Article by Ashley Nyal, writer for Geek News Network
I like to think the Phoenix area has a pretty successful club scene going on. Scottsdale and Mill Ave. are the places that come to mind when you think of drinking, dancing, and flirting on Friday and Saturday nights. If the trance/techno and hip-hop scenes aren’t really your thing, then you might want to check out a Fetish Ball or some kind of event hosted by the very erotic and wicked people at Horns and Halos – more about those nifty people in …

According to The Associated Press, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a new version of a bill that once threatened to make it a crime to “annoy or offend” someone online. Now, it only makes it a crime to use a digital device with the intent to intimidate or threaten, and the threat must be directed at a specific individual or group.
It was part of an effort to update Arizona’s harassment and stalking laws to include smartphones and online communication.
Read more at The East Valley Tribune.

After an appearance on local television to promote their spring workshops, seven princesses from Ahwatukee Children’s Theatre (ACT) were invited to make a guest appearance at this year’s Phoenix Comicon, May 24-27 at the Phoenix Convention Center downtown.

This movie trailer for Hotel Transylvania, opening this fall, seems to be giving Halloween the Monsters, Inc. treatment. And I approve.

The Nerdist Podcast is being recorded live in Phoenix next week.

Every year, on the first Saturday of May, geeks around the world gather at their local comic shops to celebrate ‘Free Comic Book Day‘. On this beloved geek holiday, comic shops provide a variety of free comics to all those who come in and are interested. A little way to give back to the established comic community and also hopefully luring in some new fans. Chris Wood (‘Big Chris’), of Big Chris Art, is pretty well known in the comic community as not only a fantastic artist but also an …

TRON: Uprising doesn’t premiere on Disney XD until June 7, but the entire pilot episode has been posted on YouTube — and it’s legit, not some Sam Flynn prank to annoy the Encom shareholders.

Chris Burkheart is one of the founding members and creative geniuses behind the local art collective known as Oddity Commodity. In 2008, Chris and his super-team of eccentric artists took Phoenix by storm and became cult favorites at pop-culture events throughout the valley as they produced their unique brand of original art on-the-fly for long lines of rabid fans who would enthusiastically cheer, “Woo OddCo,” with every completed sketch.
The OddCo collective has recently disbanded as its members pursue individual projects under their own names, but the group of friends still …