• Crankypants Chronicle columnist pairs his cheese with San Francisco's whine. [Nevius/Chron]

• A Texas A&M professor is searching for lost tunnels under Alcatraz. [Houston Chron]

• Somebody was busted using a fake Department of Corrections badge to get free rides on Muni. [BCN/Appeal]

• A woman in her forties died of the flu in San Mateo County. [SFEx]

• SPUR looks back at 2013: the Year in Urbanism. [The Urbanist]

• Hey, local coyote, what are you doing in that tree? [@deeezeee]

• TechCrunch, still a source of insider-y startup news, loses it's influential editor Eric Eldon. [Valleywag]

• Here's local celebrity chef Michael Chiarello on Jimmy Fallon being a celebrity chef: