SF News Tenderloin Fire Injures Twenty Residents Update: The Examiner is reporting that the fire has been deemed suspicious. Authorities are saying that a trash compacter on the first floor of the building had exploded, enabling fire and smoke to
SF News That Bomb Scare Yesterday? It Was All About Some Crazy Dude's Backpack We know you can never be too careful in these crazy times we live in, but the enormity of the reaction yesterday to an abandoned backpack near Civic Center -- that apparently no
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink PETA's Open Letter to Mayor Lee: Calling for a Less Cruel Name for the Tenderloin With everyone in town already weighing in on Twitter's tax break, the attention-grabby folks at PETA have figured out a way to insert themselves in to the conversation: by calling for an end
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: White Diamonds at Rye Returning to San Francisco after a 14 year absence, Rye's Rhachel Shaw spent time in Los Angeles working at Barkeeper in Silverlake, Malo Cantina on Sunset Boulevard, and Caña Rum in Downtown L.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Forthcoming Tenderloin Lounge Will Exorcise Your LA Fetish As one of the few places in San Francisco where anyone could stroll in and lounge poolside with a beverage, we were disappointed to see Bambuddha Lounge at the Phoenix Hotel disappear last
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sick Women and Children Plot to Kill KoKo Cocktails, One of San Francisco's Best Bars (UPDATED) Nooooo. The California Pacific Medical Center's dastardly plan to build a new "$1.7 billion, 555-bed acute and women and children's care hospital" at the corner of Van Ness and Geary will result
SF News NIMBY Update: Nevius Propogates Happy Results in Tenderloin Cafe's Outdoor Seating Dispute (Fingers Crossed) SFist talked about C.W. Nevius' article a couple of weeks ago regarding Little Bird Coffeehouse's "Kafkaesque journey" to obtain a permit for outdoor seating on the sidewalk, which named Lower Nob Hill
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour "The Morning After" by Travis Jensen. Further background on today's Photo du Jour, Jensen writes: "I ran into these three guys while shooting in the deep Tenderloin early Saturday morning, about 7:00a.
misc What's Going on Here, Mr. Lew's Win-Win Bar & Grand Sazerac Emporium? Our friends on the Tenderloin Beat sent in this photo of what appears to be a new cocktail store in the same quaint style as say - Bourbon & Branch or one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NIMBY Watch: One Guy Keeps Tenderloin Cafe From Having Outside Seating, Nevius Steps In [Updated] Update (3/21/11): The conflict has been resolved! Everyone's favorite columnist, Andy Rooney C.W. Nevius, came out with an article this morning about Little Bird Coffeehouse's ongoing fight to obtain a
SF News Chronicle Columnist Discovers Poo in the Tenderloin Chuck Nevius' nostrils are burning. In his column today about the simple economics of human waste, the Chronicle staffer and fairly recent city resident explains the biggest problem facing the community in the
SF News Lower Polk Neighbors Association: LGBT Murals Are So Castro By Toshio Meronek Members of the Lower Polk Neighbors association put the kibosh on a proposed LGBT history mural that might've brightened up some of the gray concrete near Hemlock and Polk. Reason
misc Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 8: The Cantankerous Tippler's Guide to Conversational Bars By: Tenderloin Geographic Society Beer Week is a magical thing, a gathering of those who have nurtured the ancient art of brewing into a well-deserved cult status. In ancient Mesopotamia, a type of
SF News SRO Art Thief Gets One Year In Jail Terry Helbing, a 53-year-old resident of a Tenderloin residence hotel, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he stole $15,000 in paintings from the horticulture library at the S.F. Botanical Garden. In
SF News Tenderloin Stabbing An unidentified 33-year-old man sits in the clink this morning after allegedly stabbing another gent at an apartment near Post and Larkin in the city's Historic Tenderloin District "Police were called to an
SF News Man Shot Twice Drives Self to Hospital A tenacious man drove himself to the San Francisco General Hospital early Sunday morning after being shot twice. According to BCN (via SF Appeal), "The man told police he was driving his car
SF News Man Beaten Near 6th and Mission On Monday morning, a 25-year-old man was brutally beaten near the city's notorious Sixth and Mission intersection. "One of the suspects brandished a chrome revolver, a non-firing replica, and demanded the victim's cell
SF News Homeless Advocates Take Over S.F. Hotel On Sunday, during a rally for World Homeless Day starting at Civic Center, activists took over a vacant San Francisco residential hotel in the Tenderloin. IndyBay reveals that the Creative Housing Liberation and
SF News Hot Weather Brings Surge of Bedbugs Cases of bedbugs in San Francisco rental housing are on the rise, and a recent surge may be blamed on the recent hot weather we experienced -- bedbugs thrive in temperatures of 70
SF News Tenderloin Car Crash Hospitalizes Five An early morning car wreck at the intersection of Hayes and Polk sent five people to SF General. According to BCN (via SF Appeal), "Witnesses who stopped to view the wreckage that lay
SF News 888 O'Farrell Fire Might Have Been Suicide/Murder Attempt We mentioned yesterday a two-alarm fire in the tenderloin where a woman jumped to her death. According to The Chronicle, the "woman who leaped from the eighth story of her burning apartment in
SF News Woman Jumps to Death During Tenderloin Fire Early Sunday morning, a woman jumped to her death from an eighth floor apartment building at 888 O'Farrell. The scene, according to SF Appeal, was grim. The unidentified woman, while jumping from the
