Beautiful People

"...the tragic dynamics of the ongoing situation in the former Yugoslavia and its impact on refugee-heavy London, and manages..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Welcome to Sarajevo

"...of the Muslim, Serbian, and Croatian civil war in former Yugoslavia, but also against the politics of the West..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Someone Else's America

"...a room to Bayo, a recent immigrant from the former Yugoslavia, in exchange for his help around the place...."

July 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bosna!

"...an impassioned polemic about the ongoing war in the former Yugoslavia. The voiceover narration by French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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Former TFSC Counsel Responds

"...Bryce was very insightful and well- written. As the former General Counsel for the Texas Funeral Service Commission (TFSC)..."

April 9, 1999 Column

A Serbian Film

Notorious for its disturbing content, this film has been slightly edited for its American theatrical debut.

"...repugnant trash had it been created anywhere but the former Yugoslavia, by a indigenous cast and crew. The unhappy..."

May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...the words, "United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia." After all, we're a nation of Court TV..."

Nov. 28, 1997 News Feature

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

This first feature from Bosnian director/writer Jasmila Zbanic offers up a slice of life after hell in which a widowed mother and daughter still veer perilously between fear and hope.

"...and tore the viscera (literal and otherwise) from the former Yugoslavia included not just the by-now-routine shell-shocking of the..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two

Expect the next decade to be dominated by a weak economy and precarious international politics -- the consequences of Bush's successes.

"...he wasn't going to stop with Kuwait. In the former Yugoslavia, NATO was responding to a regime that had..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Comrades

"...what makes it so unforgettable. A national of the former Yugoslavia who has been living in the U.S. since..."

March 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...Yorker and is currently working on a book about former Vice President Dick Cheney. On March 19, he engaged..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...chance encounters with a troupe of refugees from the former Yugoslavia force them to deal with issues of heroism,..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sundance Review: Hive

Kosovan drama takes the slow path to freedom for women

"...still reeling from the losses and damage of the Yugoslavian civil war. Seven years after every man of military..."

Feb. 2, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: The Future Is Glacial

Revisiting change in rocky times

"...a violent reaction. This is what happened in the former Yugoslavia and between the Tutsi and the Hutu. This..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Column by Louis Black

AFS Essential Cinema

AFS presents the sequel to one of its most provocative Essential Cinema series programs from last year

"...holy pilgrimage to Mecca. On their drive through the former Yugoslavia, Turkey, and the Middle East – sites of..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Republicans Given Credit They Don't Deserve

"...brought peace to Bosnia and the rest of the former Yugoslavia, after the previous Republican president just ignored the..."

March 6, 2006 Postmarks

Virgin Fiction

First-time publication is like a cotillion for writers, Martin Wilson writes as he reviews five new first novels. And debut novelists are the gussied-up belles at the ball, with butterflies in their stomachs, dreaming of the glorious future that awaits them.

"...goodwill, they take in two political refugees from the former Yugoslavia: Zheljka, a Croatian, and her Muslim husband, Mesud...."

April 27, 2001 Books Feature by Martin Wilson

Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999

"...sorts of things -- the recent atrocities in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda -- all of that insanity...."

Nov. 24, 2000 Books Review by Harvey Pekar

Naked City

Austin Adopt-a-Minefield is struggling to raise enough money to clear Praca, a village in Bosnia, of land mines.

"...people. In 1991, when war broke out in the former Yugoslavia, nearly all of the village's inhabitants fled to..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

"...In 1993, with war breaking out all over the former Yugoslavia, Croatian fiction writer Dubravka Ugresic went into self-imposed..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Books Review by Harvey Pekar

Articulatons

Sayonara, Synergy

"...Moses, 33 Fainting Spells, Australia's Red Mole, and the former Yugoslavia's Dah Teatar...."

June 12, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Scavenging for Home

The NATObombing of Belgrade provoked playwright Lisa D'Amour to examine the intention behind her art and reasons for being an artist.

"...a reading of the bull-jean stories, and Megan Monaghan, former Austinite, now Lab Director at Minneapolis' The Playwrights' Center...."

Jan. 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Lisa D'Amour

Brothers at Arms

UT film professor Mitko Panov returned to his homeland, the former Yugoslavia, to interview the men he knew in the Yugoslav Federal Army. "They were no better or worse or more bloodthirsty than any of us -- that's my point. Whatever happened there can very easily happen anywhere." The film, Comrades, plays at SXSW Film as part of the Texas Documentary Tour.

"...the age of 19, Mitko Panov left his native Yugoslavia soon after completing his year of compulsory service in..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Bruce Sterling on Social Media Jihads

How good are terrorists' Twitter game?

"...to be Syrian, Iraqi, Kurdish now. It's worse than Yugoslavia...."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Former police chief Elizabeth Watson, whose war-torn tour of duty..."

May 14, 1999 News Feature

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Our readers talk back.

"...El Salvador 1980s, Nicaragua 1980s, Panama 1989, Sudan 1998, Yugoslavia 1999, Afghanistan 1998 and 2003-? Iraq 1991-2003-?..."

March 7, 2003 Column

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Don't Shelve Smart Growth

"...to being internationally seasoned. As the son of a former United States diplomat, I can hardly refrain from laughing..."

July 2, 1999 Column

Dispatches From Darfur

Austinites Rio Tenango and Leah Pries take their activism, and their aliases, all the way to Africa

"...brokering deals with rebel groups?'" said Rio Tenango, a former youth pastor and wilderness tour guide who legally changed..."

July 11, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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Don't Cry for Rainey

"...the court circus). We have talked to station commanders, former chief, former mayor, and they all agreed on us..."

July 23, 1999 Column

Page Two: Darkness on the Edge of Town

Thoughts on the mean season of U.S. politics

"...time of heroes and villains with few of the former and all too many of the latter...."

July 29, 2016 Column by Louis Black

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