SF News Tenderloin Deli No Longer Allowed To Sell Heroin Barah's Market at Leavenworth and Turk Streets, known around the neighborhood as a convenient place to buy, sell or stash one's illegal drugs, has been ordered to cut it out with all those
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Graffiti Pioneer Mike Giant Bay Area graffiti legend And pioneer Mike Giant painting on Larkin Street. Photo by Troy Holden.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Hooded On Hyde "Hooded sweatshirt on Hyde Street" by Troy Holden.
SF News TL Plays Host To Separate Shooting, Stabbing A shooting and a stabbing shook the already shaken Tenderloin this morning, both incidents unrelated. First, police responded to a shooting was a little after 3 a.m. near Larkin and O'Farrell streets.
SF News Man Throws Chemicals In Cashier's Face, Stabs Another Man After Robbing Polk Gulch Market 54-year-old John Ellis was arrested and charged after robbing a market on the 1400 block of Polk Street Friday evening. Ellis allegedly waited in line for the cashier, and when the young woman
SF News Citizen Justice Alive And Well In The TL In our little corner of the world over on the northern edge of the Tenderloin District, which, as we all know, is rife with culture and nightlife, we hear shouts of "Call 9-1-1!
Arts & Entertainment Tenderloin Erotic Massage Parlor Has Its Own Parklet! Seeing as how a parklets are popping up around the city on pretty much a weekly basis, and massage parlors are a dime a dozen in the Tenderloin this was bound to happen
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shut Up, Little Man! Tenderloin Dweller Attacks Roommate With Boiling Oil A spat over a kitchen light turned into a harrowing boiling-oil attack Tuesday morning between two San Francisco roommates living in the Tenderloin. "The victim told police he was in the kitchen reading
SF News Wave Of Knife Crime Continues With Tenderloin Stabbing While it's not as disturbing as Sunday's incident on Julian Avenue or the too-common occurrence on Sixth Street, we are now duty-bound to document the wave of knife-involved crime that has been sweeping
Arts & Entertainment Photo: People Lined Up For Cheap Valentine Tattoos We always assumed self-consciousness, not price, kept people from marking their bodies with tattoos. But here we see a gaggle of ink fans queued outside Let It Bleed tattoo parlor on Polk Street,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Golden Gate Theatre Balconies "Golden Gate Theatre Balconies" by Demetrios Lyras.
SF News City Attorney Sues Tenderloin Markets For Drug Sales, Fencing Stolen Goods Two civil lawsuits were filed today on behalf of the City of San Francisco against two Tenderloin businesses that are considered "host businesses" for drug sales and the fencing of stolen property. The
SF News Man Who Thought He Was Shot Actually Stabbed In The 'Loin Here's a slightly odd item for the blotter: A man in his 30s ran into a building Saturday night around 7:20 p.m. on the 100 block of Hyde Street claiming he
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?
