AltWeeklies Wire
Lose The Wine Labels, Double Your Funnew
Most wine writers are not immune to marketing. To counter-balance the manipulation, they often "blind taste" by using aluminum foil, paper bags or anything that can hide the label.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
05-12-2005 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Corkscrew
Mindhunters Almost Made Obsolete by Changing Timesnew
Despite its slick veneer, Mindhunters never realizes that its expiration date passed long before audiences even got a look at it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Renny Harlin, Mindhunters
Pete Tong Rarely Goes Wrongnew
More of an exercise in sensory stimulation than a story with deep insights, It's All Gone Pete Tong offers a surprisingly fresh way to think about disabilities. The dance milieu mostly just provides the backbeat.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Lady Wrestlers Recall Brawlsnew
Ruth Leitman's illuminating, flinty and sometimes downright depressing documentary follows a subculture of battling dames.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Jane Fonda Sparkles in Film That Betrays Real Womennew
The film underscores two regressive ideas: first, that modern career women are neurotic, unhappy, competitive, underfed bitches; second, that aspiring trophy wives are the more content, well-adjusted ones.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert Luketic, Monster-in-Law
Author Suggests God Didn't Write Biblenew
Calling for the people of all faiths to "lift up what is our most precious gift," John Shelby Spong finds God alive and free -- and very much overlooked by those who keep their faith bound in a book.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
05-12-2005 |
Original Work
The Karmic Effect of Laughing at Someone Elsenew
A reader wonders if his car got hit twice because he enjoyed someone else's troubles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tray Butler |
05-12-2005 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns, Karma Cleanser
What's With the Political Unrest in Togo?new
Following the announcement that Faure Gnassingbé was the official winner of last month's presidential election in Togo, the African nation experienced a surge in political violence that spurred thousands of Togolese to flee for safety.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
05-12-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: WAR
Cable News Networks Love White Chicksnew
This country is crazy about white chicks, especially when they've been kidnapped, ravaged or killed. But what about the black 16-year-old who disappeared on her way to class?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
05-12-2005 |
Media
72-Year-Old Woman Chooses Radical Therapy to Fight Cancernew
At a dead end with mainstream medicine, a woman with inoperable cancer turns to alternative and natural remedies developed by German physician Max Gerson in the late 1920s.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
05-12-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Album Never Seems Overly Longnew
Like the fable of the blind men all describing an elephant as a different animal because of the part they felt, Australian guitarist John Butler's American debut changes depending on which of the 14 tracks you choose.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
05-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Butler Trio, Sunrise Over Sea
Band May Be Too Good for American Earsnew
After four albums, the Welsh threesome turns up the heat and volume on its rugged new release.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
05-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tales Are Most Tuneful Band Has Yet to Tellnew
Colin Meloy surrenders his near chokehold on Victorian Europe and moves into more modern constructs for the backdrops of some of the songs on his band's new album.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
05-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Decemberists, Picaresque
Producer Dan Snaith, aka Caribou, Tweaks Live Electronicanew
With Up in Flames, Snaith decided to present the material with a live band and liked the way its energy melded with the crowd's.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
05-05-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Caribou, Up in Flames
Birds of a Feather Flock Togethernew
Though hardly a beloved pet tearjerker like Old Yeller, Wild Parrots' bittersweet final section proves surprisingly moving and demonstrates how animals can teach us unexpected lessons about ourselves.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-05-2005 |
Reviews
