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Chepo Peña's Star Wars Loteria in Austin

Austin artist Chepo Peña is having a showing of his Star Wars themed loteria cards this weekend in Austin. Peña’s wry mashup of two cultural memes is spot on for both. His graphical style matches the classic Mexican loteria cards and his humorous translations of the cards to the Star Wars milieu is brilliant. Greedo [Read it all...]

48 Hour Film: Sign Trainer

Teams of filmmakers recently spent a long weekend creating short films as part of the national 48 Hour Film Project competition. Presented here is the short film Sign Trainer directed and animated by Joey Carillo of Lone Bannana Productions with assitance from Nikki Young, Mistah Pete, Don Rios, and Paul Vaughn.

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Horrific Film Fest is This Weekend!

San Antonio’s Horrific Film Fest is this week, staring on Wednesday, August 25th and leaving a trail of gore through Sunday, August 29th. Sponsored by Ortiz Entertainment and The Darkness, this third Horrific Film Fest will bring you horror films from around he world, horror celebrities, workshops, concerts, loads of dealers, costume contests, a gothic [Read it all...]

Those Movies of Yesteryear

Those of us who are older have fond memories of local TV station movie programming. Often these were accompanied by a host or some sort of themed programming. In San Antonio you would watch programs like Project Terror or Screaming Meemies, where I grew up in Virginia it was Doctor Madblood.

In that vein, Steven Alejandro [Read it all...]

Report: Alamo City Gaming Championship

On July 24th at Pat O’Brian’s in San Antonio was the Alamo City Gaming Championship. Our friend Chris Holm attended and filed this report:

Alamo City Gaming Championship winners with custom Xboxes from Elite Gaming of San Antonio

The Alamo City Gaming Championship was organized to help to promote the gaming scene in Texas. Several gamers [Read it all...]

Tech in Twenty Checks out Ooples, Anime & Other Geek Culture

Luis Sandoval and Jennifer Navarrette took their essential technology podcast Tech in Twenty to the new Ooples retail store in the new Wonderland of the Americas Mall. We profiled Ooples.com founder Franklin Moormann in June when he mentioned that a retail store was in the works. Now otaku in San Antonio can browse anime-themed apparel [Read it all...]

Interviews and Videos from San Japan 3

San Antonio’s premiere Japanese culture and anime convention, San Japan, is over but the interviews and videos are flooding the intertubes. You can check out loads of interviews with anime voice actors including San Antonio’s Jonathan Joss, see clips from concerts by Protomen, Maja and others and get a look at some of the panel [Read it all...]

Learn Special FX from The Darkness

Ever wanted to know how to make zombies, scars, burns, or even your very own Halloween masks? Then you definitely want to check out the workshop schedule from those masters of the macabre at The Darkness. You’ll learn great techniques to make monsters on a budget and even have the opportunity to take part in [Read it all...]

Worlds Collide: Star Trek Trivia for Charity

Mr. Scott certainly knew how to take care of unwanted animals.

Join Worlds Collide for a Star Trek Trivia Game, with elements of Royal Rumble thrown in the mix to raise funds for a San Antonio animal shelter. Trivia questions will cover all the Movies and TV series. The event is July 31st at 3:00 PM [Read it all...]

MySA.com: Roy Bragg Listens to Filk

If you didn’t catch last Sunday’s San Antonio Express-News, you missed Roy Bragg’s feature on Filk, SF folk music featured at many conventions. Bragg went to the recent ApolloCon in Houston and clearly spent a lot of time listening to and enjoying this staple of con culture. Here’s an excerpt:

A filk song can [Read it all...]