SXSW: Lucha Underground

Wrestling star Johnny Mundo on the gamechanging promotion

"...is the revolution of wrestling." The difference with Lucha Underground is that they really may be changing the business...."

March 14, 2016 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Todd Haynes Melds Sound and Vision in The Velvet Underground

New music documentary reframes the New York quartet as experimenters and innovators

"...It's not that the Velvet Underground were an influential band, though they were...."

Oct. 15, 2021 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

Austin Underground Veterans Immortalize the Nineties in New Oral History

A Curious Mix of People's Greg Beets and Richard Whymark plot October launch events

"...local music venues. A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin, recently released by UT Press,..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Qmmunity: Sellers Underground Shutters

Send Qmmunity your queer’d memories of the Fourth Street fixture

"...Sellers Underground has closed. The Fourth Street fixture, which was just..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

AFS and UT Press Celebrate the Legacy of CinemaTexas

Notes on cinema history

"...16mm screenings – sometimes twice nightly – of classic, underground, subversive, landmark, and ignored movies. Open to all students..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

An Underground Effort to Recall APA's Sheffield

Anonymous cops accuse the union head of falling down on the job

"...At press time, it was unclear whether the recallers have obtained..."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Facts Were Immaterial

The 'counterintelligence' operations of Hoover's FBI included harassment, vilification, violence – and fake 'underground' newspapers in Bloomington, D.C., and Austin

"...Since one purpose of most underground newspapers in the late 1960s was to disrupt and..."

June 7, 2013 News Feature by Dale Brumfield

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...you Californians and other imports, Austin's local, (usually) weekly, underground newspaper (that was the era's nom de guerre) was..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Media Watch: The Rag in the Modern World

Olde Austin Ragsters revive in a digital age

"...For most of us, the underground press movement of the Sixties exists as little more..."

Feb. 12, 2010 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Look Ma, No Hands!

How the underground press evolved into the alternative press.

"...When did we stop calling it "the underground press"? When did the more polite "alternative" usurp the..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

A Time of Recognition

An excerpt from John Cale's new autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen?

"...years ago, John Cale. Hailed as an "uncommonly literate, expressively revealing, and darkly humorous" work in the Chronicle's SXSW..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Victor Bockris

Dogma

Kevin Smith manages to makes a film that both pokes fun at the Catholic Church and upholds the faith.

"...God as his co-pilot and the Pope as his press agent, Kevin Smith has come knocking on the heavenly..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Great Roots-Rock Scare of '96

The Americana Chart, Alternative Country, and Austin

"...we'd all been waiting for had finally arrived. Twangcore/Americana/No Depression/insurgent country/roots-rock/y'alternative -- whatever you wanted to call it --..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Music Feature

SXSW Film Cops to Seth Rogen and More

SXSW Film announces the premiere of a new Seth Rogen comedy, as well as new panelist and docs

"...It was written and directed by Jody Hill, whose underground hit The Foot Fist Way was enthusiastically proclaimed to..."

Jan. 12, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Inside the Small Presses Driving Austin’s Literary Scene

Meet the local small presses committed to publishing diverse literature

"...a local chapter of Red Light Lit, the small press and performance series her friend Jennifer Lewis launched in..."

May 31, 2024 Arts Feature by Carys Anderson

The Baader Meinhof Complex

This gripping lesson in the recent history of terrorism is an electrifying, morally complex story of the evil that true believers do in the name of the greater good.

"...was compared to Bonnie and Clyde in the intellectual underground press, and much of the German citizenry was, at..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City

A cocky Texan president and a senseless and endless war? Must be time for a reunion of 'The Rag.'

"...The underground press of the Sixties and Seventies played a major..."

July 8, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Trains! Tunnels! Billions! Austin Gets First Look at Proposed Transit Plan

Next steps: public input, May Council vote, November election

"...Congress corridor and along East Riverside to the airport, underground Downtown stations, bus rapid transit to serve UT and..."

March 6, 2020 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Public Notice: Past Imperfect, Future Tense

Rag reunion, SH 45: Activists' work is never done

"...The movement that came to be known as the "Underground Press" did not yet exist outside of New York..."

Oct. 7, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Page Two: Inner Sanctums, Outer Orbits

The intertwined legacies of indie music and the alternative press

"...Passing By.") A Very Brief History of the Alternative Press, Continued..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Public Notice: Making Better Plans

Code, even more NEXT

"...Thorne Dreyer's 74th Birthday Bash celebrates this "pioneering '60s underground journalist and longtime Austin activist, editor of The Rag..."

July 26, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

My Children Are Becoming Heavy

When San Antonio rock ruled South Texas

"...musicians that passed through the Vulcan – the Velvet Underground, Jimmy Reed, Johnny Winter, Moby Grape, Big Mama Thornton,..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

See Reverse Side for Title: Part I

If English first-wavers had trouble getting ahold of American roots music, Americans themselves weren't much better off, piecemealing together the foundations of today's national scene

"...During 1967 and 1968 they published Avatar, a biweekly underground newspaper promoting Lyman's teachings. As with any such group..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

Rag Recollections

Former 'Rag' staffers remember the old days, when a Texan was in the White House and America was stuck in a quagmire war

"...(1966-1973) I was there at the beginning – typing, pressing down headlines, and hand-lettering mastheads. The first office was..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature

Courthouse Campaign Takes Shape

Press conference calls for updated courthouse

"...That was much of the day's theme at Mon­day's press conference, held at the Women's Community Center of Central..."

June 26, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...all relevant tickets/badges info) can be found here. Full press release after the jump...."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Page Two

Saying goodbye to a friend and a hero.

"...look for publications like these, evolved out of the underground press (they hadn't evolved yet into the alternative press..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Let Us Now Praise Sluggo

"...the world at large through miniscule subversions of the press, and I can't help but support that unconditionally. In..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Books Feature

Media Top 10

"...teeming, uncontrolled orgy of communication -- not unlike the underground press in France before the Revolution of 1789 --..."

Jan. 10, 1997 News Column by Chris Walters

Public Notice: Ted Talks

AISD trustee lays it on the line about LBJ / LASA

"...also present a sneak peek at The Rag: Austin Underground Press, 1966-1977, introduced by the filmmaker Glenn Scott. Sun.,..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

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