Han Solo can apparently fly successfully through an asteroid field at odds of 3,720 to 1. Coincidentally, that is also the same number of people visiting the Star…
Geeks, you may have heard, have inherited the Earth. Not a bad thing, I’m the biggest nerd I know, and it fits nicely with my plans for my…
Leonardo da Vinci, polymath, sculptor, engineer, scientist, inventor, painter and artist. The epitome of renaissance man and on display at Nottingham Castle, 10 of the finest drawings by…
Richard Wagner was a man with too much time on his hands. Der Ring des Nibelungen or better known as Wagner’s Ring Cycle took him 26 years to…
The East Midlands Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, or EM-Con 2016 in Nottingham, is a magnet for the nerds, dorks and geeks of the East Midlands, which is clearly…
Some people are on the pitch…they think it’s all over. It is now, it’s four! Those legendary words uttered by Kenneth Wolstenholme back in 1966 as Geoff Hurst…
The wild frozen and barren wastelands of the north, also known as Yorkshire, is the focus of today’s visit, specifically the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Located just off the…
Science fiction, once the preserve of spotty and socially awkward star trekkies has seemingly stirred my nostalgic sci-fi senses, so I set my phasers to fun and find myself…
Off to the ballet…. In an attempt to become a little more sophisticated, show Mrs Nick Cook that I am more than the cave dwelling troglodyte that she…
It is often assumed that anything involving the word convention, particularly in relation to science fiction, fantasy, comic books or mythical lore will involve bearded sandal wearing dateless…
It’s the annual 10th DH Lawrence festival, a set of events in and around DH Lawrence’s birthplace of Eastwood to celebrate the sights and sounds of the local…
After years of applying and through good fortune and thanks of a friend, I have finally managed to be in the audience for yesterday’s Question Time at Nottingham. …