San Francisco

Plans for the return of a Pink Saturday event in the Castro have been canceled just four days before Pride Weekend.

After 13 years in the Castro, Trudy's Tattoo Parlor (2275 Market St.) quietly shuttered this month due to pandemic-related financial stresses.

The 10-month odyssey to bring an El Farolito to North Beach has reached its supreme conclusion, as the initially denied 12th El Farolito in the Bay Area opened this weekend near Grant and Columbus Avenues.

After a two-year hiatus, San Francisco’s oldest street fair marked its sixty-sixth year by adding new attractions, such as performances by acrobats from "Dear San Francisco" at Club Fugazi, a professional chalk artist competition, and a pet adoption booth.

A new Indian restaurant has just debuted on the Divisadero corridor, Curry and Kabab, in the former Wine Kitchen space at 507 Divisadero.

After months of construction and planning, HAUM — the queer-owned, community-driven yoga studio, which opened its first location in the Mission District last year — debuted its new Haight-Ashbury studio this week, complete with a plethora of plants and fresh indoor murals.

In this week's installment of Hoodline's Summertime Happenings series, we look at great ways to celebrate Father's Day and Juneteenth, plus more to do in the Bay Area June 17-19.

Aww, f***! The rotisserie chicken, shawarma, and kebob hotspot Goood Frikin' Chicken has shut down, after an 18-year run at Mission and 29th Streets.

Counterculture artist Stanley Mouse designed many of the best-known album covers for Journey, the Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane, and has a new artist-in-residency exhibit at the Haight’s Doolan-Larson Building.

The nonprofit kitchen incubator La Cocina expands on their popular Tenderloin Municipal Marketplace with a new monthly Friday happy hour marketplace Ferry Fridays at the Ferry Building, with live music and mural painting.

Popular San Francisco ice cream maker Humphry Slocombe is expanding to the Peninsula just in time for the hottest time of the year.

Since opening in North Beach as a pop-up store specializing in Italian language books in 2017, Libreria Pino has outgrown several different locations in the neighborhood.

The last Corgi Con held in San Francisco was in 2019, bringing with it hundreds of stubby dogs and thousands of humans eager to see corgis race one another, don cute costumes, and grab a picture with one (or several) of them. After a pandemic-spurred hiatus, Ocean Beach will again have many short tails wagging in the wind this weekend.

A Vietnamese restaurant that was a big hit in the Tenderloin years ago is about to make a neighborhood comeback.

By the end of summer, Johnny Doughnuts plans to be open in the former Smitten Ice Cream space at California and Fillmore, next to Pizzeria Delfina.

The birthplace of Golden Gate Park’s ‘Entwined’ LED forest, plus many Flaming Lotus Girls projects, is holding a free two-day Mural Fest with more than 100 murals in a massive open-air art exhibition this weekend.

Hoodline's Summertime Happenings series kicks off this week with a roundup of what to do around the Bay Area June 10-12.

The SF school board didn't necessarily vote to keep the controversial “Life of Washington” mural at Washington High School, but they did vote to give up on a legal appeal, so the mural will stay.