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Afghanistan

  • News

    March 15, 2012

    Breaking It Down

    It may not be PTSDs or brain injuries that pose the most long-term danger to our surviving vets from their Middle East tours.

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Cover Story: Chronic Back Pain One More Problem for Vets of Iraq & Afghanistan

    Tough-talking, Texas-bred Carroll McInroe was the Iraq / Afghanistan coordinator in the Veterans Administration's Spokane, Washington office from 2003 to 2008. It was his job to interview returnees from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and help them readjust to civilian life. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2011

    Upcoming Events: Not Too Late for New Year's Plans

    Ring in the new year at one of our three top choices.​Next week, we'll have a complete round-up of New Year's Eve dinners and dining events. But this week, we're spotlighting three favorites to include in Upcoming Events -- make your reservations now! Jasper's in The Woodlands is hosting a pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Valentines for Soldiers: Send Your Love (and Baked Goods) to Our Troops

    ​Although Christmas and New Year's Eve are right around the corner, we're already thinking of Valentine's Day here at Eating Our Words. And that's because this year's Valentines For Soldiers event on Monday, January 16, is going to be bigger and better than ever. Last year, the turnout for th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Last Night: Five Finger Death Punch, Hateebreed, All That Remains at House of Blues

    Photos by Marc Brubaker​Confidence in our domestic brand of capitalism may be approaching new lows these days, but Five Finger Death Punch rolled into the House of Blues on Tuesday night riding high on the American dream. The L.A. headbangers' new album, American Capitalist, debuted at number ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Aaron Vaughn's Wedding Band: Navy SEAL Widow Asks Houston If You've Seen It

    Kimberly Vaughn, a former Washington Redskins cheerleader who married a Navy SEAL who died in Afghanistan this summer, was visiting the Houston area this weekend before flying back home to DC. Somewhere along the way, she lost her husband's wedding band, which he had given her t owear while he was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    William McRaven, Supervisor of SEAL Team That Got Bin Laden: A UT Journalism Grad

    William McRaven: Knows a pyramid lede when he sees one.​Don't mess with journalism majors!! A lesson Osama bin Laden learned to his regret recently; the last thoughts through his diseased mind were no doubt about how journalism -- especially University of Texas journalism -- had triumphed aga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    iFest's First Weekend Thick With Music, Humidity

    GroovehouseJimmie Vaughan (left) and his band gave the large iFest crowd some saxual healing Saturday.​Lots more iFest in our slideshows: The bands, the performers, the crowds and even the food. For something that was still going on 24 hours ago, the first weekend of the Houston International ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2011

    “George Gittoes: Witness to War”

    GroovehouseJimmie Vaughan (left) and his band gave the large iFest crowd some saxual healing Saturday.​Lots more iFest in our slideshows: The bands, the performers, the crowds and even the food. For something that was still going on 24 hours ago, the first weekend of the Houston International ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    CNN Celebrates Houston's Brother-Filled Marine Batallion

    CNN has a piece up that celebrates the 1st batallion of the 23rd Marine Regiment that's stationed at Ellington Field. The Texas reserve unit has gathered fame because it has five sets of brothers, as the Houston Chronicle reported a while back. The unit is set to deploy to Afghanistan soon, so kee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Katy Man Will Run Houston Marathon "With" His Wife, Who's Serving in Afghanistan

    Running in Houston and at Forward Operating Base Ghanzi in Afghanistan​Craig Childs of Katy is running in the half-marathon that's part of the Chevron Houston Marathon. He'll be running with his wife. Even though Lt. Laura Childs will be in Afghanistan that day. As they did in 2007, marathon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops

    DynCorp: WikiLeaks is not kind​Another international conflict, another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security contractor tasked with training the Afghan police. While the company is officially based in the DC area, most of its business is managed on a satelli ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2010

    "B-Sides: A Dialogue with Contemporary Photography"

    DynCorp: WikiLeaks is not kind​Another international conflict, another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security contractor tasked with training the Afghan police. While the company is officially based in the DC area, most of its business is managed on a satelli ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2010

    Nine Nation Animation

    DynCorp: WikiLeaks is not kind​Another international conflict, another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security contractor tasked with training the Afghan police. While the company is officially based in the DC area, most of its business is managed on a satelli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    Remembering Our Friends, The Mujahideen

    ​Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward's new book about the President's management of the Afghanistan War, exposes some pretty significant divisions between Obama's civilian advisers and the U.S. military on strategy concerning what is now America's longest war: Book excerpts published yesterday sugges ... More >>

  • Film

    July 8, 2010

    Captured in Afghanistan

    American soldiers, vérité-style, in Restrepo.

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Times' Big Afghanistan Mineral-Wealth Scoop: Old News At Ellington Field And NASA

    Pentagon leaves out the NASA/Houston angle​All together now: NO BLOOD FOR NIOBIUM! When The New York Times reported in Monday's lead story that Afghanistan was sitting on vast riches in completely untapped minerals just lying around waiting to be dug up, it was old news out at Ellington Field. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Pop Rocks: Believe It Or Not, There Are Worse Ideas Than Kim Kardashian As Lara Croft

    I can't wait to hear her English accent.​It's been a rough week: we found out the BP oil spill may spread across the Atlantic Ocean and threaten England's blessed shores (which, let's admit it, would be pretty hilarious) and dealt with the campaign in Afghanistan supplanting Vietnam as America ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 22, 2010

    The Meeting Place

    FotoFest sifts through thousands of images to find gold.

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    The Poppies Still Blow In Flanders Fields... A Veteran's Day Salute from Rocks Off and Lonesome Onry and Mean

    U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. - and the author's daughter - Sara Blount, on duty in Afghanistan"In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Opinions "Mixed" On Obama's Fort Hood Visit, Waco Paper Says, Demonstrating An Odd Use Of "Mixed"

    ​The once-respected Waco Tribune Herald was purchased this summer by a very conservative family whose first move was to put "In God We Trust" on the front page of each edition.Since then the paper has become very right-wing (even for Waco!!) on its editorial pages. We don't read it enough to know ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    For Ramadan: Five Movie Muslims

    Ramadan is a time of reflection and prayer for the world's Muslim population. It is meant to teach them patience and self-restraint, and to bring them closer to Allah. We at Hair Balls know little of patience, and have never been good at self-restraint, but we're nothing if not equal-opportunity i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Uyghur Flavors at Chinese Halal Cuisine

    Photo by Robb Walsh​Cumin lamb is my favorite lunch special at Chinese Halal Cuisine on Bellaire, the subject of this week's Café Review. The pungent aroma of this spicy lamb dish might remind you of Tex-Mex, since cumin, chiles and garlic are major components in Chinese Muslim Uyghur cooking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Bouncin' Back: Songs for Survivors

    Last Wednesday evening's positivity-ruining shootings at TSU's "Trae Day" block party were a fine example of how ignorance and violence can crash even the most uplifting party, but also of something else: Sometimes we get lucky (or blessed, depending on your theological viewpoint). In three separat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Health Department Roundup: Chain Gang Edition

    This week we round up chain restaurants cited for health code violations. First up: Houston's own Café Express (1422 W. Gray). Who can resist its cornichon/roasted garlic/olive/crouton/caper bar? Amidst the overcooked chicken breasts and watery pasta entrées, the Café's delicious oddments bar of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Nobel Prize Winner Gets Hassled At Bush Intercontinental Airport

    Mairead Corrigan Maguire thought the hard part was over. Along with fellow Nobel Laureates Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, American landmine activist Jody Williams, and Iranian Shirin Ebadi, she had been in Guatemala, where the women had just co-hosted a three-day conference on democracy, human right ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2009
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    February 26, 2009

    “Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul”

    Much of the art in this exhibit was saved by brave individuals who risked their lives to protect it

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2008

    Turning the Screw: Chamillionaire, Immortal Technique, 50 Cent, Damon Dash, Lil Wayne, Timbaland, Raekwon, South Park Mexican and More

    Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won’t rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: Chamillionaire, “Swagger Like Us Freestyle” We normally reserve this section for unknown local ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    Get Lit: Gay Travels in the Muslim World

    Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won’t rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: Chamillionaire, “Swagger Like Us Freestyle” We normally reserve this section for unknown local ... More >>

  • News

    October 2, 2008

    Soldier Suicides

    Surviving our War on Terror calls for more than an ability to dodge bullets and IEDs

  • Calendar

    April 10, 2008

    Lifting the Veil

    Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy shows us the lives of women in Afghanistan

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2008

    John Royal’s Top Ten All-Time Greatest Sports Movies

    Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy shows us the lives of women in Afghanistan

  • Film

    December 20, 2007

    The Kite Runner

    Controversy aside, this adaptation just won't fly

  • Music

    December 6, 2007
  • Film

    November 8, 2007

    Lions for Lambs

    The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

  • Culture

    May 17, 2007

    Guantnamo: Pictures from Home. Questions of Justice

    A FotoFest exhibition questions justice

  • Culture

    February 22, 2007

    Stage Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    February 15, 2007

    Homebody Alone

    Bring your heart, intellect and stamina to this extraordinary play

  • Calendar

    May 11, 2006

    Hell and Sebastian

    Bring your heart, intellect and stamina to this extraordinary play

  • Calendar

    April 6, 2006

    Hell on Earth

    A real view of the Afghan situation

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    Who Cares?

    Celester Hall went to Afghanistan to help the troops and make his fortune. He came back deaf, in diapers and looking for benefits.

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2005

    Food for Thought

    Broadcast-news veteran Linda Ellerbee wants you to Take Big Bites

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Neighborhood Spot in the Heights

    Broadcast-news veteran Linda Ellerbee wants you to Take Big Bites

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Radio Talk Show (FM)

    Broadcast-news veteran Linda Ellerbee wants you to Take Big Bites

  • Calendar

    July 17, 2003

    The Breeders

    Pooches swarm Reliant Center

  • News

    February 13, 2003

    Protesting Peace

    Plus: Been There, Din That; No Smut Glut; Cursory Check

  • Culture

    January 30, 2003

    The Art of War

    The MFAH presents "Afghanistan: A Timeless History." What's next -- "Iraqis Are People Too"?

  • Calendar

    November 28, 2002

    Saving Beauty

    An exhibit at the MFA highlights Afghanistan's cultural riches

  • Music

    July 11, 2002

    The Anti-Clapton

    Rocky Hill hopes to find a smooth patch on his rocky road

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