AltWeeklies Wire
There's No Hiding Itnew
You'll think twice about crossing your arms in front of Patti Wood, whose comments on celebrities' body language is in practically every issue of Us Weekly.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Steve Fennessy |
08-11-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
The Legacy of the Late King Fahd of Saudi Arabianew
What would you say if you found out that a Middle Eastern despot who supported Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda with billions of dollars over several decades had just died?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
08-11-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: WAR
Sometimes You Have to Do It With Stylenew
One writer describes her most embarrassing ass-bearing incident on a date with a frat boy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hollis Gillespie |
08-11-2005 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire, moodswing
This Takes the Cakenew
After tasting a gorgeous hunk of the "Very Good Chocolate Cake" from The Gift of Southern Cooking, a food writer sets out to determine if it will be the best she ever bakes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Kim O'Donnel |
08-11-2005 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Kitchen Witch
Despite Swipes by Snobs and Filmmakers, Merlot Still Delightsnew
Although wineries might be ripping out Merlot vineyards and cutting back on their single varietal production, it still reigns as one of the uber grapes that will stand the tests of taste.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
08-11-2005 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Corkscrew
Gay Man Fired For Writing About Gay Porn Industrynew
Rich Merritt's sexuality was a non issue with his employers, the Atlanta law firm of Powell Goldstein LLP, until he informed them of the impending release of his autobiography, Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star, which includes graphic descriptions of the gay porn industry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
08-11-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Musician Approaches Craft in Refreshing Stylenew
Not only is this lo-fi ode to a defunct Omaha racetrack intertwined with the particulars of an intense but brief courtship in a reverse Slaughterhouse Five chronology, but it's freewheelingly catchy, bittersweet, and clocks in at a manageable 26 minutes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ray Cummings |
08-04-2005 |
Reviews
Musician Reins Herself Innew
As Erin McKeown explores the metaphor of flight for rising above one's troubles, she leaves the bulk of the instrumentation to others as she sticks with guitar and vocals.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Al Kaufman |
08-04-2005 |
Reviews
Hazarding a Guess as to Why They Remade Thisnew
Watching trailers for the new Dukes of Hazzard movie -- and hearing its soundtrack -- is like watching the second-rate 1982-83 season in which the actors playing Bo and Luke Duke walked off the set: It's working like a $2 watch.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
08-04-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Was Arson Eco-Terror?new
As many as 16 nearly complete houses have been torched in or near a posh golf-course development in Coweta County, according to the state Insurance and Safety Fire Commission. At least one of them was destroyed by fire three times.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
08-04-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Losing Hanna: Lost in a Bureaucratic Mazenew
In spite of her family's pleas, 15-year-old Hanna Montessori never had her profile entered in the national missing children's database. When her photo finally appeared on the Internet, it was marked "Deceased." Second of two parts; see Part 1.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mara Shalhoup |
08-04-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Book Written as Letter to Bin Ladennew
The novel is written as a letter to Osama bin Laden from a distraught unnamed woman whose husband and son were killed in an al-Qaeda bombing of a London football stadium. It was released in Britain on the same day as the real-life bombings of the London mass transit system.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
08-04-2005 |
Fiction
A Joyful Noisenew
Characters bleed, have sex, hang out in scuzzy rock clubs and grapple with ugly problems in this film with a Christian message.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Denise Coates, Our Burden is Light
Times Change and So Does a Familynew
Sadness waits in the wings in almost every scene of the lovely, life-affirming Italian melodrama The Best of Youth.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-04-2005 |
Reviews
Outlaw Attitudenew
The music of Shooter Jennings and his band, the 357s, is bristling with renegade spirit and high energy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Andrews |
08-04-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
