2004 Articles
By Daily Dragon staff | September 30, 2004 | 2:20 pm | Posted in 2004, Index

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Parties, Happenings, Events
By Daily Dragon staff | September 4, 2004 | 1:43 pm | Posted in '04 D*C Info, 2004

Doctor Zathras’s Traveling B5 Medicine Show

Meet Babylon 5 fans (and maybe cast & crew) at this additional, independent B5 programming. Socials, panels, lotteries, and swag! A new event every day.

Friday: “B5 Diplomatic Mixer.” Come and get your first …

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Lost in Translation: Dragon*Con Style
By Devi Snively | September 4, 2004 | 10:01 am | Posted in '04 Features, 2004

I felt like Bill Murray in the beginning of Lost in Translation only instead of being the tallest person in the crowded hotel elevator, I was the only one not donning wings, latex or a Storm Trooper uniform.

I had just checked in at the Atlanta Hyatt Regency where I’d come to attend Dragon*Con, America’s largest annual popular arts convention for Gamers, Trekkies, and die-hard aficionados of all things sci-fi, horror, and/or fantasy. Admittedly, I …

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Art Show Awards – Masks of Wonder to be Auctioned
By Amy Herring and Darius Washington | September 3, 2004 | 9:41 am | Posted in '04 Awards, 2004, Awards

Winners of the Dragon*Con 2004 Art Show were selected Sunday. Guest Judges Ann Sudworth and Charles Vess selected Best in Show and judged artists in professional, amateur and student categories. Fans attending the Art Show voted for special awards. Dragon*Con artists voted for the Artist Choice award. Results in each category are listed below.

Repeating the excitement of last year’s contest in which Anne McCaffrey judged artistic eggs created at Dragon*Con, 2004 artists competed …

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Captain Khetara Crowned 2004 Miss Klingon Empire – fatalities, Death Threats Delight Klingons
By Amy Herring | September 3, 2004 | 9:40 am | Posted in '04 Awards, 2004, Awards

Captain Khetara sutai-Lorenssith (Christine Evans-Arriaga) was crowned 2004 Miss Klingon Empire Sunday evening at Dragon*Con. The pageant featured one assassination, multiple injuries, death threats, and territorial disputes among previous pageant winners.

Docked to prevent hurricane damage, the I.K.A.V. Battle Fury lent its flag to the …

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The Joe Linsner Labor Day Corsethon: Dawn Look-Alike Contest 2004
By Darius Washington | September 3, 2004 | 9:37 am | Posted in '04 Awards, 2004, Awards

The 2004 edition of the Dragon*Con Dawn Look-Alike Contest saw a variety of aspects of the character. Fifty-seven entries displayed elements of the Dawn character before a panel of judges including 2003 Dawn Contest winner Valerie Potter, film actor Ernie Hudson, comic inker Amy …

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Oneupmanship
By Amy Herring | September 2, 2004 | 10:14 am | Posted in '04 Features, 2004

At Tracy and Laura Hickman’s myth workshop Friday, Tracy began to describe the benefit of outlines to writers by analogy: “If you hold a handful of marbles too tightly, the marbles start popping out.”

The immediate question from one witty fan: “So, the more you tighten your grip, the more marbles will slip through your fingers?”

As if this wasn’t enough to flummox Tracy, at Saturday’s “Waiting to Exhale” panel in the Writer’s Track, Tracy humorously questioned, “Has …

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D*C Tracks Cover SF TV Highlights
By Amy Herring | September 2, 2004 | 10:13 am | Posted in '04 Features, 2004

Dragon*Con is a haven for science fiction fans whose favorite genre is television media. According to Marc Berman, a TV analyst for www.mediaweek.com (as reported in Thursday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), “the end of the X-Files [in 2002] signaled the end of a golden era …

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Firefly Cast Visits Dragon*Con
By Paul J. Iutzi | September 2, 2004 | 9:28 am | Posted in '04 Guests, 2004

If you are a fellow fan of the show Firefly, you are already familiar with Nathan Fillion, Jewel Staite, and Adam Baldwin. If you’re not familiar with the show (in which case, go now, rent, borrow, or purchase the DVD set, and watch it), they …

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A Chat with audre at the Digital Art Show
By Amy Herring | September 2, 2004 | 9:25 am | Posted in '04 Guests, 2004

“Dragon*Con’s digital art show is one of a kind for genre fandom,” said audre, the digital show’s director. Located in Artist Alley (Marriott Imperial Ballroom), “get art the way you want,” is the slogan for the program. The show within the art show offers digital art in a variety of media: glossy canvas, glossy Light Jet™, matte Light Jet™, and metallic Light Jet™ as well as …

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