Ashlee & Rachel Scott write: Dragon*Con 2006 has come to a close after four long days of fun and excitement. Dragon*Con can be a success if you follow these three words: Divide and Conquer. With a 100 plus page program featuring dozens of guest and activities to enjoy, for newbies to Dragon*Con, like ourselves, it can be a bit overwhelming navigating through thousands of fans trying to get from one location to the next. Thanks go out to Ghost Hunters Steve Gonsalves and Bryan Hamois for rescuing us from the crowd and helping us find our way to the Ghost Hunters programming track or we might still be lost! [More]
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Kel writes: The Prancing Pony Players performed their LOTR-themed variety show twice at L.A. Con IV, the 64th World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon 2006). Audiences in the Spaceport Lounge were transported to Middle Earth as P3 performed a half-hour show celebrating Tolkien’s trilogy with poetry and parody songs. You can view photos, lyrics and videos, and listen to MP3s from the performance here. Find out more about the Prancing Pony Players at their website, bucklandblues.com.
TORN Staffer MrCere writes: ATLANTA – It is a world all its own, enclosed in a few blocks and full of a phenominal array of the weird, the absurd, the strange and most of all, the fun! The Lord of the Rings is definitely an essential part of the landscape of fandom with over 30 dedicated tracks that take over Labor-Day weekend and suck every minute of fun both night and day. [More]
Mikeal writes: This Wednesday, Sept. 6, 7 p.m., some Rivendellers & the Minnesota Tolkien Society set will assemble to meet and talk about things Tolkien with Katherine Kohman, who is visiting the area this week. Ms. Kohman, A.K.A “Celevon Elensar” in the “TheOneRing.net” online community, is author of “Lembas for the Soul: How the Lord of the Rings Enriches Everyday Life”, Longtime Tolkien fan Renee “Arwen” Alper, is quoted about this book which contains “fifty deeply felt tales of newly forged friendships, courage and inspiration, joy and loss. [More]
A ton of interesting new films are out on DVD this week. Take an early look on our ‘DVD Tuesday’ feature…every Monday! Check out some TV goodies like ‘LOST: Season 2’, ‘Supernatural: Season 1’, and two great episodes of classic Doctor Who ‘The web Planet’ & ‘Inferno’. Be sure to check out the Criterion Collection edition of ‘Seven Samurai’, Blu-Ray edition of ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and the 9/11 film ‘United 93’, plus a whole lot more! [More]
TORN has received a reply from the winery, the standard ‘scheduling conflict’ reply they have been giving to anyone who asks. I was hoping for a little more information…sadly, that doesn’t seem likely.