hang on to Yourself\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. (the \u003cem>Cracked Actor\u003c/em> documentary shows frustratingly little of the stage). Likewise, apart from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjoiIcF6s6Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one-minute-long, professionally filmed segment from a Radio City show\u003c/a> that aired in a VH1 \u003cem>Legends\u003c/em> episode, no footage from the soul concerts has emerged, although the \u003cem>Cavett\u003c/em> show at least documents some performances. While some sources say Bowie filmed rehearsals and the Garden shows, and the VH1 footage suggests there’s more somewhere, Slick says he has no recollection of any shows being filmed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while many, including this writer, consider \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em> to be his weakest 1970s studio album, that is hardly an insult. In terms of influence, it’s hard to know where to begin: Virtually every artist bearing a trace of white soul since its release — from Robert Palmer to Duran Duran, from George Michael to Robbie Williams and far beyond — owes more than a “sho’nuff” and some hair gel to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em> and the Soul Tour were way stations: like everything Bowie had done before, he ingested and used them as a foundation for what came next. In this case, it was the pioneering ice-funk of \u003cem>Station to Station\u003c/em>, arguably one of his two best albums, and one that paved the way not only for thousands of artists who were influenced by it, but also for the brilliant wave of experimentation that followed over the next five years: \u003cem>Low, Heroes, Lodger\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Scary Monsters\u003c/em>. But that’s another story …\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sources: David Buckley’s stellar liner notes to the deluxe editions of \u003c/em>Diamond Dogs\u003cem> and \u003c/em>Young Americans\u003cem>, and Tony Visconti’s for \u003c/em>David Live\u003cem>; Kevin Cann’s \u003c/em>David Bowie: Any Day Now, The London Years 1947-74\u003cem>; Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray’s \u003c/em>David Bowie: An Illustrated Record\u003cem>; Chris Carter’s “\u003ca href=\"http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gouster/introduction.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Young American” site\u003c/a>; Chris O’Leary’s “\u003ca href=\"http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pushing Ahead of the Dame” site\u003c/a>; and especially Roger Griffin’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.bowiegoldenyears.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden Years” site\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Special thanks to Ira Robbins, Jennifer Kennedy, Julian Stockton and especially everyone who took the time to be interviewed for this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2014 NPR. 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How David Bowie Spent 1974","datePublished":"2014-06-16T18:19:36.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T08:39:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"},"authorsData":[{"type":"authors","id":"byline_arts_10137764","meta":{"override":true},"slug":"byline_arts_10137764","name":"Jem Aswad","isLoading":false}],"imageData":{"ogImageSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/DAvidBowie1974.jpg","width":800,"height":449},"twImageSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/DAvidBowie1974.jpg","width":800,"height":449},"twitterCard":"summary_large_image"},"tagData":{"tags":[]}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Jem Aswad","nprStoryId":"322274193","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=322274193&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2014/06/15/322274193/who-can-i-be-now-how-david-bowie-spent-1974?ft=3&f=322274193","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:58:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sun, 15 Jun 2014 14:03:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:58:09 -0400","path":"/arts/10137764/who-can-i-be-now-how-david-bowie-spent-1974","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>To say that 1974 was a year of change and challenge for David Bowie and his fans is an understatement as extreme as the lurid outfits he’d worn as his just-abandoned alter ego, Ziggy Stardust. The incubator for the evolution was Bowie’s U.S. tour that year, which began in Montreal on June 14 — 40 years ago this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July of 1973, at the peak of his success, Bowie unexpectedly retired Ziggy — the character and vehicle he’d ridden to fame after nearly a decade of trying. In the months that followed, he abandoned his band, his home and the city (London) and country that spawned him. By the spring of 1974, he’d ditched the zipper haircut, platform heels and vivid glam fashions that he, more than anyone, had brought to the mainstream. And by the end of that year he’d basically abandoned rock ‘n’ roll altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Beatles had acclimated the even-then largely complacent rock audience to changes of sound and vision, at the fateful age of 27, Bowie — fueled by exploding creativity, success and not least the white powder to which he’d become addicted — would try the patience of even his most dedicated fans, producing music that wasn’t dauntingly strange and experimental (that would come later), but instead \u003cem>too\u003c/em> normal and everyday for many of his fans: the R&B that saturated FM radio at the time. That style might have seemed exotic to a Brit, but it was the exact sound that most American rock fans were trying to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That the two studio albums associated with the tour — \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em>, released in March of ’74 was already a departure, being musically more subtle than its comparatively garish predecessor, \u003cem>Aladdin Sane\u003c/em>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em>, put out a year later and featuring Bowie’s first U.S. No. 1 single, “Fame” — made him into a star in America is perhaps the strangest twist of all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 73-date tour also underwent a stylistic change every bit as tectonic as the one Bowie’s music was undergoing. At its outset, the \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> tour was by far the most extravagant and expensive rock outing ever mounted: designed by Broadway veterans Jules Fisher and Mark Ravitz and choreographed by Toni Basil, it featured a towering set depicting the post-apocalyptic city in which the loosely conceptual album was based. It included a catwalk that lowered from the rafters to stage level and a cherry-picker that lofted Bowie 40 feet above the first dozen rows of the audience (and occasionally failed to bring him back). But after 10 weeks of shows, due to expense or boredom, he abandoned the set and the setlist, going for a more stripped-down presentation and an overhauled R&B sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sunk myself back into the music that I considered the bedrock of all popular music: R&B and soul,” Bowie recalled to writer David Buckley years later. “I guess from the outside it seemed to be a pretty drastic move. I think I probably lost as many fans as I gained new ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of the most drastic image/sound changes in the modern era, and it was just the beginning of the transformations Bowie would make over the next several years. Over the course of the tour, Bowie would drive himself, his band and his audience to the brink: himself to the edge of exhaustion via the physical challenges of the show, overwork and drug abuse; his band to the brink of its musical abilities, energy and salary requirements; his audience to the brink of its patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to the \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> show [in June] expecting something like Ziggy Stardust,” said fan John Neilson, who caught both incarnations of the tour in Detroit. “And then in October I expected to see something like \u003cem>Diamond Dogs,\u003c/em> and it was the soul revue. It might as well have been a completely different artist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>The basis for the tour and its initial extravagant set lay in \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em>‘ post-apocalyptic world of street urchins and nefarious characters, like Halloween Jack; the album was the end result of an unsuccessful attempt to create a rock musical from George Orwell’s \u003cem>1984\u003c/em>, which had been blocked by Orwell’s widow. While the album — and its classic lead single, “Rebel Rebel,” which was finishing a Top 5 run in the U.K. at the time Bowie arrived in New York on April 11 — retained elements of the aborted musical, like \u003cem>Ziggy Stardust\u003c/em>, it’s a loose concept album not bound to a straight storyline; the songs act as signposts around which listeners can create their own narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10137767\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/482119303_master_vert-69d403a3c9185e94733faff07a6c88c8e8cbd2a4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10137767 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/482119303_master_vert-69d403a3c9185e94733faff07a6c88c8e8cbd2a4-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"David Bowie in February 1974 in the Netherlands.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/482119303_master_vert-69d403a3c9185e94733faff07a6c88c8e8cbd2a4-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/482119303_master_vert-69d403a3c9185e94733faff07a6c88c8e8cbd2a4-1079x1440.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Bowie in February 1974 in the Netherlands. \u003ccite>(Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I had in my mind this kind of half \u003cem>Wild Boys/1984\u003c/em> world, and there were these ragamuffins, but they were a bit more violent than ragamuffins,” Bowie told Buckley. “They’d taken over this barren city, this city that was falling apart. … I had the Diamond Dogs living in the streets. They were all little Johnny Rottens and Sid Viciouses, really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That storyline carried over to the show. Framed by towering skyscrapers, Bowie moved from one elaborate scenario to another: He performed “Sweet Thing” from the catwalk as it gradually lowered to the stage floor; was projected over the audience via the cherry-picker as he sang “Space Oddity” into a red telephone microphone; French-kissed a skull during “Cracked Actor”; sang “Time” behind a giant hand festooned with blinking light bulbs that dropped to reveal Bowie inside a neon light box; performed an elaborate walking mime during “Aladdin Sane” very reminiscent of Michael Jackson’s world-famous Moonwalk, unveiled a decade later (Jackson attended one of Bowie’s shows in Los Angeles in September). The Ziggy-era platforms and costumes were replaced by a suave new Bowie, clad in an Yves St. Laurent suit and flat shoes, with a bright orange but calm soul-boy haircut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowie’s new band was equally state of the art. Herbie Flowers — who’d worked with Bowie since the mid-’60s and played the timeless bassline on Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” — and drummer Tony Newman were veteran British session musicians who’d played on \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em>. Virtuoso pianist Michael Garson and backing singer Geoff MacCormack (aka Warren Peace) remained from Bowie’s 1973 band. Classically trained New Yorker Michael Kamen — a future Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated film composer whose scoring work for the Joffrey Ballet had impressed Bowie — was enlisted as musical director. Kamen brought along two musicians from his former rock bands: future superstar jazz saxophonist David Sanborn and 22-year-old guitarist Earl Slick, who would work with Bowie many times in the coming decades, and also performed on John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s \u003cem>Double Fantasy\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter got a call from Kamen one day in April and was told he’d be hearing from an important musician he refused to identify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get a phone call from the Bowie people the next day and they set up an audition — which is the weirdest f- – -ing thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Slick, who speaks in a Brooklynese as rapid-fire as his solos, recalls. “David’s personal assistant meets me at RCA Studios in New York, and she walks me not to the control room, which is dark, but into the main studio. I get out my guitar and I hear a voice with an American accent saying, ‘Hey, how ya doin’? Put the headphones on. We’re gonna play you some tracks, just play along.’ I say, ‘What key are they in?’ He says, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ And he just starts rolling tape! I’m playing over tracks from \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em>, which [hadn’t been released yet] — I’ve never heard these songs, I don’t know what I’m doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out there for maybe 15 minutes and there’s a little bit of chatter between me and this American guy — who turns out to be [longtime Bowie producer] Tony Visconti — and about two minutes later Bowie walks in,” he continues. “We hung out for about half an hour, fiddling around with guitars. His assistant says, ‘We’ll call you in the next couple weeks.’ But the phone rang the next day and they said, ‘If you want it, you got it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the following weeks, the band — filled out by saxophonist Richard Grando, percussionist Pablo Rosario and backing singer Gui Andrisano — worked up radically new arrangements of Bowie’s catalog, which were strongly influenced by New York City nightlife. Bowie had become friends with guitarist Carlos Alomar — a veteran of James Brown’s and Wilson Pickett’s bands, as well as the Apollo Theater’s house band — who took the singer to the Apollo and elsewhere to see The Temptations, The Spinners and Marvin Gaye; he also hit Latin clubs and other nightspots in the city’s budding disco scene, as well as rock haunts like Max’s Kansas City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That influence was immediately felt not just in the soul covers the band played on the first leg of the tour — Eddie Floyd’s 1966 classic “Knock on Wood,” the Ohio Players’ 1968 song “Here Today and Gone Tomorrow” — but also in the reinventions of Bowie’s catalog, which went far beyond the blistering power-trio rock of the Ziggy era. “Aladdin Sane” received a Latin treatment driven by Garson’s manic piano; “Jean Genie” slowed to a lounge crawl on the verses and completely dispensed with its signature riff; even the brand-new “Rebel Rebel” got a looser tempo and jazzy backing vocals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was hanging out a lot in New York,” fan Kathy Miller recalls. “I remember seeing him and his entourage snowed in during a blizzard at a [April 22] New York Dolls show at Kenny’s Castaways, and friends of mine saw him at Puerto Rican discos, black discos. So it was not such a shock to New Yorkers that he gravitated toward that kind of music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After dress rehearsals at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, N.Y. — “Two days? Maybe more, because that was one complicated f- – -ing thing,” Slick says — the entire production headed up the Northway to Montreal for the first of what would ultimately be 30 dates of the initial leg of the \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> tour. Not surprisingly, the opening night had more than a few rough spots. The sound system was distorted, and the catwalk plummeted dangerously to the stage floor with Bowie on it, a problem that happened more than once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kinks were gradually worked out and the tour carried on across the Northeast and South, playing major venues — Cleveland’s Public Auditorium for two nights, Detroit’s Cobo Hall, Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium — but also many smaller, less-likely markets and theaters, like Charleston, W.Va.; Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; Norfolk, Va. While most nights went off without a hitch, the complexity of the set continued to cause problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Norfolk show, Rob Holland, then 14, recalls, “I remember the cherry-picker got stuck: It moved for a minute and then it moved again to the side of the stage, but then it got stuck and he had to get off of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On at least one other night, the cherry-picker extended to its full length but failed to retract, leaving Bowie stranded over the audience. “When he finished the song he had to shimmy along the [cherry-picker’s hydraulic] arm back to the stage,” Tony Visconti writes in the \u003cem>David Live\u003c/em> liner notes. “Members of the audience were standing on their seats trying to grab him and pull him down. On that night, this was perceived as part of the show: David made it seem to look that way, climbing back in a dramatic, purposeful way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many were dazzled by the stage and the theatrics, some weren’t so impressed. “I really liked the set, but I’ve always felt it would have been a much better show if they had really exploited it, doing \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> semi-theatrically and really using the staging,” John Neilson says. “He did use it for ‘Sweet Thing,’ but the rest of the time it just sorta loomed in the background. It was a kind of wasted opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brad Elvis, formerly of The Elvis Brothers and currently in The Romantics and The Handcuffs, caught shows in Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio. “It got a good reaction, but it wasn’t like pandemonium,” he remembers. He and a couple of friends did, however, spend time with Bowie and band members at a hotel-room party after the Toledo show — where he witnessed the growing R&B influence firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were about five other people in this cramped little room, and they had this big boombox,” he says. “Kind of dancey R&B was playing, and one of the [backing singers] was showing Bowie these dance moves. Everybody’s dancing, having fun, getting loose, except us — we’re watching, wide-eyed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10137766\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/105742923_master_vert-31c00bc8e6efa97f3c636bad2fe55b57d5919d3d.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/105742923_master_vert-31c00bc8e6efa97f3c636bad2fe55b57d5919d3d-400x532.jpg\" alt=\"David Bowie onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 20, 1974\" width=\"400\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10137766\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/105742923_master_vert-31c00bc8e6efa97f3c636bad2fe55b57d5919d3d-400x532.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/105742923_master_vert-31c00bc8e6efa97f3c636bad2fe55b57d5919d3d-225x300.jpg 225w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/105742923_master_vert-31c00bc8e6efa97f3c636bad2fe55b57d5919d3d-1080x1440.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Bowie onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 20, 1974 \u003ccite>(Ron Galella/WireImage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Occasionally parts of the set would be too large for a venue, forcing the crew to scale down the show, but only once on the tour’s first leg did Bowie perform without it completely. En route to Tampa, Fla., one of the drivers was stung by a bee and crashed a truck carrying key elements of the set into a swamp. Cancellation was considered but “David would not hear of it,” according to an announcement made to the crowd, and the show proceeded. During the set Bowie apologized for it not being “the show I’d hoped to bring you” and played a rare encore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the tour’s first leg reached its home stretch in mid-July, with a run of six shows at Philadelphia’s fabled Tower Theater, the show was beset by a problem that had nothing to do with technology. Eager to get a live album on the market before the tour concluded, Bowie’s then-manager, Tony Defries, arranged to have the Tower shows recorded. Live recordings ordinarily entitle the musicians to a much higher fee than Bowie’s touring group was receiving (Slick recalls getting $300 per week), but Defries attempted to sidestep that issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back in the day, if you were recording, there were two microphones on everything: one would go to the [venue’s] sound, and one would go to the [mobile recording] truck,” Slick says. “At sound check, I didn’t think anything of it, but Herbie picked up on it right away. Tony Defries was one of the biggest f- – -ing shysters on the planet, and [earlier that day] I had gotten a letter pushed under my hotel door offering me $300 basically to give my rights over. Not long after that, Herbie is on the phone with everybody saying, ‘This is bulls- – -, we’re not gonna do this.’ Basically, with Herbie being the spokesperson, we said we ain’t going onstage until we get an agreement for X amount of money, period. They agreed to it, we signed it — and we didn’t get paid, so we sued David. We won, but it took a long, long time to get the money. I know David pitched a serious fit on Herbie, and I think he was kinda s- – – -y for a couple of days, but then everybody got past it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the bad vibes come through on \u003cem>David Live\u003c/em>, released in the fall. Bowie’s voice is strained, and the band, while competent, played better on other nights of the tour, as bootleg evidence shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tour wrapped with two nights at Madison Square Garden, Bowie’s first performances at the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stage show got a lot of advance buzz,” Kathy Miller remembers. “We couldn’t wait to see this set, and it really lived up to the expectations, it was gorgeous. But the [cherry-picker] reminded me of a telephone repairman — it was not glamorous; it was actually very \u003cem>Spinal Tap\u003c/em>! It looked dangerous and rickety — there really was a sense of, ‘Oh, my God, is this going to work?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shows were a triumph, and an after party was held at The Plaza, during which Bowie, Mick Jagger and Bette Midler reportedly disappeared into a walk-in closet for an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was quite an unbelievable, unbelievable headache, that tour, but it was spectacular,” Bowie told Buckley. “It was truly the first real rock ‘n’ roll theatrical show that made any sense. A lot of people feel it has never been bettered. It was something else, it really was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite its enormous expense and problems, the tour helped drive \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> to No. 5 in the U.S. — by far his highest chart position at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>In early August, many of the band members gathered in Philadelphia to begin work on the album that would become \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em>, which is where the R&B transformation truly took hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Bowie had originally intended to work with the house band at the city’s Sigma Sound — which had spawned hits by The O’Jays, Lou Rawls, The Three Degrees and Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes — they were unavailable due to a scheduling conflict, and he brought in several members of his touring band, as well as some key new collaborators who would play a huge role in the album: Alomar; his wife, soul singer Robin Clark; and a young friend, future R&B superstar Luther Vandross. The latter two, along for the ride, were playfully riffing on one of the songs in the studio; Bowie loved it and had them sing on nearly every song. It was the first high-profile work of Vandross’ career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Bowie was raised on American R&B, like most British musicians of his generation — and he’d even performed James Brown’s “You Got to Have a Job” during the Ziggy Stardust era — the resulting sessions produced music that resembled nothing he had ever done before. Alomar, Sanborn and the singers became Bowie’s primary musical foils, often working in a soulful call-and-response role with him on songs like “Fascination” (a rewrite of Vandross’ composition “Funky Music”), “Somebody Up There Likes Me” and the title track. Bowie, fueled by cocaine, taxed the energy of the musicians by working largely from 11 p.m. until late the following morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The album sessions, which resumed in November and again in January, featured two more star appearances. Bruce Springsteen, whom Bowie had admired since seeing a New York performance in 1972, visited the sessions but ultimately did not contribute to Bowie’s cover of his “It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City.” More fruitful was a visit from Bowie’s new friend John Lennon, who was lured to the studio by being asked to contribute to Bowie’s excruciatingly overblown cover of Lennon’s “Across the Universe,” but ended up co-writing “Fame” — a studio creation conjured from Bowie’s cover of the Flares’ 1961 R&B hit “Footstompin’.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he dismissed the album as “plastic” not long after its release, Bowie later recanted. “In 1976 I spouted some nonsense about the album being ‘synthetic radio stuff.’ I don’t believe that for one moment now,” he told Buckley. “I was living and breathing soul and R&B at this time. I listened to nothing else. It became America for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>While Bowie’s cocaine appetite was severe before the ’74 tour began, it had escalated dramatically by the time dates resumed at the end of the summer. A brief second leg of the tour kicked off with a seven-night run at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, and it was at this time that director Alan Yentob interviewed Bowie and filmed the shows for the hourlong BBC documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnIBBkgkO5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cracked Actor\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. The Bowie on display there is an unsettling sight: fidgety, awkward and alarmingly thin and pale, he’s intelligent but remote and removed; at other times he’s in the throes of cocaine paranoia, wondering whether his car is being followed, sniffling and licking his gums. At one of the Universal concerts, captured on the \u003cem>A Portrait in Flesh\u003c/em> bootleg, Bowie speaks to the crowd almost exclusively in a bizarre pseudo-Italian accent, making inscrutable jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bowie that emerges in the documentary is so odd and otherworldly that it convinced Nicolas Roeg he’d found the perfect person to portray the alien in his forthcoming film \u003cem>The Man Who Fell to Earth\u003c/em>, which would mark Bowie’s feature-length debut the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the set and setlist were retained for the Universal shows and a few more Southwest dates, the show was completely re-conceived during a break over the second half of September. The city set was abandoned, and the new staging relied on dramatic lighting and clever use of silhouettes (a 50-foot shadow of Bowie was projected onto a screen behind the stage for “1984”). Bowie changed his wardrobe and hairstyle yet again, adopting a sweeping pompadour, jackets embellished with shoulder pads, a thick checkered tie, suspenders, baggy pants and occasionally a cane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of all, the band was overhauled to re-create the \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em> sound: Alomar, Vandross, Clark and three other singers who performed on “Young Americans” were brought on board; and Bowie recruited his fifth different rhythm section in a year’s time: rock-solid drummer Dennis Davis (who, like Alomar, would be with Bowie for the rest of the decade) and bassist Emir Ksasan. Garson was made musical director, and Bowie’s revamped backing band became the opening act for the tour, cruising through a 30-minute set of smooth takes on songs like “Stormy Monday,” The O’Jays’ “Love Train” and Vandross’ “Funky Music” before concluding, strangest of all, with a lite-R&B treatment of Bowie’s own “Memory of a Free Festival,” a hippie anthem from his 1969 \u003cem>Space Oddity\u003c/em> album. The crowds hated them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Bowie set that followed kicked off reassuringly with either “Rebel Rebel” or “Space Oddity,” it then headed straight into R&B and ballad territory: a funked up version of “John I’m Only Dancing,” a samba-fied “Sorrow,” “Changes.” Rocked-up versions of “Moonage Daydream” and “Diamond Dogs” were thrown in, but a huge dollop of the unreleased \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em> was aired on most nights — along with “Footstompin’,” which would form the basis of “Fame” — before the shows concluded with a one-two punch of “Suffragette City” and “Rock and Roll Suicide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tour, beginning on Oct. 5 in St. Paul, Minn., soldiered across the Midwest, East and South over the ensuing seven weeks, setting up residencies in several cities — seven nights at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, six in Detroit, three in Boston — before closing in Atlanta on Dec. 1. Bowie’s precious voice, ravaged by cocaine abuse and months of touring, was hoarse on at least a few occasions. Audiences were nonplussed at best by the new production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d bought a really glam outfit: a top with bell sleeves, skin-tight jeans and mile-high, red-leather platform boots,” recalls Lisa Seckler-Roode, who attended one of the Radio City shows. “People came dressed as Ziggy Stardust, with the Aladdin Sane lightning bolt on their faces. It was sort of like Wigstock: I remember the cops looking at the crowd and shaking their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But when Bowie came out in that suit,” she sighs, “I mean, he looked glorious, but it was such a change that the crowd was totally thrown — the atmosphere was just, ‘\u003cem>Huh?\u003c/em> What’s he doing now?’ In retrospect it was a very bold move, but the initial reaction was really confused. I remember going to school the following Monday: ‘How was the show?’ ‘It sucked!'”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/P8TnXRBkYt8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/P8TnXRBkYt8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Neilson recalls a similar reaction in Detroit. “The soul show threw everyone, since the album wasn’t out yet and there was a lot of new material,” he says. “The audience reaction was more polite than [hostile], for the most part, because obviously everyone loved Bowie and gave him the benefit of a doubt. But it was muted appreciation at best and probably some quiet disapproval.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one musician onstage shared the sentiment. “I gotta be honest with you, I wasn’t terribly thrilled with it,” says Slick, whose guitar roars out at a searing volume on bootlegs during the rare occasions he got the spotlight. “[During the opening set] there wasn’t a whole lot for me to do. For the Bowie set I was back on it, but even with that, the way it was being played wasn’t rock ‘n’ roll anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8TnXRBkYt8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appearance on \u003cem>The Dick Cavett Show\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, taped early in November during the Radio City stint, is fascinating, mixing new, (relatively) old and obscure: The band charges through a fast “1984,” Bowie straps on his Ziggy-era 12-string acoustic as the singers groove for “Young Americans,” and concludes with the still-unreleased “Footstompin’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Bowie is in strong form, if a bit hoarse, when performing, his interview with Cavett could function as an anti-cocaine ad. He fidgets relentlessly with a cane he used as a prop during the performance, sniffles and appears completely ill at ease — at one point Cavett asks him if he’s nervous. “Um … oh, let’s carry on talking,” he replies. “Don’t ask me that. Otherwise I’ll wonder, you see. I’d rather not know if I’m nervous until … ” he trails off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the interview, he’s perhaps most cogent when explaining his rationale for his new look and sound. “We did the \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> tour and took it from New York to Los Angeles, and I felt that that was enough, really. Rather than come back with the same thing, I wanted to give myself an opportunity just to work with the band. … I got a lot of fulfillment from working in productions like \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Ziggy Stardust\u003c/em>. But now that I’m working with just a band and singing, which is something I haven’t done for years, I’m finding a new kind of fulfillment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judging from the reaction of fans and the tepid-to-negative reviews the show received, Bowie’s audience was not yet ready for that new kind of fulfillment.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>Somehow, from such unpromising origins, from such a turbulent, tumultuous, drug-addled year — one that saw Bowie poised for enormous success yet opting not just to challenge his audience but almost to defy it — after 73 concerts and against daunting odds, the tour helped accomplish the ultimate goal: breaking David Bowie in America. \u003cem>Diamond Dogs\u003c/em> reached No. 5 on the Billboard charts. \u003cem>David Live\u003c/em> went to No. 8. The \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em> album hit No. 9, and the title track was his first U.S. Top 40 single, peaking at 29. And “Fame” was a global hit single, became Bowie’s first U.S. No. 1 and made him into a superstar. In 1975, he relocated to Los Angeles, launched his movie career, and became an all-around entertainer who appeared on both \u003cem>Soul Train\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Cher\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Despite its now-legendary status, Bowie’s 1974 tour is tragically ill-documented. Apart from fan-filmed super-8 footage, the only video documentation of the Hunger City set that has surfaced is Fisher and Ravitz discussing this scale model in the 1996 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qKP4oVraDA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC documentary \u003cem>Hang on to Yourself\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. (the \u003cem>Cracked Actor\u003c/em> documentary shows frustratingly little of the stage). Likewise, apart from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjoiIcF6s6Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one-minute-long, professionally filmed segment from a Radio City show\u003c/a> that aired in a VH1 \u003cem>Legends\u003c/em> episode, no footage from the soul concerts has emerged, although the \u003cem>Cavett\u003c/em> show at least documents some performances. While some sources say Bowie filmed rehearsals and the Garden shows, and the VH1 footage suggests there’s more somewhere, Slick says he has no recollection of any shows being filmed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while many, including this writer, consider \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em> to be his weakest 1970s studio album, that is hardly an insult. In terms of influence, it’s hard to know where to begin: Virtually every artist bearing a trace of white soul since its release — from Robert Palmer to Duran Duran, from George Michael to Robbie Williams and far beyond — owes more than a “sho’nuff” and some hair gel to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, \u003cem>Young Americans\u003c/em> and the Soul Tour were way stations: like everything Bowie had done before, he ingested and used them as a foundation for what came next. In this case, it was the pioneering ice-funk of \u003cem>Station to Station\u003c/em>, arguably one of his two best albums, and one that paved the way not only for thousands of artists who were influenced by it, but also for the brilliant wave of experimentation that followed over the next five years: \u003cem>Low, Heroes, Lodger\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Scary Monsters\u003c/em>. But that’s another story …\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sources: David Buckley’s stellar liner notes to the deluxe editions of \u003c/em>Diamond Dogs\u003cem> and \u003c/em>Young Americans\u003cem>, and Tony Visconti’s for \u003c/em>David Live\u003cem>; Kevin Cann’s \u003c/em>David Bowie: Any Day Now, The London Years 1947-74\u003cem>; Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray’s \u003c/em>David Bowie: An Illustrated Record\u003cem>; Chris Carter’s “\u003ca href=\"http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gouster/introduction.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Young American” site\u003c/a>; Chris O’Leary’s “\u003ca href=\"http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pushing Ahead of the Dame” site\u003c/a>; and especially Roger Griffin’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.bowiegoldenyears.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden Years” site\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Special thanks to Ira Robbins, Jennifer Kennedy, Julian Stockton and especially everyone who took the time to be interviewed for this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2014 NPR. 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