AltWeeklies Wire
Folk Musician Looks at Past, Present and Dylannew
Now 64 and a new grandma, Joan Baez appeared recently in No Direction Home, the Martin Scorsese documentary about Bob Dylan, with whom Baez had a romantic and artistic collaboration in the early '60s.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jeff Kaliss |
11-04-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bowery Songs, Joan Baez
Hasidic Reggae Artist Doesn't Playnew
Hailing from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Matisyahu is a Hasidic reggae artist who rocks a mic the way he rocks a yarmulke: tight and straight from the dome.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-04-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Matisyahu, Live at Stubb's
The Boondocks Shows Potentialnew
The Boondocks will be more than a quiet blip on late-night cable.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-04-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Film Would be Better Named Sucky Cluckynew
Chicken Little hypocritically mocks movie cliches at the beginning, then wallows in sentiment like a pig in slop.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Film Riffs on Comedy Duo's Splitnew
In Atom Egoyan's mystery, dripping with Hollywood noir, rival manuscripts reveal blackmail and murder behind the collapse of comedy headliners clearly based on Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Atom Egoyan, Where the Truth Lies
Love Hurts in Heartbreaking Filmnew
The film suggests a marriage of Robert Altman's early work, with gallivanting but rich character studies, and the penetrating view of marriage and loneliness in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ira Sachs, Forty Shades of Blue
Film's Look at War Forgoes Politics for Psychologynew
Despite the film's enormous empathy for the Marines and its engrossing technical proficiency, Jarhead's ambivalence keeps it from carrying out a clearly defined mission.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jarhead, Sam Mendes
Protesting Mounts Over I-3new
Along with his Senate chums Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, Charles Norwood is championing an interstate that they've informally dubbed "I-3" -- an up to 1,000-foot-wide gash of concrete stretching 400 miles from Knoxville to Savannah.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
11-04-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Is the Iraq War Hastening the Remilitarization of Japan?new
In a nutshell, Japan is creeping in the direction of remilitarization -- it's a process that's been going on for decades. The Iraq War is simply speeding it up.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
11-04-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: WAR
A Side Trip to Tijuananew
When a friend calls from outside a Tijuana quickie vasectomy clinic, the columnist notes her daughter's dear little face on her cellphone. The sight fortifies her conviction that, let's face it, not everyone should propagate.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hollis Gillespie |
11-04-2005 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire, moodswing
Island Drink Becomes Dessertnew
Using in-season pears and Bermuda Black Rum, a cook whips up a gingery-rummy crisp that takes her back to the islands, right where she belongs.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Kim O'Donnel |
11-04-2005 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Kitchen Witch
Keeping Up With Wine Trendsnew
Here's a smattering of what's going on in the streets of the wine world.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
11-04-2005 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Corkscrew
He Went Under the Cover of Flagnew
In an age of absurdity fit to make Aristophanes shoot milk through his nose, a trickster like Harmon Leon is a welcome reflection of our ridiculous reality.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
11-04-2005 |
Nonfiction
'Immigration Crime Fighter' D.A. King Defies Criticsnew
D.A. King is not what you would expect, especially if you saw news coverage about him paying 14 homeless people to carry signs -- which King made himself -- during a Georgia state Capitol protest against illegal immigrants.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
11-04-2005 |
Commentary
Quintet Walks Softly, Carries Big Hooknew
Few tracks jump out, but every song beckons you back to discover its layered pleasures, often oblique lyrical nuances and understated melodic charms.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
