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13 Northside 17 A&E 18 Calendar North Beach: Michael Snyder: June events: Summer officially Ernest Beyl reveals the Just what is kicks off this month, and that Clooney caper. 10 Maggie’s Plan? 17 means street fairs, Pride cel- ebrations, the SFJazz Festival, Food & Wine Pet Pages and lots to do indoors and New & Notable: Skylar Grey: outdoors to enliven your Food truck revolution. 13 The two-city life. 26 summer in the city. 18 MARINATIMES.COM CELEBratinG OUR 32ND YEAR VOLUME 32 ISSUE 06 JUNE 2016 Reynolds Rap Paradise Cost Affordable San Francisco? Are you kidding? BY SUSAN DYER REYNOLDS his month San Francisco residents will vote on Proposition C, which would raise the affordable housing requirements for developers Tfrom 12 to 25 percent and set aside some of that hous- ing specifically for middle-income workers. Middle income in San Francisco, of course, is wealthy most everywhere else. While I applaud efforts to help people stay in the city, I’m not convinced that’s going to hap- pen through ballot measures. According to data compiled by online financial man- Festivalgoers enjoy the 2015 Union Street Festival. PHOTO: EARL ADKINS agement site SmartAsset detailing the annual income needed to “comfortably” cover housing costs in 300 cit- ies, in San Francisco you need to bring home $201,171 to live in a market-rate, two-bedroom apartment. That Summer fun in the city apartment, by the way, will cost you $4,694 a month, making San Francisco the most expensive city on the BY LYNETTE MAJER entertainment and cultural events, Fillmore Streets, enjoy entertain- list in which to rent. Real estate tracker Zillow says many of which are free, throughout ment on multiple stages and wares San Franciscans spend 40.6 percent of their monthly an Francisco summers are the coming cool months and into the from unique vendors and crafts- income on a mortgage payment, or 47 percent on generally marked by the fog and warm weather of fall. people. With festival food favorites rent. And, they say, homebuyers are spending more cool winds that seem to blow in A fitting start is the annual and Union Street’s many restaurant on mortgages now than they did before the real estate Son cue each Memorial Day, but sum- Union Street Festival (June 4–5, offerings, there will be no shortage of bubble of 2008. As we try to legislate our way out of mer — officially on June 20 — also sresproductions.com), celebrating its dining options. Wet your whistle at another housing crisis, I’m inclined to believe the marks the beginning of a wave of 40th anniversary. From Gough to SUMMER FUN, continued on 19 REYNOLDS RAP, continued on 6 Bellingham by the Bay The Back Story grim reminder of the maximum- security federal prison that operated Altogether, there from 1934 to 1963. Yes, that Alcatraz view, day or night, is a knockout, and worth big shout it now bucks on the real estate market. Great for having guests over and BY BRUCE BELLINGHAM nursing a few cocktails while the sun goes down. But let’s reverse his California primary election on June that. While the view of San Fran- 7 will be the most important in many years. cisco Bay with Alcatraz in the mid- So say the local politicos who are beating the dle distance is beautiful and awe Tdrum for a big turnout this month. That drumbeat is inspiring, the view from Alcatraz an accompaniment to the old, optimistic rousing tune, when it was a federal penitentia- “Happy Days Are Here Again,” first used as a signature ry for incorrigible criminals was for FDR’s presidential campaign in 1932. It’s been used equally awe inspiring. But the atti- by the Democrats over the years. Considering that the Alcatraz has a long and storied history. PHOTO: ORAN KENYON tude of the beholder was entirely Great Depression was just getting started, hopeful- different — rueful and resentful. It ness was a real long shot. Herbert Hoover had already all depends on your point of view. thrown up his hands to say, “There’s nothing more we can do.” Roosevelt thought he could do better. … Every Alcatraz: It all depends on A NATIVE TRIBES CAMPGROUND time I go to City Hall, I see couple after couple getting Long before it was a federal prison, married. People still get married? I’d call that “un- your point of view the distinctive, 22-acre island was bridaled optimism.” … used as a campground and for gath- The Democrats were always the party of hope, of ering food like birds’ eggs and fish by good cheer. No one embraced that more than Hubert Hard times on the island in the bay the Miwoks and the Ohlone, native Humphrey, the “Happy Warrior.” Few recall that when tribes that settled the area from Humphrey was mayor of Minneapolis in 1948, he BY ERNEST BEYL San Franciscans are an opinionated 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. There is passed the first civil rights legislation in the country. bunch. Here I’m referring to views little record of these settlements, but Now we revisit another civil rights struggle: the unlike- an Francisco is a city that of the Golden Gate Bridge from the that’s what some historians believe. ly bathroom law of North Carolina. It harkens back likes it views. I’m not refer- Top of the Mark, views from the top Others assert that these natives may to my childhood, witnessing Bobby Kennedy going ring to points of view on city of Hyde Street “where little cable have used Alcatraz for the banish- after the governor of Mississippi because he would not Spolitics, neighborhood gentrifica- cars climb halfway to the stars,” and ment of wrong-doers. If that con- admit blacks to Old Miss. Ever notice that everything tion, or restaurants. There are plen- of course, views from Telegraph Hill jecture is correct, it is a fascinating BELLINGHAM, continued on 7 ty of viewpoints on those subjects. across the bay to Alcatraz and its THE BACK STORY, continued on 16 MARINATIMES.COM MARINA TIMES JUNE 2016 1 Contents In This Issue 19 06 08 News Arts & Entertainment The city gets serious Screening New York News briefs on a second chance to host Michael Snyder reviews Maggie's Plan — a George Lucas's film memorabilia museum portrait of a woman who tries to bend the after Chicago fumbles the ball, a fed- world to her will — and the unfortunately up San Francisco city attorney sues the named Weiner, which profiles the unfortu- Academy of Art University over its behav- nately named Anthony Weiner. 16 ior in real estate, a crime update, the Apothecarium's Marina expansion faces Calendar another hearing, and The In-Box applauds our prophetic coverage of problems in June events the police department; plus we provide a Are you ready for some jazz? It's time for the roundup of the primary election candi- San Francisco Jazz Festival, as well as the S.F. dates and propositions, and explain how, Pride festivities, and much more to take in when, and where to cast your vote. 3 as you enjoy summer in San Francisco. 18 Northside At Home In the Marina Urban Home & Garden Lynette Majer's Marina-Cow Hollow Julia Strzesieski tells you how to make Insider keeps you up-to-date on neigh- "safety first" the motto in your home. 20 borhood happenings; and Supervisor Mark Farrell reports on the latest from Real Estate District 2. 8 Is 'unpermitted' permitted? North Beach and Telegraph Hill Carole Isaacs explains why it matters when a home has "unwarranted" work; and the Ernest Beyl describes his conversion to Roundup explains Governor Brown's plan to protesting George and Amal Clooney, push through more affordable housing. 21 but his introduction to osso buco was less revelatory; and Supervisor Aaron Peskin shares his priorities for the June 7 Wellness & Family primary election. 10 The right approach Thalia Farshchian explains the truth behind Food & Wine taking it off and keeping it off; and Liz Time to dine Farrell explains how to introduce your chil- The Tablehopper gives the inside scoop dren to a disturbing subject: politics. 24 on new openings and restaurant changes; Julie Mitchell says the summer's a great Pet Pages time to sample the city's food truck fleet at a variety of locations across the city; Susan Skylar's tail of two cities Dyer Reynolds has plans for that leftover Susan Dyer Reynolds adapts to the twin- rice — turn it into her grandfather's deli- city life; and Political Animal calls for cious Sicilian arancini; and Ernest Beyl grooming legislation. 26 serves up another of his cookbook hero- ines, the former slave who became a San ONLINE SPECIALS Francisco chef and wrote the book on marinatimes.com Southern cooking. 12 marinatimes.com | 3053 Fillmore Street #104, San Francisco, CA 94123 Editorial: (415) 931-0515 | Fax: (415) 931-0987 | Letters to the Editor: [email protected] Advertising: (415) 815-8081 [email protected] Calendar submissions due by the 15th of the month to [email protected] Publisher Executive Editor Layout Designer Earl Adkins John Zipperer Sara Brownell [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Editor in Chief Managing Editor Web Designer Susan Dyer Reynolds Lynette Majer Joe Bachman [email protected] [email protected] MARINA TIMES IS A TRADE MARK OF JASMINE BLUE MEDIA LLC. 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