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Welcome to The Genre Traveler! Please sign up using the form to the right so that you'll get all the latest updates to the site. You also might want to sign up for the RSS feed, which you can do via email or your favorite RSS Reader. Fantastic Fest 3 is playing now through Sept. 27 at the Alamo South in Austin, Texas. This film festival features about 60 science fiction, fantasy and horror movies, along with 50 filmmaker guests. "If you talk to most filmmakers and hardcore film geeks, the movies that made them love movies were the genre films they saw as a kid," Fantastic Fest co-founder Harry Knowles told The Austin American-Statesman. "So this is an opportunity to see what a freaky, weird ghost story from Thailand looks like. We have a Pakistani horror film this year. Like, what the hell's that going to be? That's the excitement of it." Guests at this year's festival include:

• George Romero presenting Diary of the Dead

• Adam Green presenting Spiral with star Joel David Moore

• Joe Lynch presenting Wrong Turn 2

• Uwe Boll and star Zack Ward presenting Postal

• Maurice Devereaux presenting End of the Line

And more. For more information, visit www.fantasticfest.com.

The annual Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze and Legend Weekend is coming up in October and features an elaborate display of more than 4,000 hand-carved pumpkins, and an opportunity to see the Headless Horseman make his fabled ride. Read more »

The Women in Games International conference will take place at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, from 11 am to 5 pm. the keynote speaker will be Dona C. Bailey, creator of the Centipede video game, one of the first video games to incorporate artificial intelligence. She'll be taking a look at where video games have been, where they are now and where she'd like to see them go in the future. Other events will include panels covering why having a diverse development team is good for the bottom line and women and online games. Roundtables will cover attracting women into games, planning a long-term career and more. For more information, check out the official website.

"Roll, roll, roll en zee hay." For some reason, that's one of my favorite quotes from the 1974 Mel Brooks film Young Frankenstein. Well this funny, funny film is now a musical.

"The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein" will open for its World Premiere, pre-Broadway presentation, at The Paramount Theater in Seattle, Ore., on Aug. 7, and run through Sept. 1.

The production team includes Mel Brooks (book, music and lyrics), Thomas Meehan (book), Susan Stroman (director and choreographer), Robin Wagner (set design) and William Ivey Long (costume design). The stars of the show include Emmy Award-winning Megan Mullally (Will and Grace) and Tony Award winners Sutton Foster ("Thoroughly Modern Millie"), Shuler Hensley ("Oklahoma") and Roger Bart ("You're A Good Man Charlie Brown").

For more information, check out The Paramount's website.

August 2007

Aug. 1-15
Artifacts of a Nether World
Art & Objects by Dan Chessher
Hyaena Gallery
Burbank, Calif.
www.hyaenagallery.com

Aug. 10-12
Horrorfind Weekend
Marriott Hunt Valley Inn
Hunt Valley, Md.
www.horrorfindweekend.com/state/maryland/august/

Aug. 11, 2007
LA Myth: A group art show
Meltdown Comics
Los Angeles, Calif.
meltcomics.com or myspace.com/lamyth

Aug. 24, 2007
23rd Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards
The Caltech Athenaeum
Pasadena, Calif.
RSVP for reservations:
(323) 466-3310 or (800) 624-6504 in California
Outside California (800) 624-7907

September 2007

Sept. 7-9, 2007
Baltimore Comic Con
Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, Md.
www.comicon.com/baltimore/

October 2007

Oct. 5-7, 2007
Chiller Theatre
Hilton Parsippany
Parsippany, N.J.
www.chillertheatre.com
Note: Deadline to order advanced tickets is Sept. 22

Oct. 19-21, 2007
Screamfest
Wyndham Orlando Resort
Orlando, Fla.
Special Guest: Robert Englund
www.spookyempire.com

Oct. 12-21, 2007
Screamfest Horror Film Festival & Screenplay Competition
Grauman's Mann Chinese 6
Hollywood, Calif.
www.screamfestla.com