Nine years after opening Calafia in Palo Alto’s Town & Country Village, Charlie Ayers — he was Google’s first executive chef — has abruptly closed the farm-to-table restaurant. “Money wasn’t coming ...
Installation view, Calafia: Manifesting the Terresterial Paradise, Armory Center for the Arts (all photos by author for Hyperallergic) PASADENA — During the 1500s, Spanish conquistadors named the Baja ...
Our journey begins at the border. It is six o’clock in the evening. The mission: find the historic Calafia Hotel — the one that hangs off a cliff south of Rosarito. Fill yourself up on its happy-hour ...
The Mexicali Biennial was founded in 2006 by artists Ed Gomez and Luis G. Hernandez as a way to critique the recent explosion of regional biennials around the world. Nomadic by nature, it was first ...
After nine years in business, popular Palo Alto farm-to-table restaurant Calafia Cafe has just closed its doors for good. The restaurant and market came from Google’s first-ever chef (and former ...
Johanna deWitt: “Did the city know, when we purchased our pass? We use it mostly at Calafia. We feel cheated! We should have been told!” Larry Kane: “Should not a decision that impacts a significant ...
The name California comes from a sixteenth century conquistador fantasy of a formidable island inhabited by free-loving black Amazons. They were led by a brave queen: Know th[ere] . . . exists an ...