1159 articles on Entertainment

  • 31 Places to Visit That Will Give You Movie Déjà Vu
    Some places are famous for showing up in movies. Some places never seem to stop showing up in them. Here are 31 places that you'll recognize not just from one movie or TV show, but from two, three, or even dozens.
    17 hours ago
  • Nerdy T-Shirts Help Comic-Con Fans Connect
    Inspired by the wonderfully nerdy shirts in the crowd at Comic-Con, Wired staffers grabbed our Hipstamatic-powered smartphones and started collecting pictures of the best T-shirts on the floor.
    19 hours ago
  • Why Dubbed Movies Should Be Banned
    If I start talking about a movie called "La guerre des etoiles" or about one of its main characters called "Dark Vador" busy building a space station called "L'etoile noire" which is later on, for no apparent reason, re-branded "L'etoile de la mort," does it ring a bell?
    23 hours ago
  • A Piece of Paper That Boosts Your iPhone's Beats
    Frustrated by your iPhone's itsy speaker? (We are.) Jonesing for the sense of accomplishment that comes with building something? (Always.) It'll take you 30 seconds at most to fold up and stick together eco-made's eco-amp, a fully recycled paper horn that passively amplifies the sound coming from that underpowered speaker.
    07.11.12
  • Star Wars Weekends 2012 -- Awesome Costume Firsts
    This year at Star Wars Weekends, the 501st and Rebel Legion raised the bar. Not only did we have our usually turnout of amazing costumes, we also had some first time costumes. As one member put it, "we showed Disney that we can do more than robes and armor." As a proud member of both the 501st and Rebel Legion, I would like to show them off to you now. I know these members worked really hard on their costumes and making it to Star Wars Weekends was a huge accomplishment for them.
    07.11.12
  • Book Review: A Parent's Guide to the Best Kids' Comics
    A Parent's Guide to the Best Kids' Comics: Choosing Titles You Children Will Love is a new guide book designed to make the job easier for parents. Written by two librarians, Scott Robbins and Snow Wildsmith, it contains 100 of the best kids comics available on the market today.
    07.11.12
  • Summer Travel Season Pushes Kayak Into IPO Waters
    Travel search engine Kayak was all set to go public almost two years ago, but a dismal economy and an iffy stock market forced the Connecticut-based company to pull its offering. Times have changed, at least for online travel companies, and Kayak is ready to try again.
    07.11.12
  • John Scalzi's Redshirts Goes Boldly Into Sci-Fi's Forbidden Zone
    John Scalzi has always been a humorist at heart, but you'd never know it from the covers of his books. "There was a concern that if they were marketed as humor, that they just wouldn't sell," he says in this week's installment of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. That all changes with his latest novel.
    07.11.12
  • GeekDad HipTrax #91
    I am well aware of the summer concert season, but apparently there is also a summer album season. As it seems that everybody is dropping one this month!
    07.11.12
  • Silver-Screen Tinkering: 10 Badass Makers From Classic Movies
    Holy handicraft, Batman! As summer's blockbusters pass through megaplexes faster than speeding bullets, we've noticed a trend: superheroes are the greatest designers, inventors, and scrappy do-it-yourselfers we know. Many of our pop-culture icons and sci-fi madcaps achieved greatness not by magic or mutant powers, but with brains and bandsaws. Here's our top 10 list of the most badass makers in film, who've inspired mere mortals everywhere to follow in their footsteps.
    07.10.12
  • Review: Nokia 808 PureView
    The Nokia 808 PureView is the most exciting smartphone on the market that you shouldn't buy. The phone generated a ton of buzz at February's Mobile World Congress, not because it sports a stunning display or has the latest software features -- in fact, the 808 PureView runs on Symbian, an outdated operating system Nokia has ...
    07.09.12
  • I Need to See You Again: Missed Connections Street Art
    You know Craigslist's Missed Connections, right? The personals page where you log a brief interaction with a stranger who you hope to see again? The posts are a candid, wistful, often hilarious look at interactions -- or the lack thereof -- between people in the digital age, and beg the question, "Have we become so used to interacting online that we can't say 'hi' in person?"
    07.09.12
  • Star Trek For Kids
    First of all, thank you for all the suggestions for which Star Trek episodes I should watch with my kids to give them a good feel for the universe in my previous post. My original goal was a dozen per series (except for Voyager which we plan on watching all the seasons.) You guys are very enthusiastic and if I follow all of your advice, we will be watching TV for several hours a day throughout their high school careers. Therefore I'm asking for help again.
    07.08.12
  • Six Star Wars Fans and the Ultimate DIY Project
    A long time ago (roughly 35 years), in a galaxy far, far away (well in Africa actually), good old George filmed some of the scenes for his humble little space opera about a (moisture) farm boy, out in the desert near a town called Nefta in Tunisia. His crew scouted for locations and built some sets, they did their thing and left.
    07.07.12
  • The Mona Leia? Jabba the Godfather?! Must-See Star Wars Art Clones
    So let's say you're big into Star Wars -- like, really big into Star Wars -- and you've amassed a vast collection of toys and figures. You could leave all that stuff in a box in the hope of maintaining its resale value. Or, you could make art with it. Teacher David Eger chose art.
    07.05.12
  • Ultimate Spider-Man: Getting the Heroes Back Together
    Jack Coleman terms it "getting the band back together." Jeph Loeb, executive producer of the Ultimate Spider-Man show in the Marvel Universe block on Disney XD, brought in some familiar Heroes to guest-star on the episode "Strange Days" airing on Sunday, July 8th at 8 p.m. EST. Another voice familiar to geekdom will also be heard in the episode: Mark Hamill as Nightmare.
    07.05.12
  • The Existence of Mermaids... and Other City Art
    My thoughts about mermaids and Norfolk's mermaid art got me thinking about the numerous other cities in America that have used city symbols as a vehicle for artists to show their creativity. I've seen them in many of the cities I've visited, and I know there are many more. This website attempts to keep up with community art projects worldwide. This can be a great way to explore a city you're visiting, particularly with kids: see if the city has a map or scavenger hunt of the sculptures.
    07.05.12


 

 

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