News across Greater Atlanta

Eddie 9V teases gritty new album at Oct. 16 show
Atlanta musician Brooks Mason, better known as Eddie 9V, is having quite a moment now. His new album, Down Here, is weeks away from release.

Last call for the forgotten: The Pogues’ ‘Rum Sodomy & The Lash’
We have always liked records that feel as though they might spill their pint before the first song is over. Rum Sodomy & The Lash is one of them. It staggers into the room with scraped knuckles, a broken smile, and a century of inherited memory slung across its shoulders. Loud…

Shanequa Gay’s new Beltline monument begins with the women and stories that shaped Atlanta
Before Shanequa Gay’s newest work becomes a monument on the Atlanta Beltline, it begins with something less permanent but just as powerful: a conversation. Gay, an Atlanta-based multidisciplinary artist and Spelman College professor, has been selected by Atlanta Beltline Art to…

She can communicate with ghosts. Here's what she learns from the 'Sad Dead'
My Sad Dead is about an Argentinian doctor who can speak with ghosts. The Spanish-language miniseries blends creepiness, melancholy, sarcastic humor and political anger unlike anything else on TV.

Sheryl Crow says she's found 'great liberation' in not chasing the next hit
After selling tens of millions of records worldwide, the singer-songwriter says she's finally aged out of pop music — and she's OK with that. Crow's latest album is Pick You Up.

“I’m a kitty in need of a permanent loving home!”
The Cobb County Courier’s Cat of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Services Shelter website, is a female grey domestic short hair. The following information on this potential family...

“I’m a doggy in need of a permanent loving home!”
The Cobb County Courier’s Dog of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Services Shelter website, is a female fawn labrador retriever. The following information on this potential family member...

Reporter’s Notebook: Park Pride grants; Spelman exhibition; Butterflies at Ball Ground
Park Pride awards more than $20,000 for nine park improvement projects Park Pride has awarded more than $20,000 to support nine community-led park improvement projects across Atlanta and DeKalb County through its Small Change Grants Program. The annual grants, supported by an…

What if Atlanta’s theater crisis is also an opportunity?
American nonprofit theater is in crisis. Audiences have not fully returned from the pandemic, costs have risen, philanthropy is stretched, and theaters around the country have cut programming, laid off staff, reduced seasons or closed altogether. Atlanta has not been immune.…

Out On Film opens its 39th festival with LGBTQ+ stories, community and ‘Before I Do’
For one night in Midtown, the red carpet was more than a path into a movie theater. It was an invitation to see LGBTQ+ lives, relationships and experiences reflected on the big screen, and to experience those stories together. Out On Film opened its 39th annual LGBTQ+ film…

Councilmember Kevin Riley expands Bronx youth entrepreneurship program with trip to Invest Fest
A group of young people from the Northeast Bronx got a firsthand look at entrepreneurship, investing and college life this summer as Council Member Kevin Riley expanded a program aimed at introducing local youth to new opportunities. Riley’s third annual “Roads to Invest Fest:…

'NU AFRICANS' exhibition puts Black women's beauty on full display at Hammonds House
“NU AFRICANS” returns to Atlanta’s Hammonds House Museum with new portraits, sculptures and costumes celebrating Black women across the diaspora.