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‘La Cage’ Life Lessons: Quick Costume Changes, Dancing in Heels and Finding Your Inner Femininity

When you’ve spent weeks in rehearsal in full drag, trying to master up to 10 costume changes, all while dancing in various length heels, you’re ready for a little field […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Brenda Lee Reflects on Some of the Best Records From Her 60-Year Career — And One We All Need To Thank Her For!

When you cut your first record — a little toe-tapper titled “Jambalaya” — in 1956, it’s only natural that some folks in 2019 tend to Google you to see if […]

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VIDEO: Brenda Lee Receives Inaugural Georgia Legend Award

Country Music, Rock n Roll and Georgia Music Hall of Famer Brenda Lee was feted in high fashion Saturday night at the Fox Theatre's Egyptian Ballroom. The occasion — Georgia […]

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Cityscapes

My Hollywood Friends Are Screaming ‘Boycott Georgia!’ Here’s Why You Should Rethink That.

By Chad Darnell for Eldredge ATL Spoiler Alert: You’re going to be angry at me by the time you’re done reading this. Pissing people off has always been my special […]

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Soul Legend Candi Staton is Now Cancer-Free: ‘I’ve been through hell and back’

For over 20 years, legendary soul singer Candi Staton has been singing her number two U.K. hit “You Got The Love” on stages all over the world. But it wasn’t […]

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Cityscapes

Why Mysterio Remains the Perfect Villain for 2019 in ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’

In one of “Spider-Man: Far From Home’s” most chillingly prescient scenes, Quentin Beck aka Mysterio, tells Queens’ favorite neighborhood webslinger, “Nowadays, people will believe anything.” For a hero/villain first created […]

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‘Come From Away’ Cast Members Meet the People Who Inspired Their Roles

The heartwarming hit Broadway musical “Come From Away,” playing through Sunday at the Fox Theatre details how the townspeople of the tiny island town of Gander, Newfoundland responded on September […]

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Vincent Price’s Terrifying Secret Life as a … Foodie!

Just in time for All Hallows’ Eve, Vincent Price’s daughter, author and interior designer Victoria Price arrived in Atlanta this month with a stack of the brand-new 50th anniversary edition of her parent’s legendary cookbook, “A Treasury of Great Recipes” (Calla Editions, $50). Written by the Hollywood actor and horror movie icon and his wife […]

Vincent Price’s Terrifying Secret Life as a … Foodie!

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Soul Legend Candi Staton is Now Cancer-Free: ‘I’ve been through hell and back’

For over 20 years, legendary soul singer Candi Staton has been singing her number two U.K. hit “You Got The Love” on stages all over the world. But it wasn’t until Staton, 79, was enduring 10 weeks of chemotherapy and 30 rounds of radiation while waging a year-long battle against breast cancer that she finally […]

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‘The Prom’s’ Improbably Perfect Timing, from Atlanta premiere to Broadway hit

In theatre, timing is everything. Broadway nerds like me received a master class in this old adage a few weeks ago when FX’s remarkable limited run series “Fosse/Verdon” revealed that the now-iconic Broadway musical “Chicago,” Gwen Verdon’s long-gestating pet project with husband/choreographer/director/chief cad Bob Fosse nearly closed during its Broadway debut in 1975. That was, […]

Sammy & Buddy at The Sands: The Inside Story of the Las Vegas Live Recording You’ve Never Heard

According to Jimmy Bowen, one the best live albums ever recorded in Las Vegas nearly didn’t happen. The Reprise Records producer who had just delivered chart-topping hits for his boss Frank Sinatra and his pallie Dean Martin via “Strangers in the Night” and “Everybody Loves Somebody” at the height of Beatlemania was hoping lightning would […]

How Atlanta’s 54-Year-Old Mary Shotwell Little Case Helped Inspire Mary Kay Andrews’ Latest Novel

Atlanta author Mary Kay Andrews was a fifth grader in St. Petersburg, Florida when Atlanta C&S bank secretary Mary Shotwell Little vanished without a trace from the parking lot of Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead. Andrews and her sisters knew the South’s largest covered mall well. Each summer on the way to family vacation in […]

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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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Cocktails With Vanessa No. 2: Little King’s Shuffle Club Blueberry Lemonade

Eldredge ATL July Guest Editor and Pylon vocalist Vanessa Briscoe Hay on why she selected Little King’s Shuffle Club, 223 W. Hancock Ave. as one of her favorite downtown Athens spots: “The third incarnation of Pylon began here in 2004. The bar wasn’t even officially open yet. Randy had said, ‘I wanna play together again, […]

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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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