- Beretta's avian-themed secret illustrated cocktail menu is pretty much the living embodiment of the Portlandia entreaty to "put a bird on it." [Eater SF]
- Texans are angry that a Novato man is asking for a veggie option at a popular area burger chain. [Houston Chronicle]
- One SFPD officer was convicted, another acquitted of conspiring to enter and search residential hotel rooms without a warrant during drug investigations. [CBS5] [SF Chronicle]
- Protesters flood BART Board meeting to demand that charges be dropped against the folks behind a Black Friday demonstration that halted service. [KRON4] [SF Examiner] [KCBS] [ABC7]
- Could Google become your new wireless service provider? [Fox]
- Apple's Tim Cook got a $6.7 million bonus last year. [CNBC]
- They keep dropping the price of the Princess Diaries firehouse. [SocketSite]
- There's a new book that celebrates the "Legendary Locals" of San Francisco's west side. [Richmond SF blog]
- Your Apple Watch is likely to conk out before your day is done. [9 to 5 Mac]
- Noe Valley residents mourn Greg, a 24th Street fixture for over a decade. [Noe Valley SF]
- Planning Department staffers get more than they bargained for when public meeting on Mission street improvements turned into community member announcements like “We don’t want any more development, because the neighborhood is being exploited as a theme park for Google." [Mission Local] [Streetsblog]
- Thousands of folks convicted of felonies in SF might get out of jail far earlier than expected. [SF Examiner]