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Tunes For These Times: Tony Bennett, “When Lights Are Low,” 1964

Editor’s Note: Like many of us self-isolating during this unnerving COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve been turning to music as a source of comfort. As I began pulling out certain albums from […]

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Art + Entertain

In a Global Pandemic, Evan Lowenstein’s Stageit Offers Out of Work Artists and Fans a Safe Space to Connect

This week, Stageit founder and CEO Evan Lowenstein knew his 10-year-old digital concert streaming platform had scaled an unparalleled peak of success when PayPal suddenly shut down his company’s account. […]

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Cityscapes

‘Those Who Remained,’ ‘Shared Legacies,’ Top 20th Annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Jury Prize Winners

As the 20th annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival wrapped up Thursday night with a closing night screening of the documentary “Saul and Ruby, To Life!” at the Sandy Springs Performing […]

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The Sisterhood of ‘Fun Home’: A Conversation With Rhyn McLemore Saver, Marcía Cunning and Eden Mew

It’s Friday night, an hour before curtain on stage at Actor’s Express and Eden Mew is running up to her two cast mates, Rhyn McLemore Saver and Marcía Cunning to […]

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From Civil Rights Struggles to a Red Cross Windfall: The Surprising History of Dave Brubeck’s ‘Time Out’

Thanks to Stephen A. Crist, professor of music history at Emory University, 61 years after its release, jazz fans finally have a painstakingly researched, behind the scenes examination of the […]

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You Know Their Voices. Now, Meet the Dedicated, Dependable Men of TOAST (The Old Announcers at Shoney’s on Tuesday)

A Note from Eldredge ATL December Guest Editor David de Vries: TOAST has been such a welcome fraternity in my life. It has evolved over the decades from a working […]

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Cityscapes
From ‘Full Monty’ Stripping to Playing Christ in a Hoodie, Haden Rider Is Up For Any Challenge

A Note From December Eldredge ATL Guest Editor David de Vries: Haden was a student of mine when I did an Artist in Residence at Brenau University back in 2012. […]

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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 […]

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Cityscapes

Leia — and Carrie Fisher— Receive a Fitting Finale in ‘Rise of Skywalker’

The following article contains major plot points from "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker." Read no further if you would prefer to see "Episode IX" with all of its surprises […]

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‘A Journey of Love and Loss’: Jamie Chung Discusses Her New Film ‘1985’

In the new critically acclaimed AIDS period drama “1985,” actress Jamie Chung, who’s perhaps best known for playing Blink on the hit Fox Marvel series “The Gifted” and portraying Mulan on ABC’s “Once Upon a Time” is demonstrating her considerable talents for serious drama. In the beautifully shot black and white indie film now playing […]

‘A Journey of Love and Loss’: Jamie Chung Discusses Her New Film ‘1985’

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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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‘We’re Running It’: David de Vries on Playing John Walter’s Pivotal Moment in ‘Richard Jewell’

As soon as he was cast as Atlanta Journal-Constitution managing editor John Walter in Clint Eastwood’s drama “Richard Jewell” last summer, Atlanta actor David de Vries began his research into the late newspaper editor’s life. In the film, sharing a scene with Olivia Wilde as AJC reporter Kathy Scruggs, de Vries has to play, perhaps, […]

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 […]

Analyzing Ebenezer: ‘A Christmas Carol’ Actor David de Vries on the Enduring Appeal of the Dickens Classic

Editor’s Note: Throughout the month, Eldredge ATL December Guest Editor David de Vries will spotlight some of his favorite Atlantans, along with discussing his roles in two big projects this month, playing Ebenezer Scrooge in the Alliance Theatre’s annual staging of “A Christmas Carol” and portraying AJC editor John Walter in director Clint Eastwood’s shot-in-Atlanta […]

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The Sisterhood of ‘Fun Home’: A Conversation With Rhyn McLemore Saver, Marcía Cunning and Eden Mew

It’s Friday night, an hour before curtain on stage at Actor’s Express and Eden Mew is running up to her two cast mates, Rhyn McLemore Saver and Marcía Cunning to greet them with a hug. In return, Saver is admiring Mew’s cool floral-accented dress, joking with her, “I want to steal your entire wardrobe.” The […]

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That Time I Cold-Called James Beard at Home and He Gave Me His Cherished Onion Sandwich Recipe!

By Susan Puckett for Eldredge ATL Seeing the Theatrical Outfit production of “I Love to Eat” rekindled my memory of interviewing James Beard. As a food writer at the Cleveland Plain Dealer in (I believe) 1984, I was putting together a feature for the Sunday Magazine on well-known food people and their favorite midnight snacks. I […]

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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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