The Amazon in the Room

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Bezos: “Alexa, buy me something from Whole Foods” Alexa: “Buying Whole Foods” Bezos: S**t — Jeff Lewis (@ChicagoPhotoSho) on Twitter

- Pet Food Express wanted to open in a blight- ed, long-vacant building on Lombard Street, Wpet stores as far away as Pacifica formed a coalition to stop them. At community meetings, owner after owner Left: Edgar Degas, The Millinery Shop, 1879–1886; right: James Tissot, The Shop Girl, 1883–1885. talked about the adverse effect a “chain” would have on IMAGES COURTESY OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO their livelihood, but what struck me was that not one of them mentioned the elephant in the room — online sales — and in particular the biggest elephant of them Painters, Paris, and hats at the Legion of Honor all, Amazon.com. In 1995, 31-year-old Jeff Bezos realized that a year BY LYNETTE MAJER form focused on the subject of played along with oils, pastels, and after the first browser appeared, the Internet was grow- women and hats. prints created roughly between 1870 ing at an annual rate of 2,300 percent. When Bezos D Organized by the St. Louis Art and 1914. Appropriately on view in launched Amazon, 16 million people were online. often associated with his Museum and the Fine Arts Muse- the Palace of Legion of Honor, other In 2017, that number is more than 3.6 billion. Bezos renderings of women as ums of San Francisco, the exhibition artists represented are Pierre-August had one goal in mind: Grow fast and grow big. He Wballerinas, Degas, Impressionism, features 40 works by Degas and his Renoir, Édouard Manet, Henri de almost arbitrarily settled on selling books. That year, and the Paris Millinery Trade, pres- fellow Impressionists, along with 40 Toulouse-Lautrec, and Degas’s close Americans bought nearly $20 billion worth of books, ents a lesser well known, yet equally exquisite hats — including nine from friend, American Mary Cassatt. with Barnes & Noble and Borders Group claiming noteworthy, depiction of the female the museum’s own collection — dis- DEGAS continued on 12 REYNOLDS RAP, continued on 5

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but I’ve been a bit snooty, look- Christmas in July ing down my nose at Calzone’s and under what I now believe is a false BY BRUCE BELLINGHAM impression that locals from the neighborhood don’t eat there. They are doing what the tourists do — Checker from the 1960s, “Let’s Twist Again (like enjoying the Calzone’s experience. we did last summer)”? So in the last couple of months I’ve D Well, I recall this. Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer mended my ways and checked it out were dancing on a flatbed truck at the Black & White — repeatedly. Smart! Ball with Chubby Checker at the Civic Center here in First, without doubt, Calzone’s downtown San Francisco. is the most attractive restaurant in Gosh, that was quite a few years ago. North Beach. It looks like a set for Twisting the night away — like any congressional the 1960 Fellini movie La Dolce Vita. minority leader should be. One expects Marcello Mastroianni Things get twisted over the years. and Anita Ekberg to begin an affair Twisted in a way we may have expected. But — hold there. But what is more important, on — it may get better. I found the food to be surprisingly Don’t worry. I’m used to getting yelled at. Why should Bruschetta at Calzone's Pizza Cucina. PHOTO: MISHA BRUK good. And in North Beach the bar is it stop now? My brother, James, would say, “It never set high for restaurants. helps for you to be yelled at.” By the way, the proprietor of Cal- Because there is a Christmas in July. Yes. It is right Calzone’s Pizza Cucina: A zone’s isn’t a guy named Calzone. here at our feet under the dirty sidewalks, and under the It’s a guy named Jerry Dal Bozzo, a broken hearts who have wished for better days. It is the North Beach native who opened the promised land. But promises come and go. scene out of a Fellini movie place in 1986. The executive chef for This is San Francisco. A place to have fun. Yes, some- Calzone’s, who’s been there for more times too much fun. It is a town without spellchecks. BY ERNEST BEYL Beach Awards. And now I’m confess- than 30 years, is David Barrett. But we have editors just to keep us in line. Good luck ing in my North Beach wanderings I Although Dal Bozzo operates to them. Go ahead, beat me into submission. have frequently overlooked Calzone’s Calzone’s, he has a partner, Dante I am grateful, as I submit. Times will know, I am a vora- Pizza Cucina, the Columbus Avenue Serafini, in several other Bay Area After all, it is Christmas in July. cious diner in North Beach. powerhouse whose sidewalk tables restaurants. In San Francisco there’s That means we have gifts to give. ANot only do I occasionally review always seem to be filled with tourists. The Stinking Rose, The Crab House It also means we have affection for people we care restaurants, but also annually write a Yes, I really do understand, tour- at Pier 39, The Franciscan Crab BELLINGHAM, continued on 4 column, The Ernestos: Best of North ism is good for the neighborhood, HUNGRY PALATE, continued on 11 C I T I 16 13

News Calendar Around the city July events News briefs on the start of a two-year rehab The Fourth of July is a great time to enjoy of the Presidio Theatre, state help for San San Francisco, but July also brings the Yerba Francisco's homeless housing challenge, Buena Gardens Festival, San Francisco priorities in Mayor Lee's proposed budgets Marathon and Expo, the Stern Grove Festival, for the next two years, and a roundup of the Centennial Exhibit of the Golden Gate news by the numbers; plus our first Marina Audubon Society, and much more. 14 Times comic: Imagined Conversations. 3 Traveler Northside The Silverado Trail Women changing San Francisco Patty Burness heads north to sample the Silverado Trail and all it has to offer. 16 District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell her- alds the three extraordinary women who made the Mountain Lake Park playground At Home renewal happen; plus the Police Blotter. 6 Urban Home and Garden Julia Strzesieski suggests the best ways to North Beach and Telegraph Hill ensure your painting project sticks. 18 Ernest Beyl impersonates his friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti in a rebirth of poet- Real Estate ry and jazz in North Beach; and District Public policy and property 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin says it's every- John Zipperer debuts his new Real Estate body's responsibility to make free City Reporter, providing lively real estate news College work. 8 and views; plus we listen in on a conversation about ending the housing crisis. 19 Food & Wine New offerings Wellness The Tablehopper highlights the reopened The Healthful Life Alfred's Steakhouse, previews the fall open- Thalia Farshchian explores physical and ing of The Snug, gets ready for Ghirardelli mental factors of weight fluctuation. 22 Square's new outdoor beer garden, and has all of the other restaurant news of note. 10 Family MomSense Arts & Entertainment Liz Farrell shares the love of books. 23 Big-screen history ONLINE SPECIALS Michael Snyder reviews two films that retell moments in time: The Journey explores a Evalyn Baron, Michael Snyder's Coastal political relationship that made Northern Commuter, expanded calendar coverage, Ireland peace possible, and 13 Minutes resur- and more. rects Hitler's would-be assassin. 12 marinatimes.com

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The Presidio Theatre will host live entertainment and other gatherings when its rehabilitation is completed in mid-2019. PHOTO: PRESIDIO TRUST Investing in the present and for the future

PRESIDIO THEATRE possible to expedite $6 million will be used TO GET MAKEOVER the building and pro- to create another Nav- It looks like the duction of supportive igation Center; $4 mil- Northside is going to get housing, shelters, and lion for homeless child- one more performance Navigation Centers,” care; $2 million for new space. This summer the said Gail Gilman, CEO shelter beds specifically Presidio Theatre, locat- of Community Housing targeting families expe- ed on the Main Post, will Partnership. She said riencing homelessness. begin a two-year reha- AB 932 could let San In addition, there will bilitation that will result Francisco “bypass cum- be a new 24/7 resource in what the Presidio bersome laws ... to cre- center and expanded Trust is calling a “high ate its own regulations services for homeless in quality and affordable to expedite the produc- need of mental health multipurpose space for tion of homes for those and addiction assis- live theatre, film, dance, who are without.” tance. music, lectures, educa- Also receiving more tional programming, CITY BUDGET money in the proporsed and special events.” PROTECTS AGAINST budget will be the city’s According to the WASHINGTON roads, which will get an Trust, the revivified UNCERTAINTY additional $90 million; building will feature a Tackling the city’s an 81-percent increase 650-seat theatre, a new homeless crisis will get in money for the Recre- pavilion, and a new an annual $30 million ation and Park Depart- courtyard. A new non- boost in Mayor Ed Lee’s ment; and $3.5 mil- profit organization will proposed $10 billion lion over two years for be set up expressly to budgets for fiscal years improving street clean- support and operate the 2017-2018 and 2018- ing. The budget prom- venue. 2019. That combined ises to meet the man- The rehab effort is $20 billion would be dated police staffing being supported by a the envy of many cities levels; but overall, the partnership between (and states and small San Francisco Examiner the Margaret E. Haas countries), but it comes reports, city hiring will Fund and the Presidio with a cautionary note remain roughly even Trust. from the mayor about after growing rapidly A cut above possible budget cuts over the past six years. TING BOOSTS from the Trump admin- HOMELESS istration. FACTS AND HOUSING Lee’s office issued a FIGURES A bill designed to help budget statement that Nearly one in four: San Francisco build stated “the recently Number of San Francis- the rest. shelters and transitional released draft of the co and Marin residents housing for the home- federal budget calls for who face the threat of less sailed through the reductions to many of hunger, according to California Assembly on the services and pro- the San Francisco Marin a 67–0 vote at the end grams that serve our Food Bank … 68,000: of May and headed for most vulnerable pop- Square footage in the Senate consideration. ulations. It has called Chronicle building that Other cities are also for cuts in housing and Facebook is in talks to under consideration social safety nets pro- lease … $1.54 million: to be added to the bill, grams, and health care, Increase in city funding which was authored by while making signifi- for services to support Assemblymember Phil cant increases in immi- youth, especially those Ting of San Francisco. gration enforcement experiencing homeless- AB 932 would cre- resources.” ness ... 4 a.m.: New later @LaBijouterieSF ate a 10-year window In addition to expand- closing time for bars and in which the process- ing services for the nightclubs under a bill es for building shelters neediest residents, Lee’s passed by the state Sen- and supportive housing proposed budget creates ate … $3.15 million: would be streamlined a $50 million “Afford- Amount spent to reno- upon the declaration of able Care Act reserve” vate the Mountain Lake a shelter crisis. The city and a $10 million “State Park Playground … $27 could create simpler and Federal Impacts million: Increase in city APPOINTMENTS PREFERRED local standards for the reserve” in the event of spending on providing housing, upon review reductions in outside alternatives to incarcer- BOOK ONLINE: WWW.LB-SF.COM by the state Department funds to the city. ating low-level offend- of Housing and Com- According to the bud- ers and improving men- munity Development. get, San Francisco will tal health and addiction “With the homeless increase by 150 percent services. 1931 Union Street crisis that’s facing San the number of beds at Francisco, we need to its Navigation Centers News tips? E-mail: San Francisco • 415.775.6622 do everything that is serving the homeless; [email protected]

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Bellingham Her response: “You do the notion of wellness. KJ continued from cover not refer to women as wants to make this world horses.” a better place. She’s going about. Here in San Fran- That could engender great guns in a world that cisco — my adopted home a dirty joke, but we are has too many. … NEW AMERICAN CLASSIC CUISINE town. That’s right, I am an above that sort of thing. And you know the old orphan in the storm. This is a family newspaper. blues song, KJ. You don’t I thought about it. For- Oh, well, welcome to miss your water until the ty-six years in this City by show business. One gets wellness has gone dry … the Bay. Yes, you betcha chewed up from time to Sorry about that. But — — as Ian Whitcomb used time. mark my words: KJ is a to sing. There may be room thoroughbred. Am I sorry about liv- for Jell-O — but there is Oh, one more thing: Buy ing here in San Francisco? always room for forgive- her book. Who knows? We Not all the time. But it is ness. may all get well together. like a bad marriage. One I confess: I never liked Maurice Kanbar likes gets beaten up — but I Jell-O. As for compassion, to remind me, “Belling- always go back for more. I’ll bite. Lots of sugar. Even ham, I do the jokes around But there is kindness the sweet things in life h e re .” in the vicinity. And there give us bitterness. Perhaps I know my place. Mau- is cruelty as well. One I should give Jell-O a sec- rice has the floor. Actually, HAPPY HOUR DAILY has to play the positives ond try. We need a second he has several of them. against the negatives. try. And, for sweet’s sake, He is the Prince of Pacif- FRIED CHICKEN TUESDAY That reminds me. My we need the sugar. That’s ic Heights. And a very BEEF WELLINGTON WEDNESDAY doctor, Samantha Besse- what life is all about. … generous man. He loves PRIME RIB THURSDAY ga, who is truly a great That is the definition of young people who show SUNDAY BRUNCH physician, said, “Thanks compassion. some enthusiasm for cre- for the newspaper, Mr. Have you ever looked ativity. For example, the SPAGHETTI SUPPER SUNDAY Bellingham. Is my name at a racehorse closely? If San Francisco Girls Cho- in it?” the horse likes you, then rus. He built them a house “Well, Dr. B. Not this its riveting eyes — usually so they could sing. And, t i m e .” brown — will freeze you boy, can they ever. “Then,” she shoots in your tracks, so to speak. What’s that old Benny back, “Why would I want It happened to me. I recall Goodman tune? “And the to read it?” the enormous nostrils. Angels Sing.” I’m not in a Point taken. Nothing to snort at. Don’t hurry to hear any angels There are talented get me wrong. Honest. Of sing to me. But it’s not people in these parts. course, I could not take so bad to contemplate. As They are like racehors- the horse home. She’d be long as they may let me es. It would be unwise to too hard on the carpets. … chime in. I’ll bring my har- restrict them. Out of the But things get twisted monica. paddocks and straight in the right way — well, Do you think they’ll into our hearts. sometimes. let me sing, “Let’s Twist 3213 SCOTT ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CA 4154008500 I refer to Soledad Here’s an example. It’s Again”? CORNER OF SCOTT AND LOMBARD MAYBECKS.COM O’Brien, the great star KJ Landis. She works at I’ll check with Nancy at CNN — who retains a the Urban Tavern in the Pelosi about that. place in my heart. Tom San Francisco downtown But it is Christmas in July. Newton, who was a pro- Hilton hotel. But KJ has And here, in San Francisco, ducer at KRON Channel twisted her kindness in the weather’s just fine. Let 4, said to me, “When Sole- all the right direction. She it snow, let it snow … and dad walked into the news- has a new book out. She gosh, let it snow … room, we knew we had is a “Superior Self.” KJ is a thoroughbred on our a relentless advocate for Bruce Bellingham is hands.” getting kids — even at the author of Belling- When I wrote a profile my age — to take care of ham by the Bay. Send of Soledad for a magazine, themselves. She’s a former him a twisted message at the editor took out that professional model. Boy, [email protected]. phrase, “… a thorough- she doesn’t show it? I also Follow the Marina Times on bred on our hands.” Spiked confess that I have affec- Twitter @The MarinaTimes it as they say. tion for women who wear and like us on Facebook “Why?” I asked. neckties. KJ is devoted to @MarinaTimes. “My love of San Francisco’s history, Imagined Conversations beauty, and architecture By Jay Duret inspires the work I do July 2017 every day.” (c) Jay Duret 2017 www.jayduret.com

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4 JULY 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM Will an Amazonian Whole Foods take over the whole food market? PHOTO: ASPERSIONS

Reynold's Rap like to pick out my own produce. Bezos, continued from cover realizing this chink in the armor of his world domination plan, announced in over a quarter of the market, followed June that Amazon would buy Whole by independent shops eking out a fifth Foods for $13.7 billion. Turns out just of the sales, with supermarkets, book 1.4 percent of groceries are purchased clubs, and others taking the crumbs. online, according to Yahoo Finance. Perhaps Bezos’s smartest move was If approved, it would be Amazon’s his ability to use to his great advantage largest acquisition ever and give it a a 1992 Supreme Court ruling (Quill huge offline footprint — something Corp. v. North Dakota), which exempt- that should scare the bejesus out of ed retailers from charging sales tax in mom and pop grocers and large chains states without a physical presence. For like Safeway alike. One of the stron- years, he avoided collecting hundreds gest weapons in Amazon’s arsenal is of millions of that they don’t dollars, which care if they helped Ama- lose money, zon put a large Perhaps Jeff Bezos's because they nail in the book have it to lose. business coffin. smartest move was his Until recently, Two decades Amazon had ago there were use of the exemption of never shown a 4,000 indepen- profit, yet ana- dent bookstores online retailers from lysts believed in the United charging sales tax. in Bezos so States; today, much the stock fewer than half hit $1,000 per of those remain. Like the cartoon where share, making Bezos the second-richest the small fish is eaten by the medium person in the world after Bill Gates, fish and the medium fish is swallowed with a net worth in the $75 billion by a shark, the two chains responsible range. in part for the demise of independents Now California congressman Ro saw Amazon take a near-lethal bite: Khanna says the deal deserves clos- Borders declared bankruptcy in 2011 er examination. “The main problem and Barnes & Noble has closed thou- is it is going to hurt local grocery sands of stores. stores,” Khanna, whose district includes Today, Amazon sells everything much of Silicon Valley, said on CNBC’s on the planet, usually cheaper than Squawk on the Street, because they can brick and mortar stores and, if you’re a “engage in low-cost pricing and it is Prime member, with free shipping. I’d also going to put pressure on wages.” love to say I always support the small He pointed to Walmart, which has a local business, but I can’t because, like 22 percent share of the American gro- most Americans, I have an Amazon cery business, and the negative impact addiction. Sometimes the stores are at it’s had on regional stores. Amazon fault, like when I went to a local hard- and Whole Foods could force them to ware store to reduce wages to buy an arbor keep up, which for my garden could stifle the and the clerk battle for a $15 stared blankly The harsh reality is that minimum wage. at me and said, you can't push the Perhaps even “We get those more fright- in March and elephant out of the room ening is Ama- they’re sold zon’s ability to out.” I was star- when it's already too big replace cashiers tled. “Isn’t that a with hundreds summer item?” to t through the door. of surveillance She shrugged sensors that can her shoulders. identify items “We get them in March ...” So I logged and bill a customer’s account, some- on to AmazonSmile (a site where Ama- thing they’re already doing at an Ama- As a supplier to artists in the late 60’s in San Francisco, zon makes a donation to your favorite zon-owned grocery store in Seattle. we enjoyed being part of the creativity and joy of the times. charity for every purchase) and found While Khanna’s desire to scrutinize During the 50th anniversary of the “Summer of Love”, about 50 different arbors to choose the Amazon-Whole Foods deal looks from, with free delivery to my door, of good on paper, it may be too little too we’d be happy to help you celebrate. Make your own tie-dye course. late. Amazon has been allowed to grow shirts with our kits and our classes. Find ﬁrst edition Fillmore Then there’s the convenience factor. unfettered for years, taking out brick- posters (many of the artists were frequent visitors to our Sutter When I wanted to make mashed pota- and-mortar retailers with broad strokes toes the next day for a recipe I was test- of its mammoth trunk. The harsh real- Street store) and enjoy your right to freedom of expression! ing, I realized my peeler was too dull ity is that you can’t push the elephant to do the job. It was 100 degrees and I out of the room when it’s already too didn’t feel like braving the outdoors, so big to fit through the door. | I ordered one on Amazon for $5.95 and FLAXART.COM FORT MASON CENTER • 415.530.3510 it was delivered free the next morning. E-mail: [email protected]. Follow the FMC hours: Mon–Sat 10am–6:30pm, Sun 10am–6pm The only thing I don’t order on Ama- Marina Times on Twitter @TheMarinaTimes OAKLAND • 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way zon is groceries — they have them, but I and like us on Facebook @MarinaTimes.

MARINATIMES.COM MARINA TIMES JULY 2017 5 N Police Blotter Crimes and occasional punishment Smash-and-grabs and death: Perils in the city

spotted on a BMX bike, trying to look having experienced two murders. into a Jeep Compass. Early on May 20 on the 100 block A plainclothes officer arrived and Tof Alhambra Street, a man believed to be watched the suspect burglarize a vehicle homeless was found to have suffered a and then leave on his bike. The officer gunshot wound. Northern Station Cap- alerted other officers, who moved in and tain John Jaimerena says, “All efforts were detained the suspect without incident. made to save this male’s life, but he passed The suspect was searched and found to away a day later.” He asks that anyone have a lot of U.S. currency and suspected with information should contact Sgt. narcotics, possibly methamphetamine, in Scott Warnke at 415-553-9249. his pockets. He also had an open wound In the early hours of June 2 on the 2500 on his leg, so he was taken to the hospital block of Van Ness Avenue, there was a and, once medically cleared to leave, was second homicide. Jaimerena reports that booked at County Jail. that was followed quickly with an arrest by Northern Station’s officers. IF ONLY WE’D TRIED UBER There was another death on June 22 June 5, 8:08 p.m. that was not a murder, but was perhaps all Hickory at Franklin Street the more tragic for it. A teenage girl hik- A crime-committing duo were report- ing at Land's End with two friends fell to ed to be boosting an auto. They were her death. Rescuers had trouble reaching described as a male and female pair, and her because of the dangerous location, but officers quickly recognized them from they finally did get her; however, she died previous contacts. while in the ambulance. The two were frantically trying to get According to the United States Park into a cab to leave the area. The offi- Police, investigation by its Criminal Inves- cers stopped and detained both suspects. tigations Unit showed that the girl “and They found that the suspects had a stolen two other juveniles had parked a vehicle duffle bag, as well as a screwdriver and a along El Camino Del Mar. All three juve- glass pipe used for smoking meth. A niles walked down to a fence that has a computer check on the suspects showed sign indicating “Danger Area Closed.” All that they were on court probation for three juveniles disregarded this sign and burglary with a warrantless search con- made their way through this fence and dition. They were booked at County Jail. walked to the Painted Rock cliffs' edge. ... At some point, one of the juveniles fell ISN’T EVERYBODY ON PROBATION approximately 150 to 200 feet and landed THESE DAYS? on a large rock. June 5, 2:51 a.m. “We ask the public to adhere to all 1400 block of Sutter Street signage in the park and even in approved Officers responded to a report of an C R W M... hiking areas, the public should keep a safe auto burglary. They were informed that distance from all cliff edges.” the male suspect, about 35 42 years old In less deadly but still troubling crime and wearing the de rigueur auto-boost- news, Jaimerena reports that auto bur- er’s uniform of dark jacket and dark hat, glaries continue to plague the Northside was using a flashlight to look through a and that “we have made it the high- vehicle. est priority to apprehend the individuals The officers arrived and detained the involved.” He notes that in each of the suspect. A neighbor came out to meet situations described below, arrests were the officers and confirmed “That is the made in cases that all resulted from peo- guy I saw break into the vehicle.” The rear ple calling the police to alert them to the window of the vehicle was shattered, and crimes. The lesson here: Do not leave the suspect was carrying a bag containing B D valuables in your vehicle. burglary tools and the victim’s personal property, including identification and Real Estate Maverick The crimes below are just a small selec- credit cards. tion of the occurrences in the Northside. A computer check revealed that this LICENSE # 01175481 [email protected] For more info, visit the SFPD website, select suspect was also on active probation for www.BarbaraDunlap.com “compstat” to find a link to crime maps. burglary. He was booked at County Jail. 415-359-6445 @barbara.dunlap STREET CHASE ON FOOT YOU’D THINK A MERCEDES DRIVER June 3, 3:01 p.m. WOULDN’T NEED TO STEAL Cleary at Laguna Street PURSES Two male juveniles were reported to be June 5, 2:30 p.m. peering into the window of a light-blue 2000 block of Bay Street sedan. Both were wearing black hoodies. The owner of a vehicle told the police Uniformed officers arrived on the scene, that he had locked his vehicle and left and when the subjects saw the officers, for a few hours, only to return to find the they began running away. The officers rear driver’s-side window smashed and a took off after them, catching up and tak- purse missing from inside the vehicle. ing them into custody without incident. Then a witness told the officers that he The officers then retraced the suspects’ had seen a Mercedes pull up alongside path and found a backpack, which was the victim’s vehicle, an unknown male positively identified by the owner of the got out, broke the window, and took the vehicle as his. The rear window of the car purse. The officers got a description of the had also been broken. Both subjects were suspect and his Benz and broadcast it to transported to Northern Station. other police units. Within minutes, officers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle WEARING BLACK MAKES YOU that matched the description and saw that LOOK THINNER there was a beige purse in the backseat of June 4, 11:59 a.m. the vehicle. The victim was brought to the Franklin at Golden Gate Avenue scene and identified the purse. Officers were told that a suspect— Officers also located a large quantity of wearing a black hat, black jacket, jeans, what they suspected was marijuana in the and gloves, and carrying a black back- vehicle. County Jail chalked up another pack—was casing vehicles. He had been booking that day.

6 JULY 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM From the District 2 Supervisor Mom power The rebirth of Mountain Lake Park Playground: The three amazing women who made it happen

BY MARK FARRELL Lafayette Park, finalized the the Mountain Lake Park Play- Park worked with neighbors For those of us with little chil- improvements soon to come at ground and offered their unre- and the public to host com- dren, separate play areas were Moscone Recreation Center, and stricted support. Jen Fetner’s munity meetings, issue surveys, created for toddlers and older are San Francisco’s great most recently reopened Moun- background in architecture, and to develop a design for all children, so everyone, regard- equalizer. They are free tain Lake Park Playground after Kate Green’s professional project of the park improvements. Per- less of age, would have a safe Pto anyone, from any age and years of work. management experience, and haps most important, through and fun place to play. The ren- neighborhood, to use and enjoy All across San Francisco, we Claire Myers’s deep relationships the leadership of Kate, Claire, ovations also included a terrace as they wish. They enhance our are blessed to have neighbor- in the neighborhood served as a and Jen, the Friends of Moun- picnic area and a larger open quality of life, generate signif- hood leaders and park advocates perfect trifecta of backgrounds tain Lake Park was able to raise space between the playground icant economic benefits, and who are willing to roll up their and experience to lead the com- more than $300,000 in private for parents to park their stroll- improve our environment. On sleeves and join hand-in-hand munity and the project. funds and secure more than ers and congregate. top of having three young chil- with the city to work to make Make no mistake: This was $400,000 worth of pro-bono Everyone in my family has dren, it’s why I have made parks their neighborhood parks better. their vision, their advocacy, and architectural design work from a different “favorite” part of and open spaces one of my top Thankfully, Mountain Lake the Mountain Lake Park Play- BCJ architects to complete the the new Mountain Lake Park priorities inside of City Hall. Park Playground is no differ- ground that we all can enjoy park renovations. Playground — there is so much In dense urban areas like San ent. One of the crown jewels of now with our families would After a significant construc- to love. This project is the epit- Francisco, I believe it is cru- District 2, the playground was never have happened without tion process, we finally reopened ome of what is possible when cial to not only maintain our initially built more than 30 years their incredible efforts. Mountain Lake Park Playground we all work together to improve parks and open spaces, but to ago and was in desperate need When we first met, every- in early June. My wife and I our neighborhood, and a tes- upgrade and add new parks and of attention. Unfortunately, it one agreed it was past time to have been there every week tament to true neighborhood open spaces wherever possible. had barely been touched since I make improvements in Moun- since with our children, and leadership. It is why I fought to purchase used to barrel down the cement tain Lake Park, but the proj- early reports are traffic to the No matter where you find the Francisco Reservoir to create slide as a kid growing up while ect scale was daunting. In City neighborhood has doubled (a yourself hanging out on the a brand-new, 4.1-acre park in visiting friends in the neighbor- Hall, we placed Mountain Lake future issue my office will have playground, no matter what age the middle of Russian Hill, and hood. Park Playground into the 2014 to tackle). or demographic you represent, why I have supported similar Back in 2010, three amazing Parks Bond, and I was able to As for the playground itself, know that the new Mountain projects in other San Francisco women — Kate Green, Claire add additional funds through in case you haven’t visited yet, Lake Park Playground would neighborhoods. Myers, and Jen Fetner — took the Board of Supervisors. How- the renovations did an amaz- not exist without the deter- As our San Francisco popu- it upon themselves to create and ever, it was not enough to make ing job respecting the park and mined effort of Kate, Claire and lation continues to grow, our organize the Friends of Moun- all the needed improvements playground’s history, while also Jen — three amazing women, parks and open spaces should tain Lake Park. I originally met and upgrades the neighborhood becoming more modern. For three amazing moms — who grow right alongside. In Dis- them in City Hall early in my deserved. example, the beloved concrete had the vision and followed it trict 2, we have recently com- first term, when they came to So for the past five years, slide is still in place with a new up with years of action to make pleted the total renovation of advocate for renovations to the Friends of Mountain Lake scrambling wall alongside it. it happen.

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MARINATIMES.COM MARINA TIMES JULY 2017 7 N Sketches from a North Beach Journal P hil’s Electric Co . The Cellar, legacy businesses, SINCE 1941 SALES SERVICE PARTS and Elvis Christ has left the SPECIALIZING IN MIELE SEBO ELECTROLUX BLUEAIR neighborhood ORECK RICCAR DYSON SANITAIRE BY ERNEST BEYL & Tony’s, in Mt. Shasta. (1971), Sodini’s Green ROYAL HOOVER KENMORE This is a two-part story. Valley Restaurant (1906), POETRY AND JAZZ Part one: Gigi’s son fired Columbus Cutlery (1964), In the spring of 1957, him because he served too Graffeo Coffee Roasting poetry and jazz co-min- many drinks on the house. Company (1932), Liguria Expert gled as an art form in the Part two: Gigi, a prodi- Bakery (1911), Little City Cellar, a basement night- gious restaurateur, is open- Market (1940), and Cafe club in North Beach. The ing another restaurant, Jacqueline (1979). Cellar, 576 Green Street, Piedmonte, in Mt. Shas- LAMP is long gone and so is the ta. It will be Gigi’s 14th HOT DOG HOMAGE As readers will recall, I am a hot dog connoisseur. REPAIR So the other day I dropped by the mother ship — What were my quali cations for Costco — to do a bit of ELECTRIC SHAVERS: BRAUN NORELCO REMINGTON being in such august company? on-the-spot research. I was not disappointed. I worked I look like Lawrence Ferlinghetti tirelessly at the chopped onion machine, one of the IMPORTED — catching up with him in age. great inventions of the 21st century. Two things make FROM EUROPE! experiment of combining restaurant: Among them Costco’s hot dogs special: jazz and poetry. Howev- — Montclair, Mayes Oys- chopped raw onion (hence W elcome back er, a few days ago Sam’s ter House, Caesar’s, and the onion machine) and Grill, which has a pleasing Sotto Mare. Let’s charter a neon green sweet pickle habit of calling attention bus and go up there for the relish. For me there are to days gone by, featured a opening. only two places in San PERSIL program called “The Beat Francisco for hot dogs: LAUNDRY DETERGENT Goes on at Sam’s Grill.” NORTH BEACH Buster’s in North Beach It recreated the jazz with LEGACIES and Costco at 10th and poetry experiment in My favorite North Beach Harrison. 2701 Lombard Street @ Baker • (415) 921-3776 North Beach undertaken saloon, Gino and Carlo by Kenneth Rexroth and on Green Street, has been POET ELVIS CHRIST Open: Monday-Saturday 9am-5:30pm • philselectric.com Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In named a San Francisco No, I don’t usually do the Sam’s Grill recreation, legacy business. Do you obits in my Sketches col- Robert Hass, former poet know about San Francis- umn. But in this case let Outreach Ads July 2017 laureate of the United co’s legacy business pro- me make an exception. CONCESSION OPPORTUNITIES AT States, now a distinguished gram? It’s available to long- My friend, the street artist SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT professor at UC Berkeley, standing stores, restau- Elvis Christ, a wonderful San Francisco International Airport is accepting proposals for the following concession played the role of Rexroth. rants, bars, and galleries at madman whose real name opportunities: Other readers were Bren- risk of being priced out of was Kevin Arnold, died International Terminal “A” Food Hall and Café Concession Lease da Hillman, prize-win- the market. The businesses recently. International Terminal “A” Historic Restaurant Concession Lease ning poet from Berkeley, must be at least 30 years Elvis Christ was a side- International Terminal “A” Coffee Kiosk Concession Lease and poet-attorney John old, have contributed to walk poet. He used the Proposals will be received through the Airport’s RFP Web Portal from 2:00 p.m. on Monday, July 3, 2017 until 2:00 p.m. on Friday, July 7, 2017. Small, local and Briscoe. I played Ferling- the neighborhood’s histo- North Beach sidewalks to disadvantaged businesses are encouraged to participate. hetti. The jazz accompani- ry, and agree to maintain communicate his poet- For more information visit www.flysfo.com/business-at-sfo/current-opportunities or ment was handled by Noah their identity. The city has ic — frequently political contact Revenue Development and Management at 650-821-4500. Griffin, press secretary for a fund to benefit both the — social concepts. When CONCESSION OPPORTUNITIES AT SFO former mayor Frank Jor- dan, and talented, in-de- SFO is accepting proposals for the International Terminal Boarding Areas A and G Newsstand and Specialty Retail Concession Leases. The Request for Proposals mand vocalist, whose scat includes 3 Newsstand Leases and 2 Specialty Retail Leases. singing provided the prop- Elvis Christ was a guy who The proposed minimum annual financial offers range from $210,000.00 to er tone for the evening. $1,200,000.00. Terms are seven years. Rent shall be the higher of the Minimum What were my qualifi- wore his heart on his sleeve and Annual Guarantee or the sum of the percentage rent structured as follows: 12% cations for being in such of Gross Revenues achieved up to and including $500,000.00; plus 14% of Gross taped his brains to the sidewalk. Revenues achieved from $500,000.01 up to and including $1,000,000.00; plus16% august company? I look of Gross Revenues achieved over $1,000,000.00. Small, local and disadvantaged like Lawrence Ferlinghetti, businesses are encouraged to participate. seem to be catching up Elvis, we need you now. Proposals will be received through the Airport’s RFP Web Portal from 2:00 p.m. with him in age. on Monday, July 3, 2017 until 2:00 p.m. on Friday, July 7, 2017. Rexroth scholar Ken property owner and the he got a brilliant idea, he For more information, visit www.flysfo.com/business-at-sfo/current-opportunities or Knabb dropped this one establishment. Financial scrawled it on masking contact Clarissa Mamaril at 650.821.4500 or via e-mail at clarissa.mamaril@flysfo. com. on me after the event: On incentives include rent sta- tape and stuck it on the one occasion before read- bilization grants. sidewalk. Try this: The Assessment Appeals Board resolves legal and value assessment issues between the Assessor’s office and property owners. We have three vacancies on ing his poetry, Rexroth Among other North Fame is nothing but an ego Board 1, which oversees all downtown properties – high rise residential, office, said, “Well, what would Beach legacy businesses are trip for those with enor- commercial, hotels. Board 1 also oversees all properties over $50 million in assessed you like tonight, sex, mys- Specs’ Twelve Adler Muse- mous inferiority complexes. value throughout the City. ticism, or revolution?” A um Cafe (1968), Macchia- While the best men wrestle Assessment appeal hearings are quasi-judicial, conducted in a manner similar to a woman in the audience rini Creative Design and with the enormous com- court setting, with evidence and testimony presented by the parties. The Board then evaluates the evidence and testimony, and renders its decision. replied, “What’s the dif- Metalworks (1948), Caffe plexities, the worst yearn ference?” Trieste (1956), and City for power and prominence. To be eligible, you must have a minimum of five years professional experience in California as either a: (1) public accountant; (2) real estate broker; (3) attorney; or (4) Lights Booksellers and Elvis Christ was a guy property appraiser accredited by a nationally recognized organization, or certified by GIGI STRIKES AGAIN Publishers (1953). who wore his heart on his either the Office of Real Estate Appraiser or the State Board of Equalization. I ran into Gigi Fiorucci And standing in the sleeve and taped his brains For more information regarding the Assessment Appeals Board call (415) 554-6778. recently and asked what he wings waiting for leg- to the sidewalk. Over 100 sites throughout San Francisco are serving free lunches and snacks to was up to these days since acy business approval Elvis, we need you now. anyone age 18 and under every weekday through August 18. No registration or proof he sold his seminal North are these North Beach of need is required: show up at a site during designated serving times and you will be Beach seafood restaurant, establishments: Canes- A CLOSER FROM MILES served a free lunch and/or snack. Find a site near you at www.dcyf.org! Gigi’s Sotto Mare, to Richie sa Gallery (1966), Tom- “Don’t fear mis- Everyone is invited to join the Department of Elections and the Public Library in celebration of National Disability Voter Registration Week and the exhibit “Patient No Azzolino back in 2014. maso’s Ristorante Italia- takes. There are none.” More: People with disabilities securing civil rights.”July 18 beginning at 5:00 pm at the For a while Gigi had been no (1935), Vesuvio Café — Attributed to Miles Davis Main Library 100 Larkin Street. working as bartender in (1948), Mario’s Bohemi- CNS-3022987# his son’s restaurant, Mike an Cigar Store and Cafe E-mail: [email protected]

8 JULY 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM From the District 3 Supervisor City College San Francisco Education for all requires investment from all

BY AARON PESKIN lition of labor, students, and faculty, public schools because they already Andy can now receive a good education received money from the state and at San Francisco City College free of federal government. Naysayers also celebrated a milestone grad- charge. We fought early on at the Board argued that not everyone had a child in uation. There was a cap and of Supervisors to secure commitments any school, let alone in a public school Mgown, a crisp diploma, a clip-on tie that Proposition W revenue would go — so why should they have to help sub- — and plenty of cake. Andy graduated to making City College free before we sidize other people’s children? from kindergarten at Gordon J. Lau won the ballot measure in November The lesson we learned is that every Elementary, and I could not be prouder 2016, and since that time, it’s been a child is our responsibility — and our of Andy and of the great things that he focused slog to implement the will of future neighbor, future co-worker, and is destined to do. the voters. future contributor to our community. At 5 years old, he already has more Last month I wrote about the chal- In an era when our president wants to energy than an entire kindergarten lenges of a gig economy that not only fund more weapons of mass destruc- classroom and carries himself with a impacts the quality of life and public tion by cutting funding to education, sense of invincibility that only the very safety of San Francisco residents, but we must fight for the future of our young possess. He is mischievous, clev- devalues our local economy with a children. In an increasingly hostile er, and loves to laugh. You will often “race to the bottom” ethos. Ultimately, workplace, not only young people but City College San Francisco. PHOTO: UMI find him zipping around Joe DiMaggio cities are now planning for a future older workers who are unable to retire Playground in a little yellow Corvette (a that will prioritize the convenience of or who must come back to school to how to start up his own small business Christmas gift from my wife Nancy and automated labor over workers altogeth- refresh their skill sets deserve our high- — or just discuss the intersectionality me) or marching through Chinatown, er. As we grapple with how to address est prioritization. This is the workforce of comics, power, and society — for proudly singing whatever new nurs- these challenges in San Francisco, I am that ultimately makes our community free. And it will be an education that he ery song he learned in school. To be reminded of why we fought so hard for the vibrant home for the innovation we can be proud of and that will value the around Andy is to know joy — a little free City College: to offer a future for are so proud of. limitless potential he has to offer our tornado of joy. San Franciscans like Andy that values City College has launched an aggres- community. Andy’s mother, Huina, is the wife their development as human beings sive campaign to recruit students. State Please enroll yourself and help spread of the late Kwong Choy, a very active and acknowledges that public educa- funding is tied to enrollment numbers, the word about the opportunities at Community Tenants Association tion is a fundamental right. and we have to get the word out about City College — our public institution, (CTA) member who became a tenant I remember when a debate simmered the amazing opportunities available to by and for the people. It is our respon- leader after fighting off the family’s Ellis across San Francisco about whether every San Franciscan to ensure long- sibility to maintain and keep alive. Act eviction on Grant Avenue. Huina is the city should help fund afterschool term ongoing funding. City College can And who knows? Maybe Andy will now active with Unite Here! Local 2 as and summer school classes that would once again be synonymous with having go to Harvard or overseas to pursue his a hotel worker, and it’s clear that both ensure our SFUSD juniors and seniors the world be your oyster. dreams. But a City College education parents have passed down the tenacity graduated college-ready. Arguments I love the thought that someday Andy is an option that he can be proud to of an organizer to their offspring. poured in across the city — and even will be able to take a construction man- claim as his birthright — and some- Thanks to the hard work of Supervi- from within our own city government agement course, improve his Chinese thing to fight for, just like his parents sor Jane Kim and a broad-based coa- — that City Hall should not subsidize and English, learn how to code, learn taught him.

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The Lands End Lookout BY MARCIA GAGLIARDI ing in the former Mehfil FISHERMAN’S WHARF space (but it will always Just in time for the gor- Be sure to visit the Lookout Cafe at the Lands End visitor center. FINANCIAL DISTRICT be the Alta Plaza in my geous weather, Ghirar- Operated by the Cliff House team, the cafe serves a delicious selection Great news, buckaroos. heart, RIP). Owners Zack delli Square has opened of locally sourced grab-and-go items including the famous It’s It Alfred’s (659 Merchant Schwab and Shane Mat- an outdoor beer garden originally for sale at Playland at the Beach. Street, 415-781-7058, thews have a strong craft with San Francisco Brew- alfredssf.com) has finally beer background (Mik- ing Co. in the West Plaza The center, under the direction of the Golden Gate National Parks reopened after that nasty keller and Monk’s Kettle), (although don’t worry, Conservancy, offers educational and interactive exhibits, a museum fire in the basement back and are partnering with there are heat lamps as store, stunning views, and the amazing Lands End Trails. in April. You just can’t chef Brian Shin (Alinea, well — you know how keep an almost 90-year- Corton, Benu, In Situ) and things go here). You’ll Open daily from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm old restaurant down! The Jacob Racusin (recently find five of San Francisco Located at Point Lobos and Merrie Way space is sparkling clean, head of the bar program at Brewing Co.’s craft beers, and the vintage crystal The Alembic). So basically, along with two Bluxome 1090 Point Lobos chandeliers got quite the it will have a rocking beer Street wines and two local 415-386-3330 cleaning. selection (20 taps), craft ciders. Hungry? You can www.CliffHouse.com The menu also got a bit cocktails with seasonal order food from nearby of a revamp. Chef Daniel and house-made compo- Waxman’s and The Pub to Patterson has put a mod- nents, and inventive takes bring back to the space ern interpretation of a on classic bar food. Other and dine at the communal classic San Francisco dish highlights: There will be tables. The Stu Tails will on the menu, celery Victor, a cask engine serving real perform daily from 1–3 plus some other additions ale and a selection of bot- p.m. and 4–6 p.m., plus to the bar bites menu, like tled beers focused around there’s ping-pong, corn mushrooms stuffed with sours, stouts, and strong hole, Jenga, and a life-size oxtail, marrow, and smoky ales. Local ciders and Connect Four. Thursday– crumbs, and you can now wines will also be available Saturday 11 a.m.–10 p.m. get their onion rings and on draft, plus a cellar of and Sunday 11 a.m.–6 fried shishito peppers to rare and vintage bottles. p.m. share as well. As for the name, it’s An addition that harks inspired by all the cozy NOB HILL back to Alfred’s Italian nooks (snugs) in the room, Last year, I men- roots is the debut of house- which will have a living tioned the former Fly Bar made pasta on the menu. room vibe. Britt Hull of was getting new owners There are now three kinds: Tide Design Co. is behind and would become Mill- clam linguine with Manila the interior and graph- er’s Rest (1085 Sutter clams, hand-cut noodles, ic design. Hours will be Street, 415-441-4232, garlic, and parsley; gnoc- Sunday–Thursday 4 p.m.– millersrest.com), and here chetti with summer vege- midnight and until 2 a.m. are details on the open- tables and green olive oil; Friday–Saturday. Brunch ing. Mark and Terry Miller and strozzapreti with spicy and outdoor seating are have given the space some tomato-vodka sauce. And also in the works. Look for cabin design touches (it for those who don’t want an opening this fall. was inspired by Mark Mill- to partake in Alfred’s glori- Just up the street, Blue er’s childhood lake cabin, ous mesquite-grilled, dry- Bottle (2455 Fillmore called Miller’s Rest). The aged Flannery Beef steaks, Street, 510-653-3394, bar menu has five specialty you’ll find some new bluebottlecoffee.com) has cocktails ($10), and bites options, like lamb chops opened its latest location include smoked trout bran- and petrale sole. It’s sum- in the former Tully’s and dade, a trio of flatbreads, mertime, so grilled peach Juicy News spaces, previ- lake house chili, and fried melba with raspberry sor- ously Shumate’s Pharmacy, chicken. 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10 JULY 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM Hungry Palate tomatoes, prosciutto, chicken livers, tuna, continued from cover and at Calzone’s, my favorite Dungeness crab. The bread, delivered twice daily Restaurant, Osso’s Steakhouse, and The from Acme Bread Company, is excellent. Old Clam House. In Sausalito there’s One day I made a fine meal of the Cae- Salito’s Crab House and Prime Rib, and sar salad — again with the addition of in Crockett there’s The Dead Fish. An Dungeness crab ($14). It’s also available impressive empire. with sliced beef steak or chicken ($14). But back to Calzone’s: Just what then If the basic Caesar salad is your choice is a calzone? It’s a small pizza folded in a ($12), you will be happy. The romaine half-moon, and stuffed with this or that. lettuce is crisp, with just the right amount I’ve tried several here and found them of dressing. to be a good lunchtime meal if you add There’s an heirloom tomato salad ($13) a glass of wine. My favorite is the cal- served with red onions, avocado, crou- zone with steak and peppers ($19). Inside tons, and balsamic vinegar. The tomatoes is diced filet mignon with caramelized are organic from San Francisco Specialty onions, cherry peppers, and a bit of white Produce. I had them one evening with cheddar cheese. an order of calamari ($18) with a spicy I’m told the word calzone means trou- chipotle remoulade that enhanced them ser in Italian and this steak-stuffed “trou- nicely. Another surprisingly fine meal ser” is easy to like and easy to eat. Unlike was the seared scallops ($17) wrapped in Calzone's Pizza Cucina's heirloom tomato salad. PHOTO: PHOTO: MISHA BRUK the typical pizza, which droops and drips prosciutto and napped with wasabi aioli. when you pick it up, the folded calzone is All pastas are house made. Good choic- both chewy and flaky at the edges. es are fettuccini with Dungeness crab and I should also note that all prices listed NOT TO MISS DISHES Another good choice for me is the cherry tomatoes ($25), and Lasagna Al here and on the official menu include Calzones, crostini, and bruschetta. The crostini with Dungeness crab ($12 for Forno ($25). The lasagna is done with a sales tax. Gratuities, though, are extra. lasagna is outstanding. two, $5 for each additional). It’s piled high deeply flavored sugo with pork and beef. Calzone’s Pizza Cucina: 430 Columbus with fresh crab. Another is the tomato Desserts are $10 and include a compe- Avenue, daily 11:30 a.m.–1 a.m., 415-397- WHAT THE DIAMONDS MEAN bruschetta ($12 for four, $4 for each addi- tent Tiramisu. 3600, calzonesf.com. Ratings range from zero to four dia- tional). Calzone’s has a full-service bar and monds and reflect food, atmosphere, and Both bruschetta and crostini are listed lists a variety of the fancy craft drinks so GGG service, taking price range and type of together on the menu. I’m not enough of popular these days, as well as the simpler restaurant into consideration. In the case a dedicated foodie to distinguish between cocktails and highballs. There’s also a AMBIENCE of Calzone’s, I give it four diamonds for the two, but I’m advised there is a clear wine list with both Italian and California Most attractive restaurant in North ambience and three for food. It’s a terrific difference. Both are toasted bread topped offerings by the bottle, decanter, or glass, Beach: You could be in an Italian place to hang out — especially at those with a variety of flavorful offerings. Brus- and one Malbec from Argentina. Add movie. sidewalk tables. And as I said above, the chetta is frequently presented as thinly to these beverages the usual draft and food is surprisingly good. sliced, toasted bread doused with olive bottled beers, and soft drinks, and you SOUND LEVEL oil, rubbed with garlic, and sprinkled have a more than adequate selection to Dining on the sidewalk means street OUR REVIEW POLICY with chopped Roma tomatoes and a bit accompany your meal. Then to round noise, but that’s all part of it, isn’t it? We conduct multiple visits anonymous- of sweet basil. Crostini, also thinly sliced it off you can stay and people-watch a Inside can get loud in the evening when ly and pay our own tab. toasted bread, is the more elaborate of the while longer over an espresso, cappucci- they crank up Italian music on the two, and toppings can include sun-dried no, or latte. sound system. E-mail: [email protected]

MARINATIMES.COM MARINA TIMES JULY 2017 11 A E Art World Missing by Sophie Calle at the San Francisco waterfront this summer

BY SHARON ANDERSON as to their meaning. Take Care of Yourself (2007), located in Gallery 308 and orig- A. , - inally created for the French Pavilion of ceptual artist Sophie Calle brings the 2007 Venice Biennale, documents her installation Missing to San 107 women interpreting a break-up let- TFrancisco. This exhibition, presented by ter the artist received from a former the Fort Mason Center for the Arts & Cul- lover. Located in the Firehouse with ture (FMCAC), will be her most extensive dazzling views of the San Francisco Bay, to date in the United States. Voir la mer (2011) is a film installation Missing follows the themes running in which residents of Istanbul view the through Calle’s career, erasing the lines ocean for the first time. The Last Image between art and experience, past and (2010), also located in the Firehouse, is present, artist and a collection of pho- viewer. Calle’s nar- tographs and text rative style invites depicting the last participants to an visual memory of informal space Missing brings Calle blind people. to tell stories in a Related events manner that creates back to where her art include a conver- a shared experience sation with Calle with participants. career began — in the at FMCAC and a In a sense, Miss- San Francisco Bay Area. screening of film ing is a retro- and video works spective. Five of at UC Berkeley Calle’s major projects are merged into Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, a site-responsive presentation on the which includes a conversation with the scenic FMCAC campus located on the artist. Calle will also have a book signing San Francisco waterfront. Emphasizing at City Lights, and a film anthology at the the analogy of mother and sea, Missing Roxie Theater. reflects on the universal experience of Missing and its related programming Top: Sophie Calle, Voir la mer (detail), 2011; Bottom left fo right: Couldn’t loss, disappearance, and absence. Rachel brings Calle back to where her art career Capture Death, 2007; Take Care of Yourself, 2007. IMAGES: COURTESY SOPHIE CALLE/ADAGP, Monique (2007), installed in the former began — in the San Francisco Bay PARIS, 2017, COURTESY PAULA COOPER GALLERY, FRAENKEL GALLERY, AND GALERIE PERROTIN U.S. Army Chapel, is an intimate multi- Area. Her career started in the Boli- media exploration of the personality and nas cemetery in the late 1970s where midst of rapid change and global crisis, present an artist’s life, and through her final moments of Sophie Calle’s mother. she photographed the words “Mother” our search for meaning and perma- stories we recognize our own. True Stories (1988), located in the histor- and “Father” engraved on various head- nence has never been so obvious.” Calle’s ic General’s Residence, is a presentation stones. Curator Evelyne Jouanno adds: installations and performances merge Sharon Anderson is an artist and writer in of the artist’s personal belongings com- “Calle’s work continues to be extremely to form a single creative statement con- Southern California. She can be reached bined with autobiographical anecdotes impactful. Especially today, when in the nected by the anecdotes, which together through mindtheimage.com.

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In the late 19th century through the early 20th century, no one, men nor women, would consider venturing into public without a chapeau. Degas and his contemporar- ies were fascinated with the art and activity of hat making, including the women who bought the hats. Women not only designed hats — and Degas respected them as artists in their own right — but they also owned and operated their own millinery shops, and employed a staff of mostly women to construct the hats. The Impressionist artists depicted women designing hats, wearing hats, and delivering hats. Paris, already recognized as the fash- ion capital of the world, had about 1,000 milliners at this time. The millinery trade, along with the first modern department store, Au Bon Marché, gave birth to modern consumerism and changed gender roles with women in the workforce — all of which is depicted in the works on dis- play in addition to the art and industry of hat making. The exhibition has received acclaim by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, respectively referring to it as “groundbreaking” and “innovative.” We agree this is a not-to-miss exhibition. Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade: Tue.–Sun., through Sept. 24, 9:30 a.m.–5:15 p.m., Lincoln Park (100 34th Ave.), $28, 415-750- 3600, famsf.org Left: Madame Pouyanne, designer, Woman's bonnet, ca. 1885, wool felt, silk velvet, silk embroidery in satin stitches, and bird of paradise, cock, and other feathers; right: Maison Virot, Woman's hat, ca. 1900 with alterations. Plaited straw over E-mail: [email protected] wire frame; silk velvet and maline; silk roses, leaves, and ferns. IMAGES COURTESY OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO

12 JULY 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM Michael Snyder on ... Film Historically cinematic

BY MICHAEL SNYDER across the pond (Ireland and Great Britain) about the value and validity of presuming what may have happened during a private in the day said, “Those who cannot moment in October 2006 when Ian Paisley, remember the past are condemned to a Protestant minister and leader of the Srepeat it.” If only I could recall who that was. pro-British Democratic Unionist Party, met Just kidding. The quote comes from philos- Martin McGuinness, a Catholic politician opher and writer George Santayana who and spokesperson for the IRA-backed Sinn died in 1952 and had quite a way with aph- Fein party. Despite decades of struggle orisms. Santayana made a good point about between their parties and adherents, these mankind’s tendency to metaphorically trip two men had never been face-to-face until over the same rock twice. But I like to say, representatives of the British and Irish gov- “Those who cannot remember the past can ernments, including U.K. Prime Minister Colm Meaney as Martin McGuinness in Nick Hamm’s The Journey. just watch a movie about it, and if it’s a good Tony Blair, brought the opposing groups PHOTO: AIDAN MONAGHAN, COURTESY OF IFC FILMS one, they can watch it repeatedly.” And that together in St. Andrews, Scotland, to begin brings us to two new feature films that each the peace process. as human beings, and though the conver- another crucial moment during Germany’s take a different approach to recreating or Things were not going well at the summit sation is imagined by the screenwriter, the infamous Third Reich and the life of its examining significant historical events, and until a personal matter and safety protocols dialogue is entirely plausible. More signifi- notorious dictator via the award-winning largely achieve their respective goals. led Paisley and McGuinness to share a cantly, the actors playing these two pivotal docudrama 13 Minutes. This tense, dark, plane trip to Northern Ireland. Their con- characters — Timothy Spall as the tightly and revealing movie covers the prepara- THE JOURNEY versation on the flight would dispel years of wound, God-fearing true believer Paisley tion, execution, and aftermath of a failed Consider the daring of those who made enmity and have a major impact on finally and Colm Meaney as the earthier, more attempt by one decent German man to The Journey. It’s a fictionalized account of ending the ongoing struggle. But no one genial and pragmatic McGuinness — are a assassinate Hitler in November 1939. the first one-on-one interaction between knows specifically what was said. The Jour- pair of film and TV vets at the top of their Georg Elser was eventually arrested for two sworn enemies on either side of the ney, written by Colin Bateman and directed games. (Spall is known for his sterling work trying to kill Hitler, and was subjected to long and bloody conflict in Northern Ire- by Nick Hamm, lets us join Paisley and in a number of director Mike Leigh’s mov- painful interrogation and coercion by his land at the point when the factions were on McGuinness in the back seat of a town car ies and the Harry Potter films; and Meaney Nazi captors. That all plays out onscreen the verge of finally brokering peace. This as they’re driven to an airport some miles has co-starred in The Commitments, Layer in 13 Minutes, using flashbacks and Elser’s was and still is a volatile topic. Accordingly, from St. Andrews. The situation forces the Cake, and two of TV’s Star Trek series.) confessional narration to show why he there have been quibbles from pundits ideologues to truly get to know one another The claustrophobic nature of the two- chose to undertake his deadly plot, how he some stuck next to one another for the designed and implemented it, what went duration of the ride pays off with fire- wrong, and how he was caught. The title works. And a few stops on the way open up of the movie refers to a specific amount of the movie beyond the confines of the car. time that passed on the night Elser tried The Journey is further enhanced by solid to achieve his objective. Christian Friedel performances from the late John Hurt (in as Elser makes for an effective and quietly one of his final roles) as MI5 head Harry noble everyman. And though 13 Minutes is Patterson, Toby Stephens as Blair, and Fred- straightforward in its morality and depicts die Highmore as the driver assigned to Elser in obviously heroic terms, it is never shepherd Paisley and McGuinness to the less than sincere in its point of view and airport. Intimate yet geopolitically signifi- its affection for its central figure. He was cant, this is an excursion that pays off hand- a man who deserves to be remembered by somely, regardless of any caveats about history, and 13 Minutes makes it so. absolute historical accuracy. 13 Minutes opens July 7 at the Opera The Journey is currently playing at the Plaza Cinema, 601 Van Ness Avenue, 415- Clay Theater, 2261 Fillmore Street, 415- 771-0183, landmarktheatres.com. 561-9921, landmarktheatres.com. Michael Snyder is a print and broadcast 13 MINUTES journalist who covers pop culture on KPFK/ Director Oliver Hirschbiegel made some Pacifica Radio’s David Feldman Show and serious noise with Downfall, his powerful, on Michael Snyder’s Culture Blast, via Christian Friedel as Georg Elser in 13 Minutes. internationally acclaimed look at the last GABnet.net, Roku, and YouTube. You can PHOTO: BERND SCHULLER, COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES CLASSICS days of Adolph Hitler. Now, he investigates follow Michael on Twitter: @cultureblaster

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MARINATIMES.COM MARINA TIMES JULY 2017 13 C ODC: Summer Sampler 2017 Thu.–Sun., July 27–29, 8 p.m. ODC Theater (3153 17th St.) Delight in the exuberance of summer with three spirited ODC/Dance repertory works, including a world premier and a new work. $30–$35, 415-863- J E 9834, odcdance.org WHAT NOT TO MISS THIS MONTH MUSIC Revelations: Art from the African MAJOR EVENTS COMMUNITY American South 80th Annual Stern Grove Festival Sundays through Aug. 21, 2 p.m. Yerba Buena Gardens Festival CORNER Tue.–Sun., through April 1, 2018, 9:30–5:15 p.m. Stern Grove (19th Ave. & Sloat Blvd.) Various days through Oct. 29 Lotus Live M. H. de Young Museum (Golden Gate Park) July performances include the S.F. Symphony, S.F. Yerba Buena Gardens Saturday, July 15, 1–3 p.m. View paintings, sculptures, drawings, and quilts Ballet, Eric Burdon and the Animals/The Stone Programs include classical, world, and jazz Asian Art Museum (200 Larkin St.) by 22 acclaimed artists. The cultural origins of Foxes, and more at the beautiful Sigmund Stern music; contemporary and traditional dance; Be part of history to form a lotus that can be these artworks can be traced back to the African Grove outdoor amphitheater. Free, 415-252-6252, theater; children’s and family programs; and seen from the sky in this effort to earn the Diaspora, slavery, and the Jim Crow era of insti- sterngrove.org cultural events reflecting the rich cultures Guinness World Records title for the largest tutionalized racism. $15, 415-750-3600, famsf.org and creativity of the region. See website for human flower. Participants will receive free Sarah Cahill schedule. Free, 415-543-1718, ybgfestival.org museum admission, a souvenir event poster, a North Beach First Fridays Friday, July 7, 8 p.m. chance to win raffle prizes, and more. 415-581- Friday, July 7, 6–9 p.m. Old First Church (1751 Sacramento St.) 4th of July Celebration 3500, asianart.org Various venues The pianist performs a concert by Luciano Tuesday, July 4, 11 a.m. Explore and appreciate the ever-growing collec- Chessa, Ricky Crews, Lou Harrison, Kyle Hovatter, Sunday Streets: Mission and Ann Southam. $23, 415-474-1608, Pier 39 tions of art and entertainment in this collaborative Sunday, July 16, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. oldfirstconcerts.org Celebrate with varied activities and live community effort. 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Symphony Free Concert on Avon 39: The Walk to End Breast 15-year-old falls under suspicion for killing his Bring the family and a picnic and enjoy a free Cancer the Waterfront musical tradition with patriotic and American neighbor’s dog, and sets out to identify the true Sunday, July 23, noon Sat.–Sun., July 8–9 culprit in this Tony Award-winning production. music to celebrate the country’s birthday. Free, Pier 27 Golden Gate Park, City College, Marina Green $55–$275, 888-747-1799, shnsf.com 415-831-5500, goldengateparkband.org Enjoy a program of Bernstein, Copland, Walk through S.F. neighborhoods and across Debussy, Dvořák, and Holst. Free, 415-864-6000, the Gate and back to help those affected by ACT: A Night with Janis Joplin S.F. Marathon & Expo sfsymphony.org breast cancer worldwide and to raise funds Wed.–Sun. through July 9 Expo: Fri.–Sat., July 21–23 for research. See website for daily routes. $50 405 Geary St. Sponsored Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center (individual), 888-540-9255, avon39.org With its remarkable cast and breakout perfor- Race: Sunday, July 23 mances, this rock ’n’ roll show commemorates Starts: Embarcadero & Mission St. AIDS Walk San Francisco both Janis and icons like Aretha Franklin, Etta The expo features the best in running, health, Sunday, July 16, 9:15 a.m.–1 p.m. James, Odetta, Nina Simone, and Bessie Smith. and nutrition. The sold-out course winds Starts/Ends: Golden Gate Park $25–$130, 415-749-2228, act-sf.org through the city and across the Golden Gate to Walk this 10K to remember those lost, help finish at Justin Herman Plaza. Free (expo), 888- those affected, and continue the fight to end We Players: Midsummer of Love 958-6668, thesfmarathon.com AIDS. Benefits Bay Area HIV/AIDS organizations. Thu.–Sun., July 6–9 & 27–30 Free, 415-615-9255, sf.aidswalk.net Strawberry Hill, Golden Gate Park Journey into a forest of fairies and lovers with this six-person adaptation of Shakespeare’s all-time NOT TO MISS ARTS & CULTURE favorite, A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Follow this dark and hilarious exploration of the complexities Surrealistic Summer Solstice Alfredo Imparato: Neapolitan Songs Make a Wish for Tanabata of love, our complicated human relationships, Daily through Oct. 21, sundown to midnight Daily, July 5–12 and the boundaries between reality and imagina- Sunday, July 23, 4:30 p.m. Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park tion. $35–$75, 800-901-7173, weplayers.org SFPL Western Addition (1550 Scott St.) Thursday, July 27, 7 p.m. The conservatory becomes the canvas for a Tanabata, a Japanese festival held annually Museo Italo Americano, spectacular light art installation to honor San S.F. Playhouse: La Cage Aux Folles on July 7, celebrates the yearly meeting of Fort Mason Center, Bldg. C Francisco’s city-wide celebration of the 50th Tue.–Sun., July 12–Sept. 16 two star-crossed lovers separated by the Milky One of the last minstrels, or posteggiatori, of Anniversary of the Summer of Love. Free, Way the remainder of the year. Celebrate by Kensington Park Hotel (450 Post St.) Naples will return to the Museo to perform conservatoryofflowers.org writing down wishes on small strips of paper Winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musi- enthralling versions of Neapolitan songs, just and hanging them from decorated bamboo cal, this show glimmers with French flair and as he regularly does for the admiring locals in branches. Free, 415-355-5727, sfpl.org celebrates love, romance, and being true to the streets and piazze of Naples. A reception who you really are. $30–$125, 415-677-9596, will follow both performances. $5–$20, RSVP 40th Annual Playwright’s Festival sfplayhouse.org to 415-673- 2200, [email protected] Fri.–Sun., July 13–23 Custom Made Theatre (533 Sutter St.) Enjoy two weekends of outstanding readings DANCE of new plays from some of the most talented NIGHTLIFE emerging playwrights in the country. 39th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Paula West Visit website for pricing, 415-626-2176, Dance Festival Thu.–Sun. through July, 8 p.m. playwrightsfoundation.org Sat.–Sun., July 8–16 Feinstein’s at the Nikko (222 Mason St.) War Memorial Opera House Annual National Queer Arts Festival Enjoy a Bay Area favorite and her rich, powerful The festival makes its debut at the Opera House contralto voice for an evening featuring interpre- Most days through July 22 with two weekends of performances featuring 24 Flower Piano tations of songs by artists as diverse as Various S.F. venues extraordinary Bay Area dance and music ensem- Bob Dylan, Glen Campbell, Pearl Bailey, Ethel This festival features music, dance, visual bles. $25–$45, 415-474-3914, worldartswest.org Waters, and more. $40–$60, 866-663-1063, Daily, July 13–24, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. art, spoken word, comedy, theater, and film. feinsteinsathenikko.com S.F. 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Free (S.F. residents)–$8, 415-368- GALLERIES techno night. $5–$10, ticket y.com 5406, sfbotanicalgarden.org PHOTO: NATALIE N PHOTOGRAPHY Flower Power Motor City Drum Ensemble Tue.–Sun. through Sept. 14, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Friday, July 21, 10 p.m. Asian Art Museum (200 Larkin St.) 1015 Folsom (1015 Folsom St.) During this Summer of Love celebration, Motor City is a one-man ensemble, made up by discover hidden meanings of six significant Summer of Love Dance German House music pioneer Danilo Plessow. blooms in Asian art through screens, porcelains, Saturday, July 15, 7–10 p.m. Dam Funk will also perform. $20, eventbrite.com sculptures, pop art, and more. $20–$25, 415-581- Presidio Officers’ Club (50 Moraga Ave.) 3500, asianart.org Cruise back to the days of Flower Power and the Sketch 7: Wandering Haight/Ashbury scene with Electric Headband FILMS & LECTURES Edward Munch: Between the Clock and Fri.–Sun., July 21–23, 8–9 p.m. playing your favorite 1960s tunes from San the Bed Francisco’s most popular bands: The Grateful Cowell Theater (Fort Mason Center) Is Sloppy Science Killing Us? Thu.–Tue. through Oct. 9 Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother & the Former Smuin Ballet’s choreographer Amy Thursday, July 13, 6:30 p.m. SFMOMA (151 Third St.) Holding Company, Carlos Santana, and more. Seiwert and her innovative contemporary The Commonwealth Club (555 Post St.) Featuring 44 landmark compositions about Get your groove on with a henna tattoo or face ballet company, Imagery, perform a program NPR correspondent Richard Harris and art, love, mortality, and the ravages of time, painting, choose 1960s-themed props and get based on Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, popular science writer Mary Roach explore the this exhibition uses the artist’s last significant your photo snapped in a classic Glass Coat Wandering, sure to impress audiences and mixed-up ways in which scienti c research is self-portrait as a starting point to reassess challenge the dancers. $25–50, asimagery.org Photo Booth. 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14 JULY 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM 10th Annual S.F. Frozen Film Festival Calistoga Uncorked Fri.–Mon., July 21–23 Thursday, July 20, 5:30–7:30 p.m. Roxie Theatre (3117 16th St.) Golden Gate Club (135 Fisher Loop, CONCERTS AT THE PRESIDIO This festival focuses on independent lmmakers, the Presidio) youth, lmmakers of conscience, and artists from Taste and purchase wines from 30 Calistoga AVA underserved communities. Contact for lms and wineries, most not open to the public. Includes Of Gravitas and Caprice prices, frozen lmfestival.com light bites. $55–$75, eventbrite.com

S. F. Jewish Film Festival 36 Pianist Leyla Kabuli and violinist Jason Moon take the stage at the Daily, July 21–Aug. 7 historic Presidio Chapel to present an engagingly eclectic program Castro Theatre & various Bay Area venues SPORTS & HEALTH of works ranging from Baroque to Classical and through to Romantic This festival features over 100 screenings and and contemporary realms. The San Francisco Conservatory of Music other events that celebrate Jewish cinema and Yoga in Golden Gate Park explores its frontiers. Contact for lms and prices Saturdays, 11:30 a.m. Pre-College Division alumni perform: (including festival passes), 415-621-0523, sfjff.org Grove next to Queen Wilhelmina Garden, Golden Gate Park Haydn Sonata No. 38 in F Major Take yourself outside and into the beauty of the city’s heart and soul. Practice yoga under the Liszt Transcendental Étude No. 12 in B-flat minor Chasse[ Neige] SCIENCE & trees and let the ocean air sooth and invigorate Medner Skazki (Fairy Tales), Op. 51 ENVIRONMENT you. Free (donations welcome), 415-668-9642, Say Summertime Variations, Paganini Variations purushayoga.org Wieniawski Caprice No. 2 Nutrition & Healthy Choices Bach Partita No. 3 in E Major Monday, July 3, 17, 24 & Aug. 7, 14, Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 105 10–11:30 a.m. Sarasate Introduction and Tarantella, Op. 43 Main Floor Learning Studio, SFPL Main Branch Learn how to live a healthy life through making better choices. Topics: Colors of Fruits and Veg- etables, Lean Protein Options, Whole Grains and Healthy Starches, Bone Health, and Portion Size. Free, 415-557-4388, sfpl.org Wildcard: Where the Unpredictable Worlds of Cardboard & Imagination Collide CHILD’S PLAY Daily through Sept. 4 Exploratorium (Pier 15) Story Time & Family Walk Artists from the Cardboard Institute of First & third Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Technology bring a cardboard cosmos to Helen Crocker Russell Library, life. Visit a village in a vortex, a crashed S.F. Botanical Garden steamboat, lush forests, fiery volcanoes, a Visit the cozy children’s book nook for lively cardboard cafe, and more. $19.95–$29.95, readings of nature-themed stories. Afterward, 415-528-444, exploratorium.edu families can enjoy a special docent-led family 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, August 10 and 11, 2017 garden walk that brings the stories to life. Be sure to bring a picnic lunch and enjoy the beau- at the historic Presidio Chapel Golden Gate Audubon Society tiful surroundings. Ages 4–8. Free, 415-368-5406, 130 Fisher Loop, Presidio of San Francisco Centennial Exhibit sfbotanicalgarden.org $20/adults, $15/seniors, $5/children Daily, July 10–Sept. 29, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Limited seating. Reservations recommended Tides Thoreau Center Gallery Creative Family Fun: Flower Power (1012 Torney Ave., the Presidio) Pendants Call (415) 447-6274 This traveling educational exhibit is focused Sat.–Sun., July 15–16, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. on Bay Area birds and the Audubon Society’s Presidio Officers’ Club (50 Moraga Ave.) achievements on their behalf. Free, 415-561-4323, Come celebrate the spirit of the 1960s by mak- thoreau.org ing your own necklaces with super groovy pendants. Free, registration on Eventbrite preferred, Why? What Makes Us Curious 415-561-4400, presidio.gov Monday, July 17, 7:30 p.m. California Academy of Sciences Planetarium Astrophysicist and best-selling author Mario Livio describes cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience in an exploration of the origin and operation of human curiosity. $12–$15, 877- 227-1831, calacademy.org

Jupiter and Its Moons: Recent Discoveries Tuesday, July 18, 7:30–9 p.m. Presidio Officers’ Club (50 Moraga Ave.) Despite the fact that Jupiter has been observed for decades from the ground and in situ by spacecraft, we still do not know its bulk composi- tion nor do we understand its global atmospheric The Unique Derique dynamics well. Join world-renowned planetary scientist and UC Berkeley astronomy professor Friday, July 28, 11 a.m. & 12:15 p.m. Imke de Pater to find out more. Free, registration Children’s Garden, Yerba Buena Gardens preferred, 415-561-5300, presidio.gov This beloved Bay Area internationally esteemed performer has honed a singular Act on Climate: The California blend of physical comedy and hambone body Cool Effect percussion in his wildly imaginative skits. Free, Friday, July 21, 8:30–10:30 a.m. 415-543-1718, ybgfestival.org Golden Gate Club (135 Fisher Loop, the Presidio) PHOTO: CRISTINA IBARRA This forum will bring together thought leaders in policy (including Congressman Jared Huffman), climate, nonprofit, and sustainable storytelling to discuss reducing carbon emissions. Free, JUST FOR FUN COMET CLUB eventbrite.com Dancing • Specialty Cocktails • 12 Brews on Tap Renegade Craft Fair Sat.–Sun., July 15–16, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. POTABLES & EDIBLES Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center This festive marketplace celebrates DIY European Vacation: Best Cheese & Wine with maker-designed goods, inspired of Summer surroundings, artisan food and drink, lively Monday, July 10, 6:30–8:30 p.m. music, and good vibes. Free, 312-226-8654, The Cheese School (2124 Folsom St.) renegadecraft.com Sample wine and cheese from the great cheese-making regions while learning how the E-mail: [email protected] art spread throughout Europe. $79, 415-346-7530, thecheeseschool.com Calendar listings Bastille Day Celebration Friday, July 14 (6 p.m.–midnight) Send your event listings to [email protected] Le Colonial (20 Cosmo Place) with succinct speci cs about your event, location, Vive la révolution! Celebrate with swing dancing dates, times, prices, and contact information (tele- to French gypsy jazz performed by Le Jazz phone and Internet). Hot/The Hot Club while enjoying a plate of 3111 Fillmore St. San Francisco 94123 French cheeses, a baguette, pâté, and a glass of Visit marinatimes.com for additional calendar list- wine. $25, tickets required, 415-931-3600, ings. For sponsored listings, call 415-815-8081. 415-567-5589 • CometclubSF.com lecolonialsf.com/bd2017

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BY PATTY BURNESS STAY a good-sized shower and dress- Silverado Resort and Spa is ing/bathroom area. The room is prawling Napa Valley offers set on 120 acres just east of the designed with clean modern lines acres of verdant land, pop- Silverado Trail on Atlas Peak and provides easy access to the ular wineries, restaurants, Road. Land grants date back to resort’s many amenities (800-532- andS hotels — a lot to take on for a 1850, with the original mansion 0500, silveradoresort.com). quick visit. Recently I spent time completed in the 1870s. Nestled along the Silverado Trail in just among towering trees, adja- PLAY & SHOP a six-mile stretch from Napa to cent to two championship golf The Silverado Trail is known Yountville. I tasted my way from courses, and near residential for the many wineries that one end to the other, including an and guest properties, the stately line its path. I started in the indulgent food and wine pairing mansion today houses public southern-most end (across the and resort pampering. gathering places (including the trail from the resort) at Luna Beginning as a trail in 1852, lobby, bar and dining areas, pro Vineyards in the Oak Knoll Silverado was used as a route for shop, and more). AVA. Built 20 years ago, it was mining traffic and later became I stayed in a junior suite with the first winery on the trail. the first important road from indoor and outdoor seating The Tuscan atmosphere and Napa to Calistoga. areas, fireplace, kitchenette, and décor and intimacy of the tasting salon add to a European feel. The larger tasting room has an expansive wood bar and exposed beams, and a striking tile floor. Since my visit, the winery has begun an alfresco lunch con- Take in the Luna scene with “Bubbles.” PHOTO: PATTY BURNESS sisting of a five-course food and wine pairing, a barrel tasting, The certified organic and joining other guests around a and a tasting in the Reserve biodynamic Robert Sinskey communal table on the patio to Room accompanied by an anti- Vineyards (RSV) is just up the indulge in seasonal bites from pasti platter. Favorites among Silverado Trail. They offer sev- the chef paired with the perfect the wines I tasted are these black eral food and wine experiences wine. labels: The 2013 “Bubbles,” the meant to enhance your visit to We started tasting the 2013 2014 Sangiovese Riserva, and a property full of fruit trees, Los Carneros Pinot Blanc and the Club member-only Canto bee hives, vegetable gardens, the 2014 Abraxas (Vin de Ter- Silverado Resort and Spa is a great place to settle in. Super Tuscan blend (707-255- sheep, and of course, vines. rior, Scintilla Sonoma Vine- PHOTO: SILVERADO RESORT AND SPA 2474, lunavineyards.com). I chose the “Eat Drink RSV,” TRAVELER, continued next page

16 JULY 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM Weekend Traveler time. Enjoy the sauna, steam, continued from 16 and Jacuzzi as part of your pampering. I chose the Silverado yard, Los Carneros) paired massage that combines aroma- with a fava bean, mint, and therapy with deep tissue work. ricotta salad and pâté served Needless to say, it’s heaven. If with Abraxas mustard. The sec- more is better, choose from ond course included smoked mani/pedis, facials, haircuts, or duck crostini with foraged a rose mud wrap, among other mushrooms; baby beets with treatments. (800-532-0500, crème fraîche and dukkah; silveradoresort.com/spa). and a rice, beans, and garden The 120-acre Silverado kale pot with house pancet- Resort also includes two golf ta paired with these Pinot courses, multiple tennis courts, Noirs: a 2103 Los Carneros bocce ball courts, a swimming Left: Visit the vineyards at Pine Ridge; Right: Eat, drink RSV. PHOTOS: PATTY BURNESS and 2012 Three Amigos Vine- pool, and numerous bike and yards, Los Carneros, Napa. hiking trails. able. Savor scones, muffins, The final course matched the bread, cookies, and more Farther up the Trail and Beyond 2012 POV Los Carneros with EAT from several Napa bakeries, several lamb servings and a Even while traveling, it’s including the Pastry Kitchen - Another new destination Spanish tortilla (707-944-9090, often nice to stay at the hotel at Silverado. You’ll also find yards (2971 Silver- is Maxville Lake Winery robertsinskey.com). gourmet groceries and lots ado Trail North, (4105 Chiles Pope Valley At Pine Ridge, south of options for wine and DSt. Helena, 707-963-3235, Road, St. Helena, 707-965- on Silverado, it’s possi- beer, as well as Starbucks titusvineyards.com). Brothers 9376, maxvillelakewines. ble to tour the caves and At Pine Ridge, it's coffee (800-532-0500, Eric and Phillip have recent- com). Located in the Chiles taste their wines in the possible to tour the silveradoresort.com/dining/ ly opened their new tasting Valley, surrounded by 1,000 company of other visitors. silverado-market-bakery). room, an open-air building acres of protected land by Start in the vineyard, then caves and taste their in the middle of their estate the Napa Valley Land Trust, walk through the produc- OTHER ESSENTIALS: vineyards. Eric is the man- this winery is off the beaten tion facilities, and end wines in the company Visit Napa Valley: Find aging partner overseeing the track, but worth the effort. with a cheese and wine a schedule of cooking class- overall operation and Phillip An open-air tasting room pairing in an expan- of other visitors. es, market tours, summer is the renowned master wine- features sweeping views of sive cave. I tasted concerts, and more at maker serving as mentor to the winery’s lake. these 2013 Cabernet Sau- for meals. That’s where the Sil- visitnapavalley.com his Titus’ vintner team. The French-born executive vignons: Rutherford paired verado Market & Bakery at Silverado Trail Wineries Titus serves a crisp Sauvi- winemaker Camille Benitah with Manchego and Stags the resort fits the bill. Open Association: silveradotrail.com gnon Blanc, a zesty Zinfandel, boasts quality by focusing Leap paired with St. André. from first thing in the morning Napa Valley Vintners: plus a variety of other out- on fermenting and aging in The 2014 Oakville Cab was until early evening, it features napavintners.com standing Bordeaux varietals: French oak barrels to produce paired with the French Agour casual outdoor seating around Merlot, Reserve and Napa a Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Petit Brebis (800-575-9777, a fire pit. The market is full of Patty Burness can be found on Cabernets, Cabernet Franc, Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, pineridgevineyards.com). sandwiches, salads, cheese, Twitter: @pattygb, Instagram: Petit Verdot, and Malbec. and Petite Sirah. The Spa at the Silverado and other items, often with @pburness or reached by e-mail The not-to-miss taste is the Resort is a welcome oasis any gluten-free options avail- at [email protected]. 2013 Reserve Cabernet. — K. Majer

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BY JOHN ZIPPERER YEAH, RIGHT and berate them. That may work But others are saying similar to kill this thing.” YOU MUST PAY THE RENT things about falling rents. Rent- The good folks at Zumper Cafe reports as of May 2017, San PARKING NO PARKING have released their Summer Francisco leads the country in One of the criticisms of what 2017 edition of their map show- the size of its rent decreases. On housing construction there has ing rental rates across San Fran- a year-to-year basis, local rents been in the city is there is insuffi- cisco’s many neighborhoods. dropped 3.3 percent. Manhattan cient parking connected with the Despite all of the talk — and — which RentCafe calls the most units, which makes more residents we’ve covered it here in the expensive market, with average compete for a shrinking number Look for another round of widespread media coverage of home- Marina Times, too — of pla- rent of $4,094 a month com- of street parking spaces. So why lessness in San Francisco this summer. teauing or even slightly declin- pared to San Francisco’s $3,369 did neighbors want less parking ing rents, the numbers still look — declined 2.9 percent over that in a $400 million residential tower to think things have gotten better and our quality of life. Housing very good for landlords and same time period. that got approved last month? for the souls surviving on the is no longer a city-by-city issue very challenging for mid- or San Francisco’s relatively high streets. — we need a statewide approach.” low-income tenants. density has contributed to its HOMELESS GANG-UP, And third: As one perhaps cyn- On the Northside, Pacific housing shortage and price rises, PART 2? ical critic noted, the first effort NOT-SO-SECRET AGENTS Heights and Russian Hill come but even less-dense areas such as The big effort last year by media didn’t land a Pulitzer in the lap Local Zephyr real estate agent in with a tie for the most expen- San Jose (#10 on RentCafe’s list across the city — including the of the San Francisco Chronicle, Tanya Dzhibrailova is moving sive rents, as if that would shock of priciest U.S. rental markets) Marina Times — to highlight which initiated the project. Per- up — specifically from number anyone. Pac Heights renters pay and San Mateo (#4) feel the pain, the city’s homelessness problem haps the second time's the charm. 158 to 120 on the Wall Street Jour- a median rent of $3,600 for a with only minor (.2 percent in San is being run again this month, nal and REAL Trends’ nationwide one-bedroom unit. At that size, Jose) or no decrease (San Mateo) but we expect less to come of it THE QUOTABLE WEINER ranking of real estate profession- it’s unlikely you’ll be able to split in rents over the past year. than last time. First, as you’ve Following the State Senate’s pas- als. “We congratulate Tanya, the rent with very many room- noticed, the city’s homeless have sage of his bill designed to speed once again, for her achievements, mates, unless they’re of the very MAKING THE EAST CUT not all been housed since all of up construction of new housing dedication and determination to cuddly kind. We weren’t aware that Rincon the television, newspaper, mag- in California, Senator Scott Wie- remain at the top of her game,” But Pacific Heights isn’t the Hill was no longer a cool name. azine, online, and radio reports ner stated, “Our housing shortage said Kevin Koerner, Zephyr sales most expensive place to be But recently we learned that the of the first go-around. Second, — and the rents, home prices, manager in West Portal. “Her a tenant in the city; Mission area has been renamed the East nobody seems to have come up and displacement that come with commitment to excellence is Dolores ($3,650) and South Cut. The new neighborhood with a sure-fire solution. The city it — is at a breaking point in our extraordinary.” Beach ($3,720) were both name will cover South Beach, is spending more on the prob- state. Young people aren’t able to Koerner is probably getting sick higher. Rincon Hill, and a portion of the lem — Mayor Ed Lee recently afford to live in the communities of saying such things about her, Zumper does echo other Transbay District. announced yet more money for where they grew up, and workers because she has a list of desig- reports by noting rents for one- Not everyone is thrilled. Jay the crusade — but take a walk up are being forced into back-break- nations and memberships and and two-bedroom units have Barmann wrote in SFist, “Next from the Powell BART station or ing commutes because they can’t achievements a mile long. both declined more than 6 per- time you hear anyone say they live through the Tenderloin, and you live near their jobs. This is bad for cent since last summer. in the East Cut, just laugh at them would need rose-colored glasses our economy, our environment, E-mail: [email protected]

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MARINATIMES.COM MARINA TIMES JULY 2017 19 R E The Marina Times Real Estate Real Estate Investor The devil's details Market Report: May 2017 Ending a housing crisis By Hill & Co. Real Estate BY JOHN ZIPPERER hood and someone wants to put up a SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES five-story condominium. That is very BEDROOMS/ ABOVE/AT/BELOW DAYS ON eemingly everybody in this city carefully vetted. “We’re going to look at NEIGHBORHOOD ADDRESS BATHROOMS SALE PRICE ASKING PRICE MARKET talks about the housing crisis. Now, that, we’re going to see what the effect Cow Hollow 2750 Lyon Street 4BD/3.5BA $4,990,000 Below 3 some state lawmakers are trying to is on this neighborhood, what the effect 2572 Greenwich Street 4BD/4BA $4,998,000 Below 66 Sdo something about it. I recently dis- is on this block. We’re going to see if it Lake 136 27th Avenue 5BD/1BA $2,250,000 At 63 cussed this with my political roundtable fits in.” 148 16th Avenue 6BD/4.5BA $3,775,000 Below 37 panel at The Commonwealth Club. But once that happens, and once it is Laurel Heights (no sales) approved, then other people can build Lone Mountain 21 Atalaya Terrace 4BD/3.5BA $2,350,000 Above 13 JOHN ZIPPERER: Last summer, similar housing in that area. That’s not

Marina 3107 Franklin Street 3BD/2BA $2,180,000 Below 10 Gov. Jerry Brown tried to get the leg- what happens in San Francisco. Every 3742 Divisadero Street 3BD/2BA $2,625,000 Above 11 islature to speed up the development single one is a debate ... 3258 Lyon Street 3BD/3BA $2,910,000 Above 23 235 Mallorca Way 3BD/3BA $3,000,000 At 0 — and of course increase the develop- LAGOS: Every unit. 3518 Webster Street 3BD/3BA $3,610,000 Above 16 ment — of housing units in the state, to NEVIUS: Every unit. We have CEQA. 3724 Divisadero Street 3BD/2BA $3,700,000 Above 0 290 Avila Street 5BA/4.5BA $5,800,000 Above 0 address the affordability crisis as well There is also conditional review. as the availability crisis; they’re con- These are extreme examples, but there Nob Hill 1217 Clay Street 4BD/3.5BA $2,595,000 Below 61 nected, obviously. There have been two are people in San Francisco who, if North Beach (no sales) San Francisco legislators who have been someone wants to put a deck on the back Pacific Heights 2684 Sacramento Street 5BD/3.5BA $6,300,000 Above 4 pushing this, Scott Weiner and David of their unit, the neighbor says, “Are you 2411 Broadway 5BD/4.5BA $9,200,000 Below 92 Chiu. going to be barbecuing on that deck?” Presidio Heights 3540 Jackson Street 7BD/7BA $15,000,000 At 0 MARISA LAGOS (KQED reporter): Well, we might barbecue.

Russian Hill 909 Bay Street 2BD/1BA $2,100,000 Above 22 This is sort of this tension we have seen “Well, I think the smoke might be a for a lot of time in California between problem. I’m going to file a conditional Sea Cliff (no sales) local control and NIMBYism, and ques- review.” Telegraph Hill 15 Napier Lane 2BD/2BA $1,800,000 At 4 tions over whether locals have gone It is possible to hold up housing. too far to prevent building housing. However, we don’t want to push peo- CONDOS So one of the bills that they got out of ple out. We don’t want to make it gen- BEDROOMS/ ABOVE/AT/BELOW DAYS ON the Senate, for trification. But a NEIGHBORHOOD ADDRESS BATHROOMS SALE PRICE ASKING PRICE MARKET example, was by reasonable idea Cow Hollow 1649 Greenwich Street 1BD/1BA $860,000 Above 11 Scott Weiner, a would be to say, 129 Pixley Street 2BD/1BA $1,318,000 Above 7 Democrat from The governor dangled let’s take a good 31 Moulton Street 2BD/1BA $1,340,000 Above 12 San Francisco, close look at this; Lake 184 5th Avenue 2BD/2BA $1,080,000 Above 3 who is basical- $400 million last year let’s say what you 195 25th Avenue #101 2BD/2BA $1,100,000 Above 34 175 17th Avenue 3BD/2BA $1,625,000 Above 3 ly saying that if want to do and as counties and cit- for affordable housing, long as you stick Laurel Heights (no sales) ies don’t keep up to the restric- Lone Mountain (no sales) with their stat- which is a tiny fraction of tions that we’ve Marina 1435 Bay Street #2 1BD/1BA $950,000 Above 12 ed goals under applied here, 1468 Francisco Street #4 1BD/1BA $1,134,500 Above 15 what we would need. 2522 Chestnut Street 2BD/1BA $1,645,000 Above 14 these housing that’s fine and 220 Mallorca Way 2BD/2BA $1,800,000 Above 13 plans that every that’s enough. 3542 Broderick Street 3BD/2BA $1,840,000 Above 0 1431 Jefferson Street 2BD/2BA $2,080,000 Below 22 community in the state has to do, that But as it stands now in San Francisco 1962 Jefferson Street 4BD/3.5BA $3,220,000 Above 0 the building process can be streamlined. and other places, even as you’re building, Nob Hill 1177 California Street #702 0BD/1BA $635,000 Below 63 A lot of what lawmakers are trying to even as you finish it up, someone can file 1201 California Street #606 0BD/1BA $700,000 Above 33 do, if you talk to the people doing this, conditional review and we’ve got to start 1250 Clay Street #207 1BD/1BA $776,000 Above 15 1868 Van Ness Avenue #205 1BD/1BA $804,500 Above 18 what they would say is they are trying to all over; you go back to City Hall. 1440 Broadway #303 2BD/2BA $1,356,000 Above 3 bring some sort of balance to this issue Scott Weiner has been on this for 1601 Pacific Avenue #205 3BD/2BA $1,435,000 Above 19 1788 Clay Street #508 2BD/2BA $1,559,000 Above 54 of: Of course, neighbors and people on years, and the number of people who 1250 Jones Street #1103 1BD/1BA $1,570,000 Below 116 the local level should be able to object if said supply and demand doesn’t work in 1200 California Street #4C 3BD/3BA $1,900,000 Below 176 1314 Taylor Street 3BD/3.5BA $1,995,000 At 71 there’s something going on, but you also San Francisco — I’m sorry. I know they 30 Miller Place #1 2BD/2BA $2,550,000 Above 8 can’t just stop all housing development. say, “It’s just a theory.” Like gravity, just 1645 Pacific Avenue #4G 2BD/2BA $2,750,000 Below 0 I think it’s interesting that the gover- a theory, but I think it’s pretty well been North Beach 2230 Mason Street #M302 2BD/2BA $1,300,000 Above 5 nor dangled out $400 million last year, proved. The more supply, the lower the 650 Chestnut Street #405 3BD/2BA $1,610,000 Above 13 which sounds like a lot of money but is rents, the lower the prices. That’s true. Pacific Heights 1817 California Street #2F 2BD/1.5BA $800,000 Above 19 1990 Green Street #302 1BD/1BA $820,000 Above 18 really a tiny fraction of what we would San Francisco needs to build. It needs 1855 Sacramento Street #A 1BD/1BA $825,000 Above 10 need to build. But there’s a lot happening to build smart. It needs to build up, not 2090 Pacific Avenue #306 1BD/1BA $990,000 Above 9 2341 Franklin Street #2 1BD/1BA $1,005,000 Above 19 here. We’re talking about in-laws [units], out. There’s a lot of things that can be 3045 Jackson Street #502 1BD/2BA $1,175,000 Above 7 were talking about building more, we're done, and we’re ready and willing and 2415 Buchanan Street #1 1BD/1.5BA $1,225,000 Below 74 2299 Sacramento Street #7 2BD/1BA $1,250,000 Above 10 talking about this level-of-control issue, eager to help people stay in San Fran- 2415 Buchanan Street #2 1BD/1.5BA $1,370,000 Above 66 we’re also talking about just whether we cisco. We have to have that opportunity, 2090 Pacific Avenue #305 1BD/1BA $1,465,000 Above 3 3176 Sacramento Street 2BD/2BA $1,600,000 Above 29 should give more money to local com- and I think Scott Wiener’s got the right 2421 Buchanan Street #B 2BD/2BA $1,625,000 Above 18 munities. idea. The devil’s in the details with them. 2200 Pacific Avenue #3D 2BD/2BA $1,625,000 Below 23 2855 Jackson Street #102 4BD/2.5BA $2,100,000 Below 24 ZIPPERER: When we talk about the RANDY SHANDOBIL (host of This 2200 Sacramento St. #906 1BD/1.5BA $2,300,000 Above 18 affordability and the cost of housing, Golden State Podcast; communications 1854 Vallejo Street #A 3BD/2BA $2,317,000 Below 4 2121 Webster Street #308 2BD/2BA $2,460,000 Below 15 every delay in the construction of the consultant; KTVU former political edi- 2795 Laguna Street 3BD/2BA $2,650,000 Above 46 project also increases the price. Every- tor): Streamlining is like, “We’ll cut tax 1940 Broadway Street #1W 2BD/2BA $2,725,000 Above 61 3150 Clay Street 3BD/3BA $2,750,000 Above 9 one involved is putting more money into loopholes.” It sounds good, but what 2255 Washington Street 3BD/2.5BA $2,800,000 At 0 it, they’re paying more insurance, etc. does it mean? 2121 Webster Street #503 2BD/2BA $2,800,000 Below 79 1915 Vallejo Street 3BD/3.5BA $2,900,000 Below 14 etc. So it could have a number of effects. I agree with you. It sounds like a good 2121 Webster Street #301 3BD/2.5BA $3,975,000 At 2 LAGOS: One of the bills that [David] idea, and when you talk about it in the Presidio Heights 3583 Sacramento Street 3BD/2BA $1,960,000 Above 4 Chiu is sponsoring would take away the abstract: “We need more housing in San 3233 Jackson Street #2 2BD/2BA $2,110,000 Below 0 mortgage deduction on second-homes, Francisco, we need more housing in 3316 California Street #3 4BD/3BA $2,400,000 Above 3 so you couldn’t take a deduction on your Oakland, we need more housing in the Russian Hill 1050 Northpoint St. #305 0BD/1BA $530,000 Above 32 vacation home. Tony Atkins, former Bay Area.” But when it’s down the block 2 Fallon Place #5 0BD/1BA $675,000 Above 38 1335 Filbert Street #206 1BD/1BA $865,000 Above 26 speaker and now senator, has another from you, suddenly … 910 Filbert Street 2BD/1.5BA $1,150,000 At 7 bill that would essentially add a 1-per- We all make fun of Donald Trump, 1237 Chestnut Street #5 2BD/1BA $1,300,000 Above 11 2040 Leavenworth Street 3BD/2.5BA $1,995,000 At 24 cent or less fee onto real estate transfers, “America first.” A lot of us are guilty — 1150 Lombard Street #30 2BD/2BA $2,500,000 At 0 and that money would go toward afford- probably me, too — of “My neighbor- 1150 Lombard Street #8 4BD/4BA $2,925,000 Below 32 347 Green Street #3 3BD/3BA $3,000,000 Below 74 able housing. hood first,” “My house first.” I’m worried 2322 Hyde Street 3BD/3.5BA $5,650,000 At 15 So a lot is happening. the question is, about my traffic. I’m worried about my 1750 Taylor Street #805 4BD/4.5BA $7,075,000 Below 105 1070 Green Street #1501 3BD/3.5BA $7,500,000 Below 5 Will it matter? school being overcrowded. I’m worried C.W. NEVIUS (Santa Rosa Press about my kid getting to school. I’m wor- Sea Cliff (no sales) Democrat columnist; San Francis- ried about losing my view. Telegraph Hill 32 Varennes Street 3BD/2BA $995,000 At 72 551-555 Filbert Street #553 3BD/2BA $1,750,000 Above 0 co Chronicle former columnist): John So it’s really difficult, and if [Scott Rahaim is the head of the [San Francis- Wiener] could pull it off? Gosh, hats off The data presented in this report is based on the San Francisco Multiple Listing Service and is accurate to co] Planning Department, and he came to him. the best of our knowledge, but cannot be guaranteed as such. For additional information, contact Jay Costello, President, Hill & Co. Real Estate, 1880 Lombard Street, 415.321.4274, [email protected], www.hill-co.com. from Seattle. 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