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2006 | Best Place to Watch Stuff Burn

The "molten bronze pour" -- a great phrase, huh It carries an ancient air, evoking protective-garb-wearing strongmen sweating in a smoky, devilish atmosphere, gingerly turning hard metals into melted pools like 17th-century alchemists (or 20th-century steel workers). That guy can be you at the Crucible, where industrial arts classes have tantalizing names such as "Brown to Bronze: Direct Burn-Out Casting" and "Foundry Fundamentals: Hands-on Furnace Building." The center is the premiere... More »
2002 | Best Place to Get Stoned

Some say stone carving is a dying art, but you couldn't tell at the Crucible, the educational foundry and arts facility where experienced practitioners and novices can master the tricks of various trades, learning everything from how to get around a machine shop to welding metal, forging steel, blowing glass, and crafting neon sculptures. One of the only places in the Bay Area to learn stone carving and the fiery arts of blacksmithing and welding, the rambling East Bay warehouse comes... More »

Black Rock City Comes to Oakland Through Inferno: A Fire Circus

By Tamara Palmer | Fri, July 15, 2011

Whether you're dying to get out to Black Rock City, like, yesterday, can't make the haul this fall, or just really like to see freaky people set stuff on fire, the next two days at the Crucible in Oak... More »
The Crucible

By Chloe Veltman | Wed, October 05, 2005

Set during the Salem witch hunts of 1692, Arthur Miller's The Crucible (1953) depicts the downward slide of a small Massachusetts community from relative normality to mass hysteria. Miller's ghoulish and brilliant drama is commonly read as an indi... More »

2006 | Best Place to Watch Stuff Burn