AltWeeklies Wire
The Old Man and the Secretarynew
Valerie Danby-Smith lived with Hemingway in Cuba; she wrote out his correspondence; she typed out the chapters to A Moveable Feast; she stayed up late with him, trying to ease his insomnia; she was a receptive student to his natural and eager teaching.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
11-18-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Don't Panic: What Is the Conflict in the Ivory Coast About?new
If you've recently canceled your subscription to the French national daily paper Le Monde because you've finally resigned yourself to the fact that you can't read French and never will, then you likely haven't read much about the growing violence in the West African nation Ivory Coast.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
11-18-2004 |
Commentary
Tags: terror
Karma Cleanser: Telling My Little Secretnew
I retaliated against some jerk customers when I was a waiter. But I haven't seen any bad karma.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tray Butler |
11-18-2004 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
Album Takes an Unconventional Approach to Hip-Hopnew
Williams shows how spoken word can be explosive-tipped and delivered in propulsive patois that puts many a mercurial MC to shame.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Saul Williams
Second Album Mix of Bubblegum Pop and Post-Punknew
Brooklyn's the Rogers Sisters could just as well be from Athens circa 1982. The group's latest release has you wondering if you've run across a perfectly preserved artifact from over two decades ago.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: The Rogers Sisters, Three Fingers
Album Pays Tribute to a Pioneer of American Musicnew
In a market flooded with tribute albums varying in quality from terrible to tremendous, Bloodshot Records manages to hit the higher end of the scale with a fairly well-balanced tribute to the first lady of rockabilly, Wanda Jackson.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Helmet Regroups and Changes Its Sound with Mixed Resultsnew
Founder/vocalist/guitarist Page Hamilton has revived Helmet for Size Matters, the group's sixth full-length album. The result is a dated and artistically questionable new record.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
11-18-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Helmet, Size Matters
Was It Hacked?new
The Bush administration's "fix" of the 2000 election debacle (the Help America Vote Act) made crooked elections considerably easier, by foisting paperless electronic voting on states before the bugs had been worked out or meaningful safeguards could be installed.
Orlando Weekly |
Alan Waldman |
11-18-2004 |
Politics
Gospel's Donnie McClurkin Takes On His Gay Criticsnew
McClurkin's autobiography, Eternal Victim, Eternal Victor, recounts how, from age 8 to 13, he was repeatedly molested by an uncle -- and offers such abuse as a cause of his later homosexuality. He's been criticized for his claim that religion "delivered" him from being gay.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ronda Racha Penrice |
11-18-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Corkscrew: Strategies for Getting Soused on Thanksgivingnew
There are as many opinions about what to drink with the Big Meal as there are calories in it, but here's a smattering.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
11-18-2004 |
Food+Drink
"Horror" Film a Funny Piece of No-Budget Drive-In Schlocknew
If you can get past the gore -- and with glimpses of steaming entrails, that’s a pretty big "if" -- you’ll find Seed of Chucky to be a silly, sloppy, yet surprisingly funny piece of no-budget drive-in schlock.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Don Mancini, Seed of Chucky
National Treasure Desecrates American Iconsnew
The Declaration of Independence gets stolen, shot at, dabbed with lemon juice, buffeted with blow dryers, dropped in busy streets and dangled above bottomless pits. Fortunately, Cage's character doesn't shove it up his ass to smuggle it out of the National Archives.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: National Treasure, Jon Turteltaub
Fractured, Frantic Tarnation Finds Salvation in Pop Culturenew
Tarnation is a chaotic, moving and sometimes histrionic autobiographical memoir of Jonathan Caouette that suggests pop culture -- whether cult movies like Liquid Sky or a Houston new wave gay club -- offered him an escape from his grim home life in a Texas suburb.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
Wild Riffing Style Leads to Modestly Noble Visionnew
Inman Majors' crazy Southern comedy, Wonderdog, finds the former alter-Opie child star in a world of bad actors: clumsy political players, competitive romantic ritualists and caricatures of masculinity. And the hell of it is that they all seem to be more comfortable in their skins than he is.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
11-18-2004 |
Fiction
Tags: Inman Majors, Wonderdog
Governor's Vision for Atlanta's Future Is Brightnew
Gov. Sonny Perdue has taken the first steps to spend $15.5 billion on transportation projects intended to alleviate congestion and encourage economic development.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
11-18-2004 |
Politics
