I just got back from Haunt X and you’re my first contact — after saying hello to my husband and dog, that is. It was incredible. I’m exhausted. I was there Friday night through this afternoon. I was so busy checking out the sights, talking with people and taking notes at the seminars I attended […]
A LOST fan, that is? Well then, get your buns over to Los Angeles for the LOST Weekend Fan Party 2007 to be held March 30 through April 1. This gathering of LOST fans features a charity silent auction benefitting the Children’s Defense Fund-California, the favorite charity of Lost creator J.J. Abrams, creator of the […]
This weekend I received an interesting newsletter in the mail called Artificial Retina News. It says its “the first issue of a newsletter about the Artificial Retina Project of the U.S. Department of Energy.” One sidebar discusses the engineering of “The Bionic Eye.” The plan is to create a devise that “consists of a tiny […]
I don’t know about you, but I didn’t even know that Princeton had an ESP lab. And now, after three decades of research, it is closing its doors, according to a New York Times Article from Saturday. At the end of the month, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory, or PEAR, will pack up its […]
Here’s something interesting. Georgetown’s Lannan Literary Programs will be hosting an event next week that brings together two of my interests: Science Fiction an Kenya. “Writers, Masses, Multitudes: Liberation Movements and the Neoliberal World Order†is a literary symposium and festival featuring American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson and celebrated Kenyan novelist, playwright, and […]
If you find yourself in the Baltimore area the first weekend of March, you might want to check out Horrorfind Weekend #7. I’ve been to a few and they’re quite fun. This one features a large Hellraiser reunion including a rare appearance by Andrew Robinson (Larry Cotton starring role in original Hellraiser) as well as […]
According to a recent USA Today survey, one in five Americans said that new passport regulations would cause them to alter their travel plans. The new regulations took affect last month and have been the source of much conversation in the travel industry for months. According to another poll by Travelocity, one in four people […]
Yep. With July’s release of the new Harry Potter movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the release of the final book in the series Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Britain is going to see a surge of tourism again. Since 2001, when the first Harry Potter film came out, the […]
Beginning May 25, you can get a taste of what it’s like to be a crime scene investigator (CSI) at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. The “CSI: Crime Scene Investigator” Experience, which was developed by the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History with support from CBS Consumer Products and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, […]
One of my favorite amusement parks when I was young was Marine World Africa USA. I remember when it was in Redwood City in the South Bay and when it moved to its current location in Vallejo. A few years ago, I was there with my husband, an college friend and her (then) boyfriend (now […]