GET UP, STAND UP! FIRST AMENDMENT FIGHT FOLLOW THE TENTACLES A new wave of protest music sweeps the Bay P27 Should Citizens United be overturned? P14 H.P. Lovecraft movies possess local screens P26 CELEBRATING 45 YEARS THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN | SFBG.COM AUGUST 1 - 7, 2012 | VOL. 46, NO. 44 | FREE From panda porn to Lindsey Lohan: tweenthrob adult star James Deen redefines crossover. By Caitlin Donohue p22  SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN eDItORIAlS NewS FOOD + DRINk pICkS ARtS + CUltURe mUSIC lIStINGS StAGe lIStINGS ON the CheAp FIlm lIStINGS ClASSIFIeDS a l u n n A 5 t h e h T ! F I N A L R E D U C T I O N S ! N E W S H O E S A D D E D eDItORIAlS NewS FOOD + DRINk pICkS ARtS + CUltURe mUSIC lIStINGS StAGe lIStINGS ON the CheAp FIlm lIStINGS ClASSIFIeDS AUGUSt 1 - 7, 2012 / SFBG.COm  august 1, 2012 “good evening, Mr. Bond.” — HrH Queen elizaBetH ii iF i ran tHe sHow wHat iF Front-line Political activists were running san Francisco? by leah shahum guardian If I were in charge of San Francisco transportation policy, it would be common to see children playing intelligence on calm streets and neighbors interacting on wide, bustling sidewalks. Green space would abound where today sits dull, grey pavement. Sidewalk deeP Fried What you cafes would be overflowing. The jarring sounds Festival of traffic would be replaced by people talking and bike bells ringing. need to know It is possible. If San Francisco prioritized the Though Hella Vegan Eats’ pad thai health, safety, and happiness of our citizens by spring rolls and El Buen Comer’s making walking, bicycling and public transit the esquites — corn soup served with most convenient and well-supported ways to move cheese and mayo — made us swoon, garcon, tHere’s around, we would live in a far more accessible, Clairesquares’ deep-fried caramel thriving, affordable, and family-friendly city. pop stole the show at the media a ProBleM witH leah shahum Is executIve dIrector of preview for La Cocina’s Street Food My Bill the sf bIcycle coalItIon Festival (www.sfstreetfoodfest. com) at Fort Mason Center. The fest takes over the Mission August 18. Those deceptive “employee health” Start fasting now. surcharges that many restaurants viva el Pájaro! tack onto their customers’ bills Political alerts: are back in the news, with both Know tHy FarMer Sup. David Campos and the San nuclear BoMB Francisco Civil Grand Jury — which Hyperlocal is going virtual: the hun- anniversary just issued a scathing report detail- gry minds behind recently launched ing how many restaurants stiff “marketplace hub” Good Eggs edition their workers and simply pocket (www.goodeggs.com) want you the money — calling for the District to order your produce direct from On August 6, 1945, the United Attorney’s Office to investigate it as farmers in your area, and get to States dropped a nuclear bomb on consumer fraud. know a little bit more about where Hiroshima, Japan. Another bomb It’s bad enough that restau- your food comes from as well. Does fell on Nagasaki August 9. Bay Area rants are the only employers in town that mean no more cruising at the groups are preparing to remember that don’t simply accept the city’s farmers market? We sure hope not. the hundreds of thousands killed in mandate to provide some health the bombings and protest ongoing coverage to workers as a cost of war and environmental destruction. doing business. But to single out But will it Play in wednesday 1 this cost with a special surcharge — and then, in some cases, to just tHe sticKs? In my lIfetIme keep the money — is unacceptable Humanist Hall, 390 27th St., Oakl; and probably criminal. SF’s (probably) hippest restaurant, www.trivalleycares.org. 7pm, $5-10 District Attorney George Mission Chinese Food, just opened suggested donation. In My Lifetime is a documentary that chronicles the history Gascón could easily solve the prob- a second location in Manhattan, to of the nuclear era and explores alterna- lem. All he has to do it pick the most block-long lines and a rave review tives. Natalia Mironova from Movement egregious offender in the bunch After the city put her through the emotional and legal wringer, Eliana Lopez, wife of suspended Sheriff Ross from the new York Times, which for Nuclear Safety Russia is a guest speaker. and file consumer fraud charges Mirkarimi, had a subtle, perhaps subliminal message for Mayor Ed Lee — and this pic by Mike Koozmin not only gushed about its “riotously smoky sunday 5 -- and watch the entire industry drew attention here in town; we hear it’s circulating in Venezuela, where Lopez is busy filming a movie. housemade pastrami.” suddenly drop the practice. Go to foreclose on the bomb restaurants much, George? William Payne Park, Vasco Road and Patterson Pass Road, Livermore; www.trivalleycares.org. 4-6 pm, free. This protest, across the street from the willFul disregard dreaMing tHe ‘90s Lfeivaeturmreo lrivee N muuclseica,r sWpeeaapkoenrss, L aanbd, fwreilel food from Food not Bombs. Rides are PJ Johnston, the flak for the 8 available on the Occupy Oakland bus On the heels of their joint Best of from the MacArthur BART. Washington project, looked really the Bay award for the “Helicopter” candlelIght vIgIl stupid when he denounced the video (“Best Use of Classic Film Santa Cruz Town Clock, Mission and signature-gathering effort that Footage in Rap Music Video”), San Pacific, Santa Cruz; pup@skyhighway. forced the condo development to com. 7-9pm, free. This vigil at the Jose rapper Antwon and Oakland- the ballot. “The obstructionists sculpture Collateral Damage, dedicated based director Brandon Tauszik on the 50th anniversary of the bomb in ran the most expensive campaign last week released a similarly trippy 1995, will include music, poetry and ever to thwart the will of the Board candle lighting. collaboration, the sun-bleached of Supervisors,” Johnston told the ‘90s rap-referencing video for Monday 6 Examiner. “Living Every Dream.” Uh ... 31,000 San Franciscans shutdown not meltdown signed to put it on the ballot. That’s Check vimeo.com/46498434 Pacific Gas & Electric Co headquarters, against 8 supervisors. Whose will or brandontauszik.com. 2do4w5n Mnaortkmeet,lt SdFo.w 3n-@5pymah, ofroe.ce.o msh.u At- rally counts? complete with street theater detailing the problems with the nuclear industry.  san francIsco bay guardIan edItorIals news food + drInk pIcks arts + culture musIc lIstIngs stage lIstIngs on the cheap fIlm lIstIngs classIfIeds VALENCIA THESANFRANCISCOBAYGUARDIAN | SFBG.COM An independent, locally owned and edited newspaper CYCLERY “IT IS A NEWSPAPER’S DUTY TO PRINT THE EYECARE STORE NEXT DOOR. 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Offer expires 9/30/12. editoriAls news Food + drink picks Arts + culture music listings stAge listings on the cheAp Film listings clAssiFieds August 1 - 7, 2012 / sFBg.com  editorials in this issue The reAl MirkAriMi news P8 food and drink quesTiON P18 picks P20 eDiTOriAl After more than five arts and culture months of legal and political wran- P22 gling, criminal prosecution and a guilty plea, misconduct charges that Music listings 33 / filM listings 36 are costing both sides hundreds of thousands of dollars, and lengthy this week at hearings at the Ethics Commission, the case against Ross Mirkarimi comes down to a simple question: sfbg.coM Do you believe Eliana? Because if you believe Eliana Lopez, and, tangentially, Linette FOllOw us ON TwiTTer: Peralta Haynes, and take the testimo- www.TwiTTer.COM/sFBg ny the two women have given under ON The BlOgs oath as credible, then the entire prosecution turns into something between a misguided disaster and a politics mean-spirited political vendetta. Janitors continue pressure as the That’s what the Ethics close of their negotiations draws near Commission and the Board of Supervisors need to consider as they a wrap up on the Board of supervisors decide Mirkarimi’s fate. before its summer recess The way Lopez tells the story, ethics Commission set to rule on Mirkarimi was never a wife-beater Mirakarimi next week, stay tuned The CiTy COllege MissiON (as Mayor Ed Lee insisted). He didn’t have a history of physical violence or abuse. He grabbed her arm dur- ing an argument, and left a bruise. By AlisA Messler amount to tremendous hardships for job training and placement agency. Inexcusable, for certain, but not students, and garage sales and other City College’s partnerships with San OPiNiON City College is a beacon necessarily a sign of serious assault fundraising in the private sector Francisco’s restaurant and hospital- for all San Franciscans, from immi- — Lopez testified that she bruises so cannot replace $40 million in lost ity sector and other industries are grants and displaced workers to cash- easily that she just playing around state funds. So all of the college’s national models. noise strapped families seeking education- with her three-year-old son can employees—from tutors to librarians City College is using universal al opportunities for their children. leave marks on her. to custodians and engineers and access to education as a powerful Marke B.’s Party Radar has notes from The largest community and junior Lopez says that she made the IT staff and biology professors to engine of economic recovery. While the nightlife field college in America, with more than infamous video purely as a tool deans—have given back. many suburban junior colleges focus 90,000 students, City College touch- to keep around in case the couple Our must-see shows this weekend The accrediting commission on helping high school graduates es everyone in San Francisco. divorced and Mirkarimi attempted include Portugal’s Buraka som sistema, isn’t taking aim at the quality of make the transition to four-year col- La’s Bleached, and two Chicago acts: Not long after pundits mocked to use his status as a US citizen, education City College provides. leges and universities, City College hood internet and the Yolks Mitt Romney for encouraging whose son was born in the US, to Instead, the report focuses on severe is also teaching immigrants English, Americans to get “as much edu- gain custody of the child. She a look at how the musicians did at the budget problems caused mostly by helping welfare recipients transition cation as they can afford,” City thought at the time that her neigh- Olympics’ opening ceremonies state cuts, and then makes some to work, training those in recovery College of San Francisco was threat- bor, Ivory Madison, was a lawyer criticisms about political infighting to help their peers through drug ened with the loss of its accredita- who would keep the video confi- pixel Vision and weak leadership in the school’s and alcohol counseling, and boost- tion — in large part because the dential. She testified that she never top ranks. ing the skills of unemployed and what about mommy bloggers? an school is going broke. wanted to go to the police — and The crisis at City College is under-employed blue collar workers author explains the power of maternal City College has faced been five never felt afraid of or threatened by at the heart of a larger debate in so they can win increasingly knowl- prose straight years of drastic cuts in state Mirkarimi. America about access to opportu- edge-intensive jobs. funding — literally tens of millions She and Haynes also testified Meet the inspirational finalists in the nity. Education remains the most CCSF’s leaders must craft a plan of dollars. The result is overflowing very clearly that Mirkarimi never Oakland youth poet laureate competition significant factor in social mobility, to balance the school’s budget and classes, employee furloughs, pay even came close to trying to discour- and we maintain domestic tranquil- save its accreditation, and we will. Cheryl eddy on why you need to go see cuts and givebacks, and shutting age witnesses from coming forward, ity because most of our citizens We will find new revenue sources, the Queen of Versailles this week the doors on far too many students to dissuade anyone from telling the embrace the idea they can improve including passing a parcel tax this who are unable to get the classes truth to the authorities or in any sex sf they need. their lot in life with education. November. We will maintain acces- way to try to interfere with a police City College is living proof that sibility, educational quality, and our CCSF has held on by its finger- investigation. That’s consistent with Probably the only interview you’ll ever the theory works — but it requires mission as a Community College, nails, seeking ways to continue to all of the phone and text records. see with an actor who has experience money, people, and a commitment serving the entire San Francisco serve a broad range of student needs The sheriff pleaded guilty to in panda gang bangs to a broader mission. City College community with an essential and and maintain educational access misdemeanor false imprisonment, kelly Lovemonster reviews a new during these challenging budgetary isn’t just San Francisco’s biggest irreplaceable focus on low-income and that alone, the mayor argues, Naked sword release based on a times. school, it’s also the city’s largest and underrepresented students for should be grounds to kick him out “real” san Francisco sex party provider of English-as-a-second-lan- whom CCSF is the only option. 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But let’s remember: It’s Taqueria common to plead to a crime you (cid:35)(cid:80)(cid:81)(cid:86)(cid:74)(cid:71)(cid:84)(cid:2)(cid:47)(cid:81)(cid:80)(cid:77)(cid:71)(cid:91) didn’t commit in order to avoid EL CASTILLITO a trial on a more serious charge. Nobody really thinks Mirkarimi BUY 3 TACOS imprisoned his wife. The plea was GET 1 FREE fri 120 mINUTES the result of a deal that allowed him 8/3 SpEcIal gUESTS:mYKKI BlaNcO to keep his right to carry a handgun B*OnOe cToupTonO perM cusLtomEerS. TShi s ClocHatioIn PonlSy. $$7150 Bap4dm 1v1, aRNESdIdpENHTYdSJSIcSa4lN TTaHEmRUa3pRYTE, (necessary for his job) and to pre- & SALSA EVERY DAY! $10 aFTER plaNETdEaTH, NaKO vent all of this nastiness from com- laSERS & FOgBY FUTURE WEapONS, advTIxWWW.TIcKETFlY.cOm ing out at a domestic violence trial sat SpINNINg 60sSOUl 45s at which a guilty verdict would have 8/4 SaTURdaY NIgHT ended his career. 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It’s also worth asking why By Shawn Gaynor wanted to avoid that fight and find a business tax reform measure and Steven t. JoneS a compromise measure. that doubles the tax base — just [email protected] Meanwhile, Mayor Lee was 8.4 percent of businesses in San having trouble securing business Francisco now pay the payroll tax, San Franciscans are poised to vote community support for the hous- whereas 16.4 percent would pay this November on two important, ing trust fund that he pledged to the gross receipts tax that replaces complicated, and interdependent create during his inaugural address it — doesn’t increase its current ballot measures — one a sweeping in City Hall in January. So he modi- funding level of $410 million (the overhaul of the city’s business tax, fied his business tax proposal to $28.5 million comes from increased the other creating an Affordable bring in $13 million that would be business license fees). Some indus- Housing Trust Fund that relies on dedicated to the Affordable Housing tries — most notably the technology the first measure’s steep increase Trust Fund, but that didn’t satisfy and restaurant industries that have in business license fees — that the Avalos camp, who insisted the strongly supported Mayor Lee’s were the products of intense back- city needed more general revenue to political ambitions — could receive room negotiations over the last six offset cuts to city services and help substantial tax cuts. months. with the city’s structural budget Politics is about compromise, Mayor Ed Lee and his business deficit. and Avalos tells us that in the community allies sought a revenue- Less than a day before the current political climate, these neutral business tax reform measure competing business reform mea- fate of the two measures together at that July 24 meeting, that of Sup. measures are the best that we can that might have had to compete sures came before the Board of and creating a kumbaya moment at David Campos, who asked questions hope for and worthy of progressive against an alternative proposal Supervisors on July 24, a compro- City Hall that was reminiscent of and expressed concerns over wheth- support. And that may be true, but developed by Sup. John Avalos and mise was finally struck that would last year’s successful pension reform er this deal will adequately address it also indicates that San Francisco his labor and progressive allies, bring $28.5 million a year, with deal between labor and the business the “crisis” faced by the working will continue to be more welcoming who sought around $40 million in $13 million of that set aside for the community. class in a city that will continue to to businesses than the working class new revenue, although both sides affordable housing fund, tying the But there was one voice raised gentrify even if both of these mea- residents struggling to remain here.  SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN eDItORIAlS NewS FOOD + DRINk pICkS ARtS + CUltURe mUSIC lIStINGS StAGe lIStINGS ON the CheAp FIlm lIStINGS ClASSIFIeDS news for more news content visit sfbg.com/politics Soaring houSing coStS the San Francisco metro area, even Capped off last December by the foreclosure crisis and replenish the of this magnitude, you’re not going As Mayor Lee acknowledged dur- middle class San Franciscans have California Legislature’s decision to funds of a down payment assistance to be able to adjust it for some time, ing his inaugural speech, the boom a difficult time affording a modest dissolve the State Redevelopment program for those earning 80 to 120 so you want it to be right.” times in the technology industry apartment. For the city’s lowest paid Agency, a major source of money percent of the median income. The report that Campos request- has also been driving up commer- workers, even earning the country’s for creating affordable housing, San To do so, the city anticipates ed, which came out in the late after- cial and residential rents, so he’s highest minimum wage of $10.25 Francisco has seen a drop of $56 spending $1.2 billion over the 30- noon before the next day’s hear- seeking to create “housing for the an hour, devoting every earned dol- million in annual affordable hous- year lifespan of the program, with ing, agreed that it would stabilize 100 percent.” lar to rent still wouldn’t pay for the ing funds since 2007. a $20 million annual contribution business tax revenue, but it raised The median rent in San average small studio apartment. Trying to address dwindling the first year increasing $2.5 mil- concerns that some small businesses Francisco has been steadily rising, For those looking to buy a home funding for affordable housing, lion annually in subsequent years. It now exempt from the payroll tax jumping again in June an astound- in the city, it can be a huge hurdle the Board of Supervisors voted 8-2 would fold some existing funding in would pay more under the proposal ing 12.9 percent over June of last to put aside a down payment while on July 24 to place the Affordable with new revenue sources, including and that it would create big winners year, according to real estate moni- keeping up with the city’s high Housing Trust Fund measure on the $13 million yearly from the busi- and losers compared to the current tor RealFacts, leaving renters shell- rents. Almost 90 percent of San fall ballot. Only the most conserva- ness tax reform measure. Language system. ing out on average an extra $350 a Franciscans cannot afford a market tive supervisors, Sups. Sean Elsbernd in the housing fund measure would For example, it calculated that month to landlords. rate home in the city. The average and Carmen Chu, opposed the allow Mayor Lee to veto it if the between the gross receipts tax and Driven by a booming tech San Francisco home price was up 1.9 proposal. Sup. Mark Farrell, who has business tax reform measure fails. business license fee, a sample full industry and a lag in new housing, percent in June over May, climbing signaled his support for the measure, The board was forced to delay service restaurant would pay 69 per- the average San Francisco apartment to $713,500, or a leap of $50,000 was absent. consideration of the business tax cent less taxes and a supermarket 33 now rents for $2,734. That’s an per unit over last year’s prices. “Creating a permanent source measure until July 31 because of percent less taxes, while a commer- annual increase of $4,000 per unit In the 2010 census, before of revenue to fund the production changes in the freshly merged cial real estate leasing firm would over last year, in a city that saw the the recent boom in the local real of housing in San Francisco will measures. That meeting was after pay 46.7 percent more tax and a highest jumps in rent nationally in estate market, San Francisco already ensure that San Francisco is a viable Guardian press time, although with large engineering firm would see its the first quarter of 2012. Even prices ranked third in the nation for worst place to live and work for every- nine co-sponsors on the board, its business tax bills more than double. for the average studio apartment ratio between income and home one, at every level of the economic passage seemed assured even before Board President David Chiu, have edged up to $1,800 a month. ownership prices, behind Honolulu spectrum. I applaud the Board of the Budget and Legislative Analysts who has co-sponsored the business The affordability gap between and Santa Cruz. Supervisors,” Mayor Lee said in Office had assessed its impacts, as tax reform measure with Mayor Lee housing and wages in the city is But as the city leadership response. Campos requested on July 24. since its inception, agreed that it is a stark. Somebody spending a quarter grapples to mitigate the tech boom’s At the heart of the program, “I do believe that we have to ask “once in a decade reform,” calling it of their income on rent would need effects, the lingering recession and the city hopes to create 9,000 new certain questions when a proposal a “compromise that reflects the best to be making $85,000 a year just conservative opposition to new units of affordable housing over 30 of this magnitude comes forward,” sense of that word.” And that view, to keep up with the average studio. taxes have gutted state and fed- years. 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But he said everything they wanted. directly the working class of the city, est, after the board approves the the Chamber has long supported “We fared pretty well, the royal rather than supporting a business Backing the compromise measure. the switch and he was happy to see ‘we,’ with the mayor starting off class that he hopes will serve all the The business community and fiscal- But the business community a compromise. from the position that he wanted a people, the result might have been ly conservative politicians have long seems to be on board, even though revenue-neutral proposition,” Chris different,” Avalos said. “But what’s called for the replacement of the some economic sectors — including Daly, who unsuccessfully champi- significant is we have a tax measure city payroll tax — which they deride real estate firms and big construc- oned affordable housing ballot mea- that really is progressive.” as a “job killer” because it uses labor tion companies — are expected to “what’s sures as a supervisor before leaving Given that “we have an eco- costs to gauge the size of company’s face tax hikes. office and becoming the political nomic system that is based on prof- size and ability to pay taxes — with significant “The general reaction has been director for SEIU Local 1021, the its and not human needs,” Avalos a gross receipts tax that uses a differ- neutral to favorable, and I expect largest union of city employees. said, “This is a good step, better that ent gauge. But the devil has been in is we have a we’ll be supportive,” Jim Lazarus, Both sides say they gave consid- we’ve had in decades.” the details. the vice president of public policy tax measure erable ground to reach the compro- Chiu praised the “dozens and the housing crisis for the San Francisco Chamber of mise. dozens and dozens of companies Commerce, who participated in that really is “Did we envision $28.5 million The tax and housing measures that have worked with us to fine- certainly do address progressive crafting the proposal but who said in new revenue? No,” said Lazarus, tune this measure,” and press progressive” priorities — bringing in more rev- the Chamber won’t have an official who had insisted from the begin- reports indicate that representatives enue and helping create affordable position until it votes later this week. ning that the tax measure be rev- of major corporations and economic john avalos housing — even if some progressives Lazarus noted the precipitous enue-neutral. “But we also didn’t sectors have all spent hours in the express concerns that conditions rise in annual business license envision the Affordable Housing closed door meetings shaping the in San Francisco could get worse fees — the top rate for the largest Trust Fund.” complicated formulas for how they for their vulnerable, working class companies would go from just $500 Daly and Avalos also said the will be taxed, which vary by indus- constituents. now to $35,000 under the proposal, “I’m assuming it will pass. I don’t measures need to be considered in try. “I don’t know if the proposal going up even more in the future believe there will be any major orga- the context of current political and When the Guardian made a before us is aggressive enough as the Consumer Price Index rises nized opposition to the measure,” economic realities. Sunshine Ordinance request to the in terms of dealing with a crisis,” — “but some of it will be offset by Lazarus said. “We were never going to be able Mayor’s Office for a list of all the Campos told his colleagues on July a drop in the payroll tax,” Lazarus Labor and progressive lead- to pass — or even to craft — a mea- business representatives that have 24 as they discussed the housing said. ers also say the measure — which sure to meet all of the unmet needs been involved in the meetings, its measure, later adding, “As good He also admitted that the new exempts small businesses with less in San Francisco,” Daly said. “Given spokespersons said no such list tax system will be “hugely com- than $1 million in revenue and has the current political climate, we did exists. They have also asked for a CONTINUES ON PAGE 12 >> 10 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN eDItORIAlS NewS FOOD + DRINk pICkS ARtS + CUltURe mUSIC lIStINGS StAGe lIStINGS ON the CheAp FIlm lIStINGS ClASSIFIeDS