AltWeeklies Wire
A Fable Gone Sci-Finew
Here is yet another movie that lays the groundwork for being one type of entertainment and abruptly becomes something else entirely.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chicken Little, Mark Dindal
The Global Villagenew
The delicious irony of this wonderful compilation of anti-globalism music and texts is that, without the acceleration of globalization over the past decade, the very logistics of uniting artists and writers from first- and third-world countries would have been nearly insurmountable.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-05-2005 |
Reviews
Hop on Pop: Soft Drinks and Bone Lossnew
One known effect of carbonation is that it speeds the absorption of alcohol into the blood, which makes your gin and tonic more helpful in producing a big tip for the waitress.
Boise Weekly |
Dr. Ed Rabin |
11-04-2005 |
Science
A Middle Pathnew
You haven't heard Isaac Hayes until you've heard Isaac Hayes sing "Baby I'm-A Want You."
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
All the Ring's a Stagenew
AJ Gallant looks like a mean son-of-a-bitch. It's partly his barrel chest, his hefty arms, dotted with tribal tattoos, and the long ponytail pulled taut, leaving the shaved sides of his head exposed, but it's his eyes that do the trick.
Orlando Weekly |
James Carlson |
11-04-2005 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Modest Gains Are Hardly Worth Praisenew
While a definite improvement over their poisonous introductory EP, Lions' modest gains are hardly worthy of praise, let alone the absurd hyperbole that inevitably attaches to any band that suffers a Wilco-esque major-label wipeout.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jon Garrett |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Duo Puts Out Strong, Promising Debutnew
Fronted by the coed duo of Flora Reed and Philip Price, Massachusetts' Winterpills play melancholy indie-pop in the vein of Elliot Smith on their 10-track, self-titled debut.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Cory Byrom |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Winterpills
Band Pushes Unique Style of Bizarro Metal to Logical Endnew
Catch Thirty-Three outdoes all of the band's recent efforts, even topping last year's stellar I EP, which, with its one 20-minute song, hinted at where the band was heading.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Cory Byrom |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Meshuggah, Catch Thirty-Three
This Quiz is B-A-N-A-N-A-Snew
Gwen Stefani ain’t this reviewer's hollaback girl so here's a quiz instead of an interview.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jamie Allen |
11-04-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
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
