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‘Chase The Light’: Cesar Perez on His Gritty, Grace-Filled Memoir Inspired By a Near-Fatal Accident

‘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 […]
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‘Speak Our Truth and Don’t Back Down. Ever.’ A Q&A With the Cast of ‘Lizzie’

‘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 […]
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‘Genesis Road’ is the Perfect Post-Roe Road Trip We All Need Right Now

‘Genesis Road’ is the Perfect Post-Roe Road Trip We All Need Right Now

Abandoned for years in a folder on her computer desktop, East Tennessee writer Susan O’Dell Underwood says the manuscript for what would become her new debut novel saved her life […]
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‘I’m a Storyteller’: Terry Burrell on Bringing Billie Holiday to Life in ‘Lady Day’

‘I’m a Storyteller’: Terry Burrell on Bringing Billie Holiday to Life in ‘Lady Day’

She emerges on stage, broken and boozed up. The members of the jazz trio behind her nervously exchange glances in the dark. And by the time she’s finished her opening […]
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The Very Cool Facts Behind How Disney Stages ‘Frozen’ at the Fox Theatre

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 […]
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Singer-Songwriter Chip McGuire Plots His Future by Examining His Past

Singer-Songwriter Chip McGuire Plots His Future by Examining His Past

Like the rest of us, metro Atlanta singer-songwriter Chip McGuire is emerging from the pandemic a changed person. Over the past 26 months, his act, The Chip McGuire Band, an […]
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Carver Grad Teshomech Olenja Discusses Her ‘Beautiful’ Broadway Life on the Road

Carver Grad Teshomech Olenja Discusses Her ‘Beautiful’ Broadway Life on the Road

As any Broadway performer will tell you, the swings — those folks who have to memorize the entire show and then jump off the sidelines at a moment’s notice to […]
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‘We’re In For a Disturbing Fight’: Cynthia Tucker on ‘The Southernization of America’ and Our Democracy in the Balance

‘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 […]
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Duluth High Grad Omar Lopez-Cepero Plays Judas in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

Duluth High Grad Omar Lopez-Cepero Plays Judas in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

As theatre-goers flock to the Fox Theatre this week to see the 50th anniversary staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s iconic rock musical “Jesus Christ Superstar, the friendship […]
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‘Chase The Light’: Cesar Perez on His Gritty, Grace-Filled Memoir Inspired By a Near-Fatal Accident

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‘Speak Our Truth and Don’t Back Down. Ever.’ A Q&A With the Cast of ‘Lizzie’

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‘Genesis Road’ is the Perfect Post-Roe Road Trip We All Need Right Now

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‘I’m a Storyteller’: Terry Burrell on Bringing Billie Holiday to Life in ‘Lady Day’

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The Very Cool Facts Behind How Disney Stages ‘Frozen’ at the Fox Theatre

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Singer-Songwriter Chip McGuire Plots His Future by Examining His Past

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‘A Complete Original’: Remembering Atlanta Drag Legend Lily White, 1948-2021

Atlanta drag legend Lily White has toasted her adored adopted city for the final time. White, born Kyle Dennis Souder, died late Wednesday afternoon, from complications of cancer in hospice care in her hometown of Rome, Georgia. She was 73. The performer’s sister, Michelle Souder Tucker of Cedar Bluff, Alabama confirmed the passing on White’s […]

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Live From Phoenix, Francine Reed Readies Her First-Ever Streaming Show

As pandemic-related quarantine keeps most music venues shuttered for now, one of Atlanta’s most-loved singers is coming home. At least virtually. On Tuesday night at 8 pm, blues vocalist Francine Reed steps back onto stage for the first time in six months via a one-hour streaming show broadcast from Phoenix, her current hometown. Technically speaking, […]

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At Last, Sammy Davis Jr. Shines on Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under The Stars

Now in its 26th year of entertaining film fans across the globe, Turner Classic Movies is still finding fresh ways to delight viewers. On Tuesday, in a first for the Atlanta-based network as part of its month-long Summer Under The Stars, examining a single star’s career-length filmography over 24 hours, the work of iconic singer-dancer-actor […]

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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… The year was 1969. I had just finished the 7th grade and was giddy with excitement about entering the 8th grade in the fall. This […]

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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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‘After Forever’ Wins 5 Emmys, Including Best Digital Drama

“After Forever,” the Amazon Prime digital series co-created by Kevin Spirtas and Michael Slade and co-starring Atlanta’s Mitchell Anderson netted five Emmy Awards Friday and Sunday night in Pasadena, California at the 46th annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The series also picked up Emmys for Outstanding Writing for Slade and Spirtas, Outstanding Direction for Jennifer Pepperman, […]

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Thoroughly Modern Libby: With ‘Confessions of Hallmark Addict’ and a New Website, Libby Whittemore Embraces the Future

Nearly 20 years into the new millennium, Libby Whittemore cracks that she’s finally embracing the 21st century. With “Confessions of a Hallmark Addict,” her funny new social media video series dedicated to her favorite cable channel being shared and re-tweeted by popular Hallmark actors, including Barbara Niven and Kristoffer Polaha, the veteran Atlanta singer and […]

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The 11 Most Marvel-ous (And Spoiler-Free) Moments in ‘Avengers: Endgame’

With a running time of over three hours, the Pinewood Studios-filmed “Avengers: Endgame” is as stuffed and as sprawling as the 11-year Marvel Cinematic Universe that inspired this series finale. And despite the gazillion fan theories floating in cyberspace that have been generated since intergalactic villain Thanos (Josh Brolin) snapped his fingers at the maddeningly […]

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Meet Peggy Musgrove, the Woman You’ll Hate to Love in Topher Payne’s ‘Angry Fags’

In a single sentence during a WABE-FM “City Lights” interview with Myke Johns last week, “Angry Fags” playwright Topher Payne aptly explains the appeal of the play’s ascending political figure Peggy Musgrove: “Imagine if the Georgia GOP had a Stacey Abrams.” The description even gives Parris Sarter, the Atlanta actress who brings Peggy Musgrove to […]

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‘They Require Such Firmness’: That Time Celestine Sibley Got Parenting Advice From Joan Crawford

Editor’s Note: Among the many discoveries I made while researching and editing a collection of my late Atlanta Journal-Constitution colleague’s 60-year reporting career were her dispatches from Hollywood. By the 1990s when I worked with her in the newspaper’s Features Department, Celestine was best known for writing a column that ran multiple times each week […]

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‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Director Barry Jenkins on the film’s UGA Connection and Why He Altered the Iconic Novel’s Ending

As the lights came up last fall at the advance screening of “If Beale Street Could Talk,” the film’s director and screenwriter Barry Jenkins spotted a familiar face in the Atlantic Station movie theater — University of Georgia English and African-American Studies professor Ed Pavlic. After seeing Jenkins’ 2008 indie feature “Medicine for Melancholy,” Pavlic […]

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