SF News Video: Castro Store Flips Out On Caroling Sodastream Protesters Left-leaning protesters arrived en masse at Cliff's Variety in the Castro on Christmas Eve to protest the selling of Sodastream. Why? Well, according to Who Profits, the company that makes ordinary tap water
SF News The Castro's Busy Sidewalks May Get Wider If you've walked in the Castro on any given evening around rush hour, or on any given weekend at all, you'll know the sidewalks can get pretty crowded with assorted drunks, almost-drunks, perturbed
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In The Castro... This house, located on Castro between Duboce and 14th Street, lights up the night each year during the holiday season with this beautifully bombastic display.
SF News Brilliance In Advertising: 'Welcome To SF! Please F*ck Safely' [NSFW] Stop AIDS, San Francisco's live-saving nonprofit that helps prevent HIV transmission among all gay, bisexual, and transgender men in San Francisco, unfurled this blunt sign in the Castro over the weekend. You like?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Dramatic Reading Of A Shuttered Restaurant's Letter To Lousy Yelpers Last week, we reported the sad news that 10-month-old restaurant Jake's on Market was shutting its doors and bidding adieu to both the neighborhood and the amateur critics that the owners felt contributed
SF News Hate Crime In The Castro On the evening of Friday, November 30, two people were pistol-whipped while being called "fags" by unknown assailants. The victims had just parked their car at Hartford Street and 18th Street when they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shuttered Castro Restaurant Leaves Behind Pointed Message To Lousy Yelpers Jake' s on Market took over the old 2233 space on Market Street earlier this year. Within 10 months, it closed. Alas. But with one final farewell, the owners called out bad Yelp
SF News Transgender Pride Flag Raised For the First Time in the Castro Tonight, in a ceremony at Harvey Milk Plaza following a march from Civic Center, trans activists and LGBT supporters raised the transgender pride flag on the big Castro flagpole for the first time.
SF News How Many Activists Will Expose Themselves Before San Francisco Strips Nudists' Rights? With the Board of Supervisors set to vote on a comprehensive ban on public nudity tomorrow, the national news media has turned their attention to San Francisco's City Hall hoping to expose a
SF News The Castro Partied Hard Last Night After Obama Win People poured out onto Castro Street last night after Barack Obama scored another four years in the White House. Meanwhile, the Mission was not nearly as jubillant as it was in 2008 when
SF News Lady Activist Strips Naked During Committee Meeting, Calls Wiener 'Fascist' [NSFW] At a special meeting of the City Operations and Neighborhood Services committee yesterday, Supervisors Sean Elsbernd, Carmen Chu, and anti-public nudity chairman Scott Wiener unanimously voted to bring a comprehensive ban on public
SF News GLBT History Museum Seeks Help to Repair Windows Broken in Post-World Series Vandalism Yes, the Castro may have won in terms of fun-loving, toilet-paper-strewing merriment last night after the Giants' World Series win. But even though nobody lit any bonfires in the neighborhood, there were still
SF News How Many Nudists Sit Around In That Castro Plaza Every Day Anyway? As you know, Supervisor Scott Wiener is hoping to drum up support from fellow supes and the public at large for a new ordinance that would ban nudity in some shape or form,
SF News Nudity-Ban Protest At City Hall Set To Freak Out You Squares Because everyone in this town requires much attention be paid to their thoughts on feelings and their feelings on thoughts, there will be a thoughtful protest at San Francisco City Hall tomorrow where,
Arts & Entertainment The Castro, Lower Haight Beat the Mission When It Came To World Series Revelry Some jerks in the Mission spent the night pretending to care about the Giants, while attention-grabbingly setting things on fire (reactions from once respectable occupiers, who littered the Mission after the game, also
SF News Occupy Protesters Take Over Castro Building Very Briefly [Update] A little before 6 p.m. on Wednesday night, a teacupful of Occupy protesters (or not) "wearing black masks" worked their way into an empty building at 535 Castro Street to temporarily occupy
SF News Nudists To Hold Revealing Rally Against Possible Nudity Ban Nudists will converge upon the Castro to protest Supervisor Scott Wiener's proposed ban on public nudity. Will you be there? (We will not for we enjoy clothing far too much.) And what, exactly,
SF News Scott Wiener Now Wants To Ban Public Nudity in SF With the exception of parades and street festivals, San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener wants to change the law to ban public nudity in San Francisco altogether. On Tuesday, he introduced legislation that would
SF News Public Nudity Fad (Finally) Coming to the Mission? San Francisco's tony (yet still gritty) neighborhood of choice, the Mission, saw a bit of the Castro drip down on it over the weekend in the form of white-hot public nudity. This nudies-on-bikes
SF News Video: Castro Theatre Manager Goes Off On Nudists, Journalist George Davis, a transplant from Tennessee who once ran for mayor of San Francisco, likes to get naked in the Castro. And good for him. The Castro, famous for being the queer historic
SF News Petition Drive to Preserve the Right to Public Nudity Kicks Off Well, this was inevitable. Following on last week's kerfuffle over the possibility that Supervisor Scott Wiener might propose some legislation banning nudity in certain sectors of the city on days that are not
SF News Chuck Nevius Weighs In on Castro Nudists, Again What'd we tell you? C.W. Nevius couldn't wait to chime in once more about the nudists in the Castro, this time voicing his full support and commendation for Supervisor Scott Wiener's most
SF News Now Castro Supervisor Is Upset About Cock Rings After battling the Castro nudists who refused to put a towel down when they sat on public benches, San Francisco District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener has now told the Bay Area Reporter that
SF News Castro Nudists Draw More Controversy Over Cock Rings The band of birthday-suited dudes who enjoy strutting the plaza at 17th and Castro and taking pictures with tourists has come under some fire recently from what they're referring to as "cock ring
