Report: Comic-Con to stay in San Diego for at least 5 more years, lured by discount rates
Published Friday October 1st, 2010
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO – San Diego will be inundated by comic book collectors, celebrities and superheros every summer for at least five more years, following Comic-Con International’s decision to stay where the event started 30 years ago despite competition from other cities wanting a piece of the sci-fi pie.
San Diego city officials and the company that puts on the huge pop-culture event will announce a five-year contract Friday morning.
The San Diego Union Tribune reports the contracts that Comic-Con negotiated for discounted hotel rates through 2015 were key to the decision.
Other cities that tried to […]
Russian firm announces space hotel
Group vows to fill vacuum in space tourism market with orbiting facility
Published Thursday September 30th, 2010
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW – A Russian firm announced an ambitious bid to fill the vacuum in the space tourism market by stationing an orbiting hotel in the cosmos yesterday.
The Moscow-based Orbital Technologies has sky-high hopes that its planned Commercial Space Station can serve as a tourism hub for well-heeled travellers and offer overspill accommodation for the International Space Station and workspace for science projects.
But it’s unlikely to come anytime soon – the company wants to launch a seven-room station by 2016 but may increase […]
The Weird, Wild West for BRP
A NEW BASIC ROLEPLAYING SETTING
Devil’s Gulch is a typical town of the American Old West from 1870 through 1885. It is a collection of buildings set along a single dirt road with side streets where private residences are found. It features saloons, a bank, a general store, and a church. Most buildings are made of wood, though some boast of a brick addition or a stone foundation). Hitching rails are found in front of most buildings, and water troughs are set sporadically along the main street. Train tracks form one of the town’s borders. On the outskirts […]