Cylons—cybernetic forms that perfectly resemble humans, a.k.a “skin-jobs”—are touching-down in Chicago this weekend. In fact, Chicago’s Comic-Con marks the first time the Final Five Cylons of Battlestar Galactica (BSG) have ever appeared together at a convention. Frak, yeah. more ›

August 19-21, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, 5555 North River Rd. (Rosemont), tickets $25-50 via the Wizard World site more ›

If there were a Venn diagram that found the meeting point between the Comic Book Guy and Tyra Banks, that nexus would be Adrianne Curry. If you follow the Joliet native, America's Next Top Model Cycle 1 Winner, bride of Peter Brady, and naked World of Warcrafter on Twitter, you know that she's less of a model these days and more of a dork goddess. Now, for a price, you can get your grubby little paws inside her Princess Leia slave gear getup. more ›

Well, it is shaping up to be quite the warm weekend. Any of our lovely readers want to invite us to some type of pool party? We'll bring waterwings shaped like Mayor Daley's face. Someone should really make those. In the event we receive no invitations, we've lined up some other activities certain to help you, and us, take advantage of another weekend. As we mentioned yesterday, Calsfest 2007 is taking place at Cal's Liquors,... more ›

Like many school-age children, Chicagoist was definitely one to doodle in our notes. We filled many a sketchbook, inviting our friends to even add their own stuff, which we have to remember to check up on, in case any of those drawrings are eBay-able these days. We even kept random notebooks just because we liked particular sketches, especially at the expense of first-period Econ. As years passed, our illustrative skillz fell by the wayside, which explains why fellow female Sarah Becan is so, so much better than we. more ›

Is it just us or is the comic book world becoming more Chicago-centric? We started noticing the trend back in March with the release of Countdown to Infinite Crisis, DC’s harbinger of things to come in their Infinite Crisis miniseries that launched this week.* Some of the events in that book took place in none other than Chicago and suburban Highland Park. Then we got ahold of a preview copy of The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles at... more ›

Chicagoist keeps hearing rumblings about declining national box office numbers yet we refuse to think that people aren’t going to the movies as often. Sure, they’re not rushing to see whatever cinematic middle finger John Cusack is flipping at you these days but with so many movie events happening around Chicago, we think there’s something for everyone in theaters this week. more ›

fame) and special guests Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Kelly Hu, and Amber Benson. You can download .pdfs for todayFriday, Saturday, and Sunday's programming. Stupid .pdfs. more ›