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Created in COVID-19 Quarantine, Atlanta Filmmaker Aaron Strand’s ‘Here With Me’ Spreads a Message of Hope

In his powerful new short film, “Here With Me,” shot entirely in COVID-19 quarantine, Atlanta filmmaker and actor Aaron Stand somehow manages to expertly capture the fears and the hopes […]

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Cityscapes

Tunes For These Times: Judy Garland, “At Home At The Palace,” 1967

From The Editor: In these difficult times, Tunes For These Times spotlights lesser-known recordings from favorite performers on albums that deliver joy. By Libby Whittemore For Eldredge ATL Picture this... […]

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Art + Entertain

Tunes For These Times, ‘Mahalia Jackson in Concert, Easter Sunday, 1967’

Editor’s Note: Like many of us self-isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve been turning to music. As I pulled out albums from my collection, I discovered a consistent theme — […]

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Art + Entertain
Tunes For These Times: Al Green, “I Can’t Stop,” 2003

Editor’s Note: Like many of us self-isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve been turning to music. As I pulled out albums from my collection, I discovered a consistent theme — […]

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Art + Entertain

Dream Undeterred, Cremalosa Owner Meridith Ford Keeps the Gelato Coming Despite COVID-19

While preparing to launch Cremalosa, her brand-new Decatur hand-crafted gelato shop this winter, after running two restaurants, multiple newspaper stints and training as a pastry chef at Johnson & Wales, […]

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Cuisine & Cocktails

‘Christmas’ in April: For Out Front Theatre, the Show Goes On Online During COVID-19

Even as he applied for unemployment Tuesday morning amid the darkened post-apocalyptic playground set still on stage from the shuttered production of “Warplay,” Out Front Theatre Company artistic director Paul […]

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Art + Entertain
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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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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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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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 and story elements intact. Since her 2016 death at age 60, “Star Wars” fans have wondered and worried how the franchise’s favorite princess-turned-general matriarch’s story […]

‘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 […]

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‘Christmas’ in April: For Out Front Theatre, the Show Goes On Online During COVID-19

Even as he applied for unemployment Tuesday morning amid the darkened post-apocalyptic playground set still on stage from the shuttered production of “Warplay,” Out Front Theatre Company artistic director Paul Conroy remained optimistic. Like every other theatre company in Atlanta, the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic has upended Out Front’s theatre season, along with those across […]

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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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