Arts & Entertainment Mariah Carey Announces a New Christmas Tour, But There's No Bay Area Date (Yet) Self-proclaimed Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey is taking her Christmas spectacular on the road this year, and she'll be playing two dates in California — just none in Northern California.
SF News SF to Deploy 150 'Ambassadors' to Make Downtown Shopping District Feel Safer This Holiday Season After the PR disaster that San Francisco faced last year around the holidays, with smash-and-grab robberies being conducted left and right by coordinated gaggles of thieves, the mayor is hoping for a calmer season this year.
Arts & Entertainment Union Square Holiday Ice Rink Opens for First Time In Two Years Holiday season skating returns to Union Square today, after a long, two-year hiatus.
Arts & Entertainment Ice Rinks Open at Union Square and Justin Herman Plaza Today Not only are they already rolling out the Christmas shit at Walgreen's, but signs of the impending holidays continue with the openings of the Union Square and Embarcadero ice rinks this a.m.
SF News So, Just How Shitty Was Your Air Travel Experience This Weekend? The big news this post-Xmas weekend was, of course, that little punk who boarded the plane in Nigeria and tried to blow up that Northwest/Delta flight landing in Detroit on Friday. He
SF News Holiday Log Returns to TV36/KTVU! From 7 a.m. to noon on Christmas Day, KTVU 36 will air the famous holiday log, which will set your TV set ablaze while KOIT easy-listening holiday tunes coo softy in the
SF News Look Out for Wood Fire Ban on Christmas Eve/Day Light winds and cool, dry air predicted for the end of the week may be a bad, smoke-trapping combo with the addition of wood burning fires. So the Bay Area Air Quality Management
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Big Cat Christmas! Courtesy of Big Cat Rescue comes this adorable holiday video featuring tigers, lions, and a baby leopard chewing open some Xmas gifts! Let's just try to enjoy these lovely animals and put that
SF News Yahoo! Forcing Vacation on Employees Christmas Week During the week between Christmas and New Year's, Yahoo! is furloughing most of their 13,000 employees or forcing them to use remaining vacation days, in order to trim costs on their end-of-year
SF News Newsom Shakes Things Up With Poinsettia Last week, Mayor Gavin Newsom kicked off a new online communication series on YouTube, ingeniously christened "Mayor Newsom's YouTube Update." Yeah. But it's kinda cool, actually, where in each week Newsom sits down
misc Scene from a Holiday Shoplifter in Handcuffs While shooting in Union Square the other day, local photographer Henry Navarro came across this arresting scene. He describes it: I was taking photos on this corner and these three come barreling out
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Christmas Light Hero This video's already gotten around the past couple of days, but just in case you missed it: It's a kid, playing "Guitar Hero," but the screen is made of Christmas lights. Is this
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Three Muppets Do "Carol of the Bells" The Muppets have been up to all kinds of new web stuff lately -- like this revived "Bohemian Rhapsody" that we shared a few weeks back -- and now we have this delightful
Arts & Entertainment SantaCon 2009: Kinda Rainy, Kinda Drunken What do you get when you couple a torrentially rainy day with the now annual SantaCon in which people gather in SF (and around the globe) to lead citywide bar crawls and/or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Holiday Indulgences: The 12 Days of Christmas Dinners at Meadowood If you've got the means, or if you're going to be up in Napa and need a special-occasion date place between now and December 19th, look no further than the 12 Days of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Virgin Mary Drag Nothing says Christmas like a drag performance, right? New York-based drag performer Mimi Imfurst is doing the second of two shows tonight in San Francisco at Finn's Funhouse (814 Grove St) of her
SF News UPS Delivering Holiday Packages Via Bicycle This should please those commenters whose knee-jerk response to any and all posts regarding transit woes is "Get a bike.": UPS, who lately has been bombarding us with those ads with the white-board
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Ice Rink Open Today Although it's still rather warm outside, the Holiday Ice Rink at Union Square officially opened this morning. SF Appeal/Bay City News informed us that a snow machine will drop snow on the
SF News Muni Bus for Sale on eBay What with Christmas and Hanukkah right around the coroner, this Muni bus is the perfect gift for the holiday season. Starting out at $2,300.00 on eBay, this 1984 articulated 60-ft MAN
