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Forrest Gump (mocked) Master Pancake vs LOTR | MySpace Video There are a couple of things happening this weekend that you may want to know about…courtesy of the Alamo Drafthouse Westlakes and the Overtime Theater. Saturday (March 20) head over to the Drafthouse (Westlakes) at 12:30 PM for a special presentation of the movie Weird Science hosted by [Read it all...] Four Pyr covers featuring cover art by San Antonio's John Picacio. The science fiction/fantasy literary publisher Pyr (an imprint of Prometheus Books) is celebrating their fifth anniversary this year in style. They are sponsoring a contest that incorporates things they hold dear: creative and powerful writing, a passion for reading genre fiction, and this year’s special [Read it all...] We saw an article on the brilliant io9 site with the provocative title Don’t Remake These 21 Movies, Film These Books Instead! This piece really hit home for us at Missions Unknown. We love great SF movies almost as much as we love great SF literature. Almost. You really can’t help being embarrassed as a [Read it all...] Could Missions Unknown be the best blog in San Antonio? It’s up to you. Head over to the San Antonio Current’s web site or pick up the dead tree edition and vote for Missions Unknown under the category of “Best Blogger”. Ballots must be submitted by midnight on March 30. Every Monday, the Alamo Drafthouse Westlakes features a free anime screening. Tonight you can see Slayers Revolution, a Dungeons and Dragons-themed adventure/farce. The Slayers is a popular series that started as a series of 52 light novels, then moved into manga, five televised anime series, movies, radio dramas, console games and role-playing games. The story [Read it all...] Cofa Production’s much anticipated stop-motion animation film Fall of the House of Usher is scheduled to make its San Antonio debut, March 11, 2010, at the Alamo Drafthouse Park North (618 NW Loop 410) with screenings at 7:00 and 9:00 PM. Quality, first-rate film productions are becoming something to be expected from the Alamo [Read it all...] Geeks Unite! Annalee Newitz is a must-see at Trinity University Wednesday night. io9 Editor-in-Chief, journalist, author, and hacker Annalee Newitz will visit San Antonio’s Trinity University as part of the school’s “Reality Hackers” lecture series, this Wednesday, March 10 at 7pm in the Fiesta Room. Her talk is entitled “Curse of the Meatsack: Biohacking, Immortality, [Read it all...] LOCUS Magazine still going strong after 40 years. Hey, SA — you can help decide the winners of the 2010 Locus Poll. The poll is in its 40th year, courtesy of LOCUS Magazine, and this year’s ballot tallies science fiction/fantasy literature and art published in 2009. The top five vote-getters in each category are named [Read it all...] The city of San Antonio goes all out for art in the month of March, the new home on the calendar for Contemporary Art Month (CAM). While art of the fantastic is not on many venues, readers of Missions Unknown may find a few gems in the CAM calendar of events. A few examples follow:
Mike Fisher wants to know… Animator and comics maniac Mike Fisher is curious about what you want to see in online animated entertainment. He has put together a brief online animation survey to find out. We have loved his previous animations, like The Invisible Master, and genuinely look forward to seeing what else is coming [Read it all...] |
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