Friday the 13th is notoriously a day of bad luck that strikes fear in the hearts of the phobia prone, but with two new and unique fright affairs opening simultaneously this upcoming Friday, this date may turn out to be your luckiest day ever. Face your fears head-on with the following ultimate Friday the 13th date night.
April’s Friday the 13th marks the Grand Opening of downtown Mesa’s Monsterland Bar & Grill, the most uncommonly cool nightclub in the Valley. The unnerving new nightspot will offer themed food like their Swamp …

Via Lightning Octopus

Pop culture nerd goddess Felicia Day’s latest online venture, the YouTube channel Geek & Sundry, has launched with a bang.

A bill passed late last week by the Arizona Legislature would criminalize “use of an electronic or digital device to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend.” And it appears to make no distinction between legitimate complaints of cyberbullying and politicians with thin skins.

Via The East Valley Tribune, story by Garin Groff

Oswald and Mickey say: Watch your back!

LepreCon, Arizona’s annual sci-fi and fantasy convention emphasizing the role of art in the genres, returns April 6-8 at the Tempe Mission Palms.

East Valley Tribune: Chandler teenagers who are fans of comic books, Japanese manga and anime, role-playing games and other fantasy and science fiction entertainment are invited to LibCon 2012 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. March 24 at the Chandler Senior Center.

Casa de Mi Padre is a parody of Mexican B-movies and television dramas (think an amalgamation of El Mariachi and Steve Martin’s The Jerk and Three Amigos) and the makers of this comedy nod lovingly to the material it is ripping on, in the same way that Austin Powers made fun of the spy movies it spoofed. But with its almost entirely Spanish-language dialogue (with English subtitles) and jestful jabs at source material that mainstream America is mostly unfamiliar with, I don’t know how well this movie is going to …

The other day I posted a link without comment here on Nerdvana to a Geeks of Doom! article about Amazon offering the complete digital album of Michael Giacchino’s John Carter score for just $4. I listed to each of the track previews and wasn’t overly impressed, despite being enthralled with the composer’s recent work on the Star Trek reboot and just about everything ever made by J.J. Abrams.
I gave the complete album another listen this evening on Spotify and I have to admit, I was wrong. I think the score, …