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March 16, 2007 Music Review by Darcie Stevens
SXSW Interviews
They said what?
"...knew that before I left home.'" – Doug Freeman Beirut..."
March 9, 2007 Music Feature
SXSW Showcase Picks
Spend the evening with your favorite record label.
"...of songs about Michael Jordan. (That's a blatant lie.) Beirut's SXSW showcase will be Zach Condon's first live appearance..."
March 9, 2007 Music Feature
UK Calling
Damon Albarn leads SXSW 07's UK act armada. Again.
"...We'd like to talk to the Beirut-born, London-based musical marvel Mika, but the last time we..."
Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
National Top 10s
National Top 10s of 2006
"...6) Beirut, Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing!)..."
Jan. 5, 2007 Music Feature
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...a massacre, that photos printed by Reuters out of Beirut have been doctored, and that the Israeli Navy did..."
Aug. 25, 2006 Column
Uninformed or Misinformed?
"...a massacre, that photos printed by Reuters out of Beirut have been doctored, and that the Israeli Navy did..."
Aug. 22, 2006 Postmarks
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Our readers talk back.
"...American University of Beirut..."
Aug. 18, 2006 Column
Letters @ 3AM
To blame disasters like the Twin Towers and New Orleans on a few perpetrators is to ignore the greater disasters that are the foundation upon which the developed world lives: our attempts to hold on to an unsustainable way of life
"...both at home and throughout the Middle East. The Beirut Stock Exchange began 2006 with $4.91 billion in capitalization,..."
Aug. 18, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
Independent News
Aug. 15, 2006 Postmarks
Outraged
"...group of demonstrators followed Condi Rice's armored procession in Beirut. One sign read “Be outraged.” I am...."
July 26, 2006 Postmarks
Soul to Sole Festival
Hoofers from around the country are tapping their way to Austin for the sixth annual Soul to Sole Festival, featuring tap master Arthur Duncan as one of the 2006 Festival Legends
"...touring clubs from London and Paris to Cairo and Beirut before being signed by the Champagne Maestro to be..."
May 26, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Lila Says
Based on an eponymous 1996 erotic novel, Lila Says is the story of a French girl and an Arab boy who learns the difference between words and actions.
"...a few years ago with his first feature West Beirut, a coming-of-age film about kids growing up amid the..."
Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Working Beauty
In spinning a fairy tale of gifts, outsiders, and thorns,
Bonnie Cullum's own story gets told
"...know, what the hell? Let's try it.' We opened Beirut and took the proceeds from that opening weekend and..."
March 11, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Driver Gordon Soderberg, a navy corpsman who served in Beirut, recounted the long list of atrocities attributed to the..."
Dec. 3, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Page Two
If myopic concerns could be traded as legitimate, revenue-based options, Austin would be looking at one of the great bull markets of our time
"...instead of the new Athens, I'm fearing the old Beirut – where the level of intra-city fighting and feuding..."
April 9, 2004 Column by Louis Black
Get Your Warblog On
As conventional media stumble, the Web's armchair war reporters rise to the occasion, to questionable effect.
"...knit offices and outlets from Austin to Adelaide, from Beirut to Chiapas, and beyond. While not officially blogs, IndyMedia..."
May 16, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Habana Viejo
Two photography books recall a city that has fallen apart.
"...his other titles is a photo book of bombed-out Beirut...."
Dec. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland
Spy Game
"...own -- a lengthy segment having to do with Beirut circa 1984 and a terrorist-funding sheik is particularly well..."
Nov. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Chapter 4: The Nineties!
March 1991 -- December 2000
"...building is set on fire in March1991. We become Beirut-like. In August, we move into the Elgin Butler Brick..."
Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature
Lean and ... Leaner
A preview of the city's proposed (and shrinking) budget
"...Levy that Austin is only one shade better than Beirut, the money for Garza's proposed 66 new police officers..."
Aug. 3, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Twenty Short Films From Beirut
"...20 Short Films From Beirut is a three-week series that focuses on how young..."
April 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
West Beirut
"...educations and thwarted childhoods. To come of age in Beirut during the recent war-torn decades of maddeningly convoluted civil..."
March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Horror, the Horror
William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist and screenwriter of the infamously terrifying film, discusses the recently released The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen and his life on both sides of the camera.
"...had while working for the U.S. Information Agency in Beirut. While I was there I met a man from..."
March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Show and Tell
Spring Previews 2000
"...WEST BEIRUT..."
Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Bringing Out the Dead
Swiss documentary maker Richard Dindo considers himself a "portraitist or biographer of those who are no longer with us." This week, he brings two films : about revolutionary Che Guevara and writer Jean Genet : to town as part of the Austin Film Society's Texas Documentary Tour.
"...memory of these years is triggered when he visits Beirut in 1982 just after the Lebanese massacre of hundreds..."
Jan. 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis
Light It Up
"...more like the Warsaw Ghetto to me, or maybe Beirut during a particularly chilly fall. At Lincoln, water pools..."
Nov. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
October Previews
"...WEST BEIRUT..."
Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature
Transformation Is Its Power
The Spiritual Connection
"...you think it is going to be revived in Beirut?' She said to me, 'It is here, baby. We..."
Aug. 13, 1999 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio
The "Master of Disaster"
"...fall, Triage. "The first war I went to was Beirut in 1983 before the Marines got blown up and..."
