Arts & Entertainment Keeping San Francisco Weird: Irene Cara's 'What A Feeling' Performed In The Castro Many have been lamenting, as more and more tech nerds clog our streets and apartment buildings, and as San Francisco gets dubbed "the nation's new success theater," that San Francisco is losing its
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Exhibit Of Rare Cockettes And Sylvester Posters By Todd Trexler The late artist Todd Trexler, who as a young man in San Francisco in the 1970s was connected to The Cockettes and became one of the go-to poster artists for their Nocturnal Dream
SF News Meanwhile, In The Castro: Cement Poured! They're finally — finally! — pouring cement for the revamped sidewalks, folks, making the popular LGBT rue one step closer to being finished. As you know, the Castro has been under construction as of late
SF News Pink Saturday Offender Christopher Porter-Bailey Gets Six Years The human being convicted in the assault and robbery of a woman on Pink Saturday 2013 was sentenced to six years in the clink on Friday. After he and his friends had robbed
SF News Market Street In Castro Closed After Semi Crashes Into Funeral Home, Starts Fire Early Thursday morning in the Castro, a frozen yogurt truck crashed into the Arthur J Sullivan & Company Funeral Home on Market Street, sparking a blaze. As of 7 a.m., Market Street
SF News NEMA Tried To Erase The Castro And Chinatown From Their Map Of S.F. Luxe apartment complex NEMA, whose ridiculous and vaguely offensive marketing efforts have already inspired plenty of blog ire as well as a satirical Twitter account, published a map of San Francisco on their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Set To Get New Food Hall Thing at Market and 15th The concept of a European-style market hall has been trending around town, many years after Oakland's Rockridge got theirs. First there was 331 Cortland over in Bernal, with its rotating vendor stalls, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink While You Wait: Frances photo credit: Premshree Pillai via photopin cc People in San Francisco like waiting in line for food (a lot). Sometimes, that wait is worth it. While You Wait, SFist's new guide for how
SF News And Now, A Rescued Tabby Reunites With Owner After Dolores Fire The fine firefighters of San Francisco rescued this scared little fella from a burning apartment building on Tuesday. As SFist reported earlier, SFFD was especially good at making sure all the building's pets
SF News No Cats Injured, Nine People Displaced After Fire At 14th & Dolores Residents of the six-story building that suffered that two-alarm fire yesterday at 87 Dolores Street will likely be allowed back in their homes today after power is restored to the building all but
SF News [Update] Fire On Dolores Now Under Control [UPDATE: We're hearing word that the fire is now under control.] A fire is burning out of control on the top floor of an apartment building at 14th and Dolores. At least one
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Dolores Park... Mr. Allan Hough of Mission Mission brings your attention to the current state of Dolores Park. Chilling. Fret not as this is just the lower half of the park. The upper section (featuring
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Play These Classic Video Games While You Wait For The Castro's Arcade Game Bar To Open We urge you to spend today playing QBert and Super Mario, Galaga, Tron, and Dig Dug in anticipation of the Castro's upcoming gay bar that will feature a slew of classic arcade games.
Arts & Entertainment Realtor Responds To 'The Quad,' San Francisco's Newest Fake Neighborhood It's been over a week since SFist (and Curbed) brought the Quad to your attention. The Quad, god save us all, was the brainchild of Paragon realtor Jennifer Rosdail, and it's not a
Arts & Entertainment Realtor Creates 'The Quad': San Francisco's Most Appalling/Intriguing New Neighborhood Paragon realtor Jennifer Rosdail has created a new neighborhood called The Quad, and it will make you want to rip off your eyelids. But before you start tearing off ribbons of your own
SF News Your Daily NSFW: Naked People Trying To Board The F-Market Led by nude activist Gypsy Taub, a gaggle locals (airing their fleshy bits and pieces) try boarding the F Market on Saturday afternoon. Alas, they were not successful. This is related to San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Mary's Returning To San Francisco? Hamburger Mary's, noted burger chained with a devout LGBT following, might make its return to San Francisco. First opening in 1972 in the city's then-delightfully seedy South of Market district, it closed in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reveille Coffee To Tempt Castro's Gay Clientele Reveille Coffee opened its second cafe on Monday, smack dab in the heart of gay mecca. Following in the footsteps of Tommy and Chris Newbury's North Beach location, the brothers opened the place
SF News Nudity Ban Birthday Gives Activists Reason To Strip Naked Exactly one year after San Francisco's much blogged-about public nudity ban went into effect and, in this editor's humble opinion, the frequency with which our eyes accidentally fall upon some unsolicited public dong
SF News Is The Castro Really Turning Straight? "Mark my words: In 10 years, the Castro will be predominantly straight," rallies local activist Tommi Avicolli Mecca in a recent op-ed for The Bay Times. Is he right? Is the Castro heading
SF News Familiar Neighborhood Homeless Man Mourned In Castro A familiar face on the streets of the Castro over the years has died. His name was Barry LeBlanc, and you may know him as the gray-bearded guy who would often pull up
SF News Meanwhile, At 23rd And Castro: Tipped Truck Over at 23rd and Castro today, Eric Littell snapped this shot of a truck tipped over onto a car. The monstrous vehicle, it seems, was carrying a heavy load. Oops. Please be advised.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops Owners Expanding With New Castro Mexican Spot The runaway success of Hi Tops, the one-year-old gay sports bar in the Castro that has become so much more than that to a generation nay, several generations of local homosexuals, has laid
SF News [Updated] Slumber Party In Dolores Park Monday Night! (Psst, It's Actually A Protest.) Wash your Smurfs sleeping bag and brush up on your "light as a feather, stiff as a board" skills, folks. On Monday night, a slumber party will happen in Dolores Park. OK, it's
