SF News Day Around the Bay: The Castro Theatre’s Long-Awaited New Organ Has Arrived Super Bowl tickets are hitting the event’s second-highest price ever; a Waymo hit an elementary school student in SoCal; and the Castro Theatre's much-anticipated new digital organ has arrived and will soon make its debut.
SF News Castro Walgreens Manager Found Guilty of Assaulting Shoplifter and Lacerating His Eye A Castro District Walgreens manager who took matters into his own hands and punched a shoplifter, which ended up cutting the shoplifter’s eye, has been found guilty of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury.
SF News Castro Becomes SF’s Biggest Boozy 'Entertainment Zone’ Where Bars Can Sell To-Go Cocktails During Events The Castro Street Fair may be awash in to-go cocktails this year, as the SF Board of Supervisors just made the Castro the latest neighborhood to get “entertainment zone” privileges where bars can sell open containers to festival revelers.
Arts & Entertainment City to Buy Barry's Building In the Castro, Will Make It the GLBT Historical Society Museum What was once the popular Tower Records building at Market and Noe streets has just been bought by the city, and its upper floor will be home to the museum and archive for the GLBT Historical Society.
SF News [Update] Castro Mollie Stone’s Reopens After Shutdown Over Rodent Infestation It’s not a Happy Pride for the Castro’s Mollie Stone’s grocery store, as the SF Department of Health shut them down over a rodent infestation Thursday, but the store blames nearby construction and says they’ll reopen Friday afternoon.
SF News King and Queen of the Netherlands Heading to the Castro Next Week On Educational Tour Symbolic monarchs King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands will pop into the Castro on Tuesday (Twin Peaks Tavern, even!), so expect a little more security than usual that morning.
SF News Curbside Retail Begins in SF With Noted Lines at Sex Shops, Bookstores Curbside retail sales and pickup began in SF on Monday. But because of the tight restrictions placed on local retailers by the city, it was met with a muted drum roll and short, sparse lines — for some merchants, if any at all — across the seven-by-seven.
SF News SF Queer Nightlife Fund Raises $160K, Starts Distributing Grants to Eligible Applicants COVID-19 has surely hindered San Francisco’s queer nightlife community, leaving bartenders sans pay and prompting entertainers to embrace Twitch. In response, the SF Queer Nightlife Fund has been amassing donations to aid those workers and will begin distributing some $160K to accepted applicants.
Arts & Entertainment Collection of Coronavirus-Inspired Honey Bear Murals Debut in The Castro San Francisco-based street artist fnnch added splashes of color and character to The Castro's boarded up businesses earlier this week, painting eight COVID-19-themed honey bears onto various planks of plywood that now line the muted neighborhood.
SF News SF Queer Nightlife Fund Launches to Bring Financial Relief to the Community Two days into San Francisco's shelter-in-place order, it’s as clear as ever that our local nightlife community needs our help. Yesterday, some respected SF LGTBQ figures rallied together to launch the city's Queer Nightlife Fund (QNF), which will offer monetary aid to that affected cohort.
SF News How You Can Support San Francisco's Queer Elders and LGBTQ+ Nightlife Workers in the Age of Coronavirus Public health emergencies tend to expose the cracks in our society — this time, particularly, around our ability to help SF’s queer elders and those who make a living in the city’s gay nightlife scene amidst times of crisis. In the age of COVID-19, here’s how you can support those two local cohorts.
SF News Four-Alarm Fire Breaks Out In The Castro Above Q Bar And Osaka Sushi Early this morning around 4:30 a.m., a fire was reported off the 456 block of Castro Street, displacing some thirteen people and injuring two others.
SF News Suspect In Stabbing Of Housemate Found Hiding Under Car Nearby At 2:30 a.m. this morning, police tell NBC Bay Area, they responded to an incident at Henry and Noe Streets in the Duboce Triangle area. That was reportedly a stabbing, and
SF News 'ShutdownCastro' Brings MLK Weekend Protests To Gay Community Saturday night in gay white district disrupted @qtpocliberation #shutdowncastro #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/thSEdH71ND — aileen santos (@theraven219) January 18, 2015 With protests happening throughout the Bay Area on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Arts & Entertainment Best 11 Tourist Spots That Locals Should Also Enjoy Tired of your neighborhood already? Well, it's time to throw on a coat, march out the door, and venture out. Hundreds of thousands of tourists come to this city each year
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Late '90s Santa Cruz band the Huxtables headline a night of "fun rock" tunes. Take, for example, the song their dedicated to Dungeons & Dragons, "Dungeon Master,"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: As we already mentioned, Why? is performing this evening along with Dose One, Cryptacize, DJ Odd Nosdam, DJ Jel. *THEATER: Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning play the Vagina Monologues -- featuring
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin vs. the GayVN Awards According to the fine folks over at The Sword (NSFW), the GayVNs (NSFW) will be held here on Saturday -- you know, those homosexual pornography achievement awards, which led to Mayor Gavin Newsom getting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight * Lucas (1986), Say Anything (1989), My Bloody Valentine (1981): The first film has socially-retarded Corey Haim falling head over heels in love with a sensitive football player, Charlie Sheen, or something like
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend: An Elaborate Web of Closures The weekend's coming up, and that means that Muni's got a long list of street closures and cancellations. And this week, the radical homosexual agenda is to blame: for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight * Hal Holbrook in "Mark Twain Tonight": Julia Sugarbaker's husband and Oscar nominee for this year's Into the Wild, Broadway veteran Hal Holbrook won a Tony Award in
misc A Hot Prowler is Better Than No Prowler We've really been digging this "EveryBlock" website, which aggregates news, crime reports, photos, reviews, health inspections, and lots of other details about neighborhoods. But unfortunately, the SFPD's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Rope Burn by Still Flyin' (directed by Isobel Knowles) * Still Flyin': Not to knock (heh) its former incarnation, the Odeon, but we love the Knockout. From obscure DJ nights to live
Arts & Entertainment More, More, More: <i>Milk</i>'s Castro in the '70s Seeing as how castroshopper's Ray F. has some choice shots of the Castro's conversion to 1978, we thought we'd thrill you with a few more recent images
