Anytime that a Mythbuster visits Dragon Con, it is sure to be an interesting and fun panel. The hour with Tory Belleci and Kari Byron in the Hilton Grand Salon West Saturday at 4PM was no exception. The room was full to capacity, and there was a general mood of anticipation as everyone filed to a seat. Byron wasted little… Read more →
By 9AM Saturday, Peachtree Street was lined four-deep with people awaiting the 10AM parade. A quick survey of the crowd revealed that not everyone in costume was actually marching. In the block between Peachtree Center and the Hard Rock Café, fans representing the Joker, Harley Quinn, Devo, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Doctor Who, the Blue Ranger and Green Ranger, and various… Read more →
How do you see Lucius Malfoy? Most likely not a different actor with short hair and a pinstripe suit. It almost happened. In the panel “Wait Until My Father Hears About This!” in Hyatt Centennial II–III on Saturday at 2:30PM, Jason Isaacs talked all things Harry Potter to a packed ballroom. Isaacs surprised the crowd by revealing that he first… Read more →
The inaugural Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction was presented during the Dragon Con Guest of Honor Banquet, Saturday at 7PM in Hyatt International South. The winning short story was “The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild” by Catherynne M. Valente. The remaining four finalists for the award were “The Deepwater Bride” by Tamsyn Muir, “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”… Read more →
Drawn by the delectable panel title “Our Favorite Cult Films,” with images of my own favorite cult film Eating Raoul floating about like tacos gliding through a taqueria, I waited with great expectations while the panelists, led by moderator and Film Festival and Film Track Director Matthew Foster, discussed their favorite cult status films. The panel was held at 7PM… Read more →
Both Ryan Gage and Craig Parker are natural storytellers, which made the “Middle-earth Cinema Guests” panel at 11:30AM Saturday in the Marriot Imperial Ballroom go incredibly quickly, despite the caffeine and sleep deprivation everyone was feeling. Parker and Gage both had coffee delivered during the panel. One of the best stories from the panel involved the casting of the elves…. Read more →
“The Quantified Vagina” opened up, as with most panels, with the speakers introducing themselves (Raychelle Burks, Scicurious, Emily Finke, Stephen Granade, and A B Kovacs), and included individual brands of humor. Immediately following introductions, one of the panelists asked what Bluetooth tampons are and who in the audience was familiar with this technology. The abruptness made the question a smooth… Read more →
The title says it all. The Marriott Imperial Ballroom, Friday 8:30PM, was the setting for the comedy team of Jim Butcher and Todd McCaffrey. The standing-room-only event was worth the wait. Charlotte Moore, director for the Fantasy Literature Track, was the moderator for this event. According to Butcher and McCaffrey, the panel stemmed from one they did last year that… Read more →
