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Cobb County Courier Published 4 hours ago

“My name is Gomez, and I’m in need of a loving home!”

The Cobb County Courier’s Cat of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Services Shelter website, is a female grey tabby/white domestic short hair. The following information on this potential...

Cobb County Courier Published 4 hours ago

“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 male tri-color great Pyrenees. The following information on this potential family member...

SaportaReport Published 6 hours ago

Film version of Colleen Hoover’s ‘Verity’ simply isn’t trashy enough

Since 2024, there have been four feature film adaptations of Colleen Hoover novels. But the most recent, “Verity,” is a bit of a different animal than Hoover’s standard romantic fare. Directed by Michael Showalter with a screenplay from Nick Antosca, “Verity” stars Dakota Johnson…

Charleston City Paper Published 10 hours ago

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.

SaportaReport Published 21 hours ago

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…

SaportaReport Published 21 hours ago

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…

GPB News Published October 01

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.

GPB News Published October 01

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.

Cobb County Courier Published October 01

“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...

Cobb County Courier Published October 01

“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...

SaportaReport Published October 01

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…

SaportaReport Published October 01

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.…

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