Holiday Season

Don't Forget to "Treecycle" Your Holiday Bush

Christmas is over, and unless you got a fake tree with plans on being those people and decorating it for every holiday in 2013, now's the time to get rid of your festive fern. Starting Wednesday, Jan. 2, trash collectors will be picking up your Christmas trees along with the regular curbside garba ... More >>

Hey Drunks, Here's How to Not Ring in The New Year in Jail

Christmas is over and New Year's is on its way, so now might be a good time for you to sober up and take a short hiatus from boozing 2012 away. Good health and sobriety is a decent reason to drink water instead of wine, but here's an even better reason: The cops will be watching you.

Pie Time: Three Babes Bakeshop Pops Up This Weekend

Pick up some holiday pies this weekend from the gals at Three Babes Bakeshop, who are holding a pop-up on Saturday and Sunday at the Stable Cafe (10 a.m.-4 p.m. both days). The fire will be lit, there will be hot apple cider, pies by the slice, whole pies to take home, and what we're assuming will b ... More >>

San Francisco Gingerbread Architecture 101

Are you looking for something festive to do with relatives this holiday season? Or do you simply need a distraction or excuse to remove yourself from the company of your weird and annoying family? We suggest taking an afternoon to peruse the impressive edible masterpieces created by the talented pas ... More >>

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Adorable Pastry Chef Yigit Pura on New Season of Millionaire Matchmaker

Listen up everyone, important news: The cute-as-a-button pastry chef Yigit Pura of recently opened Tout Sweet Patisserie in Macy's Union Square will appear on the new season of the Bravo show Millionaire Matchmaker. This isn't Pura's first foray into reality TV -- before he opened the bakery, his cl ... More >>

Donate Your Ethnic Doll and Make a Kid in Need Happy for the Holidays

Gone are the days of kids pining away for a blonde Barbie. The San Francisco Fire Department is collecting ethnic dolls to give away to ethnic children in need this holiday season. So if you have the time and money you might as well put it to good use and show your face at Don Ramon's Mexican Resta ... More >>

Hog Island Oyster Co. Now Accepting Limited Holiday Mail Orders

Fresh oysters are a time-tested holiday tradition in homes across the country, and as of yesterday the superlative Hog Island Oyster Co. started accepting orders for nationwide Christmas and New Years Eve shipping. The farm only has capacity for 100 orders per holiday on a first-come, first-serve ba ... More >>

Juan Martinez Arrested in Fatal Hit-and-Run on Christmas Eve

​(Update 1 p.m.): Police have informed us that Juan Martinez, 23, was arrested on suspicion of hitting and killing a pedestrian on Christmas Eve and driving away. Read more after the jump. A man was found dead underneath Highway 101 in the Mission District on Christmas Eve morning in what police a ... More >>

Parker Gibbs' Annual Holiday Craptacular: Show Preview

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 >>

Tonight: Make Fried Foods for Hanukkah

​What: Delicious Hanukkah Foods Class! Where: Loft in West Oakland (exclusive!) When: Tues., December 20, 7 p.m. Cost: $50 The rundown: As any good Jew or shiksa knows, Hanukkah is all about the fried food. Hence, we are all about Hanukkah. Let's take that burning oil and fry up some deli ... More >>

Norway's Butter Crisis Is Actually Hilarious, Thanks to This Video

Apparently American comedians are getting lots of material out of Norway's butter products crisis, because a lack of butter is something Americans find hilarious. You can't turn on Comedy Central and not see Dane Cook cutting Norway a new one about their lack of pussycat cakes. Well, Norway's not g ... More >>

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 >>

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Get Your Delicious Holiday Shopping Done at the La Cocina Gift Bazaar!

​What: Third Annual La Cocina Gift Bazaar Where: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts When: Fri., December 9, 5-9 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Shop local this holiday season by buying all sorts of delicious goodies at the La Cocina Gift Bazaar. It's very food focused (yay!), with over ... More >>

The Best Holiday Treats of 2010

Jonathan KauffmanFruitcake from Schubert's Bakery.​Friday, December 24, 2010 We began this year's SFoodie Advent Calendar on Dec. 1, long before dog-eared rolls of Christmas wrap found their way out of closets, or we'd assembled 2010's official holiday party outfit (thanks, H&M!), or even bef ... More >>

Ho Ho Ho Bang, Black X-Mass, Radioactive's Holiday Extravaganza, Free Jewish Museum and More

Hanna QuevedoThis Saturday marks the 13th annual Black X-Mass with Karla LaVey at the Elbo Room.​Can't stand another minute of the eye-drooping boredom of this whole holiday family time thing? Or are you stuck in town due to circumstances beyond your control? Either way, to fix the problem, here's ... More >>

A Merry Crew of Jonathan Richman, Mark Eitzel, and Carletta Sue Kay sing for the Boozy at the Make-Out Room's Christmas Craptacular

Who better to Christmas-cheer you up than the ever-chipper Jonathan Richman?​Parker Gibbs' Christmas Craptacular w/ Jonathan Richman, Mark Eitzel, Marc and the Casuals, Carletta Sue Kay, Los Cenzontles, and othersDecember 22, 2010@ The Make-Out RoomBetter than: Face down in Burl Ives' swimming poo ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Download a Free Low Live EP Before Tuesday's S.F. Show

Low​Low'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.

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Fired Santa John Toomey Takes Lefty O'Doul's Gig -- Doubles Salary

John Toomey has a new address. And it's not the North Pole.​"Santa John" Toomey, the 20-year Macy's Kris Kringle who found himself unemployed over the weekend due to an off-color jest, is now the world's most famous bar Santa. No joke. Toomey, 68, has accepted the job he yesterday told SF Weekly h ... More >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

Court Saves S.F. $10 Million, Throws Out Challenge to Payroll Tax

Gloria In Excelsis Deo!​San Francisco isn't getting many financial gifts this holiday season. So it's with great cheer we welcome a recent decision by the California Court of Appeal to throw out a lawsuit challenging the legality of the city's payroll tax. Wait, what's that under the tree? Another ... More >>

Would You Pay $250 To Meet John Waters?

$250 to meet this guy? Is that a dirty shame?​Well, here's your chance. The Pope of Trash is doing his one-man "A John Waters Xmas" comedy show as a fundraiser for the Mission's newly nonprofit Roxie Theater on Dec. 11. You'll need two Benjamin Franklins and a Ulysses Grant ($250) to get inside, b ... More >>

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