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10:30AM Tue. Sep. 3, 2013,
Kolaches Are a Big Hit in Brooklyn
While thousands of Texans were flocking to tiny West, Texas, over Labor Day weekend to celebrate their Tex-Czech heritage with polka music and kolaches, homesick Texans in the New York City borough of Brooklyn were also enjoying an authentic taste of yeasty goodness that reminds them of home.
9:45AM Tue. Sep. 3, 2013, Phillip Pantuso
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LoneStarCon 3: Lessons From My First Worldcon
As a relative newcomer to the science fiction world – make that universe – fandom culture is not second nature to me. When I hit the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center on Thursday, I didn't know a World of Warcraft orc from Shrek. Oh, how young and naive I was. Here are some things I learned from my first gathering of the genre faithful.
2:15PM Mon. Sep. 2, 2013, Amy Gentry
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Drafthouse Asks Us, 'Why Don't You Play in Hell'
With Fantastic Fest only 18 days away (panic stations, people!), one more film on its schedule has already secured distribution. Drafthouse Films has added Sion Sono's Why Don't You Play in Hell to its slate.
11:50AM Mon. Sep. 2, 2013, Richard Whittaker
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Hey, Adults! Comics! Comics that are Funny, Weird, and Profound!
They will delight you.
They will inform you.
They will freak your mind the fuck out.
They will inform you.
They will freak your mind the fuck out.
10:30AM Mon. Sep. 2, 2013, Wayne Alan Brenner, Erika May McNichol and Shannon McCormick
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DVDanger: 'Unit 7'
When did police procedurals get so bloated? They used to be models of efficiency. I guess it was Heat that did it, made them bulky and mythical and eternally epic. In some ways, the fact that Spanish corruption drama Unit 7 kicks down the door with such brevity makes it fresh.
6:54PM Sun. Sep. 1, 2013, Richard Whittaker
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LoneStarCon 3: The Lois McMaster Bujold Interview
Lois McMaster Bujold has won more Hugo Awards for best novel than anyone but Robert Heinlein, and if you’re confused about why, you haven’t been paying attention. For 27 years, she’s been turning out book after book in the acclaimed Vorkosigan Saga, a “military space opera” with a heart – and brain and uterus, or at least uterine replicator.
2:00PM Sun. Sep. 1, 2013, Amy Gentry
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LoneStarCon 3: The Howard and George Show
To commemorate their half-century of improbable friendship, writers George R. R. Martin and Howard Waldrop spent an hour in front of several hundred people at LoneStarCon 3 telling the kind of stories on each other that made you feel they should have given up on one another or else fallen to fisticuffs long, long ago.
11:30AM Sun. Sep. 1, 2013, Robert Faires
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Five Minutes of 'War'
If you read our review of I Declare War, you'll know it straddles a unique line between fantasy and reality. Now Drafthouse Films have put the first five minutes online, and released trading cards for its pint-sized action heroes.
