Last Friday and Saturday, the Long Center hosted Jason Neulander’s pitch-perfect homage to sci-fi pulp and Weird Tales-inspired radio dramas, The Intergalactic Nemesis. We’re glad they did, it was totally nuts and a ton of fun. more ›

Have you wondered recently, as we have, what’s new with Martians these days? Or the TRUTH behind the living dead? Tonight at ND @ 501 Studios, the Whiskey Rebellion has invited three amazing local writers (Jeffrey Chan, Jason Hamilton and Michael Hart) to contribute their particular flavor of pulp and sci-fi in order to answer such disturbing and shocking questions! more ›

Nerds, geeks, dweebs. You can call them whatever you want Texas Monthly, but the fact of the matter is that the denziens of Fantastic Fest devotees are not only determining what hits the mutilplexes across the nation, but they are also having more fun than you are, and today the already simmering anticipation for this year's fest has been given an extra shot of heat as the first slate of programming was released. more ›

WARPSTAR SEXYSQUAD is a brilliant gift, bestowed upon the earthlings of Austin by Tim Doyle, Josh Loposer, and Jonathon Morgan. The three conceived the comic sci-fi musical together, divvying up script duties (Morgan and Loposer) and music and lyrics (Doyle). The results leave one with the impression of something dreamt up during some major stoner session, one of those ideas so super kooky that it could never be brought to life. Only they did it. They really, really did it. And if you are foolish enough to miss this show, you have only yourself to blame. Because this is possibly the best locally created production to hit Austin in a very long time. more ›

What is it about science fiction that gets us so excited? It seems society has been obsessed with the future and what magical wonders it might hold since…well, since the discovery of time. This week, the Paramount continues its Summer Film Series with some old school Sci-Fi from way back—in double feature mode no less, so you really can feel like you’re back in the Day. more ›

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• We saw an episode of "Who Wants to Be a Superhero?" this season, but we didn't realize that The Defuser was one of Austin's finest. He won in last night's season finale.
• Congress bridge officially became the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge in ceremony today.
• Man carrying at least 72 pounds of pot gets pulled over on the way up from Brownsville.

Slide, slide, slippity-slide, hittin' switches on the block in a '65... oh, sorry, wrong kind of voyage. Anyway, this Cosmic Voyage promises to be pretty much as rad as anything Coolio's ever done. Based on early space travel theorist Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky's novel Beyond the Earth, Cosmic Voyage (Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella) portrays humans in space 25 years before Yuri Gagarin's historical journey. It's presented as part of the Austin Film Society's Other Minds, Other... more ›

[The following is an editorial column by contributor Alison Coffey and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Austinist staff. --The Editors] In my youth (also known as The 80's) summertime was not a prime time for television viewing. The Keatons and the Seavers were on vacation (hey--does anyone remember how Mike Seaver's best friend had the nickname Boner?) and unless you liked reruns of Good Times (which I did, actually) or watching... more ›

Spoiler alert: in this show, actors dress up like red cans and do stuff. That’s the long and the short of Rubber Repertory’s latest production with the straightforward title. For a show boldly proclaimed to the crowd as a “new breed of performance” by the guy that took our tickets (actor Lowell Bartholomee), the show is surprisingly safe (artistically speaking) – amounting to a rudimentary investigation of group dynamics, some X-Files moments, adolescent scare... more ›