Last month, Nerdophiles had the exciting opportunity to attend Bay Area Sherlock Con in Santa Clara, CA. While the convention itself took place on Saturday, several attendees stuck around for the tea party on Sunday afternoon, hosted by artist and tea expert Cara McGee. While more relaxed and intimate than […]
BASC Preview: Meet Guest of Honor Anna Padilla
Bay Area Sherlock Con is this weekend and we were lucky enough to get an introduction to one more guest of honor before Amy and I pack our bags and head to Santa Clara. Anna Padilla is a 21-year-old community college student from Sacramento, CA. With her passion for art […]
BASC Preview: Meet Guest of Honor Lauren "Taco" Blakely
With the second annual Bay Area Sherlock Convention quickly approaching, the attending Nerdophiles team (Amy and Kirstie) is hard at work making travel arrangements, costume designing, and doing a bit of its own detective work on some of the convention’s Guests of Honor. We are fortunate to have had the […]
Doctor Who: The Name of the Doctor Recap [SEASON FINALE]
“The Doctor has a secret he will take to the grave. It is discovered.” Warning: this article contains major SPOILERS for the series 7 finale. Everybody stay calm–explanations and speculations to follow. The seventh series of Doctor Who ended on a high note this week as writer Steven Moffat churned […]
Doctor Who: Nightmare in Silver Recap
“Now if you don’t mind, I have to finish my chess game and you have to die painfully and very far from home.” What starts as a quick visit to a space-themed amusement park quickly turns sour this week as the Doctor finds himself facing some old foes and protecting […]
Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror Recap
“I’ll go play with my grenades.” Our favorite crime solving trio is back, this time solving the mystery of a missing Clara, a plasticized Doctor, and a crazy old woman running a sweets factory in 19th Century Yorkshire. “The Crimson Horror” is really all about filler (in more ways than […]
Get Trapped by Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time Vol. 1
Trying to come up with a plot that ties in all eleven Doctors had to be pretty difficult. It’s a major undertaking, too. We’re talking decades of history that includes not only the eleven core actors but every single companion and alien species that has ever come and gone. Storylines […]
Doctor Who: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS Recap
Don’t get into a spaceship with a madman. Didn’t anyone ever teach you that? This week on Doctor Who, Clara and the TARDIS finally got some alone time…though perhaps not quite in the way the Doctor had intended. In the fast-paced “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS,” fans got […]
Doctor Who: Hide Recap
“It’s ghost time.” This week Whovians found the Doctor in 1974, solving the mystery of a house haunted by the supernatural. We met a ghost hunting professor, saw the development of Clara’s relationship with the TARDIS (is this a thing now?), and were even brought back to an earlier time […]
Doctor Who: Cold War Recap
“It’s the ’80s, everything’s bigger!” This week the Doctor and Clara found themselves in 1983 on a nuclear submarine with Russian soldiers, a walkman-wearing professor, and a 5,000-year-old Martian soldier. But honestly, could we expect any less? Featuring Liam Cunningham and Tobias Menzies (Davos Seaworth and Edmure Tully in Game […]
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