The Church of the SubGenius may not be a household name across the country, but beginning in the early 1970s, a pair of enterprising Texas-area satirists turned one wildly overt religious experiment ...

Sandy K. Boone tells the surprising tale of a Texas-born fake religion in 'J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius.' By THR Staff I first learned of the Church of the SubGenius in a small ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “The World Ends Tomorrow and YOU MAY DIE!” So begins SubGenius Pamphlet #1, the mysterious missive ...

On behalf of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, Black and Boone Productions announces the first ever documentary on the Church of the SubGenius, Slacking Towards Bethlehem: J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and the Church of the ...

Editor’s note: Take a look back in The Dallas Morning News Archives. “If you don’t already have Bob in your life — or if you’ve never even heard of J.R. “Bob” Dobbs — then concentrate real hard on ...

Like 8mm films of 1960s “happenings” or videos of 1970s performance art, “J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius” chronicles a cultural footnote that perhaps should be filed under the ...

Exclusive: Sandy K. Boone's new film looks at how a fake church in Texas became way more real than anyone involved could have possibly imagined. The Church of the SubGenius may not be a household name ...

You couldn’t escape his ubiquitous mug back when Austin was truly weird. It appeared on bumper stickers, bulletin boards, telephone poles, streetlights, bathroom walls, and more: A perfectly coiffed ...

This diverting enough documentary focuses on the parodic religious "cult" that reached peak hipster awareness in the 1980s. Like 8mm films of 1960s “happenings” or videos of 1970s performance art, ...

Sandy K. Boone tells the surprising tale of a Texas-born fake religion in 'J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius.' By THR Staff I first learned of the Church of the SubGenius in a small ...