Liz Ohanesian

Helmetgirls at San Diego Comic-Con; Credit: Shannon Cottrell

5 Standout Cosplays of 2011

See more photos in "2011: The Year in Cosplay." Read more in this years "Best of the Cons," Part 1 and Part 2 and "Top 10 Cult Stars of 2011." While some conventions attract more people in costume than others, there's no denying that cosplay has become a very important......
Nero; Credit: Liz Ohanesian

Nero – The Music Box – 12/22/11

Nero (DJ Set) The Music Box 12-22-11 See also: Photos from Friday night's set. Better than... Listening to Nero's new CD. Earlier this month, Cherrytree Records released in the U.S. the hard copy of Nero's debut album, Welcome Reality. The U.K. electronic dance music duo's work had already been available......
Sebastian Masuda on stage for the 6%DOKIDOKI fashion show at Royal/T.; Credit: Shannon Cottrell

Top 10 Cult Stars of 2011

I had the chance to interview quite a few people this year. Some were famous. Others weren't. However, most of this year's interviewees had a few things in common. They all created something, be it an event or a piece of art, that is memorable. They aren't being chased by......
Michael Anissimov and Rachel Haywire of Extreme Futurist Festival; Credit: Liz Ohanesian

Extreme Futurist Festival: TED Conference for the Counterculture

Dr. Kim Solez is on a mission. The renal pathologist and University of Alberta professor is currently working to make the lectures from his course "Technology and the Future of Medicine" available to the general public via online videos. He's "mainstreaming the technological singularity" and transhumanism, or, rather, helping those......
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Porter Robinson: The Libertarian Dubstep Guy

See also: *In Defense Of "Fratstep:" An Open Letter To James Blake *Wait, Now Korn Invented Dubstep?! It's fair to say that most political nerds don't know what dubstep is. But last month libertarian sites like The Daily Paul and Lew Rockwell got geeked up about Porter Robinson's track "The......