Who doesn't love the cleavage-rich styles of the Renaissance when boobs were elevated to high fashion like a jiggling platter to behold? And there's feasting, jesting, jousting, and cosplay of all kinds...whatever the Faire means to attendants.
This is the only chance to experience it in SoCal until next year. And who knows if there'll be a next year, what with all those meteors, UFOs, Israeli nukes, Iranian retaliations, and Trump implosions coming. So join RenFaire for one last Huzzah!
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As the Faire heads into its final weekend, a quick reminder to help keep things running smoothly for all: Tailgating, outside alcohol, and cannabis/marijuana are not permitted on the Faire grounds, inside the Faire, or in the parking lots of the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area. The Faire appreciates everyone's cooperation in creating a safe, welcoming experience for every guest. It can’t wait to celebrate one last magical season with all!
For safety, everyone is encouraged to drive into the Santa Fe Dam. Climbing over the rock wall is not advised, as there is an increased number of biting rattlesnakes on the rock wall. Pedestrian traffic in the roadways impedes vehicle traffic, so please stay on sidewalks if walking the 1.5 miles into the Dam.
Pro Tips to Enter and Exit the Santa Fe Dam:
Follow the directions of the traffic team, and please be patient.
Bring $15 cash in exact change for the park entrance fee.
Watch for bicyclists and please yield!
When leaving, take the asphalt road to Peckham Gate, or take the dirt road closest to the dam wall. That road leads to Arrow Highway. Exit right to get to the 605 and 210 Freeways.
Find all directions and parking tips here.
In a time where it seems that all news is bad news, there has been a surprising and extremely encouraging discovery that would certainly be considered great news.
[That is, assuming it wasn't a hidden fact to promote climate alarmism, global warming, and overheating oceans to promote a capitalist agenda of selling pollution credits to corporations to let them legally pollute for profit and profit from selling the permission to pollute to others. Is there any better single way of destroying the natural environment than capitalism?]
Researchers from the University of Queensland have found that there are far more coral reefs on planet Earth than previously assumed.
In fact, they found more than 200,000 miles of coral in the ocean’s shallow waters.
Now, they hope this "new" information will help scientists around the world understand and protect these and all other reefs.
The reason coral is dying, bleaching, and eroding away was discovered by Dr. Joel Wallach, though no one seems to pay attention to his groundbreaking discovery. He is famous, though hardly known by the average person, for solving the riddle of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), finding the nutritional deficiencies that were ruining mothers' lives after their horrifying losses as they were blamed for rolling on their children and killing them. But it was something missing from the SAD (Standard American Diet). When replaced, we stopped hearing about SIDS until now nearly no one remembers it.
What is the cause of coral reef loss, according to Dr. Wallach? The building of dams all around the world, depriving the ocean of massive amounts of minerals from silt spilled into the seas from rivers before they were blocked. These base minerals countered acidity. Acidic ocean conditions erode coral reefs. It can be undone.
Who is behind the rise of transgenderism (and chemicals in shots and our water), Jeff Rense?
Hold on there, gay guy. We never cared. We're Corporate America. We go woke, we go broke.
Jon Stewart smashes the MYTH of corporate morality in Pride, BLM, and beyond | The Daily Show
(The Daily Show) June 10, 2024: It’s Pride Month! While some corporations like Target are hiding their pride for the sake of loud conservatives, others are doing everything they can to virtue signal to consumers. Jon Stewart rips off the mask of corporate “values” and examines how corporations will perform caring about issues like DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion), BLM (Black Lives Matter), climate change, or American patriotism (for MAGAots), as long as it means bigger profits, and how quickly they backtrack on those moral stands when it no longer suits their bottom line. #DailyShow#Pride#Diversity#Target
A millennial woman has admitted she is completely lost as to what members of Gen Z do for fun.
Ashley Tea, a millennial, recently took to TikTok to make the case that she thinks millennials had a “better time” than Gen Z in their 20s. “I genuinely think millennials got to have a way better time than Gen Z does,” her video began.
She then continued to give her reasoning. “I got to be an emo kid in 2005...I got to go clubbing when clubbing was the club...I was 21 years old when Indie Sleaze was going on, and I was very Indie Sleaze, and it was a very good time,” Tea said.
“You couldn’t go to the club during the pandemic? That sucks. Literally, like, my sympathies go out to you. But I have a question for the youth, like a genuine question.”
The TikToker then asked the generation what they do for fun, specifically mentioning the prime going out days like Friday or Saturday night, wondering where they would go:
“Do you go out? Do you go to a club, or do you go to shows, is it, like, only raves now?” she asked.
Tea pointed out how expensive going out can be now, as she noted that she would only go to places that were affordable for her.
“And everything is so expensive,” she continued, “I used to go to bars and restaurants because it was affordable. I worked in a restaurant, and I hung out in restaurants and bars and drank like crazy.”
She ends her video by once again asking the question: “What do you guys do? What do you do for fun??” directed at Gen Z.
Tea’s video went on to receive over one million views, with many Gen Zers leaving comments to answer her question. Some commenters explained that they had no fun at all, explaining how much money had been a factor.
“There are hardly any ‘third spaces’ anymore, free places to just exist together without expectations of spending money,” one commenter wrote.
Another commenter agreed, writing: “We aren’t having fun, we are just working. No weekend money.” More
New footage emerges of aftermath of flooding in Derna, Libya
(Forbes Breaking News) Sept. 15, 2023: DONATE TO HELP: charitynavigator.org/disc... New footage has emerged after the deadly flooding caused by Storm Daniel in Derna, Libya, on the Mediterranean.
9/11 (Sept. 11, 2023): At "2:30 am in town explosions are heard [as if the second dam is blown up on purpose or by an enemy, as happened during Katrina in the U.S. when the powers that be decided to flood and wipe out low-lying New Orleans and blame it on natural weather catastrophes] possibly the second dam [protecting Derna bursts sending a tsunami wall of water out to sea along with a lot of dead bodies]. Within minutes a quarter of the town was submerged by the flood, taking everything in its path."
Libya floods: Up to 20,000 people dead amid catastrophic damage
(Channel 4 News) Sept. 13, 2023: International aid is slow to arrive in eastern Libya amid fears that tens of thousands are buried alive under mud and rubble. Entire neighborhoods in the city of Derna have been washed into the sea, there are shortages of food and safe drinking water -- and relief teams are struggling to reach the worst hit areas because bridges and roads are washed out. So many people have died that hospitals have been turned into makeshift morgues. At least no one's calling it a war.
Libya floods: fears that 20,000 are dead
(BBC News) Sept. 13, 2023: There are fears that as many as 20,000 people may be dead in the flooding that has devastated northern Libya after two dams burst [or were detonated] during storms. The coastal Mediterranean city of Derna suffered the worst of the disaster. There have been desperate calls for more humanitarian support as victims lie wrapped in body bags and others have been buried in mass graves. Many people were washed out to sea when the floods struck. Rescue teams have been digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings in the hope of finding survivors. At least 30,000 people are said to be homeless.
Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Quentin Sommerville and Frank Gardner. #BBCNews
What could have happened in Libya?
We'll misuse all technology we get our hands on
Being the U.S. military's easy target (here's a nod to you, slave-resisting Haiti), belligerent enemy (anyone who dares talk back, eh-hem, U.S.-embarrassing North Korea), or anyone who does not cooperate with the U.S. Empire's plans for world domination (Chinese-friend Mr. Putin) is not a safe thing to be. There are no international standards, at least none that any force dare impose.
NATO are puppets the U.S. manipulates to do its dirty work. Once a very smart man, Muammar Khaddafi realized he should unite the countries of the continent of Africa and make a gold-back unit of money to compete with the universal greenback (the presumptive world currency because of the U.S. imposing its use on everyone else for the oil trade). This earned the wealthy leader of Libya a death sentence. The U.S. was not going to put up with a fair playing field or a united Pan-Africa.
"Generals gathered in their masses/ Just like witches at black masses/ Evil minds that plot destruction/ Sorcerer of death's construction/ In the fields, the bodies [drowning]/ As the war machine keeps [pounding]/ Death and hatred to mankind/ Poisoning their brainwashed minds// Oh, Lord, yeah// Politicians hide themselves away/ They only started the war/ Why should they go out to fight?/ They leave that all to the poor..."lyrics
Though he was taken out, with one president bombing his personal house to teach him a lesson, flaunting all international standards, using the pretext that it was just revenge for something or a preemptive strike on something we were going to say he was going to do. Now the world is expected to believe that, while the U.S. Department of War (under the euphemism "defense"), the CIA, the Pentagon, and alphabet agencies such as the NSA and NSC are just going to sit on the weather modification secret weapons they possess?
Sure, this horrific flooding that has already killed 20,000 is just an "act of God," climate change collateral damage, chance, bad luck... The covert military had no hand in it. We're just a God-fearing nation seeking vengeance on or enemies, real and perceived. We'll make an example out of any impoverished country or tiny military to enlarge our empire and deploy more and more unbelievable weaponry, all while convincing U.S. taxpayers that we actually need more military spending to keep up with everyone else because we spend more than everyone else put together when black budget project estimates are included.
We came to the bridge by the distant City of JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab, a world unto itself in collaboration with nearby Caltech University and NASA) along the Gabrielino Trail behind the world-famous facility.
Clusters of mushrooms fluorescing
It was after a sudden spring rain that turned the whole area green and flowery.
Water rushed down the Flintridge Wash of the Upper Arroyo into Devil's Gate Dam to the delight of ducks paddling like pargeons in a pool.
California Foraging: Los Angeles
Real "Street Food": Urban Foraging in the City of Los Angeles (Great Big Story, July 11, 2017) Christopher Nyerges (The School of Self-Reliance) has always loved plants and the outdoors. When he was a kid, he would forage and store plants in his parents’ refrigerator. Now Nyerges is teaching others to do the same. But this isn’t some nature hike foraging. Nyerges uses his encyclopedic botanical knowledge and a keen eye for urban-dwelling edible wild plants to teach other residents of Los Angeles where to find them. At his School of Self-Reliance, he shows city folks how to scour alleyways, parking lots, city parks, and the sides of highways to find unexpected wild treats. From mushrooms to mustard flowers, radish pods to mallow fruits, Nyerges can help anyone forage the best veg street food ever.
California Foraging: Hahamongna
(KCETOnline) Mia, Eli, and Pascal show how fun it is to forage wild plants and live off the land.
Everywhere we turn in wild California, there's something to eat -- if one knows what to look for. Foragers Mia Wasilevich and Pascal Baudar of Transitional Gastronomy shop at the grocery store, but they also head into the woods regularly, carrying daypacks, little knives, and compasses, finding edible plants scattered across public lands.
Old ones, bold ones but no old-bold shroomers
They like it so much they've turned it into a business, with Pascal leading interested food nerds out into the woods to collect cat tails, purslane, wild radishes, and more, with which Mia cooks up a feast using these wild ingredients (SoCal Food). Eli Newell came along for one such VEGGIE HUNT with Pascal and learned about native versus invasive plants in Southern California's woodland parks. Which do you suppose peaches are?). We ate flowers and asked Pascal just why, exactly, he makes a habit of rubbing poison oak on his face.
California Foraging: The Gabrielino Trail
PART II: Beware the common poison oak, which didn't bother the Natives.
Underwater Mushrooms?
Oregon Mycologist Darlene Southworth reveals her new discovery: Psathyrella aquatica
A few days before we wandered through our hunt, finding ourselves under the big wooden bridge next to the dam. Looking below us we could see tree oysters in clusters.
We scrambled down in search of mycological samples blooming high in the trees, too high to reach.
Soon the water came and we needed to dive for them, not fancy scuba diving in the pollution, but messy snorkeling in the muck. Who tosses this plastic junk and automotive residue into the river way?
There they were, tree oysters! This was not the first time we had spotted them in these woods. They love willows. Nor was this the first time we fished for them. Monica and I came out in the mist of a swollen creek by the magic tree.
Not only did we collect the fruiting bodies from the tree, there was a big "fishy mushroom" floating in the water, pink as salmon, slick as rainbow trout.
Oysters grow on trees not on the ground!
We grabbed a branch and reeled it in in disbelief. It was such a large sample that, soaked, it had broken from the tree and plunged into the temporarily swollen creek, where the water can rise 12 feet or more in a day.
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I want to be a star, I want to be famous, I want to win a TV show and get a contract!
This is a call for submissions to perform this year's festival (brokelafest.com)
There are alternatives to Beyonce's Coachella.
It's here: Submissions are now open for BROKE LA! The annual,
multi-stage discovery fest -- formerly called "Brokechella" -- will return April 2017.
Now in its seventh
year, the festival serves as Los Angeles' premiere discovery platform,
featuring the best of music, vendors, comedy, film, art, and more.
Submissions
are still open for FILM, VISUAL ART, INNOVATORS, and VENDORS! If you
perform it, vend it, build it, screen it, whatever it, the Broke in LA Fest wants to see
it! Important submissions dates below:
Visual Art submissions are open until February 1st and are not subject to a late fee. Haven't
submitted yet? There's still time for film and discovery submissions.
NOTE: Vendor and visual artists have different deadline schedules. See those respective pages for details. More
This (2016) is the sixth year the festival has been held in Los Angeles, but this year marks its first year under the new Broke LA moniker.
The DIY interactive music and art festival is slated for Saturday, April 23rd, and the best part: It won’t cost your rent to get a ticket!
Broke LA aims to be a DIY platform for new and exciting artists, and it includes both interactive music and arts events featuring dozens of indie artists on half a dozen stages.
For 2016 they are set to include an experimental film program, an “inventors alley,” more vendors, and larger art installations than ever before.More
Virūpākṣa and Vaisravana (3D) Guardians of the Four Directions (Dikpāla) are the devas who guard the skies of Earth according to Hinduism and Vajrayāna Buddhism (Bruno Zaffoni).
Can't make it out to Coachella this weekend or drop $350+? Don't worry. There is still hope for everyone who wants to see a music festival.
Head to downtown Los Angeles for Brokechella (only $10). The one-day event started four years ago as an alternative to Coachella, and has been growing ever since.
Negin Singh, Executive Director of cARTel: Collaborative Arts LA is
one of Brokechella's organizers.
When Take Two spoke to her yesterday, she began by
explaining how Brokechella was born after an event she was throwing
happened to land on Coachella weekend. LISTEN
Back for its fourth year! Four MONSTER stages. All new World Initiative. Vendor marketplace with the best of boutique LA shops:
cARTel:
Collaborative Arts LA, Brownies and Lemonade, and Shifty Rythms, in
conjunction with LA Weekly, Eventbrite, and Lagunitas are proud to
announceBROKECHELLA 2014FEST!
Where there's a will, there's always a way. Coachella was a fabulous money-drain -- cake and circuses for the masses during a time of war, mass unemployment, and soaring debt.
If only there were an alternative to the madness that still recognized our craving for hedonism at a time of stress. Meditating when needed the most is accessible the least and hardest to practice even if we find our way to the cushion.
Spirituality is often the fruit of leisure, when we have time and reason to recognize the fruitlessness of our material pursuits in search of security and happiness. When there is time and opportunity, that is the time to practice. NOW is that time.
Not paradoxically, there was far more meditating going on at Coachella than Brokechella.
The Poor Person’s Coachella ($5) If you’re bummed out that you didn’t make it to the desert this weekend for a little music festival -- don’t fret. While many of our friends [were] baking in 90+ degree heat and getting up close to the sights and, umm, smells of Coachella, the Ahimsa Collective and RentFoodBroke [threw] Brokechella... for the rest of us who’ve been left behind, are poor, or don’t like getting hot and dirty -- literally -- with our neighbors. The Airliner on North Broadway (Downtown Los Angeles) is where Thom Yorke spun a secret show last month. [For Brokechella], local comedians, visual artists, and bands perform[ed] on two stages, featuring tons of original music and covers of their favorite Coachella acts (complete lineup). The Grilled Cheese Truck [was] parked outside from 9:00-midnight... More
Indian Army soldiers help transport children to safer areas in Madhepura district, in the northern Indian state of Bihar, 8/29/08. An overcrowded boat rescuing people capsized in flood-ravaged Madhepura district, 95 miles northeast of Patna, killing 20 people, with the situation worsening because of heavy rains and a greater discharge of water from neighboring Nepal, officials said Saturday (AP Photo).
AP – Villagers wade through flood waters in Madhepura District in Bihar state, India, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.
Slideshow: Monsoon rains devastate India There was one thing different about this year's monsoon in India. As in so many seasons past, the annual rains began in June, flooding streets and villages and claiming dozens of lives. But when the Kosi River burst its banks on Aug. 18 in the northeastern state of Bihar, the destruction was much worse than anyone expected. "It is not a normal flood, but a catastrophe," Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar told reporters after flying over the affected areas.
After the river breached, it headed south and soon flooded the villages in its path. More than 2.1 million people in the worst-hit parts of Bihar are not only homeless but stranded, and 55 have been killed as the floods washed out the roads and railroad lines that connected residents to the rest of the country. "We can't reach there," says Dinesh Kumar Mishra, a civil engineer and head of the non-profit group Barh Mukti Abhiyan (Freedom from Floods Campaign), who spoke to TIME from northern Bihar, where he is trying to organize relief efforts.
"They are trapped." Mishra, who has been tracking monsoon floods for more than 20 years, says this year's flooding in Bihar is worse than previous years. "It is concentrated in a capsule form in one particular area," he says. Other monsoons may have killed or displaced more people, but the destruction was spread out over a larger territory.
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