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Where does Carnaval San Francisco's artistic director Roberto Hernandez stand on body paint? This 2006 Puerto Rican [to the right] standout or destaque could be found riding atop her float during the the second half of the parade with a a makeshift skirt covering parts of her costume. This is the most viewed Carnaval SF photo on flickr averaging over 20 pages views per day in the 10 months since it was first posted on June 12, 2007
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APRIL 2007
15 April
8 pm Grupo Falso Baiano Anna's Jazz Island, 2120 Allston, Berkeley "Choro, samba & baiao." $7 510 841-JAZZ
20 April
8 pm Dulce Pontes Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon, SF An eclectic Portuguese performer known for fado, Brazilian, and other styles of song, at the SF Jazz Fest. 800 225-2277
20 April
3 & 8 pm The Assad Brothers and the Turtle Island String Quartet Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness, SF Brazil's best-known guitar duo are featured by the SF Jazz Fest. 800 225-2277
MAY 2007
24 May
7 pm Grupo Falso Baiano Caffe Trieste, 2120 Allston, Berkeley "Choro, samba & baiao." free! 510 548-5198
JUNE 2007
1 June
7 & 9 pm Stephanie Ozer Quartet featuring Leny Andrade Barndiva courtyard, 9th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival, 231 Center, Healdsburg Reknowned Brazilian jazz/bossa/samba singer performs with Bay Area pianist Stephanie Ozer. Tickets on sale April 1st. $26
23 June
7 pm Carlinhos Brown plus Ojos de Brujo Masonic Center, 1111 California, SF Timbalada founder revisits San Francisco. $25-75 SF Jazz
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Rafaella Our TeacherMe and Rafaella Pre-Parade
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 Featured on the home page of Grants for the Arts is Carnaval San Francisco King but the Grants to Carnaval and other well established events have been frozen since the dot-com bust of 2000. This combined with a bureaucracy often aggressively seeking cost recovery for doing their jobs related to events has meant the City's role in maintaining healthy arts has been shrinking every year. In July of 2004, the Mayor's office ditched a plan to consolidate the two main City funded Art Grans organizations saying the matter still remained under study. A Feb 2006 report called for again creating a centralized department of culture and compelling politicians to stop diverting hotel tax funds away from the arts. The city now levies a 14 percent tax on all hotel rooms; in the past, about 40 percent of that went into the city's general fund and about 60 percent to everything from the arts to Moscone Convention Center and low-income housing. In recent years, that ratio has flipped: The city's general fund gets the larger share. "Heavens knows, in these times, when everybody needs money, the fact that we have a system in San Francisco that provides reliable funding for the arts is truly remarkable," says Ruth Felt, founding director of San Francisco Performances, a major concert presenter. "And we should be very careful about putting that in any kind of jeopardy." The current task force members were at pains not to revisit the old arguments that pitted smaller "community-based" groups against the major institutions and stirred up ethnic politics. "I think we're bifurcated in a way we weren't before," says Heather Kitchen, executive director of the American Conservatory Theater. "I feel saddened by where things seem to have been left. Others also describe the long task force meetings as divisive and dispiriting, around such issues as the distribution of city money to large and small organizations." Those large groups, which employ hundreds of people, get the fattest grants, but those dollars represent a small fraction of their budgets. Smaller groups get smaller grants, but they account for a far greater chunk of their budgets. Word from the mayor's office is that Newsom wants to move forward with a new centralized arts structure. As for the board, Ammiano expects the task force's recommendation to meet with approval, but with "the dysfunction around here, one never knows." |
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will change its policy on issuing laudatory proclamations after a gay
porn studio was honored last week without the mayor's knowledge, city
officials said Friday. Conservative activists and pundits nationwide belittled the city after Newsom's office declared Feb. 23 to be Colt Studio Day, honoring the 40th anniversary of a San Francisco movie company whose Web site invites visitors to "come inside to experience the hottest man-on-man action." The official document, bearing Newsom's name, was presented by a representative of the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services to the company during its anniversary party. It said Colt Studio "has produced movies that have entertained the gay community over the past 40 years" and has contributed to the city by bringing in "hundreds of millions of dollars in business" and "stimulating the job market and the local economy in general." Newsom's office issues nearly 2,000 proclamations a year, most covering such innocuous topics as Australian Heritage Day and Graffiti Watch Day. They are typically issued by the Neighborhood Services Office without the mayor or his top aides reviewing their content, which was the case with the document honoring the gay porn studio, Newsom's spokesman said Friday. But in the wake of attacks by conservative media figures such as talk show host Bill O'Reilly -- who said the proclamation reinforced San Francisco's reputation as the nation's "Sodom and Gomorrah" -- Newsom has decided to change the policy and have any potentially controversial proclamation cleared by either his chief of staff or director of government affairs. "If there are any questions about proclamations, they will be reviewed," said Newsom spokesman Nathan Ballard. "There's just going to be a stricter review process from now on." Ballard stopped short of saying the administration had made a mistake in honoring Colt Studio, but said, "The mayor is concerned about it. And we've changed the policy to reflect that." The proclamation was written by Neighborhood Services staffers after they learned state Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, and city Treasurer Jose Cisneros had issued similar commendations. |
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