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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eureka!, A New Coffee Shop, Adds To Castro Coffee Blitz There's not one, not two, but three new coffee concerns descending on the Castro in the coming months, and today's news about Eureka! (451 Castro Street) is the latest. It's going to serve
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops Football Brunch Features 'Top Chef' Menu, Dudes To coincide with le football américain season (this Sunday!), the fine folks at Hi Tops will have a brunch fit for guys, gals, and guys pretending they're into sports so that they can
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Watch: Sing-along Mary Poppins At The Castro Theatre Yes, this weekend promises the best weather of the year. And yes, most of the city will be basking in jorts along the city's parks and sidewalks. But to capture that authentic summer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Castro Gay Bar Gets Butch New Look Blackbird, a gay bar in the Castro, got herself a new look. And what a look it is! We love the red banquettes and rustic stone tables. So very... what, day of hunting
SF News Castro Sidewalk Widening Approved, Will Happen In 2014 At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, a plan to shrink the vehicle traffic area to two lanes and double the width of the sidewalks on the main drag of Castro Street was approved.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Duboce Triangle Utility Box Turned Into Utopic Optical Illusion Well, color us astounded. Noted artist Mona Caron, of the Duboce Bikeway Mural behind the Safeway on Market Street, created this cool trompe l'oeil on Church and Duboce. Castro Biscuit reports, "Caron was
Arts & Entertainment Castro Strip Club Plans Scrapped We thought it might be too good to be true, and as it turns out, the backers of a male burlesque outfit called The Randy Rooster appear to have backed out of the
SF News Market Street Safeway Evicts Recycling Center, Expands Starbucks The Safeway on Market Street straddling the Castro and Lower Haight neighborhoods issued an eviction notice to the recycling center that has operated on their property for almost 30 years. While the grocery
SF News Oakland Man Arrested For Brutal Pride Assault Caught On Camera Police have finally apprehended the man believed responsible for kicking a woman in the face during the Pink Saturday festivities in the Castro on June 30. Christopher Porter-Bailey, 23, of Oakland was arrested
SF News Villain Cyclist In Castro Crosswalk Death Pleads Guilty, Will Not Get Jail Time Chris Bucchere, the guy who brazenly "plowed through" a crowded crosswalk at Castro and Market one morning last year and ended up killing a 71-year-old man in the process, has plead guilty to
SF News Be Heard At This Month's Castro Safety Meeting The city's gay mecca is home to a lot of change as of late. First, those new condos across the street from the Lookout have some worried. About what, we're not sure; growth,
SF News Have You Seen These Guys? Wanted For Brutal Pink Saturday Assaults San Francisco Police are currently searching for a group of five men and a woman suspected of a string of assaults and robberies that went down around the area of Market and Castro
SF News New Coffee War Brewing In The Castro Coffee. Suffice it to say we are a town obsessed. And though it may not boast the hip-kid-approved venues of Ritual, Four Barrel, or The Mill, or the even bougier Sightglass or Blue
SF News Two Women Stabbed Near 17th and Church Amidst the revelry and happiness around much of the city there was some violent crime in the Mission Castro over the weekend. Around 9:20 last night two women were stabbed during an
