1) Gogol Bordello performs at Variety Playhouse.
2) The Masquerade starts Halloween early with an All Purpose Party.
3) Underground Atlanta hosts the Darkside Tours.
4) Critical Mass gathers for a special Halloween/Pride bike ride through downtown.
5) The Secretaries opens at PushPush Theater.
(Photo courtesy Lauren Dukoff)
1) Cavalia continues at Atlantic Station.
2) The Atlanta Thrashers play the Washington Capitals at Philips Arena.
3) Radcliffe Bailey’s Looking for Light, Traveling at Night opens at Solomon Projects with an artist talk.
4) Padgett Powell discusses The Interrogative Mood at Decatur Library.
5) Russian Circles perform at the Earl.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
1) The 101 Dalmatians Musical opens at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
2) Atlanta Hawks play the Indiana Pacers for opening night at Philips Arena.
3) The High Museum of Art hosts International Animation Day.
4) W.C. Harris reads and signs Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse.
5) Fractale performs at Eyedrum.
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
Centi-pumpkin? Jack-o-pede?
So far the 13 Days of Halloween series on the Culture Surfing blog has beheld scary things (movie trailers, short stories, TV shows, songs, etc.) from a safe distance. Some of the spookiest, most creative visions of the year, however, might be on view right down the street from you at this very moment. The past couple of decades have seen Halloween lawn displays evolve from modest Jack-o-Lanterns to sprawling, grisly spectacles worthy of professional haunted houses like Netherworld. Down the street from my mother-in-law’s home in Chamblee, for instance, you can see a giant-sized spider surrounded by fake human bones (at least, I hope they’re fake) in an otherwise nondescript neighborhood.
Given that you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting morbid yard art this time of year, What’s the best local Halloween display you know? E-mail photos of the scariest or most imaginative outdoor decorations to Joeff.Davis@cln.com — if you dare! — and we’ll make an online slideshow of them worthy of “Night Gallery.” It’s your chance to take your monstrous front-lawn tableau viral and scare exponentially more people.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
1) Itzhak Perlman performs at Fox Theatre.
2) Rita Mae Brown discusses Animal Magnetism at Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.
3) Califone performs at the Earl.
4) John Portman: Art and Architecture continues at the High Museum of Art.
5) ATL Collective gathers at Danneman’s to perform Neil Young’s Harvest.
(Photo by Akira Kinoshita)
1) Electric Six plays the Earl.
2) Eastside Lounge hosts Dance or Die.
3) Robert Hicks signs A Separate Country at Decatur Library.
4) KISS performs at Philips Arena.
5) Ray C. Anderson signs Confessions of a Radical Industrialist at SCAD Atlanta.
(Photo courtesy ReyBee Publicity)
1) Andy Kindler performs at Laughing Skull Lounge.
2) Atlanta Radio Theatre Company stages The Call of Cthulhu.
3) Erykah Badu performs at Atlanta Civic Center.
4) Atlanta Ballet performs Pinocchio at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
5) Howardina Pindell signs and discusses Kara Walker No/Kara Walker Yes/Kara Walker? at Clark Atlanta University.
(Photo courtesy Andy Kindler)
1) Sweetwater for SweetWater cleans up Sweetwater Creek State Park.
2) The Destroy All Music Fest returns to Eyedrum.
3) Studio Clout hosts Drawing from the Soul: The Official Brotherman Comics Art Expo.
4) Roy Ayers performs at 595 North for Felabration.
5) The Atlanta Thrashers play the San Jose Sharks.
(Photo by Bryan Schroeder)
1) Parsons Dance and East Village Opera Company stage Remember Me at the Ferst Center for the Arts.
2) Caroline Rhea performs at the Punchline.
3) Tinsley Ellis performs at Variety Playhouse.
4) The Day of the Dead Art Show opens at Eyedrum.
5) The Meat Puppets and Dead Confederate perform at the Masquerade.
(Photo by Eduardo Patino)
1) Pink Seductions opens at Gallery Stokes, while Not So Domestic: Veneer Doilies and Seeded and Soiled open at Marcia Wood Gallery.
2) Landmark Midtown Art Cinema screens Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging.
3) Supercluster performs at the Earl.
4) Colson Whitehead discusses Sag Harbor at SCAD Atlanta.
5) R. Kelly performs at Fox Theatre.
(Art from Seeded and Soiled by Monica Cook)
1) Har Mar Superstar performs at Drunken Unicorn.
2) William Welch signs Sharing Southern Treasures: Friends and Flora at Atlanta History Center.
3) Octane hosts a Highland Brewing Beer Tasting.
4) Emory University’s White Hall holds a free screening of Rules of the Game.
5) Austin Lounge Lizards perform at Eddie’s Attic.
(Photo © Red Distribution)
1) Leonard Cohen performs at Fox Theatre.
2) A screening of the documentary Playground benefits the Center to End Adolescent Sexual Exploitation.
3) Ryan Bingham performs at Smith’s Olde Bar.
4) Plaza Theatre rolls out a collection of oddball animation for Bizarro Saturday Morning.
5) Jer Coons performs at Eddie’s Attic.
(Photo by NJ Kim)
1) R.A. Salvatore signs The Ghost King at Decatur Library.
2) The Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company performs at the Fox Theatre.
3) Where the Wild Things Are continues at area theaters.
4) Apache Cafe hosts Terry Scopelliti’s Icons for Art Mondays.
5) The Deacon Brandon Reeves performs at Blind Willie’s.
(Photo courtesy Sara Easterly & Friends)
1) The Plaza Theatre screens a Monty Python double feature.
2) Piedmont Park hosts AIDS Walk.
3) The Atlanta Falcons face off against the Chicago Bears.
4) Georgia Organics, Slow Food Atlanta and the Atlanta Bicycle Campaign lead bicycle tours to urban agriculture sites.
5) Indian Jewelry performs at Eyedrum.
1) Dinosaur Jr. performs at Variety Playhouse.
2) Om performs at the Earl.
3) The High Museum of Art screens Los Paranoicos/The Paranoids in conjunction with the Latin American Film Festival.
4) David Cross performs at the Tabernacle.
5) Los Amigos Invisibles perform at the Loft.
(Photo by Bob Bayne)
1) Robin Williams performs at the Fox Theatre.
2) The Little Five Points Halloween Festival kicks off.
3) Os Mutantes perform at Variety Playhouse.
4) A Serious Man opens at area theaters.
5) Drummer plays the Earl.
(Photo courtesy Robin Williams)
1) Around the World in 80 Days continues at Theatrical Outfit.
2) Carl LaBove performs at Laughing Skull Lounge.
3) Atlanta Ballet’s Mozart’s Magic Flute opens at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
4) Atlas Sound plays the Earl.
5) Jimmy Carter and David Rubel sign If I Had A Hammer: Building Homes and Hope with Habitat for Humanity at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum.
(Photo by Chris Bartelski)
1) Jack Art Gallery hosts an opening reception for Through the Lens.
2) Landmark Midtown Art Cinema screens Do No Harm, a documentary that delves into the health care issue.
3) Thee Oh Sees play the Earl.
4) The Center for Puppetry Arts offers a half-price preview of The Ghastly Dreadfuls II.
5) Australian Pink Floyd invades Fox Theatre.
(Art by Amie Ledford)
1) Splatter Cinema hosts The Texas Chainsaw Massacre at Plaza Theatre.
2) Max Cleland discusses Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum.
3) Made at Abernathy continues at the Abernathy Arts Center.
4) Rain Machine plays the Earl.
5) Good Hair continues at area theaters.
(Photo © New Line Cinema)
1) Subjects/Objects continues at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery.
2) Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band performs at the Earl.
3) Oktoberfest continues in Helen.
4) Mayoral candidates discuss the arts at the Arts & Culture Forum.
5) Fox Trotsky, Jesse Nobody and Tendaberry perform a free show at 529.
(Art by Susan Harbage Page)
1) Atlanta Opera’s The Elixir of Love closes at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
2) Bear in Heaven performs at the Earl.
3) Radney Foster performs at Eddie’s Attic.
4) Fall Fest continues at Candler Park.
5) Thievery Corporation performs at the Tabernacle.
(Photo by Tim Wilkerson)
1) “Whose Line Is It Anyway’s” Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood perform at the Ferst Center.
2) Taste of Atlanta kicks off at Tech Square.
3) Will Hoge performs at the Loft.
4) Trees Atlanta holds its annual tree sale.
5) Paco Peña performs in A Compras! at the Rialto Center.
(Photo courtesy Ferst Center for the Arts)
In recognition of his tireless efforts on behalf of Atlanta’s children, filmmaker Libby Spears has dedicated her latest documentary Playground to the memory of the late Fulton County Judge, Sanford “Sunny” Jones. The film premieres as part of a memorial benefit hosted by the Juvenile Justice Fund honoring Jones on Tuesday, October 20th at the Woodruff Arts Center. The event benefits the Center to End Adolescent Sexual Exploitation (CEASE) and Angela’s House, an organization that provides home care services to households with medically fragile children. Jones, who served as Fulton County Juvenile Court judge was killed in small plane crash in Alabama earlier this year.
Playground sheds light on child sex trafficking taking place in the United States. The film profiles former victims and provides a candid look at the legal and social systems that fails to adequately respond to the crisis. Playground was produced by actor/director George Clooney, writer/actor Grant Heslov and director Steven Soderbergh, the team behind the Oscar-nominated film Good Night and Good Luck.
Judge Jones helped to create the Juvenile Justice Fund in Atlanta in 2001. The fund provides constructive alternatives to youth detention and programs to reduce the number of children returning to unsafe, abusive and destructive homes.
Memorial Benefit for Judge Sanford Jones. Tuesday, October 20, 2009 – 6:00pm. Woodruff Arts Center Symphony Hall. 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309. General admission $25, premiere and VIP pre-reception $125. Tickets can be purchased online at www.woodruffcentertickets.org or by phone, 404-733-5000.
1) Lisa Lampanelli discusses and signs Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse.
2) John Tindel, Matthew Doubek and Mr. Hooper showcases new works at Alcove Gallery.
3) Georgia Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar opens at Conant Performing Arts Center.
4) Michael Gray reads from Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell at Decatur CD.
5) Tortured Soul performs at Apache Cafe.
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1) The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival includes a series of short films at Plaza Theatre.
2) Tray Butler discusses his book, Moon Atlanta, at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse.
3) Buy My House … Please! opens at Aurora Theatre.
4) Blitzen Trapper plays the Earl.
5) SCAD hosts Fine Arts Night in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography and the SCAD Atlanta Gallery Hop.
(© “How They Dance”)
