It was the inaugral year for the Great American Comic Convention: Las Vegas and those first years are often a bit rough. Usually, there is a hard time getting talent, vendors are scarce, and the crowds and community support are nowhere to be...
Category - Misc Review
Better Than Disney? My Honest Knott’s Merry Farm 2025 Review
Is This the Most Underrated Holiday Event in California? You know, there is a specific feeling you get when you pull off the I-5...
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Universal Holidays 2025 Review: Why I Can’t Stop Eating Who-Hash
So here we are again. It is that time of year when Los Angeles decides to pretend it has seasons. You know exactly what I mean...
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No Avengers? No Problem: Why San Diego Comic-Con 2025 Was the Best in...
Leading up to SDCC 2025, the headlines were screaming doom and gloom. “No Marvel in Hall H?” “DC Studios...
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Universal Studios Hollywood’s Butterbeer Season: A Must-Do for...
The familiar strains of Hedwig’s Theme swelled as I stepped through the arched entrance into Hogsmeade, and suddenly, the mundane...
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CES 2025 Las Vegas: A First-Hand Look at the Tech Revolution
Las Vegas, the city of lights, recently hosted the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025, and it was a spectacle to behold...
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Now finished with its seventh season, Robot Chicken is going strong and more irreverent than ever. We got the chance to look at season 7 on DVD, and were very pleased to find not only some of the funniest episodes of Robot Chicken made to date...
Insidious: Chapter 3 sees the horror franchise return – this time, with a new director. Leigh Whannell, who wrote the first Insidious as well as co-wrote the second and third flicks (not to mention wrote the SAW series), is now at the...
I recently attended a private press event at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey where the new looped coaster ride, El Diablo, was introduced to a handful of lucky folks. Being a New Jersey native and devoted Six Flags patron throughout my...
Knott’s Berry Farm has officially launched its new Voyage to the Iron Reef interactive dark ride this week, and we were some of the early media allowed to ride. Voyage to the Iron Reef is located in the same 2nd level structure which...
Norse Foundry makes all kinds of tabletop RPG related gear, mostly made of metal (hence the “Foundry”). They have a range of dice, coins, pins – even some velvet and satin dice bags. However, we had our eyes on their metal...
Knott’s Berry Farm has a very special place in my heart, and in the hearts of most of my friends. Knott’s was the site of my very first job over twenty five years ago, and is still one of my favorite places to go. So when I had the...
I originally attended the March 20, 2015 performance of Carrie the Musical, over at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, not intending to review it. Many of you readers know that we have a dedicated horror/Halloween column here on the...
Once again, the venerable Knott’s Berry Farm has transformed itself into the holiday fun-filled and festive “Knott’s Merry Farm”, and we were there to see it for ourselves. The park’s holiday time designers should...
One of the coolest DSLR accessories I have been able to use lately is the Crossback Sling and Holster System from the people at Crooked Horn Outfitters. While several companies make DSLR camera slings, this is the first time I have seen a sling...