Full Plate

In planning your SXSW itinerary, make room for these 10 dining destinations

"...doing all right; three to five is a good slacker score; five to seven indicates serious immersion in local..."

March 16, 2007 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Peel

"...Austin has a deep commitment to the slacker ethic, which, despite a common misconception, isn't an enervate..."

March 9, 2007 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Wednesday Sleepers

The 'Chronicle' says see these SXSW acts directly afterwards

"...McFeely, aka Simple Kid, amends with music that's complex: slacker-smart lyrics, electronic indulgences, Parsons-esque country, and Kinks-ian pop. In..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

Community Access

The groundbreaking Austin Past and Present archive projects means free museums, movies, music, and more all over town

"...center, and true to local custom, it's a veritable Slacker of Austinites, requiring 24 pages of credits to list..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Starter for 10

This British coming-of-age drama and romantic comedy is fairly predictable, although the charming actors manage to keep the story’s characters just this side of stereotype and mediocrity.

"...contestants. Obviously hoping for some John Hughes-for-the-college-set magic or Slacker-like momentum, Starter for 10 is short a Madonna Pap..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin's Only Downside?

Does not compute!

"...We're also, let it be known, the "inspiration for Slacker, epicenter of the first EFF [Electronic Freedom Foundation] battle,..."

Jan. 8, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Music DVDs

"...Jon Cook; and Cynthia Nelson. Half Reality Bites, half Slacker, and packaged with Hawley and Galinsky's 1997 Spanish feature..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Crew Stories

Jeff Schwan, stuntman

"...Austin was hardly the moviemaking town it is today. Slacker and El Mariachi were still a decade away. What's..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

Desk Set

Its inaugural class – equipped with cameras, computers, and expert instruction – wades into a sea of possibility

"...Cinemaker later nabbing the heartfelt D. Montgomery Award at Slacker's 10-year reunion and a brace of festival prize and..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

In Development

From Cinemaker to the Austin School of Film

"...annual D. Montgomery Award presented to Cinemaker Co-op at Slacker 10-year reunion, Paramount Theatre...."

Dec. 8, 2006 Screens Feature

Awesome Color

"...The collective hue of Awesome Color blends the slacker psychosis of Dinosaur Jr.'s Green Mind, Blue Cheer's "Summertime..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Employee of the Month

Assorted workers vie for the coveted title of "Employee of the Month."

"...& Kumar Go to White Castle proved that the stoner/slacker comedy genre can generate films of sublime humor, if..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Seasons Change, and So Do We

Our sports blog commences, 'SXSW Presents' continues, and Priest unmasks the past

"...the legendary campus coffeehouse unavoidably featured in Richard Linklater's Slacker...."

Oct. 6, 2006 Column by Louis Black

TCB

A pictorial history of TCB's, and the modern Austin music scene's, formative years

"...when bands emerged from the blissful haze of the Slacker years to realize they might actually be able to..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Accepted

Accepted asserts that a college run by students might be better than its institutional alternative, but who wants education advice from the creators of such a witless, uninspired excuse for a college comedy?

"...by Long, from those PC vs. Mac commercials), a slacker who received rejection from every college to which he..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

Searching for Once Upon a Time

Why Monument Valley – again part of the Netflix / Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow this summer – is such a magnetic place for me

"...College. He was also a friend of Richard Linklater's (Slacker is dedicated to his memory) and a driving force..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Scanner Darkly

As the title implies, there’s a certain opacity to A Scanner Darkly's cautionary drug tale, but at times Richard Linklater's film can be as naked as the lunch on the end of your fork.

"...if these chattering creatures have crept in from Linklater’s Slacker rather than this cutting-edge science-fiction work), but as a..."

July 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lake House

This tale of magical realism has potential for delightful originality, but the Sandra Bullock-Keanu Reeves love story lacks heat and the science fiction premise spirals into senselessness.

"...of all mankind (The Matrix) or an outrageously clueless slacker (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure), he’s just hard to..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

TV Eye

Seasons' greetings

"...high kids. Tom Everett Scott plays Wyatt Cole, a "slacker hero," working as a paramedic, saving lives, and trashing..."

June 9, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Dazed and Confused

'That was me making the movie – being initiated into how you get a film made with someone else's money at a studio level. I felt I was the one being paddled and running for my life.'

"...into its preservationist bunker. Criterion's extensive, two-disc archiving of Slacker in 2004 represented yet more ammo for Austin's Richard..."

May 26, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Film

Interviews and reviews

"...Joel David Moore's deadpan performance as an (almost) reformed slacker...."

March 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Jess Sauer

Buzz Kill

Director Kelly Reichardt's keeping quiet on the darling of Sundance and Rotterdam

"...first time. Kurt's that curiously not-contradictory hyphenate, the aging hippie-hipster-activist-slacker. Over the course of 76 minutes, they get drunk..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...• What hath Slacker wrought? MovieMaker magazine, in its annual Top Ten Cities..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature

Film News

The top stories of 2005

"...chosen for both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. "Slacker probably is why half the people came to the..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Top Shelf

Austin's latest offerings for a little kitchen reading

"...to me is more like a memoir à la Slacker, with recipes for many of his favorite and most..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Life and Work, Light and Dark

How the legacy of Townes Van Zandt more than met its match in 'some dumb New York girl'

"...film was Margaret's baby: Just ask cinematographer Lee Daniel (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunset), her boyfriend and the..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

No Family Is an Island

The Piersons on 'Reel Paradise'

"...at plucking independent films from obscurity (famously Richard Linklater's Slacker, Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line, and Michael Moore's..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Film News

What does Katrina mean for the Texas film industry? Plus, bidding goodbye to the Austin actress with the most beautiful eyes, Tomi Barrett.

"...Walker says. "It's like when we made this film Slacker years ago. I knew I could count on my..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I do business in Eldorado and Schleicher (locally pronounced slacker, I mean schlacker) County. The people don't know what..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Column

What Will the Impact Be?

"...I do business in Eldorado and Schleicher (locally pronounced slacker, I mean schlacker) County. The people don't know what..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Postmarks

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