398 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA, 94102
415-351-1912
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Step into the fog-shrouded streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin, where mystery, mayhem, and literary legend collide. Join us for “Tenderloin Noir,” a walking tour led by celebrated storyteller and historian Linda Day, that traces the dark footprints of hard-boiled writers like Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald, and Mark Coggins—authors who turned the Tenderloin’s alleys, hotels, and shadowy corners into settings for murder, mischief, and moral ambiguity. A new walking tour offering debuts for I Love Tenderloin Week!
Saturday, June 21, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 PM
Meet at Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102
TLM and the Roxie Theater co-present a 4k restoration of Northern Lights (1978) by prolific Bay Area indie filmmaker Rob Nilsson. His breakout vérité masterpiece resounds with the museum’s interest in overlooked histories of immigrant communities, organized labor, and resistance, and anticipated Nilsson’s decade of “direct action cinema” that yielded his sprawling, TL-based 9 @ Night films, screening monthly at TLM starting with Noise (2002) in September.
new 4k restoration ft. director Rob Nilsson in person
At the Roxie Theater | 3117 16th St, SF, CA 94103
Saturday June 21, 2025 | 6:00pm (Little Roxie)
Tickets $15 (TLM Members get $3 off!) | Purchase via the Roxie’s website
A special work-in-progress screening of Lord Frederick will be followed by an artist talk with Lord Frederick himself.
Lord Frederick Screening and Artist Talk
Thursday June 26, 2025 | 6-7:30pm
At the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Free or Suggested Donation | Register via Humanitix
Tenderloin Museum is thrilled to partner with Unspeakable Vice, “a volunteer history initiative making queer belonging accessible to everyone,” to offer a new walking tour focused on the LGBTQIA+ history in the Tenderloin and Polk Street neighborhoods.
Saturday, June 28, 2025 | 2-4 PM
Meet at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102
Register to attend via Humanitix | Admission to the Tenderloin Museum included with ticket
Created by downtown San Francisco resident and professor at California College of the Arts Shawn Sprockett, Unspeakable Vice began as a close look at the queer origins of San Francisco, traversing the city’s North Beach and Barbary Coast areas to trace the history through from 1770-1960. This new tour extends Sprockett’s richly detailed and craftily delivered approach to the TL and Polk Street to offer a deep dive into the emergence of LGBTQIA+ icons and movements that shaped the area from the 1960s to the 1990s.
