From Baghdad to Bosque County

Democrat Dan Grant running for new Congressional District 25

Oct. 20, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Defensive Driving: Baghdad Edition

Riding through the Iraq capital

Jan. 27, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The High Cost of Rocking

Braving bullets in Heavy Metal in Baghdad

"...Watching Heavy Metal in Baghdad, the immensely satisfying debut documentary from the Brooklyn-based South..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

The story CNN broke, and the story that broke CNN into the big leagues of television journalism.

"..."how I got that story" narrative with Live From Baghdad...."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Letters @ 3AM

The widespread and richly deserved condemnation of President Bush's new Iraq "plan" has been high on rhetoric and low on specificity

"...Bush "that U.S. troops withdraw to the outskirts of Baghdad and let Iraqis take over [the city's] security ......."

Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

No End in Sight

If you're growing as weary of Iraq war documentaries as you are of the war itself, then this sobering, information-filled study of the war's origins is the film for you.

"...that the movie links to the hobbling of both Baghdad and U.S. foreign policy to this day. Narrated with..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Iraq in Fragments

This multiaward-winning documentary was two years in the making and tells stories about modern Iraq in the words of civilians of various ethnicities.

"...Eleven-year-old Mohammed lives in a bombed-out industrial section of Baghdad where buildings smolder without attracting notice. While the neighborhood's..."

March 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

My Country, My Country

Using the Iraqi democratic elections in early 2005 as its focal point, this powerful documentary is the sad lament of Iraqis who truly want the best for their homeland, despite seemingly overwhelming odds.

"...Sunni candidate who operates a free medical clinic in Baghdad. Highly critical of the American invasion of his country..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Gunner Palace

Uday Hussein's former pleasure palace is now home to an American artillery regiment, whose members we get to know from their poolside antics to their far more sobering responsibilities of patrolling Baghdad.

"...far more sobering responsibilities of patrolling the streets of Baghdad and conducting night raids. Gunner Palace begins shortly after..."

March 18, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Deterrence

"...Iraq withdraw its troops or face the destruction of Baghdad via nuclear means. The catch is that President Emerson..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

Americans and Iraqis are dying for Bush's pride and his hopes of re-election

"...a U.S. colonel announced from the battlefront: "We own Baghdad." A year later to the day, 12 Marines were..."

April 16, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad

Writes Mona Yahia in her dedication, 'To my parents, who gave me languages instead of roots.'

"...When The Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad..."

May 11, 2007 Books Review by Rayyan Al-Shawaf

Fables of the Reconstruction

A confidential internal U.S. memo describes a Coalition / Iraqi administration sinking into chaos

"...the memo, which was written to a superior in Baghdad and circulated among other CPA officials. He praises Iraqi..."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by Jason Vest

Outsider Art

Music on the margins

"...and so can't be so easily shrugged off. In Baghdad, for example, the past is everyday and immediate and..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Military-Petroleum Complex

The Second Iraq War and the cronies of state capitalism

"...the Israelis about a pipeline, American troops had subdued Baghdad. But the soldiers made only token efforts to secure..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Stop the Loss

Austin veterans turn away from Iraq and war

"...incoming mortar rounds – at Camp Taji, north of Baghdad. ("FOB" is Army lingo for "forward operating base," a..."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

'I Am Sullied – No More'

Col. Ted Westhusing chose death over dishonor in Iraq

"...found dead in his trailer at Camp Dublin in Baghdad. At that time, he was the highest ranking American..."

April 27, 2007 News Feature by Robert Bryce

The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

Documentary from the filmmakers who made Gunner Palace details the story of Yunis Abbas, an Iraqi journalist falsely detained for nine months at Abu Ghraib.

"...2003, American soldiers burst into the family’s house in Baghdad and rounded up Yunis and two of his brothers..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

An Austinite in Iraq

Local man describes the progress, failures, and dangers in Iraq after humanitarian work there

"...talked to the people in charge. Beutelman traveled to Baghdad as a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams, a nondenominational..."

April 1, 2005 News Feature by Jeff Tonn

Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War

The best books transport us to worlds outside our experience. Unequivocally, this is one of those books.

"...it meant that she commenced her 2003 honeymoon in Baghdad, living outside the Green Zone and reporting on the..."

May 27, 2011 Food Feature by MM Pack

Off the Record

KUT announces a new Cactus Cafe manager, plus this week at the movies

"...be surprised when the soundtrack to Austin-bred low-budget comedy Baghdad Texas starts to garner Grammy buzz. A dusty assortment..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Two Brothers, Two Paths

AFS Documentary Tour: The Oath

"...of a Sunni doctor running for election to the Baghdad Provincial Council. For her latest film, The Oath, Poitras..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

CPT Activist Killed in Iraq

Fox tried to mend country ripped apart by horrific violence

"...body of American activist Tom Fox was found in Baghdad last week. The 54-year-old Quaker was a father of..."

March 17, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Larkin's Journey

New York choreographer Regina Larkin keeps coming back to Ballet East

"...In 1989, at an international peace festival in Baghdad celebrating the end of Iraq's seven-year war with Iran,..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Arts Feature by Patti Hadad

War Made Easy

New echoes of Vietnam: 'Withdrawal would cripple U.S. credibility'

"...beyond went Communist. The day after the United Nations' Baghdad headquarters blew up in August 2003, The Wall Street..."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Norman Solomon

Soldier's Heart

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

"...In April 2003, as U.S. troops pushed toward Baghdad, Dr. Joseph T. English, chairman of psychiatry at St...."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

Get Your Warblog On

As conventional media stumble, the Web's armchair war reporters rise to the occasion, to questionable effect.

"...The moniker, at once witty and cutting, of a Baghdad blogger who has for months now been carrying on..."

May 16, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Reason Why

"...view the senseless and immoral bombing of ancient, historic Baghdad, I think often of another Jefferson observation during an..."

April 11, 2003 News Feature by George McGovern

War Drums

"...pending war in Iraq call for an attack on Baghdad as immediately devastating as the 1945 nuclear attacks on..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in the beleaguered communities of Iraq -- far from Baghdad. We must teach the world what it means to..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column

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