1) The Mountain Goats play at the Variety Playhouse.
2) Browse through local, handmade wares at the Indie Craft Experience at Ambient Plus Studio.
3) Tellabration! extols the art of storytelling at the Jimmy Carter Library.
4) Anton Chekhov meets the undead in The Cherry Orchard with Zombies at Eyedrum.
5) Sweetwater Brewery gets cooking with Primal.
(Photo by Chrissy Piper)
Teenage girl in dress sitting on step #309, 1982 by Oraien Catledge
TGIF, the weekend is here! Get some of your workday yayas out at one of these art events. This week’s agenda is loaded with nostalgia, celebrity, and packs some artist punch … literallly. As usual, read on for the rundown.
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1) Radio City Christmas Spectacular continues at Fox Theatre.
2) CL hosts a Very Sexy Pre-Holiday Party at Halo.
3) Camera Obscura performs at Variety Playhouse.
4) Professional bull riders compete at the Arena at Gwinnett Center.
5) Van Hunt performs at Andrew’s Upstairs.
1) Marc Maron performs at Laughing Skull Lounge.
2) Wynton Marsalis and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra tag-team at Symphony Hall for “Blues Symphony.”
3) Emory Dance Company presents Muscle Memory at Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
4) Emotional Management opens at Solomon Projects.
5) Urban Nutcracker opens at Ferst Center for the Arts.
(Photo courtesy marcmaron.com)
Coolness: Decatur’s delightful children’s book shop, The Little Shop of Stories, won a challenge issued by rock-star genre writer Neil Gaiman to throw the best Halloween party in the United States. Thanks to the success of Little Shop’s Graveyard Book Halloween Party on Oct. 30, Gaiman will visit the store on Mon., Dec. 14, at 6 p.m. (Little Shop shares the honor with McNally Robinson Booksellers of Winnipeg, Manitoba.) Given the popularity of the English author’s graphic novels (Stardust, Coraline), film scripts (Beowulf), prose fiction (American Gods), laundry lists, etc., you might want to start lining up now.
1) A Tuna Christmas opens at Theatre in the Square.
2) David Guetta performs at Opera.
3) Jennifer Burns discusses Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right at Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.
4) Lyle Lovett performs at the Tabernacle.
5) Join in the Dirty South Wine fun for the Popeyes wine pairing challenge.
(Photo by MJ Conboy)
1) Scripture for the Eyes continues at the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
2) The xx performs at 529.
3) Outwrite hosts Poetry Night.
4) Atlanta Opera’s Orfeo & Euridice continues at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
5) Plaza Theatre screens the final edition of Bizarro Saturday Morning.
(Photo courtesy Michael C. Carlos Museum)
1) Atlanta Hawks play the Portland Trail Blazers.
2) Jeff Shaara discusses No Less Than Victory at Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.
3) Cannibal Corpse performs at the Masquerade.
4) Quiara Hudes signs In the Heights at the Robert W. Woodruff Library.
5) Max Tundra performs at Drunken Unicorn.
(Photo by Getty Images/courtesy Atlanta Hawks)
1) The Atlanta Chamber Players perform at Ahavath Achim Synagogue.
2) brooks & company dance stage Composed at Theatrical Outfit.
3) Kirk Fox visits the Punchline.
4) Process Theatre Company hosts the New Play Read-A-Thon.
5) Jean-Luc Ponty performs at Variety Playhouse.
(Photo courtesy Charles Lyon)
1) Atlanta Opera’s Orfeo & Euridice opens at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
2) Atlanta Artists Holiday Studio Tour takes visitors through the Mattress Factory Studio and the Little Five Points Community Center.
3) Eyedrum hosts Ear Ball, a daylong music extravaganza.
4) “Curb Your Enthusiasm’s” Susie Essman discusses her book, What Would Susie Say?, at the Book Festival of the MJCCA.
5) Oh So Fail opens at Beep Beep Gallery.
(Photo by George Mott)
The Plaza Theatre joins with ASIFA-Atlanta to present Mary and Max,the Claymation comedy of mismatched pen pals. Director Adam Elliott, who won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for “Harvie Krumpet” (narrated by Geoffrey Rush) explores the 18-year friendship between a lonely Australian girl (Toni Collette) and an obese New Yorker with Asperger’s Syndrome (Phillip Seymour Hoffman). The opening film of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Mary and Max screens at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16.
Role Model Citizen by Fahamu Pecou
As usual, here are a few arts events to add to your weekend roster. Also, don’t forget about the Hense exhibition at The Rail Yard and the Kvares show at Beep Beep. This weekend’s art scene is chock-full so enjoy.
FRIDAY (Today)
Head to Castleberry Hill’s tattoo parlor/art gallery City of Ink to check out John Hairston Jr.’s vivid, realistic graffiti-style art. His latest work, Hollywood Africans, celebrates the life and career of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Walk away with a unique perspective on one of the world’s first African American art greats and maybe even some new ink. Free. City of Ink. 404-525-4465. www.thecityofink.com/.
Fresh from the NYC fashion scene House of Diehl’s Style Wars hits Atlanta runways. Watch designers battle head-to-head and make killer creations in 5-minute knock-out rounds. It’s Project Runway on crack! $15-$20 7:30 p.m. Opera. 404-874-0428. www.houseofdiehl.com/stylewars.
SATURDAY
Eyedrum’s First Annual Ear Ball is sure to satisfy all your aural cravings. The event–originally conceived as a fund raiser–is a showcase of the works of a diverse pool of local sound artists. Whether you’re into jazz improv or are looking for some electronic soundscapes Eyedrum’s got you covered. Pay what you can. 12 p.m.-2 a.m. Eyedrum. 404-522-0655. www.eyedrum.org.
Get This! Gallery is housing Atlanta neopop artist Fahamu Pecou’s first solo show. Whirl Trade was inspired by Pecou’s travels in Africa and explores the interpretations and misconceptions of blackness in African-decended communities. Through images that are arranged as faux magazine covers he sends a powerful message about popular media and the power of influence. Free. 7-11 p.m. Get This! Gallery. 678-596-4451. Gethisgallery.com.
SUNDAY
It’s Pecha Kucha time! Volume 14–the last of the fall season–is titled Back to Basics. The diverse roster (including CL favorite Danielle Roney and former mayoral candidate Kyle Keyser) promises to provide some tasty food for thought and make for lots of candid conversation. Free. 7 p.m. Octane Coffee Lounge (Westside). www.atlantapechakucha.com.
1) The High Museum of Art screens Loose Rope as part of Iranian Film Today.
2) Atlanta Thrashers play the Los Angeles Kings.
3) Graffiti artist Hense’s Surface Strength opens at the Rail Yard, with a special premiere of “The 7th Day Project.”
4) Blast-Off Burlesque stages Primetime! at East Atlanta Icehouse.
5) The Sunglasses perform at Drunken Unicorn.
(Photo courtesy High Museum of Art)
1) Hominid opens at Mary Gray Munroe Theater.
2) Shonen Knife performs at the Earl.
3) Greg Herren signs Murder in the Garden District at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse.
4) Times New Viking performs at Star Bar.
5) Valerie Jackson from WABE (90.1-FM) does a live recording of “Between the Lines” at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum.
(Photo by Matthew Spaugh)
