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A Morning in the Life of John Kerrynew
In the morning, John Kerry "crept from the bed, only to step on a Purple Heart that someone had carelessly left on the floor. Let me tell you, John Kerry does not like to bleed first thing in the morning." Chris Wright imagines how the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee starts his day.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Wright |
07-22-2004 |
Politics
Unsinkable Mollynew
Although Molly Ivins’s new book is being cast as a "retrospective," she expects to find plenty more chicken-fried nincompoopery to laugh at in the years to come. A Q&A with Ivins.
Boston Phoenix |
Tamara Wieder |
07-22-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Molly Ivins, Who Let the Dogs in?
Cheney This!new
Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank offers some advice on the effective use of profanity in public speaking -- just substitute "Cheney" for your expletive of choice.
Boston Phoenix |
Rep. Barney Frank |
07-22-2004 |
Politics
Pull the Shade on Genre-Bending Facing Windowsnew
Keep the audience guessing, Facing Windows suggests, and maybe no one will bother to ask where the hell it's all going.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Facing Windows, Ferzan Ozpetek
The $50 Million Demsnew
The real VIPs in the fight to oust George W. Bush won’t be on the stage of Boston's FleetCenter next week. They’re the wealthy funders of progressive ‘527’ groups.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
07-22-2004 |
Politics
Restored Godzilla Reveals Big G's Staying Powernew
The untouched original Godzilla, featuring 40 minutes cut from the Americanized version, gets its first U.S. theatrical release as a 50th birthday present to the Japanese monster.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Ishiro Honda, Godzilla
Blasted Are the Meek, the Truthful, the Peacemakersnew
There is so much distasteful about the Republicans nowadays that true patriots have a hard time figuring out what to get mad about most. For me, it's religion. I'm infuriated that George Bush and his entourage of theocratic mullahs have kidnapped Christianity and God.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
07-22-2004 |
Commentary
Halliburton Finds Plenty of Takers for Risky Iraqi Gigsnew
Halliburton representatives came to Atlanta looking for a few good men and women brave or nutty enough to drive 18-wheelers through enemy fire or serve as medics in the middle of war-torn Iraq.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
07-22-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Did Eddie Crawford's Execution Gut Georgia's DNA Law?new
The denial of DNA testing for convicted child killer Eddie Crawford was a real shame, right up until his execution. Sure, Crawford's claim of innocence was a long shot. But the true casualty is Georgia's year-old DNA law, which was supposed to make post-conviction DNA tests a cinch to get.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mara Shalhoup |
07-22-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Effects of Israel's Security Barriernew
Last year, Israel began building a network of "security barriers" to protect itself from Palestinian terrorists. The walls and fences cut off much of the West Bank territories from Israel, but they managed to incorporate parts of the territories on the Israeli side to accommodate Jewish settlers. Creative Loafing Atlanta Editor Ken Edelstein visited the wall last spring and talked to Arabs and Israelis on the Israeli side.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ken Edelstein |
07-22-2004 |
International
Tags: international
Bush League: 'U.S. Casualties High since Handover'new
July has been one of the bloodiest months in Iraq since the war began, the Boston Globe reports. Other recent news coverage about Bush concerns prescription-drug benefits, justice for terrorist suspects and nuclear terror.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
07-21-2004 |
Politics
Working for Peanutsnew
The Complete Peanuts: 1950-1952 offers readers insight into the rough-and-tumble origins of the classic comic strip.
Gambit |
Alex Rawls |
07-21-2004 |
Nonfiction
Write Place, Write Timenew
While his latest CD is an occasion to celebrate his musical persona once again, Dr. John should also be appreciated as one of New Orleans' great songwriters.
Gambit |
John Swenson |
07-21-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Recovering America's Values from a Web of Lies
John Kerry has been talking a lot about values -- a key to a possible victory in November. But in doing so he's confronting a welter of myths, if not outright lies. The better he understands that,
the better his chances of success.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
07-20-2004 |
Commentary
Rock by Numbers
To determine if there's any rhyme or reason to music writing on the Web, guitarist Loren Wilson analyzed the language used in record reviews on Pitchforkmedia.com.
Chicago Reader |
J. Niimi |
07-20-2004 |
Music
