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When Chip Conley posted his shirtless photos from the desert arts festival on his Facebook page, he heard about it from employees. BW's Nanette Byrnes writes about executives and social media
IT HAPPENED again this year. Halloween, like almost every other special day on the calendar, has become another kids' day. Add it to Christmas (loads of presents), Easter (Resurrection?
A character with Controlled Burn pose as the group moves down the Nevada Day Parade route today. This year Nevada salutes President Lincoln.
It's that time of year, when creepy kids (and a few scary adults) invade Belvedere Street in Cole Valley and show those amateurs who used to haunt the Castro how it's really done. Or as one wag put it: "It's Burning Man for kids." But whatever comparisons you want to make, it's a lot of fun. A few highlights above and more pictures here .
The All Souls Procession enters its third decade of helping Tucsonans deal with death by Margaret Regan On a recent dark night, under the half-light of a waxing moon, gusty winds swept through Tucson. At the Splinter Brothers and Sisters Warehouse studios, just east of the railroad tracks, a chain-link fence rattled in the breeze. Every once in a while, a train whistle wailed. The weather had ...
Some know Bassnectar founder Lorin Ashton from the miasma of out-there creativity known as the Burning Man festival, others from his Bassnectar Transmission podcast on iTunes. No matter where you've encountered his electronic cocktails, one thing's for sure: This guy can combine almost any type of melody, rhythm or bass line -- ska, metal, ragtime, gangsta rap, you name it -- in a ridiculously ...
What do you do if you win a Muni bus on eBay? Take it to Burning Man.
When pondering the West -- that unwieldy stretch of U.S. soil from Texas to the Pacific Northwest -- travelers tend to flash on archetypes -- the Golden Gate Bridge, Disneyland, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Hollywood , Monument Valley, Vegas, the Alamo, the Black Hills of South Dakota , Hearst Castle. But the West is also an expanse of weirdness and wonder, boasting bizarre and purely sublime ...
Phil Heaven, 40, grew up in Ferndale. As a sound engineer, he's run live music for the Kulshan
Our seasonal guide to the Bay's best food and drink
The politicians of today could learn something from Abraham Lincoln. At the Nevada Day parade Saturday in Carson City, Lincoln, played by Wally Earhart, worked the crowd as if he had a tough primary looming.
Logo, a unit of Viacom's MTV Networks , announced today that TripOutGayTravel.com, its comprehensive travel site dedicated to the LGBT traveler and MTV Networks' first stand-alone, travel-focused site, announced the winners of its first ever "TripOut Gay Travel Awards."
Nevada Day: For many Nevadans, parade's a longtime tradition By BRIAN DUGGAN bduggan@nevadaappeal Almost every year since 1980, Steve Leddy has been coming to the Nevada Day Parade with friends and family to eat and drink as the floats roll by. It's a tradition he said is unique to Nevada. "Most people in California don't even know when they got statehood," Leddy said. "We believe in Nevada we ...
Theatre Bizarre is a place, a community, a hallucination held in common by a group of people dedicated to its survival. They stage a few other events on the grounds, but most of the year is spent gearing up for the biggest, most imaginatively themed, "underground" Halloween party in southeastern Michigan -- if you can call something that sold out at 2,200 tickets this year "underground."
"Bacar was my Cheers," says Amy Martinez-Wong, now 30, of her relationship to the SoMa restaurant where her husband of three years, Arnold Eric Wong, 43, was formerly owner and executive chef. Quite often the UC Berkeley math major and former techie with Sun...
Community building on All Hallows' Eve.
We were traveling along Route 80, and for once, Reno seemed almost ...
Cardboardia one of Black Rock Arts Foundation s 2009 Grantees! ...
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Decompression season continues: Just a quick note to remind you ...
It is Decompression season and my favorite time of year. This ...