Goblin-proof chicken book wins odd-title prize

Sandstone formations in Goblin Valley State Park that are millions of years old create an eerie atmosphere in an area with great hiking and exploration potential. GOBLIN VALLEY, Utah "The goblins will get ya if ya don't watch out!" wrote poet James ...

Hobbits and goblins and secret messages on Egyptian papyrus all played a role in students at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts advancing to the seventh annual University Interscholastic League theater design finals in Austin. Among ...

Hip, hip... One of the world's great fashion hotels is celebrating its 100th birthday Why's it hot? Opened on 20 April 1913, the Htel Plaza Athne is one of the French capital's famous 'palace' hotels and has a long association with haute couture.

Gwen Trickett, a no-nonsense 77-year-old great-grandmother with a Yorkshire accent as thick as porridge, is musing on the shortcomings of society. "The young ones now, they-re not like our generation, are they"? she says. "People have too much ...

A new trailer for The Great Gatsby Luhrmann may make cool films, but his cinematic world runs hot. So, it's amusing — but not surprising — to see that there is quite a bit of screaming going on in this new clip, which you can watch in its ...

A flood of Oscar winners, nominees and those that should have been hit stores in the last few weeks. Here's a rundown of recent new films that have just debuted on DVD and BluRay. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY ($35.99 BluRay combo; MGM/Warner ...

Ahh, the eighties! A formative time for many of us GeekDads, and a time of energetic, if not always excellent, experimentation when it came to fantasy and science fiction in film. Take for example the topics of our current GGD: two mid-eighties ...

With garnering twelve Tony nominations and children's summer vacation fast approaching, this marks a great time to explore Broadway plays for kids to use as the centerpiece of a family trip to New York City. Thanks to Financial Firebird's ...

We talk to VFX supervisor Joe Letteri about bringing Gollum, Smaug and goblins to life for Peter Jackson's return to Middle-Earth. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey sees director Peter Jackson return to Middle-Earth, a decade on from shooting the ...