SF News [Updated] Nudists Having Another Nude-In Saturday, Contemplating Another Lawsuit No doubt a consistent and stubborn bunch, SF's local coalition of nudist activists will be having another nude-in at Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro Saturday afternoon. To protest the nudity ban. Which
SF News [Update] Suspicious Package Brings Bomb Squad To Castro @HoodlineSF SFPD Bomb Squad just arrived in Castro on 17th St btwn Noe & Hartford. pic.twitter.com/bsErBywvbv— Steven Bracco (@Braccs) September 23, 2015 The bomb squad descended on 17th Street near
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Churro Doughnut Holes At Hecho As of June, there's been a new executive chef in charge of the kitchen at one-year-old Hecho in the Castro, and that's Cory Armenta, who had previously worked in the kitchens at Rose
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro's Sliderbar Rebrands, Reopens As Ovok The troubled last year for Sliderbar (2295 Market Street) which included several run-ins with the Health Department has led owner Ashwani Dhawan to rebrand the business after a brief closure last week, something
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three More Castro Restaurants Shutter: Zapata, Chile Pies, And Janchi In the case of one Castro neighborhood restaurant that announced it would close soon, it was a landlord squabble that did them in. In the case of another, it was probably poor business
SF News Remembering Anastasia, The Homeless Trans Woman Who Died In The Castro (Who May Not Have Been Trans) No one knew much about the mentally ill, homeless person who called herself Anastasia when she died on a bench outside Peet's Coffee in the Castro on New Year's Eve. Various people in
SF News One Year On, No Apparent Progress In Feather Lynn Murder It's been a full year since the "suspicious death" of 31-year-old Bryan Higgins a.k.a. Feather Lynn on Church Street, and six months since police said they had identified a person of
SF News Prominent Castro And Market Property To Go Back On The Market After Judge's Ruling A multi-year legal drama that's unfolded between the majority owners of the ARCO gas station site at Castro and Market and a developer who entered into a purchase agreement with them 11 years
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 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
