1) The Chomp and Stomp chili cook-off is held in Cabbagetown Park.
2) Larry Miller performs at the Punchline.
3) Municipal Waste performs at the Drunken Unicorn.
4) The Decatur Wine Festival takes place in the Old Courthouse Square.
5) Alela Diane charms audiences at the Earl.
(Photo by Celine Bufkin)
1) Iranian Film Yesterday and Today opens at the High Museum of Art with The Song of Sparrows.
2) The Jesus Lizard performs at Variety Playhouse.
3) Large Animal Games opens at Dad’s Garage Theatre.
4) Amy Fisher disrobes at the Pink Pony.
5) Dance Canvas showcases more than 30 professional Atlanta dancers at 14th Street Playhouse.
(Photo courtesy High Museum of Art)
1) Dethklok and Mastodon perform at the Tabernacle.
2) Hillary Clinton Got Me Pregnant opens at 7 Stages.
3) Fuck Buttons perform at 529.
4) Polaroids opens at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery.
5) Studebaker John & the Hawks perform at Blind Willie’s.
(Photo courtesy Adrenaline PR)
1) King Khan & BBQ perform at Star Bar.
2) Emory Cinematheque presents a free screening of Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia II: Festival of Beauty at White Hall.
3) Augusten Burroughs signs You Better Not Cry at SCAD Atlanta.
4) Zee Avi performs at Vinyl.
5) The Atlanta Queer Literary Fest and Feminism, Books & Beyond kick off at Charis Books & More.
(Photo courtesy Biz 3 Publicity)
1) In the Heights opens at Fox Theatre.
2) Zachary Karabell signs Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World’s Prosperity Depends on It at Jimmy Carter Library & Museum.
3) The Porter holds a Terrapin/Left Hand beer dinner.
4) Kurt Vile performs at 529.
5) Color Logic continues at Emily Amy Gallery.
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
1) Sukey Hughes and the World of Japanese Paper continues at the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum.
2) Nicole Atkins performs at the Earl.
3) Craft hosts a Brooklyn Brewery beer dinner.
4) Contrasts continues at Anne Irwin Fine Art.
5) Philip Lee Williams discusses The Campfire Boys at Decatur Library.
(Photo courtesy Robert C. Williams Paper Museum)
1) A Life in the Theatre continues at Alliance Theatre.
2) Atlanta History Center celebrates Day of the Dead.
3) Ray Lamontagne performs at Fox Theatre.
4) Atlanta Pride Festival winds down with the Pride Parade and Starlight Cabaret.
5) The Woman in Black closes at Theatre in the Square.
(Photo by Lia Chang)
1) Atlanta Pride Festival officially kicks off in Piedmont Park.
2) Bands of America perform at Georgia Dome.
3) Big City Burlesque stages The Seven Deadly Showgirls at 7 Stages.
4) Hand of Doom performs at 529.
5) Halloween is in full effect with Fuggin Monster Jam, Silver Scream Spook Show and Halloweenus Wangdoodle, to name a few.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
CL’s Chante LaGon and Amber Robinson discuss the many Halloween and Pride events happening around Atlanta this weekend, including haunted houses, burlesque and the Pride parade.
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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)
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(Photo by Joeff Davis)
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)
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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)
By Jessica Hunt
There’s no small number of Halloween-related events this year. Here are some of our favorites:
• All Purpose Party at the Masquerade (Fri. Oct. 30)
• Darkside Tours at Underground Atlanta
• Fuggin Monster Jam at 2043 Cheshire Bridge Road
• Halloweenus Wangdoodle at Dad’s Garage Theatre
• Hand of Doom at 529
• Moonshiner’s Ball at Twain’s Billiards and Tap
• Netherworld Haunted House at the Georgia Antique Design Center
• The Phantom of the Opera at Atlanta Symphony Hall
• Scream on the Green at Centennial Olympic Park Georgia World Congress Center
• Seven Deadly Showgirls at 7 Stages
• The Silver Scream Spook Show at the Plaza Theatre
• Stalking in a Winter Horror Land at CW Midtown Music Complex
• Zombie Bash Block Party at Biltmore Ballroom, Cypress P&P and Halo Lounge
• Zombieland Halloween Party at 10 Krog Street
See the whole shebang after the jump.
(Photo courtesy Dad’s Garage Theatre)
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.
