The Bonaventure Quartet offered a dynamic performance on Sunday at 4PM in the Hyatt Concourse. This group, which identifies as a “double quartet” because of the total number of performers, plays music in Big Band style with lyrics for a modern and non-standard audience. Popular with steampunk enthusiasts, the group attracted a large audience that seemed compelled to move with… Read more →
Sunday morning at 11:30 in the Marriott Atrium Ballroom, James Cosmo and Natalia Tena from HBO’s Game of Thrones [based on George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series] appeared on the “GoT: Winter is Coming” panel. Both were asked what they thought of Dragon Con now that they had been at the convention for three days. “It’s really… Read more →
Actor, singer, and professor, Avery Brooks is best known to the geeky crowd as Captain Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Brooks returned to Dragon Con this year, after a three year absence, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the show. The Daily Dragon sat down for a chat with him in the Walk of Fame. Daily Dragon… Read more →
Dragon Con would like to congratulate guests Todd Lockwood and John Picacio for winning 2013 Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists Chesley Awards! Todd won “Best Cover Illustration: Hardback Book” for The Awakening, which was the cover for the novel The Wild Road by Jennifer Roberson. John won both “Best Cover Illustration: Paperback Book” for The Creative Fire, which… Read more →
At 10AM Sunday morning, the American Sci-Fi and Fantasy Media track welcomed Lucy Lawless, Kandyse McClure, and Edward James Olmos from Battlestar Galactica to the panel “BSG: C.I.C. Conference” in the Hyatt, Centennial II-III.
Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn and screenwriter of the famous film adaptation, provided running commentary for the Dragon Con screening of the animated feature at the Young Adult Literature (YA) track on Saturday at 5:30PM, International North, Hyatt. Moderator Jana Lott introduced Beagle as “one of the greatest living fantasists.” Beagle finished The Last Unicorn in 1967…. Read more →
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