Subject: Star Trek

• Question: How Many Geeks Can You Cram into a Hall?

  Answer: ALL of them. That is, all of them if the geeks in question are geeked about anime/manga and the hall in question is a cavernous corner of the Anaheim Convention Center. Organizers of Anime Expo 2006 announced today that their largest-ever exhibit hall--which will be filled with its most-ever vendors--has already sold out its July 1-4 run. What's billed as North America's largest anime/manga convention will be marking its 15th consecutive year at the convention mecca across the street fr

  June 27, 2006

• 20th Century Fox pulls out of Comic-Con

  As reported in this week's Comic-Con preview by yours truly, Fox was set to showcase upcoming movie releases including Aliens Vs. Predator, Babylon A.D. and Jumper. The LA Times is reporting that the studio decided their footage "wasn't ready." JoBlo.com writes that this may be the result of a dispute stemming from last year's Con, where Fox debuted the naked fight scene from Borat in its entirety, with no forewarning of the content. At the time, I blogged that "I couldn't believe this [footag

  July 19, 2007

• LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 7-20-07

  Tough one, this. There is no way I'm ever going to recommend Hairspray -- even if it turns out to be passable, I hate the very idea of it. As for Adam Sandler pretending to be gay...if GLAAD approved of the movie, I'm thinking Sandler's gonna be pretty defanged in it (ironic, since I know there's a scene where he dresses up as Dracula). Goya's Ghosts apprently features Natalie Portman's first nude scene, but it's while she's being tortured by the Spanish Inquisition, so that doesn't sound too ho

  July 20, 2007

• Comic-Con 2007: Of Paramount Disappointment, plus Jessica Alba and Peter Fonda

  Damn, the lines here suck. Used to be that Comic-Con got bigger every year, and they expanded the available space to fit. Then the space ran out, and stuff kept getting bigger anyway. I wait in line half an hour for the Paramount panel, and don't even get close to getting in. Regroup. An hour later, get in line an hour early for the Lionsgate panel. Line is all the way to the back loading dock. I get in. But this astonishes me: after all that wait, once initial guest Jessica Alba is done, half

  July 27, 2007

• Pricey Morning in America

  Mitt Romney may like him some outdoor barbecue and bouncy houses, but it seems that Rudy Giuliani prefers breakfast as his OC fund-raising venue. However, those eggs and bacon will cost you -- got $2,300 or more? Want to blow it all on a photo op with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Frontrunner? Then get your butt over to the Anaheim Hilton at 777 Convention Way tomorrow morning by 8. And to think, Star Trek fans get mocked for dropping $50 on pics with Shatner.

  August 21, 2007

• Captain's Chairman

  A 66 year old man from Orange just paid $200,000 to be the 33rd passenger on Richard Branson's new civilian space flights that are planned to begin in 2009 sometime, the Register's Sciencedude blog is reporting. Bob Walters, who failed as a younger man to pass the eye test required for pilots, is a big fan of Star Trek. So big, in fact, that this isn't the first time he's shelled out the big bucks for a space-themed purchase. he bought Captain Picrad's command chair at an auction for 51 grand.

  January 16, 2008

• Long Beach Trek-tacular

  As much as I enjoy Star Trek, and always have, I can't say I was that enthused by the idea of “Star Trek: The Tour.” What could they show me that I haven't seen? Could it possibly top the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas? Do I really want to pay top dollar to see a bunch of multicolored spandex uniforms? But duty calls, and I'm certainly the most qualified person at this publication to volunteer for said duty – I had William Shatner's “Transformed Man” on import CD before it was re-r

  January 21, 2008

• The Big Beat-Off

  January 27, 2005

• 'We're Joined Now, Via Hologram, By will.i.am'

  Without a doubt the funniest words ever strung together in the history of televised election coverage. At least it was Anderson Cooper handling the interview, as he's hip enough to have an idea of how ridiculous it was. I disagree with him saying it's like Star Trek, though—it's more like Princess Leia being beamed from R2-D2 in the beginning of the first "Star Wars." Help me Anderson Cooper, you're my only hope. (Though that was a recording. Hmm. But still, in Star Trek, people actually te

  November 5, 2008

• This Halloween, the ARTery Throbs, and Something's Thumping in the Box

  October 30, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Surfing 50 States,' 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' More

  November 13, 2008

• Spacing Out

  December 4, 2008

• Tokyo Table Pops the Culinary Cherry of Irvine's Diamond Jamboree Shopping Center

  October 16, 2008

• Back to the Future

  'The Imaginary 20th Century' takes us forward into the past

  February 7, 2008

• Trekkie or Trekker?

  January 10, 2008

• What Is It Good for

  Sandow Birk goes to war

  November 29, 2007

• DVDish

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! Jungle Fever
  

  November 22, 2007

• Arty Party Animals

  Hanging with OCMA’s Art Since the 1960s

  September 6, 2007

• Confessions of a Comic-Con Virgin

  A non-geek follows the king of geekdom into the heart of dorkness

  August 9, 2007

• 2007: a Comic-Con Odyssey

  Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love sleep deprivation, huge crowds and wonderful toys

  August 9, 2007

• The Big Con

  Out of the basement and into the spotlight, Comic-Con 2007 is the place to be

  July 19, 2007

• Cartoon geekboys are go!

  July 1, 2004

• OnDVD

  OnDVD: Sleeping Dogs Lie

  April 12, 2007

• Same Old Story

  Sequels, prequels, and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

  January 4, 2007

• Lost Cause

  September 7, 2006

• The Dudes Abide

  March 31, 2005

• Eight Days

  November 4, 2004

• Geek My Mail

  September 16, 2004

• Creepshow Superstars

  July 3, 2003

• Through With Love

  February 27, 2003

• Letters

  January 23, 2003

• Hull Breach

  January 16, 2003

• Uh-Oh, Its Magic

  November 28, 2002

• The Fandom Menace

  June 6, 2002

• Newport Beach Film Festival Beams Down

  April 18, 2002

• Clue on Cat Tranquilizers

  October 18, 2001

• Crawling From the Wreckage

  September 27, 2001

• Pompeii Dog

  August 9, 2001

• Great Slabs O' Dead Stuff!

  November 16, 2000

• Flaming the Fans

  June 29, 2000

• Its the End of the World as We Never Knew It

  November 4, 1999

• MST3Ks Legacy Will Live On

  August 12, 1999

• Getting Small

  July 22, 1999

• Uneasy Alliance

  April 8, 1999

• Give It the Old College Guide*

  September 10, 1998

• J.J. Abrams's 'Star Trek' Reboot Is Proof That the Franchise Can Live Long and Prosper

  May 7, 2009

• Nothing to "Klingon" in New "Star Trek" Movie

  If your TV is on the fritz, you didn't pay your cable/satellite bill or you're just one of those Communists who does not watch the tube, you may not have heard there is a new Star Trek movie opening today and, according to one Weekly Trekker at least, it's a solid effort.But some die-hards do have something to complain about, and they can do that complaining in the Warrior Tongue, Klingon. For as Slate's Arika Okrent points out, "There's something missing from J.J. Abrams' reboot of the moribund

  May 8, 2009

• RIP: Trent Reznor's Twitter

  Andrew YoussefTrent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, May 21, 2009.For the last few months, Trent Reznor has been interacting with Nine Inch Nails fans (historically an insanely devoted lot) via Twitter, updating them on the happenings of their tour with Jane's Addiction, running ticket giveaway contests, talking about his romance with fiancee Mariqueen Maandig of West Indian Girl and even raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to aid a Nevada fan needing a

  June 11, 2009

• Top 5 Frozen Yogurt Flavors I'd Like To See

  Since new yogurt stores seem to keep popping up like an unstoppable, virulent disease (See my earlier post here on the phenomenon), there's really one thing left to do: request more flavors.  Not that there's a lack of creativity out there.  Some, like Yogurtland, seem to have a hard-working flavor alchemist on staff. I saw bananas fosters and tiramisu the other day. Both delicious.  But here are 5 flavors I haven't seen but would like to see coming out of those spouts. Surely, one of t

  July 27, 2009

• 10 Questions with Kool Keith

  ​Kool Keith is a man of many mysteries, many personalities and, of course, many surprises. Since the twilight years of hip hop's Golden Era, Keith (aka Black Elvis, aka Dr. Octagon) has held the torch for rappers who dare to be different, and a little eccentric. You'll definitely get a taste of that in this excerpt of a phone interview he did with the Weekly in preparation for a totally awesome, totally random gig at Slidebar in Fullerton this Sunday with Free Moral Agents and Speaker Junkies.

  September 25, 2009