All Your Plate Are Belong to Us

Chris-Rachael Oseland seeks world domination, one geeky recipe at a time

"...egg sure to strike fear in the hearts of Trekkies. While Downton Abbey fans can nosh daintily on their..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

No-Elves Policy

Anthropos Games brings role-playing back to the basement

"...depths of dweebitude you pass bookworms, video gamers, and Trekkies. At the ninth ring of geekness you find fantasy..."

July 23, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch

The Nature of Existence

This documentary treks the globe posing life’s big questions to one and all.

"...These are among the scores of people filmmaker Nygard (Trekkies) turns to for answers to the meaning of life...."

July 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

J.J. Abrams, Notorious Rug-Puller-Outter

Picture in Picture has a bone to pick with the Star Trek reboot

"...So how come Trekkies – fans not exactly known for their temperance –..."

May 11, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Mr. Sulu Embarks on Final Frontier

Sulu gets hitched!

"...Sulu, will soon be "sweating like a bridegroom." (OK, Trekkies, which episode was that from?) The 71-year-old actor and..."

May 21, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Geek Out!

Gifts for Trekkies, Anglophiles, and arthouse obscurists

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature

Geek Out!

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 15-hour epic at long last (and longer), in a Criterion Collection box to end all Criterion boxes

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Geek Out!

This set is the perfect gift for that certain someone on your holiday list who likes his shows novelistic and his humor black

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Geek Out!

Recipient of a Purple Heart, plus Bronze and Silver Stars in World War II as a member of the U.S. Army infantry, Fuller suffered neither cowards nor introspectives gladly

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Geek Out!

This is the BBC miniseries that set women worldwide swooning for some Mr. Darcy

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Geek Out!

When Star Trek ended its three-season run in 1969, it almost immediately began a wildly successful syndicated existence

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Rick Klaw

Geek Out!

Twenty years on, The Princess Bride comes off less as a sweet children's movie and more as a savvy precursor to Adaptation

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Geek Out!

At an age when most men have resigned themselves to their accomplishments and failures, Godard is still out for blood

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Geek Out!

This set from the National Film Preservation Foundation includes upward of 40 films, among them newsreels, animation, and educationals.

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Find the Real Reporter: A Questionnaire

The city has decided to be the arbiter of quality journalism. We decided to help them out.

"...reports are regularly devoured by a million equally deranged Trekkies, giving him the scale of readership that would make..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Page Two

Religious zealotry can have the effect of undoing basic morality

"...covert, where they did not reveal that they were Trekkies...."

July 8, 2005 Column by Louis Black

The Obsessive's Obsessive

Three former Austinites find Darryl Donaldson, 'Donnie Darko's '#1 Fan'

"...whole thing as being a satire of films like Trekkies – so-called "fan films" where the filmmakers act like..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Snippets From SXSW Interactive 2003

"...isn't such a bad place to be. Leather fetishists, Trekkies, gamers, Ren Fair junkies unite! "Bright, interesting people have..."

March 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Let Your Freak Flag Fly

Gonna let it all hang out at Dragon*Con, where 20,000 sci-fi enthusiasts meet up, make merry, and sometimes cop a feel.

"...life, and there's no confusing the two. This is Trekkies and Star Wars fans and Xena look-alikes and goth..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Confessions of a 'Little House' Lover

Bonnets and braids and pioneer lovin': Christina Smith treks to the land of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

"...as a child. This was the place where Prairie Trekkies longed to run down a hill, braids flapping in..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Screens Feature by Christina Smith

Fandemonium!

Television fans who organize to keep their favorite shows on the air, or even don the occasional Star Fleet Commanding Officer's uniform, are often depicted as lonely losers with too much time on their hands. According to TV columnist Belinda Acosta, the truth is quite the opposite.

"...In several newspaper accounts and in the 1997 documentary Trekkies, she says she has modeled her personal conduct on..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

The best of the new fall shows

"...www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,179633~3~~,00.html to find out about an online petition by Trekkies, urging show creators to ditch the song for a..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Zen and the art of Samurai cartoonage

"...fan turned to when UPN first left town, leaving Trekkies in a lurch. In fact, the Star Trek fans..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Other People's Trash

Belinda Acosta argues why your trash TV is no better than her trash TV.

"...at from the outside (think about those terminally maligned Trekkies). Bad trash is other people's trash -- the stuff..."

July 13, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Now that the writers' strike has been averted, the networks feel secure announcing their fall television seasons. Here's a look at what's in store.

"...Blue or Law & Order. Take your pick. For Trekkies, there's Enterprise, the prequel to the original Star Trek..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The JFKonspiracy

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

"...the comic book store on The Simpsons, or, say, Trekkies...."

Nov. 10, 2000 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

The Edge of 17

At 21 years old, actress Charmian Carr couldn't have known that the character she was portraying -- Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music -- would follow her for the rest of her life. Prior to her appearance at The Sound of Music: Sing-a-Long, a benefit for Project Transitions and aGLIFF, Carr opens up about being forever Liesl.

"...Not unlike Trekkies, the fans of TSOM range in intensity -- from..."

July 28, 2000 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

1999 Austin Film Releases

A complete list of all films released for theatrical runs in Austin in the calendar year 1999 and eligible for consideration in the Top Ten.

"...THREE TO TANGO2.0(S.H.)10/22/99 TOY STORY 22.5(M.S.)11/26/99 TRAIN OF LIFE2.5(M.S.)12/24/99 TREKKIES3.5(M.S.)5/21/99 TRICK4.0(S.D.)9/10/99 THE TRIO2.5(M.B.)9/10/99 TRIPPIN'1.0(S.H.)5/21/99 TRUE CRIME3.5(R.S.)3/19/99 TWICE UPON A..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature

Galaxy Quest

A parody of Gene Roddenberry's TV world and its rabid fans.

"...The perfect companion film to last summer's uproarious documentary Trekkies, this sophomore effort by Parisot (Home Fries) parodies not..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

The Big Combo

"...just don't make pimps like they used to." Hard-core Trekkies may never recover from seeing Nichols as a foul-mouthed,..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

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