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Halloween In the Castro Cancelled Forevermore?

Brock Keeling — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:13:38 GMT

Our sources tell us that Halloween in the Castro as we knew it is now dead. Long live a dull and tedious San Francisco.

Although supervisors promised us that Halloween in the Castro would return for 2008, it turns out that it will not make a spooktacular comeback; in fact, it won't return at all. The event is no more. Dead. It seems that the Entertainment Commission -- whose job, it seems, is to prevent entertainment from happening within the 7x7-mile radius of San Francisco -- has come up with the brilliant idea that the bombastic and very San Francisco holiday, Halloween in the Castro, will be finished.

So, will the Castro be on lock down every Halloween? We're dying to find out. And we're disgusted. How about you?

To recap, last year Halloween in the Castro was canceled, which saw all of the neighborhood's bars and clubs close down as the predominately queer neighborhood tunned into a police state for the night. (To re-live the non-drama, visit SFist's live-blogging coverage of Halloween 2007 here.)

SFist Reviews... Wallpaper

Spencer Williams — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Wallpaper has brought back the 90's and in the best possible way. We imagined the crowd to be in a head-bopping frenzy but, in the short thirty minute set, Rickshaw Stop became a full-fledged 90's dance party. He's infused his own style into the ~~dead~~ revived musical art-form: New Jack Swing and it's the shit. He even did a cover of Bell Biv Divoe's "Poison". It was 90's heaven. We were on the balcony looking over the crowd and we can guarantee that every person (ages 8-60) was having a total blast.

His set-up includes, "...some ghetto jerry shit. We use an iPod video and run it into the house system, playing our videos off the thing. That's it." (It's really just one more reason why we absolutely loved the show!) It was so refreshing. He sang all of his songs off his upcoming EP which included my favorites, "Evrytm We Do It" and "Txt Me Yr Love". He wants the Bay Area to know that "...I'm down with how ill your sneakers are. Everyone here has ill sneakers. Also I want her not to worry, I'm not leavin. I'mone raise a family here." There you have it; he's not leaving. He's all ours!

He's performing at Bottom of the Hill on Sunday, March 9th. Don't miss this show; you'll regret it.

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Have a Happy Year of the Rat -- Tết Festival in Little Saigon

Jim — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:55:22 GMT

As far as the trend of naming smaller neighborhoods in San Francisco goes, Little Saigon (sandwiched between Civic Center and the Tenderloin) sounds pretty good. Anyway, it's a lot better than the name for a Vietnamese-American part of San Jose: "Saigon Business District".

(Yish.)