1) Gentleman Jesse and His Men, Beat Beat Beat, Poison Arrows and the Terrible Twos play the Drunken Unicorn.
2) Rabbi Salkin teaches you how to cope with the economic crisis at Winter Companies.
3) DJ Dookie Platters serves it up at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge.
4) Rachael Ray brings her Big Orange Book to the Borders in Marietta.
5) The Plastic Lennon Band pays tribute to John Lennon at Smith’s Olde Bar.
(Photo by Laura Hull)
1) Diane Durrett signs her new novel, Driving Music City, and follows it up with a performance at Eddie’s Attic.
2) Take photos of your dog with Santa for Paws and Clause 2008 at Central Park in Atlantic Station.
3) The two-day 13th annual Telephone Factory Art Show and Sale — which includes Sister Louisa’s Church of the Living Room — calls it a weekend.
4) Disney’s Beauty and the Beast continues at the Strand Theatre.
5) My Brightest Diamond and Clare & the Reasons play the Earl.
(Photo courtesy Diane Durrett)
1) Visit the Sugarloaf Craft Festival.
2) Seasons Group Art Show opens at Aurora Coffee in L5P.
3) Feeding Fingers, Promise December and Vj Anthony play Death to Julian: A Pink Holiday Party at East Atlanta Ice House.
4) HOME, another group art show, opens at Youngblood Gallery.
5) Improv A$$hole at the Village Theatre.
(Image by Patricia Dibonia)
1) Chrome/Helios Creed, Sour Vein and Tenth to the Moon play the Drunken Unicorn.
2) Captured, the art show by, for and about cell-phone photography, opens at Apache Cafe.
3) Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, reads from her new novel, One Fifth Avenue, at Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.
4) Atlanta’s best paired band names on the same bill this week, Climax Denial and Stillbirth, play Eyedrum.
5) The Journey group exhibition at Bennett Street Gallery lives out its final days.
(Photo courtesy Helios Creed)
1) Blind Willie’s hosts Blues Fest ’08 with Bonnie Bramlett.
2) Jean Tannous‘ foil- and glitter-flecked art show wraps up at Besharat Gallery.
3) Janet Jackson plays Philips Arena.
4) The Atlanta Greek Festival provides a peek into baklava culture at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral.
5) Pages for Primates, a used media sale, concludes its two-day adventure at Jitlada.
(Photo courtesy Bonnie Bramlett)
1) Dosa Kim’s Weight, curated by Beep Beep Gallery, continues at Aurora Coffee in Little Five Points.
2) The Whigs and the Kooks play Variety Playhouse.
3) Read, drink and celebrate childhood literacy with Books, Beer and Bears Oh My! at Sweetwater Brewery.
4) Bob Schieffer discusses his collection of essays, Bob Schieffer’s America, at the Carter Center.
5) Sonia Leigh, Drunk on Crutches and Backrow Baptists play the Earl.
(Image by Dosa Kim)
1) Visit the 17th Street Art Fair for its final day at Atlantic Station.
2) In the tradition of the Harlem Renaissance, Linda Villarosa discusses her new novel, Passing for Black, at Charis Circle.
3) Brian Henson, co-CEO of the Jim Henson Company, presents his oeuvre, The Future of Digital Puppetry, at the Center for Puppetry Arts.
4) Stop by Eyedrum for the Gimme Shelter Benefit for the Madhousers, builders of shelter for the homeless.
5) Relive history and take the Grant Park Tour of Homes.
(Image by Dagmar Bruehmueller)
1) The Got Next! Tour ‘08, a traveling installation of Obama-inspired artwork, continues at Wertz Contemporary.
2) Have your hinterland invaded by Fringe Factory at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge.
3) Young Antiques, Five Eight and Warm in the Wake play Star Bar.
4) Enjoy the 17th Street Art Fair all weekend.
5) See funnyman stoner Nick Swardson at the Tabernacle.
(Photo courtesy CRO)
1) New Riders of the Purple Sage play Smith’s Olde Bar.
2) The Dandy Warhols play Center Stage.
3) Stuart Woods promotes his novel, Hot Mahogany.
4) Dr. Seuss for President, a showing of Ted Geisel’s political artwork, continues at Ann Jackson Gallery.
5) Watch golden lion tamarins imitate their native lives at Zoo Atlanta.
(Photo courtesy New Riders of the Purple Sage)
1) Qhapao Nan, the Inca Trail continues at Decatur Library.
2) Attend Yuppies for Puppies and help out Atlanta Pet Rescue.
3) Langhorne Slim plays the Georgia Theatre.
4) Michael Gates Gill discusses and signs his memoir, How Starbucks Saved My Life, at Wordsmiths Books.
5) Signs of Reappropriation opens at Atlanta College of Art Gallery.
(Photo courtesy Decatur Library)
1) Les Misérables continues at the Fox.
2) Stalk your friends and family in the Cornfield Maze at Jaemor Farm Market.
3) The Coathangers (and friends) play Eyedrum.
4) Learn the ABCs and 123s of Burlesque with Syrens of the South at Relapse Theatre.
5) Get your Akira on at Anime Weekend Atlanta.
(Photo © Joan Marcus)
1) The East Atlanta Strut brings local craft culture and a 5K to Flat Shoals and Glenwood avenues.
2) The dramusical that is SECRETS opens at the North Atlanta Center for the Arts.
3) Munnybrella Vinyl Toy Show opens at MINT Gallery.
4) Reese Christian discusses and signs Ghosts of Atlanta: Phantoms of the Phoenix City at Blue Elephant Books.
5) David Byrne (without Brian Eno, sadly) plays Chastain Park Amphitheater.
(Photo by Cassie Harman)
1) Singer/songwriter Aimee Mann plays Variety Playhouse.
2) The 11th annual Iranian Film Today, a six-part series, begins at the High Museum.
3) It’s Elephant’s, O’ Brother and the Winter Sounds perform at the Earl.
4) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is being staged at the Rosewater Theatre.
5) Weight, featuring new work by Dosa Kim, opens at Aurora Coffee in Little Five Points.
(Photo courtesy Aimee Mann)
1) Eric Blum and Roger Palmer: New Works open at Marcia Wood Gallery.
2) Cast the Ghost, Get Fresh and others play Swayze’s.
3) Java Monkey’s Thursday Wine Series continues in the heart of Decatur.
4) Play Rock Band at Java Lords in Little Five Points.
5) Puppets: The Power of Wonder, an exhibition of more than 350 of the little guys, is still at the Center for Puppetry Arts.
(Image by Roger Palmer)
1) Telling It Like It Is: The Art of Curlee Raven Holton lives on at Hammonds House Museum.
2) The Carry On’s, Black Mona Lisa and the Campaign 1984 all play Drunken Unicorn.
3) Your Jewish Town stays put at the Sophie Hirsh Srochi Jewish Discovery Museum.
4) Stewart Lewis is at Outwrite Bookstore with his new novel, Relative Stranger.
5) Pop to Patriotism, the work of Peter Max, continues at Wentworth Gallery Perimeter Mall.
(Image by Curlee Raven Holton)
1) Four Women, featuring Kianga Ford, Jessica Ingram, Carrie Mae Weems and Deborah Willis, continues at Jackson Fine Art.
2) Take the dog down to Hotel Indigo for Midtown’s Canine Cocktail Hour.
3) Get your meditation on with Gen. Kelsang Mondrub while you sip espresso in Virginia-Highland.
4) Workshop your life into greatness while Greeting the Muse with CL’s Cliff Bostock.
5) Learn how to write about your rights at Manuel’s Tavern.
