Highland Park
By Kathy Dean
Atlanta, especially Intown, is full of upscale shopping, world-class restaurants and a year-round calendar of events. It’s where everyone wants to be. Fortunately, there are some residences and office …
By Manning Harris
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Theresa Rebeck’s deliciously acerbic “Seminar” is having its Atlanta debut at Actor’s Express, running through June 16. The play, directed by Freddie Ashley, closes out a very fine 25th anniversary season for the Express, for which we offer our congratulations.
If “writers are not people,” as one of the characters here asserts, then we are treated to an evening of non-persons quibbling, quarreling, making love, and doing their damndest to make art.
But art isn’t easy, as the Sondheim lyric goes, and there are four youngish writers who have paid $5000 each for a 10-week writing seminar with the querulous, crotchety Leonard (Andrew Benator), a famous novelist who now spends most of his time chronicling the “terrifying nihilism” he finds in such countries as Somalia and Rwanda. Read the whole story »
By Annie Kinnett Nichols
When INtown asked me to write about the Atlanta Rollergirls, I jumped at the chance. My only dealing with roller derby was the Raquel Welch movie from the 70’s, Kansas City Bomber. …
Sonic Generator, Georgia Tech’s contemporary musical ensemble, will provide the live score at a free screening of the silent classic, Metropolis, on May 28, 8 p.m., at Woodruff Arts Center’s Sifly Plaza.
Sonic Generator’s performance — …
Jammie Patton – Miss Teen Atlanta 1994, graduate of North Atlanta High Center for the Arts and former instructor at the Alliance Theater Youth Program – is hoping a new high profile commercial will …
The 5th annual Downtown Atlanta Scavenger Hunt is tomorrow, May 18, starting at noon. Participants will race through Downtown looking for clues that will lead to a $500 prize. The cost to participate is $20 …
InTown Friends present the 11th annual Taste of the Highlands on Saturday, May 18, from 2 – 5 p.m. at John Howell Park in Virginia-Highland. Title sponsor Fifth Group Restaurants will participate for the …
Atlanta residents, business leaders and other stakeholders will have a unique opportunity to give their feedback on the city of Atlanta’s proposed Fiscal Year 2014 $539 million city budget during a combined public hearing and …
Atlanta Streets Alive will close down 2.7 miles of Peachtree to vehicles on May 19 to give Intowners a taste of what the city’s signature street is like without traffic. Bring your bike, your yoga …
