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Revisiting the Crime Scene: Florida Election Reformnew
Thanks to reforms undertaken after Bush’s 537-vote, no-recount victory over Al Gore, the Florida fiasco of 2000 couldn’t happen again. Or could it?
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
08-26-2004 |
Politics
Metal Gone Mad: Robby Road Steamer's Macho Bombastnew
With six feet, two inches of undulating muscles and rippling chest hair, a feral baritone booming from beneath a combed moustache, flared trousers stuffed you-know-where with a plump beanie pig, Robby Road Steamer is a metal monstrosity.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
08-26-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
911 Omissions: Who Needs Henry Kissinger, After All?new
The only way to explain the best-seller status of this dry, stiff and cynical book is to understand the 9/11 disaster as a national trauma so intense that the co-dependent American family is still reaching for anything that will assure it.
New York Press |
Sander Hicks |
08-26-2004 |
Nonfiction
The Illustrator at War: A Q&A With Steve Brodnernew
The cartoonist's trademark style is perhaps best described as psychedelic-progressive. If Howard Zinn ever enjoyed peyote visions, they'd likely find a home in Brodner's nightmarish political dreamscapes.
New York Press |
Alexander Zaitchik |
08-26-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Last Great Poet of Eastern Europe Dies at 93new
Czeslaw Milosz's poetry -- scattered over 20 books, a lifework for which he won the Nobel Prize -- adumbrated the moral and political strife of a Europe in ruin.
New York Press |
Joshua Cohen |
08-26-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Film Looks at Mexican-Americans Soldiersnew
Most recent documentaries examine the politics of war rather than look at the people who actually fight. But filmmaker Charley Trujillo opens "Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam" (PBS, Aug. 31, 10 p.m.) with a story about picking cotton with his parents after he returned from the Vietnam War.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
08-26-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Vibrant Hero Reconsiders Revenge Filmsnew
An Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003, Hero plays less like a conventional action film than a grand master's chess game, and it unfolds with a cold yet dreamlike beauty.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-26-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Zhang Yimou, Hero
Recalling Music, Protest of Woodstock Eranew
Bob Smeaton's documentary of Canada's 1970 Festival Express concert tour captures the era's peace-and-love ideals unified by rock 'n' roll, as well as the more militant, violent impulses of the protest movement. Watching Festival Express is like seeing the performances of Woodstock 1969 alongside the riots of Woodstock 1999.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-26-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bob Smeaton, Festival Express
Director's Cut Resurrects Cult Filmnew
Hoping to capitalize on the film's growing cult following, Kelly's story of teenager Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), who has apocalyptic visions of the future, is being re-released theatrically. Kelly's Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut features additional '80s pop tunes and 20 more minutes of footage meant to clarify some of the story's loose ends.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-26-2004 |
Reviews
Mira Nair Spins Thackeray's Classic Heroinenew
Nair's multifaceted work has often focused on outsiders, from the Bombay strippers in her 1985 documentary India Cabaret, to the Cuban exiles living in Miami in The Perez Family. It thus seemed almost inevitable that Nair would one day turn to Vanity Fair, which she's loved since she first read it as a 16-year-old growing up in Orissa, India.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
08-26-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mira Nair, Vanity Fair
My Nipples Loved Fruitnew
Call me an anthrocentrist (my nipples often do, though they lisp the "tr"), but I read the novel more as the story of an obese 13-year-old Canadian boy whose considerable social burdens have been increased by the budding of his nipples into cherry-sized stigmata.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
08-26-2004 |
Fiction
McSweeney's Anthology Reveals the Mind of the Comic Book Guynew
The comic book anthology McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 marks the latest milestone in the medium's drawn-out coming of age. If American comics saw their infancy with newspaper strips in the early 20th century, and endured an endless adolescence with superhero titles, the art form now emerges ready for adulthood.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-26-2004 |
Fiction
Man the Barricades: A Protester Remembers the Movementnew
Some things don't change. From the temporal podium of August 2004, I can view myself dimly, striding onto the University of Florida's Plaza of the Americas in 1970, leading a protest against the Vietnam War. This is the second of two parts
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
08-26-2004 |
Commentary
Class-Action Lawsuits Likely in Wake of BioLab Firenew
Three months after a massive chlorine fire 25 miles east of Atlanta caused the evacuation of at least 11,000 Rockdale County residents, BioLab Inc. is just one step away from finishing its environmental cleanup. The 3,000 or so people hoping to sue the company are another matter.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
08-26-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Wild Oatesnew
For John Oates, turning over a new leaf meant shaving off his Freddie Mercury moustache. Oates still ain't as pretty as his taller, blonder, better-known partner, Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates, but for our money, the pint-size David Starsky doppelgänger has got to be a better sport than, say, Andrew Ridgley, the silent half of Wham! Better yet, judge for yourself via this exclusive Q&A.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
08-25-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hall & Oates, Wild Oates
