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Photo of the Day: Chomp and Stomp
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Chomp and Stomp filled Cabbagetown with bowls of chili and dancing feet on Nov. 7 as the neighborhood festival got yet another sunny day.
Check out more photos from Chomp and Stomp.
(Photo by Alan Friedman)
Photo of the Day: Blinded by the light
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Photo of the Day: Mastodon
Friday, November 6th, 2009
The metal band played the Tabernacle on Nov. 5.
Check out more photos from the concert.
(Photos by Perry Julien)
Photo of the Day: A maybe Mayor
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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)
Photos: Election night
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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)
Time and Place: To have and to hold
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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)
Photo of the Day: Walk on the wild side
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Photos: Atlanta Pride 2009
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
CL asked Atlanta to send us your photos of Pride and the images have been flowing in. Check out the new additions as they’re posted daily and see what wild and whacky experiences were caught on camera during this year’s Pride.
See the gallery of Pride 2009 photos here.
(Photo by Obe Eah)
Photo of the Day: Prideful
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Atlanta Pride 2009 was in full swing this year as it returned to Piedmont Park. It was a sunny Sunday as Pride took to the streets for the parade at 1 p.m. on Nov. 1.
Check out more images by staff photographer Joeff Davis and Pride photos submitted by Atlantans.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
Photo of the Day: Commitment
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
One of the Atlanta Pride Festival’s sweeter traditions is the commitment ceremony. This year’s event took place in the Piedmont Park pavilion and was open to the public. For $25, couples could register to be “committed” to each other. Both a priest and a rabbi oversaw the ceremony as everyone said their vows at once, huddled under the pavilion away from the rain. Then all the couples kissed to make it official.
(Photo by Dustin Chambers)
Photo of the Day: Masquerading
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
The Masquerade held a Halloween costume party throughout all three of its venues on Oct. 30. A few hundred people showed up for the Halloween-style rave as some danced with light, some hung from silk and all were treated to the techno sounds of the live band.
(Photo by Dustin Chambers)
Photo of the Day: Bring out the chainsaws
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Share your Pride photos
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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)
Photo of the Day: ATLiens
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Time and Place: Outstanding displays of facial hair
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
This photo was shot at 2:22 p.m. at the corner of Marietta and Peachtree streets in downtown Atlanta. The photo is of a sign advertising for Eddie’s Gold Teeth. I shot it really tight to emphasize the weirdness of all the open mouths.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
13 Days of Halloween: The scariest lawn display?
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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)
Photo of the Day: Tikbalang — not a centaur
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
This photo is from the Atlanta media preview on Oct. 26 for Cavalia. The tripped-out horsey Cirque Du Soleil opens tonight at the white tent (yeah that one) at Atlantic Station.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
Photo of the Day: Dia de Los Muertos
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Eyedrum Gallery is hosting a Day of the Dead art show that opened on Oct. 23 and will run through Nov. 29. Patrons of the art gallery were treated to a performance from Uncle Daddy and the Kissin’ Cousins along with the portrayal of a colorful part of Mexican culture.
(Photo by Alan Friedman)
Photo of the Day: National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Crystal Johnson marches down Peachtree Street in protest against police brutality.
A spirited group of demonstrators showed up at Woodruff Park on Oct. 22 to rally and march as part of the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality. Organizers cited seven deaths in Georgia at the hands of police officers since March 2009 as a sign of the “epidemic of police brutality in Georgia” according to their press release.
Following the rally at Woodruff Park more than 50 protesters marched to the Atlanta Detention Center briefly shutting down one side of Peachtree Street. Outside the Detention Center a “speakout” was held. Some of the topics referenced by speakers outside the jail included the Kathryn Johnston murder, the Atlanta Eagle Raid and the need for an independent citizen police review board. As protesters spoke, cheers could be heard from prisoners inside the Detention Center.
Check out a gallery of photographs from the rally and march.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
Photo of the Day: Leonard Cohen
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Leonard Cohen performed at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta Oct. 20.
Check out more photos from the concert.
(Photo by Perry Julien)
Time and Place: Crowd favorite
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
I photographed Decatur-raised rapper, B.o.B., at Smith’s Olde Bar on Oct. 18 with little knowledge of his music. I spoke to some people about him before the show and heard that he was “the new Andre 3000,” and that “if the recession hadn’t hit, he’d be multi-platinum by now.” No amount of hype could have prepared me for those next two hours of live music. B.o.B.’s talent was immediately clear. What was more endearing was that he was having fun. He tore on to the stage, rapping and playing guitar, and had the whole crowd grinning ear to ear.
(Photo by Dustin Chambers)
Photo of the Day: Scottish games
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
The highland games took place Oct. 17-18 in Stone Mountain, GA. The event featured a Scotch-Irish family clan banner march, bagpipe band marches, sheep dog demonstrations, and Highland Man competitions that involved throwing heavy things as far or high as possible.
Check out more photos depicting incredible feats of strength at the Games.
(Photo by Dustin Chambers)
Photo of the Day: Bears Denied
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Chicago Bears Quarterback Jay Cutler stretches for a first down last night at the Georgia Dome. The Falcons beat the Bears 21-14 with the Falcon defense coming up huge with several key defensive stands.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
Photo of the Day: Parading
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Despite the cold, hordes of Atlantans spilled into the streets of Little Five Points to show off their best zombie imitations among other frightening monster facsimiles during the Halloween Parade Oct. 17.
Check out more photos from the parade.
(Photo by Ryan Purcell)
