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The Lone Star International Film Festival concluded its third edition last Sunday, and by most estimations it was a success. The organizers did a solid job with marketing and getting the word out, something they’ve struggled with in years past. (There were reports of sold-out screenings throughout the festival’s five days.) The film schedule offered a number of nice surprises — including the romantic comedy Spooner and the Irish ghost story The Eclipse — that have screened virtually nowhere else in the United States.Read more

The singer-songwriter’s first CD debuted in 1997, but only recently has success come calling.Read more

In 700 Sundays, Billy Crystal shows the audience tons of home movies from his childhood. Most people don’t want to watch this much of their own family history. The odd thing is that Crystal makes you love watching his.Read more

New Moon, the second film adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular series of teen vampire romance novels, is compelling, elegantly made and occasionally moving — it’s a leap beyond last year’s pallid and belabored Twilight.Read more

A plasticized reef rises from the floor of the Fort Worth Community Arts Center. Coral-like forms made from wire and cable ties sprout from the surface, surrounded by the detritus of consumer waste. The colorful installation of CDs, water bottles, shopping bags, plastic wrap, netting, packing materials, telephone wire, even pink hair curlers — the trash that is strangling our planet — is used to an almost too-positive effect by installation artist Joyce Martin.Read more

Who says you have to go to San Diego for Comic-Con to get your comics fix? You don’t even have to leave Tarrant County, thanks to YuleCon, which opens Friday at the Radisson Hotel Fort Worth North-Fossil Creek and runs through Sunday. This is an anime and gaming convention with tournaments for BlazBlue, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Street Fighter 4, Soul Caliber 4 and Mario Kart Wii.Read more

The Twilight Saga: New Moon is a movie featuring vampires and werewolves, but at its premiere, the stars looked like relatively normal human beings (OK, we’re still not sure about Kristen Stewart). The celebrities who showed up to the premiere, however, make us wonder if there was a full moon that night.Read more

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Fort Worth-born but Austin-based singer-songwriter Collin Herring is in a far better place now than he was when making his gripping third album, Past Life Crashing,although you wouldn’t necessarily know it from listening to the just-released Ocho. Recorded at Austin’s Ramble Creek Studios with Britton Beisenherz and Centro-matic’s Will Johnson at the helm, Ocho is a gripping, taut collection of, appropriately enough, eight alt-country songs that frequently veer toward rock. Herring’s prairie-dust tenor slips urgently through tracks like Trazodone and the terrific Hit Miss. Herring, with support from fellow Cowtown exports the Frontier Brothers, will headline the Moon on Thanksgiving night.Read more