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Japanese Rock Band RAMPANT Making Their US Debut at Tekkoshocon 2011

[31 Jan 2011 | by | Comments Off]

Female-fronted Japanese hard-rock band RAMPANT will be performing at Tekkoshocon IX, an upcoming Pennsylvania anime convention. This will be the band’s first United States performance. The band will also be participating in a Q&A and autograph session.

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Press Release: Top Celebrities On Tap For New Orleans Comic Con As Marsters, Benz, Gossett, Park, West, Ward, Williams, “BuffyFest” In Town For New Orleans Comic Con This Weekend

[28 Jan 2011 | by | Comments Off]

James Marsters, Julie Benz, Louis Gossett Jr., Ray Park, Adam West, Burt Ward, Billy Dee Williams and Peter Tork are among the top celebrity guests scheduled to attend Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con this Saturday and Sunday at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The event, which opens the 2011 season for North America’s largest pop-culture tour, will bring together thousands of fans of all ages and dozens of celebrities and industry professionals to celebrate the best in pop culture, movies, comics, toys, video gaming, television, gaming, original art, collectibles, contests and more.

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Press Release: LA Weekend of Horrors Launched Today

[27 Jan 2011 | by | Comments Off]

The Weekend of Horrors, the world’s most popular horror media convention, returns to Los Angeles on May 14 and 15, 2011 and today we are happy to announce our first several guest celebrities plus the launch of our Gold Weekend Packages (the top of the line way to attend all weekend that allows you to actually select your seats in the theatre).

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The Florida Anime Experience, a New Florida Anime Convention, Announced for May 2011

[26 Jan 2011 | by | Comments Off]

Florida anime fans have a new reason to celebrate! The Florida Anime Experience, a new anime convention to be run by by team members from Florida Supercon, JACON and Wasabi Anime, will take place May 27-29, 2011 at the Ramada Orlando Celebration Resort & Convention Center in Kissimmee, Florida.

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A Review of Reni’s Maid Cafe

[25 Jan 2011 | by | Comments Off]

I have to admit I have been meaning to attend Reni’s Maid and Cosplay Cafe since I first stumbled upon Reni Mimura at Zenkaikon over a year ago, and found out she regularly threw these events at the Village in New York. Since my birthday was coming up and I was looking for something fun to do, I decided to make the trip up from Philadelphia on the Bolt bus and celebrate it with my favorite Japanese idol living in New York and see what her take on the Japanese maid cafe phenomenon would be.