This week in the Tenderloin we saw quite the storefront shakeup.
After nine months of struggling to build a customer base, Bulldog Baths Dog Resort closed its Turk and Taylor doors yesterday. The space may not be dormant for long, however. There's a plan developing to turn the location into a dog-friendly set of offices for rent.
Bash Contemporary at the corner of Golden Gate and Leavenworth is relocating, making room for the envelope-pushing fine-art curators behind the new Smash Gallery.
And a few blocks away at Eddy & Leavenworth we got the scoop on Black Cat, a new restaurant and bar aiming to open before the year closes.
Finally, classes at City College of San Francisco's interim Civic Center campus at 1170 Market St. begin Monday, and there's still time to sign up for the fall semester.
Now, let's talk weekend. Here's what's happening around the neighborhood:
Saturday
Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St.
11-12pm
Host Description: "Our guided Walking Tours offer the best way to get to know the Tenderloin. As longtime tour guide Del Seymour says, “You’ll enjoy a Fisherman’s Wharf tour but you’ll most remember a Tenderloin tour.”
Copiapoa : Cactus Under the Influence of Fog
The Thing Quarterly, 447 O'Farrell St.
$5
Host Description: "In this presentation, Cactus Store's Christian Cummings explores the history and science behind the Copiapoa, a remarkable fog dwelling cacti that has thrived in the most arid habitat on Earth––the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. Beginning in 1571 these plants received no rain for 400 years, relying solely on a unique coastal fog phenomenon known as "The Camanchaca" to survive."
PianoFight, 144 Taylor St.
7-8:30pm
$5
Host Description: "SF's longest-running comedy roundtable Panelmonium! returns, now at PianoFight! It's a meeting of high minds, lowbrows, and everything in between. We have comedians, artists, politicians—people of all kinds!—debating and discussing the issues of the day, for your edu-joyment. Come by, learn a little, and laugh a lot!"
Transient Canvas: East to West [Don’t Be A Stranger]
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St.
7:30pm
$15
Host Description: "The Boston-based marimba and bass clarinet duo Transient Canvas presents a bi-coastal program of new works from composers David Coll, Joseph Colombo, Brenna Noonan, Beau Kenyon, Adam Roberts, and Andy Vores. The “don’t be a stranger” series, curated by composer Danny Clay, invites amazing folks to share the weird and wonderful things they’re doing for the world of music, both in the Bay Area and beyond."
Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave.
8pm
$35
Host Description: "An ace session player for Chess Records throughout the 1960s, Buddy Guy backed bands like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Koko Taylor, spending his prime years in the background."
Play it Cool with Jeremy Castillo
The Basement, 222 Hyde St.
9pm-2am
Host Description: "Play it Cool is a casual open format dance music party. Lose your phone, find yourself, feel good."
Bay Area All Stars w/ Chris Cain Band
Biscuits & Blues, 401 Mason St.
9:30pm
$30
Host Description: "The Bay Area Allstars blues celebration will be an exceptional opportunity to catch some of the Bay areas top blues musicians all under one roof here at Biscuits and Blues. Expect to see a musical chairs of memorable performances from some of our favorite Biscuits and Blues Alumni backed by The Chris Cain Band as well as other notable musicians. The night will feature performances from Chris Cain & the Chris Cain Band, The Bey Paule Band, The Paula Harris Band, Aki Kumar, Kyle Rowland, Jules Leyhe, John Garcia, George Bisharat, Terrie Odabi, Tia Carroll, Alvon and Mitch Woods."
Standup Comedy With Rising Stars
SF Downtown Comedy Theater, 287 Ellis St.
5pm
$10
Host Description: "Join us for cheerful nights of stand-Up comedy as more than five comics converge at Our Little Comedy in San Francisco each night to create tons of laughter. Participating comics represent different nationalities, regions, cities and countries around the world, including Africa, Asia, India, and San Francisco."
Sunday
Heart of the City Farmers’ Market
7am-5pm
Host Description: "Heart of the City Farmers Market is a uniquely independent, farmer-operated, nonprofit farmers market located year round on Sundays and Wednesdays in San Francisco's United Nations Plaza. "
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.
1-3pm
Host Description: City Hall Historian, City Hall Docent Tour Manager and Centennial Curator Ellen Schumer will be conducting two tours every 3rd Sunday. Tours will meet atop the Goodlett steps, where tour participants will be met by Ellen and escorted into City Hall.
