Tenderloin

17 Jun 2025

How A Falafel In The Tenderloin Cured My Broken Heart After I Got Cheated On

Written by Touta Bahar When Lahore Karahi in the Tenderloin closed in 2023, I was scared I would never get over how I got cheated on. She showed up with another guy to my grandfather’s funeral. But I wasn’t mad she cheated, and I wasn’t mad she brought him to

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20 May 2025

Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocket In San Francisco

San Francisco has been fighting on the front lines of the Fentanyl crisis for nearly a decade now, and while there has been some success in recent years curbing its fatality, all of that progress has seemed to disappear as drug overdose deaths skyrocketed 50% since Daniel Lurie has taken

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28 Apr 2025

Could Bilal Mahmood Help The Tenderloin?

For ages, residents of San Francisco’s wealthier, “family-oriented” districts have depended on the Tenderloin to quarantine the homeless. The Tenderloin is by far the highest-density neighborhood in the city, shared predominantly by low-income families of color. Indeed the TL is home to over 4,000 children as of 2023. They are

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12 Apr 2025

Why You Should Know About the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot

By James Conrad In the early 1960s, residents of San Francisco were not tolerant of homosexual and transgender people like most are today. The LGBTQ+ community tried settling in North Beach and South of Market. Targeted redevelopment and police harassment subsequently pushed them from these neighborhoods and into the adjacent

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20 Mar 2025

Punk Majesty: SF’s First Punk Art Showroom

Punk Majesty is an eco-friendly shopping showroom in Lower Nob Hill, offering hand-painted leather jackets and upcycled furniture, and is part of the SF First Thursdays Art Walk, which is a neighborhood-focused art crawl that takes place on the first Thursday of each month.

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11 Nov 2024

My Daniel Lurie Wishlist

Daniel Lurie, the Mayor-elect of San Francisco, has a lot of problems to solve, including reversing the Tenderloin policy, rolling back policies that punish city residents, and making city streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

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01 Aug 2024

Calamity Fair’s Solo Show “All The Little Things That Happened In Our Heads”

As a neighbor and friend of the gallery, I often pop in to see the shows and chat about art and life, so I’m excited to see all the drawings John’s been making sitting at the front desk at the gallery for the past years, patiently working on the pointillism and patterns of each piece while greeting people coming in and handling the hardships that you encounter while living and having a business in the TL.

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05 Jul 2024

Why Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin Curfew Will Backfire

I, a Tenderloin resident, believe drug abuse and homelessness persist here because they make certain folks at City Hall very rich.  It’s the last reasonable explanation I can think of, since logistic operations at San Francisco City Hall unfailingly exacerbate them. If the humanitarian crises at the heart of SF

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