SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops, The New Gay Sports Bar, Lands In 'Sports Illustrated' A photo of two dudes mid-smooch at the bar at Hi Tops (2247 Market Street), shot just as the 49ers clinched the NFC championship, has landed in the pages of Sports Illustrated. The
SF News Rumor Mill: New Apple Store Coming To Market & Castro Streets File this one under "rumors" for now, but the local real estate watchers around the Castro say that Apple is planning to install its next San Francisco store right in the heart of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What The Hell Is Wrong With The Old Mecca Space? Today news popped up that Shanghai Restaurant, located in the old Mecca space on Market Street, shuttered on January 15. To which we say: Shanghai was still open?! We had assumed it was
SF News Meanwhile, at the Federal Courthouse... Natalie Mandeau, right, of France, holds up a sign during a demonstration against the city's nudity ban outside the federal courthouse in San Francisco. The demonstration took place before a court hearing on
SF News S.F.'s Nudity Ban Could Be Overturned In Federal Court Public nudists of San Francisco have less than 15 days to put their flaccid penises under wraps. Or do they?! The fate of Scott Wiener's public nudity ban will be decided in a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Rad S.F. Bars Deemed Historic Speaking of bars, two local bars noted for catering to two (dwindling?) minority groups were declared a historic landmarks by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. Sam Jordan's in Bayview and Twin Peaks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing Tonight: Thrillist Boys At Blackbird Thirllist gets gay tonight for a good cause when editors Grant Marek and Joe Starkey guest mix at Blackbird for healthy prostates. And to get you drunk, naturally. But mainly for prostates. Your
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Gays And Juanita More In The Castro If you didn't get your fill of young gays and dancing on New Year's Eve, we have the perfect solution for those of you who decided to stay home on Monday night: Booty
SF News Man Surrenders After Two-Hour Standoff at Castro Chevron Station A man in his 30s is in custody after a bizarre standoff with police at the Castro Chevron station Thursday morning. Around 10 a.m. the station attendant called police to report a
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
