- Oakland's New Parkway movie house (read: the one you can drink at) gets a new lease, just in time for a 2012 deadline. [EastBayExpress]
- This is just a picture of Gov. Jerry Brown's Corgi in a shark costume. [Twitter]
- Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom would like to wish you a Happy New Year, on twitter obviously. [@GavinNewsom]
- Steve Jobs: Visionary outsourcer. [SFBiz]
- The Richmond District's Bazaar Cafe, in dire financial straits, is doing that thing where they ask the community for help. [RichmondSF]
- Anyone know what these three strapping young Muni buskers call themselves? Asking for a friend. [MuniDiaries]
- Wild Rescue, the organization known around the Bay for saving wayward sea lions and nailgun-shot birds, now has it's own line of coffee. It's called WildBrew, because why not? [WildRescue]
