Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Polk Street Blues Photo shot early Tuesday morning by Erik Wilson.
SF News Uber Sued For Wrongful Death Of 6-Year-Old Sofia Liu The family of 6-year-old Sofia Liu, who was struck and killed by an UberX driver in the Tenderloin on New Year's Eve, is suing Uber for wrongful death related to the incident. In
SF News Two People Shot Sunday Near Turk And Taylor On Sunday night, about two hours after the Niners' crushing loss in Seattle, two people were shot and injured on Turk Street between Market and Taylor. Those familiar with this colorful block may
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: Troy Holden's 'Neighbors' Portrait Exhibit Opens Last week, SFist showed you Troy Holden's Neighbors, the San Francisco-based photographer's breakthrough portraiture series. Working with the North of Market-Tenderloin Community Benefit District, he snapped 50 portraits of individuals and families at
Arts & Entertainment PianoFight's Tenderloin Arts Space Is The Arts Space San Francisco Needs Local theater, comedy and improv troupe PianoFight is in the final days of a fundraising campaign for a brand new, three-stage theater, arts space and full service bar & restaurant in the Tenderloin.
Arts & Entertainment Troy Holden's 'Neighbors' Captures The Faces Behind Three Changing S.F. Neighborhoods SoMa, the Tenderloin, and Mid-Market (two of them real, the latter freshly conceived and coined) received heaps of ink over the last year. Some good, some bad, most of it controversial in one
Arts & Entertainment Interactive 'Speakeasy' Play, With Its Own Bar And Casino, Premieres This Week This Friday, a new experience in "immersive" theater is debuting at an undisclosed location in the Tenderloin where you'll need a password to enter (kind of like at Bourbon & Branch, the 8-year-old
SF News Driver Accused Of Killing 6-Year-Old Pedestrian Told Authorities He Was Searching For Uber Fares According to San Francisco Police, Syed Muzzafar, the 57-year-old driver from Union City who was arrested this week on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter, told investigators that he was looking a fare with Uber
SF News Driver Identified In Death Of 6-Year-Old TL Pedestrian The driver arrested in the killing of 6-year-old pedestrian Sophia Liu on Tuesday evening has been identified by San Francisco Police as 57-year-old Syed Muzzafar of Union City. Muzzafar was arrested on suspicion
SF News 6-Year-Old Girl Struck And Killed In Tenderloin Crosswalk [Updates] Around 8 p.m. on New Year's Eve, a 6-year-old girl was struck and killed by an SUV while crossing the street with her mother and young brother near the intersection of Ellis
SF News Recology Garbage Truck Backs Over, Kills Elderly Pedestrian In The Tenderloin This morning around 7:40 a.m. near the corner of Jones and O'Farrell in the Tenderloin, an elderly man was struck and killed by a garbage truck for Recology that was reversing
Arts & Entertainment Would You Compete In A Wet Undies Contest To Get $400 Rent? It's now come to this. A group of (obviously gay) young gentlemen in the vicinity of the Tenderloin are advertising on Craigslist this week for a new male roommate. They aren't requiring candidates
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.
