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Nearly 20 Years After it Closed, Atlanta’s Beloved Backstreet Inspires a New Holiday Ornament

Nearly 20 Years After it Closed, Atlanta’s Beloved Backstreet Inspires a New Holiday Ornament

As a 17-year-old Chamblee High School student in 2003, Angela Vara still vividly remembers being invited by her Aunt Vicki Vara to ride atop the Backstreet Atlanta float in the […]
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With its New Sweet Potato Ale, Our Culture Brewing Plants Seeds for Black-Owned Craft Beer to Grow

With its New Sweet Potato Ale, Our Culture Brewing Plants Seeds for Black-Owned Craft Beer to Grow

For Atlanta craft beer lovers, a new Thanksgiving tradition arrives on taps and in stores this week, inspired by brotherhood, friendship and a creative collaboration with Athens’ own Creature Comforts […]
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‘Plant Forward’: Richard and Jazmin Blais Discuss the Atlanta Roots of Their New Cookbook

‘Plant Forward’: Richard and Jazmin Blais Discuss the Atlanta Roots of Their New Cookbook

While Richard Blais is best known these days as a James Beard Award-nominated cookbook author, “Top Chef All-Stars” winner and co-hosting Fox’s “Next Level Chef,” longtime Atlanta diners will fondly […]
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As ‘General Hospital’ Gears Up for Graceland Fan Weekend, a Conversation with Laura Wright and Cynthia Watros

As ‘General Hospital’ Gears Up for Graceland Fan Weekend, a Conversation with Laura Wright and Cynthia Watros

It was a moment that makes you grateful to be a daytime viewer. In a scene that aired late last month, there they were, Emmy winners all — Cynthia Watros, […]
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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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Nearly 20 Years After it Closed, Atlanta’s Beloved Backstreet Inspires a New Holiday Ornament

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With its New Sweet Potato Ale, Our Culture Brewing Plants Seeds for Black-Owned Craft Beer to Grow

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‘Plant Forward’: Richard and Jazmin Blais Discuss the Atlanta Roots of Their New Cookbook

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As ‘General Hospital’ Gears Up for Graceland Fan Weekend, a Conversation with Laura Wright and Cynthia Watros

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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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‘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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‘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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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 place, both personally and professionally, these days. Being proactive about a bipolar depression diagnosis, McGuire is in therapy and taking meds to treat the disorder. […]

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‘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 — reconfigured in a car crash by her boozing boyfriend — would heal. As television’s longest running daytime drama prepares to celebrate its milestone 60th anniversary […]

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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 line two.” I resisted the urge to roll my eyes as I quickly interrogated the facial expressions of my co-workers. As the magazine’s new, fresh […]

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Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Stevens Graubart Dish on 30 Years of Favorite Stories & Recipes

As part of her 80th birthday celebration this fall, Nathalie Dupree, dubbed “The Queen of Southern Cuisine” by Southern Living, has compiled “Nathalie Dupree’s Favorite Stories & Recipes,” a wonderful new collection of remembrances from her culinary career. From her days teaching thousands of Atlantans to cook at the iconic Rich’s department store cooking school […]

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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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‘Her Own Deity’: Nina Simone’s Trailblazing Life and Legacy Return in ‘Eunice in Paris’

On a warm Memorial Day weekend in 2000, Atlantans caught their final glimpse of Nina Simone when she strode regally onstage at the 23rd Atlanta Jazz Festival waving a feather-accented spirit stick. During “See-Line Woman,” the pianist and singer triumphantly danced, strutted and marched around the stage as a packed crowd of adoring fans at […]

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‘Chase The Light’: Cesar Perez on His Gritty, Grace-Filled Memoir Inspired By a Near-Fatal Accident

As Joni Mitchell once wryly observed, “sometimes, change comes at you like a broadside accident.” When the iconic singer-songwriter wrote those lyrics 30 years ago, Mitchell could not have predicted having to rebuild her life following a 2015 brain aneurysm. In his new powerful page-turner of a memoir, “Chase The Light: The Gruesome Art of […]

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‘Speak Our Truth and Don’t Back Down. Ever.’ A Q&A With the Cast of ‘Lizzie’

For those of us still grappling with the United States Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the current Actor’s Express production of the hit off-Broadway musical “Lizzie” is a brilliantly timed, two-hour primal scream therapy session in stiletto heels. Remarkably, this fierce female-led rock musical that explores the motivations behind the infamous 1892 murders […]

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The Very Cool Facts Behind How Disney Stages ‘Frozen’ at the Fox Theatre

For those taking in the spectacle that is “Frozen,” currently running at the Fox Theatre through Sunday, it’s perhaps an understatement to say Disney Theatrical productions have made great technological leaps forward since that computerized pyramid once wheezed hydraulic fluid onstage at the Alliance Theatre during the pre-Broadway run of “Aida” way back in 1998. […]

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‘We’re In For a Disturbing Fight’: Cynthia Tucker on ‘The Southernization of America’ and Our Democracy in the Balance

On Wednesday night at 7, Cynthia Tucker, the former Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial page editor returns to town with co-author and current University of South Alabama colleague Frye Gaillard to discuss their new book “The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance” (NewSouth Books, $25.95) at the Atlanta History Center in Buckhead. The […]

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