The Noe Valley Voice Neighborhood Services

Hand Sewn, Home Grown. The women’s suffrage movement in California got its start with the help of Noe Valleyan Jeanette Pinther and Glen Park resident Johanna Pinther. Johanna created the banner pictured above and presented it publicly prior to the first women’s march in the country in August 1908. See page 11 for our story. Image courtesy California Historical Society

Volume XLII, No. 6 June 2018

THE NOE VALLEY VOICE Shoppers Retreat Healthy Spot Still While Retail Seeks Noe Valley Sweats Location Two More Stores Closing Soon Permit Vote Slated for June 21

By Tim Simmers By Matthew S. Bajko

he ongoing saga of 24th Street mer- ark Boonnark and Andrew Kim Tchants struggling to attract customers Mmet over a decade ago while they is entering a new chapter. were attending college at UC Berkeley. The changing demographics—and After graduation, they both landed jobs in tastes—in Noe Valley, combined with the San Francisco and remained friends as steady growth of online shopping, are they pursued their professional careers. cutting deeper into foot traffic, and many Then, in 2007, Kim adopted a shih tzu merchants can’t find a solution. terrier mix he named Maya Pyaari and Two key women’s clothing stores— stocked up on a certain brand of dog food Rabat Clothing and Shoes and The recommended by not only his friends and Podolls—are shutting their doors this coworkers, but also his veterinarian. Un- summer, and the list of vacant shops is beknownst to them all, the dog food had growing. Cliché Noe, PastaGina, Noe been recalled due to contaminated veg- Valley Cyclery, and Hamlet have closed If It’s Not Compostable, you likely won’t find it at the Noe Valley Farmers Market, held etable proteins imported from China recently, and the previously shuttered See each Saturday at the Town Square.A bag donation station is now set up for shoppers to make which were found to be sickening cats Jane Run, Caskhouse, and Good News re- use of and contribute to, but vendors won’t be offering plastic bags. Photo by Pamela Gerard and dogs. main empty as well. “I knew all these people who had rec- “It’s a challenge keeping a business go- ommended this dog food, passionate peo- ing,” said Susan Ciochetto, part owner of Farmers Market Ditches Use of Plastic ple who cared about their pets. But there Cotton Basics at the corner of Castro and was a lack of awareness about what was 24th streets. Bags in Favor of ‘Bring Your Own’ Policy going on in the pet food industry,” re- Ciochetto refers to Noe Valley as a “ro- called Kim, 38, who has a degree in legal bust shopping area.” But business is By Heidi Anderson “I was in Sydney a while back and studies. slower than last year. New residents are stumbled across a tiny farmers’ market,” The experience sparked the idea that he browsing less in her store, and shopping tarting this month, shoppers at the said Crane. “I bought some things and and Boonnark could do better for pet online. SNoe Valley Farmers Market picking asked for a small bag to put them in.” owners by opening their own pet store Ciochetto believes she has an “edge” up their strawberries, kale, and nectarines The farmer shrugged and said no, but stocked with safer products. It struck a because Cotton Basics designs and makes will notice something missing: the plastic gestured toward a “bag station” near the chord with Boonnark, 38, as he had just its own unique clothing. But much of her bags hanging from the produce kiosks.. produce stand that had a clothesline of lost his own dog, a golden retriever he’d success since she opened in 1982 came If you want a plastic bag, you’ll need reusable cloth bags. had for 13 years. from “impulse buying,” and that’s on the to bring it from home. “It was like the clouds parted and the “Even though I am a pretty health- decline. You can blame—or thank—the mar- angels started singing, ‘LAAAA!’” conscious person myself, I never looked Throw in rising store rents and the high ket’s manager, Elizabeth Crane. Crane said. at the ingredients in my dog’s food. When cost of doing business, and many retail- She had been toying with the idea of She took photos of the bag station. And he got sick and had cancer, it opened my ers are anxious about their future. (Some eliminating plastic bags for a while, but when she got back to San Francisco, she eyes in terms of what was lacking in wasn’t sure how to make it work. CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 Then she took a trip to Australia. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 2 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

OPENSFHISTORY

That Fateful April. Residents pose at a Valley Street outdoor kitchen stove after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. The spires of St. Paul Church are visible in the background and a sign on the railroad trestle reads in part “New San Francisco Hotel. Fireproof.” Photo courtesy OpenSFHistory.org /Western Neighborhoods Project/David Gallagher The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 3

EXCLUSIVE LUXURY LISTINGS

480 MISSION BAY BLVD N. #1405 | MISSION BAY | $3,288,000 3 BEDS || 22 BATHSBATHS

3426 22ND STREET | NOE VALLEY | $2,498,000 2908 FOLSOM STREET | INNER MISSION | $1,988,000 4 RESIDENCES 4 RESIDENCES

1298 TREAT AVENUE | INNER MISSION | $1,488,000 225 SAN LUIS AVENUE | SAN BRUNO | $1,279,000 4 BEDS || 22 BATHSBATHS 3 BEDS || 22 BATHSBATHS

RACHEL SWANN ZHANE DIKES [email protected] [email protected] 415.225.7743 || LIC.LIC. # # 01860456 01860456 702.426.0613 || LIC.LIC. # # 02051605 02051605

THEAGENCYRE.COM 4 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

TwinTwin PeaksPeaks TunnelTunnn le Twin Peaks Tunnel Improvements 100 years in service. Preparing for countless more.

Major improvements planned for summer 2018

The San FT Franciscorhe anciscoo Municipal TTransportationtarpoansr tio AAgencyegn ncy (SFMT(SFMTA) TA)A) is mmaking mmajorajoaking r Detaileded trtaileD transitansit pplanslans fforor infrinfrastructuresa turtruc e impimprovementspr evo men ttoo cets century-oldntury-oold TwinTwin PPeaks TTunnel.l. Plunneeaks Plannedaanned imprimprovementsevo ments the KK,, L anthe andd M aare aavailablelailabv e include rinc replacingaplelude cingg trtrain trtracks ancaain andd seks seismicismicc rreinforcementsnmeceroinfe ts in the ttunnetunnel betbetweeneewl n on our wwebsite.sitbeon e. Castro antrsaC and Wo Westsed t PPortal sro stations..nstiotatal

ConstructionConstruction will l begin in summesummerr 202018,18, durduringing a tunnetunnell cclosurelosure llastingasting uupp ttoo two months.mowt thsno . DuringDur r the cclosure, Fesurloing Forestsero, t HHill anand WWest Psed Portal srot stationstatal tions will be cclosed,losed, the K InglesideIngleside wwill trtravel oeva on a shol shortenedetrn nedd rroute, aneout and b, bus sed servicerus vice will run fforor the L TarTaravalTar al andanva d M OOcean VView lineie lines..sw SFMTA.com/TwinPeaksSFMTTAA.com//TTwinPwinPeaks The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 5

NoeNoe Valleys Valleys Best Best

465 Marina Boulevard 207 Flood Avenue

This Years Decorator Relaxed and Showcase Home. Comfortable Home. ()/# 0,) -" 9F: E8")' #(-" )& ( - +#! B .((2,# ( #!")+"))D &-+3B(+#( + ( '#)* (5))+*&(0#-" +)''.&-#*& +))',D #-#)(&*+#/- ,* ,D < E;D;)(9& / &,D +#!"-(&#!"-D).-" +( .,"!+ ((*-#)D 2+D8+*+%#(!D 8+*+%#(!D.,-&#(! &%-) & (+%( " ,-(.--+ -,")*,( .((2,# "))&D + ,-.+(-,+ )(/ (# (-&2 #-D&2E8'!.% &)- ( +2D :<;+#(&/D)' Offered at $8,995,000 Eva Daniel :7;D;7=D=;97 Offered at $1,399,000 Travis Hale:7;D=88D<7;6 Beth Kershaw :7;D8<6D8987

95 Crescent Avenue 29 Oakwood Street, #20

Fabulous Mission Dolores with In-Law Unit. Condominium. + -&#!"-#(-"#,8,-)+2 (- +-#( +G, &#!"-0#-" 9 E8")' 0#-" !+ -)* (&2).-B" G, #(F&0.(#-+ (-#(! )+ %#-" (B8 +))',B H7B666E')(-"D 0*#(-B 8-"+))',B().-&))% + 4(#," "+0)) -)" &, +%).+-2+D 5))+,B4+ *& B( )/ - &)-#)(B0#-"-" + ') & %#-" (D #,,#)($.,-,- *,02D ?;+ , (-/ D)' 8?%0))D)'

Offered at $1,199,000 Offered at $1,295,000 415.517.1405 :7;D><6D:86? Mike Tekulsky:7;D;97D7967

1949 OFarrell Street 31 Verna Street

Sophisticated Victorian Miraloma Park Condominium. Mid Century Home. .-# .&.,-)'F ,#!( C 9 E7D;")., F&#% "+'#(!B&#!"-F4&& B )()0#-"#-)+#( ")' 0#-"()* (5))+ -.+ ,-"#,-)+# *&(D8 +))',B (#)--).+-D #+ - 7+ ') & -"+))'B !+ ().+-2+ ,,D 8+,# F2F,# &), -)B #&&')+ B *+%#(!B %B( (#, +D .*,&)* + +!+ (D 7?:? ++ &&D)' 97 +(D)'

Offered at $1,150,000 415.517.1405 Offered at $899,000 Mike Tekulsky:7;D;97D7967 Robert Mayer:7;D???D=>8>

G &#!"- -)-&%-)2).).-*+)* +-# ,#() && 2)+#((2*+-) -" #-2C

#( .,( )( .#,D #&& # (2 Paolo #(! + -" (%+)' +() & +/,# .'#( #% ()--)' '* +#& + &, +,"0

+ ) & ' + ,#+ ) +- #" & -+#% )( )+ 2 . % '( .' 2' +-), 2 + %.&,%2 .!"( )(! Ye

More than #&&I)D & ,-- #,*+).' ' +) -" ")G,")(.1.+2 & ,-- #(- +(-#)(&( -0)+%B 4&#- 0#-";B76>) 4 ,#(<;).(-+# ,B(-" 0)+&G, :7;D>8:D7766@000D"#&&F)D)' )+ '),-&.1.+2+ & ,-- 0 ,#- B 000D&.1.+2+ & ,-- D)' ) && 2 4 A9>??8:-"-+ - 6 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 JESSICA BRANSON TOP SAN FRANCISCO REALTOR

• Top 25 San Francisco Agents* SOLD! $2,605,000 SOLD! $ 1,725,000 • Top 15 San Francisco Listing Agents* • #1 Noe Valley Agent, Alain Pinel • #1 San Francisco Agent, Alain Pinel

Noe home prices have gone up close to 40% on average in the past 5 years. So far in

2018, there is little inventory and a lot of active buyers. If you’re considering selling, now SOLD! $3,995,000 SOLD! $2,060,000 is the time. And Jessica Branson is the BEST to work with! A Noe Valley property owner herself, Jessica is an expert and has a reputation not only for integrity and intelligence, but also for representing the ﬁnest homes in the neighborhood.

Call Jessica at 415.341.7177 to ﬁnd out what your home is worth in today’s market.

SOLD! $2,525,000 SOLD! $1,175,000

SOLD! LovelyInNoe.com SOLD! NoeValleyPerfection.com SOLD! $2,020,000 SOLD! $1,335,000 $2,600,000 $2,500,000

JESSICA BRANSON License # 01729408 415.341.7177 [email protected] www.JessicaBranson.com *Statistics based on 2017 MLS data at time of printing

De Cecco California Olive Ranch Italian Pasta Extra Virgin Olive Oil 1 lb. -reg 2.99 25.3 oz -reg 16.99 2/$4 $14.99

Clover Three Twins Half & Half Cucina & Amore 32.0 oz -reg 2.99 Ice Cream 16 oz -reg 5.49 Pasta Sauce 16.6 oz -reg 3.59 Father's Day Weekend! $2.29 $4.99 $2.99

USDA Choice Rib-Eye Steak -reg 16.99/lb

Clover European Style Butter $12.99/lb 8 oz -reg 3.99 (June 15th-17th) $2.99 Weekly Deli Deals On Fresh Caggiano Sausages! Lazzari Mesquite Charcoal Great for summer time grilling! Straus Family Farms 6.75 lbs -reg 5.99 Yogurt 32 oz -reg 5.49 $5.49 $4.99

Store Hours: 7:00 am - 9:30 pm Sale Prices eective Every Day! June 1-24, 2018 We Accept: Free Parking ATM Cards Across the Street Discover Cards In our Very Own MasterCard & Visa Elec. Food Stamps & EBT Parking Lot ! The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 7

THE ADDRESS IS NOE VALLEY THE EXPERIENCE IS AIN PINEL

RUSSIAN HILL $7,500,000 SOMA $2,900,000 INNER RICHMOND $2,595,000

OUTER RICHMOND $2,395,000 NOE VALLEY $1,995,000 BERNAL HEIGHTS $1,700,000

NOE VALLEY $1,645,000 BERNAL HEIGHTS $1,487,000 RUSSIAN HILL $1,195,000

477 Duncan Street | 2bd/1ba 270 Prospect Avenue l 2bd/1.5ba 1444 Vallejo Street #2 l 2bd/2ba Sue Bowie | 415.642.4000 J.Branson/J. Gregory | 415.722.5515 Patricia Lawton | 415.309.7836 License # 00872741 License # 01729408 | 01936073 License # 01233061 SueBowie.com 270Prospect.com 1444Vallejo.com

MARINA $999,999 INNER RICHMOND $949,000 INNER MISSION $899,000

APR.COM Over 30 Offices Serving The San Francisco Bay Area 866.468.0111 8 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

IN MEMORY OF a scuffle. Later, as an inspector working in the fugitives division, Gene often flew to Gene Hance— THE NOE VALLEY VOICE other jurisdictions to pick up people who P.O. Box 460249 A Kind and had fled from prosecution. He also San Francisco, CA 94146 apprehended suspects being extradited www.noevalleyvoice.com Generous Man by his counterparts elsewhere. he Noe Valley Voice is an independent news - Tpaper published monthly except in January By Laura McHale Holland One case involved a man in his early and August. It is distributed free in Noe Valley 20s who had taken a joyride in a stolen and vicinity during the first week of the month. Subscriptions are available at $40 per year ($35 n April 14, I attended the funeral of car in Alabama, where this was consid- for seniors) by writing to the above address. OLester Eugene “Gene” Hance at St. ered to be felony car theft and carried a The Voice welcomes your letters, photos, and stories, particularly on topics relating to Noe Philip Church on Diamond Street. A for- 10-year prison sentence. When Gene Valley. All items should include your name, ad- mer lector at the parish, he was a close was filling out paperwork for the case, a dress, and phone number, and may be edited for friend of my husband, Jim Holland, for young, pregnant woman came into the brevity or clarity. (Unsigned letters will not be considered for publication.) Unsolicited contri- more than 30 years. office and said the suspect was the father butions will be returned only if accompanied by As the casket was carried into the of her child, and she didn’t know what a self-addressed, stamped envelope. The Noe Valley Voice is a member of the San church, a tenor sang a poignant “Danny she would do without him. She had no Francisco Neighborhood Newspaper Association. Boy.” After the pallbearers took their job and no family to help her. Gene Email: [email protected] seats, and the rest of us dried our eyes, picked up the phone and called someone Website: www.noevalleyvoice.com he led the congregation in “Let There Be in the city’s social services bureaucracy. Distribution: Call Jack, 415-385-4569 Peace on Earth,” one of Gene’s favorite Before the young woman headed out to Display Advertising: Call Pat, 415-608-7634, For a long stretch of his 91 years, Gene or email [email protected] songs. Gene was no longer with us in the meet that person who later found a spot Class Ads: See Page 22 Hance and his wife Nancy (née Cleary) flesh, but his spirit was very much pres- in a halfway house and other types of Display Advertising Deadline for the lived in her family home on Diamond ent. assistance for her, Gene gave her $20, July/August Issue: June 20, 2018 Street. They raised two sons and were Editorial/Class Ad Deadline: June 15, 2018 Gene was born in Scobey, Montana, which was all the money he had in his active members of St. Philip Parish. CO-PUBLISHERS/EDITORS July 10, 1927, and his family moved to wallet. Sally Smith, Jack Tipple San Francisco when he was a teenager. Ten years later, after the man had CONTRIBUTING WRITERS AND EDITORS In April 1945, he graduated early from suspect who had escaped a crime scene served his time, the couple brought their Corrie M. Anders, Associate Editor Olivia Boler, Other Voices Editor Sacred Heart High School to join the was spotted in a Foster’s coffee shop, 10-year-old son to the office. “Inspector Heidi Anderson, Steve Anderson, Matthew S. Bajko, Navy. Upon his return, he attended but eluded capture when Gene and his Hance, we’d like you to meet Gene,” the Owen Baker-Flynn, Karol Barske, Katie Burke, Helen Colgan, Jan Goben, Liz Highleyman, Laura University of San Francisco, but before partner confronted him. While giving mother said. She tried to repay the $20, McHale Holland, Andrea Carla Michaels, Suzanne graduating, decided policing was his chase, Gene called out, “Stop or I’ll but Gene gave them another $20 instead, Herel, Florence Holub, Tim Innes, Jeff Kaliss, Doug Konecky, Richard May, Joe O’Connor, Roger Rubin, true calling. shoot!” but the man kept running. Gene saying it was enough reward for him to Olivia Starr, Steve Steinberg, Tim Simmers, Karen He entered the San Francisco Police shot a round into the air, which, he joked have met his namesake and to know they Topakian, Heather World Department in 1949 as a patrolman and afterward, only made the man run faster. were doing well. CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS retired as an inspector in 1979. During He did end up making the collar, but not Gene was also a family man. He met Pamela Gerard, Beverly Tharp, Najib Joe Hakim, Art Bodner that time, he fired his gun only once. A before the suspect broke Gene’s wrist in his future wife, Nancy Cleary, at a dance ACCOUNTING at St. Philip’s in 1947. The two married Jennifer O. Viereck in 1951, and Gene moved into the home PRODUCTION on Diamond Street Nancy shared with Jack Tipple, André Thélémaque DISTRIBUTION LETTERS 50¢ her widowed mother. The house had Jack Tipple been in Nancy’s family since 1919 and WEB DESIGN was in the same block as the church. Jon Elkin, Elliot Poger ADVERTISING SALES Puppy Love Gene used to joke that Nancy brought Pat Rose, Jack Tipple Editor: him home for dinner, and he never left. PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER I was reading the paper to Sammy and Together, Gene and Nancy raised two Contents ᭧2018 The Noe Valley Voice he drifted off. (See photo at right.) sons, Jim and Paul, and were active in Not me. Loved every article. Cheers! parish life. Cynthia and Sammy Gene became a well-loved member of Voice Subscribers San Francisco’s Serenity House in 1980. Valley Voice while watching their neigh- (Cynthia Birch and Sammy Davis Jr.) Through that and annual retreats at El bors go by. Santa Barbara, Calif. Retiro in Los Altos, Gene made lifelong They left Diamond Street only when friendships with men in the recovery Nancy’s health declined to the point We Apologize, Cal community. His gift of sobriety, which where Gene could not take care of her at Editor: he always attributed to his wife Nancy’s home. They moved to the AlmaVia elder First, thank you for continuing to put prayers and the continuing love and sup- care community on Thomas More Way out the Voice. As a regular reader for port from his many friends at Serenity and resided there until Nancy’s death in years, I much appreciate your efforts. House, gave him a sense of gratitude 2014. Then Gene moved in with his son Carry on!! that grew stronger as the years went on. Jim in Novato, where he passed away Thanks also, in your May “Rumors Be- In time, Gene and Nancy became peacefully the morning of April 11. hind the News” column, for referencing grandparents and spent as much time as These vignettes don’t fully capture the continuing jazz nights at Chez Mar- Sammy Davis Jr. is not a news hound, says possible with Jim’s sons, Jack and Luke, the wonderful spirit of the man. Gene ius [4063 24th St.], and particularly for his mom Cynthia. and Paul’s daughters, Emily and Allison. was so full of gratitude and grace, funny mentioning our band Blind Lemon In later years, they would often stroll and kind. There are people who do grand Pledge, our leader James Byfield, and our down 24th Street with their cairn terrier, things in life that stand out and warrant great violinist Cal Keaoola. Cal’s name P.S. We’re playing once again at Chez Mr. Sparky. They would stop at recognition. His was a quiet life, yet his was inadvertently misspelled as Kenoola; Marius on Tuesday, June 26. Starbucks for a bagel and café mocha reach in terms of the happiness so many it is indeed spelled Keaoola. Peter Grenell with whipped cream, and then sit outside people feel when they think of him is Thanks for your attention. Member, Blind Lemon Pledge and peruse the latest issue of the Noe profound. Ⅲ

THE CARTOON BY OWEN BAKER-FLYNN EVE FISHERR RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATEESTATE

415.745.8588415.745.8588 [email protected]@gmail.com I speak Mandarin Chinese.Chinese.

ResidentialResidential BrBrokerageokerage CALRECALRE #0#020533682053368

evefisherSF evefisherSF evefisherSF.com The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 9

market. He also happens to work for San Farmers Market to Francisco’s Department of the Environ- ment. He looked over at Crane’s bag sta- Ban Plastic Bags tion. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “It’s fantastic—a bag library! That way, shoppers will see it’s not the end of convinced the Farmers Market board it the world if they forget to bring their own was time to go plastic free. bag.” “We are now taking away all the plas- Lori Lambertson, who lives on Do- tic bags that have in the past been offered lores, takes the whole idea one step fur- free to customers,” said Crane. This in- ther. She showed off her canvas shopping cludes the clear plastic bags that come on bag—full of more bags—that read, “Shop a roll and the larger, usually white bags with a reusable bag, b*tch!” that come with a handle. “It’s definitely been used,” said Lam- To be clear, said Crane, “we are taking bertson, pointing proudly to the bag’s var- away all plastic bags that are not com- ious stains. postable.” This Is Round One Bag Library to the Rescue Knowing that the change would be On a blustery Saturday in May, Crane hard on vendors (who are used to weigh- pointed with pride to the new bag station ing produce in plastic bags), Crane said already set up at the entrance to the Farm- she gave them a heads-up a couple of ers Market. A long metal chain had been months ago. swung between two posts. Clipped to the Stalls that provide paper bags can con- chain was an assortment of durable bags tinue to do so. “For now,” said Crane. made of cloth, vinyl, or paper. A sign She also made it clear that this was not above urged shoppers to take a bag and a trial run. bring it back next week. Another re- “We are not going to backtrack on minded, “B.Y.O.B.!” this,” said Crane. (The official start date Some of the larger bags were ones of the plastic ban is Saturday, June 2.) Crane had made herself from old event “The recycling pledge is ‘reduce, re- signs. use, recycle,’ and we’re taking that to “I just hadn’t figured out a good use for heart by reducing the number of plastic all these outdated signs until now,” she bags we allow into the [eco]system.” laughed. Residents Chip In The Noe Valley Farmers Market is held As word spread about the new policy, every Saturday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Noe local residents offered to donate more Valley Town Square (3861 24th St., across bags made from old clothes and other re- Noe Valley Farmers Market manager Elizabeth Crane’s sign announced that vendors will no from Martha & Bros. Coffee). The market cyclable materials. Thirteen-year-old Isa longer offer plastic bags. Crane started a bag library for bag-less shoppers, which will be at has nine farm vendors and six food the market’s entrance.The ban begins June 2. Photo by Heidi Anderson Maeder offered to link up with the global booths, selling everything from Drewes initiative Boomerang Bags and sew bags Meats and French desserts to Indian from old T-shirts. it all in stride. “But I always come prepared, even samosas and Mexican enchiladas. For Shoppers strolling the aisles between Liore Milgrom-Gartner, from Castro with the small bags,” she said. more information, call 415-248-1332 or organic oranges and leeks seemed to take Street, had just heard the news. Peter Gallotta was volunteering at the email [email protected]. 10 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

ENOENOUGH!OUGGH! SSanan FFranciscorancisco mmust hhaveave mormoree ppolicpolicee officofficers.ers. WWee must hhahaveve ffull-sfull-staffing ll staffing ffi of f our policpolice li e fforforce.orce. OOurur CitCiCityy SuperSupervisorsvisors permittpermitted ted this shorshortage,tage, affaffecting ffffececting the safsafetyfetety of our CitizCitizens,ens, and eexposingxposing the CCopsops ono the strstreeteet ttoo ggreaterreater harm. IInn 1991994 94 wwee vvotedoted forfor PPropropp DD,, mandamandatingting thathatt officofficersers be broughtbroought up toto full strengthstrenngth —— 1,971.1,971. TThathat minimum mamayy hahaveve been sufficiensufficient nt 25 yyearsears aago,go, but doesndoesn’t’t meet ttoday’soday’’ss needsneeds.. IInn JulyJuly,y,, ddue ttoo rretirementetirement eeligibility,ligibilityy,, wwee mamayy hahhaveve 300 fewffewerewer officofficers.eers. As mamayor,yorr,, II’ll’ll guarguaranteeantee a sufficiesufficient ent policpolicee staffing levlevel. vel. The Animal Company Noe Valley Pet Co WWee need ttoo prprosecuteossecute felonsffelons,elonss,, nott protectprotect them! VIP Grooming VIP Scrub Club I wrwroteote the SSanctuaryanctuaary CitCityy lalaww in 1989 bbecauseecause sso o mmanyany Jeffery’s Natural Pet MudPuppies people wwereere depordeportedted in one nighnightt and thet CitCityy wwasas lefleftftt ttoo Bernal Beast Mission Critter carcaree forfor the childrchildrenenn of the depordeported.ted. As aa mothermother, rr,, itit brbrokeoke mmyy hearheartt ttoo see famfamiliesmilies ttornorn aparapartt and soo manmanyy childrchildrenen Best in Show The Animal House lefleftftt without parparents.entss. I nevneverer wrwroteote it ttoo prprotect rotect dangerdangerousous ffelonsfelons.eloons. TThehe petitionpetition THE CROSSWORD BY MICHAEL BLAKE Mostly Bunk orordinancedinance thathatt I filefiled ed aatt CitCityy Hall will be on the ballot in ACROSS 1. What the R in NoNovember.vember. IItt will rollrooll back the 2016 amendmentsammendments thatthat Muni’s 14R signifies alloallowedwed dangerousdangerous ffelonselons — people whoo ccommitommit murmurder,derr,, 6. A deadly sin 11. Comedian-cum- rrape,ape, and mamayhemyhem — ttoo stastayy on our strstreets.eeets. TThathat wwasas politician Ammiano 14. Man from Muscat nevneverer the inintenttent of tthe SSanctuaryanctuary CitCityy lalaw. aw. 15. 10% church donation 16. Unclose, poetically th 17. *What you use to VoteVVotote AngelaAngela AAliotolioto MaMayoryor oonon JuneJune 55 ! “click here” 19.Ventilator 20.Woody Guthrie’s TheThe SF PPoliceolice OOcerscers AAssociationssociattion EndorsesEndorses boy 21. Miner’s quarry 22. Crewman under OnlOnlylyy AngelaAngela AliotAliotoo forfforor MMayor.ayorr.. Capt. Kirk 24. Get offended by “The“The MaMayoryor of SSanan FFranciscoranccisco ...... mustmust understandunderstand 26. Blunted sword 27. *Shenanigans that compassion must be balanced with common 33. Nobelist Curie sense when tackling public safety issues, and 34. Baseball’s youngest 600-homer man, keeping San Franciscans safe and free of crime. informally 35. Country meadow Most importantly, she must understand our 36. SF Opera solo 62. “Family Matters” some Libras condensation, as police department and its members and care 37. Mortise’s carpentry nerd Steve 13. List of Novy’s glasses partner 63. Tube-shaped pasta entrees, say 42. CIA rivals of old about public safety. 39. ___ Bakalinsky, 64. 180 turn, slangily 18. Gift for Fido 44. ___-cone “Stairway Walks in 65. Plague, to Camus 23. Abbr. before 45. Lacking the skill SF” author “The only candidate who meets this criteria 66. “Measure twice, cut “Kamala Harris” 46. Contact lens care and has the passion, historical perspective, 40. “A long time ___...” once,” e.g. 25. WWII general, brand 41. Herring relative familiarly 49. Church Street SF POA 42. Opposite of kvetch, DOWN 26. Lira replacement dance studio, or the common sense, and unquestioned love for 1. Kind of tomato ENDORSED in a way 27. Bette’s “All About format of this our City is Angela Alioto.” 43. *Frankenstein and 2. Love, in Latin Eve” role puzzle’s starred entries www.aliotoformayor.comy — Martin Halloran The Thing’s favorite 3. Saint name on a 28. Constellation with fast-food orders? church on Church a belt 50. Bay to Breakers, e.g. SFPOA President 47. Like a road 4. Sleeplessness 29. Noe’s Nest, e.g., for 51. Card over a deuce worker’s orange 5. Expire, as a battery short 52. SF-based tech vest 6. “Our ___ Golden 30. Mormon title website 48. Omaha’s state: Bear”: Cal fight 31. Onetime ballplayers 54. Pinta partner ship Abbr. song at Bryant and 16th 55. Mao’s successor l 49. Wild-riding squire Ange a 7. Fit-___: 24th Street 32. Comedian Mort 56. “Gotcha” of “The Wind in the gym who debuted at the Willows” 59. Green-lights 8. A giant among hungry i 52. Pringles container 60. Coll. transcript Giants 33. “Beg pardon, lady?” figure: Abbr. 53. “Me, myself ___” 9. Giants 2B Robby 37. A Roosevelt 57. Rower’s blade (but not Bobby) 38. Merit ALIOTO Solution on Page 28 58. *Lunar Roving 10. Actor Paul of 39. Blended into a Vehicles, familiarly “Casablanca” NOTE: The current Voice mean Crossword and all past MAYOR 61. Abbr. in ancient 11. Cubed bit at Eric’s 41. Cover with puzzles can be found at PaidPaid forfor bbyy Angela AliotAliotoo forfforor MaMMayoryyoror 20182018 •• FFinancialinancial disclosu disclosuresures a availablevvailableailable a att sf fethicssfethics.orgethics.org dates 12. Birthstone for www.noevalleyvoice.com The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 11

Mary Sperry was president. Lillian Har- Local Women in ris Coffin, also founder of the San Fran- cisco Equal Suffrage League, was chair First March for of CESA’s Central State Committee. A frequently mentioned participant in Suffrage GPOAL activities was Johanna’s step- By Evelyn Rose daughter-in-law, Jeanette Amanda Wall Project Director and Founder Pinther. In 1907 at age 17, Jeanette had Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project married one of Theodore Pinther’s three sons. They took up residence on Hoffman he first march for suffrage in the Avenue near 24th Street in upper Noe TUnited States, on Aug. 27, 1908, is Valley, only one block from the home of not indelibly inscribed in American his- her parents, earthquake refugees from tory. So, you might be surprised to learn South of Market, at Fountain Street and that two of the three women who co-led 24th. Johanna’s active role in suffrage or- this first march were San Francisco resi- ganizations provided a stepping stone for dents: Johanna Pinther of Glen Park, and young Jeanette’s participation in the his- Jeanette Amanda Wall Pinther of Noe toric first march for suffrage. Valley, with the third being Mill Valley Banner Unveiled at Oakland March (Marin County) resident Lillian Harris Coffin. One hundred ten years later, it is In June 1908, the California State Re- time for this event and these women to publican Central Committee announced find their proper places in the historic its annual convention would be held that record. August in Oakland. Within a month, The Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 CESA announced its members would did more than take the lives of 3,000 peo- march to the convention hall to encour- ple. It changed the trajectory of home- age Republicans to add women’s suffrage ownership in Noe Valley, Glen Park, and to their platform (the Democratic and La- many other neighborhoods. An estimated bor parties had already done so). 225,000 city residents were displaced by “Suffragettes to Storm Convention!” the disaster. Of those, about 100,000 blared the San Francisco Call, implying earthquake refugees elected to remain in the event would be a militant affair. San Francisco. Many would make their Rather, it would be a dignified march of way a few miles to the southwest, caus- women from all social classes, much like ing the populations of Noe Valley and the world’s first suffrage march had been Glen Park to boom. in London, the Mud March, in February Were it not for the earthquake, this ran- 1907. The suffragettes also announced dom comingling of new residents would that Johanna would hand-sew and em- not have occurred. The assemblage of broider a CESA banner to be prominently civic-minded women who had emerged displayed at the event. by 1908 would rapidly elevate Glen Park On the day of the march, the women as the hub for women’s suffrage in San This iconic image, captured in Oakland at the first U.S. march for suffrage Aug. 27, 1908, gathered at the Metropole Hotel in Oak- Francisco. And the woman who became appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle the following day. Carrying the banner is Noe Valley land. After several speeches, Johanna pre- the face of the Glen Park women’s move- resident Jeanette Pinther (center). She is flanked by Mill Valley resident Lillian Harris Coffin sented the “exquisite” hand-sewn banner, ment was Johanna Pinther, a former res- (left) and Johanna Pinther (right) of Glen Park. The photograph has since appeared on the “of deep blue silk [bearing] the name of ident of Noe Valley. cover of three books about California suffrage. Image courtesy California Historical Society the association, and a vignette of the state arms embroidered in bullion and gold,” The Thread From S.F. to Marin Johanna’s home in Noe Valley near Army Estate was operating a private resort in to Lillian Harris Coffin, who in turn pre- Born in Marysville, Calif., in 1864, Jo- (now Cesar Chavez) and Sanchez streets. Glen Canyon). The league also established sented it to CESA president Mary Sperry. hanna was the daughter of California pi- By the end of 1907, they had moved to Glen Park’s first library and, with the With Jeanette as standard bearer, 150 oneer merchant George Claussenius. Lit- 502 Berkshire (at today’s Bosworth and Glen Park Improvement Association, the to 200 “determined-looking suffragettes tle is known about her mother, Augusta. Hamerton streets) in Glen Park. district’s first volunteer fire department. … in a line two blocks in length” em- She disappears from the genealogical Concurrent to her GPOAL activities, barked on their historic procession, Women’s Clubs and Civic Action records before Johanna reaches the age of Johanna Pinther became president (and marching nearly a mile to the Republican 6. By the 1870 census, father George is Johanna and other Glen Park women was likely founder) of the San Francisco Convention, at Ye Liberty Theatre on married to Eliza Sonneborn, and it seems burst onto the suffrage scene in February Woman’s Club (SFWC). It was through Broadway. There, they “filled four rows Eliza’s sister, Sophie, may have taught Jo- 1908 with the announcement of the for- the SFWC that Johanna began working of the gallery seats, and flaunted their gor- hanna a skill that would later play a sig- mation of the Glen Park Outdoor Art on the organizing committee of the San geous banner over the heads of the assem- nificant role in her suffrage efforts. League (GPOAL), an offshoot of the co- Francisco chapter of the California Equal bled statesmen by drooping it over the Sophie and her husband, Max Koerner, ed Glen Park Improvement Association Suffrage Association (CESA), of which front of the box.” After delegate speeches were proprietors of the fancy goods and founded by husband and patronizing meetings with all-male embroidery shop at the famous Baldwin Theodore and Glen conventioneers, the Republicans refused Hotel, at Powell and Market streets. So- Park saloonkeeper to add suffrage to their platform (they phie’s skills in sewing and embroidery August Straub. Mod- would do so the following year). were described as “exquisite,” winning a eled after Laura What has become an iconic image of gold medal at the 12th Industrial Exhibi- White’s Outdoor Art this march appeared the next day in the tion of the Mechanics’ Institute in 1877. Club and stated to be San Francisco Chronicle. It has since ap- In 1892, they left the fancy goods busi- the first organization peared on the cover of three books about ness and moved to the newly developed of its kind in the “sub- California suffrage. According to her town of Mill Valley to open the Belleview urban districts” of grandson, Leland Basham of Lincoln, Hotel. San Francisco, the Calif., Jeanette downplayed her role in GPOAL would con- the event, only saying, “I did this once.” Susan B. Anthony Sighting tinue the fight for Perhaps she was only being modest, or The Koerners soon began socializing Glen Park improve- it was the lingering sting of the Republi- with Mill Valley’s elite residents, includ- ments and California can snub. Regardless, their efforts would ing San Francisco city engineer Michael suffrage long after the ultimately help lead to a woman’s right to O’Shaughnessy, Horace and Lillian Har- Sixth Star—the sixth vote in California in 1911. This first ris Coffin, and Laura White, wife of Mill state in the Union to march for suffrage in the United States, Valley founder Lovell White. In 1896, allow women the led by Jeanette, Johanna, and Lillian, cer- Laura White hosted women’s suffrage ad- vote—was achieved tainly deserves a prominent place in vocate Susan B. Anthony on a trip to the in 1911. American history. top of Mt. Tamalpais on the scenic moun- Using civic activi- tain railway. Six years later, Laura ties as a means to- The Glen Park Neighborhoods History Proj- founded the Mill Valley Outdoor Art ward suffrage, the ect (www.GlenParkHistory.org) covers Glen Club. It may have been Aunt Sophie’s GPOAL demanded Park, Glen Canyon Park, Sunnyside, Fair- Mill Valley connections that helped Jo- the city provide mount Heights, and Diamond Heights. The hanna find her footing in California’s suf- needed infrastructure project meets every other month (even frage movement. for the rapidly grow- months) and leads a dozen different themed Just three months after the earthquake, ing Glen Park, in- walks, each several times throughout the year. in July 1906, Johanna married Theodore cluding water, sewer, If you would like to support the project, join in activities, or if you are researching the his- Julius Pinther, the second marriage for electrical power, bet- The date and location of this portrait of Mrs. Theodore Pinther both. Theodore moved from his residence ter streets, and a pub- Jr. (Jeanette Amanda Wall Pinther) have been lost to history. But tory of Noe Valley and would like to partici- near McCallister and Laguna streets, at lic recreation area (af- Jeanette Pinther’s part in the first march for women’s right to pate, contact [email protected] the edge of the city’s burned-out area, to ter 1901, the Crocker vote is secure. Photo courtesy Jeanette Wall Pinther Family for more information. 12 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 Moldovan Academy Excellence in Early Childhood Education

Spread the word about the Noe Valley Preschool OPEN HOUSE October 16, 2018 at 6:00pm 1270 Sanchez Street, San Francisco, adults only please Please RSVP to [email protected]

Now accepting applications TK • Potty trained not required • Ages 2-5 at • Full or partial week • HighScope Curriculum Synergy Kids who turn ﬁ ve in the fall are eligible for To apply please visit: www.MoldovanAcademy.com our unique, two-year kindergarten experience. synergyschool.org Call (415) 579-0015 for details. Saint Philip the Apostle

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE & FAITH

Now accepting applications for Transitional Kindergarten thru 8th Grade. All Families Welcome!

For school tours please call 415-824-8467

+HUHFRPHVWKHVXQ • School Hours: 7:50 am - 3:00 pm

• Drop-in Extended Care RIVXPPHU • After-School Enrichment Programs 'LVFRYHU\RXULQQHUDUWLVW • Spanish, Technology, Sports, Music, Art OHDUQIRUOLIH • Preschool Conveniently Located On-Campus $GGD&OHYHQJHUSURYLGHVDQH[FLWLQJOHDUQLQJ HQYLURQPHQWIRU WUDQVLWLRQDONLQGHUJDUWHQWKURXJKWKJUDGHVLQFH Saint Philip the Apostle School 665 Elizabeth Street San Francisco, CA 94114

Adda Clevenger School (415) 824-8467 EST. 1980 SaintPhilipSchool.org [email protected] 180 Fair Oaks St. at 23rd St. 415-824-2240 www.addaclevenger.org The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 13

tion temporarily as she remodels her Merchants Ponder store. “We’re working harder,” Yenne said Uncertain Future about Small Frys. “Business is still pretty

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 good, but it’s not getting any better. In fact, it’s getting worse.” are bucking the trend, but more on that In addition, there are the rising costs of later.) utilities, employee wages and benefits, Many regular customers who have seismic retrofitting, and insurance, the long supported the merchants are moving merchants say. away, selling their houses, or unable to Rag & Bone, Maybe? pay soaring residential rents. Some shop owners would welcome a Some people believe the district could couple of “anchor tenants” on 24th Street, thrive more if retailers changed up their to help drive foot traffic. Even an Apple product mix and made an effort to recruit store was suggested. But that’s a contro- a signature store or two that could excite versial issue. Many prefer to retain the shoppers. charm and flavor of small, independent “Times are changing,” said Rachel stores. Swann, president of the Noe Valley Mer- chants and Professionals Association. Wistful Goodbyes Swann is all for bringing in some sig- Rabat Clothing and Shoes, located on nature stores to lure shoppers. She sug- the prime corner of 24th and Noe streets gested Sephora, a cosmetics store; Rag & (not to be confused with Astrid’s Rabat Bone, a fashionable men and women’s Shoes on 24th near Sanchez), will shut its clothing store; or Epicurean Trader, doors at the end of July. which carries artisan chocolate, spirits, Manager/buyer Inci Caner said Noe cheese, and other goods. She’d also em- Valley’s current residents, many of whom brace an Apple store, “along with a few are busy tech workers, don’t seem to more places to grab a cocktail.” spend as much money in local stores as “If there’s not something here for they used to. They buy on their comput- [neighborhood residents], they’ll go else- ers or phones, and don’t have much inter- where,” Swann said. “Give them what est in fashion, she said. they want.” “It’s not logical to keep [running the She believes sticking with all the tra- store],” said Caner. “It’s a gamble. Busi- ditional favorites may not be enough. ness has steadily declined over the last A National Trend three years.” The lease is up in July, and the owner A recent report on the state of retail in has decided to focus on her Berkeley the city suggests changes in the customer store. base, and rising retail rents are the norm Rabat Clothing manager Inci Caner (center) and saleswomen Raya Foreman and Andrea Caner said she no longer believes Noe across San Francisco and the Bay Area. Rundgren (right) have been greeting tearful customers over the past month, many of whom Valley’s 24th Street is a strong retail des- Nationwide, major retailers are closing can’t believe the store is closing, after 46 years on 24th Street. tination. stores in record numbers. Retailers every- Still, she has been overwhelmed by the where are facing increased competition said. It offers several free half-hour story garden behind the store. “outpouring of love” from longtime cus- from online sales, according to the study readings a day, as well as book clubs and “I like the small-town, European feel tomers sad over Rabat’s closing. prepared for the San Francisco Office of a store newspaper written by local kids. here, with the small independent venues,” “They have come in teary-eyed,” ex- Economic and Workforce Development. That approach to getting to know cus- she said. That’s what brought Greenhill to pressing how much they’ll miss the store, The report noted that Americans want tomers—both parents and kids—is click- Noe Valley. Caner said. “They’ve humbled us, and more of an experience, such as personal ing. Nagy and her staff are hands-on Dona Taylor, owner of When Modern flattered us.” The store has been open 46 service, fitness, and travel, rather than ob- about showing kids books and suggesting Was, would happily welcome a new an- years. jects. ones they’d like. The store is prospering chor tenant on 24th Street. Business is off There’s also a growing trend for resi- and has become a neighborhood magnet. 40 percent over the last three years, and Fewer People Shopping dents to have food delivered to their There’s even a “great bathroom” where she’s struggling. Her rent is also high, but A half a block down the street, The homes rather than strolling down the moms and dads can change their baby’s she’s trying to adapt and “hang in there.” Podolls, an upscale women’s clothing street for a meal and browsing in a shop. diapers, Nagy said. “It’s their time,” said Taylor of the store, is closing after three years on 24th Lots of stores are closing earlier—at 6 “We’re doing our own thing here, and neighborhood’s younger residents. She Street. p.m., rather than 6:30 or 7 p.m. it’s working,” she said. Nagy isn’t op- thinks retailers should cater more to their Co-owner and designer Lauren Podoll posed to anchor-type retailers coming in, demographic. Success Stories said she “felt like the street was chang- but understands why other merchants op- “If you’re not selling something ing” for the better when she opened, and Despite the tough times, there are pose the idea. For now, she’s just happy unique, you’re not going to make it,” Tay- adding new independent stores. bright spots along Noe Valley’s main offering something creative and different. lor said. “Anything mass-produced is all However, “there’s just not as many shopping corridor. That seems to be the key for local success. over the Internet.” people shopping,” she said. “It’s not been Charlotte Nagy opened children’s “You have to make retail an adven- She sells antique furniture, jewelry, supported by customers.” The store will bookstore Charlie’s Corner just 2½ years ture,” said David Eiland, co-owner of Just and home décor. “The young people close by the beginning of July, Podoll ago, and says sales are rising at “a nice, for Fun, which has been in Noe Valley 31 aren’t buying. We’ll hang on as long as said. steady little chug.” She expanded into the years. “You’ve got to change your prod- we can,” she said. Carol Yenne, who owns Small Frys adjacent store space a year ago. uct mix to keep viable.” Taylor’s lease is up in two years, and children’s clothing store on 24th near Her shop at 24th Street and Castro pro- Eiland is opposed to adding chains to the prospect of a rent hike makes her Castro, will take over The Podolls’ loca- motes “literacy and community,” Nagy spark business. He saw Radio Shack, uneasy. Ⅲ General Nutrition Center, and others come in, and he believes they drove rental prices up. “It’s proven not to work,” he said. “They’ve left us, and landlords still want Schwed construction that high rent.” Art supplies and housewares are doing SERVING SAN FRANCISCO well at Just for Fun, and Eiland has added bath and body products, and candles, FOR OVER 25 YEARS which are selling too. HISTORIC RESTORATION Innovative and Green CUSTOM REMODELING MAJOR RECONSTRUCTION Tej Greenhill opened Artisana about a FOUNDATIONS – ADDITIONS year ago. She sells unique jewelry, ceram- KITCHENS – BATHS ics, fine art paintings, and leather and metal craft, made by artists. GENERAL CONTRACTOR “We’re bringing the earth back to the STATE LIC. NO. 579875 digital world,” said Greenhill. She hopes WWW.SCHWED.NET for stronger sales, and is trying events like art receptions and wandering minstrels to 415 - 285 - 8207 attract shoppers. MEMBER: On June 9, she’s hosting a Pride fashion and performance show in the late af- A favorite storytime destination, Charlie’s Corner bookstore at 24th and Castro is one of ternoon. She’s also considering a film fes- the bright spots in Noe Valley’s retail economy. Photos by Pamela Gerard tival and outdoor events in the lush 14 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

An Invitation!

St. Paul Catholic Church 725 Diamond Street San Francisco, CA 94114 invites you to join us and discover www.saintphilippreschool.org the Catholic difference Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten The Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) Morning,Morning Afternoon and Full & Full-Time Time Programs Programs is an introduction to the stories, rituals and symbols of the Catholic faith community, which lead to Baptism, Eucharist, and Confirmation during the Easter Vigil Mass at ST. PAUL CHURCH CreaƟve Artsf Gatherings begin in September 2018 Readiness AcƟviƟesf Music & GymnasƟcsf For More Information Contact Terri Brady or Deacon Bill McLoughlin Call for information or tour 415-282-0143 (415) 648-7538

CHARLES SPIEGEL ATTORNEY Mediation & Consensual Dispute Resolution Only

Pre & Post Marital Planning & Agreements Collaborative Divorce Practitioner Adoption & Surrogacy Real Estate Divorce Options Workshops: Saturday Mornings SF: June 2 & July 7. Lafayette: June 9 & July 14. Learn how tax law changes affect CA divorces. File & Serve in June 2018. 1102 Sanchez Street • SF, CA 94114 • (415) 644-4555

[email protected] • www.CharlesSpiegelLaw.com www.DivorceOptionsInfo.org • www.KidsTurn.org Join me Sat. June 30 in Modesto: www.Resistry.net

in ex BREATHING ex in

YOGA Benefits often include: Physical & mental relaxation Aging bodies welcome. Stress reduction No experience or spandex required. Pain relief Increased mental clarity Greater self-awareness Every Wed. 3 - 4 p.m. Better sleep Noe Valley Ministry 1021 Sanchez Street SF CA 94114 Email me $16 Drop-in. to get door code. Questions? Answers: [email protected]

Need help with something special? Email me for private 1:1 Yoga. The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 15

Healthy Spot announced its plans in the wife, Celia Sack, for 19 years. “They keep out chain stores and formula retail- Healthy Spot fall, local pet store owners and their cus- have a much larger vision than just one ers who seek to encroach on our neigh- tomers have banded together to block the Noe Valley location.” borhoods because they have tremendous Debate Continues out-of-town chain. Also opposing Healthy Spot are Bill business advantages that cause irrepara-

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 They have circulated petitions online and Ellen French, who own the Animal ble harm to small businesses,” stated and in the neighborhood, and are plan- Company on Castro Street, and Lancy Ellen French in a news release. “We’ve awareness and education on the pet indus- ning to raise their objections before the Woo, who owns VIP Grooming on 24th been building our customer bases and sup- try,” said Boonnark, who has a degree in San Francisco Planning Commission Street and co-owns VIP Scrub Club on porting our neighbors for many years.” mass communications. when it meets June 21 to vote on Healthy Church Street with her fiancée, Sage Cot- Labeling Unfair, Spot Says They moved back to Southern Califor- Spot’s permit request. Because Healthy ton. Earlier this year, in interviews with nia, where they’d both grown up, and in Spot is deemed a formula retailer under the Voice, both couples argued that there Healthy Spot’s Kim and Boonnark 2008 launched their new business, the city’s zoning codes—meaning it has was no need for another pet business in pushed back against their company being Healthy Spot. They focused on carrying 11 or more locations in the U.S.—it needs the area. branded as a corporate chain aimed at put- pet food and other products that, as the a conditional use permit in order to open. Harris, in an interview in early May, ting local pet stores out of business, in a company’s website notes, “meet a strin- While chain stores are not banned noted that she carried many of the same phone interview with the Voice in late gent pre-selection criteria for premium along Noe Valley’s main business corri- products as Healthy Spot did. April. quality of ingredients, and quality in pro- dor, they have faced opposition due to “There are some different products that “We understand the spirit of the for- curement and manufacturing.” concerns they can pay higher rents than they sell. But it is a lot of repetition of the mula retail ordinance. We didn’t think be- With a dozen locations in Southern locally owned businesses. But as brick- exact same foods already being sold in ing a community-based store it would be California, Healthy Spot sells pet prod- and-mortar stores struggle to compete my store,” said Harris, who also owns a as large an issue for us,” said Kim. “There ucts that are “organic, natural, raw, and/or with online shopping, not everyone op- pet store in Petaluma. is a wide mix of emotion, and we were re- eco-friendly.” It also offers full-service poses seeing chain stores occupy vacant ally shocked in learning some of the char- Pet Stores Link Up grooming at all of it locations, and pro- storefronts. acterization of us being a chain or a price vides daycare services at certain stores. Earlier this year, a group of local pet discounter or trying to put other busi- Concerned Spots Will Spread It is now aiming to expand to Northern store owners from around the city banded nesses out of business. That is not who we California and wants to open its first lo- In the case of Healthy Spot, the own- together to oppose Healthy Spot. They are and not what our business practices.” cation in the Bay Area at 4049 24th St. in ers of four pet-based businesses in Noe launched their own website—https: Kim insisted that Healthy Spot would Noe Valley, where the former Radio Valley are concerned that the chain will //www.mylocalpetshop.org/—to voice not be in direct competition with the An- Shack had been. The store would offer undercut them on prices and force them their concerns and elicit public support. imal Company, but instead would drive grooming but not daycare services. out of business. They argue that if small In addition to the Noe Valley busi- business to both stores. With the Animal In looking at opening a store in the neigh- independent stores can’t survive, the re- nesses, the coalition includes the Fill- Company known to specialize in products borhood, Boonnark said they checked out sult will be a loss of local flavor and a new more’s Animal House and the Castro for birds, Kim said, Healthy Spot doesn’t the nearby pet stores and didn’t see much round of store vacancies. stores Best in Show, Mudpuppy’s, and plan to cater to bird owners. overlap in the products they carried. Paula Harris, co-owner of Noe Valley Jeffrey’s Natural Pet Foods. Mission Crit- “We know a lot of the products that “Our strategy has never been to come Pet Company on Church Street, is part of ter and Bernal Beast also have joined the Rick [French] carries we won’t, and we into a neighborhood and put people out the coalition opposing Healthy Spot. campaign. will happily send people over there,” said of business,” said Boonnark. “We are not While she doesn’t believe her customers The local pet store owners are hopeful Kim. “We believe with us [on 24th], he trying to carry the same products they will stop shopping at her store, Harris told they will be able to convince the planning will still be able to exist and thrive. We have and undercut prices, despite what is the Voice she is concerned about what im- commissioners to vote against granting a feel we have a different mix of business. being said in that regard.” pact the chain will have on other pet permit to Healthy Spot. They point to We can work well together and thrive to- stores throughout the city. how another pet store chain, Pet Food Ex- gether in this community.” Fur Stands Up “I don’t think Healthy Spot is coming press, twice was denied a conditional use Despite the opposition they are facing, As the Voice reported in February, the in to open one store in San Francisco. permit—in 2009 and 2013—in the Ma- Healthy Spot’s co-owners say they are company’s quest to open on 24th Street They are looking to blanket San Fran- rina District because existing small pet confident their permit application will be has sparked a fierce fight to keep the new cisco with many, many spots,” said Har- stores were likely to be hard hit. store out of the neighborhood. Since ris, who has owned her store with her “Sometimes it’s necessary to fight to CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

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

ContactContact Pete:Petee: 11 HILIRITASHILIRITAS 415.990.9908 wwwww.11Hiliritas.comww.11Hiliritas.com petebrannigan.competebrannigan.com OfOfferedfeered atat $3,997,000 LIC#01117161 16 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

they grew up in and where they feel neighborhoods to “the boom of housing help, such as Homey SF, which works comfortable,” Nunez said. She added in the Mission and overall high, above- with youth in the Mission, and Dolores that by 10 a.m. each day, 200 people market-rate housing compared to what Community Services, which does case Kids Ask had already come through the doors of rent was even three years ago. With management and housing advocacy. MNHC, many availing themselves of gentrification, a lot of affordable hous- Nunez has daily conversations about Katie the organization’s shelter services. ing has gone away. For every homeless homelessness with her own 10- and 13- “San Francisco ordinances don’t vary person out there, there are seven people year-old sons, who notice people on the by district,” Nunez explained. She waiting for one bed.” street as Jasper does. attributed Jasper’s distinction between Nunez pointed to groups trying to Kids Ask Katie is a column in which A Poverty Issue Katie Burke—a neighborhood resident, Friedenbach shares many of Nunez’s writer, and family law attorney— sentiments. answers kids’ questions about Noe Val- “Homelessness is a poverty issue,” ley. Children and teens ages 3 to 16 can Friedenbach said. “Folks become dis- address their questions to Katie placed and tend to stay around their at [email protected]. Katie neighborhoods because that’s where will write you back to schedule an inter- they have some form of support and feel view and photo session. safe. Maybe they have an auntie whose shower they can use. Why are there fewer “[Homelessness] disproportionately impacts people of color,” Friedenbach abandoned people living continued. “There are a lot of Spanish- on the streets in Noe Valley speaking homeless people, and they prefer to stay in Spanish-speaking than in the Mission? neighborhoods, where they can commu- —Asked by Jasper Machule, 10 nicate their needs in their language.” According to Friedenbach, homeless n March, I met Jasper Machule— people spend a lot of time and energy who will be 11 years old in July and trying to find places where no one will Ia sixth-grader at Alvarado School bother them and they can rest. The Mis- this fall—inside Folio Books on 24th sion has a “light industrial aspect to it,” Street. Jasper was with his mom, Phyllis she said, adding that the freeway run- Chen, who explained that their family ning through the north end provides nat- had moved from the Mission to Noe ural shelter. “The population suffers Valley five years ago. from severe sleep deprivation,” she While walking to and from their new said, “and studies show this shortens home on Dolores Street the first few their life spans by 25 years.” months after their arrival, Phyllis said, Need for Compassion she and Jasper noticed they saw fewer people sitting or lying on the sidewalks Hillary Ronen, city supervisor repre- in Noe Valley than they’d seen in the senting District 9, which covers the Mission. That prompted Jasper to ask, Mission, Bernal Heights, and Portola, “Why are there fewer abandoned people was unavailable to talk. living on the streets here?” I relayed Jasper’s question to Jeff To tackle his question, I started by Sheehy, supervisor for District 8, span- contacting two people who work along- ning Noe Valley, the Castro, and other side and in service of our city’s home- neighborhoods, including Mission less population: Ruth Nunez, program Dolores. From the Castro Street Philz director of the Mission Neighborhood coffee shop, Sheehy replied, “There are Health Center (MNHC), and Jennifer fewer homeless people in Noe Valley Friedenbach, executive director of the because there aren’t any services there Coalition on Homelessness. and it is not very accessible by transit.” “San Francisco has a lot of working According to Sheehy, there is an poor individuals who are homeless, who “emerging lack of compassion” for at one point were residents of the Mis- homeless people among San Francisco’s sion. They are accessing [MNHC’s] citizens. If we had more compassion, he services to stay in the community that Jasper Machule and his mom, Phyllis Chen, enjoy a visit to Folio Books. Photo by Art Bodner said, we’d invest more money in housing. Sheehy views homelessness as funda- mentally a public health issue, whose solution entails a “supportive housing Lola HerreraHerre Healthy Spot Still ladder” that includes navigation centers, TokyoTokyo House PartyP supportive housing, and transitional Lobbying for housing. He added, “I would love to OPENING RECEPTION work on a housing ladder for youth, Friday,Fridayy,, June 1st Chance to Open which our city doesn’t have now, even 55-7pm7pm though one out of every five homeless CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 Exhibit runs throughthrough people in San Francisco is young.” June 30th Volunteering at Martin de Porres approved. They launched their own web- LOLAS ART site—http://noevalley.healthyspot.com/ On May 20, Phyllis, Jasper, and I GALLERY —to seek support for their plans. served food at Martin de Porres Hospi- 1250 Sanchez St., Noe ValleyValley They’ve been criticized, however, for tality House, a self-described “free 415-642-4875 offering a financial incentive to those restaurant” in the Mission. Several Hours: Tues-SunTues-Sun 12-6pm who sign up in support of their permit. enthusiastic volunteers greeted us, LolaSanFrancisco.com Those who do are emailed a coupon re- including Cyndy Young, who has served deemable for a free bag of Healthy Spot there on the first and third Sundays of treats when the Noe Valley store opens. every month for seven years. Young “It is something we’ve always done. I says she keeps coming back because ST. JOHN CATHOLIC SCHOOL wouldn’t characterize it as a bribe,” said she appreciates the sense of community where community matters Boonnark. the patrons and volunteers share. Having joined the neighborhood’s Jasper liked handing out utensils to merchants association, Boonnark and the patrons. Phyllis later said Jasper and Kim have been traveling to San Francisco his sister had become Martin de Por- offering traditional to explain their business model and their res’s newest regular volunteers. faith-based education plans for the 24th Street store. At its meet- Thank you, Jasper, for your compas- ing in May, the Noe Valley Merchants and sionately phrased question, which while incorporating Professionals Association voted to sup- allowed me to learn more about home- cutting edge technology port Healthy Spot’s permit application. lessness in our city, and which intro- “We are confident that when people duced me to Martin de Porres’s great hear us, they will understand that a lot of work serving homeless people in the the fears and concerns out there are not Mission. an accurate depiction of who we are,” See you in the neighborhood! 925 CHENERY STREET s SAN FRANCISCO, CA said Kim. Ⅲ —Katie Burke www.stjohnseagles.com 415.584.8383 IMAGE: SONPHOTO.COM The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 17

Noe Valley Home Sales* The Cost of Low High Average Avg. Days Sale Price as Total Sales No. Price ($) Price ($) Price ($) on Market % of List Price

Living in Noe Single-family homes April 2018 11 $1,650,000 $4,900,000 $2,541,818 27 105% March 2018 10 $1,400,000 $3,150,000 $2,363,900 12 119% Condos in April 2017 16 $1,450,000 $4,000,000 $2,445,375 28 104%

High Demand Condominiums By Corrie M. Anders April 2018 10 $1,350,000 $3,729,000 $1,894,200 14 119% March 2018 14 $1,135,890 $1,805,000 $1,469,750 12 115% oe Valley home shoppers in April April 2017 8 $930,000 $2,160,000 $1,484,750 17 116% Npurchased 11 single-family homes at an average price of $2.5 million, accord- 2- to 4-unit buildings ing to recent sales data provided to April 2018 0 — — —— — the Noe Valley Voice by Zephyr Real Es- March 2018 5 $1,725,000 $2,950,000 $2,310,000 23 121% tate. This four-bedroom home on Noe Street April 2017 2 $2,300,000 $2,695,000 $2,497,500 23 103% Buyers also bought 10 condominiums, was the most expensive house sold in paying on average $1.9 million for their April. Listed at $5.25 million, the property 5+unit buildings sold for $4.9 million. Included in the bargain piece of Noe Valley real estate. April 2018 2 $2,200,000 $4,995,000 $3,597,500 46 98% The main difference was the condo were a gourmet kitchen, media room, an March 2018 0 — — —— — shoppers had to pay quite a bit more, rel- elevator, private garden, two-car parking, atively speaking, than the house hunters. and sweeping bay and downtown views. April 2017 0 — — —— — The condo buyers gave sellers an average * Survey includes all Noe Valley home sales completed during the month. Noe Valley for purposes 19 percent more, while the detached- of high price tags. The most expensive of this survey is loosely defined as the area bordered by Grand View, 22nd, Guerrero, and 30th home buyers offered a modest 5 percent condo in April cost the buyers $3,729,000. streets. The Voice thanks Zephyr Real Estate (zephyrre.com) for providing sales data. NVV6/2018 above the sticker price. Located in an eight-year-old modern Zephyr insider Randall Kostick said building in the 400 block of Elizabeth condos were “on a tear” because they Street between Noe and Sanchez, the unit generally cost less—though still a king’s attracted a winning offer in only 15 days. ransom for many—than detached homes. Buyers paid 6.7 percent above the asking Noe Valley Rents** Noe Valley’s lowest-priced house in price to land the three-bedroom, 2.5-bath No. in Range Average Average Average April sold for $1,650,000, Kostick noted. dwelling with 3,282 square feet of living Unit Sample May 2018 May 2018 April 2018 May 2017 “You can’t buy a house in Noe Valley space. Amenities included a chef’s anymore” if you can only spend $1.5 mil- kitchen, fireplace, floor-to-ceiling glass Studio 12 $1,950 - $2,750 $2,261 / mo. $2,355 / mo. $2,475 / mo. lion, he said. “If you can’t afford $2 mil- walls, a roof deck with 180-degree views, 1-bdrm 25 $2,450 - $4,900 $3,296 / mo. $3,266 / mo. $3,113 / mo. lion plus, then you’re looking at a condo a private elevator, and a two-car garage. 2-bdrm 24 $2,950 - $6,399 $4,341 / mo. $4,172 / mo. $4,057 / mo. and not a house.” April’s most expensive house sold for 3-bdrm 17 $4,300 - $12,000 $7,622 / mo. $6,308 / mo. $6,750 / mo. Not that condos don’t have their share $4.9 million. It was on the market for 83 4+-bdrm 6 $5,650 - $19,950 $11,824 / mo. $9,640 / mo. $10,138 / mo. days before an offer came in for 6.7 percent below the $5,250,000 list price. ** This survey is based on a sample of 84 Noe Valley apartment listings appearing on Craigslist.org The four-level, four-bedroom, 3.5-bath from May 4 to 10, 2018. NVV6/2018 home with 4,337 square feet of living space is located in the 1300 block of Noe Street between 27th and Cesar Chavez streets. Set on a double lot, the house features spacious living areas, glass walls, a chef’s kitchen with Gaggenau appliances, a gas fireplace, a media room, two decks (including one with a fire pit), bay views, an elevator, enclosed garden, and parking for two vehicles. Ⅲ

LETTERS TO EDITOR THEVOICE welcomes your letters to the editor. Please email This is not your garden variety condo- [email protected]. minium. Buyers paid $3.7 million for the Include your name and contact infor- three-bedroom, 2.5-bath home, located in a mation. (Anonymous letters will not two-unit building on Elizabeth Street. be considered for publication.) Be The lure was floor-to-ceiling glass walls, a aware that letters may be edited for rooftop deck with 180-degree views, a brevity or clarity. We look forward to private elevator to the top floors, and a hearing from you. two-car garage. Photos by Corrie M. Anders

Serving

Design / Build Noe Valley Custom Home Renovation Green Building Since 1961 Foundation Replacements 800-908-3888 New Garages CA LICENSE #706747 www.discovercabrillo.com

415.731.4542 www.bbirminghaminc.com 18 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

Local dog owners and their frisky friends held a party May 12 to celebrate recent upgrades to Joby’s Run dog play area at Upper Noe Recreation Center. Photo courtesy Marty Fatooh

snacks provided by dog groomer VIP Repaired Dog Scrub Club.

photo: Brauning Amanda Rec & Park General Manager Phil Run Reopens Ginsburg brought his 13-year-old basset- By Matthew S. Bajko beagle mix, Barney, and Rec & Park Area Noe Valley Pet Company: elating the 5 Manager Carol Sionkowski came with neighborhood for 19 years! oby’s Run, the play space for neighbor- her little chiweenie, Nugget. District 8 Jhood pooches at Upper Noe Recre- Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, who supported ation Center, has received a partial the dog group’s repair request, also at- makeover. Dogs and their owners joined tended. city officials at the L-shaped dog play Ginsburg said the neighbors who sup- area the morning of May 12 to christen port the rec center and dog park had rea- the repairs. son to be proud. “There is probably no As the Voice reported in April, the dog more collaborative, collegial, happy com- we sell Orijen park had been showing its age after re- munity around any single facility in our ceiving an overhaul a decade ago as part park system than this one,” he said. Visit our sister store in Petaluma of a restoration of the multi-use recreation The Friends of the Noe Valley Recre- 144 Petaluma Blvd North facility at 295 Day St., between Church ation Center is hopeful more work can be and Sanchez streets. The irrigation sys- done this summer to freshen up the facil- 1451 CHURCH ST 415-282-7385 NOEVALLEYPET.COM tem at the dog park no longer worked and ity in time for the Ten Together block its special granite covering had worn party it is hosting Sept. 15 to celebrate the away. 10th anniversary of the recreation cen- After lobbying by the Friends of Up- ter’s transformation. per Noe Dog Owners Group (FUNDOG), Additional repairs are needed to up- the city’s Recreation and Park Depart- grade the Day Street dog run section that ment agreed to fix up the main section of is behind the athletic field, while the the dog park that is entered from a gate blacktop basketball court and the tennis on 30th Street. In April, workers installed court both need to be resurfaced. Chris a new decomposed granite surface to the Faust, who chairs the stewardship com- area and upgraded the irrigation system. mittee for the Friends group, said the goal Members of FUNDOG held a party to was “to have the park in tiptop shape” in celebrate once the work was done, with time for the party this fall. Ⅲ

VOLUNTEER NOW: ELECTIONS CONTINUE TO FLIP THE CENTRAL VALLEY. Daily SF Phone Banks; Weekly Saturday Canvassing; Voter Registration Trips RESISTRY.NET

please join us at City Hall on June 21st at 1pm to ﬁght the conditional use permit for Healthy Spot and help us keep Noe Unique

1734 Church St. 415-970-2231 www.vipscrubclub.com The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 19

24), all story times at the store will feature LGBTQ-centered stories and books. SHORT Everyone is invited to come hear stories, sing songs, and make crafts “that cele- TAKES brate the uniqueness of you!” Voting Is Groovy Celebrate Pride, Love, and alifornia is holding an election June Family C5 and hopes you’ll come. In Noe Val- ley, you’ll be voting for District 8 super- his June, Charlie’s Corner children’s visor, mayor, congressperson, and all the bookstore will celebrate LGBTQ T statewide offices (including governor and Pride all month long with LGBTQ- state senator). There are also nine city and themed story times, authors’ readings, five state propositions to wrestle with. and a Pride Fun Run through Noe Valley. It’s too late to vote by mail but you can The first annual Fun Run starts at 9:30 vote at City Hall Monday through Friday, a.m., Friday, June 15, at the bookstore’s 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on the weekend, 10 front door at 4102 24th St., near Castro a.m. to 4 p.m. Street. Participants will circle the block On Election Day, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and end up at the Noe Valley Town vote at your polling place, the one on the Square, where they can enjoy stories, back of your voter pamphlet. Tossed it? crafts, and face-painting, plus snacks pro- You can find the information online at vided by Urban Remedy. Charlie (Char- Noe Valley filmmaker Laurie Coyle premieres her documentary Adios Amor:The Search for sfelections.org/tools/pollsite or by calling lotte Nagy) promises a free T-shirt to “all Maria Moreno June 8 and 9 at the Roxie Theater. Photo by Najib Joe Hakim the San Francisco Board of Elections at runners/walkers/crawlers!” 415-554-4375. And if you voted by mail A $15 donation to the event will go to Moreno in 1995 while working on a PBS chocolate raspberry caramel s’mores. but didn’t mail the ballot back, you can OurFamilyCoalition.org. documentary on Cesar Chavez. “I came They cover breakfast, lunch, and liba- hand it over in person on Election Day at Earlier in the month, on Saturday, June 2, across hundreds of photographs of a mi- tions, too, including their now famous any polling place and at City Hall until at 3:30 p.m., author and licensed clinical grant mother, organizing with her chil- “Blood Orange Bug Juice.” polls close at 8 p.m. psychologist Michael Genhart will come dren at her side.” She asked herself, “Who The event is free. For all June events at by the store to share his new picture book, was this remarkable woman…and why Omnivore, see www.omnivorebooks.com. Love Is Love. The book’s message is that Laurie Coyle’s Adios Amor hadn’t I ever heard of her?” Coyle had a The lineup also features Josh Donald, gay families and straight families are just dios Amor: The Search for Maria personal connection to the movement. who owns Bernal Cutlery (June 8); Diana “different kinds of normal. What makes AMoreno, a film directed by Valley Her father volunteered at the United Henry, food writer for the Sunday Tele- a family real is the love that is shared.” Street resident Laurie Coyle, premieres at Farmworkers clinic in Delano, Calif., graph (June 10); and Gayle Pirie and John Genhart will be followed on Saturday, the 17th annual San Francisco Documen- during the 1960s grape strike. Clark, chef-authors of The Foreign Cin- June 9, 3:30 p.m., by local authors Beth tary Festival (SF DocFest) this month. In 2009, after years of writing and pro- ema Cookbook (June 12). The bookstore Reichmuth and Marcus Ewert. Reich- Maria Moreno was a farm worker ducing documentaries about men (includ- is located at 3885A Cesar Chavez St. muth wrote I’m Jay, Let’s Play, about a rights activist and union organizer who ing the American Masters film Orozco: day at preschool with gender-fluid kids. predated Cesar Chavez and Dolores Man of Fire), Coyle returned to the life of 42 Years of LGBTQ Movies Marcus Ewert’s picture book 10,000 Huerta. Her story was largely lost until Maria Moreno. “My own mother had died his year, Frameline42, also known as Dresses is a story about a boy who dreams Coyle’s discovery of 50-year-old photo- the year before, and I wanted to pay tribute Tthe San Francisco International of being allowed to look and act the way graphs taken by George Ballis, a chroni- to the heroism of ordinary women who LGBTQ Film Festival, will run for 10 he feels. cler of the farm labor movement. (Ballis’ sac rifice to care for their families and with days, from Thursday, June 14, to Sunday, An LGBTQ Family Story Time will be teacher was photographer Dorothea tremendous energy and imagination jug- June 24, the day of the Pride Parade along held Saturday, June 16, at 3:30 p.m. Free Lange, who famously documented the gle family life, careers, and social justice.” Market Street. More than 160 lesbian, snacks and music will be provided. Great Depression.) Adios Amor premieres Friday, June 8, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Finally, on Pride Weekend (June 23- Coyle says she found out about 7:15 p.m., at the Roxie Theater, 3117 16th films from around the world will be St., and plays again Saturday, June 9, at screened in theaters in San Francisco, 12:30 p.m. Director Coyle and Moreno’s Oakland, and Berkeley. Here in the city, daughters Lillian and Olivia will be at Meet NVCM’s New Artistic Directors they’ll be at the Castro, the Roxie, and the both performances and will answer ques- Victoria theaters in the Mission. aren Heather, founder and retiring music in the upstairs sanctuary at the Noe tions. The daughters appear in the film. The opening night movie is Transmil- artistic director of Noe Valley Cham- Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St. K The Pena-Govea Family will play some itary, a documentary telling the story of ber Music, accomplished so much in her 25 However, the new season, renamed traditional Mexican songs before the film years with the series, she had to be replaced Sundays at Four and starting in October, will four transgender U.S. military people. The begins. Tickets are $13 general admission by two people. Meena Bhasin and Owen offer four concerts (at 4 p.m.) during the festival closes with another documentary, Dalby, a 30-something married couple who year,at a subscription price of $135. (A “VIP at sfindie.com and $15 at the door. Studio 54, about the notorious New York met at Carnegie Hall and now live in Glen Series” for $175 gives priority seating at all SF DocFest runs through June 14, at City nightclub. In between, you’ll see Park, have been tapped to take over for the four performances and two guest passes.) three venues in San Francisco: the Roxie, dramas, comedies, and more documen- 2018-19 season. Among the 2018-19 artists will be the the Brava Theater, and New People Cin- taries, from 39 countries. Twenty-five Bhasin, a violist originally from Long Is- Anderson and Roe Piano Duo (Oct. 14), ema. For a complete schedule of the fes- world premieres are scheduled. land, N.Y., attended Tufts University and the Carnegie Hall’s Decoda (Dec. 2), and the tival, visit sfindie.com. You can buy tickets online at New England Conservatory of Music. At St. Lawrence String Quartet, this time Find out more about Coyle and her www.frameline.org or at the Frameline home in an array of musical genres, she has performing with clarinetist Todd Palmer films at www.lauriecoylefilms.com. performed Mozart (Feb. 10). The final box office, 470 Castro St., in the Strut at Lincoln Center, concert, on May 12, health services building across from the played Persian clas- will feature Bhasin Blood Orange Bug Juice, Castro Theatre. sical music with the and Dalby them- Anyone? New York Philhar- selves and local fa- t’s summer! Time to make a reservation Art, Music, and Fashion monic, and toured vorites Tom Stone, at a state park or pitch a tent in the back ulture is blooming along with the as a soloist with the Eric Zivian, and I rock band Jethro Tanya Tomkins. yard and have a cookout. To help you with Cflowers this month. ClimateMusic Tull. “We are thrilled your al fresco menu planning, Marnie and Civic Symphony concerts are tuning “I played on a to be stepping into Hanel and Jen Stevenson have written up at the Noe Valley Ministry, Lola Her- [NVCM] program a a community that The Campout Cookbook and are coming rera is showing her figurative and few years back with Owen Dalby and Meena Bhasin seems really striv- to Omnivore Books on Food on Saturday, “house” paintings, and Artisana Func- Livia Sohn and the ing,” Bhasin said. June 9, 3 p.m. tional Art is holding a Queer Pride fash- St. Lawrence String Quartet,” she noted. “We want to continue to see the interest The authors, both from Portland, pre- ion fundraiser. Dalby, a violinist, was born and raised in grow, expand it, and think about bringing in viously wrote The Picnic, a book for day- The fashion fundraiser is Saturday, Berkeley. “Dawn Harms and Emil Miland the next generation.” time outdoor dining. Now, they’re taking June 9, at the Artisana store, 3947 24th were mentors of mine,” he said. He at- “Our goal is to provide an on-ramp for care of nighttime, too, with 75 recipes for St., from 5 to 8 p.m. Local drag queens tended the Crowden School, and went on people unfamiliar with NVCM,” added to receive bachelor’s and master’s degrees Dalby. “We want to introduce a new series meals to cook ahead or under the stars, in- from the Yale School of Music. called ‘Snapshots,’ which will be hour-long cluding stews, chilis, pizza, and of course SHORT TAKES CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 Bhasin and Dalby met through Ensemble programs in slightly different locations Connect, a post-graduate partnership of around the city in a more casual environ- the Juilliard School and Carnegie Hall.While ment. We’ve seen this done very success- living in New York, the couple founded De- fully and we’ve done it ourselves.” VOLUNTEER NOW: coda, a chamber music affiliate of the Hall They also may sponsor “house concerts” ELECTIONS CONTINUE TO FLIP THE CENTRAL VALLEY. with an emphasis on outreach. “We started in Noe Valley, said Bhasin. “Neighborhood Daily SF Phone Banks; Weekly Saturday Canvassing; Voter Registration Trips our relationship working together 10 years residents can host a concert and invite their ago, and I think that combination, with both friends and neighbors.” of us being chamber musicians, makes us a To find out more details or subscribe to RESISTRY.NET really great team,” said Dalby. the new season, call 415-648-5236 or email In keeping with Heather’s vision, Bhasin NVCM executive director Tiffany Loewen- and Dalby will present a variety of artists berg at [email protected]. performing both traditional and innovative —Wayne Goodman 20 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

4123 FAIR OAKS AVENUE MENLO PARK

LIST PRICE $2,075,000

3 2.5 2,235 SF 6,250 SF LOT

OPEN HOUSES Saturday 6/9 & Sunday 6/10 1:00-5:00PM !" # $ % &"'( # ) * ) % +

For more information please call your real estate agent or Julia Laquer. [email protected] | www.JuliaLaquer.com | (650) 434-2755 | CalBRE# 01928656

Buyer to verify all information including but not limited to the square footage, lot size, and schools. The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 21

St. The piece is a musical take on climate change, and a call for action. The evening Free Dog Safety Tips SHORT begins with a talk by William Collins, di- Noe Valley resident who operates rector of the Climate and Ecological Sci- Aa dog training business will hold a ences Division at Lawrence Berkeley Na- free workshop June 7 that is designed TAKES tional Lab. Tickets are $25 general to help children and dogs get along admission, $45 reserved seating, at more amicably. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19 www.brownpapertickets.com. Learn Beverly Ulbrich, also known as the more about the ClimateMusic Project at Pooch Coach, said her “Kids and Dog Workshop” will teach children how to will model clothing and perform, and www.theclimatemusicproject.org. overcome their fear of dogs as well as there will be free food and drink for all. The Civic Symphony of San Francisco A raffle will benefit Queer LifeSpace, a show those who are already comfort- offers an Afternoon of Chamber Music at able with canines how to safely meet Castro nonprofit that offers mental health the Ministry Saturday, June 16, at 3 p.m. new dogs. services to the queer community. Prizes Compositions to be performed are “Recently, I have been disappointed include Ragdoll Clothing dresses and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 (arranged for watching so many children run and Heather Blaikie jewelry. violin, cello, and four-hand piano), scream from my small little puppy in Also on June 9, at 7 p.m., the Climate- Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2 in A Noe Valley,” said Ulbrich, who has lived Music Project presents the premiere of minor, and a trio for oboe, clarinet, and Author Ron Rosen discusses his popular in the neighborhood for 20 years and Icarus in Flight by composer Richard bassoon. The suggested donation is $10 “gay romantic comedies” at the Queer worked as a canine behaviorist for 15. “When I had a puppy 13 years ago, Festinger at the Ministry, 1021 Sanchez per person at the door. Words series at Folio Books on June 19. most of the children wanted to run up And you can appreciate art within and pet her. But now most children walking distance all month at Lola Street, has written 12 novels, which he seem to be afraid. Not only is this sad Gallery, 1250 Sanchez St. Owner and calls “gay romantic comedies.” He con- to me, because I would love children to artist Lola Herrera curates different art fides, “They’re fun to write, and I like love dogs, but also it’s dangerous exhibits at her store, but in June she will making people laugh. Also, I’ve always because these kids often act inappro- finally feature her own paintings, both been a romantic kind of guy. All in all, the priately, which could cause them harm around the wrong dog,” she said. figurative work and “house” paintings, genre is a perfect fit!” “There is also the issue of kids who which began as studies for sculptures. “I Rosen said he began writing gay nov- really liked the two-dimensional aspect, have their own dogs and therefore els after reading all of those he could get think it’s okay to run up to any dog and so I continued” creating paintings, rather his hands on. “I decided to give it a try grab and/or pet it,” Ulbrich said. “This is than sculptures, she said. Store hours are myself. I sat down. I wrote. I wrote a also dangerous.” Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. book. And somehow, 18 years, 12 books, At the class, she will introduce eight anthologies, and several hundred children to a friendly, trained puppy to Queer Words With short stories later, here I am.” help them overcome their fears. The workshop, which is co-hosted by Rob Rosen That’s a lot of literature for a man with a day job. How does he do it? “I write all San Francisco Dog Owners Group, is open to kids of all ages (and their olio Books welcomes back its quar- weekend,” he explains. “I’m a fast writer, parents), but no dogs are allowed. It will Fterly literary series, Queer Words, cu- so I get a lot done.” rated by local writer Wayne Goodman. be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Noe Among his best-selling titles are Divas Valley Town Square, 3861 24th St. On Tuesday, June 19, 7 p.m., Noe Valley Las Vegas, Fate, Queens of the Apoca- The event is free. “A $5 donation to author Rob Rosen will be the guest. lypse, Queerwolf, Sparkle, and Vamp. Fo- SFDOG will be accepted, if people are Goodman and Rosen will sit down and lio Books is located at 3957 24th St., so inclined,” said Ulbrich. chat, and Rosen will read from his latest across from Whole Foods. For more information, go to At Lola Gallery on Sanchez Street, artist novel, And God Belched. Free admission, https://poochcoach.com/kids-dogs/ or Lola Herrera displays her own paintings this refreshments, and laughs are guaranteed. Short Takes are compiled and written by email [email protected]. month, including the oil Figure in Pink. Rosen, a longtime resident of Dolores Richard May. —Corrie M. Anders

FUNCTIONAL ART Spinning into Summer with fine art & contemporary crafts

3927 24th St. • San Francisco • CA 94114 415-500-2257 • Daily 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

146 N. Main St. • Sebastopol • CA 95472 K. Maley Jewelry by 707-829-3036 • Daily 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Sundays 5 p.m. www.artisanafunctionalart.com

Buckner Painting Company Gavin Buckner, Owner & Operator Interior / Exterior / Commercial / Residential 415.264.2694 Recipient of the Better Business Bureau Honor Roll Award Lic. #738848 22 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 Neighborhood Services The Noe Valley Voice

HANDYMAN Rick Collins SERVICES Macintosh Help Carpentry, Painting, 21 Years Experience CUSTOM HOME CONSTRUCTION, Troubleshooting/Tutoring Yardwork, and complete ADDITIONS AND REMODELS Tune-Ups/Upgrades Demolition Service Lic. #944258 • (415) 738-9412 SFMacMan.com [email protected] • www.mcgowanbuilt.com Call Miguel (510) 333-0732 (415) 821-1792

ROGER R. RUBIN KOFMAN PAINTING CO. Attorney and Counselor at Law (415) 203-5412 Design, Renovation and Gardening. Sensitive approach to Interior / Exterior creating and caring (415) 441-1112 for your special Wood & Drywall Repairs, retreat space. Environmentally Law Chambers Crown Moldings appropriate plantings and organic garden methods. Lic.#651703 1155 Pine Street Lic 707984 Fully Insured San Francisco, CA 94109 Established in San Francisco 1991

Quit Smoking in One Session VS Construction FINE CARPENTRY General Contractor SERVICES DR.JONATHON D. GRAY • HYPNOSIS LIC # 990233 • Custom Doors & Custom SAN FRANCISCO • 415-563-2333 Quality Cabinets made & installed. No job too small • Expert dry-rot repair on Addictions • Stress Reduction Old World Craftmanship sash windows & elegant trim. ATTORNEYS AT LAW Pain Control • Weight Control • Windows & door screens replaced. 4091 24th Street Phobias • Optimum Performance (415) 877-1293 NOE VALLEY Call Miguel (510) 333-0732 (415) 641-0700

CLASS ADS

Driver Available: Doctor appoint- Over 15 Years Pet-Sit Experience: ments, shopping, errands. Dependable Cats and small animals. 13 years shelter and punctual. 10+ years experience. background assisting with medical and Great references. $25 hour (2 hour min- behavior support. Dependable, respon- imum). Bill 415-826-3613. sible and caring. Noe Valley resident. Kathleen Marie 415-374-0813. Creative Cleaning: House or apartment. Call Marlene Sherman 415-375- Housecleaning: First-class detailing. 2980. Serving Noe Valley since 1988. Excellent references. Sullivan, 415- Noe Valley Voice writer needs new 285-7279. home: High rents are squeezing me out, but I want to stay in the Noe Valley Submissions: The Noe Valley Voice area with my gardener wife. Looking welcomes submissions of short fiction, for a miracle, a two bedroom home, flat essays, or poetry, particularly those or apartment rental. Thank you! Tim relating to Noe Valley. Email 415-801-5220. [email protected] or write Noe Valley Voice, P.O. Box 460249, Cleaning Professional: 28 years of San Francisco, CA 94146. Please experience. Apartments, homes, or include a phone number. offices, and buildings. Roger Miller, 415-794-4411.

How to Place A Class AD Type or print the text of your ad, multiply the number of words by 40¢ per word, and send us a check for the total. (A phone number, including area code, counts as one word.) Then mail your ad text and payment, made out to the Noe Valley Voice, so that we receive it by the 15th of the month before the month in which you’d like to advertise. The address is Noe Valley Voice Class Ads, P.O. Box 460249, San Francisco, CA 94146. (Sorry, we don’t accept Class Ads by phone or email.)

10 for 10 discount: The Noe Valley Voice publishes 10 months a year. (We’re on vacation in Janu- ary and August.) If you place the same class ad in 10 issues, you get a 10 percent discount. To figure your cost, deduct 10 percent from the total due for 10 issues. The next Voice Class Ads will appear in the July/August 2018 issue, distributed in Noe Valley the first week of July. The deadline for Class Ads is June 15.

The Class Ads are also dis played at www.noevalleyvoice.com. Only the first few words of the ad will be set in bold. Also, receipts and tear sheets are provided only if your order is accom panied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Refunds are not granted unless we have made an error. . The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 23

for instance, is arranged so that the pieces resemble pink hearts. It features fried eggplant, zucchini, and carrot wrapped in STORE pink soy paper. Among the more popular dishes he TREK serves are his house spicy (or honey) chicken wings ($12), grilled whole squid tore Trek is a regular Voice column ($16), hamachi (yellowtail) kama ($16), Sfeaturing new stores and restaurants and a seafood pancake ($16). Two other in the neighborhood. This month, we pro- bestsellers are the hamachi carpaccio file Seokyo, a Korean-Japanese grill that ($18) and rainbow crayon roll ($16), in less than three months has created a made with crabmeat and avocado topped following on Church Street. with five different slices of fish. The space has been home to several SEOKYO sushi restaurants over the years, most re- 1740 Church Street near Day Street cently ones called Noe, Tataki South, and 415-875-9881 Deep Sushi. Chef Andy Go is serving up visually Go worked at Tataki South as did his stunning Korean food at his first restau- two silent partners who helped him open rant in Noe Valley. At the same time, he’s Seokyo. They jumped at the chance to satisfying the desires of throngs of sushi take over the location, he said, because fans in the neighborhood. “we all love this neighborhood.” The menu at Seokyo—whose name is Another passion for Go is the Golden a portmanteau of the capital cities Seoul, State Warriors basketball team, which he South Korea, and Tokyo, Japan—features honors on his menu with a sushi roll dishes from both culinary traditions. dubbed Warriors ($18). It features ebi Kimchi, fermented cabbage leaves that (shrimp) with green apple and topped are a staple of Korean cuisine, has a star- with seared scallops. The dish is plated to ring role. Go stuffs it into gyozas ($8) or resemble the team’s logo, with the Bay uses it to cover gently fried chunks of tofu Bridge’s new eastern span created out of ($8). Other Korean specialties include a yellow sauce and the blue sky made bulgogi, made with thinly sliced beef from a jelly-like substance. ($14), and kalbi, Korean-style short ribs “I’ve been a Warriors fan for a couple ($16). years, and why I chose the Warriors was “As we know, around Noe Valley we because they were the best!!!” wrote Go. don’t have any Korean food, and we are His love for the five-time NBA cham- good with Japanese food, so why not try pionship team inspired him to turn the to give some new impact to the neighbor- restaurant’s back room into the Warriors hood,” Go, 39, explained in an emailed Room, with several television screens so response to Voice questions. patrons could catch the team’s games. The Sunset District resident was born The walls feature artwork of the team’s in Hong Kong and has worked in various players created by Go’s friend, artist and Chef Andy Go shows off one of his favorite dishes: the Warriors Roll.A blend of shrimp, restaurants over the years. That experi- illustrator Kevin Deng. apple, and scallops, it’s plated to resemble the team’s Bay Bridge logo. Photo by Art Bodner ence, and an interest in trying out new “I really love his arts, so I try to put dishes, led him to experiment with his his masterpiece in the Warriors Room to menu at Seokyo, which soft-opened Feb. share with all the Warriors fans!” wrote 18 and held an official grand opening cel- Go. ebration May 18. This summer, Go plans to begin offer- In May, Go tweaked the menu to ad- ing brunch on the weekend. He offers a just the pricing and add some new op- special Happy Hour menu every day tions. On the Japanese side of the menu, from 5 to 7 p.m., with discounts on food, Go offers an assortment of eight pieces of beer, and sake. sashimi ($22) or a deluxe 18-piece The restaurant, which seats 52, is open St sashimi seafood dish ($48). for dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday There is a classic sushi roll list, each through Thursday, and until 11 p.m. Fri- six pieces, featuring common offerings day and Saturday nights. like cucumber, avocado, or sweet potato Patrons can make reservations by call- ($6) or spicy tuna, California, and salmon ing the restaurant (it currently does not avocado rolls ($8). Go focuses on how he have a website or take online reserva- plates each dish, with an eye toward those tions). But on Fridays and Saturdays the customers who like to photograph their restaurant only reserves tables for parties entrees and share them via social media. of six or more. His Pink Lady special sushi roll ($14), —Matthew S. Bajko Carol Robinson, EA Member of the National Association of Enrolled Agents ( % ( % '$( # • Individual • Tax Planning % ( " • Business Returns • Prior Year Returns • Electronic Filing • Out-of-State Returns Call for an appointment TODAY! ( % ! 300 Vicksburg Street #1, San Francisco • 415-821-3200 (on the corner of 24th near Church Street) Notary Public Service % (%( $"#"& $ $#& '''#$ # "

24 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

June 1-3: The 23rd SF SILENT FILM June 6-27: Holy Innocents Episcopal Festival offers films from nine Church holds Candlesong, a TAIZE- countries at the Castro Theatre, 429 style service followed by a potluck on Castro. For info: silentfilm.org. • J U N E 2 0 1 8 • Wednesdays at 5:30 pm. 455 Fair Oaks. 824-5142. June 1-14: The 17th SF DOCUMENTARY FILM Festival June 6-27: History group Shaping screens at the Roxie and New People San Francisco offers free PUBLIC Cinema. 662-FEST; sfindie.com. June 2: Psychologist Michael June 3 & 17: The Noe Valley Town June 5-26: John McClean Wolf leads TALKS on Wednesdays from 7:30 to Genhart discusses his picture book Square hosts DRUMMING and SACRED YOGA Tuesdays at Holy 9:30 pm. Eric Quezada Center, 518 June 1-29: BootCampSF conducts Love Is Love at Charlie’s Corner dancing on first and third Sundays; Innocents. 7-8:15 pm. 455 Fair Oaks. Valencia. shapingsf.org. FITNESS training Mondays, Tuesdays, Bookstore. 3:30 pm. 4102 24th. 641- check noevalleytownsquare.com for 824-5142; holyinsf.org. Thursdays, and Fridays at 8:30 am. SF AL-ANON meets 1104; charliescorner.com. times. 3861 24th. June 6-27: Rec Center Basketball Court, 30th June 5-28: Dylan Phillipy leads Wednesdays 8 to 9:30 pm at St. and Whitney. 567-9009; June 2: Bongo leads a free June 3 & 17: SF City Guides leads a BOOTCAMP on the Square, Tuesdays Philip’s Church. 725 Diamond. 834- sfbootcamp.com. DRUMMING and dance class from 4 free WALKING TOUR of Noe Valley at 6 pm and Thursdays at 11 am. Noe 9940; al-anonsf.org. to 5 pm. Noe Valley Town Square, on first and third Sundays at 1:30- Valley Town Square, 24th & Vicksburg. The Friday-night JAZZ The ZOOMOBILE visits the June 1-29: 3861 24th. 3:30 pm. Meet at the Noe Valley June 7: series continues at Bird & Beckett The de Young Noe Valley Library from 4-5 pm. 451 Library, 451 Jersey. 557-4266; June 5 & July 3: bookstore. 5:30-8 pm. 653 Chenery. June 2: Johnny Harper & Carnival Museum and the Legion of Honor Jersey. Call for reservations: 355- sfcityguides.org. 586-3733; birdbeckett.com. perform a CONCERT at 8 pm. SF have FREE ADMISSION on the first 5707; sfpl.org. LIVE ARTS (formerly Noe Valley June 3-24: Taylor Pangman and Tuesday of the month. 750-3600; June 1-29: Chris Sequeira leads a June 7: The Pooch Coach and SF Music Series) at St. Cyprian’s, 2097 Lauren Cohen from Yoga Mayu offer a deyoungmuseum.org. free Friday KARAOKE for adults Dog Owner’s Group offer a “KIDS Turk. 454-5238; free YOGA CLASS at the Noe Valley gathering at Upper Noe Rec Center. The GLBT HISTORY AND DOGS Workshop,” to noevalleymusicseries.com. Town Square; bring your own mat. 9- June 6: 6:30-8:30 pm. 295 Day. 970-8061. Museum has a free day on first encourage proper handling of pets. 6 10 am. 3861 24th. June 2-30: Each Saturday, the Noe Wednesdays. 11 am-7 pm. 4127 18th. pm. Noe Valley Town Square. 3861 June 1-30: Noe Valley OVEREATERS Valley FARMERS’ MARKET brings June 3-24: Meet at the gold fire 621-1107; GLBThistory.org. 24th. Anonymous meets Monday through you fresh produce and live music hydrant at 20th and Church at 11 am Saturday, 7 am, at St. Aidan’s Church, Make a stamp to decorate Elizabeth Minchilli discusses from 8 am to 1 pm. 3861 24th. 248- Sundays for a City Guides walking June 6: June 7: 101 Gold Mine. oasf.org. cards, gift wrap, or tote bags at adult Eating My Way Through Italy; Heading 1332; noevalleyfarmersmarket.com. tour of the area around MISSION CRAFT NIGHT at the Noe Valley Off the Main Roads to Discover the June 1-30: Charlie’s Corner offers DOLORES. 557-4266; June 2-30: Upper Noe Rec Center Library. 7-8:30 pm. 451 Jersey. 355- Hidden Treasures of the ITALIAN children’s STORY TIMES every day. sfcityguides.org. offers free YOGA CLASSES Saturdays 5707; sfpl.org. TABLE. 6:30-7:30 pm. Omnivore Mon.-Fri., 10 am, noon, 3 & 5 pm; Sat. 9:15-10:15 am. Day & Sanchez. 970- June 3-24: MARIPOSA STUDIO is Books, 3885A Cesar Chavez. 282- & Sun., 10:30 am, 12:30 & 3:30 pm. June 6 & 20: Children 4 and up can 8061; noevalleyreccenter.com. open on Sundays from12:30 to 4 pm. 4712; omnivorebooks.com. 4102 24th; 641-1104. read to a dog named Oliver at 2808 Mariposa, at Project Artaud. June 2-30: Meet under the rainbow PUPPY DOG TALES. 6:30-7:30 pm. June 7, 14, 21 & 28: Miss Catherine June 1-30: The On Lok 30th Street 861-4330; mariposastudio.org. flag at Harvey Milk Plaza (Castro and Eureka Valley Library, 1 Jose Sarria tells TODDLER TALES with books, SENIOR CENTER serves lunches for Market) for a City Guides walking June 3 & July 1: The Asian Art Court (16th & Market). 355-5616; rhymes, music, and movement. 10:15 people over 60, weekdays and tour of the CASTRO. Sat., Sun. & Museum offers FREE ADMISSION on sfpl.org. & 11 am. Noe Valley Library, 451 Saturdays. Noon & 1 pm. 225 30th. Tues., 11 am. 557-4266; the first Sunday of the month, Jersey. 355-5707; sfpl.org. 550-2211. The Noe Valley Town sfcityguides.org. courtesy of Target. 200 Larkin. 581- June 6-27: Square hosts TAI CHI classes with June 7-28: Shrawan Nepali leads June 1-July 12: CREATIVITY 3500; asianart.org. June 2-30: The Randall Museum Alex Medel. 7:15 am. 3861 24th. Thursday Morning MEDITATION in EXPLORED exhibits “Mind Place,” a offers a close-up of California wildlife June 4, 11, 18 & 25: The ACC the Noe Valley Town Square; bring a multimedia show curated by June 6-27: Folio Books offers in “Meet the ANIMALS,” on Saturdays Conversation Club meets from 4:30 pillow. 3861 24th. 8-9 am. instructor Leeza Doreian. Reception STORYTIME for toddlers at 2 pm. 199 Museum Way. 554-9605. to 5:30 pm at the Noe Valley Library. May 10, 7-9 pm; Mon.-Fri., 10 am-5 Wednesdays at 10 am. 3957 24th. Newcomers welcome at 451 Jersey. For details, email June 7-28: pm (Thurs. until 7 pm), Sat., noon-5 June 2-30: Saturday night JAZZ at 821-3477; foliosf.com. the AL-ANON Literature Discussion, [email protected]. pm. 3245 16th. 863-2108; Bird & Beckett features local meeting Thursdays at Bethany UMC, June 6-27: Chris Sequeira leads free creativityexplored.org. performers from 7:30 to 10 pm; June 5: ELECTION DAY! Vote in the from 7:15 to 8:30 pm. 1270 Sanchez. senior QIGONG classes Wednesdays refreshments available. 653 Chenery. Primary for xxx 7 am-8 pm. Noe Valley Chamber Music’s 1 to 3 pm, at Upper Noe Rec Center, Bring your storehouse of June 2: birdbeckett.com. June 7-28: CLASSICAL KIDS hosts a concert by June 5 & 19: Bethany United Day & Sanchez. 773-8185; random knowledge to TRIVIA the Thalea String Quartet 10:30 am. June 3: HEROES DAY at the Noe Methodist Church offers free [email protected] NIGHT on Thursdays at the Dubliner, Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez. Valley Town Square features a fire KNITTING lessons on the first and 3838 24th. 8 pm. 285-0674; June 6-27: The Eureka Valley Library nvcm.org. truck and a police car for kids to third Tuesdays of the month. 6:30- brainstormer.com. hosts BABY RHYME and play time on explore, plus music, games, and food. 8:30 pm. 1270 Sanchez. 647-8393; Learn to knit or crochet at Wednesdays, 1:30 to 2:15. 1 Jose The Noe Valley Library June 2: 1-4 pm. 3861 24th. bethanysf.org. June 8: the Noe Valley Library’s KNITTING Sarria Court (16th & Market). 355- screens the 2009 FILM Milk, starring CIRCLE. 2-4 pm. 451 Jersey. 355- June 3: Sara Franklin introduces June 5-26: The Eureka Valley Library 5616; sfpl.org. Sean Penn as the late Supervisor. 2-4 5707; sfpl.org. EDNA LEWIS: At the Table with an tells TODDLER TALES on Tuesdays, pm. 451 Jersey. 355-5707; sfpl.org. The Castro FARMERS American Original. 3-4 pm. Omnivore 10:30 am. 1 Jose Sarria Court (16th & June 6-27: MARKET is open every Wednesdays, Books, 3885A Cesar Chavez. 282- Market). 355-5616; sfpl.org. 4 to 7 pm, through November. Noe 4712; omnivorebooks.com. at Market. pcfma.com.

3957 24th St.| 415-821-3477

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel.

— William Saroyan

Happy reading from your friends at Folio Books.

foliosf.com @foliosf

For a full description of all our upcoming events visit: foliosf.com/events The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 25

June 8 & 9: Noe Valley resident June 27: The #FOODIE RANGERS LAURIE COYLE screens her film, meet with a park ranger, to discuss Adios Amor: The Search for Maria food in the wild, at the Noe Valley Moreno at the SF DocFest. Fri., 7:15 • CALENDAR • Library. 3-4 pm. 451 Jersey. 355-5707; pm; Sat., 12:30 pm. Roxie Theater, sfpl.org. 3117 16th. 863-1087; roxie.com. June 10: Political group SWING June 13: The GREAT BOOKS June 20: The Noe Valley Ministry JJune 27: The RESILIENT Diamond June 9: LADYBUG GARDENERS LEFT meets at 2 pm, and ACTION SF discussion group meets from 6:30 to offers a LABYRINTH WALK, on third Heights work group meets the fourth work on the Upper Noe Rec Center meets from 3 to 4:30 pm, to discuss 8:30 pm at the Noe Valley Library. Wednesdays, at 6 pm. 1021 Sanchez. Wednesday of the month from 3:30 park grounds on second Saturdays. 9 local citizen resistance to the Trump 451 Jersey. 355-5707; sfpl.org. 282-2317. to 5 pm. St. Aidan’s Church, 101 Gold agenda. Noe Valley Library, 451 Jersey. am-noon. Day & Sanchez. June 13: Upper Noe Neighbors June 20: The Noe Valley BOOK Mine. 867-5774. [email protected]. [email protected]. hosts their monthly meeting. 7 pm. DISCUSSION Group takes on Zero K June 28: The Noe Valley Library June 9: DAVE EGGERS and Shawn June 10: Diana Henry introduces Upper Noe Rec Center, 295 Day. by Don DeLillo. 7-8:30 pm. Noe hosts a CHOCOLATE TASTING for Harris discuss their book The How to Eat a Peach: MENUS, Stories, uppernoeneighbors.com. Valley Library, 451 Jersey. 355-5707; teens and tweens. 4-5 pm. 451 Jersey. and Places. 3-4 pm. Omnivore Books, sfpl.org. Storyteller and the Artist. 11 am. Main June 14: The DIAMOND HEIGHTS 355-5707; sfpl.org. Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 3885A Cesar Chavez. 282-4712; Community Association meets on June 21: In Tree Frog Treks, June 30:Volunteer at JURI Larkin. sfpl.org. omnivorebooks.com. the second Thursday of the month, at naturalists introduce a variety of COMMONS 9 am to noon with June 9: The Noe Valley Library hosts June 12: The Noe Valley Library 7 pm. Call 867-5774 for location; amphibians and reptiles to ages 5 and coffee and pastries. The park cuts a free discussion, “A MEDITATION offers a “drop-in” eReader and dhcasf.org. up. 3-4 pm. Noe Valley Library, 451 through the block bounded by ONLINE RESOURCE workshop Jersey. 355-5707; sfpl.org. to Help the World.” 2 pm. 451 Jersey. June 14-24: Frameline42’s SF Guerrero, San Jose Avenue, 25th, and from 10:30 to 11:30 am. 451 Jersey. share-international-west.org. International LGBTQ FILM Festival June 22: HERCHURCH offers a 26th. RSVP to meetup.com/juri- 355-5707; sfpl.org. commoners. June 9: Natural Resources offers an screens at the Castro, Roxie, and Women’s Drumming Circle the ongoing opportunity to meet doulas June 12: LITQUAKE hosts free Victoria theaters, and around the Bay fourth Friday of the month. 6-7:30 June 30: Carpool to a Republican (2-4 pm) and home-birth MIDWIVES “Poetic Tuesdays,” with readings by Area. For a schedule: frameline.org. pm. 678 Portola. 731-2953; congressional district to protest Arvind Nandakumar, Fisayo Adeyeye, herchurch.org. (4-6 pm). 1367 Valencia. 550-2611; June 16: Imogene Tondre introduces against Congressman Jeff Denham. Lark Omura, Kim Shuck, and Golda naturalresources-sf.com. CUBA: The Cookbook. 3-4 pm. June 23 & 24: The LGBTQIA PRIDE Leave at 8 am, return 4:30 pm. RSVP Supernova. 12:30-1:30 pm. Esplanade, Omnivore Books, 3885A Cesar Celebration and Rally in Civic Center to [email protected]. June 9: Beth Reichmuth introduces Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission Chavez. 282-4712; Plaza includes speakers and More info: resistry.net. I’m Jay, Let’s Play, and Marcus Ewert between 3rd and 4th. 543-1718. discusses his picture book, 10,000 omnivorebooks.com. performers. Sat., noon-6 pm; Sun., 11 July 1: Historian EVELYN ROSE gives June 12: Artists’ Television Access am-6 pm. Parade begins 10:30 am Dresses at Charlie’s Corner June 16: The SF Civic Music a talk about early aviation pioneers at screens The Pleasure Garden (1953) Sunday, at the Embarcadero. Bookstore. 3:30 pm. 4102 24th. 641- Association performs “An Afternoon the Glen Park Neighborhoods and Chickens Come Home (1931). sfpride.org. 1104; charliescorner.com. of CHAMBER MUSIC” at the Noe History Project meeting. 2:30-4:30 6:30 pm. Noe Valley Library, 451 pm. Glen Canyon Rec Center, 70 Elk June 9: Artisana hosts a Fashion and Valley Ministry. 3-4:30 pm. 1021 June 24: The Glen Park Jersey. 824-3890; atasite.org. St. Fundraiser PRIDE EVENT, featuring Sanchez. sfcivicmusic.org. Neighborhoods HISTORY PROJECT June 12: Gayle Pirie and John Clark offers a Sunnyside walking tour, “The Ragdoll Clothing and jewelry June 19: The Eureka Valley Library July 1: LIEDER Alive! hosts a concert discuss The FOREIGN CINEMA Wild 1890s, the Jail Next Door, and designer Heather Blaikie. 5-8 pm. hosts Radar Productions’ DRAG featuring mezzo-soprano Kindra Cookbook: Recipes and Stories the Making of City College.” 11 am-1 3927 24th. 500-2257; QUEEN Story Hour. 2:30 pm. 1 Jose Scharich and pianist John Parr. 5 pm. Under the Stars. 6:30-7:30 pm. pm. Meet at CUP Cafe, 6 Monterey, artisanafunctionalart.com. Sarria Court (16th & Market). 355- Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez. Omnivore Books, 3885A Cesar near the BART station. 5616; sfpl.org. liederalive.org. June 9: SF Neon offers a NEON Chavez. 282-4712; glenparkhistory.wixsite.com. WALKING TOUR of Chinatown, omnivorebooks.com. June 19: QUEER WORDS at Folio June 26: The Noe Valley Library from 7:30 to 9 pm. For particulars, Books features Noe Valley author June 12:: Artists’ Television Access hosts a talk on legal planning for neonbook.xyz. Rob Rosen in conversation with screens FILMS The Pleasure Garden ALZHEIMER’S disease and Dementia. Wayne Goodman. 7 pm. 3957 24th. June 9: The ClimateMusic Project (1953), and a Laurel and Hardy short. 1:30 to 3 pm. 451 Jersey. 355-5707; premieres “Icarus in Flight,” foliosf.com. 6:30-8 pm. Noe Valley Library, 451 sfpl.org. Sum Sum Summertime introduced by Dr. William Collins Jersey. 355-5707; sfpl.org. June 19: Ingleside POLICE June 26: Noe Valley DEMOCRATIC from Lawrence Berkeley National STATION holds a community The next Noe Valley Voice June 12: PFLAG meets at the Club meets on the fourth Tuesday of Lab. 7 pm. Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 meeting on third Tuesdays. 7 pm. Women’s Building, 3543 18th, on the the month. Social hour 6 pm; Calendar will appear in the Sanchez. theclimatemusicproject.org. Community room, 1 Sgt. John V. Young second Tuesday of the month, 7 to 9 program 6:30 pm. 1021 Sanchez. July/August 2018 issue, Lane. Confirm meeting location at June 9:Vanessa Vo performs a pm. 921-8850; pflagsf.org. [email protected]. distributed the first week of concert of traditional and modern 404-4000; inglesidepolicestation.com. June 12: Harold Tuchfeld discusses June 26: Will Maynez discusses July. The deadline for items is Vietnamese music blended with June 20: The Noe Valley Library “SF-Hawaii Commercial Embrace, “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and San June 15. Please email Western sounds. 8 pm. SF LIVE ARTS hosts “Build It!” with KEVA 1878-1902” at the SF HISTORY Francisco: A Love Affair” at the SF (formerly Noe Valley Music Series) at contraptions for ages 7 and up. 3-4:30 [email protected]. Museum meeting. 7:30-9 pm. HISTORY Association. 7 pm. St. Cyprian’s, 2097 Turk. 454-5238; pm. 451 Jersey. 355-5707; sfpl.org. Events in Noe Valley receive noevalleymusicseries.com. Roosevelt Middle School, 460 Congregation Sherith Israel, 2800 Arguello. Reserve a seat at 537-1105; California. 881-7342; priority. sfhistory.org. sanfranciscohistory.org. Thank you.

june events at omnivore books THANK YOU Sara Franklin • Edna Lewis: At the Table with an sun American Original • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREE • Edna Lewis Noe Valley For Supporting jun wrote some of America's most resonant, lyrical, and significant 3 cookbooks. In this first-ever critical appreciation of her work, th food-world stars gather to reveal their own encounters with Edna Lewis. Our 25 Season Elizabeth Minchilli • Eating My Way Through Italy: Heading Off the Main Roads to Discover the Hidden thu Treasures of the Italian Table • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREE jun Elizabeth Minchilli wants to show her devoted readers that far from 7 being a monolithic gastronomic culture, each region of Italy offers its own specialties.

Josh Donald • Sharp: The Definitive Guide to Knives, Knife Care, and Cutting Techniques, with Recipes fri from Great Chefs • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREE • From knife jun expert Josh Donald, the owner of Bernal Cutlery, this comprehensive 8 guide details the elements of buying and caring for good knives; with 15 recipes from great chefs. Marnie Hanel and Jen Stevenson • The Campout Cookbook: Inspired Recipes for Cooking Around the sat Fire and Under the Stars • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREE • With more than 75 recipes for wood-fired skillet pizzas; stews and chilies; and th jun cast-iron breads; unexpected dips, jerkies, and high-energy bars; 9 breakfasts to satisfy that yawning hunger that comes from sleeping in the 25 fresh air; and of course, s’mores. Diana Henry • How to Eat a Peach: Menus, Stories and Places • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREE • Best known as the food writer sun for the Sunday Telegraph, Diana Henry has twice been named Cookery jun Writer of the Year by the Guild of Food Writers in 2007 and 2009. The 10 24 menus and 100 recipes in this book reflect places Diana loves, and dishes that are real favorites. THENOE VALLEY VOICE Gayle Pirie & John Clark • The Foreign Cinema Cook- tue book: Recipes and Stories Under the Stars • jun 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREE • Now, for the first time, chef-owners Gayle 12 Pirie and John Clark share the best from their distinctive North African, California-Mediterranean menu. Imogene Tondre • Cuba: The Cookbook • 3:00-4:00 Cliché Noe Retail Consulting Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation p.m. FREE • Cuba: the Cookbook delves into Cuba’s diverse and sat vibrant cuisine, which is a remarkable blend of cultural influences, jun flavors, and colors. 350 traditional recipes geared to home cooks Announcing NVCM's 2018-19 Concert Season! 16 of varying levels of expertise span Cuba’s fascinating culinary and political history. Season tickets on sale now. Subscribers save up to 25% off single ticket pricing. omnivore books on food 3885a cesar chavez street (at church st.) · san francisco, ca TICKETS & INFO: nvcm.org | 415-648-5236 phone: 415.282.4712 · omnivorebooks.com 26 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

WeWe BelongBe elon ng TogetherToogeththerr

YourYoour empty paper cupscu ps anandnd cartons s now belobelong ong g inn your Bluee Bin.

LearnLearn what goesgoe es wherewhere at SSFSFRecycles.orgRecycles..org YOU’RE INVITED! PROTECTPROTEECT ME

JOIN US ON JUNE 13, 2018 AT DBI’s EARTHQUAKE SAFETY FAIR! FROM LEAD

At this event, HAZARHAZARDSRDS FREE LeadLead is an invisiblein nvisible poisonn thathatt hurts EVENT DETAILS ATTEND ONE OR ALL OF THE INFORMATIVE WORKSHOPS: yyourour child’child’ss grgrowthowth and dedevelopment evelopment DATE: June 13, 2018 @ 42+ +24*+1/3-74)+88'*+!97+887++ TIME: 10am- 4pm ++99.+=5+798 LOCATION: Bill Graham Civic @ '0/3-9.++89:8+4,9.+))+8847><+11/3- Call forfor a FREEE INSPECTION:TIONECINSP : 415-252-39564 2-15-25 93 56 Auditorium - 99 Grove Street #3/9##3/9+-'1/?'9/4374-7'28 WEBSITE: www.sfdbi.org/ @ 4251>/3-

U PPER NOE REC CENTER

Chenery House Noe Valley Sunny days in May (well, foggy days too) drew visitors to the children’s play area at Upper Noe Rec Center, which had recently received a truckload of fresh sand. Photo courtesy Chris Faust Party Pad Get Out and Play It’s yours to rent for half the price of a fancy hotel ballroom. asketball day camps dominate the programming this summer at Upper Noe, Currently the residence of icon ad man Bob Pritikin, the mansion but there are plenty of alternatives for recreation and play, or to just soak up B was formerly known as The Pritikin Mansion. the sun. While there can be no congregating or loitering inside the lobby during summer day camp hours, there is lots to do outside. The Neo Classical Mansion features a second floor swimming pool, To read the park’s newsletter, find out more information, or get updates on the a marble dance hall, fabulous dining, lavish sculpture gardens and a schedule of classes and events, visit www.noevalleyreccenter.com, call 415-970- museum of art treasures – a perfect retreat for corporate events or an 8061, or just drop by the rec center office at 295 Day St., open Tuesday through intimate celebration. Saturday year-round and also on Mondays during summer. This one of a kind mansion has hosted such luminaries as Barbra To register for Summer Activities, visit sfrecpark.org. Streisand, John F. Kennedy Jr., Joe Alioto, Mickey Rooney, Carol —Chris Faust, Chair, Friends of the Noe Valley Recreation Center Channing, The Grateful Dead, Robin Williams, Liberace, Eddie UPPER NOE REC CENTER SUMMER SESSION MAY 30 – AUG. 17, 2018 Fisher, Johnny Cash and countless others. Check www.noevalleyreccenter.com for updates. MONDAY (Center open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.) “Bob Pritikin’s Chenery House is what San Francisco is all about.” Open Gym 3-4 p.m. * Former Mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown Auditorium Free Play 10 a.m.-4 p.m.* Basketball Camp (8-12 yrs) 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 3x3 Basketball Tournament Skills (6-17 yrs) 1:30-2:30 p.m. Please Phone (415) 518-9148 TUESDAY (Center open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.) Take a visual tour – www.pritikinestate.webbly.com Open Gym 4-8:30 p.m. * Auditorium Free Play 10 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 2:30-5:30 p.m. * Basketball Camp (8-12 yrs) 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Petite Bakers (3-7 yrs, drop-in okay) 10-11 a.m. Feldenkrais (18+, drop-in) 1-2 p.m. Pickleball (all ages, free) 1:30-3:30 p.m. Tennis (18+, intermediate/advanced) 6-7 p.m. Yoga–Vinyasa (18+, all levels) 6:30-7:30 p.m. Adult Boot Camp 7:45-8:45 p.m. SellingSF Clients WEDNESDAY (Center open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.) Open Gym 2-5:30 p.m.* in their own words... Auditorium Free Play 3-4 p.m.* Basketball Camp (8-12 yrs) 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Pilates (18+, intermediate) 9:30-10:30 a.m. Pilates (18+, beginning) 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Qi Gong (55+, free) 1-2 p.m. Little Kickers (4-8 yrs) 4:30-5:30 p.m. “Don and Stefano are simply the Karate Kids (6-13 yrs) 5:30-6:30 p.m. best. After we moved out, we handed Tennis (18+, beginning) 6-7 p.m. them the keys and they took care of Drop-in Volleyball (18+, free) 6:30-8:30 p.m. the rest! They are meticulous, THURSDAY (Center open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.) timely, and most importantly Open Gym 4-8:30 p.m.* kind-hearted… people you can Auditorium Free Play 10 a.m.-5 p.m.* really trust. I cannot recommend Basketball Camp (8-12 yrs) 9 a.m.-1 p.m. them enough.” – Ross S Petite Bakers (3-7 yrs, drop-in okay) 10-11 a.m. Argentine Tango,(55+, free, drop-in okay) 1-4 p.m. Pickleball (all ages, free) 1:30-3:30 p.m. Zumba (all ages, drop-in only, free) 5:30-6:30 p.m. Yoga–Gentle Hatha (18+) 6:45-7:45 p.m. FRIDAY (Center open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.) Open Gym 2-5:30 p.m.* Auditorium Free Play 1-5:30 p.m.* Basketball Camp (8-12 yrs) 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Pilates (18+, intermediate) 9:30-10:30 a.m. “Don and Stefano are remarkable Pilates (18+, all levels) 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Real Estate Agents. Besides being Karaoke (18+, drop-in okay) 6:30-8:30 p.m. completely honest, dedicated, Drop-in Volleyball (18+, free) 6:30-8:30 p.m. thorough, and knowledgeable, these SATURDAY (Center open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) two guys had a creative approach Open Gym 9-4:30 p.m.* in showing the property in its Auditorium Free Play 12-4:30 p.m.* strength. – Galen H Yoga–Hatha Traditional (18+ all levels) 9:15-10:15 a.m. Zumba (all ages, drop-in only, free) 10:30-11:30 a.m. FREE SUNDAY (Center closed; outside activities only.) *Hours are subject to change.

Don Woolhouse Broker Associate LIC# 00866643 415.971.7766 Quit Smoking in One Session [email protected]

DR. JONATHON D. GRAY • HYPNOSIS • SAN FRANCISCO • 415-563-2333 Stefano DeZerega REALTOR® LIC# 01730431 Addictions • Stress Reduction • Pain Control • Weight Control 415.987.7833 Phobias • Optimum Performance [email protected] http://drjonathongray.com 28 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

ADULT/TEEN EVENTS CHILDREN’S EVENTS

Noe Valley Knitting Circle: Knitters MORE BOOKS TO READ The San Francisco ZooMobile will visit and crocheters can learn and perfect the library, giving humans ages 4 and up their skills the first Saturday of every a chance to see and touch live animals. month. The library has supplies to Bookmark This Space is limited to 35 children. Call practice on, but bring your own yarn he Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Library will host a healthy share of critters this month. 415-355-5707 for reservations. and needles if you’d like. Saturday, June TOn Thursday, June 7, the San Francisco ZooMobile will bring a few animal friends to Thursday, June 7; 4 to 5 p.m. 2; 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the branch from 4 to 5 p.m. “The exact species visiting will be a surprise—possible ani- Build It With KEVA Contraptions: mals include tortoises, owls, snakes, opossums, and more,” reports the library. To sign up AAC Conversation Club: Alternative Ages 7 and up are invited to create a for the event, for kids 4 and up, call 415-355-5707. and Augmentative Communication path for the KEVA ball to roll down, Then, on Wednesday, June 21, from 3 to 4 p.m., naturalists from Tree Frog Treks will devices include Dynavox, QuickTalker, with ramps, funnels, and jumps, using Tobii Sono Flex, Talk Bar, smart phones, introduce their favorite “creeping, crawling, and slithering co-workers.” That group may simple wooden planks. Wednesday, June and tablet applications. Practice using include a Burmese python and tiny Pacific tree frogs. 20; 3 to 4:30 p.m. them by exploring topics and themes. While awaiting these appearances, you might like to read The Night Lion, about a boy Tree Frog Treks: Naturalists will For more information, contact Kris who learns to get over his bedtime fears with the help of a stuffed lion. Or maybe a introduce a variety of amphibians and Moser at [email protected]. book on the history of space stations orbiting our planet is more to your taste, or one reptiles, from tiny Pacific tree frogs to Mondays, June 4, 11, 18 & 25; 4:30 to on the origins of the song “We Shall Overcome.” All three are on this month’s list of 14-foot-long Burmese pythons. Learn 5:30 p.m. new arrivals at the Noe Valley Library, provided by Branch Manager Denise Sanderson and Children’s Librarian Catherine Starr (see list below). about their natural habitats and roles in Adult Craft Night: Make your own To check on their availability, call or drop by the Noe Valley Branch at 451 Jersey St. the ecosystem. For ages 5 and up. stamp to add a personal touch to cards, Looking to download classic or indie films? Ask about Kanopy, the library’s new Thursday, June 21; 3 to 4 p.m. tote bags, or homemade gift wrap. streaming service. For all things San Francisco Public Library, go to sfpl.org. #Foodie Rangers: Ages 9 to 12 can All materials are provided. Sign up by Also, remember the library is continuing its Summer Stride reading program join a park ranger to learn how the calling 355-5707, or ask at the info (through Aug. 19). You can sign up at any branch. For information, visit food you can find in your national parks desk. Wednesday, June 6; 7 to 8:30 p.m. sfpl.org/summerstride. Reading the Voice will probably count toward your goal! can also benefit your body and health. Friday Matinee: The library screens —Sally Smith, Ed. Wednesday, June 27; 3 to 4 p.m. the 2009 film Milk, starring Sean Penn, Join Miss Catherine for books, songs, about the life and assassination of Adult Fiction l The Overstory, a book of interlocking chants, and movement at Toddler Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man l fables by technologist-novelist Richard Tales story time. For ages 16 through elected to political office in California. A plane crash changes the life of a Powers, tells us what trees really think 36 months with parent or caregiver. Friday, June 8; 2 to 4 p.m. cable news reporter in Panorama by Steve Kistulentz. about us. Every Thursday, 10:15 to 10:45 a.m., and eReader and Online Resource 11 to 11:30 a.m. l The search for a missing teenager has “Drop-In”: Bring your mobile device l In Feast Days by Ian Mackenzie, a an extraordinary effect on the lives of llllll or laptop, your library card and PIN, young woman expatriate in Brazil the inhabitants of a small English vil- and any passwords you might need to becomes involved with the plight of All events take place at the Noe Valley/Sally an informal workshop on using the refugees. lage, in Reservoir 13, by Jon McGregor. Brunn Library, 451 Jersey St. between SFPL’s digital resources, including the Castro and Diamond streets. For l library catalog and databases. Tuesday, In Tessa Arlen’s latest mystery, Death Adult DVDs information, call 415-355-5707 or visit of an Unsung Hero, Lady Montfort June 12; 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. l www.sfpl.org. encounters resistance when she offers a An eccentric California heiress adds Experience “reel” ATA @ SFPL: house in her husband’s family for use as rooms to her mansion to keep away the cinema, gems from the San Francisco a hospital for World War I wounded. ghosts that haunt her, in Winchester, a Public Library’s 16mm film archive, with 2018 film starring Helen Mirren. members of Artists’ Television Access. l In Corsica, a woman remembers the l l Showing this month are The Pleasure long-ago accident that killed her parents Benedict Cumberbatch stars as a In It All Comes Down to This by Garden (1953) and a Laurel and Hardy and brother, in the thriller Time Is a British intelligence officer during World Karen English, a 12-year-old girl in short. Tuesday, June 12; 6:30 to 8 p.m. Killer by Michel Bussi. War II, in the 2016 film Naples ’44. 1965 Los Angeles comes to terms with changes in her life. Ages 10 to 12. Great Books Discussion Group: l In the 2017 musical drama The The Great Books Council of San Adult Nonfiction Greatest Showman, Hugh Jackman l A girl wonders about her mother’s Francisco provides the opportunity for l The story of the ratification of the stars as P.T. Barnum. past in India, in the graphic novel Pash- people to discover, discuss, and learn mina by Nidhi Chanani. Ages 10 to 14. from outstanding works of writing. For 19th Amendment is told in The l Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to (2016) examines, through interviews more information contact Elena at Children’s Nonfiction [email protected]. Wednesday, June Win the Vote, by Elaine F. Weiss. with musicians, why audiotapes are still l 13; 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. l Matt Sewell’s A Charm of a viable format. Plant, Cook, Eat! is a “garden-to- Noe Valley Book Discussion Goldfinches and Other Wild Gather- kitchen” cookbook for children, written Group: This month’s selection is Zero ings: Quirky Collective Nouns of the Children’s Fiction by Joe Archer and Caroline Craig, with illustrations by Sarah Mulvanny. Ages 5 K by Don DeLillo; copies of the book Animal Kingdom features watercolor l A boy finds a way to overcome his to 12. are held at the circulation desk for names and illustrations of 48 groups of fears in The Night Lion, written and checkout. Wednesday, June 20; 7 to 8:30 animals. illustrated by Sanne Dufft. Ages 3 to 6. l Read about the WASPS, the Ameri- p.m. can women pilots who fought in World l Scientific discoveries that changed l In Anywhere Artist, written and illus- This month’s topic at a workshop in War II, in Fly Girls by P. O’Connell humanity are examined in A Magical trated by Nikki Slade Robinson, a cre- Alzheimer’s Disease Education is World: Superstition and Science From Pearson. Ages 10 and up. “Legal Planning for Alzheimer’s ative girl finds art everywhere. Ages 3 Disease,” including issues to consider, the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, to 8. l We Shall Overcome: The Story of a by historian D.K. Wilson. Song, written by Debbie Levy and illus- how to put plans in place, and how to l Smon Smon, written and illustrated trated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, access legal resources near you. l William Rosen explores the battle to by Sonja Danowski, takes place in a Tuesday, June 26; 1:30 to 3 p.m. traces the roots of the famous protest banish deadly infections in Miracle mysterious world of fantasy. Ages 6 to song. Ages 7 to 10. ESPECIALLY FOR TEEN/TWEENS Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and 10. the Birth of Modern Medicine. l Because I Was a Girl is a collection The Hunt for the Best Chocolate: l Two children learn to work together of true stories for girls of all ages, Tweens and teens ages 10 to 17 are in Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Adult eBooks edited by Melissa de la Cruz. Ages 12 to invited to sample chocolates, including Race, Mistakes, and Friendship, writ- 16. U.S. standard brands, trendy flavors, and l In Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awk- ten by Irene Latham and Charles some quirky combinations. Thursday, wardness, Melissa Dahl examines the Waters, and illustrated by Sean Qualls Annotations by Voice bookworm June 28; 4 to 5 p.m. causes, and the surprising value, of and Selina Alko. Ages 8 to 12. Karol Barske embarrassment. l A young outcast is swept up in a l Jay Chladek describes the space sta- medieval treasure hunt in The Book of CROSSWORD SOLUTION tions and laboratories orbiting Earth in Boy, written by Catherine Gilbert Mur- BRANCH HOURS Outposts on the Frontier: A 50-Year Mostly Bunk dock, illustrated by Ian Schoenherr. Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Branch Library History of Space Stations. By Michael Blake Ages 8 to 12. 451 Jersey St., 355-5707 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1-5 12-6 10-9 1-9 10-6 1-6 10-6 Mission Branch Library 300 Bartlett St., 355-2800 VOLUNTEER NOW: Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1-5 1-6 10-9 10-9 10-9 1-6 10-6 ELECTIONS CONTINUE TO FLIP THE CENTRAL VALLEY. Glen Park Branch Library Daily SF Phone Banks; Weekly Saturday Canvassing; Voter Registration Trips 2825 Diamond St., 355-2858 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat RESISTRY.NET 1 -5 10-6 10-6 12-8 12-7 1-6 1-6 Eureka Valley–Harvey Milk Branch Library 1 José Sarria Ct. (3555 16th St.), 355-5616 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 12-6 10-9 12-9 10-6 1-6 12-6 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 29

The building has residential units up- Street. That space was long occupied by and now for the stairs, and the owner, Wayne Basso, con- local realtor B.J. Droubi, and more re- firmed that he has listed it for sale and is cently by a title insurance company. including the bar/restaurant with the According to Modern Family’s resi- RUMORS liquor license as part of the deal. dent lawyer, Paul P. Dumont, “We opened Basso, a longtime Noe Valleyan, used the office here in Noe Valley at the begin- behind the news to own and operate the very popular ning of April [and it] is the first of three Noe’s Bar, which opened in 1982. The planned for the Bay Area, the others being family opened Basso’s Restaurant behind in Oakland and San Jose.” Something’s Happening, the bar 10 years ago, when Cybelle’s The firm, says Dumont, “provides Pizza closed after being at that location quality family law services at affordable Hopefully for many years. In the 1990s, Wayne’s fees, or in some cases a flat fee, and in By Mazook brother, Gaetano Basso, operated Noe’s many cases there is no dispute. It’s just an Grill there. administrative matter in accurately com- HE SURREAL HAS FINALLY BE- The asking price for the corner build- pleting all the forms required by the Fam- TCOME REAL at 3939 24th St., the va- ing is $3.5 million. Basso says, “We have ily Court.” cant storefront where the Real Food Com- received several offers, but I have mixed Dumont says he has been practicing pany closed down and locked out their feelings about selling the building at this family law in the Bay Area for almost 20 workers on Labor Day weekend in 2003. point, because the bar and restaurant [in- years, primarily in San Francisco, San The space has been empty and an eyesore cluding the liquor license and leasehold] Mateo, and Alameda counties. for nearly 15 years. has not yet sold and is still on the mar- “I had never really been to Noe Valley Shortly after the Voice hit the streets ket.” until we opened our office here, and I ab- last month, signs went up on the doors of Meanwhile, Dampeer, who also owned solutely love this location. What a great 3939, posted by the realtor’s representa- the former Caskhouse, is opening a beer place this is.” Out on a Limb: In April, stuffed animals tive, Jennifer Hibbitts. They informed the and wine bar at 639 Divisadero at Hayes, The office is open weekdays from 8 began appearing in trees along Diamond neighborhood that the property had been appropriately called Fool’s Errand. a.m. to 5 p.m. Street between Alvarado and 23rd streets. sold to “local investors who will remodel In further news on the food front, Hi- Also new to Noe Valley is an Irish An octopus, a cat, monkeys, even some and seismically retrofit the building, and Way Burger should be opening its doors dance school, founded by Bernal resident pandas. Could this be the latest work of the lease it to small neighborhood retail ten- on the corner of 24th and Vicksburg by Jaclyn “Jackie” Flynn and called appro- rubber duck fairy? Or is there another playful sprite? No one seemed to know the ants.” the end of June, according to owner priately the J. Flynn Irish Dance Acad- answer. If you do, send an email to Assessor records show the old struc- Randy Kaplan. emy. Classes are held at the popular [email protected]. Photo by Bill Yenne ture was built in 1921. Real Food opened “We will be serving meat and vegi MoBu dance studio at 1605 Church at there as a natural foods grocery in 1970, hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken sand- 28th. Flynn has been a competitive Irish in the west two-thirds of the space, with wiches, fries, and a green salad,” says dancer for the last 20 years and has placed started over 40 years ago… Ver Brugge’s butcher shop in the east Kaplan, “with soda and shakes as well as in world championship competitions for And listen up, all you Downtown Noe one-third. Real Food expanded into the beer and wine.” He points out that all the 10 years. Valley shoppers who might be parking Ver Brugge’s space in 1986. burgers (and chicken) will be cooked to “I just started the school since I have your car in the Whole Foods lot: they are The Noe Valley Bureau of Investiga- order on a flat-top grill. And, “all the fries now become a certified Irish dance starting to enforce the “one hour while tion paid a visit to City Hall and looked will be fresh and hand-cut.” There will teacher and am renting time at Mobu and shopping at Whole Foods” rule by mark- up 3939 in the Assessor-Recorder’s Of- also be a kids menu, and Kaplan is toying starting to hold classes for children and ing your tires with blue chalk and towing fice and found that the property had been with the idea of serving chocolate malts, adults,” says Flynn. She is registered offenders’ cars away. One of the atten- deeded from “3939 24th Street, Inc.,” “but I can’t commit to that right now.” with An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha dants said that they discovered some driv- with headquarters in Park City, Utah, to Hi-Way will be open every day from (CLRG) in Ireland and the Irish Dance ers had left their cars in the lot for five “MWA, LLC,” on May 4, 2018. That led 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Kaplan is consid- Teachers Association of North Amer- hours. me to California secretary of state filings, ering staying open later on weekends. ica, among other groups. ຜ ຜ ຜ which said the new headquarters were in Classes are on Sunday mornings from ຜ ຜ ຜ San Francisco on Bayshore Boulevard, at 9:30 to noon, with the first hour devoted KUDOS GO OUT to longtime (since an address occupied by Aralon Proper- ICE WORK: The new commercial store to beginners, and during the summer also ’81) Noe Valley resident Robert Dawson, ties, a real estate investment group with three residences above, in the build- on Wednesday afternoons from 5:45 to who in April received a Fulbright Global headed by a Mr. Tom Murphy. ing next to St. Clair’s Liquors, is nearing 7:45. Drop-ins are always welcome. Ac- Scholar Award to research and photo- Mr. Murphy answered my first tele- completion after years of waiting for cording to Flynn, the dance movements graph libraries and refugees in Italy, phone call, and unlike the representatives planning department approval and after are pretty basic but can be challenging. Greece, and Israel this year. Dawson is a of previous owners, he was more than that a year of construction. Once upon a And speaking of movements, moving world-class photographer and has been a willing to share his plans for the 4,000- time (until 1998), all that stood on the site out of the neighborhood last month after lecturer in the Department of Art and Art square-foot store. was a garage and an ice-vending ma- three years was TMI Colonics, owned History at Stanford University since The plans are very simple and, hope- chine. and operated by Marianne Morrison, a 1996. He is retiring from that position fully, very quickly implemented. “There Mousa Khouri and brother-in-law certified colon hydrotherapist. TMI was this month. He had been a photography are not going to be a lot of changes to the Mike Khouri have owned and operated located at 1478 Church and has relocated instructor at San Jose State University building,” Murphy said. “We are going to St. Clair’s on the corner of 24th and to 1340 Haight. since 1986 (now retired). divide up the space to create three retail Sanchez since 1991. They own the St. TMI’s motto, as reported in these pages His photographs are displayed in col- stores and add one more front door to the Clair’s building and the one next door, at and on their website, is quite simply lections around the country, including the two already there.” First, he points out, 3904 24th St. The liquor store, by the stated: “We really know our shit.” Museum of Modern Art in New York, the they will commence work on the seismic way, is named after its original owner, Whoever moves into that space next San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, retrofit of the foundation in the back, and Bob St. Clair. A Poly High graduate, Bob might find TMI a hard act to follow. the National Museum of American Art then complete the partition of the space. crossed the street to Kezar Stadium and (Smithsonian Institution), to mention just ຜ ຜ ຜ “We are having the designers work on became a star player for the San Francisco a few. He has been very active in the the project now and should soon be able 49ers in the 1950s. That was when he SHORT SHRIFTS: The “clearance sale” Global Library Project and published a to file our plans with the planning depart- opened the liquor store, since back in sign you see on the front windows of book in 2014, The Public Library: A Pho- ment, and hopefully get quick approval those days NFL pros had to have a day Shoe Biz at 3810 24th near Church means tographic Essay, with 150 of his photos of the plans and design and start the work job to support their families. St. Clair that ownership and management of the of libraries around the U.S. as soon as possible,” he said. “So we will died in 2015 at the age of 84. But I di- store has changed. The new owner/oper- “Starting in September, my wife Ellen be ready, hopefully, to rent the spaces out gress. ator is Anthem Shoes, which has also and I will be traveling to Italy, Greece, by this fall.” According to Mousa Khouri, the taken over the Shoe Biz locations in the and Israel for six months and probably Hopefully, City Hall will expedite the spaces at 3904 24th will be leased, not Haight and on Valencia Street. Shoe Biz add two more months at the end to hope- process so there will be holiday lights in sold as condos. He says the commercial is out of biz… fully photograph libraries in Egypt, those long-barren windows by December. unit has 1,500 square feet on the ground Seen in Small Frys recently were Mark Turkey, and Sarajevo in Bosnia, as part of Merry Christmas. By the way, based on floor and a 900-square-foot basement. Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan, the Global Library Project,” says a very the San Francisco Assessor’s records, the He says he is working with some realtors shopping for their two young children. non-retiring Dawson. purchase price for the space was $2.25 now to determine what the lease terms They have a house somewhere along the Have a great trip. See you when you million. and rent will be for both the residential Noe Valley/Mission border… and Ellen return. Maybe we can see the and commercial units. So sorry for misspelling the name of photos at a showing in the Noe ຜ ຜ ຜ Khouri is reluctant to talk about when one of the members of the Blind Lemon Valley/Sally Brunn Library some day. WHAT’S SUP: 1199 Church is for sale, the building will be ready for tenancy but Pledge, in last month’s column. The cor- ຜ ຜ ຜ lock, stock, and liquor license. As you all said he hopes to find a suitable commer- rect spelling of the violinist’s name is Cal know, Hamlet bar and restaurant locked cial tenant in the near future. “At this Keaoola… THAT’S THIRTY: Do not forget to vote its doors recently (after closing two point, I just am focused on completing Note on your calendars that this year’s on June 5. I hope we have a 100 percent months before) and was “sold” to people the construction.” Amen. SummerFest at the Noe Valley Town voter turnout in Noe Valley (oh sure!), who were opening a Japanese eatery. That Square will be held not in June as it nor- since we all have realized that the reason ຜ ຜ ຜ deal fell through, and the bar/restaurant, mally is, but on Sunday, July 29… things went the way they did two years owned by John Dampeer, is back on the STORED-UP NEWS: New to Down- There are rumors, which cannot be ago was that certain people did not or market, at an asking price of $325,000. town Noe Valley is Modern Family Law. confirmed, that despite our front-page would not vote. Get out the vote! Ciao for The agent, Gilbert Dair of Vanguard The Colorado law firm has opened its story, Rabat may remain in Downtown now. Ⅲ Properties, says “great lease terms remain first California branch in the offices on Noe Valley by downsizing its store to just and it’s super easy to show.” the ground floor of 4126 24th near Castro the corner space (24th and Noe), where it 30 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

You can learn a lot from a chicken.

At Children’s Day School, chickens—and eggs—are some of our best teachers. With our main campus a home to a working farm and organic garden, we’ve made the environment a core component of a rigorous curriculum that is project-based, integrated across academic disciplines and designed to prepare and inspire. We expect great things of our students, because we know that passionate citizens change the world.

To learn more about our approach to education, visit www.cds-sf.org. Or call our Admission Office at (415) 861-5432 x337 to schedule a tour.

Children’s Day School 333 Dolores Street San Francisco www.cds-sf.org

CLAUDIA SIEGEL CRS SRES & E-PRO

SAN FRANCISCO

Food you eat.

JUST LISTED! 4216 22ND STREET FANTASTIC NOE VALLEY LOCATION

Quintessential Victorian Farmhouse with 3 beds, 2 baths, huge garage w/ expansion potential and bonus room down.

Call or text Claudia for more information 415.816.2811

Claudia Siegel, Top Producer REALTOR® LIC# 01440745 415.816.2811 | [email protected] ClaudiaSiegel.com 4288 24th Street ★ San Francisco 415.821.7652 ★ ﬁreﬂysf.com CREATING EXCELLENCE WITH INTEGRITY The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018 31

BURLINGAME GREENBRAE NOE VALLEY PACIFIC HEIGHTS POTRERO HILL UPPER MARKET WEST PORTAL 32 The Noe Valley Voice • June 2018

GrandGraannd OpeningOOp peniingg SpecialSpeccial OOereer ForFoor our newnew neineighborsghborors in NNoeoe VValleyVaa ylel

DD 77,5(5$",)(;,/,*205.,5 (5 $$ ",)(;, /,*205.1 accountaaccount anda receivereceive a $$500 500 bbonus.onusus.2 D%0:0;<:;69,*,0=,(:7,*0(3.0-;%D 0:0; <: ;6 9,*,0=, ( :7,*0(3 .0-;3 and d learn ababoutoutt oour valuesvalues anand cculturculturee oof sservice.eervrvice.

NowNow openop pen aatt 1354 CastroCastro SStreettreet SaSann FFrancisco,rancisco, CA 94114 4

69469,05-694(;065-50,96496 6 560;(49 CallCall (628) 208-8100208-8 100 or email

1 MinimumMinimum $500 toto openopen ann ATMAATTM RRebateebate CheCheckingcking acaccount.count. A monmonthlyonthly ffeeee (curr(currentlyently $25) will apply if a minimminimumum monmonthlythly aaverageverage balancbalancee off $3,500 is nonott mainmaintained.taine AAsksk yd. yourour bankbankerank fforor deer details.tails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nonott includeincludedd in the rrebatedeba et d AATATMTM acaccessec ss ffees.ee s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