Tree Lighting Ceremony This Friday, 11/27

No, no. Did you really think you were getting a day off from having the holiday season shoved down your throat? That you would get a day of rest come Friday? Well, think again. Because Macy's is putting on the city's 20th annual tree lighting ceremony that night.

Afternoon Palate Cleanser: An All-Muppet Version of "Bohemian Rhapsody"

This one's making the rounds today, as well it should. It's a brand new, all-muppet version of Queen's classic "Bohemian Rhapsody," featuring 70 different Muppets and, our favorite, Animal asking for his mama. Cheers.

What's Going On Here, Market Street?

It's getting painted today. Finally.

SFist Does Thanksgiving: Juanita More's Cranberry Brandy Sauce

Dessert isn't one of your editor's favorite courses -- especially at Thanksgiving time. Pumpkin pie is too gluey, pecan pie involves nuts, and apple pie is packed with vile warm, slimy fruit.

SFist Tonight

MUSIC: Enjoying watching solo acts perform? We sure do. (Hence our unshared love for cabaret acts.) Which is why you should check out "I Rock Alone! A Night of Weird Solo Acts" happening in the Tenderloin at the city's most deceptively named venue. Here's what's in store for you: The Slow Poisoner, a San Francisco-based "snake oil salesman that bangs a drum festooned with sleigh bells while singing jingles about the miracle tonic that he hawks from the stage"; Mosquito Bandito, a Wisconsin-based "renowned one man band" who performs "distorted blues singles"; and the 1 Man Banjo, a member of the Extra Action Marching Band and Hobo Gobbelins. Single people, unite! By spending some time with local solo acts.

SF Murder #44

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Sutter and Leavenworth played host to San Francisco's 44th murder of 2009 this moring. "[T]he incident took place in the wee hours when witnesses watched a woman end a 'dispute' by stabbing someone else," SF Weekly reports. "The alleged killer was later detained by police." No word yet as to the sex and identity of the victim.

Gavin Newsom's Mariah Carey-like Interview Demand

The (and, in all seriousness, we really do hate to say this, because he is, after all, our city's mayor) downward spiral of Gavin Newsom continues. Phil Bronstein goes for broke today when he ripped Newsom a new one. Rightfully so. See, in what was supposed to be an interview with FOX affiliate KTVU, Newsom demanded that the interviewer stick to the subject of Muni, the city's public transit system he rarely, if ever, rides. Bronstein says:

Urgent: SF Food Bank Needs Your Help

We know. Money is tight. Very tight. But people are starving in San Francisco. Not just the homeless, but people you might even know. People close to you. Your friends and family and neighbors. Seriously.

Photo du Jour 514

"Stairwell at SF MOMA" by Flickr user jrodmanjr.

Parents Petition Caltrain to Reduce Train Speed In Palo Alto

After four students at Gunn High School committed suicide "at or near the same Caltrain crossing in Palo Alto," a group of area parents have asked Caltrain to reduce the speed of trains to a staggeringly slow 5 miles per hour.

How to Keep Your Car Windows Safe In the Tenderloin

Jerry James Stone snapped this image while frolicking in San Francisco's Historic Tenderloin District last night. This sign, it seems, is supposed to keep rapscallions from smashing the vehicle's windows. How very depressing.

Motorcyclist Killed In Broadway Tunnel

A man riding a motorcycle crashed and died inside the Broadway tunnel last night, resulting in the tunnel's closure for more than two hours.

Day Around the Bay

  • Any donation made online to the San Francisco Food Bank through Wednesday, November 25th will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $10,000. [SF Food Bank]
  • Do you want to live in a Twitter CEO's old SOMA digs? Because we sure do. Sigh. [Curbed]
  • Michael Chiarello teaches you how to brine your holiday meat. [CHOW]

Help Children Have a Merry Xmas While Receiving a Lap Dance

SF Weekly brings us some merry/horny news: the fine folks over at Market Street Cinema (a strip joint as seen via their NSFW site) are now accepting new unwrapped gifts for Toys for Tots in exchange for admission. Aw.

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