Huge events like WonderCon can be intimidating. locales, and admission to individual events is $5-30 (or $60 for a festival pass) visit for more information. The rendezvous runs Thursday through Monday at various S.F. The events of this five-day blowout range from the expected (Saturday's beer bust at the Eagle Tavern) to the quirky (a sightseeing excursion to City Hall on Friday). Yes, San Francisco is teeming with fellas who have come from all over to bask in parties, pub crawls, and tours of Alcatraz, Fisherman's Wharf, and, of course, the make-your-own-teddy Basic Brown Bear Factory (we'd like to get a load of the tourists who share sewing-machine space with the crowd on that day). Probably a bit like observers of this weekend's International Bear Rendezvous as they notice city streets and venues suddenly filling up with hundreds of beefy, hirsute men with an enormous appreciation for one another's company. I've often wondered what the other passengers on the bus thought as one clown after another climbed aboard and pretended that nothing odd was going on. Some years back, Cacophony Society members pulled a prank in which they stationed riders dressed as clowns at every stop on one Muni route.
