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Double trouble Article
Dragons r us Article
On Labor Day weekend, while families engage in wholesome picnicking and ladies bid adieu to their white shoes, hordes of black-clad disciples of myth and legend will descend on Atlanta’s Marriott Marquis for their annual rite of passage, the 2004 Dragon*Con.
The event will also feature the Dragon*Con 2004 Art Show, with more than 250 artists represented, including the female answer to...
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What with Folk Fest last month and Artexpo Atlanta on the horizon, Atlanta is becoming a veritable art fair hub.
Art fairs — from Art Basel in Miami, the Armory Show in New York and the Frieze Art Fair in London — have become some of the most prestigious cultural events on the arts radar. They’re much like any trade show, only instead of, say, medical supplies, the articles being...
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Shelf Space - Drag-on breath Article
Dragons should be fearsome, mysterious and majestic monsters, so why does their presence so often drag on fantasy fiction like a bad case of morning breath? The new anthology Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy affirms the timeless paradox of the genre: that the less writers rely on “magickal” content, the more satisfying the results.
Legends gathers 11 of fantasy...
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Finding oneself Article
Book Review - They’ve got issues Article
Offscript - Lab work Article
Shelf Space - Two nipples up Article
Now, I’m not one to let my nipples go telling tales, but I’ll tell you on their behalf that they loved Brian Francis’ Fruit. They read it as the story of two plucky talking nipples and their inspiring struggle to free themselves from the Scotch tape, masking tape and Ace bandage with which one Peter Paddington (aka Fatty Fattington) tries to silence them.
Call me an anthrocentrist (my nipples...
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Al’right, folks Article
Why do Southerners go loop-de-loop for the nutty, the eccentric and the otherwise touched? Is there something programmed into the regional DNA to make us revere people like Elvis and Howard Finster or the freak-show characters of Flannery O’Connor, Harry Crews and Carl Hiaasen when the rest of the country shakes its head in wonderment?
There is no better illustration of the local deification...
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Shelf Space - Assassination dialogue Article
Theater Review - Renaissance Festival Article
Theater Review - Red, hot and blue Article
Courtney Patterson’s performance — make that performances — provide the most compelling quality of Aurora Theatre’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Written by Neil Simon and first staged in 1969, the play chronicles married, 47-year-old restaurant owner Barney Cashman (Al Stilo) and his three disastrous attempts to join in the sexual revolution.
Patterson plays each of the three women...
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Arts Agenda - Paper work Article
Shelf Space - Writers’ rock Article
It turns out that the Highway to Hell is actually a rutted dirt road that leads to a chicken breeder who sells ‘shrooms on the side. Bob shot the sheriff because the sheriff stole his books and sugar cane. (The deputy was apparently an upstanding guy.) And the stand of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” is a stubbornly good boy’s refusal to say “S-H-I-T.”
Or so it goes in Lit Riffs, an MTV Books...
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Waste not want not Article
Theater Review - Meow mix Article
Mother vs. daughter. Boss vs. worker. Friend vs. friend. The short plays that comprise PushPush Theater’s Cats Have 7 Lives depict strife between women of all types.
Throughout the pieces, Wade Tilton plays various men, but they merely provide the catalysts for the tensions between the unnamed women portrayed by Jennifer Duran and Melanie Walker. In the first short play, Walker plays the...
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