AltWeeklies Wire
The Life of a Pretty Boynew
Tab Hunter was the pretty boy pin-up of an entire generation of teenage girls, and Hollywood spent much of the 1950s finding excuses to film him with his shirt off.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
10-20-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Singer Delivers Goods Once Againnew
Retaining her affinity for the music of the past and presenting her own material in a seamless blend, Adrienne Young shows just how important music history is in terms of contemporary influences.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
Second Release Is a Smokernew
The girl has more natural soul than any 10 of the current crop of prefab "American Idols." Nikka Costa has one of those incredibly expressive voices that works just as well in a funked-out rave-up as it does a sultry ballad.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Can'tneverdidnothin', Nikka Costa
Band Brings New Spirit to Old Songnew
OCMS hasn't much updated or tampered with its old-fashioned approach since the drugstore days. Instead, its members just keep getting better at what they do.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Andrews |
10-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Old Crow Medicine Show
Brooklyn Duo Turns Dicey Beginnings Into Solid Rollnew
On its fourth full-length, Black Dice hasn't exactly gone NWA, but a renewed emphasis on rhythmic structure has resulted in a metamorphosis from dislocated filter-buffeted abrasiveness to head-bobbing lope.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
10-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Dice, Broken Ear Record
Country Star's Time of Reckoningnew
Trisha Yearwood decided to make Jasper County a musical tribute to her home and her roots. Now it stands as a tribute to her father, who unconditionally supported Yearwood's aspirations from an early age.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
10-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jasper County, Trisha Yearwood
Band Wasn't Built to Last, but They Havenew
Whether the New Pornographers became your preferred glass of wine in 2001 or 2003, you thought you were listening to a band whose showcase talent was the alter-ego of alt-country chanteuse Neko Case.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
10-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The New Pornographers, Twin Cinema
A Yuppie Couple's Misplaced Valuesnew
The love story, corporate spoof and family/funeral material never hang together in this film, and instead Cameron Crowe falls back on long close-ups of pretty actors looking at the camera.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
Film Dumbs Down Bounty Hunter's Lifenew
In the right hands, heists make compelling films, and Domino Harvey seems a ripe subject for a psychological study. But director Tony Scott seems not just disinterested, but actively opposed to narrative clarity or exploring human nature.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tony Scott, Domino
Flicks Recalls the Golden Age of Watchdog Journalismnew
George Clooney, the son of newscaster Nick Clooney, composes a kind of love letter to the "greatest generation" of telejournalists.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
Film Ties Racist Legacy to the Here and Nownew
A film that implies the complicity of other people in addition to the two who were accused in the death of Emmett Till inspired the U.S. Justice Department to reopen the case while the documentary was still a work-in-progress.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Keith Beauchamp |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
A Marine Comes Home to Dienew
Marine Jack Snook made it home safely from Iraq, reconciled with his wife and was spending time with friends when he was shot on a downtown Atlanta street.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Steve Fennessy |
10-13-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The World's Effort to Keep Iran From Building Nukesnew
Efforts to get Iran to give up its nuclear program haven't gotten anywhere so far but might soon.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
10-13-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: WAR
Daniel Wants to Hook Up His Wires to His Catnew
When Hollis Gillespie's friend Daniel jokes about the wires connected to his heart, saying he's going to take them off himself and put them on his fat house cat, and let the doctors decipher that, panic creeps in.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hollis Gillespie |
10-13-2005 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire, moodswing
Apple of Temptationnew
If you're plotting a seduction, bake a pie, but if you're planning for love that keeps on giving, make an apple coffee cake.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Kim O'Donnel |
10-13-2005 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Kitchen Witch
