Brewing with an appetite: Sacrilege Brewing + Kitchen seeks to elevate the pub food experience

Half Moon Bay’s small-scale Main Street brewery fosters creative beer and innovative eats. Lunchtime eats at Sacrilege: the Hawaiian chicken tacos (on corn tortillas with pineapple and aioli) and the brewery’s namesake Sacrilege burger (with the works on a toasted English muffin), plus a Lemon Peels Grass Blonde Ale and St. Carl’s Salted Caramel Stout — both Sacrilege brewed. (Photo by Charles Russo) Joe Pacini loves beer. He loves making it. He loves talking about ...

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Hippies, Hells Angels and the Grateful Dead: when a NYC fashion photographer shot SF in the ‘60s

Hippies, Hells Angels and the Grateful Dead: when a famous NYC fashion photographer shot SF in the ‘60s Palo Alto’s Pace Gallery showcases Irving Penn’s sublime portraits from the heyday of the Haight Ashbury. Irving Penn “Rock Groups,” San Francisco, 1967 (Courtesy of the Irving Penn Foundation) “In 1967 there was word coming out of San Francisco of something stirring — new ways of living that were exotic even for California,” wrote famed fashion photographer Irving Penn ...

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The 650 Guide to legal marijuana on (and around) the SF Peninsula

Original 650 Illustration by Kaz Palladino / Awkward Affections Insider insight on the where, when and how to “blaze it” around Silicon Valley Call it what you will—cannabis, weed, pot, bud, ganj, Mary Jane (just don’t say “grass” if you’re younger than 50)—marijuana has come a very long way since the Dude last lit up. Rebecca Diaz (left) and Destiny Martin (right) pose for a photo while smoking joints during Hempcon in Daly City, during ...

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