Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Renovation Now $20 Million Over Budget, In Addition to Being Four to Six Months Behind Schedule The $15 million renovation of the Castro Theatre has now ballooned to a $35 million renovation, and this news comes on the heels of learning that the theater’s reopening will be delayed by anywhere from four to six months minimum.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Neon Sign Will Be Fully Restored and Lit Back Up Next Week The Castro Theatre’s marquee and neon sign will be lit back up and fully restored next Wednesday night, as part of the Frameline Opening Night block party that will also feature a screening of the new Lil Nas X documentary, and you don’t even need tickets to this free community event.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre’s New Cocktail Bar Plans Coming Together, Supervisors OK Their Liquor License Request It’s still up to the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control whether Another Planet Entertainment gets the liquor license they want for the Castro Theatre, but the SF Board of Supervisors recommended they do so, and we got a look at their application.
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: This Weekend Is Your Last Chance to See a Movie at the Castro Theatre as We Know It The 16-month closure and overhaul of the Castro Theatre now looms, and this weekend will see the final film screenings at the Castro Theatre as we know it — with the 1932 horror masterpiece ‘Vampyr’ Friday, and a Sunday double-feature of 'Blade Runner’ and ‘Robocop.’
Arts & Entertainment 16 Shows You Should Try to See In San Francisco Over the Holidays From holiday favorites like the Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol to stand-up comedy from Trevor Noah and Ali Wong to drag shows and more, here are the best ways to spend your December in the city.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Can Serve Liquor Upstairs at the Castro Theatre After Board of Supervisors Approval What might have been the final battle over Another Planet Entertainment’s makeover of the Castro Theatre ended with a whimper, as the SF Board of Supervisors quickly approved their plan to serve liquor on the second floor of the storied theater.
SF News Another Planet Entertainment Gets Their Way On Castro Theatre Renovations In Decisive City Hall Vote Concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment got their wish on their proposed Castro Theatre renovations Thursday, though also agreed to a laundry list of compromises dictating their film and LGBTQ programming, and even what concessions they sell at the snack bar.
SF News SF Supervisors Vote Against Landmarking Castro Theatre Seats, In Major Win For Another Planet Entertainment Concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment got their biggest City Hall victory yet on Tuesday, as the SF Board of Supervisors shot down an attempt to landmark the theater’s seats that the promoter hopes to remove.
SF News City Hall Inches Forward to Landmark Castro Theatre Seats, Old Contract Comes Back To Haunt Another Planet An SF Board of Supervisors committee was in favor of saving the Castro Theatre seats at a Monday hearing, and while the vote is nowhere near final, they brought up a skeleton in Another Planet Entertainment’s closet regarding millions in unfinished renovations at Bill Graham Auditorium.
SF News Supervisors’ Committee Delays Castro Theatre ‘Save the Seats’ Recommendation Until April 17 Faced with an up-or-down vote on recommending that the Castro Theatre interior seats get landmark protection, the SF Board of Supervisors Land Use and Transportation Committee punted that decision on Monday, and won’t consider it for another two weeks.
SF News Big Meeting Looms Monday On the Fate of the Castro Theatre's Seats If you care one way or the other over the controversy regarding the Castro Theatre's seats, you may want to carve out some time to speak up at a crucial hearing on the matter this Monday afternoon at 1:30 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Preservationists Launch Rival ‘Castro In Exile’ Movie Nights, With Sing-Along ‘Grease’ The old Castro Theatre sing-along shows have gone rogue while the theater sits unused, as the “Save the Seats” crowd is rebooting the traditional movie screenings in a “Castro In Exile” series starting with Sing-Along Grease on April 7.
SF News Castro Theatre Gets Landmark Recommendation from City Hall, in Big Setback for Another Planet Entertainment Trouble for Another Planet Entertainment, as the SF Historic Preservation Commission just recommended landmark designation protections for the Castro Theatre’s seats, at a six-hour meeting where both “Save the Seats” and “Change the Seats” factions turned out in force.
SF News Another Planet Submits New Castro Theatre Plans With ‘Motorized' Flooring, Opponents Not Moved The latest chapter in Another Planet Entertainment’s plans to overhaul the Castro Theatre involve a “motorized raked floor” to quell opponents’ outrage about removing the floor seats, yet opponents seem no less outraged.
SF News Tempers Flare as Castro Theatre Hosts First Public Meeting With Another Planet Entertainment A packed Castro Theatre saw a slew of “Save the Seats” activists sound off at a raucous public meeting about the theater’s future Thursday night, and there were other concerns that Another Planet’s Entertainment’s rebooted Castro Theatre might also be a Ticketmaster-only venue.
SF News SF's Castro Theatre Was Burglarized Twice This Week — By the Same Person On Friday, SFPD responded to a call of another thieving at the Castro's nearly 100-year-old cinema house. After the second break-in, police re-arrested a burglar previously detained concerning Tuesday's burglary.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Will Still Host SFFILM Festival In Late April The future of the Castro Theatre as an almost-full-time movie house is in question, but for the short term, the SFFILM Festival will still be screening there this year from April 21-May 1.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Movie ‘Shit & Champagne’ Has SF Premiere Saturday, Gets Deal to Stream on AppleTV, Amazon Prime Oasis owner D’Arcy Drollinger tells us about ‘Shit and Champagne,’ her cult-hit play-turned-movie with a Castro Theatre premiere Saturday, and new streaming deals with Amazon Prime and AppleTV.
Arts & Entertainment Your Glam Guide To All The David Bowie-Themed Events This Weekend This weekend would have been David Bowie’s 70th birthday, but instead it’s the one-year anniversary of Bowie’s passing to the great beyond. Since San Francisco so adores the Man Who
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Alan Cumming Sings At The Castro We told you about this when it was announced, but tonight's the night that actor Alan Cumming brings his one-man cabaret act, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, to the Castro Theater, and there
Arts & Entertainment Silent Film Festival Sounds Awesome This Weekend Flappers, dandies and fetishists for all things 1920s will have their Wurlitzers in a bunch all weekend long for the 21st annual Silent Film Festival, kicking off tonight and running through Sunday at
Arts & Entertainment Bob The Drag Queen, Winner of <i>Rupaul's Drag Race</i>, Coming To Castro Memorial Day Weekend The "Drag Queens of Comedy" tour, which arrives at the Castro Theatre for two performances on Saturday, May 28, has just added to the bill the breakout star from Season 8 of Rupaul's
Arts & Entertainment SF Int'l Film Festival Moving To Alamo Drafthouse For 2016 There's been another cinematic coup for Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, newly open at Mission and 21st Street. After scoring Star Wars: The Force Awakens for their grand opening and bringing in Lost Weekend Video
Arts & Entertainment Cult Movie 'Showgirls' Turns 20, Here's How To Celebrate The high holy holiday on the San Francisco drag calendar that is Peaches Christ’s Night of 1,000 Showgirls takes on a special significance at Saturday night’s annual screening and party,
Arts & Entertainment 40 Fabulous Photos Of Pflueger's San Francisco [Updated] Before thick glass, reclaimed wood, and casual minimalism became de rigueur San Francisco style, Timothy L. Pflueger, a working class kid from the Mission who didn't even attend college, drenched the city in
