SF News Video: Beloved Tenderloin Fixture Randomly Beaten By Pipe-Wielding Man The San Francisco Police Department is seeking a suspect in a bizarre, seemingly unprovoked attack that left a popular Tenderloin man seriously injured. You can see the attack in the video below, but
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Residential Hotel Edition There was a time when SROs and "residential hotels" were only for the truly poor, addicted, and downtrodden. Not anymore! Now, some have spiffed up and are advertising on Craigslist along with everyone
Arts & Entertainment [Updated] Local Film Crew Member Disputes Reports That Man Urinated, Defecated On Tenderloin 'Ant-Man' Set Update: Cara Miller, who identifies herself as "A local film crew member," contacted SFist to say that the TMZ we wrote about below "is bad info." Scroll down for her full email to
SF News No City For Old(er) Men: Robbers Beat Multiple Mature Gents "Respect your elders" is evidently not a value that's held by several San Francisco muggers (that, and "don't steal things or hit people"), as two men occupying a more senior demographic were brutally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nooo! Longtime Polk Gulch Trans Club Divas In Danger Of Closing The long, slow death of the LGBT elements of Polk Street has been discussed and mourned frequently for the last two decades. But now an iconic business that has survived all the change
SF News Dismembered Body In Suitcase May Have Belonged To Suspect's Friend And Roommate A man who was reported missing prior to the dismembered body being found in that piece of luggage on 11th Street last week may in fact be the victim, as the Chronicle is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Millennium Restaurant To Close After 21 Years Fans of the organic, vegan fine dining experience at Millennium in the Tenderloin are going to weep over this one: The restaurant announced this morning that they're being forced to close after 21
SF News PLEASE Let's Stop Talking Sh*t About SF's 'Poop Problem' San Francisco's "poop problem" has become the conversation topic we can't stop stepping in. Yes, it's real, both anecdotally and by the numbers. Everyone has covered it, and now it's become the social-media-clickbaitiest
SF News [Update] Two People Possibly Shot At Turk And Leavenworth SFist is getting a report from former editor Brock Keeling, in fact that a shooting has just occurred this afternoon at Turk and Leavenworth in the Tenderloin. SFPD officers are on the scene
SF News DA's Office Takes A Year To Figure Out Charges For Former Uber Driver Who Allegedly Killed 6-Year-Old [Updated] Nearly a full year after a man driving for Uber allegedly struck and killed a 6-year-old girl, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office has decided to charge him with a single misdemeanor count.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Basement Opens In 222 Hyde 'Rave Cave' Space 222 Hyde, which the SFBG lovingly called a rave cave, closed last year due to a change in ownership of the building plus some trouble with their liquor license. Before the team left,
SF News Man Who Was Stabbed After Attempting To Protect His Girlfriend From Tenderloin Catcaller Has Cat Named 'Babycakes' The man who was stabbed when he responded to a catcaller harassing his female companion is recovering, but according to a friend, it was a very, very close call. As you might recall,
SF News Man Stabbed After Attempting To Protect His Girlfriend From Tenderloin Catcaller The practice of catcalling's been really getting hammered lately, from the video of a woman being endlessly harassed in New York, to a dubious defense of the activity from some "men's rights activists.
SF News Two Homicides Saturday In SF: Suspects At Large After Fatal Shooting And Stabbing It was a violent weekend in San Francisco, which ended with two men dead in separate incidents, and the police still seeking suspects in both cases. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson
SF News Weekend Shootings: Gambling Argument, Uncooperative Victim Two men ended up at San Francisco General Hospital this weekend, after two shootings less than 12 hours apart. On Friday afternoon at around 3:40 p.m., officers were called to Third
SF News Man Dead After Bizarre Incident Involving Gas Tanker A man who was riding between two segments of a fuel tanker as it drove through the Tenderloin Tuesday night was run over by the truck after he lost his grasp and fell
SF News Drivers Strike Off-Duty Cop, Skateboarder, Then Keep On Going In two separate collisions Friday and Saturday, drivers hit pedestrians, then kept on going. In both cases, the drivers were tracked down by the police, but so far only one of them is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Tonight: Huxley, a Tiny New Tenderloin Spot With Gourmet Cred Tonight, a small but foodinista-anticipated opening is happening at 848 Geary (between Hyde and Larkin), and it's called Huxley. The place is a collaboration between executive chef Sara Hauman (formerly on the line
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More Restaurant Closures: Noe Valley Pasta Pomodoro, Burmese Kitchen Brandy Ho's isn't the only restaurant we're saying goodbye to: according to recent reports, Noe Valley's Pasta Pomodoro and the Tenderloin's Burmese Kitchen are also closing their doors. According to Noe Valley SF,
SF News Naive Engineer Hopes To Move To Excellent, Crime-Free Bay Area Neighborhood For $1200/Month None of us should be laughing at such things, because obviously if we lived pretty much anywhere else the country besides Manhattan this poor guy's requests would seem perfectly sane and reasonable. But
SF News Video: Two Ladies of the Tenderloin Have Spat We're not looking to make light of the perils and travails of T-Loin life, but while you were likely at the beach or having a civilized barbecue over the Labor Day weekend, this
SF News Help SFPD Find The Guy Who Assaulted And Robbed An 87-Year-Old Woman The San Francisco Police Department is hoping you can help them find the man responsible for a truly nasty Tenderloin crime. On Friday, August 8, at about 9 p.m., an 87-year-old woman
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi To Launch Fast-Food Concept Called Loco'l A cool concept with an odd name from a pair of California chefs was announced today at the MAD food symposium in Copenhagen, and it's called Loco'l. S.F. chef and restaurateur Daniel
SF News Cash-Tossing Carjackers On The Loose In San Francisco A day after a gunpoint carjacking and an impromptu weapon-and-drug giveaway, the San Francisco Police Department continues to seek the three men who led them on a wild chase from Van Ness through
Arts & Entertainment Video: Life In The Tenderloin Looks Rough, Even In Cartoon Form Filmmaker turned illustrator-storyteller Andy Ojst talks about life in the Tenderloin in his latest YouTube video for the series Andy Tells Stories. In "Homeless in San Francisco," which you can watch above, Ojst
