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THE NOE VALLEY VOICE Bay Nature Mary Ellen Grows in Noe Pleasant and the Fueled by a Love of Magazines House on Laidley And Martha & Bros. Coffee The Link Is Tenuous By Matthew S. Bajko But We’ll Take It ince becoming executive director of By Evelyn Rose Sthe nonprofit Bay Nature Institute and publisher of its quarterly magazine Bay y its architectural design alone, the Nature in August 2017, Regina Starr Bgothic mansion located near Laidley Ridley has made a variety of editorial and Fairmount streets in today’s Fair- changes, some more noticeable than oth- mount Heights neighborhood evokes a ers to readers of the nearly two-decade- sense of mystery and intrigue. Yet for old publication. All are summed up in the more than a century, that aura has been tweak she and her staff made to the mag- enhanced by the house’s association with azine’s tagline. Mary Ellen Pleasant, known as the For years it had been, “An exploration of mother of civil rights in California. nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.” The As a woman of color, Pleasant's ground- narrowly focused scope on the local envi- breaking achievements in the 19th century ronment, however, no longer reflected the would be tempered by the disdain and deri- larger environmental issues the magazine sion focused against her by white residents was covering, which had far broader impli- and newspaper organizations of Jim Crow cations than just in the nine counties that California. Descriptions of her life have of- comprise the Bay Area. ten been sensationalized. Based on hearsay So last October, the staff debuted a new Growing Up Alex. Nine-year-old Alex Ausman is passionate about writing and aspects of and innuendo, these characterizations solid- tagline. Derived from a quote attributed to the entertainment business. She also enjoys many of the treats life in Noe Valley has to offer. ified myths and stereotypes rather than cel- Albert Einstein, it now reads, “Look into For more on this energetic and engaging youngster, see Katie Burke’s Noe Kids column on ebrating a woman who should be recognized page 16. Photo by Art Bodner

CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 Take a Ride on The 48 Views of the City From Bayview to the Beach By Olivia Boler h, Muni. Whether you love or abhor Ait, the San Francisco Municipal Rail- way, comprising buses and Metro trains, provides San Francisco riders with a much-needed service—inexpensive public transportation. Not everyone drives or owns a car. Not everyone can afford Uber, Lyft, or taxis. If you ride Muni, you don’t have to stress about finding parking or car break-ins. But this isn’t a story about Muni woes or glories. It’s about the 48-Quintara/24th Street bus route, which serves Noe Valley and neighborhoods from Dogpatch to the Sunset. The 48 is a crosstown bus travers- ing the city 24 hours a day, seven days a week. At its eastern end, it finishes at 20th and Third streets. Its western terminus varies depending on whether it’s a weekday, weekend, or evening. The 48 goes all the way to lower Ocean Beach weekday mornings and afternoons. On weekday evenings and weekends, its last western stop is the Metro station at Ulloa The End of the World As We Know It. After trekking from Third Street and winding through the Mission and Noe Valley, San Francisco Street and West Portal Avenue. Muni’s 48-Quintara bus line reaches its western terminus at Rivera Street and the Great Highway—near Ocean Beach. Photo by Jack Tipple The bus runs most frequently weekday mornings before 10 a.m.—about every 10 24th and Noe streets, I use the Next Bus app, people walking their dogs and strollers, joyas de oro, plata-relojes, cambio de bate- minutes. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., riders can and it proves off—it claims the next bus friends sitting on benches outside Bernie's rias—watch, gold, and silver repair.” We expect a 13-minute wait between buses. heading west will arrive in 50 minutes, so and Whole Foods enjoying a bit of sun and note a variety of eateries—cafes, bars, Surprisingly, the 48 doesn’t run more fre- we opt to go east. Within a minute, a west- conversation, shoppers heading in and out restaurants—as well as shops like Alley Cat quently during afternoon rush hours, 3 to 7 bound bus roars by. We’re miffed the app has of stores. Books (3036 24th St.), which sells English p.m. Instead, it comes every 14 minutes, ac- led us astray, but a good attitude to cultivate and Spanish tomes new and used. Eyes on the Murals cording to the San Francisco Municipal when relying on public transit is to give up Some buildings are colorful, from the Transportation Agency website. After 7 some control. If you really need to vent, call We peer out the bus windows as 24th awning of Sidewalk Juice on 24th and Fol- p.m., expect it every 20 to 30 minutes. 311 to complain. Street crosses Dolores Street and dives into som to the murals adorning exterior walls. Weekend waits are a steady 20 minutes. It’s a chilly, sunny winter day with occa- the Mission. Shop fronts change—more We’re tempted to exit the bus and explore. On the Friday afternoon this Voice re- sional showers. As we travel through Noe Spanish appears on windows such as J.J. porter and her companion catch the bus at Valley, it's a typical day on 24th Street— Jewelers (3214 24th St.): “Reparamos, CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 2 The Noe Valley Voice • March 2019

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The Blue Church. A J-Church streetcar heads for the Transbay Terminal passing 28th Street and the Holiness Temple in Christ around 1970. The building was first constructed as the Searchlight Theatre in 1916. It was known as the Del Mar when it closed in 1965. Some may remember it more recently as the "Blue Church," so named for its royal-blue facade in the 2000s. It was demolished and replaced by housing in 2012. Photo and information courtesy OpenSFHistory.org /Western Neighborhoods Project /David Gallagher The Noe Valley Voice • March 2019 3

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Diamond Heights, Lakeshore, Mission, 48-Quintara Is a Noe Valley, Parkside, Potrero Hill, Twin Crosstown Adventure Peaks, and West of Twin Peaks. But the extended daytime route packs in a few CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 more: Saint Francis Wood, West Portal, and the entire Sunset District. Instead, we’ll wait for a Precita Eyes Heading west, we leave 24th Street weekend guided tour. with a right turn onto Hoffman Avenue. At Potrero Avenue, the 48 leaves 24th Again, as it did in Potrero Hill and Dog- Street and wends its way up Potrero Hill, patch, the bus winds up and over the hill first passing San Francisco General Hos- with a sharp left at 22nd Street onto Grand pital and the Starr King Open Space, View Avenue past houses and apartments. which offers spectacular urban views. We We’re briefly on Clipper Street before go- head downhill, turning left on Pennsylva- ing left onto Portola Drive. nia Street where the San Francisco–Marin Muni serves thousands of the city’s Food Bank is located. youth. We pass several schools along our On 22nd Street, there’s a shift change. route including the Ruth Asawa School of This gives us a chance to study the Cal- the Arts, which shares the old McAteer On the eastward route from Noe Valley, the tempting sights are the murals in the Mission, train tunnel and tracks running beneath us campus with The Academy–San Fran- especially the Carnaval and other art works at 24th and South Van Ness. Photos by Jack Tipple while Interstate-280 looms parallel over- cisco. In Parkside, we stop near Hoover head. Alas, a train doesn’t grace us with Middle School, and later in the afternoon, late February.) even though the sun is out, so is the wind. its presence at the 22nd Street station stop on our way home, we pick up students The 48 continues on Ulloa Street, run- We opt not to go down to the beach but this time. from Lincoln High School and St. Ig- ning along the L-Taraval tracks before take a few photos of the amazing seascape natius College Prep. turning right at 14th Avenue. A zig onto from atop the seawall. The beach is the Wooly Pig on the Bay Side Santiago Street, a zag onto 17th Avenue, wintering ground of the Western snowy West Portal Has the Empire The bus, with a new driver at the helm, and finally, we’re on Quintara Street— plover, a small brown-and-white bird that continues through Dogpatch, also known Before all that, however, still near Twin the other half of the route’s name. blends into the sand. The seawall is cov- as the Central Waterfront. We pass bars Peaks, we pass Tower Market and the pur- There’s not much commerce outside ered in colorful graffiti. and restaurants such as the Dogpatch Sa- ple church on Portola. Ebenezer/her- the windows of the bus. We spy a sand- The area is quite residential. There’s a loon, Piccino, and Mr. & Mrs. Miscella- church Lutheran (its formal name) cele- wich shop at 21st Avenue called Uncle house facing the ocean painted like a clas- neous Ice Cream, before terminating on brates the “divine female” per their Joe, which likely serves Lincoln students. sic Mondrian—white with squares of pri- 20th Street at Third. website, herchurch.org. It’s nearly a straight shot to the beach mary colors. Our driver tells us to disembark for 10 Our bus—it feels like our bus now— now, except for one loop around part of Walk south four blocks and you’ll find minutes. It’s started to rain, so we visit the eventually turns onto West Portal Avenue the S.I. campus. Finally, we reach the ter- Andytown Coffee Roasters (3629 Taraval Wooly Pig Café (2295 Third St.), which via Vicente Street. This is where the bus minus at 48th Avenue. Our bus driver St.), which has an espresso drink named boasts charming pig-centric art and cute terminates evenings and weekends. One hops off with a sandwich, which he after the snowy plover. In the opposite di- sayings such as, “We must take care of can catch the Metro—the K-Ingleside, munches while walking down the Great rection is Devil’s Teeth Baking Company mother earth, it’s the only planet that has the L-Taraval, and the M-Ocean View Highway promenade parallel to our bus at 3876 Noriega St. It’s a half-mile walk. bacon,” on its compost bin. trains—if needed. stop. The San Francisco Zoo is about a 25- After a refreshing OJ, we hop back on West Portal is a fun, homey neighbor- minute walk. Look for Snowy Plovers the bus to make our way back the way we hood. There are shops, cafés, restaurants, Again, because it’s chilly, we choose to came. Passing our original Noe Valley and bars, as well as CineArts at the Em- My companion and I descend and stretch climb onto the next departing 48. One bus stop, we continue west. According to pire movie theater. Here they show artsy our legs. We cross the Great Highway— good thing about being first on—we have the SFMTA website, the 48-Quintara films, live broadcasts of New York Met there’s a traffic light and crosswalk—to our pick of seats, which makes all the dif- serves 11 neighborhoods: Bayview, opera, and some blockbusters. (Green stand on the promenade looking over ference as we make our way back to Noe Bernal Heights, Castro/Upper Market, Book and The Favourite were showing in Ocean Beach. The rain has stopped, and Valley. Ⅲ

You can still hop on the 48-Quintara bus and pay cash (exact change, please). The fare is A stroll through the Central Waterfront neighborhood offers a chance to visit several $2.75 for adults, $1.50 for seniors or disabled, and $1.25 for youth 5 to 18. saloons and a creamery called Mr. & Mrs. Miscellaneous.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 nature and understand everything better.” It has manifested in the pages of the magazine through recent stories on green gentrification and environmental education. “There is a growing realization that nature matters. When dealing with things like climate change, nature can be a solution,” said Ridley, 61, who lives with her husband in Noe Valley, where they raised their two children. David Loeb founded Bay Nature 19 years ago and served as its publisher until he retired and brought Ridley on as his successor. Based in Berkeley, the printed magazine has a circulation of 7,500, and its website attracts 60,000 to 80,000 vis- itors a month. “David had a vision for the magazine that came out of his conversations when he started it in 2001. In those nearly 20 years, the world has changed. What people think about nature and do in nature and why nature matters has changed,” said Eric Simons, 38, who has been Bay Nature’s digital editor since 2018. “It was important to reflect that change our- selves, albeit subtly.” Simons, who has an environmental Bay Nature magazine publisher Regina Ridley and digital editor Eric Simons take in the views from Billy Goat Hill, a favorite local refuge from journalism degree from UC Berkeley, urban life. Photo by Pamela Gerard started with the magazine five years ago as its editorial director. A lifelong Bay & Brothers on 24th Street to talk about street in what is now the Noe Valley Town ture. “The fact it was local was fascinat- Area resident, Simons grew up in Castro their work with the nonprofit and their ed- Square. ing to me. Most of the magazines I’ve Valley and has lived in Noe Valley since itorial focus for the magazine. Ridley Ridley has worked in publishing her worked on have been national and 2009 with his wife, who grew up in noted she moved to Noe Valley in 1987, entire career, the first two decades in for- global.” Marin. The couple has two young chil- the same year the locally owned coffee- profit media. She then made the transition Her interest in environmental issues dren. house opened. to the nonprofit sector, spending eight stems from her commitment to promot- “So I am very emotionally bonded to years overseeing the Stanford Social In- ing locally grown food, and the farmers A Natural Career Path Martha’s,” said Ridley, who for the last novation Review. who produce it, and being a dog owner. Ridley and Simons met with the Voice decade has served on the board that runs “I love magazines,” said Ridley, who over coffee in early February at Martha the weekly farmers market across the jumped at the chance to oversee Bay Na- CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

Artwork, Book Shine Light on Seaweed ith a new book and a featured piece cle about the interdependence of sea ot- Your Noe Valley Eatery Win Bay Nature magazine set for ters and kelp forests, in the summer issue publication this summer, artist and author of Bay Magazine, which has previously Since 2000 Josie Iselin is shining a light on the beauty featured her seaweed artwork in its pages. and importance of seaweed. “I am always trying to bring the health Her ninth book, The Curious World of of the oceans into my writing,” said Seaweed: Stories from the Pacific Coast, Iselin, who is a kelp ambassador for the Try our is set to be published in August by the Pacifica Beach Coalition in the city’s Berkeley-based Heyday Books. It is an school district. “The story of the otter I Cheesesteak exploration into the myriad varieties of a find to be an interesting one. There are so plant vital to the maritime health and many misperceptions about otters out Sandwich habitats of the Pacific Ocean. there.” “I am pedal to the metal to meet a Iselin and her husband, Ken Pearce, LUNCH March deadline,” said Iselin, who took have lived in Noe Valley since 1994. some time last month to speak with the Their three grown children, two daugh- SPECIAL Voice about her love for the ocean plants. ters and a son, all grew up in the neigh- 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., M–F, In 2014 she published An Ocean Gar- borhood. Closed Tuesdays den: The Secret Life of Seaweed, which She moved to the city 30 years ago from featured the artistic scans of oceanic flora New York and earned her MFA at San she had collected and scanned. The new Francisco State University. She would book, she explained, “is a deeper dive into walk her dog at Fort Funston and started the seaweeds of the Pacific Coast. There collecting stones shaped like hearts. are 16 essays and stories about the iconic The rocks led to her bestselling books kelp and seaweed of our shores.” Beach Stones, published in 2006, and She is also using her reportage from Heart Stones, published two years later. various field trips up and down the West She now works out of a small office built Coast over the last five years for an arti- in the basement of the family’s home. It is jam-packed with books and her research specimens she scans using an old Epson scanner. Serving the Best of Savory Crepes Her first appearance in Bay Nature came in 2015 with a spread featuring her seaweed fine art. That year, the nonprofit 3913 24th Street • San Francisco • 415.282.0344 invited her to keynote its annual gala, where it awards honors to local residents Open M – W – Th: 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. working to protect the Bay Area’s natural Fri: 11 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. wonders. Sat: 8 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. Sun: 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. “It is so beautiful and visually inter- Closed Tuesdays esting. The color palette is really intrigu- ing,” Iselin said of marine macro-algae. WACKY WEDNESDAY – Kids (12 & younger with an adult) EAT FREE! “I’ve always loved the ocean and been Josie Iselin’s images of kelp, like this one, concerned about the ocean. The seaweed We deliver through Grubhub, UberEats and Postmates “Porphyra & Postels,” will soon show up in speaks very directly about the ocean.” a new book and on the pages of Bay Nature. —Matthew S. Bajko 12 The Noe Valley Voice • March 2019

tents online when each new issue, timed Ridley. “We ask for contributions, which to work with writers to really dive into Bay Nature and Its to the change in the seasons, comes out. we can do as a nonprofit. The online difficult topics that Bay Nature’s readers Fertile Environment But to attract eyeballs to the website, model for news is changing. People have expect to see in the magazine. they post online-only content on a fre- a growing understanding they have to pay “These are long-running, systemic CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 quent basis, often short features about the for it.” structural things that are hard for many local fauna and flora, accompanied by While the magazine’s fulltime editorial magazines to focus on. I like we can do She rescued two mutts named Cody and lush nature photography. There is no fire- staff all contribute to it, the majority of that and look at the natural phenomenon Kelby, named after baseball players on wall limiting how much people can read the work is done by outside writers. Free- of what you see in the world,” he said. the San Francisco Giants. online without being a paid subscriber, lancers, for instance, wrote three-quarters Despite the political implications with “A lot of my interest in nature comes and the articles in the magazine eventu- of the articles in the 2019 winter edition. much of the coverage in its publication, from food,” said Ridley, “and being a dog ally do appear on the website. “There is a tremendous amount of the Bay Nature Institute steers clear of the owner, which a lot of people in nature are “The content on the website should be work that goes into editing these stories,” day-to-day political fights in local city not happy about.” free,” said Ridley. said Ridley. “The contributors may not halls, the statehouse, or in Congress on understand the voice we have, so these environmental matters. It does not lobby Exciting but Challenging Great Journalism Has a Cost stories take a lot of work. There are also lawmakers, preferring to let its reportage As mainstream media outlets flounder In a nod to how people consume mag- a lot of artists and photographers we work on nature speak for itself. amid declining ad revenues and decreas- azines and other publications on various with.” “When we report on issues, we stay out ing paid subscribers, nonprofit publishers digital devices, Bay Nature Institute is of politics,” stressed Ridley. Not Afraid of Controversy are experiencing a renaissance, said Rid- launching a digital version of the maga- Free Walks and Local Hero Awards ley. “There is a resurgency or liveliness zine in July with the summer issue. It Ridley has made it a mission to see that in nonprofit journalism because commer- sends out a weekly email anyone can sign Bay Nature is the publishing home for in- It does engage with its readers in the cial journalism is sinking,” she said. up to receive with links to its online con- depth pieces on complicated, and at times real world. Bay Nature leads various out- At the same time, Bay Nature’s staff tent, while it also asks those who enjoy controversial, subject matter. The winter ings to natural sites around the Bay Area has had to struggle with the same issues its work to make a financial donation if issue tackled the thorny question, Is the throughout the year. In February it hosted daily newspapers are facing, due to the they don’t want to become paid sub- push for eco-friendly housing policies in a guided tour of Sugarloaf Ridge State digitalization of news. In order to entice scribers. A yearly subscription to the the Bay Area adding to gentrification Park in the North Bay to learn about its people to subscribe to the magazine, the magazine costs $25.95. pressures? It also dug into the movement fungi and a hike out to see Brooks Falls editors do not immediately publish its con- “Great journalism is not free,” said for environmental literacy in California in San Pedro Valley Park in Pacifica. The and explored the new “outside” ways trips are free but limited in space, so schools are teaching environmental sci- RSVPs are required. Is YourYour BrandBraand Classy & Catchy? ence. Articles in the fall edition—includ- “We encourage people to go out into ing “More Goats, Less Fire?” and “The nature and care about environmental is- Burning Question in the East Bay Hills: sues,” said Ridley. Eucalyptus Is Flammable Compared to The nonprofit’s budget this year is LICE PATR PO OL What?”—were followed in December with $850,000 with more than half of it com- “How Does Smoke Affect Wildlife?” and ing from small donors, said Ridley. P.P.D. “California’s Massive Fires Reveal Our March 31 the nonprofit will host its 2019 Illusion of Control Over Disasters.” Local Hero Awards Gala. The annual “One of the things we do is write the fundraiser honors those working to pro- stories no one else is going to cover. tect and enhance the Bay Area’s environ- These are not newspaper stories,” Ridley ment. said. “And not many magazines will do “We see increasing interest in the res- something that local, so we fill a really idents of the Bay Area about learning Please Contact wonderful space.” about nature and the importance of na- Graphic DesigningDesigning and Brand Creation The time that the editorial staff has be- ture,” said Ridley. “I think we are in a [email protected]@ tsofar theancients.com tween issues, noted Simons, allows them sweet spot.” Ⅲ 650-440-6204

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her to board. A female passenger had The Life of urged the car to stop for her, but the con- ductor had responded, “We don’t take Abolitionist Mary colored people in the cars.” Mary Ellen Ellen Pleasant would also be awarded $500. Twenty-five years later, the state legislature prohibited CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 railroad segregation in California. Championing Women as an American hero. So who was Mary Ellen Pleasant, and Mary Ellen’s rise to prominence would what exactly did happen at the Poole-Bell not necessarily be due to her ongoing mansion on Laidley Street? fight for equality and civil rights in Vic- Mary Ellen’s true origins are unknown. torian San Francisco. Instead, when the A daughter of a black woman and a white private lives of some of her most intimate man, she was born into slavery, likely in and trusted friends became embroiled in Georgia, around 1814. Separated from very public and sordid affairs, her name her mother at the age of 10, as a bonded would be dragged into the mire. servant in Rhode Island she learned how Mary Ellen’s dearest friend, Sarah to run a store, cook, and make wine. She Althea Hill, in 1880 would seek divorce later married an abolitionist in Boston, and a substantial settlement from William James Smith, and worked with him on the Sharon. He had become one of the rich- Underground Railroad transporting est men in the world through under- slaves to freedom. When Smith died and handed business dealings while repre- left her a small fortune, she married senting the Bank of California in Virginia James Plaissance, and the two moved to City, Nev. Historian Gray Brechin claims, New Orleans. “To call Sharon a piranha would be to in- Continuing to work on the Under- sult the character of the fish.” ground Railroad, Mary Ellen met Marie Sarah presented papers documenting Laveau, a woman renowned for her so- their marriage. Sharon vehemently de- called voodoo powers. Yet, rather than nied any marriage had existed, declaring magical spells and sorcery, it seems she had only been his mistress. Mary Laveau may have taught Mary Ellen Ellen, likely knowing she was entering a more down-to-earth skills, including how snake pit, testified for Sarah during the to exert influence for social change and drawn-out and very public “Sharon v. “pressure the powerful to help the pow- Sharon” legal battle, one that the Healds- erless,” primarily blacks and poor women. burg Tribune reported, “challenges the When Mary Ellen’s role in slave res- world of fiction for its many startling de- cue was discovered, she would follow her The former Poole-Bell mansion at 196-98 Laidley St., as it appears today. Though Mary Ellen velopments.” The final verdict was in fa- husband to Gold Rush San Francisco. Ar- Pleasant knew the original owners, there is no clear evidence she lived in the house. vor of Sharon: the court declared there riving in 1852, they changed their name Photo by Jack Tipple had been no marriage. from “Plaissance” to “Pleasant.” Since her arrival in San Francisco, Avenue and Bayshore Boulevard, Mary Omnibus Railroad car, Charlotte Brown Mary Ellen had maintained her business San Francisco Success Ellen built what became known as the was the first to challenge the practice in association and friendship with Thomas In a city overwhelmingly rich and Geneva Cottage, described as a “resort” 1863 and was eventually awarded $500. Bell. When she met a young new arrival male, Mary Ellen put her talents to work by some newspapers. With legends of un- Mary Ellen sued the North Beach and by the name of Teresa Percy, Mary Ellen as a cook and housekeeper, initially for bridled lust and debauchery engaged in Mission Railroad Company in 1867, by resort guests and female hosts, the San when a car with ample room for addi- Case and Heiser, importers and commis- CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 sion merchants. She also encountered Francisco Chronicle stated in 1899, tional passengers failed to stop and allow Thomas Bell, a native of Scotland, about “What happened there during its first year this time. Among his future ventures, Bell of occupancy may best be passed over would serve as director of the Virginia & without comment.” Truckee Railroad of Nevada and then di- An Early Resister rector of the Bank of California. Mary Ellen and Bell would remain close confi- In San Francisco, Mary Ellen’s partic- dantes for a lifetime. Often, she would be ipation in the Underground Railroad con- a silent partner in his real estate and min- tinued. Acquainted with abolitionist John ing transactions. Brown, she provided $30,000 to finance Through her domestic work, Pleasant his “army of emancipation” and secretly became privy to conversations among the traveled to the Eastern Seaboard to rally city’s nouveau riche about the next big in- slaves to Brown’s militant cause. vestment, then proceeded to make the in- When his attack on the federal armory SAN FRANCISCO vestment herself. Her wealth continued to in Harper’s Ferry, Va. (today, West Vir- grow, and she is credited with being the ginia), failed in 1859, Brown was cap- first African American woman to become tured by future Civil War generals Robert a millionaire. After financially and logis- E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart and executed for Food you eat. tically supporting the transit of black men treason. Legend has it that a note from and women from the southern United Mary Ellen with the initials “W.E.P.” was States to San Francisco, she would help found in Brown’s pocket. If true, and if them find jobs, and establish and main- the inversion of “M” to “W” was intended tain their own businesses. to hide her identity, it worked: she was Mary Ellen bought properties through- never pursued by investigators. out the city and Bay Area. She also Despite California being a free state, opened boarding houses primarily for during and immediately after the Civil War young women in need, some of whom several privately owned railroad compa- were married off to wealthy men. nies in San Francisco maintained a “whites Near today’s intersection of Geneva only” policy. After being ejected from an

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 While Mary Ellen had purchased lots near Church and Duncan streets in 1879, evidence that she resided in Noe Valley introduced her to Bell. They married in or Fairmount Heights has yet to be found. 1879. Shortly thereafter, Mary Ellen de- Regardless, the indirect association of signed and constructed a 30-room gothic Mary Ellen to the Poole-Bell mansion on mansion on a lot she owned at Octavia Laidley Street and to other property in the and Bush streets. Living there with the area is something the neighborhoods will Bells, Mary Ellen handled all business keep and honor to further conserve the matters for the residence and managed the true legacy of the Mother of California Bells’ finances. It may not have been the Civil Rights. Ⅲ happiest of homes. A sidewalk plaque at Mary Ellen Pleasant Evelyn Rose is the director and founder Memorial Park, at the corner of Octavia Betrayals in Later Life and Bush streets, commemorates the of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Mother of California Civil Rights. In 1892 at age 70, Thomas Bell fell Project (www.GlenParkHistory.org), Image by Chris Carlsson courtesy of FoundSF.org over the staircase railing, and the county covering Glen Park, Sunnyside, Fair- coroner ruled his death accidental. Yet mount Heights, and Diamond Heights. speculation was rampant that Mary Ellen This image of Mary Ellen Pleasant, from the The group meets five times a year and was the diabolical agent who had caused the Everett Collection/Alamy, appeared in leads a dozen different history walks in his death, either with a push or a voodoo the New York Times Jan. 31, 2019, alongside spell. Teresa Bell then turned against the an obituary that the newspaper Glen Canyon and other locations. If you LETTERS TO THE EDITOR acknowledged was long overdue. would like to support the GPNHP, join in now aging Mary Ellen, claiming she had welcomes your activities, or if you are researching the The Noe Valley Voice stolen thousands of dollars from them. Correspondence. Email editor@ Courts had a difficult time ascertaining history of Noe Valley and would like to Property in Noe Valley noevalleyvoice.com or write Noe Valley the line between Thomas Bell’s and Mary participate, contact Rose at Glen- Voice Letters, P. O. Box 460249, San Francisco, Ellen’s finances. Teresa Bell, determined The mansion at Octavia and Bush— [email protected]. CA 94146. Please include your name, address, to destroy “the old she-devil,” eviscerated “The Bell House of Mystery”—burned or other contact information. (Anonymous Mary Ellen in testimony, an injustice her down in 1925. And what exactly did hap- letters will not be considered for legacy still struggles to overcome today. pen at the mansion at Laidley and Fair- publication.) Please note that letters may be Becoming frail in health, Mary Ellen mount? edited for brevity or clarity. We look forward saw her investments begin to fail and her Attorney and notary John P. Poole, to hearing from you. funds dwindle. For a time, she lived at the who came to prominence as secretary of Geneva Cottage, tending her garden. the Swamp and Overflowed Land Com- Then she moved to the Beltane Ranch in mission in the late 1850s, had purchased Sonoma she had purchased in 1892. She the lot in the late 1880s. Poole and his spent her final years with her friends, wife Annie are first listed as residents at Quit Smoking in One Session Lyman and Olive Sherwood of Napa. the Laidley mansion, nearly identical in Mary Ellen died in 1904 and is buried design to the “House of Mystery” at Oc- DR. JONATHON D. GRAY • HYPNOSIS • SAN FRANCISCO • 415-563-2333 in the Sherwoods’ plot in Tulocay Ceme- tavia and Bush, in 1894. The following tery. Her tombstone reads, “She was a year, John Poole died suddenly after be- Addictions • Stress Reduction • Pain Control • Weight Control friend of John Brown.” On Jan. 31, 2019, ing indicted for defrauding the federal Phobias • Optimum Performance in a series titled “Overlooked,” the New government in a pension scam. Annie was York Times belatedly published an obitu- forced to sell many of their properties, in- http://drjonathongray.com ary of Mary Ellen Pleasant. cluding the Poole mansion, to Thomas

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Living in Noe Single-family homes January 2019 5 $2,015,000 $4,700,000 $2,996,000 41 101% December 2018 10 $1,625,000 $3,400,000 $2,196,900 29 109% A Winter’s Nap January 2018 4 $1,400,000 $4,715,000 $2,526,250 59 114%

By Corrie M. Anders Condominiums/TICs omebuyers purchased just five sin- January 2019 5 $810,000 $1,530,000 $1,238,000 25 107% Hgle-family detached homes in Noe December 2018 1 $1,300,000 $1,300,000 $1,300,000 47 100% Valley in January. January 2018 3 $870,000 $2,360,000 $1,576,667 63 99% That’s not too surprising. Traditionally, 2- to 4-unit buildings January is the slowest month of the year for real estate sales. January 2019 2 $2,000,000 $2,000,018 $2,000,009 51 100% In fact, there were only four sales in December 2018 0 — — —— — This four-bedroom, 4.5-bath home on Day January a year ago and three in January January 2018 1 $2,060,000 $2,060,000 $2,060,000 0 100% 2017, according to data provided monthly Street, boasting a penthouse, a two-car to the Noe Valley Voice by Zephyr Real garage, and panoramic views, sold for $4.7 5+-unit buildings million in January. Photo by Jack Tipple Estate. January 2019 1 $6,700,000 $6,700,000 $6,700,000 244 92% “It’s par for the course,” said Zephyr December 2018 0 — — —— — president Randall Kostick, noting that San Jose Avenue. The house was on the January 2018 0 — — —— — real estate activity usually didn’t rev up market for 3.5 months before a buyer of- until April. fered $4.7 million—$88,000 below the * Survey includes all Noe Valley home sales completed during the month. Noe Valley for purposes Escrow closings in January reflect pur- seller’s asking price. of this survey is loosely defined as the area bordered by Grand View, 22nd, Guerrero, and 30th streets. The Voice thanks Zephyr Real Estate (zephyrre.com) for providing sales data. NVV3/2019 chases initiated in late November or De- The new owner walked into a 4,087- cember, when people are preoccupied square-foot four-bedroom home, with an with Thanksgiving, Chanukah, and abundance of bathrooms (4.5 to be exact). Christmas. Built in 1900, the house had been re- The lack of sales was not the only sign modeled several times over the years, Noe Valley Rents** that folks were spending their free time with the latest renovation adding white- No. in Range Average Average Average elsewhere. There was a near absence of oak flooring, a marble fireplace, state-of- Unit Sample February 2019 February 2019 January 2019 February 2018 overbidding. the-art appliances, floor-to-ceiling glass Three of the five houses that were sold walls, a large family/media room, a pent- Studio 4 $2,250 - $2,875 $2,494 / mo. $2,542 / mo. $2,228 / mo. this January came in below the sticker house with two decks, a two-person soak- 1-bdrm 33 $2,500 - $4,900 $3,314 / mo. $3,330 / mo. $3,139 / mo. price, Kostick said. ing tub, and a two-car garage with an 2-bdrm 29 $3,025 - $6,150 $4,331 / mo. $4,368 / mo. $4,432 / mo. A prime example was the most expen- electric car charger. 3-bdrm 19 $4,185 - $11,000 $6,015 / mo. $6,092 / mo. $6,040 / mo. sive home sold during the month, a con- By contrast, the least expensive house 4+-bdrm 9 $5,995 - $34,000 $13,606 / mo. $21,417 / mo. $11,788 / mo. temporary showpiece in the first block of among the five attracted an offer in just Day Street between Dolores Street and five days and sold for $2,015,000, nearly ** This survey is based on a sample of 94 Noe Valley apartment listings appearing on Craigslist.org 35 percent more than its asking price from Feb. 6 to 13, 2019. NVV3/2019 ($1,498,000). The 1905 Queen Anne Vic- torian, located in the 900 block of Noe Street between 22nd and 23rd streets, had three bedrooms and one bath but featured 1,592 square feet of living space, a one- car garage, and, according to its advertis- ers, “loads of potential for designing your spacious dream home.” Also showing potential were condo- minium sales. There were five sold in Jan- uary, as compared with three in January of last year (and two in January 2017). A three-bedroom, 2.5-bath condo in the 700 block of Clipper Street was the most expensive attached unit sold during the month. Part of a 20-unit complex located midway along Clipper Street between Douglass Street and Grand View Avenue, the two-level home offered In January, this Queen Anne on Noe Street 1,921 square feet of living space, a mod- sold for 35 percent more than the seller’s ern chef’s kitchen, a deck, bay views from asking price. Still, at $2,015,000, it was the each room, and one-car parking. The fi- least expensive single-family home sale nal price was $1,495,000, 2.3 percent less during the month. Photo by Corrie M. Anders than the list price ($1,530,000). Ⅲ

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lex Ausman, a 9-year-old Noe Valley Aresident, founded a detective club in first grade. Now a fourth-grader, she regularly writes mysteries. Alex lives on Church Street with her 13-year-old sister, Ava, and their mom and dad, Bao-Tran and James Ausman. Alex is in fourth grade at Commodore Sloat School in the Balboa Terrace neighborhood. She commutes by taking the J-line to Balboa Park, then the K. The family also has a dog, Luna, “short for Lunatic.” Alex writes in multiple genres, “mostly fantasy, horror, mystery, and folk tales.” She also writes historical fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, and science fiction. With help from Ava and from Alex’s classmates, Alex is creating a daily school newspaper, the working title of which is The Mystery Club Riddle. “We just create a mystery for [other Alex Ausman, 9, is well on her way to a career as a writer. But she also has dreams of becoming a designer, singer, or director. Photo by Art Bodner students] to solve, and then whoever solves it first gets some sort of prize, like getting to write the next riddle,” Alex says. Musing about her future family, Alex Elizabeth, since that’s a name of a lot of Alex replies, “I’ve seen a poster that says: Her favorite classes at school are says, “I want to name my children after people from movies and real life. I’m ‘Treat people the way you want to be writers workshop and readers workshop. the names of mostly the characters in my listening to a soundtrack called Hamilton, treated’—but I don’t agree with that She was reading The Dork Diaries at books.” If she has two children, she hopes and his wife’s name is Elizabeth, Eliza for because what if some people want to be interview time. for a girl and a boy because “I want the short. On the Riverdale show, the main treated with humor, and what if some A story Alex recently wrote with her experience of raising two different character is Elizabeth. The Little people don’t want to be treated with friend Hanna is about two sisters who genders.” Mermaid is a live action movie. The humor? I believe, treat them the way they meet a boy whom a witch has changed She would name a boy Casey because mermaid’s name was Elizabeth. want to be treated.” into a caterpillar. The story ends “on a “I feel like not enough people name their “I’d very much rather adopt than give Alex’s favorite neighborhood places cliffhanger, when they’re about to go [to kids what can be a boy name or a girl birth,” Alex adds, “because I feel like are Noe Valley Bagel (“they have many Venice] where the witch lives,” Alex says. name.” there’s more than 500 children who don’t varieties of bagels, like chocolate chip, She’s writing a sequel now. And for a girl? “I was thinking have homes. I’d adopt a young child so I blueberry, poppy seed, or plain, or would have a lot of experiences [with everything”), Cafe XO (“they have a them]. Or teenagers because they huge variety, like Smoothie of the Day, probably don’t have a chance to get Cupcake of the Day, Bagel of the Day, adopted by a lot of people.” and Soup of the Day”), and Noe Valley Speculating on the number of children Bakery. “That’s where I plan to get my E X P E R I E N C E A A C S she’ll adopt, Alex says, “The max is birthday cake. I like a gourmet cake for probably about four kids. I don’t want my $48. The cake is the size of your head!” only child to feel lonely, nor do I want to Alex also loves the dog park at Upper TK - 8 AcceleratedAcceeleraatt CoreCe AcademicsArod ademicsce have five, so probably two, three, or four. Noe Rec Center, where “I get to exercise, It depends on what my husband thinks, or and so does my dog”; Just for Fun, where my wife.” she buys gifts for her friends; and Folio PerformingPerrforming & VisualVisu Arts Alex will also have a cat and a dog. “I’d Books, where “they have a huge variety get them when they are both puppies, so of books: adult, kids, many.” Ⅲ Choral Music they’d be raised together and would not chase each other around the house, because DanceDannce & Physical1IZTJDBM&EVDBUJPO EducationPJUBDVE&MBDJTZI1 O cats and dogs are known for being rivals.” atie Burke is a writer and family law When she grows up, Alex wants to be Kattorney, who lives where Noe Valley a writer and a costume designer “in the meets the Mission. Her Noe Kids column www.addaclevenger.orggr.oergenvleac.addwww play business.” She adds, “I was thinking features interviews with Noe Valley kids of starting off not so famous, like starting ages 4 to 12. In April 2020, Burke will off as a model or an author, and then publish a collection of profiles of San going big time as an actress, a singer, or Francisco kids, titled Urban Playground a director.” (SparkPress). Know a great Noe Valley kid? Email [email protected]. Asked how she would be as a boss,

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ately—and I mean lately in a then (c) the real estate section, just to broad sense, like not in the past gasp at the insanity of the prices. few days but for the past couple L OTHER VOICES 6. The parklets. We have two of of years—life, things, haven’t been fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction • the noe valley voice them! One is in front of Just for Fun. feeling so zippy. We’ve all been in this (The store is, as the name suggests, very together, walking around confused and fun, although my children would remind trying to carry on. Chin up and all that. Happy Valley me there were some items that weren’t It’s been a challenge. So much has been “just for fun,” like, say, spatulas.) The By Leslie Crawford thrown at us: the smoke from a other is outside of Martha’s. (Martha paradise lost that blocked the sun and will also make you happy. If you haven’t, scorched our throats, the never-ending try to meet her. She’s one of the border wars, the Cavanagh-Supreme kindest people you’ll ever know. What Court debacle, and the perplexing is it about these entrepreneurial, reality that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos charismatic coffee women?) And what is makes roughly $107 million a day while, it about parklets? Unlike elevators or as the delivery trucks double-park on Muni, people rarely look unhappy sitting 24th Street (I know, the suffering), we in a parklet. Maybe it’s the name. “Park- stroll down the sidewalk lamenting the let.” So cute. demise of beloved stores that used to 7. Little Free Libraries. There are sell real, live, wonderful things or offer many sprinkled around the neighbor- valuable services. hood, and they are also sooo cute! Places like Sam’s newsstand, where Especially the miniature house ones. besides magazines you could also buy What an idea. Just to give and take so gum and not-so-fancy chocolate bars. freely, so generously. Or Tuggey’s Hardware, which, along 8. Charlie’s Corner and Folio with having every little toilet flapper, Books. Charlie’s Corner is to sink stopper, or tiny screw in the world, children’s books what Willie Wonka is also had Rubberta the Giant to chocolate. And Paula Foley of Folio Rubberband Ball and the quarter glued has created the perfect neighborhood on the counter, so customers reached bookstore. And when you’re driving out for it, every time. Or that weird store of Whole Foods and waiting to turn that sold crystals, where you could get right on 24th (because no one ever a photo taken of your aura or explore turns left there since it’s illegal! ha ha the glow-in-the-dark outer-space room ha), Folio’s sign looks like it reads in the back that was only big enough “Bookhop.” And that’s funny. for kids. Or places like Ladybug Ladybug, where you could buy unusual 9. Easy Breezy. Confetti sprinkles! presents for your relatives and mail Hot fudge! Mochi blobs! them home (“Look what I got for you 10. The Animal Company’s in Noe Valley!”) even though they were birds. It’s our own aviary zoo, where probably made in China. Or stores filled Ellen and Rick will let you sit down and with unguents, like Beyond the Sea. (We hold a parrot that will say something never found out: What was beyond the funny and look at you sideways. Don’t sea? Now we never will.) you feel better already?

That’s a lot of loss. But woe to the here’s more, of course: just about person who clings futilely to the past. Teverything at Wink and their Now that I’ve spent the last 301 words politically righteous prose in the making us feel bad, it’s time to turn this windows, Peasant Pies, Video Wave, the baby around. There’s so much that’s chocolate store, the Noe-O cookies at Illustration by Ayla O’Brien worthwhile here in Noe Valley. Here is Noe Valley Bakery, the window displays a list to perk us up when whatever the at Eye Q, Casa Mexicana (which next terrible thing that is going to branches are back to being a sidewalk 5. The Noe Valley Voice. I’m not accounts for one-fourth of the bulk of happen happens. Feel free to add to it. tree, so you’ll have to wait till next year being paid to write this. (Literally. Not. my two children), the library, and all of to make new wishes. Sorry about that. Being. Paid.) It’s not just a really good 1. Bernie. Without Bernie, there is no the children who fill our sidewalks. For years, my friend Paula and I wanted neighborhood newspaper. It’s simply a Bernie’s. Duh. But if you know her and to have a Bitterness Bush where you good newspaper. And I bet, before It’s impossible not to be sad about she knows you, you know. Bernie is the could leave sad and spiteful notes. But reading the articles, you go straight to some stuff these days. But who knows bomb. Go get a coffee there today and maybe that’s a little too…negative? (a) Rumors and then (b) Letters and what the future will bring. Too terrified you’ll be happy. Bernie will make you to imagine? Go look at the east wall of happy. I promise. the Town Square, where the muralist 2. The Noe Valley Town Square. Mona Caron painted a future Noe This may appear self-promotional Valley. There are frolicking, wild (and we because I oversee events there, but it hope gentle) animals freely roaming really is a happy place, isn’t it? There are about. A giant slide that starts in Noe old-time square dances with pie-eating 2019 and ends in the Mission. A hot air contests, movies, bingo (with a San balloon. Nothing but happiness. Ⅲ Francisco twist, since the Sisters of Leslie Crawford is a 22-year resident of Perpetual Indulgence emcee), rescue Noe Valley, a journalist, and the author of animal fairs with pigs and bunnies and ArtSpan connects artists and the art-appreciating public year round through two children’s books about rescue animals. goats, music concerts, a tots’ events like our Annual Art Auction playground, free yoga and t’ai chi and and SF Open Studios. meditation, holiday tree lightings, and SF OOpenpen SStudiostudios 2019 The Noe Valley Voice invites you to hayrides with actual horses. FourFouur WeekendseekW ofoends f Art JoinJoin us fforor ArtSArtSpan’s’pan s Annual AArt rt AAuctionuction OctoberOctoober 12 - NovemberN 33embervo submit fiction, creative nonfiction, or 3. The Saturday Farmers Saturday, MarchMdaySatur ar, ch 23 SupportSuppoort LocalocL al Art & Artists poetry for possible publication in 6:30-9pm, at SOMArtsSOMArt ts ExploreExplore 8008 artist studios acrossacross Other Voices. Email Market. Right?!? San FranciscoF oanciscrSan [email protected] or write Other Voices, Noe Valley Voice, 4. The Wishing Tree on 23rd artspan.org P.O. Box 460249, San Francisco, CA between Noe and Castro, which 94146. Please include your name and accepts hand-written wishes from contact information.

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SHORT oe Valley’s annual literary festival, The Tango War: The Struggle for the Nnow in its 13th year, promises to be Hearts, Minds, and Riches of Latin Amer- TAKES a bit zany, more than a little poetic, and ica During World War II. Arnold ex- downright bedazzling for Shakespeare fans. plores similar themes in his Third Bank Nine events have been scheduled for of the River, about the rise of the middle Spring Arrives in the Noe Valley Word Week 2019, which runs class in Brazil and its impact on the land Bookstores Friday, March 8, through Saturday, and indigenous cultures. pring starts March 20, so it’s time to March 16, at five venues in the neighbor- A reception with wine and other re- Sbe preparing the ground and planting hood. All activities are free. freshments starts at 6:30 p.m. Readings your summer garden. If you need a little The first event, coinciding with Inter- and discussion follow at 7 p.m. push, put on your coat and rush over to national Women’s Day, is already draw- Small Publishers Night is Wednes- Omnivore Books on Food at 3885A Ce- ing a crowd on Word Week’s Facebook day, March 13, 7 p.m., at Umpqua Bank. sar Chavez St. on Sunday, March 10, at 3 Valley Street resident Najib Joe Hakim page. Titled “Thelma and Louise—Back Bay Area publishers Manic D Press, No- p.m. recently released a book of his photographs Behind the Wheel,” it will bring together madic Press, Two Lines Press, and Why Lauri Kranz, author of A Garden Can called Un-Gentrified, depicting faces of filmmaker Wendy Slick, San Francisco There Are Words will exhibit their books working-class people in San Francisco. Be Anywhere: Creating Bountiful and Chronicle film critic Ruthe Stein, law and introduce a few of the authors they Photo courtesy Najib Joe Hakim Beautiful Edible Gardens, will be there to professor Susan Rutberg, and moderator represent. “It’s a way to highlight local help you do just that. The event is free, Maxine Einhorn for a discussion of how presses, to give them some more expo- but you might want to buy her book. See Twelve instrumentalists from the orches- far women have come in the last 25 years. sure, and to get their books out into the the whole March schedule of author vis- tra will compete for the grand prize, as de- The event kicks off at 7 p.m. on Friday, world,” says May. its to the store at omnivorebooks.com. cided by the audience. Be sure to vote. March 8, at Folio Books, 3957 24th St. On Thursday, March 14, Cara Black, Spring Equinox Eve will be celebrated Admission is free. Saturday, March 9, from 3 to 5 p.m., is known for her detective series featuring at Charlie’s Corner children’s bookstore Songs by Brahms, Strauss, and the Noe Valley Authors Festival, featur- Inspector Aimée Leduc, will offer a tour March 19, in between two colorful holi- Paolo Tosti will be played by Lieder ing book exhibits, author readings, and of Paris’ 13th Arrondisement, in words days, St. Patrick’s Day and the Holi Fes- Alive! artist-in-residence pianist Peter visits from such local luminaries as chil- and photos. Black, who visits Paris fre- tival, an end-of-winter festival also Grunberg and sung by Tosti Song dren’s book author Emma Smith, histo- quently to research her novels (now num- known as the Festival of Colors. On Prize winner baritone Eugene Vil- rian and war correspondent Mary Jo Mc- bering 18), begins the travelogue at 7 p.m. March 17, for St. Pat’s, the story times lanueva March 24, 5 p.m., at the Min- Conahay, mystery writer Cara Black, at La Boulangerie de Noe, 3898 24th St. will be Ireland-themed and feature folk- istry. Tickets are $75 reserved, $35 memoirist Ramon Sender, and poets Su- The cafe will be staying open late that tales, limericks, leprechauns, and Irish general, and $20 for seniors, students, san Dambroff and Eveline Kanes. This night, as an homage to mystery lovers soda bread. For Holi, on March 20, there and working artists. year’s gathering will be at Umpqua Bank (and to Word Week). will be no throwing of colored powders Buy at www.liederalive.org. Noe Valley, 3938 24th St. Members of the group Word for Word or waters, like in India, but there will be One of the most unusual events, says will share passages from The Widow plenty of books with vibrant colors, Mandelman and Wang at UNN Word Week organizer Richard May, will Dreams, a work-in-progress by Nancy songs, and games. pper Noe Neighbors is hosting two be “Classical Mediterranean Poetry,” Selby, at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 15, at Check out charliescorner.com for Uimportant speakers at its meeting on Sunday, March 10. Writers Erika Folio Books. Dream is the true story of times and locations for these and all Saturday, March 20, 7 p.m., at Upper Noe Atkinson, MaryLee McNeal, Wayne the author’s journey from loss and grief March events at 24th and Castro streets. Recreation Center, 295 Day St. The Goodman, and Kim Shuck will recite fa- to a feeling of acceptance following the St. Patrick’s Day comes three days neighborhood association will also be vorite verses in their original Roman, death of her husband. Joining Selby in early at Folio Books, 3957 24th St. holding its annual board elections. Greek, Hebrew, and Egyptian, as well as reading from the narrative will be Sheila At 6 p.m. on March 14, Thomas District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandel- in English. Balter and Jeri Lynn Cohen. Lennon, perhaps more famous for his man will give an update on legislation he Shuck, now serving as Poet Laureate The final day of Word Week will be an short shorts on the TV series Reno 911!, is working on at the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, will be speaking New ode to William Shakespeare, the 17th- debuts Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of and will present his action plan for Noe Kingdom Egyptian. “I’ve been a big old century English bard who wrote more Riddles, the first book in a new middle- Valley. Egyptian nerd for a long time,” says than three dozen plays and hundreds of reader series. It’s about a 14-year-old re- Karry Jiayi Wang, president of the Shuck. “I think it should be a fun event— sonnets. (He also coined many words still cruit to the Irish police force investigat- Youth for Community Engagement Club kind of quirky and interesting.” in use today, including leapfrog, bedaz- ing crimes committed by leprechauns. A at Thurgood Marshall High School and a It will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. at zle, and newfangled.) very dangerous crew, that. Be sure to volunteer for Community Youth Center, Olive This Olive That, 304 Vicksburg St. Players from the San Francisco RSVP at tiny.cc/folioworms. will recommend what to include in a dis- Bill Vlach, David Watts, and Bill Shakespeare Festival will act out 400 of aster-preparedness kit and provide other Yenne—three authors who speak the lan- the author’s most famous words at the survival tips. Wang recently received the guage of the American West—will take Noe Valley Library on Saturday, March 2019 Neighborhood Empowerment Net- the stage at Folio Books on Monday, 16, at 1:30 p.m. Children and adults are work Award for youth leadership. March 11, at 7 p.m. The event, says May, welcome to attend the show, called “Did To find out more about UNN, go to is all about “Ridin’, Ropin’, and Writin’ Shakespeare Really Write That?” www.uppernoeneighbors.com. Western Novels,” such as Ambush of the Yes, moonbeam, he probably did. Vigilante (Vlach), Showdown at Possum Word Week is a production of Friends Two New Photo Books and a Trot (Watts), and The Other Custers of Noe Valley. Other sponsors include Road Trip (Yenne), to name just a few. Martha & Bros. Coffee, La Boulangerie ocumentary photographer and pho- Mary Jo McConahay joins fellow jour- de Noe, Folio Books, Umpqua Bank, and Dtojournalist Najib Joe Hakim of Val- nalist Chris Feliciano Arnold in a panel Olive This Olive That. ley Street has recently published two new Tuesday, March 12, titled “Tangled Paths: For more information, go to friendsof- photographic essay books and has a photo True Stories from Latin America,” at noevalley.com or email wordweeknoe- exhibit opening at an art gallery this the Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Library, 451 [email protected]. month. The books you can order online. Jersey St. McConahay’s latest book is —Corrie M. Anders and Sally Smith For the exhibit, you’ll have to go to Wash- Thomas Lennon, an actor on the TV series ington, D.C. Reno 911!, will unveil his new book Ronan Hakim’s two new books, both pub- Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles at Folio Books on Thursday, March 14. Please RSVP. lished last month, are Born Among Mir- Photo courtesy Folio Books rors and The Un-Gentrified. The former uses historical documents, as well as photos, to trace his family’s history from Jazz, Lieder, and a Classical leaving Palestine as refugees to living ‘American Idol’ successful middle-class lives in the U.S. ans of jazz and lieder have treats in The latter book presents working-class Fstore for them in March, plus Noe Val- people in San Francisco, an increasingly ley will have its own classical American smaller group. Both books can be bought Idol. online at jaffaorange.com. Jazz is up first, March 9, 7:30 p.m., A third photo book by Hakim, Wayside, with the Evan Price Trio at Holy Inno- published in 2018, is also available at the cents Church, 455 Fair Oaks St. Price, a site. jazz violinist and the leader of the trio, is The exhibit, “Palestine Diary,” will be also a member of the Turtle Island String at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery in our na- Quartet and the Hot Club of San Fran- tion’s capital from March 28 through June cisco, a gypsy jazz band. Tickets at the 8. Hakim’s photos on display in D.C. door are $25 general admission and just were taken while he lived in Jerusalem in $5 for people under 18. 1978-79 and 1981. He is preparing a book On March 16, the San Francisco based on the exhibit and says it will be Chamber Orchestra presents “American published this summer. He also hopes to Idol, Classical Edition” at 2 p.m. at the show the photo exhibit in San Francisco Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St. after it closes in Washington. 20 The Noe Valley Voice • March 2019 Dogs, On Your Mark! Park Set to Reopen With New Toys SHORT Girl Scout Adds Agility to Upper project. It is equivalent to becoming an cle, who was an Eagle Scout, kicked in Douglass Dog Park Eagle Scout, the highest rank one can another $200. A group of volunteers TAKES achieve in the Boy Scouts. helped Leila install the agility structures By Matthew S. Bajko “I was at the dog park with my dog Saturday, Feb. 23. when it hit me,” said Leila, a member of Leila will be on-site when the dog park Cumbia, Reggae, Salsa, Hip-Hop hen the Upper Douglass Dog Park Girl Scout Troop 32215. “There is a mini reopens to the public to see how the dogs he high-energy, Caribbean-fusion Wreopens Saturday, March 9, from agility course for dogs to jump over. take to the agility poles and tire. She Tmusic of La Gente will get the danc- its annual winter closure, dogs and their Sometimes the sticks get knocked over.” planned to test them out with her family’s ing started at the Big Night/La Gran owners will find two new elements added She went home and researched other two poodles, Habibi and Jamila, to see if Noche annual fundraiser for James Lick to the off-leash play area that will test the agility elements she could add to the park any adjustments needed to be made. Middle School, Saturday, March 9, 6 to canines’ agility. that dogs could enjoy and that would be “I don’t know how interested they 10 p.m., at 111 Minna art gallery in the A tire jump that is height adjustable and safe. would be,” she said. “They don’t do many New Financial District. 11 weaving poles, all made out of PVC “I didn’t want to risk injuries for the agility tests.” Of course, dancing works up a thirst. pipes painted blue, have now been in- park with complicated structures there,” As for whether the rec department will No worries. There’ll be a no-host bar with stalled in the former softball field turned said Leila, who put in roughly 90 hours be changing the hours of the dog park in signature James Lick cocktails like Extra dog park. They are located several yards on the project. response to the noise complaints several Credit and Bulldog Bubbly. (The school directly in front of the dog park’s entrance She won approval from the San Fran- nearby residents have lodged, the agency mascot is the bulldog.) Guests can munch off 27th Street at Douglass. cisco Recreation and Park Department had not disclosed its decision prior to the for free at the taco bar catered by Sneaky Girl Scout Leila Ali O’Rourke, 16, and received $200 from the Friends of Voice’s print deadline. The park’s website Pete’s BBQ. oversaw their design, construction, and Upper Douglass Dog Park. RJO Produce lists its hours as 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. and And everyone has the chance to win installation as part of her Gold Award Distributing, co-founded by her late un- closed on Wednesdays. Ⅲ terrific raffle prizes—if you buy a coupon. Local merchants have donated gift certificates, wine, gift baskets, and prizes. The big prize is a stay in a spacious mountain home in Tahoe Donner over Memorial Day weekend. Michele Perlmutter, co-chair of the event and the parent of a JLMS student, says, “We are inviting everyone to come, whether you have a student at the school, are thinking about middle schools for your child, or just want to get together with some friends for a fun Saturday night.” Tickets are $50 at Eventbrite.com. Pro- ceeds go to continue enrichment programs for the students, like an eighth- grade trip to Washington, D.C., and field trips to the National Cesar Chavez Cen- ter near Bakersfield. You’ll find more information at jlms-sfusd-ca.schoolloop .com or at the school, located at 1220 Noe Girl Scout Leila Ali O’Rourke measured the turf before she and family and friends planted poles for a new agility course last month at Upper St. (415-695-5675). Douglass Dog Park. The city approved the project, which was part of Leila’s Gold Award achievement. Photos courtesy Melane Ali and Rick O’Rourke

Poems by Children in a more information and to register, go to Concentration Camp missionculturalcenter.org. ramatic soprano Madeline Abel- DKerns sings “I Never Saw Another Volunteers Needed on Patrol Butterfly,” poems written by children in ust over the hill, the Castro District has the Terezin Nazi concentration camp dur- Ja volunteer patrol, CCOP, Castro Com- ing World War II and set to music by Lori munity on Patrol. If you’d like to be a Laitman. Saxophonist Rhett Bender ac- member of the patrol, there’s a training companies Abel-Kerns. class on Monday, March 11, from 7 to 10 Also on the bill are dancers Angela p.m., at the Chase Bank community Newsham and Maia Scott and spoken- room, 2112 15th St. in the Castro. word artists Linda Hope, Ron Jones, Ruth You don’t have to live in the Castro. Kirschner, and Beth McLoughlin. Steve You do have to be at least 18 years old, Pomeroy shows projections of his photos. able to walk continuously for up to three All are part of Press PLAY—The Hu- hours, be felony and violence or theft man Jukebox, the latest performance misdemeanor free, and capable of hold- showcase to be mounted by the group’s ing a cell phone, radio, and flashlight. producer and artistic director Doug Baird Volunteers go on patrol at least once a at St. Aidan’s Church, 101 Gold Mine month. Drive in Diamond Heights. If you’re good with all that, you can There are two performances of the sign up at castropatrol.org. Click on Next showcase: Friday, March 29, and Satur- Volunteer Training Class. day, March 30. Both begin at 8 p.m. Tick- ets are $18 for adults and $15 for seniors Performathon at Community and students. They can be purchased at Music Center the door, which opens at 7 p.m. Parking he San Francisco Community Music is permitted in the Diamond Heights TCenter has been teaching young peo- Shopping Center across from the church. ple to play musical instruments since The producer advises that this produc- 1921. It is holding its annual “Field Day tion is recommended for adults only. Performathon” to raise money for student scholarships and tuition assistance over Summer Camp Registration two days, Saturday, March 16, and Sun- t’s never too early to plan for summer day, March 17, at the SFCMC concert Iactivities, especially for kids who are hall, 544 Capp St. out of school. Registration for the San Several young CMC musicians have Francisco Recreation and Park Depart- recitals in the Performathon, to be held on ment’s summer day camps starts on Sat- Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is urday, March 16. You will be able to reg- also an open house for the school, with ister children for activities online at class demos and an instrument “petting sfrecpark.org/register or in person at city zoo.” Admission is free, but donations are rec centers starting at 10 a.m. Upper Noe gladly accepted.“Cultural Traditions in Rec Center is located at 295 Day St. Rec Diaspora,” the Saturday evening per- and Park camps run June 10 to Aug. 16. formance by CMC faculty, will begin at To peruse the catalog, go to sfrecpark.org. 7 p.m. The suggested donation is $20. The Mission Cultural Center is also of- The Performathon continues on Sun- fering summer day camps at its 2868 Mis- day with free classes and demonstrations. sion St. location. There are two sessions: June 10 to July 3 and July 8 to Aug. 2. For Short Takes are written by Richard May. The Noe Valley Voice • March 2019 21 STORE TREK

Store Trek is a regular feature of the Noe Valley Voice, introducing new stores and restaurants in the neighborhood. This month, we profile a bakery café that had a Blissful opening on 24th Street in Jan- uary.

VIVE LA TARTE 4026 24th Street between Noe and Castro streets https://vivelatarte.com/

o celebrate the opening of their third Tlocation in San Francisco, Vive la Tarte co-owners Julie Vandermeersch and Arnaud Goethals created a special house- milled sweet-potato bread that is only available at the Noe Valley bakery and restaurant. Called the Noe Valley Loaf ($9) and made with purple sweet potato, rye, and malt, the bread comes from a sourdough starter that is infused with the nutrients and microorganisms found in the neighborhood’s air. The flour is milled in- house in a dedicated milling lab, and the bread is baked on-site in traditional cast- Jacob Garding mans the counter while Antoine Hammet tends the espresso machine at Vive la Tarte, a new bakery cafe specializing in house- iron pans. made breads, creative egg dishes, and a warm and cozy environment. Photo by Pamela Gerard “With every dish we do and the products we make, we go from a classic prod- as the staff will bring the food to their tomatillo, cherry tomato, and sumac on ing community around our business.” uct like a croissant or bread and do one table. There is seating for up to 40 people house levain. A P.L.T. sandwich ($13) The Belgian natives relocated from notch further. Rather than make a heavy in the 2,200-square-foot, all-white rectan- features prosciutto crudo, aged cheddar, Brussels in late 2011 and started their potato bread, how can we make it a much gular space, which was designed by gem lettuce, tomato, and basil aioli, on culinary business by focusing on catering more interesting product,” explained Goethals in collaboration with Kilomade house levain. services. Vandermeersch. “We worked with vari- Studios and Planart. Vandermeersch also developed a ded- They chose the name Vive la Tarte to ous ingredients to find some really cool Fresh baked goods on offer include icated kids’ menu, including pancrêpes evoke thoughts of European bakeries, color to give the bread. It is a purple color turmeric monkey bread ($4) and a vari- ($10), a cross between pancakes and tra- and because French is also spoken in their but all natural. We added some purple ety of croissants, from plain butter ditional crêpes, made with in-house home country. barley to it with our sourdough.” ($3.75) to pain au chocolat ($4) or al- milled kamut flour, topped with torched “Vive la Tarte is all about celebration,” As of now, the bakery makes six to a mond ($4.50). Drink options run the banana and date syrup. There is also a said Vandermeersch. “We were wanting dozen of the specialty loaves per day and gamut from Sightglass espresso and Au- breakfast pizza ($8) made with egg, ba- to bring people together in a celebratory will increase production as demand re- gust Uncommon tea to organic lemon- con, green onions, and crème fraiche. way.” quires. While there is a kitchen on-site, its ades from Tractor Beverage Co. and nat- The co-owners are still adjusting the Within a week of their debut in Noe capacity is limited, as everything on the ural wines. menu for the Noe Valley café, which of- Valley, the café already had a number of menu is made in-house. The couple also developed a selection ficially opened Jan. 29 in the space that regulars popping in to have lunch, meet “We believe in not moving product too of kombucha cocktails such as the Booch once housed Bliss Bar, at 4026 24th St. friends, or do work. far. We like to make it on location,” said Mosa ($9), made with organic cava, (After a fire ripped through the bar in “We made so many new friends in our Vandermeersch, the business’ head chef. blood orange, and oak kombucha. Pitch- 2013, the building’s owners announced first opening week! Thank you for the Thus, while Vive la Tarte is known for ers of mimosas ($35), regular or grape- plans to open their own restaurant and LOVE, Noe!” noted the couple on their its stuffed croissants at the first location fruit, are also available. nightclub in the space, once it was rebuilt. Instagram page. it opened four years ago South of Market, A highlight of the food menu is the However, they abandoned the idea sev- “We want it to be a place people feel at the famed sandwiches are not yet on the Kalefornia Breakfast Salad ($14), made eral years later.) home and an extension of their home, menu at the Noe Valley location. (The with fried egg, shredded kale, red beet Arnaud and Vandermeersch, who are where they can come if they don’t want Belgian-style bakery also has a kiosk in- hummus, vegan eggplant bacon, and married and live in Mill Valley with their to cook or just have a good time,” said side the Ferry Building and is set to open pepitas (pumpkin seeds). newborn son, had scouted out locations Vandermeersch. “We want to bring peo- its first outpost outside the Bay Area in The eggs benedict ($16) is made with for a second, full bakery and café for two ple together in a comfortable setting.” the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.) poached eggs, hollandaise, prosciutto years before signing the lease for the Noe Vive la Tarte is open weekdays from 7 At the 24th Street location, customers cotto, and asparagus served atop house Valley storefront. a.m. until 6 p.m. and on weekends from will find a small counter upfront where levain bread. “Noe Valley is the perfect spot to ex- 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Delivery is available they can place their orders and then be The smashed avocado toast ($14) is pand to because we are all about building through Caviar. given a number if they choose to eat there, served with poached egg, feta, pickled relationships,” said Goethals, “and build- —Matthew S. 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March 1: Anthony Holdsworth Thursdays, from 8 to 9 am. 3861 teaches OIL PAINTING for beginner 24th. noevalleytownsquare.com. and advanced students in the gallery March 7-28: Charlie’s Corner of Alley Cat Books. 6:30-10 pm. 3036 • M A R C H 2 0 1 9 • Bookstore has a FRENCH 24th. 824-1761; STORYTIME Thursdays at 3 pm. 4102 anthonyholdsworth.com. 24th. 641-1104; charliescorner.com. March 1-25: Local sections of the SF HISTORY DAYS at free YOGA CLASS at the Noe Valley March 7-28: Newcomers welcome WPA MODEL of San Francisco will March 2 & 3: Tuesday of the month. 750-3600; the Old Mint features the Town Square; bring your own mat. at the AL-ANON Literature be on display at the Noe Valley deyoungmuseum.org. Neighborhood Newspaper collection Sundays, 10-11 am. 3861 24th. Discussion, meeting Thursdays at Library. 451 Jersey. 355-5707; sfpl.org. Make cork coasters with at the Department of Memory noevalleytownsquare.com. March 6: Bethany UMC, from 7:15 to 8:30 pm. maps of San Francisco at adult March 1-29: BootCampSF conducts booth. 11 am-4 pm. 88 5th. 1270 Sanchez. Meet at the gold fire FITNESS training Mondays, Tuesdays, March 3-31: CRAFT NIGHT at the Noe Valley John Fisher performs hydrant at 20th and Church at 11 am March 7-28: Bring your vast Thursdays, and Fridays at 8:30 am. SF March 2 & 9: Library. 7-8:30 pm. 451 Jersey. 355- his solo show, A History of World Sundays for a City Guides walking storehouse of knowledge to TRIVIA Rec Center Basketball Court, 30th 5707; sfpl.org. War II: The D-Day Invasion to the Fall tour of the area around MISSION NIGHT on Thursdays at the Dubliner, and Whitney. 567-9009; Folio Books offers of Berlin. 5 pm. The Marsh, 1062 DOLORES. 557-4266; March 6-27: 3838 24th. 8 pm. 285-0674; sfbootcamp.com. STORYTIME for toddlers Valencia.themarsh.org. sfcityguides.org. brainstormer.com. Wednesdays at 10 am. 3957 24th. March 1-29: Chris Sequeira leads a Each Saturday, the Noe The Asian Art March 8: The Noe Valley Library free Friday KARAOKE for Adults March 2-30: March 3 & April 7: 821-3477; foliosf.com. Valley FARMERS MARKET brings you Museum offers FREE ADMISSION on screens the 1966 FILM Fahrenheit gathering at Upper Noe Rec Center. Chris Sequeira leads fresh produce and live music from 8 the first Sunday of the month, March 6-27: 451, based on the book by Ray 6:30-8:30 pm. 295 Day. 970-8061. free senior QIGONG classes am to 1 pm. 3861 24th. 248-1332; courtesy of Target. 200 Larkin. 581- Bradbury. 2-4 pm. 451 Jersey. 355- Wednesdays 1 to 3 pm, at Upper March 1-30: Noe Valley noevalleyfarmersmarket.com. 3500; asianart.org. 5707; sfpl.org. OVEREATERS Anonymous meets Noe Rec Center, Day & Sanchez. 773- Upper Noe Rec The ACC March 8: Folio Books celebrates Monday through Saturday, 7 am, at St. March 2-30: March 4, 11, 18 & 25: 8185; [email protected] Center offers free YOGA CLASSES Conversation Club meets on Noe Valley WORD WEEK 2019 and Aidan’s Church, 101 Gold Mine. The Eureka Valley Saturdays 9:15-10:15 am. Day & Mondays from 4:30 to 5:30 pm at the March 6-27: International WOMEN’S DAY with a oasf.org. Library hosts BABY RHYME and play Sanchez. 970-8061; Noe Valley Library. 451 Jersey. For panel discussion about women in film, time on Wednesdays, 1:30 to 2:15. 1 March 1-30:The 30th Street noevalleyreccenter.com. details, email [email protected]. “Thelma & Louise Back Behind the SENIOR CENTER’s Mission Nutrition Jose Sarria Court (16th & Market). Wheel.” 7 pm. 3957 24th. foliosf.com. The Randall Museum’s Artists’ Television Access program serves lunches for people March 2-30: March 5: 355-5616; sfpl.org. close-up of California wildlife, “Meet screens the 1981 film The Willmar March 8-14: The 23rd “Berlin and over 60, weekdays and Saturdays, Holy Innocents the ANIMAL KEEPER,” happens Eight from the library’s 16mm film March 6-27: Beyond FILM FESTIVAL” screens at including holidays. Noon & 1 pm. 225 Episcopal Church holds Candlesong, a Saturdays at 2 pm. 199 Museum Way. archive. 6:30-8 pm. Noe Valley Library, the Castro Theatre (429 Castro), 30th. 550-2226. TAIZE-style service followed by a 554-9605. 451 Jersey. Limited to 12 participants; Landmark Shattuck Cinemas in potluck on Wednesdays from 6 to 8 March 1-30: The Friday night JAZZ call to register: 355-5707; sfpl.org. Berkeley, and the Goethe-Institut : Meet under the series continues at Bird & Beckett March 2-31 pm. 455 Fair Oaks. 824-5142. (530 Bush) . For a schedule: rainbow flag at Harvey Milk Plaza March 5 & 19: Bethany United bookstore, from 5:30 to 8 pm; History group Shaping berlinbeyond.com. (Castro and Market) for a City Methodist Church offers free March 6-27: Saturday night JAZZ is 7:30 to 10 pm. San Francisco offers free PUBLIC Guides walking tour of the CASTRO. KNITTING lessons with Ray Capiral March 9: Upper Douglass DOG 653 Chenery. 586-3733; TALKS on Wednesdays from 7:30 to Sat., Sun. & Tues., 11 am. 557-4266; on first and third Tuesdays; free yarn, PARK reopens with a new agility birdbeckett.com. 9:30 pm. Eric Quezada Center, 518 sfcityguides.org. needles, and instruction. 7-8:30 pm. course designed by Girl Scout Leila Valencia. shapingsf.org. March 1-31: Charlie’s Corner offers 1270 Sanchez. 647-8393; Ali O’Rourke. 6 am-10 pm daily March 3: Timothy Pakron introduces children’s STORY TIMES every day. bethanysf.org. AL-ANON meets except Wednesdays. Mississippi VEGAN: Recipes and March 6-27: Mon.-Fri., 10 am, noon, 3 & 5 pm; Sat. Wednesdays 8 to 9:30 pm at St. Philip Stories from a Southern Boy’s Heart. March 5-26: The Eureka Valley March 9: LADYBUG GARDENERS & Sun., 10:30 am, 12:30 & 3:30 pm. Church. 725 Diamond. 834-9940; al- 3-4 pm. Omnivore Books, 3885A Library tells TODDLER TALES on work on the Upper Noe Rec Center 4102 24th; 641-1104. anonsf.org. Cesar Chavez. 282-4712; Tuesdays, 10:30 am. 1 Jose Sarria park grounds on second Saturdays. 9 March 1-31: Helen S. Cohen omnivorebooks.com. Court (16th & Market). 355-5616; March 7: The monthly self-guided am-noon. Day & Sanchez. exhibits her PAINTINGS at Lola’s Art sfpl.org. Castro ART WALK features exhibits [email protected]. March 3 & 17: SF City Guides leads Gallery. Reception March 1, 5-7 pm; by local artists in various a free WALKING TOUR of Noe March 5-26: Volunteer to make March 9: Cara Black, Mary Jo Tues.-Sun., noon-6 pm. 1250 Sanchez. neighborhood businesses; Be.Musical Valley on first and third Sundays at meals for the hungry at Civic Center McConahay, Emma Bland Smith, and 642-4875; lolasanfrancisco.com. performs in Jane Warner Plaza from 6 Ramon Sender will be among the 1:30-3:30 pm. Meet at the Noe Valley Plaza at “Currry Without Worry.” to 7 pm. 6-9 pm. For a map and list of March 1-31: Cary Friedman exhibits authors at the NOE VALLEY Library, 451 Jersey. 557-4266; 1:30-5 pm. Bethany UMC, 1270 PHOTOGRAPHS in “Looking Back, artists: castroartwalk.com. AUTHORS Festival at Word Week sfcityguides.org. Sanchez. 647-8393; bethanysf.org. Looking Forward.” Edward Jones, March 7, 14, 21 & 28: Miss 2019. 3-5 pm. Umpqua Bank, 3938 4190 24th. [email protected]. March 3-31: A free T’AI CHI class at March 5-26: John McClean Wolf Catherine tells TODDLER TALES 24th. friendsonoevalley.com. the Noe Valley Town Square is leads SACRED YOGA Tuesdays at with books, rhymes, music, and March 2: Learn to knit or crochet at March 9: Celebrate Women’s scheduled for Sundays, from 9 to 10 Holy Innocents. 7-8 pm. 455 Fair the Noe Valley Library’s KNITTING movement on Thursdays. 10:15 & 11 History Month with the first of a am. 3861 24th. Oaks. 824-5142; holyinsf.org. CIRCLE. 2-4 pm. 451 Jersey. 355- am. Noe Valley Library, 451 Jersey. three-part American Gothic literature noevalleytownsquare.com. 355-5707; sfpl.org. 5707; sfpl.org. March 5 & April 2: The de Young series with a reading of Mary Shelley’s March 3-31: Taylor Pangman and Museum and the Legion of Honor March 7-28: The Noe Valley Town FRANKENSTEIN. 4-5 pm. 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March 9: SF Neon offers a NEON March 30: Coffee and pastry are WALKING TOUR, “Market-Mission- provided for volunteers at JURI Castro.” 6-8 pm. sfneon.org. COMMONS, 9 to 11 am. The park is • CALENDAR • between Guerrero, San Jose Avenue, March 9:“Big Night/La Gran Noche” 25th, and 26th. RSVP to is a BENEFIT GALA for James Lick meetup.com/juri-commoners. Middle School, with food, cocktails, 2019 at the Noe Valley Library. Wine March 16: The SF Chamber Noe Valley Library, 451 Jersey. For the and dancing. 6-10 pm. 111 Minna reception 6:30 pm. 451 Jersey. Orchestra performs “AMERICAN title: 355-5707; sfpl.org. March 30: Noe Valley author Don friendsofnoevalley.com. IDOL, Classical Edition,” where 12 Gallery, 111 Minna. 695-5675. March 21: Charlie’s Corner McCunn discusses “Creating instrumentalists compete for the March 13: The Castro FARMERS celebrates WORLD POETRY DAY Custom-Fit BRAS,” with a book March 10: Political group ACTION grand prize. 2-4 pm. Noe Valley MARKET is open every Wednesday, 4 with stories and rhymes. 4102 24th. signing to follow. 1-3 pm. Sips N SF meets from 12:30 to 2 pm on the Ministry, 1021 Sanchez. 282-2314; to 7 pm, through Nov. 20. Noe at 641-1104; charliescorner.com. Sews, 1167 Sutter. second Sunday of the month at the noevalleyministry.org. Market. pcfma.com. deosf.com/Talk.html. Noe Valley Library, 451 Jersey. March 21:: Artist and author Nidhi March 16: Family DOG RESCUE [email protected]; March 13: Word Week’s SMALL Chanani discusses GRAPHIC NOVEL March 30: SF SHAKES performs The brings adoptable pooches to the Noe resistry.net. PUBLISHERS Night features Manic D, Pashmina at the Noe Valley Library, Comedy of Errors, from 2 to 4 pm, at Valley Pet Company, from noon to 4 Nomadic, Two Lines, and Why There for ages 7 and up. 4-5 pm. 451 Jersey. the Noe Valley Library. 451 Jersey. March 10: Lauri Kranz discusses her pm. 1451 Church. 282-7385; Are Words. 3-5 pm. Umpqua Bank, 355-5707; sfpl.org. 355-5707; sfpl.org. book A GARDEN Can Be Anywhere. 3-4 noevalleypetco.com. 3938 24th. friendsonoevalley.com. pm. Omnivore Books, 3885A Cesar March 22: Judd Winick discusses March 30: Janet Fletcher talks about March 16: Members of the San Chavez. 282-4712; March 13: The GREAT BOOKS HiLo—Then Everything Went Wrong at RECIPES from California’s harvest in Francisco Shakespeare Festival act omnivorebooks.com. discussion group meets from 6:30 to the BOOKWORMS Club (and pizza her Wine Country Table. 3-4 pm. out bits from the BARD at Noe 8:30 pm at the Noe Valley Library. party) at Folio Books. 6 pm. 3957 Omnivore Books, 3885A Cesar March 10: Erika Atkinson, Wayne Valley Word Week 2019. 1:30 pm. 451 Jersey. 355-5707; sfpl.org. 24th. RSVP required: 821-3477, Chavez. 282-4712; Goodman, Marylee McNeal, and Kim Noe Valley Library, 451 Jersey. tiny.cc/followorms. omnivorebooks.com. Shuck read classical Mediterranean March 14: Thomas Lennon discusses friendsofnoevalley.com. poetry in Greek, Hebrew, Roman, and Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles March 23: Ryan Alvarez and Adam March 31: LIVE Music in the March 16: Therapy dog Stanley and Egyptian (and English) at WORD at a St. Patrick’s BOOKWORMS Club Merrin introduce the VEGETARIAN SQUARE. 1-3 pm. BYOB. 3861 24th. trainer Rebecca bring “PUPPY DOG WEEK 2019. 4 pm. Olive This Olive (and pizza party) at Folio Books. 6 recipes from their book Husbands noevalleytownsquare.com. TALES” to the Noe Valley Library, That, 304 Vicksburg. pm. 3957 24th. RSVP required: 821- That Cook. 3-4 pm. Omnivore Books, especially for ages 4 to 7. 4-5 pm. 451 March 31: Noe Valley CHAMBER friendsofnoevalley.com. 3477, tiny.cc/followorms. 3885A Cesar Chavez. 282-4712; Jersey. Call to reserve a spot: 355- MUSIC presents a benefit concert by omnivorebooks.com. March 10:The Eos Ensemble March 14: David Lebovitz discusses 5707; sfpl.org. tenor Paul Groves and pianist performs at MUSIC ON THE HILL. The Perfect Scoop, featuring 200 March 24: LIEDER Alive! hosts a Stephen Prutsman, with special March 19: Noe Valley resident 6:30 pm. St. Aidan’s Church, 101 Gold recipes for ICE CREAM, gelato, concert featuring baritone Eugene guests. 4-6 pm. Noe Valley Ministry, Laurie Coyle’s DOCUMENTARY Mine. 820-1429; musiconthehill.org. sorbet, and more. 6:30-7:30 pm. Villanueva and pianist Peter 1021 Sanchez. 648-5236; nvcm.org. FILM, Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Omnivore Books, 3885A Cesar Grünberg. 5 pm. Noe Valley Ministry, March 11: The Noe Valley Library Moreno, screens at the 2019 Albany April 4-6: Bellwether DANCE Chavez. 282-4712; 1021 Sanchez. liederalive.org. offers an introduction to RESEARCH Film Festival. 7:30 pm. 1115 Solano, Project presents Let Slip the Witches, omnivorebooks.com. DATABASES. 2-3 pm. 451 Jersey. 355- Albany, CA; albanyfilmfest.org. March 25: ODD MONDAYS hosts a world premiere directed by Noe 5707; sfpl.org. March 14: Word Week presents the 18th Street Writers Group, with Valley’s Amy Foley. Thurs., Fri. & Sat., 8 March 19: Ingleside POLICE “CARA BLACK Takes Us to Paris” at Michael Aleynikov, Andrew Chen, pm. ODC Theater, 3153 17th. 863- March 11: ODD MONDAYS at STATION holds a community La Boulangerie. 7 pm. 3898 24th. Wilfredo Pascual, and Genanne 9834 or Word Week hosts authors meeting on third Tuesdays. 7 pm. friendsonoevalley.com. Walsh. 7 pm. Folio Books, 3957 24th. http://www.odc.dance/witches experienced in “Ridin’, Ropin’, and Community Room, 1 Sgt. John V. No-host supper, 5:30 pm, Haystack Writin’ Western Novels,” Bill Blach, March 14: The DIAMOND Young Lane. Confirm meeting Pizza, 3881 24th. oddmondays.com. David Watts, and Bill Yenne. 7 pm. 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Omnivore Books, 3885A Cesar March 12: Johanna Kindvall Mandelman presents his plan for the 3245 16th. 863-2108; Chavez. 282-4712; April 2019 issue, distributed introduces SMORGASBORD: The Art of neighborhood and a rep from creativityexplored.org. omnivorebooks.com. the first week of April. The Swedish Breads and Savory Treats. 6:30- Community Youth Center will discuss 7:30 pm. Omnivore Books, 3885A March 15: Folio Books hosts a disaster-preparedness at UPPER March 29 & 30: In Press Play: The deadline for items is March 15. Cesar Chavez. 282-4712; reading of The Widow Dreams by NOE Neighbors. 7 pm. Upper Noe HUMAN JUKEBOX, Ron Jones Please email omnivorebooks.com. Word for Word performing arts Rec Center, 295 Day. performs spoken word, song, and [email protected]. company, at Noe Valley Word Week. 7 music and dance. 8 pm. St. Aidan’s March 12: Mary Jo McConahay and March 20: The Noe Valley BOOK pm. 3957 24th. 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(usually at 10 a.m., noon, 3, and 5 p.m.). and now for the Some readings are in Spanish, French, Mandarin, or Italian. Some are with musical accompaniment. If you walk by at story RUMORS time, you will find strollers parked outside, sometimes around the corner. behind the news Mayor Breed read a book about San Francisco, of course, to the 20-plus toddlers (and at least that many parents or caregivers of the kids). The happy occasion ended as Marching Forth the mayor was whisked away to Lick Mid- By Mazook dle School. According to Jeff Cretan, Breed’s com- WALK ON THE NOE SIDE: Mayor Lon- munications director, the mayor wants to Adon Breed came to our village on Fri- visit every neighborhood in the city and day, Feb. 22, and spent the day. In the morn- was happy to visit us and get a sense of ing, she met with students at Alvarado what is happening in our schools and busi- Elementary School. Then she went for a nesses. walk in Downtown Noe Valley and had a ຜ ຜ ຜ snack at Bernie’s coffeehouse. Mayor Breed roamed the aisles at Just for Fun with REAL SKIN CARE: The big news in Down- co-owner David Eiland, visited Carol town Noe Valley is that the long-vacant Yenne at her Small Frys children’s store, space formerly occupied by Real Food Company (which shut its doors at 3939 and then went up to Charlie’s Corner to A Snack With Friends: Mayor London Breed (in red) and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman read to toddlers who had assembled for a 24th St. on Labor Day 2003 and has been a (right) stopped at Bernie’s Coffee for a quick bite on Friday, Feb. 22, in between visits to story time. Later, she went on to James Lick blight on the street ever since) has a new Alvarado and James Lick schools. Posing with the dignitaries were (from left) Bernie Melvin, Middle School on Noe Street. tenant. Elen Konjo Asgedom, Miguel Almeida, and Mike McFadden. Photo by Art Bodner Joining Breed on her walk were Super- As you know, the building (approxi- visor Rafael Mandelman; Debra Niemann, mately 5,490 square feet, consisting of a for a while, and Noe Valley seems to be the says she is refocusing on her other shop, lo- director of the Noe Valley Association; and ground floor and mezzanine level) was sold right spot for us at the right time.” He says cated at 600 Divisadero.… Rachel Swann, president of the Noe Valley in the spring of last year to a developer who it is hard to estimate when all the work will It looks as if the large commercial space Merchants and Professionals Association. got permits using plans that showed the be finished, but they hope to be open by at 3818 24th St. that was going to become After goodies at Bernie’s, the group paid space would be partitioned into three sepa- summer. an urgent medical care facility is now DOA, a visit to Just for Fun, where Eiland asked rate retail stores. Further foodwise, you might have no- since the New York group that was going to for the support of the mayor and supervisor The permits were granted to change the ticed that a For Lease sign is posted in the open it has been bought out by another for an application he is making to become space from a grocery store to commercial restaurant where Le Cupboard wilted last medical group, which is now trying to sub- a legacy business in San Francisco. To be use, the front was boarded up, and work be- year at 1298 Church at 25th Street. It had lease the space at a rent rumored to be registered as a legacy business, you need to gan last fall. By the time winter came, peeks billed itself as “a healthful food start-up around $14,000 a month, basement in- be a business that is at least 30 years old and through the plywood gates showed con- that serves fresh, plant-based, nutrient- cluded.… nominated by a member of the Board of Su- struction of something different than ex- dense meals,” but closed last year after Word is that Noe Valley’s Patxi’s Pizza pervisors or the mayor, and you need to pected. The plywood façade across the front about a year in operation. It was a start-up chain (also in the Inner Sunset and Hayes convince the Small Business Commission was removed in the middle of February, re- that just plain stopped. Valley, not to mention Palo Alto,Campbell, that you’ve made a significant impact on vealing just one store space behind the As you might remember, their plan was Lafayette, Greenbrae, San Jose, Seattle, the history or culture of the neighborhood. façade, and the For Lease sign was gone. to produce a plant-based menu for whole- and Denver) will be closing its store in the Legacy business owners and property own- The space had reportedly been offered for sale distribution throughout the city in Marina by April.… lease for $30,000 per month, which would vending machines serviced on a daily basis. ers receive various benefits from the city, as ຜ ຜ ຜ an incentive to preserve the business. Last have meant $10,000 per store per month if They were preparing their products in Noe year, Church Street’s Chloe’s Café achieved there were three stores. Valley and had several clients (health clubs) COULD BE VERSE: Feb. 15 was poetry legacy status. So who is moving in? The envelope, to service. Then they opened up the space night at Lola’s art gallery, slightly off the Just for Fun has been a neighborhood please! “SkinSpirit Skincare Clinic and and started serving locals in a small dining beaten path at 1250 Sanchez on the corner fixture for 33 years and has sat at its present Spa,” says store spokesperson Allyson area in front of their large kitchen. of Clipper Street. More than 40 people location at 3982 24th St. for the past 30 Campa. The clinic is hoping for a grand According to the real estate agent for the showed up for readings by poets Kit years. Eiland says it’s magical that the kids opening, she says optimistically, “sometime owner, Haley Klein, “There has been a lot Kennedy, Greg Pond, Dan Richman, and he saw coming into the store with their par- in the spring.” of interest in this space,” emphasizing that Alice Rogoff. Gallery owner Lola Herrera ents years ago, shopping for toys, are now SkinSpirit, launched in 2003 by plastic it is “a turn-key lease, since the large and says she will have more readings in the fu- all grown up and bringing their own kids to surgeon Dr. Michael Dean Vistnes, de- fully equipped kitchen is all set up and in ture, and more exhibits of work by local the store. scribes itself as a luxury spa experience that immaculate condition.” The monthly rent is artists. Paintings by Helen S. Cohen are set After having some fun at Just for Fun, “provides cutting-edge products and serv- $7,000 and Klein said there would be “no to go on display March 1. the mayor and her entourage crossed the ices in its clinics, including Botox, dermal key money,” which means no up-front pay- And finally, just as the Voice was going street to where Small Frys toddler shop is fillers, facials, laser treatments, and other ment of money to enter into the lease. That to press, I (well, Sally the editor) received temporarily located (3985 24th) while its non-invasive aesthetic services.” Addi- is to say, the premises are ready for imme- a newsletter from Celia Sack, owner of store and building at 4066 24th is being tional services and treatments listed on its diate use. Omnivore Books on Cesar Chavez Street. retrofitted and renovated. Small Frys has website include CoolSculpting fat reduc- There is also news that the restaurant The newsletter is where Sack gives the been located at 4066 since 1984, and Carol tion, microneedling, dermaplaning, back which was once Fattoush at 1361 Church, schedule of authors’ visits to the store. But and husband Bill Yenne bought the property deep-cleansing, and “brightening treat- restored by the building owners and turn- this time she had a tale to tell first, about an in 1991. ments,” as well as chemical peels and, of key available for several months, has been experience she won’t soon forget: Carol Yenne used the mayor’s visit as an course, facial massage. rented to the owners of Bernal Heights “A friend of a friend asked me if I would opportunity to express her dismay and frus- The Noe Valley spa will be SkinSpirit’s Pizzeria. They’re moving from their current like to drive the staff car in President tration over years of dealing with City Hall ninth location, including another in San location at 59 30th St., on the Noe Obama’s motorcade for a couple of days bureaucracy. She said she first filed papers Francisco, at 3325 Sacramento. The others Valley/Bernal border. while he was in town [for a special event in and paid fees in December of 2014 with the are in Walnut Creek, Los Gatos, Mill Valley, Last year, Twin Peaks Pizza, which has Oakland Feb. 18-19]. Not only was I out of city’s historical review department to reno- and Walnut Creek, and Palo Alto, the Cali- been a popular pizza place in Noe Valley for my mind with excitement, but I was finally vate the 110-year-old building. fornia headquarters. SkinSpirit also has many years, took over ownership of the being rewarded for being an aggressive “We did not ask for any variances and we spas in Bellevue and Redmond, Wash. Bernal Heights branch of Baiano Pizzeria, driver!” Sack wrote. “So with fancy new had no DRs [Planning Commission re- For the grand opening, Campa says Skin- and changed its name. The menu will be the shoes and lipstick (lipstick!), I drove out to views],” Yenne told the mayor. “We even Spirit will offer complimentary events to same, so all you Bernal folks can relax. My the airport, where my minivan was swept paid expedited permit fees, but still it took introduce itself to the neighborhood. She advice: ask for coupons! by the Secret Service and I was sniffed by three years and 11 months! Our permit was says about 90 percent of the company’s A further turn-key opportunity has come an adorable bomb-detecting dog named granted November 2018.” clientele are women, but she sees a growing up at 1461 Church, where Royal Cleaners Tosca. Then it was on to the tarmac to await At the end of the visit, Yenne handed a number of men availing themselves of serv- closed its doors last month after a 20-year his private plane. Wheels down, he swag- letter to the mayor and supervisor detailing ices, especially hair restoration. run. The storefront had been another clean- gered down the steps with a cup of coffee, her experiences in the process. It read, in ຜ ຜ ຜ ers for 20 years, prior to Royal. in sunglasses, looking like the coolest cat to part: “Along the way, we received many According to the building’s owner, ever deplane. His lovely staff hopped in my apologies for the unnecessary delays, from THE TURN-KEY TROT: The space vacated Patrick Morris, the operator of the cleaners car, and we were off, speeding toward the Planning, SFFD, DPW, etc., but we will last year by Pete’s Cleaners (next to the has retired and left her equipment, along highway. I was nervous about not letting never get back the time lost. Our grandson Town Square and currently being reno- with what was there when she took over 20 any cars between me and the car in front of was in the fourth grade when we started this vated) will become, after all the dust settles, years ago. me, but luckily, there is the California High- project, and he talked happily about what a fish market. The space is now for rent, with around way Patrol for that: they had completely he hoped to have in his ‘new’ room. He is The plan, according to seafood whole- 1,500 square feet and a basement, at the blocked off rush hour traffic on 101, so we now in the eighth grade, and his excitement salers Ismael Macias and Adrian Hoffman asking price of $5,590 per month. Morris cruised along at 70 miles an hour, with no has waned to cynicism, nearly halfway of Four Star Seafood at 1315 Egbert Ave. says that if no one steps forward to take other cars in sight. That was basically worth through high school before he sees the room over in Bayview, is to open a seafood mar- over the cleaners, he will sell all of the the job alone! I met the President briefly about which he once dreamed.” ket that would also prepare and serve equipment and open up the space for an- at his hotel, where I surely bumbled my Yenne says she hopes to the Small Frys seafood dishes to eat there or take out. other kind of commercial use. practiced sentence, ‘Thanks for eight joyful project will be finished by summer of 2020, Hoffman lives in Noe Valley and saw the years.’ At least I didn’t drool, as one of the ຜ ຜ ຜ and she can move her store back home. For Lease sign on the window of Pete’s other drivers was certain he had done.” The mayor’s Downtown Noe Valley ex- while he was having sushi at Saru, which is SHORT SHRIFTS: Rare Device is closing What a great story! There’s more to it, of cursion ended at Charlie’s Corner (on the across the street. According to Macias, they its Noe Valley store at 4071 24th St., after course, and even a photo of Sack and northwest corner of Castro and 24th), an started their seafood business in 2015 and a five-year run. The farewell party was to Obama, but we ran out of room this issue immensely popular children’s bookstore now provide many restaurants with their take place March 1, and many were ex- for that. You can see it, though. Go to the with four story times a day during the week products. “We wanted to open a retail space pected to attend. Owner Giselle Gyalzen store and talk to our new celebrity. Ⅲ 26 The Noe Valley Voice • March 2019

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An Evening with Mary Jo MORE BOOKS TO READ Puppy Dog Tales: Children can read to McConahay: The author of The Tango canine Stanley and reading specialist War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds, Rebecca in this SPCA program offering and Riches of Latin America During World A Bevy of Books help in reading, vocabulary, and grammar. War II will discuss how, in 1942, the U.S. For ages 4 to 7, but older kids welcome. kidnapped more than 6,000 ethnic memoir by Monty Python star Eric Idle, a novel about a comic-book author who Call 355-5707 to reserve your spot. Japanese, German, and Italian residents Asolves mysteries, and a children’s book about a helper who made pies during the Saturday, March 16; 4 to 5 p.m. of Latin America to exchange them for Montgomery Bus Boycott of the 1950s are among the recent arrivals at the Noe Val- Children’s Literary Talk: Nidhi U.S. civilians caught behind enemy lines ley/Sally Brunn Library noted by Branch Manager Denise Sanderson and Children’s Chanani, author of the graphic novel in Europe and the Pacific. Wednesday, Librarian Catherine Starr. Pashmina, discusses the challenges of March 27; 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. To check on their availability or on the library’s collection of CDs, DVDs, and pursuing an art career within a SF Shakes Presents The Comedy of eBooks, call 415-355-5707 or drop by the Noe Valley Branch at 451 Jersey St. community focused on STEM; live Errors: Shakespeare on Tour performs Meanwhile, there’s still time to see the Noe Valley segments of the 1-inch-to-100 drawing follows. For children ages 7 and the 1594 tale of chaos and confusion scale Model of San Francisco, the colorful wooden replica made by WPA artists in up. Thursday, March 21; 4 to 5 p.m. caused by two sets of twins, for 1938 and exhibited today by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in Toddler Tales: Join Miss Catherine for audiences of all ages. Enjoy the show on books, singing, chants, and small the library’s outdoor patio, weather partnership with the San Francisco Library. It will be on display through March 25. movement every Thursday, 10:15 to permitting. Saturday, March 30; 2 to 4 For more information, visit the San Francisco Library online at sfpl.org. 10:45 a.m., and 11 to 11:30 a.m. Ideal for p.m. children ages 16 through 36 months. American Gothic Literature Adult Fiction O Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger AAC Conversation Club: Users of Series: The first of a planned three-part O Evening in Paradise is the second are the editors of the short-story Alternative and Augmentative series will celebrate Women’s History collection For the Sake of the Game: Communication devices, including Month by discussing Mary Shelley’s posthumous collection of short stories by Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Dynavox, QuickTalker, Tobii Sono Flex, Frankenstein. Saturday, March 9; 4 to 5 p.m. Lucia Berlin, whose Manual for Cleaning Women was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize Canon. and Talk Bar, meet to explore new Introduction to Research topics. For more information, contact in 2015. O Databases: Learn how to use the Always Look on the Bright Side of [email protected]. Mondays, March 4, JSTOR and Academic Search Complete O A darkly comic send-up of high Life: A Sortabiography is a memoir by a 11, 18, and 25; 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. (EBSCO); open to all, but recommended society, French Exit by Patrick deWitt founding member of Monty Python’s for upper-level high school, community follows the (mis)fortunes of a widow and Flying Circus, Eric Idle. All events take place at the Noe Valley/Sally college, and university students. Monday, Brunn Library, 451 Jersey St. between Cas- son who sail from New York to Paris with O March 11; 2 to 3 p.m. Neil Gaiman’s four essays in Art tro and Diamond streets. For information, their cat. Matters: Your Imagination Can Change call 415-355-5707 or visit www.sfpl.org. Noe Valley Knitting Circle: Meet to the World examine the importance of knit or crochet on the first Saturday of O A comic-book writer becomes involved creativity. the month; the library has supplies to in a murder mystery in The Frame-Up, practice on, but bring your own yarn and the first of two Golden Arrow Mysteries O Garbage Island by Fred Koehler DVDs needles if you’re working on a project. by Meghan Scott Molin. describes “the nearly always perilous Saturday, March 2; 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 O Claire Foy stars as Lisbeth Salander in adventures of Archibald Shrew.” Ages 8 p.m. O After a plane crash in the Colorado Rockies, a woman searches for clues the 2018 thriller The Girl in the Spider’s to 12. ATA’s Reel Cinema: Artists’ Television Web, continuing the series based on the about her daughter, in Freefall by Jessica O Two girls in middle school hide their Access (ATA) screens the 1981 film The Steig Larsson books. Willmar Eight, about eight bank Barry. affection for one another, in One True employees who picket their employer in O The 2017 historical biopic Mary Way by Shannon Hitchcock. Ages 9 to small-town Minnesota. Tuesday, March 5; Adult Nonfiction Shelley tells the story of the woman who 12. 6:30 to 8 p.m. wrote Frankenstein. O You Can’t Go Wrong Doing Right: O Death is on the loose in a small town, Adult Craft Night: Make cork How a Child of Poverty Rose to the O The Sisters Brothers (2018) stars John and three kids must stop it, in The House coasters of your favorite neighborhood White House and Helped Change the C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee. Ages using maps of San Francisco; all materials World is a memoir by Robert J. Brown, assassins who chase a gold prospector in provided. Sign up by calling 355-5707. 10 to 14. an adviser to every president since John Wednesday, March 6; 7 to 8:30 p.m. 1850s Oregon. F. Kennedy. Children’s Nonfiction Friday Matinee: The library screens O The 2018 documentary Love, Gilda the 1966 film Fahrenheit 451, based on O In Let Me Tell You My Story: Refugee features performances, home movies, O Fearless Mary: The True Adventures the book by Ray Bradbury. Friday, March Stories of Hope, Courage, and interviews, and audiotapes made by the of Mary Fields, American Stagecoach 8; 2 to 4 p.m. Humanity, writers, photographers, late Saturday Night Live star Gilda Driver, written by Tami Charles and eReader and Online Resource filmmakers, and artists document the Radner. illustrated by Claire Almon, is about a “Drop-In”: Bring your mobile device lives of refugees from the Middle East trail-blazing woman in the 1890s. Ages 4 or laptop, library card and PIN (and and Africa. Children’s Fiction to 7. passwords) to a workshop about the O O SFPL’s databases, Kanopy for streaming Antony Spawforth’s The Story of After a girl has lost her dog, she finds O The story of an African-American films, Flipster and RBDigital Magazines, Greece and Rome spans six millennia, another one in the picture book Found, woman who worked at NASA is told in and OverDrive and Axis360 for eBooks. from the late Bronze Age to the seventh written by Jeff Newman, illustrated by Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Tuesday, March 12; 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. century. Larry Day. Ages 3 to 7. Johnson Saved Apollo 13, written by Helaine Becker, illustrated by Dow The Great Books Discussion Group O San Francisco: 60 Local Creatives O In Don’t Touch My Hair! by Sharee Phumiruk. Ages 5 to 9. is sponsored by the non-profit Great Bring You the Best of the City is a guide Miller, a girl tries to keep everybody’s Books Council of San Francisco. For to the art, music, food, shops, and nature hands off her fluffy curls. Ages 3 to 8. O Read about an Alabama woman who more information, contact Elena at spots in neighborhoods throughout the baked pies to feed the protesters in Pies [email protected]. Wednesday, March O A group of young animals enjoy their city. From Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore 13; 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. differences and similarities in I Just Like Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott, You by Suzanne Bloom. Ages 4 to 8. The Noe Valley Book Discussion eBooks by Dee Romito, illustrated by Laura Group explores My Antonia by Willa O The Princess in Black and the Science Cather. Copies of the book are held at O In Listen to the Marriage by John Jay Freeman. Ages 6 to 9. Fair Scare is the latest in a series written the circulation desk for checkout. Osborn, a San Francisco couple tries to O Kid Scientists: True Tales of by Shannon and Dean Hale, with illus - Wednesday, March 20; 7 to 8:30 p.m. repair their relationship. Childhood from Science Superstars is trations by LeUyen Pham. Ages 5 to 8. part of the “Kid Legends” series written All events take place at the Noe Valley/Sally by David Stabler, with illustrations by Brunn Library, 451 Jersey St. between Cas- Anoosha Syed. Ages 9 to 12. tro and Diamond streets. For information, call 415-355-5707 or visit sfpl.org. Annotations by Voice bookworm Karol Barske

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Hum a Few Bars Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Branch Library By Michael Blake 451 Jersey St., 355-5707 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1-5 12-6 10-9 1-9 10-6 1-6 10-6 Mission Branch Library 300 Bartlett St., 355-2800 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1-5 1-6 10-9 10-9 10-9 1-6 10-6

Glen Park Branch Library 2825 Diamond St., 355-2858 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1 -5 10-6 10-6 12-8 12-7 1-6 1-6

Eureka Valley–Harvey Milk Branch Library 1 José Sarria Ct. (3555 16th St.), 355-5616 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat A WPA model of San Francisco in 1938 is on display through March 25 at the Noe Valley 12-6 10-9 12-9 10-6 1-6 12-6 Library and other library branches throughout the city. Photo by Pamela Gerard The Noe Valley Voice • March 2019 27

UPPER N OE REC CENTER

Dodgeball throwers carefully select and pick off the few remaining opponents in the Upper Noe gym. Eighty players from the Varsity Gay League squared off each Monday night in February. Photo courtesy Chris Faust Register in March for Classes and Camp ut on your running shoes. The race starts now to sign up for Quick-Start PTennis, Shred-n-Butter, Theater for Mini-Players, and dozens of other classes offered by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department at Upper Noe Recreation Center. Registration for Spring Activities begins on March 2 at 10 a.m. Visit sfrecpark.org to add courses, which run from March 16 to June 1. Summer Camp registration opens March 16 at 10 a.m. Early birds, please take note, the registration process for camp now requires you to be physically present in line. “Saving spots” with chairs or other items is not permitted. Call 415-970-8061 for the complete scoop, or drop by the rec center office at 295 Day St. Find out more about classes and events, and about the stewardship committee for the park, at www.noevalleyreccenter.com.

UPPER NOE REC CENTER SPRING SESSION MARCH 16 – JUNE 1, 2019 Check www.noevalleyreccenter.com for updates. MONDAY (Center closed; outside activities only.)

TUESDAY (Center open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.) Open Gym 6:30-8:30 p.m. * Auditorium Free Play 2:30-5 p.m.* Petite Bakers (ages 3-6) Drop in or register 10-11 a.m.* Rec-N-Tot Soccer 10-11 a.m. Simply Fun for All 10-11:30 a.m. Pickleball (all ages) 12:30-3:30 p.m. FREE Feldenkrais 1-2 p.m. Soccer 4-5 p.m. SALE PENDING QuickStart Tennis (ages 8-13) 5-6 p.m. Soccer 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tennis Intermediate/Advanced (18+) 6-7 p.m. 1930 Mission #205 Yoga-Vinyasa (18+ all levels) 6:30-7:30 p.m. Adult Boot Camp 7:45-8:45 p.m. 2 Bed / 1 Bath Condo WEDNESDAY (Center open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.) $699,000 Open Gym 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.* Auditorium Free Play 3-4 p.m.* Pilates intermediate (18+) 9:30-10:30 a.m. Pilates all levels (18+) 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Qi Gong for Seniors (55+) 1-3 p.m. Little Kickers (ages 4-7) 4:30-5:30 p.m. Karate Kids (ages 6-12) 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tennis beg/intermediate (18+) 6-7 p.m. Drop-in Volleyball (18+) 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE THURSDAY (Center open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.) Open Gym 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 6-8:30 p.m.* Auditorium Free Play 9:30-11 a.m.* Petite Bakers (ages 3-6) Drop in or register 10-11 a.m. JUST SOLD Movin’ & Groovin’ (ages 2-4) 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Pickleball (all ages) 12:30-3:30 p.m. FREE Argentine Tango, advanced (55+) 1-4 p.m. Drop-ins welcome. FREE 2450 Vallejo Volleyball -- Girls Beg. (ages 7-9) 4-5:30 p.m. Theater -- Mini Players (ages 5-6) 4:30-5:30 p.m. 3 Bed / 2 Bath Condo Zumba (family) 5:30-6:30 p.m. FREE $3,250,000 Yoga-Gentle Hatha (18+) 6:45-7:45 p.m. FRIDAY (Center open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.) Open Gym 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.* Auditorium Free Play 1-4 p.m.* Pilates intermediate (18+) 9:30-10:30 a.m. Pilates all levels (18+) 11:30 -12:30 a.m. Shred-N-Butter (ages 6-13) 3:45-4:45 p.m. Volleyball League -- Girls Intermed. (ages 10-14) 4-5:30 p.m. Stefano DeZerega REALTOR® LIC# 01730431 Karaoke for Adults (18+) 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE 415.987.7833 Drop-in Volleyball (18+) 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE [email protected] SATURDAY (Center open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) Open Gym None Will Sprietsma Auditorium Free Play 12-4:30 p.m.* REALTOR® LIC# 00842569 Yoga-Vinyasa (18+ all levels) 9:15-10:15 a.m. 415.308.8811 Rec-N-Tot Soccer (ages 2-3) 10-11 a.m. [email protected] Zumba (family) Drop-in only 10:30-11:30 a.m. FREE SUNDAY (Center closed; outside activities only.) *Hours are subject to change. 28 The Noe Valley Voice • March 2019

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