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Expos and Conventions
New York Comic Con Returns: Bigger Than Ever (For Better or Worse)!
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- Published on Friday, 07 September 2012 17:07
- Written by Renzo Adler
I remember when the New York Comic Con was an upstart con that had to share space with the NY Times Travel Show. Now the convention has grown exponentially to the point where it may not be quite as huge as San Diego Comic Con, but it’s definitely gunning to be the east coast equivalent.
This rapid growth and increased attention does raise a few questions. Lately it seems that SDCC has become less and less about actual comic books, and more about movies, video games, and all forms of media and pop culture BUT comics. Will NYCC share the same fate?
Luminance Conference Looks to the Future of Photography
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 21:00
- Written by Renzo Adler
With the advent of smart-phones and social networking, photos may inhabit less physical space these days, but they contain a social currency and are traded amongst people now more than ever. Luminance: The Intersection of Business, Technology, Culture & Photography (September 12 -13, 2012) at the BMCC TriBeCa Performing Arts Center (199 Chambers Street) is a two-day conference that brings together experts, photographers, CEOs, authors, to discuss the evolution photography has achieved.
MB Fashion Week -- Spring Collections 2013 -- How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Lacoste
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- Published on Monday, 27 August 2012 05:27
- Written by Brad Balfour
For the uninitiated, Fashion Week seasonally inaugurates the current collection of a set of designers -- some veterans, other the hungry and trendy. Once a bastion of Paris or Milan, the internationalization of this community building experience really took off once the Fashion Week rooted in NYC went beyond the industry and became intergrated in the city's cultural life -- a celebration of special crowd of the cool and terminally "In."
The Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, held in Manhattan, September 5 – 13, 2012, brings previews of the latest fashions to locations all throughout the city and kicks off at the New York Public Library (476 5th Avenue) with an exhibition of clothes from Joseph Abboud on September 5th.
Primarily situated on the Lincoln Center campus, most of the designers show their latest wares -- whether formal or casual, cutting edge or classic -- and hope those in the first row pay attention whiel the wags in the back provide "oohs" and "ahhs."
Killer Nashville Conference: Grand Ole Autopsy
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- Published on Monday, 20 August 2012 05:00
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Standing on the edge between tawdry and cerebral,mystery novels indulges our fascination with the macabre, and tests our observational knowledge about who would want to kill you and why. Now the writers of the sordid affairs will be converging upon Nashville Tennessee for the Killer Nashville Conference for Thriller, Suspense, Mystery Writers & Literature Lovers (August 24 -26, 2012) at the Hutton Hotel (1808 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN).
Established in 2006, Killer Nashville brings together best-selling and acclaimed mystery and thriller writers including:
- Jonathan Stone
- C.J. Box
- Heywood Gould
- Peter Straub
- Chester D. Campbell
- C. Hope Clark
- Logan Masterson
- Jeffrey Deaver
In an odd turn of events, one of the guest writers will also be a guest performer as Deaver’s band XO will be performing at Killer Nashvillle with folk-singer Treva Blomquist.
Other highlights at this year's Killer Nashville conference included manuscript critiques (fiction, nonfiction, short story, screenplay, marketing, query), a realistic crime scene from agents of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), prizes and author book signings.
So come on down, indulge in your homicidal Schadenfreude, espouse your love of Benedict Cumberbatch and discuss the finer points of alternative uses for candlesticks in the parlor.
To learn more, go to: http://www.killernashville.com/
Killer Nashville
August 24 – 26, 2012
Hutton Hotel
1808 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN
