AltWeeklies Wire
Documentary Takes Respectful, Sober Look at Poet's Lifenew
The documentary gives you the itch to get reacquainted with Bukowski's work, preferably while sitting astride a barstool.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-24-2004 |
Reviews
Waiting for Rocco at NBC's 'The Restaurant'new
NBC hyped the second season as a battle for control of Rocco's 22nd Street, but when the show ended June 5, both men still held equal stakes in the business. Unable to accept such an unsatisfying ending, we went to investigate the made-for-TV eatery for ourselves.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Heather Kuldell |
06-24-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Poultry, sexual awakening make for queasy brewnew
The Mudge Boy is about a sexual rite of passage with as much murky, disturbing content as stories of female sexual awakening, but Mudge's tale of chicken-fried yokels and brutal life down-on-the-farm shows a fairly conventional, crude view of rural life that never quite jibes with its art film trappings.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Burke, The Mudge Boy
The Notebook is a hokey bag of Southern clichesnew
Everything from set design to dialogue to historical detail in The Notebook feels fake in this adaptation of crybaby novelist Nicholas Sparks' best-selling book.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Nick Cassavetes, The Notebook
Fahrenheit challenges post-9/11 politicsnew
Addressing material that Hollywood has taken pains to avoid, Fahrenheit 9/11 lights a fire under its viewers and challenges the sacred cows of 21st-century America.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11
Falun Gong-ites Would Like a Little Help in Ending Torture and Murdernew
Becky Yao, a practitioner of Falun Gong meditation, was one of the organizers of the only effective protest aimed at the recent South Georgia summit of world leaders, also know as G-8.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
06-24-2004 |
Commentary
San Francisco Quintet Has Grown Thick As Thievesnew
Formed seven years ago and taking immense time to record its first self-financed album, Evening makes Other Victorians a testament to time well spent.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
06-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Evening, Other Victorians CD
Mario Van Peebles Follows in his Father's Footsteps With Baadasssss!new
Three decades after Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song became an instant cult classic, Melvin's son, actor and director Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City, Posse), has made a tribute and expose of the long road to making Sweet called Baadasssss!.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-23-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Baadasssss!, Mario Van Peebles
Moore of the Same, But Less Convincingnew
You can share Moore’s every political sentiment in the movie yet fail to be persuaded by his logic. It’s all associative, an argument by induction and inference. All the cheap shots and easy cuts—Iraqis bleed, Bush smirks—fail to make a coherent case.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
06-23-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11
Spidey Sensenew
The summer movie season is upon us. Prepare to see advertisements for the latest would-be blockbuster everywhere you look. But sometimes, the most effective ads are the ones you don’t realize you’ve seen at all. Just ask the people who attended the funeral of former President Humphrey Bogart.
Tags: humor & satire
Brown Power
In his new book, "The Latino Wave," Univision anchor Jorge Ramos predicts Hispanics will elect the next American president.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Julia Goldberg |
06-23-2004 |
Politics
Till Death Do They Part?new
While there’s been tons of attention on the first controversial bursts of weddings and related court maneuverings, few have looked at what makes gay and lesbian relationships work—or falter.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
06-22-2004 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
The Secular Case Against Gay Marriagenew
Gay marriage is less about an inalienable right and more about a choice society has to make, a change with far-ranging consequences for law and culture. Our society may or may not be ready to change its mind.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
06-22-2004 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Racing Down the Slippery Slopenew
What’s after gay marriage? Polygamy? Bring it on.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
06-22-2004 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Gay Marriage and the Perils of Being ‘Normal’new
Gay unions are fleeting? The divorce rate will skyrocket? So? Gays and lesbians have every human right to be as messy, ill-advised, unprepared, offensive, and just generally stupid as everybody else—and reap the same legal benefits for said stupid behavior.
Seattle Weekly |
Steve Wiecking |
06-22-2004 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
