March 30th – April 5th

The Valley Nerd Watch! Now that Conbust has successfully been great, the big convention news item is that Topatocon is coming up in a few short months! For those who weren’t aware, webcomics retailer giant Topatoco is located in Easthampton and is great. They know a lot of wonderful people like local webcomic wunderkind Jeph Jacques of Questionable […]

March 23rd – 29th

The Valley Nerd Watch! Big Convention News this week! First of all, our own local heroes the Smith ConBust! This convention is a huge deal on account of being an All Nerds Event and also being probably the only successful local convention for the past few years. UMass tries once in a while but never seems […]

ALERT: TOPATOCON!

Oh goodness! TOPATOCON! From the site: SEPTEMBER 25TH – 27TH, 2015 NORTHAMPTON, MA Announcing the first TopatoCon. We’re putting together some of the best people in comics, podcasting, indie gaming and music. In addition to our 70 exhibitors that we’re collecting from all over the internet, we’re going to have three programming tracks: we’ll have live podcasts, […]

March 16th – 22nd

The Valley Nerd Watch! In a town with 5 colleges and 500 grad students per square foot, it can get difficult keeping up with all the events in town that cater to the vaguely defined sub-cultural group we’ve decided to call nerds. We’re here to help! We’ll let you know what trivia, gaming, science, comic, and […]

ALERT: Code-in at Owl and Raven!

Owl and Raven [2 Conz St Unit #42, Northampton, MA 01060] is having another Code-in! It will take place at 2:00pm – 5:00pm this Saturday! The people at Owl and Raven are incredibly nice, and this is a great opportunity to meet and talk to people working on interesting projects. Last time there were also cookies, […]