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Hello, 2018. I know we just met, but at least we started in style and in familiar comfort: with my friends amid song, booze,...
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Professional gamers, like any other athletes, require time to hone their skills and stay at the top of their game. But spending too much...
I remember the first time I saw Fat Jack’s. I was a freshman at Temple University and was going to a midnight screening at...
I spent the first thirty-five years of my life in New York City. For the record, and I assume many of you who are...
Hello, 2018. I know we just met, but at least we started in style and in familiar comfort: with my friends amid song, booze,...
Welcome to the fourth Precursor to Dystopia column. Usually I start these with some weird-but-intriguing analogous relationship between something innocuous, and the inevitable dystopian...
The World Cup in Russia is edging ever closer, with the groups now being confirmed for the first round of proceedings. It’s a tournament...
Welcome to the third Precursor To Dystopia Column. Ever hear of the Brunching Shuttlecocks? If you’ve been on the internet since the days of...
Welcome to the second Precursor To Dystopia column. What do old men in adult diapers, rape, and the breaking news cycle have in common?...
Welcome to the first Precursor To Dystopia column. What started as a little feature on the Instagram moodboard for my novel Marlowe Kana has...
Opening night of The Color Purple was a celebration of Black excellence, as a joyful sound rang clear and true through Boston’s Boch Center...
For those of you who didn’t know metro Atlanta has become a hotbed of film production in the last few years. The ancillary benefit...
Anyone in or around the modern entertainment business realizes fairly quickly that: 1) to get anywhere, you have to “pay your dues.” 2) everyone...
Mark Waid is one of the good guys. With a career as both a writer and editor, the inimitable Mr. Waid not only writes...
From former FOG! contributor Gavin Hignight comes the latest adventure of the Mystic Cosmic Patrol! A mysterious stranger arrives at Mystic Mountain through a...
Last week, we shared the first episode of former FOG! Contributor Gavin Hignight’s Mystic Cosmic Patrol which premiered on Funny or Die! To celebrate...
This year’s FanExpo Boston takeover of Boston Comic Con came with not only a change of venue, but an entirely different experience for BostonCon...
The Jedi Knight looks over the silent pairs of men and women lining the walls. He gives the signal and suddenly the room is...
As I entered the cavernous new home for Boston Comic Con at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on Friday, a roar went off...
Nostalgia can be fickle. It only takes a slight shift in age difference, or strictly regional relevance to make any piece of your nostalgiac...
Learning a bit more about the people who’ve just moved into your neighbourhood isn’t just neighbourly! It’s important to keep yourself and your family...
Over the past decade or so, American pop culture has been overwhelmed with images of the End Times. Virtually every television network that shows...
This weekend fathers, uncles, grandfathers, big brothers, godfathers, and paternal role models will be recognized by their loved ones on Father’s Day. And what...
Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On is the kind of album that, no matter how many times I listen to it, each time its greatness...
This Sunday is Mother’s Day. We all know that Mother’s Day might not be applicable to the woman who gave birth to you, but...
There are many nerd types out there and I bet that most of them are not viewed as nerds by the vast majority of...
The Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, one of the Midwest’s largest fandom expos, breezed through the windy city last weekend. The three-day extravaganza—arguably Chicago’s...
Spring has arrived! Which means the sun is shining, the days are longer and there’s no better time than now to break out a...