Dr. Phil Plait wins Popular Media Award Great news! Astronomer Dr. Phil Plait won a Popular Media Award for his article “Could the Sun Fry Earth with a Superflare?” from the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society.
Feeding Ghosts wins 2026 Romics Grand Prize – Tessa Hulls’ graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts, since winning an unprecedented number of awards in 2025, continues to rack up laurels. This month it was awarded the Grand Romics Prize from Romics, a major semi-annual international comic book, animation, and gaming convention held in Rome. “For transforming family …
Never Alone is a taster of what to expect from the third album by indigenous Denver punks Dead Pioneers. Collaborating with their friends The Interrupters gives the catchy singalong chorus on this latest number a different feel than Dead Pioneers’ usual fare but the verses have us back on familiar ground with the dulcet tones …
New Tessa Hulls interview – PBS’s Comics Culture This interview from Prof. Terence Dollard on Comics Culture has some real gems. “I had no idea my narrator was going to start breaking the fourth wall like that. And when that started to happen, my editor and I, we actually had a nickname for her. We …
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Everything you need to communicate with the press about your event! This free guide, ‘From Press Release to Packed House’, contains timelines, sample press releases, and outreach ideas to make sure your event has the audience it deserves.
Gregg Deal is being featured at a new Boston Public Library exhibit, the Boston Art Review reports: “The show begins with something more potent and pointed than a land acknowledgment, greeting us at the entrance of the Exhibition Hall with Gregg Deal’s Indigenous Sign Initiative (2021)”
Tess Martin’s latest experimental film, “How Now, House?” was awarded the Clermont Auvergne University Prize at the recent @videoformes festival in Clermont-Ferrand. The judges’ thoughts: “[How Now, House?] highlights different life trajectories, spanning diverse cultures and eras, all brought together in a single place—a house in Rotterdam. The video juxtaposes multicolored silhouettes performing everyday …
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