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Just What the Crazy Victorian Doctor Ordered

This guide lists 65 of the funniest, fictional diseases the best and brightest of the Sci-Fi/fantasy set could come up with.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 05-05-2005 | Fiction

Tags: Alan Moore, neil gaiman, Jeff Vandermeer, leprosy, Mark Roberts, Michael Moorcock, Thackery T. Lambshead, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases

The Future Of Gamingnew

Harmonix Music Systems, North America's only independent development studio for music video games, is flying under the radar in Central Square, Cambridge.

Boston Phoenix | Camille Dodero | 05-05-2005 | Video Games

Tags: Revolution, Amplitude, AntiGrav, Eyetoy:, FreQuency, karaoke, KR3

Album Never Seems Overly Longnew

Like the fable of the blind men all describing an elephant as a different animal because of the part they felt, Australian guitarist John Butler's American debut changes depending on which of the 14 tracks you choose.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Hal Horowitz | 05-05-2005 | Reviews

Tags: John Butler Trio, Sunrise Over Sea

Band May Be Too Good for American Earsnew

After four albums, the Welsh threesome turns up the heat and volume on its rugged new release.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Hal Horowitz | 05-05-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Language. Sex. Violence. Other?, Stereophonics

The Newest Birth Control Battlenew

Religious conservatives are moving the anti-choice fight beyond the abortion clinic and into the pharmacy. Anti-choice pharmacists opposed to all forms of artificial contraception are seeking the power to mess with women's everyday lives.

Boston Phoenix | Deirdre Fulton | 05-05-2005 | The War on Women

Tags: Life, for, contraception, Abortion, international, morning-after, pill, emergency, Pharmacists

Tales Are Most Tuneful Band Has Yet to Tellnew

Colin Meloy surrenders his near chokehold on Victorian Europe and moves into more modern constructs for the backdrops of some of the songs on his band's new album.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Nikhil Swaminathan | 05-05-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Decemberists, Picaresque

Producer Dan Snaith, aka Caribou, Tweaks Live Electronicanew

With Up in Flames, Snaith decided to present the material with a live band and liked the way its energy melded with the crowd's.

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

Tags: Caribou, Up in Flames

Birds of a Feather Flock Togethernew

Though hardly a beloved pet tearjerker like Old Yeller, Wild Parrots' bittersweet final section proves surprisingly moving and demonstrates how animals can teach us unexpected lessons about ourselves.

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

Tags: Judy Irving, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Ridley Scott's Latest a PC Version of the Crusadesnew

In spite of several engaging battle scenes, director Ridley Scott makes even those wild and crazy Middle Ages pale in comparison to all the killing and maiming going down in our own medievalesque Iraq crusade.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Felicia Feaster | 05-05-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Ridley Scott, Kingdom of Heaven

Film Lights Fire Under Racial Melting Potnew

Crash ambitiously takes on a huge theme from more angles than one film can really encompass. Nevertheless, it's filled with taut, engrossing sequences, and it honestly shows how ordinary people can rise or fall when given a chance for redemption.

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

Tags: Crash, Paul Haggis

Director Tackles Teen Pregnancy in New Filmnew

Director Todd Solondz looks and acts pretty much like you'd expect the architect of some of the ickiest, misanthropic films on the indie scene to look and act.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Felicia Feaster | 05-05-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Palindromes, Todd Solondz