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Program 5 Kim Nalley: Th e $100 Creating a Back Home 5 It’s All About Million Man Public Space the Music 6 Starbucks buys La Boulange Th e Fillmore Stoop Poster Artist: Just Our Type 10 PAGE 3 PAGE 3 THE NEW FILLMORE
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Crackdown JULY on Booze at Jazz Fest 7TH-8TH Th is Year For fi rst time, Fillmore festival gets beer gardens
By Barbara Kate Repa
or the first time in its 28-year history, those who wish to drink beer or wine at the Fillmore Jazz Festival this year must buy and consumeF it within the confi nes of one of seven “bev- erage gardens”— designated areas within the festi- val carpeted in artifi cial turf and enclosed by white picket fences. In the past, police sus- ■ HEADLINERS pended the laws against public liquor consumption during the festival. As long as drinks were in plastic, festivalgoers were allowed to walk around with them, wherever purchased. Northern Station Cap- tain Ann Mannix tightened the rules on bars and res- taurants last year, no longer allowing them to sell outside. Th is year, she announced she Kim Nalley is jazz artist in residence would bar alcohol at the fes- this year; Jai Uttal is tival, except when consumed world music artist in in beer gardens or inside bars residence. and restaurants. SCHEDULE | PAGE 5 “Alcohol is always the ‘X’ factor,” Mannix said via email. “Given grossly under- funded staffi ng levels and a reduced number of offi cers citywide anyway, trying to provide for the public safety at an event where alcohol fl ows freely is a diffi cult task. Beer gardens, a designated drinking area, make it more manageable.” Th e Fillmore Merchants Association, which spon- sors the festival, opposed the change, as did some individual merchants. Th eir pleas fell on deaf ears. “It’s a damn shame,” said Th omas Reynolds, presi- dent of the merchants association. “We’ve got three stages of great music to wander among. To change the Fillmore festival — where there’s never been a problem — to be more like other festivals that do TO PAGE 10 X
CARLY LANE PLASKETT CARLY have problems makes no sense.” TECH ■ STREET TALK NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
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The $100 million man It all began in a former dry cleaners on Pine Street in 1999. “I just have this thing about bread,” said Pascal Rigo (above), a Frenchman realizing his dream by launching his own boulangerie and living upstairs above the shop. In early June, Rigo shocked loyal devotees by
announcing he and his investors had sold the company DANIEL BAHMANI to Starbucks for $100 million. During the next year, La Boulange products will be added to Starbucks outposts across the country, Rigo says, and more La Boulange hree years ago, the con- plazas. Th e idea also takes its cues cafes will open nationwide. But few changes are cept of the Fillmore Stoop from European cities, where urban Now Th ere’s an App for Fillmore expected at the original maison mere on Pine Street A New was born, with the intention pedestrian zones have always been or at the La Boulange cafes. For all your banking needs, Sterling Bank & Trust Fillmore St. Excelsior Sunset of making the northern stretch of valued. Th e parklet concept has since 415.674.9590 415.452.4250 415.731.4386 or more than a decade, Fill- lots of special events. With the street ■ T has you covered. Business, personal or both - Picture Show more merchants have provided situated in the hub of digital media, the California Street near Fillmore more expanded across the globe. we offer great rates, fast turn around and Montgomery St. Mission St. Taraval CHURCH AT THE CLAY: After a brief remodel, art fi lms 415.773.1530 415.826.1013 415.664.7920 are screening again at the Clay Theater. And now, in Public pedestrian friendly and softening the Each parklet in San Francisco has personalized service. Visit your local branch a lively illustrated folding map creative team at Imagine Th at Design Geary Blvd. Noe Valley Van Ness Ave. of the shops, entertainment and dining Studio — which produces the map for addition to the midnight showing of The Rocky Horror harsh visual of the busy four-lane its own fl avor. Th e Fillmore Stoop was and experience the benefits of community 415.379.6990 415.970.9070 415.674.0200 F , you can catch church services at the Clay highway. Th e idea was to create a pub- designed by architects Jessica Weigley banking in San Francisco. opportunities in the neighborhood. Th e the Fillmore Merchants Association — Irving St. Ocean View Burlingame on Sunday mornings. A group called Calvary SF — no Space lic space where neighbors could meet, and Kevin Hackett of Siol Studios at * Annual Percentage Yield (APY) is effective as of 6/20/12 and 415.682.2250 650.991.3275 650.685.6430 map, which is updated regularly, helps decided it was a perfect launching pad relation to the Calvary Presbyterians up the street — is relax, take a break from shopping or Fillmore and Clay. Its multi-tiered is subject to change without notice. Balances less than $500 Market St. San Bruno Ave. locals and visitors alike navigate the for an interactive app that could pro- holding services on Sunday mornings at 10:30. or more than $1,000,000.00 may earn a lower APY. Fees may 415.508.1472 415.437.3860 ■ just hang out. sculptural form provides several levels reduce earnings if the average minimum balance of $500 is thriving local business community. Half vide up-to-the-minute notifi cation of not maintained. of the map — either north of Califor- news and shopping events generated by COMING & GOING: Work is under way at 1923 Fillmore, San Francisco has embraced these for pedestrians to sit. It both creates nia Street or south of California Street neighborhood merchants. former home of Osaka, on a second location for Roam kinds of parklets — usually two more space for people and also acts as Burgers, which is already doing business on Union FILLMORE STREET — rotates on the back page of the New So now there’s an app for Fillmore parking spaces converted into mini a barricade against the busy Califor- Street. . . . Across the boulevard at 1928 Fillmore, £ääÊÀiÊ-ÌÀiiÌÊUÊ{£x°ÈÇ{°xä Fillmore urban parks. Th e parklet movement nia Street traffi c. Th e $25,000 project most months. Street for iPhones — one of the fi rst BoConcept is gone and Prana, the yoga wear label, is VAN NESS AVENUE But with more than 200 businesses neighborhood apps. You can download on the way. . . . And fi nally there are signs of life at the originated here, but was inspired by was funded by Chase Bank, which Óä{xÊ6>Ê iÃÃÊÛiÕiÊUÊ{£x°ÈÇ{°äÓää in the neighborhood, there are constant the free Fillmore app at the iTunes store corner of Fillmore and Clay, former home of the Long beautifi cation eff orts in New York recently opened a branch across the Sterling Bank & Trust FSB, San Francisco, CA We Create Solutions® closures, openings and remodels — and or at facebook.com/fi llmorestreet. Bar, but no name yet. that reclaimed dead urban spaces street from the parklet. and transformed them into parks and — Nick Kiniris
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2 NEW FILLMORE July 2012 July 2012 NEW FILLMORE 3 CRIME WATCH FILLMORE JAZZ FESTIVAL
Bank Robbery Th eft Van Ness Avenue and Pine Street Fillmore and Post Streets May 24, 3:06 p.m. June 7, 5:56 p.m. Plainclothes offi cers responded to a call A man told offi cers he had been that a man had robbed a bank. Arriving at inside a store, in the midst of handing the scene, they were informed that security the clerk a $100 bill to pay for his pur- guards were following the suspect. A wit- chases, when suddenly another man ran ness directed the offi cers to a nearby loca- inside, snatched the bill from his hand tion, where they found the suspect carrying and fl ed. Th e customer who had been several thousand dollars in various denom- robbed and a second man who witnessed inations, along with a fi rearm replica. Th e the incident identifi ed the suspect, who At police believed the suspect might be a serial was arrested and booked at Northern robber, so they handed the case over to the Station. robbery detail. Aggravated Assault Aggravated Assault Eddy and Laguna Streets Steiner and Sacramento Streets June 11, 10 a.m. Last May 27, 9 p.m. A woman went to an apartment intend- Dispatch received a report that a man ing to retrieve property an acquaintance was assaulting people with a long wooden who lived there had borrowed. Th e two New baby in tow, pole. When offi cers arrived, they found then had an argument that escalated into Kim Nalley is back three men pinning a lone male to the side- a physical fi ght. Th e woman wrestled the walk. Th e man refused to answer their ques- apartment resident to the ground, biting home on Fillmore as tions. Th e offi cers called for medical assis- her two times on the arm. Neighbors broke jazz artist in residence tance for a woman who had been struck in up the fi ght before the police came. After the head with the pole, causing pain and viewing video evidence of the encounter, an abrasion. She told police she had been offi cers arrested the woman for assault By Pamela Feinsilber waiting for the bus when she saw the man with a weapon likely to cause great bodily lying in the street, the pole alongside him; injury: her teeth. Th e suspect was booked at f the fillmore were a univer- he suddenly hopped up and struck her. Two Northern Station. MASSES PRAYERS & SACRAMENTS sity, rather than a school of hard witnesses attempted to prevent the man knocks, jazz singer Kim Nalley 5:30 pm (Saturday Vigil) The church is open for prayer all day from attacking others. As one suff ered a Vehicle Burglary 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 am and into the early evening. would long ago have been awarded blow, the other tackled the suspect and held Fillmore and Clay Streets I 1:30, 5:30 & 9:00 pm Liturgy of the Hours (Daily) him down until police arrived. Th e suspect June 22, 9:46 p.m. an honorary doctorate. Th ough she WEEKDAYS Morning Prayer 7:15 am/Sat 8:00 am lives with husband Mike Lewis 6:30 & 8:00 am & 5:30 pm was booked at county jail. Offi cers received a call from a man who Evening Prayer 5:00 pm told them he had parked in the Safeway SATURDAY and their new baby girl Lydia in Reconciliation Sat 5:00 pm, Terrorist Th reat parking lot, locked his car, then walked 7:40 am Rosary, 8:00 am Mass Sun 7:00, 9:00 & 11:00 am, 5:00 pm the saddle between Nob Hill and Van Ness Avenue and California Street away to do his shopping. On his return he Adoration Russian Hill, looking out on the of the Blessed Sacrament May 28, 11:15 a.m. found a man inside his car, going through Mon & Wed 8:30 am & 6 pm Golden Gate Bridge, the Fillmore Tue & Fri 8:30 pm Offi cers responded to a call from store his backpack. Th e suspect backed quickly personnel complaining that a man inside out of the car, then fl ed. Th e man who had considers her one of its own. the store was threatening: “I’ll kill you and been robbed chased the intruder and caught And the feeling is mutual. 2390 Bush St. (at Steiner) t (415) 567-7824 t Free Parking steal your soul.” Th e caller said the man had him at the corner of Fillmore and Clay, “Th e Fillmore is my home away been coming into the store over a period where he held him until police arrived. Th e from home,” Nalley says. “I cut my of weeks and making threats to various suspect was arrested and booked at North- eye teeth in the Fillmore.” employees, who had become frightened for ern Station. She got her start on Fillmore their safety. Th e suspect was apprehended and arrested for felony terrorist threats. Street Robbery With Force, Street in the early ’90s singing at Aggravated Assault Harry’s Bar, the Fillmore Grill and Robbery California and Gough Streets the Alta Plaza Bar & Grill. It was Van Ness Avenue and Eddy Street June 22, 10 p.m. during those gigs that she started May 29, 9:45 p.m. A woman was walking down the claiming an ever-widening circle Offi cers received a call from a business, street with her purse strapped across where a security guard told them that a her neck and shoulder. As she was con- of fans. Since then, she’s performed Estate Planning Services at Reasonable Costs man had entered the store and attempted centrating on changing the song on her around the world as a solo artist, If you are a young family unit, newly married, or are just getting started to conceal merchandise in a bag. Th e man iPhone, she felt something tugging on with her band — even, for a few with a partner, or have nieces and nephews to whom you want to give your then tried to leave, passing several open her strap from behind. She was then years, as the performer-owner of the estate, we can help you design an estate plan. Most of us put this aside as we registers. 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