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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Guerneville Restaurateur Crista Luedtke Opening New Cocktail Bar El Barrio Frequent weekenders to Guerneville will tell you that the only game in town, until very recently, when it comes to a delicious dinner worthy of S.F. palates is Boon Eat + Drink. Chef-owner
SF News Wildfire Growing on Mount Diablo; Brush Fire Breaks Out In Sonoma Hot, windy conditions helped fuel two Bay Area fires on Sunday. A wildfire erupted Sunday afternoon on the eastern side of Mount Diablo, burning brush and other vegetation and potentially threatening about 100
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Do Wines Taste In Flavortown? Guy Fieri Buys Vineyard In Sonoma Culinary punchline Guy Fieri, host of the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, now plans on squishing his toes into the wine-making game. According to Press Democrat, the noted shouter purchased a five-acre
SF News Sonoma Gun Enthusiast Accidentally Shoots Himself in the Chest Here's some more tragic gun-death news for you today. A Sonoma man who had just been skeet shooting at a Sonoma rifle range accidentally shot himself in the chest while reaching for a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lady Gaga Vineyard Shopping In Sonoma? Rumor has it that Lady Gaga might be interested in buying a vineyard in Sonoma. SFist scribe and Grub Street editor Jay Barmann notes, "Following on rumors that Lady Gaga was house-hunting around
Arts & Entertainment Passport To Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma's Wine-Food Bacchanalia, Approaches Time to shed this grizzly winter of ours, yes? Oh wait, no. It has not been a glacial winter. Not at all. It has, in fact, been downright balmy this winter season of
SF News Would You Kill a Redwood for a Pinot? Aren't there enough wineries in Northern California? Do we really need another? Especially when it could mean the death of a redwood forest? As the LA Times reported in August, Codorniu’s Artesa
SF News $10,000 Reward Offered for Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Prominent S.F. Attorney Bay City News reports this morning that friends and family of Don Casper, the prominent San Francisco attorney who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Sonoma County earlier this month,
SF News Have You Seen This Pick-up Truck? This driver of this pick-up truck, according to authorities, is responsible for the hit-run death of noted San Francisco attorney Donald Casper, who died over the weekend. Casper, 63, was jogging eastbound along
SF News One Woman Dead, Two Missing In Sonoma/Point Reyes Three women, ages 37, 77 and 34, have disappeared since January 10. The locations are "approximately 60 miles apart if you take Highway 1 straight up from Pt. Reyes to Calzadero." Sleuth Beth
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Top Chef</em> Finale Resumes in Sonoma Tonight The trio still standing on Bravo's Top Chef comprises The Brothers Voltaggio (brusque, tattooed, envelope-pushing Michael and staid, straight-laced, classically trained Bryan) and beardy Kevin from Atlanta, who has proven that simple food
SF News Dead MINI Cooper Driving Teen Had Previous DUI Here at right is the dumb, now dead kid who is responsible for the vehicular manslaughter of that family of four on their way home from a Thanksgiving vacation on Saturday. It turns
SF News Sonoma Family of Four Killed After Being Broadsided by MINI Cooper Because no holiday weekend would be complete without a spate of tragedies on the local news, we'll start with this one, which is awful: a family of four, on their way home from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Top Chef: Las Vegas</em> Will Finish Season In Wine Country For the final couple of episodes, the cast of Bravo's ever so popular chef showdown relocated from Sin City to our neck of the woods, staying at the Le Mars Hotel in Healdsburg
SF News Oh No, Randall Cover, Former Water Operations Supervisor for the City of Sonoma! Former Water Operations Supervisor for the City of Sonoma, Randall Cover, plead guilty in federal court today in San Francisco. For what? Glad you asked. He pleaded guilty to five counts of "using
misc Help an SFister Land That Sonoma Wine Job News of Sonoma County’s “Really Goode Job” first hit SFGate on April 28. Since then, hopefuls coveting the $10,000/month, half-year gig for Murphy-Goode have been applying online and uploading videos
SF News Gun Scare Prompts Closure of Sonoma Schools Rancho Cotati High School and Cross & Crown Lutheran School for kindergarteners and preschoolers in Rohnert Park were shutdown today after a gun scare sent parents, school officials, and teachers into a frenzy.
SF News Morning Earthquakes Two small earthquakes struck the Bay Area over the weekend. First, a 3.5-magnitude quake centered 10 miles north of downtown San Jose rattled Sunday morning at 7:47 a.m. Then, a
SF News Adopt A Cat Or Kitten For $30 In Sonoma Today Hey, you! You with the hole in your heart and frown on your face. The Sonoma County Animal Shelter is offering over 150 bundles of feline joy (both cats and kittens, but the
SF News What's That Smell In the Air? Why, It's NorCal Burning Down! If you've noticed over the past couple of days, it's smells a bit smoky, a bit ashy in Baghdad by the Bay. It seems, according to CBS 5, Northern California is suffering from
SF News San Bruno Mountain Wildfire 75% Contained Last night's five-alarm wildfire in the San Bruno Mountains, which threatened homes in South San Francisco, has been 75 percent as of this morning. The crisp weather and fog -- which has mercifully
SF News Chilly Nights Kill Sonoma County Vineyards No! Due to the awesome unseasonably cold weather the Bay Area has experienced over the last few months, an estimated 10 to 15 percent of Sonoma County's $400 million vino crop has succumbed
