Entries from Austinist tagged with 'aquateen'
February 4, 2008
SFist worried over drugstore chain Walgreens celebration of Black History Month.Gothamist was surprised that apparently New York City is the fourth most miserable city in the country, after Detroit, Stockton, CA, and Flint, MI.Shanghaiist finds out what the Chinese think of Hilary and Obama.It was with a healthy amount of schadenfreude that Phillyist reported that former Eagle, and now Cowboy (ew), Terrell Owens owes the Eagles a significant wad of cash.Torontoist is two weeks......
Continue Reading "Week Around the -Ists"September 24, 2007
Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. Bostonist got a crash course in what not......
Continue Reading "Last Week in -IST"April 3, 2007
Seth MacFarlane, the brains behind the greatest cartoon TV series since The Simpsons (Family Guy and its not-so-funny counterpart, American Dad), will be coming to UT campus next Friday, April 13th to give a lecture on lord knows what. The Emmy Award-winner is not only the creator, director and executive producer of the above, he's also the voice of many animated characters--lending his voice to partners in the genre, Robot Chicken, Crank Yankers and......
Continue Reading "Family Guy Creator To Speak At UT"February 5, 2007
Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little 'ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal (even getting their editor on TV) only to find their scandal dwarfed by the even bigger scandal caused by their Mayor boffing one of his aides' wife. We're not......
Continue Reading "The Week in -IST"February 1, 2007
UPDATE: We found the video of Sean Stevens and Peter Berdovsky placing the "fake bombs" around Boston. Plus, the bidding war reached a little over $5,000 before the item was removed from Ebay. The stunt that brought Boston police and transportation its biggest scare since 9/11 yesterday was one Austin is very familiar with. Bostonist has all the coverage. Pictured above, this LED-lit advertisement stood over South Congress just north of Oltorf for more......
Continue Reading "Adult Swim Pranks Boston. Austin, Not So Much"September 29, 2006
Aqua Teen Hungerforce is one of our favorite late-night TV shows. Cartoon Network's trippy and witty antics of fast food products living in the suburbs of New Jersey has been entertaining inebriated viewers since Adult Swim's debut. One of the signature artists in Adult Swim's motley crew of hip-hop contributers is DJ Spooky, who penned theme songs and more for these cult cartoon favorites. Hailing from Washington D.C. and armed with a degree in......
Continue Reading "Waterloo Park Goes Spooky"August 29, 2006
This Thursday, as part of their ongoing "Best of the AFF" series, the Austin Film Festival and Chicken Ranch Records are screening "Stomp! Shout! Scream!," the beach-party-rock-and-roll-monster-movie by Jay Edwards, the guy behind Aqua Teen Hunger Force. They're billing it as a beach party screening extravaganza, replete with a beach party-themed menu and a bunch of sweet prizes and giveaways. Chicken Ranch records will be on hand to celebrate the release of the film's......
Continue Reading "Austinist Giveaway: Stomp! Shout! Scream! At the Drafthouse Lake Creek, This Thursday"July 29, 2005
MC Chris, who you may know as the voice of Hesh on adultswim's Sea Lab, or the voice of MC Peepants on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, will be performing live at Emo's tonight. MC Chris performed at our house* during SXSW, and has since come back to play several sold out shows in Austin. Tickets are amazingly still available for tonight's show! MC Chris is a different kind of rockstar. He has kept himself......
Continue Reading "MC Chris, Tonight at Emo's"May 4, 2005
Do you have nothing better to do on the first Wednesday of the month than sit around with a bunch of fellow weirdos watching bizarre cartoons? Do you have a warped sense of humor and love talking-meatwads and hairy dudes from the Bronx? Do you think that MC Pee Pants is one of the baddest muthas on wax? Then we have just the place for you: Austin’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force Meet-Up goes down......
Continue Reading "REMINDER: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Meet-Up Tonight"March 15, 2005
Über-hipster magazine, VICE, has a surprisingly large presence at this years music convention. Their party schedule features Bloc Party, Death From Above, and the creators of [adult swim]'s Aqua Teen Hunger Force. For some reason, we have an image in our mind of these parties being filled with drunk trailerpark residents with bad teeth and torn jeans, carrying jug bottles that say "XXX" on the side. Maybe this is because we've seen lots of......
Continue Reading "VICE Kills Texas"