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 ...

“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 ...

Teresa Taylor, an early drummer for the indie rock band Butthole Surfers who had a small but memorable role in the 1990 film Slacker as a “pusher” trying to sell an unusual Madonna souvenir, died ...

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 ...

Slacker (1991) is an American independent film written and directed by Richard Linklater. It follows a day in the life of a group of young, eccentric people in Austin, Texas, as they engage in ...

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 ...

Michael Moore will distribute his next movie, "Slacker Uprising," online for free. By Gregg Kilday, The Associated Press Michael Moore will distribute his next movie, “Slacker Uprising,” online for ...