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
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
