SF News Lawyer For Australian Kidnapping Suspect Says He Was Having A Mental 'Break' 34-year-old Australian DJ Roscoe Holyoake appeared for an arraignment in a San Francisco court on Thursday, and he entered a plea of not guilty to charges of kidnapping and child endangerment.
SF News Thwarted Castro Kidnapping Suspect Was Questioned Two Months Ago In Strange Incident Involving A Child The Australian DJ arrested last Friday in the bizarre attempted kidnapping of a two-year-old child was reportedly questioned by police in Sydney in late February following another weird incident that also involved a small child.
SF News Castro Attempted Kidnapping Suspect Was Visiting Australian DJ, 'Smiled' After Releasing Kid The story of Friday's thwarted, broad-daylight kidnapping in the Castro neighborhood continues to be way strange, and now we have a suspect with some public social media accounts.
SF News Attempted Kidnapping Of Toddler Thwarted In Castro Several bystanders helped a mother to fend off a would-be kidnapper Friday afternoon in a bizarre Castro neighborhood incident that did not, as some might immediately suspect, involve one of the neighborhood's homeless people.
SF News Another Week, Another Castro Retail Closure: IXIA 'Tis the season, I guess, for retail turnover in the Castro, and now Hoodline brings word that the next to go is beloved, stick-obsessed floral designer IXIA.
SF News Five Reasons Why The Castro And North Beach Have So Many Vacant Storefronts San Francisco's retail vacancy problem has become a source of persistent blight in the neighborhoods of North Beach and Castro over the last five years, despite a booming local economy. What gives?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Cafe In The Castro Closing For Lengthy Remodel The Cafe is closing this Sunday for a remodel that will last until June, or longer, and the owners may be looking to connect the former Bisou space downstairs back to the bar as it once was.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Castro Neighborhood Stalwart, Firewood, Is Closing After Two Decades Rack up yet another closure of a longtime neighborhood haunt for the Castro: Firewood Cafe is shutting its doors on 18th Street at the end of this week.
Arts & Entertainment Sloped Amphitheater, Designed For Rallies, Selected For Harvey Milk Plaza Redo The conclusion of a design competition to revamp Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro has arrived, and a design by local firm Perkins Eastman has emerged the winner. The concept centers around a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sorry, Castro, Hamburger Mary's Is Probably Never Opening In the long LOOOOONG saga of the former Patio Cafe property at 531 Castro, another year is winding down, more vague promises have been lobbed by landlord Les Natali, and the place remains
Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Rainbow Light Installation Coming To Harvey Milk Plaza Next Month As the 40th anniversary of Harvey Milk's election to the Board of Supervisors approaches next month, local nonprofit Illuminate the folks behind the Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge and the Summer of
Arts & Entertainment Sad: Another Bookstore Nears Death As Aardvark Books' Building Goes Up For Sale Well loved Church Street new and used bookstore, Aardvark Books, will be calling it quits after 39 years at some point in the near future as the landlord is selling the building for
SF News Check Out The Harvey Milk Plaza Redesign Competition Finalists Earlier this year, it was announced that Harvey Milk Plaza would be undergoing renovations, with plans to field a design submitted by architects and artists. The process began in earnest earlier this year,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Safeway, Five Others, Back To Being Open 24 Hours After an apparent outcry from customers in the neighborhood and perhaps continuing their quest to compete with the newer Whole Foods across the street the Church and Market Safeway has returned to being
SF News Elderly Man Sought In Castro Hit-And-Run Police say they're looking for a hit-and-run driver Friday, following what they say was an intentional collision in the Castro. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the 45-year-old male victim was standing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Loses Two Restaurants In One Week; Blueprint Tap Room Shutters In SoMa It seems that a midsummer wave of closures is upon us in the food scene, beginning with a pair of small Asian spots in the Castro one of which had sat quietly on
SF News Dolores Park Neighbors Say Footbridge Has Become Magnet For Hard Drug Sales Neighbors of Dolores Park, from the adjacent Castro and Dolores Heights environs, gathered Monday evening for a contentious community meeting with the SFPD and D8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy to discuss what they see
SF News Counter Protests Planned At City Hall And In Castro This Weekend Whether Alt-Right Rally Goes On Or Not This Friday, city leaders will rally concerned citizens and host an afternoon event on the steps of City Hall to condemn hate and the presumed racist overtones of a planned rally in Crissy
SF News Noted 'Castro Drug Den' Sold To New Owner Prospective San Francisco home buyers are generally more attracted to phrases like “Wonderful Victorian home in amazing Dolores Heights location” than, say “Notorious Castro Drug Den” or “persistent neighborhood nuisance.” But both turns
SF News 15-Hour Standoff Near Castro Ends With Suspect Shooting, Injuring Self The standoff that began Sunday night at 11:45 p.m. at 15th and Beaver Streets, near Corona Heights and the Castro, ended abruptly Monday afternoon with the suspect shooting himself, as the
SF News Scenes From The Castro March Against Trump's Plans For Trans People In The Military Protesters turned out in droves in the Castro Wednesday evening to express resistance to President Trump's Twitter declaration that transgender people would no longer be able to serve in the US armed forces
SF News 'Emergency Protest' Planned In Castro Following Trump's Ban On Trans People In The Military Following this morning's tweet-announcement by the president of a ban on trans people serving in the military something that could effect over 2,000 active-duty troops an "emergency protest" has been announced in
SF News Boutique Hotel With Roof Deck Planned For 18th Street In The Castro Plans for a modern new hotel in the heart of #TheCastro #CastroSF #RealestateSF https://t.co/at2tGEMvMC pic.twitter.com/qyHedYLn64— SocketSite (@SocketSite) July 24, 2017 A four-story, 12-room boutique hotel is in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Mary's *Might* Finally Open In The Castro, Maybe News flew around the local blogosphere late Wednesday that, following an Entertainment Commission hearing on Tuesday, the extraordinarily delayed revival of Hamburger Mary's might, three and a half years after we first heard
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Il Casaro To Bring Neapolitan Pizza To Church Street In The Castro Good news for pizza fans in the Castro environs: North Beach's Il Casaro Pizzeria & Mozzarella Bar is expanding with a second location, into the former Chilango space on Church Street, three doors
