San Francisco Chronicle - Leah Garchik
P.S.: The day of the tsunami was the formal release date for
composer Christopher Hedge's CD of the "The New Heroes,'' a
PBS documentary series to be broadcast beginning Tuesday.
The series, funded by the Skoll Foundation, is narrated by
Robert Redford, and one of the heroes is Mimi Silbert of
Delancey Street, where Hedge hosted a screening and CD
release party. Just as the video credits were rolling, he said,
the lights came on and Delancey Street security guards came
in to say that the place should be evacuated because a
tsunami might be coming. People moved so quickly, said
Hedge, that "I couldn't even find anyone to pay the catering
bill. ... I was the last one out of the theater, and we were up
to I-280 with 10 minutes to spare before the first wave would
have hit.''