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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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My Show Of Shows: The Night Louis Armstrong Redeemed Athens

My Show Of Shows: The Night Louis Armstrong Redeemed Athens

By Susan Percy, Eldredge ATL Guest Contributor A brisk February evening in 1965 was not a bad time to be a 20-year-old University of Georgia student heading to the Georgia […]
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20 Years in the Making, Jazz Fans Celebrate the Release of ‘Becoming Ella Fitzgerald,’ a New Biography

20 Years in the Making, Jazz Fans Celebrate the Release of ‘Becoming Ella Fitzgerald,’ a New Biography

You could say author Judith Tick has been preparing to write Ella Fitzgerald’s biography her entire life. She grew up in a house where the iconic jazz singer’s LPs were […]
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In ‘Welcome Home, Franklin,’ a Trailblazing Peanuts Character Scores the Spotlight and a Back Story

In ‘Welcome Home, Franklin,’ a Trailblazing Peanuts Character Scores the Spotlight and a Back Story

Eleven days after the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Los Angeles school teacher Harriet Glickman wrote a letter to Peanuts creator Charles Schulz asking him to consider […]
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As ‘General Hospital’ Says Goodbye to Jacklyn Zeman, Kin Shriner Remembers Their 46-Year Friendship

As ‘General Hospital’ Says Goodbye to Jacklyn Zeman, Kin Shriner Remembers Their 46-Year Friendship

Millions of “General Hospital” viewers will gather this week to mark the passing of iconic “General Hospital” actress Jacklyn Zeman and her equally iconic character, nurse Barbara Jean Spencer. Zeman’s […]
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‘Unparalleled Joy’: ‘A Christmas Gift For You’ at 60

‘Unparalleled Joy’: ‘A Christmas Gift For You’ at 60

For six weeks in the scorching Los Angeles summer of 1963, the members of The Ronettes, The Crystals, Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans and Darlene Love were holed […]
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With the Repro Rights Doc ‘No One Asked You,’ Ruth Leitman Brings a Powerful Election 2024 Closing Argument to Atlanta

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

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

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

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My Show Of Shows: The Night Louis Armstrong Redeemed Athens

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20 Years in the Making, Jazz Fans Celebrate the Release of ‘Becoming Ella Fitzgerald,’ a New Biography

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Tunes For These Times, ‘Mahalia Jackson in Concert, Easter Sunday, 1967’

Editor’s Note: Like many of us self-isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve been turning to music. As I pulled out albums from my collection, I discovered a consistent theme — I was selecting favorites that have long brought me joy. I’ve decided to share some of these —and the stories behind them — on a […]

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Tunes For These Times: Al Green, “I Can’t Stop,” 2003

Editor’s Note: Like many of us self-isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve been turning to music. As I pulled out albums from my collection, I discovered a consistent theme — I was selecting favorites that have long brought me joy. I’ve decided to share some of these —and the stories behind them — on a […]

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‘Christmas’ in April: For Out Front Theatre, the Show Goes On Online During COVID-19

Even as he applied for unemployment Tuesday morning amid the darkened post-apocalyptic playground set still on stage from the shuttered production of “Warplay,” Out Front Theatre Company artistic director Paul Conroy remained optimistic. Like every other theatre company in Atlanta, the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic has upended Out Front’s theatre season, along with those across […]

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Tipple + Rose Tea Parlor Offers a Refuge From Routine. And Your Laptop.

I’m standing in front of a beautiful wooden tea sniffing bar built by owner Doria Roberts at the brand-new Tipple + Rose Tea Parlor and Apothecary in Virginia-Highland. She pulls out silver box No. 17 labeled “Black Forest” from the rack, gently lifts its lid and instructs me to inhale. Immediately, the sharp tang of […]

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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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Dancing On The Tables: A Celebration Of The Athens-Atlanta Music Scene, Starring The B-52’s, The Fans, The Brains, Glenn Phillips and some act named R.E.M.!

Note From Eldredge ATL guest writer Maureen McLaughlin, the B-52’s first manager: I probably wouldn’t have agreed to write this article except that Eldredge ATL July Guest Editor Vanessa Briscoe Hay pitched an appealing idea — contact people from the Atlanta and Athens music scenes of the 1970s and 1980s and ask them three questions. […]

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Memories of Eldorado, the Athens Eatery Where The Squalls, B-52’s Once Worked

Editor’s Note: Guitarist and singer Bob Hay co-founded the legendary Athens act The Squalls in 1981. The band is immortalized, along with R.E.M., Pylon, Love Tractor, B-52’s, Howard Finster, Flat Duo Jets and Kilkenny Cats in the Jim Herbert-shot 1987 documentary “Athens, Ga. Inside/Out” and the band opens and closes the doc’s soundtrack on I.R.S. […]

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The Alliance Theatre Is Holding An Open Casting Call With Kristian Bush and Janece Shaffer. No Pressure.

The upcoming world premiere of Atlanta playwright Janece Shaffer’s new work “Troubadour” with 11 new songs penned by Sugarland’s Kristian Bush, music direction by Brandon Bush and directed by Alliance artistic director Susan V. Booth is, without a doubt, one of the most anticipated productions of the city’s upcoming theatrical season. In a rare move, […]

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