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Atlanta Radio Icon Steve McCoy Needs Our Help. Here’s What You Can Do.

Atlanta Radio Icon Steve McCoy Needs Our Help. Here’s What You Can Do.

For over three decades, Atlanta radio morning man Steve McCoy woke us up and made us laugh, even on the mornings we sat idling behind jack knifed tractor-trailers on Spaghetti […]
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Singer-Songwriter Chip McGuire Inks Deal With Nashville’s Iron Gate Records

Singer-Songwriter Chip McGuire Inks Deal With Nashville’s Iron Gate Records

Under the watchful eye of a Bob Dylan painting hanging over his right shoulder at Bantam Pub in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, singer-songwriter Chip McGuire is in a good […]
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Six Essential Tony Bennett Albums

Six Essential Tony Bennett Albums

When a recording artist is prolific as Tony Bennett, it can be daunting to dig through his discography, especially on today’s streaming platforms. After all, the singer released nearly 100 […]
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From Civil Rights to Lady Gaga: 25 Years of Talks With Tony Bennett

From Civil Rights to Lady Gaga: 25 Years of Talks With Tony Bennett

In the middle of an editorial meeting in the Spring of 1990, the conference room phone buzzed. It was Kim, the Atlantic City magazine receptionist. “Rich, Tony Bennett is on […]
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‘Hairspray’s’ Matthew J. Kelly on Drag Bans, Broadway’s Evolving DEI and Coming Home to the Fox Theatre

‘Hairspray’s’ Matthew J. Kelly on Drag Bans, Broadway’s Evolving DEI and Coming Home to the Fox Theatre

Thanks to an arts supporting aunt, Matthew J. Kelly was first dazzled by the Broadway musical “Wicked” as a kid in the audience at the historic Fox Theatre. For Kelly, […]
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‘I’m an activist who became an artist’: Remembering Harry Belafonte, 1927-2023

‘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 […]
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From Paideia to Paris: A Q&A With ‘Moulin Rouge’ Swing Tamrin Goldberg

From Paideia to Paris: A Q&A With ‘Moulin Rouge’ Swing Tamrin Goldberg

For Paideia School graduate and former Atlanta Ballet Center for Education student Tamrin Goldberg, her return to our city in “Moulin Rouge The Musical,” playing through Sunday at the Fox […]
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Tennessee’s Drag Ban Is Far More Dangerous Than Anything I Ever Faced in the 1970s. Here’s Why. [Opinion]

Tennessee’s Drag Ban Is Far More Dangerous Than Anything I Ever Faced in the 1970s. Here’s Why. [Opinion]

By Mr. Charlie Brown Eldredge ATL guest columnist Way back in 1971 at start of my drag career at the Watch Your Hat and Coat Saloon in Nashville, we had […]
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‘General Hospital’ Turns 60 and Why We Love Lucy: A Conversation With Lynn Herring

‘General Hospital’ Turns 60 and Why We Love Lucy: A Conversation With Lynn Herring

ABC’s “General Hospital” has come a long way from when Dr. Steve Hardy spent the entire 1963 inaugural episode of the soap reassuring a melodramatic teenager that her face — […]
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Atlanta Radio Icon Steve McCoy Needs Our Help. Here’s What You Can Do.

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Singer-Songwriter Chip McGuire Inks Deal With Nashville’s Iron Gate Records

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Six Essential Tony Bennett Albums

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From Civil Rights to Lady Gaga: 25 Years of Talks With Tony Bennett

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‘Hairspray’s’ Matthew J. Kelly on Drag Bans, Broadway’s Evolving DEI and Coming Home to the Fox Theatre

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

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A Crate Digger’s Christmas: 12 Overlooked LP Classics to Spin This Holiday

My obsession with Christmas records can be traced directly back to the series of “A Very Merry Christmas” LPs sold exclusively each holiday season by the W.T. Grant’s department store chain. From 1968 to 1975, the annual sampler of holiday tunes featured a bizarro mash up of performers on each album, pressed up by the […]

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With His Debut Novel, ‘All About The Benjamins,’ Zev Good Writes About All of Us

Midway through his debut novel, “All About the Benjamins,” Atlanta writer Zev Good’s family patriarch Joel Benjamin makes the following observation: “Let’s just get through this, then everyone can go back to hating each other, and no one will have to speak to anyone else until Rosh Hashanah, and it’ll be OK.” The scene: a […]

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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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“Serial Black Face” Playwright Janine Nabers Transports Atlanta Back To Its Darkest Hour In A Search For Closure

The first thing you encounter entering backstage at the Actor’s Express world premiere of playwright Janine Nabers’ “Serial Black Face” is a medical examiner gurney containing a body draped in a white sheet. Actor’s Express artistic director Freddie Ashley, who is brewing up some late-afternoon coffee, has dubbed it “the world’s saddest theatrical prop.” In […]

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Ben Rose’s Debut Exhibition “Striking Poses” Will Make A Lasting Impression At Lenox Square

There was a moment Monday night, about the time the massive title card of his Lenox Square exhibition was unwrapped that Atlanta photographer Ben Rose’s career came completely into focus. For the past 17 years, Atlantans know they’re hanging in the hottest nightclub or the see-and-be-seen charitable fashion event if Rose’s elongated frame is positioned […]

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