Add Some Sumptuous Silence to Your Halloween Watchlists with Lon Chaney’s ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ September 20, 2021
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Annual Events Friends of the Roarbots Make a Splash at the ALA Annual Conference we wanted to highlight some of the many, MANY author guests who will be making an appearance at this year's ALA Conference by ... By Jamie GreeneJune 19, 20190
Annual Events Kings Dominion Ups the Ante with Its Summertime Grand Carnivale Summer might not be the most obvious time to throw a Mardi Gras-inspired party, but really, the theme is just the tip of ... By Jamie GreeneJune 18, 20190
Animation Celebrate Summer with Ghibli Fest and ‘Whisper of the Heart’ – Ticket Giveaway! In July, we're treated to TWO screenings in the Ghibli Fest, but first up is the lovely Whisper of the Heart from 1995. ... By Jamie GreeneJune 17, 20192
Featured Post NPS Adventures: Thomas Edison National Historical Park The Roarbots' series of National Park Service Adventures makes a stop at Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, NJ. By Jamie GreeneJune 14, 20190
Annual Events Moonrise Festival Officially Brings Summer to Baltimore Held this year on August 10 and 11 at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course, Moonrise Festival is the city's flagship electronic music festival. By Jamie GreeneJune 13, 20190
Disney Travel Back to Walt Disney World’s Most 80s Parade Ever: 15 Years of Magic Step back to 1987 when Walt Disney World celebrated its 15th anniversary and rolled out the red carpet to fully embrace 80s weirdness: ... By Jamie GreeneJune 11, 20190
Animation GKIDS Retrospective: Modest Heroes Studio Ponoc's Modest Heroes is entirely too short at 53 minutes, and it will leave you wanting more... but that's hardly criticism. By Jamie GreeneJune 10, 20190
Backroads Travel Tread Lightly Over History and Rubble on a Hard Hat Tour of the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital The Ellis Island hard hat tour is an opportunity to visit the south side of the island where the immigrant hospital sits, decaying ... By Jamie GreeneJune 6, 20190
Books K. Eason’s ‘How Rory Thorne Destroyed The Multiverse’ Is Joyfully, Delightfully Fun Imagine a princess named Rory Thorne who is, at her naming ceremony, blessed by 13 fairies. She believes, as the eldest child, that ... By S.W. SondheimerJune 5, 20190
Annual Events Oh, My! George Takei Talks Star Trek, Unveils Two New Projects at Denver Pop Culture Con Star of the original Star Trek, George Takei received an unsurprisingly warm welcome at this year's Denver Pop Culture Con. By Randy SlaveyJune 3, 20190
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Featured Post Go Lobstering, Haul Traps, and Explore Portland’s Casco Bay When you go on an excursion with Maine lobstermen, as we recently did in the waters of Casco Bay near Portland with Lucky ... By Jamie GreeneMay 29, 20190
Backroads Travel Backroads Travel: Explore Western Brook Pond & Bonne Bay at Gros Morne National Park Gros Morne National Park is the undisputed jewel of Newfoundland. Located on the west coast of the island, it’s about as far from ... By Jamie GreeneMay 24, 20190
Featured Post GBBP 220: Kate Mulgrew On this episode, we talk with Kate Mulgrew about 'How to Forget,' the tricky job of mining your own life for stories, distilling ... By Jamie GreeneMay 23, 20193
Featured Post Transformers Turns 35 and You’re Getting the Gift! I got an unexpected surprise in the mail yesterday from Hasbro. For the Transformers’ 35th anniversary, the company sent out giant boxes absolutely ... By Anthony KarczMay 23, 20190
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Books Celebrate International Dinosaur Day Like a Champ with these Dino-Themed Books Who doesn’t love dinosaurs? Almost all kids go through a “dinosaur phase” at some point, and some of us never quite grow out ... By Jamie GreeneMay 21, 20190
Backroads Travel Backroads Travel: Brave the Highest Tides in the World and Raft the Bay of Fundy Tidal Bore The Bay of Fundy has the highest tides in the world. And it's one of the few places where a tidal bore is ... By Jamie GreeneMay 20, 20190
Featured Post GBBP 219: Michael Moreci On this episode, we chat with Michael Moreci about turning your passion into a career, his two novels with St. Martin's Press, writing ... By Jamie GreeneMay 16, 20190
Add Some Sumptuous Silence to Your Halloween Watchlists with Lon Chaney’s ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ September 20, 2021
Witness the Birth and Evolution of a Genius: Three Early Makoto Shinkai Films Land on Blu-ray June 16, 2022
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