Issue Home | Printable PDF (208kb) Screams Halloween Theme Park Waxahachie, Texas Friday and Saturday nights Sept. 28 – Oct. 27, 2007 7:30pm to 1:30am Also, Sunday, Oct. 28 7:30pm – 11pm www.screamspark.com Knott’s Scary Farm Buena Park, Calif. Sept. 27-30, Oct. 3-7, 10-14, 17-21 and 24-31 www.knotts.com/haunt07/index.htm Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood, Calif. […]
Issue Home | Printable PDF (132kb) iPod nano Adds Video Gadget fans have lately been abuzz about the new iPod nano, now with video capability. On Sept. 5, Apple introduced the new iPod nano with the ability to play up to 5 hours of TV shows, music videos, movies, and podcasts. In addition, it features […]
Issue Home | Printable PDF (232kb) Wow! I can’t believe I’ve been doing this for two years! Then again, things haven’t gone a rapidly as I would have hoped, either. But The Genre Traveler plugs along. This special two-year anniversary issue is heavy on interview stories. The big story is an interview with an Orange […]
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I recently learned about this interesting article on MiceAge through ThemeParkInsider. It discusses how Walt Disney World could loose business as the price of oil rises, because there will be less long-distance travel. However, Robert Niles from ThemeParkInsider.com, pointed out that some theme-parks could actually get improved business as locals stay closer to home when […]
Fantastic Fest 3 is playing now through Sept. 27 at the Alamo South in Austin, Texas. This film festival features about 60 science fiction, fantasy and horror movies, along with 50 filmmaker guests. “If you talk to most filmmakers and hardcore film geeks, the movies that made them love movies were the genre films they […]
Disneyworld’s Epcot Center celebrates its 25th Anniversary Oct. 1. Although Disney itself won’t be promoting this special occasion, The Intrepid Traveler will. They’ve sent out media advisory to travel writers, encouraging them to turn to some of the Disney World experts they have in their roster of authors, including. Charles Ridgway Ridgway, who was a […]
The Orlando Science Center will present a special advanced screening of Ron Howard’s In the Shadow of the Moon this Saturday, Sept. 15, at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The film will open to the public in selected theaters on Sept. 28.
Howard is lending his name to this feature documentary about the Apollo space program and the first-ever landing on the moon in partnership with THINKFilm to help promote it to the widest possible audience. It is directed by David Sington. Beginning in the early 1960s with President Kennedy’s stated ambition to put an American on the moon before the end of the decade, In the Shadow of the Moon covers the Apollo space program through Apollo 11’s successful lunar landing. (more…)
The 5th Philippine Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, New Worlds 5, will be held Oct. 27, 2007, at the Glorietta Activity Center in — you guessed it — The Philippines. For more information, visit www.newworlds.ph.
What would happen if a photographer put on genre-colored glasses and headed out to American wastelands to take some pictures. Most likely, you’d get photos like those found in Lost America. Using time exposures and colored strobe lights, Troy Paiva created a collection of eerily compelling images of found objects. Some are sorrowful, others are […]