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Music at the market
Budding musicians from the SFJazz High School All-Stars perform at the Fillmore market. MIA SIMMANS, manager of the Fillmore Farmers Market since last May, is a true believer — both in farmers markets...
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The colors of jazz
By JASON OLAINE Artistic Director, Fillmore Jazz Festival What is the sound of jazz? And can jazz mean different things to different people, perhaps even different things to the same person? Since its...
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A concert series in an Arts & Crafts treasure
Photograph of the Swedenborgian Church by Laurie Passey CULTURE BEAT | PAMELA FEINSILBER Andrew Dodd lives nowhere near the neighborhood, but he’s brought something special to it. Dodd created the...
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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...
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An opera star on the fast track
Countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen at Glaze on Fillmore Street. CULTURE BEAT | PAMELA FEINSILBER At only 25, opera singer and neighborhood resident Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen has already had a head-spinning...
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Boom Boom Room on the ropes
Photograph of the Boom Boom Room by Susie Biehler FILLMORE’S ONLY remaining joint — the Boom Boom Room, hard by the Geary Street bridge — is closed and may not reopen without an infusion of fresh...
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No jazz on Fillmore this year
Fillmore’s own Kim Nalley performing at the Fillmore Jazz Festival. FOR THE FIRST TIME in decades, there will be no jazz on Fillmore Street this Fourth of July weekend. The annual Fillmore Jazz...
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The legacy of Fillmore jazz
Local favorite pianist Tammy Hall is featured in a new video on Fillmore jazz. SAN FRANCISCO’S Fillmore District — known as the “Harlem of the West” in the 1940s and ’50s — was once a cathedral of...
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Coming soon: wine, a woman, and song
Victoria Wasserman is bringing wine and music to 1870 Fillmore. NEW NEIGHBORS | CHASE ROBERTS There will be no jazz festival on Fillmore this Fourth of July weekend, but Victoria Wasserman is...
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The murals at Jimbo’s
Harry Smith with one of his murals at Jimbo’s Bop City, circa 1950. IT’S NOT EVERY DAY that a photo from the neighborhood is published in The New York Times. But today is that day. Alongside a review...
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