AltWeeklies Wire
Ikea Opens on Site of Old Industrial Wastelandnew
The June 29 opening of Ikea, a Swedish home furnishing store, at the mega-development Atlantic Station will mark a major milestone in Atlanta's growth into an actual metropolis, like Chicago or Boston.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
06-23-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Josh Arieh Can Beat You in Poker. Wanna Bet?new
Josh Arieh took third place and $2.5 million
at last year's World Series of Poker. All that at 29 years old and a long way from the pool halls and home games in Atlanta.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Steve Fennessy |
06-23-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Band Gives You Something to Hold Ontonew
To handle noise and form it into composition is not easily done, and despite the many groups making the effort these days - Wolf Eyes, Black Dice, etc. - few do it as pleasurably as the Brooklyn quartet Gang Gang Dance.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gang Gang Dance, God's Money
Atlantans Revive Gangster Rapnew
The album's gritty production and even harder lyrics prove a formidable combination. Most of the songs have an ominous feel: menacing, but still thumping in the club.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ronda Racha Penrice |
06-16-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Boyz N Da Hood
Canada's The Dears Are Looking for Lovenew
Though it wasn't released in the U.S. until October of last year, the album had been generating buzz since its Canadian unveiling for its sheer pomposity in arrangement, vocals and lyrics.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
06-16-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Dears, No Cities Left
Old Show's Nature Seems Rickety Vehicle for Featurenew
It's just like the 1950s series, only with an African-American cast, a modern setting and lame jokes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Another Road Home Is a Journey Both Personal and Politicalnew
Another Road Home has echoes of the sharp divide between black and white experience in the United States, and how one race can be oblivious to discrimination, and the other, daily, painfully aware of it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Another Road Home, Danae Elon
Duo Does Great Job of Keeping it Countrynew
What works best for the duo is the edgy "Two Different Things," which exposes the gap between dreams and reality, and the two-stepping "Party Time," capturing the dichotomy of commitment and freedom.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Movie Magic Keeps Howl's Castle Movingnew
What sticks with you are the film's moments of delicate epiphanies, like seeing a fire demon cook bacon and eggs, or watching a hopping scarecrow hang clothes to dry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Roses for an Unmarked Killing Fieldnew
In his blog, John Sugg follows the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, accused of the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
06-16-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Batman Begins Examines the Man Behind the Masknew
Batman Begins breaks from tradition by compellingly tracing the motives that lead a brooding billionaire to pick fights dressed as an airborne rodent.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
Monkeys With Typewritersnew
A book of work by spoken-word poets at Atlanta's Java Monkey has corny confessions and ego-overblown self-expressions. But it doesn't hold up to the silent treatment it's given on the page.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
06-16-2005 |
Poetry
Tags: Poetry Reviews
Ralph Reed Bashed Gandhi With Borrowed Wordsnew
Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Georgia Ralph Reed said Gandhi had urged the Jewish race to commit collective suicide, among other things.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
06-16-2005 |
Commentary
Setback For Imprisoned Mannew
After 13 years in prison, a Georgia man sought to prove that evidence used to convict him of armed robbery has since been discredited. But he was denied.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Coley Ward |
06-16-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
What Is This So-Called Downing Street Memo?new
The Downing Street memo is not new, but by dint of its officialness, it's the most damning evidence yet that Bush lied about the war.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
06-16-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: WAR
