'Nixon by Nixon' Goes to the Tape

New HBO doc draws from Nixon secret tapes

"...the action of all the day’s big events: Watergate, Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers, and many more...."

Aug. 4, 2014 Screens Post by Rod Machen

DVD Watch: 'Hill Street Blues'

An aural history of the cop show that changed TV

"...episode where I dealt with post-traumatic stress disorder from Vietnam, which was before there was even a term for..."

April 29, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Civics 101

"...PHOTOS OF TEXAS VIETNAM WAR HEROES Texas saw one of the greatest number..."

Feb. 17, 2012 News Column

From the Trenches

Previewing the Austin Eats battlefield

"..."It's like Vietnam without getting shot at."..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Country Joe McDonald

Gimme an F!

"...he advised Bear Family Records on Next Stop Is Vietnam, a comprehensive 13-disc retrospective of songs specifically about the..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature by Dan Oko

'The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art'

This thought-provoking exhibition plays off memory's elusive, fluid nature

"...The images by Dinh Q. Lê from his From Vietnam to Hollywood series do something similar, though what's being..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Monk-Think

It's Black Monk Time – again. Shave your head!

"...the Mad Men era was finally winding down. The Vietnam War hadn't yet depleted the country's morale, rock music..."

April 24, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Point Austin: Torture and History

Revelations of the Bush torture programs are only the first step

"...others (with a good deal more reason) to the Vietnam War, through which we all should have finally learned..."

April 24, 2009 News Column by Michael King

The Mighty Hannibal Sees All

The Atlanta soul man has stories to tell, and who cares if they're true?

"...was a story about a soldier going over to Vietnam and he’s thinking about his girlfriend because he misses..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Page Two: Flip It and Reverse It

Bush abandons troublesome action for the sanctity of meaningless battles and ideological purity

"...when, so certain of their superiority, the old we-could-have-won-in Vietnam arguments were removed from hiding, dusted off, and not..."

July 7, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Austin Asian Film Festival 2

Nov. 3-6

"..."To Be Memorized, or Forgotten" (Vietnam), 4pm..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

My Detachment

It's hard to say if the memoir is rigged with more booby traps than any other genre, but it sure seems that way

"...others) by limiting the scope to his tour in Vietnam...."

Sept. 16, 2005 Books Review by John Dicker

Cinematexas' Political Arm

Film festival's radical approach extends to politics, too.

"...deconstruct "the political economy of images." Named after a Vietnam-weary, Watergate-informed thriller-politic from 1974, Parallax View mines a similar..."

Sept. 16, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Mistaken Wars Create Long Memories

"...immensely for your dedication; however in the end the Vietnam war was wrong. Even my uncle admitted this. Times..."

Aug. 3, 2004 Postmarks

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"..."war president." These guys should have served in the Vietnam War with Kerry in order to avoid looking like..."

April 30, 2004 Column

Armchair Freedom Fighters

"..."war president." These guys should have served in the Vietnam War with Kerry in order to avoid looking like..."

April 23, 2004 Postmarks

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Kill Contemporary Film Criticism: Vol. 1.

"...Two of the best films about Vietnam are Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Robert Aldrich's Ulzana's Raid...."

Oct. 24, 2003 Column by Louis Black

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"...Europe in 1945 by a land mine. I remember Vietnam, where I spent nine months of my 22nd year..."

May 30, 2003 Column

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"...Traumatic Stress Disorder for combat veterans who fought in Vietnam often begins with the words "welcome home." Doctors and..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Column

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"...unlike almost anything that has to do with the Vietnam War. Complexity, layers of truth that appear to contradict..."

July 19, 2002 Column

Tracers

Director and sound designer Stephen Balgooyen and his youthful cast bring us the horrors of war live and in living drab green in Tracers, but shouted lines and an overwhelming sound design render much of their work on this difficult material unintelligible.

"...home in 1984 and the front line in 1968 Vietnam. With healthy doses of blaring Hendrix, Doors, CSN, Neil..."

July 12, 2002 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...mass murders of hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Japan, to name a few. We..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

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Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...mass murders of hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Japan, to name a few. We..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

For Your Consideration ...

Austin Film Festival Preview

"...helped adapt Brown's stories for the screen). Howard plays Vietnam vet Leon Barlow, whose war experiences inspire his unpublished..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Screens Feature

Thou Shalt Not Kill ... Except

Any film that has a story co-written by Bruce Campbell and features Sam Raimi in an acting role should pique the interest of a certain type of trash-movie maven.

"...certain type of trash-movie maven. Things open up in Vietnam as Sgt. Stryker (Schulz) leads his men into an..."

April 27, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

World of Books

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

"...And while everybody acknowledged LBJ was a master politician, Vietnam sort of loomed as a shadow over his presidency..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Andy Langer

Letters at 3AM

Being president of America is not good for one's health.

"...governed U.S. policy until 1989, began our involvement in Vietnam, began atomic stockpiling, let the CIA run roughshod and..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Public Notice

Public Notice is noticing that spring is in full swing with so many kid-friendly opportunities to make community spirit grow.

"...A three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Wall in Washington D.C. will be on display in..."

April 21, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

All the Gory Details

The Maestro of movie make-up Tom Savini talks about George Romero, the increasing popularity of CGI, and what it felt like to shoot a crotch-gun.

"...and enlisted in the service to stay out of Vietnam. When you enlisted then, you had your choice of..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Huckleberry Minh: A Walk Through Dreamland

"...unhealing wound in the American psyche. By taking on Vietnam in a book-length poetry project, Austin poet Glen Alyn..."

May 28, 1999 Books Review

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