#San Francisco Waldorf

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The girls team with the boy was going to compete against girls who could not interact with him for religious reasons without any prior communication.

By Anna Slatz January 8, 2024

A girls basketball team from a Muslim high school in California may have canceled a game after the school’s board was made aware that the opposing team had a trans-identified male player.

On Thursday, January 4, Averroes High School was set to compete against San Francisco Waldorf in a girls varsity basketball event, but the event was abruptly canceled. While the school has not provided comment on the reason why the sudden forfeiture took place, the decision was reportedly the result of the institution being made aware that a male player was participating on the Waldorf girls’ team.

Averroes is an Islamic school in the Bay Area, and sources close to the matter speculate that the hesitancy to compete against Waldorf was due to religious objections regarding the Muslim girls risking physical contact with the male player.

While the name of the male student will not be released at the request of sources, Reduxx has reviewed past game footage featuring the boy on the Waldorf team. He is seen towering above his female counterparts, boasting an obvious height and limb length advantage. According to team rosters, the male student has also retained his “masculine” name.

SF Waldorf playing a match against another California high school in November.

Speaking to Reduxx, Julie Lane of Women Are Real, an independent, California-based women’s advocacy group, revealed that information on the Waldorf player was first brought to their attention by a concerned father in November of 2023. His daughter had played a game against Waldorf, and had been left “traumatized” by the experience. Following the tip, Lane scouted out a Waldorf event to see for herself.

“The boy had an obvious advantage,” she says. “[The girls] didn’t necessarily run their offense through him, probably because they didn’t want to be targeted. But he got most rebounds and was able to jump much higher than the girls.”

She continued by noting that the male player “was not particularly skilled,” but that he had a longer range of arm reach and could jump significantly higher.

“They were at a complete disadvantage,” Lane says. “I caught one scramble for the ball with another player and my heart stopped. She was more than a foot shorter than him and could have been seriously injured.”

According to the statistics tracked by MaxPreps, the Waldorf Wolverines Girls Varsity team has won all but one game it has participated in over the past year.

Determined to raise awareness of the Waldorf player, the team at Women Are Real looked into the school’s upcoming games. Learning about their scheduled appearance against Averroes, a religious school focused on Muslim youth, the group then contacted the school’s board to alert them to the presence of a male on the opposing team.

“I was hopeful and thought there was no way this board would let their female athletes participate with a boy,” Lane said, noting that she never received a response from Averroes.

On January 4, Lane and some members from the Women Are Real team arranged to attend the match between the Waldorf and Averroes teams. But upon arriving, Lane was unable to locate the girls’ event. Confused, Lane approached some parents for answers, and was directed to speak to a female Waldorf student who had been sitting on the bleachers watching the boys’ game.

But Averroes has avoided providing a concrete, official answer about their motivation for abruptly canceling the match, and did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Jean Berns, another representative with Women Are Real, believes the confusion and silence surrounding the cancelation suggests Waldorf’s male player was the cause.

“As the school hasn’t made an official statement we can’t say for sure why the game was canceled. However, none of the multiple reasons we have heard from various sources make sense. We heard from the school director that there were not enough athletes to field a team, yet they played a game two days later with more than enough players. We heard from others that the coach was ill, yet he was able to coach the boys team the same evening of the cancelation. All this mystery and secrecy leads me to believe that the true reason for the cancelation most likely involves the male athlete,” she said, adding that she was “relieved” when she learned the game had been called off.

“On one hand, I feel strongly that no girl’s safety should ever be compromised and that no girl should be competing against a boy unawares. On the other hand, I’m saddened that the result is girls quietly self-selecting out of sports,” she continued.

“Will girls’ sport die a silent death here in California? Seeing that the boys game went on made me angry. Nothing has happened to them. What message are we sending these young girls?”

Speaking with Reduxx, Marshi Smith of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports speculates that the confusion surrounding Averroes’ forfeiture may be the result of concerns about potential penalization from the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF).

“The CIF falsely claims that boys who say their ‘gender identity’ is ‘female’ have legal entitlements to girls’ opportunities and access to girls’ teams, dorms, locker rooms, scholarships, titles and records,” she explains. “Families and schools like Averroes are wrongly told they’ll be in violation of federal law if they don’t force their daughters to compete against or with males. Tragically, feeling powerless, teams will quietly forfeit more and more.”

But Smith says CIF’s threats are “false and unethical,” and calls on schools and families to push back against gender ideology-based policies.

“Families must boldly oppose this injustice against women and girls now. There are millions of Americans ready to champion them.”

UPDATE: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that SF Waldorf had won “every single” game it had competed in over the past year. This has been updated to reflect a single loss.

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AT THE TOP OF THEIR GAME IN 1981 -- BULLDOZING FACES ON THE WEST COAST.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on lead guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke of English rock and roll band MOTÖRHEAD, performing live at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco, CA, USA, on July 8, 1981. 📸: Warren Rachele.

"EVERYTHING LOUDER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE!!" Hail the Motörmasters!!

Source: www.flickr.com/photos/wrachele/4408687351.

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46 years ago today

Bob Mothersbaugh performing with Devo at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco, November 20, 1978.

Photo by Clayton Call

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Warren Zevon - The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California, January 8, 1983

The Excitable Boy hits San Francisco! This solo show sees Warren Zevon playing some of his best tunes (so far, anyway) solo on acoustic guitar and piano. "I guess some of you are wondering what happened to the band — besides Reaganomics," he quips early on. "It's just my monster fucking ego!"

Of course, Zevon is great in this stripped down setting, still bringing a high level of go-for-broke energy to the proceedings. Even the ballads are kinda nervy. "One thing about being a songwriter, you can go back over your life and find a particularly melancholy kinda tune that reflects a period of your life that you'd prefer to forget," Warren tells us before a particularly melancholy "Hasten Down The Wind." "And then later on another terrible trauma happens to you and the song becomes singularly appropriate again!"

Shout-out to Todd Alcott Graphics for this perfectly pulp-y artwork ... a lot more where that came from!

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D.O.A.

The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA (1981-07-03)

[ridingwithmary]

X on September 25, 1980 at The Old Waldorf in San Francisco, California.

Photo by Randy Bachman

[macabr3s]

(   gemma  chan  .  cis  woman  .  she/her   )     —     blasting  the  four  seasons:  winter  by  antonio  vivaldi  down  main  street  we’ve  spotted  HERA  LEUNG  sporting  their  imperial  jade  ring  .  the  forty1  /  three  hundred  &  eighty5  year  old  VAMPIRE  who’s  been  in  town  for  ten  years  often  can  be  seen  coming  and  going  from  portum  ,  enjoying  a  drink  or  two  at  the  old  haunt  ,  searching  for  pieces  to  add  to  her  art  collection  ,  or  working  as  a  DIRECTOR  at  PORTUM  ART  MUSEUM  .  people  say  they  display  sophisticated  and  unyielding  traits,  but  we  rather  trust  their  vibes:  red  bottomed  heels  clicking  against  the  pavement  ,  the  sound  of  typing  ,  a  casual  air  of  nonchalance  that  never  seems  to  go  away  ,  vintage  wines  saved  for  special  occasions  .  also,  we’ve  heard  they  love  COLLECTING  VINTAGE  AND  RARE  WINES  &  LIQUORS  !  aren’t  they  fascinating  ?

[ ✰ ]  WANTED  &  ESTABLISHED  CONNECTIONS  (  WIP  ).

penned  by  HECATE  (  she/her  ,  21+  ,  pst  )

001.     ↻     BASICS  .

[  ✰  ]  full  name:  wong  mei  ling [  ✰  ]  alias/nickname(s):  hera  leung [  ✰  ]  age:  41  (  physically  ),  385  (  mentally  ) [  ✰  ]  date  of  birth:  01/16 [  ✰  ]  place  of  birth:  imperial  city,  beijing,  china [  ✰  ]  ethnicity:  chinese [  ✰  ]  nationality:  american,  british  (  formerly  ),  hong  konger  (  formerly  ),  china  (  formerly  ) [  ✰  ]  gender:  cis  woman [  ✰  ]  pronouns:  she/her [  ✰  ]  orientation:  bisexual  /  biromantic [  ✰  ]  language(s)  spoken:  mandarin,  cantonese,  english,  latin,  greek,  french [  ✰  ]  mbti:  ENTP [  ✰  ]  element:  fire [  ✰  ]  western  zodiac:  capricorn [  ✰  ]  character  inspiration:  shiv  roy  (  succession  ),  ah  toy  (  warrior  ),  blair  waldorf  (  gossip girl  ),  emma  frost  (  marvel  comics  ),  tegan  price  (  how  to  get  away  with  murder  )

002.     ↻     BACKGROUND  .

NOTE:  this  is  a  quick  summary  /  tldr  of  hera's  background  .  for  a  more  detailed  bio  ,  please  CLICK  HERE  !

(  tw:  mentions  of  death  )  hera  leung  was  born  wong  mei  ling  in  the  mid-seventeenth  century  as  the  daughter  of  an  emperor  and  his  favored  concubine  .  she’s  born  a  fiercely  resilient  figure  with  life  defined  by  ambition  ,  loss  and  in  essence  ,  transformation  .  she’s  forced  to  flee  to  hong  kong  with  her  mother  and  grew  up  in  a  world  where  power  was  everything  .  after  suffering  the  devastating  loss  of  her  loved  ones  ,  mei  ling  was  slowly  starting  to  move  on  .  she’d  unknowingly  fallen  in  love  with  a  vampire  who  eventually  transformed  her  while  she  was  on  her  deathbed  .  now  immortalized  as  hera  ,  she’s  forced  to  embrace  this  new  identity  .  she  travels  through  europe  and  ultimately  settles  in  america  where  she  makes  quite  a  name  for  herself  in  the  supernatural  community  .  and  over  centuries  ,  hera’s  experiences  have  hardened  her  .  in  her  pursuit  of  power  of  influence  ,  she’d  garnered  enemies  and  after  barely  surviving  an  ambush  ,  she  finds  herself  in  the  town  of  portum  .

003.     ↻     HEADCANONS  .

NOTE:  this  is  a  work  in  progress  so  more  will  be  added  at  a  later  time  !

established  herself  as  a  figurehead  in  san  francisco’s  supernatural  community  and  became  a  benefactor  to  various  tong  organizations  in  chinatown

went  to  college  some  point  in  the  19th  century  and  took  multiple  classes  to  get  herself  degrees  in  history  ,  chinese  literature  ,  art  history  and  anthropology

hera  still  occasionally  made  trips  back  to  china  and  hong  kong  .  at  some  point  ,  she  became  an  urban  legend  among  villages  as  a  virtuous  figure  that  helps  the  town  every  now  and  again

extensive  knowledge  of  chinese  art  and  antiquities.  probably  even  knew  some  of  the  artists  tbh  !

speaks  with  a  slight  english  accent  due  to  living  in  hong  kong  for  most  of  her  human  life  and  learning  english

prior  to  living  in  portum  was  living  in  new  york  and  posed  as  the  head  curator  at  the  met

[tomoleary]

Dean Cornwell (1892-1960) “Heating the Crankshaft” study for General Motors Waldorf Exhibition, 1940

Searching for images for this mural found few but luckily two of the same image, charcoal and paint. These are the gems I search for.

Source, source

Here are the only two others

Source, source

As well as a view of a portion of the mural.

“From the back of the photo: "Featured in the General Motors exhibit at the San Francisco Fair, on Treasure Island in 1939, are the murals "Strength and Safety," designed by Dean Cornwell, N.A., and executed by George Davidson, A.N.A., and Carlo Ciampagliia, A.N.A. Done in full color on canvas, they were in the exhibit of the Fisher Body Division. The murals were characterized by experts as among the finest artistic endeavors to be seen at the fair, ranking with other important works of Cornwell, one of America's foremost artists. In the above photo, Cornwell (seated) is shown with Ciampaglia, as the murals neared completion in the artist's studio.” Source

Fascinating process. Carlo Ciampagliia does the work, under supervision. The prelims above are what Ciampagliia works from.

[xabiramone]

Iggy Pop performs at the Old Waldorf Club in November 1977, San Francisco, California.

Photo by Ed Perlstein.

[paneleirices]

"i was speaking to lars in the dressing room, and he just got undressed in front of me and it just seemed so bizarre. i remember james as a man of few words until you added alcohol."

— kirk hammett, on his first impression of james hetfield and lars ulrich that night (november 29th, 1982).

this was one of metallica's first shows, they played at old waldorf at san francisco, california, usa. the support band was exodus, featuring kirk hammett - metallica's soon-to-be lead guitarist, replacing dave mustaine on the afternoon of april 1st, 1983.

via kerrang! legends: metallica!

[cwseriesshowdown]

Round 3: Gossip Girl vs Kung Fu

Gossip Girl: The series begins with the return of Upper East Side teenage "it girl" Serena van der Woodsen from a mysterious absence. She is reunited with her popular frenemy Blair Waldorf and her mother Lily, and she also meets Dan Humphrey —an aspiring writer from Brooklyn who is one of Serena's main love interests throughout the show.

Kung Fu: A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman, Nicky Shen, to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to San Francisco, she finds her hometown is overrun with crime and corruption, and her own parents are at the mercy of a powerful triad. Nicky relies on her tech-savvy sister, pre-med brother, ex-boyfriend and a new love interest, as well as her martial arts skills and Shaolin values, to protect her community and bring criminals to justice -- all while searching for the ruthless assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor and is now targeting her.

[coochiequeens]

A school made the best desicion they could for the young women in their care and they are going to be called intolerant because they are a religious school

By Anna Slatz November 16, 2024

A girls volleyball team in California has dropped out of the state playoffs after learning that their upcoming opponents had a male playing on their team. Stone Ridge Christian School announced the “heartbreaking” end to their season in a letter to parents sent out yesterday.

Stone Ridge Christian School had advanced to the California Interscholastic Federation State Girls Volleyball Championship regional semifinals after coming out victorious against North Hills Christian School on November 14. But what should have been a celebratory moment ahead of a critical game was quickly soured after the coaches at Stone Ridge became aware that their student athletes would be matched to play against a team with a biological male.

The match, which was scheduled for tonight, had been against San Francisco Waldorf, a school that has previously come under controversy for allowing trans-identified male players to compete with the girls.

“As many of you know, our girls won on Wednesday and advanced to the state playoffs. Unfortunately, we were just informed that our opponent, San Francisco Waldorf, has a male athlete playing for their team,” the letter sent out to parents by Stone Ridge Christian reads.

“At SRC, we believe God’s Word is authoritative and infallible. It is Truth. And as Genesis makes clear, God wonderfully and immutably created each person as male or female. We do not believe sex is changeable and we do not intend to participate in events that send a different message.”

The letter was first shared to X by women’s rights advocate Beth Bourne.

San Francisco Waldorf will now automatically advance to the Northern California regional championship final.

Waldorf’s male player has been identified by Reduxx as Henry Hanlon, a senior who also plays for the San Francisco Waldorf girls varsity basketball team.

As previously reported by Reduxx in January, Hanlon’s participation in girls basketball prompted Averroes High School to forfeit a match against Waldorf. While Averroes declined to confirm Hanlon’s presence is what prompted the forfeiture, Averroes is an Islamic school, and sources close to the matter speculated that the hesitancy to compete against Waldorf was due to religious objections regarding the Muslim girls risking physical contact with the male player.

Reduxx has reviewed past game footage featuring Hanlon, which confirms he displays an obvious physical advantage over his female teammates.

San Francisco Waldorf Girls Volleyball Team

Speaking to Reduxx, Julie Lane of Women Are Real condemned Waldorf for allowing Hanlon to continue playing in girls sports.

“It is absolutely unfair for girls to have to compete against boys in their own sports category. Categories exist for a reason, including, in some sports, weight, age, and para-ability. Everybody – sports leagues, schools, parents, coaches – agreed with this common sense approach until very recently,” Lane says.

Lane’s group, Women Are Real, has been documenting Waldorf’s refusal to remove Hanlon from the girls team and has attended several games to confirm that he has a significant physical advantage over his female competitors.

In January, one member of Women Are Real reported that she was assaulted by Waldorf administrator Craig Appel while being prevented from peacefully attending a Waldorf game in support of the female students.

“Our members have been attending, as witnesses, these high school and college games where males have infiltrated. We heard girls on the opposing team last year discussing how the boy was using the girls bathroom the year prior. They had buddied up when they went to the bathroom together, just in case he did it again. And, we noted that the team with the boy avoided using the bathroom before their game, likely in ‘solidarity’ with their teammate. These girls have all been gaslit, and avoided a normal thing … going to the bathroom before a game … because one boy was allowed in.”

While disappointed that young female athletes are being forced to bear the brunt of the Waldorf’s decision to allow a boy to play on the girls team, Lane applauds the schools that have forfeited against Waldorf for taking a stance.

“For the opposing teams that are standing against this travesty, it is incredibly brave to stand up and say no … It is sad and traumatizing to work all your life at a skill, build a strong team, make it to the playoffs, and suddenly end your season and budding career due to one confused boy,” Lane continues.

“The adults in the room are to blame. Everyone has to stand up and say no to this dangerous and foolish idea that the feelings of a boy who is confused take precedence over the safety and dignity and opportunity of so many girls. It affects everyone and is a life-changing trauma to lose your hard earned chance to play and succeed, and even lose college scholarship opportunities. Women and society fought for female sports and spaces, and it’s up to everyone to bring them back. Male athletes can play on male teams. It’s that simple. And, no one gets everything they want all the time.”

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"DROOLING FINGERS, PANIC BUTTONS, PLAYING WITH MISSILES LIKE THEY'RE TOYS."

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1042x1589 -- Spotlight on American punk rock and/or hardcore punk band, DEAD KENNEDYS, performing live at the Old Waldorf music venue (1976-1983), San Francisco, CA, on October 25, 1979. 📸: Terry Hammer.

"Drooling fingers, panic buttons, Playing with missiles like they're toys, There's easy money, easy jobs, Especially when you build the bombs, That blow big cities off the map, Just guess who profits when we build 'em back up."

-- "When Ya Get Drafted" (1980) by DEAD KENNEDYS

Source: https://pastdaily.com/2014/08/01/dead-kennedys-live-old-waldorf-1979-nights-roundtable-concert-edition.

[punkrockhistory]

Recorded 45 years ago today

Dead Kennedys live at the Old Waldorf, San Francisco, October 25, 1979.

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Television - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, December 9, 1992

Back in 1978, Television played a legendary gig at the Old Waldorf — a performance that was eventually released officially in the early 2000s. But what about 14 years later?! Freshly reunited and with a new album under their belts, Television returned to the Bay Area, this time playing the famed Great American Music Hall, perhaps making good on that wayback diss (or not, depending on your point of view) that they were "the Grateful Dead of punk." The GAMH show doesn't scale the heights of the Old Waldorf — not much does! — but it scales plenty of heights.

Don't know if anyone in the '92 audience also saw Television in '78, but there are definitely some TV heads in attendance — one guy requests "Double Exposure," after all. But that deep deep deep cut is not played, alas; instead, Verlaine and co. focus on their new self-titled album, tearing through its cool riffs, wicked interplay and enigmatic ballads. Right off the bat, you can tell that Tom and Richard Lloyd are in perfect synch, as they try to out-do one another on the opening "1880 or So." We all win!

There are a few dips back into the bygone days, of course — a great "Venus" and an appropriately epic "Marquee Moon." Most interesting however is the version of "Little Johnny Jewel" played during the encore. At the Old Waldorf, "Johnny" stretched out to a quarter of an hour. Here, it's under three minutes and delivered in a weird robo-funk fashion. Just trying to tell a(nother) vision, I guess.

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Dead Kennedys

Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA (1979-10-25)