GLIDE Holiday Jam Celebrates Cecil Williams 60th Anniversary
GLIDE’s Annual Holiday Jam returns this week to celebrate Reverend Cecil Williams's 60th anniversary with the organization. The live concert will take place at the Masonic Auditorium on Thursday, November 9.
Enough Fentanyl to Kill 2x SF's Population Already Removed, Gov. Newsom Doubles State Officers
Following early success of the program to tackle the fentanyl crisis in San Francisco, Governor Gavin Newsom is doubling the number of California Highway Patrol and National Guard officers deployed in an attempt to make a dramatic difference.
Mayor Breed's Controversial Drug Crackdown Plan Takes Effect Ahead of San Francisco Pride
San Francisco Sheriff's Department to deploy Emergency Services Unit to crack down on drugs as part of Mayor London Breed's plan. Start of enforcement coincides with San Francisco Pride.
The 2023 Sunday Streets schedule has arrived, and it’s the 15th anniversary season
Six Sundays of car-free community spaces and fabulous family fun are lined up again for 2023, so mark your calendar with the brand new 2023 Sunday Streets schedule for the event series’ 15th anniversary.
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.
Tenderloin rooster removed from Tenderloin, reign of crowing is over
“King Henry IV” is the rooster whose cock-a-doodle doings have been ruining Tenderloin residents’ early mornings, but he’s now cooped up, and Animal Care and Control did not have to resort to fowl play.
A 17-block ‘Yellow Brick Road’ is coming to the Tenderloin
The Tenderloin has the highest concentration of children of any San Francisco neighborhood, and the SF Board of Supervisors just approved a Yellow Brick Road to direct kids away from blight, and toward schools, parks, and community centers.
Local TV news piece on ‘luxury condos’ overlooking Tenderloin encampment draws jeers from all sides
Social media is piling on a new local TV station report about how “luxury condos overlook city’s worst squalor,” with some mocking how the issue is framed, and others eager to lodge the insult “Pelosiland.”
St. Anthony's leads effort to create the Golden Gate Greenway
The St. Anthony’s Foundation is leading the effort to create the Golden Gate Greenway, a block-long full closure of the avenue between Leavenworth and Jones streets, to provide new community space in the Tenderloin.












