SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sparky's Diner On Church Closed, Apparently After Health Inspection One of the city's only 24-hour diners, Sparky's on Church Street, was suddenly closed last week and remains closed as of this morning. BrokeAss Stuart got the news via a tipster, and SFist
SF News Cleve Jones: We Have To Preserve Gayborhoods Because They Save Lives Outspoken human rights activist Cleve Jones has been on the front lines of LGBT liberation and equality fights since the early 1970s, when he arrived in San Francisco as a young man and
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Condo Building Coming To The Corner Of Market And Church It's been a long road getting the seven-story condo building proposed for 2100 Market Street, a.k.a. the triangular site of the former Home Restaurant at Church, 14th, and Market, through the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Cleve Jones Found A Bunch Of Straight 'Tech Bros' In A Castro Bar And Now Everyone Is Flipping Out This week the UK Guardian built a story around the fact that longtime gay activist and friend of Harvey Milk Cleve Jones was sounding alarm bells about seeing a group of men he
SF News Fearsome Hat Thief Menaces The Castro A man is learning out how to live a bare-headed lifestyle this week, after a Castro-area altercation ended with the theft of his hat. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the 49-year-old
Arts & Entertainment Dustin Lance Black And Gus Van Sant Return To Familiar Turf With SF LGBT History Doc Series The writer and director of 2008's Milk, Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant, will be reuniting returning to the topic of LGBT history in San Francisco with When We Rise, an eight-part
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Mainstay Harvey's Closed For Holiday Week Remodel, Menu Update Longtime Castro nachos-and-burger spot Harvey's named, of course, for Harvey Milk is closed this week for a remodel, but don't be alarmed. Even though "remodel" is sometimes code for "closed indefinitely," they are
SF News Castro Merchants Fear Super Bowl 50 Shutdown Of Historic F Streetcar Line Will Crater Business In today's edition of "how Super Bowl 50 might actually hurt San Francisco businesses and taxpayers" we hear from the Castro Merchants Association. The organization last week expressed concerns that the Super Bowl
SF News Behold, The Castro's Be-Wigged Prowler "Who the hell is trying to get in my house?" asks YouTube user LotsOfRobotsINC, aka Castro resident Andy Murdoch. But while no one knows the answer, the situation is odd enough that the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sushi Ran Spinoff In The Castro Will Be Called Nomica Though details are still few, the Sushi Ran team has picked a name for the new restaurant they're plotting for the former Pesce space at 2223 Market Street: Nomica. As Sushi Ran vice
Arts & Entertainment Juanita More Talks About The End Of The Eight-Year Run Of Castro Club Booty Call Wednesdays Thanksgiving week will mark the end of an era for Castro nightlife as drag queen DJ and promoter Juanita More is ending her weekly party at Q Bar, Booty Call Wednesdays. Eight years
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Neighborhoods Portrayed As Dog Breeds, In Costumes This brief video by Videopixie's Libby Cooper shows some animated dog breeds representing each of eleven neighborhoods. It should be noted that pitbulls make it on here twice (for The Mission and the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Sausalito Spot Sushi Ran Expands To The Castro Well, we now have word of who's taking the vacant Pesce space. As Inside Scoop reports, it's Sushi Ran, the acclaimed Sausalito Japanese spot, which will now be giving Castro neighborhood sushi places
SF News BMW Carjacked In Castro/Safeway Heights A man was threatened with a gun and his car was stolen in the Castro this week, the Bay Area Reporter writes. Officer Albie Esparza says the incident occurred at 12:50 a.
SF News Mayor Says He'd Be 'Open' To Letting Gay Bathhouses Back In SF, But Will That Happen? Mayor Ed Lee has been making the rounds of local publications, allowing himself to be interviewed by editorial boards in preparation for an election he's all but guaranteed to win (see the Chronicle's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 18th Street Philz Closes Today, Larger Castro Street Location Opens Tomorrow Philz relatively small 18th Street outpost closes this afternoon. For good. Now you'll have to trek all the way to Castro Street, where a new location roughly twice the size — with four baristas
SF News [Updated] Nudists Having Another Nude-In Saturday, Contemplating Another Lawsuit No doubt a consistent and stubborn bunch, SF's local coalition of nudist activists will be having another nude-in at Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro Saturday afternoon. To protest the nudity ban. Which
SF News [Update] Suspicious Package Brings Bomb Squad To Castro @HoodlineSF SFPD Bomb Squad just arrived in Castro on 17th St btwn Noe & Hartford. pic.twitter.com/bsErBywvbv— Steven Bracco (@Braccs) September 23, 2015 The bomb squad descended on 17th Street near
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Churro Doughnut Holes At Hecho As of June, there's been a new executive chef in charge of the kitchen at one-year-old Hecho in the Castro, and that's Cory Armenta, who had previously worked in the kitchens at Rose
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro's Sliderbar Rebrands, Reopens As Ovok The troubled last year for Sliderbar (2295 Market Street) which included several run-ins with the Health Department has led owner Ashwani Dhawan to rebrand the business after a brief closure last week, something
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three More Castro Restaurants Shutter: Zapata, Chile Pies, And Janchi In the case of one Castro neighborhood restaurant that announced it would close soon, it was a landlord squabble that did them in. In the case of another, it was probably poor business
SF News Remembering Anastasia, The Homeless Trans Woman Who Died In The Castro (Who May Not Have Been Trans) No one knew much about the mentally ill, homeless person who called herself Anastasia when she died on a bench outside Peet's Coffee in the Castro on New Year's Eve. Various people in
SF News One Year On, No Apparent Progress In Feather Lynn Murder It's been a full year since the "suspicious death" of 31-year-old Bryan Higgins a.k.a. Feather Lynn on Church Street, and six months since police said they had identified a person of
SF News Prominent Castro And Market Property To Go Back On The Market After Judge's Ruling A multi-year legal drama that's unfolded between the majority owners of the ARCO gas station site at Castro and Market and a developer who entered into a purchase agreement with them 11 years
Arts & Entertainment War Brewing In Castro Between Party Promoters, Merchants, And City Workers Over Ripping Down Posters Lampposts and street poles in the Castro have long been plastered with images of half-naked men and drag queens on posters promoting gay events in and around the neighborhood. There's good reason for
