Glen Powell to Enter Texas Film Hall of Fame

Actor to be honored ahead of Austin premiere of Hit Man

"...Founded in 2001 by the Austin Film Society with..."

March 27, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Off Beat: Armadillo World Headquarters Plots Austin FC Partnership

The Dillo lives!

"...“The cowboys started growing their hair out, and the hippies started wearing hats.” (Find a Q&A with Music Industry..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

Stories, Operas, and Meet-Cutes: The Week in Arts

Brett Goldstein brings the laughs, Zach Theatre conjures a comet, and more arty events

"...a string of dead lovers behind her. It’s got hippies, manhaters, cups of blood, and immaculate blue eyeshadow. Go..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Arts Feature by Katherine McNevins

Foo Fighters, Alanis Morissette, BigXthaPlug, and More Highlights From Saturday at ACL Fest

From Rina Sawayama's avant-pop to Die Spitz's morning mosh

"...a mishmash crowd of families, teenage techno-goths, and elder hippies at the barricade. Alongside mosh-inducing fare like “Hair of..."

Oct. 8, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Being Dead

Debut LP uses fairy tales as a heartfelt, irreverent rock escape

"...a way of life – still practiced by small-town hippies, while "Daydream" envisions Keller as a daisy in the..."

July 21, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Tribute Convenes Keith Richards, Snoop Dogg, Norah Jones, and More at the Hollywood Bowl

Two-night song extravaganza pulled stars from across generations

"...may be as a convener. From bringing together Austin’s hippies and cowboys in the Seventies to his endless commitment..."

May 1, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

What Texas Artists Had to Say on the CMT Music Awards Red Carpet

Jackie Venson, Midland, and more talk country music’s Austin migration

"...to mainstream being-told-what-to-do culture here," she added skeptically. "We're hippies. We park on the grass. We don't like HOAs..."

April 7, 2023 Music Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

Jesus Revolution

Tedious retelling of the era of the Jesus freaks preaches to the choir

"...idealism of the youth movement, grumbling about how the hippies protesting the Vietnam War on the evening newscast need..."

Feb. 24, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Nagavalli's East-and-West Fusing LP Reaches Beyond

The divine feminine of Numinosum

"...jet-setters and Travis Heights denizens alike. Indian twang for hippies and East Cesar Chavez dwellers, diva soul for soccer..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Raul's in Overdrive: "Have a Good Time, Get in Free, and Drink Some Beer"

Enter 1978, when Austin punk meets San Antonio’s the Next and Dallas’ the Nervebreakers

"...bands that didn't move onstage, did nothing, just these hippies playing guitar," he scoffs. "So I thought, 'Fuck, do..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

All the Dirty Little Secrets: Halina Reijn Digs Up Bodies Bodies Bodies

The director of the Gen Z Clue on why she won't direct on stage

"...would have been my chances? My parents were radical hippies and they thought it was cool to be very..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fifth Annual KOKEFEST Brings Clint Black and More to Hutto

Two-day lineup includes Turnpike Troubadours, Robert Earl Keen, Aaron Watson, and more

"...music's founding mythos of the convergence of rednecks and hippies, KOKE-FM served as essential a role as the Armadillo..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Faster Than Sound: BabiBoi's Spitfire Soundtrack for the Club and Beyond

Ballroom rapper joins the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce's Pride in Local Music next Saturday, and more music news

"..."It sort of hippies me up a little bit, right?" said Floyd. "What..."

June 17, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Q&A: The Dicks’ Gary Floyd Talks Lifelong Creativity Ahead of Austin Art Exhibition

Maybe We'll See Butterflies opens tomorrow at Prizer Arts & Letters

"...the little artistic statement I wrote. It sort of hippies me up a little bit, right? What good punk..."

June 10, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

I'll Fly Away: “Sister” Bobbie Nelson Passes on at Age 91

Soul of Willie Nelson & Family called the piano her "truest friend"

"...I saw how Austin was a haven for the hippies, and how the hippies were open-minded 'bout all sorts..."

March 10, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Bulgarian Chainsaw Massacre

David Blue Garcia proves you can take Leatherface out of Texas in the new Netflix horror Texas Chainsaw Massacre

"...that it was filmed, and those characters were contemporary hippies trying to get away from the violence of the..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Diggin' Way Down Into Life With Carolyn Wonderland & A. Whitney Brown

For Valentine's Day, we bring you a snapshot of life at home with a blues musician and her comedy writer husband

"...however, he hitchhiked to Canada, fell in with the hippies, spent three weeks at Woodstock, and experienced a paradigm..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Free Brews and Boosters from Jester King; Fat City x Meanwhile = Beer Cheese; William Chris and the Black-Eyed Pea Cook-Off; THC Donuts Postponed; and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...date back to January 29. So, as all those hippies who read Robert Heinlein’s Stranger In a Strange Land..."

Dec. 29, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What We're Listening to Right Now

Ayo Tamz, Blushing, Whookilledkenny, Chief Cleopatra, and more have us dialed in

"...vocal delivery and sacred medicinal journey inspiration. Did the hippies of yore have such fun, rap-informed soundtracks? Tamz sells..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Music Column by E. Ryan Ellis

Freeland

Moving stoner drama finds the downside of going legit

"...growers, buyers, and distributors, which in turn attracted idealistic boomers/hippies. In the seemingly unspoiled northern woodlands they saw a..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gastro Obscura Reveals a World of Food-based Weirdness

The culinaristas of Atlas Obscura debut a brilliant new book

"...The world – not just Austin, you old hippies, but the world – has always been weirder than..."

Oct. 12, 2021 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Reporting Life

Oh, the places you'll go

"...skull with a well-pitched wrench. The article, "Cowboys vs. Hippies: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Subtext" (Screens, Oct. 3,..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Gary Clark Jr. Spotlights Familial Austin Talent in Blues On the Green’s Return

“Everybody is listening to the guitar man”… and his friends

"...coordinated outfits, circles of friends with fashionable coolers, old hippies who dance with their hands, intact family units, and..."

July 28, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Trudy’s Celebrates Local Women, Emmer & Rye Preps Canje, Texas (Sort of) Gets Milk Bar, and More

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...early Uber employee is something worth noting? The old hippies tell us that everything’s been fucked since Les Amis..."

July 20, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

AAAFF Review: Cane Fire

How Hollywood created, and swallowed, Hawaiian identity

"...to the ground. Cringeworthy commercials, and a combination of neo-hippies and spoiled technocrats, make it immediately obvious how Hawaii..."

June 7, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Leon Russell & the Bob Dylan Rumor

Outlaw era deejay Woody Roberts helped produce Willie Nelson's first Fourth of July picnic in this excerpt from his new memoir Horse Racing & Rock 'N' Roll

"...event was in the hands of a half-dozen latent hippies. His investment was on the line...."

Dec. 25, 2020 Music Feature by Woody Roberts

An Excerpt From Willie Nelson and Sister Bobbie's New Book

A new family bible Me and Sister Bobbie finds the Nelson siblings moving to Austin and making Shotgun Willie.

"...I saw how Austin was a haven for the hippies, and how the hippies were open-minded 'bout all sorts..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Music Feature

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...tracks dripping with white funk, think MGMT for Southern hippies – the euphoria and segues."..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

The Hot Sauce Fest, a Love & Lightstream, and more sounds to check

"...to a true curve ball. It might strike postmodern hippies as antithetical, but it works like indica. The whole..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

In 1990, Austin Audiences Watched Slacker... and Saw Themselves

Richard Linklater’s indie milestone celebrates 30 years

"...no Sharks or Jets, no bikers and preppies, no hippies and townies. Blizzard said, "By its very lack of..."

July 24, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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