AltWeeklies Wire
The Day after the Vote Is Tough on Candidates and Punditsnew
In the aftermath of the election, John Sugg asks what the losers will do now.
If they so badly miscalculate their chances, why should we ever think they could make a sound judgment in their old jobs?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
07-29-2004 |
Commentary
Outfoxed Charges News Channel with Partisan Reportingnew
Home screening parties were encouraged and gathered momentum for Outfoxed, a film that builds a case about how Murdoch uses his vast media reach not as a news organization but as a partisan soapbox for the Republican Party.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
07-22-2004 |
Reviews
Pull the Shade on Genre-Bending Facing Windowsnew
Keep the audience guessing, Facing Windows suggests, and maybe no one will bother to ask where the hell it's all going.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Facing Windows, Ferzan Ozpetek
Restored Godzilla Reveals Big G's Staying Powernew
The untouched original Godzilla, featuring 40 minutes cut from the Americanized version, gets its first U.S. theatrical release as a 50th birthday present to the Japanese monster.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Ishiro Honda, Godzilla
Blasted Are the Meek, the Truthful, the Peacemakersnew
There is so much distasteful about the Republicans nowadays that true patriots have a hard time figuring out what to get mad about most. For me, it's religion. I'm infuriated that George Bush and his entourage of theocratic mullahs have kidnapped Christianity and God.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
07-22-2004 |
Commentary
Halliburton Finds Plenty of Takers for Risky Iraqi Gigsnew
Halliburton representatives came to Atlanta looking for a few good men and women brave or nutty enough to drive 18-wheelers through enemy fire or serve as medics in the middle of war-torn Iraq.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
07-22-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Did Eddie Crawford's Execution Gut Georgia's DNA Law?new
The denial of DNA testing for convicted child killer Eddie Crawford was a real shame, right up until his execution. Sure, Crawford's claim of innocence was a long shot. But the true casualty is Georgia's year-old DNA law, which was supposed to make post-conviction DNA tests a cinch to get.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mara Shalhoup |
07-22-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Effects of Israel's Security Barriernew
Last year, Israel began building a network of "security barriers" to protect itself from Palestinian terrorists. The walls and fences cut off much of the West Bank territories from Israel, but they managed to incorporate parts of the territories on the Israeli side to accommodate Jewish settlers. Creative Loafing Atlanta Editor Ken Edelstein visited the wall last spring and talked to Arabs and Israelis on the Israeli side.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ken Edelstein |
07-22-2004 |
International
Tags: international
Anchorman Builds to Outlandish Laughsnew
Of all those countless comedies that star Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, the Wilson brothers or some combination thereof, this is the funniest.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Director Updates Classic Bruised, Bitter Film Noirnew
You don't need to know what London criminal Will Graham (Clive Owen) saw or did to understand him in I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. Will is hardwired by the rules of the film noir genre -- which Hodges honors with due reverence -- for revenge.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Cold Porter: Film Never Attains Effervescencenew
The biopic De-Lovely strains so hard to capture songwriter Cole Porter's elegant sophistication that you appreciate his effortless music all the more.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Irwin Winkler, De-Lovely
The Trilogy Has a Three-Way with Perspectivenew
Belvaux tests the adage by constructing three separate but interlocking films, each in a different genre. See one of The Trilogy's installments and you won't be able to resist seeing them all.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-15-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Lucas Belvaux, The Trilogy
Canadians View America as Nutty Relative Who's Gone Berserknew
Over two weeks in Canada and the Adirondacks in upstate New York, I asked 104 Canadians and 51 Americans: "What do you think of Bush and the Iraq War?" Ninety of the Canadians and 42 Americans disapproved of the war. A slightly smaller number disliked Bush.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
07-15-2004 |
Commentary
Owners of Abandoned Hazardous Waste Left Warning Signsnew
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcer Bob Rosen was dumbfounded that a now-defunct company left 13,000 drums, most of them filled with hazardous waste, in an open-air shipping depot in southeast Atlanta. Then he spotted a stream of fluid spouting from a cracked barrel.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
07-15-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
It's a New -- and Nasty -- Day on the Judicial Campaign Trailnew
A 2002 federal court decision has dramatically changed the nature of campaigning for Georgia's courts. Under the old rules of judicial conduct, candidates were prohibited from aggressive campaigning or personally soliciting money. Now, they're free to pound the pavement for cash, criticize each other in the press, and answer questionnaires about their judicial and political philosophies.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ben Diamond |
07-12-2004 |
Politics
