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San Francisco had a series of furry events last week.  Before it, I posted: “Independent shows and festivals offer new concept for furry events”. After, I posted about the enthusiastic response.  The creativity and demand for more couldn’t be contained in one event. Here’s further developments that spun off from the successful gallery opening of Ron Lussier and Bobby Pin’s […]

Here’s links, headlines and little bites of news to make your tail wag.  Story tips are always welcome. ________________________________ Around Furry Fandom ________________________________ Fagcon’s Draconis / Calamity Cougar recovering from heart attack suffered shortly after the con. Shortly before Fangcon, Draconis submitted a tip for my article about it.  It was a shock to hear bad news […]

Last week, San Francisco had a series of back to back events: a street fursuiting “crawl”, a furry photo gallery opening, a fetish party, (a private special interest thing not representing others), and Frolic dance party.  The series drew more furries than my butt attracts fleas. It was first-time fursuiting for Sketchywolf.  He attended all of the events, and posted about […]

Oscar-related movie news: 2014 brought a wonderful new level of recognition for furries.  Finsterworld was short listed for German nominee for best foreign picture.  This smart, outrageous and thoughtful art-house drama was developed by consulting furries, who worked with the director to put fursuiters in the film.  It may be a somewhat obscure title to North American […]

This weekend:  Pacific Anthropomorphics Weekend brings a SECOND San Francisco Bay Area convention to San Jose, CA.   The long-established Further Confusion, occurring every January, is now augmented by PAW, a new event offering more than once a year activity.  It features:  “Photo Shoot, Dealers Area, Gaming and Semi-quiet Social Area, Open Cash Bar During Dances, Fursuit […]

Here’s links, headlines and little bites of news to make your tail wag.  Story tips are always welcome. _____________________________ In the Media… _____________________________ Disney’s upcoming animated anthro feature, Zootopia, gets March 2016 release date. It sounds so promising – it could be the new “furriest movie ever.”  And there’s a tidbit about another feature, “Moana.” Fangcon news: […]

Historian and “elder statesman” of Furry fandom, Fred Patten, was recently asked to contribute to a high-end magazine: FLAUNT.  They’re “an international award-winning arts and culture publication based in Los Angeles.”  The editor’s request was for “a feature on cat people/cat culture for our upcoming NINE LIVES Issue.” Fred sent me the below piece, adding a personal note - […]

I’d save this tidbit for a “Furry Newsdump”, but why waste a perfectly good headline like that? Here’s a story about a photo tour by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. It was produced by their Glorious Socialist People’s Ministry of Correct Learnings (or whatever they call their state propaganda machine). The setting is a disturbingly […]

            Four events are back to back in San Francisco:  Fursuit crawl – Furry portrait show gallery opening – Wild Things fetish party – Frolic dance party.   On Friday 11/7/14 is the “Embarcadero Fursuit Crawl“.  The street fursuiting fun will move downtown, to a grand entrance at the gallery opening for Ron Lussier’s Furry […]

Furclubbing: “A repeat/regular nightclub event by furries for furries.”  It’s a New Thing that’s been spreading since the late 2000’s. This kind of dance party is independent from cons.  This builds on the growth of cons, and takes things farther.  It’s more established than events that happen once, house parties or informal meets.  Those can be inner-focused, or gather […]

  FANGCON is “the only anthropomorphic convention located within the state of Tennessee”.  Draconis submitted an exciting notice about their third annual event, happening this weekend. Personally, if I wasn’t hosting a paw-print furry Twister game myself this weekend… I’d make like a Husky and pounce on their “largest Fursuit Twister Mat the fandom has ever seen.”  Psst… Twister’s slogan is […]

OK, it’s not “real” furries, but I want to see the sequel where they come back hard and kick the zombies’ skeletal butts.  (What happened to their machine gun?) It's #Furries vs #Zombies in the classic @Skeletonwitch music video for the #BringersofDeath which side are you on? http://t.co/GX0vqHr3ts — Prosthetic Records (@ProstheticRcds) October 31, 2014 […]

Here’s links, headlines and little bites of news to make your tail wag.  Story tips are always welcome. _____________________________ In the Media _____________________________ Cons in the news:  Anthropomorphic arts, beautiful beasts, and clever critters at Fur Reality 2014 – (From Furrymedia).  Oklacon covered as “The world’s largest outdoor furry convention“. Furries wearing their suits during the parade at #oklacon […]

This story was shared all over the place as comedy news.  It made front page on Reddit, with amused links to r/fursuit.  It made a traffic bump that passed through other links to this site.  You may have already read it, laughed, and moved on.  One guy didn’t, though. Man cleared of owning ‘extreme porn’ after tiger in sex video revealed […]

The show “Furries & Despair” features Ron Lussier’s fursuiter portraits, and Bobby Pin’s photos of Detroit.  The gallery opening is Friday, November 7 in San Francisco.  The press release has gone out, announcing a fursuit crawl to meet at the gallery.  This is an excellent event to support and have fun with the public! Facebook event […]

Here’s links, headlines and little bites of news to make your tail wag.  Story tips are always welcome. _____________________________ Movies and video _____________________________ New updates from Dawgtown, animated movie featuring sympathetic fighting dogs. It’s an ambitious, traditionally hand-drawn animated drama about captive dogs fighting for freedom.  It has voice acting by George Foreman, and the indie spirit […]

Fursuit portraiture is getting ambitious.  It’s more than an inward-focused service just to make con-goers happy.  It’s starting to be treated as documentary art to publish and put in galleries. These photographers often give special focus to fursuiters, a sub-section of this subculture.  Furry is about more than costumes, but it makes sense to emphasize their unique, non-replaceable […]

Let’s be clear:  Furry is an art and fiction thing, not a sex thing.  It’s always been a sensitive topic.  In the earliest days of organized furry conventions, many felt that they were derailed by advertising in bad places.  Media exploitation and nasty “hit pieces” deepened resentments. Without forgetting this background, sex is a topic that can’t be dismissed. Adult activity is […]

Here’s links, headlines and little bites of news to make your tail wag.  Story tips are always welcome. ________________________________ Around Furry Fandom ________________________________ Fursuit auction reaches $8,025. The “Lavender Corgi” is meant to resemble singer Justin Bieber.  At the price, the buyer could have bought a complete boy band.  Too bad they didn’t have enough to get […]

Wild Things:  at San Francisco’s Citadel club – November 8, 2014 (18+) Artists and dealers are invited to show and sell your wares. Info: (Ask me – patch.ofurr at gmail.) I apologize in advance for humping your leg. It’s that exciting to share news about a unique, gutsy, sexy, creative, WTF happening for consenting adult friends. But first, […]