Austin Asian American Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

The four-day festival drops 11 feature films and even more shorts

"...At the center of this year’s festival is the Academy-Award nominated film Who Killed Vincent Chin?, which tells the..."

Oct. 31, 2017 Screens Post by Reanna Zuniga

Everywhere Is War

A beginner's discography to Rock en Español

"...unidentified movement with Top 40 hits like Malo's "Suavecito," War's "Low Rider," and album cuts from Los Lobos, the..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Story of an American Music

Hector Galán's Songs of the Homeland

"...met with resistance from mainstream funding sources. Although the award-winning documentarian has had success with such films as Los..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Arts Feature

American Movie

What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.

"...call it "an excellent debut ... a startling achievement." Awards received in 2002 include Best First Film Special Mention..."

April 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

When Did the Single-Family Home Go From Being the American Dream to an Urbanist Nightmare?

One policy wonk's view of how we got here

"...oriented around the automobile than has been the post-World War II pattern in the United States...."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Page Two: In the Moment, Part 2

A fascinating lesson in history

"...The largest chunk of the story concentrates on the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Philippine-American War that immediately followed..."

July 29, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Day Trips & Beyond: Six Baseballs for Cuba

Capt. Day Trips makes friends in Cuba by handing out new baseballs

"...revered settlements in the country. Major battles of the Spanish-American War and 1959 war that brought Fidel to power..."

March 16, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Posse

"...life in the army, fighting in the Spanish American War in Cuba. His sadistic, racist, vain, bullying Colonel (Zane)..."

May 21, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Page Two

The manufactured debate over Kerry's war record, in light of Bush's privileged nonparticipation, is testament to Republican strategists' sound-bite brilliance

"...as obscene. Consider the manufactured controversy over John Kerry's war record. The following excerpts are from a letter to..."

May 21, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Interfaith's Socialist Agenda

"...Anthony Edwards Don't Blame Smart Growth..."

April 23, 1999 Column

Letters at 3AM: JFK and That Hard Rain

When boomers and their offspring die out, Kennedy's assassination will have the approximate historical echo of William McKinley's

"...So in "the flag, 250 words," my argument was straightforward: No country was worth the elimination of humanity. If..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

In the next presidential election, only the Democrats can be counted on to preserve the Bill of Rights

"...of national parks and forests, helped end the Russo-Japanese War (for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize), and..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

The True Story

Grandfather fought in the Philippines -- after that, things get kinda blurry …

"...He was too late for the Indian wars, but in the spring of 1902 he set sail..."

Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Patterson Remark Draws Fire

Land commissioner opens mouth, inserts foot

"...the Buffalo Soldiers who served in the American Indian Wars. Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, and Buffalo Soldiers National Museum..."

Oct. 21, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Truth Seeker

Photographer Sebastião Salgado bears witness to the world in black and white

"...Collectively, they have been on the front line documenting war, famine, refugees, racism, prison, and migrant farmworkers abuse. (Austin..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

It's a Landslide ... Tie!

AFS Documentary Tour: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

"...& Me and Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's The War Room.) None of the above will be disappointed...."

Oct. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Day Trips

The exhibit of flags in Houston reminds us of what it took to come this far.

"...stained with blood. The newest flags flew during World War II, including the Battle Ensign from the USS Texas...."

Feb. 1, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Celebration of Austin’s Black Cemeteries

Cemetery tour to help re-discover Austin’s lost black history

"...says Rev. Freddie Dixon, board chair. "But also facilitate awareness and education about the history and importance of African-American..."

Nov. 4, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

The arguments against ties and flip-flops

"...Major General Henry Ware Lawton (the namesake of Lawton, Okla.) captured the Apache..."

July 13, 2007 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Naked City

Herein, a concise explanation of all those weird and voluminous charges attached to your local, mobile, and long-distance phone bills.

"...of their total bill to fund the Spanish American War. Most Americans realize that this war is indeed over..."

June 2, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Closing Arguments

Olivier versus Branagh

"...those violins swell, as much as I feel my coward’s heart start to pound every time he gets to..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Let Open Gays in Military

Small, local effort to call attention to discrimination against gays in military recruiting under way with sit-in

"...in the Army, and her great-grandfather fought in the Spanish-American War. Then, she and her recruiter found themselves at..."

Sept. 22, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Page Two: Persistence of Revision

Fascism, Frank Capra, and how legend becomes history

"...this feast, I would stumble over the Spanish Civil War. It was hard to grasp. The revolt, begun in..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Column by Louis Black

The Years With Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes says he can not imagine a world without Shakespeare and Cervantes, but it is impossible to imagine a Mexico without Fuentes.

"...the events in Europe, the Holocaust, the Spanish Civil War. These were all events that were all in my..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

An Eye for History

"...taking part in every major military conflict from World War II to Vietnam. He was on board the USS..."

April 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Casa de mi Padre

Will Ferrell commits 100% to this goofy, all-Spanish-language soap opera-cum-horse opera.

"...amusing but not wildly funny. Neither is it facetious toward its roots, instead deriving most of its humor from..."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...With Watergate, inflation, busing, Jimmy Carter, the Cold War, and the Ayatollah, Seventies America wasn't the stoner's paradise..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Scary Stories for the Thinking Man

Director Guillermo del Toro keeps company with the undead in two new films, Blade 2 and The Devil's Backbone.

"...a quiet, brooding meditation on the terrible intersections of war and childhood, loss and redemption, life and sudden, inexplicable..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Someone Else's America

"...is best remembered for her work in the French post-war classic Children of Paradise and here makes her first..."

July 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Halfway Home

The Los Angeles County of Art's exhibition "The Road to Aztlan, Art From a Mythic Homeland" includes a wondrous survey of pre-conquest Mesoamerican art, but when it comes to contemporary Chicano works, the "road" doesn't take us all the way home.

"...dislocation ... experienced in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War ... as well as the earlier Spanish colonial invasion."..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

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