Last weekend, Nerdophiles bloggers Amy and Kirstie spent the weekend at Bay Area Sherlock Con in Santa Clara, CA. Between the convention on Saturday and the tea party on Sunday (which we’ll write more about in an upcoming post), we met a lot of cool Sherlockians, took in the glorious […]
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 Guests of Honor The Baker Street Irregulars
Since 1934, one of the leading organizations in the continued scholarship and publication of all things Sherlockian has been the Baker Street Irregulars. Through numerous scion societies all over the country, and publications including the The Baker Street Journal, BSI has kept the study of Holmes, Watson, and Sir Arthur […]
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 […]
New 'Sherlock' Trailer Teases Detective's Return
The game, Sherlockians, is on! On August 2, BBC Sherlock fans got their first glimpse of the hit drama’s long-awaited third season after a rerun of “The Reichenbach Fall” in the UK. The trailer hit the interwebs not long after, sending shockwaves through social media sites such as Facebook and […]
Why, Even as BBC Sherlock Fans, Elementary Has Become Our Favorite
With the Elementary’s first season completed and BBC Sherlock’s third season still in the works, I’d like to take the time to write a potentially dangerous post: a side-by-side comparison of both of these modern reimaginings of Sherlock Holmes. By the end of Elementary’s finale, a few of us here […]
Elementary: The Woman/Heroine Recap [Season Finale]
Elementary may have taken some time learning to crawl before it could walk, but there’s no doubt that the show was in full sprint as it approached its exciting first-season finale. What could be a more shocking way to begin the end than to reveal that Irene Adler, whom Sherlock […]
Sherlock Filming Heats Up: New Casting Announcement Rocks the Internet
Monday marked one week of filming for the third season of the massively popular BBC drama, and it was not without its surprises. On March 25 Sherlock series 3 filmed out in the open for the first time, and unfortunately for the cast and crew, hordes of fans gathered to […]
Elementary: Déjà Vu All Over Again Recap
Oh how dreary these last few Thursday nights have been without our newest Holmes and Watson, but Elementary returned last night after its relatively short hiatus, and it did not disappoint. Joan has moved from the occupation of sober companion to full-time consulting detective, and seeing her in action should […]
Sherlock Read-Through Commences… Filming Starts Soon!
Feeling blue today? I certainly was this morning, until I logged onto Facebook and saw that BBC One had gifted the Internet with this photo of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman at the first read-through for Sherlock series three: As you may already know, the starting date for filming has […]
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