Haunted Amusement Park Closed Lake Shawnee Amusement Park may be haunted by spirits. www.wvva.com/News/index.php?ID=15480 World Series of Video Games The World Series of Video Games (WSVG) Presented by Intel will make its first-ever stop on Canadian soil this summer, at the Fan Expo Canada at the Metro Toronto Convention Center, August 24-26. www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2007/08/c4730.html New Convention […]
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Do you like science fiction, fantasy and/or horror? Do you like to travel? Do you enjoy going to genre conventions? Do you get a kick out of visiting places where your favorite genre movies or TV shows were shot? Do you delight is visiting places where your favorite genre authors lived, wrote or set their […]
August 2007 Aug. 1-15Artifacts of a Nether WorldArt & Objects by Dan ChessherHyaena GalleryBurbank, Calif.www.hyaenagallery.com Aug. 10-12Horrorfind WeekendMarriott Hunt Valley InnHunt Valley, Md.www.horrorfindweekend.com/state/maryland/august/ Aug. 11, 2007LA Myth: A group art showMeltdown ComicsLos Angeles, Calif.meltcomics.com or myspace.com/lamyth Aug. 24, 200723rd Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement AwardsThe Caltech AthenaeumPasadena, Calif.RSVP for reservations:(323) 466-3310 or (800) 624-6504 in […]
I just got these road trip sanity tips in my email today and since they compliment the cover story of the July 2007 issue of The Genre Traveler, I thought I’d pass the information along. Of course I’ve added my two bits to their tips, and edited out the blatant commercial they were pitching. Keep […]
Maison d’Ailleurs, or the House of Elsewhere, is Europe’s only public science-fiction museum. Created in 1976, when French sci-fi buff Pierre Versin donated his collection of tens of thousands of SF books to the Swiss spa town of Yverdon-les-Bains, just north of Lausanne, on the condition that it be made available for public viewing, the […]
As I reported in the July issue of The Genre Traveler, the “Back to the Future – The Ride” at Universal Studios Hollywood is going to be transformed into a Simpsons thrill ride due to open in Spring 2008. Therefore, this ride will be closing soon. Yesterday, Universal Studios Hollywood announced that “Back to the […]
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 […]
Back by popular demand, the planetarium show at the Museum of Science, Boston, Far, Far Away: The Worlds of Star Wars, will be showing daily now through Oct. 29, 2007. This “lively, fun show” compares the fantasy planets of the Star Wars movies to the Earth and other real planets and moons in our solar […]