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With their debut album, Sigh No More, West London foursome MUMFORD & SONS draw just as much inspiration from American folk, country and bluegrass as they take from such proto early alt-rock bands of their homeland as the Pogues and the Waterboys albeit cleaner and nicer. Their songs are all about biblical parables and shedding a tear in your pint, and since the album arrived stateside, the group has been on a steady rise to the top. Fellow Brits Matthew and the Atlas open the JUNE 12 show with songs from their latest EP, Kingdom of Your Own, along with a few older numbers as well. (Chad Radford)
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The third annual EVOLVERFEST features art, live music, workshops, guest speakers and eco-friendly crafts, all in a family-friendly atmosphere at Lake Claire Community Land Trust. Its a celebration catered toward making our Earth a beautiful one and transforming it, one home at a time. Festival-goers are asked to walk, bike or ride MARTA to reduce their carbon footprint JUNE 11. Speaking of bicycles and carbon footprints, its time for another ATLANTA STREETS ALIVE on JUNE 11, when the city, with the help of Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, temporarily shuts down a loop of streets for a car-free zone thats part bike tour, part block party. (Jamila Dewitt)
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Sitting in dark, stuffy theaters on beautiful summer nights seems almost sinful. FLICKS ON 5TH offers a remedy: The outdoor summer film series begins JUNE 15 at Georgia Techs Technology Square with Hall Pass, starring Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis. The COCA-COLA SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL presents another spin on movie night, with screenings at Fox Theatre. The festival runs JUNE 9-12; the first screening will be Oscar winner The Social Network. (Krystle Drew)
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When a 51-year-old homeless woman was crushed to death beneath the rubble of a demolished house on Daniel Street in early May, it took the first emergency vehicle 18 minutes to show up. Last week, it was revealed why: An Atlanta 911 dispatcher erroneously sent rescuers to Daniels Avenue, nearly five miles away.
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A white duck that neighbors grew familiar with last spring has returned to Springvale Park. One resident says its the first evidence they have that ducks return to Inman Park annually.
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The father of the 30-year-old woman who died after falling out of a 10thfloor window at the W Hotel on 14th Street in late May filed suit against the hotel chain this week. The woman, LaShawna Threatt, was apparently play-wrestling with a friend in their hotel room when both broke through the window.
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A local police officer was selected to run the final leg of the Law Enforcement Torch Run for the 2011 Special Olympics World Games in Athens, Greece. A press release says Scott Luther was selected because of his enthusiastic volunteering and fundraising for Georgias Special Olympics program during his 10 years on the force.
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ecently unemployed? Finished with for a decade make the neighborhood look right? school? Have you considered picking Other commenters said the filling station could crops on one of South Georgias many cause traffic problems and attract neer-dofarms? Some farmers say theyre in wells. But Centennian pointed out the diffithe midst of a labor shortage, thanks to Georgias culties in making neighborhoods more walkable. strict new immigration law. So Gov. Nathan Deal Either focus on being a pedestrian friendly has proposed urging out-of-work Georgians to neighborhood in which needs of vehicles take a apply for some of the jobs. I have a masters backseat, he wrote, Or bow before the altar degree and no job, wrote NSF. Why the hell of the automobile and make pedestrians second would I move to south Georgia to pick fruit? If I class citizens. Trying to have it both ways is why move anywhere, itll be to where I can find a job so much of Atlanta is mediocre. in my field. Replied eric pfeifer: Im underemployed with a masters too. Apparland deal to save ently in the new economy a job in the the streetcar? More field should be taken literally. Col. City officials, red-faced over a the on Whisk said unemployed people $5.6 million accounting error inWeb shouldnt be so picky. Sometimes volving the planned streetcar, last Join the I cant believe that this is the same week proposed selling two chunks ersation at conv nation that made it through the trials of land to Post Properties to make clfreshloaf. of previous generations, he wrote. up the difference. Amazing how this com And DanaBlankenhorn wondered is trying to be swept under the rug as an about the laws other side effects: A numhonest mistake, wrote VoxPopuli, reber of businesses are going to go out of business ferring to the citys explanation for the accountover this, but its just the tip of the iceberg. Who ing error. Ineptitude appears to be a historical cooks the food? Who washes up afterward? hallmark of Atlanta city government. Imagine how well [Atlanta] could do with efficiently run central government. Some commenters noted Fancy petrol station that the city could lose nearly $250,000 each year hits roadblock Ormewood Park residents celebrated a small from Post in lease payments. Wrote cityzen: victory last week after the city rescinded its ap- Small stuff, but in principle well get 250k less proval of a site plan for a QuikTrip on Moreland services or have to pay 250k more tax in order to Avenue. Some Fresh Loafers were appalled. I take that capital payment to fund the streetcar. live in a beautiful, historic, intown neighborhood That seems OK to me. But when will Atlanand I would kill for a QT nearby, wrote lazer- tans this CL staffer included realize mike. Added fight for your right to have urban that there is no free lunch, even when the blight: No concerns about how the bordered lunch is a transit project? C up houses in the area that have been sitting there thoMas Wheatley
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in the park, an officer wrote. He said he didnt like the city ordinance about being in the park after hours. The man made clear he was determined to continue his late-night meanderings, so the officers took him to jail.
Street, a 23-year-old woman said she called her childs father and told him their little girl needed Pampers. When he didnt oblige, she called again, but this time she put her daughter on the phone to tell Daddy that they needed Pampers now. The father fetched the diapers, but he wasnt happy about it. When he delivered the goods, he threw the box of Pampers and a shoe at the womans face (she wasnt hurt) and said, Dont you ever have my little girl call me for some Pampers. Sounds like Daddy needs a diaper change.
stopped and attempted to ticket a man they spotted casually strolling through Piedmont Park at around 2 a.m. (FYI, night owls, Piedmont Park is officially closed from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.) The man, a 24-year-old from Stone Mountain, became belligerent and yelled that police were assaulting him and sexually violating him by stopping him
with her ex-boyfriend, a young woman returned to her Angier Avenue apartment to find that her former beau had beat her there. From there, the fight escalated and the ex reportedly grabbed a bottle of bleach, removed the top and threw it at her. The woman said she put her arms over her face, but the bottle struck her arms and some bleach got into her eyes. The ex-boyfriend who left in a taxi is described as being 6 feet tall and slender with an extremely large head and a tattoo on his arm that reads, Rest in Peace, Larry. Items in the Blotter are taken from actual Atlanta police reports. The Blotter Diva compiles them and puts them into her own words.
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Between a botched breast-feeding ordinance and a law targeting strip clubs, the Clayton County burg is no friend of the mammary
orest Park has lately been obsessed with breasts. In late May, elected officials in the tiny south metro city caught hell for enacting an out-of-the-blue public indecency ordinance that deemed breast-feeding in public unlawful unless the child enjoying his or her mothers milk al fresco is younger than 2. Unhappy about the arbitrary age limit, so-called lactivists staged a nursein outside city hall, resulting in an onslaught of media coverage something its safe to say Forest Parks rag-tag, five-member city council isnt accustomed to receiving. To mitigate the overwhelmingly negative attention, the council amended the ordinance June 6 to remove the age limit on public breast-feeding. But the councils sensitivity to exposed mammaries hasnt been limited to nursing mothers. Since 2009, Forest Park has been embroiled in a quiet legal tussle over legislation targeting adult entertainment establishments. Late that year, a new ordinance was passed to force strip clubs to choose between selling alcohol and nudity. Suddenly, cocktails and naked ladies could no longer co-exist. Jack Galardi, owner of Pink Pony South and Crazy Horse Saloon the citys only two strip clubs filed suit in both district and federal courts. The city has been busy fighting both cases since then. Whats puzzling to many, including Councilwoman Karen Brandee Williams, is that the citys sudden crusade against indecency doesnt seem to be a reaction to any existing problems. We dont want 50 clubs like this in the city, Williams says, but [we] have them here now, and [we] havent had any problems that Ive seen documented. Now [the councils] embarrassed the city, because [its] attacking adult entertainment. Forest Park certainly isnt the first place to attempt to purge itself of strip clubs. Because the First Amendment protects erotic expression as a form of free speech, a popular way for municipalities and county governments to try to snuff out strip clubs is to prohibit them from selling alcohol. Some cities have been successful by quoting studies that show the adverse secondary effects strip clubs have on surrounding communities. The preamble to Forest Parks embattled ordinance lists dozens of cities from nearby Sandy Springs to not-so-nearby
Seattle where studies indicate that adult entertainment heightens crime and lowers property values. But Forest Park never performed its own study to see what effect its own clubs have had on criminal activity. Galardis attorney, Aubrey Villines, says using outside studies to justify banning alco-
hol sales in Forest Parks strip clubs demonstrates faulty logic. If you moved into a neighborhood and there was a liquor store two doors down from the house you wanted to buy, youd say, Whats the impact of that liquor store? It would be like them saying, Well, lemme tell
We dont Want 50 clubs like this in the city, but We have them here noW and havent had any problems.
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you what the impact was in Seattle or what it was in Indianapolis, he says. Adds Villines: Ive heard the chief of police say we have more problems at the Chick-fil-A than we do at Pink Pony. When Fulton County attempted to do away with drinking in strip clubs a few years back, rather than use outside evidence of adverse secondary effects, they were ordered to do their own official study. According to local attorney Alan Begner, who represents several local strip clubs, the Fulton study didnt turn out the way county officials had expected. The study came back showing the opposite, says Begner. There was half as much crime [around strip clubs]. Forest Park Councilwoman Sparkle Adams, who also serves as Mayor Pro Tem, voted against granting adult entertainment licenses to both Galardi clubs back in 2008, but was out-voted. Following the councils June 6 meeting, CL attempted to speak with Adams, but although her legislative actions suggest she has strong feelings about public indecency, she refused to comment. After trying to evade the media by slipping out a back door, Adams chided us for calling her at her home (the number was provided by a city receptionist) and said she would only discuss the citys next teen council meeting. Councilwoman Williams says she believes there has been an effort to run the Pony and Crazy Horse out of town. Theyve been a key figure in the community, theyve been a blessing to certain institutions, been good business people, then all of a sudden [the council] is changing all the rules and laws and trying to run them out of business, she says. Ive never felt that was the right way to treat a business, especially when even the mayor has said theyve been great to the city, and never been a problem. The lawsuit Galardi filed in district court which claims the city violated a consent agreement it entered into with the clubs is still in front of a judge who will decide whether the clubs should be granted a temporary restraining order. In the other case, a federal judge refused a TRO request, but Galardi has appealed, claiming the ordinance violates the First Amendment. In the meantime, the clubs are in a kind of limbo: They continue to serve alcohol, but since January dancers have worn bikinis, and Villines says the clubs are losing money as a result. Maybe an organized strip-in at city hall is in order. C
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crimes so heinous that death is an appropriate punishment. But Ive also reached the inescapable conclusion that our court system cannot be trusted to apply justice in an impartial, equitable and reliable manner. More than that, though, I dont believe the death penalty justifies its own considerable cost. Its hard not to lose a little faith in stateissued jurisprudence each time DNA evidence proves that some luckless convict spent decades in prison for a crime he didnt commit. Even more damning are reams of statistics showing that such factors as the defendants race, the race of the victim and the county where the trial takes place are disturbingly predictive for whether a convicted murderer winds up on death row. Brian Nichols aside, there are dozens of killers now serving life sentences in Georgia prisons whose crimes are fundamentally no different from many who await execution. But I soured on the death penalty long before I knew any of that. I hate to be coldly pragmatic, but I became a capital punishment opponent the day I learned that it costs far more to bring a man to execution when you add in the price of a capital trial and the legal expense of the inevitable appeals than it does to keep him in prison for the rest of his life. There are lawmakers in Georgia whose solution for fixing this imbalance would be to make it easier to execute killers by spiking
eorgia just cant quit its love affair with super-roads in Sprawlville. Hard up for cash to fund new highways, officials are pinning their hopes on a freemarket champions wet dream: optional toll lanes and even public-private toll roads. In Paulding County, the local development authority is drooling at the idea of building a crescent-shaped, 113-mile private toll road that would link to metro Atlantas southern edge. Gwinnett County officials are sponsoring, in concert with a private engineering firm, a study to see if one of its roads could be expanded and funded with tolls. Later this summer, state officials will celebrate the unfortunate conversion of an I-85 HOV lane into a toll lane, prices for which would fluctuate depending on congestion. (As part of an agreement with the State Tollway Authority, the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, the state agency that operates suburban buses to take riders downtown, is perversely advertising this drive-more service on the backs of its own buses.) And that proposed toll tunnel under East Atlanta, Little Five Points and Morningside that nearly caused intowners to break out the pitchforks? Its still a possibility. Public-private deals of the kind prized by the Georgia DOT are often shrouded in secrecy until the players are announced never mind that homeowners unfortunate to live along proposed routes could possibly see their properties condemned. And the agreements sometimes prohibit the state and local governments from building transit and road improvements nearby. Frankly, the state doesnt have a stellar record when it comes to realizing toll-road projects. Just last week the AJC reported that state officials were once again delaying bids on a $1 billion, 26-mile toll-lane project along I-75 and 575. Itd be the first of a proposed $16 billion network $7 billion of which would come from taxpayers of pay-as-you-go roads in metro Atlanta. Whats most unsettling about such projects, however, is that they do nothing to address metro Atlantas addiction to the automobile. At best, toll roads are a temporary fix for our overall transportation problems. Even worse: Such projects would serve to encourage more people to drive to work. Sure, Georgia does need some new roads. And managed lanes, when done correctly, can sometimes work well. But local officials would be better off stopping the slow bleed of MARTA, which has been neglected in favor of GRTAs suburban coaches, and investing cash and political capital into
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building bus and rail transit. The goal should be to have fewer cars on the roads, cleaner air and, if rail is built wheres it most needed, a boost in economic development. At the least, the DOT should stop inconveniencing suburban carpoolers by eliminating HOV lanes. Those solutions would help metro Atlanta undo its decades of devolution, improve its quality of life and prepare for the inevitable gas shortage that no one wants to address. C
the requirement for unanimous jury verdicts. But if modern juries in court parlance, the will of the people have become less comfortable with the idea of sending men to death row, shouldnt that tell us something? I can no longer think of a single compelling
argument against abolishing the death penalty in Georgia. Its not as if any rational person believes its an effective deterrent to violent crime. And whether or not one agrees with the moral reasoning, Americas dogged attachment to capital punishment has lowered our standing
in the eyes of other democratic nations. Frankly, if the death penalty doesnt save the state any money; it cannot be applied fairly and uniformly; and if it arguably doesnt further the aims of justice in a meaningful way, what purpose does it serve? C
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DIVE IN: The tiny Beer Barrel, a former bar/package store in Marietta, has been serving brew for more than 50 years.
In celebration of the comfortable squalor and cheap-ass booze of Atlantas dive-iest bars
By Scott Henry These havens provide a home away from home, a sanctuary from domestic concerns and temporary, if inebriated, companionship in familiar surroundings. And, if youre not too picky, they can also rustle you up a burger or a basket of wings. Because of Georgias famously backward liquor laws and our citys propensity to tear down anything thats been around more than a generation, Atlanta largely lacks the kind of corner bar that can be found so readily in the blue-collar neighborhoods of Chicago and New York. Still, dive bars are out there if you look hard enough. To be clear, were not talking about places like Northside Tavern or the erstwhile Lennys or even the Clermont Lounge, which were long ago embraced by hipsters and musicians despite or, more properly, because of their grunginess. To meet our definition of a dive, its not enough for a joint to be a shithole. It has to be an irony-free shithole. Nor can we lend our approval to Five Paces Inn, the Buckhead Pool Hall or other places crowded with frat boys all weekend. Ideally, when you first walk into a dive, you should feel a bit uncomfortable, maybe even a little concerned for your safety, as the regulars turn to see who just stepped onto their turf. Asking for a fancy drink should earn you a funny look. The wrong word could get you cut. A dive bar should feel lived-in, with rounded corners and well-worn floors. It should indulge no pretensions, follow no trends. It doesnt need to be old, but it helps. Any decent dive should have a timeless quality, as if the outside world has left it untouched. You cant manufacture the kind of unpracticed carelessness that goes into achieving dive-dom. It has to occur organically. A proper dive is a place where a guy can expect to drink at the same barstool for 20 years without worrying that the room will get remodeled or a new chef will overhaul the menu. Above all, a dive bar should serve cheap, cold beer and have enough spirits on hand to lend some variety. Let us then salute the holdouts that, in all their casual squalor, serve to enrich and diversify metro Atlantas drinking scene. Viva la dive bar!
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mong Atlanta tastemakers, the cocktail is now king. From Peachtree Road to Edgewood Avenue, the citys trendiest bars and restaurants are concocting creative libations using obscure ingredients and flashy mixology skills, and serving them up in ever-hipper, of-the-moment environments. To be certain, its a rich and heady time to be a cocktail connoisseur. But what about nontastemakers? The regular Joe, the average barfly, the working stiff who just wants a cold one after a rough third shift? Fact is, in many of Atlantas watering holes the ones tucked away in unobtrusive buildings on side streets or in aging strip shopping centers the typical drink comes in a can, a long-neck or a plastic cup. And for the regular patrons, theyre every bit as satisfying as anything made with imported bitters or herbal infusions, and a hell of a lot easier on the wallet. Of course, you could drink cheap beer on your couch. But thats where the neighborhood dive bar comes in.
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This 40-year-old pub is a little frayed at the edges worn vinyl barstools, missing linoleum tiles but it keeps plugging on. For several years now, its held its own Shooting Star singing contest, as well as pool tournaments and karaoke four nights a week, emceed for the past decade or so by the same hostess. Explains a waitress: People who come here tend to stay.
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Occupying a sprawling old bungalow on the edge of the historic district, Niks is several places in one. Its a dive bar, with plywood floors and a gnarly fiberglass drop ceiling. But its also a restaurant serving a full menu of gyros, moussaka and other Greek specialties. Finally, its a high schoolers dream of what a frat house should be, with ratty thrift-store couches, pool tables and video games.
Located on the edge of Mechanicsville, Pryor Tavern is well-fortified, with a heavy security door and its large picture windows covered by burglar bars. No word on whether it offers seating in the panic room. If ambiance is your thing, keep driving. Pryor Tavern is basically a short-order grill that somehow got its hands on a liquor license. The single room contains maybe eight booths, a jukebox and the counter. The menu includes such standards as fried whiting, wings and pigs ear on toast. Nom, indeed. The bar, if it can be called such, consists of canned beer and a handful of economysized liquor bottles grouped on the counter. Asked what kind of drinks they offer, the cook pauses a second, then says, We can give you a shot. The tavern lets its hair down Thursday nights, when it hosts karaoke. But dont look for a stage. Aspiring American Idols can either sing from their seats or stand in the middle of the floor. On one visit, a Corvette, a shiny new Hummer and a Ferrari F430 sit in the asphalt parking lot. Yet theres no one inside who looks like a professional athlete or a hedge fund manager. Perhaps theres more to this tavern than meets the eye. C
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The smoker out front shaped like a giant Colt revolver may scare some folks away, but on the inside, this hexagonal, 36-year-old watering hole is invitingly rustic, with wooden booths built into the walls. Aside from its age and unselfconscious down-hominess, the Rusty Nail is probably too clean to qualify as a genuine dive bar, but the vibe is right.
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This former 1940s farmhouse has had six different names in the last few years, including the Shack, the Other Bar, the Outhouse, the Sea Shanty and, aptly, the Shack is Back. But dont worry: Its still a dive, with graffiti covering the walls and ceiling, and cigarette butts littering the floor. It now caters largely to gays, bikers and gay bikers. The owners also say theyve purged the drug dealers and neer-do-wells who helped the saloon achieve near-legendary status as a place to look for trouble. Consider that a challenge.
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Canoes executive chef evokes history on her plates and in her home
he Whole Foods on West Paces Ferry Road is not what people generally consider budget shopping. Tucked inside Buckhead Village, across the street from restaurants like Chops Lobster Bar, the grocery store is set firmly inside a neighborhood steeped in luxury, a place where thrift is an afterthought if its considered at all. Canoes executive chef Carvel Gould knows what shes doing around here. She should she grew up in a house on West Paces Ferry, attended primary school at Westminster on West Paces Ferry, runs her restaurant on West Paces Ferry and lives in a townhouse just off West Paces Ferry. Most of her life, save for a few crucial years attending the University of Georgia in Athens, has transpired around this road. Its no surprise she would shop on it, too. Gould has a few tricks for shopping at Whole Foods without spending the whole paycheck. Those big bags of ripe cherries? She breaks one open for just a few because theyre sold by the pound, anyway. Instead of buying the packaged slivered almonds, she gets a small handful just what she needs from the bulk section. Fruit and vegetables pile up in her cart oranges, avocado, broccoli rabe but she passes by the pricey options from the butcher, electing for a tiny can of anchovies instead. I could care less about the protein most of the time, she admits. Back at Goulds townhouse, her family history comes into clearer focus. Proudly displayed on the wall is a Civil War-era portrait of Col. L.P Grant, the relative from whom Gould . got her middle name of Grant and who donat-
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ed the land to the city that became Grant Park. Seven generations later, Goulds family still lives in Atlanta. Margaret Mitchell baby-sat her mother. To say that Goulds Atlanta roots run deep would be a vast understatement. Of course, a well-bred young woman like Gould wasnt supposed to grow up to be a chef, to work long, hard hours among the foulmouthed men who typically run the backside
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of a restaurant. Gould says that when she told her mother of her intentions, she was sent to speak with Gerry Klaskala, an acquaintance of her mothers who was then the chef at Buckhead Diner, with the expectation that he would talk her out of it. When he found he couldnt, he offered to put her on the schedule for a few days, sure that the fast-paced and difficult work environment would change her mind. Gould says that after working in the restaurant for about a week, she meekly asked Klaskala if she was a real employee yet. Busy with an order, Klaskala looked over his shoulder and barked back, Youre on the goddamn schedule, arent you? In the years since, Gould has developed a philosophy with her food that is as apparent at Canoe as it is with the modest menu shes prepared today. Each of the three dishes orange and avocado salad, broccoli rabe and anchovy pasta, port wine cherry rice pudding express singular, focused flavors. The saltiness of anchovy serves to bring out the nutty flavor of broccoli rabe, and the fat of the avocado adds depth to the citrus that runs through the salad. The creamy rice pudding is nearly a blank canvas for the sweet but substantial port wine cherries. I suppose I fuss over the ingredients, but I dont want to obscure them, Gould says. I respect them. I work so hard to get them and get them right. I know its a clich, but there is always one star and everybody else is just a supporting actor. Theres always meant to be one thing that stands out and everything else should compliment it. Seated at her dining table, Gould is particularly in tune to the history of her ingredients, to the way that past is conveyed on the plate. These farmers and these fishermen, they go through these processes. I go to Alaska every year to hang out with the guys from Deadliest Catch, and what they go through and the politics concerning that is amazing. So now you have this fresh king crab thats never been frozen how are you going to respect it and make sure people can taste the difference? If you put this big glob of stuff on it, then why buy the fresh crab? Why go to the length to make sure that it was only caught a couple days ago? Theres no point; you cant tell. Its like making a beautiful couture dress and wearing an overcoat over it. C
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ve never really understood how Vietnamese could be anyones favorite Asian cuisine. Sure, I always loved the standards cha gio (fried spring rolls), bun, pho and green papaya salad but, given the choice, Id rather eat Korean or Japanese. That all changed the minute I experienced the expertly prepared wonders featured on Nam Phuongs enormous 12-page menu. Beyond the nuoc cham (fish sauce-based dipping sauce), are more specialties and textures than I could have imagined. The only downside was the Norcross location, so you can imagine my recent excitement when I learned that another Nam Phuong was opening on Buford Highway. After several stalkerish drive-bys, I found that the second Nam Phuong Restaurant (4051 Buford Highway, 404-633-2400. www. namphuongatlanta.com) had opened just across the street from Fiesta Plaza, smack-dab in the middle of Buford Highways unofficial Little Vietnam. The new, impeccably clean location greets you with a shiny new sign, leather-bound menus, and servers who operate with the same sense of professionalism and pride as the original the mark of owners Tieng and David Nguyens extreme attention to detail. And Im happy to report that the food is even better here. After years of many sad cha gio, Ive finally found a version worthy of the indulgence. Instead of being tough and greasy, these spring rolls are light and flaky with juicy ground-pork interiors. Within the menus street food section are specialties not often found in our many pho parlors, including immense crepes (banh xeo) made with rice flour, water and turmeric powder, then fried and filled with shrimp, slices of roast pork and mounds of bean sprouts. The dish is served with a mountain of lettuce and various
fresh herbs to wrap around bits of crepe before dipping them in the fermented soybean sauce. The bot chien is one of the more interesting dishes in terms of texture. The kitchen fries cubes of rice cake in oil until crisp and covers them in an egg batter and green onions. The dish resembles a frittata. Drizzle a bit of the sauce on top to bring it together. Any salad is a win, but the sour and crunchy lotus root salad that you eat with puffed rice scoops is a perfect summer lunch. The cha tom (shrimp mousse cooked on sugarcane) is a tender and perfect centerpiece among the herbs and cooked rice vermicelli squares wrapped in the do-it-yourself rice paper rolls (soak the paper first in the bowl of water). Massive platters of broken rice, bowls of beef stew with French bread and tons of other main dishes abound, including a respectable selection of Vegetarian choices. A few soups stand out among the numerous offerings. Lovers of rice porridge will marvel at the chao ga (chicken congee) flavored with an intense chicken stock and filled with a generous amount of shredded white chicken and fresh ginger. Nam Phuong advertises they serve more than pho, but its version is respectable with hints of anise and deep beef flavor. Another soup worth a taste is the mi tom thit, with its clearer broth sweetened by caramelized shallots and, instead of rice noodles, crinkly egg noodles. Nam Phuong features an expansive drink menu. Try the cool and fizzy soda chanh, fresh lemon juice sweetened with sugar and made sparkly with soda water. Or, if you crave creamy, cool and eye-opening, order the cafe sua da, strong espresso-like coffee mixed with condensed milk and poured over ice. There are also several fresh juices including sugar cane and bubble teas with tapioca pearls for a sweet end to an always refreshing and soothing meal. C
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By Cliff BostoCk djectives are not my strong suit. In fact, in journalism school their use was virtually taboo and, as an editor, I enforced that rule. Then I began writing food stuff. I found that the pressure to be intensely descriptive produced a cloying lexicon. I have, for example, avoided the word foil since 1975 when I edited another food writer, because it absolutely requires adjectival upchucking. (Hey, that was descriptive, wasnt it?) But here I am during my third meal at One Eared Stag (1029 Edgewood Ave., 404-525-4479, www.oneearedstag.com) and I want to tell someone, anyone, about the adjectival flip-flops my palate is undergoing. Unfortunately, its lunchtime and, except for a table of obvious friends of the owners, the restaurant is empty. Thank God for Twitter. What am I eating? Its a bowl of clams with such a shocking flavor its evoked a buried memory of a lunch in Virginia Beach so long ago its visualization is as grey as the clam shells. I was 18, a college freshman, and couldnt believe the flavors of the clams Id been served at a beachside cafe. I told this over and over again to my server. She laughed and an hour later dragged me upstairs to her bed. In the middle of things, a sailor, her boyfriend, walked into the room and joined us in bed. Hello, world.
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The kid in me is feeling emotional. The clams are awash in a bacon-infused cream. Little chunks of the salty meat not cooked to nubs as usual are scattered throughout the bowl, nestling in some of the shells along with fresh field peas. A few fingerling potatoes are also included. I mash the potatoes in the cream at the bottom of the bowl, scooping up some peas with the fork. (Ive done the same with some thin, crackly bread garnishing the bowl.) Now Ive finished all the clams, depositing their licked shells on a plate, and I grab a spoon, tilt the bowl and consume every drop of cream and every pea. This lunch costs $12 and is a bargain. Besides kind of enjoying the cinematic memory evoked by the meal, Im feeling unexpectedly full. Cream and bacon will do that to you. The alchemist who created this evocative dish is Robert Phalen, the owner/chef of Holy Taco in East Atlanta Village. He and his partners have taken over the spot formerly occupied by Shauns, across from the Inman Park MARTA station (thus making it convenient to downtown folks). The look is little changed. Theres a big patio out back, plenty of taxidermy besides the stag with one ear, a large dining room, and a cozy bar area where you can also enjoy the menu of mainly small plates, five or six larger entre portions, and creative side dishes such as pole beans with apricots and cured ham. (Phalen is curing most meats on the premises.)
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also excels at a seemingly forgotten aspect of service, and thats pacing. Meals at Floataway are languid affairs never slow, but gloriously unrushed. D. 1123 Zonolite Road. 404892-1414. www.starprovisions.com. lunaCy BlaCk market HHHII There is very little about Lunacy Black Market that feels familiar in the sense of a restaurant experience. But theres a lot about it that feels familiar in the more personal sense. Its like dinner at a friends house. Its hard to see how chef/owner Paul Luna could possibly make money here: The prices are so low, it appears money is of no interest. Lunas cooking style is deceptively simple a potato soup, flavored slightly with garlic and stippled with fresh thyme. Atlanta has few true originals, and sometimes the only antidote to the monotony of predictable upscale food is home-cooked meals and visits to Buford Highway. Lunacy Black Market provides another kind of respite a restaurant so steeped in personality, it borders on madness. L, D. 231 Mitchell St. 404-736-6164. www.lunacyblackmarket.com.
eleven HHIII Chef Olivier Gaupin uses the language of farm to table and aims for a Southern theme. Some of the best dishes here are the ones that channel Southern classics. Much of this food would be better if it were toned down, simplified and released from its Euro-centric, or conversely, faux-Southern pretenses. Its a fine line, distinguishing elevation from bastardization. But the food at Eleven lacks honesty, and it is hard to find a good reason for the ribbons rathBuns HHHII More than any other chef, and bows that often serve only to distract from Kevin Rathbun is responsible for defining the what might otherwise have been a perfectly restaurant food of Atlanta: Practically every MORE good dish. Eleven may provide some comfort thE On culinary trend and compulsion is represented for the visiting Yankee who stays at Loews here and, for the most part, Rathbuns does and comes to the restaurant looking for grits rant it bigger, better and bolder. The menu is luthe same way a grizzled gambler bellies up 12,000 restau at dicrously large, but choose wisely and youll to a Las Vegas table at 3 a.m. looking for listings online be rewarded: a colossal 20-ounce bone-in lobster. B, L, D. 1065 Peachtree St. 404-745l.com/ clat rib-eye, slathered in warm blue cheese vinai5000. www.loewshotels.com. grette; a tiny Jonah crab tart, all warm, gushgoodeats Farm Burger HHIII Like many things reing custardy richness and flaky crust surrounding garding Decatur, the best thing about Farm Burger a generous pile of hot crab meat; the best bone is its feel. The airy space, speckled with bright-blue chairs marrow appetizer in town; tender chicken livers a la planand long wooden tables, is pleasant in the extreme. Music cha. The bar and wine list lacks strong vision to set tastes wafts. Life is good. The menu provides a few concept burgand standards, but thats the exact opposite of the feel you ers, prestacked by the kitchen. But the main game here is get from the rest of this enterprise. This is still a restaurant build-your-own, bolstered by a number of inventive topthat we should be proud to define ourselves by. D. 112 Krog pings. Step up to the counter, choose from the somewhat St. 404-524-8280. www.rathbunsrestaurant.com. boggling list of toppings, take a number and wait. And here the sound taBle HHHII When Top Flr opened in the comes the Farm Burger dichotomy: The less healthy your summer of 2007, it signaled a change in the tempo, style burger, the better its likely to be. But the burgers themand speed of Atlantas grand dining dance. And now, from selves are slightly underseasoned, so the toppings make the the same duo of Darren Carr and Jeff Myers, along with meal. Beyond the main event, sides and starters have mixed partner Karl Injex, comes the Sound Table. A little less slick success. L, D. 4108 W. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur. 404than Top Flr, the Sound Table nonetheless changes the 378-5077. www.farmburger.net. tempo once again. Perched on the corner of Boulevard and Floataway CaFe HHHHI Floataway is a place you Edgewood Avenue, the Sound Table proves that the best come to be chill. To feel chill. To eat chill. With the walls restaurants are the ones in which the owners create a place painted vibrant blue, assorted glass bottles lining the bar where they want to hang out. Chef Shane Devereuxs menu and vintage fire-engine-red accents, its as if owners Anne has no unifying theme, except that the victuals could be colQuatrano and Clifford Harrison splashed the essence of lected under the title drunk food: sticky Chinese pork ribs, hipster indie craft aesthetic over the place and then toned it Mexican elote, Peruvian ceviche. And barkeep Paul Calvert down just enough to feel fancy. This approach to the decor mixes some of the best cocktails in the city. Occasionally, the is similar to the way the kitchen approaches food: ramp up kitchen becomes so carried away with maximizing taste, it ingredient quality, then tone down dishes to the absolute forgets about technique and pacing, but this neighborhood, essentials. Chefs Quatrano, Harrison and Drew Belline reguthis food, this vibe may prove that an all-out party is not larly create masterpieces, but occasionally something more only the most fun, it might also be the most viable. D. 483 raucous is longed for on Floataways plates. The restaurant Edgewood Ave. 404-835-2534. www.thesoundtable.com.
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By Curt Holman 7 Stages remounted Mr. Universe in 1991 to help launch Grimsleys play Belle Ives and now has brought it back for a third time. Mr. Universe remains a knotty, provocative work about people who scoff at assimilating into the mainstream. But in 2011, it also seems less transgressive than nostalgic. Today, the context of its debut proves nearly as intriguing as the bad behavior on stage. Grimsley completed the play in 1986 while performing in 7 Stages production of Sam Shepards The Tooth of Crime. Mr. Universe first came to light at post-production readings. A year later, the play became the inaugural production at 7 Stages new playhouse on Euclid Avenue. The theater was thriving and the vibe was hopeful, but it was a risky move. 7 Stages didnt own the building at the time, and the rent was huge, says Grimsley. The plays first cast drew from a tight-knit group of theater artists, including actress/ playwright Rebecca Ranson, actress Donna Biscoe and 7 Stages artistic director Del Hamilton, who played Vick. I think that was a time when wed been together long enough to do something really special, Grimsley recalls. Mr. Universe had a definitely edgy quality, partly because of the sexuality of the play, and because drag queens were the focus of the action, for a change. Mr. Universe takes place in the 1970s, but avoids dated references. Its my memory
n the mid-1980s, then-aspiring Atlanta playwright Jim Grimsley envisioned a pumped-up bodybuilder disrobing in the street, interrupting a conversation between a pair of drag queens. That imaginary collision of Mr. Muscles and Miss Thang ricocheted across decades of Atlanta theater as Grimsleys play Mr. Universe. Set in the sleaziest corner of the French Quarter, the dark comedys preening protagonists first emerged in 7 Stages 1987 world premiere production. Mr. Universe became a cornerstone work for the avant-garde playhouse, marked a turning point in Atlanta theaters treatment of gay issues and boosted Grimsleys writing career.
of gay sexuality before AIDS, what people called The Party, says Grimsley. Everything in the gay literary universe is either before AIDS or after AIDS. Back then, gay men didnt talk about relationships, they talked about sex. A long-term relationship lasted a week. Cross-dressing barflies Vick and Judy (played in the current show by Doyle Reynolds and Don Finney, respectively) behave more like cellmates than an ostensibly committed couple. A drug user and pusher, Judy initially resembles Divine in Diana Ross drag, with a temper to match. Vick sports sparkly evening gowns and strives to maintain the poise of a hostess. When Judy picks a bar fight, the melee leaves Vick a filthy mess, which tells you all you need to know about their relationship. Theyre an unstable couple even before they encounter the beefed-up mystery man. Brian Kirchners enigmatic muscle man seems incapable of speech but frequently draws incisions across his oversized pecs and abs. He can only communicate through flexing and posing, which, in Kirchners performance, seems more like a defense display than a show of force. The drag queens bring him to their fleabag apartment to dress his wounds. The physically perfect yet vulnerable stranger brings out parental instincts in Vick, who has a son from a failed marriage, and predatory appetites in Judy. In the second act, Judy schemes like a Shakespearean villain to seduce and rape the stranger. Throughout the 1980s, gay plays gradually became a force in American theater: Mr. Universe followed not long after the New York debuts of Harvey Fiersteins Torch Song Trilogy and Larry Kramers The Normal Heart. There was gay theater [in Atlanta], but it wasnt like it is now, says Grimsley. It started to pick up with Mr. Universe and other Atlanta productions. Between then and now, gay-themed theater has become one of the mainstays of theater it can economically support theater. While tragic AIDS patients and wisecracking gay best friends were becoming theatrical clichs, Mr. Universe unflinchingly presented a rapacious and unrepentant homosexual character with Judy. Only four years after its 1987 debut, Mr. Universes first remount seemed almost conventional. It was a much safer environment to do the play and it made me feel like I was in the middle of a pretty decent writing career. By then, I was publishing novels and felt like I had a much bigger name, says Grimsley. It was a beautiful production, but it didnt have the same magic for me. In 1987, it was the first time Id had a hit. Currently, Grimsley directs Emory Universitys creative writing program and has published multiple novels, including his book Dream Boy, which has been adapted for stage and screen. Grimsley finds that the new production feels darker than the earlier ones, and points out that Hamilton cast older actors as Vick and
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About a month ago, CL received a mysterious package full of clues, codes and a $10 bill. The enclosed letter reads: Thank you for opening the envelope. The money is real. This is not an ad campaign or sales pitch its an art project. Please save the story fragment enclosed, use the hints and find me. Lets play. Since then, similar clues have shown up at various publications such as the GA Voice, on Reddit, on local author Jessica Handlers blog, and on a wiki-style page devoted to cataloging all of the available information. After a citywide sleuthing expedition by CL Culture Editor Debbie Michaud and contributor Wyatt Williams that included stops at the Biltmore House Apartments, the Margaret Mitchell House, the Loews Hotel and more, the case has yet to be cracked. Maybe the answer is that there is no answer? Atlanta Celebrates Photography has announced artist Monica Cook as the 2011 recipient of its annual public art commission. Cook, best known for her paintings of primal, fleshy female bacchanals, has begun dabbling in stop-motion animation. ACP presents Cooks work in collaboration with Flux Projects, and will open the interactive installation Sept. 30 at Flux 2011. The project will then migrate around the city during ACPs October run. Atlantas Office of Cultural Affairs has its hands on some interesting public arts projects lately. Just after announcing the ambitious Elevate: Art Above Underground coming this fall, it also officially announced the beginning of the annual mural project Four Coats. The idea was the brainchild of Beep Beep Gallerys James McConnell. Each year, Four Coats will help secure the rights to four public walls to be curated for murals by local galleries. This year, Whitespace, Marcia Wood, Get This!, and Beep Beep, chose, respectively, Tommy Taylor, Andy Moon Wilson, Sunday Southern Art Revival, and Lucha Rodriguez to paint murals near their galleries. Finally, Tyler Perrys longstanding Supervising Producer and Executive Vice President of Tyler Perry Studios Roger Bobb announced hes leaving TPS after seven years to launch Bobbcat Films.
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Judy than the playwright imagined. Both pushing middle age, the roles seem more desperate now. Mr. Universe begins with saxophonist Syl Spann performing a kind of overture of New Orleans tunes such as Do You Know What It Means (To Miss New Orleans). Fans of HBOs Treme will appreciate the way Spanns bluesy approach sounds more like bebop than Dixieland, distinguishing the plays setting from Big Easy clichs. Viewed today, Mr. Universe embraces some shopworn ideas, particularly a mentally addled neighbor (Yvonne Singh) who speaks to her dead husbands ghost and feels like a stereotype of a holy fool. Promiscuous Katie Jume (Tara Ochs) embodies a kind of feral feminine sexuality, as a counterpoint to Vick and Judys simulations of female charisma. But the role never clicks in the current production. Hamilton obviously knows the material and Ochs is a talented, funny actress, but Katie never reveals the emotional complexity to justify her seemingly endless presence on stage. Shes like a party guest who wont leave. Mr. Universe now comes across as time capsule twice over. It offers a seedy snapshot of New Orleans urban decadence, like Berlin in the 1930s, that would sneer at the idea of family-friendly tourism. And its far less politically correct than the homosexual-themed plays of the 1990s, which took pains to assert gay normalcy in everyday society. Mr. Universe might be older, but it remains untamed. C
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What do you think is most peoples impression of knitting, crocheting and other forms of fiber arts? Terri Dilling: Traditionally there has been a separation between art and craft. However, I think those boundaries are much more blurred now, and contemporary artists are using all kinds of materials and techniques and putting it out in the world as art. Leisa Rich: There is still the perception of it as not being a valid art form, especially in Atlanta, although that is also changing. Yarn bombing is just one of the ways that this art form can reach the masses and gain ground as a valid artistic discipline. Whats the theme of the work that will be part of the June 11 yarn bomb? Susan Ker-Seymer: The theme of [the Sixfold Collectives] current work has to do with nets, and the making of nets as a community experience and also a metaphorical practice. We are all approaching our net making from a different perspective, using a variety of materials and techniques. Suzi Gough: [Southeast Fiber Arts Alliances] contribution will be a spontaneous
work incorporating small creations in any fiber technique. Participants can bring premade items or work on the spot. Everyone is welcome to participate all ages, all abilities, all fiber techniques so the end result will be a joyous mix of whatever we have to work with. What is your opinion of the relationship of graffiti and yarn bombing? LR: Im pro-graffiti. It can be both positive and negative. Yarn bombing is more a happy statement, more socially encompassing and less about the self than graffiti. SG: Traditional graffiti is about marking territory or expressing social and political messages. [Yarn bombing] is about making people smile, making them look closer, making them take an interest in their surroundings and about personalizing public spaces. Would you like to see more yarn bombs in Atlanta? Have you seen any? LR: You bet. Havent seen any. There still isnt a fiber arts presence here, the High Museum hasnt had it, even the smaller galleries havent presented it. C
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n the 1960s, Woody Allen published a humorous essay called A Twenties Memory, which spoofed the lost generation of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and their famed contemporaries: I kidded Hemingway about his forthcoming novel and we laughed a lot and had fun and then we put on boxing gloves and he broke my nose. Nearly 50 years later, Allen rediscovers the pleasures of 1920s nostalgia, and apparently the joy of filmmaking itself, with Midnight in Paris. Allens happiest and most satisfying movie since 1994s Bullets Over Broadway begins like a luminous travelogue of the City of Lights and builds to a frequently hilarious critique of over-romanticizing the good old days. Owen Wilson plays Gil, a self-described hack screenwriter visiting Paris with his superficial fiance Inez (Rachel McAdams) and
her parents. Gil struggles with writing a serious novel and fantasizes about moving to Paris instead of grinding out scripts in Southern California. As a couple, they seem a poor match even before Inez begins clubbing with an old flame (Michael Sheen in a devil beard) while Gil wanders the streets at night. While lost and tipsy, Gil accepts an invitation into a vintage Peugeot, which drops him off at a party marked by flapper-era clothes and music. He watches a dapper pianist (Yves Heck) crooning Lets Do It with such wit and charm, Gil gradually realizes the guy isnt just singing Cole Porter, but is Cole Porter. Gil swiftly falls into the orbit of such legendary bon vivants as Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Alison Pill and Thors Tom Hiddleston), and becomes smitten with Adriana (Marion Cotillard), an artists model and lover to the likes of Picasso. Allen clearly shares Gils affection for the era of champagne, cafs and new artistic styles, but gently satirizes it as well. As Hem Hem-
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You cant go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time. Thomas Wolfe, You Cant Go Home Again
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lcides Rodriguez arrives exactly on time to the minute. Neatly attired in a solid soft-blue dress shirt and slacks, his stride exudes relaxed confidence. A 34-year-old bass clarinetist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 2005, Rodriguez has instrument case in hand, ready for a rehearsal that begins in an hour and a half on the Symphony Hall stage. His articulate voice is soft-spoken; its expressive virtuosity full of nuance. He talks about his work as a musician and his CD The Venezuelan Clarinet, which features sophisticated renditions of popular Venezuelan dances. Mostly he speaks about his amazing life journey, which led him from a simple childhood in a small Venezuelan town to a scarce career opportunity as a member of a major U.S. symphony orchestra. Rodriguez was born in Guanare, Venezuela. His father was a truck driver and by heart musician who played a little guitar, accordion and cuatro, a Venezuelan traditional instrument. Young Alcides ultimately took up clarinet and enrolled in Guanares youth orchestra, under the auspices of el Sistema. And though the government-funded el Sistema gave him the initial musical grounding that fueled his youthful dreams, he ultimately had to leave that nest, and his home country, to reach them. El Sistema (The System) is Venezuelas famed music education program comprised of hundreds of youth orchestras. It was founded in 1975 by retired economist and social reformer Jos Antonio Abreu, who, as the CBS news program 60 Minutes
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reported in 2008, built it with religious zeal, based on his unorthodox belief that what poor Venezuelan kids needed was classical music. From instruments to lessons, everything is provided free by el Sistema. Well, almost everything. Rodriguezs parents did have to buy what is arguably the most essential and fragile part of the clarinet: the bamboo reed which creates the instruments sound and constantly requires replacement. That was an ordeal at times, says Rodriguez. It meant going to Caracas, seven hours away by bus. So one of the older kids in town would go and buy for everyone. We would all chip in for the bus fare. Hed travel all night, buy the reeds, then come back. And there was no choice: You just get one out of the box, and thats the reed you play. That reed would have to last at least a month and a half. But by age 15, Rodriguez already knew he wanted to leave Venezuela. At the end of his teens he came to the U.S. to study, even though he knew that what he wanted to achieve would never be put to use in his home country. Thats because all that free musical training had a flip side. They pretty much tell you, We give you everything you need here, why do you need to leave the country? So in some ways, if you go study somewhere else, thats not good. They start looking at you almost like you are a traitor, says Rodriguez. I love Venezuela, I love my family and I love going back there to visit. But from the career standpoint, I cant go back to a job there. Once he stepped onto the airplane in 1999 to come to the United States, Rodriguez left everything behind except his clarinet and a suitcase. I could not speak English at all. I just wanted to get my education and become a better musician, says Rodriguez, who became an American citizen two years ago. Where I am right now has exceeded my expectations. To be in the Atlanta Symphony, its like a privilege. Still, Rodriguez defends el Sistema against stereotypes that suggest most of the programs benefactors are poor or homeless. While he had friends in the program who came from poor families, there were also children from middle class families, like himself, and well-to-do families. What el Sistema actually does, he says, is level the playing field. Its open to everybody, and everybodys treated the same. The System, I would say, has saved kids, says Rodriguez. It saved me in the sense that I love what Im doing today. If I hadnt studied music, Id probably be in my hometown doing any other decent job, but it would not have been this. The System was an open door to another dimension, a different world that I probably could have never seen. C
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for Atlanta country trio Slim Chance and the Convicts. Fronted by singer/guitarist and Creative Loafing music contributor James Kelly (full disclosure), the group played its first show on June 4, 1986, for patients at the now-defunct Georgia Retardation Center in Dunwoody, where Kelly worked as a behavioral specialist. They never had music there except for around Christmas time [when] some church groups would come and sing, Kelly says. We got permission to play and they loved it so much that we even had to play Hound Dog twice. The Convicts show prompted the facility to book more shows, included performances from then-burgeoning locals the Indigo Girls and RuPaul. To celebrate, the Convicts are playing at Kathmandu Kitchen in Clarkston on June 16. The original lineup of Kelly, Dangerous Dan Jolivet (bass) and Mike Gagel (drums) will perform their set list from the first show, which featured three original numbers, five Elvis songs, a Buddy Holly song and one Bob Dylan tune. The group is also planning shows to perform all three of its albums, and will release a new full-length soon, along with an album of rarities and live material that covers the groups 25-year career.
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a few years ago. Now that hes back, its no longer a trio so the group has changed its name to Hello Cobra.
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THE SWORD, KYLESA, ZOROASTER This daunting ship of heavy rock luminaries is helmed by the Sword, whose retro-stoner metal commands immediate and complete attention. Savannah art-sludge outfit Kylesa recently released the best album of its career in Spiral Shadow, while Atlantas Zoroaster has seemed on a big-time threshold for the past few years. $16. 7 p.m. Masquerade. 404-577-8178. www.masq.com. Gabe Vodicka ETHEREAL, KEITH CHARLES, HAL WILLIAMS, RITTZ Avant-garde rapper Ethereal celebrates the release of his new CD, Abstractica. Keith Charles and Hal Williams (NRK/Odd Future) and Slumerican Records signee Rittz perform as well. Hosted by DJ DiBiase and DJ Speakerfoxxx. $8. 8 p.m. Masquerade. 404-577-8178. www.masq.com. Chad Radford
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529 529 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-228-6769 Campaign, Swingset Thurs., June 9, 9 p.m. Free Milk Music, Bukkake Boys, WYMYNS PRYSYN, White Lung, Nu Sensae Fri., June 10, 9 p.m. $5 GG King, Brain Flannel, Joint Damage Sat., June 11, 9 p.m. $5 Have Fun Exploding, Red City Radio , Captain Were Sinking Mon., June 13, 9 p.m. Free Hawks, Hex Machine, Nigredo, Palaces Wed., June 15, 9 p.m. $5 THE BASEMENT 1245 Glenwood Ave. Death is a Dialogue CD release party with the CarryOns Fri., June 10. THE DRUNKEN UNICORN 736 Ponce de Leon Ave. Secret Cities, Wowser Bowser, Night Driving In Small Towns Fri., June 10, 9 p.m. $6-$8 Tricksy, Superpill, The Cherry Bomb Sat., June 11, 9 p.m. $8 Austin Archer, Sick/Sea, Sean Newberry Wed., June 15, 9 p.m. $5 THE EARL 488 Flat Shoals Ave. S.E. 404-522-3950 This Will Destroy You, Nighty Night, John LaMonica Thurs., June 9, 8:30 p.m. $10-$12 Dick Dale, Laramie Dean Fri., June 10, 8:30 p.m. $25 All Tiny Creatures, Shedding, Pepper Rabbit Sun., June 12, 8 p.m. $10 Thao & Mirah, Bobby, Led to Sea Mon., June 13, 8:30 p.m. $14 The Strange Boys, Mermaids, Coyote Bones Tues., June 14, 8:30 p.m. $10 The Spits, TV Ghost, Los Vigilantes, Wymyns Prysyn Wed., June 15, 8:30 p.m. $10-$12 EDDIES ATTIC 515 N. McDonough St. 404-377-4976 Trances Arc, Ryan Flanagan, Mike Killeen Fri., June 10, 9 p.m. $10 Jonny, Apex Minor Wed., June 15, 6:30 p.m. $15-$18 THE FIVE SPOT 1123 Euclid Ave. 404-223-1100 Five Spot jam session Tuesdays, 10 p.m. Free THE HIGHLAND INN BALLROOM LOUNGE 644 N. Highland Ave. N.E. 404-874-5756 Miwa Gemini, Envie, Nerdkween Fri., June 10, 8:30 p.m. $7 MASQUERADE 695 North Ave. 404-577-8178 The Sword, Kylesa, Zoroaster Thurs., June 9, 7 p.m. $16 When We Could Dream, Forsake the Savior, Psalm of the Fallen, Immerse the Giant Fri., June 10, 7:30 p.m. $8 Almost Legendary, Freshman 15, Floral Terrace, Farewell Fighter, Kissing Strangers, 1994! Sat., June 11, 7 p.m. $6 Sun Set East, Downside Up, Panic Manor, The Record Sun., June 12, 6 p.m. $8 Siberia My Sweet, Vanity Theft, Cloudeater Wed., June 15, 8 p.m. $8
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MASQUERADE 695 North Ave. 404-577-8178 Spiritual Rez, Chris Cab, 3052 Thurs., June 9, 7 p.m. $8 Ethereal (CD Release), Keith Charles, Hal Williams Thurs., June 9, 8 p.m. $8 Donnis (CD Release), Hollyweerd Fri., June 10, 7 p.m. $10 WILD BILLS 2075 Market St. 678-473-1000 Needeep, Rittz Sat., June 11. $15-$21
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BARBARA ANNS 4522 E. Ponce de Leon Ave. 770-938-1080 Blues Jam Session w/Frankie Lee Robinson Tuesdays. BLIND WILLIES 828 N. Highland Ave. 404-873-2583 John Lee Hooker Jr. Fri., June 10. CAPOZZIS NEW YORK PIZZA 1355 Clairmont Road 404-471-1655 Stark Jazz Trio Saturdays. CHURCHILL GROUNDS JAZZ CAFE 660 Peachtree St. N.E. 404-876-3030 Justin Chesarek Wednesdays. $5-$7 Pure Soundz Thursdays. Russell Gunn Bionic Thursdays. DARWINS BLUES 1598 Roswell Road 770-578-6872 Blues jam hosted by the Larry Griffith Band Wednesdays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. THE EARL 488 Flat Shoals Ave. S.E. 404-522-3950 Dave Alvin & the Guilty Ones, Los Straitjackets Sat., June 11, 8:30 p.m. $20 EDDIES ATTIC 515 N. McDonough St. 404-377-4976 Geoff Achison & The Souldiggers Sun., June 12, 6:30 p.m. $15-$18 GEORGIA AQUARIUM 225 Baker St. 404-581-4000 Jazz Journeys Fridays. Through Sept. 30. $18.95-$24.95 LONDZELLS JAZZ AND BLUES CAFE 2300 Holcomb Bridge Road, Suite 309 678-795-9100
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SONEN, THE PASS, KID PYRAMID The electro indie art dance party known as Laserbeam Kitty returns for its second outing of the year, and this time indie-synth band Sonen is back in the headlining slot. Joining in the festivities are the Pass, a Louisville new wave act with hints of psychedelia, and Kid Pyramid featuring Ben Coleman from Judi Chicago. $5. 9 p.m. Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge. 404-874-5756. www.thehighlandinn.com. JW DAVE ALVIN, LOS STRAITJACKETS West Coast Americana icon meets East Coast guitar twangers in this sure-to-sell-out double bill. Alvins new album returns him to the gritty, working-class storytelling
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URIAH HEEP, STONERIDER While they never seem to get the retro-respect here in the U.S. that other early hard/prog rock bands enjoy, the Heep were groundbreakers. They put out some really great albums, perfect for a Boones Farm and sensimillaenhanced evening. Easy living, indeed. Stonerider opens. $25-$27.50. 8 p.m. Variety Playhouse. 404-524-7354. www.variety-playhouse.com. JK
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Blues w/Andrew Black Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. $5 The Gary Harris Band Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. $5 NORTHSIDE TAVERN 1058 Howell Mill Road 404-874-8745 Fankies Blues Mission Fri., June 10. Ike Stubblefield Sat., June 11. Blues jam w/Lola Mondays, 10 p.m. Nathan Nelson & BlonJu Tuesdays. Danny Mudcat Dudeck Wednesdays. The Breeze Kings Thursdays, 10 p.m. Free Uncle Sugar Sundays, 9:30 p.m. STUDIO 281 281 Peters St. 404-524-7247 Peters Street All Stars Thursdays, 9 p.m. Free ZUFFYS PLACE 1860 Corporate Blvd. 404-343-1171 Donna Hopkins Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.
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10 HIGH 818 North Highland Ave. Funk Royale w/ DJ Romeo Cologne Tuesdays. ANDREWS UPSTAIRS 56 East Andrews Drive Suite 13 404-467-1600 Dance Hits @ 8 Traxx Disco Thursdays, Saturdays, 9 p.m. Free-$5 Acoustic music and DJ Dreams Fridays, 9 p.m. APACHE CAFE 64 Third St. N.W. 404-876-5436 Open Turntables Mondays, 7 p.m.-midnight. $3 THE BASEMENT 1245 Glenwood Ave. Sorry Darlin presents Hot & Sticky Thurs., June 9. BELUSHIS 3580 Sweetwater Road The New Alliance Saturdays, 9 p.m. Free-$10. BLUE FROG CANTINA 469 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-658-6108 DJ Numbskull Fri., June 10, 10 p.m. Free Deflo Radio Tuesdays. Open Stage Open Mic Night Wednesdays. Friday Night Live with DJ Scizzahandz Fridays. Doin It Froggy Style Saturdays. CLOUD IX BISTRO & LOUNGE 177 Peter Street 347-742-5566 Soundproof with DJs Kemit, Mafioso, Rasta Root Thursdays, 9 p.m. Free CLUB 291 3011 Campellton Road SW Swagged Up Sundays Sundays, 10 p.m. $5 CLUB 426 5469 Memorial Drive 404-298-5337 Xtasy Fridays with John Wayne, Juggla, Mixmaster David, Deathzone and Amazan Fridays. Addictive Saturdays with Optimistique, Tony Tempo, Hottness and Touches Saturdays. Caribbean City Saturdays. Free Money Sundays with Craig Lion and Mad Max Sundays. CLUB SUBZERO 50 Alabama Street 404-222-2421
DJ Jelly Tuesdays. EASTSIDE LOUNGE 485-A Flat Shoals Road 404-521-9666 Bottoms Up w/Cristo Disco Mondays. Free Dookie Chain Tuesdays w/DJ Solomon Grundy Tuesdays. The Boogie w/DJs Kwasi, Kamal, Mike Swift, Solomon Grundy Fridays, 8 p.m. $5 EL BAR 939 Ponce de Leon Ave. 678-613-3807 El Bar Fridays Fridays, 10 p.m. GRAVEYARD TAVERN 1245 Glenwood Ave. 404-622-8686 Graveyard Mondays Mondays. Rare Form DJs J. $ol and Apple Juice Fridays. Filthy & Famous Fridays, 11 p.m. $5-$10 HALO LOUNGE 817 W. Peachtree St. N.W. 404-962-7333 Industry Night Mondays. THE HIGHLAND INN BALLROOM LOUNGE 644 N. Highland Ave. N.E. 404-874-5756 Laserbeam Kitty feat. Sonen, Kid Pyramid, The Pass, DJ Keith Evans Sat., June 11, 9 p.m. $5 Shameless Dance Party w/DJ Alan Matthews and DJ Velvet Reign Wednesdays, 10 p.m. MASQUERADE 695 North Ave. 404-577-8178 Miami Horror Wed., June 15, 9 p.m. $10 Bootylicious w/DJ Colby Thursdays, 10 p.m. $3-$5 Old Wave w/Stephanie Sweet Thursdays, 10 p.m. $3-$5 w/out password OPERA 1150 Cresent Ave. N.E. 404-874-3006 Revolution Saturdays, 10 p.m. QUAD @ SPRING4TH COMPLEX 714 Spring St. 404-870 0040 Flux Pavilion, Doctor P Fri., June 10, 9 p.m. $25 Tuesdays at Quad Tuesdays. THE SHELTER 2101-B Tula St. N.W. 678-694-7435 80s vs 90s Retro Thurs., June 9. Ritual: The Vicars Tarts themed costume party Fri., June 10. Stripped with DJ Silk Wolf Sat., June 11. EMB, Industrial, Goth Night Tues., June 14. Dark Industry Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m. $5 / free before 11 80s vs 90s Retro Thursdays.
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drawn by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld in her graphic nonfiction book, The Influencing Machine. Mon., June 13, 7:15 p.m. Free. Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450. www.georgiacenterforthebook.org. LAUREN KATE Sweeping across centuries, Passion is the third novel in the unforgettably epic Fallen series. Wed., June 15, 7 p.m. Free. Barnes & Noble Mansell Crossing, 7660 Northpoint Parkway, Suite 200, Alpharetta. 770-993-8340. laurenkatebooks.net. GREEN Discusses No C MELISSA FAYE a Helmet, world-classBiking in the House Without reporting from GLADSTONE NPRs Gladstone bursts onto C BROOKEas an illustrated character in vivid comics the page
FOOL FOR LOVE Starring Jasmine Guy and Kenny Leon. A haunting story of obsession, love, denial and the relationship between two people who cant live with or without each other. Inside the confines of a motel room, two estranged lovers revisit their shared history and reignite old rage. TuesdaysFridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 2:30 and 8 p.m. Through June 11. $18-$50. Theatrical Outfit, The Balzer Theater at Herrens, 84 Luckie St. 678-528-1500. www.truecolorstheatre.org. All of C THE JUDAS KISS its lipsLondon has the taste of salacious scandal on as Oscar Wilde faces trial
Callanwoldes buildings are incorporated into an elegant, large-scale word game that finds inspiration from its own surroundings. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; MondaysFridays, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Through Aug. 26. 404-872-5338. www.callanwolde.org. 980 Briarcliff Road. IMAGINE IT! CHILDRENS MUSEUM TEAM Up! Explore Science & Sports . Jump! Pass! Throw! Cheer! Kick off the summer and join the team! Youll discover the connection between science and sports! Saturdays, Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Sept. 11. $12.50. 404-659-5437. www.childrensmuseumatlanta.org. 275 Centennial Olympic Park Drive. MARIETTA/COBB MUSEUM OF ART Summering at the End of Empire . Join us for a gallery walk and lecture with artist John Folsom. Thurs., June 9, 7 p.m. $5. 770-528-1444. www.mariettacobbartmuseum.org. 30 Atlanta St., Marietta. MUSEUM OF DESIGN ATLANTA ArtMERGE: Summer 2011. For our first ArtMERGE we offer an up-close look at the art and design behind Italian motorcycles plus a private tour of MODAs newly renovated space at 1315 Peachtree Street. On tap for the evening: drinks and welcome and a guided tour of the newly renovated space by Bruce McEvoy, Perkins+Will architect and Chair of MODAs Board of Directors. Thurs., June 9, 6 p.m. $5-$10. 404-367-8700. www.mocaga.org. 1315 Peachtree St. WHITESPACE Metronome. Michele Schuff explores the perception of time and how we measure lifes passing. Schuff uses the metronome, a tool traditionally used to set a fixed tempo while practicing music, as a metaphor for keeping time as well as a meditative device. Opening reception June 10, 7-10 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Through July 23. Free. 814 Edgewood Ave. 404-688-1892. www.whitespace814.com.
on indecency charges. Though he has the chance to flee, Wildes equally scandalous lover, Bosie, persuades him to stay. Wilde emerges from prison three years later, broken but determined to reunite with his libertine lover. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through June 11. $15-$32. Actors Express Theatre Company, 887 W. Marietta St., Suite J-107. 404-607-7469. www.actorsexpress.com. LIFE IS SHORT! Onion Man Productions presents a collection of short plays by local Atlanta playwrights that remind us that life is short, but its good. Thursdays-Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Through June 12. $16-$18. Lionheart Theatre Company, 10 College St. 770-885-0425. www.lionhearttheatre.org.
the ridiculous front lines of parenthood. Thurs., June 9, 8 p.m. $5-$10. Atlanta History Center, 130 W. Paces Ferry Road. 404-814-4000. www.atlantahistorycenter.org.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD The former professional boxer discusses The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring. Sat., June 11, noon. Free. West End Library, 525 Peeples St. 404-752-8740. www.afplweb.com. TAYARI JONES Discusses Silver Sparrow, a story about a mans deception, a familys complicity, and the teenage girls caught in the middle. Fri., June 10, 7:30 p.m. Free. Charis Books & More, 1189 Euclid Ave. 404-524-0304. www.charisbooksandmore.com.
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an unusual sight. 7 Stages MR. UNIVERSE takes place in New Orleans French Quarter, however, where the inhabitants scarcely bat a false eyelash at the unexpected. The Little Five Points playhouse MORE staged the world premiere of Jim Grimsleys On thE gothic comedy in 1987 and presents a revival. Don Finney and Doyle Reynolds star as drag queens trying to decide what to do events at with the man of their dreams. Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 7 and 10 p.m. Through June 19. $18-$25. 7 Stages, 1105 Euclid Ave. 404-523-7647. www.7stages.org.
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THE COLOR PURPLE Theater of the Stars presents the Pulitzer-winning 1982 novel by Alice Walker. The story focuses on female black life during the 1930s in the Southern United States -- mostly Georgia -- to address the numerous social issues black women faced in American culture. June 15-17, 8 p.m.; Sat., June 18, 3:30 and 8 p.m.; Sun., June 19, 1:30 and 7 p.m. $20-$75. Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St. 404-881-2100. www.foxtheatre.org. MADAMA BUTTERFLY Puccinis immortal story of an ill-fated marriage. Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sun., June 12, 3 p.m. Through June 11. $20-$78. Atlanta Symphony Hall, 1280 Peachtree St., Woodruff Arts Center. 404-733-4900. www.atlantasymphony.org. RENT Atlanta Lyric Theatre presents Jonathan Larsons hit musical. Directed by Alan Kilpatrick and starring Felicia Boswell of Broadways Memphis (2010 Tony Award winner for Best Musical), RENT is recommended for mature audiences. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through June 26. $30-$45. Earl Smith Strand Theatre, 117 N. Park Square, Marietta. 404-377-9948. atlantalyrictheatre.com. THE MINOTAURS DREAM The dreamy world of Greek mythology transports you into the strange and wondrous labyrinth of the terrifying Minotaur. Performed by Odd Man Out Theater. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sun., June 12, 5 p.m.; Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sun., June 19, 5 p.m. Through June 18. $20-$25. 7 Stages Back Stage Theatre, 1105 Euclid Ave. 404-523-7647. www.oddmanouttheater.com. THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS A provocative and wickedly funny theatrical adaptation of the C.S. Lewis novel about spiritual warfare from a demons point of view. June 9-11, 8 p.m.; Sat., June 11, 4 p.m.; Sun., June 12, 3 p.m. $35-$55. Alliance Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St., Woodruff Arts Center. 404-733-5000. www.alliancetheatre.org.
MRS. JOHN MARSH: THE WORLD KNEW HER AS MARGARET MITCHELL A one-woman play about the reclusive author celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gone with the Winds publication. Sundays, 2 p.m.; Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through June 19. $25-$40. Ansley Park Playhouse, 1545 Peachtree St. 404-875-1193. www.ansleyparkplayhouse.com. terrorizes C SLAUGHTER CAMP A homicidal maniacmusical a theater camp. The result is a beautiful
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BARBARA ARCHER GALLERY Francis X. Pavy: New Roads. A collection of works by Francis Pavy, a distinctive Southern visual narrator. In this new series of works, Pavy makes use of his past iconic imagery layered in transparent color-saturated fields to make narrative works. Opening reception June 10, 7-9 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturdays, 11 a.m.5 p.m. Through July 30. Free. 280 Elizabeth St., Suite A102. 404-523-1845. www.barbaraarcher.com. CALLANWOLDE FINE ARTS CENTER New Site-Specific Work . Sculptor Ruth Stanfords site-specific installation incorporates elements of Callanwoldes historic architecture in a fun and educational interactive gallery experience. Names, images and poetic descriptions of the Gothic-Tudor architectural details present throughout
fictitious characters and stand-ins for his own neighbors, Hogancamp sorted through the trauma of a hate crime. Using a 35mm camera, Hogancamp documented uncannily constructed images of war, romance, justice and redemption. Wednesdays-Saturdays, noon-6 p.m. Through June 25. Free. 1100 Howell Mill Road, Suite A03. www.poem88.net. SALTWORKS GALLERY Black Drawings. Alejandro Aguileras large works incorporate ink, coffee and collage on craft paper. Wednesdays-Saturdays, noon-5 p.m. Through June 18. Free. 664 11th St. 404-881-0411. www.saltworksgallery.com. YOUNG BLOOD GALLERY & BOUTIQUE Crossbred Thread: Ego and Memory. Works by Stacey Page and Stephanie Blair. Fridays, Saturdays, noon-9 p.m.; Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, noon-8 p.m. Through June 26. Free. 636 N. Highland Ave. N.E. 404-254-4127. www.youngbloodgallery.com.
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