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December 29, 2011
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" Composer Vince Guaraldi's Heirs Sue Berkeley Record Company
Charlie Brown -- that soft-spoken, perpetually trod-upon, and mysteriously bald child at the heart of the beloved Peanuts comic strips and cartoons -- does not conjure thoughts of bitter lawsuits. (The mischievous and urbane Snoopy is another matter.) Particularly not during the Christmas season, ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2011
Top Six Christmas Songs That Don't Actually Suck
That's right, folks. It's the rarest of things -- a Christmas song that doesn't make you want to vomit, or jam sharp pencils into your ear-holes. Finding one of these gems is like stumbling across a white tiger in your backyard -- you can't believe it's there, you know it's not supposed to be there, ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2011
Foxtails Brigade Beautifully Expresses Being 'Not Really in the Christmas Mood'
Does Christmas make you feel like sighing? Us too. So we're sort of enamored with the holiday melancholy of "I'm Not Really in the Christmas Mood This Year," a beautiful new video and song from the Bay Area's Foxtails Brigade. The song itself -- plaintive and precious and old-timey as it is ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2011
Are You Rich with No Christmas Eve Plans? Flour Water Has Plans For You!
Flour WaterWhat: Fancy Christmas Eve dinner of fanciness Where: Flour Water When: Sat., December 24, 6-9:30 p.m. Cost: $265 The rundown: From SF Weekly's 7-Day Dish (subscribe!), we get word of a Christmas eve dinner for big spenders. Wiz kid chef Thomas McNaughton is planning a cha ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2011
Top 5 Places to Escape Christmas
Whether you're Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Shinto, Shaman, anti-consumerist, or Mr. Grinch, you could be one of the millions who don't leave cookies out for an old fat man who illegally enters your home via fireplace-shimmying. And that's okay! Because here in America, we're known for ... More >>
Calendar
December 21, 2011
Take That Fork in the Road
Whether you're Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Shinto, Shaman, anti-consumerist, or Mr. Grinch, you could be one of the millions who don't leave cookies out for an old fat man who illegally enters your home via fireplace-shimmying. And that's okay! Because here in America, we're known for ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2011
A Second-By-Second Breakdown of the Worst Christmas Music Video Ever Made
In case you missed all the twinkling lights and massive, decorated trees everywhere, the holiday season is well and truly upon us. And, as you already know, that means it's also the season for awful, cringe-worthy music you can only listen to for -- at most -- one week of the year (the only excep ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2011
Top 5 Gifts for the High-End Coffee Lover
It's holiday time and with the world sparkling with Christmas lights and menorah candles, it's time to start thinking about what to get for the coffee lover wedged in to the darker nooks of your family tree. Be it certified coffee geek or simple espresso fan, there's a gift out there for each of ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2011
The Trappist Brings Belgian Holidays to Oakland
Did you know that in Belgium, people leave mugs of rich holiday ale for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve? Actually, we made that up. But it surely sounds plausible. Enjoying "Kerstbier" seems to be an annual national pastime, culminating in a world-renowned festival that boasts upwards of 150 w ... More >>
Film
November 30, 2011
Arthouse Movie Listings Nov. 30-Dec. 6
Did you know that in Belgium, people leave mugs of rich holiday ale for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve? Actually, we made that up. But it surely sounds plausible. Enjoying "Kerstbier" seems to be an annual national pastime, culminating in a world-renowned festival that boasts upwards of 150 w ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
All in the (Royal) Family
Did you know that in Belgium, people leave mugs of rich holiday ale for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve? Actually, we made that up. But it surely sounds plausible. Enjoying "Kerstbier" seems to be an annual national pastime, culminating in a world-renowned festival that boasts upwards of 150 w ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2010
Christmas Tree Arson Evacuates Building -- 'Tis the Season
Fa la la la la...An arson fire using a Christmas tree as kindling led to a frantic evacuation of an apartment building in Potrero Hill. Nobody was injured, but it was an unpleasant 4:30 a.m. wakeup call for the residents at Connecticut and Wisconsin streets. News reports stated that the Christmas ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2010
Christmas Forecast: Wind, Rain -- Thunder?
Merry Christmas, indeed...As San Francisco empties out and its residents head "home" to places that possibly feature traditional Christmas weather, the hangers-on will cope with a different sort of holiday climate. The weather prediction for Dec. 25: breezy, rainy, cold -- but not cold enough to ... More >>
Music
December 22, 2010
Lonely holiday: Grillade finds soul in a Christmas song
Merry Christmas, indeed...As San Francisco empties out and its residents head "home" to places that possibly feature traditional Christmas weather, the hangers-on will cope with a different sort of holiday climate. The weather prediction for Dec. 25: breezy, rainy, cold -- but not cold enough to ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2010
Balls Cost Money: Donate To Local Comedians Killing My Lobster
This just in: a (kind of) impassioned plea from a burrito, a snowwoman, a BLT, and more to reach out this holiday season by donating money to support local sketch comedy troupe Killing My Lobster, which is hurtling hilariously toward its fourteenth season as a relief organization: "relief in the fo ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2010
SFoodie Advent Calendar, Day 15: Sweet Tamales from La Espiga de Oro
John BirdsallCorn tamales from La Spiga de Oro, $14 per dozen.The SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas/Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one treat at a time. When I was a chef in Chicago I worked with a prep cook we called Juancito, a sweet guy from Michoacan who'd sli ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2010
The Top 6 Most. Irritating. Christmas. Songs. Ever?
Oh dear God, is there a worse time of year for music than Christmas? We certainly don't think so. Walking into anywhere public right about now is like having our ears pelted from on high by sleigh bells (no, not that duo from Brooklyn -- we quite like them) and snowballs filled with glass. But! Bein ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2010
Let the Weirdos Make Holiday Music: Download a Free Xmas Album from Banjo or Freakout
Nothing puts us in the holiday spirit like whispery vocals and rattling electronics.And now, an argument in favor of Christmas music -- that is, if it's made by non-pop-stars. After this definitive indication of what usually happens when you let mainstreamers make Christmas songs (that is, irrita ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2010
SFoodie Advent Calendar, Day 13: Cookies and More Cookies!
Jonathan KauffmanDestination Bakery's gingerbread girl. The SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas/Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one treat at a time.SFoodie has learned over the past three weeks that sugar cookies decorated to OCD standards aren't as common in this cit ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2010
Yule Log Burns On
That's the basic idea...Is it a sign of the decline and fall of western civilization or, rather, a wonderful thing that one of the Bay Area's highest-rated Christmas TV programs is simply footage of a log burning -- for hours? By now you know: The answer is "yes." The "holiday log" once aga ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2010
SFoodie Advent Calendar, Day 12: Wassail from Drinkwell Soda
Drinkwell's WassailThe SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas /Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one treat at a time.Here's a bit of etymology we bet you don't know: The infamous "wazzzaaaaaaah" in this Budweiser commercial isn't, in fact, a corruption of "what's up" but "was ... More >>
Music
December 15, 2010
Sean Smith: Show Preview
Drinkwell's WassailThe SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas /Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one treat at a time.Here's a bit of etymology we bet you don't know: The infamous "wazzzaaaaaaah" in this Budweiser commercial isn't, in fact, a corruption of "what's up" but "was ... More >>
Dining
December 15, 2010
Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news
Drinkwell's WassailThe SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas /Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one treat at a time.Here's a bit of etymology we bet you don't know: The infamous "wazzzaaaaaaah" in this Budweiser commercial isn't, in fact, a corruption of "what's up" but "was ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2010
Pink Christmas: Spumoni Ice Cream from Mitchell's
Alex HochmanSsshhh! Mitchell's seasonal spumoni contains a secret.Ornamented with electrically vibrant candied fruits, plump brown raisins, and crunchy golden almonds, Mitchell's spumoni ice cream (available from November to January) looks like the artificial pink Christmas tree that graced o ... More >>
Calendar
December 15, 2010
That's Forked Up
Alex HochmanSsshhh! Mitchell's seasonal spumoni contains a secret.Ornamented with electrically vibrant candied fruits, plump brown raisins, and crunchy golden almonds, Mitchell's spumoni ice cream (available from November to January) looks like the artificial pink Christmas tree that graced o ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
Top 5 Songs To Help You Survive Christmas Shopping
We feel your pain. We know what's going on. Christmas is bearing down on all of us, and gift-purchasing season is kicking our asses this week. It's the same every year: It creeps up like a post-Thanksgiving death knell, and if we don't submit, our entire family and most of our social circle will de ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
Cool Food Gifts from La Cocina's Holiday Fair
Sean TimberlakeSuprise: Sweets Collections' decorative gelatin creations are completely edible.I know, I know, I'm supposed to be mister DIY, eschewing packaged goods so I can toil away in the kitchen milling my own flour, harvesting local sugar cane, and carefully tending orchards of orchids ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
Download a Free Low Live EP Before Tuesday's S.F. Show
LowLow's ninth album doesn't come out until next year, but here's something to hold you fans over -- and get you stoked for the somber Midwestern rock band's S.F. show next week. It's a free live EP, recorded last year in the St. Catherina Church in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Music
December 8, 2010
How to 'Ruin Xmas': Shannon & the Clams issue a punky take on the holiday classics
LowLow's ninth album doesn't come out until next year, but here's something to hold you fans over -- and get you stoked for the somber Midwestern rock band's S.F. show next week. It's a free live EP, recorded last year in the St. Catherina Church in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Blogs
December 7, 2010
A B & The Sea Recorded A 'Christmas' Song with The She's
A B & The SeaWe've apparently reached the point where it's cool for indie-pop bands to record their own irony-free Christmas songs. The latest addition: a collaboration between local beach-poppers A B & the Sea and garage-boppers The She's, entitled "Christmas (Baby Come Home)." Hear and ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2010
SFoodie Advent Calendar, Day 4: Cranberry Verrine from Citizen Cake
Jonathan KauffmanCitizen Cake's cranberry verrine, $5.The SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas/Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one treat at a time.Citizen Cake: The Pac Heights Sequel has a few sugar cookies in its case right now, decorated with OCD flair, but SFoodie's e ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2010
Target Christmas Album: Best Coast/Wavves, Blackalicious, Jason Schwartzman et al. Hock Holiday Cheer
Don't they know it's Christmas? Seriously. Are they aware?Now that it's December, the merchants of the world have declared open season on premature holiday festivities, turning life into the cultural equivalent of that house on your block that puts up Halloween decorations in August. Target (pron ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2010
The SFoodie Advent Calendar, Day 1: Fruitcake!
Jonathan KauffmanFruitcake from Schubert's Bakery.SFoodie isn't one to cover our cubicle in tinsel and pine boughs. We opted out of Black Friday, preferring to huddle up in our apartment, using meditation and whiskey to quash the mounting stress over gift-giving day. We're already sick of Christm ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2010
Watch: This Year, Soundtrack Your Christmas Lights with Slayer
Sure, you could be like everyone else on the block this holiday season and set the automatic music-synch on your tacky Christmas light display to "Jinglebell Rock." But why do that when you could also set it to a face-melter like Slayer's "Raining Blood"? Watch the Christmas carnage that ensues w ... More >>
Blogs
December 18, 2009
Tragic Shortage of Ugly Holiday Sweaters Threaten to Ruin Several Ironic Parties
The phenomenon of Ugly Sweater Parties is fast becoming a holiday staple, but the demand for hideous sweaters may have exceeded supply in one San Francisco neighborhood. Mission District shoppers looking for an acrylic sweater decorated with a giant glitter reindeer head and whimsical antler sleeves ... More >>
Calendar
December 16, 2009
A Grave Situation
The phenomenon of Ugly Sweater Parties is fast becoming a holiday staple, but the demand for hideous sweaters may have exceeded supply in one San Francisco neighborhood. Mission District shoppers looking for an acrylic sweater decorated with a giant glitter reindeer head and whimsical antler sleeves ... More >>
Music
December 9, 2009
December's best holiday music events
The phenomenon of Ugly Sweater Parties is fast becoming a holiday staple, but the demand for hideous sweaters may have exceeded supply in one San Francisco neighborhood. Mission District shoppers looking for an acrylic sweater decorated with a giant glitter reindeer head and whimsical antler sleeves ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2009
What To Do? Wednesday's Pick:
Madonna's Christmas Celebration @ Finn's Funhouse It wouldn't be Christmas 2009 in the deeply immoral Bay Area without some unholy drag spectacle rolling into town to satirize the Holy Trinity and the birth of Jesus et al. in a high flight of pop cultural and religious juxtapositions. The fourt ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2009
Eight Christmas Songs Worth Saving From the Fire (by The White Stripes, The Fall, Kurtis Blow, & more)
Like clockwork, the waning of each year brings another slew of Christmas songs. Even Dylan has gotten in on the act. The vast majority of the seasonal crop is either nostalgic rehashings or sentimental cash-ins, but there are always a choice few that far outshine the rest. Below are eight season-app ... More >>
Calendar
November 25, 2009
Sacrilegious Satire Comes to Town
Like clockwork, the waning of each year brings another slew of Christmas songs. Even Dylan has gotten in on the act. The vast majority of the seasonal crop is either nostalgic rehashings or sentimental cash-ins, but there are always a choice few that far outshine the rest. Below are eight season-app ... More >>
Calendar
December 10, 2008
Merry Fucking Christmas
Like clockwork, the waning of each year brings another slew of Christmas songs. Even Dylan has gotten in on the act. The vast majority of the seasonal crop is either nostalgic rehashings or sentimental cash-ins, but there are always a choice few that far outshine the rest. Below are eight season-app ... More >>
Calendar
December 19, 2007
Gliding Through the Holiday
Like clockwork, the waning of each year brings another slew of Christmas songs. Even Dylan has gotten in on the act. The vast majority of the seasonal crop is either nostalgic rehashings or sentimental cash-ins, but there are always a choice few that far outshine the rest. Below are eight season-app ... More >>
Calendar
December 12, 2007
David Sedaris: Grinch?
Like clockwork, the waning of each year brings another slew of Christmas songs. Even Dylan has gotten in on the act. The vast majority of the seasonal crop is either nostalgic rehashings or sentimental cash-ins, but there are always a choice few that far outshine the rest. Below are eight season-app ... More >>
Calendar
December 20, 2006
Smuin Cracks Christmas
Like clockwork, the waning of each year brings another slew of Christmas songs. Even Dylan has gotten in on the act. The vast majority of the seasonal crop is either nostalgic rehashings or sentimental cash-ins, but there are always a choice few that far outshine the rest. Below are eight season-app ... More >>
Dining
December 14, 2005
The Art of Eating
A little culture, a little shopping, a little lunch -- grazing San Francisco's museums
Holiday
November 23, 2005
Holiday Gift Guide
A little culture, a little shopping, a little lunch -- grazing San Francisco's museums
Dining
January 19, 2005
The Ladies' Delight
Neiman Marcus' refurbished Rotunda prices its fancy fare like the Manolos downstairs
Culture
December 26, 2001
Beach Blanket Babylon
This 28-year-old musical isn't just for tourists
Dining
August 30, 2000
Side Dish
Sno-Drift, Hall of Fame and Cain Vineyard and Winery
Dining
December 15, 1999
Home for the Holidays
Schroeder's
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