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Thursday August 14, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
The three laws of theater reviews | more...

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Thursday August 14, 2003 12:04 AM EDT

Call her an embedded author: Suzanne Kingsbury braved the mean streets of Atlanta’s crack-addled neighborhoods researching her new novel. Over three years she interviewed hookers, addicts and cops, and even handed out clean needles and condoms in an outreach program.

The Gospel According to Gracey (Scribner) describes one day in the life of the city’s heroin trade, from the Bluff in Vine...

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Thursday August 7, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
Hormuz Minina examines duality in ShedSpace | more...

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Thursday August 7, 2003 12:04 AM EDT



Every year at about this time, the city of Osogbo in Nigeria’s Osun state more than doubles in size as a half-million worshipers and tourists gather for the Osun Festival. They bathe in the river Osun, dance in the Sacred Groves, listen to the talking dundun drums.

Osun is the orisa (goddess) of fertility, abundant life and generous love. She inhabits the river and the Sacred Groves. Her...

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Thursday August 7, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
No More Productions debuts with Social Maladies | more...

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Thursday August 7, 2003 12:04 AM EDT



The bookworm turns in Underneath the Lintel, a delightful oddity playing in repertory with Talley’s Folly at Actors Theatre of Atlanta. Glen Berger’s monologue play takes the form of a lecture by an absent-minded Dutch librarian (Steve Coulter), whose story begins the day he checked in an overdue library book, only to learn that it had been checked out 113 years earlier. The overdue fine is...

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Thursday August 7, 2003 12:04 AM EDT

Call it Studio 54 for the ’90s or murder with a bassline. Either way, former Village Voice reporter Frank Owen’s Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture (St. Martin’s Press) is the juicy result of more than five years of investigation about the behind-the-scenes illicit dealings of nightclub owner Peter Gatien.

Over the last 20 years, Gatien’s decadent clubs became...

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Thursday August 7, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
The Contemporary cancels ArtParty | more...

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Thursday July 31, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
Culture jammers subvert the media to get the word out | more...

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Thursday July 31, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
Atlantic Steel Project chronicles a city in flux | more...

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Thursday July 31, 2003 12:04 AM EDT

Just how seriously can we take The Tale of Cymbeline? Shakespeare’s seldom-produced late period play incorporates enough plot for five operas, and features a headless body, a bodiless head, a life-sized deer carcass and a deus ex machina. It would be laughable if it had any punchlines, or tragic if it had a tragic hero.

Director Nancy Keystone shrewdly turns the Georgia Shakespeare Festival’s...

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Thursday July 31, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
New theater awards face potential rivalry | more...

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Thursday July 31, 2003 12:04 AM EDT

How many dead authors does it take to make folks drive to Madison?

Organizers of the Georgia Literary Festival hope the answer is three.

The event started five years ago as the Eatonton Literary Festival, a celebration of luminaries Flannery O’Connor, Joel Chandler Harris and Alice Walker. But Brer Rabbit and peacocks only go so far before wearing out their welcome.

“After three years in...

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Thursday July 24, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
Delta Moon picks 10 for travelin’ | more...

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Thursday July 24, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
Tony Gray takes retro look at Black Panthers, fairies and mermaids | more...

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Thursday July 24, 2003 12:04 AM EDT

In her solo show at Youngblood Gallery, recent Atlanta College of Art graduate Mimi Hashimoto offers some of the more bizarre and distinctive self-portraits to rear their heads in recent memory.

Blood-red and decorated with both English and Japanese text, Hashimoto’s portraits feature the artist as a thin, defiantly naked, edgy young thing gazing back at the viewer. The mixed-media works are...

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Thursday July 24, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
Outfit’s Island transcends apartheid critique | more...

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Thursday July 24, 2003 12:04 AM EDT

It worked for the Wicked Witch of the West, and for Beowulf’s nemesis, Grendel. Now, the legendary Sasquatch becomes the latest misunderstood monster to tell his side of the story. Graham Roumieu’s In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot (Manic D Press) casts the legendary North American ape-man as a disgruntled everyman who’s sick of folks stalking him.

Unlike Gregory Maguire’s Wicked,...

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Thursday July 24, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
Distractions get between audiences and art | more...

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Thursday July 17, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
Beckham and Overton perform Farewell Rituals | more...

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Thursday July 17, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
Horizon’s Fula explores heart of blackness | more...

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Thursday July 17, 2003 12:04 AM EDT

You don’t have to know the difference between basketball player Kobe Bryant and Kobe steaks to get a lift from The Kobe Bryant Project at Dad’s Garage Theatre. Although the improv show casts the L.A. Laker (played by Spencer G. Stephens) as its leading man, it plays less like an NBA tribute than a match-up between a John Hughes movie and corny TV sitcom.

Conceived and directed by Christian...

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Thursday July 17, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
Sex and the City author reveals her bitter roots | more...

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Thursday July 17, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
Where do you think you are, a movie theater? | more...

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Thursday July 17, 2003 12:04 AM EDT
Forgive Jack Warner’s Shikar its shortcomings. Look past the dreadful dust jacket, with the clip-art Photoshopped tiger and bargain-book title font. Excuse the first-time author’s sometimes clunky phrasing, and give his improbable premise a fair shake. Once you’re in the spirit of charity, you’ll find Shikar to be an engrossing little thriller — the kind of book that’ll make you skip... | more...