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
Arts & Entertainment Hackers Try To Ruin Projected GIF Holiday Cards You know those animated GIF greeting cards you could get projected on those walls downtown, along Market Street, sponsored by some local artists and arts orgs? Well, "some time traveling hackers from the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best SF Cookies To Leave For "Santa" Santa comes but once a year, and when he does arrive at your humble abode, he demands to be fed like Cookie Monster. Saint Nick has also grown dissatisfied with Chips Ahoy and
SF News SF To Have Sunny Christmas, But It May Be Wet In The East Bay Most of you should have been asking Santa for rain this Christmas anyway, and if you weren't, you're selfish. But for those who did, your gift will be arriving in the form of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bay Area Man Turns Christmas Decorations Into Massive Star Wars Tribute Thousands are flocking to a Bay Area home that mixes Star Wars and Christmas in a delightful way, as you can see in the video below. This is the second year that Tom
SF News Happy Holidays From The SFFD: Terrifying Burning Xmas Tree Demo To celebrate the holiday and give you warm fuzzies, the San Francisco Fire Department lit a christmas tree on fire in the middle of the sidewalk, incinerating it in under 30 seconds. We're
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cats vs. Christmas Trees Cats don't like Christmas trees. Or, rather, they really like to jump on them and knock them over, and play with tinsel, and lights. Anyway, this is funny. [h/t: Tastefully Offensive]
Arts & Entertainment What Was The Awesomest Christmas Present You Ever Got? Christmas is just better when you're a kid. Like five, six, or seven years old. The anticipation is insane. The wonder and delight at waking up Christmas morning are real. It's a time
SF News Go Do This Tonight: Drag Queens On Ice The headline says it all, folks. Drag Queens. Ice. Top 40 hits. Gowns. Wigs. Union Square. Blades of whorey. Rad. Everything you need to to do tonight happens on the ice. Join Donna
Arts & Entertainment Gingerbread, Snowy Gables, Bearded Men Carving Trinkets: If Whoville Were Real It'd Be A Place Called Saxony This post is brought to you by our advertiser, Saxony Tourism. What was the best part of Christmas when you were young? Piling into the car to check out the the neighborhood lights?
Arts & Entertainment Get Disgustingly Merry At Tomorrow's Christmas Tree Lighting In The FiDi Now that you're done with Thanksgiving, we present to you Christmas. Awesome, vulgar, merry, horrific, pepperminty and beautiful Christmas. It's the holiday everyone has to pretend to hate, but still secretly loves in
Arts & Entertainment Stop Everything: 96.5 KOIT XMas Barrage Begins At Noon TODAY What's more addictive and more dangerous this time of year than a gram of Tenderloin black tar? "Hey Santa!" by Brian Wilson by proxy. It borders on genius, really. So hooky. So California.
SF News 12 Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Wake Up At 5 A.M. To Shop On Black Friday Our nation's collective consumerist orgasm is almost upon us, and we have a few questions. Think of this like a Cosmo quiz, except instead of finding out if your boyfriend loves you, you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Have A Super Luxe Xmas: Meadowood's 12 Days of Christmas Assuming some of you have the means and desire to take a quick jaunt to St. Helena this holiday season to experience the wonders of Meadowood, its restaurant, and a holiday meal created
SF News Video: Castro Store Flips Out On Caroling Sodastream Protesters Left-leaning protesters arrived en masse at Cliff's Variety in the Castro on Christmas Eve to protest the selling of Sodastream. Why? Well, according to Who Profits, the company that makes ordinary tap water
Arts & Entertainment What Are You Still Doing at the Office? It's that time of day during this time of year when we play everybody's most exciting/depressing game: What are you still doing the the office? Tell us, are you working overtime? Are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's A List Of Some Good Restaurants Open On Christmas Eve Sure, a bevy of tourist traps will remain open for Christmas Eve (e.g., Benihana, Cioppino's on the Wharf, Stinking Rose, et al.), but other places that won't offend your tissue-tender gastronomical sensibilities
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At The California Academy Of Sciences... Santa, AKA diver George Bell, swims in the 100,000 gallon Amazon Flooded Forest tank as part of the 'Tis the Season for Science holiday exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences.
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In The Castro... This house, located on Castro between Duboce and 14th Street, lights up the night each year during the holiday season with this beautifully bombastic display.
