SF News Castro Refused To Lower Rainbow Flag After Liz Taylor's Death After Elizabeth Taylor died last month, many folks in the LGBT community mourned the loss of the screen goddess not only for her body of work and her many dalliances with leading men,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ike's Place Returning, Possibly As Early As Saturday Ike's Place -- the Castro sandwich shop shut down by the city for obnoxious crowds and improper paperwork, among other things -- may open in its new location at 16th and Sanchez streets
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro's Bagdad Cafe Closes One of the city's best drunk diners (i.e., late-night greasy spoons in which you can get cheap food while tipsy) closed shop last week. According to Paolo Lucchesi at Inside Scoop, "Bagdad
SF News Castro Trader Joe's Deal Officially Dead Sad news, folks. (Or, if you hate change and/or traffic, good news.) Supervisor Scott Wiener has word that the much ballyhooed plan to get Trader Joe's to the Castro is dead. Via
Arts & Entertainment Britney Spears Castro Concert Details The Examiner has more details about Britney Spears' Castro concert for Good Morning America. "The 400 and 500 blocks of Castro Street between Market and 19th streets will be closed starting just before
misc Castro Arson Fires Prompt Awesome Fundraiser for Displaced Victims Please, please, please join us at The Lookout on Tuesday, February 15, for a fundraiser to benefit the displaced residents of the Castro arson fires. As many of you know, four fires in
SF News Early Morning Two-Alarm Blaze was Suspiciously Castro-Adjacent Another two-alarm fire broke out early this morning, just up the hill from the Castro at 1370 Clayton Street. According to Bay City News, the latest fire was reported around 3 a.m.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Sandwich Shop Returns Next Year Ike's Place, the Castro sandwich shop that editors couldn't stop talking about in 2010, will re-open next year. According to SFGate, "San Francisco's Planning Commission gave owner Ike Shehadeh unanimous approval Thursday to
SF News The Castro Gets a Drag Store; Also, 'True' Gay Rights Activists Up In Arms About HRC Taking Harvey Milk's Former Store There was a little under-the-radar retail opening on Castro Street in recent weeks: Cocomo's: A Taste of Drag (538 Castro). It's now your go-to source (besides the Haight) for plus-sized high heels and
SF News What's Going On Here, 2323 Market? Going in at 2323 Market, where Earthtones once called home, this looks like it's going to be the most fun jewelery store ever.
SF News Preservationists and Castro Gays Battle Over Rainbow Banners Those rainbow flag banners that hang vertically off the tops of lampposts along Market Street in the Castro? They're apparently illegal according to historic preservationists, who say that nothing but temporary banners are
SF News Reminder: Halloween In the Castro Still Cancelled Here's a cheery reminder that, if you plan on heading to the city's colorful Castro to eat fun-size snickers and drop acid, Halloween in the city's gay district isn't happening. Once again, Halloween
SF News Castro Gas Main Break Prompts Shelter-In-Place View Larger Map Evacuations and a shelter-in-place are underway in the Castro today due to a "big gas main break" at 18th and Hartford. SFPD confirmed this to SFist, saying that the fire
misc Sarah Palin Event Banner at Castro Gas Station Oh gee, this is rich. It seems that the independent gas station at the Castro/Market intersection (opposite the Chevron station) put up this Sarah Palin sign today, one that advertises the Alaskan
SF News Wanted: Sunglass Hut Thief SF Examiner reports that a "squinty-eyed crook" held up the Sunglass Hut (2327 Market) on Saturday night. The rapscallion, it seems, brandished his gun at store employees and demand them to fill a
SF News Video Shoot This Sunday for Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" Project Stop8.org founder Matt Baume will organize a big flashmob video shoot this Sunday to record a message of hope for LGBT kids stuck out in the sticks with no one to turn
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noted Sandwich Shop to Close Tonight We can't think of any other sandwich shop in the history of sandwich shops that received more fetishistic e-ink than Ike's Place. So... here's some more: the Castro meat-cheese-lettuce-bread joint media types wrung
SF News Protesters Block Market at Castro Matt Baume of Stop8.org, live from an ENDA protest in progress in the Castro, reports, "GetEqual in Castro, protesting Pelosi's ENDA inaction. About to block traffic." That was 40 minutes ago. And
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marcello's Pizza Is Hiring Renowned writer, celebrity, and human being Violet Blue brings our attention to this gem she found in the window at Marcello's Pizza in the Castro. The help wanted sign reads: Now hiring a
SF News New Leaf Closing for Good In October After 35 years of providing mental health, substance abuse, and senior services to the LGBT community, HIV/AIDS patients and beyond, New Leaf announced it will close its doors by the middle of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ike's NOT Closing Today Although The Bay Citizen, The Chronicle, and other outlets have reported that that sandwich shop in the Castro (the one that loves unwarranted media attention almost as much as making tasty food) is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Daily Castro Sandwich Shop Media Mention Because a day can't pass where that sandwich shop in the Castro receives attention -- and, by the way, that sandwich shop isn't in the Mission; just because it's not a gay-specific story,
SF News SFPD Needs Your Help Solving Murder of Philip Dimartino Police are asking the public for help solving the brutal murder of Philip Dimartino. On August 2, 2010 at 1pm, Mr. Philip Dimartino was found stabbed to death in his apartment on Hermann
SF News Dolores Park Plays Host to Saturday Morning Robbery, Stabbing Early Saturday morning at 1:30 a.m., an 40-year-old man was beaten, robbed and stabbed several times in the torso while walking near 19th and Church streets in Dolores Park. According to
