October 19th, 2023 This past week, my wife and I had tickets to see famed Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at the Fox Performing Arts Center at 7:30 pm in downtown Riverside, California, for a one-night only event. Neil deGrasse Tyson is (for those living under a media blackout these past ten years) the famed astronomer,…
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“Woman in Motion” (2019) opens a hailing frequency to a remarkable lady…
****SPOILERS AHEAD!!**** To those, like myself, who’ve ever met Nichelle Nichols at a sci-fi convention, you get a feeling of being in the presence of royalty; she is both charming and regal, yet disarming with her earthly candor (and her laugh). Director Todd Thompson has assembled a documentary that tells many of the tales I’ve…
The Planetary Society celebrates a trio of space missions with “Planetfest ’21: To Mars and Back Again”…
The Planetary Society. Founded in 1980, The Planetary Society was the dream of Dr. Bruce Murray, Dr. Carl Sagan, and Dr. Louis Friedman. The three men were seeking to create a privately funded, non-profit organization devoted to the exploration of our solar system, as well as popularizing education in space science. I joined as an…
One week till San Diego Comic Con 2017…
It’s that time of the year when my wife and I prepare for our annual July pilgrimage to San Diego (an hour and 20 minutes south of us) for Comic Con. She and I have been going to SDCC every year since 2004, with the lone exception of 2007 (and both of us regretted…