According to "An Egocentric and Convoluted History of Early 'Filk' and Filking" by Lee Gold, the word "filk" was born as a typo in an early 1950s essay submitted to a fanzine about the influence of ...

LOS ANGELES --At a suburban hotel here, in a windowless conference room called the "Hollywood" suite, a rapt circle of geeks sings songs about spaceships. Accompanied by acoustic guitars, clarinets ...

It has recently come to my attention that some genre fans aren’t familiar with filk. What? You’re one of them? Well, fear not. I’m here to help. Filk, a mashed-up word that combines its two root words ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - Some singers and songwriters gathered recently in the East Bay to sing their songs - albeit singing slightly off-beat - and deliberately so. It's a new type of music on the ...

I sat down with chairman Warren Buffthat’s right, Warren Buffto sort out the convention’s organizational history, which seemed hopelessly esoteric. ReConStruction was the 10th NASFiC, which isn’t ...

The latest movie by Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis, is a lot like their other movies in which a guy endures a lot of terrible things happening to him. This one's different though, in that ...

HOUSTON — As two dozen people eased into their seats in a small hotel conference room, Rob Balder stood at the edge of the stage for a preconcert sound check. An iPod, plugged into the room's sound ...

Second chances don’t always come, especially for senior wrestlers. One mistake at tournament time can mean the end of a promising season and career. That’s exactly what happened to Hutchinson’s senior ...

What has 30 legs, five laptops, four kazoos and one Yoda? A filk singing circle. Filk is a little-known genre of folk music composed and performed by science-fiction fans, usually revolving around sci ...

I love the highly-specific title of this academic paper by Melissa Tatum, Robert Spoo, and Banjamin Pope: “Does Gender Influence Attitudes Toward Copyright in the ...

Frank Hayes mounts the stage at the Clarion Hotel in Dublin, Ohio. He faces an audience of more than 300 people, some in medieval attire, others wearing tech-company schwag. The 50-year-old singer ...