1) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
2) Atlanta Film Festival celebrates the 20th anniversary of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing at the Fox Theatre.
3) Calu leads top-notch burlesquepades at Smith’s Olde Bar.
4) Talbot Tagora and Abe Vigoda play 529.
5) R. Land presents Zaat at Plaza Theatre.
(Photo © MGM)
1) The Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons attempts a Gnome March World Record at the Inman Park Festival.
2) Atlanta Steeplechase features horse racing and hat contests, all for a good cause.
3) The Center for Puppetry Arts screens Puppet Up! — Uncensored.
4) Bangkok Fight Night invades Center Stage.
5) The Atlanta Film Festival wraps up with Rudo y Cursi at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.
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1) Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell opens at the High Museum of Art.
2) Kevin Wilson discusses Tunneling to the Center of the Earth at Decatur Library.
3) The Atlanta Film Festival continues with That Evening Sun at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.
4) Little Country Giants play Eddie’s Attic.
5) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang opens at the Fox Theatre.
(Art by David C. Driskell)
1) The Atlanta Film Festival continues at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema with Beeswax, White Wedding and more.
2) Gwen Ifill reads and discusses The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama at Agnes Scott.
3) State of Play continues in area theaters.
4) Ha Jin discusses his work at Emory University.
5) Desert Jewels continues at Atlanta College of Art Gallery.
(Photo courtesy Atlanta Film Festival)
1) The Atlanta Film Festival holds its opening night gala at the Rialto Center, with a screening of The People Speak.
2) SCAD Style continues with fashion gurus Lela Rose and Miles Redd.
3) Thomas Glave reads from The Torturer’s Wife at Outwrite.
4) The Found Footage Festival returns to the Plaza Theatre.
5) The World Barista Championship comes to Atlanta.
(Photo courtesy Atlanta Film Festival)
CL’s Chanté LaGon and Chad Radford chat about two Atlanta rock docs, We Fun and I’m Like This Everyday, showing at the Atlanta Film Festival.
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1) Comedian Marc Maron performs at Laughing Skull Lounge.
2) Paula Deen discusses her latest cookbook at Books-A-Million.
3) Poised continues at Solomon Projects.
4) Themselves play 529.
5) The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site screens At the Death House Door.
(Photo courtesy marcmaron.com)
CL’s Curt Holman discusses the nominees, the snubs and the sure things with Atlanta Film Festival executive director Gabe Wardell. They also chat about the upcoming AFF (April 16-25) and the Spirit Awards (Sat., Feb. 21).
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1) The Fox Theatre screens Cleopatra in conjunction with the Michael C. Carlos Museum and Atlanta Film Festival.
2) Georgia Shakespeare hosts its annual fundraiser, Fools for Love, at Woodfire Grill.
3) Christopher Dickey discusses counter-terrorism in his latest book, Securing the City, at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum.
4) Thriving Ivory plays Vinyl.
5) Susan Rebecca White discusses her debut novel, Bound South, at Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.
(Photo courtesy Fox Theatre)
Sturgess Fillmore, “Atlanta’s most famous governor,” the city’s favorite son and the uncredited inventor of the zipper, presents … ATLANTA!
The film, conceived and shot in less than 50 hours, placed first in the 2008 Rapid i Movement Film Competition. For more info, check here.
(Thanks to Joeventures for the wonderful find.)
(Pop Films)
Thirteen months after its screening at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Atlanta’s homegrown horror film The Signal finally gets a national release. Directed by local filmmakers David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry and Dan Bush, The Signal opens Feb. 22 and assuredly isn’t for everyone: It’s a violent, ultralow-budget thriller with occasionally jarring changes in tone, as this photo of 
Sahr Ngaujah suggests.
That said, if you have even a passing interest in the project, believe in supporting local filmmakers or just want to see certain Atlanta actors and locales you’d otherwise seldom watch on the big screen, be sure to see The Signal this weekend. Opening weekend grosses are enormously influential in dictating the life of the film, so this is your chance to show your school spirit and root-root-root for the home team. (You can check out a trailer and more info about it here.)
Incidentally, The Signal is playing at AMC North DeKalb 16, AMC Discover Mills, AMC Southlake Pavilion 24, Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, Regal 22, Regal Hollywood 24, Regal Arbor Place 18 and Regal Town Center 16. So it’s not like you can use a lack of choices as an excuse.
