Arts & Entertainment Scenes From The Premiere Of The <em>Looking</em> Movie At The Castro Theatre "Closing Night: Looking." Jonathan Groff had just managed to snap a cell phone picture of those words on the marquee at the Castro Theatre yesterday evening before he was recognized by a shrieking
SF News When Realtors Say 'Eureka Valley' Instead Of 'Castro,' Is That Just Homophobic? Remember when the Nema building on Market published that neighborhood map that didn't include the Castro but in its place was "Eureka Valley/Dolores Heights." Well, it's long been common custom for SF
SF News Sullied Rainbow Crosswalks Won't Be Replaced Before Pride The Castro's flashy rainbow crosswalks, colorful displays of queer civic pride installed last September, will not be shining at their brightest for this year's Pride celebrations. No, says Hoodline: Damaged unfortunately (and maybe
Arts & Entertainment The Eight Most Awesome LGBT Films Playing At Frameline 40 You guys. The world’s longest-running LGBTQ film festival Frameline kicks off Thursday night at the Castro Theatre and runs through the end of Pride Weekend, and boy could we use some Frameline
SF News Big Gay Kiss-In Planned In Castro Tonight Following Orlando Mass Hate Crime While there is no appropriate or satisfying response to what happened in Orlando on Sunday, LGBT communities around the world have responded with huge vigils and outpourings of love, horror, and support. A
SF News Pride Organizers, Castro Businesses Reassess Security Measures In Wake Of Orlando Shooting Following the deadly mass shooting in Orlando on Sunday, Supervisor Scott Wiener is convening safety meetings with the SFPD and members of the LGBT nightlife community to discuss security preparations for the upcoming
SF News As Many As 10,000 Attend Castro Rally, March To City Hall In Honor Of Orlando Shooting Victims Thousands of people people turned out last night at a Castro District vigil to honor those killed and injured in Sunday's mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub, an event that turned to a
SF News In Honor Of Orlando Shooting Victims, Castro Lowers Pride Flag To Half-Mast In advance of tonight's vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting, the Pride flag in San Francisco's iconic Castro District has been lowered to half-mast this afternoon. As you doubtlessly know by
SF News SF To Honor Victims Of Orlando Shooting In Castro Vigil Sunday Night San Francisco will honor the victims of this morning's mass shooting in an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub with a vigil in the Castro District Sunday night. Postcards from San Francisco: 18th and Castro.
SF News SFPD Vows Increased Police Presence In Castro For Pride Month Following Orlando Shooting Though there have been no credible threats against Bay Area targets, it stands to reason that the minds of LGBT people here have likely already leapt to the possibility of further, copycat attacks
Arts & Entertainment Castro Books Inc. Will Close June 15, Storewide Sale Of 30% Off 'Til Then Bad news in March that Books Inc.'s location in the Castro would close was tempered by good news later that month that the Castro would not be bookstore-less thanks to an expansion
SF News Man Waiting For Muni Gets Knifed In The Neck A man waiting for a Muni bus in the Castro is recovering today, after another man walked up and stabbed him in the neck. According to the San Francisco Police Department, a 41-year-old
Arts & Entertainment Rainbow Escalator Unveiled In Castro Welcomes Visitors To 'Gay Disneyland' A photo posted by Darwin Bell (@darwinbell) on May 19, 2016 at 9:27pm PDT While the population of the Castro may be getting a lot straighter, thanks to SFMTA the gayberhood's escalators
Arts & Entertainment Bob The Drag Queen, Winner of <i>Rupaul's Drag Race</i>, Coming To Castro Memorial Day Weekend The "Drag Queens of Comedy" tour, which arrives at the Castro Theatre for two performances on Saturday, May 28, has just added to the bill the breakout star from Season 8 of Rupaul's
Arts & Entertainment Film Shoot Damages Castro's Rainbow Crosswalks 'When We Rise' Shoot Causes Damage To Castro's Rainbow Crosswalks: https://t.co/RjXfcGNrAn by @YourProtagonist pic.twitter.com/iv8SXatD62— Hoodline (@HoodlineSF) May 14, 2016 The Castro's rainbow crosswalks were damaged last week
Arts & Entertainment 1970's-Era Star Pharmacy, Landmark In The Early Days Of AIDS, Recreated For One Day For Castro Shoot As mentioned briefly yesterday, more shooting has been going on in the Castro for When We Rise, the ABC documentary mini-series written by Dustin Lance Black, and based in part on the forthcoming
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Rainbows No More In preparation for another shoot today in the Castro for When We Rise, the production crew was laying down some coverings to mask the relatively recent rainbow crosswalks, in order to keep with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Top Chef</i> Alum Ryan Scott Is Behind Finn Town, Taking Over Former Barracuda In The Castro News has just arrived that the chef behind the replacement for Barracuda (and more recently Mandu) in the Castro, which we learned last fall would be called Finn Town, is none other than
SF News Everything Rainbow: Castro Muni Escalators Getting Rainbow Lights Now In addition to rainbow crosswalks and a giant rainbow flag, the Castro will be getting one more reminder that it is the gay neighborhood: rainbow lighting up and down its Muni station escalators.
SF News Apothecarium Dispensary To Uproot And Expand To Former Mecca Spot You'll still have no trouble locating an apothecary for all your weed needs on Market Street in the Castro — only now it will be half a block up Market, at 2029, not 2095
Arts & Entertainment Open Casting Call For LGBT History Series Shot In SF, 'When We Rise' That LGBT documentary mini-series that we told you about a few months back, When We Rise, has been shooting in recent weeks in Vancouver most notably, they just shot parts of the White
Arts & Entertainment Dog-Eared Books Announces Castro Location Coming In May Excellent news, book-readers: The Castro will not be short another bookstore come June following the upcoming closure of Books Inc. As SF Weekly reports today, the Mission's own Dog-Eared Books one of SF's
Arts & Entertainment Another SF Bookstore Bites The Dust: Books Inc. In The Castro Sad news for Castro neighborhood book lovers, and bookstore browsers: Books Inc. has just announced that their Market Street location in the heart of the 'hood will be closing at the end of
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: SF's Black Cat Bar Comes Back To Life In Shoot For LGBT History Series A photo posted by Dustin Lance Black (@dlanceblack) on Mar 9, 2016 at 8:12pm PST "After three long years of research, interviews and writing, it’s now time to leave home and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Bagdad Cafe/SliderBar Space Becoming The Castro Republic, Under New Ownership Welp, the story we all knew would end this way has reached its end as Health-Department-closure-afflicted SliderBar (2295 Market Street), which was rechristened OVOK in September with basically the same menu, to not
