Gin-centric bar Whitechapel is closing for the season in Civic Center
The days of bars reopening and then closing again appear not to be over, as once-bustling Tenderloin/Civic Center cocktail spot Whitechapel (600 Polk Street) has decided to close temporarily once more due to flagging business, and it will operate temporarily as a private event space.
Site of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in the Tenderloin is now a historic landmark
The SF Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to make the entire corner of Turk and Taylor Streets a historic landmark, as the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot that helped spark the LGBTQ rights movement.
Happy birthday to Glide’s Rev. Cecil Williams, who turns 93 today
The pastor who transformed Glide Memorial Church into a feed-the-needy powerhouse, and an early activist for LGBTQ rights since 1964, the Reverend Cecil Williams turns 93 years old today.
Gay bathhouse Eros to open its new Tenderloin location for Pride Weekend
Seven months after bathhouse and sauna Eros closed its longtime Castro location, it will have a “Pride Weekend Sneak-Peek” at its new Turk and Taylor Streets location.
La Cocina bringing a monthly Ferry Fridays marketplace to the Ferry Building
The nonprofit kitchen incubator La Cocina expands on their popular Tenderloin Municipal Marketplace with a new monthly Friday happy hour marketplace Ferry Fridays at the Ferry Building, with live music and mural painting.
Beleaguered 180 Jones site will rise as affordable housing for families
This vacant lot has been a sanctioned tent encampment, and at one point was slated to be a meth sobering center, but now will get a dignified happy outcome as 70 units of affordable housing for low-income and homeless families.