- "Long live places you go to just to get drunk for cheap." [SFist]
- [Atlantic] writer who lives in SoCal basically just rehashes all those same arguments blaming SF's housing crisis on progressives that a SPUR staffer argued on their CityLab site this summer and a TechCrunch writer posited over a year ago.
- Are these really "The Six Best Ways to Celebrate New Year’s Eve in San Francisco"? As "on my couch with a bunch of dogs and my last box of Peppermint Jo-Jos marathoning The Great British Sewing Bee" is not one of them, I am not so sure. [Resy]
- Mark Zuckerberg responded to critics of Facebook's controversial Free Basics service on Monday with an opinion piece in the Times of India. [Cnet]
- District 11 has the lowest park maintenance score in the city, according to a new report from the City Controller’s Office. [Ingleside Light]
- The [Wall Street Journal] predicts that Bay Area unicorns Nutanix, Okta, Twilio and Coupa will IPO in 2016.
- No one wants to buy this historic Lower Haight home. [SocketSite]
- San Francisco native and tennis star Helen Wong Lum has died. [SF Chronicle]
- Rec and Parks wants your feedback on a SoMa rec center. [Hoodline]
- Twitter's got a new diversity head. [SF Business Times]
- "If you haven’t seen 23 elderly people sing 'Don’t you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me' at a nightclub, you are missing out on one of the most memorable acts to ever emerge from the Bay Area music scene." [SF Chronicle]
- Oakland Raiders fullback Marcel Reece was suspended four games without pay Monday for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances. [Associated Press]
