Just our luck: St. Patrick’s Day events are back in the 650

For the first time since 2019, St. Patrick’s Day festivities are back without restrictions on capacity or county mask mandates in place (individual business and event rules still apply, of course). So don your green apparel and celebrate on the Peninsula at one of these upcoming events.

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Beer + Bluegrass = Beergrass? How COVID turned a Coastside brewery into a legit folk band

The staff of Hop Dogma has spent much of quarantine brewing up something poignant and new — and it’s not just beer. Beer & Bluegrass: (from left) A glass of Hop Dogma Brewing Co.’s “Sunset Serenade” West Coast style IPA; the False Bottom Boys, from left to right: Dogma Head Brewer Jesse Jones, owner Dan Littlefield, musician and bartender Lisa Marie Johnston, Dogma Bartender and harpist Ella Jenkins, fiddle player John ...

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What will it take for local restaurants to recover? Dan Gordon sounds the alarm after closing in PA

What will it take for local restaurants to recover? Famed Peninsula brewer Dan Gordon sounds the alarm after closing in Palo Alto In Q&A, Gordon Biersch co-founder on why he decided to close, the Catch-22 of federal loans and the fate of Bay Area restaurants Owner Dan Gordon (left), formerly of Gordon Biersch, extensively revamped the old brewery-restaurant space in downtown Palo Alto to open Dan Gordon’s in March of 2016. (Photo by ...

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