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Recovering From a Holiday Food Hangover

Almost as time-honored as the holiday feast is the holiday food hangover. We've spent the past few days -- well, the past month, if we're being honest about it -- eating and drinking whatever happened to come our way, culminating in an epic Christmas dinner last night. And though we certainly over-i ... More >>

Beer of the Week: The Bruery Five Golden Rings

Last week we featured a beer that was ten years in the making. The epic conclusion to an ambitious project, the brewery had released a new brew every year for a decade, each with a unifying storyline that tied the beers together and taught the public about the joys of beer cellaring. Not to rest o ... More >>

Peanut Brittle, Trader Joe's Vegan Cheese, and Happy Holidays!

​Happy holidays, my friends! What's a better way to say "hey pal, you're alright" than gifting some homemade vegan peanut brittle? With the Sweet Life's recipe, you can do just that. See Also: - Vegan Sofganiyot, Eggnog Cupcakes, and a Veggie Quarter Pounder! - Cocoa Cinna-Buns, a Baddass Noah, ... More >>

Let a Chef Shop For Your Dinner Next Week

If you don't feel like doing all the work involved in planning and shopping for dinner but are tired of eating out, Jake Des Voignes of Local Mission Eatery & Local's Corner might have the answer. He's teamed up with CUESA and Good Eggs to make a "Chef Box" full of ingredients purchased at the Ferry ... More >>

All-You-Can-Drink Craft Beer? Sounds Like Our Kind of New Year's Party

Plenty of places are offering tasting menus this New Year's, but if you love beer this one sounds like one of the most fun -- The Monk's Kettle will be closed on New Year's Eve in order to throw a giant "Tap Into the New Year" party instead, and the bar's excellent beers will be flowing all night. C ... More >>

San Francisco Is More Naughty Than Nice, Study Says

Just in time for Christmas, a new study revealed San Francisco is the 9th most sinful city in the nation, with some 48 percent confessing to committing one of the seven deadly sins -- lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, pride, greed, sloth -- at least five times a week. And just guess what we're most gui ... More >>

Toasting Our Neighbors

'Twas a Good Night

John Travolta and Olivia Newton John Make the Bleakest Christmas Music Video Ever

Welcome, ladies and gents, to the most awkward, thrown-together video we've seen since Phil Collins and Phil Bailey pretended to be best friends in the 1984 clip for "Easy Lover." You may have already heard that John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John recently saw fit to record a Christmas album t ... More >>

UC Berkeley Might Ban Salvation Army Bell Ringers for Holidays, Claiming the Organization Is Anti-Gay

The ubiquitous Salvation Army bell ringers who collect donations for charity every Christmas might be booted from the liberal bastion of UC Berkeley, where the student body has accused the Christian group of holding homophobic policies. Last month, the student government passed a resolution saying ... More >>

Beer of the Week: Shmaltz Jewbelation Sweet 16

This week, we're continuing our focus on rich brews for the holiday season. But, instead of your standard spiced Christmas ale, we're celebrating a beer best enjoyed while spinning a dreidel under the light of a menorah. The brew is also a celebration of the "sweet 16th" anniversary of one of our ho ... More >>

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Drunks Beware, Cops Will Be Looking For You This Holiday Season

So you polished off the bottle of Wild Turkey over Thanksgiving, and now it's time to move onto to the spiked eggnog. The holidays are here. But along with Christmas cocktails come more cops, starting Sunday, Dec. 9, when the first DUI checkpoint is held in the city's Merced Manor neighborhood.

Cops Get Lots of Cash to Go After Local Drunks This Holiday Season

With the World Series drama behind us, and no presidential visit in sight, San Francisco police can get back to business as usual, which includes nabbing your drunk ass after a night at the bar. SFPD got an early Christmas gift -- $106,000 check -- from the state, money that will be used to help off ... More >>

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Australian DJ Anna Lunoe on Moving to L.A., S.F.'s Dirtybird Label, and Laying Down Vocals

With a musical career beginning in Australian radio in 2006, DJ/vocalist/producer Anna Lunoe's encyclopedic musical knowledge has helped her become an important figure in the resurgence of disco in the EDM scene, and allowed her to open for artists from Soulwax to Santigold. In 2009, she was the fir ... More >>

Number 22: Pupusas at Cafe and Restaurant Montecristo

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Just a few streets down from McLaren Park, on a stretch of Geneva that takes you from San Francisco to Daly City and then Brisbane in a matter of blocks, is Cafe and Restaurant Montecristo, whose exterior is draped in ... More >>

Beyond the Blaze: Help Victims of the Alamo Square Fire

​SF Weekly readers probably haven't forgotten the disastrous blaze that consumed several Western Addition buildings just three days before Christmas. But you can stop wondering what happened to those unfortunate victims, and start helping them.  St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church is hosting the B ... More >>

What a Boar

State Rewards Bad Drivers in the New Year

​If you're like me, you have an unstoppable propensity to speed, and an even greater penchant for not paying tickets on time. So be it. Believe it or not we can get away with it -- sort of. Among the many things the state does to screw us over, lawmakers were kind enough to give us outlaw drivers ... More >>

Parker Gibbs' Annual Holiday Craptacular: Show Preview

Bouncer Finds That Even The Man Supports Occupy (Well, Sorta)

​From this week's Bouncer column: I like bars for the same reason I like Facebook: I can come face-to-face (literally and metaphorically) with people who have different opinions than I do. When I was growing up in the middle of Illinois, liberals were hard to come by, so I couldn't wait to h ... More >>

Snow in San Francisco?

Ice ice, baby...​In a town where 50 degrees is considered chilly and even the remote possibility of a dusting of snow is a banner news event, it was conceivable that San Francisco's Occupy encampment could exist indefinitely. And yet, on the very night the cops moved in and cleared everybody out, ... More >>

J Rosé's New Clear Bottle Helps Holidays Sparkle

Holiday party e-vites are filling our inboxs, and the calendar is already looking like a mostly completed crossword puzzle with lots of full boxes and only inconvenient white space. All those parties means hostess gifts, or, if you are the host or hostess, the gift of expectation -- the expectation ... More >>

Shopping Maul

Humphry Slocombe Introduces New Line of Caramel Candies

Humphry Slocombe​Humphry Slocombe gets a lot of attention for its ice cream, but there are little toppings and treats (like frosted peanuts and duck fat pecan pie) that comparatively fly as much under the radar as is possible for this popular parlor. One new such addition: a line of in-house c ... More >>

'Fruitcake That Ate New Jersey' Has San Francisco Origins

It's got Trenton! East Orange is next! ​We all learned in school that multiplying two negatives together makes a a positive. Turns out it can be true in real life, too. You just need one more ingredient: Publicity. For instance, a recent discussion on NPR radio's Weekend Edition noted that the fru ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for December 22-28, 2010

Elfin Magic

Eight Epically Nerdy Gingerbread Houses

The gingerbread house is a holiday tradition that dates back to medieval times, but it's cropped up regularly in popular culture ever since a witch with a taste for human flesh tried to tempt Hansel and Gretl into her sugary abode. (And thus we find a way to successfully reference cannibalism in an ... More >>

Saturday Night: Mayer Hawthorne, White Mike, Riche Panic, and Others Soundtrack A Santa-Filled Night in the Mission

The Saturday night crowd at SOM Bar​Meyer Hawthorne, Richie Panic, White Mike and othersDecember 4, 2010@ Public Works, SOM Bar, and Beauty BarBetter than: Being forced to sit in Santa's lap at your mandatory company holiday party. Jingle bells, confusion, and offensive party smells! Such was th ... More >>

Brenmar Plays Santa Claus, Offers Up A Stream of His At It Again EP

Brenmar​If you were lucky enough to catch Brenmar at Icee Hot last month, then you know the Brooklyn-based house producer is in a creative zone right now, combining the tropical, drum-heavy sounds currently trending with the '90s influences of his native Chicago. And now, along with Discobelle Rec ... More >>

Holiday Hallacas at Pica Pica

John BirdsallPica Pica's hallaca, $9: a three-meat filling wrapped in masa, steamed in banana leaf. ​Friday, December 3, 2010 In the gray north, we grow up baking puffy reindeer cut-outs with our moms, but in Venezuela, mothers and grandmas construct hallacas, a taste of Christmas as ubiquito ... More >>

The SFoodie Advent Calendar, Day 3: Coconut Snowball from Sweet Adeline

John BirdsallSponge cake filled with coconut custard and rolled in nostalgia, $4.​The SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas/Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one treat at a time. The classic coconut snowball? Sort of a Ding Dong dressed up in a Christmas sweater. The fir ... More >>

Gluttony in the Name of Hanukkah, Christmas, and Repeal Day: This Week in SFoodie

JM Rosenfeld/FlickrSufganiyot, aka jelly doughnuts.​A few of the highlights from the blog this week:1. It's day three of Hanukkah. How are we at SFoodie celebrating? So far, by tasting frozen latkes, eating jelly doughnuts, and taking on a double-meat latke delight. We're so oiled up by now we're ... More >>

The Mynabirds Release Christmas Protest Song, New Video for "What We Gained in the Fire"

The Mynabirds' Laura Burhenn​It's Thanksgiving, which means in just a few days it will be officially Christmastime, folks. But let us walk you gently into the season of obliviously cheerful jingles with a non-oblivious one: "All I Want Is Truth For Christmas," a new Christmas song from the Mynabir ... More >>

Unhappy Meals: How else can S.F. improve kids' health?

Shop Till You Stop

Disco Volante Spins into Oakland, Meadowood Calendars 12 Days of Eating

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Courtesy of Inside Scoop's Paolo L., we learn of Disco Volante (347 14th St., Oakland), from Kevin Cook, Damon Gallagher, and Tim Tolle. The pitch: California local-seasonal food from former ... More >>

At Tortilla Heights, Budget Baja in the Western Addition

Lindsay M./YelpWho can resist free chips?​The place: Tortilla Heights, 1750 Divisadero (at Bush), 346-4351. The hours: Daily, 4:30-6:30 p.m. The deals: A different drink deal for each day of the week, plus $13 margarita pitchers and complimentary chips and salsa Monday through Friday The d ... More >>

For Christmas Dinner, Go Thick, Dark, and Spicy with Seasonal Ales

www.twinbeer.comYulesmith Holiday Ale from San Diego's AleSmith Brewing.​While worthy of its time-honored place at the head of the Thanksgiving groaning board, turkey deserves a day off at Christmastime, just as our taste buds deserve a little wintertime variety. What, then, to serve in its pl ... More >>

Note To the Egg Nog-Sloshed: Get Ready To Get Nailed By Holiday Sobriety Checkpoints

Not just Santa Claus is coming to town this holiday, folks. State, federal and city law via Flikr by McBLG97On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a DUI from the SFPD....​enforcement will be out in force for 17 days starting this weekend to nail your drunk ass if you get behind the ... More >>

What's in Your Diary?

Seen in San Francisco: Cleaning Pigs Out of the Garage

​"Honey, do we still want these Christmas lights? Only half of them work.""Nah, we'll buy new ones.""What about the No Pigs sign?""I don't know, we might use it again.""You say that every year.""Oh, okay, fine. Just toss it."

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