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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    12:56 pm Fri, Jul 31, 2015
    The Dwarven Lord of Kickstarter

    How sculptor and Dwarven Forge founder Stefan Pokorny raised $6.5 million—and gave you the dungeon of your dreams

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    5:00 am Fri, Jun 12, 2015
    Meet the scientific storytellers who can make the public afraid of anything—for a price

    Merchants of Doubt is a new documentary that explores the dark heart of scientific spin doctors.

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    4:00 am Thu, Mar 5, 2015
    Fan films and the future of fantasy

    Small productions are becoming better—and more professional—than ever. But the falling price of good equipment is only part of the magic.

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    7:00 am Mon, Jan 12, 2015
    The best books for nerds from 2014

    Some 600,000 volumes were published in English last year. Here's a few of the best.

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    4:00 am Wed, Jan 7, 2015
    A nerd's 12 best and worst films from 2014

    Hits and misses from a year packed with big-screen science fiction and fantasy

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    7:06 am Fri, Dec 19, 2014
    A Conversation with Wil Wheaton

    A splendid time with the actor-writer-blogger-geek-champion turned host of TableTop

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    10:29 am Wed, Dec 3, 2014
    A look at the new Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide

    Ethan Gilsdorf gets a sneak peak inside the definitive nerd Bible

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    10:26 am Tue, Nov 25, 2014
    Dungeons & Dragons & Philosophy

    Ethan Gilsdorf explains why Socrates would have made a good DM and that John Stuart Mill was Lawful Neutral. Catch his talk on Head-Banging, Dice-Rolling, and Summoning Demons tonight in Cambridge, Mass.

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    6:54 am Mon, Nov 10, 2014
    A Conversation with John Cleese

    Ethan Gilsdorf talks to the Monty Python's Flying Circus alum about his career, his new autobiography, and his limbs.

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    4:00 am Fri, Sep 26, 2014
    The hands and minds behind The Boxtrolls

    Ethan Gilsdorf meets with the team who animated The Boxtrolls, where old school stop-motion is merged with the latest in CGI

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    7:27 am Thu, Aug 28, 2014
    An Exclusive Inside Look at Denver's Dinosaur Hotel

    Ethan Gilsdorf reports on the most awesome hotel in the country. Meet Stanley the Stegosaurus and friends!

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    4:00 am Thu, Aug 14, 2014
    Documentary proves girls will play D&D with boys

    A group of boys, aged 9 to 11, plays D&D every other weekend, but their parties never include girls their age. Meredith Jacobson's DnDnG explores the possibility that their female friends could enjoy the game just as much as they do. By Ethan Gilsdorf.

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    5:32 am Mon, Jul 21, 2014
    An exclusive look at the new D&D Player's Handbook—and The Warlock

    Ethan Gilsdorf gets a first-look at some incredible high-res art from the latest edition of the classic pen-and-paper role-playing game.

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    8:20 am Fri, Jul 18, 2014
    A visit to the basement where Dungeons & Dragons was born

    Ethan Gilsdorf celebrates the origins of D&D and presents Jon Peterson's exclusive video tour of the place where E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson set out on their first adventures

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    5:00 am Mon, May 26, 2014
    Meet the man who remade Middle‑earth

    Ethan Gilsdorf interviews John Howe, Tolkien Illustrator and Conceptual Designer of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogies

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    6:29 am Sat, May 17, 2014
    Godzilla (2014)

    Godzilla, like our inner self run amok and gone berserk, just needs a warm mug of cocoa and a good hug. Ethan Gilsdorf on Hollywood's latest rendering of the kaiju classic.

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    6:00 am Thu, May 8, 2014
    The Art of Ralph Steadman's "Slightly Maniacal" Humor

    "When I don't know what to do, I do that!" announces British cartoonist and artist Ralph Steadman in For No Good Reason, just before he unleashes a signature splat of ink onto a sheet of paper. "It just might lead somewhere." Ethan Gilsdorf interviews the documentary's director, Charlie Paul

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    11:21 am Tue, Apr 22, 2014
    The 1964 World's Fair opened 50 years ago today

    Ethan Gilsdorf on the show that embodied the "innovative, lunacy, hope, and fear of the Sixties"

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    7:24 am Fri, Apr 18, 2014
    Technophobia goes off the Depp end in Transcendence [Movie Review]

    In the official poster, a sinister AI remnant of genius Dr. Will Caster evinces inhuman mastery of Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic In the near future posited by the film… Read the rest of the article: Technophobia goes off the Depp end in Transcendence [Movie Review]

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  • Ethan Gilsdorf
    7:43 am Fri, Apr 4, 2014
    The Disorienting and Disturbing Arthouse Science Fiction of Under the Skin [Review]
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