SF News Christmas Day Links: Storm Brings Big Waves to Mavericks Smash-and-grab burglars hit a San Leandro restaurant for eggs on Christmas Eve; Union Square was packed with last-minute shoppers; and this recent storm brought massive waves back to Mavericks.
Arts & Entertainment Pictures: Meet the Winners of the 2024 San Francisco Fire Department Holiday Decorating Contest Yule want to see these photos of the SF fire station that won the 2024 SF Fire Department Holiday Decorating Contest, plus pictures and video of the other runner-up stations that decked the halls hard to bring joy to the world.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Six Holiday Cocktail Pop-Ups and Special Menus to Check Out Before Xmas It's become a bona fide thing to host a holiday-themed pop-up or "experience" in your bar for the month of December, and that is happening once again at a bunch of spots around San Francisco and beyond.
Arts & Entertainment Stockton Street 'Winter Walk' Returns For First Holiday Season Since 2018 The pop-up event that turned part of Stockton Street near Union Square into a traffic-free, pedestrian-only zone in December during five years of Central Subway construction is coming back, and ten days of holiday fun and events kick off on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The Five Most Festive SF Fire Stations In the Holiday Decorating Contest The block parties and judging contests in the SF Fire Department holiday decoration contest are scheduled for Wednesday, and these five SF fire stations are decked out with gushers of yuletide razzle-dazzle that you won’t want to miss.
Arts & Entertainment Where to Go to See Some Twinkly Holiday Lights Around SF Hey! The world doesn't seem to be imploding on itself just yet, and it's the holidays! So grab your flask, strap on one of those beer hats, and go out in search of some distracting/numbing seasonal cheer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Great Dickens Christmas Fair Returns In Full Glory Two suspects — a teen and a 23-year-old — have been arrested in connection with a deadly Redwood City crash, a man was randomly stabbed on Oakland's Lakeshore Avenue today, and Gov. Newsom has unfrozen those homeless funds he previously froze.
Arts & Entertainment The Legendary Kiki & Herb Return to San Francisco to Do a Holiday Show at the Curran For the first time in 15 years, Kiki & Herb are on tour, and they are bringing the latest iteration of their holiday spectacular, "Do You Hear What We Hear?" to the Curran Theater for one night only, December 9.
SF News Of Course SFPD Is Doing DUI Checkpoints for St. Patrick’s Day The San Francisco Police Department is very eager to inform that they will be out in force with DUI checkpoints and patrols for St. Patrick’s Day, because well-publicized checkpoints do indeed cut down on drunk driving.
SF News Holiday Party In Larkspur Leads to 28 COVID Infections, Omicron Suspected A holiday party in Marin County ten days ago where all attendees were vaccinated led to an outbreak of at least 28 cases of COVID, and health officials believe the Omicron variant was to blame.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Holiday Cocktail Spots In San Francisco For Your Yuletide Imbibing Pleasure It's that time of year again, and you may as well get drunk. San Francisco usually does it up nicely during the holiday season, and this year things should be extra festive given how dismal last year was.
SF News San Francisco Woman Who Lost Trump-Supporting Dad to COVID Seeks to Establish National COVID Memorial Day Now that over a half-million Americans have been lost to this pandemic — and the number could easily top 600,000 or higher before the year is out — there is a movement to establish a new national holiday to remember and mourn the COVID dead.
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac's 'Holiday Sauce: Pandemic!' Lends Some Subversive Visual Joy to Get You Through the Season A holiday show that performing artist Taylor Mac first brought to the Curran in San Francisco two years ago, Holiday Sauce, is back in virtual form in a new pandemic edition that's perfect for cuddling up to with your hot toddy as you suffer this COVID Christmas.
SF News Dude Dressed as Santa in Powered Parachute Contraption Crashes Into Power Lines Near Sacramento A guy dressed as Santa Claus made a wrong turn in his flying "sled" north of Sacramento on Sunday morning and ended up snagged in some power lines and in need of rescue.
Arts & Entertainment SF Fire Stations Revive 70-Year-Old Tradition: Competing Holiday Decorations The San Francisco Fire Department is doing something this year that it hasn't done since the late 1940s in having firehouses compete to see who creates the best holiday decoration display.
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 CHP Begins Holiday Crackdown on Unsafe Drivers California Highway Patrol officers will be out in force beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, pulling over speeders and unsafe drivers in the hope of preventing tragedies on the road.
Arts & Entertainment Like Everything Else, Macy's Holiday Windows Are Going Virtual With Videos of Adoptable Kittens and Puppies The annual tradition of seeing adoptable puppies and kittens in the windows of Macy's in Union Square, courtesy of the SPCA, will be more of a virtual affair this year.
Arts & Entertainment Is Halloween Cancelled? Top Public Health Officials Give Crypt-ic, Conflicting Messages Cities and counties across California are spinning cobwebs of different possible Halloween celebration scenarios, but Mayor Breed warns we may be whistling past the graveyard if we let kids trick-or-treat here.
SF News Everything You Need to Know About Discarding Your Christmas Tree in SF The 33rd annual "Chipping of the Trees" is happening outside City Hall Friday to remind everyone to put their trees on the curb with their trash bins before January 15.
Arts & Entertainment Novato's Rombeiro Christmas House Wins 2019's 'Great Christmas Light Fight' On Monday night, a new winner was crowned on ABC's The Great Christmas Light Fight, and this year's house to make Clark Griswold proud is in the Bay Area, and you can go visit it yourself this week.
Arts & Entertainment That Guy In Tracy Shows Off His Usually Elaborate Holiday Light Show Lighting designer Tom BetGeorge, whose Halloween light show set to Skrillex we just featured in October, is at it again with his Christmas-themed spectacular out at his suburban home in Tracy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Places To Seek Out Some Extra Xmas-y Holiday Cheer in San Francisco In need of some Yuletide gaiety during this dreary impeachment season? There are a few spots around the Bay that are pulling out all the stops to amp up the Christmas spirit, if you're into that sort of thing.
Arts & Entertainment Tracy Man Is At It Again With Crazy Halloween Light Show Set To Skrillex A former music teacher in the East Bay who has made a habit over the last decade of making elaborate light-show sequences at his home set to music for both Halloween and Christmas is back at it again with a new Halloween display set to Skrillex's "Bangarang."
Arts & Entertainment The 11 Best St. Patrick’s Day Parties in San Francisco Éirinn go do these things, as St. Patrick’s Day is Sunday, the parade is Saturday, and the block parties kick off on Friday.
