San Francisco

at Ace Auto Dismantling; 2255 McKinnon St, at Upton; Bayview/Hunter's Point; 415.282.1353

Burning Man's most Mad-Max-obsessed camp Death Guild's throwing a party with industrial opera, "creepy fusion belly dancing", tesla coil/fire performance art, and live post-punk, all to showcase their to-scale, audience-participation Thunderdome. The Mel-Gibson-style grudge matches utilize leap-maximizing bungee harnesses and padded "boffing" bats, but like everything else the tournament's secretly rigged by Jews.

SF-designed and produced, the Pack's a ready-to-go bbq solution: a paper-pulp box filled with premium mesquite charcoal and vented with a built in chimney. The set-up's designed to light the coal (and burn away the box) w/in 20mins without lighter fluid, allowing Pops to preserve both the environment and his own owlish eyebrows.

The San-Mateo-based megahub of user-generated troubleshooting, tech support, and service manuals has added cars to the mix, launching with over 10,000 makes and models (from Lamborghinis to Geos), and covering all manner of specific topics (from getting more torque out of your Diablo's engine, to getting less celibacy out of your Metro).

Once peddled exclusively out of messenger bags, R8's summer collection of tattoo/graffiti-art tees just hit the SF brand's online store. Highlights include the chaotic "Bombed" (tatted chick surrounded by street scrawl), and the benevolent "Theresa", whose head's encircled by a red Nipponese circle as she holds a mini JC on the cross (Rising Son).

This South Bay music service boasts 5 million+ legit tracks, all available for a free listen, sold at an iTune-thumping rate of 10¢, and findable thru Lastfm/Pandora-style tracking of friends'/randoms' listening habits. Sign up now and your first 50 songs are free -- which comes out to $5. Whoohoo!

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