Laila Weir

Hoodline has rounded up some unique holiday happenings for you to add to your December calendar, including in-person, outdoor and distanced drive-through events. 

Hoodline has rounded up a selection of public menorah lightings and Hanukkah events around the Bay area.

TV chef and author Joanne Weir will reportedly open a second location of her popular Sausalito Mexican restaurant Copita Tequileria y Comida in San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood next summer. 

Hoodline's rounded up South Bay Area restaurants serving traditional Thanksgiving dinners, complete with turkey and pie, for pickup or dining-in. (For pickup, pre-order asap.)

Local "avian celebrity" Grinnell the peregrine falcon is one step closer to being able to return to the fight for his home and mate atop U.C. Berkeley's Campanile, according to Lindsay Wildlife Experience, which treated the bird for injuries after a run-in with rivals.

Heroic Italian, the southern California eatery that started serving its uber-popular gourmet sandwiches in San Francisco a year ago, is now opening a location in downtown Berkeley.

The Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority has bought 60 acres of farmland in Coyote Valley that it will preserve for sustainable agriculture as part of an effort to create what it calls "a 21st century greenbelt near urban San Jose," the agency said this week.

A few months after Alameda County began granting permits to "microenterprise home kitchen operations," here's a list of home restaurants offering meals now.

The landmark theater in downtown Berkeley has been closed since the start of the pandemic. Now, its operator says it's shutting down for good.

Indoor miniature golfing is coming to downtown San Jose as part of the redevelopment of a former Camera 12 movie theater into a mixed-use office and retail space, the developer has announced.

Six new eateries are opening at the Westfield Oakridge mall in San Jose. Meet Fresh and Mrs. Fields have already opened, soon to be joined by Cold Stone Creamery, Popeyes, Slater’s 50/50 and Umai Hot Dogs.

From all-out pumpkin patches with rides and petting zoos to low-key farms where you can pick your own pumpkins, Hoodline has rounded up some great pumpkin farms and farm stands open in 2021.

The new restaurant in Temescal from Chef and East Bay native Lala Harrison will serve Black heritage cuisine.

San Jose has shut down Agave Sports Bar & Grill after a fatal accident, a double shooting and months of investigation into alleged lockdown-violation parties, prostitution and drug use there, the city's police department said Thursday.

Hoodline has the scoop on where to celebrate Oktoberfest in San Francisco, the South Bay, and the East Bay.

The 2021 Michelin Guide for California is out, and it includes nine new additions in the Bay Area – including three restaurants in the South Bay. Eleven East Bay and South Bay eateries also made the Bib Gourmand list of un-starred but great-value restaurants.

The West Contra Costa Unified School District renamed an El Sobrante middle school in honor of Richmond's most famous park ranger, civil rights activist Betty Reid Soskin, on her 100th birthday Wednesday.

If you're over virtual happy hours and long walks on your own but avoiding indoor entertainment, check out Hoodline's list of less-common outdoor activities to try around the Bay Area.

Mama restaurant in Oakland has reopened with an affordable fixed-price menu, plus some modifications that may map the way for dining out in the time of COVID.

The Northern California Renaissance Faire is back this year, albeit with COVID-19 warnings, after being canceled "due to plague" in 2021.

The Bizerkeley Food Fest has sold out, organizers said, but foodies without tickets can still take advantage of some of the festival's fare.

Tony's Bistro, a new pickup-only restaurant in Oakland, is serving French-inspired cuisine under new county rules legalizing "microenterprise home kitchen operations."

Some residents of the East Bay hills are getting so fed up with increasingly bold coyotes going after pets that one bereaved cat owner briefly offered a $250 bounty for dead coyotes before withdrawing it when California's Department of Fish and Wildlife warned him it was illegal.

Hoodline's Bay Area Day Trips series is exploring a lesser-known corner of the region: Solano County.

A new study indicates that exposure to smoke can make COVID-19 worse. As the smoke season arrives and local kids head back to school en masse, what does this mean for the Bay Area?