Pop Culture That's a Keeper

Browsing the collectibles at Guzu Gallery

"...name from Japanese slang for "a shiftless layabout," "a slacker." And it's oddly apropos that this mashed-up, surrealistically cinematic..."

May 18, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Billboard

'Billboard' comes across as false advertising

"...barely touches on. Instead, it gives us a sloppy, slacker comedy in which boilerplate young people learn valuable lessons..."

May 18, 2012 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

Richard Linklater (Contemporary Film Directors)

Richard Linklater is a man with time on his mind

"...rigorous academic reading of Linklater's filmography: the compressed timelines of Slacker, Dazed and Confused, and Before Sunrise, further compacted to..."

May 4, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

From the Vaults: 'Bernie' Kills

Linklater's latest delivers his biggest opening weekend

"...editor Louis Black, who appears in Linklater's first film, Slacker, wrote a history of the paper's early relationship with..."

April 29, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Berkshire Hounds

"...Greatest Hits finds the Dallas natives rumbling with a slacker's defiance as bold as the LP title itself. The..."

April 20, 2012 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

What's the Buzz?

Stoner comedy '4:20 Austin High' debuts

"...it will sit alongside other smoky Austin classics like Slacker and Dazed and Confused. While he was inspired by..."

April 20, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Golden Boys

"...the title cut, and "We Are Young" soundtracking eternal slacker summers along with the free-association punk-blues of "Daddy's Horsewife."..."

April 13, 2012 Music Review by Austin Powell

SXSW Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Second night SXSW handicapping

"...11:15pm, Barbarella The legacy of Austin's slacker Nineties carries on in Pure X. The local trio..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

SXSW Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Saturday blurbs rally!

"...have perfected languid, drawling, garage R&B, plying an insouciant slacker charm that belies the tightness of the Austin quartet's..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Trailer Hitch, 3/11

Nick Offerman, man about town

"...Padre, and Tuesday night’s free SXSW Community screening of Slacker 2011, but personally, we’re most jazzed about his costarring..."

March 11, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Best Bets for the Badgeless

You, too, can sample SXSW's wares

"...Paramount screening of the locally (and lovingly) crafted homage, Slacker 2011. The George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center..."

March 9, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Meat Loaf loads into the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...remains absolutely off the charts, very much like Linklater’s Slacker and Dazed and Confused, in which you not only..."

March 7, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Excited About Life

Friends keenly mourn the death of Esme Barrera

"...the violent crime suggests a drawback of Austin's iconic slacker image. "Nobody in this town pays attention to anything...."

Jan. 13, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Bryan Poyser Leaving AFS

TX filmmakers are gonna miss their biggest supporter

"...to look no further than this past summer's crazy SLACKER 2011 remake to see how much the film community..."

Jan. 11, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Top 10 Most-Viewed Stories on AustinChronicle.com by Section

Drill down, baby

"...on, more than two dozen filmmakers pay tribute to 'Slacker' and a city in transition"..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Features Feature

Full-Gore Press

Mind the viscera: Austin's horror filmmaking scene is exploding

"...in the global cinephile community for the decidedly unchilling Slacker and our occasional flirtations with mumblecore as much as..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Art and the Arduousness

Daniel Kliewer's hypnotic moving paintings

"...There's something very, dare we say, Slacker-esque about the idea that this high-tech digital art should..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Beautiful Bitter

The heartachey animation of Don Hertzfeldt

"...his friend and fellow filmmaker Geoff Marslett's segment of Slacker 2011, playing the "TV Backpacker" puppet alongside Heather Kafka.)..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Post Office

Austin's indie A/V boutique Stuck On On gets movies across the finish line

"...7), which is showing on PBS' POV next month; Slacker 2011, the Austin Film Society's remake of/tribute to the..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Strange Boys

"...putting in less effort. It's part of their slick slacker charm, daring listeners to dismiss them based on their..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Music Review by Doug Freeman

We're a Happy Family

Speak no evil

"...comic strip Eyebeam was ubiquitous in the 1980s, featuring proto-slacker characters that continue endearing themselves weekly to Austin in..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Get Your Frock On

Frock On Vintage opens on the Drag with a bash

"...Guadalupe, sets off its opening salvo. Antics from sponsors Slacker Magazine and KVRX,..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Design Post by Anne Harris

The Gourds

"...the song equivalent to no less than Richard Linklater's Slacker, and any Caleb Followill fans left could jump ship..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Taking the Weird Around the World

Australia hosts Austin-centric film fest

"...Ever wondered if "slacker" translates in Australia? Next month, Austin sister city Adelaide..."

Sept. 21, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Celebrating the Past, Looking to the Future

Slacker 2011 premieres, and Richard Linklater's newest project picks up Paul Dano

"...Slacker 2011 may have been put together by a new..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Robert Earl Keen

"...to. A remake of "Paint the Town Beige," the slacker's lament that gave 1993's A Bigger Piece of Sky..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

The Austin Ch30nicles

John Pierson recalls when the Chronicle published Rick Linklater's Dazed and Confused diary

"...been involved in the sale and national release of Slacker, befriended Richard Linklater, and spent time in Austin, it..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Screens Feature

'Slacker 2011' Debuts

A suitably rowdy crowd cheered on the affectionate homage

"...A couple of weeks ago, I referred to Slacker 2011 as a "potential trainwreck," to which co-producer Daniel..."

Sept. 1, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Slacker 2011 Interviews: Geoff Marslett & Heather Kafka

Marslett and Kafka on Slacker 2011

"...for last. Following last night's enthusiastically received premiere of Slacker 2011 at the Paramount Theater, we conclude our series..."

Sept. 1, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Up The Hill for 'Slacker 2011'

On-set for the final scene of the remake (video)

"...at Mt. Bonnell to film the final scene for Slacker 2011. That segment, directed by Chris Eska, along with..."

Aug. 31, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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