Dancing About Architecture

Tosca are no Slackers, Pong bounces back, the Dicks still hate the police, and Ken Lieck finds a new journalist pal in this week's "Dancing."

"...With the 10th anniversary of Slacker behind him, it's time for director Richard Linklater to..."

July 6, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Short Cuts

Slacker turns 10, Cinemaker Co-op is feted, the Alamo Drafthouse heads north, and Bob Sabiston has "it."

"...years since the release of Richard Linklater's indie masterwork Slacker?" the answer was an irrefutable "oh yeah, baby" at..."

July 6, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Slack Where We Started

Richard Linklater and John Pierson Ponder 'Slacker' and Its Aftermath

"...the movie that was eventually to become known as Slacker, a film that has over the years earned a..."

June 29, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

Even being in Slacker didn't prepare Chronicle Editor Louis Black for the film's eventual impact.

"...The first time I figured out that Slacker was about something substantive was when I read Chris..."

June 29, 2001 Column by Louis Black

What We Said Then

Excerpts From Our 1990 Review

"...SLACKER..."

June 29, 2001 Screens Feature by Chris Walters

Dancing About Architecture

Butthole Surfers and Austin City Limits suffer set backs while Riverfest marches on.

"...soon. Look for Johnston and Pong at the Antone's after-Slacker party this Sunday...."

June 29, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Slacker: A Ten-Year Reunion

"...To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Slacker, all the old cast and crew members have been..."

June 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

Editor Louis Black comments on our brief reunion with cover subject (and onetime Chronicle illustrator) Keith Graves, reconsiders Joan Micklin Silver's Chilly Scenes of Winter, and says "get well" to KVET talk-show mainstay Sammy Allred and "farewell" to former staffer Sarah Hepola.

"...(Return of the Secaucus 7, 1980) to Rick Linklater (Slacker, 1991). Chilly Scenes was a vibrant, alive film. It..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Short Cuts

Sony Pics faux crix, 10-year Slacker reunion.

"...been 10 years since Richard Linklater's groundbreaking independent film Slacker threw the spotlight on that titular Austin subculture and..."

June 8, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Public Notice

Things are gearing up in public service-land for Austin's sizzling summer. Here are a few things to do this weekend, plus a jump on next, to boot.

"...rest of the fest fits in perfectly with your slacker schedule and begins at noon, wherein Jimmy John's sandwich..."

May 25, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer

The Graduates

Once They Were My Students Now They Are

"...so stupid. Then in ninth grade, I became the slacker. Then it progressed to, I guess, nerd...."

May 25, 2001 Features Feature by Sarah Hepola

Screens Feature

Classic films at the Paramount, all summer long

"...in St. Louis, 1pm, An American in Paris, 3:20pm, Slacker, 7pm..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature

All There in the Music

Mandy Mercier puts down her fiddle to talk about her eventful life.

"..."managing" his talented girlfriends and held tenaciously to the slacker work ethic. Williams and Woodward moved to L.A. in..."

May 11, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide

"...Chronicle reader and all, that you're a bit more slackerish than that. Our annual Kids' Summer Fun Guide has..."

May 4, 2001 Features Feature

Short Cuts

A Slacker reunion and a Waking Life sale top Linklater's agenda; entry deadlines announced for Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund grants, Austin Film Festival and Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference submissions, and new Cinemaker Co-op fest; and Jon Favreau comes to Austin.

"...recent story about the 10-year anniversary of Richard Linklater's Slacker (well, warm on the heels, at least) comes a..."

April 27, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Joey Ramone still dead, bands still touring, Dick Price getting bigger than Bob Schneider

"...down all his original cast and crew members from Slacker, and though most of them are still, by definition,..."

April 27, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Nico and Dani

This Spanish import is a coming-of-age dramedy whose (nearly) teenage stars are natural actors, whose direction is unforced, and whose sexual themes are treated with candor and humor.

"...with the goofy, hollow-chested aplomb of an authentic teenage slacker and a face that's neither dorky nor graceful --..."

March 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Austin Avalanche of Rock & Roll!

When IRS Records' 'The Cutting Edge' Came to Town and Made Me Want to, Too

"...up), the forces of random coincidence put me behind Slacker-man Rick Linklater in line at the Fed Ex office..."

March 16, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Li'l Cap'n Travis, P2 Party, Thursday 15

"...the conference. The whole affair had a time-bending 1989 Slacker feel, as it were attended mostly by locals with..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by Michael Bertin

Naturaltown

Vegetarian and Vegan Spots in Austin

"...basic and all pretty good. And despite its obvious slacker allegiance (there is even a bean plate called the..."

March 9, 2001 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

The Slow Biz of Show Biz

A conversation between filmmakers Richard Linklater and Rachel Tsangari

"...Linklater met Rachel Tsangari when he cast her in Slacker. Recently arrived from Greece, Tsangari (whose first name is..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature

Alive and Kicking

Just when a heavy cynicism about the future of independent film has overtaken the industry and most of its observers, the Sundance Film Festival came along during the early weeks of 2001 and, almost unexpectedly, brightened the downcast mood shared by its most dour participants.

"...Dazed and Confused actor Wiley Wiggins, who wanders somewhat Slacker-style through the film, flowing from one conversation to another..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

Lost Austin behind us, Smart Growth ahead?

"...Cindy Widner for doing the actual legwork on the Slacker map. While everybody did the work (and I think..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Slacker, the Map

It's been over a decade since Slacker premiered at the Dobie Theater. Since then, the lifestyle it celebrated is largely gone, along with the locations it helped make famous. In this "Slacker map," we look at what's disappeared and what's endured.

"...slacker (slak'er), n. One that shirks work or responsibility, especially..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Eddie & Bella: A Novel

"...but after 20 years as a phony and a slacker, at least he's holding down a job at his..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Review by David Marion Wilkinson

Future-Kill, Roadie

Hoping to capitalize on the success of Tobe Hooper's 1974 surprise horror hit Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Future-Kill reunited that film's stars Neal and Burns and aimed for a similar creepy / kitschy vein. It failed.Meat Loaf quits his day job to become the world's best roadie. Sound weird? It is.

"...for a reminder of Editor Louis Black's cameo in Slacker), they've been the ones that stank. These cringe-inducing titles..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Short Cuts

The Austin Film Society announces ticket sales for the locally filmed Miss Congeniality benefiting the Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund, and other news, workshops, and gatherings of interest to the film community.

"...Scott Dinger decided to give a little film called Slacker a whirl.)... And while I'm on the topic (kinda)..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

The JFKonspiracy

Kathy McCarty wants to know "Why?" Why is wanting to know more about the Kennedy Assassination such social suicide?

"...actually monikered by the CIA) was that guy in Slacker. I was in Slacker, too (Who wasn't? ha ha),..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Lambchop, CMJ Music Conference, Irving Plaza, New York, October 21

"...Not a chance, murmurs the room, agog at the slacker psychedelica that Lambchop hoofs its way through slowly. "Two..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

James Hyland, The Danged: Hole in the Wall, August 24

"...hour, but then don't forget, this is the older, slacker kind of Austin. An hour comes and goes, while..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Review

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