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The team behind PianoFight is launching a virtual venue this week with a fundraising event that aims to let attendees mingle and interact safely from their own homes.

A cast of D-list QAnon mini-celebrities had planned to protest in Dolores Park Saturday, but have scored a permit for Civic Center instead.

A mobile command van will be stationed in the Tenderloin intermittently in a new effort to disrupt street-level drug dealing.

With construction now two years behind schedule, area businesses say the grants won't make a dent in their six-figure revenue losses.

Three blocks of the Tenderloin will be closed to cars for outdoor dining and shopping.

The city's densest and most child-heavy neighborhood is set to close a block to cars each Saturday afternoon. But it still faces headwinds to creating more outdoor space.

After years of covertly filling Tenderloin sidewalk crevices with resin and found objects, Rik Lee Leipold has received funding to install more long-lasting work in the neighborhood's streets.

The Walgreens, whose theft-plagued empty shelves went viral earlier this year, will close at the end of August.

Prairie, the Mission's restaurant-turned-general-store, is also set to shutter.

Two people are in critical condition after being struck over the weekend by drivers in the Mission and on Van Ness Avenue.

The U.S. Post Office at Fox Plaza in Civic Center is not closing — despite a confusing letter recently sent to customers with P.O. boxes at that location.

After years of issues with insufficient cans and trash-pickers, the Tenderloin is hoping for a permanent solution to its street trash issue.

On May 6, the city released an eight-point plan to turn around the Tenderloin. We investigated its progress — and found almost none.

Robbery suspects attacked victims with hammers, power tools, and in one case, a padlock.

Over 150 students and alumni are pushing back on UC Hastings' Tenderloin lawsuit, arguing it prioritizes clearing streets over sheltering homeless people.

As "Slow Streets" have proliferated around the rest of the city, SF's densest neighborhood has seen no traction on promised street closures.

“This is the worst we’ve ever seen it," says Thao Pham, who has operated the popular Tenderloin Vietnamese restaurant for 20 years.

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed on Monday fear the city's COVID-19 response plan will only exacerbate the neighborhood's ongoing, pre-existing problems.

The Tenderloin isn't just suing the city over COVID-19 safety issues — it's refusing to go back to an already catastrophic "old normal," plaintiffs say.

Tenderloin station police have been busy in the weeks since our last roundup, including several robberies at gunpoint, a 15-hour standoff, and a machete attack.

Created by artists quarantined at home, the ad-hoc show may ultimately be "a time capsule of this moment in history," says the museum's director.

The cancellation of SF Pride's 50th-anniversary festivities, set for late June, will have massive ripple effects on San Francisco's economy.

In one incident, a 50-year-old man was attacked with a wheelchair by a main in his twenties.

Immigrant business owners in the Tenderloin are facing both lost business and increased break-ins under the shelter-in-place order.

On the recommendation of SFDPH, Multiple events and community gatherings scheduled for March in San Francisco are now postponed until further notice.