"She's a hero. You're a reader. You were meant for each other." -- Jane Espenson, from the Foreword. The Legend of Bold Riley takes place in a world of strange creatures and customs, but there is also room for the familiar: family, love, and adventure.

A-list stars brought their A-game to the 2012 Met Ball on Monday night, often referred to as the Oscars of fashion, but Rihanna in particular caught our eye. Unfortunately, a good fashion statement should turn heads, not leave people scratching them.

Writer-actress Carrie Fisher is known for her honesty, wit, Star Wars heroics and “wishful drinking.” Best known as Princess Leia in the first Star Wars trilogy, the actress-novelist-screenwriter has written bestselling books and starred in a one-woman ...

Thing-a-day guy Noah Scalin sez, "Artist Betsy VanDeusen created this wonderful Star Wars-ified version of a classic Elvgren pinup as part of her yearlong daily project! You can see the rest of her work on her blog, and read a recent interview about her ...

Oh, and speaking of them--Leia and Dwight Smith, I mean--they were hoping you would bring fruits from your backyard trees to them before Saturday so the delights could be readied for jam making. However, a certain blogger failed to alert you to this until now.

Without looking any of it up on Wookieepedia, I can tell you the name of Princess Leia’s home planet (Alderaan), who ran Cloud City (Lando Calrissian, played by the lovely Billy Dee Williams), and what happened on Mustafar (bad things). I’m not really ...

May 4th, also known as May the Fourth Be With You, is a special day for Star Wars fans to celebrate all things Luke, Leia and George Lucas. For Patrick Quiring, a Star Wars super-fan, May 4th was the perfect day to pop the question. The Fresno ...

There was no carbonite involved that we know of. I racked my brain trying to think of a Princess Leia and the best I could come up with was Randi Zuckerberg, Mark's sister (just like Leia was related by blood to Vader). She's the former marketing manager ...

Luke Skywalker initiates a plan to rescue the frozen Han Solo from the crime lord Jabba the Hutt (Larry Ward) with the help of Princess Leia, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2-D2. R2 and 3PO arrive first acting as Jabba's servants with Leia dressed ...

Such holograms are actually flat but, thanks to Princess Leia’s “Help us, Obi-Wan” message in Star Wars, the term has also come to mean a kind of volume-filling projection for the same purpose. It’s an effective illusion, but the more intriguing ...