SF News BASE Jumpers Drown After Leaping From Big Sur Bridge Tragic news out of Big Sur today as two BASE jumpers have gone missing after leaping off the iconic Bixby Creek Bridge. Both are presumed dead. In a sad twist of fate, it
Arts & Entertainment All About The Real Big Sur Retreat From The Mad Men Finale Om. Don Draper is hardly the first troubled genius to seek enlightenment and sobriety in California's Big Sur. Jack Kerouac devoted an entire book to the subject with his dark roman à clef
SF News Pfeiffer Fire Burned 34 Homes Total In Big Sur The wildfire, known as the Pfeiffer Fire, that ignited down in Big Sur on December 15 reached full containment before the Christmas holiday weekend, but not before destroying a total of 38 building,
SF News Big Sur Wildfire Update: 20% Contained, Fire Moving Slowly The late season wildfire burning in the Los Padres National Forest in Big Sur is still moving slowly, and as of Tuesday night it had burned 769 acres and was 20 percent contained.
SF News Big Sur Wildfire Burns Over 500 Acres, Destroys 15 Homes Near National Forest The scene from Rancho Rico today, taken by Ariana Satayathum. #pfeifferfire pic.twitter.com/2GqhwlACFm— Virginia Hennessey (@virghennessey) December 16, 2013 A wildfire that started late Sunday night is currently burning through hundreds
Arts & Entertainment Summer Ain't Over: Mollusk Jamboree In Big Sur (By Margaret Seelie) As days get shorter, we daydream in fluorescent-lit offices of music festivals and moments at the beach. This weekend you can have a little more summer on tap from Mollusk
Arts & Entertainment Details Emerge About The Costuming Of Sean Parker's 364 Wedding Guests It's a slow news Friday, and thus we remain obsessed with Sean Parker's ridiculous, over-the-top, Lord of the Rings-themed wedding in the woods in Big Sur, which happened on June 1 but the
SF News Sean Parker Writes Mammoth Screed On Big Sur Wedding, Online Media Sean Parker brims thoughts and emotions, all of which he poured into an 9,000+ word article published today on TechCrunch. The article, "Weddings Used to Be Sacred and Other Lessons About Online
Arts & Entertainment Sean Parker and Wife Cursed At, Spat On in Faerie Wedding Backlash Internet rich person Sean Parker and his new wife are beset on all sides by haters, according to a report by The Guardian and Associated Press. Parker asserts that he and his wife
Arts & Entertainment Decoding Newsom: Gavin On Sean Parker's Big Sur Wedding It's been eons since we last heard Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom's thoughts on things. Last we read, he wrote a book. Now he's talking about redwoodsexual billionaire Sean Parker's controversial Big Sur wedding.
Arts & Entertainment Feel Bad For This Poor Big Sur Tree What's more important than the tranquility and environmental delicacy of Big Sur? Sean Parker, it seems. The early-aughts throwback, if you recall, held his wedding in Bug Sur (a place that, for many,
SF News Sean Parker Faerie Wedding Trashes Big Sur Campground According to The Atlantic, Internet rich person Sean Parker's $10 million faerie fantasy wedding took its toll on more than our credulity and forebearance. Unpermitted preparations for the wedding also trashed an ecologically-sensitive
Arts & Entertainment 'Big Sur' Movie, Starring Jack Kerouac Lookalike, Wraps Shooting in Lower Haight We mentioned last week that a film crew was in town shooting at a former train depot in the Richmond? The movie's Big Sur, based on the autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac about
SF News Film Crew Shooting <em>Big Sur</em>, a Film Based on Kerouac's Book, at Historic Richmond Train Depot Today Filmmaker Michael Polish (North Fork, Twin Falls Idaho) is shooting a scene from an upcoming film about Jack Kerouac today at Fulton and 7th Avenue, at a historic train terminal that's going to
SF News Scenes of Landslides and Collapsed Roadways on Highway 1 in Marin and Monterey Counties We mentioned on Friday that Big Sur is basically cut off after a section of Highway 1 disappeared on March 16 and then another landslide blocked access to Highway 46. But were you
SF News Big Sur Cut Off After Storm Melee Around 40 miles of Highway 1 are cut off this morning after last night's storm caused a landslide and mudslide near Big Sur. "The latest rockslide happened yesterday (Thursday) near Limekiln State Park.
SF News UPDATE: Big Sur's Fire Devastation Is Your Gain! Turn that frown upside-down bourgeois staycationers (oy, that word). While Big Sur sears until it's golden brown, the coastal town has turned into somewhat of a ghost town. And now, according to 71Miles'
SF News Big Sur, Monterey Residents Evacuate Folks in Big Sur have been asked told to evacuate due to the uncontrollable wildfire still roaring through the Basin Complex. The mandatory evacuation will go into effect at 5 p.m. today.
Arts & Entertainment Carmel Hell: 71 Miles' Midsummer Travel Tip/Warning Who doesn't love a weekend jaunt to Carmel? Well, those of us who can afford it, anyway. What's more, those of us who can tolerate its cloying horror. John Vlahides, co-founder and executive
misc Purdy Picture: Big Sur Coastline Scenic shots bore us, and Ansel Adams' stuff gives us the heebie-jeebies. But we just came across this clever coastline shot -- titled "where the surf meets the sky" -- taken by colour40
SF News Cycling: Stage 4 Drags Down the Pace Snoo-zer. Aside from the final five seconds of the race, the most exciting part of Thursday's Stage 4 in the 2007 Amgen Tour of California was the scenery. Relatively undistinguished topography and the
Arts & Entertainment Wake the Dead With Dr. Hunter S. Thompson moving on to bigger and better things, writers, critics, stoners and other hangers-on are organizing tributes around the country and around the world. But we have a feeling
