Taking Woodstock

The director of Brokeback Mountain looks for peace and love in another decade and finds it at the legendary festival through the story of one key participant.

"...for Elliot’s acid trip with a couple of pansexual hippies (Dano and Garner) is also disappointingly conventional, and the..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Not Progressive

"...about excluding people, but saying that the city has hippies and gay people, so it's progressive. Folks, it's time..."

July 3, 2009 Postmarks

Bangers and Mash

France and Germany, allies in the dance dance revolution

"...Rock & Roll..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...hepcats called beats or beatniks, who were like smart hippies with short, cleaner hair and better taste in music...."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Tripper

David Arquette directs this horror film in which a Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies.

"...wears a Ronald Reagan mask targets a bunch of hippies attending an outdoor music concert...."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Statesman' Hopes You Die

"...content to confine his hits to the dirty fucking hippies comprising the city of Austin. Perusing Kelso's rejected gag..."

Jan. 29, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Luv Doc Recommends: Bruce Robison

Broken Spoke, Saturday, August 5, 2006

"...uphold. You can’t have a bunch of leftover-salmon stank hippies twirling around the dance floor in tie-dye and dreads..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Column by The Luv Doc

Snake Charmer

Ray Wylie Hubbard survived the crash, recovered the black box, and continues to fly high and get lowdown with 'Snake Farm.'

"...beer bottles banging on tables as they hollered: "KICKING HIPPIES' ASSES AND RAISING HELL!"..."

June 23, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Woo, All Right Now, And Don't It Feel Like You're Going Bald and Homicidal!

Thirty years later, Jeff Lieberman is still walking on 'Blue Sunshine'

"...Hairless homicidal ex-hippies on a rampage? Politicians with nefarious hidden agendas? Future..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas hills are again alive with the sound of chainsaws.

"...allegory about the generation gap, the co-opting of the hippies by their truly transgressive square counterparts, or, on the..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jammin'

Jerry Garcia, bluegrass, and third generation jam -- thriving in Austin and beyond.

"...Friday night, late July 1973, four 20-year-old hippies from Long Island go see a Led Zeppelin concert..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Get It While You Can

Much of Old Austin survives -- and thrives -- for now

"...divisions can be seen between Old Austin (you know: hippies, funky live music bars, mom & pop shops) and..."

July 4, 2003 Features Feature by Lee Nichols

United for Peace

An estimated 10,000 anti-war protesters converge on the Capitol.

"...violence. Sure, in attendance were the usual drum-beating troupes, neo-hippies, and retro-hippies, but the diversity of the crowd illustrated..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Age of Aquarius

With a new production of the "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" Hair, director Dave Steakley caps 10 years of making the Zachary Scott Theatre Center rock -- and so much more.

"..."My sister and brother were full-fledged hippies, and they seemed to have the best, most exotic..."

July 12, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Looking for Leadership

It takes a community to support the schools.

"...no more helpful. Oppel apparently hallucinates troops of superannuated hippies presiding over classroom consciousness-raising sessions ("English is taught ......"

April 19, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...great Stevie. He changed country and pop music, unified hippies and rednecks, and loved Austin...."

March 1, 2002 Column

Marcia Ball's Cheers

"...(Surely, there was at least one Woody.) Lots of "hippies with cowboy boots," Ball remembers, citing one fan in..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

South Austin Secede!

Our second installment in a series about South Austin explores the roots of "Bubba" and the rivalry between North Austin and south of the river.

"...area was defined by a weird stew of rednecks, hippies, blue-collar workers, and Hispanics. And he sees North Austin,..."

April 13, 2001 Features Feature by Rob D'Amico

Cat Stevens

"...when you hear them today, you think if all hippies sounded this good then you wouldn't hate the very..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Easy Rider

"...Today, Easy Rider may be seen as an old hippies’ road movie, but once upon a time it was..."

Aug. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...Love I'm sitting in one of the myriad coffee shops on Congress Avenue -- slouching, actually; it's a sunshiney..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Source

"...beatniks' nonconformity in the Forties and Fifties to the hippies' cultural and political rebellion of the Sixties and early..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Memory of Music

Discovering Moby Grape's Skip Spence via his only solo album Oar, and it's new tribute album, More Oar

"...the term. We thought of ourselves as freaks, not hippies. Hippies were too peace-and-flowers, lovey-dovey Donovanesque weirdos. We wanted..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Louis Black

Postmarks

Different Traditions

"...least productive of the ongoing bikes-versus-cars debate. Calling people "hippies" purely because one commutes via bicycle is about as..."

July 30, 1999 Column

Wigstock: The Movie

"...the drag queens of today are just like the hippies of yesterday, except they're better coiffed. A celebration of..."

July 22, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Postmarks

Spare Us

"...say: I'm sick and tired of those loud-mouth, stupid hippies spewing out that self-righteous excrement about the world being..."

July 16, 1999 Column

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...a whole new breed of fans -- the dreaded hippies -- who descended in droves upon the old-time dancehall..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

The Wight Stuff

Message to Love: This Ain't No Woodstock

"...At roughly the same time that hippies and Hollywood were coming together to document the rock..."

June 20, 1997 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Merriment & What-Not

Will Eeyore Be Banished From the Hundred Acre Wood?

"...called Austin, Texas, U.S.A. And once again, all good hippies and Pooh partisans are being called to arms --..."

April 11, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

From Commune to Congress House

Mark Hallman

"...a true Austin legend if it didn't start with hippies and Jerry Jeff Walker. The hippies were Hallman and..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

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