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Pop Smart - See & Do: Atlanta Singers Article
Pop Smart - Seussical: Take-Your-Daughter-To-Work Night Article
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I was surprised to discover that it was a pretty big deal, with equivalent pomp to any Alliance Theatre opening night, and with probably as many people in the audience as Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies had the previous month. I wonder if the Dr. Seuss name inspired a “bigger house” than usual for ACT shows. Folks like Freddie Ashley, artistic director of Actor’s...
Pop Smart - Jimmy Kimmel exacts revenge on Sarah Silverman Article
Do people remember the instant classic clip that Sarah Silverman debuted on the talk show of her boyfriend, Jimmy Kimmel? Well, apparently on a special post-Oscars broadcast last night, Kimmel responded in kind, and it’s very, very funny as well:
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So in this war of...
| more...Pop Smart - Oscar recap with live-blogging hangover Article
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Supporting Actress Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton, arriving at the red carpet from Narnia.
The Transformers failed me.
I posted my complete Oscar predictions last week, but last night’s telecast found me to be something less than Nostradamus. As the official results show, I correctly guessed 11 out of the 23 categories, getting less than half of my...
| more...Pop Smart - See & Do: Blue Door Article
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A middle-aged African-American mathematics professor (Rob Cleveland) suffers an identity crisis that coincides with the 1995 Million Man March in BLUE DOOR, a two-man drama by Tanya Barfield, continuing Thurs., FEB. 28, at Theatre in the Square’s oft-edgy Alley Stage. Co-starring Eric Little and directed by Gary Yates, Blue Door features songs, intimations of the...
| more...Pop Smart - Liveblogging the 2008 Academy Awards Article
Pop Smart - CL live-blogs the Oscars! Article
image-1Will Atonement make an epic showing? Can Juno carry its success to term? Will Michael Clayton be found not guilty? Can No Country for Old Men hit the target? Or can There Will Be Blood strike it rich?
Join our film critics, Felicia Feaster and Curt Holman, and me while we ponder those questions and plenty more as we present our first-ever live blog during the Academy Awards...
| more...Pop Smart - Focusing on Rapid i Movement Article
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I’ve been a part of some minor filmmaking projects in my day — mostly documentaries of road trips that we only remembered to film when we were in the car and there was nothing to see but miles of endless highway in front of us. Or there was the time some friends and I made a music video to “The Circle of Life,” complete with a choreographed dance and re-creation of...
| more...Pop Smart - Lion King masks on exhibit at the High Article
If that isn’t enough to be excited about, the High is having a Target Free Family Fun Day Sunday (Feb. 24) from noon-5 p.m. It’s “an educational and adventurous day of myths, music and masquerade,” which means there will be crafts, scavenger hunts, music, dancing, African stories and live characters. Click here for a schedule of events.
Pop Smart - See & Do: Time for Real Diplomacy Article
Ed Loves Bacon - The Signal Article
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Directed by local filmmakers David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry and Dan Bush, The Signal took a while to reach theaters but it’s finally hitting the big screen (albeit in limited-release form) this weekend.
The directors, as well as one of the producers for the movie, Alex Motlagh dropped by the CL offices and sat down to talk cult...
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Pop Smart - It’s All in the Timing at Onstage Atlanta Article
Onstage Atlanta’s production of All in the Timing (Feb. 22-March 22) consists of nine short plays by witty playwright David Ives. Ives specializes in ingenious wordplay and head-spinning gimmicks, but I can’t tell you which ones you’ll see on a given night at Onstage Atlanta, because they don’t know.
The cast has learned the following pieces:...
| more...Pop Smart - Catch The Signal this weekend Article
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Thirteen months after its screening at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Atlanta’s homegrown horror film The Signal finally gets a national release. Directed by local filmmakers David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry and Dan Bush, The Signal opens Feb. 22 and assuredly isn’t for everyone: It’s a violent, ultralow-budget thriller with occasionally...
| more...Pop Smart - Chandler Burr comes to Decatur today ... not tomorrow Article
The Perfect Scent is a really incredible book. I don’t wear perfume, nor have I ever particularly cared about it before now, but Burr makes the creation of fragrances come alive with his rich language of scents and down-to-earth descriptions of complex processes. It’s definitely worth reading, especially because it makes you appreciate the artistic value of not only perfume, but also...
Pop Smart - Buckhead Library: More Article
My query at the end of a recent blog post about the threatened demolition of Mack Scogin’s and Merrill Elam’s award-winning Buckhead library was:
“Will the library be saved? Do Atlantans even care?”
Well, apparently Atlanta does care, very much in fact, about preserving the character of its city.
From American Institute of Architects Atlanta president Bruce McEvoy’s statement:...
| more...Pop Smart - ‘Madame Tutli-Putli’: Watch a complete Oscar nominee right now Article
When I reviewed the 2008 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (playing at Atlanta’s Midtown Art Cinema), I had no idea that one of my favorites was readily available on the Internet. “Madame Tutli-Putli,” by far my favorite in the Animated Short Film category, has already found an online life of its own, according to Andrew O’Hehir’s Beyond the Multiplex blog at Salon.com:
In the...
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Pop Smart - See & Do: Artists Inclined Article
Pop Smart - Turner Classic Movies: Bonus content! Article
Print editions being what they are, my cover story on Robert Osborne and Turner Classic Movies felt woefully short even given the fact my editor was kind enough to let me go over the traditional word count.
But there was practically another cover story’s worth of information that could have been crammed into the piece, so here’s a laundry list of some of the items:...
| more...Pop Smart - See & Do: Rick Lowe Article
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Houston’s Project Row Houses have helped make the Texas city a center of contemporary art. The concept was simple: Take 22 abandoned shotgun houses in the city’s neglected, predominately black Third Ward section and transform them into an experiment in positive development. The houses became artist residencies, low-income housing for...
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