Arts & Entertainment This Week in Holiday Events Noël Noir: Noël Noir at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts turns the holiday season on its side. The event features six musical acts on two stages co-curated by Noise Pop, Project Nunway
Arts & Entertainment SFist Gift List: Super7 Store The perfect store for a city where people refuse to grow up, Haight Street's high-art toy design Super7 Store features pop culture-laced gifts and comic-y presents for the grown-up kids in your inner
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
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
misc Photos: SantaCon 2010 If Civic Center, the Tenderloin, and Polk Street were any indication, SantaCon 2010 had a huge turn-out (with much of the Summer's Eve set taking things up a notch, which we did our
Arts & Entertainment The Baby-ry Christmas 'Tis the season to bundle your kiddos up and choose your own holiday adventure! ODC's The Velveteen Rabbit: The 24th season of the ODC/Dance's beloved Bay Area production of the Velveteen Rabbit
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
SF News Post Office Needs Help Answering Kids' Letters To Santa With the annual Letters to Santa Program in full effect, the U.S. Postal Service is in need of volunteers who want to help answer kids' snail mail requests to Santa Claus. The
misc Sonoma County Native Coined the "Bikini Traveler" Hey, did you hear about that "Bikini Traveler" gal who was all over the news last week? Well, we somehow missed it until last night. In an effort to avoid the dreaded pat-down
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 Reindeer Arrive at SF Zoo Reindeer Holly, Velvet, Peppermint, and Belle arrived at the San Francisco Zoo this morning for the annual Reindeer Romp, which runs through New Year's Day. See more photos on Flickr and Facebook.
Arts & Entertainment Today: Embarcadero Center Winter Carnival, Lighting Ceremony The holidays are fast approaching! Along with Macy's big Holiday Adoption Window Display unveiling happening this afternoon, Embarcadero Center is having their 24th Annual Winter Carnival and Holiday Building Lighting Ceremony tonight. The
Arts & Entertainment Photos: A Rainy Easter's Hunky Jesus and Easter Bonnet Contests Yesterday's contests didn't quite draw the crowds that they would have had it been a lovely spring day in Dolores Park. But the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence moved the show over to the
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Muppets Do "Stand By Me" Just in time for Easter, a dark little video from the Jim Henson folks featuring one of the lesser known Muppet monsters, and a bunch of bunnies. All we can say is YES!
Arts & Entertainment Downtown St. Patrick's Day Events It's another gorgeous day here in San Francisco -- the perfect day for drinking (if you're into that sort of thing). Here are three St. Paddy's Day events going on downtown, enabling you
Arts & Entertainment Scenes from a St. Patrick's Day Parade The parade rarely falls on the actual day, so even though you're all expected to be boozing it up in an Irish bar on Wednesday, many a twentysomething took today's parade as a
Arts & Entertainment Show Your V-Day Love With These Cards by Amy Crocker Who says Valentine's Day cards have to be all mushy and gooey and lovey and dovey? We highly recommend flipping through artist Brandon Bird's Law & Order SVU themed cards.
Arts & Entertainment Etsy's Handmade Ho Down Craft Fair (Thursday, 12/3) by Rachel Brodsky There's no getting around it--the holiday season is upon us. And while you could hunker down in your apartment, grow a beard and hibernate till February, perhaps one of the
misc San Francisco Society Tips: How to End a Party The aggressively provincial rich bitches of San Francisco tell the luminous Catherine Bigelow how to end a party. In lieu of, say, telling guests, "Hey, thanks for coming, but Chelsea Lately is on
SF News BART to Run All Night on Labor Day Weekend Due to Caltrans closing the Bay Bridge in both directions over the upcoming Labor Day weekend for earthquake retrofitting, BART will be running hourly overnight service to 14 stations during the wee hours
misc Photo du Jour 288 Photo by Matt Baume/SFist It's back. That house on Castro Street is - at last! - all dolled up for the holidays.
