“I Love Tenderloin Week” is intended to show the hustle and the labors of love that make the city’s most misunderstood neighborhood a fascinating place. | Courtesy Alicia Tapia
A containment zone, a focal point of the fentanyl crisis, a place where governors drop by unannounced for photo ops—San Francisco’s Tenderloin is routinely dismissed as little more than a sorry collection of metaphors. But the compact, almost hyper-urban neighborhood is also home to a number of theater companies, some extraordinarily beautiful 20th century architecture and people from diverse backgrounds fighting to make it livable in spite of it all.
Enter I Love Tenderloin Week (April 30-May 6), a seven-day celebration intended to show off—flaunt, even—the remarkable history, restaurant scene and constellation of hustling do-gooders who make this neighborhood unique.
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