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If there's one thing that will bring the boys (and girls) to the yard, it's a good dance party that follows a night of thought provoking art cinema. Of course, it's smart to throw in a drink special for good measure. Tonight, Homoscope, an international queer short cinema event, will do just that at Artseen Alliance, with all benefits going to support the arts programs at ALLGO, a statewide organization for queer people of color.

In a lot of ways, Trinidad, Colorado isn't so different from other small towns. They've got a population of 9,000, the local economy is transitioning away from once-prosperous mining and ranching, and Christ is Lord. But Trinidad, like many of its visitors, has a little something extra: Over the past forty years, six thousand people have traveled there to undergo sex-change operations. Dr. Stanley Biber secretly began performing genital-reassignment surgery, or GRS, in 1969, hiding...

Since 1996, the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund has awarded cash and production services to "emerging film and video artists in the state of Texas... whose work shows promise, skill, and creativity." The Austin Film Society recently announced the winners of its 2006 Production Fund; the awards panel, led by indie film legend Allison Anders, supplied 18 hard-working Texas filmmakers with $125,000 in goods and services, the largest amount the TFPF has awarded to date....

*This review comes from new Austinist contributor Rebecca Reed* With its grace notes of post-911 disillusionment, Kyle Henry’s Room screened to an enthusiastic hometown crowd at The Alamo on South Lamar, kicking off its local theatrical run. Julia Barker is a wife, mother, bingo parlor matron and telephone book delivery person who is hitting the proverbial wall. Or maybe four of them. Episodes of excruciating head pain provide her glimpses of a place that...