A Full List of Celebrities Coming to Huntsville, AL for the Comic and Pop Culture Expo in April 2025

The 10th Annual Comic and Pop Culture Expo taking place at the South Hall of the Von Braun Center April 25-27, 2025 in Huntsville, AL will feature many special guest celebrities. The full list is below.

Comic & Pop Culture Expo (credit: https://www.hsvexpo.com/)

There are some amazing celebrity guests coming to Huntsville, Alabama for the 2025 Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo.

A Full List of Celebrity Guests at the Huntsville Comic and Pop Culture Expo

Here is the full list of confirmed guest celebrities coming to Huntsville on April 25-27, 2025:

• "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Adassa
• A.J. Beckles
• Alan Oppenheimer (Saturday only)
• Anairis Quinones
• Anna Zhuo
• B.J. Ward
• Brian Austin Green (Saturday and Sunday only) - Beverly Hills 90210
• Chris Claremont
• Debi Derryberry
• Denise Crosby
• Diane Guerrero
• Tori Spelling - Beverly Hills 90210
• Eddie Steeples
• Elizabeth Berkley (Saturday and Sunday only) - Saved by the Bell
• Emily Swallow
• Ernie Hudson (Saturday only) - Ghostbusters
• Ethan Suplee
• Flatline Comics
• George Newbern
• Jason Lee
• Jaime Pressly
• Jason Griffith
• Joey Lawrence
• Jodi Benson
• Joel Hodgson
• Karan Ashley
• Kayleigh McKee
• Kevin Eastman
• Kim Rhodes
• Landon McDonald
• Linda Larkin (Saturday and Sunday only)
• Lisa Ortiz
• Maria Canals-Barrera
• Mario Lopez - Saved by the Bell
• Melissa Joan Hart (Saturday and Sunday only) - Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• Michael Bell
• Neil Ross
• Nicholas Roye
• Nick Pauley - "Bye Bye Bye" dance sequence in Deadpool & Wolverine movie
• Pete Capella
• Phil LaMarr
• Priscilla Presley (Saturday and Sunday only)
• Ryan Bartley
• Sarah Natochenny
• Steve Cardenas
• Susan Eisenberg
• Timothy Zahn
• Vincent D'Onofrio
• Walter Jones
• Walter Koenig
• William Shatner (Saturday and Sunday only)
• Zachary Levi (Saturday only) - Shazam!

A Special $20K Donation was Given to Kids to Love in 2024

The Huntsville Expo website shared that they presented a $20,000 check to the Kids to Love Foundation from the 2024 Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo, which has helped hundreds of thousands of children living in foster care.

Madison Pizzeria Valentina's Does Another Political Pizza Box, This Time with Jesus Inside

Valentina's pizzeria is not backing down on its politically themed pizza boxes after unveiling a "sequel" to the Trump-themed pizza boxes first unveiled around the Presidential election that took place in November 2024.

Valentina's pizza box; credit: AL.com

The front of Valentina's latest pizza box (seen in the photo above) starting on the leftmost side is Elon Musk, then JD Vance with piercing eyes, Tulsi Gabbard, Robert Kennedy Jr., and Vivek Ramaswamy.

The inside of the pizza box (seen below) depicts an image of Donald Trump in the Oval Office with a depiction of Jesus standing next to the President.

The inside of the pizza box; credit: AL.com

Valentina's Pizzeria and Wine Bar

Valentina's Pizzeria and Wine Bar was named after owner Joe Carlucci's daughter and has won many awards. It is located at 25783 Huntsville Brownsferry Road in Madison, AL.

Joe Carlucci first decided in the fall that he wanted to run a special promotion with a spin on politics, which was covered in this article.

3 More Businesses Permanently Close at Bridge Street Town Centre in Huntsville, AL in January 2025

Three more businesses are permanently closing their doors for good at the Bridge Street Town Centre outdoor shopping mall in Huntsville, AL. Read the details on the business closings.

credit: Huntsville.org

First, Pieology Pizza left around November 2024. 

An employee from Bridge Street Town Centre posted the following on Reddit.com/r/HuntsvilleAlabama:

"I work at Bridge Street and I was there the day before they closed. The guy working there said they were bought by a different company and the new owners wanted to keep the stores mostly in Florida. Not sure how true that is but just what the guy said." 

(Source: Birdman_v5) 

Then PBR Lockhart Smokehouse permanently closed its doors at Bridge Street at the end of 2024.

FOX54 reported that the cowboy-themed restaurant closed after a 'Countdown to 2025' celebration. The restaurant was a unique joint venture partnership between PBR Cowboy Bar and Lockhart Smokehouse and opened in October 2022. They described themselves as "an electric combination of PBR Cowboy Bar's 'cowboy cool' with Lockhart's iconic Texas barbeque."

(Source: FOX54's RocketCityNow.com)

3 Stores Closing in Bridge Street Town Centre in January 2025

FOX54 reported on 2 January 2025 that Chico's, Soma, and White House Black Market will all close their Bridge Street Town Centre Huntsville, AL stores permanently on 26 January 2025.

All of these stores are owned by Chico's FAS/Sycamore Partners, which is based out of Florida.

FOX54 reported that this news was shocking to employees, who reportedly learned of the store closures "just days after Christmas."

One employee said, "Our general manager was informed by our District Manager," which came after management told employees that "their locations would not be affected."

An employee told FOX54, "We have ladies who have been here eight years, 11 years, and then my management, my manager now has been here eight years. And there's no plan B for some people."

It was clear that employees "were kept in the dark about the store closings" until after the holiday shopping season.

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