By Scribe
Tis the season to burn bright, what with all the fire arts festivals and other events leading up to Burning Man's 20th anniversary. And burners have definitely been stepping things up recently. A couple months ago, San Francisco and Black Rock LLC (the group that stages the event) teamed up to throw an amazing fire arts festival at Candlestick Park, going bigger than the Crucible in Oakland usually does for its annual Fire Arts Festival with a stage of great acts, cutting edge pyrotechnics, and, of course, amazing fire spewing contraptions. Well, Michael Sturtz and his Crucible crew accepted that challenge and blew up this weekend's festival to crazy proportions. This place was just GOING OFF! San Francisco's Flaming Lotus Girls showed why they're still queen of the hill with the debut of their new project: Serpent Mother (OK, perhaps I'm a little biased). And the festival's stage rocked with the Mutaytor, a fantastic entrance and performance by the Extra Action Marching Band, super fresh fire dancing by the San Francisco Fire Conclave, and Dr. Megavolt and friends rockin' the Tesla coils. I was already excited about this year's Burning Man -- now, it's all I can do to not want to flee to the desert immediately. The man burns in 48 days. How are your preparations going?