By the last week of June, the beer-garden fencing was already stacked in the alley behind Calvary Presbyterian, and the Sutter Stage banners were up on the poles between Bush and Pine. If you live on the ridge, you know what that means: for the first weekend of July, the twelve blocks between Jackson and Eddy stop being a street and become a room.
That is the surface-level story of Upper Fillmore this summer. The more interesting one, if you actually walk this corridor every day, is what has been happening one block east and one block west of it.
The Festival That Almost Wasn't
The Fillmore Jazz Festival runs Saturday and Sunday,
