Handy reminder: the yearly gathering of drunk people in Santa Claus costumes returns to grace the city's streets with its annual displays of costumed public drunkenness tomorrow. Which means the day drinkers will be wearing fuzzy red suits (possibly arranged in a slightly promiscuous fashion on the ladies) and the eye-rollers will be silently judging them while also kind of wishing they were getting drunk in the afternoon. On Santacon day, like any of San Francisco's boozy holidays, everyone falls in to two camps: aggressively drinking or actively avoiding. So this map of Santa-friendly watering holes should come in handy for pretty much everyone in town. And because this is San Francisco, the city of a million options, there are several Santa-themed meetups this year, each with a different levels of acceptable nudity. more ›

Santacon, the yearly gathering of drunk people in Santa Claus costumes, will feature a lot less red velvet and a whole lot more pasty white this year. An offshoot of the main Santacon flashmob/bar hop group is looking to nab the Guinness Book record for the World's Largest Gathering of Naked Santas, thanks to San Francisco's longstanding history of tolerating nakedness and the fact that all the other Santa-related records were already taken. But what is Santa without his fuzzy red suit, you might wonder? The organizers explain the rules: more ›

For the second year in a row, the brilliant BrodyQat stunned SantaCon revelers and spectators with her Desaturated Santa Costume. more ›

If Civic Center, the Tenderloin, and Polk Street were any indication, SantaCon 2010 had a huge turn-out (with much of the Summer's Eve set taking things up a notch, which we did our best to filter out of the above gallery). Here are the best pics so far via the SFist Contribute page. more ›

What do you get when you couple a torrentially rainy day with the now annual SantaCon in which people gather in SF (and around the globe) to lead citywide bar crawls and/or flash mobs all dressed as Santa? You get a lot of wet, drunk people in who smell a little like wet dogs -- but nevertheless, the party went on yesterday, and there was an all-day dance party at Triple Crown for those who wanted to huddle indoors with their PBR rather than traipse around the city with others dressed in red. A little bit of rain wasn't going to stop these determined drinkers from having a festive good time! See a few pics here (more possibly coming), or check out this extensive slideshow by Gretchen Robinette over at the Weekly. more ›

Santacon, or Santarchy, happened over the weekend. People dressed up as St. Nick got drunk and roamed the streets of San Francisco. more ›

Tons of Santas invade our Hooters. more ›

Photos of Santarchy 2007 more ›

How do you feel about holiday music? We thought that KOIT started playing their 24/7 holiday programming a little early this year, but we do love randomly hearing Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad" in our car. There are two holiday albums out this year that we've been enjoying. If you're a fan of Sarah McLachlan, you should buy her holiday album Wintersong. The CD has several traditional holiday tunes, but we were pleasantly surprised by a cover of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" and "Christmas Time Is Here". And while no cover of Joni Mitchell's "River" can really improve on the original, it was still a nice inclusion. The other Christmas collection we highly recommend is Sufjan Stevens' Songs for Christmas. For around twenty bucks, you get 5 CDs gorgeously packaged with stickers, a poster and a singalong book. That's over 42 Sufjan Christmas tunes. more ›

They respect no law of man or God. They hedonistically pursue pleasure and merriment at all costs. They look fantastic in red and white. They are the legions of Santas who have gathered every year here in San Franicisco since 1994. Any number of artists, writers, musicians, engineers, freaks and raging drunks have been in their number since, and the movement has spread worldwide, including an appearance in Antarctica. This year's festivities kicked off on the other side of the International Date Line in sunny Auckland, New Zealand. more ›

“Christmas Bunny” outfit) needs an explanation, but we'll leave it up to one reveler to write what the point is: more ›