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
SF News Man Wearing Body Armor Shot 16 Times The Tenderloin acted like The Tenderloin early Sunday morning after playing host to a jarring bout of gunfire on Sunday morning. According to SF Weekly, "a 33-year-old Oakland man who was wearing body
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Tenderloin Gets Trendier After much anticipation, artisan coffee shop, Hooker’s Sweet Treats Cafe, which serves Sightglass Coffee and gourmet confections and baked goods, officially opened yesterday at Hyde and O'Farrell. Tenderblog was at the grand
SF News SFist Blotter: Stab Edition Tenderloin / Stabbing: Over on the 200 block of Golden Gate Avenue last night, a thirtysomething white man stabbed a fortysomething black man. The incident, according to SFPD, was sparked by a verbal argument.
misc What Parts Make Up the Tenderloin? Tenderblog has a poll going about what exactly makes up the Tenderloin and questions whether the TenderNob actually exists. Also, is Civic Center part of the Tenderloin or not? We think Maps #3
SF News Three Alarm Fire Blazing at Turk and Taylor A six- or seven-story blue building, presumably an SRO, at the northwest corner of Turk and Taylor is currently on fire. Much smoke is filling the streets around mid-Market, and the traffic situation,
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via D.P. in the Tenderloin: "I saw this written on a wall on my way home tonight, 'I will do whatever to whoever for however long for one hit of crack'."
SF News Fire at Ellis Street Hotel CBS 5's red box of alarm tells us that "people have been evacuated from a fire at a hotel on Ellis St. in San Francisco's Tenderloin district." Matt Baume, who is live at
SF News The Tenderloin Takes Center Stage in the <em>NYT</em> OK, this is awesome. We clicked on the New York Times yesterday and front and center on the front page was this story about how some people are trying to turn The Tenderloin
misc Perverts or Children, San Francisco! It's Your Choice! You Decide! “Word up” to local advice columnist, Chuck Nevius, for turning us on to the latest unsavory scandal to erupt like wildfire through the normally buttoned-down Tenderloin District. It would appear that Mike Powers,
SF News Suspect Calls 911 to Report Tenderloin Stabbing Death Tuan Nguyen, a 36-year-old San Franciscan, was found dead inside an apartment in the 600 block of Ellis Street. He was stabbed in the chest. The incident occurred a little before 1:30
