Blind Willie’s co-owner Jimmy ‘Spike’ Maynard looks to retire from Atlanta’s famed blues club

From blue-collar grind to slinging shots, from New Orleans to Atlanta, Maynard has seen a thing or two and once saved Blind Willie’s from im...

Review: Dad’s Garage ‘Peach’ is locally juicy, has plenty for non-Atlantans to pick

With its new sketch comedy show To Peach Their Own, running through May 4, Dad’s Garage Theatre aims to create a silly work with local flavo...

Review: In ‘Native Gardens,’ complex ideas sprout from situation comedy

Native Gardens, the show written by Karen Zacarias which closes Stage Door Theatre’s 50th season, is a topical, solid comedy with a homespun...

Review: Amanda Grae Platner reveals personal enigmas at Echo Contemporary

Amanda Grae Platner, “Never Let an Orange Go Bad,” 2022 Amanda Grae Platner’s It’s Still Not Me, It’s You, at Echo Contemporary Art thro...

Thulani Vereen’s ‘Mosaka’s Travel’ at Synchronicity Theatre bares story of identity, resilience and family.

Choreographer Thulani Vereen strips production values to the bone to chronicle her mother’s journey from apartheid South Africa to the Unite...

Mr. Charlie Brown, activist and drag performer (1949–2024)

Mr. Charlie Brown burst out of rural Tennessee to reign over Atlanta’s drag scene as the ‘Bitch of the South.’ :: People in Atlanta used t...

Review: Pianist Emanuel Ax breathes new life into Beethoven and Schoenberg

Beethoven was as radical in the 19th century as Schoenberg was in the 20th. Pianist Emanuel Ax probed the depths of both composers at Spivey...

Review: Inventive ‘Mercury’ shows how strange vengeance makes bad neighbors

Commenting upon the divisions and extreme combativeness among people with different opinions in this world, the Actor's Express production o...

Atlanta Soundtrack: New music videos from The Marias, BbyMutha and vintage protest anthem from R.E.M.

The Marias Three years after the sensual tromp of their GRAMMY-nominated debut, Cinema, The Marias have announced their sophomore record, S...