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Your guide to free events at week two of SXSW
"...teams go head-to-head in Super Smash Bros. Melee. The Geek Stage features various celebrities (at least in gaming circles)..."

March 18, 2016 Features Feature by Tucker Whatley

Being Evel
Evel Knievel rides again in this retrospective doc
"...father of modern, non-Olympic, crazy-horsepower spectacle. (Like every Seventies proto-geek kid, I owned Ideal Toys’ Evel action figure and..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paper Towns
Paper-thin teen tale is based on a John Green YA novel
"...to completely accept the up-and-coming Wolff as a total geek with no social or love life. With those puppy-dog..."

July 31, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

One in a Crowd: Crowdfunding to Infinity and Beyond
Short film "Flown" and recipe book Dining With the Doctor: Regenerated
"...the crowdfunding route for her last book, The Illustrated Geek Cookbook. With her latest project, she's revising that first..."

May 8, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam: Local Screens News
Mr. Kaplan closes Cine Las Americas, Ernie Cline scores big, and more
"...whose book you can read more about at “The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth (Aug. 19, 2011).”..."

March 27, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The New Nerddom
Wizard World Austin Comic Con tackles diversity
"...If the two panels dealing with diversity in geek culture &n-dash one anchored by the contributors to Weird..."

Oct. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Signal
A trio of tech-savvy twentysomethings get waylaid and wind up as subjects in a weird but stylish sci-fi mystery.
"...The mystery at hand shouldn’t surprise any seasoned sci-fi geek, but Eubank (who also co-wrote the screenplay) substitutes a..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

SXSW Gaming Expo Opens Today
Free gaming extravaganza continues through weekend
"...on the big screen, and special guests taking the Geek Stage. Nintendo will be showing off Mario Kart 8..."

March 7, 2014 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Gay Place
Halloqueers and Dia de las Lezbos, just another wild weekend in the gAyTX
"...SKIP ENDER’S GAME Gay Austin Geeks join Geek Out across the nation in protest of..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

LoneStarCon 3: Lessons From My First Worldcon
Oh, the mistakes I’ve made in my first gathering of the genre faithful
"...stared at for my boobs. Panels and workshops on geek manners and con etiquette have become more popular over..."

Sept. 2, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

The Night Gwen Stacy Died
This oddly beautiful debut novel could garner a million no-prizes.
"...feat of hers! Sarah Bruni, true believers: A fake geek girl if ever there was one! Yet another wannabe..."

Aug. 7, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Radio On
'Austin Music Minute' maven Laurie Gallardo takes her time on KUTX
"...I loved hearing him nerd out. He's a total geek – how can you not love geek? But he..."

June 28, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TV Review: 'Orphan Black'
BBC America's Supernatural Saturday a marketing fumble, but a DVR must
"...and is hosted by Chris Hardwick, the pundit of all-things-geek behind the popular American podcast of the same name...."

March 29, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Wizard World: Wil Wheaton Versus the Burrito
'ST:TNG' star explains how Twitter helps bind the geekverse
"...Twitter and social media have provided one service to geek culture, it's that it's easier than ever – nay,..."

Oct. 27, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bluesmen & Pink Ribbon Cowgirls
The deaths of Brenda Hutchison and Nick Curran give us pause
"...siblings, a relationship the former spoke of in his Geek Weekly interview...."

Oct. 8, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Expendables 2
This who's who of action stars even features Schwarzenegger in his movie comeback.
"...banter between Schwarzenegger and Willis. (Chuck Norris, in a deep-geek twist, is here recast as his character John T...."

Aug. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Voyage to the 'Hearts of Dorkness'
Patrick Read Johnson and the strange oddysey of 5-25-77
"...for possibly the first Star Wars versus Star Trek geek-off ever), it's hard core nerd, for fans who recognize..."

July 1, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The FP
This potential cult-movie masterpiece is likely the most original dance film you'll see this year.
"...the 1980s and then refiltered through a 21st century geek sensibility. It's 1990: The Bronx Warriors meets West Side..."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Top 10 Most-Viewed Stories on AustinChronicle.com by Section
Drill down, baby
"...5) "The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth: A dystopian future meets a..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Features Feature

Chris the Conqueror
Chris Roberson takes on Superman, Elric, Captain Kirk, and Cinderella – and wins
"...was another MonkeyBrain alum – Rick Klaw, author of Geek Confidential: Echoes From the 21st Century – who formally..."

July 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Simon Pegg Gets the Kids All Swoony
BookPeople spies a Missed Connection for nerds
"...Shaun of the Dead writes candidly and cogently about geek culture, sci-fi, his career, and so much more. In..."

June 11, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Prom
Friday Night Lights' Aimee Teegarden stars in this tween wish-fulfillment movie.
"...– the baller, the space cadet, the virginal music geek. (On the subject of the ungainly but hyperarticulate wallflower..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Announces First Wave of Panels
It's never too soon to start thinking SXSW
"...screenings and Razorfish's Rachel Lovinger on the rise of geek documentaries...."

Oct. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Saint John of Las Vegas
Although the film sounds like a sure bet on paper, this comedy starring Steve Buscemi sadly comes up solid snake eyes.
"...at an illegal nature compound and a self-immolating carnival geek called the Flame Lord (Cho). I know, I know;..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Legion
God loses faith in humanity and sends a legion of angels to start the apocalypse.
"...into random play in Legion, making this more a horror-geek trivia game than an actual horror movie per se...."

Jan. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Art Is Formally Known as Prints
A somewhat kaleidoscopic glimpse of Austin's screen-printing scene
"...he releases, just one each month, for a rather geek-o-centric but international crowd of collectors. The Decoder Ring, on..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Crank: High Voltage
If Takashi Miike happened to be possessed by the spirit of Chuck Jones, the result might turn out something like this sequel.
"...again; and Yoakam returns as Doc Miles, Chelios' shady doctor-cum-geek chorus. Shot, acted, and edited like a methamphetaminized video..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The House Bunny
A Playboy bunny who's been ejected from the mansion becomes a sorority house mother.
"...Faris’ co-stars have little to do but go from geek to glam, though Goodman nearly steals the film as..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Exit Music for a Film Fest Producer
Sending off South by Southwest's Matt Dentler
"...trends in film – well, controversial, at least in film-geek circles, which are the only circles that matter when..."

May 2, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Documentaries and the Cult of Personality
How documentarians pick a winner
"...turned on a TV show called Beauty and the Geek and immediately dismissed it, thinking to myself, “What a..."

March 12, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

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