San Francisco Magazine
August, 2004
POPSHOTS
Jonathan Kiefer’s Cheat Sheet For the Culturally Inclined
Also caught Brian Copeland’s Not a Genuine Black Man, at the Marsh, and Silvian Centiu’s A Transylvanian in Silicon Valley, at the Actors Theatre. Here’s a guy who lived through San Leandro’s crawl from racist pit to poster city for diversity, and another who made the trek from Eastern Bloc oppression to Oracle’s upper management. In a place that’s big on self-creation myths, it’s refreshing to recall what “self-made man” really means.