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MY FILLMORE

Like any street in any great city, Fillmore is always changing, always dying, always being awakened By RICHARD RODRIGUEZ Growing old on Fillmore Street has taught me how much a city can change, how much I have changed — and how a city continues despite it all.  Lately, if I have any sort of errand…

Sonny Lewis performing at the Fillmore street fair in 1992 with bassist Charles Thomas and drummer Jack Dorsey.

Fillmore’s own Sonny Lewis

NEW RELEASE | SCOTT YANOW Sonny Lewis is a jazz legend who almost slipped away into history. A superior tenor-saxophonist and flutist based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1960s, Lewis made relatively few jazz recordings during his career. He can be heard with Smiley Winters (playing next to altoist Sonny Simmons…

Moving the Victorians

By CARLO MIDDIONE In the late 1960s and early ’70s, I worked at San Francisco’s Redevelopment Agency in my desire to conquer the world’s ills and to help make people safer, happier and more comfortable. Long before my wife Lisa and I opened our restaurant Vivande on Fillmore Street, which we operated for three decades,…

Only one local home sold last month

REAL ESTATE | PATRICK BARBER Single-family home sales in the neighborhood reached a decade low during the last month, with only one single-family home selling in Pacific Heights, Lower Pacific Heights, Presidio Heights and Cow Hollow from mid-June to mid-July. The summer months are traditionally the slowest time for real estate activity in San Francisco.…

A Fillmore pioneer

LOCALS | CALVIN LAU She was the quintessential little old lady in white tennis shoes — at least that’s how relentless neighborhood activist Mary Jane Staymates, known to all as M.J., liked to fashion herself. My first encounter with M.J., who died a few months ago, was at a Western Addition Neighborhood Association (WANA) meeting…

Modern designs for foggy dogs

PEOPLE OFTEN JOKE that there are more dogs than children in San Francisco. Statistics show it’s true: There were about 115,000 children under age 18 living in the city in 2016, according to the American Community Survey. San Francisco Animal Care and Control estimated that at the same time, there were about 120,000 to 150,000…

She rose to the occasion

STORY & PHOTOGRAPHS BY BARBARA WYETH From the first step into the garden behind a welcoming house on Clay Street, I was enchanted — and surprised, too, by its size and parklike feeling. This is not a manicured plot behind a single home, but a meandering landscape of many levels that extends the length of…

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