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Tenderloin National Forest on CBS5 news

locationTenderloin National Forestdate02 June 2011

Luggage Store Co-Artistic Directors/Artists Darryl Smith and Laurie Lazer of the luggage store have been working to transform Cohen Alley since 1989 from a place emblazed in a health-hazardous cesspool of bodily fluids and other dumped items, non-supervised open-air chemical experiments and illicit … MORE INFO →

Tenderloin National Forest on NY Times news

locationTenderloin National ForestdateMay 28, 2011

“ Nestled between a cluster of residential buildings and hotels in San Francisco™s Tenderloin district is a surprising outcropping of green ” theso-called Tenderloin National Forest. Formerly known as Cohen Alley, the small urban enclaveis not really a national forest … MORE INFO →

Updates/News Jan. – Feb. news

to:  Taraneh Hemani, David Gurman and Yoon Lee, Fleishhacker Recipients Eureka Fellowship!!! to: Rigo 23/who will be featured on Art 21 Luggage Store received a three year grant in support of exhibition programs from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the … MORE INFO →

BARRY MCGEE MURAL on roll down door PAINTED OVER news

locationthe luggage storedateNov. 28, 2010

We have literally received hundreds of inquiries regarding the painting over of our roll down door that the luggage store commissioned BARRY MCGEE to paint in 1994. The luggage store did not paint over this door. It was ipainted over … MORE INFO →

POEM: KEEPING QUIET, by PABLO NERUDA news

Keeping Quiet Pablo Neruda (trans. Alastair Reid.) And now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth let’s not speak in any language, let’s stop for one second, and … MORE INFO →