Comicpalooza

Check out stars of Galacticon, comic books and more at Comicpalooza

Much in the same way a football stadium provides sanctuary for both the muscle-bound athlete and the freezing-yet-shirtless fan who admires him, comic conventions offer a meeting place for, say, the guy who writes a steampunk novel based on an album by Canadian prog-rock band Rush as well as the fans of such fiction, whomever they may be. The Texas International Comic Con, which also answers to Comicpalooza, arrives in the George R. Brown Convention Center this weekend. (The opportunity to temporarily rename it the George R.R. Martin Convention Center has either been rejected or not yet suggested.) Fans of science fiction, fantasy, horror, action and all sorts of once-maligned fiction genres in books, movies, TV and comics can gather in a place where no one will be judged for dressing like Boba Fett, where ideas and enthusiasms are shared and exchanged, where comic books are currency.

Texas International Comic Con

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Star Trek in houston

Famed Star Trek ship finds a new home in Houston

A piece of Star Trek history is coming to Space Center Houston, courtesy of some Trek fans that picked up quite the sci-fi prop at an auction last year.

Trek fans may remember the 1967 episode "The Galileo Seven", where the science officers aboard the Enterprise use a shuttlecraft called the Galileo to explore a star system. That prop was bought at an auction last year by collector Adam Schneider for $61,000. The prop's condition was less than stellar, and the trailer-sized vehicle was coated in rust. A Trek fan had bought in the '80s for just around $2,000.

Schneider is a part of a group of Trekkers that wanted to buy the Galileo for an extensive, fan-funded restoration project. Now that it has been restored to its '60s luster, it has been donated to Space Center Houston, where it will sit in the visitor center next to other very real spacecraft from NASA history.

Schneider says it is leaving the warehouse where it is being restored this month and will arrive in Houston in late July.

Space Center Houston spokesman Jack Moore says that the plan is to have Galileo installed at the complex by the end of the year. They are currently ironing out plans for the transportation of Galileo to SCH and its display once it arrives.

Original Article w/ Photo Gallery


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Craw-Wish Boil

Armadillo Palace hosts ‘Craw-Wish Boil’ for a good cause

We’ve all heard of a crawfish boil. Now Goode’s Armadillo Palace wants to familiarize you with a “Craw-Wish Boil.”

That’s the name they’re giving to a first-year event benefitting the Gulf Coast & Louisiana chapter of Make-a-Wish Foundation to be held on Saturday, May 11 from noon to 4 at Armadillo Palace, 5015 Kirby. The 21-and-over party, presented by Goode Company Restaurants, will feature all-you-can-eat crawfish and all-you-can-drink beer for $25 per person in advance or $30 at the door. Music will be provided by the Derailers and Curtis Pollard and the Creole Zydeco Band.

Armadillo Place will be open during the party serving is full menu and bar at regular prices.

Goode Company hopes to make it an annual event.

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Audition for the Texas Renaissance Festival

If you ever wanted to be a part of the Texas Renaissance Festival auditions will be held on two upcoming sessions from 8:30 – noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday May 4 and Saturday May 11 at Texas Renaissance Festival grounds at 21778 FM 1774 Todd Mission.

Auditions for performers are open to everyone, but you must register first by calling 1-800-458-3435. The performers stay true to character as the ren fest runs for eight-themed weekends in the fall.



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Black Sabbath to open tour at Woodlands Pavilion

Black Sabbath will open it’s North American tour July 25 at the Woodlands Pavlion. The announcement comes on the heels of frontman Ozzy Osbourne’s admission that he has been drinking and taking drugs for the last year-and-a-half.

“I was in a very dark place and was an (expletive) to the people I love most, my family,” he posted on Facebook. “However, I am happy to say that I am now 44 days sober. Just to set the record straight, Sharon and I are not divorcing. I’m just trying to be a better person.”

Here’s hoping he’s back on track. (But is going on the road really the best decision right now?)

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