SF News Tech Shuttle Vandalized During Post-Game Celebrations; Another Got Stuck Due To Toilet Paper Cleanup Effort Amidst the mayhem of last night following the World Series win, some people were just trying to get home from work on the Peninsula in a company-sponsored shuttle bus. At least one bus,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brandy Ho's Castro Location Closes Tonight Perpetually empty 18th Street restaurant Brandy Ho's is giving up the ghost after service tonight, as a tipster tells Hoodline. The Chinese/Hunan restaurant expanded to this location seven years ago from North
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sliderbar In The Castro Shut Down By Health Department [Updated] Another restaurant fails to heed the warnings of the Health Department, and suffers their wrath: Sliderbar, the just-ok, two-year-old slider restaurant in the old Bagdad Cafe space at Market and 16th, suddenly finds
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Hamburger Mary's Will Go To Planning Vote In December The literally decade-long saga surrounding a single empty property in the Castro will enter its next and most certainly not final chapter later this fall when the Planning Commission will decide whether the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Spanish Restaurant Aatxe To Open Upstairs From Cafe Du Nord Another piece of the Cafe du Nord revamp puzzle has come into focus with the announcement of Aatxe, a new Basque/Spanish spot that will be opening by year's end in the street-facing
Arts & Entertainment Cleve Jones' Birthday Honored With Moving Speech By Dustin Lance Black, 'Hair' Number By Jonathan Groff There was a big party Saturday night at The Café in the Castro in honor of the 60th birthday of longtime gay-rights activist Cleve Jones. He said all he wanted for his birthday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seriously? Is This What Passes For Nachos Now? I am not joking when I tell you that the above photo was snapped by a trusted tipster over the weekend at Eureka Restaurant and Lounge in the Castro, where these four chips
Arts & Entertainment Tonight At The Castro Theatre: 'Carrie'... Also On Netflix Steven King's horror classic Carrie is coming to the Castro theater tonight. Coincidentially, Carrie was also recently made available on Netflix. At the same time, you could choose to watch the 2013 remake,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Noodle Spot Slurp Opens In The Castro Fork Cafe in the Castro quietly closed last week, and today they are softly reopen as Slurp (469 Castro Street), a non-denominational noodle bar. It appears to be a quick concept shuffle by
SF News Castro Crosswalks Turning Rainbow Today One of the final pieces of the months-long Castro Streetscape Improvement project falls into place today, and boy is it garish! Yes, the crosswalks of the neighborhood will forever be stained rainbow, like
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Drone's Eye View Of The Castro If you ever wanted to float above the Castro, this video might be the next best thing. According to Hoodline, area man Matthew M. sent his camera-enabled quadcopter up above the Castro at
SF News Thieves Swipe Bronze Art From The Embarcadero, Will The Castro Be Next? Dozens of bronze plaques embedded along the Embarcadero have gone missing, victim to, KTVU reports, thieves who are prying them out of the sidewalk and selling the metal for scrap. You've probably walked
SF News Hot Cop Of The Castro Removes Fan Page, Says Goodbye!? [Updated] Some things in life just make no sense, and this is one of them. The nationally famous gay icon who became known as the Hot Cop of the Castro, 36-year-old beat officer Chris
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ai Weiwei Not Way Awesome? The Chron's review of the Ai Weiwei installation on Alcatraz is not great! [Chron] Uber is putting the screws to new drivers, charging a 25-percent commission to all newbies who sign up as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bandidos Mulling Name Change Amid Controversy From Mexican-American Community New Castro Mexican spot Bandidos, which just finished its first week in business, is facing some San Francisco-style backlash from the Mexican-American community who say that the name "bandido" is a historically derogatory
Arts & Entertainment Castro's Rainbow Honor Walk Dedicated Today One of the final pieces in the major sidewalk-improvement project in the Castro had its dedication ceremony this morning, and that's the series of embedded plaques dubbed the Rainbow Honor Walk. The plaques
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Spanish Spot Beso Opens In the Castro Tonight The Castro is gaining one more food option in a spot where there was none before this evening, and that would be Beso (4058 18th Street), the new Spanish spinoff of four-year-old Bisou
SF News Three Arrested In Wednesday Night Shooting Following Bar Fight In The Castro A trio of suspects were arrested late Wednesday/early Thursday in the vicinity of 18th and Collingwood in the Castro, following gunfire that erupted in a parking lot. The shooting luckily injured no
SF News AIDS Healthcare Foundation Suing City Over Castro Pharmacy Snub The Los Angeles-based non-profit AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is suing the City of San Francisco, as they announced Monday, over what they see as their right to relocate and consolidate their two local
SF News Study Proves What We've All Known: The Castro Is Getting Straighter Whether you're just a casual fan of the gay hedonist character of the Castro, or a vehement homo-separatist, this news is likely to cause some exclamation marks to get thrown around on Facebook
SF News Market Street Safeway Still Evicting Recycling Center, People Still Protesting There's been an ongoing fight for several years between neighbors in the vicinity of Dolores, Duboce, and Market Streets and homeless advocates over the eviction of the outdoor, nonprofit recycling center at the
Arts & Entertainment Adorable Lemonade Stand On Noe Street Doubles As Street Art I've been walking past this abandoned lemonade stand for over a year now, occasionally snapping photos of the clever quips, some of them Peanuts-style (e.g. "Your neighbor's NSA records 5¢"), created by
SF News Photos: Hot Cop Of Castro Gets Facebook Fan Page Enough with hot felons! Some of you have likely already seen the handsome mug of Officer Chris Kohrs, the incredibly hunky motorcycle cop who's been spotted, drooled over, and photographed many times since
SF News Mercedes Driver Smashes Into Cliff's Variety, Runs Off Car crashed into Cliff's Variety Store in the Castro. The driver ran away- police looking for him now. #mapit pic.twitter.com/R9vvqqgvT4— Amy Hollyfield (@amyhollyfield) June 30, 2014 A hit-and-run driver is
SF News Extra-Wide Castro Sidewalks Now Open For Strolling, Busking Right in time for Pride, and Pink Saturday crowds (even though the traditional Pink Saturday block party isn't allowed anymore), blocks of Castro Street between 17th and 19th Streets now have extra-wide sidewalks
