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Another of the nine video shorts, created for singer Tim Redmond’s social media.
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Another of the nine video shorts, created for singer Tim Redmond’s social media.
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The flipside of San Francisco’s displacement crisis: The influx of the very rich
The best way to visualize this dramatic decline of the working and middle class and the rise of the affluent is by charting the overall change in numbers of households by income bracket from 2005 to 2012. As the graph below clearly illustrates, households earning below $100,000 a year have left San Francisco by the thousands while the affluent have flooded in in even greater numbers.
Explaining why SF has a housing crisis — and who’s at fault. In ten minutes Tim Redmond 48 Hills posted a video of Calvin Welch explaining the Bay Area housing crisis in 8m flat. It looks like they are making a series of it - tomorrow's video is slated to be "Why San Francisco can’t build itself out of this crisis."
Out of place
By Rebecca Bowe, Dylan Tokar, and Tim Redmond, San Francisco Bay Guardian (February 5, 2013)
In his State of the City address last week, Mayor Ed Lee cheerfully characterized San Francisco as "the new gravitational center of Silicon Valley." He touted tech-sector job creation. "We have truly become the innovation capital of the world," Lee said, "home to 1,800 tech companies with more than 42,000 employees — and growing every day."
From a purely economic standpoint, San Francisco is on a steady climb. But not all residents share the mayor's rosy outlook. Shortly after Lee's speech, renowned local author Rebecca Solnit published her own view of San Francisco's condition in the London Review of Books. Zeroing in on the Google Bus as a symbol of the city's housing affordability crisis, she linked the influx of high-salaried tech workers to soaring housing costs. With rents trending skyward, she pointed out, the dearth of affordable housing is escalating a shift in the city's cultural fabric.
"All this is changing the character of what was once a great city of refuge for dissidents, queers, pacifists and experimentalists," Solnit wrote. "It has become increasingly unaffordable over the past quarter-century, but still has a host of writers, artists, activists, environmentalists, eccentrics and others who don't work sixty-hour weeks for corporations — though we may be a relic population."
San Francisco Bay Guardian
The Guardian, Cine Cave, Known. Wk 30
 Smart – About a month ago, Tim Redmond left the head editor position at the SF Bay Guardian (my favorite local independent newspaper). What am I to do - the Guardian is practically my sole news source! Since it’s recent sale to SF Print Media Company, I’ve been skeptical about its integrity to independent progressive journalism. I haven’t noticed any content changes and still recognized many of the writers' names, and so I thought I was worried for no reason. Now Tim Redmond has left, leaving only a few names I recognize, and I have a scary feeling that my news source laziness must change. In order to keep a handle on the local politics and progressive topics, I’m going to have to read more than one news source. Sheesh, and just when I felt comfortably lazy and informed: timssanfrancisco.blogspot.com and sfbg.com.
Art – Comedy shows at Lost Weekend Video’s CineCave are terrific. A slew of shows happen in this intimate basement space, and I've had the pleasure of being on a few - most recently: Cynic Cave (a show put-on by Kevin O’Shea and George Chen). This show was particularly special because I shared the stage with some former SF comedians who are quickly rising on the national scale (Chris Thayer and Emily Heller), my comedy mentor (Paco Romane), and my family attended (see below)! I felt lucky in so many ways! All of the different experience represented on the stage that night really encouraged me in the craft, "yes, this is what we all do: hone, polish, edit, and work our material." I’m aware that is more of a personal reflection than a cold review, but I’m keeping it here because I want to promote the great shows in the Cine Cave: they brighten perspectives in so many categories! Check 'em out!
Heart – I just had a visit from my Mom and sister, and they were able to see my stand-up for the first time ever. Check-off a “being known by my family” box, on my list of life needs. It’s comforting that they were able to see what I actually do with the majority of my time: comedy entertainment work. Even though my comedy bits are not what my mother would prefer to listen to (due to my blue tendencies and her religious sensitivities) I’m glad to be open and honest with her. When I’m in my darkest place of depression, one of the stones around my neck is that my family doesn’t really KNOW me…consider that weight lessened by 2 stones. They don’t have to approve, but now they know. And that experience feels like love.
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This is how young writers live. We don't ask for much, writers. We don't need better iPhones or wifi at Union Square or tax breaks. What we need, and have always needed, is chaos, misery, and grit. We need places where money doesn't rule and where everything isn't comfortable. We need, more than anything, a kind of cheap that isn't cool. ...Writers need real cheap. They need $2 beers and $4 burritos and crappy places to live that cost less than you can make selling a story or two a month.
Tim Redmond, The Literary Life, SFBay Guardian