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Mavericks Surf Competition Begins Today

If you're tired from a long week, or depressed over the election results, here's a good excuse to hit the beach today: The opening ceremony for the Mavericks Invitational. As most locals know, Mavericks is the famous big-wave surf competition at Half Moon Bay featuring 60- to-80-foot waves that br ... More >>

For the Birds

Markegard Family Grass-Fed Offers Workshops for the Aspiring Urban Farmer

If you have an itch to drive out of the city learn more about the country life, then Markegard family of Half Moon Bay have a workshop series that might be for you. The Markegards run a large grass-fed farm and ranch in Half Moon bay and raise beef, lamb, eggs and pastured pork, all available via CS ... More >>

Fall is Here, Bring on the Pumpkins

As we move into fall and the Great Pumpkin spreads its magic, pumpkin patches pop up all over the Bay Area. For both kids and foodies, Farmer John's Pumpkin Farm in Half Moon Bay is a good first stop. As owners John and Eda Muller note, "We are a pumpkin farm, not a pumpkin patch." And Farmer John' ... More >>

Warm Weather Inspires Public Masturbation

The Examiner brings us this unsatisfying story this morning about a disturbing uptick in public masturbation -- and we're not referring to your Muni ride last night. Just last week in Half Moon Bay, sheriff's deputies were called to a report of a horny man who allegedly had been pleasuring himself ... More >>

Tour de NorCal

Hey, Ramen Lovers: Semi-Secret Ramen Pop-Up Hits Half Moon Bay on Tuesday

What: Ramen Night pop up in Half Moon Bay Where: Flavor Restaurant, 10151 Cabrillo Hwy, El Granada, CA 94019 When: Tue. March 13, 4:30-10 p.m. Cost: $24 for 3 courses, appetizer choice of ramen dessert The rundown: Since ramen fanatics will travel any distance to find a good bowl of ramen, i ... More >>

Comprehensive Guide to CSAs in San Francisco: Fruits and Vegetables

Contents of a weekly share from Shooting Star CSA​The number of CSAs -- Community Supported Agriculture groups -- available to San Francisco residents has really grown in the last few years. From farm-fresh produce to grass-fed beef and sustainably caught seafood, there are just so many choice ... More >>

Food Forward Celebrates Real Food Heroes Across the Country

The modern food landscape is more confusing than ever. Words like "organic," "sustainable" and "all-natural" have been so diluted from overuse and vague definition as to become meaningless to most. Worse, populations across the country have little or no access to fresh produce of any kind, irrespe ... More >>

Up-and-Coming on the Catwalk

Sion Milosky, Hawaiian Surfer, Drowns at Mavericks

A powerful wave​Top Maverick surfer Sion Milosky was killed yesterday evening after drowning while surfing the Mavericks off the coast of Half Moon Bay.Media outlets are reporting that the 35-year-old Hawaiian native died after falling in the face of a massive wave that engulfed him. He had caught ... More >>

Mavericks: Coast Guard Bans Spectator Boats From Waves

Matt SmithLike, a little space, dude​The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a special federal rule banning spectator boats from encroaching on giant waves during the annual Mavericks surfing  contest. The new rule will let boats affiliated with the contest tow surfers toward big waves and cruise ne ... More >>

Half Moon Bay Brewing Co.'s Kirk Hillyard

Justin LewisHalf Moon Bay Brewing Company brewmaster Kirk Hillyard.​Half Moon Bay Brewing Company ― about a half-hour down the coast, just off Highway 1 ― just celebrated its 10th anniversary. Sipping pints by the fire pit at the family- and dog-friendly brewpub has come to exemplify Cali ... More >>

Kombucha Starts Returning to Bay Area Shelves

As of last Saturday, Berkeley Bowl West was fully stocked with kombucha.​Things are still tense in the kombucha industry. Earlier this summer, several federal agencies announced they were investigating the fermented tea to see if its alcohol content was high enough to regulate kombucha like an alc ... More >>

Tomorrow: S.F. Food Carts Take a Field Trip Down the Peninsula

Tamara PalmerYou deserve it, dear Peninsula.​Local homies Crème Brûlée Cart and Magic Curry Kart are heading south tomorrow afternoon for a rare field trip to the Peninsula, where they'll sell lunch in front of fashion e-commerce site Moxsie (120 Hawthorne at High, Palo Alto) from 11:30 a.m ... More >>

Is S.F. Museum's Filched Tortoise Ambling Around Half Moon Bay?

Dom MosurHas Arthur the stolen tortoise found a new home? ​Last week we reported on Arthur, the 50-year-old California Desert Tortoise filched from San Francisco's Randall Museum. The middle-aged gentleman had been living at the museum since Jerry Brown and Linda Ronstadt were a hot couple -- and ... More >>

Mavericks Fans' Painful Wipeout News Even to Many Spectators

Despite requests on the surf competition's Web site, massive crowds poured into Half Moon Bay Saturday to witness 24 top surfers take on enormous waves at the Mavericks Surf Competition. Spectators happily hoofed a mile-and-a-half to the hills clustered above the surf spot, with dogs, children, and ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

Peter Mel at Mavericks ​This is a big weekend if you're into surfing, pillow fighting, swapping spit (and/or records), and other cheap activities. Here's our to-do list. Thao With the Get Down Stay Down & The Thermals @ Sproul Plaza (Fri.)(We posted this one earlier in the week, but here's a r ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 s ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 definite ... More >>

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: ... More >>

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 Mam ... More >>

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 Franc ... More >>

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 (42 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 s ... More >>

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' ... More >>

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 f ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Reminder: Pumpkin Fest This Weekend

Half in the Bag in Half Moon Bay

It's worth the gas to get gassed Coastside.

Music for Swingers

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

Taking a Shot for the Team!

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

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

The Best Cosco Busan Oil Spill Map on the Net

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

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

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

Best Outdoors Club

Paint It Orange

Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere in Half Moon Bay

Bad Vibrations

Surfers battle enviro-surfers over a proposed jet-ski ban that would protect wildlife -- but threaten big-wave surfing at the legendary break known as Maverick's

Squeezebox Celebration

Give the accordion a hand

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.

Unspun

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