Duels and Teapots
A decent few weeks, mostly. The Steampunks of Gloucestershire throw their All Hallows Masquerade Ball at St Mary de Crypt Church on Saturday, October 31. Maker Faire Orlando fills the…
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Hormuz Has a Wrong Lane Now
Burning tankers or imaginary ones, and I honestly can't decide which is worse. Yesterday the IRGC Navy announced it had hit four tankers in the Persian Gulf for the crime…
The Arsonist Offers to Mediate
Oh good, the fire department's here, and it brought its own gas can. On Sunday the regime occupying Iran had its foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, phone Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal…
Teapot Racing and Three Other Weekends
"A Steampunk Story Set in a Truly Steampunk World!" That's how TeslaCon bills itself, and it runs November 12 to 15 at the Marriott in Middleton, Wisconsin. Steampunk the Thames…
Iraq’s Militias Find a New Reason to Keep the Guns
These goalposts have legs, and they run. On September 22, Iraq's prime minister Ali al-Zaidi pushed the deadline for disarming the militias from September 30 to June 2027. The two…
Goulburn Waterworks
October is crowded. Maker Faire Rome runs October 23 to 25 in Rome, Italy. Amberley Museum in West Sussex holds its steampunk days on October 10 and 11, with airship…
Mizzou Investigates Its Own Sociology Chair
Mizzou flunked, and as an IT professional I know a rename job when one's described to me. In a hidden-camera video that Accuracy in Media says it shot in January…
Rogue Makers and Air Pirates
Now that's a theme name with some swagger to it. Clockwork Alchemy runs Rogue Makers and Air Pirates for three days in Redwood City, October 16 to 18, and I'd…
Steampunk Rendezvous: Winthrop, Washington
A Wild West town. Steampunks. A gear swap and a potluck barbecue. This is not a convention, it is not a festival, it is a rendezvous, which is the correct…
Boston’s Steampunk Gathering: Charlestown, September 18-20
This weekend, Charlestown, Massachusetts transforms into the Doctor's kind of town: gears on everything, corsets as far as the eye can see, and enough top hats to block out the…