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Christmas wishes for the local set
"...food pantry this month. Please be generous to the slacker musicians of Austin and all the people who do..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Friday Fun Fun Fun Fest Blurbs
FFF Friday by the blurb
"...last seen opening for Phoenix, Montreal's Mac DeMarco cuts slacker jams that sound like West African guitar-pop on a..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Music Feature

Lemuria
"...settle for the easy hook. The Buffalo trio produces slacker-lilted jams on command, yet across this third LP, they..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Way We Ate
'Historic Austin Restaurants': an excerpt
"...in this particular area are particularly poignant." The 1990's: Slackers and Techies and Rising Rents..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Food Feature

Playback: Priced Out?
Soon, Austin’s golden geese – musicians – will be priced out of the live music capital
"...ballet and orchestra will continue to exist, but the slacker culture won't if people don't actively save it. Austin..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Explosions in the Sky & David Wingo
Instrumentalism
"...signature sound. Instead, the soundtrack to David Gordon Green's slacker comedy works on a smaller scale, capturing fleeting moments..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Music Review by Austin Powell

Top 10 Pickathon Highlights
Celebrating 15 years of Portland, Oregon’s woodland festival
"...the middle of a field in the afternoon. His slacker power-pop epitomizes Saturday night rock – all cheap beer..."

Aug. 7, 2013 Music Post by Austin Powell

From the Vaults: 'Viewers Like Us'
It's always time to celebrate Austin's community television
"...with a double bill of Richard Linklater's 1991 film Slacker and the community remake Slacker 2011...."

Aug. 2, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

By the People, for the People
It started on a mountain, and now it's over the hill: channelAustin is turning 40
"...Linklater famously edited and converted his 1991 classic, Slacker, at the old ACTV station. He also used all..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Screens Feature

'Adventure Time' Returns to Mondo
This time, Jake and Finn bring some 'Regular Show' friends with them
"...in its wonderful weirdness by Regular Show, charting the slacker lives of two 23-year-olds barely holding down jobs as..."

June 10, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dumb
"...collection – on cassette, no less – of shit-kicking slacker sonnets about East Austin l-i-v-i-n ("I Have No Idea..."

May 24, 2013 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

Linklater Loses Insurance Lawsuit
Director will not be paid for lost archive
"...dating back as far as Linklater's debut picture, 1991's Slacker, right through to 2009 and Me and Orson Welles...."

May 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Scene: Where Pragmatism Meets Idealism
‘The New York Times’ floats a capital idea
"...remain in Austin after achieving significant industry success with Slacker and Dazed and Confused. Others, such as filmmakers Bob..."

May 18, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Linklater Sues for Bastrop Losses
Filmmaker's archive included scripts, props, dailies, and more
"...info, and personal documents, stretching from his underground masterpiece Slacker to 2008's Me and Orson Welles. He has now..."

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Meat Puppets
"...we interpret to mean truly cosmic country with trademark slacker vocals, brotherly harmonies, and sunbaked psychedelic touches that remain..."

May 17, 2013 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Frank and Angie's, Now and Forever
Superior pizza served with Rat Pack panache
"...20 years. The customers look a tad different. The slacker outfits are gone, replaced by hipper, more modern looks...."

May 3, 2013 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Austin Psych Fest Live (Sunday): White Fence
Prolific and fried garage rock shredding
"...It’d be easy to call California’s Tim Presley a slacker. The guy certainly looks the part, but such a..."

April 29, 2013 Music Post by Luke Winkie

Lit Meals on Wheels
'Road Show: Four Way Stop' finds literature in the everyday
"...type of everydayness, perhaps best captured in the movie Slacker. "Growing up in Austin in the Nineties, there was..."

April 12, 2013 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Parquet Courts
Final SXSW Live Shots
"...Reagan-era jangle psych of the Feelies with the Clinton-era slacker punk of Archers of Loaf. A walking advertisement for..."

March 22, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Meats Puppets Open Sound City Players SXSW Showcase
Local cowpunks ready another career high in ‘Rat Farm’
"...never really have any goals,” he replies in typical slacker fashion. “I’ve felt really lucky just to be able..."

March 13, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

'Dazed and Confused' and Together Again
After 20 years, the gang reunites for induction into the Texas Film Hall of Fame
"...Richard Linklater's shoestring budget of charged-out credit cards and Slacker mojo...."

March 1, 2013 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Thanks for the Memories
'Chronicle' staff past and present on 20 years of covering SXSW Film
"...West Coast. It wasn't until after Rick Linklater released Slacker that things changed. Not only did he stay in..."

March 1, 2013 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Going With the Flow
The next life of Waller Creek
"...led to his appearance in Richard Linklater's 1991 film, Slacker. In the film, Jones, who had been one of..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Feature by Ari Phillips

Snakes and Ladders
'The Man From Orlando' team recalls the high stakes of making their lo-fi first feature
"...as the added poignancy in scenes between Newman's soft-spoken slacker and Eddy's laid-back, easygoing tomboy...."

Jan. 11, 2013 Screens Feature by Amy Gentry

Slacker Added to National Film Registry
'Slacker' and works from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image selected
"...Richard Linklater's Slacker is among the 25 films added today to the..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

'El Mariachi' to Perform Sundance Encore
Robert Rodriguez's 1993 debut to be honored with a Sundance screening
"...on the heels of the festival's commemorative screening of Slacker in 2011...."

Dec. 14, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas State Set To Pummel the Other Aggies
And recapping Roadrunners/Bobcats game
"...newcomers 1-10 Georgia State and 2-10 South Alabama, two slacker teams UTSA beat this year. The returning Sun Belt..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Everything Went Black: Hello, I Must Be Going ...
Black sabbatical!
"...– to twenty-plus years of SXSWs, AFF's, Spikes, Mikes, Slackers, and John and Janet Piersons, it's been (almost always)..."

Nov. 7, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Pictures of Superheroes Packs in the Austin Comedy Talent
Quirky comedy filled with familiar faces
"...easy film to describe without using the words "Austin-y," "Slacker-ish," or referencing Steven Soderbergh's early exercise in cinematic absurdism,..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

AFF 2012: Introduction
What, where, and how long: Austin Film Festival need-to-knows
"...relationship to TV? Check. A homegrown filmmaker keeping the Slacker tradition alive? Got that, too. Spotlights on under-the-radar docs..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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