Suicide Girls Leave Austin Blue

The show may be canceled but the community is thriving

"...talented girls were to descend on Emo's for a "geek fantasy spectacular" with the "sexiest striptease numbers." However, due..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

Fantastic Fest 2015: Lazer Team

Rooster Teeth's first feature is slapstick sci-fi fun

"...Instead, Lazer Team is exactly the boisterous, breezy, shamelessly pop-culture savvy action-comedy you would expect from Rooster Teeth. Larded..."

Oct. 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How to Do Convergence Day

Convergence Day, Tuesday, March 17

"...ALSO THIS!: Today's geek doesn't get shoved in the gym locker; he's the..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Ain’t It Cool With Harry Knowles Set to Air on KLRU

Head Geek pacts with local PBS affiliate

"...is a spinoff of host Harry Knowles’ hugely popular film-geek website www.aintitcool.com. Although the press release calls these 2015..."

Dec. 22, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Other Worlds Austin Announces Lineup

New SF fest announces latest Amy Seimetz feature as closing title

"...excited to share these films with Austin, the so-called geek capital of the world.”..."

Oct. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place: DON'T Rain on My Parade!

Get your Pride parade seats early. This year is going to be a doozy.

"...into the world of West African drum and dance culture in the U.S." Fri., Sept. 19, 7pm. George Washington..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

SXSW Tuesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW blurbing

"...the hefty Halifax, Nova Scotia, rapper is the only geek in the game who can touch him. The self-declared..."

March 7, 2014 Music Feature

Gay Place

Let's tuck '13 in with a li'l kiss (or a swift kick)

"...GEEKS WHO DRINK QUIZ GAME Be a geek. Buy a..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Captains on Deck at Wizard World

Shatner and Bakula boldly go to Austin Comic Con

"...For the fourth year, the traveling celebration of everything geek-friendly will be settling down in the capital of Texas...."

Oct. 9, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rob Thomas' Unlikely Route to Young Adult Fiction

'Veronica Mars' creator dishes on teens, fans, and the movie

"...me up there, and that was its own weird culture shock. That felt, even though I don't know that..."

Sept. 26, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

Gay Place

An Austin ex-pat returns for a film screening

"...Stitch Lab, Form & Fabric, Bunny's Designs, Remnants Fiber Culture, Walker Hall Design, and Common Thread are all on..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Robert Nathan Allen Wants You to Eat Some Bugs

And you could, too – especially this Saturday in Zilker Park

"...I keep wanting him to be some odd-looking geek who's totally into the idea of insects just for..."

June 26, 2013 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gay Place: AGL + AGL

The AGLs are on benders this week.

"...gay Austin business, literally. On the underbelly of queer culture this week, we've got vampires at Elysium (duh), a..."

June 14, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Thanks for the Memories

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

"...one of the 50 most influential people in "girl culture." (The film's soundtrack – featuring everyone from Mudhoney to..."

March 1, 2013 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Alif the Unseen

Maps to the Middle East: 'Alif the Unseen'

"...Warcraft. So that's a double check mark vis-à-vis Islamic geek cred...."

June 15, 2012 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Comics? Zines? People who MAKE them?

Like, that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guy, even?

"...books, zines, posters, gaming gear; all the handmade, limited-edition, geek-o-centric goodness that emulates or sometimes drives so much of..."

March 1, 2012 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

ACL Music Fest Saturday Listings

The blurbing of ACL 2011

"...Awards, Fresh Millions crafts ideal summertime electro-funk. The local geek squad slices and dices left-field samples with live instrumentation..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature

Comics Fetish: The Death-Ray

The weed of crimefighting bears bitter fruit

"...Especially when nearing the half-century mark, one needs to..."

Sept. 8, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

He Needed a Hero

A regular schlub turns caped crusader in James Gunn's Super

"...rails with the addition of an unwanted and ultra-enthusiastic girl-geek sidekick named Boltie (Ellen Page). As Frank takes his..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

It's a 'Community' Christmas

Holiday episode of 'Community' done in stop-motion animation.

"...the center of next Thursday's episode is everyone's favorite geek, Abed (Danny Pudi). When the pop culture fan and..."

Dec. 2, 2010 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Gift Guide

Two new titles for the TV geek

"...Stumped on what to get your pop culture/TV geek? Not to fret. Two new titles, released just..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Alamo World Domination Plan Continues Unabated

The Drafthouse announces a new distribution banner

"...wishing them away or, even worse, alienating the entire culture from which they emerge. The film is neither pro..."

Sept. 9, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Great Scott!

Edgar Wright and his Scott Pilgrim cast touch down in Austin

"...and talked about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, comic culture in general, and how to explode a 13-year-old's head...."

Aug. 20, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

'The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art'

This thought-provoking exhibition plays off memory's elusive, fluid nature

"...of an individual's past being swallowed in a mass culture fantasy of history...."

July 3, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Uncontrollable Urge

Devo's 21st century 'de-evolution' hopefully won't get anyone arrested

"...to succeed. Who would have figured a quintet of pop-culture nerds from Akron, Ohio, would stand front and center..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Such Stuff as Screams Are Made On

Austin punk gets the museum treatment, but does the scene come off as dead or alive?

"...scene and its development in zines such as Contempo Culture, Sluggo!, Peek-a-Boo, Geek Weekly, and Xiphoid Process, as well..."

March 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How to Be an Online Supastah!

Austinites work the Web

"...shorts are best described as music videos with a geek slant ("You Rock My World," "Computer Friends"). Others are..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

A British soap plucks the best bits from American teen shows to make for an addictive good time

"...into on one hand: The OC (2003-2007), Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000), and Undeclared (2001-2002). I was never turned on..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

The geeks shall inherit the earth? They'll certainly rule San Diego this weekend.

"...Ah, to be a comic-book geek with an all-access pass to Comic-Con International 2008 (www.comic-con.org)...."

July 25, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Ebert exits, Lyons and Mankiewicz enter

Roger Ebert leaves the syndicated series At The Movies after 23 years.

"...chair left by Siskel – including local Internet film geek Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News. The search..."

July 22, 2008 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

« 1    ‹ BACK    1   2   3   4   5   6     NEXT ›    6 »