Edwardian Ball in S.F. celebrates in style

In the Bay Area, which drives the world's latest inventions in futuristic technology, San Francisco's recent Edwardian Ball, where thousands of people gathered to celebrate all things circa 1900, seemed a curious turn...

Will 'DWTS' pro Karina 'Say Yes to the Dress'?

You've seen "her in the tiniest, flashiest, sexiest costumes on ABC's ballroom bash, but now she's ready to show you a different side of her. The bridal side.

Edwardian Ball and Faire ready to rock ‘The Iron Tonic’

Partygoers at San Francisco’s Edwardian Ball have worn it all: Birdcage headdresses with real birds, and fishbowl hats with live fish swimming in water already have been done. “I’ll never forget watching an elegantly costumed Edwardian-era woman in a full-length velvet evening gown, waltzing across the floor with a praying mantis,” recalls Justin Katz of Paradox Media, one of event’s founding ...

Modesto area entertainment calendar (Jan. 27)

Modesto area entertainment calendar (Jan. 27)

FDR birthday balls helped raise funds, awareness in polio battle

“Truly McLean County danced so that others might walk!” That was Charles S. Kirkpatrick’s slogan for the seven annual Depression-era “President’s Birthday Balls,” in which high society types and assorted hoity-toity danced into the midnight hour for a good cause — ending the scourge of polio.