Ernest Cline Is Taking The Bridge to Bat City

Ready Player One author making kid lit debut

"...With his signature deep dives into nerdy pop culture futures, Ready Player One author Ernest Cline is one..."

June 13, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

BlackBerry Retro-Engineers the Rise and Fall of the Original Smartphone

Matt Johnson's tells the tale of a very Canadian tech crunch

"...Balsillie (an even more unrecognizable Glenn Howerton), and humanistic, geek-culture-obsessed Vice President Douglas Fregin (Johnson himself). BlackBerry's story kicks..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Julian Towers

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...New Jersey native left his role with Best Buy's Geek Squad the month before dropping that project and directly..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Valoneecia Tolbert Geeks Out in Tales of a Blerd Ballerina

The actress looks back at what it was to be young, geeky, and Black

"...fiction, fantasy, horror, comics, cartoons, gaming, and other genre subcultures are open about letting their geek flags fly and..."

April 9, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rent-A-Pal

Who doesn't need a buddy? (Even if they're a tape.)

"...frustrated ambitions made flesh) and Andy (king of the geeks Wheaton) are never in a real shared space. David..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Motorblade Postering Returns, With a New Owner

Austin’s premier postering service is no longer on the Fritz and is ready to roll & rock with Ricardo

"...member of bands Freaks Amor, the Blue Box, Second Culture, Cup, and PetCatMan; working solo but often collaborating with..."

July 3, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Geeks of Color Expo Shows the Future We Were Promised

Three-day event creates a space for Black creatives to celebrate themselves

"...organizers announced last minute via their website that the Geeks of Color Expo has been postponed. They stated, "We..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Screens Feature by Clarissa Rodríguez-Abrego

HavenCon Will Return for Year Five

LGBTQ geeks and gamers assemble: The convention is back

"...be the last for the state’s first and only geek and gaming convention dedicated to the LGBTQ community...."

Jan. 7, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Illuminating The Magic Lantern

The Austin film podcast conjures British ghosts for AFS

"...the sense of cynicism that so often pervades film culture...."

Nov. 19, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Edgar Cantero Scoobies the Fhtagn Right Out the Ol’ Lovecraft

The geek-savvy author brings his Meddling Kids to BookPeople

"...native whose first language is Spanish, but who spits pop-culture in English like the savviest geek in, say, Sheboygan..."

June 15, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend

We’ll shield you against that mofo of a FOMO, citizen!

"...that used to be called the South Austin Popular Culture Center but is more succinctly monikered as SouthPop these..."

June 15, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Unbelievable Summers at the Paramount

The most unforgettable moments from this year’s classics of cinema

"...upon its release in 1994. Bursting with a cinema geek's love for the movies, the Quentin Tarantino masterwork elicited..."

May 18, 2018 Screens Feature by Chronicle staff

A Different Kind of Barista at Empowered Coffee

Employees with intellectual or developmental disabilities make coffee and learn life skills

"...the espresso machine, pour over coffee station, and pop culture-laden conversations with regulars. Because of safety concerns and complicated..."

May 11, 2018 Food Feature by Dan Gentile

Hans Gruber & the Die Hards

"...all frosted by Robinson's gritty, bratty bawl. Thrashcore gives trash/geek culture a wedgie...."

April 13, 2018 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Ready Player One

Video gaming and Eighties culture get the Spielberg treatment

"...it's easy to forget that Steven Spielberg made pop culture history cool. He revived the moribund monster movie with..."

March 30, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ernest Cline: Kings of the Nerds

Austin author adapts his Spielberg homage Ready Player One with Spielberg himself

"...other than Steven Spielberg. To top it off, the culture-smash dystopian SF action film had its world premiere during..."

March 30, 2018 Screens Feature by Moisés Chiullán

SXSW Film Recap: Ready Player One Premiere

Tech problems fail to dampen the excitement at star-studded event

"...Festivalgoers have gotten used to SXSW premieres at the..."

March 12, 2018 SXSW Post by Moisés Chiullán

SXSW Adds Ready Player One

New Spielberg movie takes the Sunday night prestige slot

"...an age when humanity has retreated into the pop culture smorgasbord of the Oasis...."

March 10, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback – JMBLYA 2017: Trapper’s Delight

JMBLYA garners the third largest concert audience in Austin's 2017

"...Atlanta trap kinfolk Migos sparked up recent smash LP Culture with staccato Southern chants of "Get Right Witcha," faring..."

May 12, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Gay Place

Louisa Spaventa's Night of Queer Performance fosters education, support, and celebration for the queer community

"...HavenCon 3 The third annual HavenCon – Texas' LGBTQxyz Geek and Gaming Convention – returns with Denise Crosby (Star..."

April 28, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Gay Place

Dining Out for Life raises funds for HIV/AIDS related care

"...adult games while taking a satirical look at pop culture. Thu., April 20, 7-8:30pm. George Washington Carver Museum and..."

April 21, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Vigilante

Gaming bar rolls the dice with mixed small plates

"...consultant Preston Swincher, gave some serious thought to contemporizing geek culture. There's witty references throughout – from the "Accio..."

March 31, 2017 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Vigilante Gaming Bar Welcomes Both Novices and Experts

New tabletop haven might be your next favorite watering hole

"...the uninitiated to dip their toes into the expanding culture, while providing a home away from home for more..."

March 31, 2017 Screens Feature by Robert M. Reyes

SXSW Gaming Events

The little brother of the Fest grows up

"...celebrates video and board gaming as well as wider geek culture, with no shortage of game demos, panel discussions..."

March 17, 2017 Screens Feature by Tucker Whatley

The Luv Doc: Barebacking SXSW

PEWOL (pronounced "pee wall"), which stands for "people without lanyards"

"...Well, Erdo, if you were any cousin at all,..."

March 17, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Rooster Teeth Launches Video Game Publishing Division

Battlesloths 2025 announced for release in spring of this year

"...ambition to conquer every aspect of video game and geek culture, it was only a matter of time until..."

Jan. 30, 2017 Screens Post by Tucker Whatley

Upcoming Lady Meetups

Where my girls at?

"...just hang out and make a few new friends! Geek Girl Brunch Next Meet Up: January Who doesn't love..."

Dec. 6, 2016 Events Post by Sandra Gisi

Catching Up With The Beer Diaries

Creators discuss what's next for the local web series

"...and conversations between master brewers. Zeschuk, in full beer geek mode, excitedly grilled brewers on techniques, minutia, and philosophy...."

Aug. 24, 2016 Food Post by Tucker Whatley

To Build a Home

Four Austin writers discuss how they create their fantastic worlds

"...to, in the long run, strengthen and unify the culture she had created...."

June 17, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history Satanic Panic revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe's superb history revives the Eighties in all its fearful hysteria

"...any number of things about the Eighties that pop culture refuses to let die. Some of them are, given..."

March 11, 2016 Arts Feature by Marc Savlov

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