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    Atlanta Living & Arts

    Jerry Pinkney's Illustration from the 2019 book "A Place to Land" by Barry Wittenstein, is part of a new exhibit at the High Museum. Contributed.
    Atlanta Living & Arts| 1h ago
    High Museum exhibits children’s books on civil rights
    Dad's Garage Theatre celebrates a quarter century with virtual improv shows, a silent auction and surprise guests. AJC File
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    Dad’s Garage fêtes 25 years with 25 hours of live improv
    Author Terry Kay publishes his 18th book, "The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet." Courtesy of Mercer University Press
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    AJC Bookshelf: Terry Kay, a Southern storyteller for the ages
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    In Kyoug Chun's "Flowered Two Circles" (2020), in neon, metal, fresh flowers, wire, chicken net and oasis sponges. Courtesy of In Kyoug Chun
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    Female artists signal a sea change at Atlanta Contemporary
    Author Jill McCorkle
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    Jill McCorkle mines the past in ‘Hieroglyphics’
    Craig Washington (from left), Anthony Antoine, the Rev. Duncan Teague and Charles Stephens were all members of the Second Sunday group that met from the early '90s to the early 2000s near the Historic Fourth Ward Park, where a historical marker will be erected. Ben Gray/For the AJC
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    Preserving Atlanta’s gay history
    The Atlanta Audubon Society is adopting a new name, Georgia Audubon, and a new statewide role, in its mission to protect birds, including this eastern bluebird.
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    Atlanta Audubon assumes statewide role, becomes Georgia Audubon
    Visitors wearing masks and practicing social distancing view art by Angelo Ippolito and Elaine de Kooning at the Georgia Museum of Art on the UGA campus in Athens.
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    Georgia Museum of Art to reopen Aug. 13
    "Cumberland Island Footsteps in Time" by Stephen Doster
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    Cumberland Island’s colorful history told in illustrated coffee-table...
    "Christmas with the Crawfords" was an Out Front Theatre production from 2019. The company announced that it is canceling the rest of the shows it had scheduled for 2020.
    Atlanta Living & Arts
    Out Front Theatre cancels remaining shows of 2020
    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown will be the keynote speaker at this year's AJC Decatur Book Festival, which is being held online. Organizers decided against holding a physical festival due to the pandemic. Courtesy of Brian Cornelius
    Atlanta Living & Arts
    AJC Decatur Book Festival virtually celebrates 15 years
    Author Odie Lindsey. (photo credit: Dana DeLoca)
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    ‘Some Go Home’ an uneven debut about the power of place
    The podcast “The Control Group” stars Jennifer Bates (from left), John Schmedes, Hannah Fierman and Lisa Paulsen, and is written and directed by Bret Wood (far right). Courtesy of iHeartMedia
    Atlanta Living & Arts
    Local scripted podcasts craft spellbinding tales
    Atlanta crime writer Karin Slaughter shows her lighter side in videos posted to her social media accounts. Contributed
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    Pandemic check-in with author Karin Slaughter
    "Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience," part of the Alliance Theatre's 2020-2021 season, brings the humor of the Mo Willems children's book to the stage. Courtesy of Alliance Theatre
    Atlanta Living & Arts
    Alliance announces 2020-2021 offerings
    Atlanta Music Scene
    Imagine Music Festival lineup announced for 2021 event
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    Booth Museum reignites celebration of national honor
    Life
    Entertaining during a pandemic
    Home & Garden
    Rare African blossom flowers at Atlanta Botanical Garden
    Local News
    MARTA seeks Black creatives for public artwork at DeKalb stations
    Inspire Atlanta
    Broadway in Atlanta to put pandemic stars in the spotlight
    Atlanta-based artist and MOCA GA Working Artist Project winner Davion Alston. Courtesy of Davion Alston
    Atlanta Living & Arts
    Atlanta artist creates work about race in America, social injustice
    Alpharetta High School rising seniors Shourya Seth (from left), Jordan Umusu, Edward Aguilar, Sahan Reddy and Michael Giusto created the charitable enterprise Paralink to provide protective gear for health workers. Here they are outside Michael Giusto's house, where Paralink has its headquarters in his basement, showing off the face shields that Paralink will deliver to local hospitals. ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM
    Health
    Alpharetta teens deliver 420,000 units of protective gear to health...
    Jgenisius Harris dances to the music in her 1995 Freaknik shirt during the FreakNik 2019 concert at the Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood Saturday, June 22, 2019. Harris said her family went to the 1995 Freaknik and she got the tee shirt. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC
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    FreakNik Festival will become a series of 10 ‘drive-in theater’ for...
    “Memorial Drive” by Natasha Trethewey. Contributed by HarperCollins
    Life
    Trethewey’s ‘Memorial Drive’ a beautiful, devastating memoir
    Flannery O'Connor sitting on the steps of her home in Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1959. O'Connor is the subject of a new documentary film called "Flannery."
    Atlanta Living & Arts
    Film profiles bard of Middle Georgia
    Flannery O'Connor sitting on the steps of her home in Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1959. O'Connor is the subject of a new documentary film called "Flannery."
    Atlanta Living & Arts
    Flannery O’Connor film profiles the bard of Middle Georgia
    Photos
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    Super Bowl posters by Charles Fazzino, 2001-2019
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    Photos: 'The Rise of Sneaker Culture' at the High Museum
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    "The Past, Present, and Future of One Historically Black College” in...
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    John Baeder's painting of American diners
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    Photos: 15 of the best Southern books to read this fall
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    Photos: Stained glass windows of Druid Hills Presbyterian
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    Photos: High Museum's 'Sprawl' spotlights Georgia artists
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    Photos: Concerts and special events held at Bobby Dodd Stadium
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    Photos: Behind the scenes at Fox Theatre in Atlanta
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    Photos: What are Atlanta notables reading this summer?
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