Labor Day weekend. Fall is in the air, at least here in the Coastal South (of all places!). College football is back on the TV…life is good. Here at the Empire’s headquarters, our slow summer season seems to finally be winding down–improbably, given that fall TV has yet to kick off. If you were too busy traveling for the long weekend or watching your favorite team’s new configuration to check in every day, lay your fears to rest. I’ve got your cheat sheet, my weekly run-down of our original content so that you can crack that next bottle, confident you didn’t miss something awesome.
Events
Fashion editor Kelly Christiansen attended MODA Manhattan and Accessories: The Show and brought back a full report of the pretties!
Medora is bringing us on-the-ground coverage of DragonCon 2010! You can check out her write-ups of Day 1 and Day 2 right now, and be sure to check back later for Day 3!
From G-mash:
Remember to catch up with The Philistine‘s video blog of reviews and commentary, including a review of Machete!
Book Reviews
Professor Crazy on The Osiris Ritual by George Mann
Sasha Nova on Supersad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
amberdrake on Dragongirl by Todd McCaffrey
Elena Nola on Juliet by Anne Fortier
At the Movies
Emmaleigh R. Hall on Going the Distance
The Week in Television
Elena Nola on True Blood “Fresh Blood”
Gerald So on Psych “Shawn 2.0″
Gaming
Alberto Diaz continues his Medal of Honor retrospective with Allied Assault
Columns
The Bodice Rippeth gets haunted by Ghosts and Demons
Mangakissa is back after a summer hiatus!
Elena Nola takes a look at the documentary Restrepo in this week’s Indie Angle
Elena Nola kicks off a new weekly sports column, Texas Girl in an SEC World with some thoughts on Texas’s new offense and how the SEC is looking as a whole
