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MARINATIMES.COM CELEBRATING OUR 33RD YEAR VOLUME 33 ISSUE 04 APRIL 2017

Reynolds Rap The peculiar priorities of Mayor Ed Lee Highest paid mayor in America more out of touch than ever

BY SUSAN DYER REYNOLDS

ccording to recent data compiled by American City Business Journals, San Fran- cisco Mayor Ed Lee is the highest paid mayor Ain America with an annual salary of $289,000. I guess A half-century ago, the Summer of Love was captured in full color in collectible posters. COURTESY: FAMSF with a $9.6 billion budget, that’s a drop in the pro- verbial bucket. It’s certainly not merit-based: As San Franciscans grow angrier about the condition of their The Summer of Love turns 50 at the de Young once fair city, Lee’s approval number has plummeted to the low 40s, with those who “strongly approve” of BY SHARON ANDERSON To support social and political the Summer of Love came from San his performance in single digits. transformation, in 1967 like-mind- Francisco.” Perpetually perched atop glorious lists such as rt, fashion and rock ’n’ roll ed people gathered together, prov- It’s hard to imagine the psychedelic “best places to visit,” San Francisco now takes titles will come together at the de ing that one city can change the rock scene of the late 1960s without like “worst roads in the nation.” A November 2016 Young to commemorate the world. Music journalist Joel Selvin “the San Francisco sound” pioneered study by the National Transportation Research Group A50th anniversary celebration of San observed: by groups like the Grateful Dead, Big found that 71 percent of San Francisco’s roads are in Francisco’s most vibrant countercul- “Even the treacly ubiquitous hit — Brother and the Holding Company, poor condition — that’s worse than any other city ture moment — the summer of 1967. Scott MacKenzie’s ‘San Francisco (Be and the Jefferson Airplane. with a population of 500,000 or more. Drivers here This era’s story will be told with Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),’ With the music came the artists. pay nearly $1,000 on average for auto damage caused more than 300 cultural artifacts, written by John Phillips of the Mamas Legendary rock posters and their col- by those rough rides. Lee’s answer is of course to add including iconic rock posters, pho- and the Papas as a commercial for or-saturated images announced con- another layer of bureaucracy called “the fix-it team,” tographs, interactive music and the Monterey Pop Festival — paid certs at the Fillmore Auditorium, Ava- with a “fix-it director” (yes, that’s the official title) light shows, costumes, textiles, obeisance to the central truth of rock lon Ballroom, and other city venues. who reports directly to him. Are you telling me with a ephemera, and avant-garde films. music around the world; the heart of SUMMER OF LOVE, continued on 14 REYNOLDS RAP, continued on 4

Bellingham by the Bay Appetites and Afterthoughts

BEST PHILLY CHEESESTEAK: Confessions of a Buster’s (366 Columbus Avenue) To me the cheesesteak is one of the gourmet splendors of our time. It paper boy exists at the crossroads of desire and necessity. If I am deprived, I’m apt to BY BRUCE BELLINGHAM slip over the edge into the gastronom- ic doldrums. Buster’s is always close nce a paper boy, always a paper boy. I still at hand. love delivering the Marina Times in scattered fashion — dropping copies off in stores and BEST BURGER: Buster’s Obars from hither to yon. (366 Columbus Avenue) Yes, I was a paperboy in New Jersey. The paper was I measure all burgers against those the Bergen Record. of the late and lamented Clown Alley I also had to sell subscriptions. of North Beach. In my taste memo- “Why would I want to subscribe to this newspaper?” ry Buster’s cheeseburgers approach asked one irate not-yet-a-customer. or surpass those of Clown Alley. “Because,” I explained, “President Kennedy said, ‘A Cheeseburger — the most euphoni- good citizen is an informed citizen.’” ous word in the English language. Of My good buddy, Danny Riecken, said, “Let’s not course, you must accompany your Wok crab at Betty Lou's Seafood & Grill. PHOTO: EARL ADKINS make too much trouble, Bruce.” Buster’s cheeseburger with an A&W I love trouble. root beer to reach the sublime. I mean the good kind of trouble. Stir it up — but let’s not hurt anyone. The fi fth annual Ernesto's BEST HOT DOG: Buster’s (366 I made the sale. It just takes a little moxie. Columbus Avenue) The nice man in Closter, N.J., smiled and said, “You Best of North Beach awards I consider myself the hot dog savant really are a smartass, aren’t you? I’ll buy it.” of San Francisco. And let me tell you Once in a while, arrogance pays off. Just look at BY ERNEST BEYL awards — not because it had slipped this about the Buster’s hot dog: It is the White House. My paperboy days preceded an era — but because it was the all-time sheer bliss on a sesame bun, topped where “the press is the enemy of the American people.” ere we go again. wel- Ernesto's winner in three with sauerkraut, green pickle relish, Richard Nixon said just that. As usual, Donald come to the Fifth Annual categories and we thought we should raw onion, mustard, and jalapeno Trump stole the line. The difference is Nixon did not Ernesto's. And welcome retire it. The Ernesto's has seen peppers. If that doesn’t get your atten- say this in public. His tirade was heard on the Nixon Hback Buster’s! Last year the Ernes- the error of its ways, so here comes tion, nothing will. BELLINGHAM, continued on 5 to's dropped Buster’s from the Buster’s again. APPETITES, continued on 11 Contents In This Issue 13 17

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News Calendar Around the city April events News briefs on some big names expected to This month, the legendary International be top contenders to succeed Mayor Ed Lee, Film Festival returns, along with a new city labor proposal, arts programs the Union Street Easter parade, Earth Day, endangered at Fort Mason, a crime update, and much more. 16 and the city rethinks its monty. 3 At Home Northside Urban Home and Garden Speaking your mind It's the 47th annual Earth Day, and Julia Becca Scott takes the words right out of Strzesieski explains the background to your mouths with our new column Street making better choices with the products Talk; and District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell you buy. 18 answers your questions about retail, women and Trump, and more. 6 Real Estate The joy of waiting in line North Beach and Telegraph Hill Carole Isaacs says go local to find your real Ernest Beyl lays out his menu for Plebian estate guide; and the Real Estate Roundup Food for Plain Folks; and District 3 reports on Airbnb, falling rents, targeting Supervisor Aaron Peskin says he's ready to second-home deductions, renter-majority take on the president on the environment. 8 cities, and immigrant tenants. 19 Chinatown changing Family Geri Koeppel looks at the evolving face MomSense of Chinatown, from edgy exhibits to new Liz Farrell says that some good plan- restaurants to live music. 10 ning will go a long way to making your children's summer a success and keeping Food & Wine you sane. 22 Changing of the guard The Tablehopper reports on new plans for Pets 3232 Scott Street, new trucks at Off the Grid Skylar Grey at Fort Mason and the Presidio, and more; Susan Dyer Reynolds remembers the spe- and Susan Dyer Reynolds presents her Fab cial bond between Kickie and Skylar. 23 Five places for great but affordable sushi. 12 ONLINE SPECIALS Arts & Entertainment Paul Lovinger talks to the SFPD Northern Ticket to 'Toon Town Station leader, plus latest from Evalyn Michael Snyder shares some great reasons Baron, Michael Snyder's Coastal Commuter, to look forward to upcoming animated traveler guru Patty Burness, and more. treats; plus the best sellers. 14 marinatimes.com

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2 APRIL 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM News Spring has Sprung News Briefs Politics, arts, crime, and more Race to lead the city

MARK LENO, wage, and local business up from zero in Janu- ANGELA ALIOTO IN requirements, while ary; Capt. John Jaimere- MAYORAL TALK adding requirements for na noted, “Though very The race to succeed hiring apprentices from unfortunate, I am proud Great Rates are Ed Lee as San Francis- state-approved appren- to say that the suspect co’s mayor is already ticeship programs, help- was taken into custody heating up, two years ing veterans get jobs, within 24 hours.” before the 2019 elec- and avoiding “strikes, Other categories Popping Up Everywhere tion. One of the front- picketing, and other of violent crime were runners is Mark Leno, labor disruptions on down on the Northside, who served as a super- qualified public works including rape (down Money Market Accounts visor, state senator, and projects. 75 percent) and aggra- state assemblyman. vated assault (down 26 Leno, who declined to CITY COLLEGE, FORT percent). challenge Lee in the last MASON CLASH OVER ARTS PROGRAMS CITY ADJUSTS 1.00% go-around, is reportedly tapping Lee’s campaign The arts classes FINANCIAL PLAN Annual Percentage Yield advisors for a 2019 run. offered by City College Citing uncertain- In February, Leno at Fort Mason could be ty caused by threats to told the Chronicle’s endangered, due to dis- cut federal funding to Balances $10,000 and above* Beth Spotswood, “I am agreement between City sanctuary cities such as Please contact an employee for further information about 100 percent sure that College and its landlords San Francisco, Mayor applicable fees and terms. I will be running for at Fort Mason. The col- Ed Lee announced Mayor of San Francisco lege is facing the loss of updates to the city’s in 2019 — as sure as I tens of millions of dol- five-year financial plan. am that Hillary won the lars in state aid; mean- It includes some one- Get some extra green this spring! Put your money popular vote by near- while, negotiations time savings, recalcula- into one of our high yield money market accounts ly 3 million votes, that over the Fort Mason tions of revenue, and 3–5 million fraudulent lease — which expires debt service savings, and watch it grow. Pop into a branch today or give votes were not cast, and in June — have broken bringing savings of us a call to get your money blooming. that this new president down amid accusations $114.8 million over two is a dangerous liar.” of misrepresenting the years. On the debit side, At a late-March panel offers that have been the city cited expecta- discussion held by made and the amounts tions of rising inflation, KQED and The Com- of money involved. Fort as well as increased monwealth Club, Leno Mason officials have health care costs for city sounded very much the complained to the press employees. candidate, again high- that CCSF has not been “In order to protect lighting his eagerness negotiating; but CCSF and sustain the signif- to oppose the presi- spokesman Jeff Hamil- icant investments our dent’s agenda in San ton told KQED, “We’ve city has made over Francisco. been in pretty much the past five years, it Meanwhile, 415 Media continuous discussion is essential that we blogger Rich Lieber- with them for at least show fiscal discipline man suggests that Leno four months. And we’re during this time of could be joined in the in process right now great uncertainty,” race by Angela Alioto, with Fort Mason as to said Mayor Edwin M. former supervisor and how we can come to Lee. “The presidential president of the Board terms.” administration is pro- of Supervisors; she ran At press time, it was posing severe cuts to unsuccessfully in the still unclear how the hun- critical services, and 2003 mayoral race. He dreds of students enrolled while none of these says that when he asked in courses at Fort Mason proposals are concrete, her about the election, will be affected. But if the we have to prepare for she said, “I keep all my Fort Mason site is lost, the future by consider- options open,” which CCSF officials have said ing tough tradeoffs.” isn’t exactly a candidacy they have plans to move Supervisor Malia announcement. the affected classes to Cohen said “It’s import- other college locations in ant to remember that CITY LABOR BILL the city. not a single federal dol- Under a proposed lar has been taken away policy, any contractor NORTHSIDE CRIME from San Francisco by hired for a public works UPDATE the presidential admin- project in San Francisco The number of rob- istration yet. … The costing at least $1 million beries jumped in Feb- presidential administra- would have to adhere ruary in a month-to- tion has made clear its to a new set of rules month tally provided by intentions to target San regarding hiring and the police department’s Francisco. We must be other labor practices. Northern Station. In the prepared to make fis- The policy, introduced northern district, rob- cal decisions that keep Visit our Marina Branch and by District 2 Supervi- beries rose by 30 per- our city healthy and talk to Branch Manager sor Mark Farrell in late cent, while they were up working.” Reina Ceja. February, would keep in a much smaller 7 percent place the city’s rules on citywide. There was one News tips? E-mail: local hiring, prevailing homicide in February, [email protected] Your neighborhood bank. 2197 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94123 415-287-8800 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS name is Christopher Hesson, and his fnbnorcal.com office is in Sausalito, not Elk Grove. *This offer valid for new Promotional Money Market Accounts only when opened with money not currently on deposit at First National Bank of Northern California. 1.00 APY% (1.00% interest rate) is current as of March 1, 2017 and is last month’s article, “original hindu subject to change at any time. 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Reynolds Rap I can already hear the bleeding hearts continued from cover screaming, “Racist!” but it has noth- ing to do with race and everything budget bigger than the nations of Haiti, to do with common-sense priorities. Belize, Aruba, Jamaica, Cuba, and the I don’t think the city should be using Bahamas combined, bigger than 13 U.S. public funds to defend the rights of states, bigger than every U.S. city per immigrants to stay here illegally while capita except Washington, D.C., that we slashing programs that keep vulnerable can’t get potholes fixed without creating citizens housed and reneging on prom- NOW another six-figure middle management ises to deal with homelessness, crime, job? and crumbling streets by crying poor. While potholes are a huge problem, If we lived in the Land of Oz lined with homelessness is a crisis unlike anything magic poppies and paved with yellow I’ve seen in more than two decades in brick roads, then by all means, help this city. When Mayor Lee didn’t get everyone, but that’s not the case. We live OPEN his sales tax increase last November (a in a financially sinking metropolis lined resounding 65 percent of voters rejected with “LeeVille” tent cities and roads it), he warned there would be cuts made paved with potholes, and the only thing to homeless initiatives. He’s already yellow about those roads is the overflow made good on that promise, cutting a of urine. at $3.1 million program that provides rent It was Supervisor David Campos who subsidies for vulnerable populations sponsored the original legislation for an like seniors, veterans, and the disabled. undocumented immigrant legal defense Yet Lee can find money for the legal fund. He wanted $5 million in taxpayer defense of undocumented immigrants. money to hire 10 attorneys, 5 parale- 2042 He authorized the public defender’s gals, and 2 legal clerks in the Public office to use more than $200,000 to hire Defender’s Office, and to pay com- three new attorneys and a paralegal to munity legal groups for 13 attorneys, represent immigrants here illegally who 6 education and outreach staff, office are facing deportation, some of them space, and “administration fees.” Cam- Union for committing crimes. That’s on top pos was termed out shortly after, but he of an additional $1.5 million for non- wasn’t unemployed for long — he will profits appropriated after the November now be a “deputy executive” for Santa election, which is on top of a $3.8 mil- Clara County making $240,000 a year St lion prior commitment. — more than double what he earned as San Francisco is very proud of its a San Francisco supervisor for a job that sanctuary city status. Sanctuary cities has “yet to be defined.” Call me cynical, harbor undocumented immigrants who but you would think a public servant might otherwise be deported by federal passionate about helping undocument- immigration law enforcement officials. ed immigrants in his hometown would There are around 140 sanctuary cities take a job at a local nonprofit where he and counties in the country, but only a could use all those bureaucratic skills few use public funds to defend undoc- he learned as a supervisor to help them, umented immigrants. New York is one and maybe even find private financing of those cities, and Public Defender instead of expecting taxpayers to foot Jeff Adachi has already hired Jennifer the bill. Why take a position in a county Friedman, former managing director you don’t live in or care about? Accord- of immigration practice at the Bronx ing to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Defenders in New York City, to fill one Matier & Ross, “those in the know” say of his new positions. Campos sees it as a résumé builder for In January, President Donald Trump a possible run at the office of San Fran- signed an executive order to block fed- cisco city attorney (once a politician, eral grants to sanctuary cities, meaning always a politician). San Francisco could lose more than Though Campos will now spend his $1 billion. The city also faces a budget days entangled in the congested Silicon shortfall that will reach nearly $850 Valley commute, his undocumented million in five years. Despite a 2011 immigrant legal fund legislation has voter-approved measure to cut employ- a new champion in recently elected ee retirement costs, San Francisco’s net Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer, who pension liability more than doubled to wants funding for 17 staff members, $5.5 billion last June, and contributions including eight attorneys who would to the system will increase 36 percent earn between $150,000 and $230,000 by 2022 — more than three times faster annually. She pushed her agenda at a than revenue. With crumbling roads, March Budget and Finance Commit- filthy streets, car break-ins at record tee hearing. At least two supervisors, How would you balance the numbers, and homelessness worsening Malia Cohen and Katy Tang, showed by the day, this hardly seems like the some respect for taxpayers, saying they state budget? time to stand on our soapbox as a sanc- didn’t want to commit city funds with- tuary city. out going through the regular bud- Assemblymember Phil Ting, San Francisco has an estimated 44,000 get process. “What happens when the Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, undocumented immigrants, with the Department of Public Health is over invites you to an largest numbers coming from Mexico here, Human Services gets up in front (11,000) and China (10,000). Whether us, and the Homeless Department gets you’re a super-duper liberal or just try- up in front us when there are other INTERACTIVE ing to tiptoe around political correctness federal cuts and, yes, lives are at stake in a city that is ripe with it, you can’t as well for the people they serve, also. deny that undocumented immigrants We do have to take that into consider- BUDGET TOWN HALL place additional burdens on San Francis- ation,” Tang said in a refreshing display co. For example, complain all you want of prudence. Participants will complete an interactive exercise created by Next 10, a local non-profit organization, to decide spending about the thousands of housing units There’s nothing wrong with champi- on schools, transportation, the environment and other services taken off the market by Airbnb (and I oning a cause like Campos and Fewer as well as revenue options to fund their priorities. This will do), but people here illegally are taking — I’ve been known to champion a few show the challenges we face in Sacramento when juggling more than all the home-sharing startups myself — but when it’s a personal lega- a range of priorities and deciding how to spend the funds combined, and they’re also using valu- cy or a pet project, I think they should available to us. able city resources that, if you listen to make their case to the private sector, th the mayor, we can’t afford to give. I have not taxpayers. And where are the cham- Thursday, May 11 friends who immigrated to America by pions of the causes that matter most to 6-7:30 p.m. the book and they’re some of the most San Franciscans, like potholes, home- County Fair Building vocal critics of illegal immigration. “I lessness, traffic, and crime? Nowhere to worked hard, more than a decade, to be seen at City Hall, that’s for sure. 1199 9th Ave., San Francisco come here legally and become a citizen,” For more information or to RSVP, visit our website at one friend told me. “It’s not fair that all E-mail: [email protected]. Follow the asmdc.org/ting or call (415) 557-2312. these people come here illegally and then Marina Times on Twitter @TheMarinaTimes San Francisco rewards them for it.” and like us on Facebook @MarinaTimes.

4 APRIL 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM Bellingham He died last year. He my uncles, and shouted, continued from cover worked behind the bar at ‘It’s a pack of lies!’” innumerable taverns. But Frank and Malachy had tapes in 1972. He was he was also a singer and posters made, and dis- ranting in front of his top a world-class raconteur. played them outside the advisers, not expecting He loved to sing “Home theater. They read: “A that the Justice Depart- on the Range,” and songs Couple of Blackguards ment would subpoena the he learned as a kid by – ‘It’s a pack of lies!’ – materials. listening to Armed Forc- Angela McCourt.” Years ago, I moderated es Network radio when Everybody’s a critic. a panel for the Common- Mike was growing up in Yes, that was jazz sing- wealth Club that includ- Limerick. No one is more er Paula West at the ed David Harris, who American than an immi- Super Duper Burger joint went to prison because grant. on Kearny Street, work- he would not participate Frank once told me that ing on a chocolate ice in the Vietnam War. He of all the McCourt Broth- cream cone. Paula looks could have run to Can- ers, Michael was the best great. She introduced ada or gotten a college storyteller. me to her French bull- dog, Satchmo. … “Funny thing,” said I. “I was just listening to Louis Arm- strong’s version of ‘La George W. Bush was president Vie En Rose.’” “I won’t sing it until I when I spoke with David Harris. can sing it in French,” she said. He said, lugubriously, 'I never I’ll find the sheet music. … thought I'd miss Nixon.' I’m pleased to know that Kim Nalley has been deferment or produced a Michaels’s daughter, out singing again, follow- letter from a shrink. No, Angie McCourt, was the ing the birth of her sec- married to Joan Baez at guest of honor at the ond child. Recently, Kim the time, he knew his sac- Senior Center party. She performed at Biscuits & rifice would make head- read an excerpt from Blues on Mason Street lines, and draw attention Angela’s Ashes. It pulls at Geary. … I’ve been to the antiwar movement. no punches: “Worse than listening to Kim’s tribute George W. Bush was the ordinary miserable CD to Nina Simone, She president when I spoke childhood is the misera- Put a Spell on Me. It’s I W Y H with David. He said, lugu- ble Irish childhood, and a masterpiece. Tammy ant our ouse briously, “I never thought worse yet is the miserable Hall’s piano work. It was Here in the Wild West... I’d miss Nixon,” Irish Catholic childhood.” recorded at Kim’s for- I can’t imagine what Frank’s searing descrip- mer nightclub in North selling real estate is a high-stakes game David Harris is thinking tion of the poverty, and Beach, Jazz at Pearl’s. today. humiliation in Limerick Every year, Kim would It takes a maverick to get you the highest price and I never thought I’d miss garnered death threats. throw a Scorpio Party close the deal without a hitch. I rope in the buyers, Benito Mussolini. … His former next-door — Scorpios only invited. Channel 4 has been airing neighbor, Richard Harris While there, a woman steer them your way, and do all the wrangling it takes reruns of the old show, — yes, the star of Camelot asked me if it were true to win. This is a great time of year to sell your home. The X-Files. Seems to and the singer on MacAr- what they “say about reflect the times in which thur Park — wrote a letter Scorpios.” I pretended I Let’s talk soon! we are enmired. But aliens to the Times of London, had no idea what she was can’t come here. Immi- vilifying Frank. Bloody talking about. grants are not welcome. newspapers. Poor people Kim knocked on my Barbara Dunlap The tagline for the show do not like to be remind- door one day on Nob is “All Lies Lead to the ed of the days when they Hill. She had two quarts Listing Maverick Truth.” Trump would like were poor. of chicken soup for me to that. It’s as preposterous Jerry Nachman, my “babysit” while she and LICENSE # 01175481 [email protected] as a tweet from Trump news director at KCBS, her husband went out of www.BarbaraDunlap.com Tower. … P.J. O’Rourke 415-359-6445 describes Trump as “a @barbara.dunlap giant toddler with noth- ing going on in his head.” And to think that My grandmother stood up Bobby Kennedy would quote Aeschylus. Presi- in the audience, shook her dent Kennedy and Jackie would host Pablo Casals fist at my uncles, and shouted, at the White House, not the stars of Duck Dynasty. 'It's a pack of lies!' I’m reminded of Joseph Goebbels who said infa- admonished me: “Don’t town: “I married a nice mously, “Every time I hear try to be funny when Jewish boy, so I am learn- the word ‘culture,’ I want dealing with repressed ing how to cook Jewish Mention this to reach for my revolver.” p e op l e .” food.” dog to get a free It makes me want to cry. Frank and his broth- What a lucky man. sketchbook O.K., paperboy, knock er, Malachy, went on tour Stop the press. Some- it off. with a two-man show, A body’s happy. As a for- St. Pat’s Day last month Couple of Blackguards, mer paperboy, I confess was marked by a gath- which included stories I never stood on a street ering at the Downtown that later made their way corner, shouting, “Extree! The Love of Summer Senior Center on O’Far- into Angela’s Ashes. Extree! Read all about it!” Ah, summer in the city. Celebrate by making art out and about. rell Street. It was real- Angie told me about Say, just how old do you ly a tribute to Frank the time the show was think I am? We have sketchbooks, plein-air easels, even some artsy McCourt’s 1996 instant playing on Broadway. t-shirts — everything you need to get outside and classic memoir, Angela’s Angela, Frank and Mal- Bruce Bellingham is the capture the feeling of sunshine. Ashes. Frank’s kid brother achy’s mother, was in the author of Bellingham by the was Michael McCourt, a audience. Growing more Bay. Ask him if it’s true what well-known figure in Cow incensed by the minute, they say about Scorpios at | Hollow, having poured she could no longer con- [email protected]. 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26th Annual Street Talk Cow Hollow What brings you to Union Street?

BY BECCA SCOTT

his month, we present the first of our new street talk column, featuring—well, you. We wanted to give you a platform to tell the Northside Sunday, April 16 10am - 5pm about what brings you to the neighborhood or keeps you here. The city is chang- Ting fast, with new people, new businesses, new technologies, new (and old) problems. To start, we asked the following: Easter • What is your name? Bonnet • What neighborhood do you live in, and how long have you lived there? Contest • How often do you come to Union Street? • What are your favorite things to do on Union Street? 11:15-1:30pm • What would you like to see more of? • What would you like to see less of? Parade at STEPHANIE 2 pm • Lives in Laurel Heights and has been there 7 years. • Spends two days a week on Union Street for an exercise class and for shopping. • Her favorite thing to do is go to the pre- and postnatal exercise class at the Lotus Method. • She would like to see more regular clothing stores, more boutiques, and baby-friendly restaurants. • She would like to see fewer loud restaurants: “I think there’s a good mix of different style stores here.”

MALACHI • Lives in Nopa and has been there 6 weeks. Live Music Petting Zoo • Comes to Union Street three or four times a week to go to Equinox gym. Outdoor Dining Pony Rides Shopping • His favorite thing about Union Street is all of the restau- Gifts Fun For The Whole Family rants: “I always grab food after the gym.” Presented by the Union Street Association ~ UnionStreetSF.com • He would like to see more fast-casual restaurants. • He would like to see fewer chains: “It’s nice that we have Produced by Steven Restivo Event Services, Inc. ~ 800-310-6563 ~ SRESproductions.com more local businesses.”

BRAD • Lives in Pacific Heights and has been there 4 years. • Comes to Union Street four days a week. • His favorite things to do there are eat and shop. • What he would like to see more of: “We love the bou- tique shops, but we wouldn’t be opposed to a Walgreens or an Apple Store.” • He would like to see fewer irresponsible bars and bar owners. Also, he said, “I think there’s too much vacancy.”

RICH • Lives in Pacific Heights and has been there 8 years. • Comes to Union Street two days a week. • His favorite things to do are go to brunch and day drink. • What he’d like to see more of: “You can never have too many restaurants. Outdoor seating is always nice — not all of them have that.” • He would like to see less traffic on Union Street.

DAMON • Lives in Potrero Hill and has been there 5 years. • Comes to Union Street four times a year. • His favorite things to do are eat and shop: “I love Wreck- ing Ball Coffee.” • He would like to see more fashion options for men. • He would like to see fewer nail and hair salons.

DUSTIN • Lives in Noe Valley and has been there 7 years. • Comes to Union Street two days a month. • His favorite thing to do is people watch. • He would like to see more higher quality restaurants • He would like to see less traffic.

CHRISTY • Lives in Cow Hollow and has been there 20 years. • She goes to Union Street four times a week. • Her favorite things to do are to get all of her “beauty stuff done” and then have lunch. • What she would like to see more of: “I would like to see all the empty buildings have businesses that can afford to be there.” • What she would like to see less of: “I’m good with the way it is.”

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6 APRIL 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM From the District 2 Supervisor Q. & A. with a supe City labor, retail, and Trump: Answering your questions

BY MARK FARRELL with one or more labor organiza- project, and they must adhere to as “legacy businesses” apply for dent do not give me much hope tions that establish the terms and all local hiring, prevailing wage, and receive rental assistance based that he will champion women’s or this month’s column, conditions of employment for a and local small business require- on how long they have been in issues whatsoever. His recently I will be answering some of specific construction project. The ments. I am thankful to my six business here in San Francisco. announced budget proposal, for your questions regarding my agreements guarantee a constant other co-sponsors on the board Blue Bear School of Music, Bra- example, seeks to fully defund Frecently introduced project labor flow of labor and stop work dis- who agree with the value and zen Head Restaurant, Flax Art & Planned Parenthood and makes policy, helping small businesses, ruptions. importance of this policy. Design, and San Francisco Her- drastic cuts to funding for food and responding to the first couple Every Democratic president itage are all examples of small security programs, the arts, edu- months of the Trump presidency. since Reagan has encouraged Is there anything the city can do businesses that applied and are cation, environment, and health project labor agreements on to help small retail businesses now receiving assistance under care, to name just a few. Why did you propose your proj- federal public works projects, that have taken such a beating, our legacy business program. One of the silver linings of ect labor agreement policy on because they have been shown to even in this booming economy? I feel strongly about appropri- Trump winning the election is city public works projects, and help increase local employment Small businesses are the back- ately helping and working with that it motivated more people, what impact do you anticipate while also helping to lower overall bone of our local economy. Even neighborhood-serving small particularly women, to get more it having on city costs? project costs. Local analysis of any though our local economy is businesses whenever necessary, politically engaged than they ever I believe we need to give work- cost impacts to the city from the strong — which is great — many because they are what makes San have been. One of my responsi- ing people and families a fighting policy will be completed before small businesses still face chal- Francisco so great and diverse. If bilities as a local elected official is chance to stay in San Francisco. the item is heard in committee in lenges with growing commercial any small business you know is in to provide opportunities for our At the end of February, I intro- late April or May. rents and online competition. need of assistance, please feel free residents to get more engaged in duced a historic, first-of-its-kind While there may be minimal The city’s Invest in Neighbor- to send them my way via e-mail at policy and the political process. I citywide workforce policy that costs to add some staff to help hood’s program is an interagen- [email protected]. try regularly to publicize opportu- will help guarantee highly skilled administer the policy, the intent cy partnership to strengthen and nities to get involved, whether it’s labor on vital public works proj- of this policy is also to save the revitalize neighborhood commer- There was more attention than applying to serve on a city com- ects important to the public. city money over time by guaran- cial districts throughout the city. normal in March to Internation- mission, engaging residents in our My policy mandates for the teeing a highly skilled, constant The program currently serves 25 al Women's Day and Women's policy work, or participating in first time a programmatic project flow of labor on vital public works commercial corridors throughout History Month. How do you your neighborhood park cleanup. labor agreement on public works projects. the city, including two in District think women's issues will fare Inside City Hall, I stand ready projects over $1 million. My pol- From my perspective, this is a 2 — Union and Lombard streets. under the Trump administra- to fight alongside my colleagues icy is intended to increase local values-based policy in alignment The program works with small tion, and what can local offi- against the discriminatory policies employment among residents and with our shared San Francisco val- businesses on the commercial cor- cials do about it? and proposed drastic budget cuts veterans, decrease work disrup- ues of supporting workers, good ridors to address specific issues to To put it bluntly, women, immi- that would devastate many of our tions and stoppages, and reduce wages, and good benefits. Many the corridor around cleanliness, grant and minority communities, most vulnerable. We’re commit- overall public works projects costs workers are paid under the table marketing, and further businesses and the low-income are all under ted to providing opportunities for and delivery. Project labor agree- and do not receive any benefits assistance and strategy. attack from the Trump admin- health care, child care and family ments, also known as community at all. My policy is binding to all Additionally, the voters just this istration due to the policies and leave, and to working with our workforce agreements, are prehire contractors and subcontractors past election approved a measure budget he is pushing. His first federal elected leaders to join us collective bargaining agreements that may work on a qualifying city to help small businesses known actions and statements as presi- in fighting for our shared values.

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MARINATIMES.COM MARINA TIMES APRIL 2017 7 Northside Sketches from a North Beach Journal Plebian food for plain folks and my favorite vegetable

BY ERNEST BEYL Prime or certified Angus. I wanted a big steak. There are several fine places n a recent column, i attempted to for steaks in North Beach, but none as entertain readers by repeating a few fancy as this Osso joint. It’s owned by the lines I picked up while eavesdropping same folks who operate Calzone’s and the Iin North Beach. I was probably entertain- Stinking Rose on Columbus Avenue in “My love of San ing only myself, but never mind. Here’s a my neighborhood. I went for the bone- new offering for you to consider. in ribeye. Splendido! There’s a 28-ounce Francisco’s history, Porterhouse, too. I’ll try that next time. OVERHEARD AT GINO AND CARLO My favorite vegetable is steak. beauty, and architecture Question: What do you call a bunch of nuns — a school, a flock? MATTOS AT TERRIFIC STREET inspires the work I do Answer: Nun of the above. Poster as Process is the name of an Question: What about a bunch of exhibition by award-winning artist-illus- every day.” monks? trator John Mattos that will open April 7 Answer: Monkey business. at gallery-shop Terrific Street, 1534 Grant O.K., O.K., I hear you. I’ll stop listening Avenue. Mattos, a North Beacher, did the to this kind of stuff. poster for the 1991 superhero film The Rocketeer. It was selected as one of the PLEBIAN FOOD FOR PLAIN FOLKS 100 best movie posters of all time by the Lately I’ve been thinking of reinventing American Film Institute. At 8 p.m. the myself as a chef and opening a restau- same evening, Terrific Street will screen rant in North The Sniper in the Beach. It can’t be alley behind the that difficult, can In my restaurant, there will gallery-shop. It it? I’ll just serve was there that good food — be no fancy foam sauces, much of the KNOWN GLOBALLY. stuff I like. I’ll call 1900 noir movie LOVED LOCALLY. it Plebian Food no seaweed, no infant was shot in 1952. for Plain Folks. And, by the way, Catchy name! vegetables applied to your Terrific Street The menu will was named after include beef stew, plate with tweezers. Pacific Avenue, pot roast, meat- the Barbary staceycaen.com 415.450.8465 CalBRE #01939000 loaf, meat balls and spaghetti, and maybe Coast hotspot known for its jazz and some Polish sausage with sauerkraut. Do other pleasures. you know there are only a couple of places in the neighborhood where you can get SUGAR HILL sauerkraut? They are Albona Ristorante A while back I was on a nostalgia trip, Istriano, down on Francisco Street, and and I wrote a column about places I miss Buster’s on Columbus Avenue, where the in North Beach. I’m still on that trip so I LOCAL EXPERTISE. GLOBAL REACH. master griller will add some to your hot thought I would lay out another loss for dog if you want it. I always want it. the neighborhood. Broadway once had And by the way, in my new plebian food really classy entertainment. In the cou- restaurant there will be no fancy foam ple of blocks between Kearny Street and sauces, no deconstruction, no seaweed, Columbus Avenue there were four or five sticks or stones, edible dirt, or infant veg- jazz clubs featuring major artists. etables applied to your plate with tweezers One that I still miss is Sugar Hill. Basi- — and no quinoa, no kale, no kelp. cally a blues club — Broadway’s very own jook joint — Sugar Hill was operated by a SWEET MELISSA woman named Norma Aston. She was a The other day I was having lunch at tall string bean of a gal from the Midwest Sotto Mare and Melissa Lavelle was serv- who came to San Francisco for the action. ing me. I said to her: “Are you the ‘sweet’ I was a regular at Sugar Hill. I dug the Melissa that Gregg Allman wrote the song blues, and I dug Norma. about?” She said she was indeed. BIG MAMA, LIGHTNIN’ SAM, JOHN “Interestingly there’s a Melissa over at LEE, AND CLEANHEAD Original Joe’s who also thinks she’s sweet On the bill at Sugar Hill were such Melissa,” I said. giants as Big Mama Willie Mae Thornton Ah, the sweet Melissas. (you may remember she wrote “Hound Dog”), Lightnin’ Sam Hopkins, John Lee MARIJANE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY Hooker, and Eddie (Cleanhead) Vinson. Marijane Pierson — the joyously salty, silver-haired, North Beach goddess — RAZORBLADE TOOGALOO SHORTY had a birthday recently and decided to Norma heard about a New Orleans blues give herself a party. The neighborhood guy named Razorblade Toogaloo Shorty Marina | Offered at $2,595,000 | 3258Lyon.com cognoscenti turned out at Betty Lou’s for and she booked him. But before Blade Your Palace Awaits the event that began at 1 p.m. and was (that was his nickname) could make the Look no further! The home that you have been dreaming of is within steps of the still going on when I left at 5 p.m. Mari- date at Sugar Hill, he was shot full of holes enchanting Palace of Fine Arts. This multi-level, single family home features three jane’s birthday party may just have been by a rival for a damsel’s hand. They had an bedrooms, two and one-half bathrooms and is situated on an extra wide and deep the defining gathering of North Beach old-time marching band funeral for him. Marina parcel. An east-west exposure provides ample natural light to this spacious insiders. More than 75 bartenders, saloon residence, which includes a magnificent lush garden, 3-car parking, partial views of patrons, retired cops, poets, and painters, MODESTY IN NORTH BEACH the Golden Gate Bridge, Presidio, and much more! and solid, working class muckety-mucks Etched into the sidewalk on Union were there to wish Marijane a happy birth- Street between Columbus and Stockton day and to eat their way through Betty in capital letters is the word modesty — Yvonne Toracca Marla Moresi-Valdes Lou’s menu from oysters to clam chowder, looks like it was done with a stick or a fin- 415.297.9157 415.971.2535 [email protected] [email protected] from Mike’s wok crab to sand dabs. When ger when the cement was wet. It’s either a CAL BRE# 01916816 CAL BRE# 01320998 I left, there were rumors of the imminent bold woman’s name or a call to action in arrival of linguine with clams and mussels. louche North Beach. 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8 APRIL 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM From the District 3 Supervisor Defending the Bay Area An environmental and transit-first agenda requires many hats

BY AARON PESKIN of climate change. It’s hard to which will raise $25 million a chunk of the California Coastal Locally, I am heading up the know where to begin with the fed- year to restore precious wetlands, Commission’s budget comes from S.F. Transportation Task Force here’s a lot on my eral administration’s latest assault intertidal areas, and bay uplands. NOAA, and the impending 10 2045 with the mayor, and we’ll plate, not just as a supervi- on the people of the United States We were the only region in the percent budget reduction would be holding public meetings with sor, but with many of the of America and California. But as United States that raised our own have catastrophic impacts on our a broad coalition of stakeholders Tother hats I get to wear through a lifelong environmental advocate local dollars to match the federal ability to mitigate and prepare for over the next several months to public service. and longtime public transit nerd, funding in the program, and now sea-level rise. identify a permanent source of Last month, I was honored you can be sure that I will be pri- the feds are basically proposing to Finally, the president's clarion progressive revenue to fund local when Senate Pro Tem Kevin de oritizing the fight to protect both axe the bay right out of Bay Area. call to attack any jurisdiction that maintenance and capital and ser- León appointed me to the the of these public assets. California receives approx- expresses support for science or vice improvements to our transit California Coastal Commission imately $2.5 million in feder- reason has led to halting any new systems. A critical step to doing to represent the North Central ICED OUT BY TRUMP al funding annually from the federal investments in some of the our part to address climate change Coast, which includes the coun- Reports from every continent National Oceanic and Atmospher- top deterrents to climate change: locally is setting the gold standard ties of San Francisco, Sonoma, tell of melting snowcaps, rising ic Administration (NOAA) to fund our public transit programs. These for transit-first policies. Assem- and Marin. This month I am slat- seas heating up, and a shifting the critical work of the BCDC, the cuts will impact planned BART blyman Phil Ting has introduced ed to be appointed by the Board Gulf Stream set to make our California Coastal Commission, and Caltrain improvements, a bill to allow San Francisco the of Supervisors to be San Fran- weather even more erratic, yet the and the State Coastal Conservan- which should concern everyone opportunity to levy a local income cisco’s representative on the Bay 45th president and his head of the cy. Really not a lot when you think hoping to reduce regional con- tax, and we will be examining Conservation and Development Environmental Protection Agen- about the vital work that they all gestion and cut carbon emissions. how a 0.5 percent tax on the mil- Commission (BCDC), where I’ve cy, Scott Pruitt (yes, the same guy do preparing coastal cities for the lionaire class could generate $62 been serving as an alternate to who is currently suing his own imminent threat of sea-level rise, YOUR SUPPORT NEEDED million to $80 million annually Supervisor Jane Kim. Earlier this agency!), have proposed gutting severe storms, and other natural Ready to wear some advocacy for badly needed public services year I was appointed to serve on the EPA’s $8.2 billion budget by a disasters. Trump is proposing to hats? Because we need you. The that are fast becoming privatized the San Francisco Bay Restoration staggering 31 percent. cut NOAA coastal funding and Coastal States Organization is without sustained public invest- Authority Board by the Associ- The Trump/Pruitt cuts will anything that remotely addresses looking for individuals and orga- ment. The city has made it official ation of Bay Area Governments. have serious ramifications for us the real threat of climate change. nizations who benefit from the policy to advocate for the ability Last, but certainly not least, I was here in the Golden State. For one NOAA’s programmatic cuts read critical work of these defunded to generate this revenue, and we unanimously elected chair of the thing, they effectively eliminate like a death sentence: a combined agencies to sign a letter of sup- need your support to help pass it. San Francisco Transportation the EPA’s San Francisco Bay Pro- $75 million for NOAA’s Coast- port to Congress, and I will be I would also love your input and Authority (SFCTA) by my col- gram, which funds everything al Zone Management grants and hosting an advocacy session in feedback on how we prioritize leagues earlier this year. from wetland and watershed res- Regional Coastal Resilience grants, San Francisco in the coming days these dollars. I’m proud to serve in many toration to reducing polluted run- $10 million in Coastal Ecosystem before the fiscal year 2017-18 I’m ready for a revitalized capacities at a time when we must off and improving shoreline pro- Resiliency grants, $23 million in budget is finalized. The town spring resistance and am looking respond quickly and act decisively tection in San Francisco Bay. San annual funding to the National halls that have erupted across the forward to standing with all of to combat the draconian cuts of Francisco just played a major role Estuarine Research Reserve Sys- state are giving life to a new level you on the environmental and a madman — especially if we’re in helping pass the multicounty tem, and the entire $73 million of engagement, and we have to transit issues that fuel the Bay going to address the real impacts Measure AA on last June’s ballot, Sea Grant program.T:10” The largest keep the pressure on. Area we love. Feel the glor y. Not the joint pain. We can’t make you younger, but our orthopedic experts can help you get your old moves back. Find your specialist at DignityHealth.org/BayArea/SF-Ortho. T:7.875”

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Eleven Producer: Mary Pestell Account Mgr: None None Copy Writer: Account Supe: 1 None Northside Chinatown changes attract Spring at the Cliff House Warm & Cozy Inside – Amazing Views Outside new crowds Join us for these Cliff House Weekly Favorites BY GERI KOEPPEL • Wine Lovers’ Tuesday – Half Priced Bottled Wines* f you haven’t been to • Bistro Wednesday Nights – $30 Three-Course Prix Fixe Chinatown in a few years and all you re- • Friday Night Jazz in the Balcony Lounge Imember are kitschy tour- • Sunday Champagne Brunch Buffet in Terrace Room ist shops and hole-in-the- wall restaurants, you’ve missed a transformation taking place. Sure, many of the busi- nesses that have made up Chinatown for decades are still there and like- ly will remain, thanks to strict zoning laws that Mister Jui's dining room. PHOTO: COURTESY MR. JUI'S have prevented the en- croachment of office de- eyebrows for delays and challenging contempo- velopments. But the mix that it is opening in stages rary art exhibitions. Don’t is slowly changing and at- instead of all at once. But expect a musty gallery full tracting people outside of the slick interior and au- of calligraphy painting Chinatown who might not thentic Taiwanese food is and pottery. The current have been back in a while. attracting hordes of cus- show, Martial Spirit by tomers — and job seekers. Justin Hoover, delves into CULTURE A BIG DRAW Chen said he hopes stereotypes about martial Artists, culture lovers, China Live customers will arts, and features, among and gourmands are being visit other places in the other things, several enticed by new galleries, community when they punching bags adorned performance spaces and come, such as the Wok with metal studs spelling restaurants, and they’re Shop for kitchen items out provocative sayings. rediscovering longtime and Red Blossom Tea CCDC has also been gems in the process. for high-end teas. “Ev- supportive of legacy busi- Physically, Chinatown erybody’s proud of what nesses in the community 1090 Point Lobos is changing, too, with a they’re doing,” he said. such as Golden Gate For- San Francisco Central Subway stop on “There’s synergy.” tune Cookie Company, 415-386-3330 the way in 2019, a Broad- Add to this a smattering VIP Bakery, and Clarion www.CliffHouse.com way streetscape project of places with a younger Music. “As China Live underway, and plans to vibe cropping up selling and Mister Jiu’s are open- Valet parking every night after 5:00 pm. renovate historic Ports- bubble tea and snacks, ing and creating a buzz,” *Some restrictions apply. Promotions are not valid on holidays. mouth Square. “By 2020, and even Japanese dish- Chan said, “we also want- Chinatown will look very es like sushi, poke, kat- ed to use this moment to different,” said Roy Chan, su, and ramen. And of uplift the old businesses community planning course, there was the re- that have been around a manager with Chinatown galed reopening of Sam while and have something Community Develop- Wo at 713 Clay Street in to offer.” ment Center (CCDC). October 2015. That’s not to say it’ll lose MUSIC LESSONS AND its cultural character. “I ART EXHIBITIONS CONCERTS don’t want it to go the way In addition to restau- Clarion Music Center of parts of the Mission rants, community groups is another local gem. It District,” said District 3 such as the CCDC and used to sell instruments Supervisor Aaron Peskin, Chinese Culture Center and rent space for lessons, referencing the displace- work together on art in- but owner Clara Hsu, who ment of Latino residents stallations and projects previously sold it in 2005, in favor of trendy cafes. such as the funky gallery bought it back and plans “We need to proceed de- space 41 Ross Alley. “The to transform it into a per- liberately and carefully work that we do is very forming arts hub in addi- to preserve Chinatown. much about bringing peo- tion to continuing to rent That doesn’t mean there ple together and being a out studios for lessons. isn’t room for change, but voice for the community,” Her father, a piano man- I don’t start out with a said Jenny Leung, director ufacturer in Hong Kong, worldview that it’s broken of communications for the made all of the pianos still and needs to be fixed. It’s Chinese Culture Center. in use there today. great and could stand im- The current exhibi- The first formal concert provement.” tion, Eat Chinatown, is will be April 9 with a gui- a tribute to Chinatown’s tarist and violinist, and NEW DINING DESTI- rich restaurant culture Hsu hopes to host opera NATIONS in current photos along performances by the end Two of the highest-pro- with memorabilia and of the year and possibly file new places are Mister pictures from the past. a Christmas musical. She Jiu’s at 28 Waverly Place Also, a light installation added: “Twenty or 30 years and China Live at 644 called Liminal Space/ ago, I had a lot of ideas Broadway. Mister Jiu’s up- Crossings by Summer but I was not able to find “Expect to be Dazzled!” scale Chinese restaurant Mei-Ling Lee illuminates people who could support opened in April 2016 to Ross Alley from sundown me. But now when I come Ernest Beyl, Marina Times immediate acclaim and to midnight daily. It’s a in here, there’s a totally long waits for a reserva- metaphor for crossing the new generation. I love my tion. It was awarded a ocean; the artist drew on neighbors. They’re enthu- Freshest seafood in town! Michelin star later in the her grandmother’s experi- siastic, they’re younger … year. ence of spending 30 days I think there is an energy At the gateway to North Beach China Live opened in on a ship to come to the that wants to do some- March amid a flurry of United States. thing meaningful.” publicity — some good, The center itself, inside 318 Columbus Ave. - Daily 11am-9:30pm some less so. Former the Hilton San Francis- Geri Koeppel is a freelance Call for Reservations: 415.757.0569 Betelnut owner George co Financial District at writer in San Francis- Chen’s ambitious, con- 750 Kearny Street, is also co with an interest in all www.bettyloussf.com temporary emporium of well worth a visit for its things urban. Reach her at Chinese food has raised engaging, intellectually [email protected].

10 APRIL 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM Appetites BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT: BEST MANHATTAN CLAM soup. Don’t expect a fancy joint, made by stuffing corn tortillas continued from cover Yuet Lee (1300 Stockton Street) CHOWDER: Original Joe’s but you can count on the pho. with refried black beans, refrying Yes, we have Chinese restaurants (601 Union Street) the tortilla, then topping it with BEST SANDWICH SHOP: in North Beach. This is the best. It’s Tomatoey with lots of chopped BEST CRAB LOUIE: a variety of meats or vegetables. Dip (1318 Grant Avenue) Hong Kong style, everything fresh clams and much clam flavor join Betty Lou’s Seafood & Grill And that's what to order here, as You know how sometimes you with fish from a tank where they forces to make this one a winner. (318 Columbus Avenue) well as tacos, burritos, tostadas, would sell your soul for a French swim around for you to judge them. Obviously, the secret is lots of tortas, and empanadas. All are dip sandwich? Well, to satisfy that BEST NEW ENGLAND CLAM fresh Dungeness crab. And that’s well-presented and satisfying. urge, go to Dip. The proprietor is BEST NEW RESTAURANT: CHOWDER: Betty Lou’s Seafood what you get here. Haleh Cunningham, daughter of the Betty Lou’s Seafood & Grill & Grill (318 Columbus Avenue) BEST RESTAURANT: original Mo from next door at Mo’s (318 Columbus Avenue) Hector Chaparro thickens his BEST ESPRESSO: Mario’s Original Joe’s (601 Union Street) venerable North Beach restaurant Top-notch seafood prepared to clam chowder with potatoes, not Bohemian Cigar Store and Cafe Once again the award goes to where I like to go for milkshakes. But order. If seafood isn't your thing, flour. And you can easily taste the (566 Columbus Avenue) Original Joe’s. It’s a social club with here we’re not talking about milk- try the bone-in rib eye steak. difference: There’s a richness to it I usually drop in for a hit every great food and a great bar. What shakes. We’re talking about roast and it doesn’t taste like pancake afternoon. It keeps me upright for more do you want? beef, pork shoulder, leg of lamb, or BEST HANG-OUT JOINT: batter. the rest of the day. roast chicken sandwiches made with Mario’s Bohemian Cigar Store BEST PLACE FOR SIDEWALK Acme baguettes. You dip them into a and Cafe (566 Columbus Avenue) BEST MINESTRONE: BEST FISH RESTAURANT: DINING WITH YOUR HONEY: deep-flavored au jus. I always add a A young and vibrant staff meets Original Joe’s (601 Union Street) Betty Lou’s Seafood & Grill (318 Calzone’s (430 Columbus Avenue) side of potatoes au gratin. a young and vibrant clientele. Even This is my favorite minestrone Columbus Avenue) Calzone’s gets my La Dolce Vita I hang out there. in a neighborhood where almost Three stalwarts from Sotto Mare Award. Ah, the sweet street life. BEST PIZZA: Goodfella’s all restaurants serve minestrone. — Betty Pesce, Louise Taylor, and I’m thinking of having an Ernesto's Pizzeria & Grill (377 Bay Street) BEST SALOON: Thick but not too thick, it’s full Hector Chaparro — make this awards ceremony next year at my I am beholden to one of my din- Gino and Carlo (548 Green Street) of beans, carrots, cabbage, chard, place hum. My favorites are the publisher’s house — if I can get him ing consultants, Jon Weichert, for Great old-time North Beach and other vegetables — add that cioppino and Mike’s wok crab. to take the mattresses off the floor. turning me on to Goodfella’s, and saloon. When I’m not hanging out short macaroni called ditalini, and its exemplary pizzas. It’s a pleas- at Mario’s, I’m hanging out at Gino you’ve got a classic Italian soup. BEST TAKEOUT JOINT: MOST ICONIC NEIGHBOR- ant place for a quick lunch. Ambi- and Carlo. Italian Homemade Company HOOD RESTAURANT: ence? There’s a nice wall mural of BEST CIOPPINO: (716 Columbus Avenue) North Beach Restaurant San Francisco and New York City, BEST BARTENDER: Betty Lou’s Seafood & Grill Yes, I realize almost every (1512 Stockton Street) and black-and-white photos from Marco Rossi, Gino and Carlo (318 Columbus Avenue) restaurant in North Beach and A special tip of my Panama hat Goodfellas and The Godfather. (548 Green Street) There’s a lot of cioppino elsewhere in the city provides goes to this Tuscan classic in the The ideal bartender. Talks when in North Breach. This is the takeout service. But this is the best old Italian neighborhood. Opened BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT: you want to talk and shuts up when best one I’ve found. Deeply in my neighborhood. Try the lasa- by the late (and beloved) Lorenzo Original U. S. Restaurant you don’t. satisfying! gna. It will make you a believer in Petroni, it has been a gathering (414 Columbus Avenue) takeout. spot for San Franciscans for nearly I go there for the roast shoulder BEST WAITPERSON: BEST VIETNAMESE NOODLE 50 years. My menu favorite: chick- of lamb and lima beans on Tues- Daniella Crismani, Mario’s Bohe- SOUP: My Canh (626 Broadway BEST HOLE-IN-THE-WALL en livers with barbera sauce. days, and the baccala alla Messi- mian Cigar Store and Cafe Street) JOINT: Panuchos (620 Broadway nese or baccala alla Genovese every (566 Columbus Avenue) Yes, we have Vietnamese Street) E-mail: [email protected]. other Friday. Actually, I go there Classy, saltwater taffy kind of gal restaurants in North Beach. My Panuchos, the Mexican cre- Follow the Marina Times on Twitter because it’s the best Italian restau- who makes it fun to frequent this Canh is the best. 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Jian bing from Tai Chi Jianbing at Off the Grid: Fort Mason. PHOTO: ©TABLEHOPPER.COM It’s about time to eat outside:

NorthPicnics, Beach parties, and new patios Restaurant ad BY MARCIA GAGLIARDI also continue to be a part of the event, with June 2016 live bands from 8–10 p.m. Open every Fri- MARINA day 5–10 p.m. through October. There’s a new taker for the former Bin Presidio Picnic started back up last Marina38/Scotland Times Yard space (3232 Scott Street). month, returning for its fifth season with Barrel Room owner Sarah Trubnick has the Presidio Trust. Food, drinks, music, 4.936”purchased X 16” the lease and is launching a lawn games, fun with the kiddies…the concept with Barrel Room’s executive chef bases are covered. Plus, groups can preor- Manny Hewitt based on food and wine der food this year (check offthegrid.com for Providedpairing — by:all dishes will have recommend- details). Innkeepered pairings (oneCard to Services complement and one to New to Presidio Picnic this year are A’re- contrast). There will also be a reasonably pa, Belgian Frites, Bi-Rite Creamery, Farm priced themed tasting menu offered each Stand Lemonade, Hookt Mini Dough- night, plus a raw bar. Fifty wines will be nuts, Jackrabbit, Falcon, Marla Bakery, available by the glass and half glass. The Ocean Oyster Company, Senor Sisig, and space is undergoing a full remodel, and True Jerky. construction is imminent. I’ll have more to share as this takes shape; they are looking to COW HOLLOW open mid-May or early June — just in time Open for brunch is Contrada (2136 for patio season. Union Street, 415-926-8916), where you A sudden closure recently was Mamacita can now enjoy one of chef Jason Tuley’s (2317 Chestnut Street), after 12 years of fantastic pizzas over the weekend with Cal- business. SF Gate reports partners Stryker ifornia Caviar Co. smoked trout roe, crème Scales and chef Sam Josi will be coming up fraîche, soft scrambled eggs, and garden with another concept for the space, while herbs on top. Other dishes include soft partner Nate Valentine has moved on to his scrambled eggs with Josey Baker seeded own new project, August Hall. toast and black truffles, and short rib hash, plus brunch cocktails (low-ABV ones, to be FORT MASON AND THE PRESIDIO clear). Open Saturday–Sunday 11 a.m.–3 Springtime is here, which means the p.m. And guess what? Their spacious patio return of two of the city’s best food truck is now open! events. First up: I got to check out some Last December, I mentioned The Epicu- of the new vendors at Off the Grid: Fort rean Trader was expanding to Cow Hollow Mason Center. A few highlights: fans of with its second location, and it’s now open Cuban cuisine — a rarity in San Francis- at 1909 Union Street. You can swing by for co — will definitely want to swing by the everything from craft spirits to gourmet Cuban Kitchen tent. Founder Lynna Mar- cheese and charcuterie, plus fresh bread tinez makes a really good Cubano, and I from Tartine Bakery, small-production fell for her fritas: little pork burgers with a wines, small-batch coffee, hand-blended smoky, chorizo-like heat from the pimen- teas and spices, craft chocolates, oils and ton she uses, with house-made habanero vinegars, and other artisanal pantry items. pickles and crispy little French fries tucked in there. You want this. JAPANTOWN You can also try the Chinese street treat Ramen fans: there is a new ramen place jian bing from Tai Chi Jianbing — it’s like that opened in Japantown, Marufuku an eggy crêpe with fun fillings inside, and Ramen (1581 Webster Street, Ste. 235, 415- they care about using organic ingredients. 872-9786). Their specialty is Hakata-style El Porteño is back with their empanadas, ramen (thin noodles, with varying levels of and Pretzelina is serving authentic Bavari- noodle hardness) and two kinds of chicken an-style pretzels with beer cheese. You can paitan ramen with a variety of toppings, stay hydrated with a fresh coconut from spice levels, plus small rice bowls. Open CORE Kitchen, or bring it over to neighbor Tuesday–Friday 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m. and Rye on the Road and have it spiked with 5:30–9:30 p.m., Saturday 11:30 a.m.–9:30 some booze. (Or you can go for one of Rye p.m., and Sunday 11:30 a.m.–9 p.m. on the Road’s boozy hot toddies, which hits the spot on a chilly and windy San Marcia Gagliardi writes a popular insider Francisco night.) And of course, a bunch weekly e-column, tablehopper, about the San of regulars will be returning, from Johnny Francisco dining and imbibing scene; get all Doughnuts to Curry Up Now, and don’t the latest news at tablehopper.com. Follow miss the wood-fired pizzas from A16 — @tablehopper on Twitter and Instagram for check the schedule for the latest. Music will more culinary finds!

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BY SUSAN DYER REYNOLDS Here are my favorite sushi spots — famous chefs like Thomas Keller that won’t break the bank. Keep in also make the drive down the Pen- “After placing the fish on rice and mind sushi is seasonal and weath- insula for incredibly fresh and often seasoning each one for maximum er dependent, so check with your unique offerings. Before omakase effect, he places the three pieces on server and the ubiquitous “Fresh became trendy, I was enjoying Sam’s a square slate slab around a small Today” specials board for avail- omakase — for under $100. bowl of cherrywood chips. Using a ability. Not to miss: Baby lobster, kani blow torch Toshi ignites the chips salad, ocean trout, toro, unagi, baby and quickly places a glass dome on Okane (669 Townsend St., San Fran- hamachi, Sam’s omakase. Left: California hand roll from Isobune; Right: Jidori egg top. When it’s ready, he removes cisco, 415-865-9788, okanesf.com) chawanmushi at Okane. PHOTOS: SUSAN DYER REYNOLDS the lid.” Okane, a casual neighborhood Sanraku (704 Sutter St., San Fran- — San Francisco Chronicle food izakaya serving sushi and Japanese cisco, 415-771-0803; Metreon, 101 top spots for many years. I love Tip: Go early, and ask for sushi critic Michael Bauer in a review of comfort food, is the sister restau- Fourth St., San Francisco, 415-369- to sit at the bar and watch the with “no wasabi” so they have to Kinjo’s $120 omakase rant to the neighboring Miche- 6166; 925 Blossom Hill Rd., San chefs work their magic on notable make it fresh (otherwise they’ll lin-starred Omakase, and sources Jose, 408-363-2110, sanraku.com) dishes like live local uni served just pluck it off the boats). If you ’m amused and slightly its fish from the same world-re- With three locations, menus in its spiny vessel, and live scal- go when it’s busy (which is most horrified by the sudden obses- nowned Tsukiji Market in Tokyo. vary, but Sanraku is a bit of a hid- lop presented sashimi style in the of the time), items move quick- sion with omakase, where din- The delicate, velvety jidori egg cha- den gem — particularly their new- shell, accompanied by the scallop ly. Because they do such volume, Iers leave their meal in the hands of wanmushi (custard) is well worth est Silicon Valley restaurant, which muscle tempura fried with onion everything is fresh and they often a capable (preferably master) chef the 20-minute wait, and the shin- serves multicourse omakase menus strings. Ebisu also offers reason- have unique, harder to find deli- who prepares sushi and small plates juku roll — snow crab and avoca- for both lunch ($40) and dinner ably priced sashimi omakase for cacies like blue shrimp and whelk in courses. The phrase actually do topped with torch-seared A5 ($80) skillfully prepared by chefs one to two people ($28) or three clam (tsubugai). But my favorite means “I’ll leave it to you.” While wagyu beef — is an addictive sig- from Japan. to four people ($60) — everything Isobune plate is the kani salad — glass domes of smoked fish and an nature, as are the crunchy lotus root Not to miss: Omakase lunch is sparklingly fresh while the chefs real snow crab with just enough upswing in high-priced omakase chips with wasabi mayo. or dinner, mirugai (raw or tem- are classically trained and extreme- Japanese mayo to bind it. It’s also offerings is a relatively new phe- Not to miss: Ocean trout, miru- pura), o toro, uni (raw or tem- ly talented. great in a California temaki (hand nomenon, the tradition of omakase gai, barracuda, live uni, Santa Bar- pura), steamed abalone, Japanese Not to miss: Sashimi omakase, roll) with perfectly ripe avocado, is not. While I appreciate a good bara uni, Sake lees (sakekasu) cod, ikura, anago, Japanese scallop, buta live uni, live scallop, mirugai, tsu- tobiko, and crisp cucumber spears. omakase, I am a capable enough jidori egg chawanmushi, shinjuku kakuni (braised pork belly served bugai, ocean trout, amaebi, toro, Not to miss: Kani salad, Califor- sushi connoisseur to select a la carte. roll, lotus root chips. with soft boiled egg). unagi, hamachi. nia temaki, spider temaki, amaebi, I’ve been eating raw fish and tsubugai, oysters on the half shell, shellfish as long as I can remember, Sushi Sam’s Edomata (218 E. Third Ebisu (1283 Irving St., San Francis- Isobune (Japan Center Mall, 1737 torch-seared salmon belly, toro, starting with cherry stone clams Ave., San Mateo, 650-344-0888, co, 415-566-1770, ebisusushi.com) Post St., San Francisco, 415-566- shrimp with spicy cod roe, Isobune and uni with my grandfather in sushisams.com) Owned and operated by the Fujii 1770, isobunesushi.com Special (unagi, crab and avocado Rhode Island. I learned long ago I discovered Sushi Sam’s 20 years family, Steve and Koko and their That’s right — the boats (sorry, with tobiko). that you don’t have to pay $500 for ago, and it’s my favorite sushi restau- sons, Eric and Charlie, this Sunset Michael Bauer). This is my go-to a blissful sushi experience. rant in the Bay Area. I’m not alone District jewel has been one of my for fast-food-style sushi lunch. E-mail: [email protected].

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Artists Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley, Victor Moscosco, Stanley Mouse, and Wes Wilson’s distorted hand let- tering and vibrating colors, an aesthetic style borrowed from the American West, the Victorian era, and Far Eastern cultures, created a visual vocabulary for the new psychedelic move- ment. The exhibition opens with the Trips Festival of 1966, the first meaningful gathering of countercul- ture figures, co-organized by American writers Stew- art Brand and Ken Kesey, an experience complete with liquid light, slide Candance Kling, Minidress, ca. 1968. Printed shows, film projections synthetic knit. COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST IMAGE COURTESY FAMSF and electronic sounds providing the influence for the be-ins, the mini- form a movement whose and context for what skirts, the music, and the influence can still be felt came next. Haight-Ash- head shops, because this today. bury and Golden Gate exhibition has an immer- The Summer of Love Park were sites of pivotal sive light show experience. Experience: Art, Fashion, gatherings such as the first Travel back to groovier and Rock & Roll: 9:30 Human Be-in of January times with multisensory a.m.–5:15 p.m. Tue.–Sun., 1967 and groundbreak- liquid and multimedia April 8–Aug. 20, de Young ing street theater by the light shows by Ham and Museum, 50 Hagiwara Diggers. Photographers Van Meter, similar to the Tea Garden Drive, Golden Ruth-Marion Baruch, light shows that were pro- Gate Park, 415-750-3600, Herb Greene, Jim Mar- jected over musicians and famsf.org shall, Elaine Mayes, and concertgoers alike. Leland Rice documented The Summer of Love Sharon Anderson is an artist these social movements Experience lets us all par- and writer in Southern Cal- in their works. But don’t ticipate in an era when art ifornia. She can be reached worry if you weren’t there and activism intersected to at mindtheimage.com.

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Michael Snyder on ... Pop Culture Ticket to ’Toon Town

BY MICHAEL SNYDER we have the April 5 return of the run by a decent, caring crew of sionally sophisticated jokes in From the get-go, Your Name scathingly funny FX channel spy- adults. Although he’s well treated, play, especially in the made-for- mixes genres — science fiction, remember when 2d cart- fi sitcom Archer, this time in faux he struggles with loss and the need TV material that was produced fantasy, adventure, comedy, oons and various sorts of film noir guise. to fit in with the other kids in the by the team of Jay Ward and drama, and coming-of-age — stop-motion animation were The 3-D cash-grab sequel home, all of whom are dream- Bill Scott in the ’60s. Ward and in fresh and unexpected ways. Iconsidered niche or kiddie fare. Smurfs: The Lost Village also ing of adoption. Addressing real- Scott’s smart, satirical and droll A wish by a teenage girl in a Even the word cartoon suggests shows up at movie houses in world problems with honesty and (but crudely rendered) Rocky rural area triggers a body swap something frivolous and trivial. April, with two other sequels, wit, it is equal parts lovely and sad and Bullwinkle adventures — between her and a teenage boy Not that I ever let that diminish Cars 3 and Despicable Me 3, and hopeful. And yes, I wept a bit rough, riotous, and always ready who lives in a city many miles my interest in ’toons. But anima- following in June, but none are by the end of the movie. I give it to puncture pomposity — tend away. Initially puzzled, fright- tion has become an integral and expected to be groundbreakers, three tears on the Snyder Cry-o- to hold up today, and are consid- ened and intrigued, they decide more respected part of the cultur- risk-takers, or masterpieces Meter. Despite looking like it was erably funnier and hipper than to find one another while they al landscape, with billion-dollar deserving gold statuettes. On the designed to be primarily viewed the lower-end product that gets deal with intermittent swapping movie industry revenues and TV other hand, you can finally go to by children, it is much more. green-lit, even in this golden age back and forth, unexpected time exposure that’s aimed at fans of an American theater and catch The idea of juvenilia or bland, of animation. shifts, and a celestial event. So all ages. My Life as a Zucchini — a 2016 family-oriented diversion is Your Name additionally involves Anyone who saw and enjoyed Academy Award-nominee along- sometimes implied when ani- ENDORSING 'YOUR NAME' a quest and the very timely topic the 2016 Oscar-winning feature side Zootopia. mated narratives are discussed Your Name — hitting vari- of gender exploration. For all of Zootopia — the anthropomor- in certain pretentious circles. ous cities in the United States the elements at play here, it fits phic-animal noir with its whimsi- A TASTY AND PUNGENT Meanwhile, I grew up watching on April 7 — is an antidote to together in beautiful, mesmeriz- cally designed computer-generat- ZUCCHINI afternoon TV shows that featured the market-driven Smurfs, Cars ing fashion. You’ll be able to see ed characters, fluid action, glori- The Swiss-French stop-mo- classic Popeye and Warner Broth- and Despicable Me sequels and it in the original Japanese with ous color palette, sharp gags, and tion animated feature My Life as ers ’toons — the latter “starring” the presumably crass, blatant English subtitles (recommended) message of inclusion — knows a Zucchini launched its official Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky hackwork of (brace yourself) or dubbed in English — and you the level of quality being attained U.S. theatrical engagement a few Pig, and their pals — which were The Emoji Movie, due in August. should. If anything confirms the by a host of studios. There are weeks ago, delighting me, even as all originally shorts made to run Although Your Name had a brief potency and relevance of contem- more notable projects to come on it targeted my tear ducts. For the before whatever feature film was Oscar-qualifying run at the end of porary animation, it’s Your Name. the big and small screens. record, the actual title in French is playing at the local theater. In the last year, I assume that no Acade- This month will see the U.S. Ma Vie de Courgette. Courgette is 1930s and ’40s, when the bulk my voters saw it or it would have Michael Snyder is a print and release of the biggest box office the boy’s nickname which trans- of those vintage cartoons were gotten a nomination. Directed by broadcast journalist who covers success in the history of Japa- lates into English as Zucchini, the created, they were considered Makoto Shinkai in high-end 2-D pop culture on KPFK/Pacifica nese animated movies, Your latter somehow sounding sillier. cross-generational entertain- animation with digital flourishes, Radio’s David Feldman Show Name, which is probably the best Vegetable designation aside, it’s ment. But, by their television air- it’s as moving in its way as My and on Michael Snyder’s Culture of its kind from Japan since the the tender tale of a boy who is ings in the late ’50s and ’60s, they Life as a Zucchini, although it has Blast, via GABnet.net, Roku, and enchanting, critically acclaimed orphaned in tragic fashion and were branded kids’ stuff. That much grander aspirations than YouTube. You can follow Michael Spirited Away. On the video front, is brought to a foster home that’s would fly in the face of the occa- simply depicting a slice of life. on Twitter: @cultureblaster REED & GREENOUGHREED & GREENOUGH 3251 SCOTT STREET at CHESTNUT 3251 SCOTT STREET at CHESTNUT

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Visit and reframing the role of science in society, Bldg. D, Fort Mason Center website for special event information. 415-397- followed by a seated dinner. Afterward, join the This satire, part heartfelt tribute and part 3333, social.macys.com/flower-show/ Party After Dark revelers to explore the tastes, political indictment, takes us on a whirlwind sounds, and creatures of the night with dancing, odyssey through Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, and Auguste Rodin: The Centenary dessert, and inspired cocktails. $2,500, 415-379- Vienna in search of romance and a cure. Installation 5411, calacademy.org/big-bang-gala-2017 $65–$85, 415-441-8822, magictheatre.org San Francisco International Tue.–Sun. through April 9, Film Festival 9:30 a.m.–5:15 p.m. Legion of Honor Daily, April 5–19 ARTS & CULTURE DANCE Marking the centenary of Rodin’s death, this Various Bay Area venues new installation from the museum’s permanent The venerable festival celebrates six decades Renegade Craft Fair Spring 2017 S.F. Ballet: Swan Lake collection of approximately 50 objects in bronze, with a lineup of 150 films and live events, Sat.–Sun., April 1–2, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Various days through April 12 marble, and plaster are presented in a new dozens of filmmakers in attendance, and the War Memorial Opera House context. $15, 415-750-3600, famsf.org Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center presentation of two dozen awards for film Celebrate spring shopping season and the Don’t miss Helgi Tomasson’s modern ballet with excellence. $13–$15 individual films, $120– DIY spirit with more than 300 makers and stunning visual effects, crisp storytelling, and 42nd Street Moon: New Girl in Town $140 10-pack, $1,500–$1,675 festival pass, artisans. Enjoy hands-on workshops, local virtuosic dance with “sublime” choreography. 415-561-5006, sffilm.org Wed.–Sun. through April 16 gourmet cuisine, music, and immersive special $35–$398, 415-865-2000, sfballet.org PHOTO: STILL FROM MARJORIE PRIME; SFFILM.ORG The Eureka Theatre (215 Jackson St.) features while finding wonderful handmade A woman with a secret past tries to rebuild items and unique gifts. Free, 312-226-8654, 19th Annual Bay Area Dance Week her life by returning to her hometown in this renegadecraft.com Daily, April 21–30 poignant Tony Award-winning musical based on Polk Street Spring Wine Walk Various S.F. venues Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie. $25–$75, 415- Thursday, April 13, 4–8 p.m. Art Explosion Spring Open Studios Featuring over 700 groups, artists, and 255-8207, 42ndstmoon.org Polk Street (Sutter to Filbert Sts.) 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MUSIC: CLASSICAL Free admission & refreshments, 415-323-3020, Union Street (Gough to Fillmore Sts.) artexplosionstudios.com The celebration includes an Easter bonnet con- Schwabacher Debut Recital Series test (11:15 a.m.–1:30 p.m., Union St. at Buchan- Sunday, April 2, 9, & 30 an), bounce house, kids’ rides and games, a Spring Open Studios Taube Atrium Theater, Veterans Bldg. petting zoo, pony rides, entertainment, and Sat.–Sun., April 22–23, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. (401 Van Ness Ave.) more, including, of course, the Easter Bunny. Hunter's Point Shipyward & Islais Creek Studios Hear opera’s next generation of stars in this Parade begins at 2 p.m. (Union at Gough Sts.) Participating artists from the country’s largest annual series showcasing exemplary artists who Free, 800-310-6563, sresproductions.com artist’s community will present a variety have participated in the prestigious training pro- We Players: Beowulf of artwork, including painting, sculpture, grams of San Francisco Opera Center and Merola Earth Day San Francisco 46th printmaking, jewelry, and photography. Opera Program. $30, 415-864-3330, sfopera.com Anniversary Thu.–Sun. through April 16, sunset Free, 415-822-9675, shipyardartists.com Saturday, April 22, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. S.F. Maritime National Historical Park House of Many Windows In this sweeping site-integrated production, Civic Center Plaza Startup Art Fair Sunday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. The festival will feature entertainment, panel audiences will travel along the northern Fri.–Sun., April 28–29 Clarion Music Center (816 Sacramento St.) discussions and speakers, organic celebrity chef waterfront experiencing this ancient epic, Hotel Del Sol (3100 Webster St.) Miroslav Tadi (guitarist) and Yvette Holzwarth showcase, organic and vegan food courts, wine exploring darkness and light, power and (violinist) comprise House of Many Windows and beer gardens, clean energy zone, earth- conquest, and monsters and humans. $80, This immersive, contemporary art experience and perform music of Macedonia, Romania, friendly products, an electric vehicle showcase, 415-547-0189, weplayers.org showcases works of multiple mediums from a Greece, Hungary, and Spain. Audiences will kids zone, and more, including a tribute stage PHOTO: LAUREN MATLEY diverse group of 47 independent artists, local of the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. art nonprofits, artist performances, installations, experience a wordless conversation using the Donations encouraged, earthdaysf.org and panel discussions. $15, $30, & $100, language of expressive inflections, dynamics, startupartfair.com/SF and rhythms. $15–$25, clarionmusic.com 100th Annual Opening Day on the Bay COMMUNITY Sunday, April 23, noon–3 p.m. CORNER SFUSD Arts Festival S.F. Chamber Orchestra: The Lighter Side Crissy Field to Pier 39 Daily, April 29–May 7 Friday, April 28, 7:30 p.m. Boating season kicks off with the blessing of the Asian Art Museum Herbst Theatre (401 Van Ness Ave.) fleet and a festive parade featuring over 100 Presidio Tunnel Tops Project Site Tour Enjoy chamber music designed to tickle your Friday, April 7 & 21, 3–4 p.m. This annual celebration of student creativity historic workboats, fireboats, towboats, classic, includes a visual art exhibition, live musical and classical funny bone: composer/musician/satirist and contemporary craft decorated to the theme Presidio Trust (103 Montgomery St.) dance performances, literary arts, and hands-on Peter Schickele’s hilarious alter ego P.D.Q. Bach Cruising the Century and showcasing historic Learn about and tour the site of the planned will be represented by several works, including the art activities. Visit website for schedule. Free, moments of all kinds: Nautical, Technology, 14-acre landscape atop the Presidio Parkway first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony as 415-695-2441, sfusdartsfestival.org Science, Historic Figures, and more. Free, 925- tunnels linking the Presidio to the waterfront. a sportscast, featuring play-by-play announcers, 451-4621, picya.org Free, registration required, 415-561-5300, a whistling referee, and a penalty box for errant presidio.gov horn players. Free, 415-463-6710, thesfco.org MUSEUMS & Walk to Work Day GALLERIES Sponsored Thursday, April 6, 7–10 a.m. Citywide Matisse/Diebenkorn You might walk to work every day, but today Fri.–Tue. through May 29, 10 a.m. you can get free stuff like tote bags, coffee, or SFMOMA (151 Third St.) breakfast snacks at hubs across the city. Just This exhibition brings together 100 extraordinary a 15-minute walk counts. Free, 415-431-9255, paintings and drawings — 40 by Matisse and 60 walksf.org by Diebenkorn — that reveal the connections between the two artists in subject, style, color, and technique. $31, 415-357-4000, sfmoma.org GALAS & BENEFITS Trio Pizzicato: 40th Annual S.F. Decorator Showcase Exclusion: The Presidio’s Role Songs of Italian Immigrants 51st Edgewood Fair in World War II Japanese American Tue.–Sun., April 29–May 29 & Gala: Thursday, April 6, 5:30–9:30 p.m. Incarceration Sunday, April 30, 4:30 p.m. Monday, May 29 Luncheon: Friday, April 7, Tue.–Sun., April 1–March 2018, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Museo Italo Americano 2698 Pacific Ave. (at Scott) 10:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Heritage Gallery, Presidio Officers’ Club (Bldg. C, Fort Mason Center) This year’s home to be transformed by a team Fair Only: Friday, April 7, 1:30–3:30 p.m. (50 Moraga Ave.) Trio Pizzicato returns to the Museo to of designers is a 1904 11,000 square-foot perform folk songs sung by and about Italian The Bentley Reserve (301 Battery St.) This exhibition invites visitors to investigate mansion designed by renowned architects immigrants. The concert will be preceded by a This shopping event features vendors from the personal and political choices that led to Newsom & Newsom, and featuring a short talk on Italian immigration and the music around the country who donate 25 percent of this dark chapter in our history, and to reflect panoramic bay view, period detailing, and that accompanied it. Trio Pizzicato is Kathy their proceeds to benefit Edgewood and its on what we have learned that helps us address more. Proceeds benefit S.F. University High Sherak and Bill Foss on mandolin and vocals, present-day issues of mass incarceration, School’s financial aid program. $40, 415-447- programs that support Bay Area children and Martha Hawthorne on guitar and vocals. 5830, decoratorshowcase.org and families in crisis. $25 & up, 415-681-3211, immigration reform, and racial profiling. Free, Free–$15, 415-673- 2200, [email protected] edgewood.org 415-561-4400, presidio.gov/exclusion

16 APRIL 2017 MARINA TIMES MARINATIMES.COM MUSIC: POTABLES & EDIBLES CONTEMPORARY 34th Annual S.F. International Beer Wayne Shorter Quartet Festival Saturday, April 8, 5:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. Thu.–Sun., April 27–30 Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center Miner Auditorium, SFJazz Center Enjoy hundreds of fine brews from the San Fran- (201 Franklin St.) cisco Bay Area and beyond as well as delicious Legendary saxophonist Wayne Shorter has bites from leading local restaurants. Proceeds been called jazz’s most influential composer  benefit Telegraph Hill Cooperative Nursery lk trt after Thelonious Monk. The quartet performs School. $75 & $150, 415-421-3313, sfbeerfest.com selections from their acclaimed 2013 album SPRING WINE WALK Without a Net, Shorter’s first in 40 years. $40– Easter Brunch Celebration $100, 866-920-5299, sfjazz.org Sunday, April 16, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Ritz-Carlton San Francisco Enjoy an elaborate buffet inspired by the finest local, seasonal ingredients prepared with a creative spin on traditional Easter fare and brunch favorites. Special gifts for children. $70 & $135, 415-773-6188, ritzcarlton.com/sanfrancisco

A Toast to Science: Spring Cocktails of the Farmers’ Market Wednesday, April 19, 5:30–8 p.m. Ferry Plaza At a time when the scientific community needs bold allies and we all need stiff drinks, gather An Evening with David Crosby over inventive craft cocktails to champion the & Friends values of protecting the health of the planet, the public, and our food system. $55–$65, 415-291- Sunday, April 30, 7:30 p.m. 3276, cuesa.org Great American Music Hall (859 O’Farrell St.) Crosby will perform music from his recent Mexican-American Vintners Assoc. solo album Croz and his soon-to-be released Spring Wine Tasting album Sky Trails along with some of his Wednesday, April 26, 5–7 p.m. greatest hits. $60 ($84.95 includes dinner), Mexican Museum Fort Mason Center 415-885-0750, slimspresents.com Taste and purchase wines from 13 Mexican- PHOTO: ELEANOR STILLS & BUZZ PERSON American Vintners Association wineries. Includes food pairings of cheeses, charcuterie, and more. $50 & $60, 707-266-1296, nsmava.org NIGHTLIFE APRIL 13, 2017 · 4-8 PM Pig&Dan SPORTS & HEALTH Friday, April 7, 10 p.m.–2 a.m. Film screening: “What the Health” $20 ADVANCE · $25 DAY OF · SAN FRANCISCO Verso (1525 Mission St.) Pig&Dan bring their musical adventures out of Saturday, April 15, 2–5 p.m. the studio onto the dance floor. They are prolific Koret Auditorium, S.F. Public Library (101 Larkin St.) producers and globe-traveling D.J.s who will This groundbreaking follow-up film from the cre- 800-310-6563 · www.SRESproductions.COM share their euphoric-pumping sounds. Free–$10, ators of the award-winning documentary Cowspira- sanfrancisconightlife.com cy exposes the collusion and corruption in govern- ment and big business that is costing us trillions of The xx health care dollars — and keeping us sick. Free, Sat.–Sun., Apr. 15–16, 8 p.m. RSVP at eventbrite.com, 415-557-4400, sfpl.org Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Navigating the Nutrition Facts Label The London trio celebrates the release of their third album by kicking off their North American Thursday, April 27, 5–6:30 p.m. tour right here in San Francisco. $49.50, 800-745- Enright Room, CPMC (2333 Buchanan St.) 3000, ticketmaster.com This presentation will address how to successfully navigate a nutrition facts label, including how to identify and interpret serving FILMS & LECTURES size and daily values, carbohydrates and sugars, fat content, vitamins and nutrients, and the Week to Week Political Roundtable ingredients list. $10 suggested donation, RSVP Monday, April 10, 5:30–7:30 p.m. to 415-923-3155 or [email protected] FIND iT. love it. The Commonwealth Club (555 Post St.) People are paying attention to politics with a fascination (or dread) like perhaps no other time in the modern era. Enjoy a social hour followed CHILD’S PLAY by a lively political roundtable, featuring the Creative Family Fun: Morse Code Spring Open Studios Marina Times’ John Zipperer, the Chronicle’s Sat.–Sun., April 8–9, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Joe Garofoli, KCBS' Bob Butler, and the Mercury News' Barbara Marshman. $7–$20, 415-597-6705, Presidio Officers’ Club (50 Moraga Ave.) commonwealthclub.org Drop in to celebrate Samuel Morse’s birthday and learn how to send your own message by Artist ’s Party making some Morse code jewelry. Registration + San Francisco Green Film Festival Daily, April 20–26 preferred. 415-561-5300, presidio.org HUNTERS POINT SHIPYARD SAN FRANCISCO Various Bay Area venues From the Amazon to Standing Rock, from the streets of San Francisco to the fields of Ethiopia, see new stories from around the world. Meet filmmakers and expert guests at this fest for SUn. 11am– acclaimed environmental films. Visit website for individual pricing, $80 6-pack, $225 festival pass, 415-7671977, greenfilmfest.org pri l 6pm A SCIENCE &

sat. 2017 ENVIRONMENT 22 23 Octopus Souree 9th Annual Goat Festival Saturday, April 8, 7–9:30 p.m. S.F. Zoo (Sloat Blvd. & Great Highway) Saturday, April 15, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Dr. Jenny Hofmeister of Scripps Institution of Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market TIS TS AR Oceanography will share her latest research on Explore the wonders of goats, meet local FREE the role this “master manipulator” plays in our ranchers and food crafters, sample artisan California ecosystem. Ages 16 and up, $20, reg- cheeses, and unleash your inner “kid.” Free, istration required at [email protected] 415-291-3276, cuesa.org EVENT Amory Lovins: Peak Car Ownership FREE ADMISSSION Wednesday, April 12, noon–1:30 p.m. Calendar listings The Commonwealth Club (555 Post St.) FREE PARKING Will the rapid arrival of robotic cars lead to the Send your event listings to [email protected] with succinct specifi cs about your event, location, 100 end of driving? Or will autonomous cars merely put paid drivers out of work and clog our streets dates, times, prices, and contact information (tele- even more? No one knows for sure if the utopian phone and Internet). Visit marinatimes.com for additional calendar list- www.shipyardartists.com or dystopian vision will arrive at your front door. $7–$20, 415-597-6705, commonwealthclub.org ings. For sponsored listings, call 415-815-8081.

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Urban Home and Garden Earth Day 2017 Celebrating the Earth

BY JULIA STRZESIESKI health, material reutiliza- ufacturing waste such as tion, renewable energy and sawdust. our first full carbon management, water Rainforest Alliance month of spring, stewardship, and social Certified: Products meet in April we cele- fairness. A product receives standards that require Obrate the Earth and trees, a rating ranging from basic environmental, social, and in addition to paying our to platinum, with the low- economic sustainability, as taxes. Probably most of us est ranking providing the set forth by a coalition of try to use the least harmful product’s overall rating. conservation groups in the chemicals around our fam- EcoLogo: A volun- Sustainability Agricultural ilies and pets when in our tary standard, EcoLogo is Network. homes and gardens. With owned by Underwriters Safer Choice: All the lots of various labels adorn- Laboratory and tests for chemicals in labeled prod- ing products, what do they standards during a prod- ucts have been reviewed by really mean? The terms uct’s lifecycle from manu- the EPA to be the safest "natural," "eco," and "green" facturing through disposal. possible, using strict crite- are thrown around a lot, Energy Star: Estab- ria for environmental and but they aren’t regulated lished in 1992 by the health safety and verified by any government agency. Environmental Protection by an independent third For example, a product can Agency (EPA), Energy party. For consumers and claim to be “natural,” but no Star is a voluntary label- purchasers, especially those government standard exists ing program to identify with allergies or sensitiv- for regulation of this word. energy-efficient products ities, Safer Choice also Let's look back at how we to help reduce greenhouse awards a “fragrance-free” arrived at our current level gas emissions. The label is label to easily identify of eco-awareness. now found on computers, products that have been 1939: DDT is discovered lighting, and household verified as free of fragrance by Paul Hermann Mueller, appliances. materials. who would later be award- ed the Nobel Prize for this in 1948. A product can claim to be 1940s: During the sec- ond half of World War 'natural,' but no government II, DDT was employed to sideline both typhus and standard exists for regulation malaria. After the war, DDT was widely used as of this word. an agricultural insecticide. An advertisement in 1947 Forest Stewardship USDA Certified Bio- by by Penn Salt Chemical Council: An independent, based Product: The company even proclaimed, nonprofit organization, USDA awards this label TRUSTED GREEN CLEANING SERVICE “DDT is good for me.” The Forest Stewardship about the bio-based con- Many household insect Council is membership-led tent of a product and Since 1979 sprays contained it, too. and members vote on the ensures that a product 1962: Rachel Carson standards and policies. The contains a USDA-verified $75 OFF published her ground- members of the board of amount of renewable bio- Weekly or BiWeekly breaking book, Silent directors are from three logical ingredients. Prod- Service For Common Spring, which chronicled areas of representation: uct manufacturers must Areas or Residences the negative effects humans social, economic, and envi- test the bio-based con- can have on nature. The ronmental. tent at an independent, book brought both aware- Green Seal: A nonprofit third-party laboratory Common Areas ness of man’s impact and independent organization, to be in compliance with spawned a grassroots envi- Green Seal tests and certi- this designation. Products Turnovers ronmental movement, all fies products and services must contain at least 25 the while garnering strong and certifies their label. percent bio-based ingredi- opposition from the chem- Greenguard: A divi- ents and list the percent- $25 OFF ical corporations. sion of Underwriters Lab- age under the label. Your Next Turnover 1970: The first Earth oratory, Greenguard is a USDA Organic: Regulat- Day in the United States third-party independent ed by the USDA, the term or Move Out Clean is celebrated and President lab that tests products organic can be applied to Richard Nixon proclaims against established stan- food or other entities or 415-546-8000 marvelmaids.com the last Friday of April as dards from various health products directly in the Arbor Day, which was first agencies. food chain, including seed celebrated in Nebraska in LEED Certified: Admin- suppliers, farmers, and 1872, when 1 million trees istered by the U.S. Green food processors. were planted. Building Council, Leader- “Greenwashing”, or mar- 1971: The memorable ship in Environmental and keting a product or service Keep America Beautiful ad Energy Design (LEED) cer- as environmentally friendly featuring a American Indi- tification looks at all aspects when it isn't, unfortunate- an paddling down a pol- of design and construction ly occurs. Researching a luted river with a teardrop of a building with regard product if you are uncer- rolling down his cheek is to sustainability. Buildings tain about its claims is one aired. earn various rankings, way to spot it. If there is Here are some of the pop- including certified, silver, valid information to back ular labels you will find on gold, and platinum. up a claim, a legitimate consumer products today. Post-Consumer Recy- company will gladly share Asthma & Allergy cled: Post-consumer mate- it. When you aren’t certain Friendly: Products are test- rial is the waste generated about a particular prod- ed for standards set forth, by consumers and industry uct, look at the company approved, and adopted by end-users of products that as whole and consider its The Asthma and Allergy have reached the end of the environmental track record Foundation of America. life cycle of the product’s and reputation. Cradle to Cradle Cer- initial purpose. tified: A nonprofit orga- Pre-Consumer Recy- Julia Strzesieski is the mar- nization, Cradle to Cradle cled: This measures the keting coordinator for Cole product standards measure percentage of a product Hardware and can be reached five categories: material that is made from man- at [email protected].

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Real Estate Today Tips for success Increase your chances for a successful house hunt BY CAROLE ISAACS place. Do you want to risk have a winning offer, but the wrong agent? pring has sprung, or at least Second: The Internet is an amazing tool it has in the real estate market in to help with your search, but it is not the San Francisco. Buyers are out in full same as working with a professional San Sforce searching for all types of homes. Francisco real estate agent. At my open Believe it or not, an agent offering a houses when I ask, “Are you working with condo for sale in Noe Valley sent out 50 an agent?” many times the response is disclosure packages and received almost “Oh, we are just starting out. Eventually 20 offers. Of course it sold for way over we will find an agent. We are looking the asking price. It is common to find a online to get started.” It is impossible for a desirable property that has two weekend new buyer to fully understand how every open houses with offers accepted a few home in San Francisco is different. Even days later. As the baby boom continues, in new buildings you will find individu- three-bedroom homes are in especially al pricing for condos depending on the high demand and buyers are often willing size and location in the building. Buying to pay well over the asking price as they a home is an incredibly time-intensive compete for the small number of homes activity, and your agent will put you on on the market. the fast track to success. There are alternatives to using a local real estate agent, but use the real thing for The question is, Other than price and Buyers have an uphill road to success the best results. PHOTO: ALEXAS PHOTOS contingencies, what can a buyer do to at all price points. A good agent will help meet with success? Here are two things to you focus your search and save you hours is so desperate for inventory today, it is proximity to a commercial strip, Muni, do that will boost your chances. of time over the long run. My recommen- not about selling the property. Just about BART, corporate shuttles, or the freeways. First: Work with an experienced San dation is to begin your search for a home everything sells. It is about marketing and A few blocks away from a walk to a coffee Francisco real estate agent. Why do buyers with choosing a real estate agent. Choos- the sale price. Local agents will have the location or transportation can mean the need a San Francisco agent? Local expe- ing a San Francisco agent may make the necessary tools at their fingertips to sell a difference in price of $100,000 or more. rience may make the difference between difference between success or failure and property at the highest price. Keep in mind that a referring agent success and failure because homes sell will save you time and money as the price What do you say to your friends, rel- always gets a percentage of the commis- so quickly. Successful local agents know of homes continues to appreciate in the atives, or out-of-city agents when you sion when a property is sold. Isn’t some- the market and how to write a winning coming year. decide to use a local full-time agent? Tell thing of something better than nothing offer. They understand it is not about the Buyers may get a discount or less than them you know they do an excellent job, of nothing? Everyone wins. Buyers find comps but the competition. They know full service with a friend, relative, or but in today’s fast-paced market, you feel a home, and sellers and referring agents being a successful buyer’s agent is about out-of-city agent, but if they never buy a a local agent is better equipped to help make a sale. working closely with buyers so they can home, it is not much of a deal. you meet with success. Ask them to refer be ready to view property and write offers The same goes for sellers. I am always you to an agent that is a San Francisco Carole Isaacs is a Realtor with McGuire Real as soon as possible. Surprisingly, the surprised when I see a listing where the specialist who really knows the neighbor- Estate, where she is a Top Producer. Follow winning offer is oftentimes very close or agent is from out of town, sometimes hoods. It is important to understand the her on Twitter @CaroleIsaacs, visit her online essentially the same as the offer in second as far as Sonoma or Tracy. The market nuances of a location, whether it means at caroleisaacs.com or call 415-608-1267.

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The Marina Times Real Estate Real Estate Roundup News updates Market Report: February 2017 By Hill & Co. Real Estate Renters, offenders, and more

SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES BY JOHN ZIPPERER affordable housing in of homes for sale has BEDROOMS/ ABOVE/AT/BELOW DAYS ON the state. locked out many people NEIGHBORHOOD ADDRESS BATHROOMS SALE PRICE ASKING PRICE MARKET AIRBNB BOOTS “We need to be sure who would like to buy; Cow Hollow (no sales) OFFENDERS that all Californians and some families will Short-term rental have roofs over their be unable to purchase Lake 2147 Lake Street 3BD/2.5BA $2,050,000 Above 0 service Airbnb reports heads before we pro- a home for a long time, that it has removed 924 vide tax breaks to help having been crushed Laurel Heights (no sales) listings from its service. some people with two by the foreclosure Airbnb, which has been homes,” said Chiu. “We crisis during the Great Lone Mountain (no sales) criticized by many as need a reliable, perma- Recession. a threat to the hous- nent funding stream to Marina 3157 Baker Street 5BD/3.5BA $3,260,000 Below 105 ing supply, said that support production of the removed listings affordable housing that Nob Hill (no sale) concerned units that the market simply will “appeared to be shared not build.” North Beach (no sales) by hosts with multiple The bill passed the entire unit listings that Assembly Housing and Pacific Heights 3060 Pacific Avenue 6BD/5.5BA $10,250,000 Above 15 could impact long-term Community Develop- housing availability or ment Committee in Presidio Heights (no sale) did not provide the best early March. It next goes possible experience on to the Assembly Reve- Russian Hill 1188 Lombard 3BD/2.5BA $6,100,000 Below 170 our platform.” Between nue and Taxation Com- February 2016 and Feb- mittee. Sea Cliff (no sales) ruary 2017, the service Assemblyman David Chiu kicked out 317 listings SAN FRANCISCO is looking to boost afford- Telegraph Hill (no sales) for entire homes, 26 for AMONG RENTER- able housing and protect private rooms, and 580 MAJORITY CITIES immigrant tenants with CONDOS for shared rooms. San Francisco con- his new legislation. BEDROOMS/ ABOVE/AT/BELOW DAYS ON The service said it tinues to be one of a NEIGHBORHOOD ADDRESS BATHROOMS SALE PRICE ASKING PRICE MARKET remains committed to handful of large Amer- IMMIGRANT TENANT cooperating with city ican cities in which PROTECTION ACT Cow Hollow 2839 Pierce Street #1 1BD/1BA $854,000 Above 7 leaders “to further pro- the majority of res- A new state bill by 2485 Union Street #2 1BD/1BA $1,300,000 Below 61 gressive policies that idents rent instead of Assemblyman David 2839 Pierce Street #3 2BD/2BA $1,779,000 Above 8 protect public safety own their homes. It is Chiu aims to protect 2827 Pierce Street 3BD/3BA $1,990,000 Above 15 and affordable housing, one of only 21 out of tenants who are immi- while fostering the eco- 400 urban areas with grants. AB 291, which Lake 245 Arguello Boulevard 3BD/2BA $1,450,000 At 0 nomic opportunity of populations greater passed the Assembly home sharing for S.F. than 100,000 that are Judiciary Committee Laurel Heights (no sales) families, businesses, renter-majority cities, in late March, would

and communities.” according to U.S. Cen- prevent landlords from Lone Mountain (no sale) sus data highlighted in disclosing information SAN FRANCISCO a recent report by apart- about a tenant’s immi- Marina 3235 Gough Street #204 2BD/1BA $754,960 Below 119 RENTS DOWN ment-listing website gration status as a way 1500 Francisco Street #11 3BD/2BA $1,725,000 Above 106 NEARLY 9 PERCENT Abodo. Nowhere does to pressure a tenant to 1570 Chestnut Street 2BD/1BA $1,825,000 Above 13 Though San Francis- the renter majority hit leave the residence. 3236 Divisadero Street 3BD/2.5BA $2.291.000 Below 14 co remains an expensive 60 percent — the high- “Tenants should not 3030-3032 Franklin St. #3032 3BD/2.5BA $2,400,000 Above 0 place to live, its rental est is College Station– have to live in fear sim- 2330 Francisco Street 3BD/2.5BA $2,875,000 Above 0 prices have dropped over Bryan, Tex., at 59.1 per- ply because they are

Nob Hill 1754 Larkin Street #5 1BD1BA $790,000 Above 12 the past year, according cent — and most of the immigrants or refugees. 1250 Clay Street #108 1BD/1BA $865,000 Above 15 to a new report from real other 21 areas are below Trump has declared war 15-19 Wetmore Street #15 3BD/2BA $1,525,000 Below 126 estate site Zumper.com. 54 percent. San Francis- on immigrants, and it is With $3,270 as a medi- co (which is paired with clear that ripping apart

North Beach (no sales) an rent for a one-bed- Oakland as a metro area families through mass room apartment, Zump- in the report) is at 50.9 deportations could be

Pacific Heights 1624 Vallejo Street #2 1BD/1BA $649,000 At 31 er noted that that San percent. our new reality,” said 1792 Green Street 2BD/1BA $1,150,000 At 0 Francisco rent was more The demographics of Chiu. “This bill will 1650 Broadway Street #506 1BD/2BA $1,170,000 Below 48 than double the state owners versus renters deter the small minori- 2595 Clay Street #1 2BD/1BA $1,240,800 Above 9 median of $1,617. How- are not surprising. Rent- ty of landlords who 1769 Broadway #8 2BD/1BA $1,300,000 Above 5 ever, that was down 8.9 ers tend to be young- unscrupulously take 2194 Green Street #2194 2BD/2BA $1,363,500 Below 63 percent from a year ear- er (most were under 44 advantage of the real or 3294 Clay Street #5 2BD/2BA $1,495,000 Above 62 lier. Two-bedroom rents years old, with the largest perceived immigration 2200 Pacific Avenue #3D 2BD2BA $1,540,000 Below 37 were $4,500, down 7.6 block of them between status of their tenants 2200 Pacific Avenue #3A 2BD/2BA $1,550,000 Below 44 percent, reports Zumper. 25 and 34); 77.16 per- to engage in abusive 2192 Pacific Avenue 2BD/2BA $1,625,000 Below 81 cent of owners were acts.” 1870 Jackson Street #203 3BD/3BA $1,825,000 Below 82 SECOND-HOME older than 45, according 1650 Broadway Street #202 3BD.2.5BA $1,888,800 Below 57 DEDUCTIONS to Abodo. The company QUOTE UNQUOTE 1865 Clay Street #3 3BD/2BA $1,900,000 Below 10 TARGETED FOR notes that “Nationwide, “During other hous- 3051-b California 3BD/4BA $2,050,000 Below 79 REVENUE renters are on the rise. ing market recoveries, 1650 Broadway #602 3BD/3BA $3,725,000 Below 162 Californians who take In fact, 2015 saw 1.4 mil- we’ve seen those recov- deductions on their lion new renter house- eries associated with a Presidio Heights 440 Locust Street 2BD/2.5BA $1,625,000 Above 20 state income taxes for holds, creating the larg- rise in inventory, rather 3993 Washington Street 2BD/2.5BA $2,650,000 Below 1 second homes would est percentage of renter than a drop. The fact see that deduction go households the nation that we’re in a pretty Russian Hill 2555 Leavenworth St. #303 2BD/2BA $1,185,000 Above 147 away if a bill under con- has seen since the 1960s well-recovered hous- sideration in Sacramen- — 36.4 percent.” ing market and we’re 1080 Chestnut #1A 2BD/2BA $3,000,000 Below 55 to passes. AB 71, called In San Francis- looking at a decline 10 Southard Place #1 3BD/2.5BA $3,595,000 Above 5 the Bring California co, rental rates have in inventory rather 955 Green Street #3 3BD/4.5BA $6,600,000 Below 0 Home Act and authored reportedly started to than a rise is really a by Assemblyman David decline slightly from head-scratcher.” Sea Cliff (no sales) Chiu of San Francis- their recent peaks, but —Ralph McLaughlin, co, would immediately they still are near his- chief economist at Trulia, Telegraph Hill 1821 Grant Avenue #201 2BD/2BA $1,275,000 Below 21 withdraw that tax credit toric highs. Meanwhile, quoted in Siliconbeat and use the revenue — the continued high cost The data presented in this report is based on the San Francisco Multiple Listing Service and is an estimated $220–$300 of purchasing and the Real estate news tips? E-mail: accurate to the best of our knowledge, but cannot be guaranteed as such. For additional information, million — to help fund low available inventory [email protected] contact Hill & Co., 1880 Lombard Street (at Buchanan), 415-321-4362, hill-co.com.

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However, in an SET GOALS AND ities or more involved day VACUUM SYSTEM urban environment like GUIDELINES trips. • 5 year warranty San Francisco, that is not Once you have the sum- We usually all sit down • 37 foot cleaning radius always possible, so we end mer mapped out, you can with a big piece of poster • up scheduling summer for start to think together as board and take turns add- Large capacity bags our kids. a family about some of the ing items to the list. No • Hepa S class filtration for allergy relief Summer camp registra- goals and guidelines you one can veto the idea or tions are already in full want to set. In our house, say they don’t want to do swing, and from the looks the goals usually revolve it. The list comes in very 2701 Lombard Street @ Baker • (415) 921-3776 at the weekly cost of camp around setting a certain handy on those days when Open: Monday-Saturday 9am-5:30pm • philselectric.com these days, it is also big amount of time (depend- you don’t have anything business. If both parents ing on each child’s age) planned and are searching work, or the thought of every day for reading and for ideas, which is when having your kids we turn to the Why do you do things you home every day list. The key is to for three months Having it mapped out can be flexible and later regret? scares you, then not feel like you planning is nec- help make the summer must get to every Find out essary. Having it item on the list. It BUY AND READ all mapped out break run smoothly so is meant to ease can help make stress, not cre- the summer break you don't end up counting ate more of it by run smoothly so the days until your kids running around you don’t end up crazy trying to DIANETICSThe Modern Science of Mental Health counting the days go back to school. get everything until your kids go checked off. The back to school. Here are math. It is never too early best part is we save our by L. Ron Hubbard my three tips for planning to stress the importance lists from year to year. It is a successful summer for of keeping up on those fun to go back and see our PRICE $25.00 the whole family: reading and math skills to must dos from last sum- 7017o1 Montgomery Street Street avoid the summer brain mer and to maybe even SanSan Francisco, Francisco, CA CA 94111 94111 PLAN IT OUT drain. add to this year’s list some 11(800) (800) 801-3944 801-3944 www.dianetics.org To keep track of every- The guidelines in our of the things we didn’t get www.dianetics.org thing, especially if you house usually revolve to last year. ©2017. All Rights Reserved. Dianetics and Hubbard are trademarks and service marks owned by Religious Technology ©CCSF. ©2017All Rights CCSF. Reserved. All Rights Dianetics Reserved. and Hubbard Dianetics are and trademarks Hubbard and are service trademarks marks ownedand service by Religious marks Technology owned by Center have multiple children, around chores and screen Center and are used with its permission. Religious Technologyand are Centerused with and its are permission. used with its permission. I suggest printing out a time — two areas that can No matter how your paper calendar for June, be a constant battle — and family chooses to plan its July, and August. Right not just during the sum- summer, my best advice away, you can fill in the mer months. I have found is, in all that planning, weeks you know you may that one of the best ways don’t forget to schedule be traveling and any camps to “enforce” these goals some free time. With a you have already signed and guidelines is to sit busy summer of camps, the kids up for. Call me down together as a family trips, and activities it is old school, but there is still and come up with them key for our kids to have something helpful about together. This way it is down time — and maybe having everything laid out much easier to get the kids even time to explore what on paper in front of me. on board if they feel they it means to be bored. We A paper calendar will give have had some “buy-in” in may not live in the sub- you an idea of where you the process. urbs and our kids can’t stay need to fill in the blanks, outside until dark, but we so you can start planning CREATE A BUCKET LIST can still give them time to how you will do that. It This is one of our favor- explore and come up with may mean registering for ite presummer things to their own fun. another camp, finding do. Once the days start extra childcare, or seeing if getting longer and the Liz Farrell is the mother of the kids can make a trip to patience for homework three young children. For- see Grandma and Grand- starts getting shorter, then merly, she was a news pro- pa. It is also helpful to map I know it is time to sit ducer in Washington, D.C. it out to ensure you haven’t down and make our buck- and in San Francisco. E-mail: registered for camps that et list. The list can include [email protected]

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As part of our evening’s stroll from the Golden Gate Theater to the War Memorial Opera House, we envelop ourselves in the zest and verve of classic BROADWAY show tunes and the elegance and drama of operatic arias and ensemble pieces. From lively to lush and languid, our three singers — soprano Erin McOmber, mezzo-soprano Susanna Ketron and baritone Eugene Brancoveanu — offer a musical tribute to glorious Spring and lift into April’s evening air a most delightful offering of melodic pieces from Phantom, Don Giovanni, My Fair Lady, Carmen, Oklahoma!, Les Miserables, Barber of Seville, Kickie, at age 85, with Skylar; Kickie at 20 in 1950. Rusalka and more. Pianist James Welch accompanies. My dear old friend BY SUSAN DYER REYNOLDS out Kickie. She was more than my step- mother; she was my friend — my dearest How the birds sang in the morning, friend. Over the years we laughed and how the dog barked in the yard, fought and cried together; I taught her to I guess that’s nothing much, love Warriors basketball and pit bulls and but everything to us, she taught me to love southern classics and that’s what seems so hard like grits and skillet-fried chicken. She yelled at me for not keeping the house How will we smile ever again? and the garden perfectly the way she did. I’m asking you sincerely, my dear old friend I reminded her that I had to take care of The moon on the hill says we probably will her on top of working. “You don’t work,” Thursday and Friday, My dear old friend she would say, “You go to restaurants and April 20 & 21, 2017 7:30pm write about them and you write about at the historic Main Post Chapel — “My Dear Old Friend,” by Patty Griffin Jazzy and Skylar…” I would throw my 130 Fisher Loop, Presidio of San Francisco arms in the air and roll my eyes. “That $20/adult, $15/ seniors, $5/children Limited seating. I always took Kickie out for lunch and is work — that’s what I do!” For all the Reservations recommended. shopping when I visited her in San Jose. fights we had about writing not being a Call (415) 447-6274 She would greet me at the door dressed real job, I would hear her on the phone to the nines, her accessories color coor- with her best friend Betty telling her how dinated with her outfit, right down to talented I was. “Suzie is a beautiful writ- her shoes. “How do I look?” she would er,” she would say. “I just wish she could ask coyly as she did a little catwalk twirl. clean the toilet half as well.” City and County of San Francisco “Beautiful,” I would say, “just like always.” Kickie told the doctor she wanted to Outreach Advertising The routine stretched back more than come home, and Kaiser arranged for April 2017 20 years to when my father was still here hospice. She was still lucid, though com- The Airport Commission has commenced the following Request for Proposals (RFP) / Request and the three of us (or the four of us if I plaining about not being able to breath. for Bids (RFB) process: had a boyfriend at the time) would head “That’s anxiety,” the hospice nurse told International Terminal Boarding Areas A and G Newsstand and Specialty Retail Concession Leases. over the hill to Santa Cruz, where Kickie her as she adjusted the oxygen tank. The RFP includes 3 Newsstand and 2 Specialty Retail Leases. and I would shop while the boys had “You’re getting plenty of air. Try to relax.” The proposed minimum annual financial offers range from $210,000.00 to $1,200,000.00. beers at the Catalyst. Later we would lis- They set up the hospital bed in the living Rent shall be the higher of the Minimum Annual Guarantee (“MAG”) or the sum of the ten to a local band called Wally’s Swing room facing the windows so Kickie could percentage rent structured as follows: 12% of Gross Revenues achieved up to and including $500,000.00; plus 14% of Gross Revenues achieved from $500,000.01 up to World while Kickie and my dad hit the look out at the hills she loved so much. and including $1,000,000.00; plus16% of Gross Revenues achieved over $1,000,000.00. dance floor. I have fond memories of The nurse increased the anxiety and pain The proposed terms are all seven years. those excursions, but in recent months medications until she finally fell asleep. International Terminal Duty Free and Luxury Stores when I asked about lunch, Kickie always The next morning Steve took Skylar and The RFP is for 10 Duty Free and Luxury Stores locations in the International Terminal, and one location in Terminal 1. The concepts sought are duty free core category shops said no: “I’m just too tired, honey.” At Blue for a walk and I sat for a long time and high-end luxury boutiques. The proposed MAG is $42,000,000.00, and the Minimum 86, it wasn’t surprising she was slowing holding Kickie’s hand. I told her all the Acceptable Percentage Rent Offer is Thirty Percent (30%) of Gross Revenues. The down, but Kickie’s looks and sense of time how much I loved her, but I told her proposed term is fourteen years. style had been her identity for more again anyway. When the nurse arrived, International Terminal “A” Food Hall and Café Concession Lease than eight decades, and as those things The MAG for the first year of the lease would be $495,000.00. The base rent would be the she asked Steve and me to step into the higher of the MAG or the sum of the percentage rent structured as follows: 6% of Gross faded, so did her lust for life. Even her other room. “It won’t be long,” she said. Revenues achieved up to and including $2,500,000.00; plus 8% of Gross Revenues usually hearty appetite had disappeared. A few hours later, Kickie passed away in achieved from $2,500,000.01 up to and including $3,000,000.00; plus 10% of Gross Revenues achieved over $3,000,000.00. The proposed term is ten years with two one- “Suzie, I’m ready to go,” she would tell her sleep. year options. me sometimes when she was feeling The next morning Skylar woke up, International Terminal “A” Historic Restaurant Concession Lease particularly down. grabbed one of her toys, and headed for The MAG for the first year of the lease would be $330,000.00. The base rent would be the One chilly night in late January she the closed door of Kickie’s room as she higher of the MAG or the sum of the percentage rent structured as follows: 8% of Gross Revenues achieved up to and including $1,000,000.00; plus 10% of Gross Revenues called me into her room. “I don’t feel always did. “Grammy’s not there,” I told achieved from $1,000,000.01 up to and including $1,500,000.00; plus 12% of Gross well,” she said, clutching her stomach. her, and opened the door so she could Revenues achieved over $1,500,000.00. The proposed term is ten years with two one- Knowing Kickie’s penchant for drama, I see for herself. After sniffing the pillows, year options. asked if she wanted me to call an ambu- Sky headed to the living room and stood International Terminal “A” Coffee Kiosk Concession Lease The MAG for the first year of the lease would be $165,000.00. The base rent would be the lance. Normally, she would say no and in the exact spot where the hospital bed higher of the MAG or the sum of the percentage rent structured as follows: 6% of Gross half an hour later she would be fine, but had been. She turned in a circle and, still Revenues achieved up to and including $1,000,000.00; plus 8% of Gross Revenues this time she said nodded yes. At Kaiser holding her toy, looked up toward the achieved from $1,000,000.01 up to and including $1,500,000.00; plus 10% of Gross Revenues achieved over $1,500,000.00. The proposed term is seven years with two one- Hospital, the emergency room doctor ceiling. “Yes, that’s where Grammy is,” year options. said her liver function was low and he I told her. “Grammy is up in Heaven.” Please visit our website at www.flysfo.com/business-at-sfo/current-opportunities wanted to keep her overnight, which After that, Skylar never looked for Kick- The Board of Supervisors are accepting applications for a vacancy on the Police Commission. stretched into days. The nurses said the ie in the house again. The bond they Interested applicants may apply at http://www.sfbos.org/vacancy_application or from the Rules only thing she talked about was my pit shared was unlike any I’ve seen between Committee Clerk, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244, San Francisco, CA 94102-4689 or call bull, Skylar Grey, and they allowed me a dog and a human — a truly special 415-554-5184. to bring her for a visit. It was good for love — so I don’t believe for a minute Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development them both because Skylar was confused that Sky doesn’t miss Kickie. But I do Notice of Public Hearing and Availability of Draft 2017-2018 Action Plan, Including Preliminary and lost at home without her “Grammy,” believe that dogs know more than we Funding Recommendations sniffing at her pillows and sleeping snug- do about human souls, and the way the The Draft 2017-2018 Action Plan, which includes preliminary funding recommendations for gled in her blankets on the couch. spirits of those we love live on forever in the CDBG, ESG, HOME and HOPWA programs, will be available for public review and comment from March 23, 2017 through April 21, 2017. A public hearing to receive comments on the Draft A few days later the doctor told me that all of us. 2017-2018 Action Plan is scheduled for Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 5:00 PM at 1 South Van Ness Kickie wasn’t going to get better. 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