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With Its Inclusive Story, ‘The Ones We Love’ Invites Us to Love Westerns Again

With Its Inclusive Story, ‘The Ones We Love’ Invites Us to Love Westerns Again

At a slim 165 pages, “The Ones We Love,” Jonathan Sayer’s debut novel, grabs readers on page one and doesn’t let go. In an era when many viewers now scroll […]
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Drag Legend Hot Chocolate Returns to Her Atlanta Roots

Drag Legend Hot Chocolate Returns to Her Atlanta Roots

While she now knocks them dead nightly on the Las Vegas strip performing as Tina Turner and Patti LaBelle, drag legend Hot Chocolate was born in Atlanta over 50 years […]
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Actor Michael Tacconi Discusses the Power of ‘Parade’ in 2025 America

Actor Michael Tacconi Discusses the Power of ‘Parade’ in 2025 America

When the Tony Award-winning “Parade” first played the Fox Theatre 25 years ago this summer, the musical by Atlanta native Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown depicting the 1913 murder […]
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In 1976, Celestine Sibley Covered Jimmy Carter’s Nomination With a Dry Cleaner’s VIP Tag

In 1976, Celestine Sibley Covered Jimmy Carter’s Nomination With a Dry Cleaner’s VIP Tag

Editor’s Note: This excerpt from a 1976 Democratic Convention dispatch by Celestine Sibley, who among her other tasks, covered the Georgia state legislature for years, was originally published in the […]
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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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With Its Inclusive Story, ‘The Ones We Love’ Invites Us to Love Westerns Again

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Drag Legend Hot Chocolate Returns to Her Atlanta Roots

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In 1976, Celestine Sibley Covered Jimmy Carter’s Nomination With a Dry Cleaner’s VIP Tag

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‘I’m an activist who became an artist’: Remembering Harry Belafonte, 1927-2023

His sense of humor surprised me. You don’t expect living legends and civil rights icons to be funny. But yes, Harry Belafonte had jokes. Memories of my 2016 conversation with the activist, actor and singer came flooding back Tuesday morning as my phone screen filled with news alerts reporting Harry Belafonte’s death at age 96. […]

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From Paideia to Paris: A Q&A With ‘Moulin Rouge’ Swing Tamrin Goldberg

For Paideia School graduate and former Atlanta Ballet Center for Education student Tamrin Goldberg, her return to our city in “Moulin Rouge The Musical,” playing through Sunday at the Fox Theatre, represents a homecoming. As a dance student 15 years ago, Goldberg performed in the Atlanta Ballet’s “Nutcracker” on the historic stage. “We got to […]

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‘General Hospital’ Turns 60 and Why We Love Lucy: A Conversation With Lynn Herring

ABC’s “General Hospital” has come a long way from when Dr. Steve Hardy spent the entire 1963 inaugural episode of the soap reassuring a melodramatic teenager that her face — reconfigured in a car crash by her boozing boyfriend — would heal. As television’s longest running daytime drama prepares to celebrate its milestone 60th anniversary […]

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Cocktails With Vanessa No. 4: Go Bar Cosmopolitan

As Stan Getz’s bossa nova period drifts out of the speakers overhead, Go Bar bartender Tom is enjoying the calm before the storm this Saturday night. It’s a few minutes after the club, located at 195 Prince Street, has opened its doors. This is when Vanessa Briscoe Hay and her musician husband Bob Hay usually […]

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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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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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‘Invisible’: An Out on Film Q&A With the Cast of the Powerful New Gay Women in Nashville Doc

Director T.J. Parsell’s emotional and eye-opening new documentary “Invisible” finally lifts the veil on a group of gay women songwriters responsible for some of Nashville’s biggest hits over the last 50 years. Successful songwriters who, due to their sexual orientation in the male dominated country music industry, had to remain invisible in order to make […]

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‘The Rachel’? Joey & Chandler’s Recliners? They’ll Be There For You at the Atlanta ‘Friends’ Experience

As the familiar lavender-hued, yellow plastic picture frame-accented door slid open to reveal an iconic burnt orange sofa in front of a fountain during a media preview of the Atlanta “Friends” Experience Tuesday afternoon, someone audibly gasped. Yes, even the most cynical and grizzled of veteran Atlanta media types were beaming like the Grinch as […]

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‘In The Heights’ is the Life-Affirming Big Screen Summer Movie We All Need Right Now

The Summer of 2020 was supposed to be the summer of the much-anticipated film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award winning semi-autobiographical musical. When the global pandemic hit, Warner Bros. promptly scratched that time line. The move turned out to be a blessing. When the two-and-a-half hour Jon M. Chu (“Crazy Rich Asians”) directed spectacle finally hits […]

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