Teeth Gets a Cleaning
The owners of Teeth, the 8-year-old bar at 19th and Mission, say their new and improved patio “is a go.”
The patio, in fact, went dormant last year after neighbors complained to the city that it wasn’t authorized. So, owners Ben Bleiman, Mark DeVito, and Duncan Ley obtained authorization from the city and poured “well over $200,000” into making it better.
“It finally looks and feels finished,” said Bleiman, as he DeVito put the finishing touches on patio on a recent afternoon.
With the renovation — which saw 20 feet added to the back area — Teeth will be consolidating its menu with similar items of “high quality and better presentation” without raising the prices, Bleiman said.
The owners are also looking into obtaining a limited live music license, so the bar could host live music on the patio — not ragers that will last until 2 a.m., Bleiman emphasized — but stuff like “bluegrass and mariachi music,” and mostly local musicians looking for gigs.
While the new patio is brining a newer style to Teeth, Bleiman wanted his customers to know that Teeth will “still have graffiti on the walls. … We’re not trying to scare away our customers.”
Plus, Teeth recently signed a new 15-year lease, so it’s not going away anytime soon. “I’ll be 55 when the lease is up,” Bleiman. — JM
Innovative adult choir wins national award
On Aug. 1, Community Music Center’s (CMC) Older Adult Choir Program was one of 48 local aging programs awarded a 2019 Aging Innovations & Achievement Award in the Social Engagement Category by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a).
The Older Adult Choir program was born out of UC San Francisco and CMC’s five-year long Community of Voices (COV) study. The study found that singing in a choir “lifts older adults’ spirits” and “increases their interest in life.”
The Older Adult Choir continues to grow, and currently supports the well-being some 400 members throughout San Francisco by offering music and community.
“We hear from our older adult choir members all the time how singing in the choirs lifts their spirits,” said Julie Rulyak Steinberg, Executive Director of the Community Music Center. “It was wonderful to get this confirmation from the COV study in November 2018 about the impact of singing in a choir for older adults. We are grateful to n4a for nationally recognizing the success and replicability of the older choir program.”
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