AltWeeklies Wire
Mayoral Payolanew
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson offers to release public documents to the local dailies before statutorily required--for a price. The Deseret Morning News took the mayor's Faustian bargain, agreeing to give ink to his pet project.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Shane Johnson |
09-01-2005 |
Politics
The Daily Travestynew
A concise, angry critique of the media's inital coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, Cable TV news
Your Favorite Is On This CDnew
Let's not beat around the bush: All-Time Top 100 TV Themes is a great fucking CD.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Carlton Hargro |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Second Release Features Rich Harmoniesnew
It's a bluegrass/old-timey album every bit as deserving of the cross-generational adulation received by O Brother's soundtrack.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Andrews |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Home to You, The Peasall Sisters
Two-Disc Epitomizes Strengths, Weaknessesnew
Neither the tunes nor the lyrics can quite sustain the quieter presentation, however. It's intriguing, and Dave Grohl sings surprisingly well, but it's hardly memorable.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Foo Fighters, In Your Honor
Album Works Nicely Within Pop Conventionsnew
Blitzkrieg Pop, T. Raumschmiere's second album, is much more listenable and varied than the 2003 debut Radio Blackout, a clanging beacon for the German techno capital that rarely sleeps in the pursuit of the groove.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tamara Palmer |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Blitzkrieg Pop, T. Raumschmiere
Music's Inner-Workings Heard Well in Recordingnew
It's a spontaneous-sounding rendition, with a good stereo separation that happily allows the music's inner workings to be well heard.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mark Gresham |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
A Crawford Diary: Keeping Vigil With Cindy Sheehannew
At the campsite where a grieving mother waits to talk to President Bush, small white crosses line the road. Each bears a name of one of the approximately 1,900 soldiers who have died in Iraq.
The Memphis Flyer |
Cheri DelBrocco |
09-01-2005 |
War
Album is Old-School Kewlnew
Every MC Chris song is an anthem for a person you never wanted to be but always were. It's for the person you always have been, but now don't mind being thanks to [adult swim] shows including "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Quartet Returns to Give Thanksnew
There are plenty of moments across Sigur Ros' catalog that could be described as hanging in mid-air, but not particularly playful. Yet Takk (Icelandic for "thanks," a word Sigur Ros signs to any autograph) is like a series of little children's stories to the band.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
09-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Thrill-Seeking Teen Learns Hard Lessonnew
During A Tout de Suite's lulls, you may speculate just how many aspiring actresses were seduced during the audition process: "Why don't we read the rest of the script in my hotel suite, mon cherie?"
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: A Tout de Suite, Benoit Jacquot
Passing Judgmentnew
The scramble to pigeonhole Supreme Court nominee John Roberts misses the point.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey A. Silverglate |
09-01-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Jurassic Arknew
One of the world’s richest women is spending her millions to stockpile the genes of Colonial-era livestock in case of catastrophe.
Boston Phoenix |
Brian C. Jones |
09-01-2005 |
Science
FIlm Mines the Rich Vein Between Regional Differencesnew
By the end of Junebug, characters keep their folksy woodcarvings and their mutual dependency to themselves, refusing to go under the big-city microscope of an "outsider" art gallery owner.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Junebug, Phil Morrison
Film Plays a Two-Faced Gamenew
In the 11th hour, Pretty Persuasion tries to cop a relevant, downbeat, socially concerned attitude, but after the previous piggish rutting in kink, who exactly does Marcos Siega think he's fooling?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Marcos Siega, Pretty Persuasion
