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
Arts & Entertainment The Irony!: Three Big Tech Companies All Had <i>Great Gatsby</i>-Themed Holiday Parties This Year A lot of people, including SFist, were quick to call 2014's bubble-riffic round of tech company holiday parties "excessive," which has perhaps prompted them to be a little more low-key about talking about
SF News Hoverboards Bursting Into Flames All Over, Amazon Yanks Them From Site Like a knock-off Icarus, the hot hot hot hoverboard trend perhaps flew a little too close to the sun this holiday season and ended up getting burned. And worried moms everywhere take note:
SF News Prepare To Get Turnt: BART To Run Until 3 AM New Year's Day Hey party people, good news: As they have in previous years, BART has announced it will runs trains until 3 a.m. on New Year's Eve night/New Year's Day. The extra time
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.
Arts & Entertainment Behold: Portland's 'Hipster Santa' Yes, Virginia, in Portlandia, even Santa has a man bun. Portland, Oregon's KOIN dubbed the guy the Hipster Santa when they put him on TV last week, and this particular unidentified Kris Kringle
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
Arts & Entertainment What Are You Still Doing At Work? It's a question we have to ask every pre-holiday day. You're working too hard, friend, and/or your boss is a jerk. Of course, maybe you have a deadline and you're not traveling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Chronicle Tells You How To Hunt And Kill Your Own Thanksgiving Turkey I didn't realize that one could hunt and kill a wild turkey in California and that said turkey would actually be worth eating, but according to the Chronicle, this is totally a thing!
SF News San Francisco Teen Raises $200K For Charity With Pumpkin Sales While most of us spend the time leading up to Halloween preoccupied with costume decisions and purchases, one San Francisco teen has over the past 11 years spent his Octobers in a different
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood Announces 12 Days Of Christmas Celeb Chef Lineup For 2015 I know, I know. It's August. But as is now traditional, this is the time of year when The Restaurant at Meadowood up in St. Helena finalizes their star chef lineup for their
Arts & Entertainment Videos: Illegal Fireworks Blowing Up All Over The Mission As is traditional, Saturday night (and Sunday) was ablaze with illegal rooftop and middle-of-the-street fireworks displays, particularly in the Mission and dangerous though it might be it was, as usual, the only fireworks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Not-Terrible Things To Do On Cinco De Mayo Yep, it's Cinco de Drinko again, a.k.a. St. Patrick's Day for margaritas, a.k.a. another excuse to get drunk after/during work. Assuming you're a professional imbiber and you wouldn't
SF News Annual Valentine's Day Pillow Fight Leaves Giant Mess, One Unconcious The annual Valentine's Day flashmob pillow fight, which here in Neverland SF has a Facebook event page and a FuncheapSF listing but no official organizer, went down on Saturday on schedule at Justin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant Discouraging Valentine's Day Baby-Making With Free Branded Condoms Locanda, in SF's Mission district, will be doing their part for parenthood planning and STD-avoidance this Valentine's Day by doling out free "Locondoms" with every meal on Saturday. As Thrillist notes, this is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seven Things To Do This Valentine's Day In SF If You Are Single, Loving It And/Or Bitter About It Let's keep this simple. You've heard it all a million times before, and Buzzfeed has surely made 10 GIF listicles to cheer you already. This made-up holiday for couples that's happening on Saturday
Arts & Entertainment (Video) Joyful Otters Frolic In Snow At SF Aquarium At the San Francisco Aquarium, a romp or raft of otters (those are real terms, folks) had a snowy treat this season. That's right, real snow was dumped on the otter playground/enclosure,
Arts & Entertainment Five Reasons Why SF Has Never Been A Good New Year's Town Look. I, like anyone who's stayed in this city over a decade, have no shortage of love for all things San Francisco. I defend it against the dismissals of Angelenos and New Yorkers
Arts & Entertainment Video: Dolores Parkgoers' New Year's Resolutions... For Their Friends Writer Caleb Garling and videographers Brett Garling and Lara Loveman spent a day in the park quizzing the lounging crowd about New Year's resolutions. What were theirs in in 2014? Had they stuck
SF News NYE Ride Guide: Battle Royale For Rideshares, Taxis, And Mass Transit As the proverbial ball begins to drop on this New Year's Eve, there's plenty to eat, do, and drink, as we've underscored in this guide to the best fetes in town. While getting
SF News Xmas Living Room Built From Free Craigslist Items on 18th Street In a Craigslist Christmas miracle that fell a few days after the holiday, San Francisco was graced with a visit from the itinerant Brooklyn artist behind the series Set In The Street, Justin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 3: Bubbly Good drinks tell a story... and this is the story of those drinks. Each week, we'll be serving up a remedial cocktail lesson for bartending beginners to help you get the most out
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: Real Snowman Reappears In Precita Park Last Christmas Eve some clever, anonymous Bernal resident installed a snowman made of real snow in Precita Park, and on Wednesday, another real snowman appeared, right on schedule in what now may be
SF News Pair Of Despicable Package Thieves Nabbed In East Bay With Carload Of Christmas Loot A duo claiming to be "transients" from San Francisco were arrested Wednesday after being spotted in a couple of East Bay neighborhood acting shady and swiping packages from peoples' front doors. ON CHRISTMAS
