
Alex Jones Will Never Stop Being Alex Jones
After decades at the fringe, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones helped usher a president into office. Now, the only person standing in Jones’ way is Jones.
Great new articles, every day.
After decades at the fringe, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones helped usher a president into office. Now, the only person standing in Jones’ way is Jones.
Charlie Warzel Buzzfeed May 2017 25min Permalink
The reclusive director comes out of his shell at 73.
Eric Benson Texas Monthly Mar 2017 20min Permalink
In Austin in 1973, politicos and hippies could get together and create violent, visionary horror films for $60,000. So they did. The story of how The Texas Chainsaw Massacre got made.
John Bloom Texas Monthly Nov 2004 50min Permalink
Grammy-winning liner notes describing the rise, fall, and rebirth of Roky Erickson, who founded the psychedelic rock pioneers The Thirteenth Floor Elevators before a charge stemming from a single marijuana joint landed him in a Texas mental hospital.
Will Sheff willsheff.com Jan 2010 25min Permalink
A report from Austin, Texas as it turns into a dot-com hotspot.
Helen Thorpe New York Times Magazine Aug 2000 15min Permalink
The noon chimes in the bell-clock tower rising above him to the building's 307-foot pinnacle sounded: pom-pom-pom-pom . . . 16 notes, high and sweet. Some say the chimes say a poem: "Lord, through this hour "Be Thou my guide, "For in Thy power "I do confide." After the chimes, there is a long pause -- 23 seconds if you hold a wristwatch on it -- time enough for a practiced man to reload three rifles and a shotgun.
“Doc” Quigg’s wire report on the 1966 Texas Tower shooting on the campus of UT-Austin.
H.D. Quigg United Press International Aug 1966 10min Permalink
The coldest of cases: During 1884-85, seven women and one man were brutally murdered in Austin, Texas.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jul 2000 20min Permalink