Renaissance festivals were deep into cos­play long before even your dad knew what that term meant. Rub heavily costumed elbows with the region’s most devoted wenches and knights at the 21st-annual ...

An event designed to celebrate tightly corseted wenches and bloodthirsty jousters isn’t exactly synonymous with restraint, but organizers of this year’s Texas Renaissance Festival are promoting the ...

The Texas Renaissance Fair is over and that means it’s time to put away your loincloth and chain mail for another year. But that doesn’t mean we can’t take a look back at the festival’s sauciest ...

As renaissance festivals have risen in popularity, they have long since given up any pretension at historical accuracy — if they ever did strive for such. Ren fests have instead become an amalgam of ...

The Texas Renaissance Festival — the oldest, largest and quite likely strangest Renaissance faire in the U.S. — will change owners this year. The multi-million-dollar, court-ordered passing of power ...