Art
January 23, 2024
A Giant Troll Is Coming to Austin’s Pease Park (and the News Brought Out a Few, Uh, Trolls)
“Texas has no cultural tradition of trolls,” wrote one.
Trolls
Music
January 8, 2020
Lizzo Says Goodbye to Twitter
The successful musician says trolls drove her off the social media platform.
Politics & Policy
March 21, 2018
War of Words: Meet the Texan Trolling for Putin
In 2014, Russell Bonner Bentley was a middle-aged arborist living in Austin. Now he’s a local celebrity in a war-torn region of Ukraine. His journey reveals a troubling development in Putin’s information war.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Are the Houston Texans a “Tomato Can?”
Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy says the New England Patriots, which hosts Houston on Sunday, is “the first team in NFL history to get back-to-back byes before advancing to the conference championship game.”
January 21, 2013
Reddit Troll (Sort of) Apologizes on CNN
Arlington resident Michael Brutsch, who was unmasked as Reddit's biggest troll late last week, took to CNN Thursday to issue a half-hearted apology.
Sports
January 7, 2013
Are the Houston Texans a “Tomato Can?”
Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy says the New England Patriots, which hosts Houston on Sunday, is “the first team in NFL history to get back-to-back byes before advancing to the conference championship game.”
October 15, 2012
Texan Computer Programmer Outed as Notorious Reddit Troll
Gawker's Adrian Chen reveals that the self-described "creepy uncle of Reddit" is 49-year-old Arlington resident Michael Brutsch.