At Comic-Con, movies go big or go home

Only at San Diego Comic-Con, the annual gathering of self-proclaimed fanboys and fangirls, can an early screening of a movie feel like a rock concert, and then literally become one.

In a surprise on Thursday night, some audience members to the panel for “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” — in . . . → Read More: At Comic-Con, movies go big or go home

How I learned to love the vuvuzela

If you have a TV you have heard, or heard of, vuvuzelas. They’re the cheap plastic horns played by tens of thousands of spectators in World Cup soccer stadiums in South Africa and buzzing like so many unswattable mosquitoes in the ear of an irate camper. To hear most viewers tell it, “vuvuzela” . . . → Read More: How I learned to love the vuvuzela