San Jose

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 >>

Geek Laughs

Dancing of the Stars

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

The Real Life Superhero Files: Do-Luck

Do-Luck. ​In this week's cover story, we presented The Ray, a Target employee from Antioch who was arrested in the general strike march in Oakland last month while acting as a Real Life Superhero. The Ray is far from the only civilian-turned-comic book hero fighting crime or helping the needy ... More >>

Dish Preview: Good Foods Catering's BLT Sliders

​Dish When: Sunday, Oct. 2, 1-4 p.m. Where: San Francisco Design Center Cost: $40 regular, $75 VIP Good Foods Catering, the soul-food brain- (or stomach-?) child of Dontaye Ball, has a name that's an understatement, at least according to its many fans. "My one and only complaint is that they ... More >>

Get Your Ass to Oakland for: Shan Dong's Sesame Paste Hand Made Noodles

Jonas Madden-ConnorNoodle-y Goodness.​There's not much to say about Shan Dong's Sesame Paste Hand Cut Noodles other than: EAT THEM NOW. But okay, we'll try. Tucked in Oakland's bustling Chinatown, Shan Dong is tiny and unassuming.* However, what lies inside is pure happiness in the form of han ... More >>

Prince at HP Pavilion in San Jose: Still Something We Will Never Understand

Prince didn't let us bring in a decent camera.​ Even 27 years on from his magic 1984, there's still something grand and peculiar about Prince inspiring an arena to shout, "I'm not your woman/ I'm not your man/ I am something you will never understand." At Saturday's hit-packed, blissed-out, ... More >>

HIV Test Kits Found in Excelsior District

And the thief still doesn't know his status​Clearly, someone couldn't wait any longer to know their HIV status, and thought the quickest way to get results was to rip off a bunch of test kits from a Bay Area company. At about 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday police were called to investigate some medical su ... More >>

Pension Tension: New Contribution Rate Will Be $433 Million a Year

​Remember all that hard stuff Mayor Ed Lee has to do? Deal with unraveling labor agreements, balance a creaking budget, and scrub hair gel stains off of low-hanging lighting fixtures and the tops of chairs? Well, he'll have to do it with upwards of $26 million less than he thought he would. On Tue ... More >>

Critical Anti-Mass: Law-Abiding SFBikeParty Launches Despite Cold Snap

Bring warm gloves.​It's chilly outside, but it isn't cold enough to stop San Francisco Bike Party from launching a new monthly ride known as the law-abiding, hard-partying alternative to Critical Mass."Bring it on," said Amandeep Jawa, part of a self-described co-op of cyclists behind tonight's r ... More >>

San Jose's Ramen Tenma Serves Up Rare Okinawa Soba

Luis ChongUntil now, fresh Okinawa soba were a once-a-year treat in the Bay Area.​Fresh Okinawa soba noodles are almost impossible to find in San Francisco, unless you know someone who can make them for you. The closest noodle factory is located in Hawaii. Imported noodles are delivered frozen ... More >>

Tommie Smith Selling Gold Medal (PICS)

...Step three: Profit​Want a Gold Medal? Start training. Or, start saving. Tommie Smith, the former San Jose State track star immortalized when he and fellow San Jose teammate John Carlos gave Black Power salutes on the medal stand in 1968, is hawking his gold medal. You can put in your bid here a ... More >>

It'll Be Stupid Hot in San Francisco This Week

Feelin' hot, hot, hot...​A searing heat wave is upon us -- but, worry not. No one drawing a salary from the government is asking you to do anything in response. No Spare the Air Day is in effect -- so you can feel free to barbecue to your heart's content and use the car for two-block trips. Right? ... More >>

San Francisco Roads Among Nation's Crappiest, Study Finds

That's one hell of a pothole there...​Aggressive local motorists driving as if they "own the road" may want to rethink that investment. A study released today by the Washington, D.C.-based transportation research group TRIP identifies highways and major thoroughfares in San Francisco as some of th ... More >>

Ji Yeon Im Died in Eight-Story Plunge From Fire at 888 O'Farrell

​The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office has identified the woman who fell or leaped eight stories from a burning building at 888 O'Farrell yesterday: Ji Yeon Im, a 42-year-old with a San Jose address. Police this afternoon announced they are investigating the death of Im and the burning of an ... More >>

Baylinks: iPad Security, Dope Tax, Vermin

sfappeal.comTarget says sorry for targeting gays...​Target promises to think twice before endorsing homophobes. Again. [NBC Bay Area]Apple to put a plug in the iPad [CBS5]San Jose will ask voters if the city can tax their weed [Bay Citizen]

Batch 19 Pre-Prohibition Lager: Party Like It's 1919

MillerCoors​With speakeasies, Savoy cocktails, and other early-20th century booze culture touchstones back in action, it's only natural beer should get roaring. We got our first taste of MillerCoors' new Batch 19 Pre-Prohibition Lager at the First Annual Giants Brewfest, an event showcasing lo ... More >>

Mini SXSW in Downtown San Jose

Yo La Tenga plays this summer's Left Coast Fest​Last year, San Jose held its first annual Left Coast Live Music Festival, and no one really heard about it. It was headlined by Bay Area's soul man Booker T. and East Bay rapper Lyrics Born. Dubbed "a mini-SXSW", the Left Coast Live Music Festival wa ... More >>

Another 24 Hours: Craigslist Farm and Garden Classifieds

TheBigWRanch12/FlickrTasty as she looks, don't you dare think about eating her.​SFoodie's look at some urban essentials offered up on Craiglist this week. • This de-horned 1-year-old Nigerian Dwarf doe up in Santa Rosa sounds like a goat to be reckoned with. The owner writes: "she is skitti ... More >>

It's 4th Down For California Redwoods In San Francisco -- Already

Jim HerdCory Ross and the Redwoods apparently know the way to San Jose​On Saturday, we stopped by the California Redwoods' first game in San Francisco. If we knew the expansion United Football League's San Fran era would potentially be so fleeting, maybe we'd have picked up a signature plastic cup ... More >>

Sewing Aficionados To The Rescue of San Francisco's Publishing Woes

So the Chron underwent massive layoffs, Rolling Stone closed up shop, and then the Onion decided to stop circulating in the city. But just when all seemed  doom and gloom in the San Francisco media world, a group of sewing aficionados in a Fort Mason building had the balls to launch a new magaz ... More >>

Left Coast Live Kicks Off Today in San Jose

EKAphotographyLeft Coaster: Lyrics BornDo you know the way to San Jose? If you can find your way to the heart of Silicon Valley this week, you're in for a musical treat, as the LeftCoast Live festival gets underway today and continues through May 15. This weeklong event features 30 bands in 60 ve ... More >>

Friday Sundae: Mitchell's Caramel Dazzler

For the past month, the featured sundae at the recently remodeled Mitchell's Ice Cream (688 San Jose at 29th St.) has been the Caramel Dazzler ($6.75), with caramel-swirled dulce de leche ice cream, hot caramel, hot fudge, whipped cream, chocolate sprinkles, a cherry, and two giant pretzel sticks. ... More >>

When the Financial Apocalypse Comes -- You'll Still Be Able to Get Quality Macrame. Web Site Aims to Foster 'A World Without Money.'

It's easier to romanticize the notion of a Medieval-style barter economy when you don't factor in that our ancestors died young and never bathedThese days, it's understandable why so many folks have romanticized the age before intertwined financial enterprises could finagle a series of mind-numbingl ... More >>

San Francisco Does NOT Win 'Most Photo-Friendly City' Contest -- So We'll Denigrate the Poll (It's a Coping Mechanism)

National Archives 111-SC box 692 329507Has our beauty deserted us? And without it -- what's left? This is not pee-wee soccer. There are winners and losers in life. In the immortal words of Reese Bobby, "If you ain't first, you're last." So, we're chagrined to announce that San Francisco has been nam ... More >>

State Supreme Court To Review Gay Marriage Ban

The Supreme Court of California just announced that it will consider the constitutional challenge to the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, but it will not issue a stay, which means the state considers gay marriages illegal pending the outcome of the constitutional challenge. San Francisco, San Jos ... More >>

Steve Caballero Presents "Gas, Gears, and Grease" at Black and Brown

Weezer Visits Bay Area in Oct.

The Weekend Hitlist: Eddie Izzard, The Melvins, Zine Fest, Download

WTF? ZOMG, It's NKOTB at the HP!

Coldplay to play HP Pavilion in July

Tickets Available for Matchbox Twenty/Alanis Morissette, Otherwise Known as 90s SuckFest 2008

When I'm 64

Reign in blood and BBQ at Slayer in San Jose

B.A.D. Girls

Iva Vendetta, Miss Moxxxie, Ghoulina, and the other Bay Area Derby Girls are into piercings, tattoos, partying, sexual innuendo, and whatever they decide roller derby is going to be

Reps Etc.

Swing Shift

A tennis shoo-in with the game's major hotshots

The Ladybug Transistor

The Ladybug Transistor

Open Sesame

Big Bird, Elmo, and Bert in the flesh

Earthquake vs. Fire

Disasters duke it out on the soccer field

And Now We Dance

A 10-day spree of performances, parties, open studios, and classes

Sugary Dreams

You want one. You know you do.

Yippee Ki Yi Gay

The rodeo looked a lot like any other -- until an event called "Steer Decorating"

Study Thrall

Brilliance is hip and even -- ahem -- sexy at Intel's Science and Engineering Fair

Zoom Lens

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

Knowing Thyself in San Jose

Visiting the world headquarters of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis

KRONic Complaints

A media chain buys a local television station. Employees worry. Oh, the horror.

Madam I Am

Raeshel Keavy ran one of the city's most sophisticated and profitable prostitution rings. She was safe until she strayed from San Francisco.

... So Why Don't You Kill Me?

Metal roolz at Lolla VI