For home cooks devoted to Italian cooking queen Marcella Hazan’s legendary Bolognese meat sauce recipe, there’s one line in “Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking” that beautifully captures her culinary exactness and precision: “When the tomatoes begin to bubble, turn down the heat so that the sauce cooks at the laziest of simmers. With just an […]
Over the last 30 years, the existence of singer Anne Richmond Boston’s long-elusive second solo record “I Should Be Happy” has achieved mythic status. The project began in early 1990s as the follow up to her critically acclaimed 1990 solo debut “The Big House of Time.” While the album was eventually completed, its release was […]
At just 27, jazz pianist, vocalist and actor Bryan Eng has already appeared on Broadway with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick in a revival of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite,” released two albums, racked up tens of thousands listens on Spotify and is closing in on 100,000 followers on Instagram. For a guy who grew […]
Actor Christian Arredondo has a busy week ahead of him. In addition to understudying the lead roles of Ponyboy Curtis and his best friend Johnny Cade in the Tony Award-winning musical “The Outsiders” at the Fox Theatre through Sunday, the Walton High School graduate is also overseeing the roasting of a large turkey for assembled […]
For its 49th season opener, Theatrical Outfit has placed a powder keg on stage with its powerful new staging of playwright Tennessee Williams’ break-through Broadway hit “The Glass Menagerie.” Seeing Terry Burrell, Stephen Ruffin, Devon Hales and Matt Mercurio inhabit these desperate, longing and loving characters as they navigate nightly through the trauma of The […]
“The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS” author Martin Padgett’s fascinating, deeply researched new book sheds fresh light on a pivotal figure in American LGBTQ+ history. An Atlantan, Hardwick was the Midtown bartender and visual artist at the center of the landmark 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick […]
At a slim 165 pages, “The Ones We Love,” Jonathan Sayer’s debut novel, grabs readers on page one and doesn’t let go. In an era when many viewers now scroll past the trope-filled, historically inaccurate old Hollywood westerns on Turner Classic Movies, the Austin-based writer offers an enticing invitation to re-examine the genre. The cover […]
While she now knocks them dead nightly on the Las Vegas strip performing as Tina Turner and Patti LaBelle, drag legend Hot Chocolate was born in Atlanta over 50 years ago. Like her fellow Atlanta female impersonation icons Rachel Wells and Charlie Brown, Hot Chocolate created her high energy stage persona onstage at the Sweet […]
When the Tony Award-winning “Parade” first played the Fox Theatre 25 years ago this summer, the musical by Atlanta native Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown depicting the 1913 murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan at the National Pencil Factory in downtown Atlanta felt like both a cautionary tale and a powerful history lesson. Tuesday night’s […]
Editor’s Note: This excerpt from a 1976 Democratic Convention dispatch by Celestine Sibley, who among her other tasks, covered the Georgia state legislature for years, was originally published in the 2001 collection of her journalism, “Celestine Sibley, Reporter,” edited by Richard L. Eldredge. The following is the 2001 introduction to the piece: Having never covered […]