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Morrissey cancels Atlanta show at Cobb Energy Centre
Morrissey performed Jan. 9 in Greenvale, N.Y. Photo: Getty Images After being diagnosed with a bleeding ulcer, Morrissey has scrapped six upcoming tour dates, including Thursday at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Billboard first reported the canceled dates; the tour is slated to resume Feb. 9 in Las Vegas. Hang tight for updates from Cobb Energy regarding a rescheduled date and/or refunds. Though no fault of Morrissey’s, the cancelation is a double sting for fans, as this date was a makeup for his December concert at Cobb Energy. At the time, the former Smith’s frontman nixed several shows in order… >>
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Friday Riffs: Your favorite Jackson 5 song could net you a DVD
Come on, admit it, you spent more than a few Saturday mornings back in the day watching “The Jackson 5ive” cartoon series. Maybe you caught it in its original run in the early ‘70s, or maybe you’re from the Michael Jackson-as-solo-star era and watched the show when it was rebroadcast in 1984-85 to capitalize on Michael’s popularity. Well, the entire series, including 46 remastered songs (and yes, “ABC,” “I’ll Be There” and “The Love You Save” are among them) has just been released on Blu-Ray and DVD, and thanks to our friends at Morris + King… >>
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Pop-up dining at the Ritz-Carlton; Poppins tea at the St. Regis
Ben Rose Photography Pop! Go the dining spaces at two elegant Buckhead hotels. First, the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead welcomes Valentine’s diners in its Dining Room for a limited engagement Feb. 14-16. While the Dining Room closed some time ago, new executive chef Franck Steigerwald , shown at the left, will serve a four-course dinner the option of paired wines chosen by sommelier Linda Torres Alarcon during the holiday weekend. Click here for a peek at the menu . “Franck Steigerwald is a brilliant chef, and we’ve been considering ways to let our guests enjoy his menus in a restaurant setting, so the pop… >>
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Star sightings: Mary J. Blige, Susan Lucci, Evander Holyfield spotted in Atlanta
AP photo Happy feels-like-Monday. Here are a few star sightings to star this short week! Mary J was in the house! Mary J. Blige and her husband Kendu Isaacs cheered on the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday night. (Did anyone spot her in the Dome on Sunday?) Tamar Braxton and husband Vincent Herbert , spinoff stars of the WE channel’s “Braxton Family Values,” also were at Philips for the Hawks game on Saturday. A number of tipsters filled us in on Ludacris’ weekend activities. He was spotted at Whiskey Blue in the Buckhead W, Chops Lobster Bar and the… >>
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Ed Roland talks Sweet Tea Project, residency at Eddie’s Attic
Ed Roland (center) with the guys in the Sweet Tea Project (from left) – Brian Bisky, Christopher Alan Yates, Tomi Martin and Mike Rizzi. Photo: Jolie Loren Photography Ed Roland has played stadiums and arenas. Theaters and clubs. He’s also played on the tiny stage at Eddie’s Attic for many a Christmas concert. But when Roland unobtrusively stepped onto the close quarters of the Attic’s legendary stage last Tuesday, he was bookended not by his longtime Collective Soul bandmates, but by guitarists Christopher Alan Yates and Tomi Martin and bassist Brian Bisky, with drummer Mike Rizzi a few inches behind him… >>
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Friday Riffs: Tailgating songs for Sunday
What I really wanted to do this week was cultivate a playlist of game day songs relating to falcons. That thought started and ended with Billy Falcon’s semi-hit from 1991, “Power Windows.” Who knew that falcons were in such short lyrical supply? So instead I asked some friends and Twitter followers for their best tailgating song suggestions and received some familiar – but always good for the adrenaline – responses: Queen’s “We Will Rock You”; AC/DC’s “For Those About To Rock (We Salute You); Beastie Boys, “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)”; .38 Special’s “Hold on Loosely… >>
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A chat with Common about ‘LUV,’ music and Baltimore
Newcomer Michael Rainey Jr. stars with Common in “LUV.” Photo: Indomina Releasing To music fans, Common will always be the thoughtful hip-hop poet who has been tossing out socially conscious rhymes for two decades. But since 2007, when he popped up in the Jeremy Piven crime drama “Smokin’ Aces,” the Chicago native who, as the public learned in 2011, has a fan in First Lady Michelle Obama, has been exploring his thespian side. They’ve been mostly small roles in movies such as the Tina Fey comedy “Date Night” and the family drama “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,”… >>
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A talk with the ‘Second Generation Wayans,’ debuting on BET Jan. 15
Damien Dante Wayans, George Gore and Craig Wayans star in BET’s “Seocnd Generation Wayans,” debuting Jan. 15 after “Real Husbands of Hollywood.” CREDIT: BET “I feel like the Khloe Kardashian of the family.” Damien Dante Wayans is lamenting his fate on his new BET dramedy “Second Generation Wayans,” where he plays a somewhat similar version of his acctual self, along with Craig Wayans and George Gore , who played Damon Wayans’ son on “My Wife and Kids” from 2001 to 2005. The show debuts Tuesday, January 15 after 10:30 p.m. after “Real Husbands of Hollywood,” a spoof featuring Nick Cannon… >>
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Hoda Kotb to appear at Savannah Book Festival
AP photo NBC Today Show co-host Hoda Kotb , author of “HODA: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee ,” will appear at next month’s Savannah Book Festival. Festival organizers said she will appear on Saturday, Feb. 16 but the exact time and location isn’t yet listed on the festival web site. See www.savannahbookfestival.org for updates. The festival’s list of prominent authors includes former Vice President Al Gore . Kotb will also discuss her latest book, “TEN YEARS LATER: Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives.” “These people didn’t just fight their way… >>
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