SF News The Castro Might Become SF’s Next Boozy 'Entertainment Zone’ With Bars Selling To-Go Cocktails There may be to-go cocktails flying out the windows of nightclubs at the next Castro District party with street closures, as Supervisor Rafael Mandelman just introduced a measure to make much of the Castro the latest SF “entertainment zone.”
SF News Apparent Tech Bus Accident Damages Multiple Cars on Castro Street A Monday morning mishap with what appears to be a tech bus smashed up at least four cars on Castro Street near 20th Street, with pictures and video starting to emerge on social media.
SF News Guy Climbs and Damages Castro Theatre Sign, Creates Bizarre 90-Minute Standoff An unidentified man climbed the Castro Theatre sign Tuesday night, and according to eyewitnesses, threw cinder blocks to the street, got naked, and masturbated on the roof.
Arts & Entertainment Juanita More Talks About The End Of The Eight-Year Run Of Castro Club Booty Call Wednesdays Thanksgiving week will mark the end of an era for Castro nightlife as drag queen DJ and promoter Juanita More is ending her weekly party at Q Bar, Booty Call Wednesdays. Eight years
Arts & Entertainment 42nd Annual Castro Street Fair Dedicated To Memory Of Late Drag Queen Cookie Dough Sunday marks the 42nd annual Castro Street Fair, a non-profit event founded by Harvey Milk in 1974 during the neighborhood's burgeoning days as a gay district. These days it is the calmer, less
Arts & Entertainment War Brewing In Castro Between Party Promoters, Merchants, And City Workers Over Ripping Down Posters Lampposts and street poles in the Castro have long been plastered with images of half-naked men and drag queens on posters promoting gay events in and around the neighborhood. There's good reason for
SF News Pleasant Weather Partly To Blame For Fires On Union And Castro Streets San Francisco's current dry, sunny weather is certainly enjoyable! But it also might be partially to blame for two recent fires: one that hit Union Street early this morning, and another that hit
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Gay iPhone Ad for the Castro This guy made a little spoof of the iPhone 4S/Siri ads, featuring stuff in the Castro. And it's mildly amusing. In case you didn't know, Hand Job is actually a nail salon
SF News Cyclist Pleads Not Guilty To Felony Manslaughter Charges In Castro Pedestrian Death Chris Bucchere, the cyclist accused of fatally striking a 71-year-old pedestrian at Castro and Market Streets back in March, pled not guilty to felony charges of vehicular manslaughter yesterday. During his brief arraignment
SF News District Attorney Compares Pedestrian-Killing Cyclist To Tom Cruise After the Chronicle spilled the beans on Chris Bucchere's felony vehicular manslaughter charges, District Attorney George Gascón held a press conference to elaborate on the case his office has been building against the
SF News Cyclist Who Killed Castro Pedestrian Slammed With Felony Charges Chris Bucchere, the cyclist who fatally struck a 71-year-old pedestrian after "plowing" in to a crosswalk at Market and Castro Streets has been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter for his actions back in
SF News Have You Seen These Sketchy Characters? Wanted For Castro Gay Bashings The San Francisco Police Department is on the hunt for these two guys, suspected of committing two night time assaults in the Castro and Hayes Valley. According to Police, the two suspects yelled
SF News Traffic Video Allegedly Contradicts Cyclist's Story In Deadly S.F. Pedestrian Collision Chris Bucchere, the cyclist who struck and killed a 71-year-old pedestrian and then wrote about it for the world to read, may be staring down some damning evidence. Although he initially justified plowing
misc Vintage Castro Couture For those of you participating in Sunday's Gay Freedom Day 1978 recreation for the filming of , let the above inspire you. SFist reader Richard scanned and sent in his vintage Castro Street Fair
SF News Some Castro Businesses Bash <i>Milk</i> Production Although most of us are giddy that Hollywood has come to our little town to film a moving picture show, others are less than gay about it. Namely, a few Castro merchants who
SF News Penn to Hit Castro Bars as <i>Milk</i> Shooting Starts Undergoing a procedure to erase 30 years from its face, the Castro neighborhood is going retro, circa 1978, for the filming of Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic, Milk, which starts shooting this
misc Harvey Milk Mural at 575 Castro Given's owner, Nick Romero, commissioned this mural for his store to memorialize the slain city supervisor. (Other than a sidewalk plaque in front of the store, that wasn't much to let customers or
Arts & Entertainment Harvey Milk Memorial Concert & Candlelight March Even though we're too vile to appear on screen in a film about his life, legacy, and popper sniffing -- no, we will not let it go, but thank you for asking --
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Built in 1911, the Tower Theater is up for sale. Again. [Curbed SF] -- Fatal Bayview fire still under investigation. [SF Examiner] -- Jew's attorney asks, "More time, please?" Look, the only
SF News Behold: Your Castro Street Halloween Urinals No, not really. But that would be some party if they were. We received these images from the editor's inbox this afternoon, taken at Castro and 18th Street (the epicenter of Halloween's past)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Where Will You Go This No-Halloween? The hallow'ed New York Times seems to think that no souls, not even "costumeless outsiders", will show up for "Nightmare on Castro Street." Mmmm. Well then, where else is there to go? The
Arts & Entertainment Philip Glass Is Coming, An Interview With Cellist Wendy Sutter By David Famiano Happy Belated Birthday, Mr. Glass! It’s an exciting time in San Francisco. All the burners are back from you know where feeling either pissed off or bummed out. All
misc Sean Penn To Play Harvey Milk, Matt Damon To Play Dan White No word yet on who gets the choice diva role of Dianne Feinstein, but her part had best steal the film. How could it not? The career-making footage of Feinstein telling the media
SF News Steve Wozniak+Kathy Griffin, Anne Rice+Baby Jesus According to le Hilton, Kathy Griffin is dating Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. (Yay! It's nice to see a redhead making good.) Is this true? Are they really spooning each other? We have no
SF News Day Around the Bay -- East Bay movie studio/shopping center deal? Fin. [Chron] -- #70: Early morning Hunters Point murder. [SF Crime] -- Lawsuit over AT&T Wireless' ability to suck. [Examiner] -- OMG: High
