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Back to school with Ludacris
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ludacris has been a charitable whirlwind of late. The Atlanta rapper-producer-actor’s foundation just held a back-to-school fair for 200 north Fulton County kids from low-income homes.
On Tuesday, he’s headlining a free concert at a private location for the Samsung/AT&T Summer Krush series.
Aug. 30, he’s turning his focus back on the little ones with a school supply giveaway at the Chick-fil-A at Camp Creek, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Buzz managed to catch up with him this week as he helped athletic capmaker New Era cut the ribbon on its 117 Luckie Street downtown store — which opens to the general public today at noon.
“Me and my foundation and our label are serious about giving back to our community, the people who do so much for us,” said Ludacris, who was joined at New Era by his Disturbing Tha Peace artists (Chingy, Playaz Circle), other Atlanta acts (Gipp, Jonelle Monae, Dallas Austin’s new group Just A Girl) and retailers (Sherlita Patton of P. Valentine, Ernel Dawkins of Laced Up ).
Homecoming at Chastain
Saturday night’s show at Chastain Park Amphitheatre is a homecoming of sorts for R&B acts Macy Gray and the Brand New Heavies.
“A ton of my mom’s brothers and sisters — and all their kids — live in Atlanta,” Gray said before the show. “I’m there all of the time, and I love partying there. I’ll never forget, when I was a teenager, the first time I went to Fat Tuesday’s. I love that my uncle let me drink!”
N’Dea Davenport of the Heavies, on the other hand, wasn’t loving our fair city when she made an early stop here to visit her parents. “How do y’all deal with this heat?! I have never seen my dog cry and bark as much as when we had to take a walk …He’s a poodle, but he’s not a wussy one.”
On my TiVo
Inspirational tough-love TV judge Greg Mathis (seen locally at 5 p.m. weekdays on WUPA-TV):
Mathis was in town to attend his “Youth and Education Expo” at Stonecrest Mall in Lithonia Friday. His favorite TV show: “It’s ‘Entourage.’ It reminds me of the shady side of the business I have to deal with: the agent, the lawyers, the studio executives.”
And his fave TV judge show, besides his, natch?
” ‘Judge Judy’ is the most entertaining to me. She’s the queen of judge shows and she’s my favorite.”
Celebrity birthdays
Today: Movie director Roman Polanski is 74. Actor Robert Redford is 70. Actor Patrick Swayze is 55. Comedian-actor Denis Leary is 50. ABC Evening News anchor Bob Woodruff is 46. Actor Edward Norton is 38.
Sunday: Actor John Stamos is 44. Actress Kyra Sedgwick is 42. Actor Kevin Dillon (“Entourage”) is 42. Country singer Clay Walker is 38. Actor Matthew Perry (“Friends”) is 38. Actress Tracie Thoms (“Cold Case”) is 32. CNN anchor T.J. Holmes is 30.
Contributing: Rodney Ho, Sonia Murray and news services.
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