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

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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 Complete Original’: Remembering Atlanta Drag Legend Lily White, 1948-2021

Atlanta drag legend Lily White has toasted her adored adopted city for the final time. White, born Kyle Dennis Souder, died late Wednesday afternoon, from complications of cancer in hospice care in her hometown of Rome, Georgia. She was 73. The performer’s sister, Michelle Souder Tucker of Cedar Bluff, Alabama confirmed the passing on White’s […]

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Live From Phoenix, Francine Reed Readies Her First-Ever Streaming Show

As pandemic-related quarantine keeps most music venues shuttered for now, one of Atlanta’s most-loved singers is coming home. At least virtually. On Tuesday night at 8 pm, blues vocalist Francine Reed steps back onto stage for the first time in six months via a one-hour streaming show broadcast from Phoenix, her current hometown. Technically speaking, […]

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‘I’m an activist who became an artist’: Remembering Harry Belafonte, 1927-2023

His sense of humor surprised me. You don’t expect living legends and civil rights icons to be funny. But yes, Harry Belafonte had jokes. Memories of my 2016 conversation with the activist, actor and singer came flooding back Tuesday morning as my phone screen filled with news alerts reporting Harry Belafonte’s death at age 96. […]

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Former AJC Dining Critic Meridith Ford Ventures Onto The Other Side Of The Spoon

Bursting into a laugh over lunch on the patio at Inman Park’s Fritti, Meridith Ford is digging through her purse in a desperate search for something. Finally, a satisfied smile alights across her face as she produces a glossy new business card and slides it across the table. It reads: Novo Cucina, Meridith Ford, Gelataia/Marketing. “It’s […]

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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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Susan Shalhoub Larkin Steals The Fruitcake In Topher Payne’s ‘Broadcasting Christmas’

The instant she opens her front door as the insult slinging fruitcake chronicler Shirley Henderson Wednesday night in the premiere of Topher Payne’s “Broadcasting Christmas” on the Hallmark Channel, veteran Atlanta actress Susan Shalhoub Larkin mercilessly makes off with the movie. And her co-stars Melissa Joan Hart and Dean Cain loved every minute of it. […]

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The Final Word From Mose: An Appreciation

The ritual was always the same. As the final piano chord of the encore drifted out to comingle with the cigarette smoke hanging in the air and the clanging of empty beer glasses being cleared, Mose Allison would pick up the tweed jacket he had draped across the piano at the beginning of his set […]

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The Mission: Shoot Photos Of Naked Women While Your Mom’s At Work. The Result: “My Moms House,” Evan Carter’s First Book

As these things do, inspiration struck on New Year’s Day while guzzling champagne, drunk in your mom’s hot tub. Atlanta photographer Evan Carter’s parental figure was away, ringing in 2015 in Mexico. He was a boomerang kid with a freshly inked Economics degree from Occidental College living back at home. But Carter wanted to create […]

With A Little Help From Kanye, Aaron Strand Finds His Inner Macheath In “Threepenny Opera”

With A Little Help From Kanye, Aaron Strand Finds His Inner Macheath In “Threepenny Opera”

As anti-hero Macheath in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s classic “Threepenny Opera,” Athens actor Aaron Strand swaggers his way through three acts and two and a half hours of the wickedly re-imagined 7 Stages production nightly. Between robberies, the unrepentant knife-welding bandit sleeps with half the cast, performs a hip-swiveling jailhouse soliloquy with an acoustic […]

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