Arts & Entertainment Napa’s Blue Note Jazz Festival Napa Returning for Labor Day Weekend, Thankfully Without Dave Chapelle Emceeing The Blue Note Jazz Festival is somewhat scaled-down, moved to later in the summer, and is not bringing back Dave Chapelle, but still boasts an impressive lineup featuring John Legend, Andre 3000, and Jill Scott.
SF News Napa Considers Moving ‘Welcome’ Sign Because Too Many People Run Across Highway 29 to Instagram It A Napa County Instragam trap is causing worries that it could become a death trap, and the county is considering moving its picturesque “Welcome” sign because of unsafe behavior by motorists and pedestrians seeking pictures of it.
SF News Heavy Rains Have NorCal Vineyards Hoping For a Bumper Crop This Year While this year’s epic rainstorms have wiped out crops and damaged property for some farmers, Northern California grape growers are optimistic the wet weather will yield a banner year for them after several years of drought conditions.
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma County Farm ‘Strikes Black Truffle Gold’ After Nearly a Decade of Trying After nine years and millions invested in trying, a family has grown the first-ever black truffle to sprout in Geyserville, and these Sonoma County truffles may soon be a mainstay in northern California fine dining.
SF News Disgraced Windsor Ex-Mayor’s Latest Sexual Battery Charge Comes from ‘Teen Mom’ Farrah Abraham The ninth sexual misconduct charge against former Windsor mayor Dominic Foppoli may have been the one that forced his resignation, and it came from reality TV figure and adult film star Farrah Abraham.
SF News ‘Instagram Wine Influencer’ Accused of Throwing Pig’s Blood On Chauvin Witness’ Former Home In Santa Rosa First we learn there is such a thing as an “Instagram wine influencer.” Then we learn one of the Bay Area’s leading practitioners in this field was arrested for her alleged involvement in a pig's head vandalism incident related to the Derrick Chauvin trial.
SF News 3.0M Earthquakes Rock East Bay, Wine Country Saturday Morning A 3.0 magnitude tremor shook the ground near Livermore around 4:50 a.m. Saturday morning— and that earthquake was followed by a slightly larger, more apparent one in Calistoga less than three hours later.
SF News Glass Fire Reaches 100% Containment as North Bay Braces For More Power Shutoffs The Glass Fire is officially, fully contained as of Tuesday, right on schedule per earlier announcements by Cal Fire. As with other wildfires, it has taken many days than might seem intuitively necessary to get from 97-percent to 100-percent, and here we are.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wine Country Wants Waivers to Reopen, Despite Not Meeting Criteria Napa, Sonoma, and Solano counties are all talking about reopening stores and restaurants to some degree, yet none meet the requirement of no COVID-19 deaths in two weeks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Northern California's 2019 Wine Vintage Is Just Fine, Post-Fire Sonoma County wineries, restaurants, and hotels are trying to get the word out that Sonoma wine country escaped mostly unscathed from the Kincade Fire, which was declared 100 percent contained as of Wednesday.
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For 'Wine Country,' The Amy Poehler-Directed, Napa-Set Comedy Based On Rachel Dratch's Actual 50th Birthday "Just remember guys, whatever gets said, it's probably what the person has always felt, and the alcohol just let it out," says Tina Fey's character, Tammy.
SF News Mendocino Fires Burn 34,000 Acres, Only 10 Percent Contained #RedwoodComplex [update] north of Ukiah in the Redwood Valley (Mendocino County) is 34,000 acres & 10% contained. https://t.co/2uhzbbqqsU pic.twitter.com/wR7l6yJt1Q— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) October 13, 2017
SF News Wildfire Smoke Renders SF Air 'Unhealthy' Through The Weekend After a brief supposed respite Wednesday (it was still quite smoky!), San Francisco air quality is expected to be especially bad today, a result of the ongoing wildfires in the North Bay. While
SF News At Least 10 People Dead In Northern California Wildfires The death toll in what continues to be a group of disconnected, simultaneous wildfires in multiple counties stands at 10 as of late Monday afternoon, though that number is likely to rise homes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vineyards And Cannabis Farms Destroyed In North Bay Fires, Wine Harvest Was Ongoing As we wait to learn the exact extent of the damage in the ongoing Tubbs, Atlas, Nuns, and Patrick Fires burning in Sonoma and Napa counties, what is already all but certain is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Excessive Heat Turns Wine Grapes To Raisins The 2017 vintage may be a tough one for many Napa and Sonoma winemakers after last week's heatwave, which hit right before harvest for red varietals like Cabernet. The harvest had been shaping
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 Thomas Keller Plots A French Laundry Hotel Chef-restaurateur Thomas Keller opens up to the Wall Street Journal Magazine today about the ongoing, four-year-long renovation project at the French Laundry in Yountville, something that he says began just with a rebuild
SF News Napa Agriculture Heroes Discover, Destroy Wine Grape Pest The eggs of a dreaded wine grape pest with the power to spread a destructive vine disease have been discovered and destroyed by vigilant inspectors, Bay City News reported via KRON 4. Eggs
SF News Nancy Pelosi's Burglar Busted After Returning To Steal Coin Collection A 21-year-old Napa County man was busted yesterday for burglarizing six homes up in wine country, including two trips Nancy Pelosi's vacation home outside of St. Helena. After his first trip to the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Only Rap Video Ever Made About Wine Country This video, produced by and for "connoisseurs of fine wine with a gangsta sensibility," has all the rap video tropes we could ask for: gold chains, babes writhing sensually, unnecessary black-and-white shots, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Winemakers Pushing Booze On Unsuspecting Chinese Middle Class Over in China, the Wine Institute, an association of California wineries, is using the Golden State's effortlessly cool image to sell mid-range wine abroad. As the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports, the Wine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery Catches Fire [Updated] The esteemed French Laundry chef's Bouchon Bakery outpost in Yountville was hotter than ever this morning. Unfortunately, it wasn't because of the macarons. A one-alarm fire broke out in the attic above the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Chocolate Porn = Yummy Fun We knew we'd rope you in with the use of the word porn! "I didn't know there are so many chocolate places," our husband said as we collectively eyed The Chocolate Guide Western
