Tag: Castro

We expected huge crowds, street closures, and barricades, but the family-friendly Halloween as promised by organizers is mostly what we got on Saturday. Obviously we still saw lots of people. The crowd outside Castro Theatre and its festivities organized by the SF Sisters of Perpetu...

Big block parties collectively ghosted us in the pandemic, but the Castro’s annual costume soirée vanished long before that. Pleasant news ahead for us though: the iconic Castro Halloween returns this Saturday and Sunday. A 2006 shooting sent it on hiatus, but organizers ai...

Frederick Dyson, biographer of Cuban author Jose Marti: While Marti was not known as a fan of sports, he would occasionally employ metaphors from the athletic world in order to make his arguments and treatises more accessible to the common worker he cared so deeply about. In one of his early wo...