AltWeeklies Wire
What's Up in Somalia These Days?new
Between all of the recent shocking celebrity news and the, oh, 15 or so humanity-threatening major crises around the world right now, poor Somalia is easy for the public to ignore.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
08-03-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: WAR
Misery Loves Companynew
Robin Williams risks attention deficit as The Night Listener.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-03-2006 |
Reviews
In the Hot Seatnew
Atlanta-based Southern Co. has worked harder than its peers to block efforts to slow global warming.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Russell McLendon and Ken Edelstein |
08-03-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Two Discs, Two Sidesnew
Each woman explores a different side of mainstream house music on House of Om.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Colette & DJ Heather, House of Om
White Whale Starts WWInew
What's a band from landlocked Lawrence, Kan., going to sing about? Why, an allegorical sea journey, of course.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Schacht |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: White Whale, WWI
Wry and Quixoticnew
Holland's light, spidery lilt only makes her fictional, early 20th-century American characters more corporeal.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Risques Businessnew
Claude Sautet's 1960 work is the essence of film noir.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Classe Tous Risques, Claude Sautet
Walker: Atlanta Producernew
Modeled after The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, this album is loud and bombastic, with lots of multi-tracked harmonies and hammy riffs.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
07-13-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Broadcasting More Clearlynew
TVoTR's previous, baptismal recordings were at times as dusty as impassioned -- this one is crisp and intimate.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
07-13-2006 |
Reviews
Expanding the Formatnew
Watt intersperses his own original songs into the blend, but he also grafts bits of his spoken-word poetics onto other tracks in the mix.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tamara Palmer |
07-13-2006 |
Reviews
Larvae Gets Subtlenew
Larvae's second full-length is a much more introspective hybrid of electronic and acoustic songs than the dark drum and bass of the group's previous efforts.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
07-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dead Weight, Larvae
Protest with Classnew
Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint make a protest record, but the prevailing tone is measured and wistful.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
07-13-2006 |
Reviews
Vaccine Draws Fire from the Rightnew
A vaccine that prevents most cases of cervical cancer has caused a wildfire among conservative Christians who fear such a vaccine threatens their abstinence-only crusade.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
07-13-2006 |
Sex
What's the Status of the Taliban?new
The Taliban are resurgent largely because as awful as they are, for many they'd be an improvement.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
07-13-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: WAR
Don't Call Them Gospel Rappersnew
Grits may be the biggest hip-hop group you've never heard of.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
07-13-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Grits
