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SheVaCon takes over Hotel Roanoke
If you're into science fiction and crazy costumes, then SheVaCon is the place to be. The annual event kicked off Friday at the Hotel Roanoke. It celebrates everything fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and paranormal. This year, there was a retro costume...
Tags: Fiction, Arts and Culture, Literature
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Mystery of strange lights over Danville revealed
WDBJ7 ReporterFloating lights in Danville's night sky are causing a ruckus. Once a week at dusk some people say a UFO, of sorts, flies over parts of the city. It's something that you're more likely to see in a Sci-Fi movie, not hovering over Danville. These flashing...Tags: Hobbies, Stranger Than Fiction, World War II (1939-1945), Lifestyle and Leisure
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Paranormal investigation at Roanoke cemetery
Many people say they've experienced some type of paranormal activity in an old cemetery on Tazewell Avenue in Roanoke. Late Saturday night, the Unsolved Mystery Paranormal Society went to the cemetery to investigate. Photojournalist Rob Chewning...
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Syfy's "Ghost Hunters" Investigate Local Haunted Mansion
ReporterUrban legends and ghost stories surround an old mansion in Southwest Virginia. From murder and war, to mental illness and slavery, the tales are so tall that the television series Ghost Hunters made the trip to Wythe County to investigate. It's not the...Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Slavery, Fiction, Folklore and Mythology, Arts and Culture
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Last stand for the printed page
Bob Katzman of Bob Katzman's Magazine Museum in Skokie first called last summer. He really wanted a story, he explained, because, well, he had such a great story to tell: He had 140,000 magazines and newspapers, flags from around the world, buttons that...
Tags: Father's Day, Radio, Newspaper and Magazine, Arts and Culture, Entertainment
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Pilots age 80-plus win active living award
Some seniors take up tennis to stay active. Some take up a volunteer job or new hobby. The United Flying Octogenarians? They take off. This flock of 1,200 private and recreational pilots are all 80-plus and older. Most have been airborne for at...
Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Fort Lauderdale, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Human Interest, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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UFO in Logan Square ... or Photoshop?
RedEyeWas it a mysterious ship in the sky over Logan Square, or just a not-so-clever Photoshop? Most likely, the latter. A photo making the rounds Tuesday claims a saucer hovered low over the north side neighborhood before taking off “in a blink&...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, UFO Sightings
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“Ghost Hunters” returns with new Season 9 episodes June 12
Channel Guide MagazineGhost Hunters Season 9 will pick up again with new episodes starting June 12 at 9pm ET/PT on Syfy (it had been originally slated to return back in April, but was postponed until June). The June 12 episode of Ghost Hunters marks Amy Bruni's first... -
'The Purge': Why Doesn't Everyone Make $3M Movies That Open to $36M?
ReutersJun 10 (TheWrap.com) - With the $3 million "The Purge" taking in $36 million – or 12 times its production budget – in its first three days at the box office, you may be wondering why every studio isn't releasing micro-budgeted thrillers in hopes of...Tags: Movies, Les Miserables (musical), Media Industry, Entertainment, The Purge (movie)
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'The Purge' and the low-budget genre revolution
Back in 2010, shortly after Paramount Pictures’ "Paranormal Activity" became a mega-hit on a micro-budget, executives at the studio decided to launch a label dedicated to making more movies of this kind. InSurge, as it was known, would produce...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Vince Vaughn, The Purge (movie), Google Inc., Paranormal Activity (movie)
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Box Office: Cheap Thriller 'The Purge' Scares Up $36M; 'Internship' Gets $18M Hazing
ReutersJun 09 (TheWrap.com) - The micro-budget home-invasion thriller "The Purge" debuted with an estimated $36.3 million at the box office this weekend, putting the brakes on the two-week dominance of the cars-and-criminals sequel"Fast & Furious 6." The...Tags: Movies, Media Industry, Entertainment, The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013), Iron Man 3 (movie)
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Kevin Cannon, Zander Cannon on graphic novels ‘Crater XV,’ ‘Heck’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesA little over a year ago, cartoonists Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon separately finished their latest graphic novels, “Crater XV” […]...
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