"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." These are the words Dante and his guide Virgil see inscribed over the gate to the underworld. And when we lived in Southern California, I always imagined the line printed over the entrance tunnel to Disney's iconic It's a Small World ride. That's ...

Considering that The Avengers has been shattering box office records right and left since it opened, and that it passed the $700 million mark worldwide yesterday, it can hardly be considered a surprise that a sequel is already in the works. Still, it’s nice to get official notice that the ...

Cory Doctorow's new book The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow forces readers to ask whether they view new technology as mere change or as human progress.

Last month I had the opportunity to visit the Walt Disney Family Museum, located in the historic Presidio in San Francisco; this was something I was looking forward to, since my friend Floyd Norman had served as a consultant in the creation of the exhibits and had told me a ...

The Avengers may be the biggest film of the summer, and it's still spring.

Win tickets to the Catalina Film Festival, featuring the honoring of Stan Lee and special screening of Marvel's The Avengers!

Just in time for Earth Day, Disneynature's fourth film made its debut on Friday; Chimpanzee follows a band of chimps in their daily life, with particular focus on a baby named Oscar, and the surprising turn his story takes is what carries the film. Disneynature is the first new film ...

Taking the kids to see Disneynature's Chimpanzee? Read this first.

Hello, Grantland readers! Thanks for stopping by. You found me running a clip show. How embarrassing for all of us. For those of you that aren’t readers of Grantland, you should be, especially since they used my video of Darth Vader throwing out the first pitch at last Friday’s Dodger ...

I am starting a new prototyping lab in Huntsville, Alabama, based on the fab lab model. I’ve dreamt of becoming an entrepreneur and have done a fair amount of research on the topic. But this is my first attempt at starting a business. Here is where I document weekly my ...