Deep in the Heart of West Update: April 22

More ways to help our neighbors in West

"...to assist our tiny neighboring town to the north, West, TX, still recovering from the disastrous fertilizer plant explosion..."

April 22, 2013 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer

Deep in the Heart of West, Texas, Part 1

How you can help our neighbors in West

"...plume from the explosion of the fertilizer plant in West, Texas...."

April 18, 2013 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer

Bank Robbers and Texas Rangers Clash in Hell or High Water

West Texas noir

"...edifices of Glasgow, Scotland, to the dusty plateaus of West Texas, but it's a trip that made sense for..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Divest in Chase Bank

The city holds a $1.16 million contract with the bank

"...About 80 ralliers organized outside the JPMorgan Chase Bank on Sixth Street on Monday to demand that residents..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Explosion at Plant in West, Texas Shakes the State

As many as 30 feared dead in fertilizer plant accident

"...Late Wednesday night, the north Central Texas town of West – perhaps best-known for the Czech Stop (pictured) and..."

April 18, 2013 News Post by Monica Riese

Bank Shot

Is Bigger Better?

"...of this adds up to tremendous pressure for independent banks to sell out, leaving slim pickings for consumers who..."

Aug. 6, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

The South Bank

"...illustration by Robert Faires Crossing the river... If you..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Cowboy in the Kitchen: Recipes from Reata and Texas West of the Pecos

"...Edna Ferber's epic Texas novel Giant loomed large over West Texas in the 1950s. Everyone had an opinion about..."

April 9, 1999 Food Feature

Austin at Large: People Can’t Live at the Bank

We should spend money to help people and build more homes. Is that so hard?

"...the poorest parts of a metro area where the east-west economic divide demarcated by I-35 is far from being..."

March 18, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Brewing Pedigree Represents at Far West Austin's Beerburg

Trevor Nearburg puts a burg on it

"...is a notable theme of fellowship at this backroads southwest Austin brewery, which coincidentally (intentionally, probably) hugs up against..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Deadly Currents

"...often becomes diluted due to the compassion-fatigued perspective of Western mass media), puts human faces on it and, in..."

June 18, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Academy Award-Nominated Live Action Shorts 2006

And the Oscar goes to … see the five nominees and judge for yourself.

"...the undefined use of an essential Wolof slang word. "West Bank Story" by Ari Sandel is the only U.S...."

Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lemon Tree

This moving Israeli film tells the fraught story of a Palestinian widow whose lemon grove is threatened when the country's defense minister moves next door.

"...Zur HaSharon on the border between Israel and the West Bank, Lemon Tree offers a tart but never completely..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Private

This Italian film presents a modern parable about a Palestinian family, whose home in the West Bank is abruptly taken over by Israeli soldiers.

"...a Palestinian family of seven, whose home in the West Bank is abruptly taken over by Israeli soldiers, Costanzo..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paradise Now

Inside the mind of a Palestinian suicide bomber: That’s the guarded territory broached in Paradise Now, a film fashioned as a thriller rather than a psychological study.

"...in Paradise Now as two young men from the West Bank city of Nablus are given 24 hours' notice..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'These Guys Make Dead Prez Look Like Soulja Boy'

Soul and hip-hop slingshot into the Eastside this weekend

"...Israeli military and government, a massive wall separating the West Bank from Israel, and the repression of a stateless..."

May 7, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Neighborhood Bankers or International Big Shots?

Laredo National Bank opens a branch in Austin, trailing a big fine and a clouded political and financial history.

"...Laredo National Bank, one of the most heavily scrutinized banks in recent..."

June 22, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Bubble

This gay-tinged Romeo and Juliet story set largely in Tel Aviv shows the complexities of love in a land where the conflicts are as old as Western religion and as new as suicide bombers.

"...their given cultures. The conflicts are as old as Western religion and as new as suicide bombers. Set in..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Israeli occupation hell. Every Palestinian alive, whether inside the West Bank or Gaza, pre-1948 "Green Line," or of the..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Column

Hays County Hell

Elgin Bank Victory May Mean Colonia-like Development

"...that when Travis County lost the battle against Elgin Bank, he was forced to approve this colonia-like development. photograph..."

June 27, 1997 News Feature by Bob Elder

Hell or High Water

Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster shine in West Texas crime film

"...This West Texas crime movie barrels in with the force of..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Mechanic

A mediocre remake of a Charles Bronson assassin film that's downright repellent at times.

"...Directed by: Simon West. Starring: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Tony Goldwyn, Donald Sutherland,..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Happenings

Nov. 8-14

"...NOT IN MY NAME: UNVEILING THE CURTAIN TO THE WEST BANK Preschool teacher Nova McGiffert recounts her recent experiences..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature

Council: Stooges in the House!

Expect debate over TNCs, West Campus parties, and housing vouchers

"...Legalize TNCs," Oct. 3, 2014. (If you rob a bank, they throw you in jail; if you own the..."

Oct. 3, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...of Texas. The historic residential neighborhood east, south, and west of UT have all been lost since the 1960s...."

Jan. 18, 2002 Column

Letters at 3AM: Reading Diplomatic Code

There's a shift toward the promotion of Turkey as a stabilizing force in the Middle East

"...but only about specifics, not its view that enlightened, Western-flavored imperialism; heavily centralized government; and moderately regulated corporate capitalism..."

June 17, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

The Baader Meinhof Complex

This gripping lesson in the recent history of terrorism is an electrifying, morally complex story of the evil that true believers do in the name of the greater good.

"...the birth and surprisingly lengthy life span of the West German domestic terror cadre, the Red Army Faction, and..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Art Transplant

The Move Toward a Cultural Center in Downtown

"...and two doors down, under an awning for Boatmen's Bank, a group of middle-aged guys in a collection of..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

2021 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action

Great performances bolster this year's Academy nominees

"...Bakri) guides his daughter Yasmine (Mariam Kanj) through their West Bank shopping trip, desperate to preserve her innocent joy...."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action

Form an opinion instead of guessing what will win this category

"...odds-on favorite to win the Oscar. Set in the West Bank, the short film is a sly observation about..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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