Katie is this weekend at DraconCon, with Arrow co-stars Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, John Barrowman and Matt Nable. You can watch bellow the panel from yesterday and hopefully soon enough the panel from today will be avaliable.

After defeating his most formidable foe to date and riding off into the sunset with longtime flame Felicity Smoak, Oliver Queen (a.k.a. The Arrow) left Starling City with the hopes of beginning a new life. But will Oliver ever truly be able to leave behind his past as the Arrow, and, if so, what becomes of the team he has worked so hard to assemble? Will Diggle, Thea, and Laurel be left to continue Oliver’s crusade without him? And with Malcolm Merlyn having ascended to the top of the League of Assassins as the new Ra’s al Ghul, is anyone really safe? Arrow Season 4 premieres Wednesday October 7th on The CW!

A new TVLine spoiler report dishes about the main baddie in season 4 of Arrow, revealing that he is not going to “hide in the shadows” like many villains in the past have done.

The report reveals that Darhk will be making an appearance in the premiere itself and this will be at a public gathering. The more interesting but is the fact that Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy) will be present. Nothing has been revealed about Darhk actually warming up to some combat with Lance, but it is highly likely that the two might have some form of confrontation.

Showrunner Marc Guggenheim spoke about the nature of this villain to TVLine. “He’s very different from our previous Big Bads in that he’s not hiding in the shadows,” Guggenheim said. “But at the same time, he doesn’t have a public persona.”

Guggenheim went on to confirm Darhk’s appearance in the premiere. “He shows up at a very public meeting that Lance is present at,” he said. “If Darhk wants to show up somewhere, he’s certainly going to!”

 

Season 4 will premiere on Oct. 7 on The CW.

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It has been announced via twitter that Katie will be attending Super Heroes Con II. The convention is set to happen next year on June 11-12, in Paris. Along with Katie, Arrow’s David Ramsey, Colin Donnell and The Flash’s Danielle Panabaker have been confirmed to be attending as well.

We’ve had a lot going on around here the last few days (life developments, work developments, developmental developments…), all while prepping for New York Fashion Week.

It’s hard to believe that the time is already here again.  Given the amount of guaranteed distractions we see on our horizon over the next two weeks, we’ve decided to get a head-start on our packing.

Here’s the thing, when you are dressing out of a truncated closet for over a week, chances are the grand plans you made for one of your “fabulous” getup’s will be foiled by breakfast, wrinkles or all of those cupcakes you ate at that party the day before anyway. It’s not a chance happening, it’s a fact of life. So in addition to a few statement pieces we want to work in (remember this dress), here is what we are bringing with us to New York this time around to be prepared for the inevitable.

1. Button Downs: Here’s the thing about a good button-down, when you’re standing in front of a mirror trying to figure out what to wear ten minutes before you’re supposed to be downtown… well, let’s just say you’ll be glad you have several. They go with every statement piece you might accidentally run across while brunching at Barneys. Our favorites this season are of the plaid variety. (Etoile Isabel Marant, $97.20 (on sale today); we also love this one)

2. Statement Jewelry: We love to pick one statement piece and rock it all week long. In case you missed the memo, we’ve got a thing for architectural pieces and collars. (Anndra Neen, $525.00)

3. Graphic Tees: Graphic Tees go a long way for adding a little extra edge to any look. Because we can pair them with basically anything, suffice it to say we stuff as many as we can into the crevices of our luggage. (Rodarte $125.00; also want this one)

4. Distressed Denim: While button front skirts and airy dresses are all the rage (and yes, we plan on packing them), this season we are just really feeling denim. OK, so every season we are feeling denim, but that’s another issue altogether. (MIH Jeans, $82)

5. Boyfriend Blazers: The weather is supposed to be H-O-T-T, but you never know when a chill might hit the runway. It’s always good to have a few blazers on hand to drape over your shoulders should the need arise.

6. Court Pumps: The most versatile (read: comfortable) of our heel collection, we bring a pair in every color. When last minute outfit changes occur, at least your genius won’t be foiled by lack of footwear.

7. Statement Shades: We choose to make our statement in the accessories department. And for the last few seasons sunglasses have been our vice. Luckily, we discovered Triple Graces – statement making shades at the bargain price of $93.33 for three pairs. That way, if we leave a pair in a chair (happened last season), we might be disappointed but we won’t have to move into our room and call our shrink over it (almost happened last season). (Triple Graces, 3 pair for $93.33; we also love Le Specs)

8. Sneaks: Luckily for us (and our soles), sneakers are totally acceptable footwear these days. Not that we needed it to be acceptable. Let’s be honest, we were probably going to wear them anyway. (Golden Goose $302.00, on sale)

9. Eye Patches: After early mornings, long days and late nights, under eye patches are probably the first thing we packed. So. Necessary. (Klorane, $18.00)

10. Whimsical Clutch: Remember that whole thing about making statements with our accessories? Yeah, still doing that. (Jonathan Adler, $58.00)

11. Red-Orange Lipstick: The thing about lipstick is, if you don’t have skill time to give yourself a professional makeup job, putting on a bright shade of lipstick can do the trick. Not to mention, we generally prefer it because it looks more natural and less “overworked” when worn on its own. Last fall we were all burgundy, this time around we are borrowing the red-orange crayon from our box. (Yves Saint Laurent, $35.00)

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Hey all, Just a little update to say I’m going away on holiday to Canada tomorrow for two weeks. In this time I will have little to no internet, So there will be no updates from me till I get back so please do not email me in this time. But Neide will be about and looking after the site for you all.
Abby

On balancing the will they/won’t they aspect of Oliver and Laurel’s relationship on “Arrow”:
I think any time you do a TV show, and you’ve got two people together who are star-crossed lovers and they’re destined to be together, but you don’t want them together because you run into the “Moonlighting” problem of your two main characters, once they actually end up together, in a committed relationship, then it seems to lose all of its sexual spark.The little magic trick that we have to do with Oliver and Laurel is, keep bringing them together and pulling them apart, bringing them together and pulling them apart.

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Black Canary (Katie Cassidy)

The gloves are a nod to the comic book character’s legendary fishnets. Mani updated Caity Lotz’s Canary getup for Cassidy so that “if Laurel didn’t have the holsters and the mask, she could just be a girl walking down the street.” A badass one, at that. “She had to earn it,” Mani notes of Laurel’s well-deserved transition to superhero in Season 3. “This was not handed to her on a silver platter. She worked very, very hard for it.”Adds the actress: “The best word to describe how I feel when suited up is empowered. Wearing the costume is not only a physical transformation but also an emotional one. A character’s wardrobe is an important part of the process for me.”

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E! has opened votations for Girl on Top 2015 and Katie is up against Jennifer Morrison in the competition. To vote for Katie, just click on the picture bellow. Along with Katie, Candice Patton, Emily Bett Rickards and Danielle Panabaker are also in the competition.

Getting anything on Arrow‘s Laurel Lance/Black Canary storyline for Season 4 is like pulling hens’ teeth. Have you heard any spoilers about Laurel that are not Sara- or Quentin-related? –Apple
Since you asked so nicely…. Laurel is “fully arrived as Black Canary when we come back [on Oct. 7],” co-showrunner Wendy Mericle previews. “There’s no more learning curve.” But there are still struggles for Laurel as a costumed crimefighter. For one, “She has a secret identity; how does she grapple with that? And she’s an ADA, so what kind of impact is that going to have on her decisions as Black Canary — and vice versa?”

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After last season and there old lair being found by the cops a new lair was needed for season 4. And EW has the first look at it. You can see a bike there is that Black Canary’s new one there were talking about at Comic-Con?

Oliver Queen’s super suit isn’t the only new addition to Team Arrow this season.

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EW has scored an exclusive first look at Arrow’s concept art for the new lair, affectionately known in the writers’ room as the Arrow Bunker.

“In designing the new lair, we had to think in terms of the much larger group that Oliver [Stephen Amell] has now surrounded himself with and how Team Arrow is a much bigger enterprise,” says executive producer Marc Guggenheim, who declined to provide the actual location of the new lair within Star City.

“One of the fun things about this lair is that as opposed to one big space, where everyone would congregate, it’s now a much larger space divided up into smaller spaces,” he continues. “There is an area for Felicity [Emily Bett Rickards] to work, there is an area for Oliver to work out, and there is a garage. There are many different places we’ll continue to discover over the course of the season that give you a sense that this thing is a bit bigger than we got used to in the first three years.”

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Laurel is a key player in bringing Sara back from the dead

“ Maybe the most exciting casting news is that Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) will return to Starling City long before she makes her Legends of Tomorrow debut. “Laurel is very excited to have her sister back and is a key player in the decision to [bring her back from the dead,” say Wendy Mericle.

Credit:: TV Guide 2015 Fall Preview