Creative Loafing Atlanta

Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports

• by Lauren Keating
• Tags: The Blotter, bizarre atlanta crimes, police reports, The Blotter

Democrats fight Karen Handel to stay on ballot

• by Scott Henry
• Tags: News Feature, Karen Handel, Georgia voter ID law, georgia senate race, Michelle Conlon, GOP qualifying, Jim Powell, ACLU, Jose Morales

What Matthew Shepard's death taught America

10 years after a lynching, the promise of progress and the threat of retreat

• by Cliff Bostock
• Tags: Headcase, Headcase, Cliff Bostock, Matthew Shepard, Presidential election 2008, hate crimes, hate crimes legislation

Letters to the editor

Oct. 18, 2008, 6:11 p.m.

395 Piedmont Ave. N.E.

Artistic poop, Brazilian Baracks and more

• by Chuck Shepherd
• Tags: News of the Weird, news of the weird, chuck shepherd

Will oil drilling cause a planet cave-in?

• by Cecil Adams
• Tags: Straight Dope, straight dope, OIL DRILLING, SALT MINING, COAL MINING, SUBSIDENCE, EARTH CAVE-IN

My week on an all-Georgia diet

• by Besha Rodell
• Tags: Food Issue, food issue 2008, local eating, georgia diet, georgia farmers, Riverview Farms, Logan Turnpike, Moore Farms and Friends CSA, Sweet Grass Dairy, Flat Creek Lodge

Mike Buckner, Fielder's Flour, Junction City, Ga.

• by Besha Rodell
• Tags: Food Issue, food issue 2008, diary of local eating, all-Georgia diet, georgia farms, georgia dairies, georgia farmers markets, georgia food sources, eating local, Besha Rodell, food issue profiles

Steve Miller, Clarkston, Ga.

During my week of local eating, many farmers kept me delighted. Steve Miller kept me fed.

• by Besha Rodell
• Tags: Food Issue, local eating, food issue 2008, georgia diet, georgia farmers, Decatur Organic Farmers Market, food issue profiles

Ray and Donna Lopes, Hidden Springs Farms, Williamson, Ga.

• by Besha Rodell
• Tags: Food Issue, local eating, food issue 2008, georgia diet, georgia farmers, Hidden Springs honey, food issue profiles

Craig and Cydney Kritzer, Frogtown Cellars, Dahlonega, Ga.

• by Besha Rodell
• Tags: Food Issue, local eating, food issue 2008, georgia diet, georgia farmers, frogtown, food issue profiles

Guide to Atlanta Restaurants

This guide includes restaurants that our critics recommend, are of note, or have received recent reviews in Creative Loafing.

• Tags: Food Issue, atlanta restaurants, food issue restaurants, food issue 2008

Late-night dining (serving after 10 p.m.)

• Tags: Food Issue, late-night dinning, atlanta restaurants, restaurants that open late, food issue restaurants, food issue 2008

Restaurants that feature live music

• Tags: Food Issue, Live music in Atlanta, atlanta restaurants, food issue restaurants, food issue 2008

Restaurants with free Wi-Fi

• Tags: Food Issue, restaurants with free wifi in atlanta, atlanta restaurants, food issue restaurants, food issue 2008

Kid-friendly restaurants

• Tags: Food Issue, kid friendly restaurants in atlanta, atlanta restaurants, food issue restaurants, food issue 2008

Recipe: Leek and Sunchoke (Jerusalem artichoke) Soup

David Sweeny, Dynamic Dish

• Tags: Food Issue, food issue, food issue recipes, food issue 2008

A guide to local food resources

• Tags: Food Issue, Atlanta food sources, Atlanta farmers markets, food issue 2008

Recipe: Slow-Roasted Berkshire Pork Shoulder with Skillet-Fried Turnips, Apples and Potato Cider Butter

Kevin Gillespie, Woodfire Grill

• Tags: Food Issue, food issue 2008, food issue recipes

Recipe: Hugh Acheson, Five & Ten: Georgia Grass-Fed Ribeye with Salsa Verde and Stewed Shiitakes

• Tags: Food Issue, food issue 2008, food issue recipes

Recipe: Quail with Sweet Peppers and Goat Cheese Polenta

Peter Dale, the National

• Tags: Food Issue, food issue 2008, food issue recipes

Recipe: Besha's Local Bread

• Tags: Food Issue, food issue 2008, food issue recipes

Recipe: Kim O'Donnel's ratatouille

• Tags: Food Issue, food issue 2008, food issue recipes

CL's picks for the week's best shows

• Tags: Sound Menu, PENDULUM, MARIA MULDAUR, MURDER BY DEATH, WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE, K.D. Lang, Alejandro Escovedo, MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC COMPANY, Baby Dee, ARIANNA FOUND OBJECTS OF DESIRE, DOLLY PARTON, atlanta concerts, atlanta music shows, atlanta shows

How TV on the Radio learned to stop worrying about financial doom and love success

• by Ben Westhoff
• Tags: Music Feature, Dear Science album, TV on the Radio, Tunde Adebimpe, Dave Sitek, Kyp Malone

Labelle

Back to Now

• by L. Michael Gipson

CunninLynguists

• by Jacinta Howard
• Tags: Show Preview, CunninLynguists, Lenny's, atlanta concerts, Dirty Acres album

Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power and the Amorphous Strums

Dark Developments

• by Chad Radford

If the Explorers Club sounds like the Beach Boys, it meant to do that

• by Chad Radford
• Tags: Show Preview, Explorer's Club, the Earl shows, Freedom Wind album, Dead Oceans label, atlanta concerts

Foreign Exchange

Leave It All Behind

• by L. Michael Gipson
• Tags: Album Reviews, Foreign Exchange, Leave It All Behind, album reviews, music reviews

Jake One

White Van Music

• by Ben Westhoff
• Tags: Album Reviews, Jake One, White Van Music, album reviews, music reviews

The Unforeseen offers highlight among environmental films

The EcoFocus Film Festival in Athens might be the ideal venue for the beautiful, horrifying film The Unforeseen.

• by Curt Holman
• Tags: Movie Review, The Unforeseen, EcoFocus Film Festival, Athens film festivals, Laura Dunn, Encounters at the End of the World, Grizzly Man, up the yangtze

Capsule reviews of recently reviewed movies

Jonathan Demme finds the drama in Rachel Getting Married

• by J.R. Jones
• Tags: Movie Review, Rachel Getting Married, J.R. Jones, movie review, Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jonathon Demme

W.

• Tags: Film Quips, film quips, w., oliver stone, Josh Brolin, richard dreyfuss, w. film reviews

Police drama Pride and Glory shoots but doesn't score

• by Curt Holman

Upcoming: Short List

Witches Brewfest, Oakland Cemetery Halloween Tours and more

Le Flash sheds light on public art in Atlanta

• by Cinque Hicks
• Tags: Visual Arts, Le Flash, Paparazzi Flash Mob, Trey Burns, Castleberry Hill art shows, Castleberry Hill art exhibits, Cathy Byrd, Stuart Keeler, Castleberry Arts District, Nuit Blanche

Managing Maxine is GILF by association

• by Curt Holman
• Tags: Theater Review, Managing Maxine, Jana Robbins, Alliance Theatre, Janece Shaffer, Atlanta Theater, atlanta plays

John McFall

• by Curt Holman
• Tags: Speakeasy with ..., john mcfall, speakeasy, Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Swan Lake

Sarah Vowell demonstrates the Puritan work ethic in The Wordy Shipmates

• by Curt Holman
• Tags: Book Review, Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation, The Wordy Shipmates, Atlanta book signings, Jimmy Carter Library, book signings

Fulton County 2008 Voter's Cheat Sheet

• Tags: CL's Voter's Guide 2008, fulton county election guide, fulton county voter guide, voter guide 2008, voter guide 2008 basics, fulton county voter's cheat sheet, georgia voter's cheat sheet, Theodore Jackson, Jim Martin, Jim Powell, barack obama, Barrack Obama, John Lewis

Dekalb County 2008 Voter's Cheat Sheet

• Tags: CL's Voter's Guide 2008, dekalb county voter guide, dekalb county election guide, voter guide 2008 basics, voter guide 2008, dekalb county voter's cheat sheet, dekalb county voter cheat sheet, barack obama, Barrack Obama, Jim Martin, John Lewis, hank johnson, bill jones, david scott, dekalb ceo