Fillmore District

15 Oct 2024

Gunna Goes Global Wants To Bring The Fillmore To The World

The Fillmore District was the original heart of Black San Francisco. At one point it was even referred to as the ‘Harlem of the West.’ However, if you walk around the area that sits just a stone’s throw away from the Painted Ladies made famous by Full House, you’re more likely

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19 Jul 2024

Meet the Woman Who Has Been Cutting Hair for Half a Century in San Francisco

Sidney Macklin can straddle dualities so easily in part because she is so full of love—everyone loves Ms. Sidney, and she loves everyone. Such a frequency of “I love yous” on anyone else’s lips would seem artificial, but with Macklin, it’s as if every time she’s saying it for the very first time: That’s the amount of feeling behind it.

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01 May 2024

Travel Back to the Harlem of the West with this Soul Food & Immersive Theater Combo

When was the last time a night out felt special? Not just leaving the house to do something but, as my dad would say, “stepping out on the town.” Well, for the next three weeks, Honey Art Studio, in collaboration with Walking Cinema and Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement, is giving

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17 Apr 2024

San Francisco is Finally Fulfilling Part of its Promise to the Fillmore

By now, most of us know about the Urban Renewal policies that attempted to destroy the Fillmore, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco. With a windfall of $8.1 million from the federal government to finish the Buchanan Street Mall, the Fillmore community might have its phoenix moment.  The Buchanan

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