Beto O'Rourke and Ethan Hawke in Conversation

Two Texans discuss politics, fear, and the power of Willie Nelson to bring us back together

"...here in New York right during the bombing of Baghdad. Bush was president and the newly past president, Bill..."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Feature by Ethan Hawke

Iraqis Come Home to Austin

Refugees, fleeing violence in Iraq, struggle to get used to life in Texas

"...sides because he worked at the American embassy in Baghdad...."

Dec. 5, 2014 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

ACL Live Shot: Outkast

All the hits – just like clockwork

"...André would commence services. There was “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad),” then “Gasoline Dreams,” “ATLiens,” and “Skew It on the..."

Oct. 4, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Two Weekends Again Demands Multiplicity!

"...hit the rap, right? Or begin at "Bombs Over Baghdad" and end with "Loser." Sure, of course. Except two..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Friday Festival Face-Off: Beck/OutKast

Both: 8:15pm, Samsung/Honda stage

"...to Play: "Ms. Jackson," "Hey Ya!," "B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)"..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Luv Doc: A Drinking Solution

What to drink and where to drink it

"...scattered all over the place. It’s what I imagine Baghdad looked like after the draw down. I’m thirsty for..."

April 4, 2014 Column by The Luv Doc

8 Mile

An Austin octet of SXSW Picks 2 Click™

"...Army on musical morale missions, performing for troops in Baghdad...."

Feb. 28, 2014 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Gruesome Playground Injuries

Two wounded friends walk a line between nostalgia and regret in Street Corner Arts' staging of Rajiv Joseph's play

"...playwright of the Pulitzer-nominated drama Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo (and graduate of the same undergrad writing program..."

May 31, 2013 Arts Review by Matthew Irwin

A Veteran's Voice

Playwright Johnny Meyer returned from war to learn that theatre is essential to life

"...cute," he smirks, "but not essential." While stationed in Baghdad on teams that facilitated Iraqi self-government, Meyer met a..."

March 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

FronteraFest 2013

Performance jamboree's 20th brings back old faves and welcomes new stars

"...by Rajiv Joseph, author of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, with direction by accomplished actor Kelsey Kling; West..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: Too Much of Nothing

The United States pacifies Afghanistan just enough so that China can profit

"...program and the commander of a combat battalion in Baghdad in 2006, said flatly. ... 'Certainly not worth the..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Lubitsch's Last Hurrah

New AFS Essential Cinema series covers the 'Touch' from pre-war to 'Cluny Brown'

"...suddenly the fog lifts, and it isn't London, it's Baghdad! Next week, I'll be in Cairo!..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

After a Fashion

Local designer goes ga-ga over the Lady's Facebook post

"...by Austin's own James Bagley, designing under the label Baghdad Battery. But this little T-shirt, available only at Parts..."

June 8, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Out of Ink 2012: Sound Off

Eight playwrights wrote 10-minute plays, and the audience lived happily ever after

"...a delicate hymn to female journalists trapped in a Baghdad jail cell. Perhaps the most inventive was Trey Deason's..."

April 27, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Separate Lives

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham / Ibrahim 6

"...Director Oday Rasheed's Baghdad-set, multileveled thriller Qarantina (2010) revolves around a hired assassin..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin and the Academy

'Tree of Life,' 'Bullhead' score Oscar nominations

"...Elvis" 
Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson "Incident in New Baghdad" 
James Spione "Saving Face" 
Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy..."

Jan. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Paul Only Pro-Peace Candidate

"...months later Clinton ordered the cruise missile bombing of Baghdad. Four years later President Bush cited the Iraq Liberation..."

Nov. 16, 2011 Postmarks

Danzig Legacy

"...to American military vehicles cruising the back streets of Baghdad? It's as if you've turned into a martian. After..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Music Review by Marc Savlov

From Baghdad to Bosque County

Democrat Dan Grant running for new Congressional District 25

Oct. 20, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: An Extraordinary Silence

Oddly, American progressives don't protest Obama's war in Pakistan

"...city of Kabul has about 3.9 million people; Iraq's Baghdad, over 7 million; Pakistan's commercial center, Karachi, has "17..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

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

A Knead To Read

From Spain's elBulli and France's wines to Baghdad's Green Zone and your own backyard: Bring cooking home with these new tomes

May 27, 2011 Food Feature

'Black Watch'

This play gives audiences an up-close view of Scottish soldiers in Iraq

"...Camp Dogwood, the desert base 25 miles southwest of Baghdad, where we get a grunt's-eye view of their deployment...."

Feb. 11, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

New in Print

Get radicalized: About to Die examines news imagery at the moment of death, while The Verso Book of Dissent spans Zola and Tupac

"...Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdadedited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim Verso, 384 pp.,..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

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

The Hightower Report

Global Game That Never Ends; and A New Name for Occupation

"...Force Iraq. At a dog and pony show in Baghdad on January first, the demise of multinational support was..."

Jan. 22, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Plastic Platoon

Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy on their 10-year tour of duty to make a stop-motion Vietnam epic starring action figures

"...his son, Pvt. Joe Holmes Jr., currently serving in Baghdad, to warn him of his fate: Every single branch..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Crime, Not Terrorism

"...at his word and dropped a million soldiers on Baghdad in the name of finding weapons of mass destruction..."

Nov. 22, 2009 Postmarks

Afghan Star

In Afghanistan's version of American Idol, there's a lot more at stake than the glory.

"...Morretti's far more harrowing 2007 doc Heavy Metal in Baghdad, but the strains of music surveyed are vastly different...."

Oct. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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