Matt Baume

My guest on The Sewers of Paris this week is often unrecognizable. Josh Duart creates cosplay looks that are so elaborate that as soon as he puts them on, he simply vanishes into whatever character he’s re-creating. I personally met him several times over the course of a recent weekend at a conventi

I hadn't really ever contemplated the question "is Barry Bostwick, the actor who plays Brad in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, allowed to say the word 'queer?'" ... but then Barry Bostwick himself asked me. This weekend I'm at AncientCityCon, a pop culture convention in Florida, and I was on a panel

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris got his start performing in high school, when he worked as a carnival barker. Bruce Costella drew inspiration from his environment, which consisted largely of theme parks thanks to a move to Florida initiated by his lesbian grandmothers. Now, he uses that EPCO

If you were to form a band of adventurers, what role would you want to serve -- fighter or healer? My guest this week is Carlos Maza, who knows how to put up a verbal fight as the host of insightful explainer videos for Vox.com. But off camera, the role in which he's most at home is that of caretake