Arts & Entertainment SF Hotels Roll Out Pride Flags to Compete With Castro's The Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill now has a bigger Pride Flag — and a Progress Pride Flag at that — than the Castro's flying atop the building. And the Beacon Grand's is even bigger.
Arts & Entertainment History Lesson: A Privileged Panorama Of Nob Hill, Circa 1878 In 1878, roughly a tech entrepreneur's lifetime after gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, and just as long before the Great Earthquake leveled much of San Francisco in 1906, the city was smack