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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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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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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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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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‘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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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 Junction on the way to work. McCoy’s voice welcomed visitors from around the globe during the 1996 Centennial Summer Olympics, introduced an impromptu in-studio morning […]

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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 first introduced young listeners to the Atlanta New Wave act. Songs like “The Bells Ring,” “Some New Highway,” “Pull Back My Spring” and “She’s Bringing […]

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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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Ann Nesby on Playing Grandma in ‘Tina,’ That ‘Queen Sugar’ finale and duetting with Sheryl Lee Ralph

With a singing and acting career now spanning 30 years, Fayetteville resident and reigning Queen of Inspirational Soul Ann Nesby is busier than ever. For starters, she’s in the middle of a 30-city tour playing Anna-Mae Bullock’s Gran Georgeanna in the national tour of the Broadway hit “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” at Atlanta’s Fox […]

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‘A Universal Story’: The Cast of ‘Kim’s Convenience’ on Bringing the Hit Play to Gwinnett’s Aurora Theatre

Since 1996, the Aurora Theatre in Gwinnett County has been offering family-favorite American musicals and its beloved annual Christmas Canteen holiday tradition for local theatre lovers who might not want to idle in their cars 30 minutes south on I-85 to see a show in Atlanta. So, the Aurora production of playwright Ins Choi’s “Kim’s […]

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Actor Joseph Yang’s Life Comes Full Circle With His Role in Dolly Parton’s new Christmas Movie

Between takes on the shot-at-Dollywood holiday movie “Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas” last August, the film’s namesake herself took a moment to praise the work of her scene partner, Atlanta actor Joseph Yang, who plays harried production assistant Woody in the family film. In response, Yang told the amusement park’s owner, “It’s great to be […]

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Remastered and Expanded, Steve and Eydie’s ‘That Holiday Feeling!’ Swings Anew in 2022

For a generation of Americans, alongside yuletide LPs from Johnny Mathis and Andy Williams, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme’s 1964 album “That Holiday Feeling!” represents an ingrained part of the Christmas season. Although Gorme died in 2013 at age 84 and Lawrence, now 87, retired from public life following an Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2019, their […]

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