The Menagerie Oddities Market celebrated International Women’s Day by presenting “Women of Oddities,” the organizer’s first event of the year. Held March 8 in downtown Oakland, it provided an opportunity for local goths, pagans, steampunks, and others to shop for handcrafted wares from a curated group of female vendors.
The SF Bay Area steampunk convention will take place Oct. 24-26 at a new venue with “Gaslight Fantasy” as the theme. Meanwhile, Drake & McTrowell’s Duel at Dusk will happen two weeks later in San Diego.
The darkly whimsical world of Edward Gorey came to life once again as the Edwardian Ball returned to the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco.
The Edwardian Ball, held Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 in San Francisco, provided a cornucopia of eye-popping art and entertainment, but the attendees themselves were also part of the spectacle.
Once again, San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom will be transformed into a neo-vintage wonderland as The Edwardian Ball returns on Friday, Jan. 31 and Saturday, Feb. 1.
We didn’t need a time machine to visit 19th century London, but one was readily available at the 2024 edition of the Great Dickens Christmas Fair, taking place this month at Cow Palace in Daly City, California, just south of San Francisco.
A pair of fantastical serpents joined a host of art cars, cosplayers, Alice in Wonderland characters, and community groups as the 14th annual Mad Hatter Holiday Festival took place in Vallejo, California. An estimated 10,000 people turned out.
Thousands of fans across a wide range of genres gathered at San Francisco’s Moscone Center over Thanksgiving weekend for the third Fan Expo SF, billed as Northern California’s largest pop culture convention.
The Mad Hatter Holiday Festival will return to Vallejo, California, on Saturday, Dec. 7 with art cars, music, costume contests, craft vendors, and more. The centerpiece is a parade through the city’s downtown.
Once a year, a small group of steampunk fans gathers in Santa Cruz County, California, for a picnic and other shenanigans, and so it happened on Saturday, Oct. 26, as they met at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in Felton.
Maker Faire Bay Area returned Oct. 18-20 to Mare Island in Vallejo, California, once again presenting a bounty of do-it-yourself projects and opportunities to meet their creators. We have photos and a video.
GalaxyCon came to San Jose with an impressive lineup of celebrities, including cast members from Star Trek, Psych, and Our Flag Means Death. But for me, the main attraction was the opportunity to meet artists, writers, and cosplayers.
The 10th Annual Obtainium Cup Contraptor’s Rally took place Sunday, July 28 at the Mare Island Art Studios in Vallejo, California, drawing art cars and other “sculptural vehicles” that navigated a madcap obstacle course.
Last year’s Comic-Con International took place during the Hollywood actors strike, putting a crimp on an event known as a showcase for new movies and TV series. Now the convention is back, though it will be light on steampunk programming.
Hundreds of steampunk fans in the Pacific Northwest flocked to Port Townsend, Washington, for the 10th annual Brass Screw Consortium, held June 14-16 in the historic seaside city on the Olympic Peninsula.
The city of Weed in Northern California hosted its free annual steampunk festival May 18 and 19, featuring music, artisan vendors, costumes, and a rat rod car show. The city is best known for its unusual name and its proximity to Mount Shasta.
Steampunk fans will stage a friendly invasion of downtown Bloomington, Illinois, as Cogs & Corsets returns this weekend. Other highlights include events in Omaha, Des Moines, and North West England.
Thousands of anime enthusiasts gathered in San Jose over Memorial Day weekend for the 30th anniversary edition of this convention “by fans, for fans.” It mostly took place at the San Jose Convention Center, but also spilled over to nearby hotels.
It’s another big weekend for steampunk fans in the U.S., as the Watch City Steampunk Festival returns to Waltham, Massachusetts, along with happenings in Arkansas and California’s Gold Country.
A World War II era aircraft carrier might be the last place where you’d expect to see a goth event, but that was the setting on Saturday, May 4 as The Menagerie presented San Francisco’s 4th Annual World Goth Day Festival.
