morning links

* "Long live places you go to just to get drunk for cheap." [SFist] * [Atlantic] writer who lives in SoCal basically just rehashes all those same arguments blaming SF's housing

* Your weekend ICYMI: An Uber passenger was killed in a Pacifica crash, the Alameda County sheriff's deputies who were caught on tape beating a suspect in SF have been IDed, and

* Ferrari driver wrecks in Santa Rosa, cops say booze might be to blame. [Bay City News] * [Hoodline] walks the beat with Castro Cares. * Australian Rugby League star turned SF 49er Jarryd Hayne just

* Feels like a good day to go to a movie, doesn't it? Here are some options. [SFist] * Days before community organization Tenants Together was set to move into a new space,

* Sunshine task force thrice dings Board of Supes president London Breed. [Petrelis] * Lefty O'Doul's annual drive for kids' Christmas gifts is going on now, stop by! [KRON4] * The

* Here's how that cyclist who was struck by an errant tour bus is doing. [SFist] * Three Oakland Raiders, Two San Francisco 49ers will be playing in the Pro Bowl. [KRON4] * "

* Scott Wiener's brush with cell-phone extortionists ended in arrest. No, not for him! [SFist] * On not going "home" for the holidays. [Slate] * Academy of Art University student seeks

* Your Saturday and Sunday links (and a Star Wars-y video!) * Five people are dead after a private plane that took off from San Jose crashed near Bakersfield. [Bay City News] [USA Today]

* Pictures of masculine junk, explained. [SFist] * Junk mail goes flying when USPS-bound truck flips in SF. [Bay City News] * Unbowed after their rocket explosion in June, Elon Musk's Space X

* Caleb terms these three new micro-docs on homelessness in SF "thoughtful, punchy, and hopeful," what did you think? [SFist] * Two protests (at least) on the steps of City Hall Friday:

* Get hungry with our 17 best new SF restaurants. [SFist] * UCSF Medical Center is suspending its living-donor program for kidney transplants after a donor died. [KRON4] * Suspect in Gilroy homicide arrested after

* It's nice to get a Bay Lights peek this week. [SFist] * Is the Mario Woods shooting bringing Ferguson to SF? [Time] * [SF Weekly] lists "The Many Scandals of Police Chief

* Take a break from holiday party madness to do some to-do stuff! [SFist] * Now BART has easier-to-read signs. [Bay City News] * Does Facebook's attempted Yelp-killer stand a

* Are you a carpool lane cheat? [SFist] * Unicorn comms startup Twilio is in talks to rent 92,000 square feet in a former SoMa post office. [SF Business Times] * Elderly women attacked near

* Your weekend ICYMI: The names of the SFPD Officers who shot Mario Woods have been released, hoverboard SantaConner pronounced dubious king, driver in San Jose nearly impaled by massive steel beam, and hundreds

* Catch up on your SF food news, because we all gotta eat! [SFist] * It's super windy out. [KRON4] * The Bay Area mourns as the Warriors' amazing winning streak comes to

* Everyone brace, it's SantaCon today. [SFist] * Stanford researchers are working on a Shazam for earthquakes. [KRON] * Twenty-unit building with no parking planned for Capp between 21st and 22nd. [SocketSite] * The

* Who would you like to see play at Outside Lands in 2016? [SFist] * Alleged chinchilla thief busted in Union City. [KRON4] * [The Awl] mulls "The Airbnb Endgame." * Yahoo loses another major

* Paris-based hotel operator to buy company that owns the Fairmont. [Bloomberg] * New logo for Google Ventures. [Wired] * [Cnet] mulls the fall of Yahoo. * Adopt an Oakland pet, get a remarkable portrait of

* My Indiana Pacers made a valiant effort last night, but nothing seems able to stop the mighty Golden State warriors, which are now 23-0. [Associated Press] * Uber launches food ordering service in

* Not your usual type of vandal, this tagger wants to warn passers-by of the alleged crimes within. [SFist] * Google's search results appear to favor Democrats, here's why. [Slate]

* Your weekend ICYMI: The town hall meeting to discuss SFPD's fatal shooting on Mario Williams erupted in protest, a teen was killed when a tree branch snapped and fell neat Fairyland,

* If you're looking for something to do today, how about the Janis Joplin doc at the Roxie? [SFist] * Outgoing San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi welcomed eight new deputies Friday. [Bay City

* Every time I get annoyed with my husband, I'm going to go back and read Caleb's first installment of Eff-ing in SF and appreciate that I'm

* Jay says that A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder is "thoroughly English, darkly comic, and brilliantly staged." [SFist] * Not everyone in North Beach is into the Poets Plaza