Culture
Theater Review - Missing the picture Article
Theater Review - From Russia with love Article
Book Review - Language bearer Article
Arts Agenda November 20 2002 Article
About face Article
Famous for 15 minutes Article
Theater Review - The Kids Are Alright Article
Theater Review - Fish story Article
Book Review - Stand by your Vulcan Article
Suppose you’re assembling one of Atlanta’s largest annual literary events for a respected suburban community group. Suppose you book a former TV star who’s now touring with his new photography collection. And suppose said star then gets embroiled in a minor controversy, when a similar group in another city unceremoniously cancels his appearance due to the photographs’ eroticism.
What then? Do...
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Age of excess Article
Rebel yell Article
Hodgson Photo Service, tucked into a 14th Street strip mall next to the Silver Skillet, is one of the quirkier venues for the multi-tentacled Atlanta Celebrates Photography event, now in its sweeping-up-the-confetti and pulling-down-the-streamers phase of its month-long photo-palooza.
Some of the work in Judy Kuniansky’s show On the Edge can veer into well-trod territory. Typical is a...
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Theater Review - Glancing askance Article
Theater Review - Vamps & wanks Article
Blood-suckers and seed-spillers populate The Process Theatre Company’s double-bill of one-act plays, “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom” and “One Hand Clapping.” It’s not an evening for lofty themes or lavish production values, but the ensemble embraces the material with a fittingly irreverent sense of humor.
“Lesbians,” Charles Busch’s 1985 drag-fest, opens “in Bible times” and introduces an immortal...
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Extreme violence Article
Guerrilla acts Article
Dance - Strange brew Article
Theater Review - Spit polish Article
Book Review - Nighty-night Article
I once heard someone describe reading Chuck Palahniuk as thinking about the most shocking thing possible and having that be the next thing to happen. To be honest, though, one couldn’t possibly fathom the plot changes Palahniuk comes up with.
In Lullaby, the heir apparent to Bret Easton Ellis is back with the same style of “did he really write that?” fiction. With his latest effort, Palahniuk...
| more...Arts Agenda October 30 2002 Article
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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra John Nelson conducts Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Barbara Bonney, soprano; Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano; John Mark Ainsley, tenor and the ASO Chorus. Oct. 31, 8 p.m.; Nov. 1, 8 p.m.; Nov. 2, 8 p.m. $18-$22. Atlanta Symphony Hall, Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree St. 404-733-5000.
Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra Jere Flint, conducts the youth...
| more...Self-examination Article
Theater Review - Birth of a Nation Article
Theater Review - Playing chicken Article
A 1970s sitcom could provide the premise of Lisa Schlesinger’s Manny and Chicken at the BP, having its world premiere at PushPush Theater. A white boy named Manny (Matt Stanton) and a black girl named Charlotte (Melodie Rodgers) unwillingly share a household when their single parents get hitched.
Instead of seeking humor and life lessons in the “Diff’rent Strokes” of the new family,...
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