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Wednesday January 25, 2006 12:04 AM EST

NAME: Pride & Prejudice at the Alliance Theatre

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AGE: Jane Austen’s classic novel was published in 1813. Jon Jory directs the world premiere of his theatrical adaptation, co-produced with the Arizona Theatre Company and San Jose Repertory Theatre.

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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: The irresistible comedy of manners surrounding the opposites-attract courtship of outspoken Elizabeth Bennet (Julia...

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 12:04 AM EST

In the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, Art Spiegelman found a unique perspective on the Holocaust by drawing the Jews as mice and the Germans as cats. Maus’ insight into anti-semitic persecution and the generation gap relied on strong characterization, but the “animal” trope never let you forget who were the predators and who were the prey in Nazi-occupied Europe.

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 12:04 AM EST
Perhaps in anticipation of spring — when bras get packed away with the mothballs and flimsy haltar tops and tiny tanks are taken out of storage — breasts are popping out all over. This perky pair was founding chillin’ in the Krog Street tunnel. | more...

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 12:04 AM EST

Nephew of legendary Hollywood producer Joseph Mankiewicz and co-host of the Sirius national liberal radio show “The Young Turks,” Ben Mankiewicz is also the weekend host of Turner Classic Movies.

1) The Bruce Springsteen channel — Sirius Satellite Radio: “I’m terrified Sirius will get rid of the channel and ruin my life.”

2) www.AthleticsNation.com: “The only site a true fan of the...

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 12:04 AM EST

A veteran movie critic with 23,000 movie reviews under his belt and interests that range from grind-house exploitation to Ozu, new IMAGE Film & Video Atlanta Film Festival Director Jake Jacobson is clearly a man who knows his cinema.

Favorite film?

I could name any number of Keaton, Buñuel, Cocteau, Ozu, Clouzot or Renoir that I would love to be stranded with, but Charles Laughton’s The Night...

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Wednesday January 18, 2006 12:04 AM EST
Charm School teaches bigotry a lesson with humor | more...

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Wednesday January 18, 2006 12:04 AM EST
With The Chronicles of Narnia commanding the holidays’ biggest box-office revenues, Theatrical Outfit shows some cunning timing with its revival of C.S. Lewis on Stage, Tom Key’s one-man portrait of the famed writer, poet and pop theologian. Don’t expect Narnia mania, as the show never mentions witches or wardrobes (though it works in a lion or two). Nevertheless, Key’s Lewis makes an eloquent... | more...

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Wednesday January 18, 2006 12:04 AM EST
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Wednesday January 18, 2006 12:04 AM EST
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Wednesday January 18, 2006 12:04 AM EST
Detail of “Blow Blizzard Blow,” an installation created by local art collective Golden Blizzard at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery. The mural will remain on view through January. Golden Blizzard consists of Ellen Black, Errol Crane, Jennifer Kornder, Alex Kvares, Ann-Marie Manker, Jordan Reese and Daniel Upton, all of whom worked on this piece. | more...

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Wednesday January 18, 2006 12:04 AM EST

Making his Alliance Theatre debut with Pride & Prejudice, costume designer Michael Krass has multiple Broadway credits and heads the Design Program for the Playwrights Horizons studio of New York University. He talked about whether Pride & Prejudice came with any special challenges and explained why he doesn’t touch needle and thread.

Do you do most of your work at a sewing machine, at a...

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Wednesday January 11, 2006 12:04 AM EST
Visual Arts | more...

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Wednesday January 11, 2006 12:04 AM EST
Cultures clash in Limbo, Liz. | more...

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Wednesday January 11, 2006 12:04 AM EST
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Wednesday January 11, 2006 12:04 AM EST
Doors That Open, a dance choreographed by Lori Teague and set to original music by Klimchak, explores themes of loss, acceptance, possibility, optimism, determination and fearlessness. It will be performed Jan. 19-21, 8 p.m., at the Schwartz Center Dance Studio at Emory. | more...

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Wednesday January 11, 2006 12:04 AM EST
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Wednesday January 11, 2006 12:04 AM EST
Artists don’t get famous these days without being infamous first. Karen Finley had her first taste of public notoriety during the “culture wars” of the 1980s when then-Sen. Jesse Helms questioned the allocation of National Endowment for the Arts money for her “indecent” work. The “chocolate-smeared woman’s” new performance piece, George and Martha (7 Stages, Jan. 12-15) imagines a torrid,... | more...

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Wednesday January 4, 2006 12:04 AM EST
January plays appeal to all possible tastes | more...

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Wednesday January 4, 2006 12:04 AM EST

Romo Gallery in Castleberry Hill has tended to gravitate toward edgy conceptual art done by artists in their 20s and 30s. But owner Sam Romo departs from that generational grid in his small survey of works by Philip Morsberger, a 72-year-old artist whose work has a youthful, winsome touch.

Morsberger’s spry quality may derive from his source imagery. The artist draws from the image bank of his...

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Wednesday January 4, 2006 12:04 AM EST

About halfway through reading Margo Jefferson’s On Michael Jackson, I boarded a plane and found myself sitting next to a soft-spoken African-American kid who could have almost passed for Michael Jackson’s double at 12, maybe 13 years old: the well-groomed globular Afro, a certain innocent sweetness in the eyes paired with a quiet air of confidence way beyond his years.

Of course, none of that...

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Wednesday January 4, 2006 12:04 AM EST

“A Taste of the Future,” an 18-by-24-inch acrylic painting on wood by Atlanta Jonathan Fenske, was recently on view at Matre Gallery in a group exhibition.

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Wednesday January 4, 2006 12:04 AM EST

A former Atlanta resident, Michael Van Osch is a New York-based actor who performs in the one-man show Defending the Caveman at 14th Street Playhouse through Jan. 14.

1) The Fugitive Kind: “This cool Brando movie from 1959 was my best DVD rental in years.”

2) Sam Cooke’s Greatest Hits: “What more do you need to say? It’s on my iPod right now. I’ve also gotta have Paul Weller close by at all...

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Wednesday January 4, 2006 12:04 AM EST
The vault looks nothing like it would in a Hollywood espionage thriller. Archivist James Yancey takes me through no iris scans, voice prints or ranks of closely shaved guards. Just a couple of busy archivists look up to notice I’ve walked in through a standard bank vault door into the classified section of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. But all the secrets to which Jimmy... | more...

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Wednesday December 28, 2005 12:04 AM EST
Andrew Ross goes primitive at MOCA-GA | more...

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Wednesday December 28, 2005 12:04 AM EST
Maureen Dowd’s Are Men Necessary? stirs up stagnant feminist movement | more...