SF News Retail Report On Castro District Says No More Coffee, Maybe Enough With The 'Adult' Stores With over 30 vacant retail spaces along the Castro and Upper Market retail corridor, the area's vacancy rate — 8% — is nearly twice the city’s overall average. That's prompted a new 200 page
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Brewcade Reopens After Small Fire Caused By Next Door Hecho Castro beer-and-arcade-game spot Brewcade, now just seven and a half months old, is closed for two or three days because, according to a statement from the bar, they've got some damages to repair
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro Is Teeming With Vermin It may just be the fourth Castro restaurant to be shut down by the health department in recent months, but Slider's Diner (449 Castro, not to be confused with Slider Bar) has been
Arts & Entertainment Kim Kardashian Talks Cellulite, Spanx, Objectifying Herself At The Castro Theatre Pregnant Kim Kardashian was seen at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Tuesday A photo posted by Ramses (@kingramsesfresh) on Jul 1, 2015 at 10:59am PDT The reviews are in, and
Arts & Entertainment Kim Kardashian Commonwealth Club Event Moved To Castro Theatre Tonight Celebrity eyeroll-inducer Kim Kardashian West and her team of publicists have been trying to legitimize her as she tours the country promoting her new book Selfish which is (I am not joking) a
Arts & Entertainment The 17 Best Gay and Lesbian Clubs And Parties In San Francisco It's Pride Week, and with that comes a whole bevy of once-a-year parties to fill the dance cards of every LGBT party kid in town. But San Francisco is, after all, one of
Arts & Entertainment Eight Must-See Movies At Frameline (The LGBT Film Fest) San Francisco's LGBT film festival Frameline kicks off Thursday night, and it is now in its 39th year, making it the oldest continually running film fest geared to the LGBT set in the
SF News Nudist Activists Claim Victory, Get $20K In Settlement With City Over Citations The legal battles over Scott Wiener's 2012 nudity ban linger on, and today SFist received an update from one of the lead nudity activists/"body freedom protesters" and all around fun character Gypsy
SF News Retail Survey Says: Castro Getting Less Gay, But Remains Very Gay For the past year, a consulting firm has been working on a retail strategy for the Castro and Upper Market, helping to solve the question of why certain retail vacancies in the neighborhood
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Castro Restaurant Shut Down By Health Department: Posh Bagel Yikes. The vermin/cockroach problem may be more rampant in the Castro than previously understood as we learn of yet another health-department shutdown in the neighborhood, the second in just three weeks. Yesterday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Restaurant Shut Down By Health Department Rebrands For Second Time In Three Months The Castro is getting another new restaurant, sort of, called Janchi, which is being billed as a "Korean gastropub." It's going into the space at 2251 Market Street and as Hoodline notes, this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Old Man Bars In SF A neighborhood really isn't complete without an old man bar. Sadly, in places all over town like the Mission and Hayes Valley, you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere that a wizened older
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Man Accused Of Attempting To Set Castro Bar On Fire Is Former Gay Web Cam Model A 27-year-old man named Troy Collin McCormick has pleaded not guilty to arson charges in connection with an incident that occurred a week ago Tuesday at Hi Tops in the Castro. As bar
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cole Valley's Ice Cream Bar Getting A Spinoff In The Castro Excellent news for Castro residents with sweet tooths: The Ice Cream Bar, the old-timey soda fountain and ice cream parlor in Cole Valley, is moving in on the former L'Occitane space at 554
Arts & Entertainment Don't Call It Pink Saturday (This Year) As hinted at earlier, the traditional organizers/gatekeepers of Pink Saturday on Pride Weekend in the Castro, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, are holding onto their rights to the name "Pink Saturday," even
SF News Multi-Year Battle Over Castro & Market Gas Station Site To Be Settled Soon Plans for a 24-unit building at the prime corner of Castro and Market Streets currently occupied by an ARCO gas station have been stymied for the past decade by various factors, not the
SF News SoulCycle Gets Pride Float, Will Open By Early Summer In The Castro As promised, following their conditional use approval, SoulCycle is all set to move in to the former Diesel Store/Bank of America at the prominent corner of Castro and Market Streets. As Hoodline
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's The Menu For Lark, Opening Monday In The Castro Last month we caught the news that Lark was headed for the former Brandy Ho's space at 4068 18th Street. Now, after a brief remodel, Lark will open with its "new American" menu
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Duboce Triangle Coffeeshop Shutters This Weekend Jumpin Java (139 Noe Street), one of the favorite cafe work spots of the Duboce Triangle neighborhood, known for its lax policy about letting you sit all day and its plentiful power outlets
Arts & Entertainment Pink Saturday Will End At 8 PM, Will Have More Music And Stuff In the ongoing negotiations over how to move forward with Pink Saturday the traditional Saturday night sh*tshow in the Castro post-Dyke March, pre-Pride parade day the LGBT Center has stepped up to
Arts & Entertainment Condo Building Replacing Lucky 13 Just As Ugly As Expected If you were expecting great beauty and architectural innovation to replace beloved dive bar Lucky 13 near Church and Market, you obviously haven't been up on the dominant trend in Upper Market residential
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New American Restaurant Lark Coming To 18th Street In The Castro We finally have news on what's moving into the former Brandy Ho's space on 18th Street in the Castro, which has been empty since Halloween. It's called Lark, and as Hoodline is reporting,
SF News Person Of Interest Identified In Feather Lynn Homicide Even though the medical examiner has, remarkably, still not decided if the August death of Bryan "Feather Lynn" Higgins was a homicide, police and the Bay Area Reporter have identified a person of
Arts & Entertainment Here's What The New Development May Look Like On The Sullivan's Funeral Home Site In The Castro Right after the new year we learned of some development plans for one of the last remaining, "underdeveloped" parking lot sites in the Castro neighborhood, and that the one surrounding the historic Sullivan's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Driver And Customer Respond Regarding Curry Boyzz Delivery Incident The tale of the alleged homophobic attack on Sunday from a Curry Boyzz delivery guy in the Castro may, naturally, have more sides to it. SFist has reached out to the owners of
