SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Fairmont's Largest Gingerbread House The Fairmont Hotel unveils their largest gingerbread house ever. (It's 23 feet high!) [SFEx] Getty Spotting: Vanessa Getty seen wearing fashions at Barney's New York. [SFWire] The nail gun-shot red-tailed hawk is doing
SF News Day Around The Bay: Food Truck Debate Renewed Public officials will be lighting Christmas Trees (or non-denominational holiday of your choice trees, if you like) on Nob Hill and in the Castro tonight. [BCN/Appeal] Food trucks are killing restaurants, says
SF News Gavin Newsom: Kentfield, California Homeowner Gavin Newsom has finally found a quaint new suburban home to call his own, the Chronicle's Leah Garchik reports today. The new house, in the overwhelmingly caucasian town of Kentfield, California, is the
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Burning Man Tickets While They're Still Expensive Burning Man presale tickets went on sale today. Or rather: the opportunity to volunteer to possibly pay a premium on $420 early bird tickets opened up today. As in previous years, presale tickets
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Suburban Bar Fights The Richmond is getting two very lovely looking playground renovations. [RichmondSF] Another big Tenderloin drug crackdown leads to 42 arrests. [SFAppeal] Have you ever wondered what was behind the doors of SFO's Noise
Arts & Entertainment This Week In Willie Brown: Searching For Ribs Still wrapping up his post-election coverage, Willie Brown gives us a glimpse in to the charmed world of a local power broker (or not) at the "Run, Ed, Run" victory dinner last week.
SF News Hyde Street Cable Car Line Currently Out Of Commission Attention Holiday shoppers and anyone looking to add a scenic cable car ride to their holiday weekend activities: the Hyde Street line is currently out of order until further notice due to an
SF News Downtown Muni Metro Train Strikes Pedestrian Around 5 a.m. this morning, a Muni Metro light rail vehicle struck a pedestrian walking on the tracks in an underground tunnel between the Embarcadero and Montgomery Street stations. The pedestrian was
SF News Post-Turkey Friday Morning Constitutional: Ugly Christmas Tees, Union Square Trees, Occupy Best Buy Ironically ugly Christmas Sweaters are a fad we can deal with, but ugly sweater t-shirts? Now you're just being lazy. [SFWeekly] A chocolatier pops up in the Dogpatch. [SFBiz] Don't forget the Union
SF News Man Shot Over Black Friday Haul At Wal-Mart During the early morning Black Friday rush in the East Bay suburbs, a family of eager shoppers was held up at gunpoint in the parking lot of a San Leandro Wal-Mart. Reports say
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dottie's True Blue Cafe To Revitalize Mid-Market? Local fans of soul food, brunch and waiting in line to eat in the Tenderloin have been keeping an eye on Dottie's True Blue Cafe since rumors surfaced back in June that the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thanksgiving Advice: 'Just Put the F**king Turkey in the Oven' [Video] 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
SF News Mayor Lee, Supervisors Wrap Up Healthy SF Loophole After the Board of Supervisors narrowly approved reformed Healthy SF legislation yesterday, the Mayor quickly signed off on the bill that will solved the so-called "January 1 Problem". The reform measure popped up
SF News Oakland Teen Busted For Armed Carjackings In deplorable teen news: a 14-year-old kid from Oakland was arrested by San Leandro police earlier this week in connection with four cases of grand theft auto. The teen and his accomplice, an
SF News Pre-Turkey Link Dump: Godwin's Law, Compost, Being Nice To Occupy Stop talking shit about the Occupy Movement, says local columnist/comedian W. Kamau Bell. [SFWeekly] The Chronicle's Leah Garchik, always in fine form around the holidays, explains Godwin's Law and how it pertains
SF News Wrongfully Accused iPhone Thief Exonerated A man accused of stealing a woman's iPhone in one of those regrettably common Muni bus snatch-and-dash thefts was finally let off the hook by a jury in San Francisco last week. The
SF News Local Blogger 'Totally Unprepared' For Earthquakes [Video] Local blogger and photographer Todd Lappin — the intrepid explorer behind Telstar Logistics, Bernalwood and probably more than one Photo du Jour around these parts — bravely allowed the host of the earthquake preparedness webshow
SF News Federal High-Speed Rail Funds Dry Up, But California Project Far From Dead When the decidedly anti-rail Congress eliminated future funding for high-speed rail late last week, California's bullet train looked to be running out of track real fast. Although House Republicans were eagerly taking credit
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Terrific/Terrible Doll That Calls You A Crazy B**ch Because there's nothing quite like obscenities from the mouths of children's toys: behold, the You & Me Interactive Triplets doll, which may or may not be teaching children ages two and up how
SF News Occupy SFist: The Chronicle Opines, Nuru Tweets, Santa Rosa's Half-Eviction As the Occupy news turns from protests to campouts, we bring you a roundup of notable opinions on the camps, the protesters and the movement itself. In national Occupy news, The New Yorker
SF News Stolen Picasso Turns Tourist Attraction As Thief Turns Inmate Mark Lugo, the sommelier-turned-art thief who casually walked out of a Union Square Art Gallery with Picasso's Tête de Femme sketch back in July, was sentenced to 16 months in jail yesterday. And
SF News Ed Lee, City Treasurer Ask For Your Charity This Holiday Season Because it is the holiday season (and also because the city is broke), Mayor Ed Lee and City Treasurer Jose Cisneros have announced Give2SF.org, a site where the city will gladly accept
SF News Mid-Season Candlestick Park Crime Updates: Lower Than Average Arrests, But Known Criminals Abound While recent anecdotal evidence suggests a generally positive mood in Candlestick Park after the season got off to a rather rocky start for the gameday attendees, it's always good to check the stadium's
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Garden Club Hats, Wine Bars, Dumbfounding Occupy Sentences Fire-displaced ice cream shop Three Twins Ice Cream temporarily returns to the Lower Haight today to sling limited edition holiday flavors. PRO-TIP: A scoop of Egg Nog ice cream goes great in a
SF News SFPD Seeks Two Suspects In Lombard Street Motel Rape SFPD are searching for two men suspected of robbing and raping a woman at gunpoint in a Lombard Street motel last month. According to police reports, one of the two suspects made contact
