How fun is this? So the halls are still a bit quiet, but the ball is starting to gain speed as it rolls downhill. We now have a number of new writers signing up, so the winter magazine will be full of great stuff. It’ll now fall to those of us who are coming in [...]

Well, it was something to be sure. Overall it was a very pleasent weekend. The numbers of “patrons” (which has to be used as a loose term somewhat since it’s a free faire with no gate pricing) were up over last year, and the reports from the vendors seemed to indicate that their sales were [...]

Faire loves to think of itself as one big extended family, which is a lovely concept and is generally true, but is also one of the Achilies Heel’s in the production of events. At it’s core faire is also a business, or at the least it’s a form of theater in the round. In both cases [...]

So the season is a bit more than halfway over and we’ve already had Visalia, Valhalla, Fair Oaks, SLO, Willits, and Pittsburg – and now we’re into the tail stretch with Golden Gate, Jousting Championships, Shasta, Folsom, and Ione.  The year hasn’t been a bad one, especially with the completely awful weather we saw in [...]