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it features archival audio as well as interviews with living artists.e can be accessed on site by dialing the telephone numbers located near the artwork or by visiting the commission's web site. the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit >> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a li

the archival research that underlines the narrative is truly phenomenal.richard, you refer to the principles that appear in your story as my guys and you have kind of a begrudging fondness for them. when you touch on them, you enter into this very, very controversial area of corruption and how corrupt they were. i'm reminded of something smart way inside, perhaps in the famous novel he did with charles w. warner in the gilded age which gave him a name in the area someplace. he said america has no native criminal class except for the united states congress. they think the other one was i want many congressmen who is an sop, but why do i repeat myself? and there's more than a little of that flavor in your book. so maybe we want to say a little something about what you mean by corruption, the word that he fears if not on every page very frequent in your account. notion of corruption is corruption of the body of politics, the politicians were for sale, definition of an honest congressman. it was the political round in particular. you have some of that on your

it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store.wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of

not many in the railroad archives. plenty of people in the nineteenth century. >> we have come to be point in our program where there is time for one last question. kind of a big question. i will paraphrase several versions of it that came up from members of the audience. one standard narrative of the transcontinental railroad is it is the first in a series of federal investments in the development of the american west. federal nation building that extends from the transcontinental railroad itself to federally subsidized through the great hydro projects of the early and middle 20th centuries. the interstate highway act of the 1950s and the federal subsidies for high-speed rail in california. some would argue there's a direct genealogy here and all these are part of a long-running historical project to invest in the kind of communication and transportation and energy producing infrastructure that made this region. to the extent that is the story the initial sense of this process was misplaced at this time. should we ext

it features archival audio as well as interviews with living artists.can be accessed on site by dialing the telephone numbers located near the artwork or by visiting the commission's web site. the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit >> about four years ago, [inaudible] look at how beautiful this was. there is our relationship to the planet. these regions are the wealthiest, the most powerful. that really has impacted the planet. it is almost impossible now to go anywhere and had it really be completely dark. there are very few locations that you can find. that means our relationship to the sky, there is a way where we dominate the sky. we cannot see anything really. we are blinding ourselves in a way. >> you can look at the images, they are beautiful. when i started four years ago, there was a conversation about environmental issues that was very different. this is not being talked about in the way it is now. . this has just been like an amazing growth. i anticipa

those documents i located in the atomic energy commission archive. i even located photographs, edited looking like anyone else had looked at them. and i actually had a difficult time trying to find them. but once i was able to find someone who had knowledge of that and knew it had been declassified, i was able to talk freely with him about that program and he was able to give me some keywords that allowed me to look at the program and access it. the program is called project 57 but everything was classified under 57 project. so all of the programs that i talk about, except for the program in the end, have actually been declassified. it's just that a lot of them are kind of hidden or perhaps people were not interested in them in and of themselves. i think part of what makes my book interesting is that i try to give you the whole landscape of area 51 and its nearest neighbors and what was going on there. >> another one about the aliens who were according to your source not aliens at all. whether autopsies done on the roswell victims? according to his s

i go into the archives. what i really want to do is get to know people.i can say this to david or other historians any audience and they know what i mean, otherwise it seems strange. the people i write about are more real to me than most other people i see on the streets every day. this is something that scares my wife. she's gotten used to it. after all, these years. that it really is true. and what you began to do when you know you know them, is when you get to a situation and you can predict what they're going to do and they do it at that point you think okay, i really have reached some kind of understand much of the research ideas technical and railroad issues. i read other peoples notes. that's what i do. in 19 century, the thing i liked about these guys is i really came to respect the business letter. it's to the point that it's not long. it has to be pithy. it goes right into the other things i can, guys honest. but i would call confront. they say things i could live they were saying anti-come to the bottom of the letter and it says destroy this le

have a lucian was the name given to the events when the first targets president ask archive was stripped of power in two thousand and five this flower is one of the country's symbols. i. know there were no fountains here back then but the square was absolutely flooded with people at the time. about twenty five thousand i think. we joined the crowd as it headed for the white house. alexander even though remembers the great enthusiasm but engulfed people gathered in bishkek central square in two thousand and five. after a enforcements from the south came demonstrators broke into the presidential palace in bishkek. but we realized that the house of cards was falling apart. that inspired us with the hope that the president would step down. but everybody was in a state of euphoria. when president i kind of left the country coming back baccy of came to power. the euphoria that characterized the chill of revolutionaries began evaporating only a year later when the new president chose to pursue the same policies that eventually toppled his predecessor. gave top government posts to relatives and

this next piece actually another one of the beautiful gems that i found in new york in a yiddish archives it's been lost for so many years. i was lucky to perform it in new york for october for a big jewish audience and people fell in love with it. it's a true story and something that still exists now. this means god watches over -- this piece a girlfriend her boyfriend goes to war and she says, i was lucking to be in love for a little while. i had love and everything i could ever want and now he's off at war and i'm alone. and i don't know what will happen after this. will he kill another mother's child. will i have to live with that? god watch over my belove ed and all the mother's sons. [music] [applause] >> so, not sure how much time we have left? keep going. all right. right? all right. so the next few pieces i wanted to tell you about. one is by [inaudible] and the other is by the same composer that did [inaudible] those conductors the father of russian music. know this song is not a song that was a yiddish it was a russian song and translated to yiddish because people loved it so m

using archival images and artifacts, had designed 16 intricately woven tapestries that are inviting of significant events that shaped the hospital and the community over time. a >> it attracts a lot of visitors, and they are all and all - -in aw -- in awe over the variety of mediums used. >> i think we have given the city of san francisco and the residents an incredible art collection. it really encourage people to come and visit the new facility, also to see the arts. >> for more information, visit sfartscommisis >> hello, everybody. this is john from the city of san francisco. we're going to do some introductions here. the phone lines are open right now. i'm going to speak for a few minutes. i am going to hand it off to gail and then hand it off from shawn from i.d.c. after that we'll open up the lines for just a more roundtable conversation and questions. if you could keep your phones muted for a few minutes until we're done with some opening remarks, i think that will make it more convenient for everybody to hear some of the comments before we get started. is that ok? so thank you,

this next piece actually another one of the beautiful gems that i found in new york in a yiddish archivesen lost for so many years. i was lucky to perform it in new york for october for a big jewish audience and people fell in love with it. it's a true story and something that still exists now. this means god watches over -- this piece a girlfriend her boyfriend goes to war and she says, i was lucking to be in love for a little while. i had love and everything i could ever want and now he's off at war and i'm alone. and i don't know what will happen after this. will he kill another mother's child. will i have to live with that? god watch over my belove ed and all the mother's sons. [music]

for future historians this would be a valuable archives. congressman sitting next to be looked at me and said are you keeping a diary? i said yes. this could be important history. he shook his head had said that violates the pact would rule. you can't keep a diary. i said what is the pack would rule? he says they can subpoena would you don't write down. look around a room. you see anybody else keeping notes? and looked around vote room and occasional from a doodle or something i didn't see anyone else doing it. i said that is interesting but this is important so i kept writing. he said dumb ass. that was his impression. but i felt this would be a very important archive. the question is why publish this now? whar not doing 11 or 12 years ago? i had a number of people in a publishing contract. everyone knew are was keeping a diary after a while and people seemed not to care. it became background noise. after president clinton's impeachment 12 years ago i had a bunch of publishers say this would be a great book and i refuse to write the book.

using archival images and artifacts, had designed 16 intricately woven tapestries that are inviting ofignificant events that shaped the hospital and the community over time. a >> it attracts a lot of visitors, and they are all and all - -in aw -- in awe over the variety of mediums used. >> i think we have given the city of san francisco and the residents an incredible art collection. it really encourage people to come and visit the new facility, also to see the arts. >> for more information, visit sfartscommis >> i just want to make a public statement to acknowledge that appointments to the police commission and any commission which is a policy-making body is very important. i want to encourage about keep in front of our minds the importance of not only to elect women, but to work to get more women appointed to these bodies that help make legislative decisions for our city and county of san francisco. >> i am from san francisco. i grew up in the local neighborhood. i did my under deprad wait work at fisk university, where i studied political science with a concentration in public admin

the archives look at how the federal government has imposed what we put on our table with a special spotr present. >> one of the recipes we have here is for kenner knowledge chile, which was a favorite is his. it was so popular that they had cards printed up to sound out. >> this vegetable soup as the position of a five-star general for dwight eisenhower. >> he worked very hard to polish his craft. he often cooked as a form of relaxation. >> other presidents inspired americans to try new things. the simple dishes of the carter white house introduced to grits into the diets of many. but when eleanor roosevelt hired the family's longtime housekeeper to do their white house cooking -- >> president roosevelt complained bitterly about her cooking. -understand that people attended the state dinners did as well. >> . -- >> they got a place setting in history. >>> it became popular in the 1970's, but the techniques are centuries old. a transcendental meditation helps soldiers >>> more than 20% of soldiers returning from afghanistan suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. a new research sugge

using archival images and artifacts, had designed 16 intricately woven tapestries that are inviting officant events that shaped the hospital and the community over time. a >> it attracts a lot of visitors, and they are all and all - -in aw -- in awe over the variety of mediums used. >> i think we have given the city of san francisco and the residents an incredible art collection. it really encourage people to come and visit the new facility, also to see the arts. >> for more information, visit sfartscommissi

one archive became really valuable at the wisconsin historical society. i found some wonderful materials about and by people who knew and were friends with the dodds in berlin. that is invaluable when somebody else tells you about the key actors in your book. that was in madison, wisconsin, of all places. >> to go back to 1933. connect the dots. you have dodd in the american embassy in germany. hitler is not the top dog. >> he is not the top dog again. he will be sent. >> back in the united states, you have the president. >> and you have the pretty good club. a man came up -- to describe the nature of the diplomatic corps, it was very clubby. the senior guy was typically wealthy hand had gone to all the right schools, harvard, princeton, so forth. they kind of came from the same world. they knew each other. many were independently wealthy. most ambassadors prior to dodd were independently wealthy. most ambassadors prior to dodd were independently wealthy. the club by the extends to the fact that, if you were not of that class, that character person, you w

the ground is soft, not frozen and you don't even need an overcoat. >> from the archives it appearedy never phoned it in even when had to cover the his tear yao serri then teen idol rex smith. >> what do you think? >> he is a good singer and i love his eyes. >> still coming in like crazy. rex doesn't have writer's cramp yet and this thing could go on forever. i'm bill o'reilly. eyewitness news at the hartford civic center. >> he always had a message for the viewers. >> so the spirits around christmas seem to be alive and well in connecticut and we don't need a poll to tell you only pools drink and drive so be smart. >> there i am. >> always looking out for the folks then and now. >> looking out for the folks in connecticut. >> it was a close call between the 24r50e piece suit on the yellow sweater. >> powder blew. >> i still have that sweater. oz did i nelson gave it to me. >> along with the lost tapes did they find any of the lost hair? >> bill: look at that, hoover, cheap shot. >> you have the same inflections but your voice is deeper. >> i i'm much more macho. i got rid of the yel

it wasn't until i got to this part of the archive, which she had been a painter and all of a sudden there was this box of painting from pakistan that she is sent because she wasn't posted a painting. painting is considered forbidden in islam or at least enough variety of islam. and she's so secretly with sunday's paintings back to the new york public library. and the last been seen in the last box of her portfolio was dated september 11, 2001. so i thought, if she was alive on september 11th, maybe she's alive in 2007. so i wrote to her. and she wrote back. and so that's what i realized they had to go to pakistan. >> and in a nutrient is a biographer with a living subject, one cannot read the convert without thinking about the biographer's art. there is a beautiful passage in here that i wanted to share with you about that question. and this is in deborah's voice. anonymity is my vocation. i inhabit the last of my subjects until he can click on. behind the doors in a study, i wear them like a suit about today's close, telling their story, interpreting dreams, mimicking their voices as the

we before this commission into the archives. we're moving forward as if they have a permit. >> have they been paying their fees annually? >> there is no indication. as you know from the past, there is certain venues we inherited from the police department that are in this weird gray area. there were permitted -- but they were permitted in the kind of were not. -- and they kidn nd of were not. >> commissioner meko: they claim you have shut them down. i never heard any mention but we're being blamed for all sorts of things thatcommissioners camr for their ongoing leadership. the situation is indicative of what we could see from here on for the next coming year. askehas far as state funding is concerned. prop k funds will be even more crucial as they are stretched to keep programs going, keeping our on going for your use in place. this concludes my report. who, on behalf of director milosevic, will give a report? >> maria lombardo. you have the executive reporters report -- directors report on your desk. earlier this month, the dra

to cuba and began searching for missing pieces of my irish history in irish, cuban, and catalan archives to discover before me that i had a fascinating history of displacement and transformations in various geographic setings. my book, ticket it ride, is a personal journey towards the past and the present. there is no one but many places i belong to: havana, dublin, mahon, barcelona, and since the lay 80's, the bay area. so thank you very much. . >> i'm going to do this in about 5 parts. i hope you will bear with me. first of all, i want to thank cross roads for inviting me. it's a great pleasure for me to be here and i want to thank, in particular, professor mcfeek and hillary flynn, who made this possible. i'm going to first read from blood feud, sort of give you a small portrait of the protagonist in the novel. kenny had the soft, delicate looks of his mother, a girl who is grandparents came to america from the severity of rural ireland to the harshness of new york city in the 1890's from rough common family lorsed. he was quietly and lovingly by respectful parents. his mother was fra

the declaration of independence will be read the national archives of d.c.pace shuttle "atlantis" arrives at kg 45. >>> and president obama will celebrate the 4th of july with service members and their families on the south lawn of the white house. there will be a barbecue, concert, and fireworks. the event will be streamed live on whitewhite house.gov/live. >>> time to talk about money with kristie lu stout from hong kong. we've got nothing to talk about on this side. we have markets closed. markets in asia though doing first business. >> that's right. let's talk about asia first. there were solid gains as concerns over u.s. recovery eased. over in europe, higher but not by much. the ratings agency s&p has double blow to greek for an eventual end to the debt crisis. it says if a french plan to roll over visas go ahead it will cut the rater on the debt to "d," signalling a default. but they have been desperate to avoid it. the markets are closed for july 4th but the big news out of where you are this week will be the monthly jobs report on friday. ali? >> bu

i think the next clerk and the city will be much informed with having our process and having our archives to look too. >> and that is how san francisco government worked out the kinks, twists and turns, bombs in the road, to select its new interim mayor, ed lee. san francisco's first asian- american mayor. >> this has been an unprecedented and historic transition of power here in san francisco. i am so happy the board of supervisors came together to select an outstanding choice along many outstanding candidates to lead us over the next several years. >> over the past several months when this issue has come up, it had been agonizing. the board has been put into a difficult situation. there are a lot of differences of opinion on how to run the city, how to mass make a decision, who should be in place, 11 people to agree on that is a challenging thing. i think we have done the best we can do in the process, considering the difference of opinions. >> the people of san francisco can now choose their mayor, the direction they want to go. that is why this decision was so appropriate. >> the othe

using archival images and artifacts, had designed 16 intricately woven tapestries that are inviting ofignificant events that shaped the hospital and the community over time. a >> it attracts a lot of visitors, and they are all and all - -in aw -- in awe over the variety of mediums used. >> i think we have given the city of san francisco and the