Monday, June 1, 2009
News 5 things to do: Monday
Posted by Amber Robinson on Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:15 AM
1) The Earl holds the U.S. Air Guitar Regional Championships.
2) The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum hosts an opening reception for El Papel del Chileno.
3) Patti Callahan Henry discusses her book, Driftwood Summer, at Decatur Library.
4) Pixar's Up continues in area theaters.
5) Black Tusk plays Lenny's Bar.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
News Streetalk: If dogs aren't allowed at festivals, should strollers be?
Posted by Jeff Slate on Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Jennifer (with Ava & Ellie): You should allow the strollers, because for people with small kids, it’s just not practical to go to a street festival without a stroller. With a small child, you can lose track of them. Even though we love our dog, it’s better not to have them at the festival, because they are unpredictable and they can poo on your foot. Even though my dog is very well-behaved, she does get skittish in the crowds — and if somebody came up behind her and started petting her, who knows.
Daron (with Parker & Buffy): If we can’t bring our babies, they can’t bring theirs. No strollers, no dogs. Dogs are our babies, and for those of us without children, it’s kind of unfair that we can’t bring ours to the festival to enjoy it as well. My dogs are under control all the time. They’re four pounds apiece. They’re not going to hurt anyone. There are more dogs vaccinated than kids. Baby strollers are cumbersome, they get in the way, you have to step over them, they park right in front. It’s a mess. It is sort of discrimination.
Barbara (with Scooter& Baby Girl): Dogs should be allowed as long as you control your dog. If you don’t control them or if you don’t clean up their poo, you don’t need to have your dog there. But my dogs are part of my family and they’re in a stroller, so why not? I resent it. They should be allowed to go. There’s nothing wrong with your dog being at these festivals. They’re family and really well-behaved. If you love your dog you take care of it like a baby, probably even more so.
News 5 things to do: Sunday
Posted by Amber Robinson on Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:15 AM
1) The AVP Volleyball Open continues in Atlantic Station.
2) Comedian DJ Hazard performs at Laughing Skull Lounge.
3) Larry King discusses and signs his memoir, My Remarkable Journey, at Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta.
4) The Out on Film Festival closes at Plaza Theatre with She's a Boy I Knew and Stand-Up 360: Inside Out.
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(Photo courtesy AVP)
Saturday, May 30, 2009
News Found: Atlanta's 'Texts From Last Night'
Posted by Thomas Wheatley on Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Text messages detailing drunken escapades, regrettable hook-ups and general displays of idiocy can now be recorded for posterity at TextsFromLastNight.com. You can even search by area code!
(404): It doesn't have to be a walk of shame...just pretend he took you to breakfast.
(404): No one shows this much boob at breakfast
(404): last night I thought his shirt said yale... but this morning it definitely says old navy.
(404): one word: firstdatebathroomanal
(843): lets hang out tonight and do stupid stuff.
(404): Dating you for 6 months was stupid enough. But thanks.
(770): Damn I can't remmbre the last tome I had sobr sex
(404): Um. I believe with my boyfriend, slut
(770): Fuck. Wron person. But yea
(770): I just barfed on his mom.
(404): You told him you were too drunk to meet his parents. Totally his fault.
(706): I think I'm in Tiajuana
(404): You are not in Tijuana. I saw you an hour ago
(706): I could be
Uncategorized 5 things to do: Saturday
Posted by Amber Robinson on Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:37 PM
1) Cirque Imagination's Montage continues at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
2) East Atlanta Beer Festival returns to the EAV.
3) Composition Gallery and Poetry Atlanta host The Path Worn in the Grass, a marathon Walt Whitman reading.
News 5 things to do: Saturday
Posted by Amber Robinson on Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:15 AM
1) Cirque Imagination's Montage continues at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
2) East Atlanta Beer Festival returns to the EAV.
3) Composition Gallery and Poetry Atlanta host The Path Worn in the Grass, a marathon Walt Whitman reading.
4) WonderRoot celebrates its one-year anniversary.
5) Sin City Fight Club battles it out at Center Stage.
(Photo courtesy Cirque Imagination)
Friday, May 29, 2009
Uncategorized Jason Schwartzman is Mark Taylor Jackson is "Yo Teach ... !"
Posted by Debbie Michaud on Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Check out this teaser from Judd Apatow's upcoming Funny People. It's for a sitcom called "Yo Teach ... !" that Jason Schwartzman’s character stars in in the movie. I just saw it on Aziz Ansari's blog, Aziz is Bored. So awesome.
Uncategorized Which TV show should I start watching?
Posted by Curt Holman on Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:20 PM
AMC's "Breaking Bad" airs the finale of its second season on Sunday night. My wife and I just watched the first three episodes of its first season over Memorial Day weekend, and man oh man, is it ever good. I initially resisted the show because it sounded a little too much like Showtime's "Weeds" -- both involve the darkly comic collision of drug culture and middle-class family life in a Southwestern U.S. suburb. But where "Weeds" always struck me as smug and full of itself, "Breaking Bad" has proven to be both more humanistic and more harrowing, which suspense scenes nearly worthy of Alfred Hitchcock. Bryan Cranston fully deserves all the acclaim he's won as a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher who begins cooking meth to provide for his family.
I'll finish up "Breaking Bad's" first season soon enough, and will have a hankering for another show. It's the perfect time to start, since "Battlestar Galactica" is finished, "Lost" won't be back until 2010 and the networks are in summer reruns (assuming that concept has meaning any more). So which show should I start in on? Ideally, it'll be something that we can watch on DVD, because we don't have cable and, as much as I like Hulu, I'd rather not commit to an hour-long program I can only see on the Internet. Here are some under consideration, with their potential pros and cons:
"Dexter" (Showtime) - Michael C. Hall series about the serial killer who kills other serial killers.
Pros: I liked Hall a lot on "Six Feet Under," and he's supposed to be terrific, while playing a diametrically opposite role.
Cons: The premise sounds pretty lurid and contrived. Also, it would be a hard sell to watch with my wife, who's squeamish about violence. (Which, admittedly, never stopped her from watching "The Sopranos," "Deadwood," "Rome" or "Breaking Bad," for that matter.)
"Party Down" (Starz) - New sitcom about caterers, starring hilarious people like Martin Starr and Jane Lynch
Pros: It looks like a lot of fun.
Cons: It's so new, it's not on DVD yet.
"Primeval" (BBC America) - English SF drama about dinosaurs making incursions into the present
Pros: Dinosaurs! Plus, smart English people!
Cons: Could be the cheesiest thing ever.
Uncategorized Weekend arts agenda: Do you love ATL? I do.
Posted by Jeremy Abernathy on Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Dear neighbors,
I'd like to draw your attention to two WonderRoot exhibitions by emerging artists. I say this, of course, keeping in mind my typical distrust of the phrase, emerging artist: When exactly does a creative person, whether a musician, writer, film director, or visual artist start and stop emerging? I suppose, as long as the term retains marketing value for you, you could technically begin as an emerging artist at birth (emerging, literally), and then finally dispense with the label when it's no longer of use … at the nursing home.
Semantics aside — if you LUV ATL like I do — you should definitely check out WonderRoot's schedule for the weekend. Today, May 28 from 5-7 p.m. at Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, volunteer instructors including photographer Nicole Akstein will present a body of photos by students from Sequoya Middle School. The program was a cooperative, educational initiative between WonderRoot and CPACS, the Center for Pan Asian Community Services, a local nonprofit that offers social and health services to immigrants, refugees, and racial-ethnic minorities. If you ask me, middle school students certainly qualify as emerging artists.
On Sat., May 30, beginning around 4 p.m., stop by WonderRoot headquarters on Memorial Drive for the WonderRoot One-Year Anniversary, celebrating 365 days since the official opening of the community center. The event coincides with an all-media exhibition titled I Love Atlanta, which put out a call to artists to express their undying affection for dear 'ole A. (Additionally, I hear there may be special shenanigans involving cofounder Chris Appleton….) Steal the show flyer here for more info on musical guests.
For more local arts events, visit clatl.com/events or, check today's visual arts To Do List at BurnAway.org.
(Photo courtesy WonderRoot/Thoughtmarker)
Uncategorized NCAA Baseball Regionals a first for Georgia State Panthers
Posted by Alejandro A. Leal on Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Hoping to extend an impressive season that saw them win the Colonial Athletic Association tournament, Georgia State University's baseball team will match up against cross-town rival Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for tonight's sold out game 2 of the NCAA Baseball Tournament regionals.
From USA Today:
Georgia State is one of five newcomers in the 64-team field, joining Binghamton, Cal Poly, Kansas State and Xavier. The Panthers (39-20) qualified by winning the Colonial Athletic Association tournament. They are on a school record-tying eight-game winning streak.
"We're going to baseball heaven now," [coach Greg] Frady said. "Anytime you break through to a new level it's a hard push. But we thought this could be the team that could do it."
Though the Yellow Jackets are the top seed in the Atlanta Regionals, GA State beat them 10-1 on March 24, marking the second time in three seasons that the Panthers have won at Russ Chandler Stadium. Both schools will be joined by Elon University and Southern Miss University to complete the four-team, double-elimination tournament.
The tournament continues all week-end long and concludes on Monday.
GO STATE!
