Mayor of the Sunset Strip

Profile of L.A. radio deejay Rodney Bingenheimer, perpetual handmaiden to rock & roll royalty.

"...Top 10 column in the seminal SoCal punk zine Flipside dictated my musical tastes from the moment I first..."

April 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Alexander

Oliver Stone has achieved the impossible: He's made the life of Alexander the Great seem boring.

"...his able hand with battlefield glory and its blackened flipside (as in Platoon). It is, in a word, boring,..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Faster Than Sound: Live Music Preservation Fund Pays 73 Venues

Ongoing funding under Phase 2 to begin in March.

"...under new ownership. Flip Lockhoof, owner of sports bar FlipSide, took over in November from Gregg and Destinee Ware...."

Feb. 5, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Gay Place: Find Your Qummunity

Events for every stripe of the rainbow, especially Qumbia Queers and Going Grrls

"...Rococo Rodeo The Memorial Day weekend floods hit Burning Flipside as folks were deep in revelry. Many were stuck..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

The Shape of Things

"...The Shape of Things is meant to be the flipside to that film, proof that women can be just..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Harrison's Flowers

"...as the blasted landscape around him, the shiny, slippery flipside to the war's dark underbelly.) From here on out..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Business of Strangers

"...is more problematic. Stettner presents her as Julie's corporate flipside, an emotionally unavailable, sullen, and overeducated twentysomething who resents..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

American Beauty

This Oscar winner is a bleak comedy of suburban mores and one man's sudden rejection of the arrangement.

"...permanently affixed to his arm. Quietly intense, he's Lester's flipside, and Bentley is mesmerizing. In fact, there's precious little..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

7 and 7 Is

"...them is welcome -- even the narcoleptic "Lullaby." The flipside, "Oh Yeah," with a slinky syncopated build that supernovas..."

July 31, 1998 Music Feature

1991: The Year Punk Broke

This snarling, loudly exultant record of the 1991 European tour by Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., and other bands, bursts with lunatic concert footage, inspired backstage antics, baffling contract riders, and self-deprecating humor from the groups.

"...it easy for people (notably the folks at SoCal's Flipside fanzine, who churned out nearly 20 volumes of hardcore..."

Dec. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What We're Listening To: Mobley

Cry Havoc! (Last Gang Records)

"...with versions (instrumentals) of the same tracklist on the flipside, Xeroxing a precious page from reggae toasters and hip-hop..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

30 Years Ago, GG Allin Cleared Austin’s Scuzziest Punk Venue in 24 Minutes

Witness accounts of the notorious shock rocker’s antics and arrest at the Cavity Club

"...also possibly an undiagnosed schizophrenic. I interviewed him for Flipside fanzine in 1987, a piece that triggered a years-long..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

70 Best Chat Lines with 100% Free Trials: The Top Numbers to Call for Adult Phone Chat

All the Adult Chat Line Numbers Available

"...On the flipside, underaged teenagers will portray themselves to be 18+. These..."

June 8, 2021 Events Post

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...See a Ghost (2008), gives as good as its flipside counterpart. "Young Men Dead," also from Passover, finishes like..."

May 7, 2021 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...instrumental "Radical Prostate" outdoes its own title on the flipside, throbbing to life a red glow of anxiety and..."

March 12, 2021 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Dallas Acid blows some bubbles, KUTX remembers the Armadillo, and more music for the moment

"..."Que viva la cumbia por siempre, por siempre!" Instrumental flipside "La Inconforme" sizzles another sonic resistencia. The accompanying video..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...rpm and now you're dreaming Run Lola Run. The flipside beats long and bomp enough to call for the..."

July 24, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...do we go from here?"), stretch out on the flipside. "Long Goodbye" lilts sweeter than a hammock and "Omon'i"..."

July 10, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

theSkimm Founders Explain Why They're Betting on Millennial Women

Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg want you to "live smarter"

"...On the flipside, said Zakin: “We’re buried in student debt, we cannot..."

Oct. 28, 2019 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Steve Gunn Remembers the Stonehurst Cowboy

Guitarist deep dives into the lyrical and familial

"...AC: The flipside of that song, it seems, would be “Lightning Field.”..."

April 18, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

Snapshot: 24 Hours in Angers

David Brendan Hall dives in to the cultural details of Austin's sister city in France

"...of nearly 500,000 – had no clue. On the flipside, many Angevins weren't in on the connection either...."

July 27, 2018 Arts Column by David Brendan Hall

OUTsider Fest 2018 Legacy Award

35 years later, Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames is ahead and on time

"...There’s a hopeful flipside to Born in Flames’ doomsday timeliness, which Borden sees..."

Feb. 13, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Wild Bill Gets in the Ring

Rock opera births boxing video trilogy

"...songcraft representing some of Ogden’s most sentimental work. Sample-laden flipside “The Comeback” comes alive with beats and basslines as..."

Sept. 18, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Think No Think

"...with Dowey etching guitar art. Tribal atmospherics haze up flipside burst "432 Dreams" into a droning mosh verging on..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

ATX Television Festival: The Presidents of the State of TV

Network heads on how to make a breakout show

"...to monetization, like digital or international sales. On the flipside, that makes knowing when to cancel a show a..."

June 10, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Borzoi

"...moans tuneful Cobain apathy over a menacing two-chord hook. Flipside "I Feel Alien" toughens up via drummer Rhys Woodruff's..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...resin-thick groove. "Windowpane" puffs a sunny Seventies vibe, while flipside "Weeping Willow" mindfucks. Pass the vape. – Thomas Fawcett..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Cruz Sole Finalist for AISD Superintendent

Update: Initial responses to exit of external candidates

"...However, the near-inevitable flipside was that the two remaining external candidates (selected from..."

Dec. 10, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: I'm in Love! What's That Song?

Weekend one ACL Fest wrap

"...reading, "When does Nickelback play?" with "Dad?" on the flipside. Not only was it staked out at the stage..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Blood Over Texas Gets Fleshy

Eighties horror celebrated at the North Door

"...The flipside of all those new toys - big screen TVs,..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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