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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. ...
Ramsey Lewis to shine under the stars
When Ramsey Lewis’ father, Ramsey Sr., pulled up stakes and left Augusta for Chicago, he became part of the Great Migration of southern African-Americans seeking better fortunes in the North. One thing he didn’t leave behind was his love of music, which he and his wife cultivated in their son. ...
Atlanta Opera to appoint new general and artistic director
The Atlanta Opera will announce Thursday the hiring of Tomer Zvulun to be its new general and artistic director. Zvulun, 37, will officially take the reins of the opera June 1, 10 months after the abrupt resignation of Dennis Hanthorn, who had held the position for 8 years. Zvulun, who ...
Author writes a new chapter
The undisputed best moments for Bill Starr during his tenure as director of the Georgia Center for the Book were those nights when he’d introduce an author to a packed house of 1,000 people, and after the reading the audience would rush out and line up to have its books ...
Science Fiction, Civil Rights and Zombies
Let’s say both of your parents were big civil rights workers. Your father was a civil rights attorney. Your mother was a lifelong civil rights activist who was nearly blinded when a Florida policeman threw a tear gas canister in her face during a 1960 march for integration. Growing up, ...
Alliance Theatre announces 2013/2014 season lineup
The Alliance Theatre on Thursday will announce its 2013/2014 season, a 12-play lineup bookended by musicals — one by a pop music legend, the other by one of the country’s most accomplished tap dancers.It’s also a season with several world premieres on both the main stage and the smaller Hertz ...
P. Allen Smith is one of the headliners of the 25th Southeastern Flower Show and Antiques
The 25th Southeastern Flower Show and Antiques runs just across the hall from the Craft Show at the Cobb Galleria Centre this weekend. Apart from the acres of landscaped vignettes, a big draw will be the lineup of speakers including Vince Dooley, Tara Guerard, Walter Reeves, Kevin Gillespie and garden/lifestyle ...
Forget about food and fashion; this competition is about stems and petals
Which flower would a storybook character bring to a tea party: sunflowers, roses, violets, peonies? Careful with your answer. In the arena of competitive flower arranging, theses decisions carry real weight. Choosing the wrong bloom could mean the difference between going home from next week’s 25th Southeastern Flower and Antiques ...
‘Whipping Man’ casts light on Southern Jewish slave owners
The thing about American’s history with chattel slavery, aside from the fact that a lot of people just don’t want to talk about it anymore, is that it continues to surprise us. We’re surprised by things that were always there in plain sight but that we looked right past. For ...
History Center explores legacy of Atlanta 1906 Race Riot
In this transient city, where people come to make big money and be seen and where most interactions are transactional, historical memory is often undervalued.Many people — at least we hope many people — know how the city was shaped by the Civil War. But far fewer know of a ...
Spelman Museum Director awarded prestigious Driskell Prize by High Museum
February just got much brighter for Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Earlier this month she oversaw the opening of the museum’s latest exhibit from its permanent collection, “Multiple Choice: Perspectives on the Spelman Collection.” Then on Monday, Barnwell Brownlee was officially awarded the ...
‘Two Trains’ takes talented duo out of famous husbands’ shadow
Years ago, actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson asked playwright August Wilson a bold, to-your-face question, one that was being asked of the playwright in print by several female social critics of the time.Richardson Jackson wanted to know why Wilson didn’t write plays with more female characters in them, particularly women with ...
'Frida and Diego' exhibit could be tool to build broader audience for High Museum
When the High Museum of Art’s “Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting” exhibition officially opens on Thursday, it will signify a couple of important firsts for the museum. It will be the only time the work of iconic Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera has been ...
Kahlo and Rivera: The intersection of art, pain and politics
Conventional wisdom says it’s futile to try to figure out why a couple of seemingly ill-fit people stay together. You can speculate, but unless you are one of the players, how can you possibly know for sure? And sometimes, even the people involved in the relationship can’t pinpoint their reasons ...
Cultural expressions reverberate across metro Atlanta during Black History Month
Cultural expressions of the African-American experience are a 12-months-a-year matter in metro Atlanta. But the representation is particularly strong in February, as metro Atlanta artists and arts institutions celebrate Black History Month by presenting extensive performing and visual arts programming, much of it free. Here’s are 10 highlights: Final bows ...
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