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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS JAZZ BODY & SOUL No Polo ponies Have you been Unity’s minister in Pacifi c Heights to Yoshi’s yet? calls it a day, y’all PAGE 3 PAGE 6 PAGE 8 New FILLMORE SAN FRANCISCO ■ MARCH 2008 Heidi Sabelhaus: Plenty to smile about. THE HEIDI CHRONICLES With Th ree Stores on Fillmore, She’s the Queen of Retail B B K R In an excerpt from his new not shy about renaming book, former its streets, Fillmore Street may soon mayor Willie Istand in jeopardy of being redubbed Brown details HeidiSays Way. how his rise In just over six years, Heidi Sabelhaus, to political who exudes a mix of serenity and style, has power began built a mini-empire covering the fashion here in the neighborhood. gamut — from sophisticated day-to- evening collections to casual wear to shoes. Her off erings fi ll three shops, all located on Fillmore. Th e newest store, HeidiSays Casual, sprung up last month at 2416 Fillmore in the space vacated just a few weeks earlier by the Yountville children’s clothing store. Th e new store took one surprised Coming of Age in the Fillmore shopper by delight last weekend: “I can’t believe you guys have a third shop — like I don’t fi nd enough at the other two,” she B W B lamented. Another woman bustled in with ’ . I didn’t just come from poor circumstances, I came from a signature pink-striped HeidiSays shopping bag dangling from her arm something worse: segregated rural Texas in the Depression. But I stuff ed with two pairs of shoes. “I’m doing rose in the world to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White my Heidi loop,” she explained. House and to host the Queen of England in Sacramento and I Sabelhaus says her original idea was to establish a retail website selling women’s intend to get back to the Lincoln Bedroom (I’d like to bring a date) clothing, HeidiSays.com, which she by helping the Democrats regain the White House. started in Seattle in 2000 at the height of the dot-com boom. “Th e site was going well,” she says, When I fi rst arrived in San Francisco in 1951 as a teenager “but I always wanted to have a brick and TO PAGE 12 4 mortar store.” I TO PAGE 10 4 LETTERS NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS Don’t Blame the Fillmore Ralph : February, I made a point of I would like to respond to Rev. showing the article to prospects and Lauren MON/MAR/17 THUR/FEB/26 – SUN/MAR/02 Arnold Townsend, who stated garnered 16 new volunteer sign-ups, ARTURO SANDOVAL’S RICHARD JULIAN the reason the blue glass on the so our March 2 workday should MAMBO MANIA Fillmore-Geary bridge is vandalized yield the best turnout yet. Volunteer Rejected BIG BAND is because of the “rowdy patrons building strategies include plans TUE/MAR/18 – WED/MAR/19 KENNY GARRETT who attend concerts at the Fillmore for family-oriented events in the Planning Commission QUARTET MON/MAR/3 Auditorium” [“Blue Bridge to park this summer, so there will be SLAMMIN THE ALL BODY BAND Remain and Be Repaired Again,” some great photo opportunities! invokes chain store law & AUTORICKSHAW February 2008]. Th anks again for your generous THUR/MAR/20 – SUN/MAR/23 I have worked at the Fillmore support of this worthwhile eff ort GRAMMY AWARD WINNER B D L TUE/MAR/4 NORMAN BROWN for nearly 12 years, most of it at the and for keeping the community HOLLY COLE front door during the shows with a so well informed of vital issues L’ plans to open a clear view of the bridge. I have never that impact and enrich our Drew School, a store at 2040 Fillmore Street — the MON/MAR/24 seen any patron, rowdy or not, do neighborhood. private school WED/MAR/5 – SAT/MAR/8 BOBBIE WEBB housed in a former home of Smith & Hawken YOSHI’S SF DEBUT! any damage to the glass. And I am A J D R modern building — have been rejected by the San Francisco DR. JOHN there well past when our patrons ■ at California and Planning Commission by a 6-1 vote. TUE/MAR/25 leave the area. Unless he actually SUGAR PIE DESANTO Broderick Streets, Th e store needed a conditional use per- saw someone leaving our venue and : plans to build mit under the city’s new “formula retail” MON/MAR/10 – WED/MAR/12 again. WED/MAR/26 vandalizing it, I think he’s using our I had the [February 2008] paper CELEBRATING NEW BLUENOTE CD ordinance, expanded in 2006 to limit the GONZALO CD RELEASE venue as an excuse. from my stoop this morning and further proliferation of chain stores. Plan- RUBALCABA MAD AND EDDIE DURAN QUARTET I remember when the glass read it throughout the course of the ning staff had recommended approval, but was installed. I was very excited to day. Gee, it was really good. THUR/MAR/27 – SUN/MAR/30 members of the commission were swayed DICKIE SPRITZER THUR/MAR/13 CRESCENT CITY see it go in since my mom works Naturally I took to Nicola Lane’s at a hearing February 14 by testimony from TITO Y SU SON DE CUBA BOOGALOO for the Redevelopment Agency painting and byline [“Th e Can-Do featuring Dr. Lonnie Smith, Christian Scott, local residents and merchants opposing Donald Harrison, Peter Bernstein and told me about restoration of Still Does”] but the rest of it too more chain stores on the street. & Jeff “Tain” Watts FRI/MAR/14 – SUN/MAR/16 the jazz infl uence in the Fillmore showed me how a monthly can be a A parade of witnesses testifi ed that the PAUL BROWN’S District. Unfortunately, there is vital news organ. Victorian Gives Way for School’s Expansion GUITAR NIGHT MON/MAR/31 arrival of a major national retailer with deep always someone who has no respect Everything I read informed me featuring Kenny Rankin & Marc Antoine TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI TRIO corporate pockets would lead to higher for the neighborhood, but that of one activity or another within the Drew School leaders plan a new green building and increased enrollment rents, squeezing out the street’s uniqueness doesn’t mean it’s our customers only, community, subtle or not, of which 1330 FILLMORE / 415.655.5600 and its neighborhood-serving businesses as he implies, if them at all. I was unaware or only had scant B D L School leaders decided to complete the such as dry cleaners, shoe repair shops, cor- A lot of businesses and information about. report and use it to support their plans for ner groceries and Fillmore’s array of thrift storefronts are vandalized or B its centennial, a new building. Part of the process requires shops and distinctive boutiques. tagged in this neighborhood, Drew School at California and that alternatives be considered. With no ■ Jackson Street resident Alice Piccus told including the Fillmore Auditorium. Broderick Streets is moving for- notable historical problem and no object- MONDAY–SATURDAY SHOWS 8PM & 10PM / SUNDAY SHOWS 7PM & 9PM A the commission she has often gotten sup- GET TICKETS AT YOSHIS.COM We always try to do our best to keep : ward with plans to demolish a three-unit ing tenants in the building, school leaders OPEN FOR DINNER NIGHTLY AT BOTH LOCATIONS port from local merchants for fundraisers, OPEN FOR LUNCH IN OAKLAND MON–FRI our corner clean and try to look We are not happy with your Victorian and replace it with a new multi- expect the conclusion will be that there are but none from chain stores, whose staff ers out for our fellow neighbors, since New Fillmore that we just picked use space to be used for school assemblies no other ways to achieve their objectives. had to check with bosses elsewhere. we all have to work or live here. I up and read today. On page 7 of and a performing arts program. Combined with a new 20-year contract “Corporate headquarters doesn’t care think that goes for our patrons as the February 2008 issue you have a School leaders expect the fi nal obstacles for use of the gymnasium at nearby Booker what happens in San Francisco,” Piccus well, who come from all over the picture of a nude lady — I guess it’s to their ambitious expansion plan to be T. Washington Community Center, the said. “Th ey care about the bottom line.” Bay Area to have a good time and supposed to be an artistic picture. resolved when an environmental impact new facility positions Drew for continued Architect John Hulka, the director of spend their money in the Fillmore It says here, “Th e Simple Secrets report is ready for circulation and public growth. store development for Polo Ralph Lauren, District. of Lasting Love,” and it has four comment in mid-April. Drew is also asking the city to raise its came from New York to tell the commis- L M-S diff erent points and the fi fth one Th e new building, which will probably maximum enrollment from 250 to 280 stu- sion his company would build a tasteful says, Don’t Skip the Sex. also include three classrooms and faculty dents. ■ store along the lines of its stores in East Th is is pure hippie trash and we work space, will be on a lot where a three- Th e school’s board has also voted to fund Hampton, Greenwich Village and Nan- : don’t need it in the neighborhood.