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1) The legendary Tom Waits performs at the Fox Theatre.
2) Jim Henson: Puppeteer is on display at the Center for Puppetry Arts.
3) The Atlanta Pride Festival continues in downtown Atlanta.
4) Eddie’s Attic hosts the Asylum Street Spankers.
5) Chunklet magazine presents Boris, Torche and Clouds at the Earl.
(Photo courtesy Tom Waits)
1) Rising Appalachia hosts and headlines Concrete Pandemonium at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery.
2) Zoroaster headlines Corndogorama’s final day at Lenny’s Bar.
3) Monsters inhabit Atlanta in The Monster Show at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery.
4) Colbie Caillat performs at the Variety Playhouse.
5) REO Speedwagon and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts perform at Chastain Park.
(Photo © Chad Hess)
1) Comedian Bill Burr finishes his three-day run at the Punchline.
2) Sha’ni and the Tiger’s Eye Collection host A Midsummer Night’s Dream with world-renowned dancer Ava Fleming at Sketchworks Theater.
3) Lakewood Amphitheatre strikes a fun trifecta: R.E.M., Modest Mouse and the National perform.
4) Leslie Jordan reads and signs My Trip Down the Pink Carpet at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse.
5) Blues Traveler and more perform in Candler Park for the Midsummer Music Fest.
(Photo courtesy APA Agency)
Here’s a fond PopSmart wish of good luck to the folks at PBA30’s “This Is Atlanta,” which is up for a Southeast Emmy this Saturday for Best Magazine Program under the umbrella category Outstanding Achievement: Television Programming Excellence for its segment, “The Atlanta Downhill Challenge,” about the city’s popular soapbox derby race. (Oddly enough, the program is up against two episodes of “TBS Storyline,” which was canned when Turner changed TBS to last year Peachtree TV. Unfortunate, considering Peachtree TV’s “hyper-local” mission statement.)
We mentioned the Telly Award-winning program in one of our first PopSmart blog posts back in November, so we’re excited to see what happens on Saturday. Jack Walsh and Gordon Ray are the nominated producers of the show, and do an impressive job of providing witty polish to a type of community program that, when not in the right hands, can run on the dull side. This stuff is compelling work, though, reminding Atlantans just how diverse its city really is. (more…)
1) Cat Power performs her rescheduled show at the Tabernacle with Dirty Delta Blues.
2) Real Men Cook for Charity celebrates Father’s Day with a feast at Georgia Railroad Depot while raising money for various nonprofits.
3) Stone Mountain holds its annual Arts and Crafts Festival.
4) The first annual Atlanta Gospel Festival is held at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center.
5) Grace Braun performs at the Earl.
(Photo by Stefano Giovannini)
CityDance’s Earthly Paradise production at 7 p.m. tonight (Saturday), June 14, represents a sweet doubleheader for Christen Edwards. The dancer, an instructor with Studio Dionne, School of Dance and Music, not only performs but also will premiere her very first choreographed piece, “Graduation Ball.” The production also features the jazz-influenced piece, “The Lady Sings.”
Tickets to the performance at Pace Academy Fine Arts Center (966 West Paces Ferry Road) are $20 in advance, $25 at the door; call 404-877-0005 or visit the website.
Edwards (pictured) took some time to discuss the upcoming production.
What makes you most excited about the upcoming production? Which numbers will you be dancing, and what will your role be?
I am very excited about this upcoming production because I’ve choreographed my first full-length ballet, “Graduation Ball.” Even though it’s considered at “short ballet” at under a half hour, I still feel like it’s a personal accomplishment for me as an emerging choreographer! Also, I will be dancing in Pamela Dionne’s “The Lady Sings.”
2) Syrens of the South performs Cabaret Noir at the Highland Inn Ballroom & Lounge.
3) CityDance Ensemble presents Earthly Paradise Saturday, featuring the Lady Swings, Graduation Ball and contemporary modern dance.
4) Virginia Willis signs Bon Appetit, Y’all: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking at Eagle Eye Book Shop.
5) Mamma Mia! continues at the Fox Theatre.
(Photo by Patrick Hoelck)
Ginny Tonic (sometimes known as Michael Howell) is one of the pack leaders of the East Point Possums (Possi?), who get together each year, throw one helluva drag ball, and raise lots of money for their charity of choice. This year’s beneficiary is the Jerusalem House, which provides more than half of Atlanta’s permanent housing designated for homeless persons living with HIV/AIDS. One of the show’s claims to fame was it was the first show that Gigi Monroe performed before she became Atlanta’s “First Drag Idol” winner from Charlie Brown, according to co-founder Rick Westbrook. Other famous names include Alexandria Martin, Owen McCord, Genre, and Summer Knight.
This year’s East Point Possums party will be held from 8-11 p.m. Saturday, June 14, on the East Point Commons in downtown — near the Corner Tavern, a major supporter of the event. The show also features such familiar performers as Prissy Scilla and the MC, Dina Daintymouth.
We had a chance to catch up with the legendary Ginny Tonic to figure out why the Possums make such friendly pets.
1) Unwed Sailor plays the Earl with Sybris.
2) Managing editor Hank Klibanoff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution discusses and signs The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation with Doris Derby and Brett Gadsden at the High Museum of Art.
3) Zappa Plays Zappa performs at Variety Playhouse.
4) Zombie Romance, comic-inspired paintings by Rod Whigham, continues at Rabbit Hole Gallery.
5) Star Bar hosts Freakout!!! with Derek Lyn Plastic, Mammals and the Shining Path.
1) Mudhoney performs at the Earl with Birds of Avalon and Anna Kramer & the Lost Cause.
2) S. David Freeman discusses his new book, Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How, at Jimmy Carter Library & Museum.
3) Dilated Peoples perform with Aceyalone at the Loft.
4) As You Like It, William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy set in the 1960s “Summer of Love,” opens at Georgia Shakespeare.
5) Wednesday Wind Down, Atlanta’s longest running free outdoor concert series, features the Infinity Show Band at Centennial Olympic Park.
(Photo courtesy Mudhoney)
