From filmmakers and musicians to community activists and store owners, these 12 remarkable SF women are worth celebrating.

Ben and Cristina, who left Alabama in search of opportunity, share how they're trying to make their lives and relationship work while temporarily homeless in San Francisco.

It’s quite an achievement of devotion in the City by the Bay, but especially the Tenderloin, San Francisco’s poorest neighborhood where people on average die in their mid-50s.

Vet SOS and the SPCA provide San Francisco's homeless residents with free veterinary care to help keep their pets healthy and families transitioning into housing together.

Jackson will watch the president's speech alongside the staff and clients of family homelessness agency Hamilton Family Services.

The Currys took a break from basketball Thursday night to show off their musical talents.

A driver on the 400 block of O'Farrell Street was arrested and charged with battery after allegedly clubbing CCE's Mark Hedin from behind.

The presidential candidate stayed around the neighborhood following a Thursday evening rally at the Hibernia Bank building.

The Helen Diller Civic Center Playgrounds reopen next week after a one-year, $10 million renovation.

The three best friends, aged 9-11, explain the upsides (community) and downsides (violence) of a childhood in the Tenderloin.

The BAWCC's founder talks about her 35 years of experience in the neighborhood, and what it takes to meet the community's needs.

The whiskey expert tells all about tending bar in the Tenderloin, the changing face of the neighborhood, and his belt-making business.

Central City Extra profiles Jamal Kaid, a Yemeni immigrant who lives in the Tenderloin's Curran House.

Davis, who's worked at SF bars since 1995, reflects on what's changed about the city's drinking culture—and what hasn't.

Central City Extra catches up with Sam Dodge, the mayor's new homeless czar, during his first month on the job.

More than 30 veterans received full suits and a bevy of career support services at St. Anthony's headquarters yesterday.

Jeffries has pushed for systemic change on the school board, crafted education policy, and fought against privatization, as well as teaching first graders.

We interview Executive Director Brian Basinger to learn about the AHA history, it's mission, and the goals that lay ahead in our City's housing crisis.

From a family of "boat people," John Nguyen has become a civic leader in the neighborhood.

Meet Del Seymour, Tenderloin tour guide and career mentor for local residents struggling to join the workforce.

There's a surprising number of bird species in the Tenderloin, but the person counting them is one of a kind.

Brother Earl won't try to convert you—his goal is to help others by praying for them.

The current margin between supervisors Kim and Wiener for state senate is about 18 times less than the estimated number of homeless individuals in San Francisco who can vote.

Some neighbors are unhappy with the agency's plans to open a 24-hour homeless center.

The event presents works that explore their ties to the neighborhood.

The city's program has inspired Miami, Sacramento, and Denver to launch similar efforts.

Planners are soliciting ideas to make the area more comfortable for day-to-day use.

The free, multilingual publication “was always quite a feisty paper,” said a former editor.

Even though she has health insurance, Kara Zordel's medical bills have reached $30,000.

More than 70 residents were displaced by an apartment building fire last week.

Since 1895, the site has been home to the Native Sons of the Golden West.

The permanent housing is the result of a public-private collaboration.

A "throw-away space" that once stored dumpsters has been remade with murals, art installations and live redwoods.

The works are inspired by a song in the holiday show titled, "If You Knew My Story."

"Even In Darkness" premieres at the Tenderloin Museum this week.

The nonprofit aims to prevent homelessness through mediation and educational programs.

Find a new volunteer opportunity at one of the Tenderloin's many community-serving non-profits at an evening event on Tuesday, January 23rd.

Bubbles (also known as Anthony Torres) was murdered near the mural's location in September 2017.

Most area shops lack any fresh fruit or vegetables, according to a survey.

An organizer who helped form a co-op to buy The Stud wants to do the same for The Gangway.

Until a new home for the bar is found, its memorabilia will be stored in a shipping container.

Thanks to a $30K grant, the neighborhood park will have more activities this year.

After departing the Tenderloin, the ceramics studio now has a large, sunny space in Potrero Hill.

A coalition of non-profit partners and corporate supporters are aiming to demonstrate the community benefits of safe injection sites.

More than 1,000 people have signed a Change.org petition urging the city to save 19 mature ficus trees slated for removal.

The successful Tenderloin business is opening a new location in the Castro later this year.

Aerial dancers will celebrate local history and the role immigrants have played in shaping the neighborhood.

The Salvation Army community center's Kroctober fest, kicking off tomorrow, is one of its many efforts to build community in the neighborhood.

A new partnership aims to identify priority neon signs for restoration across the Tenderloin.

Tenderloin Police Station’s commanding officer will meet with local businesses at the Strand Theater this morning to discuss the department’s increased patrols and presence in the UN Plaza area.

Community members are working to create solutions to the area's largest challenges.

It's the first time proposed designs will be shared with the community.

Little Saigon and other parts of the Tenderloin will be getting special attention.

Almost all of the Tenderloin is a high-injury corridor. For 10 years, this organization has been helping vulnerable neighbors cross the street safely.

Sala Burton Manor recently underwent a full renovation, and 100 seniors and people with disabilities have now moved back in.

Boeddeker Park will host a new Tenderloin neighborhood holiday tree, with a lighting ceremony planned for December 18.

The 102nd anniversary of America's first sex workers' rights march will be honored tonight at a Tenderloin Museum event.

The final design concept for the Civic Center Public Realm Plan proposes significant changes to Civic Center Plaza and UN Plaza.

Lers Ros' Tom Silargorn is behind this Sunday's festival, which will spotlight Thai food, beer and music in honor of Songkran.

The occasion is a major one for the clinic, which was forced out of its longtime SoMa space in 2016.

The organization, which serves 2,000 free meals a day in the Tenderloin, recently acquired a van for mobile HIV and Hepatitis C testing and treatment.

The stories of Tenderloin residents will be highlighted with three days of free performances, art exhibits and meals this weekend.

UN Plaza now hosts food trucks, craft vendors and a farmers market each Friday.

SF's iconic skateboarding magazine has been recognized for its efforts to improve the Tenderloin/Mid-Market community.

The year's first UNDSCVRD night market will debut on Saturday, July 20.

For the remainder of 2019, the Tenderloin Museum will host a number of shows centered on Aunt Charlie's, its performers and its legacy.

A new outdoor exhibit at the Civic Center library aims to spark conversation and interaction between visitors and residents

The remaining 76 will be installed over the next few months in Lower Nob Hill, SoMa, and the Excelsior.

By 2030, nearly a third of San Franciscans will be over 60. Yet homelessness is on the rise among the city's elderly, especially in the Tenderloin.

Two well-regarded businesses were shut down over cleanliness issues emanating from Tenderloin alleys. Now, neighborhood merchants are taking action.

A local nonprofit is working overtime to help mediate disputes between landlords and tenants who've lost income to the COVID-19 crisis.

Tenderloin vintage store Vacation is offering name-your-price deals on its already-affordable wares over this holiday week in preparation for its move to a bigger space.

A $9.3 million 2014 overhaul transformed the park into an essential community space. Civic leaders are seeking ways to keep it going.

Holiday cheer is sweeping through the Tenderloin over the next week, including a local makers’ fair, a community tree lighting and a District 6-wide party hosted by Supervisor Matt Haney.

At a community meeting held last night, some locals spoke in favor of the facility, but the majority expressed concerns.

"Now, the spirit has to come to you through Zoom," says one minister.

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

The new measures were announced early this week. Some supervisors and advocates for homeless people want the measures to go further.

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 two scientists have started their own hand sanitizer production line, giving it all away to the unhoused, prison inmates and public housing residents.

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

The Tenderloin's last gay bar will close on August 1, unless a fundraiser brings in enough to keep it going.

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

While other city-run safe sleeping sites have security, food and water, the Tenderloin's is filthy, overcrowded and unguarded.

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

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.

Following a two-year legal fight that began with the Methodist Church suing the Glide Foundation for control of its considerable assets, Glide Memorial Church announced Wednesday that it is cutting ties with the larger church under which it was founded, in order to proceed independently into the future with its charitable and spiritual work.

One of the Tenderloin’s Safe Sleeping Sites is now permanently closed after neighbors raised ongoing concerns about overcrowding and persistent illegal activity.

San Francisco’s most charitable Christmas tradition carries on, as 2,000 pounds of prime beef are being served at Glide.

Another “tiny house” proposal is in the works for what’s currently a safe sleeping site at Jones and Turk Streets, and while it’s still just a submitted plan, the funding is reportedly lined up.

This city’s first navigation center dedicated to homeless youth aged 18-24 opened in District 3 this week, four years after funding was set aside to build it.

A new community garden in a former vacant lot, which has been designed to encourage social distancing, will open next month in the SoMa Pilipinas cultural district.

While The Healing WELL has long been dedicated to promoting the healing of individuals, and the neighborhood as a whole, it had to identify new strategies to connect with people during the ongoing shelter-in-place, and now it's using its windows to celebrate women heroes.

Next week, the Tenderloin community-based support organization Hospitality House will host its 36th annual art auction to support its Community Arts Program (CAP) in a new format that offers online bidding, a virtual live-auction event, and display of the works for sale at five local galleries.

The Tenderloin will see a boost in after-school and community activities for teens and older transitional-aged youth through a new program funded in part by a federal grant.

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.

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.”

San Francisco has designs on buying a vacant Geary Street building to use as a safe injection site, even though doing so is illegal, and the consequences could be enormous.

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.

“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 loudmouth rooster named King Henry IV wore out his welcome in the Tenderloin, but his new home 90 miles away is something to crow about.

The Golden Gate Greenway will be back on Golden Gate Avenue in the Tenderloin this weekend, but just as a pop-up.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.