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A dispute about the new Star Trek show Discovery has recently bubbled up online, with several of my younger adult friends stomping their feet, gnashing their teeth, and waggling their …
What Happened to Klingon Cosplay? Read MoreA few weeks ago my photographer friend Thomas Kerns returned from the end of the world with his camera bursting with images from Wasteland Weekend, the world’s largest full-immersion post-apocalyptic …
BeltLine Creator Launching Post-Apocalyptic Pub “Aftercar” in Atlanta Read MoreThis aging dragon has certainly grown! Just look at that graph! It’s based on data I found on a Dragon Con wiki, which explains that its data was collected from …
Dragon Con Turns 31 – Is It Too Big Now? Read MoreI don’t know about your part of the country, but in Atlanta everyone has eclipse fever and people (like me) have been racing all over the city in last minute …
Protecting Your Cat from a Solar Eclipse Read MoreA few days ago I was headed to lunch in College Park but overshot my destination so I hung a right at the very next street, Hemphill, in order to loop the block and …
The Palmour House in College Park Read MoreWhile the collapse of the elevated portion of Interstate 85 has been a major inconvenience for people traveling through the region around Atlanta, it can hardly compare to the devastation that affected …
Remembering the Great Atlanta Fire of 2017 Read MoreLike most Atlantans I am fascinated by the story of Basil Eleby, a man whose life might have come and gone without leaving a mark in Atlanta’s history books if it were not for his …
Basil Eleby’s Fabulous Weaponized Love Seat (That Destroyed Atlanta) Read MoreI remember when the Marriott Marquis was still shiny and new, back in the 1980s. Somewhere in my stack of sketchbooks I have a little student study I made of …
Skidmark Read MoreThis is my 20th year as a member of an international film union best known as IATSE, which is an acronym for a 4-mile long run-on sentence describing what its …
The Time We Saved Georgia’s Film Industry Read MoreA performance by the Cirque du Soleil is almost always a life-altering experience for someone in the audience, and it’s little wonder that fans tend to nominate their very first …
Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios VIP Experience Disappoints Read More