Timbuktu

Jihad in Mali goes from comic to horrific in the blink of an eye.

"...pagan statuary being blown to bits by young jihadists, Timbuktu could not have a more opportune moment for release..."

March 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Babylon A.D.

Vin Diesel stars as a mercenary hired to escort a woman with a dangerous virus out of Russia.

"...and terror is the default norm from Texas to Timbuktu. Into this template strides Diesel's Toorop, a semihonorable monster,..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Just an Old-Fashioned Cat

Eartha Kitt is one funny dame

"...Tribes of Africa), television (I Spy, Batman), and theatre (Timbuktu!, Follies, and, most recently, The Wild Party, Cinderella, and..."

July 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 28 - November 3

"...midwife in 11th-century China? A salt trader in 14th-century Timbuktu? If you don't have any intuitions about your past..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Austin’s Oktoberfest Gets the Royal Treatment

Partying with the prince, per tradition, at Koko's Bavarian Biergarten

"...of zythophiles is Austin or Toledo or Tokyo or Timbuktu. And, even though it's called Oktoberfest and it tends..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

ACL Review: Songhoy Blues

Defiant Malians inspire dance party

"...Us First, Mali’s Songhoy Blues fled its home in Timbuktu to avoid prosecution under strict Sharia law, which bans..."

Oct. 16, 2017 Music Post by Michael Toland

Sunday ACL Fest Interview: Songhoy Blues

Malian guitar combine reaches Western soars via rock and blues

"...wellspring served as refuge when the band’s hometown of Timbuktu was ravaged by Islamic jihadists in 2012...."

Oct. 13, 2017 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

WobeonFest Slinger: Vieux Farka Toure

Malian guitarist: “We are young, so [we] have to create new styles”

"...Ali Farka Toure staged a guitar summit on Talking Timbuktu for the same label that brought the world the..."

Sept. 9, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Film Review: They Will Have to Kill Us First

Malian musicians face long odds with high hopes and dope beats

"...SXSW year. As Mali’s ancient cities of Gao and Timbuktu fall under the sway of Sharia law – which..."

March 19, 2015 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Boyhood Nominated for Six Oscars

Academy singles out Linklater, Adair, Arquette, Hawke

"...by Pawel Pawlikowski Tangerines (Estonia) Directed by Zaza Urushadze Timbuktu (Mauritania) Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako Wild Tales (Argentina) Directed..."

Jan. 15, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

S.H.I.T. – So Happy It's Thursday blurbs

"...collective from Mali. The co-ed group Imarhan hails from Timbuktu, armed with a similar style of African psych-trance. Lighter..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

SXSW Band Announcement, Part III

1,500 of some 2,000 showcasing acts now vetted

"...Imarhan (Timbuktu, Mali)..."

Jan. 7, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal

Indie rock music festivals could learn a thing or three from the Montreal Jazz Fest

"...the region's Western breakthrough, 1994 Ry Cooder collaboration Talking Timbuktu...."

July 12, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

NPR Day Party

"...being forbidden to sing, she developed a following in Timbuktu, and is finally in America for her first U.S...."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

SXSW Tuesday Showcases

"...and Toronto's verbose wiz kids More or Les and Timbuktu, with Halifax "Badass" Jesse Dangerously completing the cipher. Afterward,..."

March 11, 2011 Music Feature

Why Italians Love to Talk About Food

"...moved from China to Peru, and from Peru to Timbuktu."..."

May 28, 2010 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

International Bands

Around the world in one-liners

"...Timbuktu & Chords (Fri., 12mid, Club 115)..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...Tensta Thing. Two top Euro talents, Lund thunder-and-lightning duo Timbuktu & Chords should expand the horizons of Def Jux..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

South by So Real 2010

Checking in with SXSW's hip-hop head

"...Sweden. Looptroop Rockers, who I’m extremely excited to see. Timbuktu, who is a major star over in Scandinavia is..."

March 15, 2010 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

The General Specific

AFS Essential Cinema: Love on the Largest Continent: Ten Asian Films

"...Nor am I talking about seeing Casablanca, Paris, and Timbuktu as imagined on a Hollywood soundstage. The experiences I'm..."

May 29, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Le Draft 2007

"...boom that can be heard from South Beach to Timbuktu. Stunning the pigskin planet, the ‘fins forego draft QB..."

April 29, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

NFL Analysis 101: 100 Years of Epicurean, Hedonistic Hound Dogs

Timothy Braun brings you, dear reader, up to date on the AFC North

"...on the Travel Channel now. Cleveland Browns Printed Comparison: Timbuktu by Paul Auster A novel narrated by a discerning..."

April 4, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

DVDnds

DVDnds

"...2000, on Touré's home turf just south of Talking Timbuktu, where blues hypnotize as sure as the sun, sand,..."

May 26, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

By the Book

Recent Fiction and Nonfiction Reviewed

"...retreating glaciers of Newfoundland, to the desert-swathed wasteland of Timbuktu. Everywhere, he finds reason for hope and much despair...."

Aug. 18, 2000 Books Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Ali Farka Touré, Afel Bocoum, Warfield Theater, San Francisco, July 26

"...commercial breakthrough, the wondrous 1994 Ry Cooder collaboration Talking Timbuktu, Touré made everyone très, très hereuse. And things just..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Johnny Staats Project Wires & Wood (Giant)

"...the form of ballads ("Coal Tattoo," the title track, "Timbuktu") are interspersed throughout the Staats-penned compositions. Staats' nasally tenor..."

June 16, 2000 Music Review by Kim Mellen

Afel Bocoum Alkibar (World Circuit/Nonesuch)

National Records

"...as Ali Farke Toure and Ry Cooder's decade-best Talking Timbuktu, Malian songstress Oumou Sangare's lively Worotan, and a little..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Review by David Lynch

Top 10 Decade/National

"...2. Ali Farke Toure with Ry Cooder, Talking Timbuktu (Hannibal)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature

Ali Farka Toure: Niafunke and Taj Mahal & Toumani DiabateKulanjan

"...each one played at the intersection of Yazoo and Timbuktu. Here too the playing is soulful, dynamic, and finely..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Review by Jay Hardwig

Hands off My MUD

Davenport Fights to Retain Independence It Never Had

"...here because Austin is here. Nobody moved here from Timbuktu or Minnesota to be closer to Davenport Ranch. The..."

Nov. 14, 1997 News Feature by John Spong