New Spy in the City Mission Starts This Summer

Today the International Spy Museum (SPY) launches its second mission on the GPS-guided Spy in the City® interactive visitor experiences: Operation Sly Fox.
“This new mission … was developed with real intelligence officers and gives players an authentic understanding of challenges that real spies face,” said Amanda Ohlke, Adult Education director at the SPY.
Operation Sly Fox [...]

Wizarding World Internet Chatter Round Up

Well, it seems that there is a lot of chatter about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter going on around the Internet. So you do don’t have to go searching, I thought I’d round up a few for you here.
Video:

Radcliffe: Harry Potter fans ‘live the movie’ at theme park
Daniel Radcliffe & other stars officially open [...]

Retro and Re-Imagined Battlestar Galactica Props On Traveling Exhibition

This fall, you can explore what it means to be human … or cylon. Battlestar Galactica: The Exhibition will premiere at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, Wash., the weekend of Oct. 22-24, with some of Battlestar Galactica’s most popular personalities in attendance.
“The museum is honored to be organizing the first exhibition devoted to both [...]

Don’t Panic! Upcoming Con Channels Douglas Adams

Bubonicon 42 is a science fiction and fantasy convention taking place at The Albuquerque Grand (Sheraton) Airport Hotel in New Mexico from August 27-29, 2010.
This year’s theme takes its inspiration from the talented and witty writer of the Hitchhiker’s Guide and Dirk Gently series of humorous genre fiction, Douglas Adams.
Confirmed Guests Include:

Ben Bova
Author: Titan, Sam [...]

Science Fiction Themes For Your Vacation

Would you like to add a science fiction theme to your next vacation?
Here are some ideas.

Star Trek Live Debuts Today

Well, sadly, the Star Trek Experience will not be revived in Las Vegas, as the props were auctioned off in April.
But, if you don’t mind making the trek out to the Gold Coast of Florida, you can take in a very similar experience at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Star Trek Live, a new interactive [...]

Watch Dinosaurs Walk the Earth … at a Discount!

Will you be in Worcester, Mass, on Friday, June 18 or in Providence, RI on Wednesday, June 23? Then you can get a 5% discount on the Walking with Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular presentation taking place at either location.
The Museum of Science in Boston has partnered with the event to offer an exclusive 5% [...]

Horror Film Festival Features 2 Hours of Short Films & Trailers

If you’ll be in San Francisco on June 26, you might want to check out “A Nightmare to Remember” San Francisco Horror Film Fest. In fact, if you can get there early enough to be among the first 20 through the door, you’ll also get a goodie bag.
The event takes place at 7pm at the [...]

Madonna Wears Genre Coloured Glassess

The other day I started watching Madonna videos on YouTube and I noticed something: Many of them had a genre sensibility. I would embed them to share with you, but embedding has been disabled, so I’ll just send you off to YouTube to see for yourself.

“Frozen”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=evxEOXkxRIA
The video for this song features Madonna looking like a [...]

Art Show: Jay N. Davis

As usual, the Hyaena gallery in Burbank, Calif., is displaying some interesting, somewhat disturbing, but always emotion-provoking work. This time, the dark, somewhat sexual, curvaceous art of Jay N. Davis, which reminds me of some of Salvador Dali’s work, is being presented.
A veteran Disney artist for 12 years, Davis has also taught drawing at Texas [...]


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