misc Mavericks Surf Contest: It's On Twenty-four of the world's most bitchin-ass surfers are waxing up and on their way to Half Moon Bay for the 2008 Mavericks Surf Contest. Shore stars like Shawn Rhodes, Greg Long (San Clemente
Arts & Entertainment Huge Chunk of the Bay Bridge Floats to Half Moon Bay But you can't just put it back in place because the delta tower has already been fixed. Would some people like this semi-buoyant plastic to be a different color so that it will
SF News Surf's Up! Beaches Reopen The sands of Marin and San Mateo have officially reopened to the public. (We recommend hitting the beach in the fall. There's something luxurious about walking on the beach, bundled up in winter
SF News Day Around the Bay -- March, rally, die. [Bluoz, SFGate] -- Zombie, thrill(er), dance. [SFWeekly] -- Mac OS X Leopard...on your PC! [Laughing Squid] -- San Francisco's Visitacion Valley Middle School's principal to receive highest
SF News Day Around The Bay -- 756. [SFist for links] -- Bonds' ball chasers. [Chron, The Snitch] -- Steve Jobs' pretty new iMacs and more. [eWEEK, Chron] -- Schwarzenegger forces the fuzz to patrol more Oakland streets. [Chron]
SF News The Warriors: A Decent Time Out For the past few seasons, the Warriors primary marketing slogan has been, A Great Time Out". Brimming with hope after Tuesday's trade, SFist decided to catch a game at the O-rena to find
Arts & Entertainment It's the Great Pumpkin Festival, Charlie Brown! The 36th annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival kicked off Saturday morning to much fanfare and a crapload of pumpkins and pumpkin paraphenalia. Several blocks of the fog-shrouded farming community-cum-tourist giftshop's Main Street
SF News Hell on Wheels No More Sweet Sally Jesus, it's twue! it's twue! Devil's Slide is once again open to through traffic. And they said it couldn't be done. By 4:30 a.m. when we rolled the SFist
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Smells Fishy. Panel members were moderator Patricia Unterman, chef and owner of Hayes Street Grill and Examiner food critic as well; Steve Fitz, a salt-of-the-earth Half Moon Bay sand dabs fisherman; Tom Worthington, from Monterey
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Sustainable Seafood Salon So if you are concerned about having good fresh local wild seafood on your plate instead of tasteless overly pink antibiotic loaded farmed fish, you can go and attend the discussion, moderated by
SF News Sympathy for the Devil's Sliders Apparently, Caltrans is gearing up to begin repair work on the disheveled Devil's Slide this week, but they're not offering any estimates as to when the road might once again be open to
Arts & Entertainment Rain On, Ride On So what's a fat tire to do in the Bay Area for a little wet-weather action? You could brave the conditions and hit the trails anyway, or you could look for some lower-impact
Arts & Entertainment Surf's Waaaaay Up Forget the four-foot rollers at Ocean Beach, the stylish left-break splendor of Fort Point, or even the creepy minefield of Potato Patch, when it comes to surfing, there is one place in the
SF News Crabby Peace in Our Times As reported earlier, fishermen and processors had been unable to agree on per pound pricing until this past Saturday, when "the two groups agreed on a price of $1.75 a pound and
SF News Explosion at the Crocker Galleria There's been an underground explosion at Post and Kearny, right outside the Ralph Lauren store at the Crocker Galleria. At around 10 a.m., people said they heard an explosion and saw the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Half Moon Bay Brewing Company Beer: We like it. So Half Moon Bay Brewing Company — a waterfront restaurant that brews its own — seemed a great choice for a foggy afternoon on the coast. We had s**t to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Ono Hawaiian Grill We got there around 1:30, still a busy hour on a weekend, and sat down to wait; ten or fifteen minutes later, the spacy but sweet teenage hostess found us a table.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Even Sweeter Science In the darkness of midnight, boats from Bodega to Half Moon Bay loaded up their traps and headed out to sea as the opening of the local crab season has officially begun. What
