AltWeeklies Wire
A Change of Heart on Sherrynew
An exploration of all the different types of sherry -- there are 12 altogether -- reveals to a critic that they don't all fall into the stomach-turning category.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
10-13-2005 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Corkscrew
How Popeye Lost His Eyenew
Little Red Riding Hood, Dick Tracy, Popeye the Sailor Man ... don't let the characters fool you. Big Lonesome isn't written for kids, at least not for the pasteurized milk-fed children of the Disney generations.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
10-13-2005 |
Fiction
Think Katrina Was Bad? Try an Avian Flu Pandemicnew
Politicians in Washington are beginning to wake up to the terrifying realization that a flu pandemic in America could wipe out a third of the population.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
10-13-2005 |
Commentary
The Revival of the Georgia Film Industrynew
Georgia's once popular native filmmaking business has undergone dramatic accelerations and reversals worthy of any car chase scene. A new state law and the work of filmmakers like Ray McKinnon could signal a creative upswing.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ray McKinnon, Randy & the Mob
Not This Singer's Best Worknew
Make Believe is the Chicago-based Tim Kinsella's latest band, but its powers pale in comparison to his other one-time ensembles, Joan of Arc and Owls.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Make Believe, Shock of Being
Not Afraid of Taking Chancesnew
With so many blues artists recycling the same licks and phrases ad nauseum, Candye Kane's music is a refreshing and enjoyable diversion, even with a little social consciousness thrown in for the sake of education.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Candye Kane, White Trash Girl
Bobby Hecksher Sobers Up -- a Littlenew
Bobby Hecksher is now decidedly less obsessed with the strictly corporeal facets of drug use. While under the tutelage of the near caricature of rock-star id, such a transformation seemed impossible.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jon Garrett |
10-06-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: surgery, The Warlocks
Five Browns and Five Pianosnew
The 5 Browns, ranging in age from 20-year-old Ryan to 26-year-old Desirae, share Juilliard-trained technique and refreshing interpretative ability.
Would a rock musician ever be capable of reaching that level of intensity?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jeff Kaliss |
10-06-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The 5 Browns
Indomitable Band Reunites, Rerecords, Reminiscesnew
Since returning from the ether, Gang of Four has remastered and reissued its import-only debut, Entertainment!, and prepared a rerecorded and remixed classics album, Return the Gift.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
10-06-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gang of Four, Entertainment!
Animation Film Tweaks Horror Clichesnew
If not as clever as you'd hope, Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit amusingly tweaks horror flick clichés while constructing some brilliant slapstick set pieces.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Perceptive Film Ponders Society's Illsnew
Though a little heavy on the wispy indie-rock expression of melancholia, Thumbsucker embraces a wide range of people and their problems, leaving you with a lasting warm glow.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Mills, Thumbsucker
Quirky Road Trip Takes Melancholy Turnnew
Rather than aiming to please, the film expects a certain patience on the viewer's part as it ambles and slowly shifts from an often forced quirkiness to a bone-deep melancholy. That change of tack proves worth waiting for.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Skinheads Eat, Drink and Talk Hatred in Rural Georgianew
Approximately 100 white-power skinheads, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members congregated on a Paulding County pastureland last weekend for Hammerfest 2005, the annual Hammerskin festival.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
10-06-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Is the United States Planning to Invade Venezuela?new
"I'm telling you that I have evidence that there are plans to invade Venezuela."
That's what Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, through a translator, told Ted Koppel on "Nightline" last month.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
10-06-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: WAR
Moving From One Extreme to Another, Coast to Coastnew
Knowing what she knows now about colds and cabin pressure, Hollis Gillespie is surprised that the first time she flew at age 7 her little head didn't explode like a frog with a firecracker up its ass and splatter the entire cabin with snot.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hollis Gillespie |
10-06-2005 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire, moodswing
