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"...heights of Philippe Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, memorably retold in his National Book Award winning..."

March 28, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

William Basinski: “My Work Had to Disintegrate in Front of My Face Before It Could Be Really Appreciated"

Texas-raised avant-garde composer drones eternal at Oblivion Access

"...day. Two decades of experimental "obscurity" vanished alongside the twin towers...."

May 6, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

One in a Crowd: Spiral

Local doc featuring Michelle Trachtenberg needs finishing funds

"...Award-winner Bill Guttentag ("You Don't Have to Die" and "Twin Towers"), with sound by another Oscar nominee, Steve Boeddeker...."

Dec. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd: Bipolar

Help crowdfund new Austin doc about music and mental health

"...for "You Don't Have to Die" in 1989 and "Twin Towers" in 2003) and and TV producer Jennifer Hutchins..."

Nov. 4, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Start Your Week With Magnolia Mondays

Violet Crown season highlights the indie powerhouse

"...daring (and illegal) high-wire walk between New York City’s Twin Towers, will screen in March to celebrate the Oscar-winning..."

Jan. 14, 2019 Screens Post by Britt Hayes

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

How the World Trade Center attacks affected TV

"...between us like snow.” It was debris from the Twin Towers...."

June 11, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Just Desserts

Giving new life to the end of the meal

"...Who doesn't love popcorn and a movie? These twin towers of entertainment are transposed onto a new palette..."

July 17, 2015 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

SXSW Live Shot: Jay-Z & Kanye West

Three words: Watch the Throne

"...Rising on opposing platforms like twin towers, the two started in a standoff, performing as..."

March 13, 2014 Music Post by Austin Powell

Face Off Recap: Not So Super Heroes

One of the CenTex delegation goes home in week two

"...Meagan's Freedom fighter: A New York defender, loaded with Twin Towers symbolism. She had her own design problems ("I..."

Jan. 27, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

William Basinski

Complete catalogs trump career overviews

"...long. A few months after Basinski's accidental genius, the Twin Towers fell. He climbed to the top of his..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Letters at 3AM: About 18 a Day

About 18 U.S. veterans commit suicide on an average day

"...roughly twice that of those who died in the Twin Towers...."

July 1, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: A Sweetness of Brick

Old New York is gone; only the replicas remain

"...somehow right, to see Manhattan's skyline (prophetically minus the Twin Towers) gleam in the Mojave Desert...."

Jan. 28, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

New in Print

Get radicalized: About to Die examines news imagery at the moment of death, while The Verso Book of Dissent spans Zola and Tupac

"...the world on images. Take the collapse of the Twin Towers. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the iconic..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music

Like, how come American pop music is such a downer, man?

"...fresh anti-space that had just days before been the twin towers, is a gripping look into a famously inscrutable..."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Truth Seeker

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

"...graphic moving images of the planes crashing into the twin towers as documented by numerous personal and professional sources,..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Luv Doc Recommends: First Ever Film Fight Party

Artseen Alliance, Thursday, July 17, 2008

"...dot-com boom and bust, presidential fellatio, electoral thievery, the Twin Towers, the War on Terror, the moron terror (aka..."

July 18, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

Living With 'Monstrosities'

Jen Hirt and Scott Webel and their Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata

"...part of one of the airplanes that hit the Twin Towers in New York, a small piece of it...."

June 27, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Being Blocked

British author Jim Crace was struggling with a new book set in Austin. Then Austin came calling.

"...the people coming along and flying airplanes into the twin towers and bombing the tube trains in London, young..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Hypocritical Moral Whores

"...by forcing the command control center into the 9/11 twin towers, over the objections of all of the police,..."

Oct. 29, 2007 Postmarks

Perfect Liberty

To find themselves, the subjects of this year's rock docs found that they had to follow their own sound

"...Rudolph Giuliani, rampant gentrification, and the collapse of the twin towers...."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Parallax View: The Political Economy of Images

Friday-Sunday, as part of Cinematexas 11

"...their rooftops amid floodwaters, or the fiery collapse of twin towers – possesses power no words could hold...."

Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

Questions Engineer on 9/11

"...in extreme situations. While the extenuating circumstances of the twin towers makes them more likely victims of "pancaking," the..."

Aug. 31, 2006 Postmarks

Austin Needs to Be Especially Interested in 9/11 Cover-Up

"...is a lie (proof of controlled demolitions of the twin towers and WTC building 7 for example), and if..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Postmarks

Wants 'Chronicle' to Report on 9/11 'Truth'

"...is a lie (proof of controlled demolitions of the Twin Towers and World Trade Center building 7 for example),..."

July 31, 2006 Postmarks

Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops

Gift guide

"...church, as well as forgotten angel Clyde McPhatter, soul's twin towers of pop success routinely upstaged each other across..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

This Ain't No Picnic: Minutemen on Patrol

The sinister legions of the 'Drug Cartel' have little to fear from the latest incarnation of border hysteria. As for the rest of us ...

"...the night, the ACLU will have brought down the Twin Towers."Shovels, Sí! ... Backpacks, No!..."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

Day Trips

An interesting encounter with a gifted storyteller in Birmingham

"...asked as we walked past it going toward the twin towers of the 16th Street Baptist Church. "We still..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

NY (Heart) TFF

A report from the fourth annual Tribeca Film Festival

"...City neighborhood hit hard by the fall of the Twin Towers. The result was a mishmash of movies from..."

May 13, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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Our readers talk back.

"...fair-minded, independent-thinking Personals editor with spine, to battle the twin towers of the all-American dollar and the sexual double..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Column

Sour Grapes

"...fair-minded, independent-thinking Personals editor with spine, to battle the twin towers of the all-American dollar and the sexual double..."

Feb. 16, 2005 Postmarks

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