Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
An icon of Philadelphia's industrial history closes Building C, eastern face. Approaching Philadelphia's Delaware Avenue from the west on Spring Garden Street, the building is unmistakable -- not merely due to its scale, but also because of its monolithic appearance. A solid, windowless brick facade, roughly half a block on each side, standing 120 feet … Continue reading Philadelphia Warehousing and Cold Storage
Recap and Photo Highlights from NYCC 2019 Major U.S. comic cons typically cover a broad spectrum of content including comic books, movies, television programs, video games, cosplay, and more. Yet, whether by intention or happenstance, each convention tends to have a dominant attribute. At Comic Con International's San Diego Comic-Con, the celebrity presentations for Hollywood … Continue reading TV Content Dominates at New York Comic Con
SDCC 2019 Recap and Photo Highlights This year Comic-Con International: San Diego celebrated the pop culture convention's 50th anniversary. What began as a modest assembly of roughly 300 comic book and science fiction fans in the U.S. Grant Hotel in 1970 has now become a major media event attracting over 135,000 fans that fill the … Continue reading San Diego Comic-Con: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Real-world science at SDCC 2019 revels in the past and inspires the future While Comic-Con International: San Diego primarily focuses on the realms of fantasy and science fiction, real-world science also plays a role in the annual fan fest. [See Knowledge@Wharton, "Science — No Longer Just Fiction — at Comic-Con."] In addition to examining the … Continue reading Lunar Past, Lunar Future at Comic-Con
