Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With Tenderloin Geographic Society: Larkin & Golden Gate Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. Streets and boulevards tell stories of their
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 30: Of Pigeons & Politics This week, our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society invite you to join them as they take a journey through the magical world of books. Specifically, books written for children on the subject
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 29: May the Franchise Be With You After the Giants drew that delightful connection between late summer baseball and the struggles of a small group of rebels fighting to defeat the evil, intergalactic empire, our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 28: 'The Most Expensive Piece of Concrete in All the World' By The Tenderloin Geographic Society: For those of you who suffer from Gephyrophobia--fear of crossing bridges--the Reber Plan would have ameliorated your condition. If the name Reber doesn’t sound familiar, may we
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 27: The San Francisco Green Card In today's installment our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society help you, the worrisome, transplanted San Franciscan become a naturalized citizen. Observe, as we issue The San Francisco Green Card. By: The Tenderloin
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 26: A Secret Garden In this week's installment, our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society take a tour of one of the city's classic, yet well-hidden, green spaces: Molinari Mana Park, tucked away on what could have
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 25: Steamboat Charlie & the Birth of a City This week, the Tenderloin Geographic Society investigates the first time a mayor who didn't really want to job ended up in office and how a Steamboat captain spent two terms presiding over the
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 24: Muni or Death, A Mayor's Tale Remember that time the mayor wanted to do away with San Francisco's Cable Cars? Of course you don't, it was in the 1940s. Here now, the Tenderloin Geographic Society adds historical perspective to
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 23: Ambulatory Histories Remember that Willie Brown walking tour we got so excited about? We couldn't let it slide by without a follow-up report, so we sent our senior walking tour correspondents from the Tenderloin Geographic
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 22: Invisible Monuments, Invisible History This week, our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society carry on our recent interest in San Francisco's mayoral lineage with an annotated tour of Union Square's monument to the former occupants of City
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 21: Mayoral Shrinky Dinks After taking a couple weeks off to go on Pigeon Safari, the Tenderloin Geographic Society returns to grace this space with their weekly wit and wisdom. This week's episode: getting crafty with the
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 20: The Society Op In this week's column, our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society earn their hardboiled bonafides as they bring us on a tour of the darker side of San Francisco's literary history: crime fiction.
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 19: A How-To For the Enthusiasts at Home In this week's installment our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society reveal some proprietary secrets and brief lessons on how you, dear readers, can also engage yourself in their particular line of work.
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 18: Don't Feed the Pigeons In today's history lesson, a sequel of sorts to last week's Pigeon of the Month episode, our friends from the Tenderloin Geographic Society dive in to the archives to find a classic, yet
SF News Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 17: Pigeon of the Month Club By: Tenderloin Geographic Society Technically rock doves, popularly sky rats, you’ll find every city in the world lousy with them. Pablo Picasso named his youngest daughter Paloma--interchangeably translated as dove or pigeon
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Vol. 16: On Our Continuing Love Affair with the Dollar Stores of Mid-Market By Tenderloin Geographic Society: My, we got serious there. Last week, religion. The previous week...religion. Let’s lighten up, shall we? Maybe go shopping? A lot of chatter on the wires about
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 15: The End is Nigh at the 8th Street Off Ramp By Tenderloin Geographic Society: This was to have been an expose on billboards in San Francisco, at once an invective against their placement in a picturesque landscape and the manner in which they
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 14: A Field Guide to Sportsmanship: Playing Along with Stereotype It's time, ladies and gentlesportsmen, to return to the high school rivalry known as the Giants-Dodgers series. Round one in Los Angeles didn't sit well with anyone, so you know you can do
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 13: The Reality House Raffle Have you put down money on YBCA's Dream House raffle? Call us crazy, but dream houses are tedious: all those supernumerary rooms one must fill with furniture (that’s a lot of curb-salvaging)
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 12: What's Your Sign? Peace, Love and Dry Cleaning Every week our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society explore some lesser-known aspect of San Francisco city life. This week our topic of interest is the future. Specifically: how can we learn more
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 11: The Public Library is Decadent and Depraved After a brief hiatus, our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society return this week to take a look at that other serialized novel of the 70s-era Bay Area life. As much as we
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies Volume 10: Hedonism is Boring, Or: The More Things Change...Wait, They Don't Change This week in our recurring feature: Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society our friends at the Society offer up some historical perspective for the debauched month of Mardi Gras. Not that San
misc Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 9: History for Those Who Slept Through it the First Time It should come as no surprise that we love maps around here. Our oddly shaped, but nicely constrained little city looks handsome in map form. Plus, maps and infographics are an easy way
misc Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 7: Chinatowns I Have Known San Francisco is home to a robust and vibrant Chinatown. We know this because people often complain about it. Or go to visit it. Or complain about the people who visit it. This
misc Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 5: Cheating on BART Bay Area public transportation options often leave much to be desired. Mostly, our various agencies just leave us with the desire to take a different form of transportation. But still we wonder: is