Bank of the West has been given the go ahead by the Planning Commission to build a 3300 square foot bank on the first floor of the new mixed use/condo build going in at 2299 Market Street.

Thanks to the work of local merchants, the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District, and local activists working together the news rack located in front of the entrance to the Castro MUNI stat

The Castro and the City are experiencing an unprecedented building boom as we've noted in several past posts.

  Following President Obama's much celebrated reelection on Tuesday the local LGBT for Obama campaign headquarters housed on the first floor, store front space once occupied by NaNa Clothes-Market

Last night, our neighborhood closed off Castro Street between Market Street and 18th in preparation for an election night celebration.

Supervisors Scott Wiener, Sean Elsbernd and Carmen Chu (Christine Olague was a no show) voted to support Supervisor Wiener's legislation on banning public nudity in San Francisco and moved it on to

The 400 block of Castro Street (between Market and 18th Streets) will be CLOSED to vehicle traffic tomorrow evening (Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - Election Day) from about 7:30PM until about 10PM or 10:

Friday, amid growing complaints about loitering homeless from local merchants and a small, very vocal, cadre of neighbors, the benches located at the Harvey Milk Plaza were removed.

We received a very interesting email in our inbox from an early gay rights activist and photographer named Jerry Pritikin.

The GLBT History Museum in the Castro has reopened and completed repairs after a vandal shattered two large plate glass windows early on the morning of Monday, October 29.

Rain be damned, last night the Castro was teeming with people dressed in their Halloween best enjoying booze and friends.

There has been  a real flurry of events in the Castro over the last month and we've done our best to keep up with it all.

Handbills appeared through out the Castro today inside newspaper boxes, on telephone poles and placed on the side of buildings calling District 8's Supervisor, Scott Weiner, out on his reported stan