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Thursday September 2, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
Two artists find new inspiration in collaboration | more...

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Thursday September 2, 2004 12:04 AM EDT

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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Thursday September 2, 2004 12:04 AM EDT

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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Thursday September 2, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
Much Ado overdoes it | more...

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Thursday September 2, 2004 12:04 AM EDT

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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Thursday September 2, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
What makes an artist? | more...

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Wednesday August 25, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
Macro and micro perspectives in Self-Discovery | more...

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Wednesday August 25, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
McSweeney’s anthology reveals the mind of the comic book guy | more...

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Wednesday August 25, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
Theater Emory experiments with new plays | more...

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Wednesday August 25, 2004 12:04 AM EDT

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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Thursday August 19, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
You talking to me? Cause I’m the only one here | more...

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Thursday August 19, 2004 12:04 AM EDT

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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Thursday August 19, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
Slide glides into cloning debate | more...

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Thursday August 19, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
So my mom, who grew up in a more obedient age, is always worrying that my writing is going to get me into serious trouble. Mind you, I’m an arts writer, not a deep-cover investigative reporter, but whenever she reads something I’ve written that tangentially suggests someone in a position of power might be something less than a socially upstanding philanthropist with good taste and a fine... | more...

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Thursday August 12, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
Leonardo da Vinci takes on superhero status in Avanti, Da Vinci! | more...

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Thursday August 12, 2004 12:04 AM EDT

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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Thursday August 12, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
One of Atlanta theater’s quiet champions | more...

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Thursday August 12, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
21 questions with artist Larry Walker | more...

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Thursday August 12, 2004 12:04 AM EDT

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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Thursday August 5, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
After an inspiring five-year run, ShedSpace changes directions | more...

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Thursday August 5, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
21 questions for artist Marcus Kenney | more...

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Thursday August 5, 2004 12:04 AM EDT

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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Thursday August 5, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
The Bush-bashing book genre took its cue from the spate of titles birthed during those years when Clinton hatred comprised its own ideology, but such books are rarely the most substantive of reads. Thus, a nuanced cultural survey of the Dubya years that, albeit anti-Bush, offers bitch slaps to milquetoast Democrats (paging Sen. Daschle!) and robotic radicals (is there a Dr. Chomsky in the... | more...

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Thursday August 5, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
I was an art school model! | more...

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Thursday July 29, 2004 12:04 AM EDT
Carrie Mae Weems finds common ground in Cuba and Louisiana | more...