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Thursday December 9, 2004 12:04 AM EST
High hires new curator, plans to close downtown gallery | more...

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Thursday December 2, 2004 12:04 AM EST
The couple that bombs together stays together | more...

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Thursday December 2, 2004 12:04 AM EST

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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Thursday December 2, 2004 12:04 AM EST
The Birds are cleared for takeoff | more...

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Thursday December 2, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Chick & Boozy together again | more...

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Thursday December 2, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Making over A Christmas Carol | more...

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Thursday December 2, 2004 12:04 AM EST

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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Thursday November 25, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Pop culture and royal devotion at the Contemporary | more...

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Thursday November 25, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Topdog/Underdog confronts historic ideals and economic realities | more...

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Thursday November 25, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Perhaps taking over the opera house where the Met once reigned convinced Atlanta Opera artistic director William Fred Scott that his 20-year mission was at last complete. Capping off a year of heavy turnover and restructuring in the opera’s executive staff, Scott announced his resignation this month. His resignation follows by eight months the resignation of executive director Alfred Kennedy... | more...

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Thursday November 25, 2004 12:04 AM EST
What would happen if science and religion were to be boiled together in a beaker, then centrifuged, amalgamated, shaken and stirred into a slurry of superstitions, unwarranted presuppositions and outright alchemical quackery? Let’s say, just for discussion of course, that we let religious dogma trump scientific evidence. Or that, when we encountered questions we couldn’t readily answer, we... | more...

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Thursday November 18, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Stages of male angst surface in Sweet Flypaper | more...

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Thursday November 18, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Gallery owner Marcia Wood says Atlanta-based painter Alan Loehle’s current show has been one of the hardest for her audience to take. To allay viewers’ discomfort with images of decapitated pig’s heads and the dark mood of the work, she emphasizes the paintings’ quality of “hope.” Those looking for hope might be better served by television, where the world’s problems are resolved in half-hour... | more...

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Thursday November 18, 2004 12:04 AM EST

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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Thursday November 18, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Actor’s Express gives pulp novels a Sapphic spin | more...

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Thursday November 18, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Dev Degraw is a worthless lawyer, an irresponsible ex-husband and father, and, by his own admission, “unquestionably the worst child actor ever to have been thrown in front of a camera.” The only thing the adult son of the Alabama governor is good at — politics — is the one thing he would rather do less than defend himself against a lawsuit brought on behalf of an injured wiener... | more...

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Thursday November 18, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Artisan Resource Center is a beehive of creativity | more...

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Friday November 12, 2004 04:02 AM EST
Moon | more...

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Wednesday November 10, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Charles Nelson provokes with his meditations on race, identity and public space | more...

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Wednesday November 10, 2004 12:04 AM EST



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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Wednesday November 10, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Fourth Wall raises a divide between politics and comedy | more...

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Wednesday November 10, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Camera focuses on political climate | more...

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Wednesday November 10, 2004 12:04 AM EST
For the record, I didn’t yet know the outcome of the presidential election when I chose to read, for this week’s review, Hilton Obenzinger’s latest novel. It’s called A*hole. And I didn’t know of the book’s obsession with the cosmic father-son contention, upending the roles so that God/the petulant child gives birth to His own Christ/parents who must tough-love him into some kind of restraint... | more...

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Thursday November 4, 2004 12:04 AM EST
Surveying the global implications of a wasteful society | more...

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Thursday November 4, 2004 12:04 AM EST

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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