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Hollywood Product: Chronicle
Angsty teens lay waste to Seattle in director Josh Trank's super-powered film debut.
by Edward Adams
GENRE: Found Footage Sci-fi THE PITCH: Sounds oddly like a joke setup - two jocks and an emo kid with a camera walk into a cave in Seattle
but come out with telekinetic abilities.…
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Photos: Big Freedia at The Earl
New Orleans bounce diva, Big Freedia shook the foundations of the Earl yesterday with a wild night of rump shaking madness. Local funk outfit Noot d' Noot rounded out the bill.…
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The Blotter
Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports
by Lauren Keating
Beatys, Task Force is out of Peachtree-Pine in 10 days — UPDATE
In the end, it was Occupy Atlanta and an apparent sweetheart tax dodge that did in Anita Beaty and the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless.
"I'm going to enter an order to close the shelter in 10 days," Judge Craig Schwall told a packed courtroom just minutes ago, after two hours of heated arguments by attorneys. Then he called a 20-minute recess and walked back into his chambers even as Task Force lawyer Steve Hall was still calling out his objections.…
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Charry but not so snappy
Hot dogs are not my thing, but four of us visited Ringside Franks & Shakes this afternoon. The restaurant is at 4441 Roswell Road near Wieuca (404-303-8525) and is owned by the Fellini Pizza-La Fonda folks and one of their former employees, Jeremy Kelly.…
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Mike Doughty comes clean about heroin addiction in new memoir
Mike Doughty loves drugs. Now let's be clear: He doesn't do them anymore.…
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Weekend Arts Agenda: Another Green World
Jennifer Schwartz gallery hosts two openings, Kai Lin gallery features Terra: Natural Organic Beauty, and Another Green World at Beep Beep Gallery during Ponce Crush.
Spruill Gallery's got the goods
To start 2012 off right, Spruill Gallery is putting together a show titled The Goods.
A pin-up style show, The Goods will feature a variety of work by emerging and established Atlanta artists.…
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Film Clips: Big Chronicle of Rampling in Black
OPENING TODAY
BIG MIRACLE (PG) When a family of gray whales become trapped under ice shelf in the Arctic Circle, a small town in Alaska rallies behind a young boy's attempts to save them. A feel-good film starring The Office's Josh Krasinski and Drew Barrymore.…
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Is Paula Deen a monster in a morality play?
Frank Bruni, op-ed columnist for the New York Times and its dining critic for five years, filed his opinion about the Paula Deen business several weeks back. (Sorry, this post got lost in my to-do list.)
Like most, Bruni commends Paula for making her disease known but also cringes because she timed the announcement to promote her son's new cooking show.…
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Photos: Anthrax at the Tabernacle
Anthrax played the Tabernacle on Thursday night. Check out more photos.
Familiar story, new headline: Local woman gets what she deserves
Every day or so — give or take a day or so — one of the local news stations brings us the story of some sad sack who was bilked out of his or her hard-earned money by some guys selling phony electronics out of their car. And, as obedient viewers, we all wring our hands and say, "Oh, how awful people can be to other people."…
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AJC seemingly out to derail Atlanta Streetcar
A little more than a year ago, longtime business journalist Maria Saporta took her former employer to task in a blog post titled, "Gift of building does not absolve the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s downtown departure." Saporta zeroed in on the paper's treatment of the news that Atlanta had won a federal grant to help build a proposed downtown streetcar to boost the long-neglected Auburn Avenue corridor:
Look at how the AJC has covered Atlanta’s significant win of $47.6 million for a $72 million streetcar project to connect Centennial Olympic Park with the King District.…
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Trying to remember what happened last night @therealjuicyj via my twitter feed
I had meant to cover Juicy J, Dom Kennedy, and Freddie Gibbs at the Quad in some capacity for Creative Loafing last night. When I arrived at the office this morning, I realized that I didn't really remember enough of the evening to write about it.…
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