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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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As ‘General Hospital’ Says Goodbye to Jacklyn Zeman, Kin Shriner Remembers Their 46-Year Friendship

As ‘General Hospital’ Says Goodbye to Jacklyn Zeman, Kin Shriner Remembers Their 46-Year Friendship

Millions of “General Hospital” viewers will gather this week to mark the passing of iconic “General Hospital” actress Jacklyn Zeman and her equally iconic character, nurse Barbara Jean Spencer. Zeman’s […]
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‘Unparalleled Joy’: ‘A Christmas Gift For You’ at 60

‘Unparalleled Joy’: ‘A Christmas Gift For You’ at 60

For six weeks in the scorching Los Angeles summer of 1963, the members of The Ronettes, The Crystals, Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans and Darlene Love were holed […]
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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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20 Years in the Making, Jazz Fans Celebrate the Release of ‘Becoming Ella Fitzgerald,’ a New Biography

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 albums over the course of his 70-year career. If you’re looking for the hits, this isn’t the list for you. Thankfully, others have already assembled […]

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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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How Creature Comforts Beer Scored That Starring Role in ‘Avengers: Endgame’

Creature Comforts CEO Chris Herron and co-founders David Stein and Adam Beauchamp couldn’t have asked for a better way to mark the fifth anniversary of the acclaimed Athens-based craft beer company on April 26. To celebrate their Ant-Man-sized brand’s starring role in the mega Marvel superhero hit “Avengers: Endgame,” the company rented out a pair […]

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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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