1) Greg Fitzsimmons performs at the Punchline.
2) Graveyard Tavern holds Make Homelessness History, a benefit/dance party.
3) The Fiery Furnaces perform at Variety Playhouse.
4) Laughing Skull Lounge hosts the Marijuana-logues.
5) Children opens at Opal Gallery.
(Photo courtesy Super Artists)
1) Ben Lee plays the Earl.
2) Buddy Guy and Jonny Lang perform at Chastain Park Amphitheater.
3) The Graveyard Tavern hosts a farm-to-table Rogue Beer Dinner.
4) Stevie Wonder performs at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre.
5) Derek Lyn Plastic performs at 529.
(Photo © New West Records)
1) Brandi Carlile performs at Eddie’s Attic.
2) The Graveyard Tavern hosts a Farm-to-Table Beer Dinner with SweetWater Brewing Company pairings.
3) Mark Kurlansky discusses his book, The Food of a Younger Land, at Central Library.
4) The Ten Tenors perform at Fox Theatre.
5) The Explorer’s Club plays the Earl.
(Photo courtesy Brandi Carlile)
1) The World’s Toughest Rodeo rides into the Arena at Gwinnett Center.
2) The Graveyard Tavern and PBR join forces for the Pabst Art Show and Contest.
3) Paul Collins’ Beat plays the Earl.
4) The Coca-Cola Film Festival wraps up at the Fox Theatre with screenings of Bolt and Twilight.
5) Les Yeux Noirs and Cedric Watson and Bijoux Creole perform at the Rialto Center for the Arts in Gypsy Jambalaya.
(Photo courtesy World’s Toughest Rodeo)
1. AJC is losing $1 million per week (The big question: Can Anne Cox Chambers’ billions save Atlanta’s daily?)
2. Clearing up confusion over Standard murder (Dissecting a robbery gone horribly awry.)
3. Shooting outside East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern is eerily familiar (Notice the absence of high-profile violent crime following the shooting death of a would-be robber at the hands of his victim.)
4. Shirley snaps back at cop union head (Crime seems to have everyone — herroner included — on edge.)
5. First Person: Jennifer Graves, wife, mother, swinger (Make love — not armed robberies.)
Jamarcus Usher, on his MySpace page
Late Wednesday night, two bar patrons leaving East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern were approached by 29-year-old Jamarcus Usher. After the couple climbed into their vehicle, Usher reached for his waistband. Fearing that Usher was a threat, one of the bar patrons knocked him to the ground back a few feet with the door of his pickup truck, then shot and killed him after Usher raised his weapon.
Eerily, Usher’s MySpace page lists his occupation as “staying alive.”
Another bit of strangeness: Usher died in almost the exact spot where, eight years ago, another robbery suspect was shot and killed.
It’s not yet clear if this week’s shooting has anything to do with the climate of fear that has descended on Atlanta following a recent spate of violent crime, including the shooting death of John Henderson. Henderson, a bartender at the Standard in nearby Grant Park, was killed Jan. 7 by armed robbers who broke into the Memorial Drive restaurant.
It seems to me that Atlanta — and East Atlanta Village in particular — has been through this before.
"Johnny Pabst and the Blue Ribbon Two" by Alex Doucette, grand prize winner in 2008's painting category
It only seems logical that PBR would pay people for drinking its “blue-ribbon” brew.
For the third year, the trademark hipster libation is hosting the PB-Arts contest, a chance for folks to show the beer, and its marketing department, some love (oh yeah, and win $1,893).
On Jan. 24, the Graveyard Tavern in East Atlanta Village will display 2008’s winning entries. (Judging from last year’s finalists, the competition ain’t too stiff.) Artists will also be able to submit their photographs, paintings, sculpture and poetry for the 2009 contest. The deadline for this year’s competition is Jan. 31. The winner gets a year’s supply of beer (yes, PBR) as well as the above-mentioned $1,893 (the year Pabst won its blue ribbon).
1) The Little Five Points Halloween Festival rages on, with the parade launch at 4 p.m.
2) A Place to Bury Strangers plays Drunken Unicorn.
3) Woodruff Arts Center celebrates its 40-year anniversary with Art Fusion 40.
4) Graveyard Tavern raises cash money for the Breast Cancer 3-Day with Zombie Prom.
5) Mmmm … beer … at the Great Decatur Beer-Tasting Festival.
(Photo courtesy Little Five Points Halloween Festival)
