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Atlanta Storytelling Festival begins
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A well-run storytelling festival can be a wonderful event, so all good wishes to the Atlanta Storytelling Festival, which makes its debut Thursday night and runs through Sunday in Avondale Estates. The festival will feature more than 30 area performers who will show how telling stories can be elevated to a performance art.
The weekend will be divided into six 90-minute programs for adults, with themes like Love, Generations and Crossing Boundaries, and four 45-minute programs for children.
Among the tellers: Christy Foelsch, Barry Stewart Mann, Wayne Smith (pictured), Audrey Galex and many more.
Performances will be held at the Academy Theater, 119 Center St., Avondale Estates, which is tucked behind the movie theater. Tickets are $15 per program, $75 for the whole shebang. Details from 404 297-0904 and at www.myspace.com/ atlantastorytellingfest.
LIBRARY AID
The Food Network’s Alton Brown is coming to Cobb County on Saturday to help the Cobb Library Foundation raise money. Brown’s latest book is “Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run,” about his motorcycle trip along the Mississippi River looking for great American road food. He’ll be at Walker School, 700 Cobb Parkway, Marietta, talking and signing the book, but fire regulations won’t let him cook anything. There’s a VIP reception at 11 a.m. ($125) and the regular appearance at 12:30 p.m. ($35). Tickets are nearly sold out, says the foundation’s Donna Espy. You can buy them online at www.cobbcat.org or call 770-528-2196.
MUNCH FOR CAMERA
Free popcorn, and maybe you get on TV. What’s not to like? If you’re around Marietta Square at 1 p.m. today, swing by Murphy’s Popcorn. “ABC World News” will be there taping a piece for the news, and they want folks wandering around, munching, and holding up “Hey Mom” signs. (OK, not so much the last one.) The story is about a new lending company called Lending Club that got owner Tim Murphy started.
ONE TOUGH CHEF
Celebrity chef Paul Prudhomme was setting up his cooking tent on the practice range at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf event when he felt a sting in his right arm. Prudhomme shook his shirt sleeve and a .22 caliber bullet fell to the ground, a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies believe Prudhomme was hit by a falling bullet, probably shot about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday from somewhere within a 1-mile radius of the golf course, said Col. John Fortunato. The celebrated chef didn’t require medical attention. Witnesses said the bullet cut Prudhomme’s skin on his arm and put a hole in his white chef’s coat. But Prudhomme continued cooking until he left the course about 3:30 p.m. Now that’s a manly chef.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Actor Austin Pendleton is 68. Actor Michael York is 66. Keyboardist Tony Banks of Genesis is 58. Saxophonist Dave Koz is 45. Director Quentin Tarantino is 45. Singer Mariah Carey is 38. Actress Elizabeth Mitchell, who plays Juliet on “Lost,” is 38, although it’s possible that Ben told her to say that, or she’s just running some scam on Jack, so we can’t know for sure if she’s telling the truth. Singer Fergie of Black Eyed Peas is 33.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY
Viagra turns 10 today
Ten years ago today, March 27, 1998, the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Viagra. Buzz says you can just make your own joke; we’re moving on.
Contributing: Bob Longino, news services
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