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Published 15 hours agoDocumentary revisits Atlanta’s 1906 race massacre with a warning for today
Filmmaker Trent Frank posed the question to the audience following the screening of his documentary, “Never Again: The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre:” Could this happen again? His film recounts the cultural and political climate in September 1906 that led to four days of violent…
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Published 18 hours ago'The Disappearers' is a fiercely personal novel that hits like a tidal wave
Marlon James' new novel chronicles the events surrounding a vicious anti-gay attack in Jamaica in the late 1980s. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Disappearers churns with passion and ideas.
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Published 23 hours agoJulia Jacklin on her latest album, 'The Gem'
The Australian musician's newest album is named for a neighborhood bar in Melbourne that just so happens to have a recording studio upstairs.
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Published September 24The places we almost forgot: ‘The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society’
Every city has a building that somehow survived the wrecking ball. Surrounded by newer glass and wider roads, it quietly reminds everyone that progress always leaves something behind. The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society turns that tension into music. By the time…
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Published September 24Reporter’s Notebook: Jazz, outdoor learning grants; Party on the PATH; ARTober Gwinnett
South Arts awards $15,000 grants to 11 jazz artists for rural tours Atlanta-based South Arts has selected 11 jazz artists and ensembles for the inaugural Jazz Road Rural Tours pilot, awarding each up to $15,000 to develop tours serving rural communities across the country. The…
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Published September 23Greetings from Edinburgh, where a cheeky tour guide makes art history hilarious
For anyone who grew up staring blankly at museum artwork, this is the fun that was missing: Coco leads interactive and (mostly) factual art history comedy tours.
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Published September 21'They touch everything': Sylvan Esso confronts the Spotify dilemma, again
A year after pulling its music in protest, the duo is back on Spotify. For Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, that journey has been frustrating, eye-opening — and full of smaller victories.
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Published September 21See highlights from Atlanta's Shaky Knees Music Festival — and meet an Athens band who rocked it
The 14th edition of the annual Shaky Knees Music Festival filled Atlanta’s Piedmont Park over the weekend, with a total estimated crowd of 50,000 across three sold-out days of music.
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Published September 17Reporter’s Notebook: Out on Film, Dunwoody Dialogues, ‘Toy Factory’
Out On Film returns Sept. 24 with 155 films and special events Atlanta’s Out On Film LGBTQ+ film festival will return Sept. 24-Oct. 4 for its 39th annual edition, featuring 155 narrative films, documentaries, shorts and special events. The 11-day festival will open with “Before I…
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Published September 17The past that keeps singing: Neutral Milk Hotel’s ‘In the Aeroplane Over the Sea’
Some records feel less written than excavated. Brush away enough dirt and you uncover melodies that seem older than the people singing them. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea sounds discovered instead of composed, as though Jeff Mangum wandered into a room where memory, grief,…
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Published September 16Arts Capital Atlanta launches inaugural $1 million arts organization fund
Arts Capital Atlanta will soon distribute more than $1 million to Metro Atlanta arts organizations in an effort to strengthen the region’s creative ecosystem. It’s the first year Arts Capital Atlanta will give out unrestricted funds to arts organizations; the Metro Atlanta…
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Published September 16A Kansas girl ran off to join the circus and changed the tattoo world
One of the country's first known female tattoo artists was born on a Kansas farm. Maud Stevens Wagner ran off to join the circus and later became a tattoo legend.