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Fall Events Special More online Evalyn Baron, Michael Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Fleet Week, Italian Snyder's Coastal Heritage Parade, S.F. Fall Art and Antiques Show, Commuter, and more and frightening Halloween events, p. 11 marinatimes.com MARINATIMES.COM CELEBRATING OUR 33RD YEAR VOLUME 33 ISSUE 10 OCTOBER 2017 R R Angela Alioto on the 25th anniversary of the smoking ban Years of fighting Big Tobacco led to a law that swept the nation — and the world BY SUSAN DYER REYNOLDS Left: detail of Gustav Klimt, The Virgin, 1913; right: Auguste Rodin, Pierre de Wiessant, 1886 (reduced ’ 1886, cast before 1929). IMAGES COURTESY OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO running for office, you expect coy deflection or a flat-out no, even if that no really means Wyes, but that’s not how Angela Alioto rolls. “Am I running Klimt & Rodin: An exhibition takes us for mayor? I’m always running for mayor,” she says with a glint in her eye. “Any politician who says they’re not running for something is a liar.” on a journey when two artists met Sitting behind a desk in her office in a building that bares her family name, Alioto is blunt, down-to-earth, BY SHARON ANDERSON bolist movement, Klimt’s opulent, from one of Klimt’s most prized and charismatic. Born into one of the most prominent jewel-like surfaces came to define works created at the start of his political families in San Francisco, Alioto is an attorney , . , painting of the Art Nouveau era in “golden period,” and painted for the who served eight years on the Board of Supervisors, Fine Arts Museum of San Vienna. 14th Vienna Secessionist exhibi- including a stint as president. Her father, Joseph Alioto, Francisco will present the Many of the painter’s well-known tion celebrating Beethoven’s Ninth was the 36th mayor of San Francisco. She’s the proud Tfirst major Gustav Klimt exhibition pieces will be represented, includ- Symphony. Enter the then-estab- mother of four children and, because of them, a former on the West Coast through Jan. ing the Beethoven Frieze (1902), two lished art celebrity Auguste Rodin, smoker. “I quit in 1988,” she says, “because my kids kept 28, 2018. A leader of the sym- seven-foot-tall panels reproduced ART WORLD, continued on 14 REYNOLDS RAP, continued on 4 on a tiny stage, and leaves in a state Bellingham by the Bay of musical grace. GIANT OUTDOOR ARENAS The art of the dull Four or five thousand jazz fans in an outdoor arena with the sound cranked up almost high enough to BY BRUCE BELLINGHAM shatter a wineglass, not to mention your eardrums, can diminish the ’ . experience. I’ve seen tenor saxophon- Something to be said for things that are quiet, ist Getz and the incomparable Mod- still, and safe. Recollected in tranquility. You ern Jazz Quartet in the big outdoor Tknow the old Chinese curse: “May you live in interest- settings. Getz wasn’t Getz. The sound, ing times.” Well, they’re too interesting these days. while good for reaching the back “It looks like you dodged a bullet in San Francisco,” rows, blared unnaturally. And the wrote Christina Greene from Wisconsin. She was Modern Jazz Quartet lost what its referring to how, at the last minute, a protest at Crissy musical canon was all about — inti- Field on Aug. 26 meant to support white supremacy Cole Thompson at the 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival. macy. Both Getz and the MJQ were was canceled by the organizers. ... All the same, the PHOTO: COURTESY TIMOTHY ORR / MONTEREYJAZZFESTIVAL.ORG specks on a vast stage, so we in the nonevent cost the SFPD $775,000 in overtime for the audience looked at a giant screen officers. None of the cops could have that Saturday off. where Getz’s enormous head (per- Crissy Field isn’t supposed to be a battleground for Sixty festive years of the Monterey haps six feet from hairline to chin) disparate ideologies. It’s a place to take in the fresh air puffed and dribbled spittle for all to of the bay, to take your dog for a run, to admire the maj- Jazz Festival, and a backward glance see. And the outsized MJQ some- esty of the Golden Gate Bridge or to walk or jog to Fort times was muddy with amplification Mason. And if you take a bat to Crissy, it’s for knocking at an American art form and also appeared gigantic on screen. around a softball — not other people’s heads. Dodging a bullet: That reminds me of Winston BY ERNEST BEYL INTIMATE JAZZ NIGHTCLUBS THE STONES, MICHELANGELO, Churchill’s famous line, “Nothing is more exhilarating To be sure some small jazz clubs AND DEGAS than to be shot at without result.” He was referring to still exist in New York City, Chica- However, these huge outdoor his experiences in the Boer War. Today, the political to hear small jazz groups — trios, go, San Francisco, and elsewhere. arenas are ideal for rock ’n’ roll. battleground is more like the Bore War. … A little quartets, sextets — in what we And they should be encouraged Consider the Rolling Stones. You dullness might be in order. … “Dull, duller, Dulles.” Ionce called smoky nightclubs. and nurtured like an endangered want them in a huge space. That’s Churchill said of the CIA director, Allen Dulles, “He is That’s the way Stan Getz and the species. In the small clubs (not where they belong. In a small a bull that carries his own china shop.” Gee, that has a Modern Jazz Quartet, two of my smoky anymore) the listener arrives intimate club the Stones wouldn’t familiar ring to it. … favorites, sounded the best. Minimal as a supplicant — a worshipper — be the Stones. Just as you want BELLINGHAM, continued on 4 amplification, if at all. enjoys communion with the artists JAZZ FESTIVAL, continued on 14 C I T I 23 08 17 News Arts & Entertainment Around the city Stay tuned News briefs on the effort by Union Street Michael Snyder examines the fall television merchants to get redress from the city for schedule; plus the best sellers. 15 the loss of business from Van Ness changes, Valentino Market celebrates a century, city Travel leaders plan to keep reforming policing Sausalito sweet despite change in federal policy, and a Patty Burness finds her own slice of Italy 3 roundup of facts and figures. just across the bay. 16 Northside At Home The Marina and Cow Hollow Urban Home and Garden Julie Mitchell visits the Apothecarium's Julia Strzesieski shows how to stay safe in new home in the Marina; and District 2 your home. 18 Supervisor Mark Farrell celebrates the city's sister city relationship. 6 Family MomSense North Beach and Telegraph Hill How do you communicate with your chil- Ernest Beyl says it's important to get your dren about sometimes-troubling current bull shot right; and District 3 Supervisor events? 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