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'Ballast': The Weight of Death in the Mississippi Deltanew
Ballast is the first film from director Lance Hammer, and it would be easy to call it one of those movies where "nothing happens," except that a lot happens -- a shooting, a car chase, several beatings. These things just happen very quietly.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
12-03-2008 |
Reviews
The Life You Savenew
Catherine McCall's memoir recalls a life of sinking and surfacing.
INDY Week |
Sylvia Pfeiffenberger |
08-03-2006 |
Nonfiction
Subdued and Softnew
South's new album won't set the world on fire, but the group puts on a winning performance in its own quiet way.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
03-23-2006 |
Reviews
A Close Encounter With an Old Scamnew
On the light rail platform in downtown Houston, a writer runs into a South African "king" curious about how an ATM card works.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
05-16-2005 |
Crime & Justice
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just as the Rebel flag wavers are still fighting a war we lost 140 years ago, so, too, is our economy rooted in decades-out-of-date thinking.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
The Lady in Graynew
The cross-dressing Confederate soldier Loreta Janeta Velazquez, aka Lt. Harry Buford, is receiving renewed attention from historians and is the subject of an upcoming documentary.
