Huh. What are you still doing behind that screen? Shouldn't you be stuck on a crowded Muni and/or BART train right now? Or stuck in traffic on the bridge? Or, better yet, liver deep in a bottle of bourbon while fretting over Mrs Dalloway-like preparations for tomorrow's big dinner? It's the day before Thanksgiving, you see, and your supervisor should have let you go home by now. If not, you must report him or her to HR at once. more ›

The holidays are stressful! The last thing weary hosts and hostesses need at this point is some overcomplicated turkey preparation technique. Enter San Francisco-based no-nonsense cooking instructor Mary Risley, a.k.a. Tante Marie of Tante Marie's Cooking School, who offers the best turkey advice we've heard to date: "Just put the fucking turkey in the oven. Don't worry about it. Turkey never really tastes good." more ›

"One thing I could count on every Thanksgiving, and you could bank on it, was at the beginning of the meal my mother saying, 'Larry and I like the dark meat.' It's the one thing we had in common. Dark meat." [Funny or Die via ISSF] more ›

Exemplary writer Joyce Slaton dares to go where some artisan half-baked food scribes should. Take, for example, the turkey she recently prepared as an assignment for CHOW, prepared using "Twinkling Turkey," a recipe from The Twinkies Cookbook of 2006. Yep. She made it. She ate it. It was horrific. more ›

This week, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco re-opened a case that began in 2003 when Chinese emigre Lei Li was denied asylum by a Los Angeles immigration judge. Li, claiming he was persecuted and beaten for starting an underground Christian church in China back in 2001, had his credibility called in to question because he testified in his original hearing that Thanksgiving was a Christian holiday. more ›

Whether you're taking your Thanksgiving meal with family or friends or complete strangers, one thing is certain - there are only so many times you can go back to the fridge for another slice of pie before you realize what you really need to fill that hole in your soul is a stiff drink and some surly bar neighbors. more ›

The Annual Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving: Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island will take place bright and early on Thursday morning. Boats depart Pier 33 every fifteen minutes starting at 4:45 a.m. through 6 a.m. more ›

Last week we asked for your Thanksgiving Dinner Pet Peeves, and among other things, the post promptly started some dispute between pro-Pie and anti-Pie factions. While at least some portion *cough* of SFist editorial staff was against "Warm fruit" in general, one reader even took to the tipline to proclaim very succinctly: "Pie is Disgusting." more ›

Can't cook? Won't cook? Don't want guests? Have no friends to call guests? Don't worry. These Thanksgiving feasts in the Bay Area (ranging from expensive prix fixes to freebies) will have your turkey binging covered. (We even have a cheap--if you consider $115/night inexpensive--hotel option at The Clift, a convenient and sleek place to stash your parents during the four-day holiday weekend.) more ›

Before next Thursday presses thankful vibes upon us all, let's take a moment to talk about some of the more egregious Thanksgiving dinner pet peeves. Perhaps we can nib them in the bud this year? Let's begin: more ›

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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. more ›

In an city saturated with aggressively rustic food, these hors d'oeuvres are a refreshingly couture treat for any Thanksgiving spread. (We should point out that this is a dish SFist has praised in the past.) Plucked from Martha Stewart's Entertaining (also known as Entertaining: A Case Study in Hysteria and Paranoia), this recipe for snow peas stuffed with soft cheese is a simple and not-too-filling preface to a carb-heavy dinner. more ›

The truth of the matter is, you can drink almost anything with turkey dinner -- most full-bodied, earthy, or well-balanced red wines, and many German, or Rhône-style whites will do the trick just fine. So many diverse flavors mean that many wines are bound to taste good with at least something you have on your plate. more ›

Thanksgiving is just around the corner. (Can you feel the collective nervousness of the turkeys? That's the feeling of flavor!) And until next Thursday, SFist will post recipes we would love for you to use, if the mood should strike, for your Thanksgiving feast. What's more, some of the recipes will be brought to you by local chefs of note! Hopefully. more ›

Yeah. This is a day late. Digesting solid food was a fresh and exciting experience for us, so most of our Thanksgiving was busy doing that. Anyway. more ›

Stuffing the way it's mean to be, in its purest form, sans walnuts or raisins. Learn it, love it. more ›

In lieu of getting drunk on unoaked Chardonnays, watching a football match or sorts, or binge eating on meat and pasty carbs, you can check out the Indigenous Peoples Annual Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island tomorrow morning. To quote the organizers: "Join us in this day to give thanks for the Creator's gifts, renew our commitment to protect Mother Earth, honor the many heroes of our struggles, celebrate Indigenous Peoples' survival and build solidarity among all Peoples. Tobacco and prayers will be offered to the fire for the Earth and coming generations, and for All Our Relations." Your guess is as good as our as to what will take place. But we do know that Morning Star Gali, Lakota Harden, and Bill Means will emcee the early morning fun. All Nations drum troupe and traditional Aztec and Pomo Dancers will also perform. Everyone is welcome. more ›

RIP, little fellas. more ›

For those of you with a decent chunk of change and a basting phobia, CHOW has compiled their list of top SF restaurants in which to celebrate Thanksgiving. Their top choice, Ducca, has an "Italian take on the holiday" featuring a "three-course meal, which includes turkey involtino and caramelized Brussels sprouts." A few other places of note are AME Restaurant ("lots of fresh fish from the sashimi bar"), Luce - InterContinental San Francisco Hotel (lobster with butternut squash and chestnuts with vin jaune), and the reasonably-priced Home ("serving a basic three-course prix fixe menu, with choice of turkey, ham, or veggie entree, and pumpkin pie, pecan pie, or sorbet for dessert.) Do you know of a decent Thanksgiving dinner with an appropriately pasty-textured menu? Let readers know about it in the comments. more ›

Looking fresh-faced wrapped in a classic Burberry scarf, former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave an interview yesterday that can only be described as a pitiful attempt to get back on the Daily Show. In a 2008 news story on KTUU channel 2 in Anchorage, Palin is interviewed at a turkey farm while a man drains the blood from dead turkeys in the background. more ›

-- A Vallejo husband and father, Kevin Owens, 41, went though with a murder/suicide pact (with himself, we guess) on Friday night. He shot and killed his wife, Stacey Owens, 38; wounded his two-year-old daughter; and then turned the gun on himself (right after "a big Thanksgiving dinner at their home Thursday night.") This happened on the 300 block of Carousel Drive. Owens' 10-year-old son managed to escape the bloodbath, run to a neighbor's,... more ›

In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed over fifty homes within the first 24 hours. National outlets may be covering the fires, but CNN also found it is easier to buy a gun than fruit and veggies in South Central. On the entertainment front, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are suing Showtime over the show titled Californication and Rami Kashou of Project Runway chatted with LAist about his Palestinian heritage and, of course, designing beauty. more ›

Welcome back, little piggies, from your night of binge eating and sipping. (That is, if you were fortunate enough to do so.) Why not get up, out, and about tonight to work off that meal, hangover with the following: more ›

Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, the day where big retail shoppers traditionally break even for the year! Traditionally considered the biggest shopping day of the year! Is it retail therapy? ....Or is it kowtowing to the gods of capitalism and binding the workers who long to be free? more ›

Blah blah blah soup kitchens blah blah fun-runs blah holiday schedules. All that stuff's fascinating, of course, but here's what we really want to know: Muni, where can we find all the hottest Xmas shopping deals? Aside from Dress Barn, of course. Fear not, shoppers, for Muni's assembled a guide to holiday buying, starting on the day after Thanksgiving and extending to late December. Thanks to the MTA, you are now fully prepared to buy gifts, no matter which Xmas you celebrate: the real one, the Jewish one, or the black one. more ›

Care to avoid be ridiculed by your Thanksgiving hosts following your departure after din din? Good. Then pay attention. (For those of you who have T-Day hosts who regularly gulp Chuck Shaw or Yellowtail, ew, feel free to ignore this post. You're screwed anyway.) more ›

The Third Annual Thanksgiving Dodgeball Game is kicking off at 9 p.m. at Dolores Park, Thanksgiving Day. While it's probably best that you go after your food's been well digested, there's nothing like getting pummeled with balls to help you work off those turkey pounds. Just make sure to bring your own balls (literally and figuratively, we suppose) as whoever is running this thing has told us that they won't be supplying the, uh,... more ›

-- The Life of Reilly: He starred in Hello, Dolly, won a Tony and an Emmy, a Broadway director, and had one hell of a mother, but Charles Nelson Rilley will always be remembered for his Match Game PM innuendos and Brett Sommers trashing. His one-man show was filmed (thank God) for posterity just before he died, and you have the privilege of seeing a star of such magnitude tonight at 7:30 p.m. and 9:15 at the Lumiere Theatre. more ›