Maui

Larry Ellison's Plans to Buy Part of Hawaii Approved

Last week we told you that Oracle CEO and obnoxious bajillionaire Larry Ellison had big plans to purchase part of Hawaii -- and we weren't kidding. According to press reports, the sale went through yesterday, and Ellison will officially own 98 percent of the island of Lanai by the end of the week. T ... More >>

What to Eat at Eat Real Fest? Food You Won't Find in San Francisco

Lien T./FlickrSilog tacos from Tim Luym's WOW Truck.​ Today, Oakland's three-day Eat Real Fest begins, bringing together 60 food trucks, 30 small food vendors, and tens of thousands of eaters. There will be jam-making demonstrations and butchery contests, live music, and more sunshine than the Wes ... More >>

Love and BASE Jumping: Q &A With Bob Ash, Fiance of Bay Area BASE Jumping Victim, Shannon Dean

Shannon Dean, BASE jumper​In 2006, Bob Ash witnessed his fiance Shannon Dean fall to her death off the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls, Idaho, one of the only legal places to jump in the country. The two had lived together in San Mateo; Dean was 35 years old, Ash 42. The Chronicle covered Dean's deat ... More >>

Better Than a Ball Drop: New Year's Eve with The Taco Guys

Steph L./YelpMushroom, left, and Maui fish tacos.​Folsom Pit Stop with The Taco Guys Where: In front of Bloodhound, 1145 Folsom (at Seventh St.), 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Cost: All tacos $5 each Why it's likely to be special: Restaurant chefs turned taqueros Justin Close and Jason Hoffman are steerin ... More >>

Q&A: Low End Theory's Daddy Kev Is Kind of a Nerd in Real Life

Daddy Kev plays Friday at 1015 Folsom.​While most of us were drooling over the latest Power Rangers episode in middle school, L.A.-based producer -- and Low End Theory club night resident -- DJ Daddy Kev was honing his DJ skills. With a badass appearance, fearsome talents, and a serious work ethi ... More >>

Q&A: Low End Theory's Daddy Kev Is Kind of a Nerd in Real Life

Swelter a Little at Tuesday's Hawaiian Cocktail Shake-Off

Sarah_Ackerman/FlickrSomewhere on Maui, people are drinking mai tais. In shorts. ​Chances are you went to sleep last night wearing three layers, a hat, and an extra blanket and were still cold ― nothing like 40-something-degree weather to make you think about visiting someplace warm and gett ... More >>

Listen To This While High: I Am The Dot's 'We Have Not Arrived'

​Listen to this while high:  "We Have Not Arrived," by I Am the Dot, courtesy of Knox Road.Behind the buzz: The one-man band of Denver's Zach Tipton, I Am the Dot drops another tuneful noise-pop EP every few months. This song is off his latest, a four-track cassette and digital release of the ... More >>

Sierra Club Sues EPA For Not Enforcing Clean Air Act

Trouble in paradise?​Two environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in federal court in San Francisco, asserting the EPA did not adequately enforce provisions of the Clean Air Act.The lawsuit, filed yesterday by the Sierra Club and WildEarth Guardian ... More >>

Six Bites from Eat Real

John BirdsallPair of tacos al fresco from the Taco Guys.​Monday, August 30, 2010 The weekend's Eat Real Festival has faded into the sting of a sunburned neck, a pair of stained jeans in the hamper, and the memory of six bites that made us taste twice: 1.Kurobuta pork and chile verde taco (l ... More >>

This Year's Eat Real Festival Is Bigger, Better Organized, and More Entertaining

Jonathan KauffmanThere are moments like this at Eat Real, but they're rare.​ In their second year, the organizers of the Bay Area's back-to-back street food festivals have clearly learned from the surprise throngs and food shortages of last year. Last week, John Birdsall commented how much better ... More >>

The Taco Guys: Longtime Line Cooks Take Fine-Dining Chops Mobile

The Taco Guys/FacebookThe Taco Guys: Justin Close (left) and Jason Hoffman.​This may be San Francisco's Summer of Truck, sure. But 2010 has seen the birth of another street trend: The restaurant chef gone mobile. This Friday at Off the Grid, San Francisco will get a taste of the newest resta ... More >>

PETA Wants You to Help Pick the Sexiest Vegetarian

PETASean from San Lorenzo.​Is there something about packing your body with un-meat that makes you hot? That's the subtext of PETA's annual Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door contest. The animal-rights group is in the 11th hour of balloting for a roster of guys and gals who are as kind, presumably, a ... More >>

Da Kine Grinds in J-Town: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

J. BirdsallLoco moco: balmy.​Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Call it stunning denial about the film of ice on your cat's water bowl, or mourning for the Maui vacation you aren't taking. Either way, you need a taste of something balmy. Get to Sundance Kitchen in Japantown today for a lunchtime se ... More >>

Berkeley Students Roll a Fatty

dailylifeofmojo/FlickrAgain we have to ask: Why?​Food history was made yesterday when a group of U.C. Berkeley students and volunteers made the world's longest California roll in Sproul Plaza. Reports from the Oakland Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle detail hundreds of amateur sushi makers ... More >>

Organizers at U.C. Berkeley Want to Make the World's Longest California Roll. Why?

revjim5000/FlickrThe length to beat: 300 feet.​Yeah, this is how we roll: Food history may be made on Sunday, Nov. 8, when a group in Berkeley attempts to make the world's longest California roll. Eight years ago, a group in Maui set a record for a 300-foot-long roll. The Cal organizers hope ... More >>

Eight Summer Food Festivals Worth the Schlep

Did you miss San Francisco's Oyster Fest last month? Fear not. There are plenty of larger food festivals to satiate you -- if you're willing to travel. We've put together a roundup of some of the best. Maine Lobster Festival (July 29-August 2)Made famous by David Foster Wallace's essay Consider ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Roy's Original Hawaiian Martini

It was almost certifiably blustery walking to Roy's one evening, but the transformative power of its signature Original Hawaiian Martini would soon be erasing thoughts of wind and cold. A shaken cocktail of Maui pineapple-infused Skyy vodka, Stoli Vanil vodka and Malibu coconut rum, it provides subt ... More >>

Salad Daze: Julia's Kitchen at Copia's Fig Salad

Media Analysis: Gay Marriage Looks Good On Us

Full Nelson

Can pro basketball's second-winningest coach put the Warriors back on the warpath? Don't count him out too quick.

Hawaiian I

Not Spam-a-lot, just delicious, inexpensive, and comforting island fare

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Ghost Tree Blooms

Watch it dump, from a safe place

Lights, Camera, Gospel!

A look inside the grandiose cinematic dreams -- and genuine transcendent joy -- at Voice of Pentecost Church

OK Then, 2004!

A dark year for America resulted in a great year for music

OK Then, 2004!

A dark year for America resulted in a great year for music

Wet Kisses

Riding Giants gushes over the legends of big-wave surfing

Best Pupu Platter

Roy's

Hawaiian Aye

If you want aloha, you're better off at Tita's Hale'aina than at Roy's

Shops and Gifts

Bringing Up Baby Gavin

How William Newsom's pipeline into the Getty fortune has put money -- lots of it -- in his politically ambitious son's pocket

Worth a Detour

Zax Tavern

So-So Chic

RNM

In the Shadow of the Stars

Two Berkeley filmmakers win best documentary at Sundance

Peace, Love, and Misunderstandings

Followers of the late John Lilly, the guru of higher consciousness, are squabbling over his legacy

Treasure Island

Kaleo Cafe

Dog Bites

A Little Crazy

The Talking Penis

Basic Instinct author crawls up Bill Clinton's pants and hangs on tight

Prize Prix Fixe

Lalime's

Awkward Christian Soldiers

How a Bay Area sect with an occult tinge went national, transformed itself into an odd brotherhood -- and now is gaining acceptance from the ultratraditional Orthodox Church

Cool World

Escaping Metreon

Love, Japanese-Style

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

In Quest of the Perfect Sushi

Carnaval Cruise

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Universal Appeal

George's Global Kitchen combines simple, fresh food and low prices with feel-good surroundings