Cheech and Chong

Tommy Chong has his cellphone pressed up tight against his ear, trying to find out where the person on the other end of the line is; at 85, his hearing isn’t what it used to be. Sitting across from him in the booth of a restaurant, located right off the lobby of an extremely busy hotel in downtown Austin, Texas, is Richard Marin. The 77-year-old actor is usually known by his nickname, “Cheech,” and he’s perusing the menu while his longtime partner loudly issues directions regarding where to meet up later. Marin orders…

From music docs on Mogwai and Stax Records to Dev Patel kicking ass — what you need to catch at this year's Austin-based film & TV festival And on the fifth day, the Lord did look upon Austin, that small oasis of weirdness in central Texas, and said: Let there be a festival, in which indie musicians and technology wonks and all sorts of cutting-edge cultural freaks might gather, so as to share tomorrow’s sounds and ideas for shaping the future and messy plates of spare…