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August 27, 2010 Peter Fernandez memorial featuring his reading of "The Story of Yars' Revenge" and the theme from "Speed Racer." Christopher DeFilippis discusses the 50th anniversary of SETI in volume 2, number 104 of "DeFlip Side." The Great Luke Ski performs his routine "You Might Be A Trekkie" at the I-Con 26 Cabaret.




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November 2, 1990 episode featuring Peter Fernandez as Spider-Man in "The Mark of The Man-Wolf"!


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August 20, 2010 Live telephone interview with author John Peel, who returns for his ninth appearance (and his first since 1996) to discuss and introduce excerpts from the unabridged audio adaptation of his novelization of the epic "Doctor Who" story, "The Daleks' Master Plan." Plus, an update on John's latest projects, including "The Slayers of Dragonhome" and the latest volumes in his "Diadem" series.



August 13, 2010 Eric Woolfson memorial special, honoring the co-composer, executive producer, and popular lead vocalist for The Alan Parsons Project, who passed away on December 2, 2009, at the age of 64. Features music from the Alan Parsons Project albums "Eye in the Sky" and "Ammonia Avenue," the 1990 concept album "Freudiana," and Woolfson's final album "Eric Woolfson Sings the Alan Parsons Project That Never Was."



August 6, 2010 Live telephone interview with composers Mateo Latosa and Cesar Gallegos, who discuss and introduce selections from their score for the internet TV series "The House Between." Plus, advance previews of the audio adaptations of "Space: 1999-Spider's Web" and "The Prisoner's Dilemma," read by Rupert Booth, coming soon from Powys Media.

      

July 30, 2010 "Graphic Detail" # 173: Live, in-studio interview with Keith Dallas, writer of IDW's "Ghostbusters: Con-Volution" as well as his own series "Omega Chase" and "The Argonauts," the editor emeritus of comicsbulletin.com, and the editor of "The Flash Companion."


July 23, 2010 In memory of F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, the Destinies Archives opens to relive his comedy performance at the I-Con 18 Cabaret. Christopher DeFilippis, discusses the Montauk Project in Volume 2, Number 103 of "DeFlip Side." Plus, the Destinies Soundtrack Spotlight shines on Rupert Gregson-Williams' score for the 2009 remake of "The Prisoner."


July 16, 2010 The Destinies Film Review Team (Howard Margolin, Steve Lowenthal, and Brian Krey) assembles live to take on "Predators." How does this movie compare with the previous installments in the "Predator" franchise? Does Adrian Brody shout "Do it! Kill me now!" with the same fervor as Arnold Schwarzenegger? And, what is this movie worth on the famous Destinies zero to eight dollars rating scale?


July 9, 2010 Saluting the release of "Predators" with a Destinies Debut World Premiere Soundtrack Spotlight on John Debney's score for the film, featuring cuts from the album selected by the composer and a telephone interview with John Debney, who makes his second appearance on the show.

July 2, 2010 Destinies is pre-empted for the WUSB Reggae Marathon!


June 25, 2010 The Destinies Debut Soundtrack Spotlight shines on James Newton Howard's score for "The Last Airbender." Christopher DeFilippis reviews "And Another Thing," Eoin Colfer's continuation of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. Plus, a capella filksinger Adam Goss performs "Mr. Narn Man," "On the Woad Again," and "The Bat and the Crow" at the I-Con 26 Cabaret.


June 18, 2010 Live telephone interview with author Barry K. Nelson, who discusses and reads an excerpt from his novel "The McKenzie Files." Plus, as part of Destinies' 12th annual contribution to WUSB's Blues marathon, music from Randy Newman, Bear McCreary, Jim Byrnes, and Signal Room.


June 11, 2010 Part 4 of "Star Wars In Concert," recorded live in 2009. Anthony Daniels introduces the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and Choir as they perform John Williams' music from "A New Hope" and "Return of the Jedi."



June 4, 2010 Part three of "Star Wars in Concert," featuring John Williams' music from the original trilogy performed by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and Choir, and narration by Anthony Daniels. Plus, in memory of author Jeanne Robinson, who passed away on May 30th, her husband, Spider Robinson, performs his love song "Belaboring the Obvious."

May 28, 2010 "Star Wars in Concert" continues as Anthony Daniels introduces the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and Choir performing music from "Star Wars" Episodes I-V.
May 21, 2010 Celebrating the 30th anniversary of "The Empire Strikes Back" with part one of "Star Wars In Concert," recorded live in 2009. Christopher DeFilippis discusses the differences between recent Marvel and DC movies in volume 2, number 101 of "DeFlip Side." Plus, the winners of the Nebula Awards for work in 2009.

May 14, 2010 The Destinies Film Review Team (Howard Margolin, Christopher DeFilippis, Phil Merkel, Audrey Dettmering, and Brian Krey) assembles live to discuss "Iron Man 2." Does the Golden Avenger prove his mettle in his second cinematic outing? Has Marvel succeeded in bringing War Machine, Whiplash, and the Black Widow to life? And, what is this movie worth on the famous Destinies zero to eight dollars rating scale?



May 7, 2010 The Destinies Debut Soundtrack Spotlight shines on John Debney's score for Iron Man 2, as the composer himself appears in a live telephone interview to discuss and introduce selections from the album.


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April 30, 2010 The Voice of Science Fiction celebrates its 27th anniversary with encore readings by Justin Gustainis and Patrick Thomas, and an all-new reading by Gregory A. Wilson, comedy from Cirque Du So What; as well as new music by Bear McCreary, Shawn Clement, The Road, and Vanessa Mae's version of "Classical Gas." Plus, Christopher DeFilippis discusses the debut of his new website, www.deflipside.com, in volume 2, number 100 of "DeFlip Side."



April 23, 2010 Live telephone interview with composer Bear McCreary, who returns for his fifth appearance to discuss his work on Caprica and Human Target and introduce selections from his scores for the Capcom video game "Dark Void" and the "Battlestar Galactica" movies
"The Plan" and "Razor."


Mark Valley, Bear McCreary and Jonathan Steinberg
image © Bear McCreary

April 16, 2010 Travel to the red carpet at New York City's Paley Center for Media's "Caprica" Event on March 17, 2010 to hear interviews with cast members Magda Apanowicz (Lacy Rand), Sasha Roiz (Sam Adama), Alessandra Torresani (Zoe Graystone), and Esai Morales (Joseph Adama). Plus, Howard Margolin teams up with Tony Tellado to speak with Marc Stern, Executive Vice President of Programming for SyFy. Plus, music from Bear McCreary's soundtrack of "Caprica."



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April 9, 2010 "Graphic Detail" # 172: In memory of comic book artist, editor, and executive Dick Giordano, who died on March 27, 2010 at the age of 77, an encore presentation of an interview with him recorded in November, 1986. Also includes commentaries from former DC Comics staffers Bob Greenberger and Bob Rozakis.


Giordano's self portrait from the cover of
Two Morrows' "Changing Comics One Day At A Time."

April 2, 2010 Live I-Con 29 Retrospective, looking back at the high and low points of this year's incarnation of Stony Brook's convention of science fiction, fact, and fantasy, with Howard Margolin, Christopher DeFilippis, Barry Loberfeld, Phil Merkel, Kristin Nelson, James Prego, and I-Con event coordinator John Hudson.


March 26, 2010 Live from I-Con 29 with in-studio guests Sarah Douglas, Ronald D. Moore, Ken Deep, Devo Spice, Power Salad, Drew Henriksen, William Latham, and Keith DeCandido (making his record-tying 22nd appearance). Co-hosted by Howard Margolin and Glenn Hauman of www.comicmix.com.



March 19, 2010 Destinies' Spring Radiothon 2010 programming begins with the live I-Con 29 Preview Special, featuring an up-to-the-minute look at the guests and events scheduled for this year's incarnation of Stony Brook's convention of science fiction, fact, and fantasy. I-Con 29 Event Coordinator John Hudson joins Howard Margolin to co-host this hour-long extravaganza.

March 12, 2010 Howard Margolin celebrates his 26th anniversary with Destinies by presenting the I-Con 29 Performers Preview, featuring music by AeroSith, Marc Gunn, Power Salad, Devo Spice & Shoebox of Worm Quartet, and Voltaire. Plus, Christopher DeFilippis marks the 45th anniversary of the first spacewalk by Alexei Leonov in volume 2,
number 99 of "DeFlip Side."


March 5, 2010 Live telephone interview with Gregory A. Wilson, who discusses and reads a passage from his fantasy novel "The Third Sign," and introduces a track from the upcoming album
"Monomyth" by his band, The Road.


www.gregoryawilson.com
http://www.furtherreview.net/
February 26, 2010 Christopher DeFilippis discusses new developments in science and technology in volume 2, number 98 of "DeFlip Side." Captain Zorikh performs "Stormtrooper Blues" and "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" at the I-Con 26 Cabaret. Plus, the Destinies Soundtrack Spotlight shines on David Sardy's score for "Zombieland."


February 19, 2010 The Destinies Debut Soundtrack Spotlight shines on Shawn K. Clement's score for the upcoming IMAX 3D computer-animated film "Quantum Quest," and the composer himself appears live via telephone to discuss the project and introduce selections from the album.


http://www.clemistry.com
February 12, 2010 Live, in-studio interview with Jim Knusch aka Professor Kinema, who returns for his eleventh appearance to discuss science fiction, fantasy, adventure, and horror films that tie in with Black History Month, Lincoln's Birthday, Valentine's Day, and the opening of "The Wolfman."


image © 2009 Rob Kelly, characters and likenesses © Universal Films


February 5, 2010 Destinies is pre-empted for the WUSB
Reagan Marathon!

err....Make that the Reggae Marathon!
January 29, 2010 Part two of The Voice of Science Fiction's 25th annual Space Shuttle Memorial featuring the conclusion of "A True Space Adventure-Space Shuttle," featuring actual NASA recordings of Columbia''s first flight, from April, 1981, including the voices of astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, and then-Vice-President George Bush, with narration by "Speed Racer's" Peter Fernandez. Plus, in preparation for the final season premiere of "Lost," the Destinies Soundtrack Spotlight shines on J. J. Abrams' theme and Michael Giacchino's score for season one of "Lost."

January 22, 2010 Part one of Destinies' 25th annual Memorial for the crews of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia featuring "A True Space Adventure-Space Shuttle," narrated by "Speed Racer's" Peter Fernandez, with actual NASA recordings made during the launch and first day of the Columbia's maiden flight in April, 1981. Plus, the Destinies Debut Soundtrack Spotlight shines on John Frizzell's score for "Legion."
January 15, 2010 The Destinies Soundtrack Spotlight shines on Mark Mothersbaugh's score for "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs." Christopher DeFilippis spends the last moments of his 39th year reviewing his best and worst reads of 2009 in volume 2, number 97 of "DeFlip Side." And, Vladimir Tsepis of "Ghoul-A-Go-Go" introduces Filk Guest of Honor Rob Balder at the I-Con 26 Cabaret.


January 8, 2010 Honoring the memory of composer Vic Mizzy (January 9, 1916-October 17, 2009) with a Soundtrack Spotlight Special, featuring music from many of his well-known and obscure movies and TV projects, including "The Addams Family," "Green Acres," "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken," "Captain Nice," "The Perils of Pauline," and "Spider-Man 2," as well as a track from his 2003 album, "Songs for the Jogging Crowd."



January 1, 2010 The Destinies Film Review Team (Howard Margolin, Jim Rowland, Steve Lowenthal, Phil and Julia Merkel, and Audrey Dettmering) discuss the best and worst science fiction, fantasy, adventure, and horror films of 2009, and give their choices for the best genre films of the 2000s. Also includes the list of absent member Christopher DeFilippis.

See the complete list of films we considered for the 26th annual review of the year in films by clicking the film projector below



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Then read Chris' film picks by clicking Captain Kirk,
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December 25, 2009 "Graphic Detail" # 171: The Graphic Detail (Howard Margolin and Brian Krey) review the best, worst, and most disappointing developments in the comic book industry for 2009. Plus, music from the soundtracks of "Watchmen" and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."






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