This year’s Voice Actors LIVE gave fans a chance to see the faces behind the voices they love. The panel took place on Friday at 4PM at the Hyatt International South Ballroom and included famous voice actors Caitlin Glass, Mike McFarland, Kyle Hebert, and John Stocker. The veteran voice actors led the panel through the nature of the voice acting… Read more →
This Friday the fairy tale cast of ABC’s Once Upon a Time came together in the Hyatt Centennial Ballroom. After premiering in 2011 the show quickly gained a wide a following and has been through three seasons with a fourth coming out in September. The show follows a large cast of fairy tale characters who have been transported to modern… Read more →
The Filk Track will host several concerts Saturday evening, beginning with Brobdignagian Bards and The Blibbering Humdingers at 7PM, International North Ballroom (Hy). They’ll be followed in the same venue by Pandora Celtica at 8:30PM, Dueling Filkers! at 10PM, and finally Foot Pound Force at 11:30PM. “Filk is not limited to a particular genre. It is the music of the… Read more →
After seven seasons, the iconic HBO series True Blood has come to a conclusion. Still fresh from the airing of the finale, Nelsan Ellis, Michael McMillian, and Kristin Bauer discussed the impact the show has had on them on Saturday in the Hyatt Centennial II-III. One of the first questions asked was how much the writers changed the character to… Read more →
Patrick Stewart took the stage in the Marriott Atrium Ballroom, Fri at 1 PM, to thunderous applause and standing ovation. He promptly asked for the house lights to be brought up so that he could get a better look at the audience. Suffering from allergies, he asked for someone to get him some more tissues, to which a member of… Read more →
On Thursday night, Baen Books celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with the help of Dragon Con fans. The savory appetizers and multiple balloon installations in the Baen colors, this reporter felt as though she’d stumbled into a New York cocktail party. The host for the evening, James Minz, was as sharply dressed as he was witty, keeping the evening moving from… Read more →
Dave Maass from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Dr. Jon Padfield hosted a panel on biometrics, “Biometrics Identification: Sorting Fact From Fiction” in the EFF track held in room 201 of the Hilton. Dr. Padfield related some interesting anecdotes about his participation in developing signature recognition. He elaborated on how current tech does not simply compare a static image of… Read more →
Space scientist and author Les Johnson will present a panel “When the Satellites Fail: A Modern Apocalypse” Sat 4PM Chastain 1-2 (W). The author of Sky Alert! When Satellites Fail, Johnson warns, “Since writing Sky Alert, we’ve had some solar storms that could have posed a threat to our satellites, and the orbital debris problem has only gotten worse.” “Most… Read more →
