I don't know anything about WesterCon57 but The Arizona Republic (sounds a bit dodgy) tries their best to make it sound incredibly geeky.
Stargazers and would-be galactic travelers, your ship is about to land.
It made me laugh because on one hand they're publicising it and yet on the other hand they are making it sound a bit too crazy to visit. Mind you it does have basket-weaving. I don't know what the general populace of Arizona makes of conventions like this, I've only passed through there a couple of times and that was to see the big hole in the ground.
