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Producer Links Up With Comic Charactersnew

Danger Mouse's first project to drop this year is with Gorillaz, a cartoon "band" first conceived by Brits Damon Albarn of Blur and comic book artist Jamie Hewlett in 2001.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Tony Ware | 05-26-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Danger Mouse, The Grey Album

Steal the Food, But Tip Wellnew

A reader justifies stealing a restaurant's food as long as he leaves a big tip for the waitstaff.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Tray Butler | 05-26-2005 | Advice

Tags: advice columns, Karma Cleanser

Bush's Pal in Uzbekistannew

The slaughter of hundreds of peaceful, unarmed protesters in Uzbekistan, a U.S. ally, was one of the biggest massacres of protesters by a government since China's Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Andisheh Nouraee | 05-26-2005 | Commentary

Tags: WAR

The Supreme Court Rules on Shipping Winenew

Soon, we may have wine falling from the sky ... or at least from a UPS truck. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled on the interstate wine shipment issue, specifically on two court cases in New York and Michigan.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Taylor Eason | 05-26-2005 | Food+Drink

Tags: Corkscrew

Restored Film Remains Flawlessnew

For Major Dundee's 40th anniversary, Sony Pictures Repertory presents a re-edited, extended version of the film with new music and 12 minutes of restored scenes that more closely match director Sam Peckinpah's intentions.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 05-26-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Sam Peckinpah, Major Dundee

A Whole Different Ballgamenew

Why are so many Latino players among those testing positive for steroids under baseball's new policy? One culprit is Major League Baseball itself.

City Pages (Twin Cities) | Steve Perry | 05-26-2005 | Sports

Tags: sports & fitness

Tame Madagascar Fails to Captivatenew

Though brand new, Madagascar feels stale, and its most clever ideas play second banana to tired, TV-friendly shtick.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 05-26-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Madagascar, Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath

Layer Cake a Slice of the Dangerous Lifenew

Layer Cake exemplifies how recent English gangster films seldom prove as grandly operatic or steeped in social issues as America's Godfather imitators. But that can be good.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 05-26-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Matthew Vaughn, Layer Cake

Book Has Plenty of Requisite Wild Flourishesnew

The People of Paper's dispelling of magic realism is plenty funny and as exhilaratingly freeform as the best of the McSweeney's canon.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Thomas Bell | 05-26-2005 | Fiction

Tags: space, Shelf, Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

Kings and Queennew

This quiet French drama about death, longing and madness just might win you over when you least suspect it.

Dig Boston | Chris Braiotta | 05-25-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Arnaud Desplechin, Kings and Queen

Summer of Celluloidnew

A look at every summer film worth mentioning, bearing in mind that a few are worth mentioning solely because they look really, really bad.

Dig Boston | David Wildman, Joe Keohane and Rachel Ahrens | 05-25-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Various Directors, Multiple Titles

E3 2005new

E3, the video game industry’s annual expo to end all expos, is a massive 70,000-geek orgy of hypnotic game demos and equally hypnotic booth babe cleavage.

Dig Boston | Seth Donlin | 05-25-2005 | Video Games

Tags: video games

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sithnew

Revenge of the Sith packs all the punch of your 12-year-old sister, complete with dialogue so agonizing, it’ll actually make you appreciate Lucas’ love-scene scripts. Yeah, you heard us.

Dig Boston | Adam Sith | 05-25-2005 | Video Games

Tags: video games