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Nearly 20 Years After it Closed, Atlanta’s Beloved Backstreet Inspires a New Holiday Ornament

Nearly 20 Years After it Closed, Atlanta’s Beloved Backstreet Inspires a New Holiday Ornament

As a 17-year-old Chamblee High School student in 2003, Angela Vara still vividly remembers being invited by her Aunt Vicki Vara to ride atop the Backstreet Atlanta float in the […]
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With its New Sweet Potato Ale, Our Culture Brewing Plants Seeds for Black-Owned Craft Beer to Grow

With its New Sweet Potato Ale, Our Culture Brewing Plants Seeds for Black-Owned Craft Beer to Grow

For Atlanta craft beer lovers, a new Thanksgiving tradition arrives on taps and in stores this week, inspired by brotherhood, friendship and a creative collaboration with Athens’ own Creature Comforts […]
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‘Plant Forward’: Richard and Jazmin Blais Discuss the Atlanta Roots of Their New Cookbook

‘Plant Forward’: Richard and Jazmin Blais Discuss the Atlanta Roots of Their New Cookbook

While Richard Blais is best known these days as a James Beard Award-nominated cookbook author, “Top Chef All-Stars” winner and co-hosting Fox’s “Next Level Chef,” longtime Atlanta diners will fondly […]
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As ‘General Hospital’ Gears Up for Graceland Fan Weekend, a Conversation with Laura Wright and Cynthia Watros

As ‘General Hospital’ Gears Up for Graceland Fan Weekend, a Conversation with Laura Wright and Cynthia Watros

It was a moment that makes you grateful to be a daytime viewer. In a scene that aired late last month, there they were, Emmy winners all — Cynthia Watros, […]
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Atlanta Radio Icon Steve McCoy Needs Our Help. Here’s What You Can Do.

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 […]
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Singer-Songwriter Chip McGuire Inks Deal With Nashville’s Iron Gate Records

Singer-Songwriter Chip McGuire Inks Deal With Nashville’s Iron Gate Records

Under the watchful eye of a Bob Dylan painting hanging over his right shoulder at Bantam Pub in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, singer-songwriter Chip McGuire is in a good […]
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Six Essential Tony Bennett Albums

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 […]
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From Civil Rights to Lady Gaga: 25 Years of Talks With Tony Bennett

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 […]
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‘Hairspray’s’ Matthew J. Kelly on Drag Bans, Broadway’s Evolving DEI and Coming Home to the Fox Theatre

‘Hairspray’s’ Matthew J. Kelly on Drag Bans, Broadway’s Evolving DEI and Coming Home to the Fox Theatre

Thanks to an arts supporting aunt, Matthew J. Kelly was first dazzled by the Broadway musical “Wicked” as a kid in the audience at the historic Fox Theatre. For Kelly, […]
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Nearly 20 Years After it Closed, Atlanta’s Beloved Backstreet Inspires a New Holiday Ornament

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With its New Sweet Potato Ale, Our Culture Brewing Plants Seeds for Black-Owned Craft Beer to Grow

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‘Plant Forward’: Richard and Jazmin Blais Discuss the Atlanta Roots of Their New Cookbook

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As ‘General Hospital’ Gears Up for Graceland Fan Weekend, a Conversation with Laura Wright and Cynthia Watros

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Atlanta Radio Icon Steve McCoy Needs Our Help. Here’s What You Can Do.

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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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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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‘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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