From The AV Club: The Improvised Joss Whedon show is a big “what if” scenario in which characters from various Whedon programs (like Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse) meet each other.

Tickets are $10.

From the Director: The cast and I have been working really hard to make a fan worthy show and I think we have made something aesthetically, thematically and creatively fun to watch!

For tickets:

• www.gorillatango.com
• (773) 598-4549)
• or at the door the day of

Location: 1919 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647

We are excited to announce the 2010 Browncoat Ball will be hosted in the beautiful city of Charlotte, NC. Save thedates Oct 22-24, 2010. This event will be more than just a fancy shindig with hot cheese. Its going to be an entire weekend of misbehavin’ Browncoats from all over the known ‘verse. There will be plenty of fun, excitement, camaraderie, costumes, train rides and sweet tea & BBQ for all. Its time for gentlemen to get Rhett Butlery and ladies to get their hoop skirts on. The Browncoat Ball is going Southern and if you didn’t know before, you will know now, how fine Southern hospitality truly is. Join the Charlotte Browncoats and the Greenville Browncoats in this celebration of all things Firefly.

The Browncoat Ball website hasn’t been updated yet, but in the meantime, check out this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqYljxEvbg0

The Browncoat Ball Committee

There will be more info at the Browncoat Ball website soon.

From the Global CSTS site:

We’re celebrating the end of another year of fantastic events, so the Global 2009 Can’t Stop the Serenity Team, in conjunction with the California Browncoats, are proud to give you the chance to win some fantastic prizes in our online “Last Hurrah” auction. Money raised from the auction will be included in the CSTS 2009 Global Donation Total, which currently stands at US $128,000. Your bids will help us to reach this year’s goal of US $150,000 raised for charity!

95% of the proceeds of this auction will go straight to Equality Now. The remaining 5% will go toward covering any eBay and/or Paypal fees. The California Browncoats will pay any remaining fees in addition to donating their services in carrying out these auctions. If there is any of the 5% left over after fees, CABC will donate it to Equality Now.

This is a wonderful opportunity to own an awesome prize, and help Equality Now fight for the rights of women and girls who can’t fight for themselves, so bid high and bid often!

The various items include:

• Serenity mini-poster signed by Joss Whedon
• Gorgeous photo signed by Dichen Lachman
• Dr Horrible print singed by NPH, Fillion and Day
• Dollhouse Costume Department Tour and signed Felicia Day photo
• and more!

http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/auction09/

Bid now! the auctions will end in about 3 days!

With your help, we raised a 2009 total of:

$4,153.88

$3,115.41 = 75% for Equality Now
$1,038.47 = 25% for The House of the Good Shepherd

I have already given Amy the check for The House and will be writing out and mailing the check to Equality Now tonight.

Once again, thank you so much to everyone who attended this year’s event and and to those who brought items in for our collection drive for The House.

Another big thank you to our volunteers!  We arrived at the theater to set up at 1pm and you guys worked tirelessly at making sure everything was set up and ready for our attendees and really kept the event running smoothly!

Thank you to our local sponsors:

• Graham Cracker Comics
• Busy Beaver Button Co

…and to those of you who donated items during our event!

• Dave Boyd
• Sydney Orr
• Acme Design, Inc
• Nina Marie
• Christopher Esterhammer-Fic
• …and more (need to find my notes!!)

We would really appreciate any comments/suggestions/complaints you might have regarding this year’s event, so please email us or comment at the forum.

THANK YOU!

It’s that time of year again!

Time for the Chicagoland Browncoats 7th Annual Apple Holler Mini-Shindig

Saturday, Oct. 10th

Apple Holler
5006 S. Sylvania Ave.
Sturtevant, WI, 262-886-7100

~ Brunch at 10 AM (brunch ends at 12 noon). Apple Holler does not take
reservations, but please respond at the forum to let me know if you will be attending (and around what time you plan on arriving) so we know how many people we should save table space for.

~ Apple picking at about 12:30 or 1 pm for them as would like to

~ Visit to the Mars Cheese Castle (http://www.marscheese.com/)
afterwards for the finest in beverages that make you blind and a
chance to look at the pretties and stock up on some kind of hot (or
cold) cheese

Directions and more info about Apple Holler can be found at:
http://www.appleholler.com/

Be aware that last year they charged for lot parking.

Hope to see you there!

Amy

forum link: http://www.chicagolandbrowncoats.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=593&start=0

Thank you to everyone who showed up to support Equality now and The House of the Good Shepherd.

A big thank you to those who showed up with some absolutely fabulous last minute donations for our auction table!!

We’ll be writing up a more detailed thank you and we’ll be posting the total raised within about a week or so.

The Chicago CSTS Team

Here is the schedule:

• 6 PM to 7 PM – Pre-Show Mini Shindig (only Pre-Show ticket holders)
• 7 PM – Will-call and Box Office open
• 8 PM – Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog
• Costume Contest
• Global Prize finalists announced
• Silent Auction closes at 9:30 PM. Live auction to follow if necessary
• Door prize giveaways
• 10:30-ish – Serenity

Tickets and merchandise are cashy money only.

We will have some local area maps marked with ATM locations as well as some local restaurants, at the Box Office. You can also check the google map on the Theater page.

Remember – we are collecting much needed items for The House of the Good Shepherd too!

See you there!

Get your advance priced tickets here until tomorrow, Aug 26th @ midnight.

Tix are $10 in advance / $15 at the door (cashy money only!)

We’d also like to remind you that we are collecting much needed items for local charity The House of the Go0d Shepherd (a shelter and recovery program for battered women and their children).

Bring the items to the theater and we’ll receive the items either at Will-call and/or we’ll have one of our cars outside with a sign.

Below is a list.  If you have anything not listed that you would like to donate, please contact Amy at amy@chicagolandbrowncoats.com so she can make sure the items can be used.

See you there!

We want everyone to get a chance to see Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog on the big screen!

http://www.chicagolandbrowncoats.com/images/2009flyers4x.pdf

We would appreciate it if you could print out just a few copies and leave them at your local comic book shops, cafes or even laundry mats.

Also remember, this event is to benefit Equality Now and The House of the Good Shepherd.  Please check the Local Charity page for details about much needed items we are collecting for The House.

Official CSTS 2009 Tshirt (cities are listed on the back)

We have extended the advanced sale of merchandise from Aug 16th to Aug 25th 26th. (edit: Sorry! got the date wrong. Wed is Aug 26th)

We still have some t-shirts available (medium is sold out and there is only 1 small left) at the advance price of $15. You’ll be saving $5 since they will be $20 at the door – plus you can also make sure you don’t miss out on such a shiny souvenir!

Go to our Tickets & Merchandise page to get your official CSTS merchandise