News from the Heart & Soul of San Francisco
STREET TALK | CYNTHIA TRAINA In May, Browser Books spotlights deception. Its theme of the month is “Grifters, Swindlers, Crooks & Scammers.” Among the featured titles is Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man, a personal favorite of Hana Metzger, one of the creative minds behind the monthly themes on the featured display shelf. Metzger curates the…
By BRIDGET MALEY San Francisco’s annual Decorator Showcase returns to Pacific Heights again this year, opening on April 26 at 2935 Pacific Avenue and continuing through May 26. Originally built as three flats in the Tudor Revival style, 2935 Pacific was transformed in 2009 into a classically inspired manse. It had been constructed in 1902…
“Ah, what a gift to our world she was.” By FRAN MORELAND JOHNS Glady Thacher — beloved neighbor, community organizer and force for good — was summed up in those words by a longtime member of one of the “trust circles” she was fond of launching when she spotted a need. Like the larger public…
FORMER SUPERVISOR Aaron Peskin is disputing Fillmore investor Neil Mehta’s comments about him on a recent podcast and seeking a retraction. EARLIER: “How investor sees his Fillmore project“
SF HISTORY | WOODY LaBOUNTY TODAY IS THE 119th anniversary of the 7.9 magnitude tremor that remade San Francisco. The quake brought down and damaged buildings. It also set off numerous fires. Important infrastructure was crippled, leaving the city mostly helpless to fight a growing inferno. After three terrible days of fire and smoke, the…
Breed’s ‘upzoning’ becomes Lurie’s ‘family zoning’ plan FILLMORE STREET between Jackson and Bush would face the same future as most other neighborhood commercial districts and transit corridors under the city’s latest revision to its zoning plan: taller buildings designed to provide more residential housing. A marathon Planning Commission meeting last week kicked off what could…
NEIL MEHTA, the neighborhood billionaire investor who has been buying up storefronts on Fillmore Street for more than a year now, is the featured guest on the latest episode of the “Invest Like the Best” podcast, posted today. At the end of an hour-and-a-half discussion of his firm, Greenoaks Capital, and his approach to investing,…
IT’S A BIG DAY at Peet’s on Fillmore, the town square of the neighborhood. Peetniks are celebrating Nancy Ferrufino’s 24th year anniversary at the always-bustling coffee shop on the corner of Fillmore and Sacramento. She’s a familiar sight three mornings a week, keeping the counters, tables and floors clean, stocking condiments, greeting the regulars —…
ONE DAY AFTER merchant leaders announced the 2025 Fillmore Jazz Festival was being canceled, a sponsor stepped forward to say he would fund this year’s festival. After feverish scrambling over the weekend to put together a budget, the president of the Fillmore Merchants Association announced this morning that the festival will happen after all, as…
By CYNTHIA TRAINA The Fillmore Jazz Festival, traditionally held over the Fourth of July weekend, has been canceled for 2025. Tim Omi, president of the sponsoring Fillmore Merchants Association, announced the cancellation tonight at a neighborhood meeting. The festival, which has attracted more than 100,000 attendees annually to what was billed as the largest free…