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 Madrone Art Bar Apologizes After Crazed 'Critic Santa' Bounced From Bar All was not visions of sugar plums this past weekend at Madrone Art Bar, as the watering hole was forced to eject a belligerent Santa for berating clientele with condescending art critiques directed
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
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 Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus (And He Robbed A Bank Saturday) In an apparent holiday gift to a local news ecosystem that might not have made enough cracks about naughtiness or niceness, watching out and not crying, etc, the San Francisco Police Department has
Arts & Entertainment Santacon 2011 Will Get Way More Naked Santacon, the yearly gathering of drunk people in Santa Claus costumes, will feature a lot less red velvet and a whole lot more pasty white this year. An offshoot of the main Santacon
SF News John Toomey, Controversial Macy's Santa, Dies John Toomey, the Santa Claus who was fired by Macy's last Christmas for telling off-color jokes, was found dead today at the Budget Inn on Market Street. The cause of death appears to
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,
SF News S.F. Union Square Macy's Fires Santa Claus Sad news, kids. Christmas is canceled. The Union Square Macy's store has, sadly, fired John Toomey, known for 20 years at the store's "Santa John." Why? Well, according to the Chronicle, it all
Arts & Entertainment SantaCon 2009: Kinda Rainy, Kinda Drunken What do you get when you couple a torrentially rainy day with the now annual SantaCon in which people gather in SF (and around the globe) to lead citywide bar crawls and/or
SF News Christmas Is Canceled: Postal Service Cancels Letter to Santa Program For those of you who celebrate Christmas (not the "birth" of Jesus Christ and/or but the wildly festive gift-giving holiday), we have some disheartening news. The U.S. Postal Service planas to
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misc Week Around the -Ists SFist saw Christmas Day turn tragic after a Siberian tiger escaped from her pen at the San Francisco Zoo, killing a visitor and mauling two others. Phillyist counted down the top ten items
SF News Day Around The Bay --A source passes along these pictures of Gavin Newsom and Carole Migden at a Pride event some time back. We saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus! --Steve Jobs speaks at the Apple Conference today.
Arts & Entertainment Many People Died. It was about a year and a half ago when we interviewed a colorful local eccentric about his plans to rip off The Birds and then go to the moon. Since then, things
Arts & Entertainment Indiefest: Stalking Santa What, you don't believe in Santa Claus? Don't tell that to Dr.Lloyd Darrow, a self-proclaimed 'Santa-ologist', whose life's mission is to uncover the truth about the elusive fat man who visits us
Arts & Entertainment Happy The Week Before Christmas Because we're sure nobody is really working right now as visions of sugar plum fairies dance through your head, we have another video to give you. Look at it as a bonus. And
SF News ...And A Protest In A Pear Tree Hark! The herald angels at Left in SF heeded our plea and forwarded along some pictures of last night's singalong Christmas carol protest of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's holiday party. As you
Arts & Entertainment Dispatch From Noir City: <em>Gilda</em> To introduce Gilda (1946) at the Balboa Theater on Thursday, NoirCity founder Eddie Muller offered a familiar interpretation of the film: its protagonist (Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell), like its director (Charles Vidor)
SF News SFist checks out the 510: Public Access TV Edition To call it "the Bay Area's homage to 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000'" is to sell both TV shows short. We tuned in for 'Monster Island's' broadcast of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and
misc SFist Raves: The Power of Rock Compels You After realizing that we were probably never going to make it past the C, G, and F chords, we promptly gave it up (just like karate, the piano, African line-dancing, and summer school
Arts & Entertainment The Attentive Adventures of the Superfisters Though we like to pall around with victims of corporate censorship, occupies a genre you might wish to enjoy from arm's length -- lest you be sucked into the world created by Dwyer
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Eggcellent TV This Week Ahhh...Puppetoons. Well, fear not egg hunters. Easter is not without its own share of spooky animated specials, and thanks to the folks at the Family Channel, you can catch two this Sunday!
misc What a Scoop! Kron-4 is a non-stop laugh riot tonight. The always-adorable Mark Tamayo was wrapping up the weather by reporting that Santa had been sighted leaving the North Pole. A picture of a sleigh flashed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An SFist Christmas Well, we just heard Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" on the radio the other day (the kickoff song for the season), so it's official -- Santa Claus be coming
