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

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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 vandalizing it, I think he’s using our I had the [February 2008] paper again. CELEBRATING NEW BLUENOTE CD WED/MAR/26 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. unit Victorian building now stands at extra measures that will make the expan- tucket. Please know how very much we We don’t need sex before marriage, 1831-35 Broderick Street. An agreement sion a green building qualifi ed for LEED Hulka said each of Polo’s stores has a appreciate the excellent coverage of we don’t need prostitution, we don’t with the tenants has been reached that will (leadership in energy effi cient design) gold Tenants in the three fl ats at 1831-35 diff erent look appropriate to its locale. But our volunteer activities at Alta Plaza need gay sex. We don’t need trash, require them to move out in the spring. Broderick will move out in the spring. designation as a way of helping the envi- he seemed to hurt his cause when he testi- Park in your February issue. An period. Head of School Samuel Cuddeback III ronment, as a teaching aid — and as a way fi ed that he prefers to shop in small stores added bonus appeared in the letters, Love does not have anything declined to characterize the school’s pay- to be considered for historical registration. of getting priority treatment through the on Bleeker Street in New York, provoking with Jennifer Campbell’s mention to do with sex before marriage, or ments to help the tenants relocate as a At the city’s request the school did further city’s labyrinthine approval process. laughter from the audience. that she participated in an Alta exploitation of other people, or “buy-out.” He would say only that the ten- survey work, and in April 2007 school and During the last six months, Cuddeback Asked by commissioner Michael An- Plaza Park “clean and green” day, pornography, or anything like that. ants and the school have agreed not to dis- city offi cials came to the same conclusion. said, school representatives have knocked tonini why Ralph Lauren wants to be on thanks to your publication. Love is simple and old-fashioned. close the specifi cs of the terms under which Instead of going for a negative declara- on 700 to 900 doors to brief neighbors and Fillmore Street, Hulka responded, “We While we faced adverse weather No more sexual trash, okay? they are moving out. tion of the building’s worth or an exemp- seek their support, and actually talked with like the quality of shop you get there.” He and Super Bowl competition in N N G An analysis in July 2006 determined tion from the requirement that an environ- about 200 of them. added, “Our customers want smaller stores that the Victorian met none of the criteria mental impact report be prepared, Drew TO PAGE 14 4 in smaller locations.” Hulka said Ralph Lauren signed a 10- year sublease with Smith & Hawken. “If we don’t come in, you’ll get another less at- tractive store,” he cautioned. After the hearing Hulka said his com- THE NEW FILLMORE pany might appeal the decision. In a state- Waterworks 2130 Fillmore Street #202 ■ San Francisco, CA 94115 ment released later, he said “no concrete 415 / 441-6070 on Washington decisions have been made.” editors@newfi llmore.com Antonini, who cast the only vote in A new water main is snaking favor of Ralph Lauren, noted it would re- Editors Barbara Kate Repa & Thomas R. Reynolds its way across Pacifi c Heights, place another chain store and agreed with Art Director Ginny Lindsay bringing occasional unexpected News Editor Don Langley water spouts to the neighborhood, Polo’s architect that the alternatives might Proofreader Donna Gillespie including this gusher on the 2400 be less desirable. block of Washington Street. The But other commissioners agreed with Advertising inquiries ads@newfi llmore.com or 441-6070 project to replace pipes from 60 Published on the fi rst weekend of each month. Deadline: 20th of prior month those who testifi ed that more chain stores to 100 years old will continue for Member of the San Francisco Neighborhood Newspaper Association would not be good for the neighborhood. the next two years, with one block being completed each month. “We call it neighborhood commercial While work is going on in one block for a reason,” said commissioner Hisashi YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSPAPER equipment will be kept in the next Sugaya. “I won’t be held hostage by the fact Every month, 20,000 copies are delivered to homes and businesses in the block, eliminating parking in two they signed a lease without a permit.” Fillmore, Pacifi c Heights and Japantown. We thank you for your support and blocks at a time. No disruption to Fillmore Street already has about 30 encouragement and we welcome your suggestions and story ideas. neighborhood water pressure or formula retail stores among about 100 es- service is anticipated during the Archive of recent issues: www.NewFillmore.com $14.5 million project. tablishments, but they were operating be- Your comments and letters about the neighborhood are welcome there, too. fore the voters established stricter limits on

DON LANGLEY chain stores by approving Prop G in No- vember 2006. 2 NEW FILLMORE March 2008 March 2008 NEW FILLMORE 3 CRIME WATCH BENEFITS

Stolen Property a duff el bag in the car; they believed this Geary Boulevard and Fillmore Street was what the two suspects had intended to December 31, 11:10 p.m. These incidents occurred in the Northern District take. Th e witness identifi ed the men and Th is Showcase Mozart Offi cers assigned to the Bill Graham from January 13 through February 13. they were placed under arrest. Th eater for a New Year’s Eve party were Is Petite – and on Fillmore asked to assist on a medical call. Th e sub- Live Artillery Shell Located Burglaries (commercial and residential) 45 ject had no identifi cation with him, so Greenwich and Broderick Streets he gave the offi cers permission to get his Strong arm robberies 15 February 22, 3:15 p.m. Oh So Parisian Th is Month identifi cation from his vehicle, which was Armed robberies 2 Offi cers responded to a call from  brings the Decora-    to Fillmore double-parked. a citizen who had found an explosive Homicides 0 tor Showcase back to the neigh- Street this month. A computer check of the vehicle re- artillery shell in her garage. Th e woman borhood — this year at 2820 In “Th e Life of Mozart vealed that there was an outstanding war- Assaults with deadly weapons 10 had been cleaning her garage when S M Scott Street — and it’s slated to debut Th rough His Music and His Letters,” to rant for the subject. During a search of the Arrests 169 she located the live shell. Th e offi cers on April 26. be presented March 16, violist Elizabeth vehicle, offi cers found credit cards that did immediately isolated the area and Auto break-ins 92 Design hounds don’t have to wait. Prior-Runnicles has woven together high- not belong to the suspect and a mailbox contacted the explosive ordnance disposal Th ere’s a small-scale send-up this lights of Mozart’s music with excerpts from Prostitution-related arrests 41 key. team, which responded and seized the month at the Schools of the Sacred his lively correspondence. Because the credit cards could be used artillery. Heart on Broadway: the Designer Th e program will feature music by the to open accounts in the suspect’s name and SOURCE: Northern Station, San Francisco Police Department Showcase in Miniature. It’s a doll- Broderick Ensemble, which includes mu- mailbox keys are commonly used to break Recovered Vehicle, house with each of its rooms, staircases sicians from the San Francisco Opera and into private mailboxes to steal mail, offi cers Possession of Stolen Property and hallways decorated by one of the San Francisco Ballet orchestras. suspected the man was involved in iden- Eddy and Steiner Streets This dollhouse city’s top interior designers — just like of a Parisian Mozart himself will visit, in the person tity theft. He was arrested and booked at nally located in the vicinity of Eddy and cers placed the taxi driver under arrest and February 23, 8:20 a.m. the real Decorator Showcase, except apartment of actor Nathaniel Stookey, who will ap- Northern Station. Gough Streets. Th e offi cers stopped the ve- booked her at Northern Station. Offi cers on patrol spotted a vehicle on a considerably smaller scale. building will pear in full period costume. hicle and detained its occupants. Evidence that failed to stop at a stop sign. When Th e dollhouse is a Parisian apart- be auctioned Jazz deejay David Latulippe will narrate as part of the ATM Robbery With a Gun from the thefts was recovered from inside Attempted Th eft From a Locked Vehicle they ran a check on the license plate, they ment building built by Victoria Lands- and also perform in the ensemble’s fl ute Pine Street and Van Ness Avenue the vehicle. All the occupants were placed Bush and Gough Streets found the car had been earlier reported a fundraiser down and decorated by 13 local de- benefi tting quartet. Th e ensemble includes a number January 1, 11:50 p.m. under arrest. January 28, 6:45 p.m. as stolen, with its key in the ignition. signers. It includes six apartments, an Schools of the of other notable Bay Area musicians, in- Offi cers responded to a report of a rob- Offi cers were given a description of two Th e offi cers stopped the car and took artist’s atelier, a champagne bar and a Sacred Heart. cluding pianist Avi Downes and soprano bery at an ATM. A man reported that the Aggravated Assault suspects who had just been involved in an the driver into custody. Th e offi cers also boutique — “an exquisitely fabricated soloist Ronit Widmann-Levy. suspect had robbed him at gunpoint as he Eddy and Webster Streets auto break-in. A witness reported that one seized the keys. Th e suspect was booked at and decorated dollhouse,” says volun- Th e concert in words and music will be was withdrawing money. Th e suspect then January 27, 2:30 p.m. suspect had hurled an unknown object at Northern Station. teer Jolie Bastable, who is helping plan presented on Sunday, March 16, at 2 p.m. fl ed in a car. Th e man who had been robbed Offi cers received a call from a woman the window of a car, as though attempting and promote this year’s event, “all fi lled at Calvary Presbyterian Church at Fillmore gave offi cers a thorough description of the who claimed that she was being followed to break the glass. Th e two men had loi- Drug Arrest with exquisite furniture refl ecting the “But things are not always as they auctioned at a gala event on March 8. and Jackson. Th e suggested donation at the vehicle, and this information was broadcast by a taxi driver who was attempting to run tered about the vehicle for fi ve minutes, Van Ness Avenue and California Street artistic fl air of the designer.” seem,” Bastable says. “Look closely Since 1994, the miniature showcase door is $15 for adults and $10 for students citywide, so police units throughout San her off the road. Offi cers located the taxi and then suddenly walked away. February 25, 2:45 a.m. Working on such a small scale and you may discover that a lampshade has been a part of the schools’ annual and seniors. Proceeds benefi t the AIDS Francisco were searching for the suspect. and detained the driver. Th ey interviewed When the offi cers were three blocks Offi cers on patrol observed a traffi c requires ingenuity. Designers may use is actually a toothpaste lid, or that a Celebrate Spring fundraiser, which Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. Shortly afterward, another robbery oc- both parties. from the scene, they saw two men who violation. Th e driver was stopped and a materials of many kinds, including champagne bucket was once a fl ower takes place this year on March 7 and 8. Th is is one of several concerts to be held curred in the area of Ocean and Mission, Th e underlying altercation had started matched the descriptions the witness had computer check revealed he had several all manner of fabric and paper. pot.” More information is available about at Calvary this month. On March 2, the followed by a third robbery at Mission and in the Marina District. Th e taxi driver had given. Th e offi cers ordered the two suspects warrants. Th e driver admitted to the police Some designers create one-of-a-kind Th e dollhouse will be on display the dollhouse and the celebration at San Francisco Academy Orchestra per- First. Th e person who had been robbed at left her vehicle and started pounding on to halt. One man complied; the other ig- that he had marijuana in the car. Th e furnishings that are hand carved, hand during school hours at the Flood www.celebratespring.org or by calling forms. On March 8 and 9, the San Fran- that location gave offi cers an identical ve- the window of the driver’s car. Th e woman, nored the order. offi cers found marijuana plants in the rear painted or upholstered. Mansion at 2222 Broadway until it is 345-5825. cisco Bach Choir performs. hicle description. fearing for her safety, drove off , but the Offi cers followed this man, and even- of the car. Th e driver was placed under For more information, call 346-3832 or Th e car fi tting the description was fi - taxi driver pursued her across town. Offi - tually detained him. Th e offi cers found arrest and booked at Northern Station. visit www.calvarypresbyterian.org. St. Dominic’s Catholic Church

t. Dominic’s Parish warmly invites you to celebrate the Soup & Speaker Series Lenten & Easter Seasons in our beautiful church. Friday, Feb. 29, March 7 & 14, 6:30 p.m., Parish Hall St. Dominic’s Social Justice Council invites you to share S “Christ is Risen!” vegetarian soup and presentations on global topics Godspell Mass, Sunday, March 2, 5:30 p.m. Weekday Masses: 6:30 & 8:00 am & 5:30 pm Pastor’s Lecture: “Did Jesus Have to Die?” Morning Prayer: 7:15 am (weekdays); 8:00 am (Saturday) Thursday, March 6, 7:30 p.m., Parish Hall Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Contemporary Musical Meditations on the Mondays & Wednesdays: 8:30 am & 6:00 pm • First Fridays: 9:00 pm Stations of the Cross, Friday, March 14, 7:30 p.m. Sunday Masses: Lenten Retreat, Saturday, March 15, 9:30 a.m. Saturday evening: 5:30 pm (Vigil), 7:30 am (Quiet), 9:30 am (Family), 11 : 30 am (Solemn), 1:30 pm (St. Jude Pilgrim Mass in Spanish), 5:30 pm (Contemporary music), Holy Week 9:00 pm (Taizé music by candlelight) Palm Sunday, March 16 5:30 p.m. Saturday (Vigil Mass); 7:30 a.m. (Quiet Mass); Stations of the Cross: 9:30 a.m. (Family Mass); 11:30 a.m. (Solemn Mass); Every Friday: 12:15 & 7:30 pm 1:30 p.m. (St. Jude Pilgrim Mass in Spanish); 5:30 p.m. (Contemporary music); 9:00 p.m. (Taizé music by candlelight) Seder Meal, Monday, March 17, 7:00 p.m. Confessions, Wednesday, March 19, 12:15 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Holy Thursday, March 20 7:30 a.m. – Tenebrae – followed by breakfast 7:30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Night Prayer Good Friday, March 21 7:30 a.m. – Tenebrae – followed by breakfast 12:15 – 12:45 p.m. – Stations of the Cross 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. – Preaching of Jesus’ Seven Last Words 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. – Confessions 7:30 p.m. – Celebration of the Lord’s Passion and Death Holy Saturday, March 22 Worship at your neighborhood church this Easter. 8:00 a.m. – Tenebrae – followed by breakfast 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Confessions Christ Episcopal Church on the corner of Pierce and Clay. Easter Vigil - 8:00 p.m. Good Friday Service 12 noon Easter Sunday, March 23 Easter Sunday Service 10 a.m. (with child care) 7:30 a.m. (Mass with Easter Hymns); 9:30 a.m. (Family Mass); followed by Potluck Brunch and an Egg Hunt at Alta Plaza Park 11 : 30 a.m. (Solemn); 1:30 p.m. (St. Jude Pilgrim Mass in Spanish); 5:30 p.m. (Contemporary music); 9:00 p.m. (Taizé music by candlelight) No confessions this day The Reverend Penelope Duckworth, Vicar 2390 Bush St. (at Steiner) • (415) 567-7824 • Free Parking • www.stdominics.org

4 NEW FILLMORE March 2008 March 2008 NEW FILLMORE 5 JAZZ gifted but relatively unknown pianist GONZALO RUBALCABA, is coming to Yoshi’s March 10 through 12. A Jazz Fan’s Virginal Visit to Yoshi’s Rubalcaba is considered by some to be perhaps the greatest improvisational    . I missed San Francisco in the ’50s really tasty food whose names you can’t even pronounce. Th e Cuban Connection pianist in the history of jazz. Th at is when bohemia was fl ourishing and there were multitudes of With 30 minutes to spare before show time, we walked up a huge statement when you think of Ire al jazz clubs in the city. the freestanding staircase to another lounge upstairs, which has Two notable natives, plus Dr. John, at Yoshi’s this month people like Art Tatum and McCoy Now Yoshi’s has come to the neighborhood, giving me a more of a hipster vibe. Modern, ultra-comfy mini-couches and Tyner, who accompanied John taste of that bygone era. As my girlfriend Abby and I walked stand-alone chairs are sprinkled around the spacious curved B A and lesser known, Coltrane as a 16-year-old piano down Fillmore to see our fi rst show — the great guitarist Bill space, which also includes a full wood-decked bar. Th e upstairs T who merit your prodigy. Frisell — I could feel something diff erent on the street. People lounge is so plush you might wonder if it’s the bar of a jazz joint attention. When I saw Rubalcaba solo last were out. Th ere was activity, energy, a mood of anticipation. Th e or the latest South of Market hot spot.  ■ year, he was operating in a space Jazz District feels alive again. Another fl atscreen showed what I fi rst One can somewhere between Tyner and Jazz purists tend to romanticize the appeared to be a late era Jazz Messengers Wheard only assume Chopin, with a heavy discordance smoke-fi lled, brick-walled rooms from concert. I thought, why rent jazz last summer that that ARTURO born of growing up in an Afro-Cuban days gone by, but the truth is that the documentaries from Netfl ix when I can Yoshi’s would be SANDOVAL’S barrio in Havana permeated with the musicians were often frustrated by those Yoshi’s is a musician’s walk a few blocks to Yoshi’s? It’s more coming to the MAMBO MANIA rhythms of rumba and the bata. joints. Talkative audiences distracted dream — and something comfortable than my apartment, with better Fillmore Jazz BIG BAND, Rubalcaba incorporates a variety from the music. Morally and legally food. Better service, too. District, I fi gured appearing February of sources from his studies of folk questionable transactions sometimes even more for jazz fans. Th is is one reason I suspect people will I would practically 26 through March and classical music traditions. Th is attracted the wrong element. Cramped view Yoshi’s not solely as a jazz venue, but be living there, 2, is going to be no doubt accounts for his musical stages restricted artistic expression. also an all-purpose destination that happens hanging out, thunderous. Arturo vocabulary combining luscious Yoshi’s, however, is a musician’s dream to feature live music. Go on a date, meet digging the scene Sandoval himself melodies and incredibly intricate — and something even more for jazz fans. Th ere’s a spacious up with friends after work, enjoy a three-and-a-half star dinner and loving the is a one-man force polyrhythms. He is a scorcher. I lounge brimming with earthy ambiance, thanks to dramatic and catch a show — in person or on the fl atscreen. music. of nature. His remember thinking, “Wow, I wonder lighting that highlights a Japanese aesthetic of wood, glass, ■ Now that the searing riff s and what he would sound like with a stone, exotic plants, hanging rice paper lamps and plenty of America’s original art form desperately needs this type of club has opened, technical wizardry band?” We’ll have a chance to fi nd out room to breathe. It’s perfect for a pre-show drink and snack. setting. Jazz clubs are often perceived as dens reserved only for I had my fi rst on the trumpet can when he comes to the neighborhood ■ the connoisseur, the die-hard afi cionado who can recite the chance to go in only be described this month. We had a few Johnnie Walkers and a sampling of sushi. I title, label and release date of every John Coltrane album. It’s no and see a show Dr. John brings his voodoo jazz from as amazing ■ asked Elsa, our waitress, about the fl atscreen television on the wonder the average person feels a bit insecure about entering on Valentine’s New Orleans to Yoshi’s March 5 to 8. feats of human For something a little diff erent and wall to our left. Turns out you can catch that evening’s show — such hallowed halls. Night — the night achievement. more accessibly hip, you might want to even without going to the club — in the comfort of the lounge. Yet with its stellar calendar of world-class musicians and a the great Stanley Clarke showed up as a With a big band, he’s going to blow check out DR. JOHN, aka “Th e Night Elsa said it’s up to the artists to decide whether to broadcast the wide variety of eating and drinking and socializing experiences, surprise guest to play bass with pianist people’s hair back. Tripper,” March 5 through 8. Born show, but allowed that they almost always give the green light. Yoshi’s caters to the jazz junkie while creating a welcoming George Duke. I intended to go back to see Sandoval was born in Cuba and started in New Orleans, his music combines Leave it to a jazz musician to give it away. atmosphere for everyone else. Pat Metheny’s trio later in February, but playing music at age 12 in his village band. Cuban musical wizard Gonzalo Rubalcaba appears with his band March 10 to 12. rhythm and blues, voodoo religious Abby’s a chef, so she wanted to see the huge state of the From our front row seats we watched and listened as Bill tickets for all the shows were sold out. He learned music theory and percussion ceremonies and jazz. He is perhaps art restaurant adjacent to the lounge. From here a squadron Frisell tore through a scintillating nearly two-hour set. I imagine Here’s a heads-up for March so you and fell in love with the trumpet. 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6 NEW FILLMORE March 2008 March 2008 NEW FILLMORE 7 BODY & SOUL ’  that Rev. Maureene Bass, the much- way to respond, since she didn’t know the charges. loved minister of Unity Church — RevMo, to her Th e members’ looks of incomprehension shifted Ifans — had decided to call it quits, and no one to anger, then suspicion, as they realized the letter- knew why. So I sat in on a Sunday service on January DISUNITY writers might be among them — even among the six B T R She decided to leave Alabama and the 27 to see what my casual sleuthing could turn up. members of the board sitting before them, who also Baptists and her divorce behind. I’d attended her services twice before, and found at happened to be up for reelection.  S is coming at the “It was the best thing that ever all as I remembered. Th ere’s that warmth as you One by one, members of the congregation end of the month, an earlier than happened to me,” she says now. enter that’s like coming home, and there’s the easy stood up and spoke in a heartfelt way of what Rev. Eusual arrival of springtime and In 1992 she completed her studies and camaraderie among the members. UNITY Maureene meant to them; several claimed she was the one of the holiest days on the Christian was ready to begin a new life in the service And there’s the pleasant mingling of traditions only reason they came to church. Th ey felt betrayed. calendar. For the 12th year, it will also be of the Unity church. She looked westward — a Boddhisattva head greets you from a table; a Why should a minister who inspired so many be the biggest day on the calendar of Unity to California, like so many others seeking photograph of Earth from space, suggesting Gaia, meeting that followed the service. driven out by a few? Church, the congregation of positive a fresh start. Th ere was an opportunity to dominates one wall. Th e room was crowded — evidently I wasn’t the One member proposed a letter writing campaign thinkers housed in a Bush Street Victorian lead a church in Napa, and she took it. And then there’s Rev. Maureene herself. I was only one wondering. Th e meeting progressed in the to express support for Rev. Maureene. Speculation just a few steps from Fillmore. “San Francisco has always been my reminded once again that she is very, very good. She’s usual way of board meetings, until Rev. Maureene abounded. One person suggested the disgruntled Easter has become Unity’s big promised land,” she says. “I thought, polished, stylish, funny. She tricks you into seeing the stood up to give her minister’s report. parties might have been out-of-towners — from production, a day when the church moves ‘Napa’s close enough.’ ” familiar from new angles; she cracks open spiritual “Th e church is under investigation,” she said with Texas, perhaps — who experienced culture shock from its niche in the neighborhood to the She threw herself into the work. From conundrums like nuts. no preamble. Th ere followed a long silence. Baffl ed, when confronted by the freewheeling San Francisco spacious splendor of the Herbst Th eater to the beginning, she reached beyond the People love her. Some even seem addicted — in a stunned looks were exchanged. style of the place. Rev. Maureene wondered if it accommodate the many people who come walls of the church, writing a regular good way — to her style of teaching. You come out Evidently, she explained, a group of parishioners, might have been the times she’d given her sermons in to church, some of them, but once a year. column for the local newspapers called of there willing to make a fresh leap at everything. without her knowledge, had written letters to Unity’s open-toed shoes, despite a Unity rule barring them. “I’ve been thinking about my theme for “Soul Food” that led to a book of the same If you aren’t keen on dogma and favor an approach national organization complaining about her and But she handled the whole matter with aplomb. Easter,” says the church’s minister for all of name. that sees a single truth at the core of all religions, questioning her “character.” “Let them come,” she said. “Th ey’ll fi nd nothing those Easter extravaganzas, Rev. Maureene And she became a Californian, albeit Rev. Maureene makes just about the best case I think A fl urry of questions followed. “What about your wrong.” Several members asked, Why quit before the Bass. “Th is year it’s Life: Th e Show.” one with a strong Southern accent. Th e I’ve heard. And she’s been doing it for 12 years. Why character?” “Who wrote those letters?” More than investigation? Why not stay and fi ght? From Rev. It seems an appropriate theme for locals would laugh at her when she said would such a popular minister choose to suddenly once, Rev. Maureene replied, “I don’t know. Th ey Maureene’s answers, I got the feeling she believed her the special service, held in a theater, she was going to town, by which she walk away? won’t tell me.” She said she herself had heard of the time here might have come to a natural close. with the larger than life minister — a meant San Francisco. Seeking answers, I hung around for the church investigation only the week before. And she’d had no — D G former actress — holding center stage, “I thought my Southern accent would surrounded by hundreds of Easter lilies. be a hindrance, but it hasn’t,” she says. “I’m And it takes on an added resonance this not quite as Southern on the stage as off .” and toasted as a minister who had created you deal with it,” she says in a pithy phrase year because it will be the fi nal Easter In 1996 came an opportunity to move a modern church and brought a spiritual that has nearly become her mantra. — and the fi nal Sunday — she will serve to town — to San Francisco — and awareness to many who otherwise “Don’t should on yourself,” she says as Unity’s minister. become the minister at the Unity church probably wouldn’t go to church. She was with just the right intonation to drive that had recently moved from its longtime hailed for her enthusiasm and positive home her point.  B never expected home South of Market to a somewhat energy. Th ere were calls for 10 more years. “You have to think it fi rst,” she says, to become a minister, even dilapidated Victorian near Fillmore Street. Yet a year later, by the end of 2007, she explaining how she got her golf ball over Mthough she grew up in the As fate would have it, the Unity religion had told the church’s board of trustees she the sandtrap and onto the green. heart of the Bible Belt in Montgomery, had been founded in Missouri in 1889 was resigning. “Before I leave, I’m gonna teach y’all Alabama. She was always the belle of by a couple named Charles and Myrtle There were smiles some Bible,” she says one sunny Sunday. the ball, and early on she realized her Fillmore.    late afternoon all around when Rev. “As we say in the South, I feel duty ambitions to be on the stage. She was an JOHNSON ALVIN It seemed meant to be. Her children sunshine on a tasteful tan suede Maureene Bass was bound.” feted by her fans and actress and a director of suffi cient fame visited and thought the building at 2222 Ssofa in the church reception room, congregants in 2006 on “Th ey’re gonna miss my stories,” she to be appointed by President Jimmy Bush Street seemed too run-down to be a dressed casually after a day on the golf her 10th anniversary. tells a visitor. “Southerners are storytellers. Carter to a six-year term on the National church, but she was certain she could fi x it course, she describes the many ways the I see stories in everything. Th ey help me Endowment for the Arts. up, and she did. church and the community have been a deliver a message of hope and how to live She grew up a Baptist, although She brought energy and enthusiasm perfect fi t for her. And then she asks her life — ideally with a little humor.” she notes that there were plenty of and a certain star quality to the pulpit of own question: “So why am I leaving?” things about the Baptists she found the church. She began a morning radio She gives a number of reasons. She’s 70 At the annual membership meeting a a loan to be used to repair and paint the , this has been my life for objectionable. REVMO NO MO show and wrote a monthly column for now — although “I know I don’t look 70.” few weeks later, she dropped a bombshell building and to buy a new piano — and 12 years,” she says. “It was “I used to think that if I turned my life this neighborhood newspaper. She began She wants more time with her children, by announcing that the church was to retire the earlier loan co-signed by the “Ltough at fi rst. But I know deep over to God, I’d surely turn out to be an renovating and expanding the building all living in Alabama or elsewhere on under investigation by Unity’s national minister’s ex-husband. down in my heart it’s time to go.” accountant,” she told her congregation one Unity’s revered Reverend Maureene Bass that housed the church — and just at the the East Coast. She hopes to see her leadership. Th e dissenters had written to “Th e review of the ministry is separate While she’s leaving the church, she recent Sunday. right moment, when more money was grandchildren more often. “After almost Unity headquarters to question both the from the review of the minister,” the letter says she’s not leaving the ministry. She’ll She followed the traditional path and is leaving the church at the end of the month needed, her ex-husband, the rich lawyer 20 years of having to be someplace every minister and the ministry. said, “so we can only comment on the continue her morning radio show, “Wake got married and had children — fi ve of from Alabama, passed through town, and Sunday, I want my freedom,” she says. She dismisses her detractors as “three ministry.” Up to Life,” which is heard weekday them, two of whom were stepchildren, all she persuaded him to co-sign the loan that But it’s clear there’s more to it than or four people who wanted to have mornings from 6:45 to 7 on KEST 1450 raised in the same home. She married one would let the project go forward. these personal considerations. speakers other than me,” and says she    , behind her see- AM. She does it live every morning from of the country’s most respected civil rights She left behind the green Rolls — to a church called Unity, with Baptists “You need to help me,” she remembers “It is with much thought and a sad resisted eff orts to bring more New Age through pulpit and wired for sound home, often in bed. And she’s expanding lawyers, Morris Dees, longtime head of “and a red Mercedes, and fi ve servants and Methodists and the Assembly telling him. heart that I submit my resignation,” she practices into the church — “crystals and Bon one of her fi nal Sundays, Rev. to a Los Angeles station, too. She plans the Southern Poverty Law Center in and a 17-room house.” of God mostly holding sway. But she Th e membership and programs of wrote to the church trustees in a letter chakras and that sort of thing.” Maureene — as her congregants call her, to continue teaching and talking, and her Montgomery. “He had to have somebody younger,” became involved in a Unity church in the church continued to grow, eventually dated December 30, 2007. “I believe that “Listen, I’m a little like Hillary unless they shorten it further to RevMo messages are available on iTunes. Hers was not a life of poverty. She she says. Birmingham, and in 1987 she helped start expanding beyond the capacity of its in my 11-year tenure I have taken our Clinton,” she says. “People either really — is talking about her recent trip home to Another thing she won’t be leaving dreamed one night she was driving a a Unity church in Montgomery. building. An arrangement was made church as far as I am able to. It has come like me, or they really don’t.” Alabama. Her talks and meditations are behind is San Francisco or the neigh- green Rolls Royce. A few days later, Dees ’  familiar with the By 1990 her kids were grown and, after to have Sunday services at the Century to my attention throughout this year that A letter from the trustees provided fi lled with folksy stories, recaps of episodes borhood. bought her one — a green one the color principles of the Unity Church a religious experience in which she felt Club on Franklin Street, which could there is a certain faction in the church details of the investigation. It said there from Seinfeld, tales of her golf outings, “I prayed all my life to get here,” she of money — even though she’d never told Sand its emphasis on practical called to become a minister, she moved accommodate more people. who want it to go in a diff erent direction. were complaints — “the complainants are exhortations to think positively — and says. “I’m not about to leave it. I miss the him about the dream. Christianity and the power of positive to Missouri, home of Unity’s national At a party in 2006 celebrating her 10th I feel that it is best for me to go than for kept anonymous” — that the trustees had plenty of Southern euphemisms. South, but after I’m there about a week, And then it all fell apart. thought. Alabama didn’t much cotton headquarters, to go to ministerial school. anniversary, she was showered with love the church to be divided.” not followed church bylaws in seeking “It’s not what happens to you, it’s how I’m ready to leave. Th is is home now.”

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A mini-empire It singles out a dozen local a natural fi t for the young and edgy clothing she intended to on Fillmore: shops, including Nest (“seems stock. “But I was on the cusp of turning 30 and beginning to HeidiSays taken from the streets of Paris”) be more sophisticated and classic in my own style,” she says. Shoes (left), the Browser Books (“like stepping into “I thought that ultimately the customers would relate to my new HeidiSays an old friend’s house”) Heidi Says products better on Fillmore and in Pacifi c Heights.” Casual (center) (“the place to fi nd a new party ■ and the original dress”) and “fl irty and fun” Benefi t HeidiSays (right). Cosmetics. In the spring of 2001, she found a near-perfect local spot: the “Union Square is a mecca for wide and light-fi lled space at 2426 Fillmore, former site of Paint big-name department stores and Eff ects, a furniture painting store. “I loved the space, especially designer chains, but locals head to the windows; they’re so important to me because of displaying Fillmore Street for more original merchandise.” her itch. “I live in the neighborhood, work in the neighborhood brought home with the birth of her daughter, Vivian Grace, fi nds,” the story says. “Here, girlfriends linger over lunch at Inside — amid racks hung with creations by Diane von — and I wanted to meet the customers’ needs right here,” she nine months ago. “As a new mom, I realize I can’t be in a little sidewalk tables, and well-groomed Furstenberg, Vera Wang, Catherine Malandrino and Missoni says. So when Express Photo left 2105 Fillmore, HeidiSays black Phillip Lim dress with spit-up all over it,” she says. dogs rest in the shade outside — a sign on the wall in script exhorts shoppers: Indulge. Shoes was launched, opening in February of 2007. ■ coffee shops.” With the perspective that seven years on the street will On a recent near-spring day, a crowd of customers preened on Th e newest store, HeidiSays Casual, aims to meet the Sounds like a swell place. bring, Sabelhaus looks back on her own fashion sense and the the stylish sofa in her shoe store, beckoned by a large sale sign challenge of customers who say they crave stylish casual looks merchandise she fi rst stocked and notes the evolution in both. for weekends, rather than sloppy tees and sweatpants. Th e NOW RELAX: The colorful Relax in the window. Several of their dogs tangled leashes while they Now day spa at 2241 Fillmore “I carried more of the girly-feminine in the beginning,” she sniff ed out the new array of sandals and sunglasses. racks are hung with tops by designers known for their comfort closed in says. “Now there’s more of a range as I’ve evolved — and the “I had my eye on these all season and now they’re mine,” said and style, such as Ella Moss and Zooey, along with a line of February and customers have evolved with me. We’re more serious in terms of one shopper, admiring her new high-heeled acquisitions. “I won’t HeidiSays label sweaters and hoodies made of cashmere milled sold off its fashion and design. But I really try to have a selection of choices be able to walk in them. But they’ll be killer while I’m sitting in Scotland. furnishings. in the store: some very feminine, some clean and sophisticated, down.” Th e shelves are piled with jeans from various designers that Owner some serious and higher-priced and some couture.” ■ come with an ironclad promise from HeidiSays buyer Liz Leslie Villarreal blamed a Ironically for a company that started online, Sabelhaus shut Sabelhaus says the rapid success of the shoe store Hynes: “I can fi t anyone,” she vows. combination of down the retail website only eight months after opening her fi rst only reminded her of a drawback of the fi rst store: It was In the span of 20 minutes, she recently accomplished that high rent and Fillmore shop. Th e store quickly became crowded with customers overcrowded. “Th at frustrated customers — and me, too,” feat for two customers, with a gentle steering: “Keep in mind parking issues. and ever more merchandise, prompting her to look for additional she says. “It was a struggle to provide more designers, but be that denim will stretch about a half size,” she says. “But we “The traffi c on space. restricted by the space.” want you to be comfortable.” Fillmore does not warrant the “I always dreamed about doing shoes, and had quite a Her solution was another expansion, this time into 2416 Sabelhaus says she got the space for HeidiSays Casual on high rents,” she said. “I had way selection at the main store,” she says. “But because of the space Fillmore, just two doors down from the original HeidiSays. January 2 and opened February 8. “Th ere are still fi nishing better foot traffi c on West Portal.” limitations, we couldn’t carry a complete collection — and it was “It made sense to be able to separate and provide more casual touches to add,” she says. “I’m itching to put up a new awning, No word yet on a successor. frustrating not to be able to give customers all they needed.” clothing,” she says. “I realized for me personally, there’s a time for example. Th en my plan is to just relax and stop expanding Sabelhaus wasn’t tempted to stray far from home to scratch to be dressed up and a time to be casual.” Th at realization was for a while.”

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10 NEW FILLMORE March 2008 March 2008 NEW FILLMORE 11 On his social life be willing to take a chance on me. I had to So before we even went home, they took the golf course. Yellows, red, greens and On becoming speaker A spicy social life really can add to agree to a 10-week trial as a probationary me shopping. Th at night, in my new duds, oranges — cut in exotic styles. Great stuff . Some patronizing sort said that I had your panache. In San Francisco, the student. In those 10 weeks, I crammed. we went out to a celebrated black San On every corner there was a shoe been elected speaker in 1980, after city’s hostesses treat me as a star guest I used a dictionary like I never had Francisco nightspot, Jimbo’s Bop City store: a Johnston & Murphy on one, a having been defeated in 1974, because because I add fl avor to the evening. before. I had to look up everything. All [on Post near Fillmore]. In my new outfi t, Stacy Adams on another, a Florsheim on I had grown more humble in the I’ve known and appeared with many I did was study. But I did well and they I was mistaken for Miles Davis. Man, it a third and a Th om McAn on a fourth. meantime. Nonsense. I hadn’t grown women during my 50 years of married accepted me. Eventually I began to do well must have been dark in that nightclub. But Th e poor people went to Th om McAn, more humble. I had just grown more life and I have never been ostracized nimble. or barred from full participation in the enough to pay attention to other campus I’ve been hooked on clothes ever since. so you couldn’t, if you were a dude, be social environment because I was with activities, like fraternities and dating. And A few years later when the young seen coming out of Th om McAn. If you On running for mayor a variety of women. I encountered political campaigning and haberdasher (and now my tight friend) shopped in Th om McAn, you made sure Then there was the matter of my clubs, which then as now were a big part Wilkes Bashford opened his men’s you carried your purchases out of the lifestyle. Could I live on the mayor’s On women of campus life. clothing store, I was among the fi rst store in a brown paper bag brought along salary of $137,000? It’d be tough I convey to the women who are in three customers. Wilkes recalls, “We for the occasion. You didn’t want anyone because I would be prohibited from relationships with me, “Because we Starting as a janitor kept an eye on this young man who came seeing you buying in there. earning an outside income and I had go out, because we date, because in on opening day. We knew he wasn’t no built-up assets. I had invested only we sleep together, that doesn’t mean in things like my Porsche and my there’s supposed to be anything I quickly joined Jones Memorial a shoplifter because he had too many Getting into politics clothes and my lifestyle. If you permanent. Do not expect it. Do not United Methodist Church [at Post and questions about the merchandise. He was couldn’t wear it, drive it, or eat it, demand it.” Steiner], a church with a strong civil rights so inquisitive that we concluded he must San Francisco’s Western Addition, an I didn’t have it. commitment even in the early 1950s. have been sent in by the competition. But old neighborhood of Victorian houses, had On Gavin Newsom Eventually, I became so active that I would he’s been in almost every Saturday ever become San Francisco’s Harlem and was On cars My successor as mayor of San become youth director. since. He still knows more about clothes in full fl ourish when I arrived. Fillmore When I became mayor, I was entitled Francisco, the talented Gavin I stayed at Westminster Presbyterian than most of us in the store.” Street was its 125th Street. It’s been justly to a city car and security. I would Newsom, was caught when a private have preferred a Cadillac, not the Church [at Webster and Page]. While Even hats are necessary. Th ey complete celebrated as a center of jazz and nightlife, relationship he had had with a staffer civil service issue Lincoln Town Car who happened also to be married to I was working as the janitor, the church the look — and given the fact that most but it was also a community center. Th at’s traditionally offered to mayors. The one of his top advisors was revealed. gave me a small room next to its gym. It men no longer don hats, they make you where the churches, associations and Caddy, however, would have been He froze. He apologized publicly, probably had been designed as a dressing stand out. I’ve had a good teacher when doctors were. As I grew familiar with the an expensive item for the city, even especially for hurting his friend, the room for a coach. It had just a daybed, a it comes to headgear. My fellow Texan town and began to be seen around as a if it’s the only wheels truly fi t for an husband. All well and good, I suppose, tiny bath with a shower, and that was it, and San Franciscan, Mrs. Ruth Garland bright young fellow, people in the Western American mayor. but if you’re going to apologize for a relationship, apologize to the woman. but I took it. Dewson [of Mrs. Dewson’s Hats on Addition and in politics began to take an On gangs I had so little money, I had to make it Fillmore], the milliner to high society, interest in me. Frankly, I think he should have leapt As a mayor intent on keeping the at the opportunity to become known stretch out. One day a week, I would buy a stars and pro athletes, put me into (or Scores of people encouraged me to get peace, I had to keep in touch and as a kind of gallivanting Gavin. I think loaf of day-old white bread, a can of tuna under) fi ne Borsalinos she called “Th e into politics and helped me when I did. keep the respect of people who are the public relishes the idea of having FROM “BASIC BROWN” and a jar of sandwich spread. I’d open the Willie Brown Snap Brim.” Two people were crucial, though. One was essentially the warlords of the gangs. someone who’s actually alive holding WILLIE ON HORSEBACK tuna, drain off the water and mix it into a black physician named Dr. Carlton B. I sat down with these people and told down public offi ce. If you’re going to Willie Brown campaigns on Fillmore Street in the 60s. them, “You want to do your killings? have a reputation, have one for your the jar of sandwich spread. I’d place that Th at fi rst suit Goodlett. Th e other was a political genius, jar of tuna spread and that loaf of bread a white fellow named Phillip Burton. Do it in Oakland. Do it in Richmond. dashing ways, not for your tears. Do it elsewhere. But don’t do killing in outside on the windowsill of my room San Francisco was a relatively Dr. Goodlett was not only a black San Francisco. It refl ects badly on On Pelosi and Feinstein — that was my refrigeration. Th e whole progressive city even then, so at most of physician, he was also an entrepreneur, a black mayor.” Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Speaker of Willie Brown’s Rise Began at Jimbo’s jar of tuna and sandwich spread would the cafeterias black people were welcome. community leader, newspaper publisher the House of Representatives, clearly last me for a week. Th at’s really what I But there were some restaurants where and generally a cantankerous old party. On his principles refl ects the class of women who can 4 FROM PAGE ONE wanted me to come. But while Itsie was come to San Francisco under Uncle Itsie’s survived on. you wouldn’t try to go in. And there were He not only was the leading physician It always disappointed me when critics spend. She dresses for different events wanting to go to a decent college, I had a glamorous guy with fi ne cars, clothes sponsorship, but I also had to get a job, plenty of places where you wouldn’t try to for blacks in San Francisco, he was the would say I had no agenda, that I was in the course of the day and always not a prophetic leader with a vision or looks sharp. Then there’s Dianne no intention of going into politics. Th e and women, mother wasn’t sure he was join a church and go to school. I had Th e power of fashion get a job or even shop. You just didn’t. leading physician for political radicals, Some stores downtown discouraged white radicals. He himself was tough a set of guiding principles. My guiding Feinstein, who also has the resources idea that I would one day be sitting in the best infl uence. “Itsie doesn’t have a already heard of one school up in the San principle was to place myself in a for high fashion, but that’s not her the White House negotiating with the job,” she pointed out to me, “he doesn’t Francisco area called Stanford University. I’ve spent more time in the closet than black shoppers, but some clothing stores as nails, but he was also involved in position of power so that I could help route. She simply doesn’t have the President of the United States was not a go to church.” But he always had plenty I didn’t know much about it. But I heard it any other straight man in San Francisco, were open. Th e fi rst suit I bought on progressive peace causes all over the world. people with good ideas see those ideas clothes mentality. While she never thought I ever would have entertained. of money, and he had standing in the was the best. I told her about that. but that’s just to choose my wardrobe. I my own was from Howard’s on Market In part because of him, I became involved realized. I was the leader as facilitator, looks sloppy, she sometimes looks hit I never even imagined being elected community. believe that appearance is power, just like and Fifth, in the heart of the downtown in the antiwar movement against Vietnam a facilitator you didn’t want to cross or miss, as if she were caught between because then I became a shark. seasons. to offi ce, let alone to the mayoralty of Uncle Itsie, whose formal name SF State takes a chance money, ideas and honesty. I have a dozen shopping district. Ben Friend and his son as early as 1962. San Francisco or the speakership of the was Rembert Collins, had come to San tuxedos and over a hundred suits. God Gene owned the shop. Th ey later went on He was very close to Phil Burton, On being a lawyer On Herb Caen California legislature. At 17, I’m not sure I Francisco during the Second World War So she let me go in Uncle Itsie’s care. knows how many pairs of shoes I have. I’m to own other, better stores, but Howard’s the white politician who became the replenishing them constantly and twice was hip. I still remember that fi rst suit leading congressman from San Francisco. When I started out as a lawyer, no At that fi rst lunch with Herb, we talked even knew what politics was. when good-paying jobs in the military and He certainly knew his way around many big, white-shoe law fi rms were hiring for hours about politics, San Francisco, I had ambitions, of course. What in shipbuilding were plentiful for black worlds, not just the gambling milieu. I was a year I clean out my closet and donate I bought: a double-breasted blue serge Goodlett dined at least once a week with black lawyers. So I started out working journalism, sports, clothes, women I wanted to be when I arrived in San people. Itsie worked in the Bethlehem soon on my way to meet one Dr. Duncan the goods to some charity’s thrift shop suit that came with a light blue shirt and Burton and his wife, Sala. Today, Speaker for the only people who would hire — everything. At the conclusion of Francisco was a math teacher. If you Steel shipyard, but he really rose in the Gillies, a professor at San Francisco [for many years the Victorian House on yellow tie. Nancy Pelosi holds Burton’s seat. She was me — people in trouble, like pimps, the meal, he said, “I think we ought to prostitutes, small-time crooks. I was have lunch every week.” For the next had asked me then what I would like to world by meeting the needs and wants of State College. I told Dr. Gillies about Fillmore Street]. It’s invariably the busiest Buying clothes at Howard’s was quite their political daughter. have become at age 50 or 60, I probably busy people with cash looking for action my ambition to study math at Stanford day of their year when my duds go on sale. a change from what I was used to in My introduction to Phil Burton was attacked for having a sleazy clientele. 35 years, until his death, we did. But when I began to acquire corporate Some of the local pols ought to go down Mineola. In Mineola, blacks bought from via Dr. Goodlett and Phil’s younger would have told you that if I had become and excitement. Starting in 1943 when he University. He listened attentively and clients, I was subtly accused of going On term limits a math teacher in a public high school became 38 and was beyond draft age, he put me through some math problems. and get some of my stuff . the Sears Roebuck catalog. But it took brother, John. John and I met when we above my station: a black lawyer It’s not surprising to me that politicians with a weekend job selling goods at Sears left the war industries and started running He gave me the news: I was indeed very My Uncle Itsie was the man who forever. I’d order a pair of shoes and by the both were enrolling in Air Force ROTC should defend only small-time criminal quickly fi nd another job to run for as Roebuck, I would have regarded myself card games. A smart fellow was Itsie. bright and mathematically inclined, but introduced me to the power of men’s time they arrived, I’d have outgrown them. at San Francisco State. Th is was during clients. And then when I achieved that soon as they’re term-limited out of as a success. Th at would have been the He took what opportunities the world the schooling I had received in Mineola in fashion. When I arrived in San Francisco So I was glad to get to San Francisco the Korean confl ict, so we were looking, status of being able to attract corporate their current offi ce. Frankly, the holding fulfi llment of my American Dream. presented to him. He thought I was smart the segregated schools left me way behind in 1951, he and his wife met my train. where at least the choice was better. Up like everyone else, for deferments from clients, I was accused of infl uence of elective offi ce — almost any offi ce peddling. — is a powerful high. There’s nothing and was a kid who deserved something my white peers. I was shocked. Of course, I was wearing a pressed cotton short- in the Fillmore, in the black shopping the draft. ROTC sounded like a better like it. It’s an addiction. Once you’ve Uncle Itsie’s infl uence more than Mineola, Texas, had to off er. I knew that we black kids were receiving a sleeve shirt and ironed khaki trousers district, we had stores like Pressler’s and deal than a lottery ticket that might land — Excerpted with permission from tasted it, you’ve got to have it. Minnie wanted me to have separate schooling, but I had no idea how from Sears Roebuck. It was a Texas kid’s Uptown Clothiers. Th ey had clothes with me in a combat foxhole. So one day I BASIC BROWN, by Willie L. Brown, My mother, Minnie Collins, wasn’t opportunities too, but she also wanted defi cient and inferior it was. idea of looking good. My uncle took one outrageous bright colors that black people was standing in line. We were arranged published by Simon & Schuster. even sure that she should let me go to me to have some straighter infl uences. But Dr. Gillies said that his own look at my apparel and was appalled. He wore. Eventually white people began alphabetically. Th e guy next to me was San Francisco. Uncle Itsie, her brother, So she off ered a compromise: I could school, San Francisco State College, might decided I desperately needed a makeover. to wear the same colors — but only on John Burton.

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As a result, properties that have been on the market a while have received ■ RENOVATING AN ATTIC | FIFTH IN A SERIES I always leave here with renewed interest; such is the case with 2400 Green, something — a new vegan 2503 Clay and 2724 Lyon, all of which have been on cookbook that’s convinced me I the market since October and fi nally closed in the past should be vegan, a book of short few weeks. Another example is 2702 California (left), a At Long Last, Signs of Progress stories by an author I’ve never property I mentioned last month as being attractively    eff ort and “Th ey came out beautifully,” said heard of, or a book that’s convinced Drew School plans to build a new wing that will have a living roof and a living wall — said to be the fi rst of its kind. priced. The market agreed; it closed nearly 12 percent me that I should freshen up on my over the asking price. expense required to re tool a architect Bruce Avico. German, even though I don’t speak Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen a nice leaky roof have fi nally given Th e windows and doors are all made of German. bump in condo listings. One noteworthy project, The W way to more positive developments for the solid mahogany to match the woodwork Upon checking out, the cashier Drew School Goes Green in Its Plan to Expand Greenwich, just started listing units in mid-February. local couple transforming the attic of their in the rest of the project. Most of the glass always has something to say about Located at 1501 Greenwich, at Van Ness, the project 4 FROM PAGE 3 my purchases, as if he’s read them reduce energy consumption. Th e new wing will be connected to the has 29 units, with nine already in contract — all of the Victorian into a living space. has ultraviolet protection. Windows facing all. “Oh, I think you’ll fi nd Hewitt to Cuddeback says he hopes to demolish Th e living wall — which school offi cials existing campus with a trellis and a wall one bedrooms and the two top units in the northwest Bringing more light into the space the house next door have a new kind of be a very clever character,” with a the Victorian and start construction during say is a fi rst in the United States — will in- supporting more greenery. New trees will corner. There are still two bedroom units available called for adding windows, skylights and a glass to obscure the view but allow in light. knowing smirk. the next school year, with plans to move in clude a mix of shrubs, fl owers and ground be planted along Broderick Street. starting at $929,000 and three bedroom units starting pair of doors that will open onto a rooftop While the mahogany and special glass And let it be known: It seems like 12 to 15 months later. cover on the Broderick Street facade. Both If the city approves the school’s expan- at $1.65 million. Only two new single family homes have been listed. One of garden. increased costs, the diff erence was not the place that would never have those, 2243 Green, has come up several times over the years, and it needs Among the “green” elements of the ad- the wall and the roof will be sustained by sion plans, Cuddeback said he expects the Because the space is fi lled with signifi cant because everything was custom. what you’re specifi cally looking some work. for, but every time, it never fails to dition are a living roof and a living wall. gray water from the building and captured growth will not bring more cars to the irregular shapes, everything — including “Making windows and doors is labor reach into its mess and pull out the Th e roof will be covered by a garden of rainwater. Th e living wall also solves an- school or otherwise signifi cantly increase — Data and commentary provided by JOHN FITZGERALD, a co-owner of two huge triangular windows — had to intensive; the material is only a part of exact book I’m looking for. native plants, but will be accessible only other problem by making the huge blank traffi c in the neighborhood. Some students the Byzantium Brokerage and an agent at Pacifi c Union. Contact him at be custom made. Golden Gate Door and the equation,” says Avico. “We wanted jfi [email protected] or call 345-3034. — LIZ L. ON YELP.COM to the school. It will refl ect heat, improve surface of the building’s new theater more use public transportation, and others are Window has now completed the job, and something with distinction — and our rain management, create new habitats and attractive. dropped off by parents. both clients and architect are pleased. eff orts paid off .”

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