Do you unabashedly love hit television shows, big Hollywood movies, best-seller paperbacks and Top 40 pop? Maybe you love those things so much that you even love listening to podcasts of people discussing them? If so, Entertainment Weekly appears to have assembled a festival you won't want to miss.
EWPopFest is a weekend-long paean to pop culture featuring a little bit of everything from categories the magazine covers, mixed together. Television bingers might get excited for cast gatherings, live-reads and episode reveals from Gilmore Girls, Bob’s Burgers, Grey’s Anatomy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Happy Endings. For film fans, Eddie Redmayne will field a Q&A after a preview screening of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Jennifer Aniston will stop by along with the rest of the cast of Office Christmas Party. Readers of fiction and non will settle in for conversations from authors including Terry McMillan, Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon and Sophia Amoruso.
Four live podcasts will tape episodes each day, including Ladygang, Throwing Shade, Anna Faris is Unqualifed and Too $hort’s Boombox (that last one would, of course, be rapper Too $hort’s new weekly pod during which he chats with his various celebrity friends, assorted social media influencers and, of course, the ‘Boombox Girls’).
Stay late on Saturday night and EWPopFest@Night takes over for the marquee event of the festival, featuring headlining musical performances by Nick Jonas and Janelle Monae.
EWPopFest takes place October 28 to 30 at The Reef in Downtown LA. Tickets are available for $46 to $188.
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