5 Things To Do This Weekend In Geek Arizona [WE 04/24]
This weekend, Geek Arizona asks how much you know about video games, begins a comicon at a library, takes your queen, and more.
An interesting and random selection of events for us this weekend.
I’m trying to pay more attention to things happening in Tucson. If you’re from there or just know of nerdy things going on, please let me know!
Thursday, Apr 21st
- The Cade Gallery is hoping to start a monthly Video Game Trivia Night.
- Starts at 7pm and goes until 10pm.
- Here’s an FB event page.
- It sounds like fun and I’m hoping it gets a good turnout.
- Trivia Question: On the Itchy & Scratchy CD-ROM, is there a way to get out of the dungeon without using the wizard key?
Friday, Apr 22nd
- Someone wanna bring Portal 2 over and show me how cool it is?
- I’ll provide cake.
Saturday, Apr 23rd
Shakespeare Memorial Chess Tournament [Tucson]
- It doesn’t get much nerdier than a chess tournament!
- Starts at 11am – free, open to public, and no age restrictions.
- At the Wheeler Taft Abbett, Sr. Library in Tucson.
- Get your details here, then show up and bust out your Benko Gambit.
- (Inhalers not provided.)
- A librarian wanted to start a comicon at her library, so she did.
- They even got some local authors and artists, panels, and everything.
- At the Chandler Public Library from 9:30am throughout the library day.
- Like their Facebook Page for more.
- I’d love to see this one get some big support and grow as well.
Pokemon – Black & White Prerelease [Mesa]
- If you’re looking forward to this release, enjoy it with other Pokemon junkies.
- Raffles, cards, and see the new 150 monsters.
- Gets going at 5pm at The Gamers’ Inn in Mesa.
- Details here.
The Head That Wouldn’t Die [Casa Grande]
- A classic sci-fi B movie about a head – that wouldn’t die.
- Has one of my favorite super-long death scenes ever.
- (Don’t worry, it’s all ages.)
- Showing at The Trunk Space at 8pm.
- Details, from beyond the grave!
- “Like all quantities, horror has its ultimate, and I am that!”
Enjoy your weekends!
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Fantastic Four Events In The Valley [Today]
I’ve picked up a handful of events surrounding the FF today.
Here’s a super quick list, with links to their flyers:
- Drawn To Comics [Glendale]
- Atomic Comics [Phoenix & Chandler]
- Hero Comics [Phoenix]
Know of any more? Let me know and I’ll update the post!
Phoenix Storytellers [Group]
We of the nerdy persuasion get to enjoy multiple forms of story telling.
Unwilling to limit ourselves to the mainstream forms of media – we get to go further with video games, tabletop games, comics, graphic novels, RPGs, webcomics, and web-series’. (And some of you even LARP.)
But it’s all story telling. It’s everywhere.
Which is why a group was recently formed at Gangplank, accurately called “Storytellers,” to help each other improve at this ancient art. They describe themselves as more of a support group than anything.
I think it would be a great resource for any of you who are writers, bloggers, novelists, NaNoWriMo’ers, comic or script writers, or even game masters who are interested in learning more about conveying ideas through stories.
Their first meeting is tomorrow night (Tues, March 15th) at 7pm.
Just wander in to Gangplank in Downtown Chandler, and bring your writer’s block, a willingness to learn, and your willingness to share what you’re good at.
From there they’ll be meeting every other Tuesday night, same time.
For more details, check out this post by local blogger Wendy Coneybeer, who helped organize the group.
When I was at Saturday night’s Cinematic Titanic show, Joel told us the story of how the night before the Mystery Science Theater 3000 pilot, he had the awful realization that he’d never actually asked anyone to man his two now-famous puppets.
Intuitively, he picked up the phone and called two people from a local writers group he was part of – and Joel, Trace, and J Elvis are still touring the country riffing movies.
You never know!
