Results tagged “911”

• President Obama spoke at the Pentagon in today's remembrance ceremony.
• New allegations that US Embassy guards took part in sex trafficking.
• Flash flood warnings issued for Central Texas.

After losing part of his arm in a machinery accident on Wednesday, a 52-year-old employee of Alamo Concrete was able to extricate himself from a conveyor belt and call 911 to save his life.

Photo by Patrick Dentler Barack Obama "Texas Countdown to Change"Saturday, November 17The Backyard (13101 W Highway 71)$25 General, $15 Students, 3pm[info] | [tickets]Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama dazzled over 20,000 Austinites last February at his Auditorium Shores rally, and this weekend he aims to do the same. Tickets to this Saturday's "Texas Countdown to Change" rally at the Backyard are still available for $25, and even cheaper ($15) if you're a student. Still, if you...

Logo from Austin Jewish Book Fair Keynote Lecture: "Iraq, Al Qaeda, and the Future of Israel" with Jeffrey Goldberg and Lawrence WrightSunday, November 11Jewish Community Association of Austin (7300 Hart Lane)7:30pm, $12 Gen Ad, $10 Students/Seniors/JCC Members[info] | [tickets] Austin Graphics and Comics Night with Paul Benjamin and Terry and Patty LaBanThursday, November 8Barnes and Noble Westlake (701 S. Capital of Texas)7:30pm, Free[info]Less than four days are left in the 2007 Austin Jewish Book Fair,...

Like an accidental tourist, Terry George stumbled into filmmaking while penning a semi-autobiographical stage play with scribe partner Jim Sheridan about a failed prison break. Stemming from that first true-story collaboration, he has continued as both a writer and director, chronicling the triumph of the human spirit, and helping to catapult injustices in Ireland and the heinous genocide in Rwanda into our national consciousness with the critically acclaimed Hotel Rwanda. In conjunction with the regional...

Ambassador Dennis Ross, U.S. point man on the Middle East peace process during Bush I and the Clinton administrations, is coming to town to deliver a special morning lecture in advance of the Austin Jewish Book Fair. Now counselor to the Washington Institute and author of Statecraft, And How to Restore America's Standing in the World, Ross will discuss "how it came to pass that, not so long after 9/11 brought the free world to...

We were strolling through West Campus this morning when we came across a gaggle of cops, endless yellow Police Line tape and, of all things, the bomb squad. Rio Grande between 22nd and 24th streets had been sealed off. Word was that some residences had been evacuated as well. Minutes earlier, the ubiquitous post-9/11 "suspicious package" reared its ugly head and was reported to the police. We stuck around, alongside the small crowd of bleary-eyed...

Primizie Osteria (Italian) Location: 1000 E. 11th St., Ste. 150 [map] Phone: (512) 472-9299 Cost: Entrees $9-11 Atmosphere: Casually urban decor, concrete floors, wine bar. Counter ordering. Food: The new Primizie Osteria serves simple but elegant Italian at good prices in a comfortable, casual setting in semi-gentrified East Austin. Eastside denizens are lucky to have such a place close by for a spur of the moment relaxed dinner or a to-go run for a...

[This review courtesy of new Austinist contributor Anna Hanks! -Ed.] As much as we'd like to change a few things about our first time, we regret we’ll never be able to repeat the experience. We also can’t change history, so catching the currently playing, slick incarnation of the Rude Mechanicals' Get Your War On also wasn't our first time. (We reviewed the show last January as well.) Directed by Shawn Sides, Get Your War...

9/11 was six years ago today. And didn't we make a mess of things? Speaking of that mess... And The Mess, Part II... Subcutaneous wireless identification tags may cause cancer. And they're creepy. Alex, the African grey parrot who could tell colors and shapes, is dead. Britney's lousy VMA performance blamed on margaritas and quick rehearsals. Ex-almost-first-lady Jane Wyman died yesterday....

John Vanderslice's latest album, The Emerald City, is a gorgeous glimpse into the mind of a great songwriter - a man attempting to discuss love, loss, and frustration with things outside of his control, both internally and externally. The record is both politically charged and characteristically subtle, bringing Vanderslice to the forefront of his genre. His deft perseverance towards intelligently curated lyrics coupled with an impressive array of acoustic instruments capture the mind and heart,...

Felix, Category 5 hurricane, is hitting Nicaragua. Oh, the times they are a'changin (finally): A female joins the ranks of the Beefeaters at the Tower of London. Bush arrives in Australia today amid protests from Australians. Slate reviews O.J.'s book: "The narrator of 'If I Did It' introduces his story not as an exercise in counterfactual speculation but rather as the God's honest truth." Author Anne Lamott censored from speaking at Creighton University? Hybrid...

The Writers' League of Texas will be honoring author Lawrence Wright on September 21st with the 3rd Annual Award of Literary Merit. The award seeks to recognize individuals who "embody the League's mission of promoting literacy and elevating the art of writing." The first two Awards of Literary Merit were bestowed upon Sarah Bird (2006) and Anne Patchett (2005). Currently a staff writer for The New Yorker, Lawrence Wright has authored several books as well...

It was announced today that Austin-based scribe Lawrence Wright was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. This is not the only award his book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, has won, but it is one of the more illustrious honors it has received. Wright is currently a staff writer for the New York Times New Yorker, has written for Texas Monthly, and helped pen the screenplay for the Denzel...

We all know that Austin is a great city for kids looking to date around or have a drink, but according to a new study, it's also among the top ten job markets for college grads. Bizjournals, the national publisher of metropolitan business newspapers with branches in over forty cities, reports that current economic conditions couldn't be better for the million-plus college seniors entering the workforce this year. "The outlook this year is very good,"...

Jesu Conqueror (Hydra Head) J.K. Broadrick's past with Napalm Death and Godflesh might have those anxious for Conqueror baffled -- the dense ambient fog and softly managed vocal work might come as a shock. That being said, the album is undeniably heavy, chugging, distorted and dark. The marriage between the agonizingly paced guitars and the sheer depth of their tone in "Bright Eyes" can overpower the sensitively harmonized vocals and synths. As bands like...

UPDATE: We found the video of Sean Stevens and Peter Berdovsky placing the "fake bombs" around Boston. Plus, the bidding war reached a little over $5,000 before the item was removed from Ebay. The stunt that brought Boston police and transportation its biggest scare since 9/11 yesterday was one Austin is very familiar with. Bostonist has all the coverage. Pictured above, this LED-lit advertisement stood over South Congress just north of Oltorf for more...

Looking for something to do this Saturday Sunday night? The secret rulers of the burgeoning global police state would like you to get wasted at the Chuggin' Monkey and not ask any questions, but the ever-vigilant Alex Jones knows better. He'll be at BookPeople talking about his latest DVD documentary, TerrorStorm: A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism. Spanning a multitude of media, Alex Jones is known for his syndicated radio program, local cable television show...

Tonight, Alamo Music Mondays presents Let Them Eat Rock, Rodman Flender’s (Idle Hands, Leprechaun 2) documentary look at the supremely bizarre career of Boston aristo-rockers The Upper Crust. Formed in 1994 from bits of various Boston indie bands (including Lyres, Bags, Mente and Clamdiggers), The Upper Crust play AC/DC-meets-Spinal Tap rock about the trials and tribulations of being obscenely rich. Their live shows--featuring the band dressed in full 18th century nobleman’s garb--became wildly popular in...

The Austin Citizens for 9/11 Truth will be sponsoring a free screening of the TerrorStorm, the new film by radio host, filmmaker and activist Alex Jones. Jones will host the event at First Unitarian Universalist Church and participate in a question and answer session following the movie. TerrorStorm makes claims of how governments continue to manufacture terror to garner public support for elective wars of aggression, imperialism and war-profiteering. The film exposes this phenomenom by...

John Cameron Mitchell must've had a rough time explaining this movie to producers. The follow-up to his multimedia smash Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Shortbus takes a light-hearted look at a wide spectrum of romantic entanglements in post-9/11 New York; but, rather than starting with a complete script, Mitchell built the story around improvisations with a (mostly unknown) cast willing to, um, really do it on camera. Yeah, the movie has real sex in...

Boy Culture Drama, Dir. Q. Allan Brocka, 2006 Screens: Thursday, October 5th at 7pm "Let's just call him X, a well-seasoned gay hustler with a string of steady johns. X is all business on the outside, the consummate professional---he's good for anything that pays and anything that pays is good. But X is a romantic with his own secret dreams of enduring love, a secret that frustrates both him and his improvised family---roommates Andrew,...

*This post comes from new Austinist film contributor Christopher Sharpe.* Update: Additional screening to be held tonight at University of Texas, Burdine #216, one block south of Dean Keeton between University and Wichita @ 7:30pm. Five years after the September 11th attacks, video stores could probably devote an entire section to 9/11 conspiracy documentaries. Unfortunately, most of them suck. With a few notable exceptions, 9/11 docs range from amateurish depictions of interesting ideas to completely...

WEDNESDAY [6] film • The Stunt Man with Richard Rush Live in Person at Alamo Downtown (6:45pm, $10) food • Angel Valley Organic Farm Farmstand at Asian American Cultural Center, 11713 Jollyville Road (10am-2pm) film • TerrorStorm with Alex Jones Live at Alamo South (7pm) film • Before Sunrise at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm, Free) film • Zatoichi: 7 & 8 at Spider House (8pm, Free) film • Quai Des Ofevres at Paramount Theatre (7:15pm)...

Alex Jones must be grinning from ear to ear, as most conspiracy theorists do when they think their ideas, brushed off by most, are finding more and more credence. Today, the White House released The National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, a new security strategy that takes less emphasis on "extremist networks" like Al-Qaeda and more on the countries that back them, like Iran. No better timing for Jones, whose film, which premieres tonight, predicts steps...

While gathering in the conference room to watch DVDs about your esteemed corporate founder or practicing falling off of chairs and into each other's arms as part of a trust exercise have always been a great way to spend an hour or two not surfing the internets at work away from your cubicle, the Writers' League of Texas has introduced a new program that will make you not dread the email from Human Resources,...

On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, Austin, its sister cities around the world, and 40 other cities around the country will team up in what's being billed as The September Concert. The concurrent event is somewhat bittersweet, as it's intended to both commemorate the tragedy that conspired on September 11th and celebrate the golden anniversary of Sister Cities International, founded by Eisenhower during the historic White House Summit on Citizen Diplomacy. "Fifty years ago,...

What they say about judging a book by its cover is true. Don’t do it! The late Wendy Wasserstein’s first and only novel, Elements of Style, has a pretty pink cover that looks like a neatly-wrapped gift and invites the viewer to tear into it with excited anticipation about the goodies inside. Only, what’s inside that pretty pink cover is shallow, overdone, contrived, and very disappointing. At least in our humble opinion. Elements of...

Every spring since 2004, a make believe funeral procession has meandered through Hyde Park, occassionally interupted by snippets of site-specific performance art. It was conceived in the aftermath of 9/11, is performed by 36 dedicated followers, and utilizes more than 3,300 styrofoam cups. Oh yeah, and only 18 people get to see it. What in the sam hell? The piece is called Floodlines, and it's being performed this Saturday as part of Refraction Arts'...

MONDAY [10][karaoke] Monday Karaoke at Beerland (Free, 9pm) (link) [film] Monday Movies al fresco, with 'Heavenly Creatures" and "Welcome to the Dollhouse" at Sidebar (link) [comedy/books] David Sedaris at Bass Concert Hall (8pm) (link) [music] Elizabeth McQueen at Theadgill's (Free, 8pm) (link) [film/drinking] FUSEBOX Happy Hour at Blue Theater (6pm, $5, screening of short films by Austin's Zellner Brothers as part of the ongoing FUSEBOX Festival) (link) [theatre] "Durang/Durang" at Mary Mood Northern Theatre (8pm,...