David Lawrence loaded his Ole Hickory smokers with oak wood and set up to cook a thousand pounds of meat. This week he’ll be opening Black Bark, his new Fillmore district restaurant, with San ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Darlene Roberts was only 18 when she answered the siren call of the “Harlem of the West” and journeyed to San Francisco’s Fillmore district from Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. Roberts’ older brother, an ...

Sugar Pie DeSanto was given a San Francisco proclamation for being the first Filipino and Black Queen of the Blues over 60 years. Mary Stallings was given a San Francisco proclamation for her ...

The Fillmore Jazz Festival, once the West Coast’s largest free jazz event, has been canceled for 2025 due to a lack of funding, the Fillmore Merchants Association announced. Originally scheduled for ...

Tens of thousands of people jammed into 12 blocks of San Francisco on Saturday for the weekend-long Fillmore Jazz Festival. But it almost didn't happen this year. In April, organizers announced that ...

The Fillmore Jazz Festival is one of the most treasured San Francisco festivals. The festival is now set to return July 5–6, 2025, after an earlier cancellation announced at the Fillmore Merchants ...

Two quintessentially American art forms — jazz and turntablism — collide at the Fillmore on Saturday during Jazz Mafia Symphony’s adventurous, 12-year anniversary blowout featuring DJ Qbert, a world ...