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)
Share your Pride with the world … or at least all of Atlanta.
We’re looking for your photos from this week’s Pride festivities. Send them to pridephotos@creativeloafing.com, and we will feature them in our Pride photo gallery at clatl.com/photos. We’ll be at the festival Saturday and Sunday, too, so stop by the Creative Loafing booth and we’ll see you this weekend.
(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.
The organizers behind Pecha Kucha, the storytelling experiment in which speakers have seven minutes and a slide projector to convey the complexities of their lives and passions, have produced an excellent group of participants for the next event on Sunday, Oct. 18. The theme: “Open Letter(s) to the next Atlanta mayor.”
According to Alfredo Aponte, one of the event’s organizers: “We are doing an ‘Atlanta: Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve’ type of night, hearing from some Atlanta citizens who are doing their own parts, in their own ways.”
Among the list of speakers:
And those are just a few of the names. The full list of speakers and topics is after the jump. Facebook page is here. The event begins at 7 p.m. at Octane Coffee Lounge on Howell Mill Road. It’s free, but be a kind soul and buy an espresso or a beer.
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)
