Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine recently announced its first official film festival, The Imagimovies Festival. Held in Oxnard, Calif., April 1-3, it celebrates Forrest J. Ackerman’s legacy and devotion to inspiring the imagination of storytellers.
Features of the event include:
A tribute to Vincent Price including showings of Theater Of Blood, The Tomb Of Ligeia, The Masque [...]
What looks like to be a comprehensive new horror convention has recently been announced. Days of the Dead will be held at the Wyndham Indianapolis-West July 1 through 3 and promises to feature not only first-time celebrity guests, but also a bevy of names from the whole pantheon of horror cinema.
Announced (so far) guests include [...]
Kobie Boykins, a charismatic, young mechanical engineer at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will be speaking at Mesa Arts Center (MAC) on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. Part of the National Geographic Live Arizona Speaker Series, the presentation is called “Exploring Mars: The Next Generation.”
Boykins has been at the forefront of Mars exploration, working on such projects [...]
This Saturday, the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra continues it’s 2010-2011 “This Ain’t Your Daddy’s POPS!” season with an evening of Hollywood music from composer John Williams.
During his career, which spanned six decades, Williams created some of the most memorable motion picture soundtracks, including scores for:
the Star Wars saga,
Superman,
the Indiana Jones films,
E.T. the Extra-Terrestial,
Hook,
Jurassic Park,
the TV [...]
I just learned of a convention that is about a one-hour, 20 minute train ride from my home and I’m thinking of going.
What:
Los Angeles Comic Book & Sci-Fi Convention
Where:
Shrine Hall
700 W. 32nd Street, Los Angeles, Calif.
Across from the USC campus, off of Figueroa Street.
When:
January 16th, 2011
10am – 5pm
Admission:
$8
Guests:
Guests listed on the website are for last [...]
“We’ve attracted almost three times as many scholars than we’ve ever hosted,” said Melissa Conway, head of Special Collections & Archives at University of California Riverside (UCR) and co-organizer of the 2011 Eaton Science Fiction Conference. “There is greater diversity of presenters and topics,” she added.
As I mentioned in a previous post, authors Samuel Delany [...]
Shore Leave is a fan-run science fiction convention held each year in the Baltimore area. It often has a Star Trek emphasis, but has expanded beyond that, as well. The 33rd convention will be held July 8-10, 2011 and registrations are now open.
Guests have yet to be confirmed or announced, but they usually include actors, [...]
A few years back I had the opportunity to watch one of Ray Bradbury’s radio plays performed live in a small theatre in Los Angeles. It was a real treat. So, when I heard that WildClaw Theatre was presenting Deathscribe 2010: The Third Annual International Festival of Radio Horror Plays I knew I had [...]
If you’ll be out in costume and in Los Angeles this Friday, you could win hundreds of dollars in prizes, including gift certificates, movie tickets, DVDs, posters and more from the Burger Kitchen.
Rated in the top 5 burgers in Southern California (Daily Candy), Burger Kitchen, the hip new Third street eatery, will open late for [...]
The 23rd annual West Hollywood Halloween Costume Carnaval is billing itself as the world’s largest Halloween street festival. And that may well be the cast if, on October 31, the expected “nearly half a million Halloween revelers” descend upon Santa Monica Blvd. to celebrate Halloween.
Making this year extra special, The Rocky Horror Picture Show 35th [...]
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