"Essayist. Actor. Activist. Author. Those are just some of the labels you might apply to Adam Richman, Alyssa Milano, Henry Rollins and Arthur Frommer, the keynote speakers for the Los Angeles Times Travel Show on Jan. 18 and 19 at the L.A. Convention Center.
They’ll be joined by hundreds of other participants, including chefs, L.A. Times journalists and tourism officials from around the globe.
Richman, author of “America the Edible” and now the host of “Adam Richman’s Fandemonium,” pays a return visit to the 2014 show. Milano, who has starred in such shows as “Who’s the Boss?,” “Charmed” and is hosting “Project Runway All Stars,” is a UNICEF ambassador, helping focus world attention on children and their needs.
Rollins, who fronted the band Black Flag, is a seasoned traveler and author (“Smile, You’re Traveling,”) and appears often on TV and in movies. Frequent travel show headliner Frommer, the elder statesman of the group, is best known for his guidebook empire and for giving travel show attendees the insight they need to pursue their favorite pastime.
A larger L.A. Times area this year will offer travelers a chance to learn more about travel technology, deals and bargains, and travel safety, among other trends and topics.
Christopher Reynolds, whose “Postcards From the West” series this year has helped travelers see familiar icons in new ways, will share some of his discoveries from his year on the road.
An addition to the 2014 is a screening room where short travel-related videos will be shown, including videos submitted by readers.
Tickets cost $8 in advance (use code Travel2014) or $10 at the door; Times members have access to two-for-one tickets."
"Alyssa Milano has been working on a comic book, called Hacktivist , a story of what-ifs. What if the founders of a popular social media network were also elusive hacktivists? What are the repercussions of that?
"I became really fascinated with what was going on in social media and activism and how social media was becoming a tool to assemble and organize protests throughout the world," says Milano. That led to an interest in the computer-savvy activists known as Anonymous. She was intrigued with the concept of Anonymous, essentially, the lack of personal identities associated with them. Milano wondered, "What if Anonymous was one guy who was using an organization as a front?"
From there, more questions arose. "Who would he need to be? What skills would he need to have?" she says. "Obviously, he would need to code and program, but also have an incredibly compassionate heart to want to affect positive change in the world. What would that guy's day job be? What would that guy do during the day?"
Milano was inspired by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who is also her son's godfather. "He's the only person I could think of who could possibly be that guy," she says, "who started a hugely popular social media site, using that as a front to be the greatest hacktivist that the world has ever known."
She brought the idea to Archaia, the L.A.-based publisher who previously released acclaimed works like Jim Henson's Tale of Sand. Writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, along with artist Marcus To, helped bring Milano's concept to life. Hacktivist will begin its four issue run in January.
On Saturday, Milano turned up at Stan Lee's Comikaze to promote the forthcoming release. The day before that, though, the actress had some fun with Twitter. Odd messages followed by the hashtag #sve_Urs3lf appeared on her feed. "Everyone thinks it was hacked, but really it was me sending all those tweets," Milano says. The fake hacker tweets contained clues to help fans identify the login for a preview of the story. Milano came clean during her Comikaze panel. "
""I really wanted to have [the control to be able to make] anything go," Milano said, when asked about her reason for choosing the comic book medium. "So often, when you pitch ideas to film and television studios, there are always millions of reasons why they can't or shouldn't be done--I felt like a graphic novel was a way to really accomplish [bringing] the story... I wanted it to really [express] our voice and vision rather than just selling it to a studio and have it changed and molded to a very mainstream thing."
In regards to where the inspiration for her story came from, she said, "I was impressed at how social media was almost a tool for the uprising that we were seeing around the world...this effective organizing tool to get everyone together and fight for what they believe in."
"Project Runway All Stars" returns for its third season tonight with a brand new host, Alyssa Milano, and the most talented crop of former contestants to date.
For the first time ever, former winners are invited back, including Season 4's Jeffrey Sebelia, Season 6's Irina Shabayeva and Season 7's Seth Aaron Henderson. Other notable alums include Season 3 finalist Mychael Knight, Season 10's tempermental Elena Slivnyak, and Season 8's Ari South, now living as a woman named Andi South.
toofab's Lawrence Yee chatted with Alyssa Milano about joining the popular reality TV competition. Some fans of the show have questioned Alyssa's participation given her acting background. But Alyssa actually has her own clothing line, Touch By Alyssa Milano, and is a longtime lover of fashion ... and "Project Runway."
"My mom was a fashion designer when I was a little girl. And she was sold in Bloomingdales and then she had a store in Brooklyn called Me and We." While fellow judges Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman have the couture chops, Alyssa brings a different perspective.
"I do not want to come across like I am trying to be a fashion expert, but really I want to be the voice of that audience member that might love fashion, but that isn't an insider," Alyssa explained. "It's so outside of my wheelhouse ... but I loved it."
But don't expect it to be a love fest with the judges. "I would say most of the time I agreed with Georgina, but I can honestly say that most of the time I did not agree with Isaac." "The deliberations were very long, very lengthy and very, very difficult. And you know, sometimes it came down to who just didn't get the challenge at all."
The decisions weighed heavily on Alyssa. "There were nights that I went home and I couldn't sleep because of who went home. I did not expect that to be part of my experience," Alyssa told Lawrence Yee. When you send someone home you are basically shattering their dreams. We never ever, ever took that lightly."
As a longtime fan of the show, Alyssa had her favorites going in.
"I loved Jeffrey Sebelia. So I had to go into this it was a clean slate and try to put what he had done in the past. I wasn't judging him from 'Project Runway.' This was a whole new experience that I had to judge him on. I was a huge fan of Seth Aaron. I loved Korto [Momolu]."
To see how Alyssa's favorites and the rest of the desingers fare, be sure to watch the premiere of "Project Runway All Stars" tonight on Lifetime at 9/8c, featuring guest judge Debbie Harry!
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