A Bit More

Shatner's World was wonderful, as expected with an unanticipated pleasure of getting an autograph and having a photo taken (it is not that I did not expect for these to happen, after all I paid for a ticket which included both, but the experience turned out to be very sweet - Mr. Shatner was relaxed and very approachable; the photo op turned out to be the best I have ever had with him).

The following is largely a repeat of the last post from 2014 with a few more things of note added.

January 22nd - Fleetwood Mac in Madison Square Garden

January 29th - Love Letters is sadly no go. For unknown reasons, performances got cancelled.

January 31st - annual Rutgers University Geology Museum Open House
February 4th - Selected Shorts: Letters of Note
March 11th - Opulent Oceans Lecture at AMNH (part of a series of lectures related to the wonderful AMNH clamshell box book releases of the last few years; somehow, I managed to miss the previous lectures, so I am really looking forward to this one).

March 13th - 15th - Monster Mania
March 16th - Gingold's Theatrical Group's Golden Shamrock Gala (I am not sure if this is open to general public but this event honors Kate Mulgrew, so I would love to check it out)

March 20th - AACE 2nd Northeast TCM Symposium (I had no chance to go to the first one, so I have no idea if this is professionally useful or not; we'll see)
March 27th - NYU class Concrete, History, Technology and Repair (sounds pretty interesting)

March 29th - The Audience (a Broadway play with Helen Mirren!!!)

April 10th and 17th - NYU class NYC Building Code Overview (definitely professionally useful, I just hope they won't cancel it)

April 10th - 12th - NY/NJ Mineral, Fossil, Gem & Jewelry Show
April 15th - author event at Union Square B&N - Kate Mulgrew's memoir Born With Teeth (totally exciting!!! I have pre-ordered the book last November)

April 24th - 26th - the spring Chiller Theatre
April 28th - author event at Free Library of Philadelphia - Kate Mulgrew's memoir Born With Teeth (I'll try and do both events)

April 30th - May 3rd - trip to Chicago to celebrate my grandmother's birthday (read: museums galore!)

May 8th - 10th - Philadelphia Comic Con

June 12th - 14th - Star Trek Convention in Chicago (it is still not on sale unfortunately; as most people on the convention circuit know, Creation is doing only two ST conventions this year in preparation for the 2016 50th anniversary tour, for which the dates have been already posted; on one hand I can totally understand it, and I can't wait till 2016 but, on the other hand, the 20th anniversary of Voyager gets practically no coverage) UPDATE: the convention has gone on sale and added even more guests, however, with deepest respects to the invited guests, this con does not exactly beckon, I am skipping it in favor of other events this year and certainly next year.

August 6th - 9th - Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, and the biggest party in the universe! That one, I cannot wait for!

October 9th - 11th - New York Comic Con

October 26th - 30th - CTBUH 2015 International Conference in NYC

November 18th - 20th - Greenbuild International Conference in Washington, DC