Let Street Festival Season Begin Ing the Results of Extensive Research He and His Partners Have Done on Everything from Demographics to Com- by Lynette Majer Hood

15 Real Estate 34 Style 22 Calendar Wild Wild Web: Style: Designer June Events: In between hit- Four signs of dot- Showcase wows 24 ting the streets for the city’s many com bomb 2.0 13 Pet Pages great fairs and festivals, take the time to see Michael Douglas, Food & Wine Political Animal: Hillary Clinton, the pope’s astron- In the Spirit: Meet SFPD kills three dogs omer, David Boies and Ted Olson, Clair Sprouse 15 in three months 34 and much more this month. 22

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t a cafe in Mill Valley, Jordan Angle opens a large binder containing a business plan for Tryst, the high-end restaurant and lounge Athat he and his partners want to open at 493 Broadway Street in North Beach. The building is owned by Angle’s The Union Street Festival will once again attract thousands for food, music, and shopping photo: Steven Restivo Event Services, LLC 88-year-old grandmother, Alyce Craft, and has been in the family for 150 years. Angle points to a menu of tasty dining options such as eggs Benedict with crab and bacon, as well as to numerous pie charts display- Let street festival season begin ing the results of extensive research he and his partners have done on everything from demographics to com- by lynette majer hood. You’ll find arts, crafts, food, from Gough Street to Steiner petition. “They don’t care about any of this,” he says. and music at all of the festivals, as well Street. What’s new is that each of “They tell me that I don’t know what I’m doing and he traditional beginning as free admission, but occasionally the six blocks will be themed a they don’t trust me.” of summer in most parts of one will incorporate new features or unique “world”: Fashion World, The “they” Jordan is referring to is the incestuous the country is Memorial Day, themes, as the Union Street Festival Culinary World, Tech World, Local neighborhood groups of North Beach — the Telegraph Tbut in San Francisco, it’s also our has done in its 38th iteration. World, Craft World, and Health Hill Dwellers (THD), North Beach Business Association unique street festivals. We may see Gearing up a week later this year, and Fitness World. This feature is (NBBA), Southern Telegraph Hill Neighborhood many of the same vendors at each on Saturday and Sunday, June 7–8 attributed to Regan Caponi, owner Association (SoTel), and Broadway Community Benefit festival, but each has its own per- from 10 a.m.–6 p.m., the Union of the Comet Club on Fillmore District (BCBD) — and their allies, Kathleen Dooley of sonality depending on the neighbor- Street Festival again will stretch street festivals, continued on 6 vacancy, continued on 4 The shape-shifting city Back Story The evolving face of San Francisco brings home one message: It’s always changing by john zipperer egories are not expected to change significantly during that time. This is the second of a four-part series And yes, there’s a good chance they’ll still exploring the growth of San Francisco. vote Democratic. As San Franciscans watch their bustling f you are one of San Francisco’s city grow, as they argue about what should 837,000 residents these days, you are be done to deter or prepare for more probably white or Asian, earning about people, they are also expressing interest in I$46,000 (or $72,000 for your entire house- how the newcomers will change the world- hold), and identify as (or at least vote for) famous face of the city. They are not the a Democrat. In 1970, you would have been first generation to notice the change. white or African-American (Asians back District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell has a then were only about a third of the popula- lifelong perspective on the changing face of Vintage Finnochio’s night club promotional postcard featuring female impersonators tion segment they are today) — and already San Francisco in general and in particular probably voting Democratic. where he grew up, the Marina. But when he It is harder to accurately predict the returned to the neighborhood in the 1990s future than it is to sift through data from after being away, he found a different vibe Finnochio’s: What a drag the past, but there are some forecasts being on Chestnut Street. made about the Bay Area as a whole in the “I remember coming back my first sum- by ernest beyl that in the 1960s — my more favorable comment next few decades. For example, a report mer in college, taking a ride down Chestnut Broadway’s golden years than any other I have writ- from One Bay Area (onebayarea.org) pre- Street, and wondering what had happened ecently I wrote — the street had a pal- ten for the Marina Times. I dicts that white residents of the Bay Area to the neighborhood I had grown up in,” a column called pable, almost nonchalant described the restaurants, will decrease from 45 percent in 2010 to he recalled. “A lot of the storefronts were “Broadway Kaleido- ambience and was an the jazz clubs, and the plac- less than one-third in 2040. In that same the same, but the people were a lot younger Rscope,” the Back Story exciting kaleidoscope of es I just hung out. Those time, Latinos will increase from 23 to 35 and wearing college sweatshirts, compared about what I called the pleasures some might clas- who wrote me about the percent, and Asians will increase slightly to my memories of growing up, being one Golden Years of Broadway sify as naughty, but nice. column recalled their own from 21 to 24 percent. Other racial cat- SHAPE-SHIFTING city, continued on 6 in North Beach. 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News Calendar Political moves June events News Briefs reports on the cross-country Film festivals highlighing black artists mayoral struggle for George Lucas’ muse- and LGBT filmmakers are on tap this um, Union Street worry about AT&T towers, month, along with the 10th Annual Pinot Vietnam veterans remembered, Coit Tower Days Grand Festival, a Father’s Day Beer reopens, Laura’s Law introduced, and more. 3 Brunch Cruise, the Gay Pride parade and ancillary festivities, and much more to Community kick off your summer. 22 Crime and homelessness Living Supervisor Mark Farrell lays out his aims for tackling the city’s hardcore problems with Edgy and traditional at once homelessness, plus the Police Blotter. 8 Maryann LoRusso visits the Decorator Showcase in Presidio Heights and discov- Street Beat ers the designers in their “blue” phase. 24 Northside potpourri At Home The Northsider welcomes Nike and Shipbird and the forthcoming Equinox, Taking care of hearth and home and Ernest Beyl gives the insight into Julie Mitchell looks at high-intensity PHOTOS: MISHA BRUK Mama’s, Poet’s Plaza, and more. 10 workouts, Liz Farrell says family travel can be fun and not drive you crazy, and Business & Finance Julia Strzesieski extolls bee benefits. 26 The old new economy Real Estate Osso Steakhouse John Zipperer says high-tech job inter- Renting, buying and selling views aren’t the place to be hip, and Susan Carole Isaacs looks at the newly mint- Dyer Reynolds shares four signs that we’re f you haven’t The stylish Art Empire Steak Building ed micro neighborhoods, John Zipperer headed for another dot-com bomb. 12 been to Osso Deco-inspired design Cut. It’s the juiciest, shows what renters are up against, Steakhouse yet, provides an elegant most perfectly mar- Stephanie Saunders Ahlberg talks house Food & Wine pricing, and the Roundup has the Imake a reserva- yet relaxed ambiance. bled beef that has ever What’s for dinner? market news. 29 tion today! There The New York Steak been set before you. The Tablehopper uncovers a lot of new is so much to love is dry-aged 4-6 weeks “It’s osso good!” hotspots, Garrick Ramirez showcases bar Pet Pages manager Clair Sprouse at The Square, about the place — for a flavor that is Ernest Beyl says you can get well fed at a Animals in your life great atmosphere, nothing short of a rev- Valet Parking museum, and Julie Mitchell investigates Susan Dyer Reynolds wonders if the SFPD the new Stones Throw. 14 is trigger happy after they kill three dogs great food, great elation. For the truly in three months, John Zipperer on one wine, great cocktails hearty, try the three- 1177 California at Jones Arts & Entertainment pushy cat’s eternal mealtime, Marcy Schaaf — you’ll be happy inch-thick Bone-in 415.771.6776 discusses her SaveABunny rescue group, City in motion and Skylar Grey loves her Uncle Steve you did. New York New York www.ossosteakhouse.com Sharon Anderson rediscovers vinyl; Michael very much. 34 Snyder discovers two good films; M. D. Caprario looks at a new book on Pan Am; Sandy Fertman Ryan finds even more festi- ONLINE SPECIALS vals; plus the Marina’s bestsellers. 18 on www.marinatimes.com

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News Briefs History is never in the past

THE MAYOR caring for wounded sol- ed to us. AT&T Wireless STRIKES BACK diers (more than 300,000 has disregarded our design Reacting to reports that American troops were guidelines and the need Chicago was aggressively injured in Vietnam) as to preserved the historic wooing filmmaker George well as attempts to help nature of the buildings Lucas to be the site for his refugees and orphans as on Union Street. There Tired of coming new $700-million muse- the South Vietnamese are multiple other sites on um, San Francisco Mayor government collapsed. other streets which would Ed Lee stepped up work as well, but they up short with his game in early insist on placing these May. Noting that the cell tower monstrosi- Presidio Trust has ties on Union Street.” the big banks? offered a site for the Despite AT&T museum, the mayor changing its initial said, “I strongly agree plans, the associa- with the many education says the second tors, business leaders, option was no bet- parents, and families ter. “First it was 1700 who have expressed Union, a beautiful their concern to me Edwardian build- that we must not ing at the corner of squander this once- Gough. When that in-a-lifetime oppor- was voted down tunity for our city by the Planning and region. To that Commission, AT&T end ... I have directed Wireless withdrew my staff and relevant that request and then You can once more ascend Coit city departments to Tower to enjoy its views and his- moved their request develop a shortlist of toric murals photo: flickerd! / flicker to 1800 Union, at the additional potential corner of Octavia, sites, public and private, LAURA’S LAW GETS one block away and that we may present to Mr. SAN FRANCISCO INTRO once again on a beauti- Lucas ... for consideration Supervisor Mark Farrell ful Edwardian multilevel as opportunities for part- is promoting an initiative structure,” the statement nership to build and endow for the November 2014 elec- continued. “The pro- the Lucas Cultural Arts tion to implement Laura’s posal of the mammoth Museum in San Francisco.” Law in San Francisco; structure they would put In late May, a task if he is able to pass the on this building would force set up by Chicago measure in the Board of detract from the archi- Mayor Rahm Emanuel Supervisors before August, tectural design and sig- recommended a site for Farrell will withdraw the nificance of the building the museum in that city’s voter initiative. and ultimately detract “museum campus” along Laura’s Law is a state law from the entire neighbor- Discover how First National Bank the downtown lakefront. that allows court-ordered hood. Given the size and Lee made clear that he’s mental health treatment shape of their proposed not willing to give up. for people with seri- monstrosity, it is unrea- of Northern California can help “George Lucas is a citi- ous mental illness and a sonable to put it in the zen of the San Francisco recent history of danger to 1700 or 1800 block of your business grow. Bay Area. His movies and themselves or others. It is Union Street.” his impact on our popular named for Laura Wilcox, culture have been inspired a 19-year-old college stu- COIT BACK ONLINE At FNB Norcal, we value people more than paper, by this region, his home,” dent who was murdered Locals and visitors who and names more than numbers. So if you’re tired of Lee said in a statement. in 2001 by a man who had had to wait six months “I wholeheartedly believe fought his family’s efforts for restoration and struc- the inflexibility and impersonality of the big banks, that this tremendous to force treatment for tural work to be com- discover the advantage of working with a relationship- investment in the arts and his mental illness. pleted on Telegraph Hill’s education belong in only “Laura’s Law will pro- Coit Tower were reward- first bank. And take your business to new heights. one place, and that is here vide appropriate treated in mid-May with the in San Francisco.” ment services for our most reopening of the iconic vulnerable, reduce hospi- monument. Paint was Aim Higher PRESIDIO’S VIETNAM talization and incarcera- touched up, asbestos and CONNECTION tion rates, and improve lead were removed, a gift Visit our Marina Branch and talk to Branch Manager Fifty years ago, U.S. public safety for our resi- shop added, and more Reina Ceja or visit www.fnbnorcal.com to learn President Lyndon John- dents,” said Farrell. was done in a $1.6 mil- son began escalating “The proof is what we lion refurbishment. and grow more. American involvement in see on the streets every day Coit Tower holds a spe- Vietnam, an involvement in our city with too many cial place of affinity with that wouldn’t end until people dealing with seri- San Francisco firefighters. President Gerald Ford’s ous mental health issues Its namesake, socialite time in office more than like schizophrenia, often Lillie Hitchcock Coit, was a decade later. When orga- self-medicating with drugs obsessed with firefight- nizers planned the 146th and alcohol,” said Mayor ing, especially in the days Memorial Day Ceremony Ed Lee. before San Francisco had in the Presidio this past a professional fire depart- May 26, they made a AT&T CELL TOWERS ment. After her death in point of recognizing the DRAW IRE ON UNION 1929, she left a bequest Presidio’s role in that war. Plans by AT&T to site consisting of one-third of “We are dedicating this cell towers on Union Street her estate to the city to ceremony to our Vietnam are meeting stiff opposi- add “to the beauty of the veterans and giving them tion from locals. In a state- city which I have always a long-overdue ‘welcome ment, the Union Street loved.” Coit Tower, built home and thank you,’” cer- Association laid out its in 1933, was the result. emony coordinator Wally objections. “For the last Visitors can once again Your neighborhood bank. Levin said beforehand. 40-plus years, the Union see murals painted by 27 2197 Chestnut Street Many of the 536,000 Street Association has artists, many of whom U.S. troops that were sent worked hard to preserve focused on issues of racial San Francisco, CA 94123 to Vietnam came through the unique character of equality and painted in 415-287-8800 the Presidio. The base our neighborhood and the the then-trendy style of also played a key role in buildings we have entrust- Socialist realism. www.Marinatimes.com THE MARINA TIMES June 2014 3 Editorial

Vacancy Broadway Corridor’s dirty little secret. Get your crab on! continued from page 1 Donations and contributions benefit- ing key players have been known to the Small Business Commission, former make the difference between busi- Board of Supervisors president Aaron nesses that get what they want — and Peskin, and current Board of Supervisors those that don’t. “I guess that’s how you president David Chiu. play the game,” Angle says. “It truly “Peskin just joined the NBBA, where is a cartel.” his friend Kathleen Dooley is now the Angle isn’t the only business owner in president; Kathleen was appointed to the North Beach to come up against Chiu Small Business Commission by David and his cronies — they kept the Pagoda Chiu, and she is also former president Theater dark for years, forced the clo- of THD,” Angle explains. “Aaron Peskin’s sure of the Piazza Market, and are now wife, Nancy Shanahan, is on the board flexing their muscle with the fam- of THD and she’s close friends with ily that owns Mama’s on Washington Stephanie Greenburg, who is president Square, who want to take over the long-vacant Piazza space; they’ve also managed to “I guess that’s how you play the keep another watering hole, the Crowbar, empty game. It truly is a cartel.” for a decade despite the fact that it’s had a number —Jordan Angle of serious suitors. And why are these neigh- of both SoTel and the BCBD. The vice borhood and business “advocates” such he Franciscan Crab seafood Cioppino, perfect for president of the BCBD is Joe Carouba, vacancy preservationists? “They want who owns all of the strip clubs in North everything to stay the same,” Angle Restaurant is the any San Francisco day by the Beach, and David Chiu helped to create says. “They wanted the Pagoda to stay the BCBD …” a theater, even though it closed and best place to “get your Bay. And if you can find room, If this tangled web sounds familiar, the owner had people ready to turn Tcrab on!” It’s all about the crab try a decadent dessert made that’s because I wrote a story for the it into condos and a restaurant; they March issue of the Marina Times about insisted the new owner of the Piazza and no matter how you like it, with their house made frozen Chiu and his cohorts trying to enact a Market keep selling groceries like the liquor moratorium in North Beach. That previous owner, even though they went you will find it there. Start with custard ice cream. plan has been put on hold, likely because out of business and he was opening a crab chowder, followed by crab Perched on the edge of the battle with fellow supervisor David restaurant. He tried to accommodate Campos to represent California District them, but the concept of a cafe sell- Caesar salad, move on to a crab Fisherman’s Wharf, you can 17 in the State Assembly is contentious, ing groceries didn’t work and he went enchilada, grab a ban- and Chiu doesn’t need any more contro- under, too; now they want Mama’s to versy before the June 3 primary election. sell groceries there.” crab Alfredo quette and That’s also why, I assume, Chiu stomped Adding to the frustration for Angle Grab a banquette all over the First Amendment after my and other Broadway corridor property or the big look out the article appeared. owners is the BCBD assessment. “They boy—two plus and look out the twenty foot “I’ve been trying to negotiate with charge building owners thousands of David Chiu for two years,” Angle says, dollars per year, and then they oppose pounds of twenty foot windows windows at “and he’d pretty much cut me off — until new projects that don’t fit with their your article came out. That’s when I got political agendas,” says Angle. “So we are whole roasted at the beautiful bay. the beautiful a call asking my attorney and me to come basically paying them to keep our build- Dungeness bay, watch the to his office. The first thing Chiu said ings empty.” was. ‘I’ll only negotiate with you if you That frustration came to a head when crab. But there is more than boats come and go and gaze at stop talking to the press.’ I told him that Angle sent an e-mail to his fellow was the only reason he was talking to building owners stating that he wanted just crab on the menu for those the beauty of the city that we all me now. He said, ‘If you talk to the press to work together to disband the BCBD. who may desire an alternative— treasure. again my door will shut.’ I told him that Almost immediately, Angle got a call I would agree only if he would negotiate from Chiu’s office requesting a 9 a.m. artisanal salumi and burrata, a Visit the Franciscan for a great with me in good faith.” meeting at his office. “When my attor- slow-roasted boneless short rib dining experience. You won’t As I mentioned last month in a story ney and I arrived, Chiu’s face was bright about Chiu’s attempts to regulate resi- red and he was really angry. He was and filet mignon, among many be sorry. dential building owners with his Airbnb yelling about how helping to create the legislation, I don’t understand why the BCBD was five years of his work, and other possibilities. president of the Board of Supervisors then he said, ‘I’ll only continue nego- Don’t miss their other sea- Pier 43 ½, 415.362.7733 has taken on the role of San Francisco tiating with you if you send another property manager. Even more disturb- e-mail saying you don’t support dis- food options like garlic- franciscancrabrestaurant.com ing is the politics he plays, particularly banding the BCBD.’ Somehow he got with regard to his proposed steamed clams and hearty Open daily at 11:30 am liquor license moratorium. “The Tosca Group is opening a bar in the Back room deals are the old Lusty Lady, which is Broadway Corridor’s dirty owned by Joe Carouba. They’re getting a brand- little secret. new type 48 liquor license, where they never had one before. The his hands on my e-mail. I couldn’t Future Bars group is opening another believe it.” After contacting the other bar where [Jazz at] Pearl’s was and business owners by phone to explain they’re getting a new 48 license, too, why he was doing it, Angle reluctantly even though Pearl’s only had a 47, sent out the email Chiu wanted, mak- which is for restaurants,” Angle says. ing sure to copy Chiu, Chiu’s aides, and “These places are right by my grand- Greenburg, but negotiations regarding mother’s building, which has always Tryst remain stalled. been a bar and has always had a 48 If Chiu did all of this to generate sup- license, but Chiu won’t give us a 48 port among the leaders of the North now. Chiu also wants our conditional Beach cartel for his upcoming election, use permit to state that we can never it hasn’t worked. “This all goes back have entertainment, even though we’re to Nancy; she’s the key to all of it,” located in an entertainment district.” Angle says. “But now she and Aaron Both of those other projects are have turned on Chiu and are support- moving forward without a conditional ing Campos for State Assembly. I guess I use permit hearing before the plan- would just ask voters one thing: If David ning commission, because zoning Chiu lied to me in San Francisco, will he administrator Scott Sanchez says they lie to them in Sacramento?” ADVERTISEMENT. received no complaints to trigger such a hearing. Back room deals are the E-mail: [email protected]

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The more traditional festival offerings between Grant and Columbus; and Grant include over 100 boutique artists from Avenue between Columbus and Filbert) across the country offering their specialty for a true North Beach experience. arts, crafts, and products. Between the The fair features traditional Italian street dozens of food vendors dishing out your painting with chalk, and you can also buy favorite street-fair specialties from corn space for your future Rembrandts to cre- dogs to souvlaki to teriyaki, and the many ate their own masterpieces at the kids’ cafes and bistros along Union Street offer- chalk area on Vallejo Street (between ing a more refined dining experience, Grant and Columbus). There will be live there’s no reason to leave hungry. Live music on two stages (visit sresproduc music will also return; visit unionstreet tions.com for the entertainment line-up), festival.com for the schedule. and you can enjoy your beer and wine Local chefs from Café Claude Marina, in the beverage gardens. And of course Dosa, and more will demonstrate their you’ll want to bring your pets for the ever- signature dishes each day at Culinary popular traditional animal blessing at the World (Fillmore Street). A fashion show Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi (610 Vallejo both days (1–2 p.m. and 3–4 p.m., Gough Street) each day from 2–3 p.m., perhaps to Street) will feature the latest styles from help absolve your furry friend of all past Union Street’s finest and trendiest bou- and future transgressions. tiques, many of which will be open, so And, again, don’t forget to visit the don’t forget to stop in and visit after local merchants who make up this vibrant the show. You won’t want to miss the and colorful North Beach neighborhood. entertainment between each set, which Some of the artists in the many galleries The Union Street Festival comes round and round again in 2014 includes a pet fashion show. on Grant Street will have booths out- photo: Steven Restivo Event Services, LLC As with past years, the Union Street side — don’t miss the eclectic collection Festival proceeds help support the Union of photographs by Craig Fonarow and Street Festivals and olive oils. Each of the three pavilions Street Association and its efforts to beau- altered books and drawings by Elizabeth continued from page 1 will incorporate the décor of the world tify, promote, and preserve Union Street. Ashcroft, who are also part of a group block on which they are located. Before Now in its 60th year and considered show at Live Worms Gallery (1345 Street and member of the Union Street you get too excited, you’ve got to pay to the country’s original street fair, the Grant Avenue). Association, who was inspired by the play at $30 advance and $35 onsite for a North Beach Festival follows the next Proceeds from the fair benefit the different “lands” at last year’s Outside ticket of 10 tastings of one-ounce pours weekend, June 14–15, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. North Beach Business Association, which Lands music festival. from over 12 wineries like Rosenblum, More than 150 booths will feature fine funds many neighborhood projects Also new this year after a three-year Howell Mountain, and Pope or two- arts, crafts, gifts, and of course, food from hanging flower baskets to holiday hiatus is the return of wine and beer in ounce pours of craft beer. The pavilions and drink, spanning several streets lighting to sidewalk steam cleaning, as the form of “tasting pavilions,” to include are open from noon–5 p.m. each day with (Columbus Avenue between Broadway well as providing financial support for food pairings of gourmet cheeses, nuts, the last pour at 4:30 p.m. and Green; Vallejo and Green Streets neighborhood organizations.

Shape-Shifting City social and political development The Commonwealth Club in continued from page 1 — who feel they are being pushed February, Perkins pivoted from out of this city. that controversy to other issues of but a few children I knew of in Almost everybody agrees that of growth, economics, and dis- the Marina, [where I saw] a much this is a significant moment in location in San Francisco, saying older generation. From my expe- the city’s evolution; though people the city is becoming a bedroom rience, the demographics there don’t all agree on whether the community for the Valley. “The really changed. changes are good or bad or a people in Silicon Valley are living “I think from that time the muddle, there are some incon- in San Francisco more and more. Marina has maintained a group- trovertible facts. The changes will This is a trend that will continue,” ing of very young individuals that keep coming. he said. “And why not? It’s a great continued to stay in the Marina Supervisor Scott Wiener, who city — has wonderful restaurants, and move in and raise children,” represents District 8 (stretch- great culture, a beautiful bay, and said Farrell. “You’re starting to ing from Corona Heights to everything. But the economic see an evolution of different gen- Diamond Heights to Eureka effect of that has been to drive erations in the Marina District, Valley) moved from the East up rents about 30 percent. I don’t which I think is healthy and Coast to San Francisco in 1997; think there’s much you can do great, but it certainly is very, very currently a resident of the Castro, about that. That’s inevitable. As different from when I grew up in he has become a keen advocate Silicon Valley thrives, which it is, the Marina.” for dealing with the changes more and more people will want In late April, the political news needed to accommodate a bur- to live in San Francisco.” When San Francisco police shut down street chess games, critics website Truthout (truth-out.org) geoning population. “I live in According to U.S. Government complained that the city was cleaning up its image to appeal to the expressed the worries of many on the Castro. I’ve noticed there are census data, San Francisco’s pop- newest generation of wealthier, whiter residents photo: Yair Haklai the left that the changing popula- more people in the city,” he told ulation in 2010 was just slightly tion of San Francisco is resulting the Marina Times. “There’s more more male (50.7 percent) than young(ish), well-paid, often new Latinos moving into the Mission, in a whiter, more conservative, traffic; Muni is more crowded. female (49.3 percent); 73 percent to the Bay Area, hard working, or Chinese immigrating here, or and meaner town. Headlined I’ve also noticed — especially in of the population was aged 18 eager to build a career, and more hippies and gay people. Whoever “The Bleaching of San Francisco: [recent] years — there are a lot to 64 years, and the next largest likely to lean libertarian (socially it might be, people come here. Extreme Gentrification and more young people in the city, age cohort was 65 years and over liberal, economically conserva- It’s the best city in the world, and Suburbanized Poverty in the Bay which I find to be a good thing. It (13.6 percent). Depending on the tive) than Baby Boomers. people come here to make lives Area,” the article contrasts strug- seems like, in my district or else- source, exact figures can change One Bay Area also expects San for themselves. When new people gling minority groups in a bit. But in 2010, medi- Francisco’s population to grow come, it does mean change. the city with “the boom- an household income from 2010’s 805,235 (it’s esti- “But with all the change that’s ing tech industry, whose was $71,304 according mated to be 837,000 today) to happened in this city for 150 workers’ average sala- “People make their own to the Census, while the 1,085,641 by 2040. So further years, there are still basic core ries are over $100,000.” decisions about where they per capita income was change is on the docket. San values that haven’t changed in this The city is lambasted for $45,478. An estimat- Franciscans are an outspoken city,” Wiener continued. “In terms allegedly criminalizing live.” —Supervisor Wiener ed 11.9 percent of San and opinionated bunch, so they of respect for the individual, in the behavior of minori- Francisco’s population (or will continue to discuss, worry, terms of having innovative, cre- ties and the poor, incarcerating where, just a lot more people in 92,600 people) were categorized plan, and expect various changes ative, quirky people who make or driving them out of the city their 20s and 30s here trying to as being in poverty. Just slightly to be wrought in this old city as this city great. There are a lot of so their apartments can be filled make a life for themselves. That’s more than 50 percent of the pop- a result of its continued popula- common themes that transcend with richer, whiter people. a good and very healthy thing. ulation had an undergraduate or tion growth and national suc- all of the population changes But the worries aren’t only To be a living city, you need graduate degree from college. cess. Wiener is optimistic. we’ve seen. There’s something heard from the city’s large and young people and young families Who are the new residents? “We don’t get to decide who magical about San Francisco that vocal left wing. In late May, coming here, a fresh infusion of The booming city by the bay is moves here. As much as all of attracts a unique kind of person Newsweek ran an article titled blood into the city.” attractive to lots of people, not us would love to decide exactly to our city. I don’t think that’s “Tech Boom Forces a Ruthless Venture capitalist and San just technology industry employ- who lives in our city, people make going to change.” Gentrification in San Francisco,” Francisco resident Tom Perkins ees, but tech workers are not their own decisions [about] where Next issue: In Part 3, a more- which discussed the experienc- got himself into trouble ear- an accidental target of the anti- they live,” he said. “San Francisco crowded San Francisco deals es of people — especially Baby lier this year after an outra- gentrification crowd. They are a has always been a changing city, with housing and transporta- Boomers who came here in the geously argued defense of the tempting target because there are, where new waves of people come tion shortfalls. 1960s and 1970s and influenced rich against criticism from the in fact, a lot of them, and they here, whether it was the Irish and the last few decades of the city’s left. 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nearby parked vehicle, causing the that he hadn’t done anything wrong hood to partially cave in. The bounc- and that they should leave him alone. er detained the man and called the The female victim refused to return Crime on the beat police. The subject told the officers to the scene, but she did meet an when they arrived, “I’m really drunk officer one block away, where she s we head into the summer a Toyota Prius. The witness yelled and I fell on the car.” He was booked explained what had happened. She months, Northern Station Cap- at the subject, who fled. Officers at Northern Station. said that she and her husband were tain Greg McEachern reports that searched for the male subject, but exiting their car when the subject Acrime in this district continues to be lower instead they found two females hid- approached her, swearing and yell- than at the same time last year. “However, ing behind bushes near the Prius. THE AUTO BOOST CLUB, PART 2 ing at her for no reason. The hus- we have traditionally seen crime increase Officers noticed a set of ski goggles, a May 4, 12:45 p.m. band was holding their baby, and as the weather warms up and the days flashlight, and a set of “shaved” keys, Steiner at Geary Streets when the subject approached the become longer, so please continue to be which are commonly used by crimi- husband, yelling and pointing his vigilant about protecting yourselves and nals to unlock vehicles. Officers responded to a report of finger, the couple walked away and your property,” he warns. The female subjects told the offi- an auto burglary; they were given the called 911. Here’s how the crime rates compare, cers that they live in Daly City, don’t descriptions of the two male subjects Police ran a computer check on from April 2013 to April 2014. have a car, and were in town visiting (including that they were carrying a the subject and found an active van- a friend who lived nearby. However, yellow bag) as well as their direction dalism warrant for $10,000. He was Homicide, citywide: down 58% they could not provide an address for of flight. The officers quickly detained booked at Northern Station. Homicide, Northern District: down 50% the friend. A computer check revealed one of the subjects, recognizing him Rape, citywide: up 6% that the subjects were on probation for from numerous prior auto burglary Rape, Northern District: up 31% auto burglary. A search of them found arrests. Witnesses identified the sub- THE AUTO BOOST CLUB, PART 3 Robbery, citywide: down 25% items that are typically used to break ject as the auto burglar, and police May 12, 5:46 a.m. Robbery, Northern District: down 33% auto glass. were able to contact the car’s owner, Hemlock at Polk Auto theft, citywide: up 10% The witness said the subjects who arrived and said her yellow purse Auto theft, Northern District: up 17% weren’t the ones he spotted break- had been stolen from the car. As officers arrived to look into a Arson, citywide: down 5% ing the glass but that they “were The first subject was booked at reported auto burglary in progress, they Arson, Northern District: up 22% around it” after the breaking. The Northern Station. The second subject were discretely flagged down by a wit- subjects were handcuffed and taken was not apprehended and got away ness. He pointed out a female subject The crimes below are a small snapshot to Northern Station. The owners of with the purse. It’s yellow. who was walking away from the officers of what the officers of Northern Station the Prius were contacted. quickly. The victim said the female sub- are doing. For a more comprehensive list, ject and a male companion had stolen visit www.sf-police.org; under Compstat, ONE-SIDED SHOUTING MATCH two of his cell phones from the vehicle; there is a link to CrimeMAPS. “I FELL ON THE CAR” May 9, 5:20 p.m. the officers detained the female subject May 4, 12:55 a.m. Divisadero at Lombard Streets and found the cell phones. 2000 Block of Chestnut Street Though the witness said it was THE AUTO BOOST CLUB A husband and wife contacted the male subject who had actual- May 3, 4:52 a.m. A bouncer at a local bar watched a police to report harassment by a ly broken into the car, he was not Buchanan at Pacific Streets group of three men walk away after subject with a heavy build. Officers located. The female subject told offi- they had been escorted out of the located the person matching the cers that she was just “holding” the A witness told officers that he had bar. One of the men jumped from description and clothing given by the phones for him. She was booked at seen someone break the window of the sidewalk up onto the hood of a caller. The subject told the officers County Jail.

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8 june 2014 THE MARINA TIMES www.marinatimes.com From Our Supervisor’s Chambers Housing the city’s homeless A deeper dive on homelessness by mark farrell sitional-aged-youth, and our housing ladder concept and help The number of staff was simply as well. This is a public safety issue, LGBTQ population. turn it into a reality, I am working inadequate to meet the need. a civic pride issue, but foremost a ack in January, I wrote As a city, we spend more than on legislation that would provide Seeing a gap and an obvi- human issue. We are the City of about homelessness in $100 million combined in local, homeless individuals with a pref- ous solution, I sponsored a tar- St. Francis, and we care about San Francisco, and the state and federal dollars each year erence for city affordable housing geted investment at the Board our most vulnerable. I believe we Bhearing I held on our city’s on permanent supportive housing programs so that we can create of Supervisors to double the need to continue to be more effec- 10-year plan to abolish chronic and transitional housing; and, as more turnover in current housing SFHOT team, which would allow tive with our current resources homelessness. Since then, we we learned from these first hear- units and get more individuals and increased homeless outreach to tackle homelessness, eliminate have increased our focus on the ings, the most cost-effective strat- families off the streets. workers in every neighborhood those programs and policies that issue, with a goal of evaluating egy as a city for our across San Francisco. have proven to be ineffective, and the policies and programs that homeless is actually to Many residents do not invest in programs and policies currently exist, which of these provide housing. It may Our homeless population has realize how much our that have proven to be both cost programs are working, and most sound counterintuitive, homeless population effective and produce the best important, what other programs but various academic expanded across the city into has expanded across outcomes. or policies we can put into place and research studies the city into our neigh- There is no silver bullet to solv- to actually reduce our homeless have proven repeatedly our neighborhoods. borhoods, and I believe ing homelessness in our city or population. It is still mind-blow- that targeting hous- we need to address the in others. We know that targeting that we have more than 3,500 ing opportunities toward the most Expanding the outreach problem everywhere. ing the most chronically home- people sleeping on our streets chronically homeless helps to real- In preparation for these hear- My targeted investment also less and helping to provide hous- every night and greater attention ize cost-savings for local munici- ings, there was consensus among added more flexible housing ing opportunities will save San hasn’t been brought to the issue. palities because of the reduction city department heads, service pro- opportunities to get more individ- Francisco significant resources seen in incarceration and the uti- viders, and community advocates uals and families off the streets. It’s and will produce the best out- First set of hearings lization of emergency care infra- that the homeless outreach team an obvious statement, but one of comes. That will obviously take on homelessness structure and services. (SFHOT) was understaffed and the simplest answers to help end time, but this issue needs to be In March, I called for eight addi- Admittedly, with the current underutilized — even though the homelessness is to help provide viewed as a marathon and not a tional hearings related to homeless- housing crisis that our city’s fac- results they were producing were a home; this targeted investment sprint. As we finalize the remain- ness in San Francisco. Sounds like ing, it’s been difficult to help to stellar. Increasing engagement will help to stabilize and eventually der of these hearings, I look a lot, but we needed to continue to house the homeless because of an with our homeless population is house those who are experiencing forward to exploring more new take a deeper dive on the issue. extreme lack of supply. Our sec- the first step needed to get indi- the most serious of health issues policies and ideas to reduce our The first set of the hear- ond hearing focused on the pol- viduals and families off the streets, due to their chronic homelessness. homeless population. ings were focused on housing icy concept of the “housing lad- and it saves our city money in the The list of ideas is endless, but options, while the second set of der,” which strives to unclog the long run to do so. At any given More legislation San Francisco deserves a dedicated the hearings focused on poli- current supportive housing and time in San Francisco, there were and reforms to come focus on the issue. cies for the various subpopula- shelter options for our homeless only two to four individuals from Homelessness affects everyone tions of our overall homeless population, so that we can provide the SFHOT team on staff doing in our city, from those who are Mark Farrell is the District 2 super- population, including women, more housing opportunities and outreach to over 3,500 homeless experiencing homelessness fore- visor and can be reached at 415- families, veterans, seniors, tran- save the city money. To further the individuals sleeping on our streets. most, to our residents and visitors 554-7752 or [email protected]

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The new Nike boutique store at Union Street is combining retail with workout programming Photo: NikeInc. That which does not kill us makes us healthier

by john zipperer EQUINOX COMING JUNE 11 The front facade on the old Metro Theater NIKE UP AND RUNNING on Union Street remains, as do two giant The new 2,000-square-foot Nike retail indoor murals by artist Anthony Heinsbergen. store opened May 16 at 2071 Union Street. But if you step into the refurbished building, In addition to selling a range of men’s and you’ll find that the 90-year-old space has been women’s running, training and sportswear modernized and rebuilt in a sleek modern products, Nike Union Street is starting a look. The new owners will probably frown series of programs on June 2, including a upon you bringing in a giant box of buttered running club on Mondays at 6:30 p.m.; high- popcorn, a 20-ounce cup of soda, and a box intensity training on Wednesdays at 6:30 of Milk Duds, because on June 11, the Metro p.m.; running training club on Saturdays at reopens as the latest Equinox gym. 10:30 a.m.; Girl’s Night In Workout on the The Metro, located at 2055 Union Street, first Friday of each month at 6 p.m., and a originally opened in April 1924 (it was yoga class Sunday evenings at 7:30 p.m. known then as the Metropolitan Theater). The location is serving as a highlight In its new life, it will feature several floors for Nike’s commitment to women athletes, of workout rooms, a yoga studio, steam especially younger ones. “Nike Union room, pilates studio, a barre studio for ballet- Street will provide a premium experience inspired workouts, juice bar cafe (no Milk for female athletes through a unique blend Duds), kids playroom, and more, including of pinnacle product, premium services, a room for community meetings and events. and deep programming,” said Nike execu- Doors open at 12 noon on June 11. tive Dennis van Oossanen. That involvement includes partnering with Bay Area ANOTHER MADAME Women’s Sports Initiative (BAWSI) to DOES BUSINESS IN SF inspire girls and youth with special needs No one can accuse Madame Tussauds of to be active, drawing on local female ath- not knowing showmanship — and their audi- letes to volunteer their time to get girls ence. In anticipation of the June 26 opening active in sports and play. of the new Madame Tussauds San Francisco in Fisherman’s Wharf, Tussauds highlighted OVERHEARD AT TOAST CAFE some of the San Francisco-specific attrac- IN MILL VALLEY tions at the new location, including a Jerry Forty-something women having breakfast. Garcia figure that was unveiled with the First woman: I need to get my mom in participation of Garcia’s daughter Keelin and to my doctor for Botox. That “number 11” wife, Manasha. “They’ve been doing this between her eyes doesn’t bother her, but it since the likes of Voltaire and Benjamin bothers me! Franklin, and it’s an incredible honor to have Second woman: Have you been recently? Jerry included,” said Manasha Garcia. First woman: A few weeks ago. A team of 20 artists used more than 200 Since 1928 Second woman: Oh. Wow. Because, like, different measurements and three months your forehead doesn’t move at all. to create the Garcia wax figure, accord- First woman: Yeah, it does! My mom is ing to Tussauds. The late Grateful Dead such a baby. She’s scared. But I am more singer will be joined by other wax figures scared of that number 11 between her eyes such as Anne Hathaway, George Clooney, than having a forehead with limited mobility. Whoopi Goldberg, Audrey Hepburn, ET, Adele, Serena Williams, and many others. SHIPBIRD TAKES FLIGHT ON UNION The new Madame Tussauds San Francisco Based at 1592 Union Street, a new com- is located at 145 Jefferson Street. pany called Shipbird is marrying the ideas of crowdsourcing with good old-fashioned OVERHEARD AT PETE’S COFFEE delivery. A bit like Uber for package deliv- First young techie: [So-and-so] at eries, Shipbird takes orders for deliveries the office is getting real old-fashioned 659 Merchant Street (off Kearny) and matches them with delivery personnel and traditional. already in the area. Launched on May 1, the Second young techie: You mean he’s con- www.alfredssteakhouse.com • 415.781.7058 company says it already has more than 800 solidating power? Complimentary 3-Hour Self-Parking at the Hilton Hotel's Public Parking Garage With Dinner Purchase delivery people in the Bay Area’s nine coun- (entrace on Washington past Montgomery) ties, reaching 111 cities. Have you got tips for the Northsider? E-mail: More info at shipbird.com. [email protected]

10 june 2014 THE MARINA TIMES www.marinatimes.com Northsider Springtime openings Sketches from a North Beach Journal The benefits of paying attention in SF Mama’s, Annie Hall, and the pornographic butterflies

by ernest beyl James Melling, pal Joey De Roen, Commission’s ear clamped firmly ments. Ferlinghetti, a poetic I was sitting at the bar and was and Marco Rossi of Gino & Carlo, in its teeth. handyman with words that count, bored. The young woman began to he other day someone where some gathered for prefilm- says: “Inner cities around the coun- sing — a little Puccini, a little Verdi. said she thought I was ing spirits for the hard work ahead. PORNO BUTTERFLIES try are tardily learning that they do No one gave her a listen. I thought becoming the Herb Caen of This humble columnist was filmed As an afterthought to my recent not have to allow the automobile she deserved some attention and TNorth Beach. Good try on a com- whipping into a Dungeness crab column on North Beach art gal- and car culture to overrun them. some respect so I applauded wildly pliment, but I could never match cioppino and describing the sensa- leries, let me tell you about the Notable and successful strategies when she finished each number. Herb’s wit and wisdom. Bruce tion on camera, but he mumbled pornographic butterflies. A while have been conceived to stem the I introduced myself, and told her Bellingham could — perhaps. He’s and stumbled and may wind up back, the Telegraph Hill Gallery automotive tide that is polluting so that I probably wasn’t going to write much more of a Herb Caen clone. on the cutting-room floor, thereby (491 Greenwich Street) showed many cities around the world. We anything about the political event, And Herb himself thought he was becoming a has-been in his own the work of Vietnamese artist and hope the city of San Francisco will but I might figure out a way to write more of a Walter Winchell clone. time. The production crew said poet Truong Tran. To produce the be a leader in such a movement.” something about her. And so here, I Actually, I fancy myself more the Gigi’s episode would be on the butterfly collages he has become am doing just that. of a Marcello Mastroianni clone. tube mid-July. You might want known for, Tran tore apart hun- REAL JAZZ FOR REAL FOLKS As I sat there sipping wine and Remember Marcello in the Fellini to check with Gigi Fiorucci or dreds of pornographic magazines, Trombonist Mal Sharpe and listening to her, I was reminded movie La Dolce Vita? Mastroianni the captain of his stalwart team, turned the porno photos face down his swing and Dixieland band, of Woody Allen’s movie Annie played a gossip columnist in Rome Louise Taylor. on his art board and cut out thou- Big Money in Jazz, are playing on Hall, in which Dianne Keaton, in who leads the sweet life. He attends sands of small butterflies. Then he Sundays at Original Joe’s in North a weak but moving voice, sings a press conference for a visiting DON’T PICK ON MAMA turned them over to the porno side Beach. When I was there a few “It Had to Be You” in a night- Swedish-American movie star Word is around the neighbor- and affixed them to his paintings. weeks ago, the band played the 1931 club. You can barely hear her over played by Anita Ekberg and — well hood that Mama’s on Washington No, they are not X-rated. standard “When I Take My Sugar the din of conversation, glasses you know how that turns out. Moral Square, which has been serving to Tea,” and Sharpe sang new-and- clinking, and persistent telephone of this Herb Caen-like item: If a omelets, salads, and sandwiches POET’S PLAZA improved sudsy lyrics like this: ringing. One person listening to good-looking Swedish-American for more than 50 years at the MOVES FORWARD Annie Hall besides her boyfriend, movie star comes to town, invite corner of Filbert and Stockton, I’m happy to report that When I take my sugar to tea Woody Allen, was a Hollywood me to the press conference. is in a pickle. Mama’s rent shot Piazza Saint Francis, Lawrence We never go to Chez Panisse music producer played realisti- out of sight (another story) and Ferlinghetti’s vision for a pedestrian Its Original Joe’s for me cally by the great Paul Simon. NORTH BEACH the Sanchez family, which oper- enclave on Vallejo between Grant Simon discovers Annie and she FOOD PARADISE ates the popular restaurant, elect- and Columbus, is gathering a good A SINGER LIKE ANNIE HALL is off to Hollywood for a career. The Travel Channel’s top-rated to move the operation to the head of steam. It’s a civic project to Recently I met an attrac- I’d like to think that something ed TV show Food Paradise was Piazza Market site at Vallejo and be created by neighborhood volun- tive young woman named Chloe like that would happen to Chloe prowling around a while back and Columbus. All systems were go. teers, donations and community Hollingsworth at Colosseo Hollingsworth. But it didn’t hap- zeroed in on Gigi’s Sotto Mare on But now I’m told Mama’s has run grants. The Chinatown Community Ristorante in North Beach. She’s pen at the Colosseo event. Green Street. Some of Gigi’s regu- afoul of — are you ready to be Development Center, North Beach a singer — operatic arias, classic lars were tipped off and showed not surprised — the byzantine Merchants Association, Telegraph Renaissance folk music, and show As Muni proclaims: information up for the filming, a large and Telegraph Hill Dwellers, which Hill Dwellers, North Beach tunes. She had been signed to per- gladly given but safety requires distinguished cast that included has its own flabby but starchy rea- Citizens, and hundreds of local res- form at a private political event at avoiding unnecessary conversation. the Gentleman Trencherman soning, and has the city Planning idents have offered their endorse- the restaurant. E-mail: [email protected]

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Unless Google she won’t be hired — that’d petence and mediocrity. is hiring employees to work be just as useless a test as the The one story I’ve heard in its cafeteria, this is a poor one that HubSpot uses. recently about a smart if way to winnow candidates There are many ways unusual tactic is described who should be winnowed companies mistake their to The Wall Street Journal by based on work history, tal- own hopeless flailing with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. ents, personal interactions, creativity. Huffington Post He says the company will and things like references provided a set of odd inter- pick up the candidate at the and past accomplishments. view questions companies airport in a Zappos shuttle, Unfortunately, stories of ask, including LivingSocial “give them a tour, and then silly, games-playing, ran- inquiring “What’s your they’ll spend the rest of the dom interview tactics are favorite song? Perform it for day interviewing. At the end not difficult to find, espe- us now.” Or Bandwidth.com of the day of interviews, the cially in many of the online asking, “What kitchen uten- recruiter will circle back to and tech firms. In May, sil would you be?” which is the shuttle driver and ask Fast Company’s Rebecca an odder take on the Apple how he or she was treated. Greenfield told of another question, “What kind of It doesn’t matter how well company’s mind games. animal would you be and the day of interviews went, “When David Cancel inter- why?” Zappos asks “What if our shuttle driver wasn’t views potential candidates superhero would you be treated well, then we won’t for engineering jobs at and would you dress up at hire that person.” HubSpot, he brings a cup work given the chance?” Why is that an good of water into the interview Now, in a real world, the unusual tactic, instead of with him. At the end of the answer to most of these just relying on how well they meeting, the chief product questions, asked not at a can hawk online shoes and officer leaves the cup on the cocktail party but at a meet- luggage? Because though table and waits to see what ing in which your career and it isn’t 100 percent effec- the interviewee does with rent payment are at stake, tive (i.e., candidate might be the garbage. If the person would be “You’re crazy,” fine with the shuttle driver picks up the trash, he is “Are you 12 years old?” and only to be a beast to the “ probably a good fit for the “Seriously, you’re crazy.” flight attendant on the flight job. If he doesn’t, that sig- Such companies think home), but for those who nals he probably wouldn’t they’re getting insight into are rude to someone in a work well on the team.” the candidate’s character (presumably) lower station Cancel says the test is with silly game playing in the hierarchy than them- “pretty accurate,” because and oddball tactics, but all selves, especially on the one people who didn’t try they’re really doing is show- day you’d expect them to to remove the cup “were ing that their hiring process be on their best behavior at always the people who is random and unreliable. a company, the prospects weren’t a great cultural fit.” If they knew how to get for them not displaying that It’s a self-reinforcing view by the employees they wanted, rudeness once they’re hired the executive, who presum- they wouldn’t ask them to are very low. For a company ably doesn’t track the people estimate the color of music that prides itself on a happy he didn’t hire to find out or calculate the number of corporate culture and on if they work well elsewhere golf balls in a bus. But at high-touch customer ser- or if they ended up on Skid least for the tech titans (less vice, that’s an unusual tactic Row. In addition, there are so for the startups, most that can translate directly to all kinds of reasons a great of which will be bust in a the bottom line. 12 june 2014 ” THE MARINA TIMES www.marinatimes.com The Wild Wild Web The stockpocalypse Four signs we are headed for another dot-com bomb by susan dyer reynolds we’re headed for another Internet 16 percent on its first day of trad- stock bubble bust. ing. Chinese microblogging sensa- heir investors included tion Weibo scaled back its expected Benchmark Capital, Sequoia 1. RIDICULOUS EXECUTIVE 20 million share offering and price Capital, Softbank Capital, COMPENSATION of $19 to 16.8 million shares priced Tand Goldman Sachs. In under two LinkedIn, a social networking at $17, resulting in proceeds nearly years, the company raised nearly website for employment, has seen $400 million lower than expected. half a billion dollars with an initial better days. Since its IPO in May Back in 2011, when IPOs were fly- public offering — and spent more 2011, the stock has gone from $45 ing off the shelves, analysts and What is Silicon Valley hawking today? than a billion dollars. to an all-time high of $253 per share, financial publications lauded online Did you think I was talk- only to crash more than 30 percent coupon site Groupon as “the fastest a $475 million round of financing I believe the events of Feb. 19, ing about Facebook or Yelp or since the beginning of 2014. Yet growing company in history,” and that values the profitless company at 2014, will be seen as the begin- Twitter? I was talking about CEO Jeffrey Weiner took in nearly the IPO priced its shares accord- around $10 billion, making it worth ning of the end of dot-com boom Webvan.com. Between 1999 and $180 million, including $169.8 mil- ingly, offering 35 million shares at more than established hotel chains 2.0. That was the day Facebook’s 2001, the online grocer went from lion from stock options, $9.4 million $20, well above the expected 30 like Wyndham Worldwide or Hyatt. dictatorial CEO Mark Zuckerberg an analyst darling valued at more from vested shares, and $49 mil- million shares at $16. But Groupon Ride-sharing service Uber is in talks plunked down $19 billion to buy than $1 billion to bankruptcy, and lion in compensation, adding up to has tumbled 50 percent, from a for an additional round that will also a profitless texting application saw its stock crash from an all- one of corporate America’s largest 52-week high of $12 to around $6. value it at $10 billion. And Pinterest, called What’sApp. The following time high of $30 to just $6 per CEO pay packages. That pales in Other high-tech momentum dar- a scrapbooking website, said it raised month, Facebook’s stock slumped share. In 2008, CNET crowned comparison to the golden parachute lings have also retreated from their an additional $200 million, giving it a 12 percent, and even after a fairly Webvan.com as the largest dot- given to Henrique de Castro, Yahoo’s peaks to bear country. valuation of $5 billion. good earnings report last month, com flop in history, but I see it as chief operating officer. Yahoo CEO the stock has continued to slide. the biggest flop in dot-com bomb Marissa Mayer hired de Castro — a 3. NOSEBLEED VALUATIONS 4. WHAT’S APP Pundits saw the purchase as 1.0, because I believe we are just former Google colleague — in 2012 Along with those hot IPOs and Jan. 10, 2000, was the day that Zuckerberg’s desperate attempt to now pricking at the bubble that and dismissed him just 15 months venture capital boons come absurd many people remember as the stay relevant, but investors should will be dot-com bomb 2.0. later with a severance package worth valuations, one of the hallmarks of real beginning of the end for dot- be more concerned with the ease We’re seeing some of the very nearly $58 million. dot-com bomb 1.0. In February of com boom 1.0. On that day, AOL with which Zuckerberg throws things that occurred leading up 2000, Pets.com raised $82.5 million announced it would buy media around Facebook stock, which is to the first Internet stock bubble, 2. IPO FATIGUE in its IPO despite the fact that the behemoth Time Warner in an about as good as Monopoly money where so many investors listened to King Digital Entertainment, year-old company lost $42.4 mil- all-stock deal worth $160 billion. when you consider that it’s more analysts with ulterior motives, buy- maker of the popular mobile game lion on $5.2 million in sales dur- The AOL-Time Warner merger expensive than 98 percent of those ing into profitless companies with app Candy Crush Saga, was the ing the previous quarter. In April imploded and, some 14 years later, in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. big growth and even bigger spend- most hotly anticipated IPO since of this year, home-sharing app and is considered the biggest bust in ing habits. Here are four signs that Twitter, but it tanked, falling about website Airbnb reportedly closed merger history. E-mail: [email protected]

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The Tablehopper Open for business Voted Best Romantic Restaurant Palm House opens on Union Street; Big 4, Hog Island Oyster Bar return

by marcia gagliardi tablecloths as well (small cheer over here). Spring at the Cliff House The bar, grand piano, and artifacts on the Warm & Cozy Inside – Amazing Views Outside COW HOLLOW wood-paneled walls all remain in place, The former Nettie’s Crab Shack has but you’ll notice refreshed things like a Join us for these Cliff House Weekly Favorites reopened as Palm House (2032 Union newly carpeted floor. The big change was Street, 415-400-4355). By Bergerac/ really with the plumbing, so that’s why it • Wine Lovers’ Tuesday – Half Priced Bottled Wines* Foreign Cinema alumni Anderson was closed for some time. The new cock- Pugash, Bruce McDonald, Benson Wang, tail menu offers classic Big 4 cocktails, • Bistro Wednesday Nights – $28 Three-Course Prix Fixe and Gayle Pirie, the tropical-inspired bar and some new ones speaking to Nob Hill’s • Friday Night Jazz in the Balcony Lounge and restaurant has a seasonal California history, and the hotel’s railroad and min- • Sunday Champagne Brunch Buffet influence. Pirie worked on the menu with ing history, with drinks like the Golden Lea Walker, and is running the kitchen. Spike (Sheep Dip Scotch, apricot liqueur, Valet parking every night after 5:00 pm. The menu includes many influences from Licor 43). The three sparkling options by *Some restrictions apply. Promotions are not valid on holidays. warmer world regions — Cuba, Brazil, the glass make it an excellent spot for cel- Indonesia, Hawaii, and the Caribbean. ebration. Many of the beloved bartenders You’ll find snacks like the fried jalape- and staff remain, including Ty himself. The Lands End Lookout ños with smoked guava salt ($6.50) or For now, they’ll be open for breakfast and Calypso chicken wings with Thai-style dinner daily from 6:30–10:30 a.m. and Be sure to visit the Lookout Cafe at the Lands End visitor center. chile sauce ($7.50), and entrées with lots 5:30–10 p.m. with lunch service coming Operated by the Cliff House team, the cafe serves a delicious selection of seafood, like a West Indian jerk grilled later (yay again!). Welcome back, Big 4! of locally sourced grab-and-go items including the famous It’s It mahi mahi ($23) or Khalua duck tacos with pineapple salsa and pickled cabbage. EMBARCADERO originally for sale at Playland at the Beach. Anthony Parks (Bergerac and Audio) The newly reopened Hog Island The center, under the direction of the Golden Gate National Parks heads up the bar, with plenty of fun and Oyster Bar (1 Ferry Building, 415-391- Conservancy, offers educational and interactive exhibits, a museum store, refreshing tropical flavors, like mai tais 7117) took over the Ferry Plaza Seafood stunning views, and the amazing Lands End Trails. and margaritas, punch bowls for groups, space and has therefore doubled in size, and even a slushy machine for blended and it now has a full bar, with executive Open daily from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Located at Point Lobos and Merrie Way drinks. As for the historic space, the out- chef Christopher Laramie leading the door seating is under a Victorian-style kitchen (former chef-owner of Berkeley’s pergola, and there’s a relaxing, tropically Brasa and Eve). Menu cult classics like 1090 Point Lobos inspired vibe inside. the clam chowder and the grilled cheese 415-386-3330 sandwich remain with new additions like www.CliffHouse.com LOWER PACIFIC HEIGHTS an oyster po’boy on a special baguette- Divisadero mainstay Tortilla Heights style roll developed with Acme Bread (a has been sold to partners Miles Palliser good neighbor to have), plus a spin on a and Ezra Berman (Corner Store), along Caesar salad with crispy white anchovy with a third partner, Neil Holbrook “croutons” and a creamy oyster-based The place (The Kezar Pub). The new project is dressing. There are even steak frites! You a sports bar, San Francisco Athletic can enjoy the bay view while noshing on Club (1750 Divisadero Street) but with house-smoked potted sturgeon and fried where locals lots of fun twists to make it a little dif- smelts, and of course there are plenty of ferent. A whopping 28 televisions will oysters. All the seafood is sustainably show the usual American sports like raised and harvested, with many small baseball, football, and basketball, as well fish that are low on the food chain. Even eat seafood! as international favorites like soccer and the produce and herbs come from the rugby, with audio a priority. Clint Miller restaurant’s own gardener near the oyster (Corner Store, Sabrosa) is redoing the farm in Marshall. space to include a 20-seat bar and pull- Designed by Cass Calder Smith Spectacular Bay Views out bleachers for big games, a pool table, Architecture, the expanded space now has and a shuffleboard table. 65 seats inside and 65 outside. There are The bar menu will include 12–16 beers three bars: a 16-seat oyster bar facing the on tap, and more by the bottle, with bay, an 8-seat cocktail bar, and an 8-seat both local microbrews and lighter crowd- chef’s counter with mirror-reflected bay pleasing choices. And when we say crowd, views (ooh, trippy), plus communal tables, how about beer by the bathtub? Yup, you too. You’ll see lots of recycled materials, can get beer by the bottle, by the bucket, with oyster shells in the concrete and an or by the bathtub: For groups sitting in oyster bar top by Bohemian Stoneworks, one of the four reservable booths, cus- and the shelves at the cocktail bar are from tomers can order beer by the case, served an original 1880s redwood foundation at in an ice-filled porcelain bathtub. Move the Hog Island farm in Marshall. Nautical over bottle service, now there’s bathtub elements include a hull-shaped ceiling of service. The cocktail/wine list will have wood and rope and kelp sculptures woven something for everyone, with a focus on by Inverness artist Lina Prairie. The cock- whiskey and tequila and eight wines on tail list is by Scott Beattie and Michael Jack World Famous Restaurant tap. As for food, Matt Rosson and Sam Pazdon (St. Helena’s Goose & Gander). Kazik (Corner Store) are planning a menu Look for spirits from Bay Area small- that balances heartier pub fare with light- batch producers and lots of fresh produce; er, more produce-driven options. The drinks are $10–$12. There are also West current plan is to open by Thursday, June Coast wines, including a couple of custom NO 12, when World Cup kicks off. Goal! collaborations, plus five microbrews on tap, a cider, and Boylan natural sodas (also 9 FISHERMEN’S NOB HILL on tap). Happy hour continues Monday All is well on Nob Hill, with the reopen- and Thursday 5–6 p.m., with chef’s choice ing of Big 4 (1075 California Street, 415- of half-price oysters on the half shell 415.673.7025 771-1140) at the newly renovated Scarlet (selection changes weekly), plus beer and Free Validated Parking GROTTO Huntington Hotel. The menu by new wine specials. chef Kevin Scott has many of the previ- No. 9 Fisherman’s Wharf at the foot of Taylor ous staples but also some new twists. Marcia Gagliardi is the founder of the week- Fortunately the green leather banquettes ly tablehopper e-column; subscribe and get fishermensgrotto.com Banquet Facilities Available remain in the dining room, and look more food news and gossip at tablehopper. at that, they decided to keep the white com. Follow her on Twitter: @tablehopper.

14 june 2014 THE MARINA TIMES www.marinatimes.com In the Spirit The Square Brunch Across the Bay…

Left: The Square’s Claire Sprouse; Above: Apple-Tini photos; garrick ramirez t’s time to head over ning with oysters or sizzling to Sausalito for a week- iron-skillet roasted mussels, end brunch. Salito’s Crab shrimp and crab and move Bar manager, Claire Sprouse IHouse & Prime Rib is the ideal to specialties such as a crab by garrick ramirez away proteins and impurities resulting in destination that’s just minutes enchilada, fresh fish or prime a light, clear body. The delectable drink is from the city. For $9.95 you can rib. Sweets have their own laire Sprouse, the whip-smart miles from the dark, heavy versions of the cocktailian and bar manager at The past. It’s what Berber carpet is to shag. get three eggs with bacon and category with freshly made Square, is telling me what inspired Claire is also planning a special late- spicy sausage and iron skillet beignets, Tortuga Caribbean Cher to create a menu of maligned 1970s night drink menu that will include The open face omelets all come with rum cake and salted caramel drinks. She had just finished reading The World’s Greatest Cosmopolitan and a Square: The Story of a Saloon, a book that sherry-based Mind Eraser. house made kettle toasted bread. vanilla crunch cake. chronicles the old Washington Square Bar Specialties Salito’s is & Grill, the legendary North Beach res- THE CLAIRE ABIDES include bacon fresh, bright taurant whose hallowed space The Square Despite the expertise of her craft, currently occupies. Claire is as unassuming as they come. b r u s c h e t t a It’s the perfect get- and full of “It really brings to life the drinking cul- She hides great skill with understated benedict and casual ambi- ture of the old Washbag and North Beach. I grace and a friendly demeanor. She’s able away on a foggy city think the neighborhood is more tight-knit to bring together a wide mix of genera- crab benedict, ence. Large, than any other in the city. I wanted to com- tions — each with varied expectations. served with day. You can take multi-leveled memorate that legacy,” she explained. A young foodie crowd sits at her bar. crispy potato- the ferry and pretend decks over- Sprouse has a keen eye for cultures So does Jack, a North Beach fixture and their legacy. She studied art history who literally wrote a book that decries litos and toast. you’re on vacation in look the water and anthropology in her home state, mixology. And then there’s the regular There are and the beau- Texas. She moved to San Francisco to who comes in every day to note how The other options a faraway village. At ty of the area manage Rickhouse, where she surveyed Square fails to live up to the Washbag. another distinct culture. “We used to He doesn’t approve of their glassware, so and if you start least for a day! is absolutely call it Businessmen Gone Wild,” she he brings his own. Claire even special- with a chili breathtaking. says referring to the rowdy downtown ordered his preferred scotch just for crowd. “When skirmishes broke out, him. His response? He said it tasted bet- mary, a blood orange mimosa It’s the perfect getaway on a you’d see beefy bro types grappling with ter at the Washbag. or a peach bellini, you will think foggy city day. You can take bartenders in vests and bow ties,” she you are truly on vacation. the ferry and pretend you’re on says with a smile. SPIRITED AWAY As for the heritage of the Washbag space? I joked with Claire that I would write If you’re not in the mood vacation in a faraway village. Sprouse thought, Why not do a cocktail cheesy titles like “Claire at The Square” for breakfast, the full menu is At least for a day! Sitting on menu that pays homage to the era cel- or “Sprouse in the House,” but she really ebrated by the book, make it accessible is in the house, as in she never leaves. But offered as well with a selec- beautiful Richardson Bay, the — everyone knows what a White Russian when she can eek out some time, she likes tion of cheeses and salumi blue sky and sparkling water is — and have some fun by sneaking in cur- to gallery hop around the city. You can with kettle bread to a full- are the perfect setting for an rent cocktail trends? also catch her at LoLo for their mezcal selection and great hospitality as well as blown feast of whole roasted afternoon or evening of cock- THAT 70s SHOW Beretta for pizza, cocktails, and a 1 a.m. Dungeness crab and prime tails and dining al fresco. The first erstwhile cocktail she took on closing time. rib. The menu is accessible. Brunch is served on the week- was a “White Wine” Spritz (sherry, pine- When Claire moved to San Francisco, apple, black pepper, bitter lemon tonic). only four prized bottles made the journey It’s simple food, well-sourced, ends beginning at 10:00 am. The refreshing low-booze sipper has a with her: Suze (a bitter French aperitif abundant and comforting prominent dry sherry flavor followed by only recently made available in the states); sweet pineapple, slight lemon, and a gentle rare productions of Tequila Ocho and yet sumptuous. 1200 Bridgeway, Sausalito fizz. A perfect aperitif. Siete Leguas; and Havana Club, a con- You can craft your din- 415.331.3226 You’ll likely raise an eyebrow when traband Cuban rum. She also admires ing experience by begin- salitoscrabhouse.com you note the menu’s Apple-Tini (see Siembra Azul tequila for upholding tra- recipe below), whose name alone is redo- ditional production methods, preserving lent of poor decisions. Claire ditches the sustainability of the product, and donating usual neon green ingredients — the pink proceeds to local schools. slime of cocktails — in favor of small- production spirits. The finished drink APPLE-TINI is crisp with a pleasing citrus taste and Serves 1 depth from apple brandy. The drink responsible for so many bot- 2 ounces Clear Creek or other apple brandy tles of Galliano lingering on 70s pantry ¾ ounces lemon juice shelves, the Harvey Wallbanger (vodka, ½ ounces “runny” honey (1 part honey and Italian bitters, vanilla, orange, lemon), is a 1 part heated water) highlight. Claire’s version is easy drinking, ½ ounce Leopold’s New York Sour Apple full flavored, and bursts with citrus peel 2 dashes of St. George Absinthe and vanilla. Swap the vodka for mezcal and you have a Freddy Fudpucker. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Top One of the most popular drinks is the with a fennel frond. Claire-ified White Russian (vodka or rye whiskey, coffee, clarified milk, allspice, Garrick Ramirez can be reached on Twitter at @ ADVERTISEMENT. brown sugar, citrus). Clarifying milk strips WeekendDelSol or at [email protected].

www.Marinatimes.com THE MARINA TIMES june 2014 15 Food & Wine Appetites and Afterthoughts San Francisco museum cafes and restaurants

by ernest beyl a chutney with kumquat, is crusty and crunchy and figs, and fresh pineapple. piled high with a mountain ’m a big fan of cafes Typical menu entrées: of succulent thinly sliced and restaurants in Bulgogi-Korean spicy beef pastrami. Add to this the museums. I have been ($13.95), chicken angara regulation dill spears and Iknown to go to a museum (smoked chicken marinat- a side of potato salad or — ostensibly to stand in a ed with cashews, yogurt, coleslaw. It just doesn’t long line to see a blockbust- and Indian spices; $11.95), get any better than this. er show — only to become and the spicy seafood- But wait, it does: drinks discouraged, give it a miss, udon noodle bowl ($14). are of the type found in and wind up happily in There’s also an excellent serious Jewish delis in the chow line. Once, in an selection of teas. New York City or around action-packed, all-day-on- Fairfax Avenue in L.A. — your-feet visit to Rome, CALIFORNIA ACADEMY Fox’s U-bet Egg Cream my family was chagrinned OF SCIENCES from Brooklyn ($3.50) when I insisted we visit the Not satisfied with an and Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray Vatican Museum twice in incredibly exciting build- Soda ($3). Sandwiches are one week for the admitted ing (architecturally) and $10 to $13.75. reason of wanting another cutting-edge exhibitions, helping of the remarkable the California Academy of DE YOUNG MUSEUM spaghetti Bolognese in the Sciences in Golden Gate At the top of my list of Vatican Museum museum dining Courtyard in San Francisco Restaurant. It was What can the local is the de Young not exactly a pri- Café in the de vate audience with museumgoer expect to Young Museum in the Pope, but the Golden Gate Park. experience was eat on the premises? Not only is it styl- almost as good. ish with indoor- But this column is not Park has two restaurants. outdoor areas, but also the about Rome; it’s about First, there’s the Academy food is unusually appeal- museum cafes and res- Café, a workmanlike ing both during the day taurants in San Francisco. place to grab something and evening hours. The What can the museumgoer for nourishment. There Bulgari exhibition a few in San Francisco expect to are salads ($8–$11), sand- months ago was a smash. eat on the premises? I chose wiches, wraps, and spring For lunch, I went for the the following museums, not rolls ($9.50–$11). Filipino venison sausage cassoulet necessarily for their exhi- chicken adobo ($7.50) or ($14), a sensible portion bitions but for the dining mac-n-cheese ($7) might of white beans, green gar- experiences. be good choices. Pasta lic, carrots, bacon, tomato, And, by the way, these Bolognese ($11). Good, and thyme with duck fat impressions are not big but not like the real thing croutons. My daughter, deal, official restaurant in the Vatican Museum. who believes she may be reviews. I haven’t dined in Then there’s the Moss entitled to a Bulgari broche each of these several times Room operated by the one fine day, raved about incognito and marshaled omnipresent Charlie the almond and grape gaz- my taste buds to award Phan. It presents an elabo- pacho topped with crème them one, two, or three rate contemporary menu fraîche ($6), followed by Marina Times diamonds. complete with many of cumin-spiced shrimp These are just comments the hotshot items I have served with chipotle flat- by a man with an appetite come to love or not. Pork bread ($12). And there’s — in this case, an appetite belly? Of course! And lots a good wine list favoring for museum food. of roasted beets and wild California but including Here, then, in alphabeti- arugula, not to mention French and Italian wines cal order, are my favorite quinoa. There are also a as well as one or two from dining experiences in San few good pastas and even Spain and South Africa. Francisco museums. a ranch burger, for which These are sold at modest I am grateful. Entrées are prices by the glass, half bot- ASIAN ART MUSEUM $11 to $24. tle, or full bottle. At the Asian Art Museum, located in Civic CONTEMPORARY EXPLORATORIUM Center, executive chef JEWISH MUSEUM In my wandering around Melinda Quirino, formerly Wise Sons, the Jewish San Francisco museums, of the Hotel Nikko, directs delicatessen headquar- I have noted that just as operations for Café Asia tered in the Mission, has in the restaurant popula- where museumgoers and opened an outpost in the tion at large, museum just hungry walk-ins will Contemporary Jewish restaurants are devoted find Asian specialties from Museum at 736 Mission to buying and serving a variety of traditions. Street. And that’s a good locally produced and sus- A seasonal menu — one thing if you frequently tainable fare. Nowhere is might call it Pan-Asian crave pastrami as I do. Wise this more evident than at — changes frequently and Sons co-founders Evan the Exploratorium on the chef Quirino takes her Bloom and Leo Beckerman waterfront at Piers 15–17. shopping basket to the smoke their own pastrami, In a slick operation farmers’ market in nearby bake their own rye bread, overseen by executive chef United Nations Plaza to and cure all their own deli Loretta Keller, noted for her pick up fresh vegetables. meats. And even if you are work at the South of Market Regularly she keys menu not going to the museum, Coco500, the food is excel- items to museum exhibi- you can dine in the restau- lent and highly eclectic. tions. For the Maharaja rant or get takeout from The Seaglass Restaurant, exhibition, she prepared the counter facing Yerba which may be enjoyed Kashmiri kari korma — Buena Plaza. Consider the without entering the muse- leg of lamb braised in red iconic pastrami sandwich um proper, is a vast indoor pepper Marsala sauce and if you will: The rye bread APPETITEs, continued on 17

16 june 2014 THE MARINA TIMES www.marinatimes.com New and Notable New to the neighborhood Stones Throw worth a visit to Russian Hill by julie mitchell chorizo croquettes, piquillo the chocolate, revealing Á¾ßåÛßÁ¾ß=àhÖĘÛß=ò| peppers, and scallions. the banana shake. nother new Main courses ($16–$29) Selected by one of the standout in the offer larger portions with restaurant’s founders, Jason growing cadre of the same inventive take Kirmse, Stone Throw’s wine Achic yet cozy neighborhood on ingredients and com- list is extensive and cat- restaurants focusing on small binations. Pan-roasted egorized into sections: “left plates and unusual ingredients king salmon is served coast” California wine coun- is Stones Throw on Russian with corn and uni risot- try; “classically trained” from Hill. Chef Jason Halverson, to, chives, lemon oil, and France; “bizarrely unique” the former chef de cuisine at tomato water; and “Toad from Spain, Italy, and Michael Mina, Greece; and the offers a pleth- “bargain bin,” ora of “snacks,” expensive wines starters, mains, at what the res- and desserts taurant deems designed to “absurdly great” delight the eye prices, like a and palate alike. Burgundian S t o n e s Pinot Noir for Throw feels at $92. The exten- once intimate sive beer selec- Sunday through Friday yet airy: floor- tion is divided to-ceiling Stones Throw feels intimate yet airy into clever sec- windows, an tions like “An open-beamed Apple a Day” ceiling, spa- The growing cadre of chic for hard ciders, cious bar, and “Bitter Beer a long commu- yet cozy neighborhood Face” for IPAs, nal table. An and “Ask-ing open kitchen restaurants adds another. for Trouble” links two din- for stouts. ing rooms that seat 60. in the Hole” lasagna with Brunch ($8–$17) offers up Snacks ($8) top the din- egg yolk, asparagus, mush- not-to-miss treats like vanil- ner menu, and two of note rooms, and green garlic. la-sugar doughnuts, butter- are the crispy tomato cream There’s also a burger (“Da fried pancakes, and aspara- wafers with a bright green Burga” aka Da Disaster) gus and duck confit hash. fava bean “dip,” and a slender served with “everything” A word to would-be slab of duck pâté and mousse baked potato tots. diners: Parking on Russian served with cornichons and Desserts ($8) sound tra- Hill is always tough, so mini soft pretzels. ditional, like apple pie, but a visit to Stones Throw Next come starters ($12– are anything but. Chocolate might merit the use of $16), most of which are bananas foster with warm Muni, Uber, Lyft, or taxi. infused with deep colors brown sugar and caramel- Stones Throw: 1896 Hyde and flavors, such as the black soaked bananas is com- Street (at Green), 415-796- squid-ink pasta with capers, bined with a chocolate 2901, www.stonesthrowsf. clams, calamari, and greens; banana milkshake and com; dinner Tuesday–Sunday five peas in a pod with ricot- a warm brownie on the from 5:30 p.m.; brunch ta, preserved Meyer lemon side. Rather than flambé- Sunday 11 a.m.–2 p.m. and almond-mint pesto; ing the dessert tableside, and sweet corn soup with the warm caramel melts E-mail: [email protected]

Appetites but juicy. There are sea- growls? There’s a simple continued from page 16 sonal menu changes and answer: Point yourself in a full bar with a cock- the direction of the Legion space — really an extension tail program. Entrées at of Honor Café, and con- of the Exploratorium’s exhi- both restaurants are $9 template some tasty pas- bition areas, with an out- to $13.50. tries, ample fresh salads, door area that hugs the bay. For something more and some fine quiches. There is a wide range of casual, there’s another din- There are also several offerings at several stations, ing spot near the muse- good sandwiches, burg- which include rotisserie um’s entrance called the ers, and hot dogs. But my items like roast chicken, a Seismic Joint featuring favorite menu item is the pizza oven for those small sandwiches, chowders, and chicken potpie ($14.50). pizzas called pizzettas, as other quickie items. Lots of chicken, onions, well as tacos, quesadillas, carrots, leeks, and a bit salads, and desserts. LEGION OF HONOR of potato, all swimming There’s also the impres- The Legion of Honor happily in a light, well- sive Ocean Bar with wild is without doubt San made béchamel sauce, shrimp, oysters, ceviche, Francisco’s most beautiful topped with puff pastry assorted sushi, and sashimi museum. The magnificent and browned nicely. Prices with special salads of qui- Beaux-Arts structure in are $7.50 to $14.50. noa and various pickled Lincoln Park overlooks the And as a final note, vegetables. This raw bar Golden Gate Bridge, the here is a suggestion for is under the direction of Pacific, and most of San George Lucas. If you build well-known sushi artisan Francisco. It’s worth visit- your Lucas Cultural Arts Sachio Kojima. Here are ing if you only pause in Museum in San Francisco, two examples from recent the courtyard for a while please install the best res- visits: huge, unshelled wild to gaze worshipfully at taurant you can create. shrimp ($2.50 each) are Auguste Rodin’s incredible You’ll have me as a cus- briny and succulent. The statue, The Thinker. tomer for life. roasted chicken ($12.50/ But what do you do half; $24/whole) is crisp when your stomach E-mail: [email protected] www.Marinatimes.com THE MARINA TIMES june 2014 17 Arts & Entertainment

Family. He had a great opening line to his Finnochio’s act: “Welcome to Boy’s Town. I’m Father Flanagan.”

THE MASTER OR MISTRESS OF SURPRISE AND DISGUISE A favorite was Charles Pierce, who had trained as an actor in the well-regarded Pasadena Playhouse. Pierce appeared in several New York Off-Broadway shows and in the early 1950s, he was doing comedy sketches and impersonations all over the country. He loved San Francisco and first appeared here at Ann’s 440 Club in North Beach. Never approving of the title drag queen, he preferred to call himself a male actress. But for his Finnochio’s performances he was billed as The Master or Mistress of Surprise and Disguise. In time, his rou- tines included Jeanette MacDonald, Bette An original ad from Finocchio’s heyday; Finocchio’s club in 1958 photos: gaymusicheritage.com; zagaria / wikimedia commons Davis, Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, and finnochio’s male actor, playing a woman, pretends ning. When prohibition was repealed in Carol Channing. Pierce died in 1999 at 72. continued from page 1 to be a man. 1933, he expanded it and then in 1936, No one has been able to fill his high heels. Our city has nurtured a long list of exuberant with his success, moved to Carol Channing spoke at his funeral memories of those golden years. One female impersonators in this hilarious the Broadway location. There he began in North Hollywood and said, “He did reader stopped me on the street to praise journey through the years. So here, with featuring elaborate productions with Carol Channing better than I did.” the story. But he said I left out one of the a wild leap through time, let’s land at lots of pizzazz and glittery costumes. Not only did locals flock to Finnochio’s bright spots that really made Broadway Finnochio’s, 506 Broadway. Despite San Francisco’s tradition of ris- but visiting celebrities did as well. Bob tantalizing in those days. It was called qué entertainment, there was a police Hope, Frank Sinatra, Bette Davis, and Finnochio’s and was located on the sec- RED HOT MAMAS bust shortly after the Broadway opening. Tallulah Bankhead (the real ones) all ond floor right above Enrico’s. And, Joe Finnochio, an Italian immigrant, Joe Finnochio was arrested for “keeping made the scene. Howard Hughes escorted of course, he was right — Finnochio’s, worked in his father’s North Beach speakeasy. a disorderly house and selling liquor Ava Gardner to Finnochio’s. There was a the saucy nightclub that featured female One night a customer who had tasted a little after 2 a.m.” Apparently, the issue of the rumor in 1945 that Errol Flynn and David impersonators, was one of biggest attrac- too much of the “sauce” pro- Niven had escorted one of tions in North Beach. vided by the establishment, the Finnochio’s stars (Pussy performed a shaky but mov- Kat) to a suite at the Fairmont GOLD RUSH ENTERTAINMENT ing performance mimick- One of the biggest attractions was Hotel. Hollywood gossip col- Female impersonation has a long his- ing the legendary vaudeville umnist Louella Parsons got tory in San Francisco. It began right singer Sophie Tucker who Finnochio’s, the saucy nightclub wind of it but her publisher after gold was discovered at Sutter’s was billed frequently as The forbade her to run the story. Mill in 1848. Two years later a druggist, Last of the Red Hot Mamas. featuring female impersonators. Dr. D.J. “Doc” Robinson, who liked This gave Joe Finnochio an WHAT A DRAG to do comic impressions of promi- idea for Red Hot Mamas in drag that would entertainers mingling with the custom- Joe Finnochio died in 1986 at 88. His nent San Francisco citizens, opened a continue to excite San Francisco for more ers was a no-no. wife, Eve, kept Finnochio’s alive until small theater on California Street near than 60 years. 1999. Citing a rent increase and dwin- the Customs House. It was called the (And, by the way, the word “finno- FINNOCHIO’S HEADLINERS dling attendance, she finally closed it, Dramatic Museum and seated 280 wild chio” — and that was Joe’s real fam- Joe promised to run his club in an orderly packed up the props, swept up the glitter, and raucous gold and entertainment ily name — is the Italian word for fashion — like a theater, he said. And down and retired to live with her memories. seekers. It featured topical satire. Doc fennel, the licorice-scented bulb used through the years he did, with scores of Female impersonation had reached the Robinson’s partner in the venture, James frequently to flavor Italian cookery. female impersonators appearing on his stage. mainstream. One no longer had to seek it Evrard, was a female impersonator and A less salubrious and now antiquated Some became well–known personalities. out on Broadway. performed there. Also, in 1850, the definition of finnochio is what most of Among Finnochio’s headliners was Lucien When poet-painter Lawrence Jenny Lind Theater opened above the us now call “gay.”) Phelps, a Sophie Tucker expert who starred Ferlinghetti heard the news that Parker House Saloon on Portsmouth Joe Finnochio opened his own speak- for 27 years. Another was Don McLean, Finnochio’s had closed, he responded, Square. Before it burned down a few easy in 1929 at 406 Stockton Street. He whose stage name was Lori Shannon. He “What a drag.” months later, it featured Shakespeare’s featured a female impersonator as part became known nationally after playing the Twelfth Night — a comedy in which a of a floorshow. It was a modest begin- Archie Bunker drag queen on TV’s All in the E-mail: [email protected] Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records by sharon anderson existence at the beginning of at their record collection, which the 20th century. They became became its own kind of social hat’s that?” a popular commodity in the identity. For many, your record The question came 1920s only to be replaced in collection represented you. from my nephew as the 1980s by a newer digital The vinyl fad has returned. Whe stood gazing at my turnta- technology, compact discs. The Oakland Museum gallery, ble, the centerpiece of my life Before recordings became pop- transformed into an experi- while I was growing up. “It’s a ular, music was live and songs mental listening environment, record player,” I explained, “and it were viral — something you invites the viewer to interact plays music!” caught on the air. Musicians with history. Notable record In many ways, it’s an age learned tunes by listening to collections are on view, includ- test. The Oakland Museum of other musicians, and the expe- ing photographs of collectors California’s exhibition dedi- rience was, by its nature and in their homes complete with cated to the history and culture immediacy, communal. video and audio interviews. A of vinyl opened on April 19 in Vinyl revolutionized the way film exploring the history of Explore the social phenomenon of records at Oakland Museum of California conjunction with Record Store people listened to music by album cover art is included, photo: museumca.org Day and runs through July. The allowing them to hear the same along with a wide assortment exhibition is less a typical gal- performance repeatedly and in of records for the public to view sonal story through their musi- of California, 1000 Oak Street, lery show and more an inter- the privacy of their homes. This and play. Instructors are on site cal selections. 510-318-8400, museumca.org; active experience with listening medium, as we know, coincided to teach the public how to use And while you’re having fun lis- Wednesday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–5 booths, lounge areas, and even with the rise of rock ’n’ roll a record player and how to DJ tening and learning about music, p.m. (Friday until 9 p.m.), $15 kid-sized listening stations for the and the corresponding music with instructional videos. Six you won’t even notice that you’ve previously uninitiated. industry boom from the 1950s– thematic listening stations con- become a part of the exhibition. Sharon Anderson is an artist and Discs with spiral grooves 70s. You could find out a lot tain boxes of records assembled Vinyl: The Sound and Culture writer in Southern California. She inscribed with music came into about your friends by looking by “crate curators” to tell a per- of Records, Oakland Museum can be reached at mindtheimage.com

18 june 2014 THE MARINA TIMES www.marinatimes.com Michael Snyder on Film Coming-of-age and film noir thriller ‘We Are the Best!’ and ‘Cold in July’ by michael snyder of gym-class competitions Lilya 4-Ever, addressed the plete with the conflicted and crass materialism and mutability and perils of antihero undermined by his here are so many soured by the dysfunction adolescence and interper- questionable decisions and different genres in of their respective fami- sonal relations. The vivid caught up in forces beyond the world of cine- lies, they decide to express and vital We Are the Best! his control. Tma and such a wide range their anger and frustration deals with those concerns as Set in 1989, Cold in July of quality (with mediocri- through rock music. Of well, yet is certainly sweet- focuses on Richard Dane ty being the rule) that it’s course, in the tradition of er and funnier than those (Michael C. Hall of TV’s downright gratifying when a many of their do-it-yourself earlier, considerably darker Dexter), a small-town filmmaker takes on a specif- punk predecessors, they are efforts. Like any good com- Texan extolled as a hero for ic type of movie and honors completely unschooled in ing-of-age film, it’s touch- shooting and killing a bur- it. I’m happy to report that music and have to borrow ing in its depiction of the glar in his home. But Dane Liv Lemoyne, Mira Barkhammar and Mira Grosin in two features in local theaters instruments. But undaunt- travails, pain, and joy of starts to freak out when he ‘We Are the Best!’ photo: © magnolia pictures this month do right by two ed, they thrash away in a growing up. And it’s hard meets ex-con Russel (Sam familiar movie categories: publicly funded rehearsal to imagine that the cast of Shepherd), the grizzled, mon, but they are no less this one. Tense and exciting the coming-of-age story and space after snagging it on a We Are the Best! — espe- menacing father of the guy dangerous and creepy. in a stomach-churning way the film noir thriller. sign-in sheet. In short order, cially the three precocious he shot. To protect him- Cold in July is filmed in (with a little fun courtesy they convince Hedwig (Liv actresses who portray Bobo, self and his family, Dane a brutal, economical, and of Don Johnson’s good ol’ ‘WE ARE THE BEST!’ LeMoyne) — a wholesome, Klara, and Hedwig — could seeks a fixer in the form of visually stark fashion. Its boy), Cold in July does a With a deft hand, great reticent Christian school- be any better. private eye Jim Bob (Don violence is swift and graph- bang-up job of carrying on wit, and prickly charm, mate with actual skill on gui- We Are The Best! opens Johnson) and a way out of ic, while its emotional tur- the film noir tradition. Swedish director and screen- tar — to join their nascent June 6 at the Embarcadero what appears to be an ines- moil — as embodied by Cold in July is current- writer Lukas Moodyson band. Their youthful exu- Cinema 5. capable bind. Dane’s fears for his life and ly playing at a Landmark adapts his wife, Coco’s, berance is infectious, even if Based on a novel by his family’s well being — Theater (exact location not graphic novel about a cou- none of it might be enough ‘COLD IN JULY’ crime and fantasy author is palpable. known at press time). ple of disaffected 13-year- to earn the respect of their Though generally a hard- Joe R. Landsdale, Cold in And there’s no denying old girls who decide to start peers, let alone commercial boiled American crime July was directed by Jim the full-bodied perfor- Michael Snyder is a print their own punk-rock band success. And the bond that drama of the 1940s and Mickle, whose atmospher- mances by the actors. If and broadcast journal- in early 1980s Stockholm. the girls share as outsiders 1950s, the film noir movie ic 2010 effort, Stake Land, I have any quibbles with ist who covers pop culture The androgynous Bobo may not counter the hurt has become a Hollywood was a lean and mean take Cold in July, they’d be about on KPFK/Pacifica Radio’s (Mira Barkhammar) and feelings generated when the perennial with various lat- on vampirism as apocalyp- an abrupt change in one of David Feldman Show and Clara (Mira Groin) are best trio meets the members of ter-day interpretations com- tic plague and whose 2013 the characters and the pres- Thom Hartmann Show friends who are disdained an all-boy punk band and ing down the pike and some feature, We Are What We ence of a few unanswered and on Michael Snyder’s by the clique of pastel-wear- adolescent romance enters notable British, French, and Are, revealed the horrific questions when all should Culture Blast, available ing, New Wave pop-loving the equation. Italian examples of the styl- secrets of a rural family. be said and done. Those online at GABroadcaster. girly girls in their school. Some of Moodyson’s ish, often murky and amoral This time out, the threats are rather minor com- com and YouTube. You can Which is fine with Bobo previous films, particu- thriller. Now, we get a fresh Mickle presents are neither plaints when it comes to follow Michael on Twitter: and Klara. Contemptuous larly Show Me Love and iteration of film noir, com- otherworldly nor uncom- an action-packed ride like @cultureblaster

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17th Annual Native GALAS & BENEFITS Contemporary Arts Festival Sunday, June 15, noon–3 p.m. Yerba Buena Gardens June Events This family-friendly event showcases the best in what not to miss this month Native American art, music and culture and features artist vendors, picnic opportunities, and other activities. Free, 415-543-1718, ybgfestival.org MAJOR EVENTS FUN FOR DAD Poetic Tuesday 3rd Annual Pig Roast Tuesday, June 17, 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 14, 2 p.m. Jessie Square, Yerba Buena Gardens Old Log Cabin Meadow, Golden Gate Pk. Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as Start your celebration the day before with pork, some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians beer, music, a bounce house, lawn games, domi- share their work in the great outdoors. Free, rolls (highly addictive hybrid of dominos and 415-543-1718, ybgfestival.org dice), and good company. Free, BYOB and a side to share, RSVP at eventbrite.com Ploughshares Fund Chain Reaction 2014 MUSEUMS Cooking with Dad Tuesday, June 3, 6 p.m. & GALLERIES Saturday, June 14, 2–4 p.m. The Open Square at Futures Without Violence Sur la Table (2224 Union St.) (100 Montgomery St., Presidio) Hiroshi Sugimoto: Acts of God In this hands-on class, create a menu of mouth- Actor Michael Douglas hosts this gala evening Tue–Sat thru July 3 watering favorites — from sliders and fries to of conversation exploring common ground to Fraenkel Gallery (49 Geary St.) resolve the conflict with Iran and other issues to 38th Annual Union Street Festival homemade guacamole and a decadent dessert This five-panel photograph of a life-size repro- — that are as fun to prepare as they are to eat. benefit Ploughshares Fund, which invests in ini- duction of Leonardo’s Last Supper sustained Sat–Sun, June 7–8, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $39, 800-243-0852, surlatable.com tiatives to reduce and ultimately eliminate the water damage from Hurricane Sandy while stored Union Street (Gough to Steiner) world’s nuclear threats and to promote stability in a basement, which produced dramatic marks, Featuring over 100 boutique artists offering Father’s Day Weekend BikeAbout in regions of conflict. $250 & up, 415-668-2244, colorations and ripples that have changed the ploughshares.org unique art, jewelry, pottery, paintings, photog- Sunday, June 15, 8:30-10 a.m. character of the photograph. Free, 415-277-7230, raphy, furniture, and more; enjoy gourmet food S.F. Zoo fraenkelgallery.com Spend your Sunday morning on a leisurely booths and continuous live entertainment. Benefit Art Auction Free, 800-310-6563, unionstreetfestival.com docent-led cycling tour through the zoo, and fin- Guillermo Bert: Incubator Wednesday, June 4, 6:30 p.m. ish up with a relaxing continental breakfast. Bring Tue–Sat thru July 5, 10:30 a.m.–6 pm. Herbst International Exhibition Hall your own bikes; includes zoo admission. $30, The McLoughlin Gallery (79 Geary St.) Enjoy an evening of art, music, food, and good 60th Annual North Beach Festival 415-753-7080, sfzoo.org This solo exhibition highlights the artist’s newest company in support of the Headlands Center Sat–Sun, June 14–15, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. series of acrylic cubes laser-cut with matrix codes in for the Arts programs for artists and the public. Grant Ave. (btw. Columbus and Filbert), Columbus Father’s Day Beer Brunch Cruise which words and poems from indigenous peoples Moraga & Montgomery Sts., Presidio, $125–$150, Ave. (btw. Broadway & Green), Vallejo & Green Sunday, June 15, noon are embedded. The similarities between QR codes 415-331-2787, headlands.org Sts. (btw. Grant and Columbus) MS California Hornblower, Pier 3 and the indigenous symbols are striking. Exhibited Considered one of the country’s original out- Treat Dad to an enticing buffet and free-flow- 4th Annual FOGG Fest alongside barcode and textile pieces, linking tech- door festivals, this treasured tradition returns to ing beer in a keepsake pint glass. Relax with nology with culture, consumerism and identity. Thursday, June 19, 7–10 p.m. the birthplace of the Beat Generation, and fea- your family as you enjoy live entertainment Free, 415-986-4799, mgart.com, gbert.com Crissy Field tures quality entertainment, live music, Italian and breathtaking San Francisco Bay views. $78, Enjoy delicious food, s’mores, silent auction items, street painting, blessing of the animals, and 888-467-6256, hornblower.com great views, and live music from The National over 125 arts and crafts booths, 20 food booths Parks, an up-and-coming indie-folk band. Proceeds and beverage gardens. Free, 800-310-6563, Father’s Day Sail Together support Friends of the Golden Gate and the sresproductions.com Sunday, June 15, 1–4 p.m. Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. SRV Derek M. Baylis, Pier 40 $45, 415-561-3051, parksconservancy.org Stern Grove’s 77th Season Opening Day Spend quality time with Dad aboard this 65-foot Starring Smokey Robinson & Patty Austin yacht. Includes father-child bonding activities, The Big Picnic Party Sunday, June 22, 2 p.m. complimentary beer (up to 3), and light snacks. Sunday, June 22, 11:30 a.m. 19th Ave. at Sloat $110, 415-580-0335, wyliecharters.com West Meadow, Stern Grove Grammy-winning R&B legend Smokey Robinson Experience the opening day concert from a and R&B great Patty Austin open the season of Ivan Amodei: reserved picnic-table seat with access to a VIP free music. Free, 415-252-6252, sterngrove.org Intimate Illusions Magic Show lounge after enjoying a catered picnic in sup- Sunday, June 15, 2 & 6 p.m. port of the Stern Grove Festival and its 77-year Delve(ations) x9 44th Annual S.F. Pride Celebration Venetian Room, Fairmont Hotel mission to present admission-free concerts and Celebration: Sat–Sun, June 28–29, noon–6 p.m. This critically acclaimed show, accompanied Thu–Sun, June 12–15, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. outreach programs to the Bay Area. $250 & up, Civic Center Live Worms Gallery (1345 Grant Ave.) by a concert cellist, cleverly combines razor 415-252-6252, sterngrove.org Parade: Sunday, June 29, 10:30 a.m. sharp wit and laughter with sleight of hand, Nine artists present photographs, mixed media, Market St. & Beale to Market St. & 8th dynamic story telling, mind-games, and tons of prints, and altered books and drawings in this With over 200 parade contingents, 300 exhibitors, audience participation. $65–$75, 866-811-4111, eclectic exhibition that depicts their unique and 20 stages and venues, the Pride Celebration ivanamodei.com ARTS & CULTURE responses to what whets their artistic appetites. is the largest LGBT gathering in the nation. Free, Free, 415-263-8959, sflivewormsgallery.com 415-864-0831, sfpride.org 17th Annual National Queer Arts Festival Most days thru July 6 COMMUNITY CORNER Various S.F. venues Enjoy a month-long festival of music, dance, visual art, LAST CHANCE spoken word, comedy, theater, and film featuring artists, THEATER exhibitions, and performances. 800-838-3006, qcc2.org 3rd Annual S.F. Green Film Fest ACT: The Orphan of Zhao Daily thru June 5 7th Annual Yerba Buena Art Walk Tue–Sun, June 4–29 American Conservatory Theatre (415 Geary St.) Various Bay Area venues Saturday, June 7, 2–6 p.m. This reinvention of a classic Chinese legend with This young festival includes 50 films from Yerba Buena Arts District roots in the fourth century BCE is often described around the globe, including talks by over (2nd to 5th Sts. & Market to Harrison Sts.) as the Chinese Hamlet. It is an epic story of 70 visiting filmmakers and guest speak- This event features a colorful and creative array self-sacrifice and revenge, as a young orphan ers covering environmental topics surround- of exhibits, artists’ talks, receptions, wine tastings, discovers the shattering truth behind his origins. ing clean energy, green chemistry, the future and other events, presented by over 15 galleries $20–$140, 415-749-2228, act-sf.org of food, housing, trash, water, and art in the and institutions in the Yerba Buena neighborhood. environment. Free–$20, 415-552-5580, Free, 415-541-0312, yerbabuena.org/artwalk sfgreenfilmfest.org We Players: Macbeth Thu–Sun, June 10–29 83rd Annual California Book Awards Fort Point Magic Theatre: Pen/Man/Ship Monday, June 9, 6 p.m. Multiple performance trajectories wind through Tue–Sun thru June 15 Commonwealth Club (595 Market St.) the dark stone corridors, narrow passageways, Building D, Fort Mason Center Beach Blanket Babylon: Hear from literary giants and amazing writ- expansive brick casemates, and inner chambers A father and son board a ship in 1896 for Africa 40th Anniversary Celebration ers at this special awards ceremony, which will as Macbeth’s Scotland collides with the Civil War on a mysterious mission with an opinionated bestow gold and silver medals in several cat- Fort Point and modern San Francisco. $45–$75, young woman. On the open sea, an unexpected Friday, June 6, noon egories, including fiction, nonfiction, first fiction, 415-424-7249, weplayers.org detour resurrects family secrets and reveals true City Hall poetry, young adult, juvenile, Californiana, and intentions, fundamentally changing the course Join Mayor Ed Lee along with city, civic and arts contribution to publishing. $5–$10, 415-597-6705, of their journey and their lives forever. $20–$60, leaders and the cast of Beach Blanket Babylon commonwealthclub.org 415-441-8822, magictheatre.org in a salute to the world’s longest-running musi- DANCE cal revue. Free, beachblanketbabylon.com 64th Annual SF Juneteenth Festival Custom Made Theatre Co.: The Crucible Saturday, June 14, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Ballet Flamenco Thu–Sun thru June 15 Fillmore Street (btw. Post & Turk) Sunday/Saturday, June 1, 7, 22, & 29, 6:30 p.m. 1620 Gough St. Home Preparedness in Earthquake Country This celebration honors African-American heri- Peña Pachamama (1630 Powell St.) Don’t miss Arthur Miller’s classic story of indi- Thursday, June 5, 6:30–7:30 p.m. tage by commemorating the 150th anniversa- Join Carolina Lugo, her daughter Carolé Acuña, viduals confronting the corruption within their Latino/Hispanic Rm., S.F. Main Library ry of the Emancipation Proclamation with live and their company of musicians and dancers society and standing up for their convictions In this talk and slideshow, learn about precautions entertainment, arts, crafts and food vendors, for a special evening of entertainment featuring under even the direst of circumstances. $10–$35, you can take to lessen damage from an earth- car show, fashion show, parade, and more. Free, their high-energy Flamenco and Spanish dance. 415-798-2682 custommade.org quake at home and work. Free, sfpl.org 415-931-2729, sfjuneteenth.org $15–$19, 415-646-0018, carolinalugo.com

22 june 2014 THE MARINA TIMES www.marinatimes.com Open Water Swimming in S.F. FILMS & LECTURES Saturday, June 14, 2–3:30 p.m. North Beach Branch Library (850 Columbus Ave.) Jellyfish Eyes Curious about bay swimming? Join South End Thursday, June 5, 6:30–9 p.m. Rowing Club member Cathy Delneo for an infor- Asian Art Museum (200 Larkin St.) mational session with short films and tips for get- Artist Takashi Murakami’s first live-action film ting started. Free, 415-355-5626, sfpl.org tells the story of Masashi, a boy who moves to a sleepy town in Japan’s countryside, where Italian Heritage Night: Giants vs. Padres he discovers a flying jellyfish-like creature and Tuesday, June 24, 7:15 p.m. learns that his classmates all have similar magical AT&T Park pets. Free with admission ($5 after 5 p.m.), 415- Join the Museo Italo-Americano in this special event 581-3500, asianart.org that includes a pregame festival. $55 (advance pur- A Conversation with Hillary Clinton chase required), 415-673-2200, sfmuseo.org Frameline38 36th Annual S.F. Ethnic Dance Festival Daily, June 19–29 Wednesday, June 25, 7 p.m. Castro Theatre & other Bay Area venues Orpheum Theater Thursday, June 5 Kicking off with the documentary The Case Against Join a conversation discussing the crises, choices, CHILD’S PLAY Sat–Sun, June 14–15, 21–22, & 28–29 8 and featuring a lineup of international LGBT and challenges Clinton faced during her four City Hall & YBCA Theater Family Fun Day films, the 38th Frameline LGBT film festival takes years as America’s 67th Secretary of State, and Sunday, June 1 & 15, 10:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. This year’s festival includes 10 world premieres, over the Castro this month. Individual and series how those experiences drive her view of the 16 festival debuts, and features dances from Asian Art Museum tickets available, 415-703-8650, frameline.org future. $95–$520, 888-746-1799, innovationae.com around the world and includes 9 to 10 per- Designed for pre-school and kinder families, formances in a show, with numerous cross- David Boies and Theodore Olson: explore art and ideas through immersive storytell- cultural, collaborative, and transitional pieces. The Case for Marriage Equality ing, fun gallery activities, creative art making, and Free–$58, 415-978-2787, worldartswest.org Thursday, June 26, 6 p.m. more. Free with museum admission ($12, children Fairmont Hotel (950 Mason St.) POTABLES & EDIBLES under 12 free), 415-581-3500, asianart.org On the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark gay marriage ruling, the two law- North Beach Walking Food Tour 38th Annual San Francisco Free Folk Festival MUSIC yers who argued the case before the court will be Daily thru June, 10 a.m. & 2 p.m. Saturday, June 21, noon–10 p.m. in conversation with Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, with Meet: 663 Union St. Presidio Middle School (450 30th Ave.) S.F. Opera: Show Boat an introduction by actor and activist George Takei. Eat and drink your way through North Beach while Enjoy two full days of folk music from around the enjoying the best coffee, chocolates, bread, pizza, world, performances for children, singing, dancing, Various days June 1 thru July 2 $10–$45, 415-597-6705, commonwealthclub.org pastries, and more, and learn some neighborhood music workshops, and more. Free, sffolkfest.org War Memorial Opera House history as well. $59, 415-655-0480, sffoodtour.com A true classic of American musical theater, this JAMband Family Festival tale of life on the Mississippi from the 1880s to SCIENCE & 13th Annual Dine About Town Sunday, June 8, 3–5 p.m. the 1920s is both a poignant love story and a Daily thru June 15 Park Chalet (1000 Great Highway) powerful reminder of the bitter legacy of racism. ENVIRONMENT Various S.F. restaurants Celebrate summer with a special family show $24–$379, 415-864-3330, sfopera.com Over 100 top restaurants return with a second where children’s musician Charity Kahn serves up Pocket Opera: The Pearl Fishers helping of specially prepared two-course lunch handmade music and dance outside under the menus for $18.95 or three-course dinner menus open skies. Free, jamjamjam.com Sunday, June 8, 2 p.m. for $36.95. 415-391-2000, dineabouttown.com Florence Gould Theatre, Legion of Honor Presidio Dance Theatre: The Little Lantern Bizet’s opera tells the story of two friends who fall 10th Annual Pinot Days Grand Festival Friday, June 6, 7 p.m. in love with a beautiful but seemingly inaccessible Saturday, June 21 Palace of Fine Arts Theatre young lady. $39–$42, 415-972-8930, pocketopera.org City View at Metreon (135 Fourth St.) Enjoy an evening of classical and folk dances 32nd Annual S.F. Jazz Festival Celebrate the amazing noble grape in all its from all corners of the globe featuring a cast of gloriously diverse styles, with over 80 artisan multigenerational, international artists and out- Daily, June 11–22 winemakers representing every domestic Pinot standing youth artists. $40–$120, 415-561-3997, Various S.F. venues Science and Scripture: Noir region pouring the fruits of their craft. $75, presidiodance.org See over 44 shows of legendary performers Inside the Vatican Observatory 925-891-4553, pinotdays.com and up-and-coming artists referred to as “the Bean Sprouts Family Days preeminent event of its kind in the United Monday, June 9, 7:30 p.m. 4th Annual CUESA Summer Celebration Saturdays thru October, noon–3 p.m. States” by the Los Angeles Times. $10–$95, Nourse Theater (275 Hayes St.) Sunday, June 22, 6–9 p.m. S.F. Botanical Garden 866-920-5299, sfjazz.org George V. Coyne is an astronomer and a Ferry Building Enjoy nature crafts, garden care, outdoor games, Jesuit. He’s the director emeritus of the Vatican Ultra World X-tet: In this fabulous summer soirée, guests will feast and exploration in the Children’s Garden with Observatory who brings his unique background on unlimited food and drink from some of the Bay a variety of activities to do at your own pace — Wise Dreams and Fables of the Sky to discussing the dialogue between science and Area’s hottest chefs and bartenders at this lavish water plants, create a crazy critter, dig in the dune Friday, June 13, 8 p.m. religion. $24–$27, 415-392-4400, cityboxoffice.com walk-around tasting. Proceeds support CUESA’s sand pit, or share a book in the Living Room. Old First Church (1751 Sacramento St.) ongoing education initiatives. $125, 415-291- Bring your lunch and enjoy a picnic in the garden. Don’t miss this exciting cross-cultural experi- 3276, cuesa.org 415-661-1316, sfbotanicalgarden.org ence combining jazz, world, experimental, and World Oceans Day Beach Cleanup contemporary concert styles in a pioneering Sun, June 9, 10 a.m. fusion of East and West. $14–$17, 415-474-1608, Baker Beach oldfirstconcerts.org The giant Flying Iron Art Car will play positive SPORTS & HEALTH JUST FOR FUN music and give free cookies and coffee to all vol- S.F. Guzheng Music Society: unteers. Bring you friends, pets, food, and music Tiptoeing Through the Twilight Zone Billionaires Row Walking Tour 32nd Annual Concert instruments to celebrate. Free, worldoceansday. Saturday, June 7, 11 a.m.–noon Saturday, June 7 & 21 3–4 p.m. Saturday, June 14, 1:30 p.m. org/events/flying-iron-baker-beach Marina Branch Library Presidio Branch Library S.F. Conservatory of Music (50 Oak St.) Learn tips for understanding and identifying Discover the most exclusive corner of Pacific Heights, Pipa master Lui Pui-yuen and guzheng master Weishan GSummit SF 2014 dementia as well as techniques for learning to live where San Francisco’s wealthiest families have built Liu are joined by other pipa, guzheng and guqin per- Tuesday, June 10, 8 a.m. with and care for someone with this baffling and mansions with spectacular bay views. Find out which formers in “The Exquisite Sound of Dancing Pearls.” Concourse Exhibition Center (635 8th St.) exasperating disease. Free, 415-355-2823, sfpl.org society family runs a nursery school from their home $40–$120, 415-668-8111, guzheng.org Learning that the keynote address will be by physics and which rehab program had its headquarters here, superstar Neil deGrasse Tyson is probably enough 13th Annual MS Duskbuster Run/Walk and more. Free, 415-355-2880, sfpl.org to get most people to sign up for this conference on Wednesday, June 11, 7 p.m. NIGHTLIFE “the science of engagement,” but there will also be Polo Fields, Golden Gate Park Dr. BJ Fogg from Stanford and 50 additional speak- Take a midweek break and help fight MS in this ers from Amazon, Oracle, Google, and many others. 5K run or 2-mile walk hosted by the National NightLife LIVE Multiple Sclerosis Society. Check the website for Thursday, June 12 Conference pass $1,095 & up, gamification.co location of the popular post-race celebration. California Academy of Sciences 415-230-6678, duskbuster.org Music and art mix in this monthly series of the Cal Academy’s NightLife programs. This month, FILM & LECTURES Total Wellness Fair hear live music by Small Black and Beacon, a Thursday, June 12, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. DJ set by Heathered Pearls, and see artist Azael Starring San Francisco Embarcadero Center Ferrer’s exhibit. Ages 21+, $12, 415-379-8000, Thursday, June 12, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Incorporating all facets of physical and mental calacademy.org Golden Gate Valley Branch Library fitness, this seminar includes a variety of health San Francisco has appeared in hundreds of mov- screenings, fitness demonstrations, a collection Chivalry Club ies and television series, from Eric von Stroheim’s of over 65 health-related booths, a blood drive, Sat–Sun, June 21–22 1924 Greed to Dirty Harry to Zodiac. See film product demonstrations, and raffle prizes. Free, The Dark Room Theater (2263 Mission St.) stills and clips that demonstrate the Bay Area’s 415-772-0700, embarcaderocenter.com S.F. Crystal Fair Audrey Rufe, Alex Choi, and a cast of — well, rich cinematic history. Free, 415-355-5666, sfpl.org six others take on modern life armed only with Keeping Seniors Safe and Connected Sat–Sun, June 14–15, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. their wit and some timely costume changes. $12, 16th Annual S.F. Black Film Festival Thursday, June 12, 3–4 p.m. Conf. Cntr., Bldg. A, Fort Mason Center eventbrite.com Thu–Sun, June 12–15 Enright Room, CHRC (2333 Buchanan St.) Discover a magical mix of crystals, beads, min- Jazz Heritage Center (1330 Fillmore St.) This presentation will explain how connecting erals, jewelry, and metaphysical healing tools. Chum Burial Clay Theater (762 Fulton St.) seniors with innovative technology is an effi- Enjoy massage services, psychic readings, Saturday, June 28, 9:30 p.m. This film festival celebrates African American cient solution to keep elders safe and well cared singing bowls, and more. $8 weekend pass, Boom Boom Room (1601 Fillmore St.) cinema and the African cultural diaspora for at home to age in place as an alternative 415-383-7837, crystalfair.com Chum is a Phish tribute band (get it?), and they’ll and displays a diverse collection of films to institutional living. Free, $10 donation sug- bring their (or Phish’s) music to San Francisco. from emerging and established filmmakers. gested, registration requested at 415-923-3155 or $12, 415-673-8000, boomboomtickets.com 415-400-4602, sfbff.org [email protected], chrcsf.org E-mail: [email protected] www.Marinatimes.com THE MARINA TIMES june 2014 23 Living

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Clockwise from left: Best seat in the house: Jaimie Belew’s “Master Bathroom and Salon”; Subdued notes: “Music Room” by Steve Henry and Michael Booth of BAMO; Oceanic Inspiration: “Woman’s Office” by Laura Larkin; Tile style: “Master Bedroom” by Antonio Martins Interior Design; Room with a view: “Artist’s Home Studio and Observatory” by Matthew MacCaul Turner

Design fusion on display Decorator Showcase: Presidio Heights mansion transformed into an eclectic work of art by maryann lorusso over that included design sensibil- through a canopy of rhododen- Interior Design, a 17th-century a nomadic tent and rugged mate- ities both old and new, with some drons led to an unanticipated bed was juxtaposed with a con- rials like denim, canvas and rope. highly anticipated unexpected twists along the way. abstract sculpture reflecting light temporary sculpture, and tradi- Other highlights included annual event, the San Visitors experienced the first and shadows in Kate Webster tional blue-and-white Portuguese Laura Larkin’s “Woman’s Office,” Francisco Decorator surprise upon entering the and Thayer Hopkins’s series of tile was shuffled into a piece of whose mallard walls, wavy drap- AShowcase outdid itself this year house and stepping into designer garden spaces. modern art. ery and light made of cascad- as an array of local talent trans- Jonathan Ranchman’s “Heroin- Other rooms in the house Kids’ rooms were a special treat ing crystal bobbles mimicked formed a 9,000-square-foot Chic” entry hall, a collision of ingenuously blended the clas- this year. Shelly Chan’s “Little the ocean; the calm and creative Presidio Heights mansion into fashion and music featuring gold sic with the contemporary. For Boy Blu” bedroom, an “upscale “Music Room” by Steve Henry an eclectically chic abode. At accents, mirrored walls, and retreat for the little gentle- and Michael Booth of BAMO, once edgy and earthy, trendy other details inspired by man of the house,” mixed the sophisticated glamour sug- and traditional, the house at model Kate Moss and the preppy details such as gested by Jaimie Belew’s “Master 3660 Jackson Street embodied song “Royals” from singer- At once edgy and earthy, Hermes bedding and a Bathroom and Salon,” and a range of styles as diverse as songwriter Lord’s album, trendy and traditional, it is Ralph Lauren wardrobe SagreraBrazil Design’s “With the city itself. Pure Heroine. Then, ascend- with playful elements like Good Company” dining room Dozens of the Bay Area’s top ing the stairs to Five Senses as diverse as SF itself. an oversized clock and whose spring colors and breezy interior and landscape designers art consultant Alex Ray’s hanging letters. Tineke design details evoked the feeling prepared the elegant red brick second floor landing, guests instance, the California coastline Trigg’s “Lily’s Pad” was inspired of an enchanted garden. house, built in 1907 by Bliss & encountered a playful mish-mash met the City of Light in the “Artist’s by a fictitious young girl who Since its inception over three Faille, the architectural team of alphabet letters one might Home Studio and Observatory” expresses herself through whim- decades ago, the San Francisco behind the St. Francis Hotel and expect to see in a playroom. by Matthew MacCaul Turner. sical design elements and fun Decorator Showcase has raised over the Masonic Temple. The estate, Equally unexpected was the dra- Inspired by the natural beauty of colors (her favorite, blue, broken $12.5 million for University High which boasts a façade of climb- matic “Mixologist Quarters,” an our state, as well as 1920s Paris, up by calming green and pops School’s financial aid program. ing focus, a three-story staircase illuminated red room lined with the soothing room featured peel- of orange and pattern to stimu- and coffered skylight, exquisitely alcoholic infusions and drink ing plaster walls, a salon hang- late her creativity). And Regan Maryann LoRusso is a writer, editor detailed woodwork, and sweep- recipes, Reba Jones’s homage to ing of art, and a sloped floor Baker Design’s “Little Roamer’s and the founder of RedTypewriter. ing views of the Presidio and San the increasingly popular cocktail- painted blue. And in the “Master Room,” a safari-themed adven- com, a fashion, culture and lifestyle Francisco Bay, flaunted a make- blending culture. And a passage Bedroom” by Antonio Martins ture featured movable furniture, magazine for women. Five exciting trends in home decorating

1. Blue notes. From dreamy aqua to of rooms were dedicated to the art of ers overlooking lush gardens made 5. Conversation pieces. The art and the most dramatic cobalt, blue was the drinking. Vintage, manly touches such these female-inspired spaces worthy lighting throughout were awe-inspir- color of choice this year. The relaxed as humidor trunks, cocktail shakers, of relaxation. ing. Consider a mesh sculpture that hue found its way onto a huge range and pinup-girl wallpaper are putting a 4. Kids with personality. The chil- could be moved and manipulated into of home décor—from upholstery and decidedly more sophisticated spin on the dren’s spaces this year tapped into the an infinite number of shapes, or a rugs, to pillows and tiles and even floor man-cave concept. wild minds of the kids who were envi- menagerie of alphabet letters that occu- paint. While some designers used it as an 3. Ladies’ luxe. Why should the sioned to live in them. Whether the pied prime real estate on the wall of the accent color, others bathed entire rooms guys have all the fun? This year’s theme was adventure safari or little second-floor landing. And how about in this heavenly hue. showcase turned on the charm for prepster, the rooms reflected the spe- an oceanic crystal chandelier whose 2. Cocktail couture. In what felt like the girls as well — at least the ones cific interests and personalities of the strands swayed like the legs of a deep- a flashback to the 1960s, the cocktail who appreciate ample closet space, littlest home dwellers. From tent-like sea creature? Show-stopping pieces, culture revealed itself in several spots boudoir-like room accessories, and window treatments to wall and ceiling often with an interactive element, are throughout the house. The latest bar bathrooms built for a spa queen. decorations worthy of Kay Thompson’s what this trend is all about. craze—creative mixology—is now work- Sensuous touches like dripping chan- Eloise, the execution was both fashion- ing itself into the home, and a couple deliers and master-bathroom reclin- forward and fun. — M. LoRusso

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Kids? Check. Canoe? Check. Dogs? Check. Wait, where’s mom? photo: Laurel Frazier Favorite family friendly apps for summer travel

by liz farrell then trying to find a stamp and a mailbox. This new-wave app is a great chool is almost out for summer way to share your summer adventures ar and that means many families will with family and friends at home — Skyl be hitting the road. No matter especially those who may not be on Swhere your travel takes you, getting there Facebook or Instagram (gasp). It uses with children in tow can sometimes be your custom photos to send hard-copy challenging, especially during the sum- postcards that can be personalized with mer months. Navigating long lines, delays, a message and even your signature. The and the inevitable question, “Are we there app is free, but you need a credit card or yet?” can all be frustrating. As parents, we have to pack some patience along with an arsenal of fully loaded technological The app gives you the ideas, devices — iPads with movies and then you enjoy some and phones fully charged with plenty of games, which seems device-free family game time. to be a staple for family travel these days. Technology can also be used PayPal to pay for the actual postcards to help explore a city, send memories back and mailing. to loved ones, and increase enjoyment of Families might even want to send post- family time together. cards to their home address — this will make Here are three of my family’s must-have for a great surprise when you get back to travel apps to ensure everyone enjoys relive the adventures and fun memories with the ride: keepsake postcards.

MOMMY NEAREST FAMILY CAR GAMES Whether you want to venture to This app includes instructions for over a new neighborhood in the city or 100 creative games that can be played you are packing your bags for back anywhere. What I love about this app is East, this new app, geared primar- you don’t actually play the games on the ily for families with young children, device; the app gives you the ideas and the is one you will want. It’s free and directions and then you can enjoy some uses “mom experts” from each city to “device-free” family game time. There are find the best kid-friendly resources. games for all ages, and no one has to fight Parents use their location to find res- over the phone or tablet. It does cost $1.99, taurants, indoor/outdoor activities, but the variety and fun it will bring is well doctors, and even the nearest chang- worth the nominal cost. ing tables or nursing areas. Mommy We recently used this on a road trip, Nearest CEO Josh Milstein, says, “We and it was great because we could all want to be a community for parents by play together and it kept everyone in the backseat happy and distract- ed. There are some classics like I Spy, Rock Paper Scissors The app uses “mom experts” and Tic-Tac-Toe, but it also includes some fun new games from each city to find the best like Grandma Is So Weird! kid-friendly resources. and License Plate Addition. Apps can be a great way to parents, so think of it as a combina- access information and entertain — two musts tion of Yelp and Four Square geared for summer travel. However, summer is also to kid-friendly resources.” There are a great time to unplug and create memories resources for New York, Chicago, and that can’t be found on a screen. Sometimes now San Francisco with more cities as parents, we need to not only remind our coming later this year. children but also ourselves the importance of putting away the technological devices and to POSTCARD ON THE RUN just be present. Everyone loves receiving mail, especially grandparents. This app makes Liz Farrell is the mother of three young sending postcards as easy as a click children. She was formerly a television and a signature. Gone are the days producer in Washington, DC, and San searching for the perfect postcard and Francisco. E-mail: [email protected]

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Fort Mason once served as an Army Post for more than 100 years. Recognizing the geographic and economic importance of the San Francisco Bay, the land was originally named the Port of San Francisco by President Millard Beekeeper Terry Oxford tends to one of his hives Fillmore and was known to locals as Black Point. By 1855, large and expensive homes were built and soon became the preferred location for San Gillian Silver Francisco’s elite and well educated. To this day, Toboni & Co. Honeybees and other three of Fort Mason’s oldest buildings still stand c. 415.297.5572 and were once homes in this private and wealthy d. 415.345.3131 community – Brooks House, Haskell House and [email protected] helpful garden insects Palmers House. Fort Mason now serves as a living BRE# 01523027 community, popular park and the Center houses an art museum, music school, bookstore and by julia strzesieski Flowers/Annuals: calendula, marigold, Greens Restaurant. poppies, sunflowers, and zinnias For a Custom Designed Market ee pollination is directly re- Vegetables: cucumbers, melons, peppers, sponsible for more than $15 billion pumpkins, squash, and watermelons Analysis and Opinion of Value on your annually in increased crop value. Perennials: lavender — French and Property (at no cost of obligation), BThis translates to about one mouthful in Provence, scented geraniums, and sedum or if you are interested in buying three of our everyday diets that directly or autumn joy property, please call 415.345.3131 or indirectly benefit from honeybee pollina- email [email protected] tion. Commercial farming of many specialty BENEFICIAL, BEAUTIFUL BUGS crops like almonds and other tree nuts, ber- Both pest and beneficial insects have ries, fruits, and vegetables, are dependent on always been around, maintaining nature’s honeybee pollination. These are among the balance. Beneficial insects fill two main roles foods that give our diet flavor, nutritional in the garden ecosystem: plant pollinators value, and diversity. Almonds, for example, and pest insect predators as a natural form of are completely reliant on honeybees for pol- pest control. When native and other desirable lination. The California almond industry plants are allowed to bloom, they attract ben- requires 1.4 million honeybee colonies, or eficial insects with their nectar and pollen. roughly 60 percent of all managed honeybee Ladybugs add attractive color to a garden colonies in the United States. while fighting pests. Release them at night Honeybees are not native to the United (so they don’t fly away), at the base of plants. States and first came from Europe with the They naturally climb up plants and will eat early settlers. The United States does have aphids, mites, thrips, leafhoppers, and many native pollinators, but the European honey- other destructive soft-bodied insects. They bees are more prolific and easier for com- continue until the bad guys are gone, laying mercial-level pollination of a wide assort- their own eggs in the process. When new ment of crops. pests arrive, fresh ladybugs will be waiting. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is a phe- Praying mantids are an all-purpose gar- nomenon in which worker bees from a bee- den guardian and eat a wide variety of hive abruptly disappear. The total number of insects, including crickets, aphids, and managed honeybee colonies has decreased spiders — virtually any pest that moves. from 5 million in the 1940s to only 2.5 mil- Because they don’t fly, they stay in the area lion today. Because a great many of our food where they are released. sources are directly tied to honeybee pollina- These plants will attract beneficial bugs to tion, CCD is of great concern. Neonicotinoids your garden: are a class of insecticides with properties sim- • Parsley family (parsley, fennel, coriander, ilar to nicotine. The use of these insecticides dill, and chervil) in some countries is restricted due to some • Sunflower family (sunflowers, daisies, evidence of a connection to CCD. asters, and cosmos) Although it might not seem that honeybees • Sweet alyssum, native buckwheat, baby are prevalent in San Francisco, they actually blue eyes, and tidy tips do thrive in the city — thanks to the efforts of These insects can be purchased to add to beekeepers and honeybee activists like Terry your garden: Oxford (urbanbeesf.com). Oxford tends to Beneficial nematodes assault flea larvae healthy rooftop colonies atop some of the city’s in the soil, bark, or ground litter. They also finest eateries: Quince, Cotogna, Jardiniere, attack more than 230 kinds of garden pests Nopa, and Tony’s Pizza Napoletana. Oxford and go to work quickly. is just one of several urban beekeepers that Earthworms, such as Red Wrigglers, bur- include the San Francisco Chronicle, which row 24 hours a day and aerate the soil, bring- also keeps rooftop hives. ing oxygen to the roots. Organic material is What can you do to help the honeybees? turned into nutrient-rich casting. Plant flowers, vegetables, and herbs that attract honeybees. When purchasing your It is important to note that beneficial plants, make sure to confirm with the garden insects do not tolerate residual pesticides center that neonicotinoids insecticides are well. If you have been using one, discontinue not used on the plants that they offer. Here use and wait a month before introducing are a few honeybee favorites: beneficial insects to your garden. Herbs: anise hyssop, bee balm – monarda, borage, catnip, cilantro, echinacea, fennel, Julia Strzesieski is the marketing coordina- lavender mint, oregano, pennyroyal, rose- tor of Cole Hardware and can be reached at mary, sage, and thyme [email protected].

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Real Estate Today Market appreciation Techies give birth to micro neighborhoods Where is the Mastro, Baja Noe and the Quad? by carole isaacs ple listing service) neighborhoods changes mean to sellers and buy- Anything that will draw buyers Buyers shopping for a home are already out of date in some ers in San Francisco? to a home for sale is a benefit for in San Francisco know neigh- few years ago I worked areas. Who would not expect • As far as the San Francisco sellers. This will also help buyers borhoods like the Mission and with an older — now the new residents of the Upper MLS goes, the boundar- narrow the focus of their search. Bernal Heights have almost retired — agent who Market, Castro, and Mission ies of neighborhoods on the • Online, both sellers and buy- overnight become incredibly Asaid, “There are no bad neigh- Dolores and the agents who work real estate map are even more ers are at the mercy of real estate desirable, but only buyers on borhoods in San Francisco any- these areas to come up with names important today than ever. Over search engines, where a location the cutting edge will be talking more.” It felt like a bit of an and boundaries to describe their 90 percent of all buyers begin search must be configured by about Baja Noe, the Mastro, or over-generalization to me, but gentrified neighborhoods? their searches online. In San defined San Francisco neighbor- the Quad. One thing we have considering his senior status I The San Francisco MLS has Francisco it is probably more hood districts, zip code, or radi- all come to accept as the norm politely agreed by not disagree- added Mastro (the upper market like 99 percent, so these new us. To my knowledge, it is not is that in San Francisco we ing. Those who know me will and Castro area) and Baja Noe neighborhood boundaries are yet possible to search online a are on the cutting edge of the think this must have involved (borders between 21st and 23rd important to learn. For exam- free-form area such as the Quad universe as far as real estate extraordinary self control on my Streets and Dolores and Valencia) ple, if a search is for Noe Valley, that does not follow exact streets. goes, and to buy a home here part, because rarely do I find to their online maps. However, it will not show listings in a sev- • Buyers who are looking to it is important to know and a reason to hold my tongue. these are not searchable areas of eral block area that is now being find a home in the Quad must understand the most current Here we are today, and I feel the MLS. More recently the Quad called Baja Noe and overlaps search three areas: Mission information available. this agent’s comment would be has sprung to life. Exact bor- into the Inner Mission. This can Dolores, Eureka Valley/Dolores There is no easy solution to an understatement in the cur- ders here are difficult to name, be costly to homeowners who Heights, and the Inner Mission. finding a home in San Francisco, rent real estate market. Owning a because they do not all follow live in Baja Noe, but not Noe This cuts a large swatch of area but staying up-to-date with home anywhere in San Francisco specific streets. The area partly Valley. They will more likely in the city, and I recommend that the evolution in the neighbor- is a fabulous thing, and if the covers from Mid-Market to the than not miss out on reaching buyers become familiar with the hoods is important. Yesterday’s area feels a bit edgy it is a plus Castro, parts of Eureka Valley/ a group of well-heeled buyers names of the streets and alleys edgy neighborhood may well be for many buyers. Dolores Heights, the Inner unless their agent is carefully and even the street numbers so tomorrow’s hot spot — with pric- This does not mean that gour- Mission, and Noe Valley. In fact, marketing their home while they can quickly scan new list- es to prove it. How does a buyer met vanilla is out of fashion. the Quad is so new it is not on keeping in mind the importance ings that come up in their search keep up? Connect with a agent Homes in the Northside are sell- the MLS online map. Key to the of the micro neighborhood dis- parameters. Also, this is when who works in San Francisco and ing at between $5 million and $10 new neighborhoods, more than tricts using the keyword “Baja buyers really need an agent who understands the nuances of the million, and currently there is a being walk-to-coffee areas, is that Noe” in their online advertising. is keeping up daily with new San Francisco real estate market. home at 2724 Pacific listed on the they include the routes of the • Sellers can certainly adver- listings and will let them know MLS for $30 million. corporate shuttles and are walk- tise their homes as being in the as soon as a new home comes Carole Isaacs is a Realtor with The real news here is that the to-shuttle areas. Mastro, Baja Noe, or the Quad, onto the market that meets their McGuire Real Estate. Visit her recently reconfigured boundaries This is curious stuff, but what and buyers may search these needs. The same is true of the online at www.caroleisaacs.com or of the San Francisco MLS (multi- do these neighborhood name keywords online for homes. Mastro and Baja Noe, of course. call 415-608-1267.

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The Marina Times Real Estate Real Estate Roundup Property briefs Market Report: April 2014 By Hill & Co. The cost of living … here

SINGLE FAMILY HOME SALES by john zipperer onto nearby farmland and natural BEDROOMS/ ABOVE/AT/BELOW DAYS ON habitats. In the large-metro area cat- Neighborhood Address Bathrooms Sale Price Asking Price Market EARNING POWER egory, the San Francisco area (defined Cow Hollow (no sales) You need an annual income of as “San Francisco/San Mateo/Redwood

Lake 180 8th Avenue 2BD/1.5BA $1,240,000 At 0 $137,129 to purchase a home in San City”) ranked as the second most 118 17th Avenue 3BD/3BA $2,375,000 Above 6 Francisco, according to mortgage compact, non-sprawling area in the 138 16th Avenue 5BD/4.5BA $3,110,000 Below 36 20 16th Avenue 4BD/3.5BA $3,150,000 Above 14 research firm country, accord- 152 7th Avenue 4BD/4.5BA $3,650,000 Above 10 HSH.com; that ing to the report

Laurel Heights 66 Cook Street 2BD/1BA $915,000 Above 32 number lands “Measuring

Lone Mountain (no sales) this city in the Sprawl 2014” number-one released in April Marina 230 Capra Way 3BD/4BA $3,050,000 Above 12 3715 Broderick Street 4BD/3.5BA $3,150,000 Above 13 spot nationwide by research and

Nob Hill (no sales) — and by quite a advocacy orga- margin. Second nization Smart North Beach (no sales) place is occupied Growth America. Pacific Heights 2339 Laguna Street 4BD/4.5BA $3,200,000 Above 19 by San Diego, The metro area 2557 California Street 4BD/4BA $3,610,000 Above 13 2800 Pacific Avenue 6BD/5BA $8,600,000 Below 609 where you’ll ranked first is 2330 Lyon Street 6BD/6.5BA $10,117,400 Below 180 need to pull in the New York Presidio Heights 3867 Jackson Street 6BD/5BA $5,125,000 Above 8 $98,534 to pur- City region. 3725 Washington Street 5BD/7.5BA $8,400,000 Below 203 chase a home. The number- Russian Hill 717 Bay Street 2BD/2BA $1,350,000 Above 57 Consider that one most com- Sea Cliff 287 28th Avenue 4BD/3.5BA $2,500,000 Below 35 the median house- pact medium- 420 El Camino Del Mar 4BD/3BA $6,500,000 Above 13 hold income in sized metro area Telegraph Hill 305 Filbert Street 2BD/2.5BA $2,750,000 Below 125 San Francisco is (with popula- 41 Castle Street 4BD/4.5BA $3,625,000 Above 5 about $72,000 tion between (see “The shape- 500,000 and 1 CONDOS Mayor Ed Lee says he’s speeded up the shifting city,” million) was BEDROOMS/ ABOVE/AT/BELOW DAYS ON development of new housing in the city Neighborhood Address Bathrooms Sale Price Asking Price Market page one of photo: Zboralski Madison, Wisc. this issue). The — a fact worth Cow Hollow 2945 Baker Street #5 0BD/1BA $324,000 Below 78 estimates are based on median home noting only because this writer was 2831-2833 Webster Street #4 3BD/2.5BA $1,161,000 Above 31 3025 Broderick Street 3BD/2.5BA $2,200,000 Above 4 prices, mortgage rates, and standard born there. 2769 Union Street 3BD/2BA $2,320,000 Above 23 assumptions of debt and 20 percent Meanwhile, holding up the Lake 2233 Lake Street 1BD/1BA $600,000 Above 65 down payments. other end of the scales among 2415 Lake Street 2BD/1.5BA $899,000 At 28 4132 California Street #Upper 2BD/1.25BA $975,000 Above 13 If it matters, Cleveland’s house buy- large metro areas and taking home 155 24th Avenue #4 3BD/2BA $1,625,000 Above 23 ers only need to earn $29,788. the award for the most sprawl-

Laurel Heights 63 Cook Street #A 2BD/1BA $1,000,000 Above 14 ing is Atlanta, GA; Madison is MAYOR LEE SAYS Lone Mountain 155 Wood Street #155 3BD/2BA $735,000 Above 30 counterweighted by sprawling 15 Loyola Terrace 2BD/1BA $1,060,000 Above 22 THE HOUSING is COMING Baton Rouge, LA, in the medium- Marina 1500 Bay Street #202 0BD/1BA $518,000 At 53 Speaking at the opening of the new sized category. 3324 Octavia Street #2 1BD/1BA $840,000 Above 26 2230 Francisco Street #111 1BD/1BA $930,000 Above 13 Rene Cazenave Apartments complex, There are benefits beyond just not 1921 Jefferson Street #105 2BD/2BA $968,000 At 26 San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said taking away the habitats of wild- 3132 Franklin Street 2BD/1BA $1,200,000 Above 29 1500 Francisco Street #11 3BD/2BA $1,625,000 Above 25 the city was making progress toward life. “People in compact, connect- 1934 Jefferson Street 3BD/3BA $2,475,000 Below 49 reaching his goal of developing or ed counties tend to live longer,” the 1738 Lombard Street #4 2BD/2BA $1,235,000 Below 52 rehabilitating 30,000 new homes by report notes. For every doubling in Nob Hill 1260 Clay Street #207 1BD/1BA $640,000 Above 11 1440 Broadway #406 1BD/1BA $760,000 Above 36 2020. “With more than 2,000 homes the score used to index metropolitan 1250 Sacramento Street #4 1BD/1BA $875,000 Above 63 completed for residents in the first areas, “life expectancy increases by 1776 Sacramento Street #608 3BD/2BA $1,190,000 Above 32 1201 California Street #1401 2BD/2BA $1,195,000 At 50 quarter of 2014, we are well ahead of about four percent. For the average 1788 Clay Street #608 2BD/2BA $1,226,000 Above 62 our annual goal of completing 5,000 1242 Sacramento Street #3 1BD/1.5BA $1,250,000 Below 38 American with a life expectancy of 78 1601 Pacific Avenue #401 2BD/2BA $1,350,000 Above 26 units a year,” the mayor said. “And years, this translates into a three-year 1355 Pacific Avenue #405 2BD/2BA $1,600,000 Above 8 1100 Sacramento Street #304 3BD/3BA $2,225,000 Below 151 by continuing to prioritize housing difference in life expectancy between 1170 Sacramento Street #6C 2BD/2.5BA $2,425,000 Above 34 projects such as the Rene Cazenave people in a less-compact versus a 1100 Sacramento Street #208 3BD/3.5BA $3,200,000 Below 71 Apartments, we are delivering on our more-compact county.” North Beach 460 Francisco Street #303 1BD/1BA $740,000 Above 14 520 Chestnut Street #401 2BD/2.5BA $1,445,000 Below 33 pledge to help San Francisco families 28 Vandewater Street 3BD/2.5BA $1,725.000 Above 32 and residents from all levels of the MORTGAGE CALM

Pacific Heights 2211 California Street #403 0BD/1BA $407,500 Above 14 economic spectrum call San Francisco Mortgage rates have continued to 1800 Washington Street #414 0BD/1BA $550,000 Above 15 home.” Those numbers compare to edge downward, reaching levels last 2145 California Street #2 1BD/1BA $600,000 Above 0 2217 Pacific Avenue #6 1BD/1BA $715,000 Above 29 just 2,499 new housing units con- seen 11 months ago, according to 2999 California Street #302 1BD/1BA $750,000 Above 20 1800 Washington Street #219 2BD/2BA $962,500 Above 24 structed in all of 2013. research firm HSH.com. The com- 2200 Sacramento Street #506 2BD/2BA $1,000,000 Above 2 A key part of the mayor’s pledge is pany’s Weekly Mortgage Rates Radar 1701 Jackson Street #409 2BD/2BA $1,038,000 At 1 2299 Sacramento Street #18 2BD1BA $1,075,000 Above 12 that at least one-third of the 30,000 reported in late May that the average 1770 Pacific Avenue #302 2BD/2BA $1,080,000 Above 27 3065 Clay Street #101 1BD/1.5BA $1,100,000 Above 18 new or rehabbed units will be afford- rate for conforming 30-year fixed-rate 2111 Franklin Street #4 2BD/2BA $1,180,000 Below 137 able to low-income families and a mortgages fell seven basis points to 1990 Green Street #101 2BD/1.5BA $1,200,000 Above 15 1940 Sacramento Street #5 3BD/2BA $1,370,000 Below 8 majority to people in the middle class. reach 4.20 percent. 2665 Sacramento Street 4BD/1.25BA $1,400,000 Above 11 “Mortgage rates have now bypassed 2049 Vallejo Street 2BD/2BA $1,730,000 Above 12 1999 Broadway #62 3BD/3BA $1,975,000 Above 20 CONDO PRICES ZOOM UPWARD six-month lows, heading all the way 3230 Washington Street 3BD/2BA $2,010,000 Above 7 3042 Jackson Street #4 2BD/2BA $2,020,000 Above 25 Available units are down and prices back to levels seen last June,” said 2990 Clay Street #2 2BD/2BA $2,075,000 Above 18 are going ever-higher for San Francisco Keith Gumbinger, HSH.com vice 3042 Jackson Street #1 3BD/2BA $2,150,000 Above 17 2302 Divisadero Street 4BD/2.5BA $2,400,000 Above 42 condominiums, reports San Francisco president. “Of course, rates were 2139 Green Street #F 2BD/2BA $2,900,000 Above 7 1960 Broadway #8 3BD/3BA $4,995,000 At 55 Business Times real estate reporter on the rise at that time, after then- 2000 Washington Street #3 3BD/4.5BA $9,400,000 Below 189 Blanca Torres. In April, condominium chairman Ben Bernanke discussed

Presidio Heights 3351 Clay Street #2 3BD/2BA $1,498,000 At 0 prices were up 19 percent over April coming changes in Federal Reserve 3920 Sacramento Street 3BD/2BA $1,550,000 Above 21 2013, reaching an average of $1,115 policy, most specifically that the Fed’s 3565 Sacramento Street 3BD/2BA $1,555,000 Above 23 3480 Clay Street 3BD/2BA $2,010,514 Above 5 per square foot for new condos. Not [emergency bond purchase] program 3997 Washington Street 4BD/2BA $2,125,000 Below 26 3467 Jackson Street 4BD/2BA $2,325,000 Above 9 surprisingly, the law of supply and would end at some point. We’re now 3284 Jackson Street 4BD/2.5BA $2,350,000 Above 19 demand was having its revenge in this about midway through that ‘tapering’

Russian Hill 2340 Larkin Street #1 1BD/1.5BA $1,100,000 At 31 notoriously difficult-to-develop town; process, and mortgage rates are lower 1000 North Point Street #701 2BD/2BA $1,200,000 Above 13 Torres writes that inventory (available than they have been in months.” 935 Union Street 2BD/3.5BA $1,400,000 Above 64 1834 Mason Street 2BD/2BA $1,635,000 Below 2 units) was down by 45 percent from a 1150 Lombard Street #9 3BD/2.5BA $2,600,000 Below 46 1070 Green Street #1201 3BD/3.5BA $3,600,000 At 0 year earlier. WHERE TO FIND a hot home 2390 Hyde Street #3 3BD/3.5BA $5,500,000 Below 61 “Located in the Sunny Google Sea Cliff (no sales) NOT SO SPRAWLY AFTER ALL TechPath of Progress” — Promo

Telegraph Hill 369-377 Green Street 2BD/1BA $699,000 At 0 As America’s population expands text for Noe Valley home advertised past 311 million and its cities continue on Redfin. The data presented in this report is based on the San Francisco Multiple Listing Service and is to grow, some of them are doing bet- accurate to the best of our knowledge, but cannot be guaranteed as such. For additional information, ter than others at containing sprawl News tips: [email protected] contact Hill & Co., 1880 Lombard Street (at Buchanan), 415-321-4362, www.hill-co.com.

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Real Estate Update Selling Pricing a home in today’s market by stephanie saunders ahlberg and look at comparable sales and times less, but this seems a good make a plus/minus analysis com- rule of thumb. ricing a home is tricky paring the features of the home What about preemptive or off- in any market, but more- against the comparables. This market offers? With increasing so in a market like we will enable the agent to develop frequency, homes are being sold Great location, fixer-upper in garden district photo: HaeckDesign / flickr Phave right now. In today’s mar- a pricing strategy and recom- before they appear on the mul- ket, if the home is priced well, mendation. Most agents try to tiple listing service, for everyone my May column, buyers simply that you and your agent review it will sell quickly. The good price the home at market value to see. Why? There are a lot of have to be prepared to make the pricing process, look at any news for sellers is that buyers are and then let the offers come as qualified and cash buyers in the clean, aggressive offers over new comparables, find the most not shy about bidding over the they may. The plan is usually to market today, and many of them the asking price. Until supply recent sales data, and then adjust asking price. However, if priced expose the home to the market are tired of not getting the win- increases or demand lessens, we the price accordingly. too low, you may simply get for a given period of time and set ning bid. In some cases a seller will continue to see this happen. Of course, there may be too many offers — like a recent an offer date. The agent will be will take an off-market offer if The experts think this will con- other issues with the home property in Pacific Heights that able to judge, by the interest level he or she feels it is high enough tinue in San Francisco for a few that prevent it from attracting received more than 35. — and that typically means more years. offers. It might be the home That sounds wonder- more than both the seller Now, what if a home is not itself or even the neighbor- ful on paper, but it real- and agent feel it will fetch selling? Even that can happen in hood. Regardless, it ultimately ly doesn’t serve anyone If a home is not selling? The on the open market. I call this crazy market. always boils down to price. well. It takes the seller it a “buy-it-now price.” I The answer is usually price, Any property will sell at the and agent quite a lot of answer is usually price; it recently had such a sale, and it is possible to price your right price. Your agent will time to sort through all is possible to price your and the seller was delight- home too high. Sometimes it help you determine a good of the offers, and all but ed — didn’t have to spend is overpriced because the sell- price for your property, but at one buyer will end up home too high. a lot of money getting the er “assisted” in the pricing and the end of the day, the market disappointed. Of course, home prepared for sale, wants more than it is worth, or will always have the last word. if priced too high, a property can and number of disclosure pack- and didn’t have to keep it “show it’s a number that’s simply too sit around for a while even in this ages given out, approximately ready” while on the market. It high to attract offers. Sometimes Stephanie Saunders Ahlberg has brisk market. So what is the best how many offers the property was truly a win-win situation. the agent may not be familiar been a real estate agent for over approach to pricing? might receive. Of course, this is Why are homes selling for enough with a given neighbor- 30 years and joined Hill & Co. Ideally, your agent will come only a guess. We figure about over asking? Well, that’s easy hood, and may not price the in 1983, where she has consis- to your home, possibly with one offer for every two or three to explain. Supply is low and property properly. tently been among the top 10 some colleagues, to evaluate it disclosure packages requested. demand is high. This creates In any event, if your home salespeople. She can be reached at for pricing. They then go back Sometimes it is more and some- multiple offers. As I explained in is not selling, I would suggest www.realtyinsanfrancisco.com.

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32 june 2014 THE MARINA TIMES www.marinatimes.com Renting S.F. ranks near top of nation’s rental markets There is no such thing as cheap by john zipperer then they can make their percent cheaper than rent- Francisco More Affordable.” move. But when a market ing an equivalent place. Solutions in-clude retaining he headlines are is as inventory-restricted Earlier this year, a San the city’s 172,000 rent-con- depressing if you’re as is San Francisco, where Francisco landlord caused trolled units of housing; rein- a renter and exciting constrained and very costly much forehead slapping vesting in public housing; Tif you’re a landlord. “New development has led to a and exclamations of “He’s doubling the amount of sub- numbers show San Francisco severe shortage of compet- crazy” when he distributed sidized affordable housing; has nation’s highest rents,” ing units, prices for both a letter to his tenants of a increasing housing supply reported the Examiner in late for-sale and for-rent units rent-controlled apartment at all income levels; experi- 2013. “Rent At Dilapidated are sky-high. on Fillmore Street in the menting with new types of San Francisco Lower Haight And rent prices are high. Lower Haight telling them group housing; and using Apartment Unit Raised To As of April of this year, they needed an income of property taxes to improve $6,200 A Month,” says CBS the average rent for apart- at least $100,000 and a high growing neighborhoods. San Francisco Bay Area. ments within 10 miles of credit score to rent. (The But even the optimists at And, in what might have San Francisco is $3,437, Do you have $100,000? letter has reportedly since SPUR conclude that “the been intended as a posi- according to Rent Jungle; a been rescinded — not sur- only solution that will actu- tive sign, Curbed SF wrote one-bedroom in the city can According to Rent.com, 2003, when the San prising, considering that it ally benefit the vast majority “SF Now Only the Fourth cost $2,897 and two bed- a three-bedroom unit in Francisco real estate mar- was blatantly inappropriate of people who need help is Least Affordable Rental rooms average $3,898. Rent the city will cost $4,962 a ket had yet to become an if not illegal.) to fix the supply problem. Market in US.” Jungle’s listing of the most month, less than number- out-of-control bubble but The political effects of Most of the measures we can Nearly two-thirds of San expensive rents in the city by one New York City but it still was well on its way there. this sticker shock involve a enact will take years, if not Francisco housing units neighborhood has Presidio makes one wonder what was When low mort- never-ending tug-and-pull decades, to show results.” are occupied by renters. Heights at more than in that dilapidated Lower gage rates are taken into between people who say the So there’s no quick fix. The Compare that to the nation- $4,500, with the Marina Haight apartment to corral account, buying a home city needs to build a lot more prices aren’t going to deflate al figure that more than two- in second place. South of $6,200 a month. in San Francisco looks housing at all income levels significantly. And you can thirds of the country’s hous- Market is the least expen- In late May, The New York somewhat more attractive and people who say the city look forward to many more ing is owner-occupied. sive rental neighborhood Times reported: — but with a 10 percent has to focus on affordable headlines like “Anti-eviction When house purchase tracked, and it is also well In the San Francisco Bay down payment and prevail- housing. For now, Mayor Ed group publishes list of tech prices are sky-high, as over $3,000. Area, home of the sharp- ing interest rates, buying Lee is attempting to walk the landlords with history of they currently are in San Different sources will est recent price increases, a home is 6 percent more line between the two, trying evictions in San Francisco” Francisco, that generally track different data, but the sale price of a home expensive than renting a to speed up planning and and “San Francisco artists means the rent versus own whatever your source, San is about 20 times what it place of the same size, the increase production of units struggle with rising cost of balance tips in favor of rent- Francisco still pops up would cost to rent a home same premium for buying at all price points. living” and “City employ- ing. Renters who want to among the leaders in the of the same size for a as there was during the dot- The urban advocacy ees say they can’t afford buy are advised to stay put nation in terms of high year. That ratio, based on com boom in 1999. Just group SPUR outlined its sug- to live in S.F.” and bank their extra cash rents — and pain for both an analysis of data from two years ago, buying in the gestions in a policy proposal until housing prices deflate, developers and renters. Zillow, is the same as in San Francisco area was 24 called “8 Ways to Make San E-mail: [email protected]

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he story popped up in my Facebook feed one day. It told of a dog that loved his food dearly, always wolfing it down in one go. Then Tthe dog’s family noticed that he wasn’t finishing his food; he always left a little bit, no matter how much they coaxed him to eat it. One night, they spied a cat slipping in the kitchen window and finishing off the dog’s food. The dog had been leaving the extra food for the stray cat. The family adopted the cat, which was pregnant, and the dog took care of the kittens and the mother as if they were his very own. Like you, I thought, Aww, and I looked down to where my big cat Charlie was sitting beneath my desk. Charlie also loves his food dearly, but he’d walk over the heads of blind nuns to get to his food and make sure no one else touched it. It’s not just a general cat thing. Other cats we’ve had Honey Boo Boo, a former meat rabbit breeder, was recently adopted photo: renee dodge have been much more laid back about food. Our second cat, Ashes, usually prefers to run around the house and rub against our legs than eat. For Charlie, it’s always Thought Number 1, and it borders on the pathological. Marcy Schaaf He can’t read a clock, but he has a good sense of when it’s his mealtime. At our old apartment, the first morning bus rumbled past each morning about 20 minutes Founder and executive director, SaveABunny before I got up, so he was always ready on weekdays; weekends he would sleep in a bit longer, because the bus by susan dyer reynolds released, and wild rabbits don’t as a class rabbit was stressful, unnatu- drove past later. tame as indoor pets. ral for a prey animal, and the care I haven’t figured out how he tells time in our new How did you get involved with My only other experiences with she received was inconsistent as she location, where the bus schedule is quite different. It bunny rescue? rabbits had not been that good. As a went from home to home. I was a bit might be a neighbor’s dog barking after it’s let outside I found a rabbit while walking very young child, my family had an traumatized and as such, as an adult, I first thing in the morning, or perhaps someone else in my dog. I knew virtually noth- outdoor hutch rabbit, which met a took great pains to teach myself prop- the building gets up at the same time to shower, and he ing about rabbits except that this very common fate for outdoor rab- er rabbit care. The rabbit I found was can hear the water in the pipes. particular rabbit was not a wild bits — she was killed by some sort incredibly smart, got along great with However Charlie does it, he does it, and he is very rabbit (she was white and brown). of predator. And when I was in third our cats and dog, and opened my eyes serious about this thing called Eating. At his meal times, Many people don’t know that wild grade, we took home the class rab- to how special these misunderstood 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., he will employ every one of the many rabbits and domestic rabbits are bit. I remember sitting outside with little beings are — and how much cat languages he knows, from meowing to chirping to not even the same species. They her feeding her grass and raisins (not they deserve equal love and advocacy squeaking. If I am sitting reading, he will occasionally can’t interbreed with wild rabbits. good). She died overnight. Given what devoted to other companion animals. rise up and stick his head and front paws on the chair’s Domestic rabbits can’t survive if I now know about rabbit care, her life marcy schaaf, continued on 36 fat cat, continued on 36

Political Animal Trigger-happy Three dogs dead in three months by SFPD (and no officer training in sight) by susan dyer reynolds and six other officers were at the scene. “As I went to the front door uke was a good dog,” to attempt to make contact with the Raymond Jojola said, his other party, Ofc. Dominguez and voice trembling. “He was Ofc. Hart went around the building DSantana’s dog, so he had to be.” to cover the rear door,” he says. “I Santana was the three-year-old heard numerous gun shots from son of Jojola’s best friend, Esther the other side of the building … San Francisco Animal Care and Control planned to put Duke up for adoption, but he died during Ioane. Both, along with one of the Ofc. Dominguez advised me that surgery to amputate his badly damaged leg family dogs, perished in a fire on he had discharged his firearm at April 17 that ripped through a unit an off leash pitbull that advanced “Duke was in the living room. shot that got him in the backside.” of people around who could have of the Sunnydale public housing toward him and Ofc. Hart in an People were coming in and out Other people with Jojola dur- been shot, too,” one woman said. complex in Visitacion Valley. The aggressive manner.” and the door was open. Duke got ing the interview corroborated his “My stepson was right there when only survivor was the second family Officer Ma later says that he spooked when he heard the com- story, saying they witnessed Duke they were shooting,” said another. dog, a 13-month-old male pit bull spoke to Jojola, who “apologized motion and ran outside, and I fol- returning to the house after the first In the police report, the type of mix puppy named Duke. Left with- for Duke charging at the officers,” lowed him to bring him back in the gunshot, but that numerous shots incident is listed as “stray or vicious out an owner, Jojola took Duke in. and that Jojola said, “Duke ran out house. I was right behind him, call- were fired after that (something dog,” but Duke was neither stray On April 23, San Francisco police the front door off leash and charged ing his name, and all of a sudden Officer Ma also says in his report), nor vicious. According to behavior officers responded to Sunnydale on the officers.” But Jojola and other there was a gunshot, which scared and it was one of those subsequent assessment notes obtained by the a domestic violence call in a build- Sunnydale residents tell a very dif- him; he was heading back to me — shots that hit him. The residents Marina Times from San Francisco ing approximately 80 feet away ferent story. his back was to the police — when were also concerned that so many Animal Care and Control (ACC), from Jojola’s residence. In the police “We just got back from the wake,” there was a bunch more shots. I people, including children, were Duke was a sweet, loving dog who report, Officer Karl Ma says that he Jojola said in a phone interview. think it was the second or third in the vicinity. “There were a lot Trigger-happy, continued on 36

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Also, awareness of and proper They choose to be with you. meat. She was one of the breeder care of companion rabbits lags far Rabbit fans appreciate that bun- mothers. She lived in a tiny wire behind other pets. Unfortunately, nies are inquisitive, sometimes cage where she could just barely bunnies hold a sad and unique place naughty, always persistent, for- turn around. She was right next to as the only companion animal and giving, loving creatures. Rabbits where her babies were butchered. American pet still killed for its fur are also most active morning Despite her sad beginning, she and meat. If restaurants served dog, and evening, though they are blossomed into a sweet, gentle, cat, or horsemeat on their menus, not nocturnal. They sleep a lot patient, and very loving bunny, there would be widespread outrage during the day, so they make and she now lives with a fam- and condemnation. This is not true great pets for people who work. ily that adores her and two rabbit for rabbits. The trend for rabbit There’s no walking a pet in the friends. She has free run of their meats as an “organic, sustainable rain at 11 p.m.! house and lots of toys to play with! meat” is growing in San Francisco and beyond. The rabbits raised and What is the age range of the Where can people find out more, slaughtered for meat are the exact bunnies at your rescue? see adoptable bunnies, volun- same breed as those loving, ador- Babies to 14 years old. teer, foster, or donate? able rabbits available as family pets. Our website is saveabunny.org, Heaven Lee was rescued as a critically wounded baby in 2011 and is We have rescued “meat” rabbits A bunny I’d really like to see and there are sections for adopt- still waiting for her forever home photo: renee dodge that have been the most loving rab- adopted is … ing as well as volunteering and bits I have ever met. Terms like Heaven Lee. She came to fostering. You can also make a Marcy Schaaf share their time and talents to save “organic,” “humanely raised,” and SaveABunny on Sept. 11, 2011, donation online. SaveABunny continued from page 34 precious lives. Saving the life of a “sustainable” do not mean “cruelty as a critically wounded baby. A is an approved 501(c)(3) tax- gentle, loving animal that would free.” People should be aware that Good Samaritan found her near exempt charitable organization Tell us about your organization. otherwise be euthanized is a pro- when they eat rabbit meat they are Candlestick Park at a homeless (EIN# 80-0243372). Please check SaveABunny is an award-win- found experience that will change essentially eating a pet. encampment and took her to with your employer for corpo- ning, 501(c)(3) nonprofit rab- your life for the better. ACC. She had been attacked by rate matching donations. We bit rescue organization based in What are some of the quali- something, and the entire front also have a very active and fun Northern California. We work What is the biggest challenge ties that make bunnies great part of her body was ripped Facebook page at Facebook.com/ with over 30 shelters to make facing your rescue right now? companions? open from her groin to her neck. SaveABunny. sure abandoned, abused, and While there is a high level of Just like a cat or a dog, each ACC called us to see if we want- neglected rabbits get the second public awareness and resources rabbit has a very distinct per- ed to attempt to save her. We What are the upcoming events chance they deserve. In addition for dogs and cats, there are few sonality. Some are shy, some took her, got her emergency sur- for SaveABunny? to helping adoptable rabbits find options for rabbits. Although bold, some quiet, some goofy, gery ($1,000) and incredibly, she Maddie’s Adoption Event at the their forever homes, we special- rabbits are now one of the etc. They are as intelligent as cats healed within a month. I was so San Francisco SPCA (201 Alabama ize in healing physically wound- nation’s most popular pets, they and dogs and bond with their protective of her that I was reluc- Street) and San Francisco Animal ed and emotionally traumatized are also the third most euth- human guardians and rabbit tant to let anyone adopt her, so Care and Control (1200 15th rabbits by integrating extraor- anized animal. There are few friends for life. They are sensi- she’s now been here longer than Street) — the cross street for both dinary Western veterinary care shelters that assist rabbits and tive, opinionated, and affection- ideal. She is a bunny diva and is Harrison Street — Saturday with Eastern healing arts. virtually no funds for the care ate. When spayed or neutered, princess. She’s gorgeous, opinion- and Sunday, May 31–June 1, 10 Rescue work is both heartbreak- of sick and injured bunnies. For rabbits can use a litter box, just ated, funny, active, and ready for a.m.–6 p.m. and Bunny Day at ing and hopeful. Since being found- example, San Francisco Animal like a cat. They are clean, quiet, a home of her own where she will the SPCA on Saturday, June 14, ed in 1999, SaveABunny has been Care and Control (ACC) is the vegan animals (no stinky food be protected and treasured! 11 a.m.–3 p.m.. You can find involved with the life-saving rescue only shelter that assists rab- or poop!). With proper care, more information about events at of close to 5,000 rabbits. Yet, we are bits in San Francisco. The San rabbits can live to be more than A bunny that is a great success saveabunny.org/events. We also still a small, scrappy, resourceful, Francisco SPCA and Maddie’s 10 years old. They are an ideal story is … see potential adopters seven days a volunteer-based (yet profession- Fund are limited to cats and companion pet for an adult Honey Boo Boo, who was week by appointment. ally run) group. We are funded by dogs. SaveABunny is the only caregiver who enjoys allowing adopted along with another bunny donations and we rely on commu- rescue resource for all injured, an animal to be itself and doesn’t in May. We rescued her and 28 SaveABunny: P.O. Box nity involvement, compassion, and abused, and neglected rabbits in need to “control” the animal, as other rabbits in February from 2143, Mill Valley, CA 94942, support. We welcome volunteers San Francisco, and we are fund- one might a dog. In some ways, horrific conditions in Sacramento 415-388-2790, saveabunny.org from all walks of life who want to ed completely by donations. rabbits are more similar to cats. where they were being raised for E-mail: [email protected]

Tigger-Happy wanted what was best for were fired — not only at a Fat Cat Duke, surrendered him to retreating Duke, but also in continued from page 34 continued from page 34 ACC. It seemed a puppy that the direction of people — showed no signs of aggres- couldn’t catch a break in his strikes me as out of control arms; his planning has gone no further sion at all. “Duke is awe- short 13 months of life was and reckless. than that, because if I don’t get up to feed some. He is [a] very gentle- finally about to have things When Oakland’s police him and just stare at him, he looks con- man type. I have never heard go his way, but it was not to faced a public relations back- fused and goes back to prowling around his barking in the kennel or be: Duke died on the operat- lash after shooting several the room, squeaking and meowing and outside,” one volunteer said. ing table during surgery. dogs and a fawn, they turned purring loudly. Five minutes later, his “He loves fetch and always Duke was the third dog to San Francisco’s renowned head and paws appear on the chair’s drops the tennis ball in front in as many months shot by Vicious and Dangerous Dog arms again. Repeat that cycle four or of me … He loves treats and SFPD; all three dogs died. Unit, headed by Officer John five times, and it becomes obvious to the takes gently from my hand Two of the dogs were shot Denny. Along with ACC, most dedicated reader that they won’t … He does sit, down and in the back. (The third was Denny assembled guidelines be able to concentrate until they satisfy shake paw,” said another. with a transient who was for their department on how the cat’s demands. Hello, my name’s Charlie, and I eat too All of the observers stated squatting at a public hous- to recognize signs of aggres- You would think he would have built much food photo: john zipperer that Duke had no reaction ing building in the Potrero sion (as opposed to scared or up just a little bit of trust in us over to other dogs, loved people, Hill neighborhood.) Officer nervous barking and other the past decade. He has been in our I have broken our agreement. I can’t loved head scratches, and, Dominguez, who shot Duke, standard dog behaviors) and house and family for almost exactly read his mind, and I can’t translate his as one recalled, “liked to sit said that Duke was “charg- to teach officers how to deal 10 years, and not once in that time meows, but he definitely doesn’t like with his head on Brad’s knee ing aggressively,” but it doesn’t with the dogs (discharging a have we failed to feed him twice a day. breaking the food routine. (and drool!).” Repeatedly, take a genius to realize that firearm is a last resort). Never. And he gets (healthful) treats One night, after going to bed, I was volunteers pointed out that can’t be possible, because a I called Captain David in between meals. But he’s on dinner awakened by a loud bang and a scat- Duke was a gentle soul. charging dog would be shot Lazar, former head of the San lookout before mealtime, and he puts tering sound, as if someone had emp- “He’s an all-around good in the front of his body, not Francisco Police Academy, all of his energy into ensuring that we tied a jar of nuts and bolts on the dog and I felt comfortable the back. Perhaps the police and asked him why the don’t forget it’s time to feed him. As if floor. I rushed into the kitchen to find going into his kennel,” one think Duke was just another department didn’t include it’s a novel idea. that Charlie had knocked from a coun- volunteer observed. “It was pit bull in the projects and such training for its officers, When I started running again in ter onto the floor a big canister con- horrible to hear what hap- no one will care, but as a pit especially in light of the the mornings, it slightly changed my taining dry cat food. When it hit the pened to him — I really bull owner, I care, and any- recent spate of dog shoot- routine with Charlie. I get up a little floor, the top had popped off and the hope he’s doing OK.” one who has a dog should ings. He told me that they earlier, start warming up his food, head entire kitchen floor was covered with Due to all of Duke’s posi- care, too. If the police come currently do no training on to the bathroom on the first floor to a layer of food pellets. There, in the tive behavior feedback, ACC through your backyard chas- how to deal with dogs for wash up, and I go back to the kitchen middle, was Charlie, crouched on the wanted to put him up for ing a suspect and your dog new recruits, and that they to finish preparing and then serve his floor contentedly eating away at the adoption. Unfortunately, the gets in the way, it’s likely they have “tentative” plans to add food. But when I have to break the rou- sea of food before him. He was also bullet mangled one of Duke’s will shoot first and ask no it to their continued profes- tine by going upstairs to get my asthma purring loudly, and I needed no trans- back legs, rendering it use- questions later, which has sional training program — in medicine from the second-floor bath- lation for that. I knew he was saying less, so he required an ampu- been their modus operandi January 2015. room, Charlie runs up the stairs after “Best. Day. Ever.” tation before that could hap- in all three recent incidents. me, with a look of panic in his eyes as pen. Jojola, who said he only The fact that numerous shots E-mail: [email protected] if he doesn’t know how to convince me E-mail: [email protected]

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Lady toys. is ready She for is house-trained.a gentle, loving Beinghome where a typical she commands.active home Shilohwith multiple is looking dogs. for His the foster perfect mom companion says she Maltese,can get the she attention likes to she be deserves.the center of attention and tohas share never life’s had simplean easier pleasures. dog in the house. He needs a bit of needs to be an only dog. This little tripod is healed, leash work, but is a very fast learner and is treat motivated. healthyGDR’S andMESSAGE: ready to get Are on you with looking her life —to alladopt she a Yogidog is inan easythe dogSan who Francisco will live harmoniously Bay area? with Then dogs you needs is her forever home. and people of all sizes. should come out to the Grateful Dogs Rescue Adoption event on March 16 at Pet Food Express on Market from 12:30 to 3PM. 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The Adventures of Skylar Grey Chapter 13

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first sight. Steve, Skylar and Blue on the beach in Half Moon Bay There’s no psychiatrist like a puppy licking your face

by susan dyer reynolds accompanying Steve to work until Jazzy’s death in 2012. As I’ve often said in this col- teve and I met while I was the umn, I adopted Skylar Grey immediately community manager for a company because it didn’t bring Jazzy back or honor called eFrenzy during the first San her memory to let another pit bull die in a SFrancisco tech boom. I say first because, shelter. Because only 1 out of 100 pitties gets as we learned in 2000, what goes up must out of a shelter alive, what really honored come down — especially when it’s valued Jazzy’s memory was saving another life, so shop online: WELOVELEFTOVERS.COM at 100 times earnings. Like most dot coms that’s what I did. Now Blue plays mama the then (and now), eFrenzy had no earnings. way Jazzy did with her, and Blue and Sky are 415.409.0088 I’d tell you what my job there entailed but two peas in a pod. (Like Jazzy, Sky loves her to be honest I’m not even sure what I did as Uncle Steve and was happy to give him the OPEN DAILY 10-6 leftovers “community manager.” That lack of earnings Skylar Paw of Approval for his ad.) 1350 VAN NESS AVE home consignment eventually caught up to us and resulted in a Some of Steve’s clients need help running short tenure for everyone at eFrenzy. In fact, errands, which means a few hours driving City and County of San Francisco Steve is the only good thing that came out of around the city. Many of them request that Outreach Advertising my experience there. the dogs come along, so Blue and Skylar May – June 2014 I do recall that part of my job involved are working girls. One of his clients, Mary, Business Tax Change Ahead surfing eFrenzy’s website to make sure is a bright, witty, elegant woman who has This year San Francisco will phase in a Gross Receipts Tax and reduce the Payroll Expense Tax everything worked and to monitor customer lived in the Marina for many decades. She over the next fi ve years. The Gross Receipts Tax applies to businesses with more than $1 million in San Francisco gross receipts, exempting most small businesses. Business Registration Fees reviews. I happened to be looking for a enjoys having Blue and Sky in the backseat are also changing for all businesses. The City is providing free seminars to inform businesses housecleaner, so I decided to start there. while she and Steve drive around town, and about these changes the fi rst Thursday of every month at 3pm in the San Francisco Main Public Library Latino Room, 100 Larkin Street. For more information, go to www.sfbiztax.org, call 311 or Steve’s ad stood out to me because it said he she particularly enjoys Blue’s famous stealth (415) 701-2311, or contact your tax professional. had many years of experience, excellent ref- behind-the-ear kisses. “You sweet creature,” Invitations for Bids erences, and, most important, he loved pets. she will say, and Blue, also known as Wiggles The Port of San Francisco, announces an Invitation for Bids for construction on the PIER Plus, he had the same name as my cat. Yes, I McGee, wags her entire behind (something 35 BUILDING & ROOF REPAIR PROJECT, Contract No. 2765, in San Francisco, CA. The had a cat named Steven. That love of pets was I’m sure she learned from Jazzy). proposed Work will consist of modernization and repair of two existing elevators, removal of existing roofi ng materials, hazardous material abatement, selective dry rot repair to the roof important because the last housecleaner I Another client, Krista, had knee surgery, deck, refurbishment of existing historic features including windows, and provision for tenant had didn’t understand “Please keep the front which makes driving difficult. She and Steve protection. Estimate for the base bid is $2.25M. Bid documents are available for free download by going to the Port of San Francisco Website at http://www.sfport.com/index.aspx?page=18, door shut” in Spanish or in English, and do errands every Friday and, like Mary, she where updates will also be posted. Steven, who was only allowed in the back- enjoys having the dogs along for the ride. Special Site access for facility inspection must be requested through the Project Architect. yard, escaped on several occasions. So I sent Rain or shine, the day often ends with a The LBE subcontracting goal = 19%, and the project is subject to the requirements of the First Steve (the man, not the cat) an eFrenzy mes- trip to Baker Beach after dropping Krista at Source Hiring Program. The Port reserves the right to reject any or all bids and waive any minor irregularities in any bid. sage, and after a few glowing reference calls home, but one day Krista asked if she could TO BE ELIGIBLE TO BID, the bidding General Contractor (GC) shall possess a valid Class B I hired him. That was more than a decade come along. She wasn’t able to walk down license from the Contractors State License Board (CSLB), and shall have verifi able experience ago, and over the years, we’ve become best on the sand, she said, but she would love it as specifi ed under Document 00100 of the Bid Documents. friends. When Jazzy was sick with cancer, if Steve could park his car where she could OPTIONAL PREBID CONFERENCE: 5/28/14, 10:30 AM, Port of San Francisco offi ce, Pier 1 at Steve was the only person I trusted with her, watch the dogs playing. And so, one sunny San Francisco, CA 94111. BIDS DUE: 6/25/14, 1:30 PM. For questions, contact Wendy Proctor (415) 274-0592. and Jazzy loved her Uncle Steve more than Friday afternoon, Steve did just that, and Assessment Appeals Board (AAB) anyone on earth besides me. Krista was able to watch as Steve propelled Notice is hereby given of 6 vacancies on the AAB. Applicants must have at least 5 years Several years ago I recommended that Steve a tennis ball, and Blue and Skylar chased experience as one of the following: Certifi ed Public Accountant or Public Accountant; licensed put an ad in the Marina Times listing his it — and each other — in and out of the Real Estate Broker; Property Appraiser accredited by a nationally recognized organization, or services, which included housecleaning, pet surf. While recovering from knee surgery Property Appraiser certifi ed by the California Offi ce of Real Estate Appraisers. For additional information or to obtain an application, please call 415-554-6778. sitting, running errands, and working as a sometimes takes its toll emotionally, Krista From the Department of the Environment personal assistant. He’d done all of those said watching the dogs playing on the beach Guess what? San Francisco has a website that tells you how and where to recycle almost things for me with aplomb. Because Jazzy made her happy. anything! sfenvironment.org/recyclewhere and I loved him so much, I knew our readers Just months before Jazzy passed away, I gave Board of Supervisors Regularly Scheduled Board Meetings would, too. Steve is intelligent, funny, honest, Steve a poster featuring a drawing of a pit bull June & July 2014 and one of the nicest people you could ever that resembled her, right down to that signa- OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – Come see your San Francisco government in action. meet. Jazzy happily gave him the Jazzy Paw of ture patch over one eye. It reads, “There is no Tuesdays, 2:00pm, City Hall Chamber, Room 250. Approval for the ad, and I let him list me as his psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking • June 3 reference. At first, people called out of curios- your face.” Steve has the poster hanging in his • June 10 • June 17 ity, mostly about Jazzy. It took several months apartment, a testament to the many people • June 24 for Steve to get his first job, but after that came whose lives Jazzy touched during their trips to • July 8 • July 15 a steady stream that continues until this day. work, as well as to those still smiling at Blue’s • July 22 Sometimes Steve took Jazzy to work stealth behind-the-ear kisses or the sight of • July 29 because many of his clients wanted to meet Skylar’s Eighth Wonder of the World tongue The City and County of San Francisco encourage public outreach. Articles are translated into her, even if she just lounged on the sofa flapping in the breeze as she pops her head out several languages to provide better public access. The newspaper makes every effort to translate the articles of general interest correctly. No liability is assumed by the City and County of San while Steve cleaned around her. When Steve the window to see who’s getting in next. Francisco or the newspapers for errors and omissions adopted one of my foster dogs, Blue, in 2009, CNS#2626640 she and Jazzy became inseparable, frequently E-mail: [email protected]

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