Custom-made set list for Cleveland crowd

Onstage at the Republican National Convention last week, Donald Trump’s children were testifying that their hearts belonged to Daddy. Across town, at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Stephan Jenkins and Third Eye Blind performed at a fundraiser for Musicians on Call, which provides music — live and recorded — for hospital patients. “We support that mission,” said Jenkins a few days later. “So we were down to do it.”

Although conservative media later described the concert as “a side event of the Republican National Convention,” Jenkins and bandmates had been assured that it had nothing to do with the Republican gathering. But as the audience arrived, “the idea that this was somehow nonpartisan started to become dubious to me,” said Jenkins. “I’m an artist, not an entertainer. And when we went out, we said, ‘Wait a second, this room is filling up with blazers and pearls. Wait a second, everyone in this room, except for security, is white.’ ”

The band always plays “what we feel,” said Jenkins. And in this case, what the band felt was a set that included “NonDairy Creamer,” a song that includes the lyric “The guy in the pulpit is a bigot and a liar,” a sentiment that might well be at odds with the views of those conventioneers. “At a certain point, I thought I needed to let it be known what I was there for. I didn’t want to be misconstrued, but I am against every last thing on their platform.”

Jenkins didn’t insult anyone, he said, but “talked about two aspects of the RNC platform policies. One of them is that they still think that gay people would benefit from conversion therapy.” Before playing the 1998 song “Jumper,” about “a kid who jumped off the Coronado Bridge because he was gay and being bullied,” Jenkins talked to the audience.

“Nineteen years later, the RNC platform is still not willing to fully enfranchise LGBTQ Americans.” That statement was greeted with boos, “and then I start playing the song and they said ‘Yay.’ ... And then I said a joke, the only time I could get myself to smile: ‘Raise your hand if you believe in science.’ Half the room booed. To me, that’s just hilarious, that people booed the idea of science.”

Jenkins said the band had played Bonnaroo a few weeks before, to an enthusiastic crowd, and they’re stoked about playing — including songs from their newest album, “Dopamine” — at Outside Lands, when surprises are planned.

If they’d known that so many members of the audience had come over from the convention, “we would not have done it.” What happened, he said, was in keeping with his own ideals. “I’m not going to just play a song that’s actually about tolerance and inclusion that gets turned into a catchy tune.”

P.S.: Some of celebrity speech coach Ruth Sherman’s assessments of the Trump family orators: Donald Jr. ( “future politician, perhaps, or at the very least, major keynoter”), Tiffany (“potential to become even more polished”), Eric ( “not terribly charismatic ... serviceable”), Ivanka (“speech wasn’t terribly well written ... regardless, Ivanka has ‘it.’ ”).

The opening celebration Thursday night, July 21, for the 36th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival began at the Castro with a showing of the Argentine movie “The Tenth Man” and ended at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, where a big crowd feasted on L’Chaim Sushi and other cross-cultural treats.

Filmmaker Daniel Burman spoke a bit (in Spanish); the need for a translator to English didn’t at all dim his sense of humor.

The (autobiographical) movie takes place in a poor Jewish section of Buenos Aires; most of the people in it are residents of that section, not actors. There had been some audience complaint, said Burman, about his portrait of a Jewish neighborhood that is crowded, dirty, crammed with people needy for services and goods. Who complained? an audience member asked. Only Jewish women between the ages of 55 and 57, he said. No one younger than that and no one older than that was bothered at all.

Steve Abney asked TV crews shooting scenes for “Chance,” a Hulu series starring Hugh Laurie, why they were shooting in the Miraloma Park neighborhood last week. “Because it doesn’t look like the city,” said a crew member. Oh.