City Cafe
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Dystopia, Hometown Metal, Photos and an Arts Fest
The AJC's Shane Harrison tells us about the following budget-friendly events coming up around Atlanta. The silent film classic "Metropolis," with a live
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One Reporter's BeltLine Revelation
Atlanta is seen around the country as an innovator in the practice of reclaiming and repurposing abandoned land known as “brownfields.” The site of the
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Atlanta's Got Festivals!
The AJC's Shane Harrison tells us about the following budget-friendly events coming up around Atlanta. The Marietta Greek Festival is Friday through Sunday
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Georgia History: Brookwood Train Station
The Brookwood Train Station which stands on Peachtree Street above the downtown connector is now home to Amtrak. But when it opened in April of 1918, it
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Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting at the...
They are one of the most mythical couples in the art world, but for the majority of their professional lives, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work was
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Turner Field Organist Matt Kaminski
The Atlanta Braves’ home of Turner Field may be a state-of-the-art park, with giant LED screens and an enormous sound system, but as you’re watching a game
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Butterflies, the Blues, and the Bard at Barrington
The AJC's Shane Harrison tells us about the following budget-friendly events coming up around Atlanta. The Fernbank Museum of Natural History's Butterfly
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Boyd Lewis and '70's Atlanta
Celebrated Atlanta photographer, Boyd Lewis is known for his political and civil rights journalism from the late ‘60s and ‘70s. Late Civil Rights leader
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Chamber Music in the Attic, Mudbugs at the Bench, & a...
The AJC's Shane Harrison tells us about the following budget-friendly events coming up around Atlanta. Eddie's Attic presents two upcoming classical music
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In the Garden with Geri: On Shakespeare's Birthday,...
These days, when we think of garden herbs, we might consider rosemary for our chicken or a little basil for our pizza. But in William Shakespeare’s time,
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500 Songs, Lemonade Days, and Bear on the Square
The AJC's Shane Harrison tells us about the following budget-friendly events coming up around Atlanta. 500 Songs for Kids kicks off tonight at Smith's Olde
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Rooting for the Home Team with Organist Matt Kaminski
Even with Turner Field's stadium-shaking sound system and Jumbotron, the humble organ still plays a major role during games, and the man behind the keys
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Pillows, Quilts, and Fiddles
The AJC's Shane Harrison tells us about the following budget-friendly events coming up around Atlanta. Atlanta will take part in the International Pillow
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Monica Pearson Shows Us the Way to the World
Tonight, PBA30 will premiere a new world travel series hosted by one of Atlanta's most-recognizable TV news anchors, Monica Pearson—who spent 37 years on
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Books with Philip Rafshoon: Hunt, Hagy & Rathburn
The AJC-Decatur Book Festival's Philip Rafshoon, in for Daren Wang, drops by to fill us on the week's book events. On Tuesday Mar. 26, James B. Hunt,
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Blossoms, Bluegrass, and Blues
The AJC's Shane Harrison tells us about the following budget-friendly events coming up around Atlanta. The Blue Grassroots Music Arts Fest takes place in
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Bombs and Baritones: Capitol City Opera's The Secret...
An anarchist with a bomb, a plot to create civil unrest, a love triangle—these might all be parts of a new thriller hitting the multiplex. But in reality,
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Dissatisfaction and Discontent: Atlanta Students' Appeal...
We sat with City Caf regular Dr. Tim Crimmins, Director of the Center for Neighborhood and Metropolitan Studies at Georgia State University for a look at
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Before Occupy, There was Resurrection City
An exhibit now at Emory University’s Schatten Gallery displays archival materials from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, focusing on the years
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Atlanta, Immaculately Turned Out: On the Street with...
Atlanta is not lacking for people who are trying to make a statement with their clothes, whether they’re dressing up to impress or dressing out to express
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Sidney Lanier's Return to Piedmont Park
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Bond's Ride, Music by Ives, and Puckin' Fuppets
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Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting at the...
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Freedom and Slavery: Monticello's Tangled Legacy
A new exhibit at the Atlanta History Center looks at life at Thomas Jefferson’s estate, Monticello, through the eyes of the more than 600 enslaved people
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Two Bands Play Their Classics and the Classics Sing Out
The AJC's Shane Harrison tells us about the following budget-friendly events coming up around Atlanta:
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Romancing Dracula with the Atlanta Ballet
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Predicting Winter’s End… Before the Groundhog
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"Almost Obsessed with Telling Stories About Atlanta:" A...
Earlier this month, the Andrew Mellon Foundation awarded three-year residencies to fourteen U.S. playwrights. Among the recipients? Atlanta playwright
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A Conversation with "Waffle Palace" Playwrights
A play that celebrates that ubiquitous diner, Waffle House, is back for a second helping. The Waffle Palace: Smothered, Covered Scattered 24/7/365 has an encore run at Atlanta’s Horizon Theatre.The play, pseudonym and all, was written by creative partners Larry Larson and Eddie Levi Lee. Larson and Lee are fixtures of the Atlanta theater scene; they've been writing plays together for more than four decades. We return now to a conversation with them from last May, when the play first ran.
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Best of 2012: Boyd Lewis and '70's Atlanta
As we look back on some of our favorite stories from 2012, one that rises to the top is a conversation with celebrated Atlanta photographer, Boyd Lewis.He’s known for his political and civil rights journalism from the late ‘60s and ‘70s. Late Civil Rights leader John Calhoun called Lewis “the white boy with the black press.” Lewis photographed late mayor Maynard Jackson and Civil Rights leaders like Julian Bond, Coretta Scott King, Joseph E. Lowery, and Ralph David Abernathy among others—and...
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Christmas Lights on Monroe Drive
You’ve likely seen Christmas light displays that really stand out. Such is the case at the home of Paul Medlock just behind Piedmont Park on Monroe Drive.He started decorating his home with lights back in 1992. Back then he had about 300 lights, but today that number is closer to 35,000. See a sampling of his Christmas light show here.
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Georgia History: Peace in the Gate City
Visitors to Piedmont Park have surely seen the monumental statue standing just inside the 14th Street entrance, overlooking the playing fields. It was dedicated on October 10th, 1911. We met with Dr. Tim Crimmins, Director of the Center for Neighborhood and Metropolitan Studies at Georgia State University, to learn about the story behind the monument.
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Stephan Pastis Casts Pearls Before Swine
Everyone has his or her favorite comic strip, be it the oddball stylings of the classic Far Side, or the humble wisecracking philosophy of Charles Schultz’s Peanuts. For many, the not-to-be-missed strip is Pearls Before Swine. The creator is Stephan Pastis, who’s visiting Atlanta's Manuel's Tavern tonight to unveil a new collection of his work. We spoke to the artist over Skype while he was in Raleigh, North Carolina yesterday, and discussed the comic.Stephan Pastis appears at Manuel's...
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Governing In the Parlor: Touring Gwinnett's Winn House
The Elisha Winn House stands handsomely off a country road in Dacula. A two-story 19th century house with a wide porch and white columns, its cross between stateliness and country charm fits its history. Built in 1812, it was the home of Judge Elisha Winn and the site of the very beginnings of Gwinnett County. We met Elaine Roberts, president of the Gwinnett Historical Society there for a walk through one of the oldest buildings in metro Atlanta.The Gwinnett Historical Society is celebrating...
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Georgia History: Gwinnett County Courthouse
Gwinnett County was one of the nation's fastest-growing counties during the 1970s and ‘80s. And the Historic Gwinnett County Courthouse, which opened back in September of 1885, played an important role in developing the infrastructure to make that growth possible. The courthouse is situated in the county seat of Lawrenceville, right on the busy downtown square, and that’s where we met with Dr. Tim Crimmins, professor of history and Director of the Center for Neighborhood and Metropolitan...
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Peachtree Road's Historic Randolf-Lucas House
The house that sits at 2494 Peachtree Road has not always been on that particular spot. The 1920s-era mansion was picked up and moved to its current location to make way for its neighbor, the 2500 Peachtree Condominiums, which looks out over the intersection of Peachtree and Lindberg Drive.We met up with Wright Mitchell, founder and president of the Buckhead Heritage Society, to talk about the home's past, and to speculate on its future.
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Hollis Gillespie on the Rollergirls
This Saturday, Atlantans can look forward to that most American of contact sports—roller derby. Our home league, the Atlanta Rollergirls, has been amassing bruises as well as fans since 2004.Atlanta author Hollis Gillespie has written about the Rollergirls and she joined us previously to talk about her experience on the sidelines and with her young daughter in tow.The Atlanta Rollergirls have two bouts this Saturday at the Yaarab Shrine Center on Ponce at 5pm. You can find more information...
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Turner Field Organist Matt Kaminski
The Atlanta Braves home of Turner Field may be a state-of-the-art park, with giant LED screens and an enormous sound system, but as youre watching a gameeven though you may not be aware of itthe sound of the traditional organ can still be heard pumping up the crowd as players make their way to the batters box. We paid a visit to Turner Field to meet Matthew Kaminski, the man behind the keys.Follow Matt on Twitter (and send him requests) here!
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English Choral Tradition Visits St. Philip's
Mary Tudor established The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, England in 1533. It consisted of ten choristers, six lay-clerks, four priests, an organist, and a schoolmaster, that survived in that configuration essentially unchanged for over three centuries. 30 years ago, the University of Cambridge for the first time admitted women and Trinity made the radical change of replacing its boy trebles with female sopranos. It is in that form that the Choir has existed now for three decades.This...
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The Judge Wilson House
Each year, the Atlanta Preservation Center releases its annual list of Most Endangered Historic Places. Among the places-in-peril on the list for the second year in a row is one of Atlantas last remaining pre-Civil War buildings, a two-story Greek Revival known today as the Judge William Wilson House. The Preservation Centers executive director, Boyd Coons invited us to see the house, which stands on a lonely stretch of Fairburn Road in Southwest Atlanta, to survey the state of the house and...
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Johns Homestead: On the Slow Road to Recovery
On Lawrenceville Highway outside of Tucker, you may have noticed an old housederelict and falling down with agejust next door to Rehoboth Baptist Church and across the street from Rehoboth Cemetery. It doesnt look like much, so youd be forgiven for not realizing that its among the oldest homesteads in DeKalb County. The Johns Homestead was built by John B.
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The History of Grant Park's Cyclorama
In this Georgia history segment, we pay a visit to the Cyclorama in Grant Park with Dr. Timothy Crimmins, Director of the Center for Neighborhood and Metropolitan Studies at Georgia State University.
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