DIVISADERO CORRIDOR ART WALK -- THURSDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 3

From our friends at the Madrone Art Bar, located on the next-most-trendy place to be, the Divisadero Corridor, a reminder that tomorrow night, September 3 is the Divisadero Corridor Art Walk.

The San Francisco Chronicle recently called the Divisadero Corridor, "Bohemian Chic."

"Long known as a gritty stretch of seedy dive bars, failed businesses and low-income housing, Divisadero Street has functioned primarily as a multicultural thoroughfare from Market Street to the Marina, rather than a destination in itself. Recently, however, the section between Haight and McAllister streets, commonly known as the Divisadero Corridor, has seen an influx of vibrant, independently owned boutiques, galleries and bars, along with restaurants like bustling Nopa & Bar Crudo, which have illuminated an often neglected area.

While some stores are north of Fell and the Panhandle and therefore technically in the area known as NoPa / Western Addition, others are decidedly south and aren't - though it's a subject of fierce debate.

The corridor retains its bohemian flavor - purple hair and piercings still abound - even with a weekly farmers' market and popular quarterly art walk designed to get people out into the neighborhood at night. A $3.4 million revitalization plan is also under way between Waller Street and Geary Boulevard to make the street safer and more inviting with bus stop improvements, wider medians planted with trees and upgraded lighting fixtures.

As the corridor undergoes its physical renaissance, an eclectic mix of merchants continues to proffer its own idea of regeneration, transforming bits and bobs of jettisoned history into wares you can wear, ingest and live with."

If you're in town, and not Burning it up on the Playa, check out the Divisadero Corridor Art Walk and the Madrone Art Lounge Thursday night, September 3 -- it's FREE to do the walk, and there are drink and food specials galore!