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5 things to do: Saturday

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

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1) The Mountain Goats play at the Variety Playhouse.

2) Browse through local, handmade wares at the Indie Craft Experience at Ambient Plus Studio.

3) Tellabration! extols the art of storytelling at the Jimmy Carter Library.

4) Anton Chekhov meets the undead in The Cherry Orchard with Zombies at Eyedrum.

5) Sweetwater Brewery gets cooking with Primal.

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(Photo by Chrissy Piper)

5 things to do: Friday

Friday, November 20th, 2009

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1) Radio City Christmas Spectacular continues at Fox Theatre.

2) CL hosts a Very Sexy Pre-Holiday Party at Halo.

3) Camera Obscura performs at Variety Playhouse.

4) Professional bull riders compete at the Arena at Gwinnett Center.

5) Van Hunt performs at Andrew’s Upstairs.

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5 things to do: Thursday

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

_MG_5000(3)1) Marc Maron performs at Laughing Skull Lounge.

2) Wynton Marsalis and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra tag-team at Symphony Hall for “Blues Symphony.”

3) Emory Dance Company presents Muscle Memory at Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

4) Emotional Management opens at Solomon Projects.

5) Urban Nutcracker opens at Ferst Center for the Arts.

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(Photo courtesy marcmaron.com)

5 things to do: Wednesday

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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1) A Tuna Christmas opens at Theatre in the Square.

2) David Guetta performs at Opera.

3) Jennifer Burns discusses Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right at Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.

4) Lyle Lovett performs at the Tabernacle.

5) Join in the Dirty South Wine fun for the Popeyes wine pairing challenge.

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(Photo by MJ Conboy)

5 things to do: Tuesday

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

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1) Scripture for the Eyes continues at the Michael C. Carlos Museum.

2) The xx performs at 529.

3) Outwrite hosts Poetry Night.

4) Atlanta Opera’s Orfeo & Euridice continues at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.

5) Plaza Theatre screens the final edition of Bizarro Saturday Morning.

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(Photo courtesy Michael C. Carlos Museum)

5 things to do: Monday

Monday, November 16th, 2009

seedo5-2_28(3)1) Atlanta Hawks play the Portland Trail Blazers.

2) Jeff Shaara discusses No Less Than Victory at Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.

3) Cannibal Corpse performs at the Masquerade.

4) Quiara Hudes signs In the Heights at the Robert W. Woodruff Library.

5) Max Tundra performs at Drunken Unicorn.

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(Photo by Getty Images/courtesy Atlanta Hawks)

5 things to do: Sunday

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

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1) The Atlanta Chamber Players perform at Ahavath Achim Synagogue.

2) brooks & company dance stage Composed at Theatrical Outfit.

3) Kirk Fox visits the Punchline.

4) Process Theatre Company hosts the New Play Read-A-Thon.

5) Jean-Luc Ponty performs at Variety Playhouse.

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(Photo courtesy Charles Lyon)

5 things to do: Saturday

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

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1) Atlanta Opera’s Orfeo & Euridice opens at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.

2) Atlanta artists Holiday Studio Tour takes visitors through the Mattress Factory Studio and the Little Five Points Community Center.

3) Eyedrum hosts Ear Ball, a daylong music extravaganza.

4) “Curb Your Enthusiasm’s” Susie Essman discusses her book, What Would Susie Say?, at the Book Festival of the MJCCA.

5) Oh So Fail opens at Beep Beep Gallery.

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(Photo by George Mott)

5 things to do: Friday

Friday, November 13th, 2009

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1) The High Museum of Art screens Loose Rope as part of Iranian Film Today.

2) Atlanta Thrashers play the Los Angeles Kings.

3) Graffiti artist Hense’s Surface Strength opens at the Rail Yard, with a special premiere of “The 7th Day Project.”

4) Blast-Off Burlesque stages Primetime! at East Atlanta Icehouse.

5) The Sunglasses perform at Drunken Unicorn.

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(Photo courtesy High Museum of Art)

5 things to do: Thursday

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

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1) Hominid opens at Mary Gray Munroe Theater.

2) Shonen Knife performs at the Earl.

3) Greg Herren signs Murder in the Garden District at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse.

4) Times New Viking performs at Star Bar.

5) Valerie Jackson from WABE (90.1-FM) does a live recording of “Between the Lines” at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum.

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(Photo by Matthew Spaugh)

5 things to do: Wednesday

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

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1) The Second City: Peach Drop, Stop and Roll continues at Alliance Theatre’s Hertz Stage.

2) Monsters of Folk perform at the Tabernacle.

3) Evolver Atlanta hosts its November spore, 2012 Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dimensional Shift, at Parkgrounds.

4) American Scenes: Art from the Depression Era continues at the High Museum of Art.

5) The Get Up Kids perform at the Masquerade.

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(Photo by Greg Mooney)

5 things to do: Tuesday

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

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1) Explosure and Sovereign Tree continue at Jackson Fine Art.

2) Derek Lyn Plastic and the Preakness perform at 529.

3) The Book Festival of the MJCCA kicks off with Harold Kushner.

4) Flatlanders perform at Smith’s Olde Bar.

5) Comedian Eddie Sarfaty performs at Actor’s Express.

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(Art by Tierney Gearon)

5 things to do: Monday

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Peaches

The lewd and ludicrous Peaches performs at Center Stage.

Grab pencils and paper for Art Monday at Apache Cafe.

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down performs at the Earl.

Collect the loose pages to that manuscript you have hidden under your mattress and bring it to the Writing with Intent workshop at Charis.

Secure a partner and a pair of comfortable shoes for Salsa Dancing at Wood is Wonderful Gallery.

(Photo courtesy XL Recordings)

5 things to do: Sunday

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

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End the weekend on a comedic note with a stand-up show by Aisha Tyler at Laughing Skull Lounge.

Celebrate the Horizon Theatre’s 25th anniversary with an 80s themed party at the Georgia Tech Hotel.

Get out of the city for a breath of fresh air and a glass of fine wine with Les Dames d’Escoffier at the annual Afternoon in the Country.

View Fernbank’s new exhibit Gold and catch an afternoon screening of The Goonies at the Pirates and Gold weekend.

Learn a thing or two from the Syrens of the South as they present the ABCs and 123s of Burlesque.

5 things to do: Saturday

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Chomp and Stomp

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.

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(Photo by Celine Bufkin)

5 things to do: Friday

Friday, November 6th, 2009

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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.

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(Photo courtesy High Museum of Art)

5 things to do: Thursday

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

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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.

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(Photo courtesy Adrenaline PR)

5 things to do: Wednesday

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

seedo6-2_shortlist_27(3)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.

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(Photo courtesy Biz 3 Publicity)

5 things to do: Tuesday

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

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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.

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(Photo by Joan Marcus)

5 things to do: Monday

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

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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.

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(Photo courtesy Robert C. Williams Paper Museum)

5 things to do: Sunday

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

seedo2-2_26(3)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.

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(Photo by Lia Chang)

5 things to do: Saturday

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

seedo5-1_26(3)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.

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(Photo by Joeff Davis)

Air Loaf: Halloween and Pride events

Friday, October 30th, 2009

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.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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5 things to do: Friday

Friday, October 30th, 2009

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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.

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(Photo courtesy Lauren Dukoff)

Share your Pride photos

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

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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)