SF News Police Arrest 4 People After Union Square Pro-Palestine Protest Saturday SFPD arrested 3 adults and 1 minor in the aftermath of Saturday afternoon's protest in San Francisco’s downtown shopping district, in which one man with a "Free Palestine" sign climbed the giant Union Square Christmas tree.
Arts & Entertainment Life-Size Gingerbread House Has Returned to Fairmont Hotel, So Gumdrop It Like It's Hot The two-story, walk-in, 7,750-brick gingerbread house is back to spice up San Francisco’s holiday season, and the icing on the cake is that you can book a dinner inside of it.
Arts & Entertainment Hold On to Your Hats: Santacon Rears Its Bearded Head Again Saturday The annual, abominable snowman of a pub crawl known as Santacon returns Saturday, and here’s how you better watch out for the damned thing, or else Santa yourself up and ride the tide of Yule.
Arts & Entertainment Life-Size Gingerbread House Back At Fairmont Hotel, And You Can Book A Dinner Inside It The 22-foot-tall, 3,300-brick life-size gingerbread house is back at the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill, and you too can make a dinner reservation to eat inside of it, for what shakes down to about a $1,500 minimum.
Arts & Entertainment Tracy Man Famous for Holiday Light Shows Does Xmas Tribute for Wife After She Survived a Stroke Tom BetGeorge, the lighting designer whose holiday light displays on his home in Tracy at Halloween and Christmas time have been the stuff of much local-news fodder the past few years, is back at it, but with new personal meaning to this year's work.
SF News The Rock is Cooking Up Free Xbox Consoles for Kids at UCSF Children's Hospital The new Xbox Series X is hard to come by in stores, but free for several lucky youngsters at the four Bay Area UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital locations.
Arts & Entertainment Longtime Gay Activist and Creator Tom Taylor, of Tom & Jerry Christmas House Fame, Dies at 77 Tom Taylor, the creator of the Tom & Jerry House Christmas display with its enormous tree at 21st and Church Street passed away last week. The cause was reportedly prostate cancer.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 50 Best SF Restaurants Open Or Delivering On Christmas Day Eating on Christmas means stuffing yourself stupid, regardless of your religion, lack thereof, or place on the socioeconomic hierarchy. So we here at SFist broke down San Francisco/Bay Area restaurants open on
SF News San Francisco Might Actually (Maybe) Get Snow On Christmas Eve Citizens of San Francisco, have you heard the good news? The Chronicle reports that there is a chance we might get a dusting of snow on Christmas Eve. How much of chance? A
SF News Holidays In SF Means Parking Given, Other Parking Taken Away Update 12/23: Basically everything I wrote in this post regarding Muni's parking enforcement over the holidays was wrong. I'm sorry about that — I took the information exactly as it appeared on Muni's
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What Are Your San Francisco Christmas Traditions? Dear Rain, After over a decade of living in San Francisco but flying "home" every year, it occurred to me that, uh, this is my home! So I'll be staying in the city
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Jane Lynch Declares It Christmas, Talks Holiday Album, SF Performance, And McDonald's Fries At the absolute earliest, the Christmas season typically starts toward the middle of dessert at Thanksgiving. But Jane Lynch, three-time Emmy and Golden Globe winner, declares that the holiday season starts now, and
SF News SF's Tallest, Most Tremendous Christmas Tree? It's At A Building Partially Owned By Donald Trump When the yugest, really the most tremendous Christmas tree in San Francisco is lit up in a ceremony on November 29th, Donald Trump won't be there to flip the switch, but his spirit
SF News Hoverboards Set To Get Even Dorkier With Mandatory Helmet Law, Other Regulations Taking Effect Now that the season's hottest gift has been scooped up across California like some sort of 21st century Tickle-Me Elmo, a new law is set to take effect January 1 that will govern
Arts & Entertainment SFFD Warns That Your Christmas Tree Might Kill You, Wants To Feed It To The Goats While why a felled tree is seen as a representation of Christmas is the topic of much debate, the San Francisco Fire Department doesn't care about symbolism — they just want to make sure
SF News Google-Owned Robot Maker Ruins Christmas With War-Machine Dogs Pulling Santa's Sleigh Just in time for Christmas, maker of futuristic robots for the US Military, Google-owned Boston Dynamics, has unleashed a video that is sure to crush all visions of sugar plums dancing in heads
SF News 'Dusting' Of Snow Expected On Bay Area Peaks This Christmas As the last several days of rain tapers off, forecasters are predicting another form of precipitation for the Bay Area: Snow! (Just not very much of it.) According to the Chron, meteorologists "are
SF News Start Dreaming Of A Wet Christmas After yesterday's rain, things are only set to get wetter. The National Weather Service predicts that not only will it rain throughout the day today and into the evening, but that the rainy
SF News Prepare For A Wet Christmas Around The Bay, And A White Christmas In Tahoe A new set of rainstorms will descend on the Bay Area by the end of this week, setting the stage for consecutive days of wet weather extending until after Christmas. These will be
SF News Why Was City Hall Lit Up With Christmas Colors During Hanukkah? With the end of Hanukkah tonight, the Festival Of Lights officially comes to a close for 2015. And so, it is perhaps more than a little confusing that over the course of the
Arts & Entertainment The Tom & Jerry House: Inside SF's Most Insane Christmas Display Multiple generations of San Franciscans have gotten their holly-jollies every December at the Tom & Jerry House, an unbelievably huge and fantastically tacky Christmas display at 21st and Church Streets in Dolores Heights.
SF News USPS Once Again Wants Your Help Answering Children's Letters To Santa The United States Postal Service is attempting to bring a little joy to the hearts of children, and they need your help. This year marks the 103rd anniversary of USPS's Operation Santa, a
SF News Drought Hates Christmas, Shrinks Christmas Trees Natalie Sare met her husband in 1972 while working on his Christmas Tree farm in Half Moon Bay during college. "He said he was going to fire me because I talked too much,
Arts & Entertainment How To Get Rid Of That Christmas Tree Christmas has passed so it's time for that yearly tradition of disposing of that tree! Disposal specifics vary from city to city, but generally speaking you should remove all decorations and either cut
SF News Two Potrero Hill Homes Destroyed In Christmas Morning Fire I don't know what it is with Christmas and fires, but for the second year in a row there was a major house fire on Christmas Day. Thursday morning a fire broke out
