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Bay Area Cannasseur: Cannabis lovers anticipate Emerald Cup

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Nov 6, 2019

It's more than an hour away from San Francisco and tickets start at $100, but cannabis aficionados shouldn't miss the Emerald Cup, the longest running sun-grown contest, celebration, and farmers market in the world, according to its website.

Queer panel tackles anti-black attitudes

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Oct 30, 2019

The LGBT community gives lip service to black people and remnants of anti-black attitudes and behavior still remain, according to a panel of black queer activists.

Farrow tells all in book exposing serial abusers

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Oct 23, 2019

Gay investigative journalist Ronan Farrow, whose new book about serial abusers is flying off the shelves, told the Bay Area Reporter Monday that independent reporters are more important than ever.

City OKs third cannabis store in Castro

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Oct 16, 2019

The Castro will have a third cannabis dispensary thanks to a 4-0 vote last week by the city's planning commission allowing the Flore Store to open at 258 Noe Street.

Gov signs Wiener's cannabis bill

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Oct 16, 2019

Cannabis activists were elated after Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed Senate Bill 34, the Dennis Peron and Brownie Mary Act, which exempts compassionate cannabis programs from state cannabis taxes.

SF homeless advocates kick off All In campaign

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Oct 16, 2019

Homeless advocates this month kicked off a citywide campaign to encourage residents to get involved in solving the epidemic of homelessness in San Francisco.

Maddow talks impeachment during SF book tour

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Oct 9, 2019

Rachel Maddow wowed a sold-out audience at the Sydney Goldstein Theater Sunday during a City Arts and Lectures onstage conversation with former Obama senior aide Dan Pfeiffer.

Bay Area Cannasseur: Activists urge Newsom to sign cannabis bill

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Oct 2, 2019

State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and more than a dozen cannabis activists urged Governor Gavin Newsom to sign Senate Bill 34, which will make it possible for indigent patients to receive free cannabis.

New sex toy to be unveiled at Folsom

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Sep 25, 2019

A new sex toy designed and produced by a local queer person will be unveiled at the Folsom Street Fair.

Online Extra: Castro's Papi Rico shutters

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Sep 16, 2019

Papi Rico, the Mexican cantina at 544 Castro Street, served its last margarita Sunday night as proprietor Rick Hamer decided to close the 16-month-old bar and restaurant.

Panel: SF drug programs are ineffective for meth users

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Sep 11, 2019

San Francisco's programs dealing with the city's epidemic of methamphetamine use are "just not working" effectively, a local nonprofit executive told a packed audience attending a town hall meeting on meth use in the queer community.

Bay Area Cannasseur: Cannabis retail projects head to planning panel

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Sep 4, 2019

San Francisco could have several new LGBT-owned cannabis businesses, if the applicants for new companies make it through the city's lengthy, expensive, and complicated approval process.

Coldwell Banker leaves Castro

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Sep 4, 2019

When the double storefront at 2355 Market Street (at Castro) goes dark Monday, September 9, the Castro will add another closed business to its long list of companies who left the neighborhood.

UCSF doc pens bestseller on aging

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Aug 21, 2019

While aging presents challenges for everyone, LGBT people who plan to grow old in San Francisco will have more than their share of obstacles.

Finn Town to become private event space

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Aug 20, 2019

Finn Town, the "tavern with a twist" in the Castro, will close its doors as a full service restaurant Sunday, August 25, and become a private event space next month.

Castro eatery must end alcohol sales

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Aug 20, 2019

A new Castro eatery has been ordered to stop serving alcohol because it doesn't have a liquor license.

Online Extra: Castro's Finn Town may shutter, owner says

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Aug 9, 2019

On the heels of the abrupt closure of several Castro restaurants this year, Finn Town, the popular Market Street "tavern with a twist," may shut its doors if business doesn't improve, the owner said this week.

Bay Area Cannasseur: 'Weed the People' starts in SF

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Jul 30, 2019

A free four-day conference to help people of color, queers, and women navigate opportunities in the cannabis industry, "Weed the People," will be held August 1-4 at the African American Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street in San Francisco.

Gay-owned Castro coffee shop burglarized

  • CRIME
  • by Sari Staver
  • Jul 24, 2019

Spike's, a longtime gay-owned Castro coffee shop at 4117 19th Street, was burglarized in the early morning hours of July 23.

Castro landlord Steven David Tessler dies

  • NEWS
  • by Sari Staver
  • Jul 17, 2019

Steven David Tessler, a gay man and longtime Castro landlord, died July 9 from complications of a stroke, which he suffered last year.