Where to Hit the Ice – Bay Area Holiday Ice Rinks
Holiday season means many things in the Bay Area – lights, Christmas trees, decorations, shopping – and the wonders of nature with holiday ice rinks popping up in the Bay Area. Here are some of the spots to lace up those skates.
Shopping: Industrie Denim
On the border of Union Square and Chinatown lies someplace jean-ius—Industrie Denim. The two story complex caters a vast array of denim jeans to fit every human body variation.
Tree Lightings Around the Bay
Along with eating plenty of food and holiday shopping getting underway, Thanksgiving weekend also usually marks the start of tree-lighting ceremonies across the Bay Area.
Outdoor Ice Skating for the Holidays
Love it or hate it, the holiday season has officially begun with the opening of the outdoor skating rinks today at Union Square and Justin Herman Plaza. Get the details on each of the rinks here.
San Francisco Launches Bike Rental Program
A new bicycle rental program in San Francisco was celebrated on Tuesday with an inaugural ride in Golden Gate Park with Mayor Ed Lee and other city officials.
Wake for Santa John
Irish bar Lefty O’Doul’s will be hosting a wake for John Toomey, the well-loved character who served as Santa Claus at Macy’s Union Square for twenty years until he was infamously fired last December for telling some uptight adults a semi-baudy joke. Toomey, 69, passed away last week.
Rappelling off the…Hyatt?
If you see people rappelling off the Grand Hyatt hotel in downtown this Friday and Saturday, you won’t be imagining things. And it’s not some elaborate stunt either. Created as an event to benefit the Special Olympics Northern California, the public is being invited to rappel 425 feet (that’s 36 floors) from the hotel’s rooftop.
Picasso Thief Caught
And who do you image would be brazen enough to simply walk into an upscale art gallery in Union Square and coolly walk out with a stolen Picasso drawing worth upwards of $200,000? A criminal mastermind with a long record tracked by Interpol? Nope – it’s just some dude from Jersey.
Photos: The Brides of March
The Brides of March took over North Beach this weekend. Throngs of people dressed in their wedding whites paraded through the heart of San Francisco, strolling through Union Square, shopping at fancy stores and drinking in local bars.
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