INSIDE News 3 Crime Watch 4 Fillmore Beat 5 Film 10 Home Sales 14 Music 15 FOOD & WINE Still Cozy After All These Years Neighborhood favorite La Med is turig 40 PAGE 6 SCHOOLS New Academy Is Now Ope Iovative school welcomes first classes PAGE 7 THE NEW FILLMORE SAN SAN FRANCISCO SEPTEMBER APRIL 2010 2018 The Art of Color Xerox A New Kid of Imagemakig Had Its Roots i the Fillmore There was a brief time i the Sa Fracisco art scee whe artwork created o color Xerox copy machies was hot the latest thig, de rigueur for experimetal ad accomplished artists, ad ovices as well. The Fillmore was at the ceter of the excitemet. COPY ART PAGES 8 & 9 BIG BUCKS BY BARBARA WYETH
UPFRONT + = HIGH HOLIDAYS WITH A DIFFERENCE Ejoy a meaigful, upliftig High Holiday experiece with clergy who spice up traditio. All uder the soarig dome of our breathtakig sactuary. PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANIEL BAHMANI Cator David Frommer, Rabbi Abby Phelps ad Rabbi Jessica Zimmerma Graf TICKETS & INFO sherithisrael.org 415.346.1720 2266 Califoria Street, Sa Fracisco, CA 94115 Kelly Johso s fial dace More tha 300 frieds ad eighbors of Fillmore fixture Kelly Johso tured out at the Clay Theatre o August 15 for the premiere of A Dace With Death, a ew documetary chroiclig his decisio to ed his life earlier this year. Musicias Tammy Hall ad Kim Nalley (below) sag some of the sogs they d performed at Johso s earby flat i the days before he died. The film screes agai o September 15 at the Legacy Film Festival o Agig i Japatow. See film page 11. Citywide Cleaup September 8, 2018 9 a.m. - 12 oo Our City THE NEW FILLMORE P. O. Box 15115 Sa Fracisco, ca 94115 415-441-6070 editors@ewfillmore.com Joi the team. Keep SF clea. sfgiatsweep.org @giatsweep @sfpublicworks Participate by pickig up litter ad sweepig the sidewalk outside your home or busiess. #keepsfclea #loveourcity Editors Barbara Kate Repa & Thomas R. Reyolds Productio Editor Giy Lidsay Copy Editor Doa Gillespie Advertisig iquiries ads@ewfillmore.com or 415.441.6070 Published o the first weeked of each moth. Deadlie: 20th of prior moth Subscriptios by mail are available for $30 per year. Please sed a check. Coectig the eighborhood Every moth, 20,000 copies of the New Fillmore circulate to homes ad busiesses i the Fillmore, Pacific Heights ad Japatow. We thak you for your support ad ecouragemet ad welcome your ideas ad suggestios. ewfillmore.com for updates ad archives 2 NEW FILLMORE September 2018
STREET TALK NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS Uity Church may become a pot shop Uity Church has etered ito a cotract to sell its logtime home i the Victoria buildig at 2222 Bush Street reportedly to a marijuaa retailer if the church ca fid a ew locatio withi the ext year that is ear mass trasit lies ad better-suited to its eeds. Church members voted earlier to hire a commercial real estate broker to explore the sale of the buildig which is zoed for retail as part of the Fillmore eighborhood commercial district ad the purchase of a less expesive home that would be more accessible to its members. A church leader cofirmed the cotract, but declied to idetify the buyer. Records i the city s ew Office of Caabis show the Vapor Room has submitted a applicatio for a retail caabis permit at 2222 Bush. JUST ONE DRESS: Oly a few weeks ago Lilith closed at 2029 Fillmore, ad already Zuri has take its place. The ew shop offers oly oe dress, made i Keya of may differet boldly pattered ad brightly colored fabrics. This is the secod shop for the olie compay the other is o Bleeker Street i New York. A all-day opeig party is set for Thursday, September 6. dickie spritzer ALTA PLAZA REOPENS After moths of beig surrouded by chai lik fecig while its irrigatio system was overhauled, the top side of Alta Plaza Park reopeed to the public o August 31. The laws have bee replated ad ew drais istalled to capture water ruoff. Some areas of the park are still feced off as fial details, icludig a ew etry at Jackso ad Pierce, are completed. New platigs at the etraces are to be istalled later this year. The Frieds of Alta Plaza Park will celebrate the reopeig with a free cotietal breakfast o the plaza by the playgroud o Suday, September 23, from 9 a.m. to oo. For more iformatio, go to altaplazapark.com. THE FILLMORE BLADE: After six years of effort, the legedary Fillmore Auditorium fially uveiled its ew sig i early August. It icludes a apple, symbolic of the barrel of apples that greets cocertgoers. That cofused a pair of recet visitors, who asked a passig local, Where s the Fillmore Auditorium? Whe he poited up to the ew sig, oe respoded: That s ot The Fillmore. That s a Apple store. City Sues Fillmore Heritage Ceter Developer City Attorey Deis Herrera filed suit o August 16 agaist developer Michael E. Johso who built the Fillmore Heritage Ceter for more tha $6.5 millio the city claims Johso owes for a loa that helped build the complex. The years of excuses are over. Time s up, Herrera said i a statemet aoucig the lawsuit. Sa Fracisco taxpayers eed to be made whole. For a few lively years begiig i 2007, the 50,000-square-foot space at Fillmore ad Eddy housed Yoshi s jazz club ad restaurat ad the 1300 o Fillmore louge ad restaurat, plus a gallery, screeig room ad garage. Yoshi s closed i 2014 ad briefly became The Additio, which Johso ra himself before it too closed. 1300 o Fillmore closed i 2017 ad ow operates at the airport. The city took over the complex i 2017 whe Johso defaulted o the loa ad has ot yet figured out what to do with the empty commercial spaces. The city made this loa i good faith ad has give Mr. Johso every chace to pay back Sa Fracisco taxpayers, Herrera said. Sa Fracisco has worked with Mr. Johso at every tur. Mr. Johso has ever held up his ed of the bargai. At a public meetig i May 2016, Johso told the audiece that, i effect, the project had bee thrust upo him. He oted that he was primarily a housig developer whe local residets who wated a Africa-America i charge pressed him to take o the project. I hidsight, he said it was a mistake for him to get ivolved i etertaimet ad restaurats. It was a bad decisio to go dow that road, he said. After Yoshi s o Fillmore declared bakruptcy, Johso decided to ru the club ad restaurat himself. I made aother mistake, he said. We decided to try to resurrect it ad create The Additio. He added: We foud out that operatig that 28,000-square-foot facility was very difficult. We wet six moths. We could t make it work. We had to close. Other lawsuits are said to be i the works over the commercial spaces i the ceter, which remai empty. syergyschool.org TK at Syergy Kids who tur five i the fall are eligible for our uique, two-year kidergarte experiece. Call (415) 579-0015 for details. September 2018 NEW FILLMORE 3
CRIME WATCH Burglary Buchaa ad Sutter July 15, 5:30 p.m. A ma posig as a buildig s security guard etered a woma s apartmet while she was home, tellig her that he eeded to check it. He the stole her wallet ad fled. The ma is thought to be aroud 40 years old. Police have o suspects. Assault ad Robbery Geary ad Webster July 19, 12:05 a.m. A ma was walkig to his hotel whe he was tackled at the itersectio by aother ma. The assailat stole a cell phoe ad wallet from the ma s pockets, the fled. The ma who was robbed suffered a laceratio below the eye, but refused medical treatmet. The robber is described as a ma of about 40. Police have o suspects at this time. Robbery Geary ad Webster July 20, 2:20 p.m. A ma waitig for the 38-Geary bus was approached by a ma ad a woma, both approximately 18 to 25 years old. The male suspect grabbed the ma s camera. The ma waitig for the bus refused to give it up, ad the two struggled util he was kocked to the groud. The robber took the ma s camera ad cell phoe, the both suspects fled east o Geary. The ma who was robbed sustaied mior ijuries. Police are still ivestigatig the matter. Assault Fillmore ad O Farrell July 23, 5:45 a.m. A ma o the street shouted isults at aother ma, the walked away. The ma who had bee isulted followed him ad struck him i the head from behid. His ijury was ot life-threateig, ad police trasported him to a earby hospital. Robbery, Assault Frakli ad Hayes July 29, 4 a.m. A pedestria was approached by two me who jumped him ad started strugglig with him. They grabbed his cell phoe, ad took his jacket ad wallet. Both me fled the scee. The suspects were betwee 20 ad 30 years of age. The ma who was robbed had ijuries that were ot life-threateig. Whe police came, they trasported him to the hospital. No arrests have bee made ad the matter is still uder ivestigatio. Battery, Trespassig Lyo ad Fell July 30, 9:36 a.m. A store maager saw a woma eter his store ad start a argumet with a customer. Whe the maager asked her to leave, she became eraged ad hit him. He called the police, who detaied the suspect. Robbery Buchaa ad Oak July 31, 5 p.m. A ma walkig dow the street with a camera was approached by two me carryig kives. They demaded the ma s camera, ad he haded it over. The two the fled south o foot. Both suspects were from 25 to 30 years old. They are still at large. Robbery With Gu Bush ad Divisadero July 31, 10:30 p.m. A ma was walkig dow the street whe a car stopped alogside him ad two me dressed all i black ad wearig black masks jumped out. Whe the suspects grabbed the pedestria s backpack, he fought back. The oe attacker bradished a hadgu ad demaded the backpack. Fearful for his life, the pedestria released it. Both assailats are described as black males, from 18 to 25 years old; the driver of the car is a Latia woma with a heavy build. All suspects are still at large. Burglary, Outstadig Warrat Webster ad Turk August 1, 5:33 a.m. A passerby called the police after he saw a ma break ito a car. Officers arrived ad ra a backgroud check o the suspect, which revealed that he had three outstadig warrats ad was o probatio. The officers placed him uder arrest. Hit ad Ru Geary ad 2d August 4, 1:30 a.m. A ma who was struck by a hit-ad-ru driver as he crossed Geary Boulevard died of his ijuries. The suspect remais at large. Police report that the driver, who was travelig east o Geary i a dark-colored fourdoor seda, fled the scee immediately. The vehicle was last see speedig south o Arguello. It is believed that the car sustaied frot-ed damage i the collisio. Police have made o arrests i this case, ad ayoe who has ay iformatio is ecouraged to call the police departmet s aoymous tip lie at 415-731-2865, or text TIP411 with SFPD at the start of the message. Outstadig Warrat Turk ad Parker August 11, 7:44 p.m. A witess called the police cocerig a white male who was movig from car to car, tryig to break their widows. Whe officers arrived they detaied the ma, who spotaeously stated: I did t do it. I did t break ay widow. A computer query revealed there was a outstadig warrat o the ma for burglary. He was placed uder arrest ad booked. Drivig With Suspeded Licese, Possessio of Prohibited Weapo Sutter ad Broderick August 16, 9:27 p.m. Officers stopped a vehicle that did ot have curret registratio. The driver also stated that he did t have a licese. After ivestigatig, the officers foud the registratio o the car to be fraudulet, ad a records check revealed that the driver s licese had bee suspeded. Officers the searched the car prior to havig it towed, ad foud a illegal collapsible bato hidde uder a seat. The suspect was arrested ad booked at couty jail for possessio of a prohibited weapo, false display of registratio ad drivig with a suspeded licese. Outstadig Warrat Broderick ad Fell August 19, 12:08 p.m. A ma called 911 about a idividual he had frequetly see loiterig i the area ad behavig i a threateig maer. The suspect was described as a white male. Respodig officers leared the suspect had a active warrat for loiterig ad resistig arrest that had bee issued by the U.C. Berkeley Police Departmet. 148,000 calls every year. But our most importat oe is from you. For 45 years, the Friedship Lie has bee makig huma coectios with isolated ad loely older adults. Each moth this call ceter, the oly accredited lie i the atio, receives a average of 12,000 calls ad over 148,000 a year. Help us cotiue to make life-chagig huma coectios at www.ioagig.org/doate or call (415) 750-4142. AgeO. 4 NEW FILLMORE September 2018
FILLMORE BEAT It s Swak No More By Chris Barett Chage comes slowly at the itersectio of Califoria ad Presidio. The Jewish Commuity Ceter, the S.F. Fire Credit Uio ad Ella s, the popular breakfast spot, have shared the corer for decades. So it was a surprise whe what has bee the Swak Bar i the Laurel I o the ortheast corer for early a decade recetly appeared with a ew ame, LAUREATE. It also sports a ew look, a ew barteder ad a covivial 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. happy hour, durig which cocktails are skillfully made, geerously poured ad reasoably priced. I m o poet, but Laureate has a ice, quiet vibe. It also has a followig of loyal locals who ve bee comig sice its G Bar days, stayed with it through the Swak years, ad like the optio of curlig up with fried i cotemporary coversatio-friedly furiture clusters, cozyig up ear the fireplace or sittig at the bar o comfy leather stools. Michelle Nguye, who s makig a retur appearace as a afteroo barteder after a four-year absece, warms up the place o foggy days with her smile ad to-the-rim cocktails. Because it s small ad itimate ad attached to the logstadig Laurel I, the ew Laureate retais its ligerig ambiace as a cozy eighborhood bar ad trystig veue. Raucous it s ot; the loe TV is mostly switched off. It s a eighborhoody, obodybothers-you kid of place. Greg has bee stoppig by for years. It s ot loud ad crowded it s the perfect atmosphere for a bar, he says. Greg favors Taqueray gi ad Agostura bitters a Pik Gi. Sam is sittig at the bar, tappig out some corporate prose o her laptop, sippig a Grey Goose up with a twist ad waitig for three frieds, who suddely burst i smilig. The four wome retreat to the sofas ad order up. A Margarita requested straight up arrives filled with fresh lime juice, a touch of agave syrup ad rimmed with spice salt, $10. A sack of six golf-ball-sized meatballs soaked i barbecue sauce is a bargai at $6. Baco-wrapped dates ad deviled eggs are also o the meu. A Califoria chardoay ad caberet ad a Prosecco are $7 durig happy hour, while a small selectio of draft beers from Sa Fracisco s Fort Poit Brewery are priced at $6 for a husky pour. BEYOND BAGELS: The upmarket bagelry at 1520 Fillmore, WISE SONS, has beefed up its meu with ew deli sadwiches. The revived meu, which looks ad reads like Brighto Beach circa 1952, leads off with coriader ad pepper-crusted pastrami smoked over hickory, or hot cored beef that s bee bried for a week with garlic. Both are piled betwee slabs of Wise Sos homebaked Jewish rye, with a pickle, for $11.50. The there s the classic Reube: pastrami or cored beef with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, Russia dressig, this time o toasted Jewish rye, for $12.50. Toss i coleslaw ad you have a messy but delicious Number 19 at $12.50. For somethig a bit tamer, the Club Sadwich marries smoked turkey with crispy pastrami ad a smashed avocado for $12.50. Oy. The Sos have wisely diversified ethically, too. The ew meu icludes a Chiese chicke salad sadwich o toasted challah bread for $13. The late, great playwright Neil Simo would be proud. a-ti-ci-pa-tio: The fall opeig of NOOSH i the former Thai Stick space hailed by eater.com as oe of the doze most aticipated restaurat opeigs i the coutry is ow slated for year-ed. But a bit of ews escaped from behid the butcherpapered widows at Pie ad Fillmore. What s described as a fie, fast casual diig cocept will also offer home delivery of progressive Califoria cuisie with a easter Mediterraea ifluece, says co-ower JOHN LITZ, who s still promisig the prices will be reasoable. A CHRISTMAS GIFT: Earlier this year the HOTEL KABUKI i Japatow uderwet a magificet makeover, addig a splashy ew bar ad a reimagied lobby. Now its ew marquee restaurat, origially touted to ope year-ed 2017 ad the first-quarter of this year, will ope at Christmas. The hotel has siged a deal with KIN KHAO, chef at the hot Micheli-starred Thai fusio spot i the Hilto Parc 55 Hotel ear Uio Square. Meawhile, beware of a $114-a-ight lowball room rate beig floated aroud tow by Trivago, the heavily hyped hotel bookig egie. Not true, says a Kabuki Hotel staffer, who puts the target rate at $279 a ight. It s always tea time at Samovar Now ope daily o 1910 Fillmore Street at Fillmore & Bush 1910 Fillmore St 411 Valecia St 730 Howard St SFO The Beat goes o. Sed ewsy local items to chris@cbarmedia.com or call 415-921-5092. Master Sommelier curated wies, ow available i Pacific Heights A place to discover, buy, ad lear about wie 2358 Fillmore St 415-896-4935 vervewie.com September 2018 NEW FILLMORE 5
FOOD & WINE Nearig 40, La Med Still a Work of Heart By Shelley Hadler I the very affordable 1970s, the Fillmore was home to workig artists, icludig photographer Edmud Shea. Best kow for his collaboratio with coceptual artist Bruce Coer ad his book covers for eighbor ad acclaimed writer Richard Brautiga, Shea s work ca still be see i the eighborhood today. Approach La Mediterraee restaurat at 2210 Fillmore, ad hagig just to the right of the door is a large framed photograph of a champage bottle o ice, with ope splashed across it. O the reverse, the same bottle is show upeded i the ice bucket, with the message closed directly below. Though champage might seem a bit upscale for this simple eighborhood spot, it reflects both Shea s quietly bo vivat lifestyle ad ower Levo Der Bedrossia s desire for a place at oce humble ad idulget. Shea moved easily betwee his artistic frieds ad Sa Fracisco society, where his iate charm was ot lost o the ladies. I its ow way, La Mediterraee has the same crosscultural ease still, after almost 40 years, drawig a mix of creative locals ad toy deizes of Pacific Heights. Shea was a fixture at La Mediterraee s tiy bar, schmoozig with workers ad customers ad fueled by a steady flow of espresso. Der Bedrossia remembers Shea s high, ifectious laugh ad blue-eyed beam. You would hear that laugh across the room. He could talk with ayoe, seemigly edlessly. He was a kid of eighborhood ambassador, Der Bedrossia says. I was much more of a itrovert, so I reached out to the eighborhood with my little cafe. It was both my busiess ad my persoal work of art. The first thigs I hug o the walls came from my apartmet. This place has my sweat, my tears ad my heart i it. Shea brought me to the restaurat i its first year, 1979, ad I was charmed by both the atmosphere ad the food. Ever sice it opeed, La Med has bee a staple i the ever-chagig assortmet of eateries that dot the Fillmore corridor. Ulike the tredy spots that come ad go, it has offered mostly the same dishes for all its years. Whe I imagied the kid of cafe I wated, I kew it eeded three thigs: good atmosphere, good food ad good prices ad with atmosphere, I iclude service, says Der Bedrossia. The friedliess ad skill of my servers are what create a welcomig place. I also kew I did ot wat to micromaage my staff. So I had to hire people that I could trai ad trust to ru it well. His hads-off yet urturig style clearly works. Gustavo Villareal, a cook, started at La Med at age 16 ad is ow a gradfather. His geeral maager, Alicia Vade Heuvel, bega as a server 20 years ago. I tell all my staff the same thig: Serve people the way you d like to be served, Der Bedrossia says. This lesso clearly was ot lost o Arthur Bedikia, a PHOTOGRAPHS BY SUZIE BIEHLER La Med waiter of 20 years. He greets regulars with a hug ad commets o the growth spurts of childre quickly becomig adults. Ad he chats with everyoe. O a recet Saturday ight, Bedikia touched o Der Bedrossia s roots: He s Armeia, bor ad raised i Lebao. Bedikia is also of Armeia descet, ad a rare figure i this trasiet tow: He was bor ad raised i the Suset, ad lives there still with his ow family of three. I his hads, service has the feel of a magic trick, as plates appear with a swift flourish. He is a essetial part of this warm eviromet, ad the warmth is as sustaiig as La Mediterraee s well-practiced fare. La Mediterraee ower Levo Der Bedrossia (left) ad the photograph by Edmud Shea that has bee welcomig diers for early 40 years. O my first visit i 1979, I fell i love with the chicke cilicia, a three-bite versio of a Morocca bastilla. The fillig braised chicke ad almods flavored with ciamo, sugar, cumi ad turmeric is wrapped i layers of crisp, buttery phyllo dough. To my delight, this treat is still as good, if ot better, tha it was o my first samplig almost four decades ago. Ad the torshi tart, bright pik beet ad turip pickles still make a ideal accompaimet to the richess of the cilicia ad their other phyllo-wrapped delicacies. Other comfortig dishes, such as the lamb lule ad the chicke pomegraate, hold up equally well. Swimmig agaist the tredy tide, this is go-to food i a go-to eviromet, both delicious ad depedable. Ad it will likely edure for a good while loger. I ca see myself here for at least aother five years, says Der Bedrossia, who is 67. Beyod that, I ca oly hope someoe, possibly o my staff, loves it as much as I do ad will carry it o. We love to fiesta! Olie Orderig & Caterig www.415tacobar.com LIVE JAZZ NIGHTLY Call or email us today for caterig. NO COVER CHARGE 1419 FILLMORE ST. AT O FARRELL ST. 415.440.7414 SHEBAPIANOLOUNGE.COM 2401 Califoria Street @ Fillmore (415) 674-7745 (415) 674-7769 6 NEW FILLMORE September 2018
NEW NEIGHBORS SCHOOLS A Iovative New Academy Opes A alterative school for purpose-drive tees welcomes its first classes of studets Creatig a Silico Valley of Educatio I a TEDx lecture at the Uiversity of Chicago o The Creatio of Coscious Culture Through Educatioal Iovatio, Michael Strog (above), fouder of the eighborhood s ew Academy of Thought ad Idustry, discussed the eed for chage i educatioal istitutios. A excerpt: If we wat to develop extraordiary huma capabilities, we eed to allow cool ad iovative brads of huma developmet to develop. We eed to fid ways to get a lot more cash ad resources goig ito cool lifestyle programs. So the way I see this happeig is that if we could apply iovatio dyamics like what happeed i techology. If we could have people who are extraordiary at gettig people to laugh, people who are extraordiary at motherig, people who are extraordiary at kidess, people who are isightful beyod belief. If we could create istitutios where those people could trasmit their skills ad their practices to others ad, we could have brad ame istitutios where Jae s Spectacular Kidess School could develop that reputatio. Ad you kew whe you hired somebody from that school that: Wow they were just kock-your-socks-off amazig. The gradually, we could create a Silico Valley of Educatio, as it were. We could create a huma developmet field where we could have extraordiary people who would dazzle us. Our childre would be better ad more capable, more delightful huma beigs tha we are. Ad the, we would ot oly be dazzled by techology ad iovatios i the sese of our iphoes ad Google ad so forth, but we would be dazzled by huma capacity. By Fra Morelad Johs T ees are capable of impressive real world accomplishmets, says Michael Strog, fouder of the Academy of Thought ad Idustry, a ew private high school i the eighborhood geared to purpose-drive tees. His aim is to set them free to make great accomplishmets. With a impressive backgroud of his ow i iovative educatio ad etrepreeurship, Strog has two other academies to his credit: oe i Austi, Texas, ad the other i New York City. O August 27, the ew school opeed the doors of its stately buildig at the corer of Jackso ad Scott Streets, which formerly housed the Stere School. It has bee totally reovated with such details as a maker s space i a former garage, several rooms set up with large tables for Socratic discussio, a math room, several kitches (sice purpose-drive studets fix their ow meals ad sacks) ad a laboratory with gleamig ew equipmet that will have to compete for studet attetio with stuig views of Sa Fracisco Bay ad Alta Plaza Park. Crowig it all o the top floor is what Strog describes as our glorious library, ad he does ot exaggerate. The library retais period details, plety of shelf space ad eve more stuig views of the Bay, Alcatraz ad poits everywhere. Studets have small outdoor spaces i which to cotemplate the view, but their primary recreatio area is Alta Plaza, just reopeed across Jackso Street. ATI s iitial studet body cosists of fewer tha 20 tees, mostly juiors ad seiors, but the school is desiged to accommodate up to 60 studets, ad Strog aticipates addig to the erollmet as classes get uderway. There is a core faculty of four, with eight additioal teachers i a variety of curricula. Salaries ad costs, Strog says, are comparable to other elite private schools i Sa Fracisco. Strog, bor to a 18-year-old father ad a 16-year-old mother who dropped out of high school, was accepted ito Harvard Uiversity whe he was 18, without his parets kowledge or support. He left Harvard to go to St. Joh s Uiversity because he was already iterested i Socratic discussio egagig studets I wat studets to take the iitiative to make the world a better place, while livig full ad joyful lives. i questios ad aswers to stimulate critical thikig ad St. Joh s great books course. After fiishig first i his class, pocketig the seior essay prize ad a math prize, he headed to the Uiversity of Chicago for graduate school. Chicago public schools were the still heavily iflueced by philosopher-author-educator Mortimer J. Adler ad Uiversity of Chicago presidet ad later chacellor Robert Mayard Hutchis. Strog believed, alog with Adler ad Hutchis, that public schools eeded to create more opportuities for studets to thik ad reflect. So while workig o his dissertatio, he bega traiig teachers i the Chicago public schools to lead Socratic semiars. Traditioal teachig is so didactic, he says. Whe you itroduce studets to Socratic dialogue, it s like liberatig prisoers. The bureaucracy of public educatio, though, evetually prompted Strog to move to charter schools. I a career that has icluded creatig iovative ad successful middle ad high schools, both public ad private, from Alaska to New Mexico ad Texas, traiig teachers ad promotig Socratic dialogue alog the way, Strog cites successes: statistics o graduates of his MICHAEL STRONG fouder of the Academy of Thought ad Idustry schools ad idividual achievemets such as the Austi studet who fouded a music festival before graduatio. Strog ad his wife, a Seegalese etrepreeur, sped several moths of each year i Seegal. We live i a eighborhood i which I am the oly white perso; the childre costatly wat to touch my strage blod hair, he says. The two are workig to create a compay that provides jobs for adults i Seegal ad iovative educatio for youg people there that is aliged with their culture. I TEDx talks, private discussio ad a blog titled The Purpose of Educatio, Strog pushes for educatio icorporatig Socratic dialogue ad eablig tees to pursue their dreams. Ad as to his ow credetials for educatig others, he says: Most importatly, I have two grow childre who are healthy, happy ad well. As ATI welcomes its first studet body, Strog says the school iteds to provide a persoalized educatio that empowers studets to pursue their dreams, develop amazig projects ad achieve excellece. I wat studets to take the iitiative to make the world a better place, while livig full ad joyful lives, he says. DICKIE SPRITZER CAFE RESTAURANT CATERING fillmore celebratig 40 years! Now servig Turkish bruch! Weekeds 11 to 3 TROYA 2125 FILLMORE STREET 415.563.1000 OPEN EVERY DAY from 11 AM to 9 PM Happy Hour 4-6PM DAILY $10 off Bottled Wies MON & TUES NIGHTS 2210 Fillmore St. @ sacrameto Sa Fracisco (415) 721-2956 iformatio@cafelamedsf.com September 2018 NEW FILLMORE 7
ART Copy Art A New Kid of Art Foud a Home i the Fillmore By Barbara Wyeth T here was a brief time i the Sa Fracisco art scee whe artwork doe o color Xerox copy machies was hot the latest thig, de rigueur for experimetal ad accomplished artists, ad for ovices as well. The Fillmore was right at the ceter of all the excitemet. The eighborhood had a log traditio of welcomig musicias ad artists. That had begu to chage with redevelopmet, the Geary expressway ad getrificatio, as Fillmore Street became a upscale shoppig district for residets of Pacific Heights. Paiterlad, a loose collectio of artists who gathered i ad aroud 2322 Fillmore i the 1950s, was essetially over whe Jay DeFeo ad her behemoth paitig The Rose moved out of the buildig i 1965. I the mid-70s, however, some remats of that bohemia spirit remaied. The street was still eclectic ad diverse, with small service busiesses, oe-of-akid boutiques, art galleries ad framers, Japaese sushi shops ad bars with live music. It was i this milieu that Barbara Cushma, a ative New Yorker, opeed A Fie Had at 2404 Califoria Street, ow home to Smitte Ice Cream. Iitially, her shop offered fie writig implemets ad supplies for lefties the proprietor beig oe as well as hadcrafted goods ad fie art. Cushma had worked i ceramics ad collage art ad had a avid iterest i all forms of artistic expressio. Copy art was just begiig to show up i alterative art spaces. Work was created by copyig flat art, ofte collage, or by puttig a object o the glass of the copy machie ad producig a image. The shape of the object, the amout of light reachig the surface ad the distace of the cover from the glass all affected the fial image. Cushma, ever o the lookout for the ewest treds i artmakig, had oe of the first exhibits of color copy art i Sa Fracisco at A Fie Had with a show of postcards by Lore Partridge, graddaughter of the great photographer Imoge Cuigham. I 1979, Cushma opeed her Back Room Gallery with the Color Xerox Group Show, which was probably the most comprehesive exhibitio of color Xerox copy art produced at the time. The variety of work was impressive, the cheap beer flowed ad the bright plastic color of the artwork was matched by a overflowig ad equally colorful crowd. Cushma soo closed her shop ad gallery, but she cotiued her relatioships with the copy artists ad wet o to produce her Color Xerox Aual for five years from 1980 to 1984. The format was typically Cushmaesque: a caledar with pages for 13 moths, a guest artist each year, ad a bous of some kid, ofte a postcard by a selected artist, o the back cover. Oe year, the bous was a barf bag from a airlie. I 1984, it was a page from George Orwell s ovel of the same ame. More tha 100 artists were ivited to participate. They were mostly from the Bay Area, but Cushma solicited artists from all over the U.S. ad beyod. Because the caledars were radomly collated i a editio of 385, o two had the same combiatios of artists. Cushma died i 2014, ad dealig with her astoishig collectio of artwork both her ow ad that of others has bee dautig. Her sister cotacted the Xerox Corp. about the caledar project ad the compay gladly accepted oe of the Color Xerox Auals for its archives. From that doatio, curators at the earby SUNY at Brockport developed a exhibit i the fall of 2015 called the Immovable Camera built aroud the Color Xerox Aual ad cocetratig o From her shop A Fie Had at 2404 Califoria, Barbara Cushma lauched the Color Xerox Aual she published for five years i the 80s. Bay Area artists ad work from the 1970s ad 80s. This moth, CEPA Gallery i Buffalo, New York, will preset a expasive exhibitio of copy art, with a major portio of the show devoted to Califoria artists, most of them cotributors to Barbara Cushma s Color Xerox Auals from the 80s. The exhibitio, titled Fast, Cheap & Easy: The Copy Art Revolutio, will be a broader retrospective of the medium ad will iclude more tha 100 artists from the 1960s to the preset, i additio to the caledar art. It cotiues from September 14 through December 15. I 1982, Hal Fischer wrote i a review i Artweek magazie: I the worlds of art ad photography, copy art has the status of a illegitimate offsprig. A recet exhibitio at the Whitey Museum of America Art i New York, collectios ad archives i Frace ad Spai, ad the upcomig show i Buffalo all seem to sigal that this short-lived pheomeo Cushma first champioed at Califoria ad Fillmore might fially be gettig its due. HENRY VILLIERME (1928-2013) Bay Area Figurative AN ONLINE EXHIBITION Viewigs by Appoitmet THOMAS REYNOLDS GALLERY WWW. T HOMASR EYNOLDS. COM ifo@thomasreyolds.com 415.676.7689 8 NEW FILLMORE September 2018
IMAGES courtesy of BARBARA WYETH Back Whe Puk Was Big ad Color Xerox Was All the Rage I met Barbara Cushma at the North Beach Photo Art Fair i the mid-70s whe she still had her shop at 2404 Califoria, just a few steps from Fillmore. I was showig traditioal ad had-tited photographs, FIRST PERSON ad we became art buddies ad dear frieds from the o. I do t recall seeig ay copy art at that fair, but I had heard the buzz about color Xerox. I 1978, my paiter fried Diae Best ad I opeed the Postcard Palace i North Beach, a art postcard store based o a shop called Utitled i New York s Soho district. Best ad I were both artists ad avid postcard collectors, but we wated our store to reflect more of a Sa Fracisco spirit. Ad we wated to support local artists. Puk was big, mail art was big ad color Xerox was all the rage. Barbara Cushma was already o it. After her icoic show i 1979, she gave up retail ad embarked o her equally icoic caledar project. Meawhile, Electro Arts, a studio ad gallery for copy art, joied forces with the Postcard Palace, brigig alog its color Xerox copier. We were workig with artists ad experimetig with all thigs possible o this amazig machie. I was makig images by layig actual objects o the plate of the copier. I was totally itrigued by the brilliat color, texture ad detail captured by the copier. I started copyig my clothig, a favorite pair of shoes ad old ever-wor aklets I foud at a thrift store with their Wome s Work label ad tags still itact. It was my way of preservig objects that amused me, that I liked, that I kew would t last forever. Ad it was fast especially compared to shootig with a camera, developig, pritig ad the paitig with oil paits, which is what I had bee doig. I was hooked. Just framig the prits made o the copier seemed Color Xerox art was featured at the opeig i 1979 of The Back Room, a exhibitio space at Fillmore ad Califoria. At top right, Barbara Cushma (left) ad Barbara Wyeth (right) are iterviewed. too tame for all that plastic color ad jive, so I bega moutig them o foam core, the cuttig out the shapes so they would float o the wall. The I wated to see those mudae thigs bigger, oversized, ludicrous. I bega to elarge them through a series of steps ad a lot of hadwork, puzzlig together pieces util a pair of shoes became two or three times life size. I ve bee asked to sed some of these to the Fast, Cheap & Easy exhibitio of copy art opeig this moth i Buffalo, New York. Computers, digital cameras, scaers ad all the associated techology very quickly chaged image makig forever. The ease ad speed is remiiscet of the color copier, but it seems so much more refied ad tame tha the luscious layers of heat-fused shiy ik that we got o those color Xerox copiers the size of washig machies we wragled back i the 80s. Barbara Wyeth I The City You Love, The Address You Wat. Sa Fracisco has your heart. It also has oe of the more eviable addresses for a complete Life Care Commuity The Sequoias Sa Fracisco. See why this ca be your retiremet reimagied. Visit thesequoiassf.org or for your persoal tour call Aliso Short, 415.351.7900. 1400 Geary Boulevard, Sa Fracisco This ot-for-profit commuity is part of Norther Califoria Presbyteria Homes ad Services. Licese# 210102761 COA# 099 NCSF789-02aa September 2018 NEW FILLMORE 9
FILM Aime, Rame & More The Japa Film Festival returs to Japatow By Adrea Chase T he retur of fall brigs the retur of local film festivals, icludig the 7th aual Japa Film Festival from September 28 to October 7 at the New People Ciema i Japatow which has ot a sigle film that is skippable. A few of this year s films have already had a limited ru i Sa Fracisco. Others are local or regioal premieres that will leave you woderig what took so log. If you have t see Koki Shigeo s Rame Heads (October 2) o the big scree, here s the chace to fix that. The rigor that ramemaster Tomita Osamu demads from himself ad his staff elevates oodle-makig to a fie art, ad the steamig bowls of goodess are filmed with a palpable love for all that wet ito creatig them. Be wared: You will come away cravig a bowl of your ow. I additio to the romace of missed opportuities ad persistece i The Night Is Short, Walk o Girl (October 1), other aime films i the mix iclude the opeig ight film, Naoko Yamada s Liz ad the Bluebird (September 28), a bittersweet story of growig up ad growig apart i a high school brass bad, as well as Yamada s The Silet Voice (October 3), about a hearig-impaired school girl ad the log-term impact she has o the school bully. Xiaoxig Yi, Yoshitaka Takeuchi ad Haolig Li s Flavors of Youth (October 7) cotiues the oodle motif i oe of the three stories i its athology. For eve more shorts, there s DigiCo6 ASIA Awards: The Woders of Aimatio Shorts (October 5), 11 short films from a pa-asia competitio. Returig to the real-ish world, ejoy the moody suspese of Yui Kiyohara s Our House (October 6), with Kiyohara i attedace, ad the overt horror ad uexpected hilarity of Shiichiro Ueda s Oe Cut of the Dead (October 6), a geuiely origial take o the zombie mythos. Free admissio as well as beautiful artwork recommed the father-daughter story behid the icoic Thirty-Six Views of Mout Fuji i Takao Kato s quietly movig drama Kurara: The Dazzlig Life of Hokusai s Daughter (October 6). Admissio to the cocert film, Etertaimet Nippo 2018 Perfume (October 6), featurig the electro-pop trio, is also free. Catch co-star Kaori Momoi i perso, ad a kimoo show i Latvia o the scree courtesy of Maris Martisos Magic Kimoo (September 30); ad the closig ight film from Yukiko Mishima, Dear Etrager (October 7), about the complicated relatioships i a bleded family. It was recetly awarded a special grad prix by the jury i the 2017 Motreal World Film Festival competitio. The 7th aual Japa Film Festival rus from September 28 to October 7 at the New People Ciema at 1746 Post i Japatow. For more iformatio, go to JFFSF.org. Featured o opeig ight of the Japa Film Festival o September 28 is Naoko Yamada s Liz ad the Bluebird, a bittersweet aime film about growig up ad growig apart. SAN FRANCISCO NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION NO HOST BAR REFRESHMENTS LIVE MUSIC FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 6 9 P.M. ACCION LATINA, 2958 24TH ST. RSVP AT OPS@SFNNA.COM 10 NEW FILLMORE September 2018
Advetures of Later Life at Legacy Filmfest By Sheila Malkid T wo years ago, I wrote i the brochure for the 6th aual Legacy Film Festival o Agig that I could t wait to be 80. As the director ad fouder of the Legacy filmfest ad with more tha 50 years of workig i the field of agig I was curious: Was I goig to look differet? Would I feel worse? Or better? Ay milestoe birthday from age 30 oward seems to have a depressig, or at least thought-provokig, effect. I remember whe I was youger, maybe 50, I coceived of 70 as the age that would make me old. Yet I did t feel old at 70. So I moved the bar up to 80, which seemed to be a threshold of a icreasigly older age, callig to mid icreasig physical ad metal limitatios. I wodered how joy would fit i. Now I m 80. So far, pretty good. Eyes ad hearig somewhat dimmer, ame retrieval a little slower. My left hip feels a little fuy. These sigs did t happe all at oce; they crept up little by little. Nevertheless, I look forward to ew challeges with a certai humility, perhaps, ad sometimes a look over my shoulder to see what s comig up behid me. For may people, agig, the growig older ad fially growig old is ot a matter of woder, but somethig to fear. Some people still advise me to remove the word agig from the festival ame, arguig it will scare people away. Our aim i presetig three days of films is for all of KELLY ON FILLMORE PORTRAIT BY ANNE RUTH ISAACSON The New Fillmore documetary A Dace With Death chroiclig logtime eighborhood residet Kelly Johso s decisio earlier this year to ed his life will scree o Saturday, September 15, at 2:30 p.m. as part of the Legacy festival s Choices program. us o matter our ages to coceive of later life as a adveture, with its lighter ad darker momets. This year s iteratioal rage of dramas ad documetaries are offered to educate, etertai ad ispire itergeeratioal audieces about the issues of agig, both the challeges ad the triumphs. The 17 films that make up the seve festival programs are grouped to illustrate importat aspects of growig older. Friday, September 14 The festival opes with Legacy Shorts: Fresh Views of Later Life 90 miutes of films from Serbia, Bulgaria ad Sardiia, two of them about 100-year-olds celebratig the cetury mark with their families plus two movig films from the Bay Area. The eveig program, O the Edge, features both ice skatig ad icy Czech waters. Saturday, September 15 The Ucarig/Carig program icludes Like Virgiia, a documetary glimpse of the lovig bod betwee a 37-year-old depressive female ad her trusted 94-yearold fried. Choices movigly explores two sides of ed-of-life decisios i both documetary ad fictioal formats. Embargoed features two films i Spaish with Eglish subtitles, oe from Mexico ad the U.S., the other from a 30-somethig Colombia director. Both illustrate the dictioary defiitio: a official ba o trade or other commercial activity with a particular coutry. Suday, September 16 Two fial programs o Suday ed the festival. The Joys of Friedship icludes a edearig short, Wedy s Shabbat, ad the 90-miute feature, Abe & Phil s Last Poker Game, featurig Paul Sorvio ad Marti Ladau i his fial film. The festival will coclude with A Family Saga, featurig A Marriage Story, a 102-miute documetary spaig 35 years i the life of a couple with five childre, icludig both times of harmoy ad a few shockig twists. The post-film Q&A discussios led by filmmakers ad experts iteractig with the audiece are always iterestig ad ofte profoud. A bous at this year s festival: Everyoe 100 or older will be admitted free, with a valid ID. The 8th aual Legacy Film Festival o Agig rus from September 14 to 16 at New People Ciema at 1746 Post i Japatow. For tickets ad more iformatio, go to legacyfilmfestivaloagig.org. FREE SPEAKER DR. VINCENT MATTHEWS, CCSF Grad Superitedet, Sa Fracisco Uified School District What will you do with free tuitio? CCSF.edu/FreeCity (415) 452-7774 Free City is a partership betwee City College ad the City & Couty of Sa Fracisco, backed by the voters of Sa Fracisco. September 2018 NEW FILLMORE 11
LANDMARKS A Lodge With a View Presidio s ewest hotel respects its history The Presidio Lodge ad (left) its firepit. KENTYN REYNOLDS PAUL DYER By Bridget Maley Just before the Fourth of July, the lucky first guests checked i to the Presidio Lodge, a ew additio to the collectio of overight accommodatios available i the Presidio of Sa Fracisco. The stuig reovatio of a former army barracks provides a uique urba park experiece with world class views of the Golde Gate Bridge. Rich i history ad military traditio, the project bleds a careful restoratio of the exterior with clea, moder iteriors icorporatig some historic features. The artwork, historic photographs, foud objects ad eve a army-issue blaket o each bed create a military theme that is ot overbearig ad eve adds a bit of whimsy. The 42-room lodge has bee early fully occupied sice it opeed. The reovatio was desiged by Architectural Resources Group, with Laura Cook Iteriors ad Joyce Coyle Art Iteriors, for the Presidio Trust. The lodge is oversee by Waterford Hotels ad Is. Facig the Presidio s mai parade groud, the ew Presidio Lodge, formerly kow as Buildig 105, is the orthermost i a series of five idetical buildigs kow as the Motgomery Street Barracks. This distiguished group was costructed betwee 1893 ad 1897 usig a stadardized military pla: elisted me s barracks with mess. The esemble of two compay barracks defied the wester edge of the mai post s primary ope space. Due to their brick costructio ad formal desig, these buildigs established a feelig of edurig permaece ad military gradeur. Risig two full stories, with a attic ad raised basemet, the U-shaped pla buildigs were built as double barracks, with mirrored iterior plas, ad are distiguished by their symmetrical compositio ad uifyig materials. Prior to the Civil War, the military costructed few permaet barracks. After the war, as ew military istallatios were built, more attetio was give to the desig ad costructio of large barracks located o the edge of parade grouds. The Army bega costructig twocompay barracks featurig a cetral block flaked by two INTRODUCING THE DUX 8008 THE BED YOUR BACK HAS BEEN ACHING FOR SM It s Our 40th Year! 2019B Fillmore St 415-922-6811 355 Presidio Ave 415-346-1860 THE SECRET INSIDE ADJUSTABLE LUMBAR SUPPORT REPLACEABLE TOP PAD PASCAL: CUSTOMIZABLE SUPPORT CASSETTES EVERY NIGHT, AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECALIBRATE Uless you ad your parter are idetical i shape, size ad weight, you eed a bed sprig cassettes coupled with our lumbar adjustmet lever allows you ad your parter Resolve to ivest i your health. Visit DUXIANA DUXIANA SAN FRANCISCO 1803 Fillmore Street www.duxiaa.com 12 NEW FILLMORE September 2018
wigs, with adaptatios i the architecture for local traditios ad styles. I The Defeder at the Gate, historia Erwi Thompso oted the coditios before the buildig campaig: Before work could begi a ravie ruig orth from the base of Presidio Hill, betwee the row of woode barracks ad the former laudresses row, had to be filled ad the laudresses row removed. Oce filled i, this ew lad would serve as compay areas for the ew row of barracks ad evetually a parade groud. This collectio of brick barracks icluded a foudatio made of stoes quarried at Agel Islad, stoe widowsills ad slate ad ti roofig. Iside, both buildigs were divided ito equal halves separated by cetral stairways that each served oe of the two compaies that ihabited the structures. The barracks provided ope dormitories, lavatories, kitches, mess halls, compay offices ad, for the coveiece of the soldiers, dedicated spaces for a tailor ad a barber. Iterior fiishes icluded lath ad plaster walls ad wood floorig, with cast iro colums that created large ope rooms. The origial capacity was for 80 soldiers o each side of the twi barracks. Give the harmoy of the Motgomery Street Barracks, architectural historia David Gebhard cosidered this row oe of the city s fiest street facades. Ideed, this groupig is ofte photographed ad is o par with Alamo Square s Paited Ladies as a icoic view of Sa Fracisco. Iumerable historic images exist with these buildigs as the backdrop for military reviews ad parades, drills, fuerals, visits of digitaries ad a rage of military exercises throughout the 20th cetury. The Motgomery Street Barracks tell the story of the evolutio of military housig i the Presidio, as Army life chaged from the Spaish America War i 1898 through the Vietam War i the 1960s. The barracks served as a backdrop for may of the Presidio s most importat evets. With the completio of the Presidio Lodge, this military ladmark has foud a ew use ad a ew way to tell the story of the Presidio. TUCKER BECKETT COLLECTION PRESIDIO TRUST LIBRARY FLASHBACK Life as a soldier i the Presidio, 1912-14 A soldier with a passio for photography, Clarece Tucker Beckett documeted daily life i ad aroud the Presidio durig his teure as a ifatryma from 1912 to 1914. The Motgomery Street Barracks frequetly appear i his varied scees of work, leisure ad everyday activities. Beckett s images capture the spirit of life as a soldier, as opposed to more commo formal portraits of complete regimets. Beckett s remarkable collectio, ow held by the Presidio Trust Library, offers a glimpse of the iterior spaces ad livig coditios of the soldiers withi these brick barracks. Beckett s photographs have bee itegrated ito the desig of the ew lodge. 37 NEW CONDOMINIUM HOMES STARTING AT $599,000 DRE# 01486075 September 2018 NEW FILLMORE 13
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The recet eight-figure sale of a otable Pacific Heights masio demostrates a real estate practice of sellig a home off the market, the reportig the chage of owership the day before the closig. Accordig to Multiple Listig Service data, 2209 Pacific Aveue (left) sold o July 16 for $12.3 millio, its full list price. Located just two blocks from Fillmore Street, the fivebedroom, Beaux Arts-style home was built i 1915 by oted architect Arthur Brow Jr., desiger of such Sa Fracisco ladmarks as City Hall ad Coit Tower. It was the most expesive sigle-family home sold i Sa Fracisco sice the middle of April. But the most remarkable poit about the Pacific Aveue home is how quickly it sold: i just oe day. More ad more ofte, sellers of high-priced homes wat to retai their aoymity or may simply ot wat the icoveiece of stagig the home or holdig a ope house. I such cases, the real estate professioal will market the property privately ad egotiate a deal with a deep-pocketed buyer. Oce the home is set to close escrow, the aget will eter it ito the MLS, thereby skewig the days o market ad the list price-to-sale price ratio. A word to the wise: There is more to the statistics tha meets the eye. Data ad commetary provided by PATRICK BARBER, presidet of Pacific Uio. Cotact him at patrick.barber@pacuio.com or call 415-345-3001. Guy O. Korblum Certified i Civil Trial ad Pretrial Practice Advocacy, Natioal Board of Trial Advocacy Guy Korblum ad his wife, Victoria, live i our eighborhood ad raised their two childre here. Forest Books Quality Used & Rare Books 1388 Sutter Street, Suite 505, Sa Fracisco, CA 94109 415.440.7800 50 Old Courthouse Square, Suite 601, Sata Rosa, CA 95404 707.544.9006 14 NEW FILLMORE September 2018 www.kcehlaw.com Japatow Plaza 1748 Buchaa 415-563-8302 Ope Daily Noo util 8 pm forestbooks.et Michael W. Perry & Compay Fie Custom Framig Atique Prits & Maps 1837 Divisadero 415-563-8853 www.mwperry.com
MUSIC By Pamela Feisilber Beig the Sa Fracisco Symphoy s pricipal timpaist is just oe of the thigs keepig Ed Stepha busy these days. He s also head of the percussio departmet at Duquese Uiversity i Pittsburgh; o the faculty at the Sa Fracisco Coservatory of Music ad at Northwester Uiversity i Chicago; ad timpaist of the Grad Teto Music Festival i Jackso Hole, Wyomig, where he s spet much of the summer. The Pacific Heights house he calls home is beig sold, so he s bee lookig for aother place i the eighborhood. Ad the symphoy s ew seaso begis this moth. Stepha is particularly lookig forward to the Stravisky Festival. The orchestra, coducted by Michael Tilso Thomas, will perform the composer s Persephoe ad The Firebird from September 21 to 23; ad his Violi Cocerto, Petrushka ad Le Sacre du Pritemps (The Rite of Sprig) from September 27 to 30. Do you play the other percussio istrumets, i additio to the timpai? Yes, I play all the differet istrumets. But years ago, I discovered a kack for playig the timpai, those large-pitched sigig drums i the back of the orchestra. A lot of people do t realize timpaists ca play complex melodies ad bass lies, because we have pedals that work like the slides o a tromboe. We have to move them very quickly ad precisely to chage pitch. We re always i search of the perfect soud. Is it true you ve collected 600 mallets? May of us are kid of obsessive about KRISTEN LOKEN Timpaist Ed Stepha is lookig forward to the symphoy s Stravisky Festival this moth. A Kack for the Timpai The S.F. Symphoy s Ed Stepha is also a jazz ma fidig the perfect place to strike the istrumet, ad the perfect implemet to strike it with. I kow a lot of mass ad custom mallet makers aroud the world. A very good guy makes a lie of sticks I coceived of to my specificatios: the Ed Stepha Sigature Series. What is it like playig timpai i a full orchestra? Composers like Beethove, Brahms ad Tchaikovsky use the istrumet as part of the overall orchestral soority. Whe Stravisky writes for timpai, he ofte makes it the ceter of attetio ot oly for the listeers, but also for the other musicias i terms of rhythm ad dyamics. It becomes sort of the glue. The timpaist has to be dead o, because everybody relies o the istrumet so much i those momets. Which Stravisky piece excites you most? Ay time we have the opportuity to play The Rite of Sprig, we get excited. It s a icoic work for the timpai, because it s so importat for a successful performace of that piece. I probably play 10 times as much i ay Sibelius symphoy, but the it s wove ito the texture, ad you re ot so exposed. The Rite of Sprig has a lot of solo otes this oe soud made by oe perso. Everythig you play fits i betwee the otes all the other musicias have to play. The souds we choose have a big impact o the soud of the orchestra overall, so it s a tremedous resposibility. If the timpaist is at all imprecise, it has massive implicatios. How is the hut for a ew home i the eighborhood goig? I just siged a lease for a place i the Fiacial District. I m bummed ot to be returig to the Fillmore, but I ll cotiue to occupy the eighborhood eve if I do t live there. For oe thig, I m part of a jazz quartet formed out of the orchestra, Cotrabada, ad we have dates at Scopo Divio, the wie bar at Califoria ad Divisadero. The other members are the symphoy s pricipal trumpet, Mark Iouye; pricipal bass, Scott Pigel; ad a local jazz piaist, Adam Shulma. Why Scopo Divio? I love the vibe there, love the food ad wie, ad I got to kow Tim Hayma, the ower, really well. Whe he heard we were formig a jazz quartet, he wated us to play there ad the first time was a big success. He asked us to play o the first Wedesday of every moth, but with our schedules, we ll get there as ofte as we ca. We ll be back o November 7. The City s Best Aie Williams COMING SOON! COMING SOON! Maria the 415.652.3537 Aie Williams Suyside Mid-Cetury Gem i Desirable Suyside. Barbara Stei Friedma 415.321.4246. September 2018 NEW FILLMORE 15