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 ...

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 ...

Tunes about Centauriangenitalia have yet to win a Grammy Award. At the Pegasus Awards for Excellence in Filking, though, the topic took home the top prize for "best adapted song." "Filking" combines ...

Filk is a little-known genre of folk music composed and performed by science-fiction fans, usually revolving around sci-fi and fantasy themes.... Filk Music: Odd Voices for a Digital Generation Filk ...

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 ...

In 1970, the Johnson family trekked from Hatch, New Mexico, to Colorado. The trip ended when their car’s radiator hose blew out in Durango. The father, a longtime auto-parts salesman, walked into a ...

“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month. The Trump ...

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 ...