Subject: Vietnam

• David Halberstam, R.I.P.

  April 24, 2007

• Bring On The Protesters: Vietnam To Open Houston Consulate

  October 6, 2008

• Representative Al Green Fights His Own Vietnam War

  November 10, 2008

• Standing at the Gates of Heaven

  December 23, 1993

• The Sound of Muzak

  October 6, 1994

• Walking Dead Arrives D.O.A.

  March 9, 1995

• Musicians Don't Have W. to Kick Around Anymore... So Now What?

  Now that Lil' Bush has shuffled off the Presidential coil - or will in a couple of hours, anyway - and heads off into some Dallas burg to write his memoirs and reflect on his two wild and strange terms as Commander in Chief, it seems that the writers of so many protest songs can call off their guns and put their grudges to bed. With an artist-friendly liberal president in Barack Obama, what will come of all the anger and poison that helped so many musicians write protest anthem after protest an

  January 20, 2009

• Baby Boom

  August 17, 1995

• The Last Battle of Chau Minh Nguyen

  January 4, 1996

• Back to Wok

  October 17, 1996

• Combat Reality

  July 23, 1998

• Letters

  November 26, 1998

• Houston Company Exploits Vietnamese Workers, Suit Claims

  A Houston company has been exploiting Vietnamese workers by promising big bucks, bringing them over here to work near the Ship Channel and then gouging them for rent and transportation costs while putting them up in dilapidated housing, a lawsuit claims.Thus it has been in America since...well, since America began. But attorney Tammy Tran is hoping the courts may provide some justice.In the suit, plaintiff Thang Hong Luu paints a grim picture of working for Coast to Coast Resources (a company we

  March 12, 2009

• Sordid Lives

  Web exclusive!

  April 9, 2009

• U.S. Military Deserters Once Again Flock to Canada to Avoid War

  Looks like this time they picked the wrong country.

  March 12, 2009

• SPECIAL NAVIDAD SHOPPING GUIDE EDITION

  December 18, 2008

• John McCain's Neglected Veterans

  The candidate's fame is based on his POW status, but he has abandoned his fellow veterans time and time again

  October 16, 2008

• Stephen Hunter

  October 9, 2008

• Casualties of War

  Houston's Vietnamese now call Texas home, but they continue to be haunted by ghosts of the conflict that drove them here

  February 9, 1995

• Apolitical Theater in Stop-Loss

  Iraq war movie does its best not to mention the war

  March 27, 2008

• Nothing Happening Here: Protest Music, Then and Now

  October 18, 2007

• In the Valley of Elah

  Don't let Paul Haggis's heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

  September 20, 2007

• Rescue Dawn

  Werner Herzog takes his hero worship Hollywood

  July 12, 2007

• Le Viet Restaurant & Bar

  Sometimes Anglo-friendly Vietnamese food does taste better than the real thing

  June 7, 2007

• PESCE'S

  LONG ISLAND ICED TEA

  December 28, 2006

• Tale of Two Cities

  Catholic priest John Chinh Tran re-created Vietnam's Thai Xuan Village in Houston with an iron hand. These days his control is slipping away.

  December 15, 2005

• Killing Time

  In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

  November 3, 2005

• The New Art

  Contemporary craft is more than macaroni place mats

  February 19, 2004

• Ride On, Baby

  The Lipizzaner Stallions soar through an equine ballet

  January 22, 2004

• Arms and Race

  Manny Garcia fought both the Viet Cong and racial prejudice

  October 9, 2003

• Vietnam 1, Alief 0

  HCC cuts classes after planting a flag in Saigon

  April 3, 2003

• War on War Songs

  Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

  March 27, 2003

• Peace Signs

  Third–generation activist Luchita Rodriguez and her friends find the missing rally bus — and a fresh, family-style fight against war in Iraq

  January 30, 2003

• Writes Love, Not War

  Vietnam isn't Tim O'Brien's only subject

  November 14, 2002

• Best Place to Shoot Up

  Survival Games of Texas

  September 26, 2002

• The Chef Who Almost Wasn't

  Zumm Escudier has put the Angelika Cafe back on track, but her path has been long and winding

  August 1, 2002

• Solid Soldiers

  Vietnam's first battle delivers a real dread of war so lacking in Black Hawk Down

  February 28, 2002

• Agent of Doom

  Former enemies unite against the continuing fallout from deadly defoliants of the Vietnam War

  January 3, 2002

• Best Vietnamese Restaurant

  Vietopia

  September 20, 2001

• Calendar Editor Shoots Up

  Shooting people is fun

  May 31, 2001

• The Things We Still Carry

  Vietnamese food served with a side of fresh perspectives

  May 24, 2001

• The Rise of Saigon

  The musical makes a splashy regional debut despite an awkward launching pad

  March 29, 2001

• Tackling the Taboo

  Despite suicides and inner strife, Asian-Americans resist psychotherapy

  September 14, 2000

• History with Honor

  Pilot POWs' survival goes far beyond the Vietnam War

  September 16, 1999

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: War, Still "Hard to Believe"

  Photos by John Moulder I'm always looking for good lyrics that make sense of the current military situation. I recently got Slaid Cleaves' fine new album, Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away, which contains this wonderful verse in the song "Hard to Believe": "Here comes another blown up kid from over there Makin' the whole world safe for the millionaires Same old swindle hides behind a fresh new coat of lies This is no time to be naïve, it's hard to believe.As we've mentioned a few times in

  April 27, 2009

• For Wayne Dolcefino's Probation: Five Trespassing Movies

  KTRK's investigative reporter Wayne Dolcefino has done a fair amount of good, exposing mismanagement of taxpayer dollars and safety issues concerning the fire department and public schools.Then again, he also devotes significant energy to rooting out handicapped-parking cheats and wading chest-deep into floodwaters during tropical storms, all in that inimitable Dolcefino style, a style which now includes misdemeanor trespassing. We know how hard it is to keep a low profile when serving your "pr

  May 13, 2009

• Remembering 1969, Part 1: Altamont, Rosemary's Baby, Santana at Woodstock and More

  1968 might have been - at least politically - one of the most turbulent years of the '60s. Students rioted left - specifically, the Left Bank in Paris - and right against the war in Vietnam, while back home racial tensions escalated, especially after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The political landscape shifted that year as Robert Kennedy was assassinated, opening the door for the Republican Party, via Richard Nixon, to rise to power. But 1969 proved to be an equally important one f

  June 10, 2009

• Remembering 1969, Part 2: The View from Brazil

  Note: Part 1 is here. While anti-Vietnam protests escalated in both sides of the Atlantic , the scenario was quite different in Brazil: in March 1964, a military junta toppled democratically elected president João Goulart and installed a cruel dictatorship that stayed in power for two decades - in 1968, the government enacted AI-5, a unilateral executive act that gave it unlimited powers to arrest anyone suspected of "subversive" behavior without any kind of warrant or explanation. In December

  June 11, 2009

• $13 at Pagoda

  Photo by Robb WalshWhere: Pagoda Vietnamese Bistro & Bar, 4705 Inker St., 832-673-0400 What $13 gets you: A cup of pineapple seafood soup ($5) and a big bowl of vermicelli salad ($8) or a Vietnamese sandwich ($4) and a bowl of pho ($8). Pagoda is an authentic Vietnamese restaurant with a chic modern décor that's close to the Heights and downtown. If you love Vietnamese food but don't get around to driving out to Bellaire Chinatown very often, you need to know about this place. The slightly hi

  July 6, 2009

• “Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea”

  September 10, 2009