DVD Watch

Olive Films collects three of Otto Preminger's last films

"...is overbearing in its clear wish to be contemporary. Hippies and mobsters mix it up in a plot too..."

Nov. 13, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lace Curtains

"...the local trio's national breakout on Matador Records, 2010's Hippies. Perpetually disheveled co-founder Michael Coomer appears to have sobered..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Music Review by Austin Powell

Letters at 3AM: 'Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain?'

In the early part of the Sixties, television's "Route 66" offered a taste of the new American consciousness

"...Within the decade, blacks, hippies, feminists, and gays would declare that the straight white..."

June 15, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: 'Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?'

"Route 66" spoke to the sense of change afoot in America

"...lost its innocence when Kennedy was shot or when hippies questioned the establishment or when we blundered into Vietnam...."

June 1, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Those Were The Days

Fond remembrances of a culinary giant

"...all to me, more than all the power brokers, hippies, friends, lovers, celebrities, foodies, artists, millionaires, actors, students, politicians,..."

May 18, 2012 Food Feature by John Kunz

Playback

Austin Psych Fest and Old Settler's Music Fest headliners Psychograss have more in common than you might think

"...hallucinatory solos, tranquilizing rhythms, and trippy melodies played by hippies in wolves' clothing. When I look at this weekend's..."

April 27, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Can the Earth Be Saved?

Walter Cronkite and the creation of Earth Day

"...Earth Day's extreme activists, who looked more like disaffected hippies than up-and-coming biologists. But merely by taking a deeply..."

April 20, 2012 News Feature by Douglas Brinkley

Veg Out!

There's no better place than Austin to branch out into meat-free eating

"...valence accompanied by the image of self-righteous, fussy, tofu-eating hippies. "Vegan is an important ethical stance," explains Isa Chandra..."

March 30, 2012 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Grape St.

From the ashes of Austin's Harlem comes an even weirder pop shaman

"...While Harlem's 2010 Matador debut Hippies had a soft spot for girl groups and Sixties..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Fab Four Restored

Two screenings today of a newly spiffed-up 'Yellow Submarine'

"...much of the media was still harrumphing about hedonistic hippies, its dissident political allegory was infused in Lee Minoff's..."

March 16, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Conditions of Puscifer's Parole

Live review of Puscifer at the Long Center last week

"..."Where are the hippies?" Keenan asked, cuing the remainder of Puscifer to the..."

Feb. 27, 2012 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Strange Bedfellows

Email hack job blows cover for undercover work within Occupy Austin

"...are concerned with making fun of us as dirty hippies. I don't like the idea of being surveilled, personally..."

Feb. 3, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Five O'Clock Land

Closing Encore Records is no walk in the park for Chuck Lokey

"...Chuck Lokey the man, owner of Encore Records, Video & Apparel for 27 years. The affection his character felt..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

Page Two: The Metaphoric and the Mimetic

A journey

Nov. 25, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Reefer Madness: The Thin Green Line

Author Jonah Raskin explores the contradictions of life in Marijuanaland

"...about Mother Nature – they're really unlike the original hippies; they want to get in and get out and..."

Oct. 7, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Hair

Little City fields a big, strong tribe for its go at the love-rock musical

"...What seems like a harmless romp full of street hippies doing their drug-induced thing goes a whole lot deeper..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene

A professorial retelling of Austin's cosmic past

"...in Austin during the 1970s. The coming together of hippies and rednecks, most notably at the Armadillo World Headquarters,..."

July 15, 2011 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Right Snuff

Savage survivor and Sex Pistols witness Artly Snuff isn't just another face in Austin's eccentric crowd

"...valid as the hippie movement. Not all of the hippies embraced punk rock because it wasn't peace and love...."

July 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Moving Day

Darling New Neighbors say goodbye

"..."There was really no distinction among the punk rockers, hippies, druggies, straight edge skater types, and just somebody who..."

May 27, 2011 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Loudon Wainwright III

In Box

"...in a conservative manner to stand apart from the hippies. The 4-CD/1-DVD 40 Odd Years is like that. There's..."

May 20, 2011 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

False Matters

What a bunch of goddam Dickheads

"...PKD situation. Like, maybe, just possibly, one of those hippies you're trying to buy drugs from is actually 1)..."

May 18, 2011 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Over the Wall With Will Sergeant

Rob yaks with Will Sergeant of Echo and the Bunnymen

"...I love how it's just a bunch of old hippies...."

May 7, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Voter Access Under Fire

"...crazy; freedom is ugly. They used to tell us hippies, when we spoke out about the things with which..."

April 11, 2011 Postmarks

sxswi: "Events Have Become Magazines": More From Bruce Sterling

More from sxswi Closing Night speaker Bruce Sterling

"...become Dallas in a hot second. They're not just hippies here, they're like militant counterculture people for whatever purpose..."

March 15, 2011 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Shoot Out the Lights

Bare buzz, bare butts: The Bright Light Social Hour shakes it

"...and a well-organized voting campaign in Dell Lounge's Sound & the Jury competition, the Bright Light Social Hour won..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Throwing the first stone for the Chronicle Music Poll

"...3) Jon Dee Graham & the Fighting Cocks, It's Not as Bad as It..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

From Cactusgate to Casual Victim Pile, the year in local music ends with the tragic death of drummer Bill Maddox

"...pushed Shearwater's island fantasy The Golden Archipelago, Harlem's breakthrough Hippies, and Casual Victim Pile, the latter an alternate look..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Urban Tejano

Tortilla Factory pulls down a Grammy nomination as Best Tejano Band as the almost four-decade-old local institution gets ready to reinvent the genre

"...The year 1967 marked Tony Guerrero joining Little Joe & the Latinaires as a young-buck trumpeter. Many young players..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Arrested Development?

Young-at-heart Austin is home to a booming Young Adult literature scene

"...puts it, "a brilliant juxtaposition of ex- and next-gen hippies, good-time Bubbas, urban cowboys, hikers, bikers, college students, ......"

Dec. 24, 2010 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

ACL Music Fest Sunday Interview

Don't drink the Kool-Aid

"...Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros5pm, Zync Card stage..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

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