Girls Gone Geek

Weird Girls is an Austin-based website and YouTube channel dedicated to all things geeky, but from a female perspective

"...Call Danni Danger a weird girl, and she'll probably take it as a compliment...."

May 23, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Girls in the Hood

Girls Like Us: The Texas Documentary Tour

"...inner-city girlhood. As the subjects of the vérité-style documentary Girls Like Us, Lisa, De'Yona, Anna, and Raelene are four..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Jason Silverman

Something Weird

How Tim League discovered 110 drive-in films in an East Prairie warehouse and other stories of disappearing celluloid.

"...Cemetery Girls..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Girls, Sex, and Movies

Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore

"...about sex, instead of just saying, "It's different for girls." I wanted guys to be able to see it..."

March 20, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Prison Girls

"...This movie, helmed by the director of Reform School Girls, promises to be the most controversial movie ever made..."

April 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Review: Emma Cline's The Girls

This seismic literary debut tracks a California girl drawn to a dark cult in 1969

"...it's California native Emma Cline and her debut, The Girls. Except Cline manages to weave the darkest byproduct of..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

DVD Watch: Combat Girls

The dark shadow of a post-Hitler youth, plus new releases

"...Combat Girls (Kriegerin) begins with a young girl trying to please..."

July 10, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Face Off Recap: Boys, Girls and the Drowned Man

Catch up on Austin's Matt Valentine on the SyFy show

"...to the rest of the nation. But it is weird seeing that person on there, seeing the hat and..."

Jan. 25, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Weird Science Takes the Stage

The strange but true tale of how a high school class turned a science textbook into a play

"...this or after it. In either case, it was weird to be, even briefly, her favorite student...."

Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Patreon Announces Weird Stream-A-Thon to Help After SXSW Cancellation

Three-hour streaming event to raise funds for affected artists

"...Raye Zaragoza, talks from The Bachelor-obsessed podcasters 2 Black Girls 1 Rose, EpicLLOYD from Epic Rap Battles, and Amanda..."

March 16, 2020 Emergency Post by Richard Whittaker

Weird Revelations

"...nuts. There were chairs being thrown off the balcony, girls assaulting security guards, blood, and security people with attitude..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Where the Girls Go/ATX: Fright Night Edition

Best queer-grrrl-tastic events this weekend, every weekend

"...Friday: Indulge in alliteration tonight with the Weird City Sisters' FEARce Friday folderol. From the fab performers..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

The New Girls of Comedy

'Mom' and 'Trophy Wife' signal the next era of television

"...cable, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Louie and Girls) – single-camera, laugh-track-free satires that are always wry and..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

Another Weird FLDS Update

Younger brother of fugitive polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs sentenced to three years probation and fined $2,500 for hindering law enforcement efforts to find his bro

"...arranging, and performing, marriages between married men and teenage girls...."

July 21, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Kickstart Your Weekend: Send Danni Danger to the Geekies

Former 'Chronicle' cover star needs help getting to L.A.

"...Danni Danger, one of Austin's Weird Girls, is trying to get to Los Angeles. Here's..."

July 25, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rise of the Valkyrie

Kate Leth talks women in comics and fake geek girl phobia

"...of the Fortnight column at Austin-based geek web site weird-girls.com (read more about them in this week's cover story,..."

May 26, 2014 Books Post

The New Nerddom

Wizard World Austin Comic Con tackles diversity

"...geek culture &n-dash one anchored by the contributors to Weird Girls, the other by members of Gay Austin Geeks..."

Oct. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lost and Delirious

"...Mischa Barton, Jackie Burroughs and Graham Greene. Prep school girls in knee socks … and nothing else! Lost and..."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Thoroughbreds

America's class system goes under a bloody scalpel.

"...around Amanda, who plummeted in high school society from weird to pariah. Nominally, Lily is just helping her benighted..."

March 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Aquamarine

Based on a young adult novel by Alice Hoffman, the film is about two best girlfriends who meet up with … a mermaid!

"...Julia if that matters) and Hailey (Levesque) to the weirdest place – a vintage store. And while I don’t..."

March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Amy Ray, Amplified

Q&A with the Indigo Girl

"...For their Paramount Theatre show Friday, the Indigo Girls arrive in a rare configuration: backed by a band,..."

July 12, 2012 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Digging for Fire

Joe Swanberg's latest adds some flourish to his usual marital themes

"...they all alight with purpose when he mentions the weird burial ground out back; the bro barbecue turns into..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Farewell to the King of Grindhouse

Mike Vraney, founder of Something Weird Video, dead at 56

"...cult cinema. Mike Vraney, founder of the era-defining Something Weird Video, died Jan. 2 at the age of 56...."

Jan. 3, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crows, Frankensteins and Danger at Staple! 2013

Local indie media con mixes webTV innovators with comic legends

"...known as Austin Books and Comics' Sidekick Girl) from weird-girls.com; Sara Reihani of video collective Slobs, and Jessica Mills,..."

Feb. 7, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters to the Editor: Classic Cuts

35 years of "keeping it weird"

"...this city. Creative, snarky, and unapologetic: the essence of "weird." Some of them are almost timeless (i.e., musicians' gripes,..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Features Feature by Danielle White

Excerpts From Texas Is the Reason, a Look Into Austin Music's DIY Age

Scenes from inside the weird gold mine

"...Raul’s wasn’t crowded. Some of the girls were wearing sleeveless British flag T-shirts or spiky hair,..."

April 10, 2020 Music Feature by Pat Blashill

DVDanger: Retro Redemption

Nerd out with The Stream, Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie

"...kid loved Star Wars. OK, except maybe that one weird kid that claimed Battlestar Galactica was better, but that..."

Sept. 6, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Moontower Comedy 2018:
First Headliners Announced

"Weird Al," Birbiglia, and Haddish inked for joke jamboree

"...7: Mike Birbiglia, Tiffany Haddish, and Mr. "Eat It," "Weird Al" Yankovic...."

Oct. 13, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Gay Place: Bless Me Sister

Watch our very own Weird City Sisters come up

"...we have sinned! Congrats to our local novitiates, the Weird City Sisters, as they attain their official ranks among..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Street Style, Festival Edition

Sartorial snapshots from Congress during AFF and TBF

"...MFA student at Texas State University whose novella about “weird girls doing weird things” is coming out soon in..."

Oct. 28, 2013 Design Post by Amy Gentry

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