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

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

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

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

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 […]
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The Five Things To Know Before You Go to Atlanta’s Harry Potter The Exhibition

The Five Things To Know Before You Go to Atlanta’s Harry Potter The Exhibition

“Which Hogwarts House are you?” I’ll admit the question — posed by a member of the 360 Media PR team sitting at the entrance of Harry Potter The Exhibition on […]
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‘I’m an activist who became an artist’: Remembering Harry Belafonte, 1927-2023

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

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

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

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

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

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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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‘Oh, Honey, I Ain’t No Icon’: Remembering Country Queen Loretta Lynn, 1932-2022

In an era filled with young micromanaged, media trained country acts, interviewing Loretta Lynn was something akin to trying to lasso a twister. Often, you had absolutely no idea where the conversation was headed next but the ride was always completely incomparable. The pride of Butcher Hollow, Kentucky had zero filter. Perhaps, not surprisingly, the […]

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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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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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‘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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‘Songs by Honeybird’: Two Uncle Green Bandmates Reunite for Peter McDade’s New Southern Rock Fueled Novel

In 2018, when Atlanta history professor and novelist Peter McDade needed a singer to embody the fictitious 1960s Southern rocker Harlan Honeybird who was emerging from his laptop, his first call was to a former Basking Ridge, N.J. third grade classmate. It helped the creative process immeasurably that McDade’s childhood pal is also Jeff Jensen, […]

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A Family Devastated By War: Sun Mee Chomet and Joseph Pendergrast on Performing in ‘Bina’s Six Apples’ Amid the Invasion of Ukraine

When actors Sun Mee Chomet and Joseph Pendergrast first walked on stage to debut “Bina’s Six Apples” at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis in January, the world was still fighting spiking COVID infections. By the time the 1950 Korea War-set world premiere play opened at the Alliance Theatre on March 16, the real-time invasion […]

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The New ’10-56′ Delivers a Powerful and Poignant ‘Stop Asian Hate’ Themed Short Film to Festival Audiences

While visiting his sister in Malaysia last year during the country’s strict pandemic lockdown, Grammy-winning engineer Phil Tan, who has earned golden gramophones for his work with Mariah Carey, Rihanna and Ludacris, turned to a new hobby — screenwriting. The resulting script, later collaborated on with writer-producer Michael Lucker, is the powerful new short film […]

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Exclusive: ‘The Bitch is Back!’ Atlanta Drag Icon Charlie Brown Discusses His Return to the Stage March 4

Legendary Atlanta drag performer Charlie Brown can sum up his feelings about his much-anticipated March 4 return to the stage in three words: “I’m antsy, I’m excited and I’m nervous.” Hold up, the city’s most famous female impersonator who’s been gracing Atlanta stages for 44 years, the star of Backstreet’s iconic Charlie Brown’s Cabaret and […]

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Race, War and the Art of Resigning: Why Paul Hemphill’s Reporting Still Resonates

Paul Hemphill didn’t live to witness our current pandemic-propelled “Great Resignation.” And yet, nearly 50 years ago in the pages of Southern Voices magazine, he might have penned the perfect manifesto for the movement. In his iconic essay “Quitting The Paper,” Hemphill recounts the rain splattered evening when, sustained by a series of Beefeater martinis, […]

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