Subject: Half Moon Bay

• Heklina, San Francisco's Beloved Drag Mega-Star, Covers Some Bases at the All Star Game (With Video!)

  July 12, 2007

• 'Ask a Scientist' on Mavericks, Tsunamis, and Apocalyptic Doom: Do not attempt to shoot curl

  October 8, 2007

• Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off: Now With Bigger, Uglier Squash

  October 9, 2007

• The Big Spill: More oil spill cleanup information

  November 15, 2007

• Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off: Now With Bigger, Uglier Squash

  October 9, 2007

• The Best Cosco Busan Oil Spill Map on the Net

  November 21, 2007

• Mavericks: It's Officially Official, It Might Happen This Year

  December 7, 2007

• The environment and slavery awareness duke it out for Noblest Cause this Presidents Day! It's ...

  February 18, 2008

• Reminder: Pumpkin Fest This Weekend

  October 17, 2008

• Drink of the Week: Odwalla's Super Protein Pumpkin

  The ever-reliable Odwalla, which was started in Santa Cruz and has its headquarters up the coast in Half Moon Bay, offers this Super Protein Pumpkin soy milk drink every winter; it's one of their only seasonal flavors. That's a shame because, with our mild weather year-round, when is it a bad time to enjoy a beverage that tastes like liquid pumpkin pie? --Tamara Palmer

  December 12, 2008

• Day Trip: Ahlgren Vineyard & Castle Rock State Park

  Ahlgren Vineyard, known for its Semillon, is one of the best wineries in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

  January 23, 2009

• Night+Day

  October 11, 1995

• Equinox Alert

  elraigon.comSpring is here, and the city's farmers markets are brimming with fecund, fragrant, Technicolor abondanza: needle-thin asparagus fresh from the Delta; stalks of Pescadero rhubarb and Half Moon Bay snap peas; a dazzling array of Watsonville basil; loquats and fava beans and haricots vert from the Central Valley; the cantaloupe, avocados and Valencia oranges of the south; Sebastopol currants and Santa Rosa zucchini fresh as a Wine Country sunrise. So what does one do with all this sus

  March 25, 2009

• Bay Area's Last Stagecoach Robbery Commemorated By Band of Eccentrics Wearing Funny Hats

  On August 17, 1905, an unknown man wearing driving goggles on his face and feedbags over his boots leaped, screaming, from a tree and into Bay Area lore. The masked man demanded stagecoach driver Ed Campbell throw down the Wells Fargo strongbox and the mail bags before passing a hat among the coach's several passengers. He then fired his gun in the air, spooking the horses and sending the coach on its way. His haul for the day: An empty strongbox and mail bags and $4.30 from the passengers. Even

  March 30, 2009

• Anti-Social Investment Watch: Ratings Agency Downgrades Half Moon Bay 'Vampire Bonds' To 'Robin Hood Bonds'

  This economic metaphor comes equipped with a band of merry menLast Week we urged anti-social investors -- the opposite of do-gooder "social investors" who shun tobacco, blood diamonds, and the like -- to load up on a pending "vampire bond" coming out of Half Moon Bay, 30 miles southwest of San Francisco.The bonds were designed to pay off an apparently bloodsucking Woodside land speculator who'd purchased a piece of property out of town, then went to court because of pre-existing environmental co

  May 19, 2009

• Half in the Bag in Half Moon Bay

  June 25, 2008

• Music for Swingers

  The Giants' theme songs get us thinking outside the batter's box.

  June 25, 2008

• Taking a Shot for the Team!

  A drinking game to get you through the Giants' dismal season.

  June 25, 2008

• Park It for the Summer

  A survival guide for outdoor musical events in the city.

  June 25, 2008

• Let the Games Beijing

  Spend a day of Olympic proportions beyond the Dragon's Gate.

  June 25, 2008

• Best Outdoors Club

  May 11, 2005

• Dog Bites

  The thrill of Beach Blanket Babylon auditions

  September 29, 2004

• Paint It Orange

  Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere in Half Moon Bay

  October 15, 2003

• Bad Vibrations

  September 3, 2003

• Squeezebox Celebration

  Give the accordion a hand

  June 11, 2003

• Best Bike Ride

  May 14, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  August 28, 2002

• Four Best Bars With a View

  May 15, 2002

• Bringing Back Bongo Bongo

  January 9, 2002

• The Cocktail Charade

  September 5, 2001

• Animal Magnetism

  January 19, 2000

• Night Crawler

  January 12, 2000

• The Selling of a Wave

  Three sports clothing companies are sponsoring contests that encourage surfers to ride the 60-foot waves at Maverick's Point. Someone may be encouraged to death.

  October 14, 1998

• The Beat Goes On

  September 2, 1998

• Unspun

  March 19, 1997

• Night+Day

  November 29, 1995

• Rounding Up the Usual Sospechosos

  November 15, 1995

• New Kid on the Dock

  March 22, 1995

• Sexy Dishes Week Specials

  Today through Friday is TasteTV's "Sexy Dishes Week" in the Bay Area, a celebration of the release of the book Sexy Dishes that contains profiles of hot local chefs and their recipes. Several establishments are offering specials based on or inspired by their chef's recipe(s) in the book. Announced specials include: • 83 Proof (83 First St. at Mission): Half-price on their cocktail contribution, Burnt Fig Sazerac (rye whiskey, burnt figs, agave nectar, orange bitters, absinthe) and Cactus

  May 4, 2009

• Sexy Dishes on the Pacific

  Sam's sensuous ceviche Last week was Sexy Dishes Week, and, since SFoodie was feeling rather fetching (and sponsor TasteTV kindly set up some opportunities for us to nibble on offerings from its new Sexy Dishes book), we decided to head for the restaurants closest to water. Sam's Chowder House (4210 Cabrillo Hwy N at Capistrano in Half Moon Bay) welcomed us with an awesome sunset as well as their two sexy dishes, a simple ahi tuna poke that tasted as good as it did the last time we visited, an

  May 11, 2009

• Anti-Social Investment Watch: Half Moon Bay Mulls Issue of 'Vampire Bonds'

  So-called social investing -- where soft-edged sharpies stay out of tobacco, blood diamonds, and the like -- has come under fire for producing substandard returns. Such critiques of do-well-by-doing-good investment-picking carry the implicit moral that one might do better by doing bad. Into the the promising field of anti-social investment offerings steps the city of Half Moon Bay, a municipality 30 miles south of here. The city's manager recently told the publication Bond Buyer that it has obt

  May 11, 2009

• An Early Peek at Eat Real Fest Oakland's Street-Food Vendor List

  Organizers of the Oakland edition of the Eat Real Street Food Fest in August have been announcing the event's growing vendor list one by one on Twitter. Instead of tracking down these peripatetic purveyors on their erratically scheduled street rounds, Eat Real is gathering up a carefully curated group for this one-time-only feeding frenzy. And to save you from scrolling through Eat Real's Twitter feed, here's the lineup so far: Seafood chowder from Half Moon Bay's Sam's Chowder Van Salvadora

  June 26, 2009

• Share Our Strength Benefit Serves Up Good Food with a Side of Karma

   Considering that on an ordinary night at Masa's, the five-course prix fixe is $95 (wine pairings an additional $59), a $150 tariff for five courses and wine plus tax and tip is something of a bargain. That's what's on offer for a Share Our Strength benefit on August 15th called A Tasteful Pursuit. Proceeds help fight domestic child hunger: a good deal that's also a good deed. Masa's chef Gregory Short and pastry chef John McKee are collaborating with Mark Dommen, chef/partner of One Mark

  July 24, 2009

• Drink of the Week: Odwalla's Mojito Mambo

  ​It's rare that you'll spot SFoodie chillin' with a diet drink in hand, especially one sweetened with stevia, which is arguably what one might imagine a can of Raid to taste like. But Half Moon Bay's Odwalla health beverage company has made us reconsider with its nine-month-old Mojito Mambo, made with a combo of rebiana (supposedly the best-tasting part of stevia, according to a company release) and evaporated cane juice, a hybrid Odwalla has copyrighted as Truvia.If you're someone wh

  August 14, 2009

• Five Local Ways to Pump(kin) it Up

  T. PalmerSee's Candies' marshmallow Jack-O-Lantern.​San Francisco's few pumpkin patches are open for business, Half Moon Bay's annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off is set for October 12, and the Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival will follow on October 17-18. Yes, folks, it's definitely time to start appreciating the pumpkin around these parts. Here are five ways to do so without leaving city limits: 1. Devour a baked baby pumpkin at Afghan restaurant Helmand Palace (2424 Van Ness

  October 6, 2009

• 10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

  Caroliner @ the Lab (Sat. and Sun.)​Hardly Strictly Bluegrass @ Golden Gate Park (Fri.-Sun.)Wait, what? Steve Martin and MC Hammer and Neko Case and Steve Earle? Yeah, it's the city's biggest free hootenanny with a cross section of roots music fans. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass kicks off today at 10:30 a.m.; the last act hits the stage Sunday at 7 p.m. Inaugural Show @ Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (Friday)GAFFTA aims turn an eyesore neighborhood into a destination for rising art stars. It s

  October 2, 2009

• Save the Date: Next Weekend's Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Promises to Give Squash Its Due

  SFAntii/FlickrPumpkins are like chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.​If the shrimp-infatuated Bubba from Forrest Gump had grown up, not in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, but in Half Moon Bay, California, he might have extolled the virtues of a different food to his new buddy Forrest. We imagine the following monologue, a revision to the original, uttered first by actor Mykelti Williamson, and then, naturally, imitated constantly, at least for a year or two, with varying degrees of s

  October 8, 2009

• 10 Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

  www.epiphanydance.orgTrolly Dances Sat. & Sun.​The Intelligence, Hank IV, Mayyors, Bronze @ Elbo Room (Fri.) Portland's postpunk, postapocalyptic noisemakers The Intelligence headline a Friday night to remember. The band brings its lo-fi, high-trash sound to an Elbo Room lineup where it gets support from Nor Cal's loudest 'n' rawest: Hank IV (S.F) and Mayyors (Sacto), warmed up by electro "cosmic mindslayer" Bronze. ($7 if you grab tickets in advance; $10 if you're lazy. 9 p.m.)Dirty Rotte

  October 16, 2009

• It's Buy One, Get One at Kara's Cupcakes in the Marina Sunday

  kaplan.davidari/FlickrThe Karavan, at August's Eat Real Festival.​Sunday is looking pretty suh-weet. That's when Kara's Cupcakes' original Marina location (3429 Scott at Chestnut) will be offering one free cupcake with purchase, per customer, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Seasonal fans may favor the pumpkin spice cupcake with cream cheese frosting; peanut butter fiends can get a serious fix of smooth peanut butter and milk chocolate ganache frosting. The full menu is here. If you plan your visit

  October 30, 2009

• Plenty of Food Cart Lunch and Dinner Options in S.F. Today

  T. PalmerSmitten Ice Cream debuts its quince streusel flavor today.​There are ample opportunities to check out some food cart-and-truck action in San Francisco today, whether the hankering is for lunch or dinner. Sam's Chowder Mobile of Half Moon Bay, rarely in S.F. (but still working on building a dedicated city van), will be parked at 500 Terry Francois (at Mission Bay Blvd. N.) from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Go early for a crack at the item that sells out first, the fantastically buttery lobster

  November 13, 2009