in sundance doesn't want to compete with pain a. it a phenomenal setting, delicious food and contemporary and warm. performers who can't perform a yoshis do perform. according to my research, it was just pointed out that sundance had live entertainment for a year 1/2 without an entertainment license. paina has gotten one. so paina has operated for 1 hour and sundance for hundreds. i was there last night. if you can look down here, this is what was going on last night. this phone call that has been installed throughout the entire sealing and the wall behind the audience. the event last night had 50 easels set up with blank canvasses. paina happily gave the space for free and the artist instructor took home 100 percent of what each student paid to learn that evening. it was a great venue. this you for your time. >> thank you. >> hi. my name is beth crumb a. i'm a college student. paina is a great place for everyone whether they are black, white, gay. college students or kids and working professionals can enjoy. everyone that comes to

it's a wonderful place and i think sundance is attracting a lot of business from that too. i'm a great supporter of paina and want to see them viable and a contribution to japan town. >> thank you. >> thank you. honorable commission ers, i'm martin simon and here on behalf of sundance cinema which you know is a neighbor to this project. this commission has held numerous hearings on this application. i believe this is the 5th or 6th hearing. the commission has already heard from different parties on this project. the last application, it was denied. we were here on the original calendar for the final determination on the denial motion. the condition to deny this application is a correct one. the reason set forth in the staff report are compelling. this proposal for a loud late night nightclub use is entirely inconsistent with japan town and with it's on going revitalization efforts. the commission has heard from the leadership of the japan town community who have come out strongly against this proposal. i'm sorry to report contrary to some of the representation that you have

it premiered in the 2010 sundance festival. she's an a -- she's on the 2012 hot shot directors emerging to watch, she's also graduated from georgetown university law center and practicing attorney and abc television networks before starting her television career and next is john. i met john about 10 years ago when he was starting off and had this crazy idea of operating a training center for public defenders and he did. he's no now the president and founder and one of the contributors to gideon's army, he's from john marshall law school where he teaches law and criminal procedure. he was in the post katrina and new orleans center. he trained people in the film. he received an advocacy fellowship and named a public interest fellow by harvard law school. next we have maurice call well. he was convicted in the housing project here in san francisco. there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime yet he was still convicted based on the false testimony of a single neighbor. he was sentence to life behind bars. in prison mr.

this is a film that premiered at sundance, was picked up at sundance by the weinstein co., and it did very well last weekend in new york and l.a. it did $384,000 on only seven screens. it's branched out here to chicago and a few more cities, and you're probably going to start to see this rolling out a little bit faster now, with the connection with sort of the racial violence of the zimmerman verdict. so, we're going to start to see a lot of that, and i wouldn't be surprised if weinstein sort of exploits this a little bit, not only for the money and to bring awareness, but maybe even some oscar nominations at the end of the year. - right, because it's about a young man who was shot... - it's a true story... - -by a security officer at a bart train in san francisco. - that's absolutely correct. - and "20 feet from stardom." i just saw it. it's terrific. go see it. - i've heard nothing but great things about this movie. a film about backup singers and whatnot. it's a documentary. it's playing in chicago right now. you definitely should go check that one out. i've heard nothing but good

winner at cannes sundance, does this ease their suffering at all? >> we were at the oakland screening because i was nervous about it because there is a lot of anger. but in a way there was relief. i feel that people are really proud of this movie and giving oscar a voice and giving his humanity back. i think there is a good feeling there. >> i think that they said extremely kind things about the film and especially the performance of the actors that are portrayed in the film, representations that exist in their lives. that was an important thing to me that we were able to capture the essence of those people being honest in our depiction of them. but it's an incredibly difficult film for them to watch not only because of the events of that day, not only because they have to relive that when they look at t but also because oscars struggles are at the forefront of the film, the things that he was dealing with, things that they may not have been most proud of we dealt with as well. but his mom his uncle sisters friends were there on the platform, they s

the first time director of the movie, he won awards at both cannes and sundance film festival. the movie tackles one of the most explosive incidents in recent memory when an armed african-american man was shot to death by a white transit policeman at the oakland bart whaton that ressembles took place with trayvon ma rtin. we continue to introduce you to folks that make this show possible each and every night. has been with me since the beginning and without whom this program would not be on the air. she was and is responsible for the funding that keeps us on the air. everyone of us knows and the doors d -- adores denise. >> thank you for giving us 10 great years of conversations. i also want to thank our funding sponsors, walmart and the people that started with us, enterprise the foundations. it takes a village for great programming. we're glad you have joined us for a conversation with actor michael b. jordan and director ryan kugler. now. >> there is a saying that dr. king had. he said, there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every da

we are lucky enough to have the filmmaker in one of the subjects that premiered at the sundance festival called gideon's army. they fight tooth and nail in possible odds. you are going to get a sneak peak at this right now. [film] >> the judge is going to tell you that the state fails to prove their case. it is your duty, you must acquit. that's the beauty of this system. it's set up to give people the presumption of innocence. to give them an opportunity to not just be heard, but hold the state accountable. you want to take my liberty, you've got to do it right, if you don't acquit. the 5th amendment to the united states constitution guarantees it. as i have made my objection throughout this trial to make sure this kid gets a fair trial. it's not a big case is what they say. they are saying it. they have the gaul to say this is not a big case. there are few consequences. this boy will become a convicted fell on. that's the reality of it. that's what this case represents. thank you. >> >> i have been advised -- the superior court, we the jury find the defendant not guilty. this 2nd day o

which you will, but in a way that i think if you do come back in a year, that both the community, sundance, the spa and everyone will be on your side at that point. i think if that happens, the commission will entertain and approval. >> thank you. i add on that i feel similarly that there is no problem with the fact that there is music and entertainment. it's the level of the noise that exceeded the dba and time extension. i hope that you are able to continue your business for the next year and come back in an i year and show that there haven't been any citations and this commission would support this. >>> the clerk: there is a motion to adopt this. that motion passes unanimously 5-0. >> the commission will take a > >> i would like to welcome everybody back to planning commission san francisco hearing. i would like to remind members of the public to please silence mobile devices. when speaking before the commission speak into the microphone and state your naerm naerm -- name for the record. we left on the calendar no. 12. item 12: 2013.0292c c. noel; 4155 575-91255 16 west portal avenue -

it's at the film festival as it went to sundance and they voted it and it's a film we would like to bring home. we are doing as many film festivals as we can. we won the audience award and jury award in miami and doing as many speaking and community talk back events. the film i hope will become a gathering point for people to use and say this is what's happening in our jurisdiction. this shows the experience of just a few lawyers. there are many people struggling to do a great job across the country. >> what's your website? >> we'll be taking questions. now let's move to john rapping who is one of the individuals featured in the film. john, i remember when you first talked about starting a training center for public defenders, no one took you seriously. so what happened? you created it and you have been successfully training defenders. what motivated you to do that and how did it all come to be? >> first, i have been waiting 10 years. there is no doubt in my mind there is no civil rights struggle going on this country to make sure that poor people have lawyers. but it's something i really

. >> this one, the directing award at sundance. >> uh-huh. >> jill fallaway, the director won that and it's a delightful film. provocative. >> let's take a look. afternoon delay the delight. >> you ever heard of the express yourself struck truck? >> nope. >> the coffee is like you can't believe. you know, when people make one thing right? >> i get it. it's great. >> it's obsession worthy. >> okay. >> and i started to follow the truck on twitter. >> i thought you hated twitter? >> i don't hate twitter. i lurk on twitter. >> you're a lurker? >> just not a tweeter's few weeks ago, the truck was parked from sam. >> sam who? [ indiscernible ] hoffbrow, a strip bar, the topless place wherever we went to. you need cutlery. anyway, who would have th unk it, ran into mckenna. >> i don't know who mckenna on is. >> she's a dancer that, she's a dancer that gave me that private thingy when we were there. >> you mean the stripper? >> allen berlinner is going to get your freedom of expression award. he's going to have a film. we don't have a timelo to look at that, first cousin once removed. why did

the film won two major awards at sundance and another prize at the cannes film festival. >>> it will be another brutal day on the firelines west of palm springs. the mountain fire has already scorched 35 square miles of national forest and has force the some 6,000 people out of their homes. reporter melanie woodrow reports from idyllwild with an update. >> reporter: here in lake hemet the weather is definitely a factor again today. it is not just the heat but the threat for thunderstorms that could bring lightning strikes and wind and with that, officials are warning residents in pine cove they could be the next ordered to evacuate. california fire officials now say somebody not lightning started the wildfire that threatens mountain towns east of los angeles and the city of palm springs. an investigation is under way to determine if it was started intentionally. as the fire inches closer to the town of idyllwild, authorities plan to airlift firefighters to the ridge between the town and the blaze. >> the whole idea is to keep the fire on the ridge. we are painting the ridge with fire

th is like sort of the butch cassidy sundance kid combined revolution and he have a specialists in fascination and bank robberies and 1907 bank robbery. made the headlines all over the world. it was like butch cassidy. tablisi for now. many were kill in the bank robbery and they got away with the equivalent of $20,000,000 to fund the party. and the interesting thing is if nobody of able to prove that stall enhad organized this on the bank robbery, he actually killed all of the people that could prove it when he became a world's statesman. did he not want to seem like a bank robber. so he basically killed everybody. and changed the materials. some of the stuff materials that provided his involvement were the georgia archives. they led me into the archives kindly. they were closed. and um inside. i found fascinating evidence. and the interesting thing about is apart from the story. the bank robbery. just amazing. they held up. the stagecoach. and through the bomb and killed all of the cosacks driving around and the last minl. one of the horses got up. ran off with the money so two of the gangste

of last year and just over ten million dollars to spend a billion dollars well the film went to sundance this year and a had plans to finish its production with the help from the independent television service right t.v.'s but it is unfortunate twist to. yes hold its funding from the project backlash from a major donor david koch so here to talk about her film the battle to get to the public airwaves is academy award nominated director tia lesson thank you so much for coming on to yet thank you so much for having me so why did you and co-director karl deal to believe decide to make this film. you know we wanted to look at the impact of money in politics and there was no better place to go than wisconsin in two thousand and eleven scott walker the governor of wisconsin had been bankrolled in part by david and charles koch and we were curious about what the impact of that private money on the public to mocker see in wisconsin was to the film focuses on the koch brothers involvement both in the case of wisconsin like you just said a national politics in general how would you describe their

january of last year in just over ten billion dollars ten billion dollars well the film went to sundance this year and i had planned to finish its production with the help from the independent television service where i had t.v.'s but it is unfortunate twist t.v.'s hold its funding from the project backlash from a major donor david koch so here to talk about her film the battle to get to the public airwaves is academy award nominated director to lessen thank you so much for coming on to us thank you so much for having me so why did you and co-director carl deal to believe decided to make this film. you know we wanted to look at the impact of money in politics and there was no better place to go than wisconsin in two thousand and eleven scott walker the governor of wisconsin had been bankrolled in part by david and charles koch and we were curious about what the impact of that private money on the public to mocker see in wisconsin was the film focuses on the koch brothers involvement both in the case of wisconsin like you just said to national politics in general how would you describe th

since january of last year just over ten million dollars ten billion dollars well the film went to sundance this year and i had plans to finish its production with the help from the independent television service where i had t.v.'s but in an unfortunate twist i t.v.'s hold its funding from the project backlash from a major donor david koch so here to talk about our film the battle to get to the public airwaves is academy award nominated director to lesson thank you so much for coming on to yet thank you so much for having me so why did you and co-director carl deal believe decide to make this film. you know we wanted to look at the impact of money in politics and there was no better place to go than wisconsin in two thousand and eleven scott walker the governor of wisconsin had been bankrolled in part by david and charles koch and we were curious about what the impact of that private money on the public to mock racine wisconsin was to the film focuses on the koch brothers involvement both in the case of wisconsin like you just said a national politics in general how would you describe their

scheduled me in with howard zinn that night, with our families, to go see butch cassidy and the sundance kid. [laughter] and so i called howard, didn't said over the phone, but i said, apartment andour will go from your place. i went there with the papers and asked him if i could dump them in his apartment for that night we had [laughter] which he said, fine. he was one of two people i had known chomsky and howard zinn. the papers came out that night. there wasn't a lot of attention on sunday to them, which everybody was surprised that in the new york times. the tv didn't pick it up and so forth. but on monday, they got attention and the key thing was, john mitchell, the attorney general, then asked a request of the new york times that they cease publication of this criminal act, stop this. remember, they have lost their law firm already, the lord and day, on the grounds that their lawyers had told him this was treason and a act, and they would represent them. mitchell was confirming that and telling them that they must stop . well, they went ahead. not obey the request. so tuesday, they

. >> fruit veil station won saefrl wards this year at the sundance film festival. there is early academy buzz about this film. >> crews in new york have made a special discovery while cleaning up aftermath of super storm sandy. they got a green bottle containing a note by a girl that died three years ago. her mom believes she threw it in the water when only 10 years old shechl was killed in an accident in 2010. workers called the number on the note and located her mother. it contains message be excellent to yourself, dude. a dedication planned fofr for this weekend to commemorate this discovery. >> still ahead at 4:00 a group of vacationers gets a surprise of a lifetime. they watch an impala trying to escape a hungry cheetah. >> live on the international space station. what an as naught has to do to get her hair sh washed in zero gravity. >> we see lots of low clouds spilling through the golden gate. how foggy tonight? i'll have the accu-weather forecast coming up. >> and taking a look at traffic right now this, is san jose. the guadalupe parkway here, traffic movi

the story of oscar grant follows a strong opening weekend and awards picked up at this year's sundance festival. it opened in seven theaters this past weekend, including tryq&z the bay area. it will open in another six cities this weekend before opening nationwide july 26. that special airs tonight at 7:30 and will reair on friday at 10:00. >>> let's bring in our chief meteorologist on this monday. it is beautiful. >> a little bit of a cool down across the bay area. it probably felt refreshing after the 80s and 90s across the tri valley. 10 to 13 degrees kiecooler. it was the biggest in the east bay where we only topped out at 76. some of the warmest weather was 82 in san jose. and of course a very cool 69 in san francisco. now the determining factor in our weather, no doubt over the next two days, is going to be this widespread fog. it's stretching from eureka. we're going to have more on the fog forecast coming up. we'll get you out to the eyes in the sky. you can see in san jose as we get a view here, looking off towards the east, plenty of blue sky at this hour. but we're going to

it did win sundance's grand jury prize and has attracted rave reviews as well as early oscar buzz because of its cast. >>> still here ahead, an experiment on four-wheels. it's a car built right here in the bay area, and yes, it's powered by the sun. >>> plenty of sunshine across silicon valley this afternoon. plenty of micro climates in effect. if you're hiding out in your boat, do expect a small kraft advisory. water temperature in the upper 50s. i'm back with the weekend forecast in just a few. mts san jose's title as the most diverse city in the country is being challenged. the website called nerd wallet says its study shows vallejo has the biggest mix in the country, followed by jersey city, oakland and san lee androe. >>> in health matters tonight, the federal government is setting new limits on the amount of arsenic allowed in apple juice. last year they analyzed dozens of apple juice samples and found some did contain arsenic. t it is the same level in drinking water. >>> the pressure's on to smile really big. it is definitely, you guys. you have been smiling all day about this wee

they have ifc television, sundance film channel. what you like them so much?> just exactly what you mentioned. a.m. sian's both cable channels like the ones that you mentioned and most importantly there amc channel. then they are content providers. the creator of madman, breaking bad, the walking dead guy and they have a slate of new shows. as the library grows of content, they give greater distribution and their channels, we like the story for the long term. liz: another stock having nothing to do with the entertainment, another one of your picks as well. what do you like about it? >> well, they pull back recently on concerns by generic competition for the stasis. there an important drug for them. but i think that the price is attractive. specialty pharmaceutical companies i think are attractive for the long term. healthcare has been one of the best, if not the best performing sector of the market the first half of the year. we like it for the rest of the year -- excuse me, i'm losing my earpiece. david: let me get to michael. >> sorry about that. david: i ju

the 2009 academy award winning movie "precious" was launched at sundance and the festival this year awardedagnosed simon with terminal colon cancer earlier this year and gave him just a few months to live. he was known as a philanthropist but he's been on a huge donation spree giving money to animal rights groups and to feed the hungry. >> and if you didn't get sucked into that "sharknado" hit, regal will show it on about 200 screens one week from tonight for one night only. "sharknado" was made for tv, shown earlier this month on the sci-fi channel. when twitter user got wind of it, it blew "sharknado" out of the water and people apparently wanted more sharks falling from tornadoes. a sequel is in the works, set in manhatt manhattan. >> and today's royal baby update is our world lead. prince george alexander louis. >> it's fantastic to have another addition to our family. i only hope my brother knows how expense of my baby-sitting charges are. >> you have to wonder what kind of influence uncle harry would have on prince george. this is, after all, the heir who was photographed playing stri

a new film about the last 24 hours of his life won the audience award and prize at sundance and one ofst american films of the decade. the movie's director and star join us in studio. also do you remember a few years back when the pope discussed the sex scandals that was mean. and a priest comes out of the closet. >>> and saying dumb, mean things about the student

january of last year just over ten million dollars spent on billion dollars for the film went to sundance this year and i had planned to finish its production with the help from the independent television service where i had t.v.'s but it is unfortunate twist t.v.'s hold its funding from the project backlash from a major donor david koch so here to talk about her film the battle to get to the public airwaves is academy award nominated director to les and thank you so much for coming on to yet thank you so much for having me so why did you and co-director carl deal to believe decide to make this film. you know we wanted to look at the impact of money in politics and there was no better place to go than wisconsin in two thousand and eleven scott walker the governor of wisconsin had been bankrolled in part by david and charles koch and we were curious about what the impact of that private money on the public to mock racine wisconsin was to the film focuses on the koch brothers involvement both in the case of wisconsin like you just said a national politics in general how would you describe t

but, like "butch cassidy and the sundance kid." you know?reat chemistry going. it's really a fun movie. >> jimmy: the idea of this film is that they're two agents, or whatever. >> yeah. well, he's a dea agent. and he works on some level of the armed forces. i'm sorry. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. something like that. >> yeah. >> jimmy: basically, they're out to get each other. >> yes, they don't -- each one of them are undercover, so they each think the other one's a criminal. but it turns out they're both working for the law. >> jimmy: so now they have to get out of this thing, and the only way they can to do it is to help each other. >> that's correct. >> jimmy: and who do you play? >> well, i play deb reyes, and i am denzel's partner. and i'm also his lover. >> jimmy: hello. >> yeah. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey-oh! >> that's why they put a woman in the movie, you know? >> jimmy: unbelievable, yeah. that's the way it works. >> people like that kind of thing. >> jimmy: they do. they love it. >> so -- but she's an interesting woman.

it's kind of like a "butch cassidy and the sundance kid" type of thing.d funny -- it's got a lot of good action in it, too, as well. >> a lot of great actors, too. bill paxton, edward james olmos. >> jimmy: i love bill paxton. anything he's in, i love bill paxton. >> bill's the other guy who i worked with years ago, and i've always offered him a part in a movie, and he's always passed. >> jimmy: he's so cool. he's like, "i don't know, man." >> yeah. he just -- you know what? there was just a juicy role and -- stole every scene. >> jimmy: "i'm going under the earth with james cameron." in like some big submarine -- >> exactly. exactly. but tomorrow he's coming to boston with me. >> jimmy: oh, really? >> at the wahlburgers, yeah. we're doing -- we do a foundation screening every year to benefit the youth foundation, the boys club. but bill's gonna come and hang out with me in my neck of the woods. >> jimmy: i mean, wahlburgers, by the way -- i don't know if you know this -- is this fast food burger place that mark opened up with your brother, right? >> yeah

scene from a new film or coming out film, newly weeds direct lid shaka king which premiered at the sundanceestival. newly weeds explores the use of marijuana use on a young couple trying to make it. joshua dubois is a former obama adviser and contributor to the daily beast. shaka, thanks for joining us. this thing i hear about but don't know much about. drugs and incarceration, a huge incarceration percentage of young african-americans. it's all about the criminal justice system right now. your thought what's the movie says. >> well, i don't think my movie speaks specifically to that epidemic. but i think that the high incarceration rates are just -- really just another example and symptom institutional racism and white supremacy. i think the reason you're seeing so many young black men in jail now is the confluence of, you know, racist criminal justice system, you know, racist law enforcement, you know, racist education system. you know, racist health care system, and these things are racist in classist and the two i want twine. i feel like the reasonthat you're seeing those high incarcera

the film won the audience and grand jury prizes at sundance this year and getting oscar buzz, chronicles of the real life of oscar grant. who was shot in the back by the 27-year-old johannes meserley a white bay area officer. at time of the killing grant was unarmed lying facedown on a subway platform in oakland, california. captured on cell phone footage by several witnesses, the shooting happened in the wee hours of the morning on new area's die in 2009. grant was detained on the platform when meserle fired a single round into his back. he testified the shooting was an accident caused when he mistakenly grabbed his firearm instead of an electric taser. because of pretrial publicity, the trial was held in los angeles. prosecutors at the time had not won a murder conviction in a police shooting case since 1983. meserle was convicted of invor tear manslaughter. he served half of a two-year sentence. the family of oscar grant, the movie is painful and surreal. oscar grant's uncle said the movie brings back everything that happened that night. it's like watching him get murdered again. >> y