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Creative Loafing’s Culture Surfing Blog
By Debbie MichaudTuesday March 10, 2009 10:00 PM EDT
Creative Loafing’s Culture Surfing Blog ran online from March 2009 through May 2010 during CL’s blogging era. We have retained all the content on the site but they are listed as individual article. Use the search tool to find the article’s title or send us a note and we’ll find it for you - mis at creativeloafing.com.
Here’s the Introduction from March 2009:
For the past few months, we’ve been crashing on the couch over at our sister blog, Freshloaf. We kept the place pretty tidy for the most part, posting something A&E related every now and then. After a while, we got comfortable and started posting reviews, features and interviews. It wasn’t long before we introduced new columns covering TV, gaming and books, among other things. A&E content was strewn about Fresh Loaf like piles of laundry. Now, our Fresh Loaf roomies didn’t ask us to leave, but you know how it is when it’s not your place, per se, and your friends are stopping by all the time, leaving comments and whatnot... ..
At CL’s Culture Surfing blog, we have the freedom to wax poetic on anything we please, from viral videos, to local theater and visual arts, to television and more.
If you’ve ever found yourself driving a Prius home from Whole Foods while calling a friend in Brooklyn on your iPhone, blogger and author Christian Lander owes you a “thank you.” Stuff White People Like, his cheeky website and book of the same name, has become über-popular for its riffs on clichéd white-people favorites like expensive sandwiches and David Sedaris. Lander will sign books at the... |
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One of Atlanta’s most acclaimed young stage directors, Joe Gfaller haunts the Alliance Theatre by day as associate director of marketing and brand management. He’s directed terrific productions of plays by David Mamet and Caryl Churchill for 7 Stages, and is currently helming Steven Dietz’s adaptation of Dracula, which opens Oct. 9 at Aurora Theatre. He talks about his research into the lore of... |
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Besides authoring more than 40 plays over the years, Lewis Black has built a comedic empire calling “bullshit” on everything from politics to pop culture to religion. Currently, he mediates debates on the merits of beer vs. weed and sororities vs. strip clubs, among other vices, on Comedy Central’s “Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil.” And while he may be best-known for acerbic rants such as “Back... |
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