Tickets for the second annual Great Lakes Regional Burning Man event, Lakes of Fire, have just been released. You can read about it here on Wildfire Weaver, the website for my fire dancing performance/industry news. If you’ve never heard of fire dancing, take a look around the site. You might be surprised to find that [...]

Tags: Burning Man, camping, festival, fire dancing, fire spinning, great lakes regional, lakes of fire, Leave No Trace, outdoor event
Filed under: camping, fire performance, hobbies, local spot, outdoors, weirdness

I have a love/hate relationship with camping. One the one hand, I love getting out of the city and being able to breathe air heavy with the scent of damp twig and leaf rather than baking asphalt and human refuse. On the other hand, I really, really hate giving up the conveniences of modern living. [...]

Tags: Burning Man, camper, camping, cool, equipment, gadget, inventive, vehicle, weird
Filed under: camping, gadgets, outdoors, transportation, WANT

Attention Chicago beer-lovers: tomorrow from 3-7 in Oak Park, you’ve got a chance to taste over 75 craft beers from 25 Illinois and Midwest microbreweries at the Oak Park Micro Brew Review. The list of participating local breweries isn’t half bad – aside from mainstay Goose Island, there’s a decent showing of smaller, Midwestern breweries, [...]

Tags: beer, festival, local, microbrewery, Oak Park, organic, sustainable
Filed under: beer, Chicago, festivals, food, outdoors

Or at least in the Chicago River. That’s right, folks, a 30-in long baby alligator was found in the northern branch of the Chicago river. According to the Chicago River Canoe & Kayak co., this is the second gator in two years that’s been found in the Chicago river. It’s suspected that the gator was [...]

Tags: alligator, animal cruelty, Chicago river, kayak, snapping turtles, wildlife
Filed under: Chicago, outdoors, weirdness