AltWeeklies Wire
Why Morrissey's Solo Albums are Better Than What He Did With the Smithsnew
Morrissey isn't trading on the legacy he created with the Smiths' between 1983 and 1987 because he doesn't need to. The cream of Morrissey's solo output is every bit as good -- if not better -- than what he recorded with the Smiths. But to believe or disbelieve, you have to listen to the records themselves.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
10-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Morrissey, You Are the Quarry
Corkscrew: Food Falls for Chianti in a Big Waynew
Now, after years of humiliating prison time in tacky straw baskets, this Tuscan red is finally getting respect, and we're getting some of the good stuff that will happily augment pizza, pasta and everything in between.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
10-21-2004 |
Food+Drink
The Man Behind Bushnew
Contrary to White House spin, the man behind Dubya is not God, but Bush's key political adviser, Rove, lurking like Forrest Gump over Bush's shoulder.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-21-2004 |
Reviews
The Watcher: Men Dressed as Women Guarantees Laughsnew
Contestants struggle to master the most superficial aspects of being a woman -- from dealing with bras, walking in heels, planning a wedding, and being a bridesmaid. If the show were called "She's A Guy," girly-girl contestants would undoubtedly learn how to throw a football, barbecue and scratch their balls.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
10-21-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Director Demonstrates How to Make an 'Issues Movie'new
Vera Drake makes a powerful pro-choice argument without resorting to polemical speeches or manipulative villainy. Instead, Leigh's exquisite treatment of character and setting speaks with impeccable moral authority.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Leigh, Vera Drake
Team America Cuts Loose on Warmongers and Peaceniksnew
Team America's testosterone-fueled puppet show swings into cinemas in the nick of time. In a bitter election year marked by blood-sport campaigning and politically scalding motion pictures,Team America arrives as the ideal joke to defuse the tension.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-21-2004 |
Reviews
Filmmaker's Latest Doc Examines Bitter Hometown Harvestnew
The navel-gazing detective story finds McElwee traveling home again to sort fact from fiction in the family drama of a great-grandfather who created Bull Durham tobacco but lost his entire fortune to business rival James Duke, thus reducing the McElwee family name to a butt in history's ashtray.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bright Leaves, Ross McElwee
Author Still Sadistic, Cantankerous and Outrageously Funnynew
Burroughs grew up gay in rural Massachusetts, the son of a depressed mother and a victim of a crackpot psychiatrist and his pedophile son. Now a recovering alcoholic, he works in a successful but soul-stripping career in advertising, with a cleaning lady who scammed him out of $12,000.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
10-21-2004 |
Nonfiction
Don't Panic: How Long are American Forces Gonna be in Iraq?new
That question can't be answered with a date, but let's put it this way: I'm pretty sure that we're gonna be fighting in Iraq at least long enough for me to parlay this foreign policy humor column into a book deal.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
10-21-2004 |
Commentary
Which Candidates Are the Best of the Bunch?new
This is the election year everybody got really pissed off. As emotional as we've all become, there's a better motive for casting a ballot than pure rage. We prefer to think of our upcoming gathering before the Diebold machines in Georgia's voting booths as a search for competence and integrity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Creative Loafing News Staff |
10-21-2004 |
Politics
Tags: endorsements
Swap the Votenew
Vote swapping, these days known more softly as "vote trading," is back from the grave of the 2000 election. Is it legal? Ethical? Possible? A way to vote Nader and oust Bush?
Orlando Weekly |
Scott Duke Harris |
10-21-2004 |
Politics
I Want a Reality-Based Presidentnew
The U.S. needs a president who takes responsibility for his actions and runs the country based on reality, not blind ideology.
Jackson Free Press |
Todd Stauffer |
10-20-2004 |
Commentary
Tags: endorsement
The New COINTELPROnew
The feds are spying on – and harassing – political activists with a fury not seen since the 1960s. Under John Ashcroft's direction, opposing the Bush administration translates to state terrorism.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Camille Taira |
10-20-2004 |
Civil Liberties
Doping Up the Rabblenew
With the use of less-lethal force on the rise and scary new weapons in the pipeline, such as high-voltage land mines, it's prime time to take a quick look at the gadgetry police departments are using to herd humans.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
A. C. Thompson |
10-20-2004 |
Civil Liberties
Trying to Make Sense of Elliott Smith's Final Albumnew
Songs From a Basement on the Hill feels like the natural progression of a gifted and obsessed musical mind with more and more resources at its disposal—and more and more time to fiddle with them, and more and more drugs to fuel the fiddling.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
10-20-2004 |
Reviews
