Sideshow Atlanta

Local modern dance company Zoetic Dance Ensemble held an open dress rehearsal prior to tonight’s premiere of Dirty Pretty. The show features multimedia components that enhance the stellar choreography instead of distracting from it and several quirky aspects that make it a highly engaging dance concert. The cute name doesn’t hurt either. See the show at 7 Stages Theater running from Oct. 30-Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. each evening.

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(Photos by Tara-Lynne Pixley)

Several metro Atlanta high school bands filled Morris Brown College’s Herndon Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 26. The musicians competed in order to emerge the winner of the Battle of the Bands. A highly respected annual event, the Battle of the Bands draws huge crowds and gives incomparable bragging rights to a school’s band each year.

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(Photos by ROH)

Front Page News in Little Five Points hosted the Halloween Hookup party on Friday night. Michael Phelps was in attendance, as well as “The Dude.” The Devil also showed up, all the way from Hell, and reluctantly posed for a photo with an angel.

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(Photos by Alan Friedman)

Netherworld, a gigantic wholesale carpet warehouse turned gigantic haunted house, attracted thousands of screaming teenagers Saturday night. Even waiting in line was fun, as monsters and creepy old men dressed as axe murderers patrolled the lines, keeping everyone perpetually terrified.

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(Photos by Alan Friedman)

An ongoing battle to free suspected wrongly imprisoned death-row inmate Troy Davis has kept the anti-death penalty community busy. Last night another protest was held on the steps of the Georgia Capitol protesting the final decision to execute Davis. It was one of the biggest turnouts of supporters yet.

(Photos by Joeff Davis)

Parade participants let their freak flag fly very high at Saturday’s L5P Halloween Parade. Notorious for its shenanigans, the parade didn’t disappoint this year.

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(Photos by Joeff Davis and Stefani Byrd)

The BET Awards were held in Atlanta at the Civic Center Oct. 18 and, like any red carpet event, it was a visual feast and fiasco. The throngs of press, publicists and hangers-on could have filled a high school football stadium. But instead they were packed behind ropes and in designated areas.

Rubbing shoulders with stars while feigning disinterest is an art form that most in attendance Saturday seem to have perfected. The screams that occasionally came from outside the heavily-secured gates would lead one to think that being inside those gates is what some dreams are made of. But the reality, at least from this photographer’s point of view, is sadly more mundane — glittering and glossy as much of celebrity is, but tiring nonetheless.

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(Photos by Tara-Lynne Pixley)

Atlanta fans of Kool Korner Grocery have exhaled their last breath of hope that the Cuban sandwich shop would re-open. Now, the next-door gallery has also gone the way of the grocery. Kool Korner Gallery held its Great Last Show Saturday, Oct. 11.

(Photos by Addison Hill)

Charles Walker and the Dynamites performed Saturday, Oct. 4 at The Earl in East Atlanta.

(Photos by Joeff Davis)

When hip-pop acts the likes of these industry contenders come together, it is almost always a loud, colorful and beautiful thing. Janelle Monae jump-started Wednesday night’s performance at The Tabernacle with her signature antics and stomach-humming voice. N.E.R.D. followed it up with so much jumping around that, between them and the also height-achieving crowd, the floor rarely stopped shaking.

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(Photos by Tara-Lynne Pixley)