scholarly journals Dancing to Rock & Roll Poetry

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Christine Bacareza Balance
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Third World ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Jessica Hagedorn ◽  
The West ◽  
Pivot Point ◽  
Gangsta Rap ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Work Done

On October 30, 1975—a historical pivot point between 1930s film noir and 1990s gangsta rap— Bay Area poet Nashira Priester introduced to San Francisco State University’s (SFSU) Poetry Center audience the city’s latest musical outlaws: the West Coast Gangster Choir, a multi-racial ensemble of vocalists and musicians led by then-emerging poet Jessica Hagedorn. This article chronicles Hagedorn's development as a poet and performer, analyzing the cultural and political work done by the Gangster Choir as a Third World movement with an internationalist perspective on local issues.

Load Rating of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge West Span

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier E. Campos ◽  
Rafael E. Manzanarez
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Load Rating ◽  
Highway Traffic ◽  
The West ◽  
Design Intent ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Structural Capacity ◽  
Load And Resistance Factor ◽  
Floor System

<p>The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (SFOBB) West Suspension Spans connect downtown San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island (YBI) and is part of one of the main crossings in the Bay Area. Built in 1936, this historic structure has seen multiple design modifications during its life time, including: switching from fixed rail to standard highway traffic on the lower deck, a comprehensive seismic retrofit comprising the strengthening of truss elements and floor system with additional plates, replacement of rivets with bolts, and addition of utilities and maintenance equipment.</p><p>With the structure having exceeded its 80-year mark, it was deemed necessary to evaluate the structural capacity of the bridge and understand the effect of future modifications on the West Span to meet current demands.</p><p>The load rating on the superstructure was performed based on the AASHTO Load and Resistance Factor Rating (LRFR) method. Some of the highlights of the work included running complex analyses to capture changes in the structure’s loading, seismic retrofits, and any other alteration since 1936. Understanding the bridge design intent and interpreting multiple historic code provisions made this a noteworthy challenge to our team.</p>

scholarly journals The Impact of Targeted Trap–Neuter–Return Efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 2089
Author(s):  
Daniel D. Spehar ◽  
Peter J. Wolf
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
The West ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Feeding Regimen ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Recently, a growing collection of evidence that associates trap–neuter–return (TNR) programs with substantial and sustained reductions in community cat populations across a variety of environments has emerged. Peer-reviewed studies emanating from the northeastern, midwestern, and southeastern United States, as well as Australia, document such reductions. The present study expands upon this body of evidence by examining the impact of a long-term TNR program on a population of community cats residing on a pedestrian trail adjacent to an oceanic bay located on the West Coast of the U.S. A population of 175 community cats, as determined by an initial census, living on a 2-mile section of the San Francisco Bay Trail declined by 99.4% over a 16-year period. After the conclusion of the initial count, the presence of cats was monitored as part of the TNR program’s daily feeding regimen. Of the 258 total cats enrolled in the program between 2004 and 2020, only one remained at the end of the program period. These results are consistent with those documented at the various sites of other long-term TNR programs.

A Qualitative Study of Ecstasy Sellers in the San Francisco Bay Area

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheigla Murphy ◽  
Paloma Sales ◽  
Micheline Duterte ◽  
Camille Jacinto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Bay Area

The “Japanese Turn” in Fine Dining in the United States, 1980–2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Samuel H. Yamashita
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Further Training ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Wide Acceptance

In the 1970s, Japanese cooks began to appear in the kitchens of nouvelle cuisine chefs in France for further training, with scores more arriving in the next decades. Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, Joël Robuchon, and other leading French chefs started visiting Japan to teach, cook, and sample Japanese cuisine, and ten of them eventually opened restaurants there. In the 1980s and 1990s, these chefs' frequent visits to Japan and the steady flow of Japanese stagiaires to French restaurants in Europe and the United States encouraged a series of changes that I am calling the “Japanese turn,” which found chefs at fine-dining establishments in Los Angeles, New York City, and later the San Francisco Bay Area using an ever-widening array of Japanese ingredients, employing Japanese culinary techniques, and adding Japanese dishes to their menus. By the second decade of the twenty-first century, the wide acceptance of not only Japanese ingredients and techniques but also concepts like umami (savory tastiness) and shun (seasonality) suggest that Japanese cuisine is now well known to many American chefs.

Cyborg Jotería Pedagogies: Latinx Drag Queens Leveraging Communication Ecologies in the Age of the Digital and Social Displacement

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-66
Author(s):  
José Ramón Lizárraga ◽  
Arturo Cortez
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Drag Queen ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Online Presence ◽  
Drag Queens

Researchers and practitioners have much to learn from drag queens, specifically Latinx queens, as they leverage everyday queerness and brownness in ways that contribute to pedagogy locally and globally, individually and collectively. Drawing on previous work examining the digital queer gestures of drag queen educators (Lizárraga & Cortez, 2019), this essay explores how non-dominant people that exist and fluctuate in the in-between of boundaries of gender, race, sexuality, the physical, and the virtual provide pedagogical overtures for imagining and organizing for new possible futures that are equitable and just. Further animated by Donna Haraway’s (2006) influential feminist post-humanist work, we interrogate how Latinx drag queens as cyborgs use digital technologies to enhance their craft and engage in powerful pedagogical moves. This essay draws from robust analyses of the digital presence of and interviews with two Latinx drag queens in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the online presence of a Xicanx doggie drag queen named RuPawl. Our participants actively drew on their liminality to provoke and mobilize communities around socio-political issues. In this regard, we see them engaging in transformative public cyborg jotería pedagogies that are made visible and historicized in the digital and physical world.

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