SF News Toilet Torcher: #15 The Toilet Torcher strikes again! This time he or she has claimed their 15th porta-potty since November. The portable outhouse went up in flames last night at Union and Franklin Streets. This time,
SF News Toilet Torcher Lights First Match of 2009 Just when you thought the Toilet Torcher was a match striking terror to stay stuck in the halcyon days of 2008, he or she leaps into 2009 with aplomb. See, just this morning
misc Tied Up, Burned Body Discovered in Berkeley Responding to a fire in Berkeley at 7 a.m. this morning, emergency crews found a dead, burned body at East Bay Parks land, west of I-80 between Gillman Street and University Avenue.
SF News Toilet Torcher Strikes Again? Maybe because it's Christmas Eve Day so nobody at the SFPD is getting back to us. But we'll just put this out there and perhaps you, dear readers, can confirm? A tipster tells
SF News Toilet Torcher Strikes Again For at the seventh time since November, a port-o-potty was set on fire in San Francisco this morning, according to the fire department. This most recent portable blaze, all of them happening in
SF News Serial port-o-potty arsonist on the loose We'd belying if we said that this budding news story doesn't tickle us. It does. Very much so. See, the SF Port-o-potty Arsonist has struck again. It seems the charred remains (hee!) of
SF News Humans to Blame for Angel Island Fire The fire that singed half of Angel Island last week was sparked by people, according to the Examiner. Ruling out natural causes like downed electrical lines, machine malfunctions, or God almighty, the Marin
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Crucible's 8th Annual Fire Arts Festival Oh wow. You've got to check out some of these photos from the Crucible's 8th Annual Fire Arts Festival, which sparked up in fine fiery glory earlier this month. These shots were snapped
SF News Grace Cathedral/Burning Man Arsonist Paul Addis Sentenced Mentally-estranged dreamboat Paul Addis -- you know, the guy who performed last year's premature ignition at Burning Man and most recently tried to burn down Courteney Cox-Arquette and David Arquette's chapel of love?
SF News What To Do About High Gas Prices? Burn Down a Starbucks, Of Course! Wow. We hope we're this feisty, and wildly insane, when we're sixty-four. It seems that sixty-four-years-young Diane Craig of Danville was arrested yesterday for attempting to burn down restrooms of an Arco station,
SF News Another Fire Torches AT&T Park Just weeks after a mysteriously underreported fire set the top of AT&T Park ablaze, a one-alarm fire inside the San Francisco Giants Dugout Store at AT&T Park sparked late
SF News UPDATE: Paul David Addis' Grace Cathedral Arson Attempt Snuffed Out Burning down the birthplace of the holy union between Courteney Cox to David Arquette? Dear God, no. Last night a little before midnight, Paul David Addis was arrested outside of Grace Cathedral, suspected
SF News SF Man Arrested in Connection with Bayview Convent Fire How do you solve a problem like an Mathew Hinz? This morning the 18-year-old fire-starter was arrested for setting ablaze the Good Shepherd Convent, on 10/13. The front and back doors were
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Behold! The Infinity apartment! [Curbed SF] -- Welcome Wikipedia to SF with a slew of wacky neighbors and a joint taped to their door, won't you? [Examiner] -- Missing cyclist, James Bronstein,
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, a completely not soaked with alcohol East Bay Express: Hey, we just picked our issue up with the classifieds side up and you can go to LA on a Price Is
SF News Burning Man's Premature Ignition During last night's total lunar eclipse in Black Rock City, Nevada, someone set the Burning Man figure ablaze prematurely. Chortle. Hey, maybe that was their art? Their statement? Their message? Or their coke
SF News Day Around The Bay --We're up to 130 Galaxies now. [picture from the Fillmore Jazz Fest this weekend by megac0rp, from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Huge fire on University Avenue in Palo Alto; officials suspect arson. [Merc
Arts & Entertainment nugget o' history: Mark Twain torched Lake Tahoe? The wildfire raging up near Lake Tahoe reminded us of our dear old cousin Mark. Mark Twain, that is, and what we remembered was his own brush with accidental arson up Tahoe way.
SF News Suspects Arrested for Oakland Vandalism Two suspects have been arrested in the Oakland convenience store vandalism case. According the Chronicle, two men have been taken into custody and four more warrants have been issued for other suspects. As