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Anybody going to a "Breaking Dawn" party?
There are something like eight to 10 parties scheduled for Aug. 1 at metro Atlanta bookstores for the midnight release of “Breaking Dawn,” the fourth installment in Stephenie Meyer’s mega-selling “Twilight” series. It’s Harry Potter all over again, with...
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'Tom Thumb' at Georgia Shakes
THEATER REVIEW. Grade: B- Tall is not all, and might doesn’t always make right. Such is the premise of Atlanta playwright Margaret Baldwin’s “Tom Thumb the Great,” the new Georgia Shakespeare family production that borrows from an 18th century political...
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See and Do - Before It Vanishes
Alpharetta native Holt Webb quit his job at a camera store to take on a project that has special resonance for those of us who live in this constantly changing metropolis. He is traveling across America, photographing vanishing places....
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E. Lynn Harris: Too Good to be True?
Atlanta’s E. Lynn Harris has always been an overachiever. When he attended the University of Arkansas, he was the school’s first black yearbook editor and the first black male Razorbacks cheerleader. He sold computers for a while, but soon...
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Salman Rushdie defends his record
Salman Rushdie: Part-time Atlantan (when he’s at Emory), prize-winning novelist, fatwa survivor, well-known ladies’ man, and now, the world’s fastest book-signer. Is there nothing this man cannot do? The British newspaper The Guardian has been keeping track of Rushdie’s...
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Stephen L. Carter's "Palace Council"
Stephen L. Carter continues to get raves for his intelligent, literary thrillers. That record continues with “Palace Council,” a novel that includes appearances by historical figures Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, Joe and John Kennedy, Adam Clayton Powell and...
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NBAF Review: Wynton Marsalis Soars with Jazz Classics
Day Two of the National Black Arts Festival wasn’t the wished-for epic premiere but, as a more modest event, it came off to sweet perfection. Saturday in Symphony Hall, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and NBAF had planned to offer the...
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NBAF THEATER: 'The Amen Corner'
THEATER REVIEW. Grade: C+ It must have seemed pretty radical for the ’50s. A Pentecostalist black man — struggling with issues of faith, identity and family — pens a play that questions the wisdom of investing too much in faith,...
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NBAF theater: 'Hallelujah Street Blues'
THEATER REVIEW. Grade: B Who wouldn’t want Josephine for a neighbor? She’ll make you a sandwich, offer you iced tea and listen to your fears about the steady creep of gentrification — you know, moving the old folks out so...
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'After Ashley' @ Essential Theatre
THEATER REVIEW. Grade: A Ashley is no Mother of the Year. The bored, unhappily married housewife (Dina Shadwell) smokes weed daily, uses foul language around her teenage son, Justin, and confides in him things no son should ever know about...
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'Purple' majesty
THEATER REVIEW. Grade: B+ After four years of searching, “The Color Purple” has finally found its emotional home. It took a 2004 Alliance Theatre world premiere and a choppy Broadway production that felt designed by a corporate committee headed...
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The [Insert Word Here] That Changed the World
I love grandiose subtitles. In recent years, non-fiction books, particularly popular history, have gone a little nuts with subtitles that make extravagant claims. “Cicada!: The Startling Untold Story of the Amazing Insect That Made Us Who We Are Today”...
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'You sure is ugly'
This morning, a colleague brought me a picture of her in her red Shug Avery dress. In another lifetime, she says she was probably singing jazz at a backwoods juke joint, and chasing men. Just like Alice Walker’s sexually adventurous...
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'All's Well' @ Georgia Shakes
THEATER REVIEW. Grade: B- Love, as they say, is blind. And as evidenced by Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That Ends Well,” it is also unpredictable, duplicitous, troubling, all-consuming and ultimately triumphant. In this problematic puzzlement of the heart, the orphaned Helena...
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To who it may concern: Grammar Girl coming
I’m amazed sometimes at what makes noise in pop culture. Angelina Jolie having twins, yeah, I get it. But an author building a whole cult following on grammar? Presented in a hip way? Or as hip as grammar can...
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