Updates

Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage at MSG was superb!!! What a way to start the 50th anniversary year!

Have to forego attending MonsterMania and Chiller - other things are happening on those weekends.
Slightly updated list:

April 8th - 10th - NY / NJ Mineral, Fossil, Gem and Jewelry Show
April 11th - David Gilmour concert at Madison Square Garden
April 16th - Untapped Cities Tour: The Remnants of Dutch New Amsterdam
April 18th - "For the Love of Spock" - a special talkback event at the Tribeca Film Festival
June 3rd - 5th - WizardWorld's Philadelphia Comic Con
June 23rd - 29th - AACEi Annual Meeting in Toronto
July 8th - 10th - Montreal Comiccon
August 3rd - 7th - the epic five days long 50th Anniversary Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas
August 19th - 21st - WizardWorld's Chicago Comic Con
August 26th - 28th - Star Trek Convention in Cherry Hill
September 2nd - 4th - Star Trek: Mission New York (a brand new con in the City!!!)
September 9th - 11th - Star Trek Convention in Chicago
October 6th - 9th - New York Comic Con
December 15th - An Evening With Neil DeGrasse Tyson at NJPAC

Still looking forward to the Starfleet Academy event on the Intrepid sometime in the summer and Trek Talks.

And It's February Already!

And it's February already! The year keeps chugging along with promises of lots of fun events!
It's the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek after all, a year of celebration!

The 'Toast the Titanosaur' event at the AMNH was a blast, this museum never fails to deliver! The professional seminar and RU Open House more than satisfied my curiosity. Unfortunately, I had to miss the signing of William Shatner's book, however, I will see him at four different conventions this year, so I will get a chance to do that again.

March 5th - Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage concert at Madison Square Garden
March 11th - 13th - Monster Mania
April 8th - 10th - NY / NJ Mineral, Fossil, Gem and Jewelry Show
April 11th - David Gilmour concert at Madison Square Garden
April 22nd - 24th - the spring Chiller Theatre
June 3rd - 5th - WizardWorld's Philadelphia Comic Con
June 23rd - 29th - AACEi Annual Meeting in Toronto
August 3rd - 7th - the epic five days long 50th Anniversary Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas
August 26th - 28th - Star Trek Convention in Cherry Hill
September 2nd - 4th - Star Trek: Mission New York (a brand new con in the City!!!)
September 9th - 11th - Star Trek Convention in Chicago
October 6th - 9th - New York Comic Con

In addition, there is supposed to be a Starfleet Academy event on the Intrepid sometime in the summer plus Trek Talks (like TED Talks but for Trek!) are going to be planned all over the country throughout the year! Certainly, plenty of things to look forward to.

Happy New Year!!!

Well, 2015 was certainly an interesting year. It contained so many amazing experiences, some truly of a once-in-lifetime variety, new wonderful acquaintances and friends, and plenty of events providing everything from barely contained excitement to real grief. Goodbye, 2015.

Here's hoping for a kind and calm 2016!

End of Fall

This was probably one of the most interesting falls I have ever had - a wonderful luncheon for good cause, another couple of fun-filled convention Saturdays and two tremendous conferences! Made the time just disappear.

December 12th - Opening of Alec Egan's Close To Home art show at Freight+Volume Gallery in NYC
January 15th - Toast the Titanosaur at AMNH

January 21st - Dual Market Transformation: Concrete and Recycled Glass (Urban Green Council)
January 30th - Rutgers Geology Museum Open House
February 15th - William Shatner author event at Barnes&Noble on Union Square
March 5th - Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage concert at Madison Square Garden
March 11th - 13th - Monster Mania
April 8th - 10th - NY / NJ Mineral, Fossil, Gem and Jewelry Show
April 11th - David Gilmour concert at Madison Square Garden
April 22nd - 24th - the spring Chiller Theatre
June 3rd - 5th - WizardWorld's Philadelphia Comic Con
June 23rd - 29th - AACEi Annual Meeting in Toronto
August 3rd - 7th - the epic five days long 50th Anniversary Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas
August 26th - 28th - Star Trek Convention in Cherry Hill
September 9th - 11th - Star Trek Convention in Chicago
October 6th - 9th - New York Comic Con

End of Summer

This year's Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas most certainly fell into a category of events of a lifetime. The Voyager 20th Anniversary celebration was a complete success! What a tremendous experience!


September 30th - 2015 Emerging Artist's Luncheon at Vineyard Theatre
October 9th - 11th - New York Comic Con

October 23rd - 25th - the fall Chiller Theatre
October 26th - 30th - CTBUH 2015 International Conference in NYC

November 18th - 20th - Greenbuild International Conference in Washington, DC
March 5th (yes, next year) - Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage concert at Madison Square Garden
April 8th - 10th - NY / NJ Mineral, Fossil, Gem and Jewelry Show
April 11th - David Gilmour concert at Madison Square Garde
August 3rd - 7th - the epic five days long 50th Anniversary Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas
August 26th - 28th - Star Trek Convention in Cherry Hill, NJ

Still looking into attending these two - The Hirschfeld Century: The Art of Al Hirschfeld at the New York Historical Society and Discovering Japanese Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Getting Close to August

August 6th - 9th - Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, and the biggest party in the universe! (It's happening!!! Voyager cast reunion!!!)
August 12th - Tour of Woolworth Building Lobby and Its Massive Underbelly, a fascinating off-limits tour through Untapped Cities

October 9th - 11th - New York Comic Con

October 23rd - 25th - the fall Chiller Theatre
October 26th - 30th - CTBUH 2015 International Conference in NYC

November 18th - 20th - Greenbuild International Conference in Washington, DC
March 5th (yes, next year) - Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage concert at Madison Square Garden
April 8th - 10th - NY / NJ Mineral, Fossil, Gem and Jewelry Show
April 11th - David Gilmour concert at Madison Square Garden

There are also two exhibitions I would really like to check out - The Hirschfeld Century: The Art of Al Hirschfeld at the New York Historical Society and Discovering Japanese Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Summer

Can you believe it, it is summer already!

As I thought, Philly Comic Con did not happen (it's OK, more funds for the Vegas celebration). The Behind the Scenes tour at AMNH was quite interesting - one of the curators actually let us hold pieces of various meteorites, so I've got to hold chunks of the Moon, Mars and Vesta!

June brought unexpected excitement in the form of OITNB's OrangeCon, which I got an opportunity to attend thanks to a friend and fellow KM fan. It was named like a convention and advertised as the ultimate fan event, however, in reality it was neither - it was an exclusive pre-premiere PR party attended by the bulk of the cast, besieged by the press (there was even an orange carpet!) with extremely over-excited crowds of fans as a very convenient backdrop for the cameras. Fascinating experience but, more than anything, hype was the word.

August 6th - 9th - Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, and the biggest party in the universe! (the line up is tremendous! And it looks like there might be a Voyager cast reunion!!!)

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
March 5th (yes, next year) - Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage concert at Madison Square Garden

Wonderful Spring

Let's hope all these wonderful spring events will be followed by even more wonderful summer events. Not as many are planned at this point but we'll see.

I have indeed skipped the Chiller, and the trip to Chicago was pretty amazing - art and science in the middle of some wonky but, thankfully, mostly warm Midwest weather. The Philadelphia author event has added itself to the list of unique memories (I am so very glad I attended - it gave me chance to wish Kate happy birthday in person). The Vineyard benefit was just a cherry on top of everything; a very fitting conclusion to an incredible author tour.

May 8th - 10th - Philadelphia Comic Con (most likely not happening - things planned with family)

May 20th - Behind the Scenes in Earth and Planetary Sciences at AMNH
August 6th - 9th - Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, and the biggest party in the universe! (the line up is tremendous! And it looks like there might be a Voyager cast reunion!!!)

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

Moving Along

Things are moving along just nicely. Helen Mirren in The Audience was simply magnificent; what a play! The NYU course turned out to be reasonably interesting. The Gem Show in Edison was almost as good as I expected, if with less vendors than anticipated. Still, I had to talk myself out of purchasing a Megalodon tooth and some gorgeous malachite specimens (did end up buying two meteorites, though - a Gibeon and a Brahin pallasite). The NYC book launch of Kate Mulgrew's memoir became yet another memory of a lifetime; spent an absolutely fantastic day with fellow fans in the City!

 

 April 24th - 26th - the spring Chiller Theatre (though the celebrity list is impressive, for some reason, it's just not grabbing me; I think I'll skip it this time)
April 28th - author event at Free Library of Philadelphia - Kate Mulgrew's memoir Born With Teeth (cannot wait!!!)

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

May 3rd - An Evening with Kate Mulgrew in Conversation with Rosie O'Donnell at Vineyard Theater

May 8th - 10th - Philadelphia Comic Con

May 20th - Behind the Scenes in Earth and Planetary Sciences at AMNH
June 27th - Fun with Fossils with Carl Mehling, fossil-hunting trip with AMNH (I haven't gone to one of these in ages)
August 6th - 9th - Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, and the biggest party in the universe! (the line up is tremendous! And it looks like there might be a Voyager cast reunion!!!)

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

Looking Forward to Spring

Excellent, simply excellent, if sickeningly frigid, March this year. I never made it to Monster Mania and I wish I wasn't sick as a dog and managed to get tickets for the Shamrock Gala but everything else was spectacular. There is still an "audience with the Queen" to happen this month but I can't wait till April!

March 27th - NYU class Concrete, History, Technology and Repair (somewhat unsurprisingly, got cancelled)

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 as well)

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 am definitely doing both events)

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

May 8th - 10th - Philadelphia Comic Con

May 20th - Behind the Scenes in Earth and Planetary Sciences at AMNH
June 27th - Fun with Fossils with Carl Mehling, fossil-hunting trip with AMNH (I haven't gone to one of these in ages)
August 6th - 9th - Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, and the biggest party in the universe!

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