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	<title>The New Fillmore</title>
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	<description>Neighborhood News from Pacific Heights, the Fillmore and Japantown.</description>
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		<title>Rally for the Clay</title>
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		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/09/07/rally-for-the-clay/</link>
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		<title>Film Society, theater owner to resume talks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The owner of the Clay Theater has invited leaders of the San Francisco Film Society to meet on September 13 to resume discussions about the Film Society’s desire to lease the historic Fillmore art house.
Graham Leggat, executive director of the society, said he is eager to proceed. “It’s certainly progress,” Leggat said. “It’s a better [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/09/03/film-society-theater-owner-to-resume-talks/</link>
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		<title>How the Clay dodged a bullet</title>
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By Thomas Reynolds
Discussions between Clay Theater owner Balgobind Jaiswal and the San Francisco Film Society began last December after Landmark Theatres decided it could no longer afford to continue to operate the venerable theater, which has been showing films on Fillmore Street for 100 years. 
The lease had actually expired two years earlier.
“The Clay has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/09/03/how-the-clay-dodged-a-bullet/</link>
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		<title>An e-book with music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark J. Mitchell
You may have read recently that New York author Pete Hamill’s new book is going straight to digital format, skipping print altogether. But the Fillmore’s own Arthur Bloomfield has beaten him to it.
Bloomfield latest book, &#8220;More Than the Notes,&#8221; made its debut online a few weeks ago and is available at no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/09/02/a-book-with-music/</link>
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		<title>Discovering the secrets of the score</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q &#038; A  &#124;  ARTHUR BLOOMFIELD

What motivated you to write &#8220;More Than the Notes,&#8221; your new e-book on legendary conductors of the 19th century?
When I was 11, my mother started taking me downtown once a month to the White House department store. It was where Banana Republic is now. Up on the fourth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/09/02/discovering-the-secrets-of-the-score/</link>
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		<title>Battle cry on Union: bring back the fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the opening of a number of new restaurants, Union Street is showing signs of recovery from the economic doldrums that led to a spate of shuttered shops on the street. But a new group of young residents and business owners says more aggressive change is needed in the neighborhood, and has formed the Union [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/09/01/battle-cry-on-union-bring-back-the-fun/</link>
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		<title>An eco-Bohemian with new ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Anne Paprocki
Big changes are in store for Frankie’s Bohemian Cafe, the bar and restaurant at the corner of Divisadero and Pine that has been a local favorite for nearly two decades, known for its big beers, giant burgers, Czech flair and casual atmosphere. Soon the mugs of Krusovice beer and bar fare will make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/09/01/an-eco-bohemian-with-new-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Harry&#8217;s steps up its game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SALOONS &#124; Chris Barnett
Fillmore hotspot Harry’s is headed for a change. It’s not a facelift; the design and decor still look fresh after a quarter century of civilized salooning and dining in the daytime and ear-splitting revelry at night. Instead, the cocktail culture is getting an update by mixologist Michael Callahan, who heads a consultancy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/09/01/harrys-ups-its-game/</link>
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		<title>A salon meant to be</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW NEIGHBOR &#124; 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 the new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/08/31/a-salon-meant-to-be/</link>
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		<title>Clay Theater gets a reprieve</title>
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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 that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/08/29/clay-theater-gets-a-reprieve/</link>
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		<title>Clay Theater closing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fillmore&#8217;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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/08/13/clay-theater-closing/</link>
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		<title>3 Fillmore chefs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sunday Chron offered up three takes by three Fillmore chefs on the same set of summer ingredients.
&#8220;We went to San Francisco&#8217;s Fillmore Street,&#8221; said the Chron, &#8220;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 serves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/08/09/3-fillmore-chefs/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;You gotta carry a gun&#8217;</title>
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So Ruth Dewson was told when she opened Mrs. Dewson&#8217;s Hats on Fillmore Street 38 years ago. For decades she has been the unofficial mayor of Fillmore Street. But she has been missing from the neighborhood in recent months, sidelined by ill health. We caught up with her at her shop and found her spirit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/08/06/mrs-dewson-ailing-but-feisty/</link>
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		<title>Elite, but not hoity-toity</title>
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&#8220;Elite Cafe&#8217;s Fabian Oregon may be the best bartender in The City,&#8221; Donna Domino writes in today&#8217;s Ex, &#8220;but don&#8217;t call him a mixologist.&#8221; Read more
EARLIER: There&#8217;s a reason they call it the Elite
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		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/08/06/elite-but-not-hoity-toity/</link>
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		<title>At Dosa, a gin bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SALOONS &#124; 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 exotic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/08/02/at-dosa-a-gin-bar/</link>
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		<title>Athleta store gets go-ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/08/01/athleta-store-gets-go-ahead/</link>
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		<title>Exploring jazz as sacred music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Fran Johns
Everybody’s been “trippin’ like a bird” in recent weeks at Calvary Presbyterian Church on Fillmore, says trumpeter Dave Scott. If that sounds un-churchly, it’s only because you have been missing the summertime jazz worship series. 
The series was arranged by Scott, a heralded Bay Area musician and educator who leads the Dave Scott [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/08/01/exploring-jazz-as-sacred-music/</link>
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		<title>Lori the baker gets her bakery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; Banker, a few months ago at 1701 Octavia. “It was just very hard to make it all happen at once,” says Baker, since the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/08/01/new-bakery-opens-this-weekend/</link>
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		<title>Cookie lovers in the jazz district</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tessa Williams
Now that Bumzy’s Chocolate Chip Cookies is finally open on Fillmore near O’Farrell, the neighborhood will get to sample a recipe that’s been baked and savored by three generations of cookie lovers.
Sheila Harris-Young’s mother taught her to bake when she was growing up in Washington, D.C., and she remembers first making cookies for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/07/31/bumzys-arrives-in-the-jazz-district/</link>
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		<title>Saturday night on Fillmore</title>
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		<link>http://newfillmore.com/2010/07/24/saturday-night-on-fillmore/</link>
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