The opening of cannabis retailer Rose Mary Jane at 2057 Market Street is unlikely after its application was canceled due to inactivity.

Here's a brief roundup of recent changes to Castro area businesses. In this edition, two new businesses have recently opened in the Castro and two more are on the way including an acai shop, a clothing store, a small grocery store, and a massage business.

Castro area plant shop Plant Therapy (2095 Market Street) faces an uncertain future after the store has remained closed for nearly four months.

Church and Market seafood spot Woodhouse Fish Co. (2073 Market St.) announced on Friday that it will close this month after 18 years.

Jamba Juice at Church and Market streets has shuttered, leaving Safeway as the lone remaining store inside the shopping center there.

From North Beach to the Castro, the streets of San Francisco were extra lively this past weekend thanks to simultaneous free performances by some 100 drag queens and kings.

Jerry Goldstein, the LGBTQ+ activist and co-creator of the Tom & Jerry House Christmas display — with its elaborate holiday decorations and enormous tree at 21st and Church Street — has passed away.

Church and Market's newest Cal-Italian fusion restaurant, The Rustic, is now open at 215 Church Street, formerly the space that housed Chow and, briefly, Cook Shoppe.

In its latest attempt at thwarting would-be shoplifters, the Castro Safeway at Church and Market streets has installed a security gate at the self-checkout kiosks.

Latin rhythms will be reverberating in the Mission tonight (Friday 7/14) as the live music and entertainment event Fiesta Latina brings the beats to venue Brick & Mortar Music Hall.

Outrage over the SFPD's mass-arrest of 113 participants at the Dolores Park Hill Bomb event, 81 of whom were minors, has sparked a debate on the appropriate use of force in San Francisco.

After dozens of arrests at an unsanctioned skateboarding event in Dolores Park, protesters gathered outside the SFPD station demanding an investigation into the aggressive police response on Sunday.

The illegal fireworks display in San Francisco's Mission District descended into chaos on July 4th, resulting in a late-night police skirmish with riot gear.