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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Chad Radford discussing Atlanta’s own Curt Wells, sound man for the Earl, whose birthday party will take place Fri., Oct. 10 at the Earl. ($7. 9:30 p.m.) Howlies and Pardner will perform.
Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.
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Today’s Air Loaf features Max Arbes chatting with CL’s Scott Henry about this week’s cover story on Mayor Shirley Franklin.
Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.
Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s own Chanté LaGon and David Lee Simmons chatting about the 2008 Summer Guide — dropping today! Check it out for the best 111 things to do this summer.
Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.
Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s own Chanté Lagon and Scott Freeman discussing this week’s cover story about Forrest Hill Academy.
Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.
Superbad contains, along with a big heart and a dirty tongue, the funniest running gag of the year. As if imitating an early 1980s sex comedy, two high school friends, Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera), seek to buy beer and hook up with comely classmates at a party. They rely on an even bigger geek (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) with a fake ID, but are aghast to see that the driver’s license gives their friend the one-word name “McLovin.”
The “McLovin” jokes never stop being funny, as characters wonder whether the name sounds more like an Irish R&B singer or a sexy cheeseburger. In Superbad’s secondary story, “McLovin” falls under the wing of a pair of cops (”Saturday Night Live’s” Bill Hader and Superbad co-writer Seth Rogen) who defy the image of policemen as upright citizens. When Creative Loafing recorded a podcast interview with four of Superbad’s stars, Hader suggested the “McLovin” arc wasn’t just a perfectly executed bit of comedy but a narrative journey parallel to director Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail. The Last Detail proves far more bittersweet than Superbad, but the similar plots take equal delight in chewing on profanity.
Read the rest of the review here.
Curt Holman speaks with the cast of Superbad - Download.
Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal and Tiago Moura / Photograph by Edward Adams
Software entrepreneur, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and M.I.T.-trained political scientist, the exceptionally accomplished Charles Ferguson has recently added “film director” to his impressive resume.
The winner of a special jury prize for documentaries at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Ferguson’s directorial debut, No End in Sight is a haunting look at the many missteps, miscalculations and the plain arrogance that led the Bush administration to bungle
the Iraq War.
Felicia Feaster speaks with director Charles Ferguson - Download
It’s one of those perfect summer nights: clear and crisp, almost chilly from the afternoon rain and brimming with anticipation. Outside a courtyard just off the Decatur Square, a line of latecomers extends toward the parking lot. They’re waiting to get in. On the other side of the courtyard wall, a few hundred people — mostly twentysomethings, the trendy, pretty types — have congregated on the patio, abuzz with $6 cocktails and pitchers of cheap beer. Inside the darkened club, a dance party is just getting going. Though it’s 2 a.m., there’s a feeling the night is still young.
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Mara Shalhoup interviews DJ Preston Craig - Download.
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Join CL for a very special “Unplugged” performance by country singer Bill Gentry & the 35 Cent Rodeo. Hosted by CL Music Editor Rodney Carmichael, the show includes Gentry’s brother, and CL Senior Editor Scott Freeman, sitting in on guitar. Freeman’s cover story on his brother traces Gentry’s journey from country music newcomer to building Wild Bill’s in Gwinnett County to being on the cusp of getting signed in Nashville.
Bill Gentry performs at CL’s offices - Download.
Photo by Edward Adams / Podcast produced by Edward Adams
Author Karin Slaughter’s murder-mystery thrillers make a killing on the best-seller lists. Beyond Reach is the sixth in a series chronicling Dr. Sara Linton, the pediatrician and coroner of a small Georgia town. This latest installment of the Grant County series is poised for as much success as its international-best-selling predecessors. Slaughter kicks off the promotional tour Tuesday, July 31, at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Norcross.
Laura McMillan speaks with Karin Slaughter - Download.
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Drew Curtis founded Fark.com, a blog filled with snarky commentary on mass-media material. After reading almost every news article printed since the birth of the website in 1999, Curtis wrote his own critique of the media in the insightful, funny book filled with the best of Fark witticisms, It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News.
Laura McMillan interviews Drew Curtis - Download
Photo courtesy Drew Curtis
Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal and Tiago Moura
Nationally known author and architect Sarah Susanka is going into the life-guru business.
Susanka’s first book, 1998’s The Not So Big House, tapped into a yearning among many people to downsize from McMansions. She comes to Georgia Tech on Wednesday, July 18, to talk up her self-help book – The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters – which extends the theme of The Not So Big House to a not-so-small subject.
Here’s a sampling from an interview with the Minnesota architect. For the entire interview, listen to the podcast provided below.
While he is considered one of the most respected film critics in the country, as evidenced by his work with Time magazine, Richard Schickel is also widely known for producing documentaries about Hollywood and its most important figures. As the producer of works such as Woody Allen: A Life in Film and Scorsese on Scorsese, Shickel allows legendary filmmakers to explain their work.
Schickel has reunited with legendary director Steven Spielberg for his most recent effort, Spielberg on Spielberg, which will premiere Monday, July 9, at 8 p.m. on Turner Classic Movies. The pair also collaborated on 2000’s Shooting War, a profile of World War II photographers. In this podcast interview, Schickel talked about Spielberg’s work and their collaborations together; the podcast features audio clips from the documentary, courtesy Turner Classic Movies.
David Lee Simmons speaks with Richard Schickel - Download
Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal and Edward Adams
Marietta’s Jason “Lefty†Williams never let being born without a right hand hold him back from playing guitar. Performing full-time professionally for two years, he strives for big jazz chords, deep lyrics and danceable grooves with blues and funk orientations.
Before he was old enough for grade school, Williams developed a unique way to play the guitar: “I tore apart one of my prosthetic arms and made my first pick out of the prosthetic arm.
“For me it’s really not about getting famous; I’m happy as long as I get to play my guitar and I can pay my bills. I love playing music, and it wouldn’t matter if there were five people in front of me or 1,000 people in front of me.â€
He gives his band, known (go figure) as the Lefty Williams Band, credit for polishing his original songs: “They take it and make it cool.†Casual Fiasco and Diesel Jones open for the Lefty Williams Band this Friday, June 22, at Smith’s Olde Bar. Doors open at 8 p.m.
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For a podcast with Lefty Williams, click below. Pictures of Lefty performing at CL’s offices after the jump.
In her third novel, How to Be Cool, best-selling author Johanna Edwards takes her readers into the world of Kylie Chase, reformed fat girl and how-to-be-cool guru. The perfect summertime beach read, How to be Cool is, much like Edwards herself, fantastically fun. Edwards stops in Atlanta on her national book tour Saturday, June 9, at 2 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Southlake.
To read the rest of the interview, click here.
Casey McIntyre speaks with Johanna Edwards
Edwards also reads from her novel How to Be Cool - Download
Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal
Katrina’s winds blew through New Orleans pianist Jon Cleary’s upper Ninth Ward home, causing roof damage and sending him out on what seemed like an endless tour as Bonnie Raitt’s keyboardist in promotion of her latest CD. So Cleary has been struggling to focus on his work with his own band, the Absolute Monster Gentlemen, hence this four-song EP release he tossed out to fans at Jazz Fest to keep them sated until he can focus on a full-length CD. The songs included here once again show that Cleary is a master of reinterpreting ’70s music through a decidedly funky filter. His cover of Free’s 1970 classic, “All Right Now,” is loaded down with mixes of acoustic-piano barrel-house fills. Another ’70s gem, the Detroit Emeralds’ “Feel the Need in Me,” shows Cleary at his more typical soul-man groove as he twinkles the electric piano that marks his more R&B-fueled work. If these are “sketches,” as Cleary promises in the liner note, I can’t wait for the fleshed-out stuff. 3 stars
David Lee Simmons speaks with Jon Cleary - Download
Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal
“I’m a part of the Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program. I go door-to-door telling people I’m someone else.” Who else but comedian Steven Wright could come up with this stuff? For nearly three decades, the Boston native has been twisting words, ideas and images in his head for audiences. While it may seem like he’s never matched his 1980s heyday, works such as 2006’s Comedy Central concert performance “When the Leaves Blow Away” (and an appearance with scads of other comics in the 2005 documentary The Aristocrats) show he’s still in top form. Wright brings his skewed perspectives to the Tabernacle Sunday, June 3, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $34.50.
David Lee Simmons speaks with Steven Wright - Download
Podcast produced by Alejandro Leal
People who know Heston call him the gentle giant. He’s the big dude with the voice of an angel. And his June full-length debut, Storyteller, has been a long time coming. The Island of Dominica (British West Indies) native doesn’t fit into the standard soul singer/songwriter box that has birthed many of Atlanta’s recent greats. Instead, he peppers his emotional soul with tinges of reggae and world beat. It all adds up to diverse mix from a heartfelt performer. To hear a taste of his acoustic set, listen to a podcast of his visit to Creative Loafing, which features Billy Odom backing him on guitar.
Photo by Edward Adams
MySpace: Hestonmusic
Podcast produced by Edward Adams
Isia Cooper, live at CL’s offices - Download
Although Isia Cooper has been playing guitar for only two-and-a-half years, the grace of her slow croon and spacious strumming has enchanted a growing scene around her performances. Her debut CD, Sail the Skin (New Street Records) is due out in June. Her collaboration with Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel on www.myspace.com/isiacooper, called “For My Tea,” is an arresting merger of her brittle songwriting and the avant-garde.
Read the rest of the Music Issue 2007 here.
Photo by Alejandro Leal -Â podcast produced by Edward Adams
Juju B. Solomon live at CL’s offices - Download.
To truly grasp Juju B. Solomon’s songs, one must first understand the songwriter Benjamin Solomon and the cultural short-circuits that congeal in his contemplative sound – a sound that shadows the whimsical lurch of traditional folk music. His self-titled debut (New Street Records) is an intimate collection of jaunts that chronicle the experiences of an outsider by bearing witness to social and sexual interactions in India.
Read the rest of the story here.
Photo by Meshakai Wolf - podcast produced by Edward Adams
CL’s Music Editor Rodney Carmichael and music writers Mosi Reeves and Maurice Garland discuss Atlanta’s Hip-Hop scene as part of the Music Issue 2007.
Hip-hop roundtable - Download.
Podcast produced by Edward Adams
