Second Helpings: Mediterranean/Middle Eastern
Chronicle writer Greg Beets serves up local meditteranean and Middle Eastern cuisine in this week's Second Helpings.
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March 24, 2000 Food Column
Recipes and Remembrances From an Eastern Mediterranean Kitchen: A Culinary Journey through Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan
"...Recipes and Remembrances From an Eastern Mediterranean Kitchen: A Culinary Journey through Syria, Lebanon, and..."
Nov. 26, 1999 Food Feature by Mick Vann
The Eastern Sea: Walking in the Air
Matt Hines gets high for the holidays
"...Matt Hines normally directs the Eastern Sea through emotive and lush folk rock, but on..."
Dec. 7, 2012 Music Post by Abby Johnston
U.S. Policy Is the Problem in the Middle East
"...reality of U.S. policy: the violent occupation of two Middle Eastern countries and the bombing of Pakistan with unmanned..."
June 5, 2009 Postmarks
U.S. Arms Merchant to the Middle East
"...contractors, now plans a $20-billion weapons sale to selected Middle Eastern countries. Also proposed is the continued military handout..."
July 30, 2007 Postmarks
The Middle East
Photos by Ada Calhoun
"...children around the world. These are photos from the Middle Eastern leg of the journey. Her further travels will..."
Nov. 17, 2000 News Feature
Fertile, Pleasant
Middle Eastern cuisine in Austin blossoms with Mohamed Kosari's Alborz Persian, writes the Chronicle's Rachel Feit. Hurry, before everyone else notices!
"...and Chelo Kabob became a destination for fans of Middle Eastern cuisine in Austin. Encouraged by the success of..."
June 21, 2002 Food Feature by Rachel Feit
Austin Regional Intelligence Center's Secret Informants Show How Profiling Works
“Middle Eastern”? Your info might be on file at Austin’s fusion center.
"...reports from Central Texas from what TLOs describe as "Middle Eastern" persons. Among the more serious reports, some involved..."
Aug. 7, 2020 News Feature by John Anderson
Viper Club
Susan Sarandon and the murky world of paying kidnappers
"...collection of both relatives of former kidnappees, wealthy donors, Middle Eastern go-betweens, and the like. The harsh, horrible truth,..."
Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Under the Shadow
A mother and her son are stuck in a war zone in this Iranian horror film
"...incoming missiles) and within (the unknown but entirely evil Middle Eastern djinn). Shideh and Dorsa are living under two..."
Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Eye in the Sky
Helen Mirren is a British colonel engaged in modern drone warfare
"...drone program operating in the skies over a fictional Middle Eastern country. When her Reaper drone’s “eye in the..."
March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Peter Murphy the Lionhearted
Bauhaus dramatist prowls Belmont with old-school noir LP
"...– Lion connects his art-punk past in Bauhaus with Middle Eastern melody and mysticism, plus explosive textures by U2/Depeche..."
July 29, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall
The Dictator
Sacha Baron Cohen opts for scripted comedy this time and lands many good jokes and new offenses, but the target is soft and unmissable.
"...speech on the lessons Western democracy might learn from Middle Eastern despotism offers a few moments of pure brilliance...."
May 18, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Incendies
A powerful and eloquent anti-war drama, this French-Canadian film unites the personal with the political in a stunning manner.
"...kept hidden from them. The homeland is an unnamed Middle Eastern country that seems a lot like Lebanon. At..."
June 3, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Amreeka
In this delightfully human and sweetly comic ode to the contemporary immigrant experience in a post-9/11 “Amreeka,” a Palestinian mother and son create a world of possibilities.
"...and mothers and sons. The more recent tide of Middle Eastern arrivals is the subject of Jordanian-American filmmaker Dabis'..."
Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Syrian Bride
This story about an arranged marriage taking place in a remote outpost of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights will be familiar to anyone ever caught in an avalanche of red tape.
"...the film is certain to resonate more strongly for Middle Eastern viewers, The Syrian Bride will be familiar to..."
May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Team America: World Police
Trey Parker and Matt Stone tame the world with marionettes.
"...leader Kim Jong Il to a variety of bearded, Middle Eastern terror types so broadly generic in their puppet..."
Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Siege
"...found), declare martial law, and round up any suspicious-looking Middle-Eastern nationals, placing them in a concertina-wire-enclosed facility deep within..."
Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
From Paris to Morocco With the Children of Abraham/Ibrahim
AFS and UT select the best of Middle Eastern cinema
"...series, focused on the works of filmmakers in the Middle East. The series was founded in 2007 by AFS..."
Feb. 19, 2021 Screens Feature by Shane Pfender
Torch of the Mystic
Sir Richard Bishop, keeper of the flame
"...and profane. The Freak of Araby, another meditation on Middle Eastern music, puts him back with a full band...."
May 26, 2009 Music Post by Audra Schroeder
Checking In: Young Jazz Lions Atlas Maior Double Down
Bandleader Joshua Thomson forges a pandemic soundtrack
"...“The Austin quartet seemingly dreamed about a nexus between Middle Eastern music, Latin groove, and jazz, then created it..."
Dec. 8, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
Pars Deli Serves Perfect Persian on Burnet Road
Underrated food, great value, laid back atmosphere draw me back
"...for some of their fantastic north central Persian and Middle Eastern food...."
Jan. 29, 2013 Food Post by Mick Vann
Jerusalem: A Cookbook
by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi
"...I love Middle Eastern food, so this cookbook caught my eye immediately...."
Jan. 22, 2013 Food Post by Kate Thornberry
AFS Film Series Abraham/Ibrahim Highlights Diversity and Common Ground
Spotlight on the cinema of the Middle East, North Africa
"...How much do you know about the Middle East and North Africa? Like, really know?..."
Feb. 17, 2023 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra
True Lies
After Terminator, Schwarzenegger and Cameron worked together again on this odd mixture of chockablock action movie and restive romantic comedy.
"...sure, but on the whole, he's a model of middle-class normalcy. When Harry is sent to disrupt a group..."
July 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Actually Living With War
The latest AFS Essential Cinema series focuses on the films of the Middle East and North Africa
"...child-rearing or filmmaking, things are done differently in the Middle East – poor Riga had already survived wandering into..."
Feb. 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
SXSW Live Shot: Qarabagh Ensemble, Qaraqan, Diwan Saz
Welcome to Azerbaijan
"...heard of Azerbaijan, a country at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia – surrounded by Russia, Iran,..."
March 19, 2015 Music Post by Michael Toland
FronteraFest Review: 'Iced Tea in Texas'
British ex-pat Bernadette Nason pours some sweet memories
"...she’d grown immune to during her stints in the Middle East...."
Feb. 1, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
McBush or McCheney?
The campaign mantra is four more years - but of who?
"...Reed Army Medical Center in D.C. and Walter Reed Middle School in California, there's an image building up of..."
Sept. 8, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker
The Body Is the Music
The Beginnings
"...such as marriage, death, and birth. The origins of Middle Eastern dance movements, such as undulating the belly, are..."
