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‘History Unfolding’: Author Martin Padgett on Why Michael Hardwick’s Story is More Important Than Ever

‘History Unfolding’: Author Martin Padgett on Why Michael Hardwick’s Story is More Important Than Ever

“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 […]
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With Its Inclusive Story, ‘The Ones We Love’ Invites Us to Love Westerns Again

With Its Inclusive Story, ‘The Ones We Love’ Invites Us to Love Westerns Again

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 […]
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Drag Legend Hot Chocolate Returns to Her Atlanta Roots

Drag Legend Hot Chocolate Returns to Her Atlanta Roots

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 […]
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Actor Michael Tacconi Discusses the Power of ‘Parade’ in 2025 America

Actor Michael Tacconi Discusses the Power of ‘Parade’ in 2025 America

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 […]
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In 1976, Celestine Sibley Covered Jimmy Carter’s Nomination With a Dry Cleaner’s VIP Tag

In 1976, Celestine Sibley Covered Jimmy Carter’s Nomination With a Dry Cleaner’s VIP Tag

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 […]
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With the Repro Rights Doc ‘No One Asked You,’ Ruth Leitman Brings a Powerful Election 2024 Closing Argument to Atlanta

With the Repro Rights Doc ‘No One Asked You,’ Ruth Leitman Brings a Powerful Election 2024 Closing Argument to Atlanta

For 25 years now, filmmaker Ruth Leitman has been making powerful, evocative social justice documentaries. But her latest, “No One Asked You,” a film that follows repro rights activists as […]
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Q&A: 40 Years Later, The Bells Ring On for The Swimming Pool Q’s

Q&A: 40 Years Later, The Bells Ring On for The Swimming Pool Q’s

Cranking up a crackling vinyl copy of the 1984 eponymous Swimming Pool Q’s A&M Records debut can transport an entire generation back to the hip college radio station airwaves that […]
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Socko! The Daring Rescue of Betty Brown, Ph.G. From the Clutches of Obscurity

Socko! The Daring Rescue of Betty Brown, Ph.G. From the Clutches of Obscurity

In one of Betty Brown, Ph.G.’s most harrowing 1935 continuities, the plucky blond pharmacist faces down a gang of ruthless narcotics peddlers who are forcing her at gunpoint to fill […]
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‘Murder Queens’: A New Film Recalls Celestine Sibley’s Death Row Interview With a Serial Killer

‘Murder Queens’: A New Film Recalls Celestine Sibley’s Death Row Interview With a Serial Killer

In the fall of 1958, Macon restaurant operator Anjette Lyles became a state-wide sensation when she went on trial, charged with the gruesome arsenic poisoning deaths of two husbands, her […]
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‘History Unfolding’: Author Martin Padgett on Why Michael Hardwick’s Story is More Important Than Ever

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With Its Inclusive Story, ‘The Ones We Love’ Invites Us to Love Westerns Again

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Drag Legend Hot Chocolate Returns to Her Atlanta Roots

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In 1976, Celestine Sibley Covered Jimmy Carter’s Nomination With a Dry Cleaner’s VIP Tag

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‘A Dream Come True’: Remembering Ronnie Spector, 1943-2022

Darlene Love, her fellow “Wall of Sound” singing sister, perhaps expressed it best Wednesday night upon learning of Ronnie Spector’s death: “I’m in total shock! Did not see this one coming. Please give me time to process my thoughts to give Ronnie the proper tribute she deserves.” Late Wednesday afternoon, breaking news alerts from ABC […]

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At Madre + Mason, Calavino Donati Continues Her Community Building Culinary Odyssey

It’s a chilly winter’s night but at the end of Dutch Valley Road, warmth emanates inside chef-owner Calavino Donati’s new Madre + Mason restaurant. Just inside the door, a bartender is giving first-time customers a tutorial on the restaurant’s array of local small batch gins. In the back room, Charis Circle, the city’s feminist social […]

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About Richard L. Eldredge

With lengthy stints at both the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Atlanta magazine, Richard L. Eldredge has been covering Atlanta’s arts, entertainment, political, dining and charitable fundraising scenes since 1990. In 2015, he launched Eldredge ATL, a daily digital magazine dedicated to the city’s ever-evolving arts, entertainment, cuisine and cultural landscapes. Since 2011, he has worked as senior editor at VOX Teen Communications, supporting Atlanta’s next generation of journalists. In recognition of this work, Eldredge received the Atlanta Press Club Impact Award in 2015.

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Thoroughly Modern Libby: With ‘Confessions of Hallmark Addict’ and a New Website, Libby Whittemore Embraces the Future

Nearly 20 years into the new millennium, Libby Whittemore cracks that she’s finally embracing the 21st century. With “Confessions of a Hallmark Addict,” her funny new social media video series dedicated to her favorite cable channel being shared and re-tweeted by popular Hallmark actors, including Barbara Niven and Kristoffer Polaha, the veteran Atlanta singer and […]

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The 11 Most Marvel-ous (And Spoiler-Free) Moments in ‘Avengers: Endgame’

With a running time of over three hours, the Pinewood Studios-filmed “Avengers: Endgame” is as stuffed and as sprawling as the 11-year Marvel Cinematic Universe that inspired this series finale. And despite the gazillion fan theories floating in cyberspace that have been generated since intergalactic villain Thanos (Josh Brolin) snapped his fingers at the maddeningly […]

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Meet Peggy Musgrove, the Woman You’ll Hate to Love in Topher Payne’s ‘Angry Fags’

In a single sentence during a WABE-FM “City Lights” interview with Myke Johns last week, “Angry Fags” playwright Topher Payne aptly explains the appeal of the play’s ascending political figure Peggy Musgrove: “Imagine if the Georgia GOP had a Stacey Abrams.” The description even gives Parris Sarter, the Atlanta actress who brings Peggy Musgrove to […]

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‘They Require Such Firmness’: That Time Celestine Sibley Got Parenting Advice From Joan Crawford

Editor’s Note: Among the many discoveries I made while researching and editing a collection of my late Atlanta Journal-Constitution colleague’s 60-year reporting career were her dispatches from Hollywood. By the 1990s when I worked with her in the newspaper’s Features Department, Celestine was best known for writing a column that ran multiple times each week […]

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‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Director Barry Jenkins on the film’s UGA Connection and Why He Altered the Iconic Novel’s Ending

As the lights came up last fall at the advance screening of “If Beale Street Could Talk,” the film’s director and screenwriter Barry Jenkins spotted a familiar face in the Atlantic Station movie theater — University of Georgia English and African-American Studies professor Ed Pavlic. After seeing Jenkins’ 2008 indie feature “Medicine for Melancholy,” Pavlic […]

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40 Years On, The Cast of ‘Della’s Diner’ Reunites for an Out Front Theatre Benefit: A Conversation With Tom Edwards and Libby Whittemore

On Saturday night, two generations of Atlantans will converge at Out Front Theatre in West Midtown for a cast reunion reunion and benefit concert performance of the much beloved musical comedy “Della’s Diner.” Created by Tom Edwards, the soap opera spoof featuring original songs by Harris M. Wheeler and starring Megan McFarland as Della and […]

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In ‘Knead,’ Actress Mary Lynn Owen Tackles Bread Baking (In Real Time!) and Some Universal Family Truths

It’s just after 7:30 pm but downstairs, on the Hertz Stage of the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta actress Mary Lynn Owen has already retired into a pair of baggy plaid pajamas. “I’m kneading,” she explains, barefoot, standing center stage as she massages her scene partner, a stubbornly springy lump of bread dough. “It’s my favorite part,” […]

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