Richard Linklater’s film belongs in the canon of great Texas cinema. Of course, even more than cheap rents or greasy diners, people just miss being young. Slacker’s cast captured an entire generation ...

Teresa Taylor, AKA Teresa Nervosa, an early drummer for Butthole Surfers who appears in Richard Linklater's 1990 film, Slacker, has died at the age of 60 from complications of lung disease. Her ...

The Butthole Surfers drummer Teresa Taylor and star of Richard Linklater’s 1991 Gen X classic “Slacker,” died this weekend, the band announced on Twitter on Monday. “Teresa Taylor passed away ...

It was the day after Thanksgiving in 1986. Clark Walker was hunting in his grandparents' tree stand on their ranch near Foreman, Arkansas, where he was just waiting for a buck to walk by. Walker was ...

“It’s like the high school reunion where you actually want to see everybody.” Oscar-nominated Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater had a big smile on Tuesday evening at the Paramount Theatre. More than ...

It’s been over a decade since Slacker premiered at the Dobie Theater. Since then, the lifestyle it celebrated is largely gone, along with the locations it helped make famous. In this “Slacker map,” we ...

Richard Linklater has been preoccupied with dropout culture since the earliest days of his career: in the loopy Slacker (1991) and the larky Dazed and Confused (1993) he developed archetypal ...

Austin in the ‘80s was a college town dressed up as a state capitol, attracting a steady stream of students, dreamers, and dropouts hanging out on the edge (literally and metaphorically) of the ...

Writer/director Richard Linklater and the cast and crew of Slacker will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of a film that defined Austin for a generation, and ushered in a pivotal movement ...