New anime con at New York City’s SoHo Gallery for Digital Art
The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art's AniMiniCon SoHo will run 30 July-1 August, and will include music, movies, cosplay, panels, and more...
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Tag Archives: New York City
Star Wreck in New York City
Finnish feature parody film Star Wreck will be screening at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art in Manhattan on 13 July...
Read more [...] Price cut for NYC Nebula Simulcast
The cost attending the New York City Nebula Awards simulcast has been cut in half by a neighborhood arts grant...
Read more [...] Actor Allen Swift Dies
Voice actor Allen Swift (1924-2010) appeared in more than 30,000 television and radio commercials, voiced Howdy Doody and Mighty Mouse...
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SFWA and SGDA to simulcast this year’s Nebula Awards banquet in New York City
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art are simulcasting this year's Florida-based Nebula Awards banquet in New York City, with a reception, dinner, and more...
Read more [...] Gabrielle Zevin sells dysptopian YA trilogy to FSG
Gabrielle Zevin sold the "Birthright Series", set in a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, to Farrar, Straus and Giroux's Books for Young Readers...
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Nick Tosches sells urban vampire novel to Little, Brown
Nick Tosches sold a new novel about vampires who move in the bars and streets and subterranean places of New York City's night, to Michael Pietsch at Little, Brown. Expected publication is Autumn 2012.
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Editor and agent Knox Burger dies
Editor and agent Knox Burger (1922-2010) bought Kurt Vonnegut's first published fiction for Collier's, then moved to book publishing, and then agenting...
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Comic-magician Carl Ballantine dies
Comic-magician/actor Carl Ballantine (1917-2009) built himself a career as a failed magician...
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Samuel R. Delany reading/discussion in New York City next week
New York City's The New School will be hosting a conversation with Samuel R. Delany, including a reading, on Wednesday 16 September...
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Attendance at the World Science Fiction Convention
Attendance at the World Science Fiction Conventions, graphed over time...
Read more [...] Actress Ruth Ford Dies
Actress Ruth Ford (1911-2009) started as a model, but soon became a film, television, and stage actress, and hosted artists of many stripes in her apartment...
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NYAF giving away two tickets to first VAMPS US concert
VAMPS, a new Japanese rock group, will be touring the US this summer. The New York Anime Festival is giving away two tickets to their first concert, in New York City...
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Film/tv producer Mort Abrahams dies
Film and television producer Mort Abrahams (1916-2009) worked on Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Planet of the Apes...
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Papercutz to publish new Disney Fairies stories as graphic novels
Papercutz will begin publishing graphic novels of new Disney Fairies stories next April. They expect to issue four new books per year...
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