SF News Temporary 17th Street Plaza Estimated for Mid-May In a week or so, the opening of a public space in the Castro (!) will unfold. The small stretch of street where the F-line stops on 17th Street between Hartford and Castro streets
Arts & Entertainment "How Eureka Valley Became the Castro" Panel Discussion on Tuesday Tomorrow night, the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society will host a panel discussion on the history of the Castro District at the Metropolitan Community Church at 7 p.m. In its first
SF News Celebration in the Castro for Iowa Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Sorry for the late notice, but we just got word: \head over to the Castro between 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. to celebrate Iowa's ruling in favor of equal
Arts & Entertainment MOM's Pharmacy/AIDS Community Center Grand Opening This Evening MOM's Pharmacy will be having their grand opening tonight at their new location in the heart of the Castro (4071 18th St, at Castro). In addition to providing their signature tender-loving care to
SF News Bay Area Reporter Editor's Resignation Letter? One of two things happened over at BAR.com: 1) Somebody hacked the interwebs, and posted this casual faux-resignation letter Sunday morning, or 2) news editor Cynthia Laird is peeved. Since Laird is
Arts & Entertainment GayVN Nominations Announced, Janice Dickinson and Margaret Cho to Host The GayVN nominations we announced today. What are the GayVN Awards, you ask? They are the Oscars of male homosexual pornography. Up for Best Picture kudos are Ass Cruisin', Best Men Parts 1
SF News Whole Foods Castro The fine folks over at Curbed have an artistic rendering of what the new Castro Whole Foods will look like. It's scheduled to replace the old Ford dealership on Market and Dolores. Slated
SF News Smatting of Tuberculosis Hits Castro Bars Get ready to panic, gays. Bars in Bevan Dufty's district are brimming with tuberculosis. Or so alarmist reports tell us. But according to the esteemed Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco health officials have
SF News Pointy Castro Restaurant to Become Mixed-Use Space That seldom-visited, pointy restaurant at the corner of Market, Sanchez, and 15th streets, Thai House, looks like it might become a "50-foot-tall mixed-use building with ground-floor commercial, 22 residential units, and underground parking.
misc Photo du Jour 288 Photo by Matt Baume/SFist It's back. That house on Castro Street is - at last! - all dolled up for the holidays.
SF News Heterosexual Alert Photo by Matt Baume/SFist The image above has a smattering of aimless queers all hot and bothered, and not in a good way. It seems at last week's Marriage Equality Community Forum,
SF News Protesters Stage Sit-in at Castro and 18th Streets While we're still waiting on confirmation, a tipster tells SFist, "Appx. 100 No on 8 protesters are now (6pm) staging a sit-in in the intersection of 18th & Castro. Police have blocked off
misc And...Wow So where were you last night? We were going to go to a bar, but everywhere was so packed that we ended up at home with burritos when it was called. We didn't
SF News Home for Halloween Continues to Deny the Great Pumpkin's Existence Did you know the Home for Halloween campaign, the effort to get unsavory elements out of the Castro during Halloween night, is still in effect? It is. And their site -- which features
SF News Halloweeen Moves to AT&T Park Area As SFist first reported back in March, Halloween in the Castro (as you knew it) is dead. But! The formerly violent celebration will be resurrected "at a parking lot near AT&T
SF News Castro Gays to Tourists: Wah, Stop Gawking Have you noticed an overabundance of worried, clustered, fannypack-sporting heterosexuals roaming the Castro? Yeah, that's not the crystal talking, boys. It seems, according to C.W. Nevius, "large tour buses have begun to
SF News Halloween Bash Moves to SOMA As we mentioned last March, Halloween in the Castro as you knew it has been canceled. Boo. The City's official Halloween celebration will instead move to SOMA in the parking lot of AT&
SF News Chapel Opens In the Castro Just in time for the legalization of homosexual marriage, and for those of you who don't feel like getting married anywhere near the grimy Civic Center, Heart of the Castro Wedding Chapel opened
SF News SF Hires Someone to Take Care of Halloween Mess What with Halloween colliding on a Friday this year -- -- the city of San Francisco has wasted no time, so to speak, in attempting to look like it's trying to make the
SF News Halloween In the Castro Cancelled Forevermore? Our sources tell us that Halloween in the Castro as we knew it is now dead. Long live a dull and tedious San Francisco. Although supervisors promised us that Halloween in the Castro
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend: An Elaborate Web of Closures The weekend's coming up, and that means that Muni's got a long list of street closures and cancellations. And this week, the radical homosexual agenda is to blame: for several nights, streets around
SF News Some Castro Businesses Bash <i>Milk</i> Production Although most of us are giddy that Hollywood has come to our little town to film a moving picture show, others are less than gay about it. Namely, a few Castro merchants who
Arts & Entertainment More, More, More: <i>Milk</i>'s Castro in the '70s Seeing as how castroshopper's Ray F. has some choice shots of the Castro's conversion to 1978, we thought we'd thrill you with a few more recent images of the world's most flowery neighborhood.
SF News Penn to Hit Castro Bars as <i>Milk</i> Shooting Starts Undergoing a procedure to erase 30 years from its face, the Castro neighborhood is going retro, circa 1978, for the filming of Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic, Milk, which starts shooting this
misc Blocker: 450 Collingwood Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a regular series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist every other Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of
