SF News Repeat Offender In Castro Gets Punched By Nudist After Attack on Tourist A well known, criminally violent individual who has roamed the streets of the Castro for years was seen on camera last week assaulting a tourist and then getting taken down by a nudist bystander.
SF News [Update] Castro Mollie Stone’s Reopens After Shutdown Over Rodent Infestation It’s not a Happy Pride for the Castro’s Mollie Stone’s grocery store, as the SF Department of Health shut them down over a rodent infestation Thursday, but the store blames nearby construction and says they’ll reopen Friday afternoon.
SF News Pro-Palestinian March In Castro to Coincide With Sunday Pride Parade A queer- and trans-led alternate march, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, is planned for Sunday in the Castro, dubbed 'No Pride in Genocide.'
SF News Mentally Ill Man Accused of Hate Crimes In Castro Who Said Being LGBTQ Goes 'Against God' Is Acquitted of All Charges The San Francisco Public Defender's Office today announced the acquittal of a 21-year-old man who had been in jail since an arrest last June in connection with a series of incidents described as hate crimes in the Castro.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisch & Flore to Softly Open Tonight In the Castro, In the 51-Year-Old Cafe Flore Space After four years of being closed and variously boarded over, the former Cafe Flore space at Market and Noe streets comes alive again tonight as Fisch & Flore.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Restoration Work Begins With the Grand Ceiling A month after its final public events before renovations began, the Castro Theatre is undergoing the first phase of its glow-up, and restorers are already working on the elaborate, gilded ceiling.
SF News Repeat Offender Allegedly Steals Pastries, Causes Chaos, Assaults Employee at Castro Bakery An apparently very angry homeless man who was familiar to police from previous arrests caused some mayhem Thursday morning at Le Marais, a bakery cafe in the Castro that has been the site of multiple incidents of crime.
SF News Group of Suspects Ransacks and Robs Walgreens Store In Castro The Walgreens at Castro and 18th streets was robbed Tuesday night by an organized group of smash-and-grabbers who came with garbage bags to fill.
SF News Lesbians Who Tech Summit Dumps SF for New York City, After Street Closures Rankled Locals The Castro just lost a big conference in the ten-year-old Lesbians Who Tech summit, but there may be no love lost, as Castro Street merchants had been bitter over how the summit shut down and gated off the neighborhood’s main corridor for five days.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre to Close For 16-Month Renovation Starting This Winter We now have some details on the timeline of the Castro Theatre's upcoming closure and renovation at the hands of Another Planet Entertainment — renovations that will include the controversial removal of seats.
SF News Monday Night Vigil to Mark 45th Anniversary of Harvey Milk and George Moscone Assassinations One of the darkest days in SF history will be marked with the annual vigil in the Castro honoring the legacies of Harvey Milk and George Moscone, both murdered 45 years ago today.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Club Beaux to Host GAYPEC Event for LGBTQ Attendees of APEC Castro nightclub Beaux will be hosting a one-of-a-kind event during the APEC leaders summit next week, giving a safe space to attendees of the conference and members of the media who may hail from countries that are hostile to LGTBQ people.
Arts & Entertainment Halloween Returns In the Castro Saturday With Screenings, Drag Performances, But No Street Closure Halloween is back in the Castro for the first time in 17 years, with storefront activations, movie screenings, drag shows, and a block party that will last all day and night Saturday — with a party for the kids happening on Sunday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Latest Tenant in Castro’s Former Bagdad Café Has Also Called It Quits The sinkhole trouble continues in Pacific Heights, Caltrain walked back their fare increase scheduled for next summer, and the former Bagdad Cafe’s latest tenant Los Amigos on Castro has also given up the ghost.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Badlands Manager Claims the 49-Year-Old Castro Nightclub Will Reopen By Halloween We must, given the players involved, take this with a massive grain of salt. But the latest word from the man who is ostensibly going to be the new manager of Badlands in the Castro is that it will remain Badlands, and it's reopening in two months.
SF News DA Jenkins Releases Castro Car-Flip Carjacking Suspects, Drops Charges Pending More Evidence Former DA Chesa Boudin probably would have been crucified for this, but DA Brooke Jenkins has dropped all charges and released the two suspects in last Saturday’s alleged carjacking gone wrong that resulted in the car flying off the Sanchez Street stairway hill.
SF News SFPD Makes Two Arrests In Sanchez Steps Car-Flip, Carjacking It's been just four days, and the SFPD has made two arrests in that carjacking and subsequent spectacular, coocoo-crazy car crash over the Sanchez Street steps in the Castro.
SF News Flipped Car On 19th Likely Carjacked, Gun Reported at Scene, Suspects Still at Large A chaotic scene on Saturday evening in the Castro, which thankfully did not leave anyone killed or seriously wounded, appears to have been the work of armed, juvenile suspects who remain at large.
SF News Video: Car Flies Over Sanchez Street Stairs, Lands On Roof, Occupants Flee A car, possibly stolen, took a leap off the stairway at Sanchez and 19th streets on Saturday, landing on its roof — and miraculously it appears no one was seriously hurt.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina Gets Mural Treatment Outside Castro's Cafe Flore Muralist Josh Katz has done a big new mural of the late, great Heklina, just in time for Pride Week, on the Market Street-facing side of the former Cafe Flore, at Noe Street, which remains under renovations.
SF News Another Planet Entertainment Gets Their Way On Castro Theatre Renovations In Decisive City Hall Vote Concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment got their wish on their proposed Castro Theatre renovations Thursday, though also agreed to a laundry list of compromises dictating their film and LGBTQ programming, and even what concessions they sell at the snack bar.
SF News Castro Hate-Crime Suspect May Have Repeatedly Targeted the Neighborhood, Tells Judge the LGBTQ Community Goes 'Against God' Happy Pride Month, everybody! A 20-year-old suspect who was arraigned Wednesday for an alleged hate-crime attack on two men in the Castro neighborhood Monday may be a repeat offender, according to prosecutors.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arrest Made In Hate-Crime Attack On Two Men In the Castro A 20-year-old suspect has been arrested for an alleged hate crime in the Castro; the Oakland Police Commission is being blamed for taking too long in the hiring process for a new chief; and Stockton's county building won't be getting a Pride flag this year, say the supervisors.
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Today Is Heklina Day In the Castro, With a Street Closure and Performances Beginning at 6 p.m. Today is the day for the big Heklina tribute/memorial/celebration of life that is more than likely to sound like a combo funeral, posthumous roast and big, chaotic drag revue. The Castro celebration will be kicking off outdoors at 6 p.m., and organizers are seeking more donations to cover costs.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina Memorial Will Be a Block-wide Affair, With Outdoor Stage and Event Projected on a Closed Castro Street Now dubbed "Heklina: A Memorial (She Would Have Hated This)," the memorial affair for the beloved drag comedienne who died earlier this month has grown into a block-wide event that will shut down Castro Street starting at noon.
