Cowboys vs. Hippies: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Subtext

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre reflects Austin's culture in 1974

"...it clung defiantly to the coasts. A bunch of hippies making a zero-budget feature on 16mm had no business..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Birds of Passage

Colombian drama redefines the drug trafficking movie

"...some coffee for marijuana to sell to the American hippies from the Peace Corps who are also in the..."

March 15, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Tarantino takes Tinseltown head-on

"...Green Hornet star Bruce Lee (Moh), and those creepy hippies hanging out at the Spahn Ranch, chief among them..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Time Trap

Time-bending thriller needed more, well, time

"...named Hopper (Wilson) sets out to find some missing hippies, who disappeared in the Seventies while searching for the..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Dirt Road to Psychedelia

This documentary traces the changeover of Austin's youth culture from beatniks to hippies, folkies to rockers, and potheads to day-trippers – with side trips into all the music along the way.

"...traces the local youth culture's changeover from beatniks to hippies, folkies to rockers, and potheads to day-trippers. Inevitably, the..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Glastonbury

The sense of total immersion in England's Glastonbury Festival is breathlessly complete in Julien Temple's everywhere-at-once music documentary.

"...the sense of total immersion is breathlessly complete. The hippies, the ravers, the bumbling bobbies and nonplussed locals, the..."

April 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Manson Family

Shot over the course of 10 years, underground filmmkaker Jim Van Bebber tells the story we all think we know. This time, however, the story graphically unfolds from the perspective of Charles Manson.

"...even here) and his gang of drug and sex-crazed anti-hippies. Van Bebber casts himself as Bobby, while Marc Pittman’s..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Super Troopers

"...sharp edges here; the meanest digs are directed at hippies, stoners, and some sexed-up German carjackers. There is some..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

I Drink Your Blood

"...has been restored in this genre classic about vicious hippies who douse the locals with LSD. In revenge, the..."

Sept. 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hurricane

"...out; and Lesra's guardians, an oddball triumvirate of Canadian hippies (Unger, Hannah, Schreiber) who drop everything and come to..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

PCU

"...-- vegans, militant feminists, gay and lesbian groups, African-Americans, hippies, liberals, conservatives -- no one is left out, and..."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hippy Porn

"...thing I do know is that it contains no hippies and no porn. The three central characters are a..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir

'Austin, 1972,' an excerpt from Joe Nick Patoski's new tome, Willie Nelson: An Epic Life

"...with a modicum of cool, although they sure weren't hippies like she was. And yet, the aroma of righteous..."

April 25, 2008 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Letting the Freak Brothers Flag Fly

Gilbert Shelton on his iconic comic's long, strange trip to the screen

"...free-spirited lifestyle in pursuit of sex, drugs, and rock & roll the model for a generation that broke more..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Truckstop Girl

Ana Egge's Travels

"...did, too," says Egge, "but my parents were total hippies from California. They were like, `Let's move back [to..."

May 16, 1997 Music Feature by Kate X Messer

An Excerpt From Willie Nelson and Sister Bobbie's New Book

A new family bible Me and Sister Bobbie finds the Nelson siblings moving to Austin and making Shotgun Willie.

"...I saw how Austin was a haven for the hippies, and how the hippies were open-minded 'bout all sorts..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Music Feature

The Bulgarian Chainsaw Massacre

David Blue Garcia proves you can take Leatherface out of Texas in the new Netflix horror Texas Chainsaw Massacre

"...that it was filmed, and those characters were contemporary hippies trying to get away from the violence of the..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters to the Editor: Classic Cuts

35 years of "keeping it weird"

"...Tomorrow it will be nude bathers, musicians, environmentalists, feminists, hippies, neo-hippies, and people who wear shirts without collars. Then..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Features Feature by Danielle White

DVDanger: Box Sets of Blood

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Nightbreed, and more Vincent Price

"...for a moment. This is a pair of Austin hippies in 1973. In those two sentences, they throw in..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Top 10s

"...10) HARLEM Hippies (Matador) JIM CALIGIURI..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Music Feature

Harlem

"...HarlemHippies (Matador)..."

April 9, 2010 Music Review by Austin Powell

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...the punk rockers what the Armadillo was to the hippies. And these punk kids hanging out on the porch..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Troublemaker

Ed Ward's first-hand account of Willie Nelson's Complete Atlantic Sessions.

"...cover of the LP showed a ragtag group of hippies, and one stately blonde, getting into a limo. One..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Music Feature by Ed Ward

Song for My Father

An epic and personal reminiscence of Don Walser and what he meant to Austin

"...has a reputation for being the place where the hippies met the rednecks, but that was long ago, and..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Music Feature by Mark Rubin

Luv Doc Recommends: Eeyore’s 43rd Annual Birthday Party

Pease Park, Saturday, April 29, 2006

"...Who knows? But it has something to do with hippies – dirty-footed, face-painting, costume-wearing, drum-circling, pot- and patchouli-scented hippies..."

April 28, 2006 Column by The Luv Doc

The Whole Bow

Alvin Crow fiddled it his way

"...Threadgill playing hardcore country music, not country folk for hippies...."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

High Baptismal Flow

In search of rock & roll's psychedelic pioneers, Austin's 13th Floor Elevators

"...the long-haired, pot-smoking, acid-dropping, pill-popping, tie-dye-wearing, establishment-protesting, free-loving, sex-having hippies that are AARP-cardcarrying senior citizens today...."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Where the Pyramid Meets the High

Long lost 13th Floor Elevators founder and visionary Tommy Hall – found!

"...started drawing cartoons for The Rag about three dope-smoking hippies, the [Fabulous] Furry Freak Brothers. The place had been..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Joe Trybyszewski

Ruling the Roost

Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement

"...vocalist, and he landed them gigs at area sock hops and talent shows. During the same period, he rented..."

June 1, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Steven Fromholz

"...happened. And the rednecks who used to hate the hippies and the hippies who were afraid of the rednecks..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

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