General Orders No. 9: an Independent Film Worth Talking About

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General Orders No. 9: an Independent Film Worth Talking About

by commoncreativ • November 5, 2011 • ARTS & LIVING, REVIEWS, WRITING

Our writer Elaina Lonidier checked out this summer’s award-winning General Orders No. 9, an independent film that was reviewed by Creative Loafing as “a meditative tone poem the combines Southern nostalgia, folklore, history, and anecdotes with striking landscapes and picturesque imagery, defies simple description—the best I’ve seen is Hammer to Nail‘s Michael Tully who...
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The Bookhouse Pub’s William Silbernagel, a Damn Fine Chef

by commoncreativ • October 24, 2011 • ARTS & LIVING, REVIEWS, WRITING

This past April I had a head cold that took me down and forced me to my couch for over a week. Luckily, Netflix alerted me that all episodes of Twin Peaks were available—which included the pilot! I had found a golden light in a sea of Thera-flu induced haze. And let me tell...
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Radcliffe Bailey and the Medicine of Memory

by commoncreativ • October 5, 2011 • ARTS & LIVING, PHOTOGRAPHY, REVIEWS

As Radcliffe Bailey took the stage to speak at 7:07 (his lucky time) on a Thursday night in August, the air was filled with his relaxed attitude. He was speaking on his exhibit “Memory as Medicine,” featured at the High Museum of Art throughout the summer, and immediately demonstrated the laid-back, down-to-earth charisma that...
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New Aronofsky Film Exposes Darkness Of The Masterpiece

by commoncreativ • December 19, 2010 • ARTS & LIVING, REVIEWS

In “Black Swan,” Darren Aronofsky explores the obsession and madness that fuel masterpieces. If “The Fall” argues that looking at Art is a transcendental experience that lifts us to Heaven, then “Black Swan” asserts that creating it is a miserable process that drags its participants to Hell. It focuses on Nina (Natalie Portman), a ballerina...
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