Photos: Highlights of the Atlanta fall arts and entertainment...

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Photos: Highlights of the Atlanta fall arts and entertainment season

Artist Pam Rogers uses plant and soil pigments to create her abstract interpretations of botanical illustrations as in her painting "Amazing Rare Things" featured at Swan Coach House Gallery in Atlanta.

Art Papers Live will present a talk by Emory Douglas, credited with inventing the Black Panthers' attention-grabbing graphics, including "We Shall Survive." He will speak about the power of print and the ways in which text and image can engage, educate and empower at Decatur High School Performing Arts Center.

A contribution by Atlanta photographer Stephanie Calabrese to #weloveatl and Vouched Books' "worth a thousand" program, pairing writers and photographers to explore the Southern narrative at Decatur High School Performing Arts Center.

Emory University dance faculty member George Staib's group will do a pop-up performance and a staged performance of an excerpt from "Chamber," a work that will premiere in January 2015, at Decatur High School Performing Arts Center.

Artist Kelly Kristin Jones' installation examines results to a Google search of the same name.

Atlanta installation artist Meredith Kooi will place radio-book installations throughout the grounds of art|DBF. Each book contains a radio that receives the sounds of unseen flipping pages.

A kid-made video is taped in front of a greenscreen for "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH," an entry in the "90-Second Newberry Film Festival." The fest results from an annual contest in which kid filmmakers create videos that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books in 90 seconds or less at the Decatur Library Stage.

Atlanta Ballet's contemporary dance offshoot Wabi Sabi will perform "Holding Ground" at the Community Bandstand area

Soul Food Cypher, agroup committed to reverse negative perceptions about rap, will perform its freestyle hip-hop at the Community Bandstand area.

Ron Shelton wrote and directed the 1988 Hollywood film "Bull Durham." Now he's adapting the movie into a world premiere musical, running at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre.

Most Atlantans know Robert Spano as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, but this fall he'll show another side, composing and performing his own work in "cloth," a multidisciplinary performance featuring music, dance and film at the Goat Farm Arts Center in September and at Atlanta Symphony Hall in October. Contributed by Angela Morris. HANDOUT PHOTO - NOT FOR RESALE

In Lawrenceville's Aurora Theatre's production of Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy," Jill Jane Clements plays the title role, while Rob Cleveland portrays the Atlanta matriarch's driver, Hoke.

British singer Ed Sheeran has jumped from clubs to arenas in the past year of his career. He'll headline The Arena at Gwinnett Center in Duluth to promote his latest album, "x."

The fest in Piedmont Park features 200 of the country's finest painters, photographers, sculptors, leather amd metal craftsmen and glass blowers.

A quartet of headliners – Eminem, Jack White, John Mayer and Zac Brown Band – anchor the 2014 edition of the Atlanta festival, which will commandeer Piedmont Park for two days in September. Eminem hasn't performed in Atlanta since 2002.

The husband-wife country superstars play a record seven shows at Philips Arena, the kickoff to their worldwide tour. It's been 18 years since Brooks performed in Atlanta.

Japanfest is the largest Japanese festival east of Houston and south of Washington, DC, and typically draws crowds exceeding 18,000 and features sushi making demonstrations, live music performances and more at the Gwinnett Convention Center in Duluth.

Steven Anderson's drawing "229 years" in marker and pencil on paper, appears in "Leaves of Grass" this fall at Poem 88.

About 60,000 people will descend on Centennial Olympic Park to hear Big Boi and Andre 3000 deliver hits like "Ms. Jackson" and "B.O.B" for the first time together in Atlanta in a decade.

This one-day extravaganza includes five stages of live local music and comedy, an artists market, kids village, carnival stalls and a parade.

Italian pianist Beatrice Rana has been praised for her immaculate playing. She makes her Spivey Hall debut in September.

British sensation Sam Smith, who's currently riding the high of his hit "Stay With Me," has been likened to a male Adele. He performs a sold-out show at The Tabernacle in Atlanta.

Dine on Greek cuisine or learn to prepare it yourself at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Atlanta.

Paul McCartney, shown on his "Out There" tour in summer 2013, last played Atlanta in 2009. His last performance at Philips Arena was in September 2005. He plays Philips in October after postponing an earlier tour date due to illness.

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Artist Pam Rogers uses plant and soil pigments to create her abstract interpretations of botanical illustrations as in her painting "Amazing Rare Things" featured at Swan Coach House Gallery in Atlanta.

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