Christmas

Instead of spending Christmas eve anxiously awaiting Santa’s debarkation, why not head out to your nearest house of worship for a glorious, musical mass? You’ll find the most resplendent at Grace Cathedral crowning Nob Hill. Down California Street Old St. Mary’s Chinese Mission (est.1854) the caroling starts at 11pm. For an even more historic night […]

This is the season when every town, practically every neighborhood, in the Bay Area has a fair stocked with gifts of lovingly made local crafts. Something a little different is happening all day this Saturday and Sunday at Fort Mason. Sponsored by the too often unsung Museo Italo Americano, the Mercantino di Natali is an […]

Bay seniors looking for a variation on Christmas traditions might want to see how it is done in Scandinavia. On Saturday December from 9 to 4 at Saint Mary’s on Gough Street there will be a Swedish Christmas Fair with imported crafts, pastries, meatballs and generous servings of glögg ( hot mulled wine with cinnamon, […]

Bay seniors know that Christmas does not come once a year. On the heels of the December 25 extravaganza comes the Russian Orthodox celebration. This January 5 at 7 pm attend St.John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox Church in San Francisco  for a concert of Eastern European holiday music by Slavyenka, a highly regarded chorus. Tickets […]

For Bay seniors who consider the holidays barely joyous without a Dickensian feast of plum pudding, mince pies, brandy snaps, Devon Ceam, crumpets, Cadbury Curly Whirlies, whiskey fudge and vegetable suet the Geezer directs you to British American Imports in the City. They’ve had a somewhat hidden retail shop for 10 years out on 15th […]