Posted on August 31st, 2010 by editors
NEW NEIGHBOR | Yuni Salon A bright orange awning at 2434 California Street heralds the arrival of Salon Yuni. Owned by local resident Yuni Cho, the salon manages to be both homey and starkly modern, with a mostly white interior accented by fuchsia touches and eight orange client chairs. Cho says the decision to open [...]
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Posted on August 29th, 2010 by editors
What a difference a day makes. On Saturday, Michael Blythe, a manager at the Clay Theatre on Fillmore, was grappling with what to do after the Clay played its last picture show on Sunday. But by midday Sunday, he had a happier problem on his hands: how to phrase the good news on the marquee [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2010 by editors
Fillmore’s jewel-box cinema, the Clay Theater, is closing at the end of the month after 100 years. The sad news came in a simple sign posted in the theater’s windows. The Clay was thought to have a more secure future than many neighborhood theaters because it was part of Landmark Theatres. Landmark gave no indication [...]
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Posted on August 9th, 2010 by editors
The Sunday Chron offered up three takes by three Fillmore chefs on the same set of summer ingredients. “We went to San Francisco’s Fillmore Street,” said the Chron, “a destination for cuisine from around the globe. We chose SPQR, an Italian restaurant; Dosa, which specializes in Indian cuisine; and 1300 on Fillmore, a restaurant that [...]
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Posted on August 6th, 2010 by editors
“Elite Cafe’s Fabian Oregon may be the best bartender in The City,” Donna Domino writes in today’s Ex, “but don’t call him a mixologist.” Read more EARLIER: There’s a reason they call it the Elite
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Posted on August 2nd, 2010 by editors
SALOONS | Chris Barnett You rarely see a gin and tonic slide across the bar at Dosa, the Southern Indian restaurant on Fillmore at Post, no matter how many times you belly up to that stylish 50-foot slab of recycled glass, mirror chips and mother-of-pearl. But you’ll see plenty of Princetons, Bengali gimlets and other [...]
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Posted on August 1st, 2010 by editors
Athleta, the women’s athletic apparel brand that is now part of the Gap’s corporate family, is moving forward with plans to open a retail store at 2226 Fillmore Street, the longtime home of the Junior League’s Next-to-New resale shop. The city’s board of appeals has rejected a request to review whether Athleta should be considered [...]
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Posted on August 1st, 2010 by editors
FIRST PERSON | Dave Scott My dad had all these books on the shelves in the basement. They were these grand philosophy books from his seminary days with fantastic titles like “The Politics of God,” “Man, Myth, Meaning” and “Truth and Ethics.” He became a psychologist. He was good at mediating, and bringing people together, [...]
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Posted on August 1st, 2010 by editors
Restaurateurs Lori Baker and Jeff Banker have upped their culinary cachet by adding a takeout bakery. It’s been part of their plan since the couple opened their neighborhood hot spot, Baker & Banker, a few months ago at 1701 Octavia. “It was just very hard to make it all happen at once,” says Baker, since [...]
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