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Wednesday April 20, 2005 12:04 AM EDT

In Horizon Theatre’s one-woman show The Syringa Tree, Carolyn Cook doesn’t just give one of the best performances of the year, she gives 24 of them. In Pamela Gien’s autobiographical play based on her South African childhood, Cook transforms into two dozen characters: children and adults, women and men, English and Afrikaans, white and black.

Cook disappears so completely into each role that...

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Wednesday April 20, 2005 12:04 AM EDT
Hip-hop rocks the High | more...

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Wednesday April 20, 2005 12:04 AM EDT

Fifty years ago, an executive with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company named Wallace Stevens won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Many of his colleagues weren’t even aware he wrote poetry.

Ted Kooser, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, also spent most of his life working for an insurance company - this one in Nebraska - but his colleagues were very much aware of his other gig....

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Wednesday April 13, 2005 12:04 AM EDT
Leans’ Minimalist Paintings Are Here and Now | more...

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Wednesday April 13, 2005 12:04 AM EDT

Scott Dupree, organizer of You Can’t Fool Mother Nature at B-Complex, is a diplomat when he should probably be a dictator.

An artist himself (whose work appears in the show), Dupree clearly wants to show support and offer a forum for his fellow creatives in this exhibition of more than 60 artists.

In theory, it’s a noble endeavor. In practice, it’s a gut-busting Shoney’s buffet, with the...

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Wednesday April 13, 2005 12:04 AM EDT
Gospel story acts up in Corpus Christi | more...

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Wednesday April 13, 2005 12:04 AM EDT
Aurora gets new digs; Academy Theatre debuts new space | more...

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Wednesday April 13, 2005 12:04 AM EDT

In the end, the stink of controversy around Bruce Cook may have gotten a tad too fragrant for Sonny to stand.

Cook, the embattled board chairman of the state Department of Human Resources who garnered criticism for using his public post to promote his private business, was recently - and quietly - yanked from his appointed duties by Gov. Perdue. Cook held the post for a year-and-a-half....

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Wednesday April 13, 2005 12:04 AM EDT

Barely a month after Brian Nichols allegedly killed four people in his escape from the Fulton County Courthouse, changes are afoot. According to the Fulton Sheriff’s Office, deputies are now transferring no more than 225 inmates a day from the jail to the courthouse, compared to as many as 400 before the Nichols incident.

Freeman also has added another 40 deputies to beef up security, and has...

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Wednesday April 6, 2005 12:04 AM EDT
Spelman Dance Theatre communes with nature | more...

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Wednesday April 6, 2005 12:04 AM EDT

Tango has about as many casual dancers as crystal meth has casual users. In Atlanta, the community either scares people off with the fanaticism of its members’ devotion to the dance, or it seduces them with tango’s sensual passion, forever ruining them for the superficial sugar buzz of salsa. But as with most recreational addictions, it’s usually the addicts who throw the best parties.

Angel...

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Wednesday April 6, 2005 12:04 AM EDT
Spike TV’s ‘Lance Krall Show’ keeps one foot in Atlanta | more...

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Wednesday April 6, 2005 12:04 AM EDT

As dense and charged with energy as a sample of plutonium, Actor’s Express’ The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer goes inside the head of the father of the atomic bomb. As the director of the Manhattan Project during World War II, Oppenheimer (John Ammerman) shepherded the first nuclear weapon from New Mexico to Hiroshima.

The title riffs on T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”...

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Wednesday April 6, 2005 12:04 AM EDT
If you rotted your teeth last year on Steve Almond’s Candyfreak - a wild-ass elegy for independent candymakers and a porno paean to gooey sweet pleasures both sanctioned and perverse - you won’t be surprised by the premises of the short stories in Almond’s new collection, The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories. They include an entire family of yacht-club-credentialed Republicans, convinced they... | more...

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Wednesday April 6, 2005 12:04 AM EDT
Art, Beats and Lyrics brings street culture to the High | more...

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Wednesday March 30, 2005 12:04 AM EST

Yarn has visited some genuine horrors upon the planet: god-awful afghans, the kind of scarves you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy, toilet paper cozies.

But in Annie Greene’s outrageously charming works on view in The Farm in Yarn at the Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, yarn evokes the artist’s memories of her childhood summers in the ’40s on her grandparents Adel, Ga., farm. A kind of crafty...

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Wednesday March 30, 2005 12:04 AM EST
Emory launches gallery with intriguing Isolated Incidents | more...

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Wednesday March 30, 2005 12:04 AM EST

In the first scene of ART Station’s melancholy romance See Rock City, newlyweds Raleigh (Geoff Uterhardt) and May (Barbara Cole) declare themselves to be the luckiest people in the world. Audience members wait for a shoe the size of Lookout Mountain to drop.

Having its world premiere at ART Station, See Rock City serves as a sequel to playwright Arlene Hutton’s Last Train to Nibroc, which...

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Wednesday March 30, 2005 12:04 AM EST
Secret index gives peek at Fonda memoir | more...

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Wednesday March 30, 2005 12:04 AM EST
Theater accidents illustrate that ‘show must go on’ mentality | more...

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Wednesday March 30, 2005 12:04 AM EST
With Dubya B and Doc Rice busily making some version of nice with our non-swarthy friends across the pond, I thought I’d do my patriotic part by looking back to an earlier occasion when our American ancestors pissed all over Europe but managed to ferment an intoxicating blend of Old World and New, producing a global spirit at once hearty and refined, woody yet elegant, muscular and ... well,... | more...

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Wednesday March 23, 2005 12:04 AM EST
Boston Marriage takes a wickedly funny look at love | more...

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Wednesday March 23, 2005 12:04 AM EST

Unfortunately, everything you are about to see is true, director Jon Tyler Owens announces in the curtain speech of The Exonerated. “Unfortunately,” because Jack in the Black Box’s production of The Exonerated chillingly exposes the flaws and abuses of America’s capital punishment system.

Comparable to The Laramie Project’s examination of the Matthew Shepard murder, The Exonerated recounts the...

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Wednesday March 23, 2005 12:04 AM EST
Past meets present at Krause Gallery exhibition | more...

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Wednesday March 23, 2005 12:04 AM EST
The dead are too many among us, lost to terrorists, wars and tidal waves. And while they wait for the ferryman to clear the crowded shores, they would like to offer some parting words. So on the night of the next full moon - Good Friday, the day that Jesus died - you will assemble in the church by the old graveyard, which is filled with the husks of the Victorian dead, the last generation... | more...