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Barbara Walters speaks and discusses her new book at Agnes Scott College.

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1) TV personality Barbara Walters discusses her new book, Audition: A Memoir, at Agnes Scott College’s Presser Hall.

2) Green-themed exhibit Eco-nomics includes fused glass chandelier windchimes, wall mirrors using recycled aluminum cans and more at Art at Work Studio and Gallery.

3) Atlanta Wine School’s School Nights at Park Tavern Series explores Whites and Rosés, with wine educators on hand to answer questions.

4) The Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery features Cool vs. Cruel: From Fur to Faux, with animal-friendly, plant-based designs by Art Institute students.

5) Fernbank Museum of Natural History screens family-friendly film Dolphins.

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Nightporters play Smith’s Olde Bar.

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1) Nightporters play Smith’s Olde Bar Saturday night with the Hot Rods and Johnny Hibbert.

2) Katt Williams brings his It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin’ Tour to Philips Arena Saturday night.

3) SoCo Music Experience brings an all-day, free music fest to Centennial Olympic Park Saturday.

4) John Prine performs at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Saturday night.

5) Alliance Theatre hosts An Evening with Augusten Burroughs Sunday, featuring a discussion and book reading from A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father.

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Riverdance calls it quits after 13 years with eight farewell shows at the Fox. (Photo © Joan Marcus)

1) Riverdance continues its six-day run at the Fox Theatre.

2) Puppets take over the world for the 20th annual Xperimental Puppetry Night at Center for Puppetry Arts.

3) Carbonas play at Drunken Unicorn with opener Pinche Gringo.

4) Chris Bohjalian signs and discusses Double Blind at Decatur Library.

5) Collage and film exhibition The Beginning of Man in the Age of Disbelief, Anna Christine’s and Michael David Perkins’s exploration of the origins of man in the debate between science and religion, is at Art House for one night only.

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Tyler Ramsey plays the Earl.

1) Tyler Ramsey of Band of Horses fame performs with Pat Puckett and the Meeks Family at the Earl in East Atlanta.

2) The Showcase School of Photography has an opening reception for Ocean Earth: Celebrating the Beauty of Inner Space, local artist Doug Sturgess’ underwater images.

3) Behind-the-scenes British comedy Noises Off starts off the week’s performances at Aurora Theatre.

4) Jack-O and the Tennessee Tearjerkers bring their raucous opening act to the Hives show at Center Stage.

5) Group exhibition Controlled Release continues at Romo Gallery.

(Photo by Josh Rhinehart/Music Allies)

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1) Janet Biggs’ Tracking Up exhibit (pictured) continues at Solomon Projects.

2) Eyedrum Music & Art Gallery hosts 50 Artists, 50 Shots: We Are All Sean Bell.

3) Traveling exhibition Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Art, organized by the Southern Arts Federation, finishes up its final week at Atlanta History Center.

4) Ladyhawk, Neva Dinova, Vivian Girls and Johnny Buffalo & the Mutinous Noise perform at the Drunken Unicorn.

5) Nathan McCall and Pearl Cleage discuss Them and Seen It All and Done the Rest, respectively, with James Taylor at Atlanta Fulton Central Library.

(Photo by Janet Biggs)

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1) DeVotchKa (pictured) performs at Variety Playhouse with Basia Bulat.

2) Mary Tillman, the mother of soldier Pat Tillman, tells the story of her son’s life and death at Jimmy Carter Library & Museum and Decatur Library.

3) Blood on the Wall performs at the Earl with A Faulty Chromosome.

4) The Poetry of Pizza continues its run at Theatre in the Square.

5) Colorfields, Greg Ragland’s and Thomas Andrew’s collection of landscape paintings, is at Lagerquist Gallery.

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1) William Tucker’s (pictured) play Headache Inferno finishes its two-day stint at Eyedrum Music & Art Gallery.

2) Carl Hiassen signs and discusses The Downhill Lie at Wordsmiths Books.

3) Pace at Arts for All Gallery chronicles local artist Hadley Breckenridge’s  travels across Atlanta.

4) David A. Sampson’s A Retrospective 1977-2007 concludes its final week at Ark Atlanta Artworks.

5) Mr. Gnome performs at Smith’s Olde Bar.

(Photo courtesy Eyedrum Music & Art Gallery)

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1) Robert Spano (pictured) conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park Saturday.

2) Grammy Award-winning Indian classical musician Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt performs on mohan veena (modified guitar) with Shubhen Chatterjee on tabla Saturday at Georgia Tech’s Le Craw Auditorium.

3) Choose from a slew of Mother’s Day brunch events at local restaurants Sunday, including Shaun’s, the Food Studio and Ritz-Carlton Buckhead.

4) Sweet Auburn Springfest brings music and more to Sweet Auburn Historic District Saturday and Sunday.

5) Young Blood Gallery celebrates its reopening in Virginia-Highland Saturday with a reception for In Between the Rain by Valerie Taylor and Jessica Gonacha.

(Photo Andrew Eccles)

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1) Barbara Archer Gallery hosts an opening reception for A Common Space by Charlotte Foust and Melissa Stern.

2) Writer/director Buddhadev Dasgupta’s Bengalese film The Voyeurs screens as part of the Film Festival of India at the High Museum.

3) Philip Bobbitt discusses his new book on American foreign policy, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, at Decatur Library Auditorium.

4) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opens at the New American Shakespeare Tavern.

5) Grammy-nominated musician Darrell Scott performs at Eddie’s Attic.

(Image Charlotte Foust and Melissa Stern)

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1) Food Network host Alton Brown reads from and discusses his book, Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run, at Variety Playhouse.

2) Theatre in the Square presents The Little Dog Laughed.

3) Starring Javier Bardem film fest kicks off its four-film series at the Rich Theatre at Woodruff Arts Center.

4) Radiohead and the Liars perform a sold-out show at Lakewood Amphitheatre.

5) The Day Celebration, a three-day music fest benefiting five Georgia-based charities, begins at Triple B Farm in Buckhead, Ga.

(Photo by Don Chambers/Chamber Studios)

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