There was no press release this year that instigated this story. We pursued it on our own. Terry Asten Bennett in particular is who mentioned Glow in the Streets, an event we were of course aware of.

This feels like a conversation worth having with Manny, the Castro Merchants and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence than arguing in The Bold Italic comments and, separately from C&J, in Instagram DMs.

It feels unlikely to serve C&J or community effort in Castro to publish a follow-up story with a tit-for-tat angle on the absence of Glow in the Streets. But the rest of your comment about the event, and Halloween, and C&J's involvement in Halloween are taken with thanks. We'll keep in mind how to correct the narrative on this particular topic going forward, but TBH as it was said to another today at C&J, The Bold Italic is but a very small part of the local media landscape.