Staying at the Hyatt for Dragon*Con has many advantages:

• The special edition room key
• DCTV in the room
• The balconies
• Close proximity to the Consuite

The first three advantages are also available at the Marriott, but I’ve never personally stayed there (though I must admit their lobby is incredibly impressive) so I can’t speak from experience. To me, the most zen-mixed-with-cool perk is my access to the balcony that overlooks the Hyatt lobby.

Every night, after a fun and exhausting day at the con, I slip …

Sunday afternoon, Alice Cooper spent an hour answering questions to an exuberant and awestruck crowd at the Westin. The topics were as diverse as the man himself: performing, writing, marriage, religion, and the many other artists he has had the pleasure and honor of working with during his career.

Right from the outset, he referred to himself as, “The Moriarty to rock and roll.” He talked about how his band would walk into a room and people would take a step …

Saturday afternoon’s Battlestar Galactica (BSG) panel, “Welcome to the Quorum” provided the audience with a great surprise. When Katee Sackhoff wasn’t there when the panel started, we were all assured that someone was on their way. But when her name was eventually announced, the actor to walk on stage wasn’t Sackhoff at all. Instead, Aaron Douglas strutted out to a huge round of applause by the audience and hugs from the other cast members. Douglas was not slated to be …

Saturday morning, this reporter arrived a few minutes late to the panel, “A Conversation with Jane Espenson.” Luckily, I arrived in time to see the short video clip from Husbands, a web series written by Jane Espenson and Brad Bell about a male couple who wake up drunk-married in Vegas. As an added bonus, Brad Bell and Sean Hemeon, the two actors who play the married couple, also appeared on the panel.

(Please remember, Mr. Letterman, that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.)

For those of you who either have never been to Dragon*Con before, or you’re feeling at odds about what to do next, this Canadian duo of roving reporters give you the top ten list of things you must do before 5PM on Saturday at Dragon*Con.

10. Watch at least an hour of DCTV. Because the people who create the content are built of awesome, and you might see a panel …

About an hour ago, I passed the 24-hour mark at Dragon*Con. No, I haven’t been awake for all of them; sleep is my friend. But something happens to my brain when I’m bathing in the pool of Dragon*Con euphoria and this change tends to happen somewhere around the 24- hour mark.

I call the phenomenon the comfort slide, or TCS, for short.

Before I arrive in Atlanta, I go about my business in a typical and uneventful Canadian manner. I set aside …

This year, the Dragon*Con app for iPhone and Android is absolutely fantastically awesome. On the coolness scale, the app rocks like an airship on plutonium.

Have you installed the app on your phone yet? Because you should, you must, we cannot recommend it enough.

Want to see your favorite celebrity? Click their name in the speakers/performers list and get an instant list of their panels and events. On the coolness scale, this feature is most assuredly tweetable.

Like the look …

After a jam-packed-busy Friday for this reporter, Saturday has been my “easy” day so far. Having a lull in panels to review and having lost the fight for the last slice-of-life-cake, I will now add some non-dairy-whipped-topping-fluff to the Daily Dragon content.

Let us presume, for argument’s sake, that the only important measure of worth in our society is not family, money, fame, social responsibility, or spiritual contentment, but coolness. Then my duty, as an upstanding member of the Volunteer Reporters’ …

Imagine a room full of elegant revelers, each wearing a sinful, decadent, or mysterious mask. That’s the scene this reporter found herself in at the 25th Anniversary Masked Ball on Friday night in Regency VI-VII (Hy).

The line wrapped and twisted, filled with the buzz of anticipation mixed with sophistication. While waiting for The Ghosts Project to begin their set, baroque inspired riffs drifted from the sound system. The collective mood was one of subdued and respectable enthusiasm.

Masks were a must-wear …

The Alternate History track presented a panel featuring the stars of the Back to the Future franchise. Christopher Lloyd (Dr. Emmett Brown) and James Tolkan (Principal Strickland) fielded questions from the enthusiastic crowd. When asked what Principal Strickland would have said to them when they were in high school, Tolkan replied that for a certain period, he was a slacker. In his sophomore year, he moved to Tucson, and high school turned into everything he’d wanted it to be. Speechless, …