Culture
For Art’s Sake - Changes afoot Article
Sticker shock Article
Dance - Fun with rope and ladder Article
For a few primordial pulses, the dancers of the Agnes Scott Studio Dance Theatre look like the first group of ambulatory cells to abandon the sea and make a break for higher ground. Seven dancers in an amorphous pile gasp as one. Then sharp geometries assert themselves (triangular, to be precise), and, Darwin be damned, why did we ever leave the shapeless seas?
There’s an old industrial metal...
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Theater Review - Behind the booze Article
Offscript - Scrooges for all seasons Article
Shelf Space - Rock paper scissors Article
Just when the Man seems to nip at the heels of every subculture, and MTV has spit-combed rock’s errant cowlick, along comes Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion, promising that the working men and women of graphic design are still keeping rock real.
Poster art has retained its us-against-them, hippie-era ethos at a time when contemporary CD art feels commonplace and mass produced. Authors...
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Theater Review - The full monte Article
Opera - Mission accomplished Article
Shelf Space - The low-carb soul Article
Sticks like glue Article
Paint it black Article
Dance - One tribe or two? Article
They were already dancing when I arrived at the Beacon Hill Arts Center, just after 7 p.m. on Election Day, rehearsing for their upcoming show, Dance the World Back. The Georgia polls were closed, but the results were not yet known. A portable television awaited a break in the dance.
The dancers of Gathering Wild were rehearsing “Tribe,” artistic director Jerylann Warner’s new work examining...
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Shelf Space - Underdog Article
For Art’s Sake - Bohos in the ‘burbs Article
Alliance Children’s Theatre and Opus say “Goodnight, Moon” Article
Look to the future Article
Sign of the South Article
Meryl Truett’s South is a drive-by landscape of decrepit signage, from neon signs advertising greasy spoons and barbecue joints decorated with cartoon piggies to homemade signs proclaiming religious prophesy.
Truett’s South, as seen in her exhibition Thump Queen and Other Southern Anomalies at Barbara Archer Gallery, is more Carl Hiaasen than Tennessee Williams. Alternating between color...
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Offscript - Cause for alarm Article
Shelf Space - Shelf Space Article
Strange beauty Article
Small gestures Article
Are sports fans doing the wave expressing the wonders of Darwinian progress? How about the woman shown in embarrassing detail contemplating the goober she has just scooped from her eye?
If the video installation NATURAL: SELECTION at Eyedrum doesn’t exactly bolster your sense of the human race’s march of progress, it does give a sense of the poignancy and quirkiness of being human. Looking at...
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