Just about anyone who has gotten into the board games scene in the past few years is sure to have encountered Days of Wonder. Ticket to Ride is probably their best-known line of games, with several different maps, online play, and most recently apps for the iPad and iPhone. Small ...

One of the joys of the Digital Age is being able to watch and re-watch our favorite television series in their entirety. Along with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Arrested Development, the various incarnations of the Star Trek television series are a popular choice to experience multiple times. For five ...

The lovely and very talented Marian Call stopped by Alaksa Public Radio’s KSKA a couple weeks ago to discuss her new album Something Fierce. I’ve been following the production of this album for almost two years through the Donor’s Circle and it has been fun to watch it unfold. ...

Shannon Wheeler is an incredibly prolific cartoonist. He’s probably best known for his underground comic Too Much Coffee Man, but he has also drawn comics for the New Yorker and has several other books that have come out recently. He won an Eisner Award this year for his comics collection ...

Yes, friends, September brings with it both the new school year and Quidditch season. J.K. Rowling’s fantastical sport of witches and wizards has been adopted by college and community teams the world over, and is gaining traction despite its fantastical leanings. Using traditional sporting goods like hula hoops, volleyballs (as quaffles) ...

First day of school video for family and friends. He is very prepared!

During PAX Prime I headed into a panel on Nerdcore Rap. It was kind of a history lesson, in a sense, but nothing that I already didn’t know. It was moderated by young rapper and producer Klopfenpop. There was a who’s-who of nerdcore rappers and producers along with him including, ...

Guillermo Del Toro, the director behind personal, vision-driven films like Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone, and Pan’s Labyrinth, plus commercial blockbuster action vehicles like Blade II and two Hellboy films, has been involved in more than his share of film projects over the past few years. But he hasn’t personally helmed ...

I have been reading Douglas Rushkoff’s writings on cyberculture since the early 1990s when I did my senior dissertation on Cyberpunk Literature. Although he was not the only one at the time writing critical essays about a future where humans and machines became increasingly indistinguishable, his was a voice that ...

Like all genres of music, the genre of nerdcore has it’s annual gathering, the apex of live performances in a 2-day music festival called Nerdapalooza. Regardless of the genre classification, Nerdapalooza is a high energy gathering with a solid and continuous line-up of musical performances and straight up fun. Over ...