- Former SF Bay Guardian staffer Caitlin Donohue's [4U Magazine] takes "a queer, feminist look at the influence Beyonce had on us in 2014."
- [Eater SF] discusses the various price options at Saison, makes a bar graph to show all the most expensive tasting menus in the Bay Area.
- Pyrotechnicians are putting the final touches on the 4,000 to 5,000 fireworks that will be set off from barges in the Bay. Meanwhile, the amateur pyrotechnicians in your neighborhood are day drinking and making sure they have a lighter for the M-80s they bought in Reno. [ABC7]
- Yale prof Robert Shiller says the SF housing market is "getting a little bit bubbly," and he's not talking about what you're drinking tonight. [Business insider]
- [Slate] brings us The Year in Uber. And what a year it was.
- The [SF Chronicle]'s John King looks at 10th and Mission as an example of how SF has changed in recent years.
- A couple decides to "eat out at every restaurant, cafe, and bakery they could find in the Castro." [Hoodline]