Jazz Festival Star’S fi Rst Local Gig Was at Harry’S
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NEWS LOCALS REAL ESTATE St. Dominic’s Wash-fold queen’s Big deals on plans to expand reign is ending Scott Street PAGE 3 PAGE 6 PAGE 15 New FILLMORE SAN FRANCISCO ■ JULY 2008 For Vocalist Kim Nalley, It All Started on Fillmore Jazz festival star’s fi rst local gig was at Harry’s B T R , saucy, swinging singer Kim Nalley remembers when she got her fi rst big break in SSan Francisco. It was the early ’90s, and the manager of Harry’s on Fillmore called to see if she might fi ll a slot for a band that had cancelled. But Nalley was otherwise engaged. She had a house to clean — a job that was helping to pay her way through UC Berkeley. She called her client and explained she wouldn’t be able to come. “How much are they paying you to sing?” the woman wanted to know. “Well, you make more here cleaning — and this is an ongoing thing.” She called back Harry’s and told the manager she wouldn’t be able to make the gig, but that she hoped to sing another night. “Th is is your chance,” he told her. So she gave up domestic NER Music Takes Over the ’Mo July 5 & 6 work. And WAG she started her rise to WALTER B A T festival apart is the focus on the music a place of Kim Nalley: A diva with all of the — and in particular jazz. prominence good and none of the bad. ’ for the Fillmore Jazz Maybe it’s my projection, but it Program & and respect Festival and I can’t wait. It’s my Entertainment seems friendlier and more open — in the jazz world, toured and lived in Europe, then favorite event in San Francisco, Schedule more like an adult street party where came home triumphantly to take over Pearl’s, the North Beach jazz club, as owner of the joint. drawing more than 100,000 PAGES 7 - 10 people are respectful and mature ■ visitors to the largest free jazz — than other street celebrations in A New Star “In a lot of ways, it all started on Fillmore for festival on the west coast. Is Born San Francisco. And now that it has me,” Nalley says. She remembers those early days of Th e thing I love best is that it PAGE 12 been extended south of Geary into singing at Harry’s as something special. Ialways seems so relaxed and open. Of the reviving Jazz District, the festival “Now that I’m older, Harry’s is a pub. But for a course, like other street fairs, it off ers Critic’s Picks is a bridge that connects the Western girl of 18, it seemed pretty fantabulous,” she says. “For art, crafts, photography and food. PAGE 13 Addition and Pacifi c Heights, me, Harry’s was an upscale place that had jazz.” Th e owner loved her, and so did the customers. She sang But the thing that sets the Fillmore enriching both neighborhoods. on Th ursday night, and sometimes on Sunday as well. TO PAGE 11 4 St. Dominic’s Catholic Church REMEMBRANCE NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS MASSES SUNDAY 5:30 pm (Saturday Vigil) 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 am Coming Development in Presidio Tops List of Local Concerns 1:30, 5:30 & 9:00 pm WEEKDAYS B D G Another matter on some neighbors’ minds was in- scheduled for the Presidio –– particularly the proposed 6:30 & 8:00 am & 5:30 pm creasing noise from late-night revelry taking place in the Fisher Museum, a 100,000-square-foot contemporary SATURDAY - neighbors and merchants attended a bars near Divisadero and California. Lt. Tim Plyer, night structure of white masonry and glass proposed for the crest 7:40 am Rosary, 8:00 am Mass June 3 meeting of 2gether — a new group focus- watchman at Northern Station, assured the neighbors, of the Presidio’s main parade ground. PRAYERS & SACRAMENTS Ting on the city’s District 2 — hoping to air their “We will be driving by there at 2 a.m.” Because the Presidio is poorly served by public trans- The church is open for prayer all day concerns to the featured speaker, Supervisor Michela Ali- Graffi ti vandalism has become more prevalent of late; portation, the museum will require a parking garage and and into the early evening. oto-Pier. But she was a no-show. residents complained of having to repeatedly remove graf- will attract cars through the residential areas nearby. Liturgy of the Hours (Daily) In her stead, legislative aide Catherine Stefani ad- fi ti from their homes. “It violates the purpose of a park,” one neighbor said, Morning Prayer 7:15 am/Sat 8:00 am dressed what she called the “hot-button issues” in the dis- “Don’t remove it yourself,” Lt. Plyer advised. “We have a “which is to reduce the number of cars.” Evening Prayer 5:00 pm trict — especially the development being planned in the paint-over team. Sometimes we’ll fi nd the tags match ones Patricia Vaughey, president of Cow Hollow Neighbors Reconciliation Sat 5:00 pm, Presidio and the impact the increased activity and traffi c we know — from backpacks, from other places. Next time and Merchants, said of the Presidio Trust: “Th ey’re turn- Sun 7:00, 9:00 & 11:00 am, 5:00 pm will have on surrounding residents and merchants. it happens, call us. Let us take a picture of it.” ing the Presidio into a little city. Th ree hotels, theaters, no Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Prominent among other neighborhood concerns raised Lynne Newhouse Segal, a board member of the Pa- payroll taxes, no health benefi ts –– and they want to build Mon & Wed 8:30 am & 6 pm were the growing number of aggressive homeless people cifi c Heights Residents Association who presided over the condominiums.” She warned that it could create unfair Tue & Fri 8:30 pm on Fillmore Street, safety in neighborhood parks and the meeting, polled those present and announced at the end competition for businesses in nearby neighborhood com- 2390 Bush St. (at Steiner) • (415) 567-7824 • Free Parking danger to pedestrians posed by the broken-up sidewalks. of the meeting the paramount concern is the construction mercial districts. Marie Cleasby (center) spearheaded a corps of senior graffi ti fi ghters. A Lifetime of Flowers and Fireworks St. Dominic’s Plans Expansion, Parking Garage B D L at relatively young ages. A unit they New education center wanted became available and they decided to form the to take it, rather than chance they wouldn’t would replace school, Webster Street Historic get what they wanted if they waited. WDistrict in the late ’70s, Within weeks of moving in, Marie which is moving Marie Cleasby, who died May 24, insisted was busy breaking up the cement-like she wanted to paint her house purple. soil around nearby street trees so that she . D’ Catholic Church is Like her neighbors, she wanted to could plant fl owers. Quickly she organized launching a $23 million capital cam- form the district as a hedge against a committee of the well-to-do retirees to paign to fi nance a new educational further expansion of the California Pacifi c pick up litter on the streets around the S center where its school building now stands Medical Center, which abutted the back Sequoias. For some, it was one of the few on Pine Street, plus a fi ve-level parking of her property. But she was adamant that tasks of their lives involving manual labor. garage next door. the district’s restrictions not include color ■ Th e school is now leased to the Megan control. When the enabling legislation At the memorial service, her graffi ti- Furth Academy, which plans to move by was passed by the Board of Supervisors abatement squad wore the irridescent 2010 to a new building at Sacred Heart in 1981, after an eight-year eff ort, it said lime green vests they sport during Church at Fillmore and Fell. Th at will nothing about color. Soon thereafter, their Saturday morning patrols. Two open the way for the church to build a 2373 Washington Street was painted representatives of the Japantown Task new pastoral and educational center that purple, with fuchsia trim. Force testifi ed to the eff ectiveness of incorporates the Pine Street facade of the Th roughout many confrontations Marie’s projects. school “to address potential concerns about between neighbors and the hospital’s A love of fl owers spanned her lifetime. historic preservation,” according to docu- administrators, Marie was never bothered While still living on Washington Street ments developed for a capital campaign by the fact that her husband, Gil, was a she became a master gardener, took a job planning committee. prominent ophthalmologist affi liated with at a local nursery and became a docent at “St. Dominic’s vision is to create a the hospital. the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden spiritual, social and education center with ■ Gate Park. Naturally she later gave advice resources that animate the faith for every- Th e episode was a metaphor for much on the Sequoias’ gardens. one,” the documents state. It would include An architectural rendering shows the garage and educational center proposed at St. Dominic’s viewed from Pine and Pierce Streets. YOSHIS.COM of Marie’s life. She combined a strong Longtime Washington Street residents a new parish hall that provides seating for sense of community involvement with remember one other aspect of the Cleasby 250 to 300 people — and would be avail- committee, off ered a spirited critique of an After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, restored, and work recently began on the an equally strong streak of personal era.