SF is Getting a Monthly Lap Dance Contest
The Tenderloin will soon be graced with a monthly event called “So You Think You Can Lap Dance?” — because this city is still at least a little weird....
The TenderloinA collection of 28 posts
Tokyo’s Best Ramen Restaurant is Coming to SF
Once relegated to 99¢ college dinners — and usually overlooked at sushi restaurants — ramen has really blown up....
The Tenderloin Loses its Chic Performing Arts Center
In 2013, a San Francisco-based development company called Group I paid $16 million for a 25,000-square-foot lot in Mid-Market....
I’ve started looking for a place to move.
I’ve started looking for a place to move. The question is: Los Angeles or Oakland?...
Tenderloin SRO Being Revamped as Boutique Hotel
San Francisco’s housing crisis is a hot topic for many current and former residents, but while for some it’s an inconvenience, for others the situation is far more dire....
The Battle Over One of SF’s “Most Dangerous Streets”
They call it a “radical agenda” and attack it with a ferocity more typical of, say, anti-vaxxers or parents against circumcision....
This is How SF Plans to Solve Our Poop Problem
If you spend enough time in certain parts of San Francisco, you know that our city has a big poop problem....
Sneak Peek: New PianoFight Theater Opens Tonight
San Francisco is getting a new kind of theatrical venue, PianoFight, that opens to the public tonight....
We Like to Move It Move It Event Recap
High above San Francisco on the 21st floor of the Hamilton building, guests of Trulia and The Bold Italic attended the “We Like to Move It Move It” party where they had the opportunity to laugh and mingle like they owned the place....
A Startup Trying to Solve the TL Food Problem
It might be easier to get trendy cocktails in the Tenderloin these days, but you’d still be hard pressed to buy a fresh bunch of kale....
Watch This If You Love Dirty Old Bars
It’s fine to pay $13 for a cocktail from time to time, but I’ll always love San Francisco’s dirty old dive bars the most....
Jerry Stahl Shot Heroin with a Tenderloin God
Jerry Stahl is the author of eight books, including I, Fatty; Bad Sex On Speed; and Permanent Midnight, which was adapted into a film starring Ben Stiller; and edited the 2013 collection, The Heroin Chronicles....