AltWeeklies Wire
"Horror" Film a Funny Piece of No-Budget Drive-In Schlocknew
If you can get past the gore -- and with glimpses of steaming entrails, that’s a pretty big "if" -- you’ll find Seed of Chucky to be a silly, sloppy, yet surprisingly funny piece of no-budget drive-in schlock.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Don Mancini, Seed of Chucky
National Treasure Desecrates American Iconsnew
The Declaration of Independence gets stolen, shot at, dabbed with lemon juice, buffeted with blow dryers, dropped in busy streets and dangled above bottomless pits. Fortunately, Cage's character doesn't shove it up his ass to smuggle it out of the National Archives.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: National Treasure, Jon Turteltaub
Fractured, Frantic Tarnation Finds Salvation in Pop Culturenew
Tarnation is a chaotic, moving and sometimes histrionic autobiographical memoir of Jonathan Caouette that suggests pop culture -- whether cult movies like Liquid Sky or a Houston new wave gay club -- offered him an escape from his grim home life in a Texas suburb.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
Wild Riffing Style Leads to Modestly Noble Visionnew
Inman Majors' crazy Southern comedy, Wonderdog, finds the former alter-Opie child star in a world of bad actors: clumsy political players, competitive romantic ritualists and caricatures of masculinity. And the hell of it is that they all seem to be more comfortable in their skins than he is.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
11-18-2004 |
Fiction
Tags: Inman Majors, Wonderdog
Governor's Vision for Atlanta's Future Is Brightnew
Gov. Sonny Perdue has taken the first steps to spend $15.5 billion on transportation projects intended to alleviate congestion and encourage economic development.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
11-18-2004 |
Politics
It's Time to Take Religion Backnew
George Bush hasn't earned the photographic halo that a gutless daily newspaper bestowed upon him on Nov. 5's front page. He's among the leaders that have broken one of the Commandments by bearing false witness in concocting lies out of whole cloth that led us into war.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
11-18-2004 |
Religion
Tags: religion
America's Hooked on Antidepressant Drugsnew
More than 18 million Americans suffer from depression. Doctors must not only diagnose properly but must also experiment, making patients go through a trial-and-error treatment process that sometimes does more harm than good.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
11-18-2004 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Four Musicians Have a Hell of a Way with Soundsnew
Sung Tongs is a baptism of blissful squalls threaded with melodic wisps, fuzzy pop ritualistically sifted from droning sediment. It reflects the group's varied influences, which include the Beach Boys, Syd Barrett, Captain Beefheart and the Incredible String Band.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-11-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Animal Collective, Sung Tongs
Karma Cleanser: Are My Hours Actually Working Affecting My Karma?new
My co-workers are logging 60 hours a week, but I figured out that I can log into our system from home and create the appearance that I'm working, even if I'm just surfing or watching TV. But then bad things started happening.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tray Butler |
11-11-2004 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
Corkscrew: South African Winemakers Get the Funk Outnew
Gone are the rhinoceros dung and antelope hoof aromas, replaced by delicate fruit, oak and florals. Perhaps it's time to introduce South Africa to your watering hole.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
11-11-2004 |
Food+Drink
Southern Writer Ventures Forth to Fathom America's Favorite Foodsnew
At turns comic, giddy and philosophical, John T. Edge introduces his readers to Leslie Austin and his Creole fried chicken; fried pies flavored with Coca-Cola; the odd marriage of chicken and waffles; and a New Mexican who adds green chili to the apple pies he sells.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Bill Addison |
11-11-2004 |
Food+Drink
Hollywood Product: New Bridget Jones Not Better Than Originalnew
As the prat-falling, foul-mouthed Bridget, Zellweger hilariously embodies modern female insecurities, but Edge of Reason mostly proves stale and obvious.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-11-2004 |
Reviews
Death and Loss Play Key Roles in Marc Forster's Finding Neverlandnew
It's not hard to see how Marc Forster might identify with J.M. Barrie, both in shared loss and in using creation as an antidote. "It's also letting go of grief," says Forster of the creative process. "And also embracing it in a different way. It's sort of like a more enlightened way."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-11-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Finding Neverland
Author Has Constructed an Entire Teleology of Turdsnew
Obenzinger has constructed an entire teleology of turds, a sacred scatology of sphincters complete with neo-cannibal rites and the saintly ablutions of Our Lady of Shit, who cleanses the public toilets of the world.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
11-11-2004 |
Fiction
Tags: A*hole, Hilton Obenzinger
Charles Nelson's Meditations on Race, Identity and Public Spacenew
Atlanta-based artist Charles Nelson is like some great below-the-radar indie band: beloved by a few, unknown to many.
Part of the reason he's below the radar, and also why his work feels like such a shot of adrenaline on the Atlanta art scene, is because Nelson is not in the business of pleasing anyone.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-11-2004 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
