SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Husband and Wife Team Behind Sleeper Sonoma Hit Animo to Open Casual Roadside Spot Golden Bear Station The couple behind one of Sonoma's most lauded and talked-about restaurants of the last couple of years, Animo, is expanding with a second spot that promises to be bigger, busier, and cheaper.
SF News Floods Force Road Closures Across Bay Area; Ducks Were Swimming On I-580 In Oakland The latest round of storms have left flooded roads that have stranded hundreds in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with flood advisories in effect for several Bay Area counties, and a flooded I-580 in Oakland was taken over by a paddling of ducks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Recognized Sonoma Spot Valley Expanding With Second Location Next Year A charming natural wine bar and restaurant on Sonoma's town square is in expansion mode and will be taking over the space occupied by Delicious Dish about two and a half miles away.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Animo Brings Basque-Style Meat and Fish to Sonoma (With Korean Touches) Tucked away next to a McDonald's on Route 12 at the edge of the town of Sonoma, a short drive from the town square, is a new restaurant focused on Basque-style, wood-fired meat and fish, from a former New York City ramen chef.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ravenswood Tasting Room To Shutter After Three Decades In Sonoma It's the end of an era for a stalwart Zinfandel producer in central Sonoma as the Ravenswood Winery will be shut down in mid-May. The announcement comes via the longtime owner of the winery and tasting room, the beverage conglomerate Constellation Brands.
SF News ICE Agents Failed Pick Up Santa Rosa Man Who Later Beat His Girlfriend To Death Santa Rosa is not a sanctuary city and the Press Democrat recently did an article about this fact. So when undocumented Guatemalan immigrant Nery Estrada-Margos was arrested for beating his girlfriend, Veronica Cabrera
SF News Fire Plane Mishap Turns Sonoma Neighborhood Pink There’s not much funny about California wildfire season, with more than 100,000 acres on fire across the state as of press time. So we’re really going to enjoy the one
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
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mountain Lion Kittens Discovered In Sonoma Den Wildlife researchers in Sonoma County who have been tracking "clusters" of activity among mountain lions came upon a rare sighting of ten-day-old mountain lion kittens in a den last Friday. They managed to
Arts & Entertainment C.W. Nevius Resurfaces As Sports Writer For Santa Rosa Press-Democrat When he departed his post as a thrice-weekly columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle last fall, it wasn't clear if Nevius was planning for a semi-retirement, perhaps kicking back to write a memoir
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pretty Music Video Shows Off Sonoma And Mendocino Coast Sonoma-based singer-songwriter Garrett Pierce has a new album out next week on Crossbill Records called Dusk, and the first release, "Distant Thought," comes with this music video directed by Pierce featuring nature scenes
SF News Teenager Found Dead At Sonoma State Was Stabbed Multiple Times In Possible Random Attack The body of 18-year-old Kirk Kimberly was discovered buried last week in a shallow grave on Sonoma State University campus, and officials now say his death could have been the result of a
SF News Sonoma City Council Blocks New Airbnbs Following Housing Concerns Citing familiar-sounding concerns about a diminishing stock of affordable housing, the Sonoma City Council yesterday agreed to place a moratorium on home-sharing services like Airbnb and VRBO in the tourist friendly city. The
SF News Video: Family Of Bears, Possibly Fleeing Wildfires, Spotted In Sonoma County Park California state park officials yesterday released footage of a family of bears, a mother and two cubs, walking at night through Sonoma County's Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. As the Chronicle reports, the familial
SF News Lead-Contaminated Water At Healdsburg Elementary Alarms Parents Toxic levels of lead have contaminated the water at Healdsburg Elementary School since at least November, a fact which school officials are just now making public. The water, with contamination levels reportedly 59
SF News Video: Sonoma High Schooler Body Slams Boy Allegedly Online Bullying Her (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News Tolay The Traffic-Snarling Elephant Seal Gives Birth (Not On The Highway) Tolay, the elephant seal relocated from Highway 37, gave birth to a pup yesterday! The bir https://t.co/U7W5kVKtnv pic.twitter.com/mdfTGP5Ily— Point Reyes NPS (@PointReyesNPS) January 4, 2016 The obstinate
SF News Tolay The Pregnant Elephant Seal Escapes Drop-Off Point, Heads To New Hangout As you likely recall, a "very determined" pregnant elephant seal spent the last few days attempting to cross Highway 37 near Sears Point in Sonoma County — much to the chagrin of the California
SF News [Update] 'Very Determined' Elephant Seal Still Trying To Cross North Bay Highway Why did the elephant seal cross the road? (Or the highway, in this case...) https://t.co/YDLxq417dd pic.twitter.com/M6W3KNvMds— Marine Mammal Center (@TMMC) December 29, 2015 As the sun rose
SF News Elephant Seal Blocks North Bay Highway, Gets Feisty With Passing Cars Things are getting a little wild on a North Bay highway today, as an elephant seal has been off and on blocking traffic all afternoon, and has allegedly attacked at least one car
SF News Charges Dropped Against Former Crack Kingpin Pulled Over With $100K In Cash A Sonoma County Judge dropped recent charges against former crack kingpin "Freeway" Rick Ross today after claims by Ross that his arrest was the result of racial profiling. Ross was arrested last Thursday
Arts & Entertainment Kevin Spacey Comes To Sonoma To Sing Standards This Weekend, Do A Little Comedy In an odd turn of events for Bay Area summer entertainment, Oscar winner Kevin Spacey is coming to the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University this Saturday for a one-time performance of
SF News Yet Another Dead Whale Washes Up In Northern California As the annual gray whale migration draws to a close, yet another dead marine mammal washed up on another Northern California beach. The carcass of a juvenile gray whale washed ashore Portuguese Beach
Arts & Entertainment All Time High For Sold-Out Sonoma Marijuana Fair Despite dank weather, about 10,000 folks were stoked to toke even danker pot at the 11th annual Emerald Cup in Santa Rosa this past weekend, reports Smell The Truth. The event was
SF News SFFD's Homeland Security Head Demoted After Strange Sonoma Car Accident The assistant deputy chief responsible for the San Francisco Fire Department's response in the case of terrorist attack has been bumped way back down the chain of command following a curious collision in