Word: atlantae
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...Bethel ’11. Despite the fact that Bethel and his collaborator—University of Chicago sophomore Jack L. Mayer—are still very young filmmakers, “Terminus” reveals a decisive and mature artistic consciousness. Inspired by the city of Atlanta, the film’s series of intertwined and unrelated vignettes create a personal feel, supported by deliberate cinematic choices made by Mayer as writer and director and Bethel as cinematographer and editor...
...project, which the two co-produced, started in November 2006 when Mayer approached his former high school classmate Bethel about putting together a film about Atlanta. Both felt strongly about their home city, one positively and one negatively, and wanted to embark upon an artistic adventure devoted...
...opening story—crystallizes in the closing trio of linked stories, which together from a sort of experimental novella. In alternating first-person narration, we’re told a tale of reverse immigration: “Your parents had decided to leave Cambridge, not for Atlanta or Arizona, as some other Bengalis had, but to move all the way back to India, abandoning the struggle that my parents and their friends had embarked upon,” Hema says of her schoolgirl crush, Kaushik. Hema and Kaushik’s story speaks to the mutability of possible futures...
...good measure, I went and checked out the knock-off blogs Stuff Educated Black People Like (#9 Town Homes; #16 Moving to Atlanta) and Stuff Asian People Like (#30 Cash; #46 Cutting in Line). I was alarmed to see that while I get those lists and they're kind of funny, I don't like most of that stuff. I especially hate Atlanta...
...fact that most black radio hosts, including Ballentine, Baisden and Smith, disproportionately endorse Obama over Clinton, is not surprising, but some industry analysts, including Atlanta-based urban radio consultant Harry Lyles, warn that the practice could potentially become problematic in the long run. "Black radio hosts need to be careful; he's running for President of the United States, not President of black America," says Lyles, who has spent more than 25 years on-air and behind the scenes in radio. "They need to stimulate interest and intelligent discussion about the election, not just cheer on Barack Obama. Being...