It’s the start of the summer season and we’d like to kick it off with a $50 gift card giveaway from our friends over at SeamlessWeb.

Do whatever you want with it. Order a few pies from Geekadelphia favorite, Rustica Pizza. Get an absurd amount of wings from Manny Brown’s. Maybe order up some delicious sides from Phoebe’s Bar-B-Q. Whatever.

How can you enter? Easy. Leave a comment with what you’re looking forward to eating this weekend for your chance to win a $50 SeamlessWeb gift card. Simple as that.

UPDATE: Thanks for playing last weekend folks! We’ve chosen our winner.

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Disney was nice enough to send me two of their biggest releases that are available in stores today I Am Number Four and Gnomeo & Juliet on Blu-ray + DVD, and I am going to give both of them away to one lucky reader.

I Am Number Four was a fun young-adult sci-fi romp that debuts in a Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Copy release that has the following extras:

DVD:
“Becoming Number 6” Featurette
Bloopers

Blu-ray: Everything on the DVD plus…
6 Deleted Scenes with Introductions by Director D.J. Caruso
“Strangers in Paradise” (Extended)
“Sam’s Mom”
“Worth Mentioning”
“Power Prank”
“Trying to Connect”
“Extended Warsaw Basement”

Gnomeo & Juliet was a CG look into the secret live of garden gnomes by the same director as Shrek 2, and comes out today in a DVD + Blu-ray edition as well.

Wan to win this great combo of Disney Blu-rays? Simply comment with why you want these two discs in your collection and the best (and/or most entertaining comment) will win both discs! Good luck!

Guest Post by Sarah Solomon

But seriously, where has all the rum gone?

Swashbucklers unite! The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook is the swarthy sailors guide to a life of debauchery on the high seas and beyond.

Whether you need a lesson on How To Cheat Death ranging from How To Fight A Tavern Full of Angry Men or The Legend of the Fountain of Youth you’ll be entertained from start to finish.

Author Jason Heller leaves no stone- or rum barrel unturned as he covers every topic imaginable from pirate fashion to ship parts. Delightful illustrations and Pirates Of The Caribbean movie stills are throughout the book, and no fan will be left disappointed.

Whether you want to learn the ways of a pirate or just have a thing for Johnny Depp (It’s okay, the first step is always admitting it) then I wholeheartedly suggest The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook, yet another delightful read from Quirk Books.

Interested in a copy? I’ve got one to giveaway to a lucky reader. Just leave a comment about your favorite movie pirate, and I’ll pick one of you at random sometime next week. Good luck!

The Conserve Socket is a part of Belkin’s eco-friendly product line aimed to reduce energy consumption. How? Well with an easy to set timer, it completely shuts off whatever device is plugged into it once the preset time expires. This durable product can be used throughout the house for multiple devices.

In my experience with the product, which Belkin was kind enough to send over, I’ve found it to be ideal for cell phone chargers, most consumer electronics, space heaters, coffee makers and irons. Clearly labeled buttons, simple packaging and reasonable pricing make it a no brainer for your average technophile.

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Last year, Geekadelphia teamed up with Gillette to dish out nearly five hundred free Gillette Fusion razors. It was incredible. You all went nuts. And somehow along the line, I got quoted in GQ talking about how I started shaving when I was 10. It was embarrassing. I hope you’re all happy.

Well, we’ve teamed up for yet another giveaway.

See that widget over there on the right? Click away. We’ve got 350 in there, and who knows, if we get rid of enough, maybe they’ll fill that widget back up. Share the link with your friends, family, and hairy associates.

Oh, and be sure to follow Gillette on Twitter and Facebook. After-all, they are hooking you up with a free razor.

If you’re a child of the 80s and 90s you no doubt recall the comic stylings of Pauly Shore on MTV and in Encino Man and Bio-Dome. Well Pauly is coming to Philly and will be at The Trocadero (along with Steve Simeone and Pat House) this Thursday, May 19th.

Tickets for the show are $25 and can be purchased here on the Troc’s website. But if you can’t afford to check The Weasel, we have a couple of tickets here on Geekadelphia to give away courtesy of the Troc.

Wanna win? Simply comment with your favorite Pauly Shore film and why and the top answers by Wednesday night will be checking out the show free of charge!

Good luck!

Foodspotting makes it easy to find nearby food to nom; and we all know Philly is the kind of city you can eat your entire way across. Now that VisitPhilly has teamed up with Foodspotting to give us official guides for Philadelphia and The Countryside, we’ve now got a way to track our progress on epic food quests.

Ever feel like hitting up every local brewery? VisitPhilly has 10 of them on their “Beer Lovers’ Breweries” guide. Cheesesteak 101 would probably have been useful when my girlfriend went on her cheesesteak crawl just over a year ago (yes, seriously). Our city may be known for iconic cheesesteaks, soft pretzels and Tastykakes but we can’t forget all the Spanish and Latin American-influenced cuisine found all over, Philly ¡Te Ama!’s “Comida” Latina guide should be the detonator for those seeking an explosion of latino flavor.

All in all this is great news and to kick things off in a big way, they’re randomly selecting a grand-prize winner who follows VisitPhilly on Foodspotting and completes the “Famous Philly Flavors” guide between May 11 (now) and May 25. The winner will receive:

• an overnight stay at a luxury Philadelphia hotel
• a City Food Tours’ Flavors of Philly excursion for two ($78 value)
• a $100 gift card to any restaurant in the [Jose] Garces Restaurant Group

Ten randomly selected first-prize winners will each win a Flavors of Philly tour by City Food Tours.

Awesome right? Get started: foodspotting.com/visitphilly

Since 2005, Philly’s own Zenescope Entertainment has slowly been building their brand as one of the premier fantasy/horror publishers in comics. Books like Grimm Fairy Tales, the Wonderland Trilogy, and Neverland have shown us the various worlds that make up the Zenescope universe and the characters that populate them. Now with the Dream Eater Saga, Zenescope is going to bring the various characters and worlds together for a massive, epic story. And it all begins here.

This #0 issue gives a new reader literally everything you need to enjoy the series. You get a 12 page prologue that shows us the origin of Baba Yaga, one of the main heavies of the Zenescope universe. We also get the first glimpse of The Dream Eater and what it could mean to the rest of the world. Gregory and Spay keep it simple and lay everything out in an easy to follow way for new readers and have something to make long time fans happy too.

Read on to learn how to score a free copy.

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SUPER. This is the film Kick Ass wished it was, plain and simple. I’ve been looking forward to this film for quite some time now. The film delivered on the hype of being fantastic and absolutely crazy. You must give this great independent film a chance.

Before you assume anything, this film isn’t cashing in on the whole “real superhero” trend that seems to be taking over our cineplexes. SUPER is a project over 9 years old and is nothing like the films that came before it.

SUPER is the story of Frank (Rainn Wilson) a sad lump of a man who works as a short order cook at a diner. One day Frank’s way too beautiful (Liv Tyler), recovering drug addict wife Sarah leaves him for the local crime kingpin played by Kevin Bacon. This really pushes the already troubled Frank over the edge… and he decides to become a superhero to take down the crime lord and get his wife back.

Read on to score free tickets and prize packs!

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Disney was nice enough to hook us up with a DVD+Blu-ray combo pack copy of its 50th animated feature film Tangled, which hit stores back in March.  Tangled, which is a retelling of the classic Grimm’s fairy tale Rapunzel, stars the voice talents of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, and Donna Murphy.

In case you’re somehow not familiar with the story of Tangled, it goes something like this:

After receiving the healing powers from a magical flower, the baby Princess Rapunzel is kidnapped from the palace in the middle of the night by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel knows that the flower’s magical powers are now growing within the golden hair of Rapunzel, and to stay young, she must lock Rapunzel in her hidden tower.

Rapunzel now a teenager has hair that has grown to a length of 70-feet. The beautiful Rapunzel has been in the tower her entire life, and she is curious of the outside world. One day, the bandit Flynn Ryder scales the tower and is taken captive by Rapunzel. Rapunzel strikes a deal with the charming thief to act as her guide to travel to the place where the floating lights come from that she has seen every year on her birthday. Rapunzel is about to have the most exciting and magnificent journey of her life.

Want to win a DVD+Blu-ray copy of Tangled? Simply comment with your favorite fairy tale and why and I will pick a winner sometime next week. Good luck!

Your Highness (which hits theaters Friday, April 8th) is the new fantasy comedy starring the Oscar winning Natalie Portman, and the Oscar nominated James Franco in roles that were definitely shot before their Oscar nods.  The film is directed by David Gordon Green who you might know better as the director of Pineapple Express. The film looks to be a really fun and raunchy romp through the the middle-ages.

I first saw the trailer for this at the beginning of Paul and it definitely got my attention. The plot goes something like this: Thadeous (Danny McBride) is a lazy, arrogant prince who, with his brother Fabious (James Franco), must go on an epic quest in order to save their father’s kingdom. Add Natalie Portman as a warrior princess and Zooey Deschanel as Fabious’ bride how can you not want to see this?

We have 30 passes for a screening Tuesday April 5th at the Ritz Five. Wanna check it out? Simply comment with your favorite sword and sorcery film by April 3rd and the top entries will be checking out this film on Geekadelphia. In the meantime check out the trailer below.

Hanna hits theaters Friday, April 8^th and the film looks like a cross between Salt and The Professional. I hadn’t really heard anything about Hanna until I saw the trailer, but once I did, I had to see this film. The film is directed by Joe Wright best known for Pride and Prejudice and 2007′s Atonement.

If you’re not familiar with the plot of Hanna, it goes something like this:

Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a teenage girl with the strength, stamina, and smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father (Eric Bana), an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland.

Her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative (Cate Blanchett).

As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

Wanna check out an advance screening of Hanna Wednesday, March 30th at the Ritz at the Bourse? Simply comment with your favorite assassin film by Friday, March 25^th and the top 20 will get passes to check the film out.  In the meantime check out the trailer below!