News from the Heart & Soul of San Francisco
Coming soon to a store window near you: the poster for this year’s jazz festival, created by Michael Schwab, one of the nation’s top graphic artists. New street banners sporting the design will go up before the festival, and posters and T-shirts will be available at the 2010 Fillmore Jazz Festival, which takes place on…
The roses in Susan Meyers’ garden will be in peak bloom on Saturday, May 22, for the Garden Conservancy’s garden tour. The tour is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and this year the starting point is Meyers’ “playful Pine Street garden” at 2418 Pine Street.
Almost overnight, a sleek and simple new art space has arrived at 1906 Fillmore. It is the San Francisco home of glass artist Cassandria Blackmore, who is based in Seattle. The grand opening is still a few weeks away, but her work is already on display. Blackmore creates reverse paintings on glass, then shatters and…
By Anne Paprocki A t the Curbside Cafe, the longtime local favorite on California just west of Fillmore, Olivier Perrier greets regulars with kisses on both cheeks and recites the daily specials in his inimitable French accent. He’s the only server in the room and seems to be everywhere at once, yet everyone receives his personal…
NEW NEIGHBOR | Hello Candystore Next door to OTD, Charles Phan’s latest gastronomical phenon, at 2226 Bush is a new women’s clothing collective called Hello by Candystore Collective. It’s owned by Jennifer Jones, who first got hooked on the ’hood while operating a holiday pop-up store for a few weeks last December in the space…
By Chris Barnett Owners of the 58-room, 116-year-old Edwardian style Hotel Majestic at Sutter and Gough have filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy to keep creditors from checking in and padlocking its ornate, cut glass front doors. Under Chapter 11, the hotel and its Uptown Joe’s restaurant and Butterfly Bar remain open for business. There is…
By Tessa Williams It would be easy to pass by the purple Victorian at 1712 Fillmore without realizing its importance to Bay Area black history. Located just north of Post Street, the building’s modest presence belies its legacy, both as the former home of Jimbo’s Bop City — the legendary after-hours jazz club — and…
TAKE A LAST LOOK at the majestic pink temple glowing in the late afternoon sunlight at the corner of California and Webster. It is quickly being enveloped by scaffolding for a seismic retrofit that will strengthen the hundred-year-old home of Congregation Sherith Israel. And it will lose its distinctive salmon pink paint job and emerge next…
Among the work now under way at the Sherith Israel temple at California and Webster is the restoration of the stained glass windows. In the grand western window, “Moses Presenting the Ten Commandments to the Children of Israel,” Moses is depicted on the granite rocks at the gateway to Yosemite, with Half Dome and El Capitan…
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