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3 fun things at DeKalb County libraries
STONE MOUNTAIN“Lincoln” at Stone Mountain-Sue Kellogg LibraryIf all you know about President Abraham Lincoln comes from a $5 bill, then this movie may be for you. The Academy Award-winning film, directed and produced by Steven Spielberg in 2012, stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the country’s 16th president. Tommy Lee Jones and ...
Pulitzer Prize winning poet to read at Emory
The last time you read a poem, did you read it to yourself silently? If so, poet W.S. Merwin believes there’s no way you could have fully detected its true meaning. To do that, a poem must be read aloud. Maybe read aloud only to yourself, but read aloud nonetheless. ...
Atlanta author offers insight into tragedy
Three years after his disappearance from his hometown of Atlanta at age 11, Caleb Vincent is found very much alive, attending school and living with a doctor who claims to have rescued the boy from a pedophile ring. Caleb, renamed Nicky, calls the man his father. Charles Lundy, aka “Jolly,” ...
A hardscrabble life in rural W.V.
“The best way to do anything,” writes Scott McClanahan in his new memoir, “is to get a bunch of poor people to do it.” And “Crapalachia” is the place to find them. You may know it better as Appalachia. Home to coal mining companies whose abuse of their workers and ...
3 fun things in Alpharetta, Dunwoody, Lawrenceville
DUNWOODY The Atlanta Balalaika Society Orchestra at Dunwoody United Methodist Church These Russian and Eastern European folk musicians wear traditional outfits while playing equally traditional instruments. Audience members will watch as conductor David C. Cooper shows his soloing ability on the balalaika, a three-stringed instrument with a fretboard and triangular ...
“Hopper” bio sketches troubled rebel
Like a stoned Forrest Gump, Dennis Hopper always managed to be where the action was in American pop culture history. When James Dean was inventing the Angry Young Man in “Rebel Without a Cause,” Hopper was on the set (and in the movie). When Andy Warhol was turning the art ...
Maddie at rest: Author speaks about travels with Cobb rescue dog
Theron Humphrey has become an online and Instagram sensation for his documentary online project “This Wild Idea,” with no little thanks to pictures of his dog Maddie. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, Humphrey and Maddie traveled the country for “This Wild Idea,” interviewing and photographing ...
Atlanta author gives child’s perspective to Passover Exodus story
A bloody river. Baddies suffering painful boils. Swarms of frogs flopping everywhere. A hail of fire and ice. Lice and locusts. When Atlanta author Laurel Snyder was a little girl, she positively loved all the drama in the Exodus story of the Jewish holiday Passover, which will be observed starting ...
Crematory scandal sets author’s journey in motion
“The Greeks believed that the stage between death and burial — that in-between threshold of travel — required great diligence by the living in the form of ritual and interment. Only with this care could the dead make their way into Hades. Otherwise, an abandoned and unritualized body remained doomed ...
Dogs: Einsteins of the animal kingdom
Brian Hare’s provocative new book, “The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think,” makes the case that Fido (the guy who finds a tennis ball fascinating) is, in fact, an animal Einstein. How else, points out the Atlanta native and Duke University professor of evolutionary anthropology, can ...
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