AltWeeklies Wire
Karma Cleanser: Sports Stalker Almost Cost Me My Jobnew
I exchanged e-mails with a sports talk show host and it got kind of argumentative. He sent notes to my employer, saying I was harrassing him.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tray Butler |
12-02-2004 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
Don't Panic: Is Brazil Trying to Develop Nuclear Weapons?new
It's not that the world is necessarily concerned about a nuke-wielding Brazil attacking or antagonizing its neighbors. What's gotten the international community's metaphorical panties in a knot is Brazil's evasive behavior with International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
12-02-2004 |
Commentary
Cumberland Island Will Be Open to Autosnew
Until recently, the north end of Georgia's Cumberland Island was one of the more remote places in the Southeast. Most people could reach it only by foot. Now automobiles will be widely allowed on previously protected parts of the island, due to the work of U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
12-02-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
When It Comes to Bogus Mortgages, Atlanta Leads the Nationnew
For more than a year, Georgia has raced past Florida, the usual state of first resort for real estate scumbags, in mortgage fraud. Our fraud rates are more than two-and-a-half times what they should be for our population.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
12-02-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: business
The Fun Begins As Georgia Libertarians Notch a Winnew
The Libertarians won their first partisan election in the state when Ben Brandon of Rising Fawn was elected Dade County executive.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
12-02-2004 |
Politics
Evidence Suggests a Higher Order to the Universenew
Dear Editor: Some of my little friends say that there is no order to the universe higher than our own human intelligence, and that, quite frankly, if that's the best the universe has to offer, we're sinking into some serious cosmic caca.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
11-29-2004 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Red Bull Music Academy Breaks Boundariesnew
Atlanta-based DJ/producer Rasta Root participates in Red Bull Music Academy, where up-and-coming artists get to study with some much-sought-after, behind-the-scenes music makers. The goal is to expand traditional musical boundaries.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-26-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rasta Root
Corkscrew: Sonoma County's Latest Names in Winenew
Although brand and grape names trigger Pavlovian memories that reach into your soul and wallet, the grape's soil and location produce the flavor you crave. That special spot is called an "appellation of origin," and Sonoma County is breaking out two new ones, Bennett Valley and Rockpile.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
11-26-2004 |
Food+Drink
Hollywood Product: Sponge Delights Adults and Kids Alikenew
Quippy snippets about the sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea include flesh factor (just about every character is seen in their underwear), cameo (David Hasselhoff) and best line ("You're a knuckle-headed spaz-a-tron").
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
11-26-2004 |
Reviews
Atmospheric Thriller Loses Steamnew
The Machinist is the kind of story that probably sounded great on paper, with its mounting sense of dread and spooky flourishes like a refrigerator oozing some problematic fluid. But writer Scott Kosar's psychological thriller is relatively lifeless onscreen.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-26-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Brad Anderson, The Machinist
Alexander the Not So Greatnew
With Alexander, under the command of Oliver Stone, the resurgent genre marches to its Waterloo. At nearly three enervating hours, Stone's trudge through the life of Alexander the Great could put epic films in bad odor for years.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-26-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Stone, Alexander
Liam Neeson Gives Haunting Performance as Sex Expert in Kinseynew
The biopic Kinsey lays out just how much we didn't know before the Indiana professor began his explosive explorations. The film engrossingly shows how Kinsey's research resisted the forces of ignorance and moralism, breaking ground with the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and its feminine follow-up in 1953.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-26-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bill Condon, Kinsey
The Low-Carb Soulnew
What would happen if science and religion were to be boiled together in a beaker, then centrifuged, amalgamated, shaken and stirred into a slurry of superstitions, unwarranted presuppositions and outright alchemical quackery?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
11-24-2004 |
Fiction
Tags: Len Fisher, Weighing the Soul
Former Analyst Recalls Prior Morale Problems at the CIAnew
Then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush asked, "Anyone have anything they want me to talk to 'the Rock' about, since I'm headed to the White House?"
"The Rock" was then-Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. I sat there stunned. The director of the CIA irreverently referred to the vice president of the United States as "The Rock." I decided then and there that I liked this man.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Bob Barr |
11-24-2004 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Humbug Square: Even a Mean Boy Can Learn to Givenew
My old friend Tom Glenn walked onstage in front of 900 people at the Georgia World Congress Center last week, and I couldn't help but marvel at how strange it felt to see someone I knew as a goofy kid grow up to amount to something.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
11-24-2004 |
Commentary
