AltWeeklies Wire
Moral Ambiguity and an Abandoned Baby Fuel Up and Downnew
This film from the Czech Republic makes you wonder if the people of this often luckless, tread-upon region will ever be happy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-24-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jan Hrebejk, Up and Down
Guess Who Is No Improvement on the Originalnew
The distance between Guess Who and the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner proves that social progress doesn't guarantee artistic advancement.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
03-24-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Guess Who, Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Coke Hires Firm to Examine Bottlers in Colombia, Elsewherenew
In the next few months, Coke will release "summary" results of a worldwide audit of its bottlers, including bottlers in Colombia.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Steve Fennessy |
03-24-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: Coke
The Ethics of Looking for Another Job on Company Tripnew
Is it risking bad karma for an employee to be out trying to find another job while traveling on the company dime?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tray Butler |
03-17-2005 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns, Karma Cleanser
Maroon 5 Hits Big With Songs About Love Gone Badnew
Thanks to Jane -- the ex-girlfriend of cutie-pie frontman Adam Levine -- Maroon 5 is burning up the charts.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jaiye Andrews |
03-17-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Maroon 5
Why Are the U.S. and the E.U. Arguing About China?new
The United States is afraid that if and when a European Union embargo is lifted, European firms will start selling China state-of-the-art battlefield communications equipment that might be used during a military offensive against Taiwan.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
03-17-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: WAR
Phoenix Rises Again With New Soundnew
Released last year, the new album is not as giddy as United, but proves more cohesive with its prime Steely Dan-era lite rock and stylish, airbrushed sheen. The overall vibe is mid-tempo, taut-yet-breezy blue-eyed funk-in-a-funk.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
03-17-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Phoenix, Alphabetical
Crooked Fingers Explores Matters of the Heartnew
Dignity and Shame, the fourth Crooked Fingers album since 2000, and first on Seattle's Sub Pop Records, is an album that features a menagerie of characters in dilemma, and yet it offers more hope and concession than any of Eric Bachmann's previous works.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
03-17-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Crooked Fingers, Dignity and Shame
Some Tips on Trading Beer for Wine -- For a Daynew
After months of drunken observation, and many slurred debates over which alcohol rules, I realized our two camps -- wine and beer -- aren't as far apart as we think.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
03-17-2005 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Corkscrew
Through the Eyes of Haitiansnew
It would have been nice to see director Jonathan Demme rise above a relatively traditional, at times stodgy documentary format reliant on talking head interviews to link the revolutionary practices of Dominique with the revolutionary possibility of film style.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Demme, The Agronomist
Get a Little Sweet and Sour with Animationnew
The Animation Show 2005, an evening of cartoon shorts presented by Oscar nominee Don Hertzfeldt and "King of the Hill's" Mike Judge, offers flashes of delight while confirming the adage that life is nasty, brutish and short.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Media Influences Color Experience and Perception of Warnew
Gunner Palace is shaped by not only contemporary documentary conventions, but by fictional war films like Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, which seem to play continuously in the back of director Michael Tucker's and the soldiers' minds.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Joan Allen Chews Everybody Out in The Upside of Angernew
Director Mike Binder shows little insight into the mind of Terry, whose husband abandons her. Terry's daughters never develop past the simplest possible characterizations, and the film can't decide whether to make Terry a villain, a victim or a feminist heroine.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Binder, The Upside of Anger
Message Offers Good Plan for Revival in Big Tentnew
In her funny, vulnerable meditations on living a meaningful life in the midst of trials and sorrows -- many of which she blames on Dubya Bush and his disciples -- Anne Lamott is not afraid to reference a wise word or two from Rumi, the Dali Lama, or the Catholic vision of the Virgin Mary.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
03-17-2005 |
Nonfiction
GOP's Pro-bidness Stance Could Prompt Voter Backlashnew
This session in the first completely Republican-controlled Georgia General Assembly in more than a century is shaping up to be remembered as the one in which the Legislature noisily consummated its long-running love affair with big business, corporate interests and rich folks in general.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
03-17-2005 |
Politics
