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Thursday June 5, 2008 06:52 PM EDT

The perfect joke makes you forget about your life. The perfect joke makes you remember about your life. The perfect joke is stupid when you write it down. The perfect joke was not made up by one person. It passed through the air and you caught it. A perfect joke is somewhere between an angel and a fart.

– From The Clean House, a domestic comedy by Sarah Ruhl, playing through June 29...

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Thursday June 5, 2008 05:49 PM EDT
image-1He’s played the First Amish Man in Space, and perhaps even more impressively, former President Jimmy Carter (while Jimmy Carter was in the audience!). Now Matt Horgan, ensemble improviser at Dad’s Garage, puts character to paper in co-scripting (with Travis Sharp) Song of the Living Dead!: A Zombie Musical. The musical, directed by Kate Warner with music composed by Eric Frampton, runs... | more...

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Thursday June 5, 2008 02:29 PM EDT

Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and David Lee Simmons chatting about Song of the Living Dead!: A Zombie Musical at Dad’s Garage. The musical, directed by Kate Warner with music composed by Eric Frampton, runs June 6-July 5.

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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Thursday June 5, 2008 08:00 AM EDT
image-1When Pat Sullivan, aka “Papa Crazee,” defected from the ranks of Brooklyn smart rockers Oneida, he embarked on a journey. That journey led the vocalist and guitarist far from the ballsy and oddball rock stylings of his past to pursue a tamer, countrified Americana. Six-piece alt-country outfit OAKLEY HALL tours Thurs., JUNE 5, under Sullivan’s lead in support of I’ll Follow You (Merge),... | more...

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Thursday June 5, 2008 03:45 AM EDT

1) Mixed-media artists Ernesto Cuevas and Cullen Washington Jr. open their dual exhibit New Perspectives during Turner First Thursdays Downtown Artswalk at the Rialto Center for the Arts.

image-12) Railroad Earth performs at the Variety Playhouse.

3) MSNBC correspondent Richard Engel reads and signs War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq at Jimmy Carter Library and Museum.

4) Round...

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Wednesday June 4, 2008 10:09 PM EDT
image-1Last night was a great night for TV watching, particularly if you love informative filmmaking, but a horrible one if you don’t have TiVo. It was bad enough that Turner Classic Movies dedicated the evening to its “Race and Hollywood: Asian Images in Film,” which runs Tuesdays and Thursdays in June. The 35-film retrospective, hosted by Robert Osborne and University of Delaware professor... | more...

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Wednesday June 4, 2008 04:29 PM EDT

image-1 Atlanta artist and DJ Vikki Vaden was driving home from the old Youngblood Gallery space in Grant Park one night when, suddenly, her world was turned upside-down.

At around 1 a.m. Vaden, her two dogs, and her roommate, Suzy Moran, left the gallery, which Vaden had recently rented and was sprucing up. She steered her Volkswagen Passat wagon through the side streets of Grant Park...

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Wednesday June 4, 2008 03:45 AM EDT

image-11) Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk signs and discusses his new book, Snuff, at Georgia Perimeter College.

2) Mac McAnally performs at Center Stage.

3) Comedy Central’s Jeff Dunham begins a two-day stint at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.

4) Taste of Atlanta hosts Culinaire at World of Coke.

5) The Artists’ Atelier of Atlanta hosts visual artist Tom Wright...

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Wednesday June 4, 2008 12:04 AM EDT
Improvising a Song of the Living Dead! at Dad’s Garage | more...

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Wednesday June 4, 2008 12:04 AM EDT
Something Like a Fahamenon set for Vaknin Gallery | more...

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Wednesday June 4, 2008 12:04 AM EDT
Comedian brings her self-described depravity to Atlanta | more...

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Wednesday June 4, 2008 12:04 AM EDT

The perfect joke makes you forget about your life. The perfect joke makes you remember about your life. The perfect joke is stupid when you write it down. The perfect joke was not made up by one person. It passed through the air and you caught it. A perfect joke is somewhere between an angel and a fart.

– From The Clean House, a domestic comedy by Sarah Ruhl, playing through June 29 at the...

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Tuesday June 3, 2008 10:14 PM EDT

image-1Kennesaw State political science professor Kerwin Swint has a new book out, released today: Dark Genius: The Influential Career of Legendary Political Operative and Fox News Founder Roger Ailes. (Note how Ailes’ name towers over Swint’s on the book cover.) The book is released by Union Square, which describes it thusly:

Roger Ailes, former Republican political consultant, and...

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Tuesday June 3, 2008 07:58 PM EDT

To piggyback on David Lee’s post about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory showing at the Plaza Theatre this week, here’s my favorite Wonka-related mash-up video. It’s very short: the annoying “logo” clip that precedes it is about as long as the Wonka clip itself, which brings in the audio from one scary movie and the video from another.

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Tuesday June 3, 2008 07:38 PM EDT

image-1I hate Dave Kehr, and not just because he’s one of the best film critics in the world. He’s also got one of the sweetest movie-writing gigs in the world: his weekly DVD column in The New York Times. This week features two very interesting titles, and I’m stunned I’ve seen neither of them for a variety of reasons: What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966) and Mandingo (1975).

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Tuesday June 3, 2008 04:00 PM EDT

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Thanks to everyone who played our Summer Guide Contest this year. We had 180 submissions, which if memory serves was double the total of last year’s contest. Last Friday was the deadline, and we had a flurry of last-minute entries for the drawing that was held under a pounding June sun on Monday afternoon. As you can see, it was quite a challenge for Marketing Director Shana...

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Tuesday June 3, 2008 01:39 PM EDT

Today’s Air Loaf features Max Arbes chatting with CL’s David Lee Simmons about Leif Enger (author of So Brave, Young and Handsome), who will read tonight at 7:15 p.m. the Decatur Library. (Doors open at 6:15 p.m.)

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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Tuesday June 3, 2008 03:45 AM EDT

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1) Marcia Wood Gallery holds an opening reception for Ruth Laxson’s Life Is a Page exhibit.

2) Cellist Ben Sollee performs at the Red Light Café.

3) Anne River Siddons discusses her novel, Off Season, at Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.

4) EP3 performs at Smith’s Olde Bar.

5) Karen White reads and discusses her book, The Memory of Water, at Wordsmiths...

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Monday June 2, 2008 09:42 PM EDT
image-1 We here at Creative Loafing know that everyone is on pins and needles regarding the impending announcement of the winner of our Summer Guide Contest. And the winner is … well, hang on. We needed to delay the announcement just a bit. Stay tuned. Clearly, as you can see from the photo, we’re almost there. The good news is, we had 180 submissions this year, which is about double last... | more...

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Monday June 2, 2008 08:46 PM EDT
image-1 is like Drive-Invasion without the humidity and with more makeup. OK, it was already pretty warm on Sunday when hot-rodders, devil dolls, rock ’n’ rollers and ghouls of all ages got all tatted up at the Starlight Drive-In. The event sold out, with barely a parking spot available by mid-afternoon in which rockers and sci-fi/horror-movie fans could camp out, cook out and rock... | more...

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Monday June 2, 2008 02:23 PM EDT

Today’s Air Loaf features Max Arbes chatting with CL’s own David Lee Simmons about Bruce Davidson’s Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement 1956-68.

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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Monday June 2, 2008 08:00 AM EDT
image-1An ordained deacon of the Episcopal Church, ELISABETH PAYNE ROSEN comes to Atlanta Mon., JUNE 2, to debut her first novel, Hallam’s War, with a reading and discussion. Rosen’s Civil War-era story touches on the life of a Confederate officer who is deeply entrenched in the war, while simultaneously conflicted by its horrors, loneliness and family life. After a discussion, Rosen will be... | more...

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Monday June 2, 2008 03:45 AM EDT

1) Elizabeth Payne Rosen reads from and discusses her book, Hallam’s War, at the Decatur Public Library.

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2) Beebo and Ravioli’s Spectacular Circus at Imagine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta teaches kids to eat healthy.

3) Emmure performs at Masquerade.

4) New Work and Abstractions, salt-glazed stoneware by Chris Baumann, Stacy Stanhope and...

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Sunday June 1, 2008 03:45 AM EDT

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1) The AVP Crocs Atlanta Open volleyball tour finishes its three-day stay at Atlantic Station.

2) Atlanta-based African-American Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra performs at Woodruff Arts Center.

3) Your last chance to gnaw on an oversize turkey leg: The Georgia Renaissance Festival finishes its final weekend of 2008.

4) Sweeney Todd closes the curtain after its last...

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Saturday May 31, 2008 08:00 AM EDT



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