Ready for a little chicken skin? That would be goosebumps to some of you, and you can experience them at any of three Outrigger properties in Hawaii during the last week of October. “Spooky Tales,” the hotelier’s award-winning annual event features ghost stories and other hair-raising tales presented by master island storytellers. Sponsored in part […]
Amanda Tapping, who plays Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter on Stargate: SG-1, will host FMA Vancouver 2006, benefiting Sea Shepherd, a conservation society committed to protecting marine wildlife under the United Nations World Charter for Nature, reports SciFi Wire. Richard Dean Anderson, former star of the show, will also appear. FMA Vancouver brings fashion, music and […]
Wow. I opened up my e-mail this morning to find all sorts of genre-travel news to share with you. So, here it goes. Maglev Train Crash Kills 23On Friday, a maglev train in Germany crashed into a maintenance car on an elevated test track, killing 23 people and injuring 10. These are the first fatalities […]
One of the scariest movies I’ve ever watched was John Carpenter’s The Thing. In fact, I’ve never been able to see it all in one sitting. I usually watch for awhile and when the tension gets too much for me, I go do something else and finish watching it later. Also, I can’t watch it […]
Starting with next year’s workshop, the Clarion Writers Workshop will move from its long-time home at Michigan State University to the University of California, San Diego. Apparently state budget cuts forced MSU to reduce support for the workshop. For those of you who don’t know, the Clarion Writers Workshop trains budding science fiction and fantasy […]
Haunted Fun for FamiliesOn Sept. 29, Disneyland Resort in Orlando will start a new seasonal event – Disney’s HalloweenTime. Continuing through Oct. 31, the event will include Disney characters in Halloween costumes, specially themed decorations, including a 12-food tall Mickey Mouse jack-o-lantern with pumpkin ears, and more. The familiar floral “Mickey Planter” below the Main […]
As I mentioned in the “Attraction Update†column of the July 2006 issue of The Genre Traveler, Hong Kong Disneyland has been having some marketing issues. Bill Ernest, managing director of the theme park, feels this may be due to many Chinese tourists not understanding the park’s themes ‘because they didn’t grow up with Disney […]
Fangoria Radio, which I mentioned in my June 23rd post, will be broadcasting live from Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors, to be held Sept. 29 through Oct. 1, 2006, in Secaucus, N.J. Other highlights include the great list of guests: Charisma Carpenter, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel, is making her first horror […]
“I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road, I’ve been seeing this shape. Shaving cream, pillows… Dammit! I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.”– Richard Dreyfus as Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind In 1977, Steven Spielberg introduced the world to […]
So I can always have content for The Genre Traveler, I’ve set up a few Google searches. This morning, one turned up this article on Gizmodo, “a technology weblog dedicated to everything related to gadgets, gizmos, and cutting-edge consumer electronics.” Titled “Top 5 Road Trip Gadgets,” I thought you migh find it of interest. The […]