Culture Surfing

1) Snoop Dogg and Slightly Stoopid perform at the Masquerade.

2) Amanda Gable signs The Confederate General Rides North at Charis Books & More.

3) Whitfield Lovell and Carrie Mae Weems discuss Mercy, Patience and Destiny: The Women of Whitfield Lovell’s Tableux at the Woodruff Arts Center.

4) Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp perform at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre.

5) Wanda Sykes begins a two-night stint at Uptown Comedy Corner.

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(Photo by Jeff Farsai)

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Atlanta’s best film series, Film Love, returns tonight with a rare screening of the Andy Warhol classic from 1965, Poor Little Rich Girl. The best known collaboration between Warhol and his most mythical muse, Edie Sedgwick, Poor Little Rich Girl is a completely unrehearsed and unscripted film of Sedgwick going about her daily routine, listening to the Everly Brothers, drinking orange juice, and smoking cigarettes.

Few people are able to embody style the way Sedgwick and Warhol could. Sedgwick is known for little more than taking pills, drinking, living in the Chelsea Hotel, and probably sleeping with Bob Dylan while she was there. Yet, her image is one that has lasted in the popular consciousness much longer than her short life. She died of an accidental overdose in 1971.

More details about the film after the jump.

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NPR ran an extremely well-timed story on critics and the struggling print industry last week. At the beginning of the broadcast, director of the National Arts Journalism Program Doug McClennan defended the status of full-time professional critics:

The critic defines the territory, walks the perimeter of that territory and comes back and tells you, ‘OK … here’s the interesting stuff I found.’

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that in the United States there are now “as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers,” i.e., there are more bloggers than firefighters.

As Dylan once quipped,“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” … Or do we?

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