Amy Winehouse joins the 27 Club
Amy Winehouse joined the 27 Club today after a suspected overdose That Smell – Lynyrd Skynyrd – Street Survivors 1977 Songwriters: Vanzant, Ronnie; Collins, Allen; …
M-80 explosions on 6th Street and Tenderloin
This seems to be a fairly recent development and is also been reported in the Tenderloin/Tendernob area via Everyblock and a long discussion about it …
Crack Cocaine is Number One in San francisco in 2011
By sheer coincidence on a related note, KALW radio interviewed people at Tenderloin Housing Clinic about supportive housing in SRO’s in the Tenderloin and Turk …
protest at powell street cable cars
just a few clips from tonight’s protest at the Powell Street cable cars. The protest was mostly about the recent police shootings. MLagos via Twitter …
Passion Cafe to stay open on 6th Street
Passion Cafe has apparently decided to stay open on 6th Street under the same ownership after all
San Francisco’s most violent city blocks
The San Francisco press has made some pretty serious journalistic blunders recently by publishing unsubstantiated reports by people who never actually looked at the SFPD …
Tenderloin Housing Clinic Arrest Records
In response to Randy Shaw’s crusade against nuisance and crime in the Tenderloin, here’s some arrest records of tenants from Tenderloin Housing Clinic, which is …
The San Francisco Residential Hotel Unit Conversion and Demolition Ordinance
finally posted in full, because it’s not that easy to find online, and because SRO (single room occupancy hotel) is such a focus these days …
The Mars Hotel at 4th and Howard
Update 2022, more photos posted on Twitter The San Francisco public library historical photo collection has one single photo of the Mars hotel at 192 …
UN Plaza Poll
One of my favorite local tenderloin blogs, Livin in the Loin, which is pretty close to Mid Market and UN plaza/Civic Center, returns after a …