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 ...

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 ...

In the 1980s and ‘90s, among various American undergrounds, knowledge of the Church of the SubGenius, the teachings of J.R. “Bob” Dobbs or the doctrine of “Slack” was a pretty good way to identify ...

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 ...

"If you want to sell a religion, you have to kill the deity. That's how you do it." Ahahah genius, indeed! A festival promo trailer has debuted for a new documentary titled J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the ...

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 ...

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, ...