h brown: and when you look back at that person w that voice? >> ballsy. >> brown: llsy, yeah?ious, really. not for myself. probably very ambitious about the politics, trying to get something done, and reading everything and being on top of it, and in that sense, you know, >> brown: do you feel like t moment shaped you? or were you and others shaping it? >> well, that was a special period of time, during which this enormous amount of talent just exploded. and one of the problems now, is that people will look back and they want that now. and you can't have it, i mean, you can't have a repeat. mething new has to emerge.rm but yes, it me and i'm happy to say i helped form it. >> brown: these days, baez stays active in political causes, but warns people against romanticizing the 60s. she calls herself a "realist." >> we're fing a massive defeat if not the administration, and it's global warming. i don't know whether my grandchild is going to have a life, let alone a good life. my remedy for that is be in denial eighty percent of the time. >> brown: be in denial? that's how you feel

you're laughing.yo >> brown: but re still going to get out there on the bus?g to get on that bus pe it doesn't completely break my whole system. >> brown: last yea a baez releasalbum titled" whistle down the wind," ten songs by writers she admired. ♪ ♪ >> brown: it was her first y recording in trs and, she says, also her last. >> conceptually, it was like an echo to the first album, even down to the song josh ritter wrote, a folk song, "silver blade." and the first album had "silver dagger." ♪ ♪ >> brown: the earlier song was a traditional folk ballad of a wronged woman. the new one, captured on this music video, has a new twist. ♪ ♪th >> ifirst song, "silver dagger," of the young maiden, her mother's threatening her, "don't get married. the guys are all like yo father." and she caves, you know? e d then the new one, not at all. des off with the guy she falls in love with.o he turns out a rotten guy, and he rapes her in his castle. and instead of her crawling away to never again have anything tow doh a man, she stabs him in the back with a silver blade. and wh

we already have one. >> brown: "we can't sign-- we already have one." >> yeah.d look at the guys who were getting signed and, you know,'d have higher >> brown: for many in nashville, the lack of women's voices on the air came to a head in 2015. that's when a country radio consultant named keith hill told a trade newsletter tha maximize radio listenership, women should be like "tomatoes" in a larger "salad" of male artists... never played back to back, and never more than out 20% of the mix. those comments confirmed what many had long suspected-- that the lack of women on country radio was by design. >> it's kind of historically, kind of an accepted practice, thatf you play more women on your radio station, listeners will turn the channel, and your ratings will go down, which will affect your revenue. and it's-- as long as i can >> brown: but you're saying it's perceived economics. yodon't buy it? >> there's no research. there's no hard research to prove this. >> brown: the backlash to the remarks became known as "tomatogate," and galvanized women across the indu

for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in rotterdam, e netherlands.t >> woodruff: ton "brief but spectacular" features ichthyologist prosanta ischakrabarty, who studiesto help explain the evolution of t.human beings and the pla he's a professor and curator of fish at the museum of natura science and department of biological science at louisiana state university. >> every once in a while, you go to someplace new whereo one has been before, and you see something that is so d kferent that yw it's new right away. it's like, "what is this thing? this is so new, i can't believe it, i'm going to go home now and describe this thing before anyone else finds out about it. >> i grew up loving animals and nature despite growing up in queens, new york. and i went as a kid to the bronx zoo and the american museum of natural history and looked up at dinosaurs and blue whales and i never looked down. i just wanted to study biology. in the bigger schemetrying to understand who's related to i om on this planet. one of the things love to study are freshwater fishes. one

supervisor brown? >> supervisor brown: yes. i would like to make a motion to review and expand with amendments, please? >> president yee: what amendments are you making? >> supervisor brown: the actually amendments are before you. i would like to renew and expand the community benefits district. specifically i would like to district to remove the parcels 0 0768 and 0721 on the western most edge of the c.b.d. the engineering report is before you that reflects these changes. >> president yee: thank you. is there a second on this motion? >> supervisor haney: second. >> president yee: seconded by supervisor haney. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: can somebody describe to me what this is? i was in committee when we talked about it. i was in this chamber when representatives of s.h.n. thanked members of this board. mr. corgis, what the heck is going on here. >> i hope i have answers. those are good. so the districts obviously splits two supervisorial districts, district 8, which is supervisor haney, district 5, which is super

[applause] >> thank you, supervisor brown. and thank you to san francisco for being a place where doing something that is a little hard to figure out is not only tolerated, it's celebrated. and we have been doing this for a quarter of a century. when we started, we were prepared to go. but we are still here. and the city is still welcoming us. so even though we started out from kind of somber space over the years because it's san francisco it has transformed into a welcoming. it's still hard to figure out experience that people -- they just respond to it. it's a city that people come here looking for certain acceptance of alternatives and i just try and manifest that. and share it with people. give them an art experience that is not a commercial one, or you know, it's a body of work that people respond to. and as an artist, it's been a thrill to do it. and it's certainly a thrill to be acknowledged and honored for it by the city and the board of supervisors as well. so thank you. thank you for all of that and i'm going to let

supervisor brown? >> commissioner brown: thank you. i want to thank everyone for coming today and your time. i know the one minute is hard. we could be here for hours talking about this. i just also want to say this legislation isn't perfect. it is something that we are going to have to work on. i have to say, you know, from my years as legislative aid here and working on affordable housing and now as supervisor, the action that we take to address the racial equity in policy or funding priorities is really a gut feeling when we would do it. we would say this needs funded, this policy needs to be passed. a lot of times we didn't have the data to say is this really working. i think that was frustration for all of us doing this work. it was frustrating. the things we thought were great and would make a difference did not. i feel it is really important this offers of racial equity that they can actually shine the light and really get in deep and find out what do we need to do as policymakers and when we are doing the budgets? they are goin

it's like having a toolbox full of different tools. >> brown: but tools alone, auerbach says, aren'tugh to replicate what he calls "the famous music factories." >> i think when you start, you are attracted by all the light and all the faders, and all the knobs, and then when you getu down to it, alize it's mostly just the musicians, you know? >> brown: but then, we're in a studio surrounded by instruments, and gear. >> well, this is a city where tpeople know how to playm, >> brown: that's why auerbach started easy eye here, in 2017, by hauling some of nashville's best session musicians out of retirement. ♪ including billy sanford, who created one of the most famous riffs in rock history for roys orbison's hit "pretty woman". ♪ pretty woman yeah, i think everybody knows that. but that's you, huh? y >> that's me and two other guitar plers. ♪ >> brown: the easy eye houseba now includes sanford and keyboard player bobby wood: renowned session musicians who can improvise, collaborate, learn a part quickly, and recor eight songs in a day. >> you never know what's coming next. but, that's g

that's all i need to know. >> brown: okay. let's go to our next question. >> ovne of my faorite passages in this book is when big angel remembers his father saying to him, "tjuhis seconst became the past. as soon as you noiced it, it was already gone." the concept of time comes upn again and ag this book, and i was wondering if you could talk about that. >> time. >> brown: i love that question, because time is an essence of the book, also making fun of mexican time. >> right. big angel is obsessed with time. and that comes directly from my own father. people used to call my father "the german,"ecause he wa punctual. in fact, he was early to r.erything. so that bled ove and that line that big angel's father has said toim was something my father said to me. to me the ticking clock in thish is that we kn's going to die. he knows he's going to die, and he only has so much time to tryn to rectifything that he may have done wrong or any problems inhe family, which i think any of us who are parents, you knowe who were n our 20s ana n

supervisor brown? >> i just want to say that the districts that were the most supportive two, six, seven and eight were the most supportive on this area i don't want to, for my district, list out the commercial corridors like japan town and that. i am just worried about doing something like that would have unintended consequences. i'm not willing to do that if we are going to say, it's just district 5, i wanted to be district 5 across the board. i know that makes it very difficult for us to do this for other districts. >> i think, be advised that deputy city attorney gave we should not do this by supervisorial district lines. >> right. there are a couple of different ways to address it. you can aim commercial corridors or commercial districts. you could draw zone, not saying district 5, but a zone that the board spells out in this ordinance. any zoning ordinance, the board needs to be able to articulate a land-use justification for drawing the lines where you draw them. a justification that is not simp

brown aye. there are seven ayes and four nos with supervisor haney, mar, ronen and walton in the dissent. >> president yee: thank you. again, i want to thank everybody for this discussion and i want to say publicly, if it's not clear, that if nothing moves or very little moves in the next few months, then i am committed to supporting a commission for the march election. so, colleagues, right now, because we made this motion, we need to make a second motion which is to refer this item to the committee. so i'd like to make a motion. is there a second? supervisor fewer? can i take this same house, same call? >> roll call. >> president yee: that's right, roll call. >> on the motion to send item 22 to committee as amended, fewer aye. haney aye. mandelman aye. mar aye. peskin aye. ronen aye. safai aye. stefani aye. walton aye. yee aye. brown aye. there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: motion passes. again, thank you, everybody. madame clerk, let's go to our next item, i believe number 23. >> item 23 is

i would suggest we take the amendments by supervisor brown. my amendments are all around the issues that i discussed and simply stated are to let them opt in. so i take sou supervisor brown s the elected representative of that area. if the ncds and rusds need to be shrunk there and buffers gone away, sobeit, i welcome that. that may be true for other supervisor and other neighborhoods and communities. so i would suggest with duplicate the file no one file and add the amendments i'm offering. in either event, i've been informed that what supervisor brown has introduced today requires another hearing as a matter of law. is that correct? (please stand by). that would be what i suggest. so moved. >> i would take that without objection and then i would duplicate the file and make a motion to add my amendments which are before you. that overlaps and has different 24th street starts to go into the valley it's different than 24th street in the mission in terms of the issues that they might be facing in terms of the businesses that liquor licenses and

supervisor brown? >> supervisor brown: yes, thank you. kate, i cannot believe you are the fourth director for mayor's office of housing that i've worked with. now you're leaving. i remember when olsen lee was leaving. he was a policy wonk. i remember thinking, who is going to take his place that has his same lens of policy wonk? and lo and behold, there is kate. and, yes, your background, it absolutely reflects you being a policy wonk, but the thing that i really appreciate about you, kate, is that two qualities. one, you're really creative, trying to make sure that things work when we ask you. and then the second quality is you're very forgiving to us. when we do things, when we know you have said no, or i don't think so, or that is going to be really tough and we push it forward, you're very forgiving and then you actually come back and say, okay, we can make this happen, i figured it out. so thank you for that, kate. that is a quality -- those are qualities you don't find in a lot of people no matter where you work. and, again, along w

s ffrey brown visited him in nashville recentlypart of our ongoing ts and culture series, canvas. >> the idea here is to be able to see everyone, and make eye contact. i can even see the singer in the other room over there. >> brown: eclectic,ctional, ceand intimate: it's a spa thatt seems to sum up dan auerbach's philosophy for making music. ♪ be auerbach i known as one half of the two-man rock band, the black keys. as well as for his solo work. ♪ so but he's alade a mark as aod record er, as head of the label, easy eye sound, based here at his studio in nashville. it's a nondescript building-- a former call center-- but now the source of nearly a dozen albums in the past two years >> that drum booth, i set it up after muscle shoals sound. >> brown: it combines features of med recording studiosdi auerbach loves, such as muscleab shoals iama, a 1970s mecca for soul, blues, and rock. >> i did a lot of investigating, i went to memphis, and new york city, and l., and visited the classic rooms, and talked to the classic console makers.o andhis studio is hand- picked down to the wire, you

i am supervisor gordon marjoined by supervisor brown and peskin. we are also joined by supervisor fewer who is here to speak on the first item today. thank you to the committee clerk, john carroll and i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. those standing with no seat you need to go to the overflow room, the main board chambers across the hall. you can watch the meeting from there and also come over to speak when you have a opportunity to speak during public comment. it will be open in a few minutes. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: mplease silence cell phones and have your speaker cards to the clerk. items today will be on the july 23rd meeting. we have over flow seating arranged for the board chamber room 250. this room we may not have anyone standing and present in the room. if you are standing please move to the board chamber. >> chair mar: thank you. before we begin i want to thank the members of the public who have joined us today. we have four important items before us, and community members here to speak

brown: i have no idea.s far as i am concerned, yes area i have heard republican senators thank him today for his services. i don't know what this president is going to do. i don't know if anyone watching this show could make a coherent production of what the president might do. i am shocked sometimes that the appointed he criticizes them in such a nasty way. , he criticizes his own attorney general. don't understand appointing someone to be on your team then publicly trying to humiliate them. i don't understand the behavior. >> thank you for coming to talk to us. senator brown is a ranking member of the senate hanging committee. ambassadorshe was an at the beginning of the trump administration. she joins us next. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> you're watching balance of power. i'm david westin. our guests served as u.s. ambassador to mexico. now to bloomberg. she joins us from washington. thank you for joining us. let's start with big news out of mexico which is the resignation of the minister of a finance. what i

i love stanley kubrick-- >> brown: the director. >> yh. he would do his raw picture, he would do science fiction, hek would do dmedy. my approach-- a zombie novel, historical fiction, my short book about the world series of poker-- how can these different forms allow me to evolve as a storyteller, but also attack different parts of the world? >> brown: i don't know if you started out with some kind of sense of purpose or mission. on you see a story that co whitehead has been writing? >> it's about race in america. me sort of stepping back and trying to figure out how things work. aand maybe it's capitalis maybe it's race. and maybe it's just the weird places our heart takes us. >> brown: so with "undergroundpu railroad"-- thtzer, national book award, more than a million copiesyoold. that putin a different category of writer, right? >> well, i take now like one depressive nap a day as opposed to two.. you know, definitely the year after all that great stuff happened, i was in a really good mood. i've been working for 20 years, and i've had

p. >> thank you, supervisor brown and good afternoon. i'm here tuke about the small business streamlining legislation. little bit of background how this legislation was developed. in february of 2018, they stated a retail sector and among the key findings from that study is that right tailer retailers aret hosting event and entertainment and that land use regulations and permitting requirements can add significant costs and time and also limit neglect to adapt to changing economic conditions. those were the study's findings but they were working one-on-one across the city in navigating the permitting process and additionally, findings are supported by the bla report that was requested by supervisor mandleman, that the time line can be nine months for a business to open without a conventional business use and those are averages. 1 month some are significantly . when we're talking about the storefront vacancy issue, we're talking about getting tenants to fit storefronts and cutting down the length of time to open and saving businesses time

we will be doing that again in partnership with supervisor brown's office. and continue the city wide campaign which is getting consumers to be responsible and bringing their own bags, reminders. this all really fits under the overall goals and we have pivoted away from zero waste into generation reduction. so one of the big goals is not stop telling people, but focus the attention on what we're reducing as opposed to the energy into recycle and compost more. this is about the 10% overall generation reduction goal that was announced by our mayor during the global climate summit. we also wanted to thank the business community, the small businesses in particular, whofsh fantastic partners in recycling and composting with a huge amount of work in that area. way over 90% participation in the composting programs and really the city wouldn't a deserving community and so we thank you. i am happy to take any questions. >> commissioner dwight. >> well, i shop in a market that provides compostable bags for produce, and i will say that we use them, so testimony to the

. >> supervisor brown: thank you. the divisadero farmer market is important to me. i was legislative aide and i helped open this market. i'm excited to help this market move to a new location under state owned land. the legislation we're considering today is a sensible expansion of the planning code that will allow for farmers markets to seek authorization to open on other public facilities, such as city and state owned lands. we currently allow intermittent activities like farmers market at hospitals and post-secondary institutions and it's surprising we don't allow them on other government owned properties like the d.m.v. parking lot on baker street. the farmer market has contracted with the d.m.v., but it could not make the move under current zoning. making this change today will allow the market to expand and serve the interests of the residents of district 5. the pacific coast farmers market association is a good neighbor. and they've created markets that are accessible to all. every vendor at this market accepts snap benefits and the market managers are consid

antonio brown will be collecting a lot of attention. the report from the wine country. >> reporter: the headline was a participation by receiver antonio brown and regular practice. it wasn't quite a regular day. he left rl unspecified injury. >> i'm not going to get into the day-to-day. is not serious but it will take a couple of days. hopefully after tomorrow he will get closer. we need him on the grass. we need him to get going. he is chomping at the bit . >> reporter: not just the offense benefits from brown being a practice. it can help the young and relatively inexperienced secondary get better. >> i think he's going to help parse all of us to get better once he comes back out here. >> i try to go against him every time and i always ask him questions about when he breaks and what he's doing at the line and down the field and how he plays against the receivers. he will make me better. >> antonio brown is an important part of this team. this is about bringing together a largely made over roster and the timeline they are concerned abo

for me, finding a walay violin was just a matter of time. >> brown: even then, you just did it. how to do it? >> yeah, we tried the cello first and the cello was too big. then we tried the violin and we tried all the sizes. even the tiniest one was too long for my arm to reach up on my shoulder. etguess it was divine inspiration or sng that one of us thought of playing i up and down like a tiny cello. i to adapted ballet and adapted gymnastics and i did some kayaking one summer.ar adaptive sporta thing, but i think adaptive music is maybes noommon, and i hope it becomes more common. >> brown: lea studied macalester college in st. paul anathe university of minnes in duluth, graduating with a potical science degree. one met her husband paul at an open mic night andd over their love of camping, gardening and cooking. she sings of him in hesong "moment of bliss" from her latest album "learningo stay." ♪ ♪ another milestone came in 2016 when lea-- then working as a music teacher-- submitted her song "someday we'll linger in the sun" to npr's "tiny desk" contest. ♪ ♪ she won, beating

ongoing arts and culture series. ♪ ♪ >> brown: the church filled up with an eager audience, and thened when the first performance began, by an extraordinary musician. ♪ ♪ gaelynn lea is transforming what can be done with a violin, and, more importantly, showing us what can be done with a life. >> i really want there to be an acknowledgement that life is both dficult and beautiful at the same time. >> brown: lea, now 35, was born with a congenital disability called osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease. her bones broke more than 40 times while she was in the womb, and 16 more have broken since. for her, that need be onlystne part of thy. >> i think, if i only fogased on the netive, i would not be a happy person. there usually tends to be an undercurrent of hope. ♪ ♪>> rown: we joined lea in austin recently, at the south by southwest festival. fans lined up hours before the doors open. classically-trained, lea is no best known for her haunting, original songs, anversions of traditional folk music passed down for hundreds of years. ♪ ♪ >> that's beuse they are good. are we go

london breed: thank you, supervisor brown. and just a reminder, anyone can go to sf72.org if you want to get prepared for any emergency situation in san francisco. a lot of great information from emergency management. sf72.org. now i want to introduce someone who's ae be who's been a 25-year veteran of the san francisco fire department and has a very thorough knowledge of how to deal with emergency situations and is why she is currently serving as the chief of the department. please welcome jeanine nicholson. >> good morning, everyone. i love our san francisco summer weather. speaking of nert, as supervisor brown just mentioned, i want to recognize, we do have some nert volunteers right here, and nert is going to be critical in the event -- [applaus [applause] >> in the event >> -- in the event of a disaster. we know it's not if, it's when. i want to recognize mohamed nuru. he's been a great ally for us and working with us. in the event of a disaster, our fire department needs to respond immediately. our firefighters and e.m.s

community came together to say good-bye to brown.ld karon he was shot and killed earlier this month in southeast d.c. >> when we start lose kids, that means it's bad. it's really bad, because we need to put down the guns. >> hundreds of people attended today's funeral for brown. they also called for an end to the gun violence in d.c. today in court, a local 17-year-old admitted to stabbing his father to death inside an suv in bowie. a judge ordered the teen to undergo a psychological evaluation. karma said he killed his father after his father had an accident. his dad ended up crashing his vehicle in allen pont park. marylandied governor is weighing in on the dent's series of attacks aimed at baltimore.si saaking today, ly hogan said the president's comments were quote outrageousnd mr. trump referred to baltimore as a sgusting rat and rodent-infested mess. >>> three people were shot and killed at food festival in california. ar-old gunman started to - shoot at randa om at the gilroy garlic festival yesterday. n he was killed ia shoot

rachel: john brown was not performative. [laughter] >> i was curious if there was an aspect of that. if he was attempting to galvanize the violence. rachel: sure. i think he had an interest in sparking other people's behavior. you could draw the true line there. one of the things that happens in congress is there are a lot of threats of violence without follow-through. joanne freeman shows -- i think she had 70 incidents, and i talk about quite a few of them in my book, too -- but there were all kinds of incidents about folks getting this close to serious violence engagement and backing off. just the ability to show that you could get engaged was a big deal. many of the people who fought -- and joanne talks about this, too, in her book -- did not want to. they felt like they had to because of the circumstances in duels, but also engagements in congress. they had to get into it, they had to mix it up. john brown definitely felt that pull, but i think he wanted to spur that kind of violence by actually engaging in the violence