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Author Candice Dyer

  • Candice Dyer

    Editorial Contributor

    Candice Dyer's work has also appeared in Men’s Journal, Paste, Garden & Gun, Georgia Music Magazine, Georgia Trend, Brightleaf: A Journal of Southern Writing, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and other publications. Her essay about the fiftieth anniversary of Waffle House was anthologized in Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing. She is the author of Street Singers, Soul Shakers, and Rebels with a Cause: Music from Macon, a look at the rollicking lives of Little Richard, Otis Redding, James Brown, the Allman Brothers Band, Wet Willie, Marshall Tucker, and other artists and music-makers with ties to Middle Georgia.

Blondie Strange as the face of our city?

The Clermont Lounge’s most famous stripper is the icon of a contest to brand Atlanta

When Reconstruction-era booster Henry Grady first extolled the “New South,” did he envision Blondie Strange as the “face of Atlanta,” or would the sight of her dolled up as a belle in pearls and white gloves give him the vapors? Read More

Furry Weekend Atlanta turns 10

A chat with FWA founder Tiger Paw

Please don’t tease the animals. “It’s considered a breach of etiquette to sneak up and pull someone’s tail,” says the man known as “Tiger Paw,” founder and director of Furry Weekend Atlanta, which celebrates its tenth anniversary March 14 to 17 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza. Read More

Q&A with Natasha Trethewey

A poet laureate on Southern identity

With Emory professor Natasha Trethewey named poet laureate of the United States, discussions of Southern identity get a higher profile. Read More

Marla Lawson Put a Face to Crime

Georgia Bureau of Investigation's forensic artist draws to get criminals off the street

Marla Lawson’s artwork ranks among the most realistic and recognizable in the country, but no sane collector wants to hang her masterpieces above the mantel. Blame her unwitting models, who have varied in size, coloring, tattoos, and scars but generally share the same gleam in the eye—that look of desperate, crazy malice, with pupils unnaturally dilated or constricted, depending on the drugs. Read More

Blackberry Smoke Releases Third Album

Country, jazz, and rock influence this Atlanta-based band

This band’s sweet jams really jell around the hickory fires of a barbecue pit—or in the cigarette haze of a juke joint—so the handle Blackberry Smoke fits the Atlanta-based Southern rockers just fine. Read More