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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Hi, Everyone!
I am as tickled as a wild gundark to be part of the Star Wars Chicks community! I will be serving as a recipe writer for our site. I hope to post about once a week, and will be bringing you plenty of ideas to whet your appetite! I might even throw a few [...]
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Launch Trailer to Premier July 9!
Monday, July 7th, 2008Lucasarts press release:
LucasArts to Premier Launch Trailer for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on Wednesday, July 9th Exclusively on EW.com
LucasArts today announced that they will debut the launch trailer for the upcoming game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on ew.com at 6am Pacific Time on Wednesday, July 9th.
Dragon*Con 2005
Monday, July 11th, 2005Crysta, JediGirl, and Julie will all be in attendance at Dragon*Con this year in Atlanta, GA over Labor Day weekend (September 2-5, 2005). America’s largest, multi-media, popular arts convention focuses on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film.
Confirmed Star Wars guests for 2005 include: Aaron Allston (author), Kevin J. [...]
LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
Friday, March 4th, 2005The LEGO Star Wars video game (for PC, PS2, X-Box, and GBA) hit shelves on Saturday, April 2nd. Crysta had the opportunity to play a demo version of the game and was tickled pink by it. If you like LEGOs, you’ll adore the game. Visit the Official site for more information or to download a [...]
ConCarolinas 2005
Friday, March 4th, 2005Guests at ConCarolinas 2005 (June 3 - 5) include author Greg Keyes, Nathan Butler (Star Wars Tales), Star Wars Fanworks, David Franklin (Farscape), Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead), and author John Ringo. The convention will be supporting the American Cancer Society, and $1 from every membership will go to Kisses for Katie.
Zahn E-Signing
Wednesday, December 31st, 2003Timothy Zahn, bestselling author of The Thrawn Trilogy, has a new Star Wars novel coming out in February entitled Survivor’s Quest. He is doing a limited book signing tour from February 4 - 16 across the US, and is also holding an E-Signing. This will take place at the end of the tour for those [...]
Section Updates
Friday, September 26th, 2003The Expanded Universe (Books) Section has been updated! News, release schedules, and timelines have all been updated. Reviews and other stuff to follow. Thanks to Angela Jade for all her hard work!
StarWarsChicks.com Mentioned in New Book Using the Force: Creativity, Community, and Star Wars Fans
Wednesday, May 1st, 2002Last year, the creators and some of the staff of StarWarsChicks.com had the opportunity to be interviewed by author, Will Brooker, for this new book, out this month! One reviewer writes “Compelling and beautifully written… the single most important analysis of the Star Wars phenomenon” (Sara Gwenllian Jones, co-editor, Intensities: the Journal of Cult Media). [...]
Using the Force: Creativity, Community and Star Wars Fans
Wednesday, May 1st, 2002By Will Brooker.
Henry Jenkins, MIT, author of ‘Textual Poachers’
A compelling account of how fans are transforming Star Wars into the basis
for the grassroots production of mythology.
Alan McKee, President, Cultural Studies Assoc of Australia
This is a wonderful book…intelligent and informed…beautifully written
and extremely readable.
Sara Gwenllian Jones, co-editor, Intensities: the Journal of Cult Media
Compelling and beautifully written…the single [...]
A Guide to the Star Wars Universe
Wednesday, September 13th, 2000
by Bill Slavicsek
Random House 1994
One of the best ‘guides’ in print. Takes the form of a dictionary, with entries in alphabetical order. Slavicsek definitely knows his stuff, and the information comes from a HUGE number of sources, including the Original Trilogy movies, TV specials and animated series, radio dramatisations, novels (up to and [...]
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