http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/5-things-to-do-today-friday-3/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/5-things-to-do-today-friday-3/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:45:36 +0000 Amber Robinson http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/5-things-to-do-today-friday-3/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/5-things-to-do-today-friday-3/feed/ 0 1) Howlies, Gentlemen Jesse & His Men, and Vera Fang play the Earl. 2) Drive-Invasion is at Starlight Six Drive-In Theatres for the weekend. 3) The Human League, Belinda Carlisle and Flock of Seagulls play Chastain Park Amphitheater. 4) Grant Park Summer Shade Festival begins its Labor Day weekend festivities. 5) The AJC Decatur Book Festival kicks off. (Photo courtesy [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/26/high-times-for-atlanta-lowbrow/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/26/high-times-for-atlanta-lowbrow/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:44 +0000 David Lee Simmons http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/26/high-times-for-atlanta-lowbrow/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/26/high-times-for-atlanta-lowbrow/feed/ 0 Any of the 2,500 or so people who head out to the Starlight Six Drive-In this weekend will feel like they’re attending a family reunion. Drive-Invasion, the annual harmonic convergence of Atlanta’s lowbrow-culture scene, brings together punk-inspired rockabilly, garage and surf rock, hot-rod and custom-car contests, and a slew of old horror and science-fiction movies, shown [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/04/the-starlight-takes-you-on-a-hell-ride-on-tuesday/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/04/the-starlight-takes-you-on-a-hell-ride-on-tuesday/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:00:31 +0000 David Lee Simmons http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/04/the-starlight-takes-you-on-a-hell-ride-on-tuesday/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/04/the-starlight-takes-you-on-a-hell-ride-on-tuesday/feed/ 1 On Tuesday (Aug. 5), the Starlight Drive-In will offer what feels like a tune-up for Labor Day Weekend’s Drive Invasion with “Hell Ride Rebellion.” The event features a screening of writer/director Larry Bishop’s neo-exploitation biker flick Hell Ride, starring Bishop, Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, David Carradine and Dennis Hopper. Plot? What plot?!? Quentin Taranton threw [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/22/drive-invasion-2008-lineup-is-set/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/22/drive-invasion-2008-lineup-is-set/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:40:27 +0000 David Lee Simmons http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/22/drive-invasion-2008-lineup-is-set/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/22/drive-invasion-2008-lineup-is-set/feed/ 0 The music, movies and hot rods have all fallen into place for this year’s Drive-Invasion, which as usual hits the Starlight Six Drive-In on Labor Day Weekend — which in my humble opinion is the best weekend to be in Atlanta period. (Also see AJC Decatur Book Festival and Dragon*Con, among other events.) The music on [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/02/monster-bash-having-a-ghoul-time/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/02/monster-bash-having-a-ghoul-time/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:00:15 +0000 David Lee Simmons http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/02/monster-bash-having-a-ghoul-time/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/02/monster-bash-having-a-ghoul-time/feed/ 0 Monster Bash is like Drive-Invasion without the humidity and with more makeup. OK, it was already pretty warm on Sunday when hot-rodders, devil dolls, rock ’n’ rollers and ghouls of all ages got all tatted up at the Starlight Drive-In. The event sold out, with barely a parking spot available by mid-afternoon in which rockers [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/04/drive-invaders/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/04/drive-invaders/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:37:08 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/04/drive-invaders/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/04/drive-invaders/feed/ 0 DRIVE-INVASION: “I can’t resist a man on a child-sized motorcycle.” (Photo by Perry Julien) Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/04/atlanta-blogs-today-is-drive-invasion-racist/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/04/atlanta-blogs-today-is-drive-invasion-racist/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:52:22 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/04/atlanta-blogs-today-is-drive-invasion-racist/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/04/atlanta-blogs-today-is-drive-invasion-racist/feed/ 16 You see, it’s all about the Femme Troopers. And helping strangers with their cleavage. -Shelbinator narrating his excellent short video documentary of Dragon*Con. —– Walking in the scorching Atlanta sun shouting “I’m Black, I’m Out and I’m Proud”! was life affirming and reminiscent of the civil rights movement, a different struggle, but a struggle I identify with nonetheless. -Darian [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/24/drive-invasion-fans-it%e2%80%99s-not-you-it%e2%80%99s-us/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/24/drive-invasion-fans-it%e2%80%99s-not-you-it%e2%80%99s-us/#comments Thu, 24 May 2007 21:04:27 +0000 David Lee Simmons http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/24/drive-invasion-fans-it%e2%80%99s-not-you-it%e2%80%99s-us/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/24/drive-invasion-fans-it%e2%80%99s-not-you-it%e2%80%99s-us/feed/ 1 What a difference a day makes. In the jam-packed Summer Guide in this week’s CL, we led off the listings section with this big, lovely photo (taken by Frederick Noble) at dawn at last year’s Drive Invasion, with the INCORRECT photo caption saying it’s occurring Memorial Day weekend — as in THIS weekend! Which sent some [...]