Atlanta-based Hosea Feed the Hungry (HFTH) held its 40th Anniversary Thanksgiving Festival of Services. Approximately 30,000 working poor and homeless enjoyed a hot, home-cooked meal and more at Turner Field and through home deliveries on Thanksgiving Day.
(Photo by Dustin Chambers)
This photo was taken November 19 at 9:15 p.m. on Peachtree Street across from the Woodruff Arts Center. I was driving down Peachtree Street when I saw Mike Danial and his friends attempting radical jumps on their bicycles. As I pulled up, a security guard was talking to them outside the building.
I took some photos of Mike as he attempted to jump over the cone. I asked him why he was doing it. “It’s better then sitting on the couch,” he replied. I chose this photo because I liked how the flash hit him in midair and how it told a story without showing his face.
(Photo and text by Joeff Davis)
The All-American Rejects headlined a show at the Tabernacle on Nov. 22 as part of the (RED) NIGHTS concert series.
Check out more shots from the concert.
(Photo by Perry Julien)
Partiers hit the OhSnapKid’s photo booth with sex on the brain during CL’s Very Sexy Pre-Holiday Party at Halo on Nov. 20.
See more photos from the party.
(Photo by Ryan Purcell)
Gerardo Cajamarca of SINALTRAINAL, a Colombian labor union that represents Coca-Cola workers in the South American country, joined dozens of protesters on Nov. 20 outside the World of Coke to rally against the beverage company and its alleged operations overseas.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
Visual artist Boscco takes a very close look at the artwork of the 8th Annual Off-the-Wall Pin-Up Show and Sale at MOCA GA on Nov. 19.
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(Photo by Joeff Davis)
I took this picture Nov. 16 as I was walking down Luckie Street. This group of people were outside the Tabernacle and they were there to see Monday’s AFI (A Fire Inside) show. I spoke with Katie Cannon, 20, (far right on steps) about her experience.
“The show started at 8:00 p.m. We got there at 8:30 a.m. so that we could be the first people inside. We had just come from their concert in Myrtle Beach the night before. We drove it straight through to Atlanta. We started in Greenville, SC where I live, we left there at 4 a.m. on Sunday morning and drove straight through to Myrtle Beach for their show there Sunday night. It was amazing! After the show in Myrtle Beach, S.C., we drove all night directly to the Tabernacle. We got there at 8:30 a.m. and started waiting in line for the 8:00 p.m. show,” said Cannon.
The 9th annual Renaissance Pageant took place at the Holiday Inn Select on Nov. 15. Female impersonators competed in various categories including evening wear, swimsuit, and a talent show.
Check out more images from the pageant.
(Photo by Alan Friedman)
The monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery chant for positive energies, world peace, harmony and healing at the 2nd annual Atlanta Tibetan Festival on Nov. 14. The Atlanta Monastery on Dresden Drive invited community members to rejoice in an afternoon of meditation,sacred dance, chanting and music.
Check out more images from the Tibetan Festival.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
Mmm, doesn’t that look appetizing? As the man next to me so eloquently put it, “It looks like a bucket of dog shit, doesn’t it?” But it sure tasted excellent. This chili was being served up by the Vortex at the Chomp and Stomp chili cook-off in Cabbagetown Nov. 7. Having such a gigantic pot of chili meant that toward the end of the day the crowds were lining up at their booth.
It was fun photographing chili because it looks so disgusting, especially with direct flash, and in a giant metal pot, with chunks and brown stains lining the sides. Interestingly, despite being horrible to look at, chili is, as we all know, completely delicious. Other teams at the cook-off got quite creative with their chili naming. There was CILF (Chili I’d Like to Fork), Chilibrex (the prescription cure for headaches, backaches, and bad haircuts), Chef Boy-Ar-V, Whitey’s Mighty Chicken Chili, and the chili that was “as delicious as it is blasphemous,” the Pope-in Hot Chili.
Check out all the other delicious/disgusting photos from Chomp and Stomp.
(Photo and text by Alan Friedman)
The alternative rock band from Austin performed at the Variety Playhouse Nov. 6.
(Photo by Perry Julien)
Chomp and Stomp filled Cabbagetown with bowls of chili and dancing feet on Nov. 7 as the neighborhood festival got yet another sunny day.
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(Photo by Alan Friedman)
The metal band played the Tabernacle on Nov. 5.
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(Photos by Perry Julien)
Kasim Reed is going up against Mary Norwood in an upcoming runoff election for Atlanta Mayor.
More photos of the two candidates.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
Creative Loafing staff photographer Joeff Davis visited the election night parties of four Atlanta mayoral candidates, including Mary Norwood, Kasim Reed, Lisa Borders and Kyle Keyser on Nov. 3.
Check out his photo gallery of the night’s events.
(Photos by Joeff Davis)
Photographing this event was more intense than I expected. There were about 30 couples huddled under the Piedmont Park pavilion on a rainy Halloween night. I was in the very middle of the crowd during the vows, trying to get as many angles of as many couples as possible. Before I started shooting, I wanted to watch these couples. They looked into each other’s happy, watery eyes like there wasn’t a soul for miles. They were all absolutely in love with each other.
See more photos of happy couples and other images from Pride 2009.
(Photo and text by Dustin Chambers)
