SF News 9th Circuit Denies Plea From City, Tenants For Mailboxes In SROs An effort by tenants' rights advocates and City Attorney Dennis Herrera to get individual postal delivery mandated by law at Tenderloin SROs has been rejected by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Basically
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kitchen Fire Threatens Annual Thanksgiving Dinner At The Tenderloin's Little Henry's One of the remaining un-gentrified businesses of the deep Tenderloin, Little Henry's restaurant at Larkin and Post, suffered a one-alarm kitchen fire on Saturday morning. The restaurant is known, among other things, for
SF News Safe Passage, Group That Helps 4,000 Kids Get Home Safely In The Tenderloin, Needs Volunteer Oh hey, remember how happy you were cheering along Batkid on Friday? Want to feel that feeling EVERY DAY? Safe Passage, a group that helps 4,000 unaccompanied kids walk home from school
SF News Where In S.F. You're Most Likely To Be Shot By a Cop This should be controversial: As part of a mapping contest at UC Berkeley, some urban planning students at UCLA created a sophisticated interactive map showing incidences of various kinds of quality-of-life crimes in
SF News Woman Attacked In The Tenderloin Wednesday morning near Jones Street and Steveloe Place in the TL, a woman was attack by three people, two women and one man, the latter of whom punched her in the face. "The
SF News City Attorney, Tenant Advocates Fight U.S. Postal Service Over Delivery Rules for SROs Under current U.S. Postal Service procedure, mail carriers aren't obligated to sort and deliver mail to individual occupants in single-room occupancy hotels, using instead a bulk delivery point like a desk clerk.
SF News Mayor Ed Lee To Walk MidMarket This Morning Talking Twitter IPO Twitter's initial public offering is set to happen as early as this Thursday. It's also set to make some people rich and some people unhappy. Naturally. In an effort to sooth concerns on
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Tenderloin Dirt Transformed Into Dainty Teacups In San Francisco's most maligned neighborhood, one local artist is turning the dark brown, needle-laden soil into something much more delicate: usable teacups and earthy dishware. Artist and 30-something Mission resident Ilana Crispi
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Hibernia Bank Get Graffiti Bombed Yesterday's Photo du Jour, shot by Bhautik Joshi, shows some choice or deplorable graffiti, depending on your views, atop the Hibernia Bank building at Jones and Market. Now here's video showing how graffiti
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tu Lan: Cleaner, Still Cheap During your evening prayers, please give thanks that Tu Lan, Sixth Street's notoriously cheap and formerly stank-ass vietnamese restaurant of choice, has returned. After being forced to close due to rampant barforama, it
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Hibernia Bank Today Bhautik Joshi snapped this shot of the Hibernia Bank at 1 Jones.
SF News Oracle Sued By Strip Club For Refusal To Pay For 'Services' As Larry Ellison takes over the waterfront and OracleWorld descends upon San Francisco, one local house of modern burlesque filed a lawsuit against the megacompany after one of its employees allegedly used an
SF News Stabbing Suspect Flees On Bicycle Over near Polk and Pine on Tuesday night, the fuzz claim that a fight broke out at a nearby cafe, escalating into a stabbing. Ouch. "The victim and suspect met at a nearby
SF News Two Stabbed In The TL Two men heading to a nearby market in the Tenderloin were repeatedly stabbed on Wednesday. The incident happened at around 2 a.m. near Ellis and Leavenworth. "The victims were walking to a
SF News Man Stabs Muni Driver In The 'Loin It's a sad day for everyone when our Venn diagram of stabbing news and Muni news overlaps, as it did last night with a bus stabbing in the Tenderloin. Around 7 p.m.
SF News We're Doomed, S.F. Main Library Bathroom Edition Anyone who's ever tried visiting the restroom at the San Francisco Main Library knows that it's basically one of the biggest mistakes of your life. The intensity of the urine stench defies science,
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Doggie Diner Heads Covered In Colorful Crochet New York City artist Olek stopped by San Francisco this week to blanket her signature crochet over the Doggie Diner heads. Here, outside the Phoenix Hotel in the Tenderloin, are the iconic pooches
SF News Man Shot At Taylor And Turk Shortly before 6 a.m. Thursday morning in the Tenderloin, a man standing on the street was shot in the leg after someone opened fire. KTVU reports: "San Francisco police said they responded
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noted Artist To Crochet Over Doggie Diner Heads Oh but yes. This is our kind of art. New York City-based Polish artist Olek will arrive in the City tonight to wrap the Doggie Diner Heads in crochet. Because why not? The
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: Tenderloin's Sunday Streets It's wholesome, it's fun, it's ... the Tenderloin! Looking for a neighborhood-friendly activity to go along with the craziness of Saturday's Street Food Fest? Look no further than the good old TL, which will
SF News Cyclist Badly Injured In Tenderloin Hit-Run We're getting word this morning that a cyclist is in serious condition after a hit and run in the Tenderloin. "A vehicle, described as a white four-door sedan, struck the bicyclist in the
SF News SFMTA Backpedals On Bike Lanes In Polk Street Revamp Reversal In the SFMTA's continued efforts to please no one with their Polk Street Corridor Improvement Project, a new plan (PDF) was unveiled yesterday that would backpedal on separated bike lanes but still remove
SF News New Map Reveals Which Neighborhoods Yelpers Find Sketchy As the Internet's reviews site of record, Yelp has amassed mountains of data on which restaurants have terrible parking and which users had terrible dates. Today, the company released a new map visualization