13 Food & Wine 21 Wellness 14 Calendar Tablehopper: New Fitness First: August events: Before dining on Union St. 10 Take a hike. 21 summer comes to a close, catch Outside Lands, the Jewish Film A&E Pet Pages Festival, the opening of the new Michael Snyder: Political Animal: Korean War Memorial, appear- The Little Prince on Cat shelter needs ances by Willie Nelson, Gaude, the big screen. 13 help. 23 and much more. 14

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By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Dear SF Tax Collector, You know the $12 million in hotel taxes? Don’t spend it all in one place. Love, Airbnb — From a series of Airbnb ads in San Francisco, October 2015

Ed Ruscha, Standard Station, 1966. Color screen print, 25 5/8 x 40 in. Published by Audrey Sabol, Villanova, ast fall, Airbnb was embroiled in a nasty Penn. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, museum purchase, Mrs. Paul L. Wattis Fund, 2000. photo: ©Ed Ruscha battle to beat Proposition F, which would have strengthened regulations on the short-term home Lrental start-up and its competitors. The company spent Ed Ruscha and the Great American West more than $8 million on deceptive ads to scare the day- lights out of anyone using the service (“Don’t let the gov- By Sharon Anderson published editions of Ruscha’s prints trip roughly followed the legend- ernment in your bedroom!”). Proponents of Proposition and a pledge to receive those made ary Route 66 through the South- F spent almost nothing and still got 45 percent of the vote, he Fine Arts Museums of in the future. This exhibition draws west, and all its billboards, gas sta- but ultimately the pricey ad assault paid off and Airbnb San Francisco presents an heavily from the institution’s perma- tions, and open skies later defined defeated the measure. exhibition through Oct. 9 nent collection in a continued desire his signature style. Ruscha studied That was just fine with moderates on the Board Texploring the art of Ed Ruscha and to bring major exhibitions of post- with Robert Irwin at the Chouinard of Supervisors like Julie Christensen. Handpicked by the American West. The museum war American art to the Bay Area. Art Institute, and became an active Mayor Ed Lee to represent District 3 after David Chiu acquired the artist’s complete graph- Born in 1937, Ruscha drove to Cal- member of the Los Angeles Pop Art went to Sacramento, she told me in an interview that ic archive in 2000, which included all ifornia from Oklahoma in 1956. His RUSCHA, continued on 12 REYNOLDS RAP, continued on 4

Real Estate Investor The Back Story Of depth of field and “pushing” the film’s developing time in the Property market darkroom? If you remember these arcane terms and actions, you are much like I am. And you may miss shifts gear those good old days. To me, being a photographer these days is just too easy. There New high-end condos are so many pointing smartphones at this and that, taking selfies, and change the market marveling at the results. Yes, I miss those good old days of real photog- BY JOHN ZIPPERER raphers. But do you know that San Fran- upply and demand still has the final say, even cisco has been a haven for real in San Francisco’s wild real estate market. photographers, using real cameras, Early this month, developer Trumark Urban is since shortly after the Gold Rush? Sexpected to begin selling a batch of units in its $200 mil- This city is famous for famous pho- lion luxury condominium project, The Pacific, located at tographers. Let me tell you about 2121 Webster Street in Pacific Heights. A walk or drive Left: Nude study by Arnold Genthe, early 1900s; Right: Dream, a 1910 some of them. along Market Street in the Castro shows many new and photograph by Imogen Cunningham. photos: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS under-construction condo projects lining the street. SoMa ARNOLD GENTHE has been home to numerous tall cranes building even more A member of an academic fam- housing units in recent years. In another part of the market, San Francisco is famous for ily in Berlin, Genthe immigrated to there are potentially tens of thousands of “in-law” units, or San Francisco in 1895 to become the accessory dwelling units, that could come onto the market famous photographers tutor for a young man from a Ger- in the near future if a new pact between supervisors Mark man family. In his off hours, Gen- Farrell and Aaron Peskin becomes reality and boosts gen- Part 1 of 2 phone, you’re posting your photos the explored the city, especially the eration of new such units (see News Briefs, page 3). on Facebook, Instagram, and Pho- enclave known by its Chinese name, People who have wondered when all of the new con- By Ernest Beyl tobucket. And a lot of the photos Tangrenbu. The locals called it Chi- struction would begin to reduce housing prices are finally are quite good. It was not always natown, and Genthe was attracted getting an answer: Now. hese days everyone is a this way. to it because to him, and other It’s not a dramatic drop, and it’s not even affecting all photographer. Have you Do you remember the days of 35 outsiders, it appeared strange and property types. Currently it is being felt on high-end noticed? If you are a 21st- millimeter Leicas and Nikons? Of exotic. Soon he acquired a cam- INVESTOR, continued on 17 Tcentury photographer with a cell lens openings and shutter speeds? BACK STORY, continued on 12 Contents In This Issue 8 14

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News Calendar Russian Hill gets a new park August events News briefs on the advancing plans to Don’t let this summer end without taking turn Francisco Reservoir into a park, in some of the great music festivals, film supervisors come together on expanding screenings, family outings, outdoor activ- in-law housing, tech hiring (and not), a ities, and more that make San Francisco crime update from Northern Station, and the place to be. 14 the Apothecarium gets its approval. 3 At Home Northside Break out the good china In the Marina and Cow Hollow Julia Strzesieski tells you how to burglar- Lynette Majer’s Marina-Cow Hollow proof your home. 16 Insider keeps you up-to-date on neigh- borhood happenings; and District 2 Real Estate Supervisor Mark Farrell answers your Going to market questions on city funding, construction The Real Estate Roundup has the news on annoyance, city priorities, and Francisco interest rate movements, ballot measures Reservoir. 6 headed to your lap, China’s appetite for San Francisco real estate, a new Navigation North Beach and Telegraph Hill Center for local homeless, and how Brexit Ernest Beyl says Jerry Cimino has a isn’t just for the British anymore. 17 dream for an expanded Beat museum — and cafe and boutique hotel; and District Travel 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin says he is on the frontline of the battle to decrease the Post to post on the coast number of ballot initiatives. 8 Michael Snyder knows Scrote and he knows how to use him. 20 Food & Wine Time to dine Wellness The Tablehopper has inside news on Fitness First Adriano Paganini’s new casual dining spot Julie Mitchell goes urban hiking. 21 on Union Street, as well as developments at Don Pisto’s Tequila Bar, Pete’s, Jane, and MomSense more, plus Ernest Beyl has an old-and- Ewww, ick notable restaurant to suggest to you. 10 Liz Farrell confront’s every mom’s night- mare: lice. 22 Arts & Entertainment Summer on the screen Pet Page The Little Prince is leaping out of the pages Political Animal of your childhood memories and onto the Susan Dyer Reynolds reports on two cat big screen, and resident starry-eyed film rescues in need of help. critic Michael Snyder says it’s the perfect film to be stranded on a small planet with; ONLINE SPECIALS plus, the best sellers. 13 marinatimes.com

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News Briefs Parks, housing, and more Find the right mortgage backed by neighborly service. Water and in-laws don’t mix Now is the time to review your mortgage(s) NEW FUTURE buildings that had no dering if this is further FOR FRANCISCO history of evictions. fuel for the slowing of the and consider refinancing. Ask us about our RESERVOIR Peskin said the legis- go-go tech economy. But Russian Hill’s Francis- lation was the realiza- it might reflect more that historically low adjustable rate or fixed rate co Reservoir will finally tion of something he has tech workers, and espe- have a new life as a city been working on since cially younger ones, are mortgage loans today. park, following a go- his first go-around on pickier about what jobs ahead from the Board of the Board of Supervi- they take. According to Supervisors in July. The sors, in 2002: “Since Indeed, only 10.9 percent board supported Super- then, we’ve improved it of tech workers would visor Mark Farrell’s bill to through a robust com- consider getting a job at a authorize the Recreation munity and legisla- start-up for their next job; and Park Department to tive process, and I am it’s the established whales work with the Francisco focused on ensuring that of the Silicon Valley econ- Park Conservancy (FPC) the city does everything omy — Apple, Facebook, to make the park happen. possible to incentivize and Google — that are FPC can now engage the use of the afford- more in their sights. in public outreach and able housing tools we are community meetings, as creating. I want the city CRIME CONTINUES well as fundraising. It will to work with property TO DECLINE need about $25 million owners to encourage use Most categories of for the park’s construc- of this program, so we criminal activity city- tion and $150,000 annu- start reaping the benefits wide and in the Northern ally for its maintenance. as soon as possible.” District have recorded “Turning the aban- Farrell highlighted the declines between April doned and dilapidated new legislation as a balm and May of this year. Francisco Reservoir into for the city’s housing According to North- a brand-new citywide woes. “Our housing crisis ern Station Captain park is a once in a life- continues in San Francis- John Jaimerena, the fol- time opportunity that is one step closer to reality today,” said Farrell. “With today’s approv- Only 10.9 percent of tech al, the difficult and fun work of soliciting input workers would consider getting from residents and neighborhoods about the a job at a start-up. park they would like to see created begins,” Far- co, and I believe we need lowing changes have rell added. “The neigh- to do everything possible occurred citywide and borhood, open space, at the Board of Supervi- in the Northern District, and environmental advo- sors to build more hous- respectively: burglary cates fought for decades ing at every income level. is down 13 percent and for this park and I am This law will help realize 24 percent; auto theft is forever grateful for their thousands of new per- down 5 percent and 33 efforts.” manently rent-controlled percent; theft from auto units, protect and pro- actually rose 20 percent EVERYONE LOVES mote neighborhood and 29 percent; arson THEIR IN-LAW UNITS character and diversity, dropped 30 percent and Two Northside super- and will make a mean- 25 percent; and “other visors often on the ingful impact in our city’s theft” rose 11 percent opposite sides of issues housing shortage and and 24 percent. managed to find con- crisis.” In terms of violent sensus on the matter of In-law units have crime citywide and in accessory dwelling units, also been a priority for the Northern District, commonly called “in-law Supervisors Scott Wie- homicide declined 29 units.” District 2 Supervi- ner and former District percent and had no sor Mark Farrell and Dis- 3 Supervisor Julie Chris- change, respectively; trict 3 Supervisor Aaron tensen, who had earlier rape dropped 47 percent Peskin agreed in late July gotten unanimous board and had no change; rob- to merge their compet- approval for legislation beries rose 7 percent and ing proposed ordinances that eased the legaliza- declined 21 percent; and on the issue, making it tion of such units in dis- aggravated assaults rose more likely that possibly trict 3 and 8. 13 percent and dropped thousands of new hous- 5 percent. ing units could be added TECH WORKERS ON to the city’s tight residen- THE MOVE APOTHECARIUM tial housing stock. Nearly 70 percent of Medical marijuana Their joint legislation tech workers don’t think store The Apothecarium, would permit homeown- it’s important to be in after a lengthy public ers to provide unlimited Silicon Valley, and fewer approval process, has in-law units in buildings than half of Millennials received its permits and Contact your neighborhood branch that have five or more consider it important to will begin construction units, but will restrict work in Silicon Valley. soon at its new location manager for more information. the in-law units to one That’s the word from a at 2414 Lombard Street. per building when there new survey from Indeed, The company looks for- Reina Ceja are four or fewer units which reports another ward to opening in a few Branch Manager in the building. Any new surprising statistic: 88 months. NMLS ID: 872439 units would have to be percent of tech workers The Apothecarium’s 2197 Chestnut Street, built within the build- intend to leave their cur- first location is in the San Francisco, 94123 ing’s existing structure rent employer for a dif- Castro. 415-287-8800 or “envelope,” and they ferent job. [email protected] would be rent-controlled At a time when tech News tips? E-mail: unless they were built hiring has slowed, some [email protected] within existing condo observers might be won-

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Reynolds Rap shop here, lavishing them with tax breaks continued from page 1 and giving them carte blanche to behave like insolent, arrogant teenagers. I’ve never Proposition F was nothing more than understood why San Francisco can’t stand a way to “stick it” to Airbnb. She and up to start-ups. In the real Silicon Valley other supervisors also claimed that fur- where I’m from, household names like ther regulating the vacation rental start- Google, Apple, and Facebook play by the up would stifle their innovation, which rules and it hasn’t hurt them. In fact, they is just plain malarkey — let’s not forget could buy and sell most of the unprofit- that Apple managed to invent the iPhone able, overvalued firms here, which sub- while following the same pesky rules as sist on the venture capital equivalent of any other for-profit company. The bot- welfare. But Airbnb seems to think San tom line is that Airbnb and other “shar- Francisco should be grateful for its mere ing economy” upstarts (yes, I’m talking to existence and the million bucks a month you, Uber) have no interest in following in hotel taxes generated by their few reg- rules, because their very business model istered users. We know they feel that way depends on breaking them. because of the obtuse, out-of-touch series Under public pressure, the Board of of ads they plastered on bus stops and Supervisors passed a short-term rental billboards last October that said things ordinance in February 2015 requiring like, “Dear Public Library System: We hosts to register with the city and remit hope you use some of the $12 million in hotel taxes. Since San Francisco’s mantra hotel taxes to keep the library open later. is “More bureaucracy is better,” the Office Love, Airbnb.” of Short Term Rentals was established to If Airbnb’s privileged young execu- oversee the new rules, but (surprise, sur- tives stepped out of their bubble for a prise) they haven’t had much luck with few minutes, perhaps they would see the enforcement. Had Proposition F passed, undeniable effect they’ve had on the city’s it would have required Airbnb and simi- housing stock. In a May 2015 report, San lar companies like HomeAway and Flip- Francisco’s independent budget analyst Key to help with Harvey Rose that enforce- estimated that ment. Airbnb in some neigh- puts out a lot of It took Peskin’s return to give borhoods Airb- press statements progressives a voting edge, nb units com- saying that they prise as much “really hope to but more notably, it took his as 40 percent of work with the potential rentals, city to make political prowess to garner and that 2,000 things right,” unanimous agreement from entire housing but behind the units — nearly scenes they’re the oft-divided board. 25 percent of fighting tooth available vacan- and nail to do just the opposite. cies — have been removed from the A year after the new ordinance went market because of Airbnb. The report into effect, just over 1,600 of Airbnb’s also drew comparisons between Airbnb nearly 10,000 hosts had registered. That and evictions, pointing out that in the didn’t sit well with Aaron Peskin, who Mission, for example, there were 315 beat Christensen to win back his old Dis- hosts last year and 323 evictions. trict 3 supervisor’s seat last November. While some of Airbnb’s most passion- A vocal critic of Airbnb, it took Peskin’s ate supporters are so-called “casual hosts” return to give progressives a voting edge, who use the service to supplement living but more notably, it took his political expenses, Rose’s analysis focused on the prowess to garner unanimous agreement impact of “commercial hosts,” who are from the oft-divided board to amend the booked in excess of 58 days a year and short-term rental law. The new common- consider short-term rentals as a steady sense verbiage, which would force Airbnb source of income — in other words, to take responsibility for monitoring its they’ve turned their vacant houses into moneymaker, is fair and to the point: hotels, which is illegal. Not to say those Hosting platforms must refuse listings that casual hosts don’t break the law. One lack a registration number or face penal- host, who spoke to me on condition of ties of up to $1,000 a day per illegal listing. anonymity, said that he makes upward Airbnb immediately filed a lawsuit with of $4,000 a month renting out rooms in the U.S. District Court of Northern Cali- his flat on Airbnb. When I asked why he fornia saying the new requirement would hasn’t registered with the city, he said, “I violate its First Amendment rights, lean- can’t. My landlord doesn’t know I’m doing ing on that stalwart web company crutch, it and my lease doesn’t allow subleasing.” the Communications Decency Act. The Turns out he’s been living for more than CDA, and in particular Section 230, was two decades in a rent-controlled apart- passed by Congress two decades ago to ment where he pays $500 a month. “Airb- help strengthen what was then a bud- nb allowed me to quit my job and travel ding Internet economy by shielding online a bunch,” he beamed. While short-term companies from the actions of their users. rental foes focus on landlords evicting That the Internet is now a thriving multi- tenants to make money off of Airbnb, billion-dollar juggernaut and the antiquat- many hosts are tenants making money ed, terribly vague CDA needs overhauling off of landlords without their knowledge is a whole other column, but as the law or permission. And they, too, contribute stands now, Airbnb could win the case. To to the housing shortage by not renting head off Airbnb’s claims, Peskin and fel- vacant rooms to residents. It’s a massive low supervisors David Campos, Eric Mar, mess that only Airbnb has the power to and John Avalos introduced new language fix, but I don’t see that happening unless removing the prohibition on displaying they’re dragged kicking and screaming by unregistered listings but fining companies court order. each time they accept fees from guests If I could post an ad in a bus stop, it who book those properties (sites such would read, “Dear Airbnb: You’re not a as Craigslist that simply publish listings very good neighbor. For all that talk about without acting as intermediaries would be being innovators, you’re really just out exempt). to make millions for your founders and Of course, none of this time-consuming, investors, even if that means breaking the convoluted legislation would be necessary law while hiding behind your users and if Airbnb would just grow up and be a the First Amendment. Grow up, Airbnb. responsible corporate citizen. The pre- You’re a big business now — time to follow Peskin Board of Supervisors and Mayor the rules. Love, Susan.” Lee bear a large chunk of responsibility for kowtowing to tech companies that set up E-mail: [email protected]

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The Paris-designed clothing line at Les Lunes on Fillmore Street is made from bamboo. Cliff House and Beyond! photo: LESLUNES.com Guided Historical Walks Spend a memorable Saturday morning New food and fashion exploring Lands End. Start with a continental breakfast at the historic Cliff House then walk through Adolph Sutro’s magical ‘kingdom by hit the Cow Hollow the sea’ with historian guide John A. Martini. SUMMERTIME IN THE CITY (900 North Point Street, elizabethw.com) The afternoon sun is grand as are the in Ghirardelli Square, the flagship bou- Regarded as the ultimate authority on crowds enjoying Saturdays at The Lot tique of the local brand. We recently came this part of the City’s fabled past John’s walks will be offered on SF Pop-up Beer and Spirit Garden across some samples in a small white paper July 9, August 6, September 10, and October 8. (thelotsf.com) in the former parking lot bag, with the name elegantly penned in of the Taco Bell/KFC space on the corner silver ink, so with a soft spot for simple For more information and to make reservations please of Fillmore Street and Lombard. There’s a elegance, and heartwarming stories (the visit www.cliffhouse.com/history/Johns_Walk.html varied selection of brews, bubbles, wine, founder named the store after his great and cocktails throughout the summer, and grandmother because of all the fragrant you can even reserve a table (18 are vintage scents he recalled as a child visiting her 1090 Point Lobos German) for a group from noon to 2 p.m. Sierra Nevada ranch), and the enclosed 415-386-3330 And, proceeds benefit local charities, so it’s card with a dog running on Baker Beach, www.CliffHouse.com an all-around win. Drop by with your ID their letterpress packaging, and no animal or shoot them an e-mail for group rezzies testing, we were five times charmed. Check at [email protected], and follow their out their most popular scent, the woodsy, Instagram page for updates. You gotta love earthy vetiver, suitable for both genders. these pop-ups that donate to charity, right? And their oversized silk (or wool) sleep To combat your munchies, the next- masks with a velvet strap, for those of us door Poki Time (2101 Lombard Street, who prefer not to wake up every time the pokitime.com) has popped up to serve an neighbors turn on their bathroom light. easy-to-choose menu of poki your way A few days later, we stumbled upon before the entire building is demolished for another Elizabeth, Margaret Elizabeth condos. So poki and party while you can. (2230 Chestnut Street, margaretelizabeth. One of our go-to places is Marengo on com), which opened recently to showcase Union (1980 Union Street, marengosf.com), their own jewelry collection of semipre- where we often stop after our Sunday trek cious gems dipped in 24k gold, plus col- to the Fort Mason Center Farmers’ Mar- lections from other artists. With their first ket (2 Marin Boulevard, fortmason.org), store and office on Sacramento Street in which, by the way, is currently brimming the Laurel/Presidio Heights neighborhood, with with all things summer — berries, they recently came down the hill to where stone fruits, and tomatoes. Marengo’s back it’s really happening, and did a beautiful bar, with its retractable roof, is the perfect rehab of the former women’s clothing bou- mix of sunshine and breeze, and just the tique De Novo. Also in their finely honed place to grab a refreshment and a light inventory is a delightful array of lovely gift slider snack, like a chicken ’n waffle, Monte items like scarves, Herbivore bath salts and Cristo, or a bacon ’n biscuit (which is a body oils, and, our favorite, lovely hand- house-made biscuit, mind you). All range crafted bowls and small vases. from $3–$4.75, which seems like quite the deal in our fair foodie city. ANOTHER FILLMORE FASHION FIND To help us get over hump day, and The Bermuda Triangle is now a fashion make us think we’re on a tropical vacay, paradise. Les Lunes (3027 Fillmore Street, The Palm House (2032 Union Street, leslunes.com) opened recently right next to palmhousesf.com) recently launched a Palette Boutique (3027A Fillmore Street, “Weekend Wednesday” menu from 5–9 paletteboutique.com), which we told you p.m. that’s cocktail-focused — the fruity about last month. Les Lunes features cloth- kind adorned with umbrellas and orchids ing for both men and women designed in served in a pineapple with two straws for Paris and constructed of beautifully drap- sipping with your favorite person (but no ing and travel-friendly sustainable bamboo, one says you have to share). If you don’t and in sustainable styles (no trends) sewn like fruity, you can choose from two rum in their workshop in Shanghai. Before you flights. Enjoy it all with a pu pu platter of turn your nose up about “made in China,” coconut-crusted prawn and kalua pork the values-driven, woman-owned company wontons and other tasty bites on the encourages its seamstresses to participate popular sunny outside seating area, or in in the design process to create quality prod- the playful tropical-themed indoors with ucts and also to spend time with their fami- the lighted birdcages. lies while paying them an above-average wage. Drop by on Thursdays from 5–8 p.m. CHARMED BY ELIZABETH for their neighborhood meet-up, Styling & We needed a birthday gift recently, and Sips, and check out their collection. because we always purchase those from local merchants, we headed to Elizabeth W E-mail: [email protected]

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BY MARK FARRELL and vital services like parks, police, surge in property crime that we ronmental advocates to turn the gestion and disrupting our quality and transportation services were need to continue to address. We abandoned and dilapidated Fran- of life. I took those concerns and What can the city do about being cut, and I have made fiscal need more police officers walking cisco Reservoir in Russian Hill recently just authored and passed ensuring we don’t have to responsibility one of my biggest beats in our neighborhoods, and into a brand-new citywide park. three pieces of legislation that seek endure massive budget cuts at priorities. thankfully we have more academy I am thrilled that we continue to provide more advance and bet- the next economic downturn? classes planned to get more offi- to push the Francisco Reservoir ter notice to neighbors through Do we have a rainy day fund? Is What should the city’s priori- cers onto our streets. Park project forward, and that we modern means. it sufficient? ties be during the remainder of Housing and affordability and recently just approved the next Now, all contractors will have As chair of our city’s Budget and Mayor Lee’s term? the cost-of-living issues also con- major milestone in doing so at the to produce “construction parking Finance Committee for the past I believe our priorities as a city tinue to persist. We are produc- Board of Supervisors. The board plans” informing neighborhoods four years, I have made it a prior- should be on reducing homeless- ing more housing and have more just approved the agreement citywide of planned residential ity to fight for and secure record ness, enhancing public safety, units in the pipeline than ever between the city and Francisco construction when their work will amounts of savings into our city’s building more housing, and work- before. We have to continue to Park Conservancy that allows take up more than one parking budget reserves to protect against ing to improve the quality of life plan responsibly for appropriate for the private fundraising and space for longer than 30 days. the next economic downturn. for all San Franciscans. growth and focus on communi- next phase in the public outreach Second, we recently approved my Each and every year under my Homelessness in San Francis- ty involvement in the develop- process for input into the overall construction and building permit leadership our budget reserves co continues to persist and was ment process to ensure we main- design of the park. Public out- reform legislation that will give have grown, and I will continue recently rated the number-one tain neighborhood character and reach will continue throughout new powers to city departments to fight each and every year at the issue of concern citywide. There vitality. Along with affordability, the year, and we expect construc- to revoke permits from individu- board to ensure we maintain those is no silver bullet for reducing improving the quality of life must tion to begin in 2018 and to be als who either are not completing smart savings investments. homelessness. But making smart be a constant focus. We are set to completed in 2019. their work in a timely manner, or Our economy operates in cycles. investments in housing programs invest more in our parks system, We are making such fantastic not meeting the stated parameters We are currently going through and services that have been proven resurfacing our streets, improving progress on this once-in-a-life- of the permit they were issued. the longest duration of economic to save money over time is where transit, and more neighborhood- time opportunity. To learn more Last, the board just recent- growth in San Francisco histo- we should continue to focus our focused programs and services about the project, or to get more ly approved my Neighborhood ry without experiencing an eco- efforts. With the newly created — all areas that are important to involved, please visit the website, Notification Act, which will cre- nomic slowdown. Our city’s finan- Department of Homelessness and making life in San Francisco more franciscopark.org. ate San Francisco’s first online cial health is strong and grow- Supportive Housing, the city for enjoyable. and centralized notification sys- ing because of our commitment the first time is centralizing its I’m getting fed up with repair tem. Soon, residents will be able to saving responsibly, but there homelessness efforts, and I am I heard the news about Fran- work and street work that dis- to access any city notice on any is more we can and must do to confident we will make the prog- cisco Reservoir finally moving rupts my street. Is there any issue that may impact their neigh- fend off massive budget cuts that ress that our residents deserve and ahead with a plan. What will way we can know ahead of time borhood. From wanting to know will affect vital public services that expect to see. happen to it and how soon will what’s going to happen? why your Muni stop was moved, our residents depend upon. No Public safety is also front-of- it be completed? I hear from residents from Dis- to learning more about the con- one wants to experience what it mind for all San Franciscans. Since I was elected in 2010, I trict 2 and across the city about struction work occurring on your was like in 2009 and 2010 when Though violent crime continues have been working with the com- how the sheer amount of work on block, I want our city residents to people were losing their homes to trend downward, we have a munity and open-space and envi- our streets is causing traffic con- be proactively informed through

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Marinatimes.com MARINA TIMES AUGUST 2016 7 Northside Sketches from a North Beach Journal The truth about baccala; Beat Museum plans move, seeks angels; the loss of a McCourt poet

Live Music By Ernest Beyl

Food & Drink AL CIPPOLINA AND BACCALA ALLA Wine Tasting MESSINESE If you’re around North Beach on a Entertainment Friday, you might want to drop into the Original U.S. Restaurant. That’s the Exhibits day Al Cippolina makes his baccala alla Messinese — salt cod, potatoes, capers, olives and raisins, in a spicy tomato sauce. Al, one of the owners of this fine Sicilian restaurant, loves salt cod and is Entertainment includes: an expert in preparing it. For the uniniti- • The Rene Sevieri Band ated, salt cod is the dried, salted, slabs of fish encountered at real Italian delicates- • John DeMers sens. The slabs of dried fish look like the soles of well-worn sneakers. To enjoy salt • Ricco Dancers cod, it is necessary to soak it in a bucket of water for several days to rinse out the • The Tom Torriglia Band salt from the dried fish and reconstitute • it before it is cooked. The Beat Museum is looking to become Tony Gemignani In the old days, North Beach residents supersized, with some super help. • rinsed their dried cod by placing it in the photo: Curtis Cronn; FLICKR.COM/cronncc MORENO FRUZZETTI water tank of their toilet — not the kind most of us are used to now, but the kind Beat hotel on the fourth. Jerry Cimino our grandparents had, with the water recalls that there was a so-called "Beat tank up near the high ceiling with a long Hotel" in Paris at one time. Ginsberg, pull chain running down to the business Kerouac, William Boroughs, Gregory end. Every time the toilet was flushed Corso, and other Beat writers stayed in the cold water in the tank rinsed the fish the cheap, Left Bank hotel in the late Saturday and it became less salty. I have this on fifties and early sixties. “What a thrill it the good authority of a North Beach old- would be to have a Beat Hotel in North timer who is well beyond his sell date. Beach,” he says.

JERRY CIMINO’S BEAT MUSEUM ANGELS WANTED BUT NOT August 20th VISION ANGELHEADED HIPSTERS Back in 2003, Jerry Cimino, a former That’s Jerry Cimino’s dream — and tech guy who worked for IBM, opened it may be a stretch because it will take 11:00am - 7:00pm a tiny museum on Upper Grant Avenue bucks, lots of bucks, to put this deal in the space now occupied by the gallery together. How does he propose to realize (free admission) Live Worms. It was a shrine to the Beat his dream? By fund raising, of course. Generation — a group Jerry Cimino Jerry Cimino is an enterprising and per- wishes he had been part of. The small, sistent guy — a guy who doesn’t accept nonprofit outfit honors Jack Kerouac, “no” for an answer. He says the Beat Allen Ginsberg, and other Beat poets Museum at its present location is at a who made North Beach their home in crossroads. “We need more space and the 1950s. we need a sense of permanence,” he says. Cimino moved his Beat Museum in He worries that this city, in which many 2006 to its present site at 540 Broadway, small businesses and organizations have not far from that other Beat shrine, City had to shut down after being priced out, Lights. These days he has a new and will eject his baby. somewhat grandiose idea to “further So what’s the status of the Beat Muse- preserve the legacy of the Beats in San um’s fund-raising project? A building Francisco,” as he puts it. fund has been set up and the word has The idea (call it Jerry Cimino’s vision) gone out asking for financial support. He is for the museum — with its collection was quoted in Hoodline saying, “We’re of Beat memorabilia, including original seeking the support of likeminded peo- manuscripts; first editions; letters; per- ple who believe in the ideals of the Beat sonal effects like Allen Ginsberg’s type- Generation.” writer; and a 1949 Hudson Commodore, At this point it would seem that what the kind Kerouac and his buddy Neal Jerry Cimino needs is an angel, or per- Cassady drove cross country — to pur- haps a heavenly host of angels. Howl poet chase the building at 580 Green Street (at Allen Ginsberg’s “angel-headed hipsters” Stockton), recently vacated by Citibank. need not apply. The building as it exists now without Good luck Jerry. We wish you well. modification would double the space of the present Beat Museum. POET ALPHIE MCCOURT 1630 Stockton Street In last month’s Sketches column on San A BEAT HOTEL FOR NORTH BEACH Francisco’s homeless citizens, I included (between Union & Filbert) So the guy who wanted to be a Beat a poem about them by Alphie McCourt, now wants to broaden the scope of the one of the famed McCourt brothers. A across from Washington Square park museum, put it closer to the heart of few days after my column appeared, I in the heart of North Beach the old Beat neighborhood, and cre- got word from Malachy McCourt that ate a literary meeting place that would Alphie (baptismal name Alphonsus) had include a Beat cafe and a small Beat died in New York. All who knew Alphie hotel. Preliminary plans by designer will miss him greatly. www.SFIACFESTA.com Michael Palumbo include a small cafe on the first floor, museum space on the E-mail: [email protected] second and third floors, and a boutique

8 AUGUST 2016 MARINA TIMES marinatimes.com From the District 3 Supervisor Slimming the ballot Doing our j-o-b

BY AARON PESKIN require voter approval by law. sial tent encampment measure. contributed amendments to four signature measures from For example, we must take char- Supervisor Wiener placed a set- strengthen and improve the the ballot. I want to commend he San Francisco Chron- ter amendments to the ballot by aside onto the ballot to create a planning process and protect my colleagues who have taken icle recently ran an edito- law. We must take tax increases special police unit that would both residential and commercial steps to put forward legislative rial (“Length of Novem- to the ballot by law. And, when pull officers from other neigh- tenants have signed on to the alternatives to these ballot mea- Tber ballot spells problems in the legislative body fails its con- borhoods to deal with whatever legislation as well. This is what sures at the board. For instance, California democracy”) that stituents during the legislative “quality of life” crimes are get- the legislative process is for, and Supervisor Kim has introduced took City Hall to task for the process, the voters have the right ting the most noise in the city. it works when we let it. an ordinance, with input from “interminable” length of the to take the discussion to the bal- And Supervisor Tang put the incoming director of proposed Nov. 8 ballot: lot via signature, like Proposition the density bonus legisla- the new Department of B’s “No Wall on the Waterfront” tion crafted by the mayor These discussions generated Homelessness and Sup- San Francisco’s poten- campaign. and the Planning Depart- portive Housing, to set tial ballot … reflects a In June, several members of ment directly onto the amendments that would not forth a process at the shocking abdication of the Board of Supervisors placed ballot as well. One of the Board of Supervisors that responsibility on behalf of complex and frankly even silly problems with these bal- have been possible had Farrell outlines best practices, its city leadership. Instead measures directly onto the lot initiatives is that any kept his measure on the ballot. based on the federal gov- of doing the hard work already-crowded November bal- future tweaks or amend- ernment’s Interagency of negotiating the city’s lot, skirting any kind of dialogue ments would have to go back to Supervisor Tang has removed Council recommendations, to priorities, they’re threat- or opportunity for a public legis- the voters rather than the city her density bonus ballot mea- deal with tent encampments. I ening to dump that task lative process at City Hall. After legislature. sure from the November ballot. am supporting Supervisor Kim’s on the voters. signature gatherers missed the My office has been diligent- After several weeks of negoti- efforts to get this done in the deadline to submit their soda tax ly working with all of my col- ating with Supervisors Farrell People’s House — not set in While the Chronicle editorial measure, Supervisor Cohen put leagues to try to trim this ballot and Wiener, we have agreed on stone at the ballot, as proposed staff failed to analyze the down. After several weeks amendments to my accessory by Supervisor Farrell. underlying reasons why of amendments at the dwelling unit legislation that will We were elected to do our there is such a vacuum My personal philosophy has board and ongoing nego- contribute another instrument jobs as lawmakers in the Board of leadership at City Hall tiations with Supervisor for affordable housing creation. of Supervisors’ chambers. The — from the mayor to the been that the ballot should Tang, we were able to pass These discussions involving mayor was elected to do his job president to the rest of a fully vetted 100 Percent very technical issues, as well as as the city’s chief executive, in this the board — the editorial always be used judiciously Affordable Density Done additional community feedback, case managing air traffic control acknowledges that San — as a last resort. Right version of the den- generated several more amend- on our unwieldly ballot. Punt- Francisco voters deserve sity bonus program. Not ments that would not have been ing issues off to the ballot is the real access to direct democracy. it directly onto the ballot. Super- only does it have the support possible had Supervisor Farrell easy and sloppy political way out. My personal philosophy has visor Farrell placed two mea- of affordable housing advocates kept his measure on the ballot. Going through a public process been that the ballot should sures directly onto the ballot: one as a practical and effective tool By the time you read this, there and crafting consensus legisla- always be used judiciously — a complex land use and planning for affordable housing creation, will be only a couple of days left tion is hard work, but it’s what we as a last resort. Certain things measure, the other a controver- but neighborhood groups that to remove the remainder of the were hired to do: our j-o-b.

Marinatimes.com MARINA TIMES AUGUST 2016 9 Food & Wine The Tablehopper New and updated

Pour one out for Mike Shawa of North Beach icon Sam’s, who has sadly left us after saving us with countless late-night burgers. Photo: ©TABLEHOPPER.COM Union Street percolates with new projects; Mason Pacific is back in action

By Marcia Gagliardi and ceviche tostada, avail- cooked at Restaurant Relae able by the piece for $3–$7. in Copenhagen, Fish & North Beachhere is a taker for There’s a full bar — Dug- Game in Hudson, N.Y., and Restaurantthe former ad Betelnut gan McDonnell consulted most recently Rose’s Luxury (2030 Union Street) on the list, which he also in Washington, D.C. He was JuneTspace, 2016 and it’s Adriano did for Pete’s (the former also a commis in the 2011 Paganini’s restaurant group Amante). Bocuse d’Or competition, (Belga, Beretta, Delarosa, El so you know this guy has MarinaTecho, TimesLolinda, Starbelly, NORTH BEACH his sauces down. Super Duper, and whew, A few other updates in This is a great place to 4.936”Uno Dos X 16”Tacos). They will Mrabe land: At Pete’s (570 swing by for a glass of wine be unveiling the new casual Green Street, 415-398-2551) (or two) and a few small dining concept this Octo- in North Beach, there’s a plates. Master sommelier Providedber; it will by:be open for lunch new menu for dinner on Dustin Wilson (maybe Innkeeperand dinner, Card and Servicesthe front non-game days, with you saw him in Somm and patio will be designed to be brunch starting soon. Uncorked) and manag- a lively space. If you swing by Central ing partner Eric Railsback Another project coming Station Deli (728 Vallejo (who is also a partner in to Union Street is Naples Street, 415-658-7310), you’ll Lieu Dit Winery) will con- On Union (2136 Union note the offerings there tinue to run the rocking Street), a 100-seat upscale have ramped up signifi- wine program. Italian restaurant, “arti- cantly. Daniel Sudar, who sanal pizzeria,” and wine makes desserts for Pete’s, FISHERMAN’S WHARF bar, opening late summer is making pastries, crois- Owner Mike Geraldi in the former La Cucina sants, apple pie, and cheese- confirms that he is retiring space. Details are sparse at cake. You can also pick up and Chris Henry of Tom- the moment, but we’ll keep their hefty deli sandwiches, my's Joynt on Van Ness you updated. including a New York-style Avenue is buying No. 9 After 10 years in Cow pastrami, plus breakfast Fishermen’s Grotto (2847 Hollow, Umami (2909 sandwiches, lunch salads, Taylor Street, 415-673- Webster Street) has closed. lasagna, and other items to 7025). The oldest sit-down Based on the melancholic take home for dinner. Open restaurant on the Wharf, note posted on their website 8 a.m.–5 p.m. daily. the Grotto has been in the and outdoor menu board, Was sorry to read Mike family since 1935. It sounds it seems the closure wasn’t Shawa, the mustachioed like Henry will be updating what the partners had in owner of late-night burger the menu this fall to feature mind. (“Call us another church Sam’s (618 Broad- sustainable and local ingre- casualty of a changing San way Street, 415-391-1539), dients, and here’s a nice Francisco.”) has passed away at the age slow clap that they aren’t The former Tacolicious of 70. Hoodline reports going to touch that vintage space (2031 Chestnut Street) Shawa’s uncle Sam opened front bar, the most fantastic will become the fourth Bay the burger joint in 1966. He time capsule. The wonder- Area location for Asian will be missed by his many ful staff will also stay on. Box, which serves up “farm patrons, whom he treated as to box street food.” Tacoli- kindly as family — because FILLMORE cious has moved into larger his customers were family! The adored and stylish digs at the old Grove space Condolences to his family bakery-cafe Jane will open (2055 Chestnut Street). and many friends. a third location in the pre- A while back, we told you vious Taco Bell/KFC space Pete Mrabe would be open- NOB HILL (1881 Geary Boulevard) ing Don Pisto’s Tequila Bar One of San Francisco’s smack-dab in the middle of (2030 Lombard Street) in more charming restaurants, the Fillmore to be used for the former Mas Sake space, Mason Pacific (1358 Mason bakery production, in addi- and it has now opened. Street, 415-374-7185) has tion to being a cafe space for The menu has smaller por- reopened after a kitchen the public (coffee, smooth- tions of Pisto’s classics, and fire in March. A new fixture ies, sandwiches, and more). everything is less than $15 in the kitchen is chef Max Owner Amanda Michael (except specials). You’ll Mackinnon, who is launch- likes the strip mall location, find Pisto’s enchiladas, their ing a new menu which one of the last in San Fran- amazing tortilla soup, and includes dishes like braised cisco, and there’s that conve- machaca beef and egg as lamb with flowering broc- nient parking lot! Look for a well as a street food sec- coli and citrus broth. The September opening. tion, with items like a fish or Cali native was previously carnitas taco, braised beef the chef-owner of Pistou Follow @tablehopper on tamale, street stand burger, in Burlington, Vt., and has Twitter and Instagram for

10 AUGUST 2016 MARINA TIMES marinatimes.com Appetites & Afterthoughts 'The guy who wrote about that in the Marina Times' Old and notable: Fior d’Italia, America’s oldest Italian restaurant

By Ernest Beyl Although I am a devotee of old San Fran- shirt, black tie and vest and black pants. to dessert or coffee, Gianfranco popped cisco restaurants and bars, I have given His service was smooth, without undue out of the kitchen to do that himself. I was oyal readers will note the scant attention to Fior d’Italia (Flower of social frills. A few minutes later, a basket of looking forward to talking to him and sure Marina Times frequently discuss- Italy) in recent years. I vowed to check it dark and crusty sourdough was set down enough, here he came with our espressos. es newly opened restaurants in out and see what was going on. and shortly my glass of Simi Sauvignon “Do you know the first time I ate in Fior Lthe column New and Notable. I always Blanc ($10) appeared as well. d’Italia? I said. read these dispatches with considerable THE SAN REMO DINING ROOM Our lunches were simple, elegant, “Tell me,” Gianfranco answered. interest. Sometimes I patronize the “new Fior d’Italia’s dining room was a nostal- and satisfying. My wife chose a salad “It was in the early fifties when the res- and notables,” sometimes not. I am an gic trip back to Italy. It brought to mind — pomodoro con mozzarella ($14). It taurant was on Broadway. I was with the old-fashioned diner; I’ve been called that pleasant stays in a boutique Rome hotel appeared with a ring of ripe tomato wedg- Chronicle and writing the annual Gourmet repeatedly because my style is to patron- where I walked down a twisting staircase es, offsetting the mozzarella decorated Guide. I ordered osso buco. The waiter ize the “old and notables” and then write from my room to enter the hotel’s din- with frissee, and drizzled with olive oil. dropped it on the floor and I wound up about them for this publication. ing room for a The white plate ordering spaghetti and meatballs.”. fine lunch. Now, was ringed with “Oh, you’re the guy who wrote about AMERICA’S OLDEST ITALIAN RES- here I was in a a tracing of bal- that in the Marina Times,” he said. TAURANT handsome room Our lunches were simple samic vinegar. Indeed, I was the guy. Recently I walked from Telegraph Hill — with dark Joan proclaimed to the historic San Remo Hotel (2237 carpet, widely and elegant. It was as fine a it excellent. I GIANFRANCO AND THE FLYING Mason Street) for lunch at Fior d’Italia. spaced tables set luncheon dish as I’ve had in opted for lin- SALMON One of the city’s oldest dining places, with white table- guine con von- “Now let me tell you a story,” Gianfranco Fior d’Italia bills itself as “America’s Old- cloths, crisp nap- recent months. gole ($18). Two said. “I’m from Milan but I studied cook- est Italian Restaurant.” It dates to 1886 kins, good cutlery dozen or more, ing in Switzerland. Later I got a job in a when it opened at 432 Broadway. Enrico and sparkling wineglasses. It was partially tiny Manila clams graced my linguine, fancy restaurant in Lausanne. One night I Caruso, in town to sing his tenor role in occupied by other diners, perhaps guests moistened by a clam liquor and white prepared a beautiful salmon Bellevue for Carmen, dined there the night of April from the old hotel upstairs. The pressed tin wine sauce that was perfumed by a bit of a party — a cold poached salmon in aspic 17, 1906. The following morning the ceiling was offset by beige and tan wooden minced garlic and topped by a sprinkling decorated with potatoes, chopped carrots great earthquake struck and Caruso left columns. Large windows let in a soft light of fresh parsley. It was as fine a luncheon and peas in mayonnaise,” he said. San Francisco in a hurry, never to return. from the street. A low murmur of conver- dish as I’ve had in recent months. “It was on a heavy silver dish. I held In the many years since, the long-lived sation made the experience seem all the Bear in mind this account is not a Mari- it over my head and walked out of the establishment has occupied several sites. more like my Roman hotel. na Times review of Fior d’Italia. It’s simply kitchen into the dining room and tripped Five of these pervious locations were on an account of a pleasant lunch at a classic on a loose carpet. The salmon Bellevue Broadway, with one move necessitated by A SIMPLE, ELEGANT LUNCHEON Italian restaurant. sailed over one table and landed squarely the famed earthquake and fire. In 1954, My wife and I were seated by a man in in the middle of another one.” Gianfranco it moved to Union Street where Original a chef’s white jacket and a black baseball THE SAGA OF THE OSSO BUCO laughed and finished his story: “So what’s a Joe’s is now located. Then in 2005 the cap. After he left us I realized the man was We decided to wrap up this totally satis- dropped osso buco in comparison to that?” Union Street location gave way to the Gianfranco Audieri, longtime Fior d’Italia fying midday meal with an espresso ($3). I I agreed. present site in the historic San Remo chef and now owner. There was one waiter had noticed that our young waiter served Hotel, which opened in 1906. on duty, a young, helpful man in a white all diners their meals. But when it came E-mail: [email protected]

Marinatimes.com MARINA TIMES AUGUST 2016 11 From the Cover

Back Story Stanford bet $25,000 Motion. Admission was 50 continued from page 1 that at full gallop all four cents. The show featured of a horse’s hooves are off the thoroughbred Sallie era and became a regular the ground at the same Gardner and a gymnast ConCerts at the Presidio presence in Chinatown, time. All he had to do named William Lawton. photographing the inhab- was prove it. On Stanford’s Sally was the precursor to Winds and Guitar Soiree itants. Palo Alto estate in 1878, Lassie, Lawton to Arnold Genthe professed to an English-born photog- Schwarzenegger. We present at the Presidio’s historic Main Post Chapel an outstanding evening of chamber shoot his Chinatown pho- tos candidly, but studying IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM music, bringing to our stage the wind ensemble Fault Line Quintet for a program his classic, now famous Born in Portland, Ore., highlighting works of Fauré and other chamber music composers, and gifted classical glass plate negatives in 1883, and after gradu- guitarist Lyle Sheffler, who will perform pieces by De Falla (Dance of the Corregidor), and prints, one real- ating with a degree in Albeniz (Asturias), Scarlatti (Sonata, K. 322) Barrios (Danza Paraguay) and Tansman izes two impor- chemistry from the (Danza Pomposa). Also joining us, from the Pre-College Division of the San Francisco tant factors: First, University of Wash- Conservatory of Music, young pianist Charlotte Wong performs works of Beethoven most of the pho- ington in Seattle, and (Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp Major), Liszt (Grandes Études de Paganini No. 6), tos were taken on already interested in Chinese holidays, photography, Cun- Rachmaninoff (Polka de W.R.) and Rorem (Sonata No. 1, Toccata). apparent because ningham worked for many inhabitants the great photographer were wearing Chinese of American Indians, holiday garb. So for the Edward S. Curtis. With most part, Genthe wasn’t Curtis, she refined her recording the usual day- Eadweard Muybridge’s desire to be a photogra- to-day street life. Second, phenakistoscope pher, then married artist- Genthe carefully scratched animation device, 1893. teacher Roi Partridge and out or erased from his photo: wikimedia COMMONS moved to San Francisco. glass negatives any repre- Her botanical photo- sentation of Western cul- rapher Eadweard Muy- graphs, as well as nudes ture that appeared in the bridge rigged a series of and landscapes, attracted frame. 24 cameras and set them attention, and she co- These two factors dis- to release their shutters founded Group f/64, a col- credit his desire to have in sequence when one lective of like-minded San his photos appear as can- of Stanford’s thorough- Francisco photographers. did representations. Nev- breds, Sallie Gardner, gal- They took the unusual ertheless, his contribution loped by. The experiment group name from a large- is immense in depicting proved two things. First, format camera’s smallest life in San Francisco’s Stanford was correct in his aperture setting, which, Chinatown in the 1880s assumption about gallop- when used adroitly, pro- 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, September 8 & 9, 2016 and 1890s. And not only ing horses. But it was the duced photos of amaz- at the historic Main Post Chapel are his Tangrenbu pho- second discovery that led ing sharpness and clar- 130 Fisher Loop, Presidio of San Francisco (intersection of Sheridan and Infantry Terrace) tographs an important to what we know today as ity. Cunningham’s work is Free to the public record but a beautiful one Hollywood: Motion could found in many museums Limited seating. Reservations recommended. as well. He is also famed be reproduced in a realis- and private collections. Call (415) 447-6274 for shooting some of the tic fashion. Her detailed close-ups in most memorable photos Muybridge, with finan- sharp black and white are of the devastating 1906 cial aid from an enthu- haunting and evocative San Francisco earthquake siastic Stanford, then of an almost surreal uni- and fire. constructed a primitive, verse. sequential photo projector Other members of the EADWEARD called the zoopraziscope. Group f/64 collective MUYBRIDGE Two years later, Muybridge included Edward Weston In the 1870s, railroad presented the first public and Ansel Adams — the baron and former Califor- movie screening on May latter of whom is dis- nia governor Leland Stan- 4, 1880. It was held at the cussed in more detail next ford made an intriguing San Francisco Art Asso- month along with addi- wager with a friend that ciation Exhibit Hall on tional famous photogra- ultimately led to what we Pine Street and was called phers with a San Francisco know today as movies. Illustrated Photographs in connection.

Ruscha or splatters form the words “Adios” and continued from page 1 “Rodeo.” In A Particular Kind of Heaven, those words float above, looking down movement during the 1960s. Working in from the sky, white print hovering over painting, photography, film, printmaking, the sunset. In The End, the words appear publishing, and drawing, Ruscha honed confrontational in large dark print cov- his offbeat, humorous approach to subject ered in white vertical streaks like a film’s matter. bleak conclusion on a damaged reel of What is Ruscha trying to say with all celluloid. these buildings, roadways, and parking The thread that runs through all of Rus- lots? This seemingly expressionless repre- cha’s work is his consistency in illustrating sentation of the world around him could the “thingness” of his subjects. Words, like make the viewer ask, “Why is it art?” landscapes, apartment complexes, and Ruscha’s style might initially seem void telephone poles are treated equally in that of aesthetic meaning given that his con- they are objects taken out of context. This ceptualism is, in some sense, baffling and exhibition includes 99 works that travel confrontational. Though Ruscha seems through Ruscha’s evolving technicolor to avoid narrative and emotion, what landscapes, expansive skies, and mun- at first seems reductive becomes more dane renderings of retro buildings that meaningful when we consider that the make up the great American West and its artist’s craft and identity has been, for the unexpected possibilities. most part, removed. The viewer is left to regard these scenes as a simple flat surface Ed Ruscha and the Great American — perhaps the same kind of “flattening” West: 9:30 a.m.–5:15 p.m. Tuesday– Ruscha experienced with the fatigue of a Sunday, July16–Oct. 9; $20; M.H. deY- long road trip through the solitude of the oung Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Western desert. Drive, Golden Gate Park; 415-750-3600, Ruscha is also famous for his word famsf.org paintings. Graphic illustrations of words become objects in space — a new kind Sharon Anderson is an artist and writer in of still life with letters instead of bowls Southern California. She can be reached containing fruit. A series of liquid stains at mindtheimage.com.

12 AUGUST 2016 MARINA TIMES marinatimes.com Arts & Entertainment Michael Snyder on ... Film Accomplishing a princely feat

By Michael Snyder few more partners. Sure enough, it rolled out in most of the targeted countries magine my delight at learning during the rest of the year — except the of a new animated movie based on United States. French author and aviator Antoine Paramount apparently had cold feet, Ide Saint-Exupery’s beloved 1943 novella, and took the movie off of its 2015 U.S. The Little Prince, a book I’ve cherished schedule. Instead, it rescheduled the since I was a kid. For the uninitiated, it’s release for spring 2016, only to drop it as the touching tale of a pilot who crashes a theatrical presentation at the last min- his plane in the Sahara Desert. There, he ute. Happily, Netflix picked up The Little meets a young boy who says he comes Prince for its streaming service, starting from a planetoid in the heavens, has fall- Aug. 5, and will launch a run in North en to Earth, and must return to his home American theaters on the same day, so amid the stars to nurture a rose that will stateside fans will finally be able to see it die without his ministrations. on the big screen (or a smaller one). The English-language voice cast assem- In literary form, this gentle yet stirring bled for the motion picture was impressive, fable is considered a national treasure with talented actors including Jeff Bridges, and a must-read for the young in France, Paul Rudd, James Franco, Rachel McAd- where Saint-Exupery is seen in heroic ams, Marion Cotillard, Benicio Del Toro, terms and was even featured on the Albert Brooks, Ricky Gervais, and Paul country’s pre-Euro 50 franc note (along Giamatti on board. Not too shabby. And with the Little Prince himself, and two The Little Prince leaps out of the pages and onto a welcoming big screen. it was directed by other images photo: ©Paramount Pictures France Mark Osborne, from the book, who helmed the as well as a few little girl and her mother — a buttoned- investigation of the Little Prince’s exis- wildly successful This gentle, stirring fable is lines of text in up single mom — move into a new home tence beyond what we’re told in Saint- Kung-Fu Panda, anticounterfeit in a modern, architecturally bland sub- Exupery’s words. still my favorite considered a national micro-print). urban neighborhood. Mom’s mission is Paramount honchos have been quiet in the Dream- treasure and a must-read. I first encoun- to get her daughter into the best school about the decision to dump the feature in works Animation tered the Avia- in the area, which will require mature, the United States, which is odd since it was catalog. That was more good news. tor, the Prince, and the rest of the story’s disciplined preparation on the part of greeted with generally favorable reviews Yes, there was a live-action feature archetypal characters when I was in the child. The girl is on track until her overseas and had already earned over $100 adaptation in 1974, not particularly high-school French class. I was charmed. regimen is derailed by the eccentricities million when the hammer dropped. Para- memorable despite being directed by Some might call it a little sparse on the of the elderly aviator living in the ram- mount’s French division had no compunc- the great Stanley Donen, best known plot side. It’s a very slim volume, albeit shackle house next door. The old man tion about putting it out in France. Maybe for such timeless films as Singin’ in the decorated with a number of evocative line tells the girl about his desert encoun- the American powers that be couldn’t get Rain, Funny Face, and Charade. There drawings by the author, but there is great ter with a strange visitor from beyond, behind something that’s adored in Europe was also a short Little Prince cartoon beauty in its simplicity and its central mes- showing her a journal depicting the and not particularly mainstream here. done in 1979 by Claymation wizard Will sage: What is most essential in life is invis- adventure. And that’s where the source That’s a pity. Taken on its own terms, the Vinton. And the French did an animated ible to the eye. There are other themes material is realized via the stop-motion latest attempt to bring The Little Prince TV series inspired by the book, running inherent in The Little Prince, among them technique, beautifully breathing life into to the screen is a lovely, thoughtful and from 2010–13. But Osborne’s version the value of friendship and loyalty, the pet- Saint-Exupery’s drawings and achieving sincere accomplishment that deserves an was a widescreen feature mixing the lat- tiness of vanity, greed, and prejudice that a neat visualization of the dichotomy audience on these shores. It now has a est in CGI with stop-motion animation. can come with adulthood, and the rewards between book and movie. Eventually, the chance to find one. of braving the unknown in the interest of girl’s world and the Little Prince’s world AN UNEXPECTED DETOUR discovery and personal growth. intersect. Michael Snyder is a print and broadcast The Little Prince was set for worldwide Although there will be those who con- journalist who covers pop culture on release starting in France last July with BUILDING ON A CLASSIC sider the additions to this iconic proper- KPFK/Pacifica Radio’s David Feldman distribution over much of the globe by To expand on Saint-Exupery’s book ty as tantamount to heresy, it’s done quite Show and on Michael Snyder’s Culture Paramount Pictures, whose Paramount and fill out a movie, Osborne and his respectfully and artfully. The movie stays Blast, via GABnet.net, Roku, and You- Animation wing co-produced the movie collaborators created a computer-ani- true to the book’s philosophical core, Tube. You can follow Michael on Twitter: along with France’s Orange Studio and a mated framing story wherein a bright even as the script thrusts the girl into an @cultureblaster

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Marinatimes.com MARINA TIMES AUGUST 2016 13 Calendar Wild West: Plains to the Pacific Tue.–Sun. through Sept. 11 MUSIC: Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park CONTEMPORARY See more than 170 paintings, prints, historical August objects, and other works that trace our shifting Snarky Puppy Events sense of the country’s last frontier. $20, 415-750- Thu.–Sun., Aug. 4–7, 8 p.m. 3600, famsf.org Miner Auditorium, SFJazz what not to miss this month Don’t miss one of the hottest jazz/R&B bands on the planet, fresh from their 2016 Grammy. MAJOR EVENTS COMMUNITY PERFORMANCES $30–$70, 866-920-5299, sfjazz.org Jeff Beck & Buddy Guy 9th Annual Outside Lands CORNER Tuesday, Aug. 16, 8 p.m. Fri–Sun, Aug. 5–7, noon–9:45 p.m. Korean War Memorial Opening The Masonic (1111 California St.) Golden Gate Park Monday, Aug. 1 10 a.m.–noon The rock/blues guitar legends make a stop in This year’s eco-friendly, three-day festival of Lincoln Blvd. at Sheridan Ave., the Presidio S.F. on the tail end of their summer tour. $45– music, wine, food, comedy/variety, and art sold Honor the service of Korean War veterans at the $149.50, 415-776-7457, sfmasonic.com out in record time. Radiohead, LCD Soundsys- opening ceremony of this new memorial. Free, tem, and Lionel Richie head up the bill along 415-561-5300, presidio.gov with many more. sfoutsidelands.com Can’t Stop the Train: A Tribute to Jerry Garcia 43rd Annual Nihonmachi Street Fair GALAS & BENEFITS Wednesday, Aug. 17, 9 p.m. Sat–Sun, Aug. 6–7, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. The Fillmore This benefit for the Rex Foundation and the Jake Japantown and Japan Center 12th Annual Flower Power Luncheon Peavy Foundation features the S.F. Giants pitch- Enjoy food, artisan crafts, local musical and cul- Wednesday, Aug. 3, 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. er Peavy with his band, The Outsiders, among tural performances while celebrating and learn- Sir Francis Drake Hotel S.F. Playhouse: City of Angels others. $60, thefillmore.com ing about the Asian/Pacific American culture. Benefiting the Salvation Army’s Back-to- Special events are the Art & Soul of Jtown School and after-school programs, this Tue.–Sun. through Sept. 17 Willie Nelson & Family (Aug. 6); Sounds of Thunder car show (Aug 6.–7); luncheon features renowned floral designer 450 Post St. (Kensington Park Hotel) Sat.–Tue., Aug. 20–23, 8 p.m. coed basketball tournament (Aug. 6–7); Ron Morgan, who will show guests how to create In 1940s Los Angeles, a struggling screenwriter The Fillmore and Doggie World and Parade (Aug. 7). Free, his signature designs at home. $125, 415-503- attempts to pen his film noir masterpiece while The musician, singer, songwriter, author, poet, nihonmachistreetfair.org 2736. flowerpowersf.org his on-page creations start to become reality. actor, and activist performs with his band. $75, $30–$125, 415-677-9596, sfplayhouse.org 7th Annual Glide Legacy Gala thefillmore.com photo: Jessica Palopoli Saturday, Aug. 13, 8 p.m.–midnight The Regency Ballroom (1300 Van Ness Ave.) The evening will benefit Glide’s programs BATS: Summer Improv Festival NIGHTLIFE and honor “architects of change who embody Fri.–Sat., Aug. 5–6, 8 p.m. Glide’s values,” and features entertainment, Bayfront Theatre, Bldg. B, Fort Mason Center NightLife Live hosted bar, and hors d’oeuvres. $85–$150, In this popular yearly Grudge Match (Aug. 5), S.F. Thursday, Aug. 4, 6–10 p.m. 415-674-6124, glide.org and L.A. vie for the Improv Cup; the next night, California Academy of Sciences Help is on the Way XXII both teams create Broadway’s next musical. $20, Music, art, and science take over with Outside Lands Music Festival presenting English singer, Sunday, Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m. 415-474-6776, improv.org songwriter, and musician Låpsley. Ages 21 & up, Herbst Theater Beautiful: The Carole King Musical $12–$15, 415-379-8000, calacademy.org Join the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation for an elegant evening of receptions, live enter- Tue.–Sun., Aug. 19–Sept. 18 Eat Drink S.F. tainment featuring both Bay Area and interna- SHN Orpheum Theatre (1192 Market St.) tionally acclaimed performers, and a dessert Don’t miss the inspiring true story of King’s rise Fri.–Sun., Aug. 26–28 party to raise funds for Bay Area AIDS service to stardom to become one of the most success- Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center provider agencies. $175 & up, 415-931-0317, ful solo acts in popular music history. $45–$212, Enjoy unlimited pours of wine, beer, richmondermet.org 888-746-1799, shnsf.com cocktails, and tastes from the Bay Area’s top restaurants. $109–$209, 415-781-5348, sfchefsfoodwine.com ARTS & CULTURE DANCE

American Craft Council Show Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival Fri.–Sun., Aug. 5–7 Fri.–Sun., Aug. 12–14 LAST CHANCE Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center Tainted Love Featuring more than 230 of the best contempo- Dance Mission Theatre (3316 24th St.) This festival highlights the important contribu- 36th Annual San Francisco Jewish rary jewelry, clothing, furniture, and home decor Saturday, Aug. 13, 8 p.m. artists from across the country, this show is the tions of deaf and hard of hearing artists, and Film Festival Bimbo’s 365 Club (1025 Columbus Ave.) largest juried craft show west of the Rockies. $14, features performers from London; Turkey; Mexi- Daily through Aug. 7 Tainted Love takes you in a time warp to a 612-206-3100, craftcouncil.org co; and Washington, DC. $25–$30, 800-838-3006, Various Bay Area venues dancemission.com mid-1980s music party. $25, 415-673-3000, This festival presents more than 100 screenings bimbos365club.com 23rd Annual Pistahan Festival & Parade and other events, including a behind the scenes Alozono King Lines Ballet: photo: Mark Andrew Wilson with ’s Leonard Nimoy. $13 individual Festival: Sat.–Sun., Aug. 13–14, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Star Trek Summer Program Showcase films; $35–$295 multifilm passes, 415-621-0523, Yerba Buena Gardens sfjff36.jfi.org Parade: Saturday, Aug. 13, 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, 8 p.m. Civic Center to Yerba Buena Gardens Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center The Headhunters This program will feature student dancers in Fri.–Sat., Aug. 19–20, 9 p.m. The Future of the Past: Mummies and The largest celebration of Filipino Americans in the U.S., this event is expected to draw over works by top choreographers. $25, 415-863-3040, Boom Boom Room (1601 Fillmore St.) Medicine 160,000 people. Free, pistahan.net linesballet.org Mike Clark, Donald Harrison, Bill Summers, and Tue.–Sun., through Aug. 26, 9:30–5:15 p.m. Wil Blades bring the funk. $10, 415-673-3000, Legion of Honor (100 34th Ave.) Festa Coloniale Italiana S.F. Aerial Arts Festival boomboomtickets.com This exhibition uses state-of-the-art scientific Saturday, Aug. 20, 11 a.m.–7 p.m. Fri.–Sun., Aug. 19–21 techniques to explore two of the museums’ Stockton Street (btw. Union & Filbert) Fort Mason Center Rick Estrin and the Nightcats mummies. Learn how these embalmed individu- The S.F. Italian Athletic Club Foundation invites This dynamic indoor/outdoor event brings Friday, Aug. 26, 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. als lived, died, and were prepared for eternity. you to celebrate the rich Italian and Italian-Amer- together innovative spectacle, daring athleti- Biscuits & Blues (401 Mason St.) $10, 415-750-3600, famsf.org ican heritage in this festival featuring live Italian cism, aerial dance, and circus performances. Come out for some hipster harmonica happiness music and dancing, a pizza toss, and more, includ- $25–$50, zaccho.org with the winner of the 2013 Blues Music Award Quattro Storie ing Italian wine tasting. Free, 415-781-0166, sfi- for Best Instrumentalist-Harmonica. $24, 415-292- Tue.–Sun. through Aug. 28, noon–4 p.m. acfesta.com 2583, biscuitsandblues.com Museo Italo Americano (Bldg. C, Fort Mason Cntr.) MUSIC: CLASSICAL This exhibition features works by two Italian art- ists (Adriano Castelli and Stefano Spagnoli) and MUSEUMS & S.F. Choral Society: Verdi’s Requiem SCIENCE & two Italian American Bay Area artists (Paulette GALLERIES Fri.–Sat., Aug. 19–20, 8 p.m. THE ENVIRONMENT Perone Long and Michael Rizza). Free, 415-673- Davies Symphony Hall 2200, sfmuseo.org Bruce Davidson: Gifts to the Collection The choir performs one of the favorites, inspired Marine Archaeology of the Atomic Age Tue.–Sunday through Sept. 11 by the death of author Alessandro Manzoni and Thursday, Aug. 18, 6–8 p.m. Cinco y Cinco/Five & Five deYoung Museum, Golden Gate Park composer Gioacchino Rossini. $29–$35, 415-392- Exploratorium (Pier 15) Thu.–Sun. through Aug. 28, noon–4 p.m. This exhibition of one of the most influential 4400, sfchoral.org The USS Independence was the unfortunate photographers of the last half century features target for U.S. atomic weapons tests in 1946. Join The Mexican Museum (Fort Mason Center) subjects ranging from the civil rights movement Merola Opera: Grand Finale Dr. James Delgado for a preview of an expedi- This exhibition features five invited artists, each to the urban grit of Harlem and the New York Saturday, Aug. 20, 7:30 p.m. tion to revisit the wreck, as well as a discussion of whom then nominated another artist to partici- subway system. $15, 415-750-3600, famsf.org of the history and archaeology of America’s early pate, resulting in diverse viewpoints, approaches, War Memorial Opera House Don’t miss these future opera headliners in the atomic weapons tests. Free, RSVP required, 415- media, eras, and ethnic identities. Free, 415-202- The Campaign for Art: final performance of the young artists’ program. 528-5555, exploratorium.edu 9700, mexicanmuseum.org Modern and Contemporary $25–$45, 415-565-6427, merola.org Daily through Sept. 18, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. UC’s Role in Confronting Climate Change 79th Annual Stern Grove Festival (9 p.m. Thursdays) Gaude Monday, Aug. 29, 6 p.m. Sundays through Aug. 21, 2 p.m. SFMOMA (151 Third St.) Sunday, Aug. 21, 4 p.m. The Commonwealth Club (555 Post St.) Stern Grove (19th Ave. & Sloat Blvd.) This exhibition highlights contributions from Old First Church (1751 Sacramento St.) Three distinguished UC professors will discuss how The O’Jays, Atomic Bomb, and The New the museum’s Campaign for Art and features The a cappella octet presents a meditation the UC and California lead and plan to continue Pornographers conclude the season at the works by Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Robert on peace and salvation featuring Renaissance leading the world on a path to a sustainable outdoor amphitheater. Free, 415-252-6252, Rauschenberg, and Diane Arbus, among others. masterpieces. $18, 415-474-1608, environmental future. Free–$20, 415-597-6705, sterngrove.org $25, 415-357-4000, sfmoma.org oldfirstconcerts.org commonwealthclub.org

14 AUGUST 2016 MARINA TIMES marinatimes.com Perseids Meteor Shower Floating Film: Moby Dick Thu.–Sat., Aug. 11–13, night–dawn Thursday, Aug. 11, 7 p.m. SPORTS & FAMILY FUN Northern night sky Balclutha, Hyde Street Pier HEALTH 7th Annual Picklewater Free Circus This meteor shower is considered one of the What a better way to enjoy John Houston’s Festival best and produces about 60 meteors per hour. 1956 classic about Capt. Ahab’s vendetta Nutrition & Healthy Choices Sunday, Aug. 14, 21, & 28, 3:30 p.m. Find a dark, secluded place and look toward the against the great white whale Moby Dick than Monday, Aug. 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29 Union Square Perseus constellation. earthsky.org on the deck of the square-rigged, three-masted 11 a.m.–noon Featuring some of the best circus artists in the 1886 ship. $10, eventbrite.com Main Floor Learning Studio, SFPL Main Branch Bay Area, the festival will entertain and inspire

Topics include Where Our Food Comes From; families while celebrating the rich tradition

FILMS & LECTURES Flavoring and Preserving Food; How We Choose of circus in the Bay Area. Free, 415-477-2610, POTABLES & What Food to Buy; and Diet and Exercise. Free, unionsquarelive.org The California Story: EDIBLES 415-557-4388, sfpl.org The Legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers Festival of the Sea Saturday, Aug. 6, 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, 9:30 a.m.– 5 p.m. Wine Spectator Award Celebration Party Hyde Street Peer Meet: S.F. National Cemetery entrance gate Tuesday, Aug. 9, 4–10 p.m. Celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th (Lincoln Blvd. & Sheridan, the Presidio) West Coast Wine + Cheese birthday, and the installation of three new masts Commemorate the 150th anniversary on the 1895 schooner C.A. Thayer with tradi- of the African American Buffalo Soldiers (2165 Union St.) Celebrate this prestigious award at Cow Hol- tional music, craft demonstrations, films, and fun and hear about their challenges and for all ages. Free, 415-447-5000, nps.gov triumphs during a time of overt racism and low’s favorite wine bar with 20 percent savings prejudice. Free, registration required, 415-561- on bottles from their over 250-selection wine list. Free, 415=577-9357, westcoastsf.com Family Dance Class 4323, presidio.gov Sunday, Aug. 28, 1–2 p.m. ODC Dance Commons (351 Shotwell St.) Market to Table Demo with Shake up your Sunday and get moving at this Jacques Pépin fun-filled, family event. Ages 3 & up. $5 ($20/ Thursday, Aug. 11, noon–1 p.m. family maximum), 415-549-8519, odcschool.org North Plaza, Ferry Building Round the Rock Alcatraz Challenge See one of the world’s most beloved cooking teachers/educators in this demo featuring the Saturday, Aug. 6, 9 a.m. JUST FOR FUN seasonal bounty from the Ferry Plaza Farmers S.F. Bay Market. Book signing follows at Sur La Table. This traditional Polynesian outrigger race Origami-Palooza & Paper Airplane Free, 415-291-3276, cuesa.org will offer two exciting and competitive courses Contest between the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges. Sunday, Aug. 14, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. 26th Annual Antipasti Dinner All courses are designed to provide participant East Japan Center Mall Thursday, Aug. 25, 6:30 p.m. safety. $20/paddler, alcatrazchallenge.com Learn from origami experts how to create amaz- Museo Italo Americano, Fort Mason Center photo: Kanaka Menehun; FLICKR.COM/kanaka ing things with paper, then enter your best cre- Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, antipasti, and dessert fol- ation in the Origami Challenge to win incredible lowed by a live auction and raffle to support prizes. Free, 415-440-1171, japancentersf.org Film Night in the Park: Museo cultural and education programs. $100, E-mail: [email protected] Lost in Translation 415-673-2200, museoitaloamericano.org Coastal Trail Challenge 10K Sunday, Aug. 14, 9–10:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, dusk 5th Annual Bay Area Brew Fest Starts/Finishes: Little Marina Green (Yacht Rd. Calendar listings Washington Square Park Saturday, Aug. 27, 1–4 p.m. & 5–8 p.m. parking lot) Bring a picnic, a blanket, and low chairs only Send your event listings to [email protected] Pier 35 This trail run includes Baker Beach and the to enjoy the romantic comedy-drama writ- with succinct specifics about your event, loca- Sample dozens of international and well-known Sand Ladder, 400 yards of a vertical ten and directed by Sofia Coppola about domestic beers from dozens of breweries, tion, dates, times, prices, and contact informa- climb. Headphones, strollers, and dogs strongly a lonely, aging movie star and a neglected dine on food-truck favorites (sold separately), tion (telephone and Internet). discouraged for safety reasons. $3, 415-978- newlywed as they cross paths in Tokyo. Free, dance to D.J. music, and more. Ages 21 & up. 0837, dserunners.com sfntf.squarespace.com $45–$55, bayareabrewfestival.com Visit marinatimes.com for additional calendar listings.

Ancient Egypt meets modern medicine in this exhibition that makes use of state-of-the-art scientific techniques to explore two of the Fine Arts Museums’ mummies. An interdisciplinary team of scientists, Egyptologists, physicians, and museum curators and conservators presents new information about how these embalmed individuals lived, died, and were prepared for eternity.

MAY 14, 2016—AUGUST 26, 2018

Image: Coffin of Irethorrou (detail), Egyptian, Akhmim, ca. 500 BC. Wood with polychrome. FAMSF, Gift of First Federal Trust Company (from the Estate of Jeremiah Lynch), 42895

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Real Estate Investor increased by 70 percent from “especially in the city’s northern Second World War did spawn a tech sector, employment remains continued from page 1 May 2015, reaching its highest neighborhoods and popular Noe building boom, but that steadily strong in the city, which is enjoy- level in four and a half years. Valley. One main reason for this fell over ensuing decades until it ing record-low unemployment. properties, and even there, it is Not surprisingly, the prices for is that many sellers entertained lagged way behind population Interest rates remain low and reflected in longer times before condos dropped 5.6 percent unrealistic expectations and, movement for much of the final the economy is still in recov- properties are sold and some not- from May 2015 to May 2016, accordingly, overpriced their few decades of the last century. ery mode. So the changes we too-dramatic price decreases. But more than five times the price homes. Consequently, bidding “The current feverish boom in are seeing today in the high-end combined with some softness in decline for single-family homes. wars occurred less frequently home construction has been condo market is mostly due to the high-paying tech market — Redfin agent Mark Colwell said than in the second quarter of quickly gathering steam only old trusty supply and demand. where hiring has taken a breather that the increased inventory is last year, and price reductions in the [past] couple years,” adds Pacific Union expects further over the last year and some ven- due to the newly constructed became more commonplace.” Paragon, “however, as increas- “trending toward market nor- ture capitalists have become pick- condominiums coming online Pacific Union’s market update ing volumes of new-construction malization throughout the rest ier about shoveling their millions and from sellers wanting to sell reported a slower pace of sales in units come on market, it may of the year, even when adjusted at unprofitable startups — these while the selling is good. “The 2016’s second quarter than a year significantly alter the supply for the typical late-summer slow- developments could auger well only significant slowdown is in earlier, though not significantly: and demand dynamic that has down,” and it noted that that pace both for people looking to buy a luxury condominiums, where “At the high end of the market, prevailed 2012-2015.… [S]ince could be affected by international home here and for people fretting a fair number of homes have many move-up buyers stayed put, the mid-1990s, the units being events, such as further effects about the city’s continuing short- come online,” said built are typically 1- or from the Brexit vote or the per- age of housing. Colwell. “It’s not a 2-bedroom condos or formance of China. Local business headlines are flood, especially not apartments, instead of 2- Paragon calculates that the San starting to shift from stories relative to the jobs Redfin noted that the expanded or 3-bedroom houses, Francisco real estate boom has a about the latest eye-popping pric- being created, and [so] the new housing couple years to go before head- es commanded by home sales we’re still seeing mul- inventory ‘means more units being added accom- ing to an “adjustment” phase. to tales of a “condo glut, with tiple offers on homes modate fewer people It reports that two of the last massive supply and dwindling that are priced cor- choice and bargaining power per unit.” three recoveries didn’t adjust demand” and “market softening, rectly.” He said that for house hunters.’ Buyers looking for until there had been 100 percent but only for super rich.” sellers with “unrealis- these types of proper- appreciation in prices among This past May, home prices tic price expectations” ties will probably start high-end homes; the current in San Francisco were basically are seeing their units sit on the uncertain if their existing home paying more attention to home appreciation for such homes is unchanged from the previous market longer. would command enough to allow listings, looking for bargains. between 65 and 75 percent since May, according to online real That’s a big switch from the them to afford their target home. Redfin noted that the expanded the nadir of prices in 2012. The estate service Redfin. Sales vol- go-go days of recent years past, All in all, while the San Francisco inventory “means more choice previous recovery was cut short ume dropped almost 9 percent, when it was not unheard of (actu- market remains tilted in favor of and bargaining power for house at only 59 percent appreciation falling for the fifth month in a ally, it was heard quite often) that sellers, it is slowly moving toward hunters, but the supply of prop- by the start of the Great Reces- row. Redfin also reported that the a home would sell within hours or a more balanced state.” erties on the market still hasn’t sion. With no broad economic supply of homes — the inventory days of being put on the market, In its own recent market report, caught up with the demand, collapse on the immediate hori- of available properties for sale — and sometimes it would even be Paragon Real Estate Group noted especially from buyers who zon, we might still have a way to increased by 50 percent, “reach- snatched up before being made that new housing construction want single-family homes.” go to ride out this boom. ing its highest level in more than publicly for sale. What we’ve seen “has not been adequate to the Again, nothing dramatic has three years, as more homeowners so far this year is a move “toward city’s needs over the past 35 years.” changed in the market, and John Zipperer is a former senior put properties [up for sale] in an market normalization,” notes real It notes that nearly half — 49 per- homes that were selling for $2.5 editor of Affordable Hous- effort to catch prices at a peak.” estate firm Pacific Union. It said cent — of the city’s housing was million last month won’t be sell- ing Finance and Apartment In particular, the supply of that sales continued to be strong, built before 1940; an increase in ing for $450,000 next month. Finance Today. E-mail: john@ condominium units for sale has albeit with longer on-sale times the city’s population during the Even with the cooling-off in the marinatimes.com

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The Marina Times Real Estate Real Estate Roundup Cost and policy Market Report: May 2016 By Hill & Co. Progress made on housing

SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES BY JOHN ZIPPERER those Chinese buyers, according to a BEDROOMS/ ABOVE/AT/BELOW DAYS ON new report. Neighborhood Address Bathrooms Sale Price Asking Price Market INTEREST RATES Jones Lang LaSalle reports that new Cow Hollow 3009 Webster Street 3BD/2.5BA $3,125,000 Below 43 Whether driven by public policy and old Chinese-owned commercial in Washington or by uncontrollable projects (such as the First and Mission Lake (no sales) foreign actions (see “Quote Unquote” tower and 755 Sansome Street, respec- Laurel Heights 106 Collins Street 3BD/2BA $2,495,000 At 27 below), interest rates have been fall- tively) are examples of high-profile

Lone Mountain 100 Stanyan Street 7BD/5BA $2,800,000 Above 36 ing steadily for decades, and they investments from China. have defied expectations of imminent Marina 761 Marina Boulevard 6BD/5.5BA $7,400,000 Below 111 increases. SECOND NAVIGATION CENTER Nob Hill (no sales) Just from 2007 to July 7, 2016, aver- OPENS age annual interest rates on 30-year The long-expected opening of a North Beach (no sales) conforming loans have dropped 44 second Navigation Center took place Pacific Heights 2815 Pacific Avenue 5BD/5.5BA $8,295,000 At 0 percent, reports Paragon Real Estate at the end of June, when Mayor Ed 2635 Broadway 4BD/4.5BA $7,900,000 Below 107 Group. They currently hover slightly Lee announced its opening at the 3196 Pacific Avenue 6BD/4.5BA $6,750,000 Below 28 2755 Scott Street 5BD/3.5BA $6,175,000 Above 1 above 3 percent. Compare that to rates Civic Center Hotel on 12th Street. 224 Presidio Avenue 5BD/4.5BA $5,300,000 Below 53 that were well above 15 percent in 1981; The new location has 93 beds and is 2710 California Street 5BD/4BA $4,700,000 Below 56 rates have fallen steadily (albeit with owned by the UA Local 38 Plumbers 2265 California Street 4BD/4BA $4,325,000 Below 25 occasional blips upward) ever since. Union Pension Trust Fund. It will Presidio Heights 101 Maple Street 5BD/5BA $9,998,000 Below 54 eventually be expanded to include 115 Cherry Street 4BD/3.5BA $6,750,000 Below 10 VOTERS AS URBAN PLANNERS, 3953 Sacramento Street 4BD/4.5BA $4,500,000 Below 78 550 homes with 110 permanently REDUX affordable units for formerly home- Russian Hill 2500 Leavenworth Street 4BD/3BA $2,950,000 Below 53 City voters will face on their Novem- less people. 2925 Larkin Street 4BD/3.5BA $2,625,000 Above 67 ber ballot a question about allowing an The first Navigation Center on Sea Cliff (no sales) exemption to a longtime restriction on Mission Street has served 550 people office space in the city, one that has in about a year, and the mayor’s office Telegraph Hill 414-416 Vallejo Street 5BD/5BA $3,170,000 Below 32 helped push up office rental rates and says 80 percent of them who have CONDOS push out nonprofits and other renters left the Navigation Center have gone unable to afford the high rates being on to stable supportive housing or BEDROOMS/ ABOVE/AT/BELOW DAYS ON Neighborhood Address Bathrooms Sale Price Asking Price Market charged in the cur- have reunited with rent economic boom. friends and family. Cow Hollow 2485 Union Street #5 1BD/1BA $2,050,000 Above 12 The Jobs, Housing The Navigation Cen- 2912 Fillmore Street 3BD/2BA $1,550,000 Below 33 and Parks Now ini- Average annual ter concept has been 2701 Van Ness Avenue #403 0BD/1BA $575,000 Below 52 tiative would remove a rare bright spot in 2415 Van Ness Ave. #105 1BD/1BA $551,000 Above 26 the Candlestick interest rates the city’s well-pub- Lake 4339 California St. #3 4BD/2BA $1,600,000 Above 6 Point and Hunters licized battle with 176 20th Avenue 2BD/1.5BA $1,505,000 Above 1 on 30-year 948-A Lake Street 3BD/1BA $1,360,000 Above 38 Point Shipyard from the homelessness 261 26th Avenue #2 3BD/3BA $1,350,000 Below 70 the office space cap problem, and it has 146 2nd Avenue 2BD/1BA $1,200,000 Above 62 imposed by Propo- conforming loans gained a lot of sup- 286 24th Avenue 2BD/1BA $900,000 Below 51 sition M. In mid- have dropped port since it opened Laurel Heights 8 Jordan Avenue #10 2BD/1BA $937,000 Below 25 July, the San Fran- with the help of pri- 40 Heather Avenue 1BD/1BA $865,000 Above 25 cisco Business Times 44 percent. vate funds. Naviga- Lone Mountain (no sales) reported that the tion centers offer measure had submit- more support to Marina 1243 Francisco Street 3BD/1.5BA $1,500,000 Above 15 3824 Scott Street #1 1BD/1BA $975,000 Above 14 ted more than 17,000 signatures to get residents than do traditional shelters, 3675 Fillmore Street #201 1BD/1BA $898,000 At 39 it on the ballot. Sophie Maxwell, a sup- which don’t provide support for part- porter of the initiative, told the Times, ners, pets, and belongings. Nob Hill 1333 Jones Street #905 2BD/2BA $3,300,000 Above 0 1333 Jones Street #705 2BD/2BA $3,200,000 At 38 “We have made progress in creating 1200 California Street #12D 2BD/2BA $3,050,000 Above 62 local jobs, open space, and affordable QUOTE UNQUOTE 1625 Hyde Street 2BD/2BA $1,600,000 Below 65 1304 Pacific Avenue 2BD/2BA $1,360,000 Above 20 homes. This measure is essential to “Britain’s historic decision [to leave 1776 Sacramento Street #606 2BD/2BA $1,260,000 Above 21 ensuring that this progress continues the European Union] triggered nega- 1635 California Street #74 2BD/2BA $1,000,000 Above 48 — and moves faster — at a time when tive economic ripples throughout the 1788 Clay Street #205 1BD/1BA $912,000 Above 13 1177 California Street #622 0BD/1BA $614,250 Below 69 we need it most.” entire world, and the United States was not an exception. Domestically, North Beach 650 Chestnut Street #306 3BD/2BA $1,450,000 Above 34 HOUSING NOT TENTS ON THE stock markets showed a negative per- 650 Chestnut Street #108 2BD/2BA $925,000 Below 49 BALLOT formance the day after the Brexit Pacific Heights 2457 Buchanan Street 3BD/2BA $2,820,000 Above 18 Supervisor Mark Farrell, supported announcement. Generally, such eco- 1650 Broadway Street 3BD/2.5BA $2,600,000 At 0 1880 Jackson Street #403 3BD/3BA $2,527,000 Above 12 by colleagues Scott Wiener, Katy Tang, nomic news leads to uncertainty, 1650 Broadway Street #301 3BD/2.5BA $2,395,000 At 0 and Malia Cohen, submitted an initia- directly impacting the real estate 1755 Jackson Street #406 3BD/3BA $2,110,000 Above 11 tive which, if approved by voters in market. The performance of this seg- 2169 Green Street #1 2BD/2BA $1,900,000 Above 12 1760 Pacific Avenue #9 2BD/2BA $1,860,000 Above 6 November, would mandate that shelter ment slows down with declining sales. 1835 Franklin #1401 2BD/2BA $1,850,000 Above 44 or housing be offered to people liv- Brexit news, however, does have a 2627 Clay Street 3BD/2BA $1,800,000 At 19 ing in homeless encampments before positive outlook for the Bay Area real 2943 Washington Street 2BD/2BA $1,780,000 Below 55 1650 Broadway #604 2BD/2BA $1,610,000 At 0 those encampments were dismantled. estate market. Soon after the votes 3079 California Street #3079 3BD/2BA $1,575,000 Above 22 (The homeless individuals could also were counted in Britain, the mort- 1650 Broadway #304 2BD/2BA $1,460,000 At 126 1650 Broadway #204 2BD/2BA $1,410,000 At 87 choose to receive paid transportation gage rates were driven down from an 2200 Sacramento #1502 2BD/2BA $1,280,000 At 1 to a destination outside of the city.) already impressively low point, creat- 1965 Clay Street 1BD/1BA $1,280,000 Above 13 The city would also have to provide ing an even more favorable environ- 1650 Broadway #205 1BD/1.5BA $1,150,000 At 68 3045 Jackson Street #501 1BD/1BA $1,121,670 Above 6 24-hour notice of a tent encampment’s ment for local home buyers. At the 1818 Broadway #306 1BD/1BA $1,050,000 Above 39 removal, and it would store homeless same time, international investors are 2295 Vallejo Street #502 1BD/1BA $929,000 Above 44 2345 Jackson Street #4 1BD/1BA $855,000 Above 98 individuals’ belongings for up to 90 becoming increasingly interested in days after it was removed from an the Bay Area job sector and its real Presidio Heights 146 Locust Street #6 4BD/2.5BA $3,175,000 Above 17 encampment. estate market, which offers a sustain-

Russian Hill 1050 Green Street #4 2BD/2BA $4,550,000 Below 8 Saying that “the answer to home- able environment and a strong pro- 1257 Vallejo Street #A 3BD/2BA $2,475,000 Below 14 lessness is housing, not tents,“ Farrell jected growth. As always, time will 969 Bay Street 2BD/2BA $1,275,000 Below 73 said, “Encampments simply prolong show the true effect of Brexit on Bay 815 Union Street 2BD/1.25BA $1,225,000 Above 21 1338 Union Street #A 1BD/1BA $1,180,000 At 0 homelessness, but ‘Housing Not Tents’ Area real estate, which historically 1097 Green Street #5 2BD/1BA $1,150,000 Above 8 actually provides a solution.” has shown constant appreciation in 1450 Greenwich Street #102 1BD/1BA $1,075,000 Above 12 1340 Union Street #A 1BD/1BA $640,000 Below 0 the long run.” A YEN FOR S.F. COMMERCIAL —Alek Keytiyev, Sea Cliff (no sales) REAL ESTATE Vanguard Properties Telegraph Hill 475 Lombard Street #6 3BD/2BA $2,500,000 At 0 China ranks third among foreign Quoted in SFGate.com buyers of U.S. commercial real estate The data presented in this report is based on the San Francisco Multiple Listing Service and is over the past six years, and San Fran- Real estate news tips? E-mail: accurate to the best of our knowledge, but cannot be guaranteed as such. For additional information, cisco has been a favorite target of [email protected] contact Hill & Co., 1880 Lombard Street (at Buchanan), 415-321-4362, hill-co.com.

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The Coastal Commuter Scrote Working from post to post on the coast

By Michael Snyder move to Los Angeles, where he had trav- eled for shows and sessions. “Musicians Too Much Fun at FMC ust to be clear, I may be the coastal were flocking to L.A. and New York,” he commuter, but I am hardly the only said. Maybe it was the rising costs of the We love our new home, at the Fort Mason Center! Jcoastal commuter — at least when it dot-com era. It felt like a mass exodus, Here’s a partial list of what’s happening on campus this month: comes to the San Francisco-Los Angeles and it wasn’t very fun without a lot of my circuit. I have at least three friends who friends and colleagues.” Mexican Museum, Cinco y Cinco / Five & Five Exhibit, through 8/28 regularly make the trek up and down Los Angeles provided Scrote with a The Interval Salon Talk Series @ The Interval, through Sep 27th the state for business with pleasure, and vibrant music community that was expo- Farmers’ Market, every Sunday 9:30am–1:30pm generally, by car. nentially larger The San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, Aug 19th–Aug 21st It’s a schlep, but it’s and more profes- worth it to all of us. sional than that of Visit soon and learn more about this vibrant arts community! There’s Heath- L.A. provided Scrote San Francisco. He er, a professional has thrived down organizer who with a music community south with studio | FLAXART.COM moves, stores, work, concerts, FORT MASON CENTER • 415.530.3510 recycles, and win- exponentially larger and record releas- FMC hours: Mon–Sat 10am–6:30pm, Sun 10am–5pm nows down her cli- es as a performer, FLAGSHIP IN OAKLAND IS NOW OPEN! ents’ possessions, and more professional while also compos- and oversees relo- ing and produc- cations by packing than that of San ing instrumental up and cleaning Francisco. music for other houses for sale and artists. Although setting up new dwellings. She has so much he maintained residences in both locations work offered to her in Los Angeles, a town for about four years, and drove back and that invites well-to-do transience, that she forth depending on the jobs at hand, he

TM regularly leaves her Marin digs, trundles eventually gave up his Bay Area place. down Interstate 5, and sets up shop at one of a number of friends’ homes for a week HOME IS CONNECTION or two at a time. Scrote has now lived in Los Angeles for My pal Barry is an entertainment indus- over 13 years, but still plays shows and A weekly insider e-column try lawyer and artists’ manager. As a result, sessions in San Francisco and spends time he needs to be in L.A. frequently, whether with what’s left of his old crew. Yet his packed with SF restaurant it’s to scout talent, sign artists, take meet- most significant endeavors are now in Los ings at music labels, or shepherd a band Angeles. He has formed a band called The on a tour stop at a SoCal club or concert Euphoriants with the rising singer-song- and bar news, reviews, hall. So he locks up his Mission district writer-guitarist Joe Sumner and drummer house, hops in his 4x4, and heads for Hol- Blair Sinta. Their debut recording should and culinary happenings. lywood. be released early next year. And Scrote just Then there’s the querulously named played ukulele on a track that also featured Scrote — a longtime buddy who is one of one of his idols on piano: Burt Bacharach. those hyphenates: guitarist-keyboardist- “As a musician, you’re much more likely singer-songwriter-producer-bandleader. I to meet and work with your heroes in L.A.,” Subscribe (for free!) met him when he moved to San Francisco Scrote said. As if to prove that point, he around 1990, right after attending an arts was asked to assemble and lead a group to college where he studied music. Although play a posthumous tribute to David Bowie at tablehopper.com he worked as a sales assistant at a radio in early February. That collection of talent station, he spent half his time auditioning included the renowned singer Seal, Fish- for gigs as a guitar bone front man player and lead- Angelo Moore, and ing various bands, Bowie’s longtime starting with You ‘As long as I still have keyboardist Mike and What Army. Garson, and actors His most success- those connections, Ewan McGregor ful original venture San Francisco will be a and Gary Oldman during that period on vocals. The con- was the avant home to me — where cert, a benefit at the Visit us at garde rock band Roxy on the Sunset Baby Snufkin, I’m happy to return time Strip, was a sold- which toured the out triumph. By .com United States and and again. the next morning, Europe with mod- Scrote had fielded • Additional content from featured writers est results. It was enough that he was numerous proposals to take the show to encouraged to move into music full-time. other cities. He turned them all down, • Expanded calendar of events except for one. A CAREER IN PROGRESS A month later, he gathered up some of • Archives of past issues In San Francisco, he founded Casino the gang and traveled north to do a Bowie Royale, an ensemble of local musicians celebration. “An encore in San Francisco • Special offers and singers dedicated to performing the was irresistible to me,” said Scrote, after ’60s and ’70s chart-toppers of Burt Bacha- a rousing Regency Ballroom show that rach. Casino Royale regularly packed ’em added the Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison in at Bimbo’s in North Beach, and the to the line-up. “I have a history there group quickly expanded its repertoire to and still know the players and people in a hit parade of ’60s pop rock and soul. charge. Scrote simultaneously was fronting the “As long as I still have those connections, Jimmy Bond Orchestra, a Casino Royale San Francisco will be a home to me — offshoot that played nothing but themes where I’m happy to return time and again.” from the James Bond movies, and Herb, And covering the Herb Alpert songbook. Michael Snyder is a print and broadcast Scrote, the self-proclaimed nomad journalist who covers pop culture on KPFK/ much who never lived more than three-and- Pacifica Radio’s David Feldman Show and a-half years in one place, had found a on Michael Snyder’s Culture Blast, via more! home, and stayed in San Francisco for GABnet.net, Roku, and YouTube. You can 13 years. But he eventually decided to follow Michael on Twitter: @cultureblaster

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Fitness First Take a hike Urban hiking: A new way to explore the city

By julie mitchell in a lightweight backpack to stash shops are fairly liberal with their food, water, your phone/camera, restrooms, and you can down- iking is often associ- sunscreen, and most important in load apps to your smartphone to ated with a trip to the our city of microclimates, at least help you find locations as well. mountains, but you don’t one extra layer — it’s possible to Hneed to leave the city to find chal- hike for an hour and experience WHERE TO? lenging trails that will add steps a 15-degree temperature change. A great place to start is “Best to your fitness tracker and reveal And while your smartphone can Hikes in San Francisco,” by Peter hidden staircases, plentiful views probably point you in the right Hockaday (updated in 2015, The view of the ocean near the Lands End Lookout above Sutro and vistas, woodsy greenery, direction for city hikes, it doesn’t sfgate.com). It includes a map, Baths. PHOTO: Julie Mitchell open park space, and of course, hurt to bring along a map, too. photos, and a brief description beaches galore. of more than 20 amazing urban way down to Crissy Field. trail along Islais Creek, one of Welcome to urban hiking. PLAY IT SAFE hikes. Urban Hiker also lists city Twin Peaks/Mount Davidson: the city’s few free-flowing creeks, According to Urban Hiker San While hiking boots aren’t nec- hikes. Here are a few favorites: There are many places to begin and up a staircase into a canyon Francisco (urbanhikersf.com), essary for urban hiking, sturdy Lands End: This is probably the this moderately steep, hour-long of wildflowers, red-tailed hawks, this entails “Exploring the stair- shoes with decent support are, most popular city hike offering trail; many people begin at Por- and rock formations. There are ways, hills, and hiking trails of the as are comfortable socks (and the right amount of stairs, scenery, tola Drive and Twin Peaks Bou- many trails to explore within the city.” What’s the different between maybe a second pair in your and most important, views — the levard, and I have started in the canyon. It’s about an hour-long a hike and a city walk? A hike backpack). And because you’re in Golden Gate Bridge, bay, ocean, Mission. The hike involves city hike with a loop that starts and involves a longer distance, gener- a city with traffic of all kinds, and and the ruins of the historic Sutro streets and hidden stairways, and ends on Bosworth Street. Hikers ally more than three miles, and seemingly endless construction Baths. You can park near the Pal- you are rewarded by reaching the with dogs take note: Throughout some serious climbing, which in sites and vehicles, be safe. Cross ace of the Legion of Honor and city’s highest natural point with a the city’s parks, and especially in our hilly hometown is easy — San in the crosswalks, and look both complete this dirt trail in about an 360-degree view. Glen Canyon, there have been Francisco boasts over 40 hills, ways. If you are hiking early in hour, and there’s a cafe with food Mount Sutro Open Space: many coyote sightings, so it’s best over 630 public stairways, and the morning, in the evening, or and restrooms at the end. The Park on the street and look for the to keep your pups leashed. 70-plus miles of hiking trails. on a foggy day, wear something Cliff House and Ocean Beach are wooden marker at the trailhead bright. just a short walk. in the hills above UCSF. Beware Take advantage of the longer MAKE LIKE A BOY SCOUT, Last, sometimes the call of Batteries to Bluffs: A Presidio of poison oak on this woodsy, summer days by exploring nature AND BE PREPARED nature is easier to address in trail with an excellent view of the winding trail highlighted by pine in some areas you may not have As with any hiking adventure, nature than in the city. Public bridge, Marin, and the ocean is groves and eucalyptus trees. It’s a visited before while also getting a it pays to be prepared. While you parks, playgrounds, and beaches the trail above Baker Beach. There well-maintained, 40-minute loop. good workout. can buy snacks and water almost often have free, accessible rest- are multiple sets of steep stairs Glen Canyon Park: Just beyond anywhere, it’s less expensive and rooms; some open spaces and that wind up and down above the the park’s recreation center is an E-mail: [email protected] easier to bring your own. Invest parks do not. Some chain coffee beach. The trail continues all the open space home to a wide dirt

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Neither that come in handy year in your house, the worst part, option is inexpensive — round: besides the hours of endless you should expect to spend hair combing, is the laundry. several hundred dollars STAY CALM The good news is lice cannot depending on the severity This is much easier said lay eggs on couches or car- of the outbreak. than done. The first thing pet; they need the warmth of Unfortunately, there is I suggest is screaming into the scalp to survive. The bad no definitive answer about a pillow all the expletives news is there may have been why this happens or why that are going through your bugs that fell off her head it appears to be so com- head. You will feel angry, onto pillows, towels, clothes, mon. Resistance to many annoyed, maybe a bit etc. So just to be safe, put all modern shampoos and long embarrassed — these are the towels, sheets, comfort- hair seem to be contrib- all natural reactions but ers, and clothes used in the uting factors. Preventative none that you want your past few days in large gar- combing after a sleepover, child to see you have. The bage bags and head to the week at camp, or long air- most important thing is to nearest Laundromat with plane rides is always a good remain calm and for your commercial-sized washers idea, especially during the children not to feel like this and dryers. The last step is summer months. is their fault or they did to vacuum everything — Also, keeping your son’s something to cause it. If floors, cushions, couches hair short helps — you may we could figure out where and just generally do a deep even be tempted to buzz this treacherous bug comes clean. This measure is pure- it all off. For girls, the key from and how to stop it for ly for my own mental peace is making sure their hair good, this world would be a of mind. is pulled back in a bun or better place. braid. The best advice I can The terms to become GET PROFESSIONAL offer is you will survive — familiar with are “lice,” HELP although it will seem like a which are the actual bugs One of the worst mistakes very long and taxing week and “nits,” which are the parents can make is think- and hardly the way you lice eggs. A quick Internet ing they can handle this on want to spend your sum- search of what these look their own. These bugs and mer, but remember if treat- like will make you an expert nits are so small, they are ed properly, the outbreak in no time. The facts to easy to miss, and all it takes won’t last forever. remember are the bugs can- is one egg to hatch and the not jump, fly, or swim but cycle keeps repeating itself, Liz Farrell is the mother of rather are passed by head- leaving you feeling like there three young children. She was to-head contact. This is is no end in sight. Luck- formerly a television produc- not a hygiene issue — the ily, there are two great local er in Washington, D.C. and bugs actually prefer clean options. Martina Mitchell in San Francisco. E-mail: and healthy hair because it from Lice Patrol (licepatrol. [email protected]

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By Susan Dyer Reynolds youcaring.com/give-me-shelter-cat- rescue-578392 to make a donation was thrilled to hear that the online. You can also make a dona- Nine Lives Foundation, which I fea- tion on the Give Me Shelter website at World Famous Restaurant tured on the Pet Page recently (“Nine givemesheltersf.org, or mail donations ILives Foundation loses lease,” May 2016), to: Give Me Shelter Cat Rescue, P.O. Box will be able to stay in their home on Roli- 411013, San Francisco, CA 94141. son Road in Redwood City after the land- It upsets me to no end that animal res- lords had a change of heart (originally, cue organizations in the nation’s wealth- NO they wanted to boot the no-kill cat shel- iest city are struggling to stay afloat. We ter to seek higher paying tech tenants). also have one of the richest privately 9 FISHERMEN’S That’s the good news. The bad news is funded SPCAs on the planet, which that, as part of their new agreement, Nine doesn’t do nearly enough. In 2009, I Lives will be required to do more than wrote a cover story for Northside San 415.673.7025 half a million dollars in upgrades to the Francisco magazine called “How the San Free Validated Parking GROTTO interior, which hasn’t been touched in half Francisco SPCA let us down.” I focused a century. If you’d like to make a dona- on the fact that the city’s grassroots No. 9 Fisherman’s Wharf at the foot of Taylor tion, visit bit.ly/9LivesFunds. For more rescue groups save many more animals information on the Nine Lives Foun- than the SFSPCA does, and yet the fishermensgrotto.com Banquet Facilities Available dation, e-mail ninelivesfoundation@ SFSPCA, with its powerful P.R. machine, gmail.com, call 650-368-1365, or visit receives millions in donations while ninelivesfoundation.org … nickeling and diming the rescue groups. Now another one of my favorite non- After my article, the president and vice profits, Give Me Shelter (GMS), is in president stepped down and things at dire straits. Founded in 2003 by Lana the SFSPCA got better, but there are still Bajsel, GMS has stepped up time and major problems. time again as the largest cat rescue in One of the biggest issues for me is why San Francisco. With a small band of the SFSPCA doesn’t deeply discount devoted volunteers, GMS pulls cats from veterinary care for the independent SOFT STORY PROPERTY OWNERS: Your permit application is DUE! death row, provides behavioral interven- rescues, without whom their precious

tion, and offers medical care along with “live release rates” (which they tout to DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW! DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW! DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW! a safe haven while cats await their for- get those donations) would be much If you are a property owner of a multi-unit building with 3-stories, 15+ units, your permit application is due by The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection - Tom Hui, S.E., C.B.O., Director ever homes. When our friend Mary lost lower. Better yet, the SFSPCA’s state-of- SFBC Section 3405B.6.1 her senior cat, she was devastated, but the-art, multimillion-dollar veterinary September 15, 2016, which is less than 45 days away. EARTHQUAKE WARNING! This Building is in Violation of the Requirements of the San Francisco Building like me with my beloved pit bull Jazzy, hospital contributes big bucks to their Code Regarding Earthquake Safety. The owner(s) of this building have not complied with the Mandatory Soft Story Retrofit Program, as required by SFBC Chapter 34B. Please contact the Department of Building Inspection she realized that letting another animal bottom line, so why not treat the res- Turn in your permit application to DBI by at [email protected] or (415) 558-6699 or www.sfdbi.org/softstory. 地震警告! ¡ADVERTENCIA September 15 to avoid getting this placard DEL TERREMOTO! die in a shelter wasn’t going to honor her Este edificio está en la violación cues as partners instead of clients and 這棟樓宇違反三藩市建築條例 。 de los requisitos del Código de 有關地震安全的要求 construcción de San Francisco en cuanto a la seguridad del terremoto.

beloved companion or bring him back, offer free medical care? Further, why and a Notice of Violation on your property. 根據三藩市建築條例第34B章， El propietario o los propietarios de este edificio no 本棟樓宇業主未遵守軟層建築物 ha(n) cumplido con el Programa Obligatorio de Acondicionamiento de Pisos (Mandatory Soft Story 防震加固計劃強制規定。 Retrofit Program), según lo requiere el Código de 請立即與樓宇檢查部連絡， Edificios de San Francisco Capítulo 34B 電郵: [email protected]， (SFBC Chapter 34B). Favor comunicarse con el 電話: (415) 558-6699 Departamento de Inspección de Edificios so she decided to adopt again right away. doesn’t the SFSPCA set aside some of (Department of Building Inspection) 或網址: www.sfdbi.org/softstory。 a: [email protected] o (415) 558-6699 o www.sfdbi.org/softstory. Mary’s last cat was a “tuxedo” (black and their millions and offer grants to local Find out if your property is on the list by DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW! DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW! DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW! white with a white chest bib), so that rescues? It would be pocket change for visiting sfdbi.org/soft-story-properties-list. was on her wish list. She also needed the SFSPCA, but it would make a world a mellow cat that would be happy liv- of difference to the grassroots organiza- ing indoors at the senior care home tions and the animals they work so hard where she now resides. I called GMS to save. and within days, Mary had the perfect According to Charity Navigator, in kitty — a petite, formerly stray tuxedo 2014 (the most recent report available) girl who greets caretakers in the hallway the SFSPCA had total revenue of near- Advertise in the and spends hours purring in Mary’s lap. ly $30 million and an after-expenses Without GMS, this little love bug and excess of $1,576,230. Co-presidents others like her would have likely been Jason Walthall and Jennifer Scarlett euthanized due to middle age and the (why do they need two presidents?) lack of space at perpetually overcrowded made a combined salary of $430,856. shelters. In 2015, GMS nearly doubled The organization also had net assets of Reach over their adoption rates. nearly $92 million. If you’re planning to 30,000 readers in Besides finding homes for cats, GMS donate to the SFSPCA, please consider focuses on spaying and neutering (the instead helping one of the hardworking San Francisco’s only real way to end the nearly four independent rescue groups like Give thriving northern million deaths in American shelters Me Shelter, or San Francisco’s struggling each year). Because of the cost of those city shelter ACC via its nonprofit arm, neighborhoods surgeries and the large medical bills Friends of SFACC (friendsofsfacc.org). for older and special needs cats, the You’ll make a far bigger and more direct group’s expenses have skyrocketed. impact on the homeless animals of To inquire about our advertising rates and for more Right now, Give Me Shelter is trying to San Francisco — and you’ll save a lot information, contact us at [email protected] raise $20,000 through crowd sourcing. more lives. or call our offices at (415) 815-8081 If you’re a cat lover and you can help (no amount is too small), please visit E-mail: [email protected]

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