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The Experience Music Project (EMP)/Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (SFM) in Seattle, Ore., currently has an exhibition of more than 30 costumes and objects from Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Superman, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and many more of the most popular science fiction-related films and television shows of all time.

The exhibition, Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television runs through September 30, 2007, in SFM’s third-level gallery space. It allows visitors to examine how costume design incorporates color, style, scale, materials, historical traditions and cultural cues to help performers and audiences engage with the characters being portrayed.

The exhibition is organized into themes including “Heroes and Villains,” “Creating the Character” and “Caped Crusaders” as well as specific franchises such as Star Trek and Star Wars.

For additional information visit sfhomeworld.org.

If you are a fan of the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its spin-off Angel or the short-lived Firefly and its movie spin-off Serenity, and you're going to be a San Diego's Comic-Con later this month, then please do read on.

Joss Whedon, creator of the aforementioned shows, has teamed up with Dark Horse and eBay to offer fans the opportunity to sit down to a private dinner with Joss himself at Comic-Con.

Beginning tomorrow, fan can bid on seats at his table with proceeds going to Equality Now, an organization founded in 1992 to work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world. The auction will run from July 2 to July 12. The charity auction also offers additional rarities, including signed editions of Dark Horse’s upcoming Serenity hardcover. For complete details, visit ebay.com/josswhedon.

For more information about Equality Now, visit equalitynow.org.

Last week, organizers of Comic-Con International revealed a partial list of films that they will preview during the convention next month. The list includes:

• Alien vs. Predator 2: No Peace on Earth
• Babylon AD
• Beowulf
• Coraline
• The Golden Compass
• Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
• I Am Legend
• Indiana Jones 4
• Resident Evil: Extinction
• Stardust
• Star Trek XI
• Sunshine
• 30 Days of Night
• Trick 'r Treat
• Where the Wild Things Are

For a more complete list, visit http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=41819. Also presented at the convention will be the TV series Heroes, Lost, Battlestar Galactica and others.

DETAILS:
What:
Comic-Con International

Where:
San Diego, Calif.

When:
July 26-29

For More Information:
www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_prog.shtml

Anyone who knows me, knows I have a weakness for Asians. Maybe it was all those Starman, Godzilla and Ultra Man movies I watched growing up. In fact, my most adorable husband is from Singapore. Anyway, I got a press release in my email about the 2007 AZN Asian Excellence Awards and just had to share it with you.


What:
The 2007 AZN Asian Excellence Awards presented by JCPenney.

When:
May 28 at 8pm ET/PT on AZN Television

An hour-long special featuring red carpet arrivals, behind-the-scenes excitement and highlights from the event will air on E! on May 24 at 6pm ET/PT. In addition, E! will provide information and updates on the network’s website, E! Online, including exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage on the popular broadband channel, The Vine @ E! Online.


Why Should a Genre Traveler Care?
Hosting the show will be Daniel Dae Kim, who plays Jin Kwon from Lost, and Grace Park, who plays Lt. Sharon “Boomer” Valerii on Battlestar Galactica. In addition, Actor Chow Yun-Fat (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. According to the release, "He began his career in Hong Kong acting in TV and film. After receiving acclaim and numerous awards for several roles in the early '80s, he captured the attention of John Woo, who cast him in the fast-paced gangster film Yin hung boon sik (aka A Better Tomorrow), which went on to be an enormous commercial success. A string of other John Woo films escalated Chow's popularity even higher. With the global interest in the Hong Kong action genre, he was lured to the US and appeared in The Replacement Killers with Mira Sorvino, The Corruptor with Mark Wahlberg and Anna and the King [with Jodie Foster]. He returned to Asia in 2000 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a huge global success. Currently, he stars in the third installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End."

Where:
The 2007 AZN Asian Excellence Awards, which debuted on AZN last year, will be taped live on May 16 at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles.

If you're a fan of the original Star Trek, and will be in New Mexico on April 27, you're invited to attend a public memorial for James Doohan, the man who played Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott.

Doohan died two years ago at the age of 85 and on April 28 his cremated remains will be launched into space, in some way joining Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, whose remains were put into orbit in 1997 by the same private space service, Space Services Inc.

"It would be great to see all of Jimmy's fans out at the memorial and launch," said Wende C. Doohan, the widow of James Doohan, according to the official Star Trek Web site. "Jimmy would be very pleased for his fans to be around him at his send-off."

For specific details, visit StarTrek.com. If you plan to go, be sure to RSVP online by April 21. Event organizers, who are arranging public viewing areas for the launch at Spaceport America, will need to know how many people to accommodate.