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14 Street Beat 18 A&E 20 Calendar North Beach: Back Story: August Events: Jessye Norman Saloon talks 8 S.F.’s rich newspaper has something to say to you – sing history 18 to you, actually. You can catch her Food & Wine this month, as well as Rita Moreno, New & Notable: Pets a Japantown street fair, and the Le Marais opens The Halo Effect: A classic film The Princess Bride in up shop 14 passion for rescue 30 the park 20 WWW.MARINATIMES.COM CELEBRATING OUR 27TH YEAR VOLUME 29 ISSUE 8 AUGUST 2013 Reynolds Rap Dirty Politics Lombard Street may stay as dirty as Marina politics by susan dyer reynolds The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. —Winston Churchill Rob Donnelly, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Robert La Vigne, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of City Lights t a meeting of the San Francisco Council bookstore, 1956 PHOTO: ALLEN GINSBERG of District Merchants (DCM) held July 16, 2013, Michael Levy, co-owner of Pet Food Express (PFE), was invited to speak. Kathleen Dooley Arepresented the San Francisco Pet Store Coalition, asking Allen Ginsberg’s Beat memories at the council to send a letter to the Planning Commission denouncing efforts by PFE and the Pets Unlimited Cat Adoption Center to move into 2460 Lombard Street. the Contemporary Jewish Museum If her name sounds familiar, it’s because I wrote a column last month about the railroad job against PFE taking place at by sharon anderson During the late 1940s and early Retina camera, Ginsberg increased the Small Business Commission (SBC). Dooley, who helped 1950s, Ginsberg began taking pho- his documentary-style photo- form the pet store coalition to keep PFE out of the same hen Allen Ginsberg’s tos of his friends and colleagues, graphic output between 1953 and building in 2009, held secret “subcommittee” meetings and poem Howl was first many of them fellow Beats, includ- 1963, after which he continued as was present at full commission meetings where the coali- published in 1956, it ing Jack Kerouac and William S. an occasional photographer until tion was invited to present and PFE was not. The meetings ignited controversy Burroughs. The intimate, personal his death in 1997. resulted in Dooley representing the SBC several times before Wand sealed his reputation as a formi- style of these photos, many of These photographs and nega- the Planning Commission in opposition to PFE. dable poet. Influenced by Whitman’s which have now become icon- tives, a family album of sorts for Prior to the DCM meeting, requests for ethics violation free verse and departing from for- ic images of the young Beats, the Beat and counterculture gen- investigations of Dooley, SBC secretary Chris Schulman, mal traditions, Ginsberg went on revealed his deep affection for his eration, were catalogued in the and Office of Small Business Executive Director Regina to publish numerous volumes of friends and lovers during their Ginsberg archive at Columbia Dick-Endrizzi had been submitted. Dooley is either incred- poetry and become well known as a entwined careers and relation- University in the 1980s. At that ibly arrogant or feels she’s untouchable because of her close leader of the Beat Generation. ships. After purchasing a Kodak GINSBERG, continued on 4 DIRTY POLITICS, continued on 3 Spending $7.9 billion How San Francisco’s new budget will affect you and your community by supervisor mark e. farrell public comment that lasted more than six hours at the Budget and fter Mayor Ed Lee presented Finance Committee. his proposed balanced bud- It was a long and exhausting process. get on May 31 of this year, As I stated when we began this pro- Athe Budget and Finance Committee, cess, my role as chair of our Budget which I chair, spent the month of and Finance Committee was two- June reviewing the mayor’s draft, fold: strongly advocate for my budget Emirates Team New Zealand’s Aotearoa suffered a breakdown with a sail during the sitting through committee hear- priorities, while at the same time Louis Vuitton Cup in July PHOTO: © ACEA / PHOTO GILLES MARTIN-RAGET ings with every major department, develop a consensus budget with my meeting with our controller and colleagues to create a budget we can the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s all support. After months of work and Now, for the action Office, and meeting with residents, a number of all-night efforts at City community organizations, city com- Hall in the final weeks, I am thank- After legal and political wrangling, America’s Cup missioners, business leaders, labor ful that we did just that. On July 23, organizations and others to thor- 2013, the Board of Supervisors unan- is putting on a show at the Marina’s doorstep oughly assess the budget proposed imously passed the consensus bal- by the mayor. In addition, we held anced budget reached by the Budget by john zipperer are given second thoughts knows, the wind can be six town hall meetings throughout and Finance Committee for Fiscal when they hear that the quite fast, indeed. different neighborhoods across San Year 2013-14 and 2014-15, and on eople who think large AC72 catamarans July saw the competition Francisco (including one at Galileo July 24 Mayor Lee signed the final that the America’s used in these races are lit- get into high gear, with High School in District 2), an online budget into law. Cup is an unevent- erally faster than the wind. the action spread from the town hall forum, and a full day of BUDGET, continued on 6 Pful playtoy of billionaires As everyone in the Marina AMERICA’S CUP, continued on 13 WWW.MARINATIMES.COM THE MARINA TIMES AUGUST 2013 1 Contents Editor’s Note Dirty Politics Pizza and Hole-in-the-Wall going on … under the bus.” continued from page 1 Pizza in the Marina, which Later, Ferdon says, “Jim, do In This Issue are only a few blocks apart. It you want Chestnut St. to be relationship with Board also can’t be “big versus small,” successful? Stop the politics.” 12 26 of Supervisors President because one of his projects, Despite all of this and without David Chiu — in fact, both Dosa — the 6,100 square foot Ferdon’s consent, Maxwell Dick-Endrizzi and Chiu Indian restaurant on Fillmore had Fuller send the letter to were in attendance to pres- Street — casts a huge shadow the DCM anyway. ent another item before the over Indian Palace, a tiny eat- Maxwell then went to DCM when Dooley spoke ery there long before and less Karnilowicz requesting for the coalition (I guess they than a minute away. And it that the Lombard Business don’t have a problem with surely can’t be about formula Merchants Association, a 24 her violating at least two retail, because his frequent year-old neighborhood group Conduct of Governmental collaborator on Dosa, Paxti’s with over 40 members, not Officers codes). (which is now a national be allowed to join the DCM Dooley also sent a letter to chain), and other projects is because the by-laws state the DCM claiming the only R3 Builders, a development only one group representing reason I write articles criticiz- company with an impressive a street can be on the coun- ing her and the coalition is portfolio of formula retail cil, and the MMA represents that PFE pays all our printing that includes 39 Trader Joe’s, Lombard (a key reason for bills, which is blatantly false — 67 Blockbusters, and, most Maxwell wanting to bring then again, Dooley has a his- ironically, four Petcos. R3 also the MMA dues current). In a tory of saying things she can’t built five CVS stores in San phone interview, Karnilowicz back up, like potential buyers Francisco and may soon be was perplexed: “Jim intro- News Calendar of the long-shuttered Pagoda working on a sixth, as the duced me to the president On the beat August events Theater in North Beach were Planning Commission recent- of the group, Mr. Awadalla, Bruce Bellingham reports on people buffetted Before the summer ends, take in connected to a months ago and told by the news; briefs on transportation plans, America’s Cup action and side events, Mexican drug me the MMA was hit-and-run rally, and arboretum fees. 4 a giant craft show at Fort Mason, Paul cartel, or that fine with them join- McCartney at Outside Lands, Larry Lowes in South The campaign against PFE ing; he said Awadalla Community Ellison’s art collection, Haydn’s Die San Francisco was both a client and was closing and has brought constructive a friend. As long as Perfecting the City Jahreszeite by the S.F. Choral Society, the Resonance Jazz Ensemble ... Walmart wanted activity to a halt. the MMA is fine Criminals never sleep in the Northside, as and much more to keep you busy, hav- to move in. with it, we can let The right 6 the Police Blotter reports. ing fun, and learning this month. 20 This is just the them join, but now latest in a bizarre political ly approved a CVS for the Jim says the MMA doesn’t Street Beat At Home soap opera to keep PFE and Castro. (San Francisco’s “for- support it.” co-applicant Pets Unlimited mula retail ordinance” was Awadalla says he, too, is mortgage Words by the Bay Health and House Cat Adoption Center out passed to keep out national baffled as to why Maxwell Ernest Beyl, veteran pub expert, shares Thalia Farshchian shows how to improve of the Marina, which also behemoths like CVS, which — a friend for many years words of wisdom from North Beach’s and safeguard your memory; Liz Farrell involves two neighbor- has over 7,600 locations, who also designed his restau- starts with the saloons; and Fred Gehrung unveils tells you how to take charge of your hood groups, the Marina but it’s obviously not work- rants — would turn on him.