“The future is upon us, bleeding into the now; and if we don’t pay attention we’ll be left behind.” At Star Wars Celebration V, it’s all about enthusiasm for actors, astronauts, backyard filmmakers and garage roboticists. Star Wars Celebration V is an epic-level convention. It’s expensive, the venue is bigger than several shopping malls stuck together, and the expected 30,0000 attendees have come from all over the world to be there.

REPO! The Genetic Opera: So goth it sacked Rome and then went home and listened to Siouxie and the Banshees. Sweeney Todd if it were a rock opera about health insurance and bad parenting. Our generation’s Rocky Horror. What is this geektasmic phenomenon that’s sweeping the nerd-world?