News from the Heart & Soul of San Francisco
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,…
[nggallery id=4] 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…
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…
SALOONS | Chris Barnett Barely 48 hours after seasoned drinkmeister Reza Esmaili took over the helm of the listing and listless Long Bar and Bistro on the corner of Fillmore and Clay on June 29, he started shaking up the joint. He whacked one to four bucks off most of the drink and food prices,…
A few months ago we told the story of Saralee, a remarkable neighborhood cat who gave birth to 11 kittens. One of them was quickly named Walter Cronkite for what looked uncannily like the pencil-thin moustache of the legendary television anchorman. It turns out Walter was a girl cat, and now comes word of a…
By Kim Nalley When I started playing at the Alta Plaza in 1995, I had no idea what an event Tuesday nights would become. I had played at the same location at Fillmore and Clay two years earlier on Sundays. Back then it was called the Fillmore Grill. Later I stopped in to visit the…
FILLMORE JAZZ FESTIVAL | Saturday, July 3, at 2 p.m. Art Khu was settling into his seat for the flight back from Mexico when he struck up a conversation with the passenger sitting beside him. And between takeoff and touchdown, a star was born. The passenger was Kiva Knight, a cinematographer from the Fillmore, who…
FILLMORE JAZZ FESTIVAL | July 3 & 4 A decade ago, the artist Ken Auster became enamored of some artistic cowboy boot sculptures. He didn’t buy them, but they stayed on his mind — ones that got away. Then about a year ago, Auster was stunned to see what he thought were the same boot…
A group of locals gets together for a walk on Saturday mornings at Crissy Field — as some of them have been doing for 25 years.