SF News Napa Natural Medicine Quack Who Sold Fake COVID-Fighting Pellets and Vaccination Cards Gets Three Years Juli Mazi, the non-MD naturopath who misled patients during the pandemic into believing that vaccines are "toxic" and she'd made her own natural pellet versions, has been sentenced to three years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iron Chef Morimoto Is Opening a Mostly Chinese Restaurant Near His Napa Flagship Japanese celebrity chef Masaharu Morimoto is getting set to open a second restaurant in downtown Napa called Morimoto Asia, which will focus primarily on Chinese cuisine.
SF News RH Drops $25 Million on Napa Resort Full of Crumbling, Formerly Glorious Structures Napa’s Soda Springs resort has been out of use and in disrepair since the 1960s, but RH (formerly Restoration Hardware) just bought it for $25 million and hopes to put it back on the map as a winery and resort.
SF News 12 People Need Rescue When Napa Fair Double-Ferris Wheel Breaks Down Mid-Ride Children as young as eight years old were stuck in the sky when a ride malfunctioned Saturday night at the Napa Town & Country Fair, requiring a fire department ladder truck to get them all down safely.
SF News Napa Quack Set to Be Sentenced In Case Involving Phony COVID Pills and Vax Cards, But First She Tried to Vacate Her Plea Napa-based naturopathic doctor Juli A. Mazi, the loon who was nabbed by the feds last year for prescribing bogus COVID-19 immunization pills and handing out fraudulent vaccination cards, just tried to vacate her plea agreement after firing her lawyers. But the judge wasn't having it.
Arts & Entertainment New Belgium Brewing Trolls Napa Residents With Highly Implausible Beer-Themed Amusement Park Proposal A bizarre alcohol-themed amusement park proposal called Voodoo Ranger IPA Action Park claims it’s “Coming Soon to Napa,” and residents are already organizing against it, though the whole thing may just be a sudsy publicity stunt.
SF News Dede Wilsey Comments on Paul Pelosi's (Alleged) Drunk-Driving Incident Paul Pelosi's DUI arrest over Memorial Day Weekend in Napa has become major fodder for right-wing loons who have been misinformed that he's skirting any charges, but society doyenne Dede Wilsey says it's a shame he was arrested at all.
SF News Naturopathic Quack In Napa Takes Plea In Federal Case Involving Fake Vaccine Cards and Fake Vaccine 'Pellets' A Napa-based naturopathic doctor took matters a little too far in her homeopathic advice to patients about COVID-19, both discouraging them from getting "toxic" vaccines and duping them into taking pellets she claimed would provide lifelong immunity from the virus.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood Chef Christopher Kostow Opens 'Jew-ish' Deli and Bagel Shop In Napa Originally set to open Friday and pushed into next week, Loveski Deli is the newest project from Michelin-star chef Christopher Kostow and his wife Martina, inside Napa's Oxbow Public Market.
SF News Napa Good Samaritan Missing for Eight Days, Authorities Fear She May Have Been Swept Up in River Flooding Friends and family of 37-year-old Crystal Lea McCarthy are still organizing furiously to find her, but police have troubling evidence she may have been swept away in a flood after feeding residents of a homeless encampment.
SF News Napa Man With 'White Privilege Card' and Accomplice Charged With Plotting to Blow Up Democratic Headquarters 45-year-old Ian Benjamin Rogers of Napa and 37-year-old Jarrod Copeland of Vallejo are in some hot water over their Trump-fueled rage following the 2020 election.
SF News Naturopathic Doctor In Napa Allegedly Sold Fake Vaccine Cards to Go With Her Fake COVID Immunization Pills A Napa woman who told patients at her naturopathic and homeopathic medicine practice that the available COVID-19 vaccines had "toxic" ingredients in them now faces federal charges for falsifying vaccination cards. And she's the first person in the country to face federal charges for such a scheme.
SF News Remembering The Rippeys, Married 75 Years, Who Perished Together Sunday In The Atlas Fire Most of us in the Bay Area were still unaware that wildfires were burning in Napa County Sunday night when Charles Rippey, age 100, and Sara Rippey, age 98, died together when their
SF News North Bay Wildfires Destroy Countless Homes & Businesses; Power Lines & High Winds Could Be To Blame Last update at 2:30 p.m. Updates will continue to arrive slowly in the multiple fires that broke out overnight in Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino counties, but as morning arrived, we know
SF News [Update] Major Wildfires Spread Through Bay Area Wine Country Filling SF Skies With Smoke Last update: 12:30 p.m. Multiple large and fast-moving wildfires burning in Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties have prompted mass evacuations, burned hundreds of homes and businesses, and filled the skies of
Arts & Entertainment Comedian Kathy Griffin Has Appearances Canceled In Napa, Grass Valley, And LA In Wake Of Trump Controversy While some are going to argue that Americans are generally forgiving and everyone except OJ Simpson can ultimately have a comeback, fans and non-fans remain upset about Kathy Griffin's controversial photoshoot with photographer
Arts & Entertainment Tom Petty, Foo Fighters, And Tons of Food: Scenes From BottleRock 2017 In Napa by Annie Lesser Memorial Day Weekend in Napa used to just be a getaway to taste wine and eat delicious food. At BottleRock, now five years in, it's still about tasting wine and
Arts & Entertainment Video: Foo Fighters Play Tom Petty Cover To Small Crowd At Napa's Blue Note It's BottleRock weekend up in Napa, and even though the Foo Fighters won't hit the main stage until Sunday, when they're headlining, they took to a small stage last night at the Blue
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best, Not-Wildly-Expensive Wine Country Restaurants Wine Country, particularly the Napa Valley, is the lap of luxury of the Bay Area, and an adult playground for the wealthy from all over the US. If you've spent some time wine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Wine Thief Gets 15-Month Sentence The Modesto man who pleaded guilty in December to the heist of over a half million dollars worth of wine from The French Laundry in Yountville was given a sentence of 15 months
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Naked, Admittedly Drunk Man Rescued From Certain Doom Inside TOGO's/Baskin-Robbins Vent A man who told rescuers that he has been searching for a wishing well was pulled from a Napa ventilation shaft Tuesday, naked, drunk, and at the literal end of his rope. According
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock 2017 Lineup Features Foo Fighters, Tom Petty; Tickets On Sale Wednesday If you think Maroon 5 and Gavin DeGraw are the bomb, then have a great time at BottleRock 2017! Okay, those acts don't do justice to the full breadth of the lineup: This
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chef Michael Chiarello's DUI Arrest Came One Day After Settlement In Harassment Suit The story about local celebrity chef Michael Chiarello (Coqueta, Bottega) getting arrested early Wednesday morning for driving under the influence and possession of a controlled substance has taken on an interesting new twist,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrity Chef Michael Chiarello Arrested In Napa For DUI, Possession 2016 is turning out to be a doozy for Food Network star and longtime Napa chef Michael Chiarello. As Eater first reported, Chiarello got picked up early Wednesday morning for a DUI in
SF News More Than 18 Earthquakes Have Hit The Hollister Area Since Sunday An earthquake swarm has been rattling San Benito County in the vicinity of Hollister for several days now, with two low-magnitude quakes striking this morning as well. As SF Gate reports, the pair
