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Atlanta native Travis Hall makes music ‘in between places,’ from opera to soul
5+ hour, 28+ min ago (1145+ words) When Travis Hall was a teenager, he hid his voice in a hoodie. Singing in the choir at Cedar Grove High School, he would wear the garment as a protective cloak. It allowed him to draw in a breath, pause…...
Footwork: Celebrating Soccer, Culture, & Community Exhibition
19+ hour, 18+ min ago (136+ words) Footwork: Celebrating Soccer, Culture, & Community Exhibition'ARTS ATL Footwork: Celebrating Soccer, Culture, & Community Exhibition April 30 @ 9:00 am - September 29 @ 8:00 pm To celebrate Atlanta as a host city for the World Cup this summer, Emory Libraries" newest exhibition, "Footwork: Celebrating Soccer, Culture, & Community," explores…...
Still incubating: Lillian Blades reveals an evolving practice in ‘Sanctuary’
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (964+ words) Still incubating: Lillian Blades reveals an evolving practice in "Sanctuary'ARTS ATL Still incubating: Lillian Blades reveals an evolving practice in "Sanctuary Lillian Blades Sanctuary occupies a dedicated gallery space within the Emma Darnell Aviation Museum and Cultural Center, where it…...
Review: Aurora world premiere ‘Initiative’ has realness at core despite game-playing
2+ day, 26+ min ago (348+ words) They say that imagination can take us to places we never could have dreamed. In Jacob York's Initiative, a touching but uneven world premiere about friendship, grief and community, imagination stands in for a life unlived." Running at Aurora Theatre…...
Review: Horizon’s ‘Dog Mom’ is a funny, poignant look at unconditional love
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (727+ words) Review: Horizon's "Dog Mom' is a funny, poignant look at unconditional love'ARTS ATL Review: Horizon's "Dog Mom' is a funny, poignant look at unconditional love Like the phrase "dog mom" itself, Tate Elizabeth Hanyok's play by the same name reflects…...
Cherokee Garden Library Spring Lecture: Thomas Woltz
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (152+ words) Cherokee Garden Library Spring Lecture: Thomas Woltz'artsatl.org Cherokee Garden Library Spring Lecture: Thomas Woltz April 15 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm On Wednesday, April 15, 2026, the Cherokee Garden Library will host landscape architect Thomas Woltz for a lecture on his firm's new monograph, The…...
Review: Theater Emory’s 'Bright Star' charms despite uneven edges
3+ day, 23+ min ago (181+ words) Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's 2016 musical Bright Star is a bluegrass-inflected journey through Appalachia. Its latest staging at Theater Emory, through April 4, offers a warm, engaging evening despite the script's inherent unevenness. The narrative unfolds with unforced rhythm, even when…...
The Yum Yum Tree conjures Atlanta in Peter Gabriel’s English studio
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (705+ words) I met with Yum Yum Tree bassist/vocalist Andy Gish at Tasty Bakery Cafe, a Kennesaw eatery that feels like a corporate echo of the coffee shop and tea lounge culture of that bygone era. That absorption of organic culture…...
Arts Agenda: Theater
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (579+ words) Each week,ArtsATLdelivers a critic's short list of the shows, exhibitions, concerts and events we recommend for the coming weeks within one area in the kaleidoscope of Atlanta arts and culture. Savor the timeless Southern classic of Steel Magnolias, onstage…...
Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer”
4+ day, 49+ min ago (350+ words) Although Isamu Noguchi declared in 1949, "I am not a designer," the internationally acclaimed artist regularly engaged with the space-shaping possibilities of design, imagining and producing work in architecture, industrial design, ceramics, furniture, lighting, stage sets, and landscape design. In spring…...