SF News Day Around The Bay: If Santa Rode Muni Is this the weirdest thing to ever happen on Muni? Honest question. [Moving SF] A photogenic Danny Bowien is once again profiled after the reopening of Mission Chinese Food NY. [NYT] Union City
Arts & Entertainment From Dining To Dancing, 15 Events To Ring In NYE 2015 With a little last minute planning, you stand to end 2014 on a high note. By no means comprehensive, this list is of stuff you can actually still get in to. Also, most
Arts & Entertainment Hackers Try To Ruin Projected GIF Holiday Cards You know those animated GIF greeting cards you could get projected on those walls downtown, along Market Street, sponsored by some local artists and arts orgs? Well, "some time traveling hackers from the
Arts & Entertainment 'Hung For The Holidays' Is The SF Xmas Album We've Been Waiting For The wonderful, local, sex-positive Rachel Lark is beloved for her bawdy jams, which have been heralded by folks like Margaret Cho and Dan Savage. And now she's brought us all some Christmas cheer
SF News Vallejo Homeowner Surprises Package Thief With Box Of Poop Package thievery from doorsteps is rampant this time of year, and one Vallejo homeowner decided to emulate some fellow fed-up victims and leave a decoy package for his repeated thief filled with dog
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best SF Cookies To Leave For "Santa" Santa comes but once a year, and when he does arrive at your humble abode, he demands to be fed like Cookie Monster. Saint Nick has also grown dissatisfied with Chips Ahoy and
SF News SF To Have Sunny Christmas, But It May Be Wet In The East Bay Most of you should have been asking Santa for rain this Christmas anyway, and if you weren't, you're selfish. But for those who did, your gift will be arriving in the form of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Daniel Franzese Wants You (And Weed) For Christmas Happy holidays from Daniel Franzese, who will be on the next season of HBO's best show about San Francisco that isn't Silicon Valley. I'm talking about Looking, whose trailer you can check out
Arts & Entertainment Photos: 5th Annual Drag Queens On Ice Skating into their fifth year, local drag queens took to the ice at Union Square last week. Missed it? That's what this gallery is for. "Donning their most gay apparel," Mutha Chuka, Kylie-Pop,
SF News Video: Pair Of Holiday Grinches Caught On Camera Stealing Packages In Noe Valley, a resident captured this DropCam footage of a pair of thieves casually swiping a package from a doorway and shoving it in a shopping bag last Thursday. As the uploader
Arts & Entertainment 14 Animated GIFs of SF's Most Outrageous Holiday Light Displays SFist comes bearing GIFs this holiday season, animated GIFs depicting the blinkiest and most outrageous Christmas light displays seen across town. For being such a godless town, San Francisco still does it up
SF News NYE BART To Run Until 3 AM, Tradition Of Skip-Stop Continues As in years past, BART will extend its New Year's Eve service until 3 a.m. If you're not done celebrating the arrival of 2015 by then, have a great Uber. BART NYE
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 2: Punch Drunk 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 Holiday Palate Cleanser: Parade Of (Impersonated) Celebrities Bring Christmas Cheer Christina Bianco is back again, this time with some Christmas readings, and singing, from the army of female celebrities she does spot-on impressions of. (Some of you may have caught her marvelous, multi-voiced
Arts & Entertainment Get A 100-Foot-Tall GIF Greeting Card Projected On A Downtown Wall Starting Tomorrow Annoyed by the idea of sending actual holiday cards but nonetheless charmed by the idea of holiday cards? Well, a collaborative project called GIF the Halls has arrived to let you send out
SF News Californians' Optimism, Wealth Conspire To Make Holiday Travel A Jam-Packed Mess According to a AAA Northern California survey released Thursday, the collective good mood and extra money most Californians appear to have this holiday season will mean packed roads, airplanes, and even boats. AAA
SF News This Is Actually The Wettest December Ever It's only the 18th day of the month, and San Francisco has already had 424 percent of our normal rainfall for December, including this week's downpours. El NiƱo, anyone? As CBS 5 reports,
SF News Happy Holidays From The SFFD: Terrifying Burning Xmas Tree Demo To celebrate the holiday and give you warm fuzzies, the San Francisco Fire Department lit a christmas tree on fire in the middle of the sidewalk, incinerating it in under 30 seconds. We're
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cats vs. Christmas Trees Cats don't like Christmas trees. Or, rather, they really like to jump on them and knock them over, and play with tinsel, and lights. Anyway, this is funny. [h/t: Tastefully Offensive]
SF News Disrupt The Halls: Pics From 2014's Excessive Tech Holiday Parties It's not just about who has the bigger tree and the better eggnog. Tech companies in SF are, once again, competing to delight their workers in a holiday party proxy war. Yahoo recently
Arts & Entertainment 'Tis The Night Before The Santacon Nightmare This storm? It's actually the calm before the storm of drunken, fratstar revelry taking place tomorrow. If you're excited for Santacon, then why are you reading this post, read this community-sourced Buzzfeed hype
SF News Pleasanton Ousts Humongous Inflatable Snowman A giant inflatable Frosty the Snowman in a Pleasanton Christmas tree lot will soon melt into memory. The 30-foot icon was removed today following a citation from a city official, and the story
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Santa The Hutt Quits Boozing This season Betabrand, famed and defamed for their creation of the Suitsy (a onesie suit) has reprised their holiday horror photo scene starring Santa the Hutt. Passersby at the Valencia Street store are
SF News Are People Finally Sick Of Black Friday Insanity? Despite much crowing by retail watchers about how well the retail sector is expected to do this holiday season, Black Friday weekend proved to be a major disappointment, with overall spending down significantly
SF News Pre-Holiday Airport Report: Delays, And Ways To Pass The Time At SFO The Bay Area's busiest airport, SFO, expects to handle 1.3 million travelers between last Friday and December 1, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Add that to the designation as the