Amtrak

Austin Christopher Price Identified as Teen Killed Playing "Chicken" With Train

An East Bay teen was hit and killed by a train last night after he was reportedly playing a game of "chicken" with two friends, police said. The boy -- who, according to press reports, has been identified as 15-year-old Austin Christopher Price -- was on the tracks off Lewelling Boulevard near San ... More >>

Here's Your Chance to Love San Francisco While Still Hating Valentine's Day

If you can't be with the someone you love on Valentine's Day, then love the one you are with, as Stephen Stills would sing. And that'd be San Francisco. Who else do you spend all your money on? Now, it's time to declare your love for this city, even if you can't afford it. Thankfully, the S.F. Tr ... More >>

Charles J. Dowd, Retired S.F. Firefighter, Disappears After Boarding Amtrak Train

Authorities are looking for Charles J. Dowd, a San Mateo resident and former San Francisco firefighter, who mysteriously vanished after he boarded an Amtrak train in the East Bay earlier this week. Dowd, 69, boarded a train in Emeryville on Wednesday morning with plans to change trains in Chicago on ... More >>

"Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey": Sweet Documentary Remains Frustratingly Impersonal

Bouncer Goes Apiary at the Fairmont

In Transit: From S.F. to L.A. via Public Transportation

Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe Plan to Tour the Wild West on ... a Train?

Mumford and Sons: All aboard?​In case you thought those dapper vests worn by the likeable Brits in Mumford and Sons were all just for anachronistic show, here's proving they aren't: Along with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show, the British folk-rock group is plannin ... More >>

Caltrain Conductor Accused of Soliciting Sexual Favors From Minor

Conductor Busted​Ricardo Arias Cano, a conductor who worked on Caltrain, was arrested recently on suspicion of propositioning two female passengers for sex, one who was a minor. The 60-year-old South San Francisco man has since been banned from Caltrain property. According to Steve Fein, who works ... More >>

Fried Catfish at Daddy O's Cafe

Jonathan KauffmanDaddy O's fried catfish and collard greens, $12.95.​ After more stops and delays than an Amtrak ride to Los Angeles, Daddy O's opened in the old Schnitzelhaus space last week. The giant steins of beer: gone. The antler lamp: gone. The lederhosen: sadly, too incongruous to dress th ... More >>

Examiner Travel Tips Advice: Free Trips to New York State Fair!

When at the New York State Fair, be sure to check out the meat goats! ​It's hard to characterize the San Francisco Examiner. You get an impressive breadth of coverage of local events by very hard-working reporters, lunatic fringe national coverage and editorials, and, well, this.But we weren't sur ... More >>

The rise and fall of an Internet sensation

Sacto Mayor, Former Cal and NBA Star Kevin Johnson, Blogs That He Was Robbed in San Francisco

​In his illustrious National Basketball Association career, Kevin Johnson racked up 1,082 steals. Now a San Francisco miscreant has registered a steal at Johnson's expense. In his blog, Johnson, now mayor of Sacramento, wrote that his weekend trip to San Francisco was highlighted by someone swipin ... More >>

Progressive Apologists' Secret Meeting to Spin Daly's Move to 'Burbs -- Exclusive!

'Meeting time, guys.' The strangely nostalgic odor of stale beer wafts through the streets of Potrero Hill as a handful of familiar figures converge on a designated corner. It's the Progressive Apologists, a group of lefty media movers and shakers who have been summoned to a top secret meeting ... More >>

The Class of 2000

Eight years after being swept into office, a once-disorganized band of neighborhood leftists tries to create a citywide political machine.

Reborn at Harry Denton's Starlight Room

Forgiving the past through Elliott Smith

Fallen Angel Gram Parsons gains flight in new documentary

Repertory Theaters

Best Scrolling View

San Francisco on $36.82 a Day

Feeding four hungry Spring Break-ers on Pittsburgh-style sandwiches and Singaporean street food

Your Year to See the World

How to travel well in 2005 without bankrupting yourself

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 30, 2004

This Train Is Your Train

There's a romance to railroad travel, especially when the destination is a special, spirited mountain town called Truckee.

Shops and Gifts

When He Was Cruel

Neil LaBute tries

to be nice but

comes off very savage

A Black and White Issue

A lawsuit alleging racism at Amtrak's Oakland yard has made it to the Supreme Court -- and could affect discrimination cases nationwide

Bayou by the Bay

New Orleans comes to Noe Valley

Three Best Launching Pads

City of Night

Dark Days discovers the real tunnel dwellers beneath the urban myths

All Aboard

Santa Fe Bar & Grill

An Endowed Chair

Sen. John McCain's push for campaign-finance reform has helped his presidential bid. Donations from special interests haven't hurt, either.

Night Crawler

Night Crawler

Da Da Da

Riff Raff

Night+Day

The Straight Poop

Human excrement in the parks -- dangerous or just dirty?

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World