SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Frances Reopens In the Castro at Long Last, With New Family-Style Menu It's been an extra-long pandemic hiatus for Frances, chef Melissa Perello's twelve-year-old Castro restaurant that has remained a perennial favorite for many. And that ends tonight.
SF News Photo of Person of Interest Released In Castro Muni Shooting The SFPD released a photo of a person of interest Wednesday night in the fatal shooting on board a Muni train bound for Castro Station that occurred Wednesday morning.
SF News LGBTQQ+ Youth Non-Profit LYRIC Targeted by Multiple Bomb and Death Threats, Apparently From Bible-Thumpers Multiple bomb threats and death threats have forced numerous evacuations at LGBTQQ youth nonprofit LYRIC, the most recent being Monday, and SFPD is considering these as possible hate crimes.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Cultural District, Merchants Group Sound Less Than Pleased About Lack of Meetings With New Castro Theater Operators Many in the Castro LGBTQ community remain concerned about what's to come as the beloved Castro Theatre undergoes renovations and becomes a new live-entertainment venue managed by Another Planet Entertainment.
SF News Three Arrested For Burglary of Castro Theatre Three men were arrested on suspicion of breaking into and burglarizing the historic Castro Theatre early Tuesday morning.
SF News Famed LGBT Rights Icon Cleve Jones Facing Displacement After New Building Owner Doubles Rent It's a tale at least as old as the first dot-com boom in SF, as elderly renters face displacement or eviction due to the real estate pressures that make rent control precarious. And now one of the Castro's elder statesmen has fallen victim as well.
SF News Shooting In Castro Safeway Parking Lot Injured 85-Year-Old Woman Sitting In Nearby Restaurant A Tuesday afternoon fight, reportedly among a group of juveniles, in the parking lot of the Castro Safeway, led to shots fired and two minor injuries — including one bullet that went through the glass of a restaurant window across the street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Can Get New Bars for First Time in 34 Years, After Board Passes New Zoning Law There has not been a new alcohol license granted to a Castro bar since 1987, but there probably will be soon, as the SF Board of Supervisors has approved an updated zoning ordinance.
Arts & Entertainment Negative Reactions Continue to News About Castro Theatre Changes, While Actual Details Remain Scarce Lamentations on social media and editorials in other media continued over the weekend after last week's bombshell news about the Castro Theatre coming under the management of Another Planet Entertainment. And a rally on Sunday served as a gathering for the most anxious fans.
Arts & Entertainment There Will Be a Halloween Party In the Castro, But It’s on Saturday, and It Will ‘Glow In the Streets’ A different hue of Halloween in the Castro shines this year for the Saturday block party Glow in the Streets, a Day-Glo disco at Noe and Market Streets by the queer collective Comfort & Joy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Nightclub The Cafe Reopens This Weekend After Nearly 19-Month Closure, Sunday Tea and All Most — but not all — of San Francisco's nightlife scene has come back open in the last several months, now that people can be indoors without capacity limits so long as they're vaccinated. But among the Castro institutions that's stayed dark is The Cafe. That all changes this weekend.
SF News Breakthrough Delta Cases Hit the Castro and Haight Especially Hard This Summer The Delta surge did not treat all of San Francisco equally, and new data shows just how significantly the neighborhood-by-neighborhood impact changed between the surge last winter and the one driven by the newer variant after much of the city was already vaccinated.
SF News Disabled Woman Tells Harrowing Tale of Mentally Ill Man Who Walked Into Her Corona Heights Home and Wouldn't Leave A disabled woman who can not walk due to multiple sclerosis says that 39-year-old Brandon Paillett walked into her apartment on Roosevelt Way in the Corona Heights neighborhood near the Castro on Tuesday night, muttering to himself, and refused to leave.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: With Capacity Limits Lifted, the Castro Comes Alive Again With fifteen months of COVID-19 restrictions behind us, the Castro’s bars and restaurants were bumping Tuesday night with San Franciscans celebrating the end of social-distancing rules.
SF News Shots Fired at 18th and Castro Following Gathering An altercation in the Castro Wednesday night led to a gunshot ringing out, alarming neighbors and people out on the otherwise quiet night.
SF News Two-Alarm Fire Contained In Castro As Police Seek Knife-Wielding Suspected Linked to Blaze A fire broke out around noon Friday at a residence at 112 Eureka Street near 18th Street, at the edge of the Castro District and Eureka Valley.
SF News Castro Store Owners Say They've Paid $120,000 to Repair Windows Smashed By Vandals In the Last Year The Castro is hardly the only neighborhood dealing with rampant crime in recent months, but merchants in the neighborhood hope the city will reimburse them for what has largely been out-of-pocket expenses incurred because of petty vandalism and theft.
Arts & Entertainment Eureka Valley Gallery With Lofty Aims Opens Virtually, Selling Limited-Edition Prints Upper Market Gallery has opened virtually, with a real grand opening still in the works, and with a view toward tearing down barriers in the local art world creating new spaces that invite conversation and community.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Landmark Castro Bar Twin Peaks Gets Second Reprieve From Patron Donations The landmark bar at the corner of Market and Castro, Twin Peaks, put out a call for crowdfunding donations in December following a similar effort last spring, and once again fans and patrons of the bar stepped up and gave over $100,000.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Twin Peaks Tavern in Castro Turns to Crowdfunding to Make It Through Lockdown For the second time this year, an iconic Castro bar is turning to patrons and fans for help, as it once again sits closed and without a source of revenue for an indefinite span of time.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Storied Castro Nightclub Badlands Closes Permanently After 45 Years Badlands, a nightclub whose dancefloor was a last stop for many partiers in the Castro going back four decades, is closing for good according to a Facebook post published Thursday morning.
SF News Old-School Castro Barbershop 'Male Image' Is Closing After 41 Years Male Image, the barbershop near the corner of Market and Sanchez in the Castro, is not going to reopen whenever barbershops are allowed to in SF. Longtime owner Gary Mootz reportedly plans to retire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Orphan Andy's In Castro Gets Plastic Partitions Between Booths, Shower Curtains As restaurants prepare to open for indoor dining next month, we're likely to see a lot of creative solutions to the problem of people's anxiety about being in close quarters with strangers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two More Castro Restaurants Shutter: Slurp and Dapper Dog The Castro really can't catch a break when it comes to the retail vacancy epidemic that is sweeping multiple SF neighborhoods. And now we learn that two more restaurants have permanently closed on the once hopping strip of Castro Street between Market and 18th.
SF News Castro Merchants Have Filed Restraining Orders Against Two Harassing Individuals Two presumably homeless individuals who frequent the Castro neighborhood have been ordered to stay away from two area businesses in the last several months, and those orders last for four years.
