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Creative Loafing's Fiction Contest 2009

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Cirque du Soleil's Kooza bends over backwards to entertain

Cirque du Soleil's latest show, 'Kooza' brings more old school clowning to the Grand Chapiteau at Atlantic Station, but the acrobats and contortionists steal the show.

By Curt Holman

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Published on 01/05/09 at 12:43 PM

Heavyweight genre films rescue insubstantial dramas in 2008

In a topsy-turvy year in film, genre movies involving superheroes, robots and monsters had more to say about relevant issues than the theoretically more substantial work from esteemed filmmakers.

By Curt Holman

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Published on 12/30/08 at 09:00 AM

Dead-end Revolutionary Road rocks the suburbs

Director Sam Mendes crafts a respectful adaptation of Richard Yates' acclaimed 1961 novel, but the current recession makes it hard to sympathize with a pair of yuppies frustrated with middle-class comfort.

By Curt Holman

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Published on 01/07/09 at 09:00 AM

PBA 30's thriller series "MI-5'' profiles spies like us

American television so often takes its cues from English and European shows, including the original version of "The Office" and many reality series, that it's refreshing to see a British show influenced by one from the states. The BBC One spy drama "MI-5," debuting on Atlanta's PBA 30 at 10 p.m. Fri., Jan. 9, clearly [...]

By Curt Holman

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Published on 01/06/09 at 12:14 PM

A&E AROUND THE WEB

Wall-E vs The Academy: Seven Snubbed Movies About The Future | SpoutBlog

A writer rains on WALL-E's chances for a best picture Oscar nomination by pointing out the Academy's historical bias against futuristic movies, including '2001.'

blog.spout.com at 09:39 AM

The Top Ten Most Abusively Blurbed Authors -- Daily Intel -- New York Magazine

A cheeky guide to the famous authors to whom new authors are inevitably compared on their dust jackets. (Ex: "If you find a fascinating new way to state the obvious, you're a Malcolm Gladwell.")

nymag.com at 10:22 AM

6 Classic Movies (That Narrowly Avoided Disaster) | Cracked.com

Some tongue-in-cheek film history about the troubled productions of such hits as Jaws, Star Wars and Titanic.

www.cracked.com at 09:31 AM

Debating the best movies of 2008. - Slate Magazine

Slate launches it's 11th annual Movie Club, a week-long discussion of the previous year's best films, this time with an all-female line-up of critics.

www.slate.com at 09:30 AM

14 WAYS TO WHILE AWAY THE WINTER: Arts highlights in early 2009 | ajc.com

The AJC looks at their most eagerly-anticipated shows of this winter, including Actor's Express' 'Mauritius' and The Pogues' reunion show.

www.ajc.com at 09:30 AM

Recent A&E

Cirque du Soleil's Kooza bends over backward to entertain

01.07.09

Some of the best parts of Cirque du Soleil are the things that go wrong. It's not that I have a...

Revolutionary Road needs some cheese for its whine

01.07.09

Seldom has such an intelligent, impeccably mounted film seemed so far removed from the contemporary...

The Reader: In bed with a Nazi

12.24.08

In a typical act of award-season positioning, the Weinstein Company is pushing Kate Winslet's pe...

True Colors Theatre Company's Black Nativity

12.24.08

Audiences could be forgiven for worrying that True Colors Theatre Company's Black Nativity might...

Andersen adaptations put Hans across Atlanta

12.17.08

At the end of Disney's The Little Mermaid, Ariel becomes a walking, talking human and weds the p...

Tomás Esson pieces together human nature

12.31.08

In El Bicho: 2008/2009, Cuban painter Tomás Esson takes a detour around the well-behaved supe...

Jack Riggs

01.07.09

Atlanta-based novelist Jack Riggs follows up his award-winning 2003 debut When the Finch Rises with...

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A&E coverage on Fresh Loaf and Crib Notes

The Coathangers set release date for new full-length, Scramble

By Chad Radford

Atlanta lady punks the Coathangers have set April 7th as the release date for their sophomore full-length, Scramble.

Crib Notes
Published on 01/08/09 at 08:44 PM

Player's Club: Guinness World Records: The Video Game and Wonder World Amusement Park

By Garrett Martin

America's got more Wiis than diabetes.

Fresh Loaf A&E
Published on 01/08/09 at 05:04 PM

CL Fiction Contest Party tonight!

By Debbie Michaud

Our 8th annual Fiction Contest party. FREE admission! FREE food from Highland Bakery! FREE live music by Night Moves Gold! Plus author readings, book sales and fun fun fun!

Fresh Loaf A&E
Published on 01/08/09 at 03:44 PM

Air Loaf: Fiction Contest

By Alicia Wages

Debbie Michaud spreads the word about tonight's party to celebrate the 2009 Fiction Contest winners!

Fresh Loaf A&E
Published on 01/08/09 at 09:00 AM

5 things to do today: Thursday

By Amber Robinson

1) Patrick Heagney discusses his exhibits, Memoria Technica and Paper Thin, at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery.

Fresh Loaf A&E
Published on 01/08/09 at 12:15 AM

Roll Call: Tom Stevens of the Long Ryders

By Chad Radford

For today's Roll Call we call out Tom Stevens of the Long Ryders.