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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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,
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"
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
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
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
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
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
