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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 Read More | Comment »

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 Read More | Comment »

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.

10:30AM Mon. Sep. 2, 2013, Wayne Alan Brenner, Erika May McNichol and Shannon McCormick Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Rom-Com Night With Katherine Center, Jared & Gen Padalecki

Paramount Theatre

Waitress
at ZACH Theatre

Adaptations Book Club: Orlando/Freak Orlando at We Luv Video

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

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 Read More | Comment »

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 Read More | Comment »

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 Read More | Comment »

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.

1:12PM Sat. Aug. 31, 2013, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

LoneStarCon 3: Friday

So two years after that mad wunderkind named Orson scared the bejeezus out of Mr. and Mrs. America and all you ships at sea with his radio version of a Martian invasion, he had a little sit-down with the venerable author of that tale as it originally appeared in print, courtesy of none other than a little Alamo City radio station, KTSA.

9:43AM Sat. Aug. 31, 2013, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Doggett on War and Peace

As the drums of war in D.C. beat furiously once again, Austin Congressman Lloyd Doggett spoke out against precipitous and unilateral U.S. action, and demanded that the Obama Administration first seek war authority from Congress.

4:24PM Fri. Aug. 30, 2013, Michael King Read More | Comment »

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