AltWeeklies Wire
Documentary Charts Parallel Paths of Two Bandsnew
Members of the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre started off as friends, grooving on shared interests and the contact high of close collaboration with like-minded souls. Then fame strikes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Dig!, Ondi Timoner
The Guy's Chick Flicknew
This Alfie feels like Bridget Jones with a sex change or "Sex and the City" from the guy's perspective. According to chick flick formula, Alfie's Englishman chauffeur in New York learns various life lessons as he progresses from a playa seducing every woman in sight to a vulnerable charmer who's been schooled and chastened by all the girls he's loved before.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Alfie, Charles Shyer
Film Demonstrates How to Drown in a Wineglassnew
Perhaps the filmmaker identifies more with Jack and Miles as struggling artists -- he torments them only because they should know better. But when the director ultimately treats them with generosity, Sideways suggests that, like a fine wine, Payne's sensibility is turning less sour with age.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Alexander Payne, Sideways
Incredibles Proves Super; Express Fails to Impressnew
No doubt future films will improve on The Polar Express' technology, but The Incredibles finds true innovation simply by wrapping wild effects around a thoughtful metaphor. Superman's not the only one who's more powerful than a locomotive.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
South Surrenders its Economy to Yankeesnew
That similarity is shoot-ourselves-in-the-foot backwardness. We face the rear and give the Rebel yell, "Charge!" Put another way, just as the Rebel flag wavers are still fighting a war we lost 140 years ago, so, too, is our economy rooted in decades-out-of-date thinking.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
11-04-2004 |
Politics
Don't Panic: Who is Abu Musab Zarqawi?new
Osama bin Laden is so yesterday. He is to terrorism what those damned ponchos are to women's fashion. Anybody who is anybody knows that Zarqawi is terrorism's "it" boy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
11-04-2004 |
Commentary
Lawsuit Seeks Payback for Overcharged Paroleesnew
A parolee's daily fees for an ankle monitoring device had been $3 a day, and paid for by the state, but now are $9 a day, to be paid by the parolee. In at least one case, the daily fee was $22. How, a lawsuit asks, could parolees be expected to make a fresh start when they were paying close to $300 a month for electronic monitoring?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Steve Fennessy |
11-04-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Report Eviscerates Tort Reform Logicnew
A "smoking gun" report filed last week by the nation's largest provider of medical malpractice insurance found that capping pain and suffering damages in malpractice cases -- a proposal known as tort reform -- won't lower doctors' premiums after all.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
11-04-2004 |
Politics
Georgia Official Says He'll Quit Doing Business With His Agencynew
Although he confirms doing $30,000 in private business deals with the agency he oversees, state Department of Human Resources board chairman Bruce Cook says he doesn't believe he's violated any state ethics rules.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
11-04-2004 |
Politics
Delta Stewardess Fired For Racy Picsnew
Ellen Simonetti, a Delta employee who wrote a tantalizing blog called "Diary of a Flight Attendant" and called herself "Queen of Sky," was suspended indefinitely without pay last week and then fired after posting pictures of herself in uniform -- with a couple of extra buttons undone.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
11-04-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Humbug Square: Gainesville Guru Forecasts Major Economic Bummernew
Up until this summer, Robert Prechter thought the stock market would be so far down by now that President Bush would lose in a landslide. But then the market rebounded from a shallow dip, and Prechter revised his position to say the election would be close.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
10-28-2004 |
Politics
First CD Remastered, Remixednew
Cerberus Shoal's 1994 self-titled debut walks a fine line between cool exploration and formulaic wankery. The remixed CD reissue of the group's initial album offers a comprehensive look at the group's then-budding yet often misguided sound.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
10-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Cerberus Shoal
Interpol Aims for the Top of the Popsnew
Interpol's second LP, Antics, is a band-on-the-bus record. The tension of Bright Lights is largely replaced by a more confident sound. The album's effect is more immediate, and the band is tighter.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
10-28-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Corkscrew: A Little Sweetness in a Wine Isn't a Bad Thingnew
When describing wine, I'm guilty of using confusing words like "chocolate," "peach" and "honey." I don't literally taste the sweetness of these things, only the flavor impression of these foods.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
10-28-2004 |
Food+Drink
Reconstruction Guided by Faith in and a Skepticism of Fatenew
Christoffer Boe's impressive first feature gives an analytical cast to ideas of our destiny and in the process forces us to question why we want so desperately to believe in stories like Aimee and Alex's
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-28-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Christoffer Boe, Reconstruction
