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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 ‘Rich’s Remembered,’ GPB Unwraps a New Atlanta Holiday Tradition

Thanks to Georgia Public Broadcasting, Atlantans will have one final holiday gift to unwrap and savor on Christmas Night at 7 pm — “Rich’s Remembered,” a brand new one-hour documentary about the famed Atlanta retailer. Built in 1901, the legendary six-story downtown department store, located on the corner of Broad and Forsyth Streets, was imploded […]

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Putting the Skin in ‘Skintight,’ Wendy Melkonian Dazzles Atlanta Once Again

In theatre, actors are trained that an audience’s eye will immediately be drawn to the truest thing on stage. In the 32nd Actor’s Express season opening production of playwright’s Joshua Harmon’s “Skintight,” from the moment she hits the stage dragging a roller suitcase behind her, all eyes are glued on Wendy Melkonian. As Jodi Isaac, […]

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‘Judy’ is a Dazzling Technicolor-Hued View of Garland’s Dark Final Days

Fifty years after her passing, Judy Garland has now been dead longer than she was alive. This year marks the 50th anniversary of her accidental drug overdose at age 47 and the 80th anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz,” the 1939 MGM classic that made her a star. The timing then is perfect for “Judy,” […]

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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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Margaret Cho Gets Serious About Going “PsyCHO”

Honorary Atlantan Margaret Cho returns to her adoptive city this Thursday, October 29 when she brings her latest politically charged show “PsyCHO” to the Tabernacle downtown. Not since the George W. Bush administration has a period in U.S. history proved so deliciously ripe for Cho’s trademark topical, thought-provoking, insightful and edgy comedy. In “PsyCHO,” Donald […]

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“The Best Teacher You Ever Had” : Tom Key Takes Audiences Inside The Mystical World of Buckminster Fuller

  Tom Key is eternally grateful to his neighbors for not calling the cops this fall as he wandered his Oak Grove neighborhood, babbling aloud about geodesic domes and Dymaxion cars. This month, in perhaps his most ambitious one-man show yet, the iconic Atlanta actor is tackling the role of inventor, architect and Green Movement […]

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Q&A with Emily Saliers: Partying at Ponce, Finding “One Lost Day”

Four years ago, Indigo Girls headlined the inaugural Party at Ponce fundraiser when the future Ponce City Market was basically Atlanta’s ultimate cobwebbed one-million-square-foot fixer-upper. When Atlanta’s favorite Grammy-winning Emory University grads return to the venue Saturday night to introduce fans to songs from the duo’s new album, “One Lost Day,” Party at Ponce attendees […]

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Atlanta LGBT Icons Gather for Heart-Stopping “Queer Moxie” World Premiere

  “Queer Moxie” directors Heather Provoncha and Leo Hollen Jr. had a few heart-stopping moments Sunday afternoon at the world premiere of their Atlanta-set documentary, “Queer Moxie” at the Out on Film festival. Twice during the sold-out inaugural screening at Landmark Midtown Arts Cinema, the film froze onscreen as the doc’s directors, cast members, family […]

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