Due to overwhelming demand, the STAR WARS™ Identities exhibition will be returning to Eastern Canada at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (CASM) which will host the exhibition from May 10 to September 2, 2013 after its run at the Telus World of Science Center in Edmonton. Tickets go on sale Saturday March 23rd at 9 a.m. For over thirty-five

Saturday, May 4th, is just full of geekyness. Here’s what’s going down… Free Comic Book Day Saturday, May 4, is Free Comic Book Day! This is a pairing between publishers and comic book shops to celebrate comics and get people exited in what’s coming out. And the special free issues are often from small press and, occasionally, indie publishers. So

This Saturday, May 5 2012, is Free Comic Book Day. Seriously.

WARNING: Adult Activity – Assemble your team, light up the burly signal, and charge up your power ring! Critical Hit Burlesque invites you to celebrate comic book superheroes and comic strip classics with Geeklesque Saves the World.

Peoria’s holiday events prove that city’s geek community is alive and well; their holiday parade boasts a Starship Enterprise and the Batmobile, among other fan favs.

A quick look at CFB’s 2010 Top 10 holiday gift guides for the geeky set; from steampunk art to dalek gift wrap.

The Quidditch World Cup was held last weekend. Yes, I did say “quidditch” and, yes, I am talking about real people playing an actual real-world version of the famous wizarding sport from the world of Harry Potter.

There are many haunted attractions out there, but most of them are pretty much the same: blood, gore, carnage, more blood. Why not try something a little different for a change?

The MUZEO in Southern California is having some great steampunk and Victorian exhibits starting October.

Monday, September 19, is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrr!

Do you remember mc chris from various Adult Swim cartoons and his song “”Fett’s Vette”? Well he’s going on 40+ US tour this fall. He hand-picked three other top nerdcore rappers to join him on this tour.

This past Sunday, August 28, was the 2nd annual international Read Comics in Public Day (RCPD). I created a Facebook event for my hometown of San Diego, inviting sequential art lovers in the general area to come hang out in the shade outside a Starbucks in the Clairemont neighborhood.

YES, it is once again time for the annual Read Comics in Public Day. Grab your comics and graphic novels this Sunday and head somewhere public to show off your love of the sequential arts.

Say “happy b-day” to H.G. Wells at the Time Traveler’s Ball held by MidWest Steampunk this September.

August 28 is the 2nd annual international Read Comics in Public Day. Go out there and show off your sequential love!

It was supposed to be a Trekkie dream come true. It became a meltdown called The Con of Wrath. Help document this fading chapter of fan history.

Wil Wheaton was seen wearing this shirt in San Diego last week. One of our readers heard the tee design was for sale at SDCC 2011, but all our mad research skills couldn’t find out who was selling it. Do you know?

Chinese Pirate Productions’ fan adaptation of Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog has made quite a splash! After a 10 – show week coinciding with Comic Con, and fans from literally around the world stopping by, reviews and excitement has been bubbling all over the internet

After pleasing fans for years Leonard Nimoy is finally retiring from the fan convention circuit. Two upcoming Official Star Trek Convention events will mark his last scheduled celebrity convention appearances.

Sunday I went to the opening night of Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog – Live! and Gam3rs: The Play. The venue was cozy and personal, Gam3rs was fun, and the stage adaption of Whedon’s Dr. Horrible was made of awesome.

w00stock will have it’s first 2011 show in San Diego this July; Geek Vaudeville, Nerd Church, The Variety Show for the Internet Set.

This Saturday, July 16, is the one year anniversary of steampunk fest Dorian’s Parlor. To celebrate, they’ve lined up great talent including the one and only Voltaire as headliner.

Thursday night of SDCC there will be a Comic-Concert at The Stage, featuring Kirby Krackle and Random Gibberish.

Gam3rCon, running concurrently with Comic Con, is presenting Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog – Live! starting July 16 at the Tenth Avenue Theater.

Horror Realm Presents “12 Weeks of Horror” classic film series at the Hollywood Theater on July 6.

Event brings creators and fans together for weekend of learning and fun.

SogenCon has been a small anime convention in South Dakota for several years. The con averages around 600 or so people a year. It is run by Otaku Incorporated, a non-profit group. They are having a Kickstarter fundraiser to help cover their costs for this year. They are looking for $15,000 in donations. If they do not receive this amount the con will most likely not happen this year.

At the first PhauxCon I attended back in 2009, the guest of honor was paranormal/fantasy author Leslie Esdaile (L.A. Banks). Sadly, this talented author (who also happens to be a wonderful lady), has has been diagnosed with late stage adrenal cancer.

If you were born with a higher midi-chlorian count than others and were able to sense the madness that would be Comic Con ticket sales 2011, you bought your tickets way early during Comic Con 2010. In fact, so many purchased their tickets in advance that all 4-Day passes with Preview night were sold out before the convention concluded its run on Sunday evening.

With the 2011 SDCC next month, companies are beginning to announce the exclusives. Some are ones you may be expecting, others may come as a surprise.

Good news for fans of both Star Trek and pizza! StarTrek.com is pairing with ThinkGeek to give away pizza cutters shaped like the famous Starship Enterprise.

Going to Anime Boston this weekend? Have a smartphone? Want to know what’s going on but need one less thing to juggle? You’re in luck, ‘cuse there’s an app for that.

If you’re in the Chicago area April 30 you can satisfying your craving for beer AND brains with the 4th annual Chicago Zombie Pub Crawl (CZPC).

There’s been a storm of rage gusting through fandom recently, all directed at one Rob Granito. It began last week with a Bleeding Cool article and culminated in a verbal smackdown delivered at MegaCon by the irate Mark Waid and Ethan Van Sciver. Now several conventions, including Wizard World, have dropped Mr. Granito.

This September is the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Los Angeles (HPLFF-LA), a two day event to promote, in cinema, the literary works of gothic horror master H.P. Lovecraft.

Clockwork Wonderland 2011 was a one-day steampunk event and music fest sponsored by Marquis of Vaudville. Check out this report from the event, along with photos of all the festivities!

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.

Per the information on the Galveston Historical Society’s Website: “Dickens on The Strand is a holiday festival, where Bobbies, Beefeaters, and the Queen (Victoria) …recreate the Victorian London of Charles Dickens. Characters from Dickens novels walk the street. Food and entertainment fill the area with sights and smells that take you back to another era.”

Okay, you’ve got the present. Now the only thing left is to make it all mysterious and pretty with some gift wrap. But wait, blue stars or jolly reindeer just aren’t good enough when you’re giving that great geeky gift. That package needs pizazz.

December 3 has been declared Stare Dramatically Into the Distance During the Middle of a Sentence Day. You’ve all seen it done… Someone is talking. To add dramatic emphasis, they gaze off into the distance… Well, now it’s our turn. We get to be as awesome as the numerous people who stare into the distance. You will then be able to count yourself among Orlando Bloom, Batman, the dude from CSI Miami, Elphaba from Wicked and countless other awesome people.

With the approach of the holiday season comes the start of a new year. A new year filled with conventions, panels, crowded exhibit halls, signings, cosplaying, and travel. All this fun can get a bit hectic. Thankfully, there are plenty of gifts out there to make surviving the 2011 convention season easier.

Whether the convention fans in your life are attracted to steampunk for the awesome cosplay, speculative fiction, or wild webcomics there’s a host of gift ideas to wow them with.

The November 13-14, 2010 event in New York marks the fourth year of the Quidditch World Cup with competing teams coming from schools across America, with a handful from Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. There are even teams from Columbia, India, Korea, and Argentina.

The Miami Book Fair is America’s largest and finest book festival. Two years ago this fine fest of literature broke new ground when it launched The Comix Galaxy, a program to celebrate the place of comics and graphic novels in American literature.

“You have never experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.” Star Trek fans know that Klingons aren’t just warriors: they’re theater geeks. For the first time in human history, Klingon opera can be experienced by Earthlings.

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?

As posted on Twitter by The Guild‘s Felicia Day and Sandeep Parikh, Andrew Koenig (son of Star Trek‘s Walter Koenig) has been missing since February 14, 2010. He was last seen in Vancouver, Canada. Jenny Magenta, whom Koenig had been staying with in Vancouver before his disappearance, posted a message last night on Facebook, that read in part: “If you have

My friends and I went and saw the new Star Trek movie last night at our local IMAX theater, and I must say, we all thoroughly enjoyed the movie. It really was a pretty well executed, action packed thrill ride of a reboot that the Star Trek franchise needed. However, I’ve seen some other friends of mine raving about how “OMG! Amazing!” it was, and I’m just not there with them. Yes, it was great, but isn’t the best Trek movie out there, and it did have some moments that made my friends and I turn to each other and say “WTF?”

I’m a huge Star Trek Fan. I’m a huge Family Guy fan. Imagine my delight when I realized that two of my great television show passions were going to have a love child? I really wanted to write an out of this world (excuse the pun) review of the “Star Trek” Family Guy episode. But I was terribly disappointed by Family Guy’s

On Saturday, I went and saw the movie Fanboys with my boyfriend, and my friend Bart (who contributed to the Zombification 101 article). Bart actually drove three hours to Philadelphia from Virginia, because our theater in Philly was one of the closest ones showing the movie. I decided the movie was worth reviewing here on the blog, being as conventions