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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Arrivederci To The illy Caffe In The Castro Another one bites the dust, my friends. It's been widely acknowledged that too many cafés and coffee venues had opened in the Castro in the last few years, and the great shakeout continues
SF News SFPD Warns Of Pride Bag Inspections, Size Restrictions As you of course know, San Francisco's LGBTQ Pride celebration is this weekend. Part of hosting the "largest LGBTQ celebration in the country," the San Francisco Police Department says, is ensuring the safety
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Unfazed By The Castro's Coffee Glut, Ritual Will Take Over The Wildcraft Space Though it's been widely noted that the Castro needs another coffee shop like a hole in the head, Ritual Coffee still seems to think there's room for them to grow there, and they've
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic Castro Restaurant The Sausage Factory Likely Closing As Building Goes Up For Sale The Sausage Factory, a charmingly dive-y institution in the Castro serving up red-sauce Italian dishes and over-flowing iceberg lettuce salads for nearly 50 years now, is under threat of closure as the building
SF News Abandoned Propane Tank Causes Castro Suspicious Package Panic Bomb squad unit approaching the scene. #bombthreat #sfpd @kron4news pic.twitter.com/qvApbUUZ3A— Carlos Mendoza (@C_R_Mendoza) May 4, 2017 A city already on edge following a high-profile police shooting on Market
Arts & Entertainment The Academy To Bring A New 'Gentlemen's Lifestyle Experience' To Castro Retail Scene By early June, the Castro is set to get a new retail establishment unlike anything else in the neighborhood, from the minds of two gay entrepreneurs who are also both Bay Area natives.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hecho To Close In The Castro After Being Sold To Andale Chain After just two years and change at the corner of Market and Sanchez, Hecho Cantina, née Hecho (and before that Bandidos), will be closing its doors soon to make way for new owners.
Arts & Entertainment Gilbert Baker, Creator Of The Rainbow Flag, Dies at 65 As announced by his longtime friend Cleve Jones on Facebook, Gilbert Baker, the creator of the first rainbow flag to symbolize gay equality, has died. He was 65. Jones recently spoke to SFist
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Church And Market Safeway No Longer 24-Hour Warzone, Now Closes At 1:30 A.M. This month marked the end of an era for the Church and Market Safeway, a grocery store previously open to the brave, drunk, strung out, and hungry at all hours of night. According
SF News Castro Fork Stabbing Sends Victim To Hospital A man crossing a Castro-area street was the victim of an unexpected attack Saturday, when another man stabbed him with a fork. Police say that the 53-year-old victim was crossing the street at
SF News Beware: Wild Turkey Sighted Strutting Around The Castro File under Wildlife Spotted Where They Shouldn't Be: A wild turkey was snapped by a Castro resident roaming the sidewalk on Market Street Monday, near the intersection of Castro Street, and that is
Arts & Entertainment Caitlyn Jenner To Make Book Tour Stop At Castro Theatre In May Remember Caitlyn Jenner? The Trump-supporting trans woman who used to be an Olympic athlete and reality TV star and recently decided maybe Trump isn't such a hero because of his administration's decision to
SF News Screaming Castro Stabber Remains On The Loose A suspect who let out a holler before stabbing a man Sunday remains at large, police say, and was last seen running down 18th Street. The San Francisco Police Department says that the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Goodbye, Home Restaurant Check it out! The long-vacant Home Restaurant building has disappeared at Church and Market, about a week after demolition began. This triangular pile of rubble, bounded on the back side by 14th Street,
SF News Creepy Fake Cop Busted In The Castro A man who threatened to shoot someone and told a witness he was a police officer was arrested Thursday morning, after the real cops arrived and called his bluff. The San Francisco Police
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Adult Toy Stores In San Francisco Spending this Valentine's Day happily single? Maybe you should treat yourself to a self-love aid at one of our city's finest adult toy emporia. Or perhaps you are happily coupled but you're getting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Gets Another Coffeeshop: SF's First Verve Coffee Arrives Next Week at Church & Market The crazy glut of coffee options in the Castro shows little signs of abating as we get word that Verve Coffee Roasters is set to arrive in the flatiron-shaped space that was most
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink CVS On Market Street In Castro To Close After Three Years In an announcement that is sure to send longtime Castro neighborhood residents into fits of rage, a 10,000-square-foot CVS store occupying some prime retail space on Market Street at Noe has announced
Arts & Entertainment Castro Street Fair Gets Major Makeover After Nearly Going Under In 2016 "We're always living in fear of the day it rains," says Castro Street Fair Board President Juan Garcia. "The moment it started it raining, we were all looking at each other. We knew
