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Pop Smart - Pulled Quote: The Clean House Article
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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Pop Smart - Air Loaf June 02 2008 Article
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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Pop Smart - 5 things to do: Thursday May 22 2008 Article
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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Local artist’s tragic accident Article
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...
| more...Pop Smart - 5 things to do: Wednesday May 21 2008 Article
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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Speakeasy with - Fahamu Pecou Article
Charged Cho Article
Pulled Quote June 04 2008 Article
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...
| more...Pop Smart - Dark Genius: Color us intrigued Article
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...
| more...Pop Smart - Willy Wonka: You get nothing!”” Article
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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| more...Pop Smart - This week on DVD: Slave to the grindhouse Article
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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| more...Pop Smart - Summer Guide Contest: And the winner is Article
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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...
| more...Pop Smart - Air Loaf May 27 2008 Article
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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| more...Pop Smart - 5 things to do: Tuesday May 20 2008 Article
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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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Pop Smart - Air Loaf May 22 2008 Article
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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Pop Smart - 5 things to do: Monday May 19 2008 Article
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...
| more...Pop Smart - 5 things to do: Sunday July 12 2008 Article
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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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