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"...(austinchronicle.com/store), which memorializes gone-but-not-forgotten spots like Liberty Lunch, Raul's, Dobie Theatre, Armadillo World Headquarters, Nasty's, Sound Exchange, and Las..."

May 26, 2023 Column

From the Dobie to Infinity ... and Beyond!

Stephanie Martinez-Arndt joins the adventure as part of the team behind Pixar's Lightyear

"...outing to see Toy Story 3 at the old Dobie Theatre on the Drag. She said, "Everyone was growing..."

June 17, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

From the Archives: Organizing Outside the System – Deborah Shaffer and The Wobblies

Our 1981 interview with the filmmaker behind the classic doc

"...interviewed Shaffer while the film was playing at the Dobie Theatre, then the center of Austin's art house scene...."

May 3, 2022 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips: Dobie Dichos, Oakville

Gather under the stars to celebrate storytelling and J. Frank Dobie

"...Dobie Dichos gathers people together who appreciate a good yarn..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Now Streaming in Austin: AFS on Slacker at the Dobie

Linklater explains the breakout run of his classic

"...watch while self-quarantining. So if you were at the Dobie Theatre 30 years ago, right now, there's a good..."

July 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

In 1990, Austin Audiences Watched Slacker... and Saw Themselves

Richard Linklater’s indie milestone celebrates 30 years

"...on one of the two screens at the now-defunct Dobie Theater, in the food court on the second floor..."

July 24, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Fun Exercise

"...Cinema," Screens] regarding the AFS programming at its old Dobie Theatre venue and the consistency she perceives in the..."

June 12, 2017 Postmarks

The Austin Film Society Unveils Its New Home for Cinema

Two-screen theatre will showcase the best of new and classic arthouse cinema

"...the door. This weekend, the old Marchesa Hall & Theatre reopens as AFS Cinema, a two-screen theatre dedicated to..."

May 26, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

James Magnuson Leaves the Michener Center

James Magnuson reflects on his 23 years as director of the Michener Center for Writers

"...closely identified with the program as its home, the Dobie House, where storied Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie hisself..."

May 26, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Memoriam: Linalice Carey

Pioneer of Austin independent theatre passes at age 95

"...When Linalice Carey began making theatre in Austin, the spaces were small and far from..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Best Little Arthouse in Texas

The Austin Film Society expands and asks you to help

"...6226 Middle Fiskville Road (for longtime Austinites, that’s the theatre at the Lincoln Village shopping center, across from the..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: It Was Thirty Years and a Day and a Half Ago

It's hard to get unstuck from the past when it's still so present

"...IN THE AVANT GARDE was to play at the Dobie that Fri thru Sun. Just my kinda meat, I..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Column by Louis Black

From the Vaults: “Are You Talking to Me?”

Chronicle Archives: Richard Linklater & Paul Schrader in 1991

"...release. Linklater’s breakthrough film had been playing at Austin’s Dobie Theatre for the past year, but was not set..."

June 3, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Outside of Society

Does Austin have enough room for two queer film festivals?

"...the rows at the packed Stateside at the Paramount theatre, friends popped up out of seats like so many..."

May 2, 2014 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Film Flam

News that's not SXSW-related

"...• The owners of the Dobie Theatre are seeking a new operator to reopen the..."

March 17, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Polari’s Audience Award Becomes a Legend

aGLIFF founder Scott Dinger on 25 years of queer cinema

"...Dinger – then program manager for the Drag’s now-shuttered Dobie Theater – started noticing lesbian and gay movies in..."

Oct. 15, 2013 Screens Post by Sarah Marloff

Deep-Seated Divans and Homo Sectionals

'Don't just sit there!' implores Polari, giving us every reason to

"...1987 in the nooks and crannies of Austin's storied Dobie Theater. The small four-screen movie house was owned by..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

The Society Pages

Reading the next chapter of the Austin Film Society's playbook

"...The society isn't taking over the Marchesa Hall & Theatre, but it is becoming its biggest regular tenant, with..."

June 21, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

You Gotta Have the Mettle

Legendary Texas doc 'Hands on a Hard Body' keeps on truckin'

"...accolades, beginning a legendary year-plus run at the old Dobie Theater. This month, a remastered version of the film,..."

April 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Terminal Stage

With 'Adam Sultan,' playwright Steve Moore again reflects on friendship and mortality in Austin

"...is based on and also portrayed by the Austin theatre artist and musician of that name – my passing..."

April 5, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Thanks for the Memories

'Chronicle' staff past and present on 20 years of covering SXSW Film

"...had no chance of seeing a month later in theatres. I liked the existential aspect of the serendipitous Festival..."

March 1, 2013 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

You Don’t Even Have to Go to the Movies Anymore

You really shouldn’t stop going to the movies

"...a distributor and an exhibitioner (via his Alamo Drafthouse theatre chain), his thoughts about Austin’s place in the release..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Gayplace: BLOGGITY BLOG BLOG BLOG

Stanley Roy is back, and so are you, if you feel the urge to camp it up.

"...years with an Eighties party. Sat., Aug. 18, 6pm-12mid. Dobie Theatre. $35, advance; $45 at the door. www.asaustin.org/BigLove...."

Aug. 10, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

The Children's Hour

Design takes center stage in Different Stages' revival of Lillian Hellman's drama

"...The Children's HourCity Theatre, 3823-D Airport, 524-2870 www.citytheatreaustin.org Through Jan. 28 Running Time:..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Moving Pictures

Twenty years on, more than two dozen filmmakers pay tribute to Slacker and a city in transition

"...and, ultimately, its very near premiere at the Paramount Theatre on Aug. 31 – happened at a lightning pace..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Microcinema Mania

Bimonthly series Cinema41 highlights the underseen and underrated

"...shell-shocked – house at Downtown Austin mainstay the Hideout Theatre...."

July 22, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

This Tangled Web He Weaves

Small-screen experimentalist Max Juren goes big

"...the cheap should bring the darkened halls of the Dobie Theatre back to life, if only for one night...."

June 10, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Slack to the Future

Slacker at 20

"...(in Austin, anyway) via a run at the now-defunct Dobie Theatre during the summer of 1990...."

Jan. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

More 'Slack'

The Chronicle's 20-year love affair with Slacker

"...a 1999 piece about Scott Dinger's legacy at the Dobie Theater in which filmmakers and film aficionados shared stories..."

Jan. 20, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bloody Beautiful Illusions

Alejandro Jodorowsky, surrealism's topo sangre, on Truth, Beauty, and the Internet

"...personal body of work that ranges from film to theatre to graphic novels to your own complex spiritual beliefs..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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