1) Hop City hosts a Left Hand beer tasting at Octane.
2) Grey Gardens continues at Actor’s Express.
3) Long Shadows play the Earl.
4) The Ones to Watch continues at Alan Avery Art Company.
5) Lenny’s hosts a Guitar Hero competition.
(Photo courtesy Hop City)
1) Bryant Terry discusses his cookbook, Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine, at Charis Books & More.
2) Rosebud hosts its annual Jerry Garcia Tribute Dinner.
3) Gift Horse plays the Drunken Unicorn.
4) Octane Coffee hosts a free beer tasting of Old Dominion Octoberfest.
5) Drew Holcomb plays Eddie’s Attic.
(Photo © Sara Remington)
Were you unable to attend those innovative show-and-tell sessions held each week at Octane? The eye-opening events more commonly known as Atlanta Pecha Kucha? No worries, my friend!
Alfredo Aponte, one of the event’s organizers, has posted some of this season’s offerings on Vimeo. Below’s a sampling. Check out the rest on the Atlanta Pecha Kucha Vimeo page.
EIGHT: Members of the Westside Arts District
The newly christened Westside Arts District will host its inaugural gallery walk Sat., Feb. 28, in what may become a monthly routine. Scheduled events begin at 11 a.m. at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, and continue throughout the day at seven other WAD locations along Howell Mill and Marietta Street.
“We’re trying to introduce people to the idea that there is a growing arts district in this part of town, and that we are all located within walking distance,” comments Lloyd Benjamin, owner/operator of Get This! Gallery. “This will be a different type of art walk. It’s during the daytime, and one focus point will be on special events. We hope the viewer walks away from the afternoon more informed about the shows they have just seen, along with having enjoyed the neighborhood and all it has to offer.”
So, does WAD represent a long-term shift in Atlanta’s physical and cultural development? Benjamin’s Get This! and next-door neighbor Saltworks — both recent transplants from other Atlanta neighborhoods — continue a trend since late 2006 of new galleries opening or reopening on the Westside, including WAD members Kiang Gallery and Bobbe Gilles Gallery.
“If feels like it’s still growing,” says Emily Amy, the eponymous owner and director of Emily Amy Gallery, which opened just last year. “There may have been plans for forming something like [WAD] before, but no one ever really mentioned it. There are so many creative people working here, it just makes sense to establish some teamwork.”
1) Gary Gulman finishes his run at the Funny Farm.
2) Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers play Park Tavern.
3) Octane Coffee hosts Pecha Kucha Volume 7.
4) PBR for Pups raises money for Ruffus Rescue at the Standard.
5) The Little Prince continues at 7 Stages.
(Photo courtesy Gary Gulman)
Yet the [Buckhead] library is a likely casualty of the ongoing movement to transform Buckhead into Alpharetta. Seems you can’t have enough mixed-use developments.
– ATLMalcontent has an excellent piece about Atlanta’s stagnant architecture scene posted at his wicked den of diatribes. He, like several others, bemoans the possible loss of the Buckhead Library.
I just don’t get it. We’ve got the Republican leadership wanting to raise taxes on 174 services, increase the sales tax and essentially nickel and dime us to death. Imagine being a small service business owner and having to deal with collecting taxes now. What a mess. I see NO focused opposition to this from the DPG, caucus or the county parties.
– sndeak at Tondee’s Tavern wonders why the Democratic Party of Georgia and local parties haven’t shown a little outrage and backbone over the outlandish tax hikes businesses and customers across the state would see with the More-Subpar-Than-GREAT tax plan, the mutated dungeon baby of House Speaker Glenn Richardson.
Even if you are not an avid biker looking to further personalize your dangerously cool lavender fixed-speed vintage bike, this will probably be a neat place to pick up tiny original works of art for your desk or elsewhere!
– Christa at Pecanne Log spreads the word about a call for art from Octane, a great coffee shop and office-away-from-the-office for one editor of a local alt-weekly. The java joint will auction off “spoke cards” April 12 to raise money for a bicycle-maintenance shop on a coffee farm in Rwanda.
