Dalí and rockers
In his native Barcelona, Martin Frias was an integral part of the arts and culture scene from the 1970s through the 1990s, mostly photographing rock musicians but also striking up a friendship with Salvador Dali.
Clark Atlanta University Homecoming: A timeline
Kasey Phillips Brown (class of ’94) and Minyon Frazier-Foluke (class of ’93) meet up with friends for the Clark Atlanta University Homecoming nearly every year. Kasey travels from Lakewood, California, and Minyon from St. Louis. Here's how they plan their weekend.
For Keeps, a shop for rare and classic black books, opens on Auburn Avenue
Rosa Duffy's bookstore, For Keeps, is more than a place for visitors to purchase rare and classic black books. Duffy designed it to also be a reading room where people can stop in and interact with history that is often overlooked or placed in the bottom of the dollar bins at other bookstores.
Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed tells the harrowing story of war in Liberia—from women’s point of view
In 2016, Danai Gurira's play Eclipsed became the first production to premiere on Broadway with an all-black, all-female creative team and cast. This month, Eclipsed makes its regional debut at Synchronicity Theatre.
Snapshot: World Salsa Championships
Dubbed the Olympics of Salsa, the entire competition airs on ESPN Deportes February 12.
RHOA Recap: Phaedra serves Bob Whitfield a bologna sandwich (on white bread!), Bar One opens
The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Episode 405: “Whine Bar” recap:As this week’s exercise in liver sadomasochism opens, we learn Phaedra Parks owns a cut glass cake plate and dome. With her initials painted on it. She’s baked Kandi Burruss a cake and delivered it to her Tags Boutique after last week’s Ridickulous surprise stripper-gram resulted in multiple accidental blindings on the rooftop of the Renaissance hotel. Apparently, Phaedra believes a conciliatory cake can make up for an adult entertainer interpreting the word “cocktail” a touch too literally. However, the most horrifying element of this sequence has nothing to do with Phaedra or Kandi. It’s the Bravo advertisement for some atrocity titled Kim Zolciak’s Due Date scheduled to hurl onto the airwaves next Sunday at 9 p.m.
Send Doria Roberts to the Grammys!
As of this morning, Atlanta singer/songwriter/baker supreme Doria Roberts is thisclose to scoring her dream gig — a live performance at next month's 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Via its Facebook page, the Grammys folks have announced its "Grammy Live: The Gig of a Lifetime" contest. Roberts is a nominee in the South Atlantic competition. The winner and band will be flown to the left coast and offered a chance to perform in front of music industry A-listers on Grammy weekend.
The Bitch is Back
“It’s so nerve wracking to come out and play for you guys,” Elton John conceded to his U.S. hometown Saturday night at Philips Arena as the sold-out crowd stood and cheered. After a four-and-a-half-year break from playing for his local friends and fans, it was clear from the first chord, the Peachtree Road resident was eager to reconnect with Atlanta.
At Walker Stalker, Emory brains weigh in on zombie ethics
During the Walker Stalker con, Emory University served up four of its fattest, juiciest brains for a Saturday morning panel discussion on Zombie Ethics. The results were, um, heady.
Anthony C. Winkler may be the best novelist you’ve never heard of
Jamaica-born Anthony C. Winkler, dapper and quick-witted at seventy-one, immigrated more than half a century ago to America, and ultimately to Atlanta. Even now, though, the island continues to shape his extraordinary fiction. Winkler may be the best novelist you’ve never heard of.
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