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Marginalized faith communities featured in Santa Clara University museum...

Golden States of Grace: Documentary photographer Rick Nahmias spent more than three years researching, photographing, and taking oral histories of 11 California faith communities outside the religious...

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Documentary play portrays real Tenderloin characters

San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood can be a difficult place to live. Almost a quarter of the neighborhood’s residents live below the poverty line. According to the police department, the...

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Lost Landmarks: Time traveling in the Tenderloin

I’m sitting on a brown leather couch inside Studio A at Hyde Street Recording in the Upper Tenderloin. A white baby grand piano sits to my left and a faded blue rug with pink roses lies on the hardwood...

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The Sharing Economy: San Francisco's roving tailor

The door to the Luggage Store Annex in San Francisco's Tenderloin district is unlocked on the 15th of each month, rain or shine, fog or wind, and a converted tamale cart is rolled onto the sidewalk....

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Marginalized faith communities featured in Santa Clara University museum...

Golden States of Grace: Documentary photographer Rick Nahmias spent more than three years researching, photographing, and taking oral histories of 11 California faith communities outside the religious...

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Documentary play portrays real Tenderloin characters

San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood can be a difficult place to live. Almost a quarter of the neighborhood’s residents live below the poverty line. According to the police department, the...

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Lost Landmarks: Time traveling in the Tenderloin

I’m sitting on a brown leather couch inside Studio A at Hyde Street Recording in the Upper Tenderloin. A white baby grand piano sits to my left and a faded blue rug with pink roses lies on the hardwood...

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The Sharing Economy: San Francisco's roving tailor

The door to the Luggage Store Annex in San Francisco's Tenderloin district is unlocked on the 15th of each month, rain or shine, fog or wind, and a converted tamale cart is rolled onto the sidewalk....

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Lives of the Tenderloin remembered

Nearly every city in the US has a Tenderloin. Here in San Francisco, it’s a neighborhood home to a dozen social service agencies, low-rent residential» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

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Lives of the Tenderloin remembered

Nearly every city in the US has a Tenderloin. Here in San Francisco, it’s a neighborhood home to a dozen social service agencies, low-rent residential...» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

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A fresh food oasis in the Tenderloin

In San Francisco’s Tenderloin, getting healthy fare often isn’t an option. Without a full service grocery store in the neighborhood, residents rely on...» E-Mail This

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Seniors in Tech City: An interview with journalist Paul Kleyman

More than one in ten people living in the densely packed Tenderloin and mid-Market neighborhoods are age 65 or older, and that percentage is expected to...» E-Mail This

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What impacts are tech companies really having on San Francisco’s mid-Market...

Del Seymour makes sure to take everybody on his walking tours of the Tenderloin to the corner of Turk and Taylor. “I lived on this street,” he says. “I...» E-Mail This

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Interview with Geoff Link of Central City Extra

In the rapidly changing mid-Market area of San Francisco, the influx of new tech companies into a historically low-income neighborhood is causing some...» E-Mail This

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San Francisco drug users bring harm reduction to the streets

There’s a plan circulating in San Francisco to make using crack cocaine safer: give away free crack pipes. It might sound farfetched, but it’s supported...» E-Mail This

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City Visions: What's Driving Change in the Tenderloin?

Change has come to the Tenderloin, but how much of it is attributable to the recent tech boom? Using new strategies to engage locals and create...

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Can Twitter teach its neighbors how to code?

In exchange for a tax deal, Twitter recently debuted NeighborNest, a community learning center across the street from its Civic Center headquarters....

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