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Dec.
2002 : The tree’s lit, Macy’s has its windows done
up, and the Powell Street Cable Car just came back online after
a three-week maintenance shutdown in November. No better time than
Christmas to make the pilgrimage to Union Square, rendered
all the more lovely by its recent multi-million dollar renovation.
• Top shopping awaits, at department stores (Niemans,
Saks), fashion outposts (Tiffany, Hermes, Prada), and local boutiques
along Maiden Lane, so named for its Barbary Coast days as the top
brothel row in town.
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Beyond the Shopping District, you’ll find plenty of opportunities
for securing holiday treats: Unearth vintage Art Deco accessories,
furniture, and jewelry at Deco the Halls at the Concourse
Exhibition Center, (12/7-8, 8th and Brannan, 650-599-3326,); find
deals on local crafts, fashion, clothing, and body products at Santa’s
Black Market at SomArts Gallery (12/15, 934 Brannan, 415-695-9100)
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Land new gear or bid on a bike at the SF Bicycle Coalition’s
Winter Fest and Auction (12/8, SomArts, 415.431.BIKE). Pick
up that perfect pocket rocket or fetish wear for the naughty ones
at the female-owned Good Vibrations, celebrating 25 years of flaunting
the goods (1210 Valencia St., 800-289-8423).
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Fill the kids with culture via a pair of Christmas Classics: Steven
Anthony Jones scrooges it up in A Christmas Carol at the
ACT Theatre (12/7-29, 415 Geary, 749-2ACT), while the San Francisco
Ballet, America’s oldest, tackles Tchaikovsky’s The
Nutcracker, at the War Memorial Opera House (12/10-29, 301 Van
Ness Ave., 865-2000.)
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Explore Victorian-era San Francisco on the Haas-Lilienthal House
Holiday House Tour. This period museum, an elegant 1886 Queen
Anne replete with wooden gables and authentic furniture and accessories,
decks its halls with holiday decorations, music, requisite Christmas
tree, and treats. 12/8, 2007 Franklin St.,441-3004.) Snow falls
indoors daily during Sony Metreon’s Winter Wonderland. 11/29-12/31,
101 Fourth St., 369-6000
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American watercolorist Winslow Homer’s dual driving passions
– painting and fly-fishing – set the scene for Casting
a Spell: Winslow Homer, Artist and Angler opening Dec. 7 at
the Legion of Honor. Fifty paintings spanning Homer’s career
lend insight into the creative process, and a glimpse of 19th-Century
natural world and sporting life. Museum free each Tuesday. Lincoln
Park, 34th and Clement, 12/7-02/03; 415.863.3330 www.thinker.org
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Gridiron fans gather as top college squads square off New Year’s
Eve at the inaugural Diamond Walnut San Francisco Bowl, at
Pac Bell Park. Air Force is readying itself for a Big East opponent
(Pittsburgh? BC?), yet to be determined. 4th and King, 12/31; 415.-947-BOWL,
www.sfbowl.com
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Get musical gifts, and your groove on each Friday at Amoeba Records,
for Mandala, the free-form rotating DJ series on its in-store stage.
The Christmas Jug Band sits in 12/15. (1855 Haight St, 831-1200.)
Catch a limited run of Martin Scorcese’s signature rock and
roll sendoff, The Last Waltz, while noshing New American cuisine
at Foreign Cinema (2534 Mission, 12/1-8, 648-7600.)
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Jay Cooke is a San Francisco-based travel, food, and culture writer.
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