SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro's First Women's Sports Bar, Rikki's, Opens Wednesday A bar dedicated primarily to celebrating women's professional and collegiate sports, which also doubles as the first lesbian bar to open in the Castro in decades, makes its debut on Wednesday.
Arts & Entertainment SF Night Market Mania in Full Swing, Both Cole Valley and Castro Have Night Markets This Weekend The night market frenzy that’s sweeping San Francisco has one of those double-shot weekends on the horizon, with Cole Valley Nights on Thursday, and the Castro Night Market on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Evicting Longtime Castro Coffeeshop and Nail Salon, Likely for Box Office Space for Castro Theatre It's been confirmed that two longtime businesses on the 400 block of Castro Street, Castro Coffee Co. and Castro Nail Salon, are being evicted in June by new building managers Another Planet Entertainment (APE).
SF News Police Arrest Employee at Castro Walgreens Who Allegedly Stabbed Shoplifter In the Eye It was a violent morning on Castro Street Wednesday when an employee at the Walgreens store there allegedly stabbed a shoplifter in the eye during a street altercation.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Police Seek Suspect In Sunday Beating on Castro Street Police are seeking a male suspect in a brutal beating outside the Castro Theatre; DOGE cuts are shutting down the Bureau of Land Management office in Ukiah; and the China Beach bathhouse renovation is finally getting underway.
SF News Alleged Castro Creep Who Was Exposing Himself Around Teens Has Been Arrested A man who had been called out publicly last week for exposing himself and allegedly acting lewdly around children in the Castro has now been arrested, and he indeed has a record as a sex offender.
SF Politics Supervisors Push to Lift Formula Retail Ban on Van Ness — What About Other Neighborhoods With Vacant Storefronts? Two SF supervisors are floating a rule-change that would lift limits on formula retail on the struggling Van Ness corridor. But the proposal prompts the question of why the Board of Supervisors isn't looking at more widespread changes to these rules.
SF News Parents Want Man Arrested Who Has Allegedly Been Exposing Himself to Schoolchildren In the Castro Some parents of children who attend school in the Castro neighborhood say that a man who may be a registered sex offender has been oiling himself up and repeatedly exposing himself to teen girls in the neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro's QBar Reopening Next Week After Five-Year Closure Over in San Francisco's Castro District, a storefront that has sat dark and boarded over for five years, which was once one of the buzzy nightlife magnets of the neighborhood, is making a comeback after a very lengthy remodel.
Arts & Entertainment It Was Very, Very Hot For the 50th Anniversary of the Castro Street Fair Sunday People came out in droves but most were trying to huddle in the shadier parts of the Castro neighborhood for the 50th anniversary of the Castro Street Fair on Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Neighborhood Wants In on Night Market Game, Will Host One On 18th Street Next Month A first-ever Castro Night Market will be happening on Friday, October 18, following the success of recent neighborhood night markets in Chinatown and the Sunset.
SF News Weekend Stabbing In SF Turns Into Crime Spree That Ends In Castro District A stabbing Sunday in the NoPa neighborhood led to an alleged rampage by a suspect in a vehicle, including hit-and-run collisions, and an ultimate confrontation with police.
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.
