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Jessica Zack April 15, 2021 Stewart Brand, writer and founder of “Whole Earth Catalog,” adjusts his hat inside the Mirene, a converted 1912 tugboat he and his wife Ryan Phelan call home in Sausalito. Photo: Stephen Lam, The Chronicle For a devoted futurist like Stewart Brand, who is famous for his projections about technology and the environment, looking at his own past doesn’t necessarily come naturally. Given his fame as creator of the iconic 1960s DIY handbook “Whole Earth Catalog” (described by Steve Jobs as “Google in paperback form”), and later as an influenti...

A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the "Star Wars" or "Star Trek" universes or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own devotion. Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies.

April 08, 2021 Twitter/blauereiter Just over seven years ago, the iconic eight-storey Lucasfilm Sandcrawler building was officially opened in Singapore, when George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy (current President of Lucasfilm) graced the opening ceremony. Earlier this year, news broke that the Blackstone group was interested in purchasing the building for about $132 million. It looks like the purchase has actually gone through, and today, on April 7, 2021, the iconic Master Yoda statue located in the middle of the garden on the premises has been removed, possibly marking a change, that the buil...

Print With Disneyland and Disney California Adventure reopening April 30 and ticket sales starting next week, prospective park visitors are wondering what to expect there. COVID-19 safety protocols will represent the biggest changes, and not all rides and attractions will be available. Here’s a list of rides and attractions that are scheduled to be offered at the Anaheim theme parks when they open their gates to visitors, alongside links to previous Times coverage for a peek into Disneyland’s history and lore. Disneyland

March 6, 2021 David Betancourt THE WASHINGTON POST – In the Star Wars universe, the High Republic is the stuff of legend. But someone had to write the story. It all started with a vague reference from Obi-Wan Kenobi. “For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic,” Obi-Wan explained in 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope. “Before the dark times. Before the Empire.” In the decades since those words were uttered, movies, books and television have explored nearly every imaginable facet of the Star Wars universe. But this parti...