World Trade Center

This is not the 9/11 film we expected from Stone, who tells the fact-based story of two individuals who somehow survived the collapse of the World Trade Center and with a remarkable economy of expressionistic detail and bombast.

"...intended to convey. From its nondescript title on down, World Trade Center serves as something of a Rorschach test...."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fraud and the World Trade Center

"...Standards and Technology committee, that the buildings of the World Trade Center did not collapse by the fires started..."

June 23, 2010 Postmarks

The World

Using a sleek visual style and bits of animation, this elegant Chinese film explores the effects of modernism, globalism, and international commerce upon its culture and society.

"...with slack-jawed tourists goggling at smaller-scale replicas of the world’s cities. There’s a London Bridge, an Eiffel Tower, the..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Half a World Away, and at War

How one journalist went from a desk job to covering the war in Congo

"...would eventually outpace that of any other conflict since World War II. In his new book, All Things Must..."

May 16, 2008 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

New World Disorder

The World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle collapsed under its own weight.

"...The World Trade Organization slunk away from the riot-torn city of..."

Dec. 31, 1999 News Feature by Monte Paulsen

Open House at the Austin Book Arts Center

The city’s epicenter of old-school book tech invites you to visit!

"...should be warned, citizen, that the Austin Book Arts Center is a hotbed of disruptive technology...."

Sept. 10, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

13 Reasons to Love Wizard World

Where else could Big Bird rub feathers with The Crow?

"...If it's Halloween in Austin, it must be Wizard World, the travelling circus of comics, pop culture, and fandom...."

Oct. 30, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Tools of the Trade

Southwest Texas State's Jazz Program

"...indigenous to America. It was born here, and the world's best players have been and are Americans. As such,..."

June 13, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Southwest Theatre Productions' Trade With Klan

In Donald E. Baker's new drama, the utter plainness of an Indiana small town makes its devotion to the KKK all the more shocking

"...Imagine for a moment Trump's world order gone awry. I know you think it already..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Austin And the Wider World

State department visit puts global spotlight on tech center

"...city is one of the more truly international urban centers in Texas, but a visit by 26 ambassadors last..."

May 19, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...Thursday evening, Oct. 24, at 9pm in the Academic Center Auditorium on the UT campus, CinemaTexas and The Austin..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The World on a Shelf

"...photograph by John Anderson According to legend, when conquistador..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Tricks of the Trade

Keynote Address: Mark Cuban

"...multimedia, television networks will bite the dust, and the World Wide Web of the future will be ruled by..."

March 19, 1999 Screens Feature

International QuiltCon Returns to the Austin Convention Center

It's the Modern Quilt Guild’s biggest celebration & display of craft

"...in 2013 and was a knockout success, the Convention Center flooded with people ogling the vast array of visual..."

Feb. 18, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Internet Brings the World to Rural TexasThe Road to the Wild

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Feb. 21, 1997 Screens Feature by Janet Heimlich

The Walk

Philippe Petit dreamed it and Robert Zemeckis brings it to life

"...walk between the twin towers of the newly built World Trade Center in 1974 was rendered superfluous by James..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

ATX Television Festival: Shifting Landscapes: The Effect of 9/11 on Storytelling

How the World Trade Center attacks affected TV

"...everyone: “I think someone flew a plane into the World Trade Center.”..."

June 11, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Protocols of Zion

Documentary filmmaker Marc Levin investigates the reasons for the recent renaissance of American anti-Semitism; sadly, the end result is scattershot and never really elucidates or poses solutions to the problem.

"...not uncommon belief that no Jews died in the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11 because they had all..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

War of the Worlds

Spielberg and the gang at Industrial Light & Magic have knocked the ball not only out of the park but out of Earth orbit as well.

"...very feet. From here on out, War of the Worlds is one lengthy but always gripping chase film as..."

July 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

"...the death of his father Thomas (Hanks) in the World Trade Center attacks, Oskar is convinced his father has..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Man on Wire

In a guerrilla act, French wirew-alker Philippe Petit crossed the space between the World Trade Center towers in 1974. His daring and artistry continue to amaze and inspire, as demonstrated in this documentary.

"...tightrope strung between the tops of the two then-new World Trade Center buildings. In hindsight, Philippe Petit's inspired and..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness

"...the gala opening of the photo exhibit at the World Trade Center. The camera crew also traveled from New..."

March 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

9/11 Memorial: The 20th Anniversary

Claude van Lingen honors those who died on Sept. 11, 2001

"...those who died on September 11, 2001, in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania tragedies and pays homage..."

Sept. 11, 2021 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Imagine

The music business in a post-911 world

"...and Amy Dykes comprise the band I Am the World Trade Center, they needed to talk...."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Truth Seeker

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

"...Salgado not only crossed over into the art world but broke new ground in the ways in which..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Envisioning the Future of Austin State Hospital

What will it take to turn the former Texas State Lunatic Asylum into a world-class center of brain health?

"...state Legis­lature now – to reinvent ASH as a world-class center of brain health is new-ish in its particulars,..."

March 22, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

A Pinch of History, A Dash of Memoir

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

"...earliest knowledge of wine: Kevin Zraly's Windows on the World Complete Wine Course...."

June 11, 1999 Food Feature

Major Artist Bebel Gilberto

“Brazilians are intense. We are not full of shit.”

"...49, who lives in New York, plays the One World Theatre on Monday, May 16...."

May 12, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...It can be a lonely world as a Libertarian. Very few people believe that government..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Column

The Profit Motive

Activists oppose World Trade Organization

"...was any indication, the arcane workings of U.S. international trade policy are fast becoming public concern. Over 200 attendees..."

Nov. 26, 1999 News Feature by Cheryl Bishop

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