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
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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