Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On A Crane... ...a Christmas tree of light was born. (Photo by Mark.2000.)
SF News Reminder: Don't Take A Road Flare To Your Christmas Tree Because That Would Be Stupid In front of St. Francis Memorial Hospital today, members of the S.F. Fire Department set up a safety demonstration to show local holiday decorators just how fast a well-watered pine can go
Arts & Entertainment Last-Minute Gift Guide For SF Kids Tis the week leading up to Christmas. But don't panic. For the remainder of the week, we will post last-minute gift ideas ripe for the plucking, wrapping, and giving. Starting things off? A
Arts & Entertainment Crazy, Enormous 'Living Bethlehem,' With 115 Live Actors, Opens Tomorrow in Livermore A Livermore contractor has invested four years of his life into creating an elaborate, 35,000-square-foot live Nativity in downtown Livermore, and it's called "Living Bethlehem." Shows run every 30 minutes, and it
Arts & Entertainment 7 Reasons To Love San Francisco: Christmas Edition There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco during the holiday season, but sometimes a picture says so much more that mere words. Each Tuesday, we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our
Arts & Entertainment Photo Call: Show Us The Bay Area's Best Holiday Lights Display This time of year, landmarks and destinations alike are dressed in their most festive attire, such as the Christmas trees you'll find at both Union Square and Ghirardelli. But the best displays are
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Whiskey Christmas' We've got an audio cleanser for you today: "Whiskey Christmas," a song off the 2007 album Christmas Songs for Drunken Atheists by Irish folk-punk band Darby O'Gill and the Little People. San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment SFist Gift Guide: 2-Carat Cup This contributor is admittedly gift-buying challenged, but local gift purveyors, Misha SF (1428 Polk), make it super easy for us to make discerning purchases. Their Polk Street storefront is chock-full of quirkily fun
SF News Attack Ad: Christmas-Loving Rick Perry Ashamed Of U.S. Military Speaking of sanity-estranged, plummeting GOP candidate Rick Perry released an anti-gay television ad today, one that lambastes our country's military while claiming that our children cannot celebrate Christmas in school (which is a
Arts & Entertainment Adopt Living Christmas Tree Before It Gets Planted On City Streets Instead of cutting and hauling a typical Christmas tree to your living room (you murderer), why not get a living tree to decorate with care for the holidays? San Francisco's Department of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Street Denny's Jumps Christmas Gun Set to ruin your Thanksgiving cheer (is that a thing? it should really be thing), the Denny's on Mission Street erected a Christmas tree... on November 8th. Premature, yes? yes. Esteemed Inside Scoop
SF News Christmas Giving Around Town On Christmas Eve, Lefty O'Doul's collected 15,000 toys for the annual Firefighters Toy Program, and many more toys were dropped off at local fire stations or picked up and delivered for free
SF News 'Tis the Season for Stealing Christmas The quiet enclave of Foster City is shocked to find that some ne'er-do-wells are going around stealing packages from doorsteps. Foster City police have identified one possible suspect in at least two cases
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Christmas Dinner Menu Solved: Hot Holiday Tamales Not just reserved for drunken cyclists at Zeitgeist, tamales are a savory and sweet holiday treat during the holiday season for many South and Central American countries. So, in lieu of making the
SF News Expect Post Office Nightmare Today If you want to get your holiday gifts or cards to relatives and loved ones by Christmas, today would be the day to head to your nearest post office, where it's certain to
SF News Fired Macy's Santa Claus Hired By Lefty O'Douls By now we all know the tale of John Toomey, the Union Square Macy's Santa Claus who was fired after telling a barely risque joke to a couple of horrible old people. Well,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Recommends: The Oddman Family Christwanzaakuh Spectacular Ignoring for a moment that contractions of multiple holidays for the purpose of creating a singular, tongue-twisting bonanza has been nearly done to death, the seasonally-relevant original production of The Oddman Family Christwanzaakuh
SF News S.F. Union Square Macy's Fires Santa Claus Sad news, kids. Christmas is canceled. The Union Square Macy's store has, sadly, fired John Toomey, known for 20 years at the store's "Santa John." Why? Well, according to the Chronicle, it all
misc Desaturated Santa Blows San Franciscans Minds For the second year in a row, the brilliant BrodyQat stunned SantaCon revelers and spectators with her Desaturated Santa Costume. No, it's not Photoshopped! Says BrodyQuat on Reddit: "It's a custom grey Santa
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Holiday Events December only just began yesterday, and so has the whirlwind of events. SantaCon: If you can't get enough of drunk Santas, then Saturday's your lucky day. Lots of bars will be full of
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Holiday Events Here are a few holiday events happening this week, if you're into that sort of thing. Sugar Castle: This Wednesday morning (November 24) a twelve-foot rotating holiday Sugar Castle created by the Westin
Arts & Entertainment Friday: Macy's Christmas Window Displays Rain Kittens, Puppies Attention Animal Lovers: This Friday at 5 p.m., Macy's will unveil their annual holiday window displays filled with scampering adoptable kittens and puppies from the San Francisco SPCA. The selection of pets
Arts & Entertainment Christmas Midnight Mass, Anyone? Have you ever been to XMas Eve's Midnight Mass before? We haven't. Well, we've been to this kind of Midnight Mass; however, sources indicate that that wasn't the real kind of Mass. Anyway,
