It was the heart that kicked the ass out of Saturday of the inaugural weekend of this new faire. Always a challenge to any event (even more than rain in many cases), high heat combined with opening on a holiday weekend where people already had many events to choose from came together to cause painfully [...]

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA – This was our first excursion to this “small” faire. The first thing that struck me was twofold when we arrived around noon on Saturday: the first was that it was actually good English weather (ok, so one of our compatriots is from the East Bay and was commenting [...]

Ed’s Note: This is Mary Miller’s first review posting, and we’ll looking forward to getting many more as time goes by. Casa de Fruta, Hollister, CA – So we arrived late in the morning to this annual six week faire held about 6 miles outside of Hollister (though the event is more often associated with [...]

To Friends and Faire Family of Clan Iain Abrach MacIain; It is my sad duty to let you all know that the matron of our guild Joan Wiepert has passed away. She left this world peacefully in her sleep around 9pm on Christmas Eve. Services will be held for her at the Masonic Temple in [...]

Coming up on September 22nd and 23rd in Angels Camp, CA. The website is at www.joustingchampionships.com.

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 [...]