SF News Soccer Games & Crack Rocks: Two Things People Get Stabbed Over If these two recent crime reports are any indication, the transition to 2012 was a stabby one for San Francisco. In less than a week, arguments over the price of crack cocaine and
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: He's Got Eggs, Knows How To Use Them "One Hard-Boiled Egg" by Erik Wilson.
SF News Dozens Displaced After Cigarette-Sparked Tenderloin Blaze Shutters Apartment Building Dozens of people are out of a home tonight after a fire on shady Eddy Street consumed an apartment building. "The fire at a six-story, 40-unit apartment building at 347 Eddy St. was
SF News Occupy Comes To The Castro, Bayview, Tenderloin, And The Mission Today Neighborhood-specific Occupy protests are happening simultaneously today in four 'hoods around the city which organizers say have experienced the highest rates of "eviction for profit." 99-percenters are being called to gather in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kimo's to Become Cocktail Lounge. Maybe. Not that we have any right to complain (it's been over five years since we last blacked out at this fine music venue), but Polk Street rock 'n' roll/hustler staple Kimo's (1351
SF News Unload Your Tenderloin 'Pooplet' Opinions Tonight Recall back in September when we stepped in a proposed plan to install streetside public toilets in the Tenderloin. At the time the plan promised to bring eco-friendly, drug use-free johns to some
SF News Tenderloin Stabbing Victim Eschews Hospital, Seeks Help From Occupy SF A tenderloin mugging victim, left beaten and bloodied after her attacker realized she had no money, decided to seek out medical attention from some other downtrodden and financially strapped San Franciscans early this
SF News Be Thankful You Don't Live at 245 Leavenworth City Attorney and mayoral candidate Dennis Herrera filed suit last week in Superior Court against landlord John Wai, owner of a 48-unit apartment complex at 245 Leavenworth. According to the public nuisance suit,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Duh: Twitter Techies to Invade Cafe Zuni What Twitter employees will lack in $5 foot-longs, they'll more tham make up for in $48 roasted chicken with bread salad. Which is to say, Twitter ilk will hurl chunks of their earnings
Arts & Entertainment Watch Jane Kim, Drew Altizer, Twitter Employees Get Tossed Into a Pool The annual Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation’s (TNDC) charity pool toss happens tonight. What does that mean, exactly? It means local notables get pushed into a pool for money. Weren't you paying attention?
Arts & Entertainment Pop-up Pool Party Occurs Tomorrow While You Should be Working Chambers Eat + Drink and the adjacent Phoenix Hotel, owners of one swanky pool lounge that we never have a good opportunity to take advantage of, are seizing this little snap of Indian Summer
SF News Police Seeking Tenderloin Panty Raider A 22-year-old Tenderloin resident returned home to her place on the 100 block of McAllister Street last night to find a burglar hiding inside her closet. When the poor girl ran outside to
Arts & Entertainment 'Tenderloin USA' Release Party Wednesday Night In the 'Loin All-City photographers Travis Jensen and Brad Evans photo doc book about San Francisco's Tenderloin, aptly christened Tenderloin USA, will have its official launch party on Wednesday night in the 'loin. The bash, featuring
Arts & Entertainment Diana Ross Coming to San Francisco The most exciting event to ever happen in San Francisco will go down on September 16 at the Golden Gate Theater. You might want to sit down for this one. You seated? Good.
Arts & Entertainment "Tenderloin USA": Astounding, Black-and-White Look at the 'Loin Over the last year, photographer Travis Jensen and fellow All-City photographer Brad Evans worked on a remarkable photo documentary book about San Francisco's Tenderloin called Tenderloin USA. Their work takes a black-and-white look
SF News Online Tour Site Hawking 'Homeless for a Day' Tour in S.F., Led By Homeless Man Remember how the NYT told us the Tenderloin was becoming a tourist attraction? New online activity and tour purveyors Vayable.com has a terrific idea! They want to give tourists to San Francisco
SF News Which Tenderloin Block Has 35 Times More Crime Than the Rest of the City? According to the Tenderloin Housing Clinic's "Taking Back Turk" study the first block of Turk Street has 35 times as much crime per capita than the rest of San Francisco. Some may better
misc Photo du Jour "In the Tenderloin, By Way of Brooklyn" by Travis Jensen. (Thanks for the image recommendation, Beth Spotswood.)
SF News Early Tuesday Morning Muggings Hit Tenderloin Two robberies were reported near each other and within five minutes of each other Tuesday morning in the Tenderloin. First, at about 4:25 a.m. at Golden Gate Avenue and Polk Street,
Arts & Entertainment Behold a San Francisco 'Tearoom' Customer Survey Michael Petrelis brings word of a Tenderloin tearoom we never knew existed. (A tearoom, for those not in the know, is a bastion of public gay male sex. Hubba hubba.) Petrelis writes: "The
SF News Nine People Indicted on Federal Charges for Selling Crack, Coke, Meth in the 'Loin Just when you thought the Tenderloin was a drug free-for-all that law enforcement had given up on... Nine defendants ranging in age from 25 to 63 have been brought up on federal charges
