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Joan Baez on music, activism and kissing a girl
Joan Baez. The name conjures images of a hippie-era folk musician who performed at the legendary Woodstock concert (while pregnant) and dated fellow musician Bob Dylan. Her renditions of songs like “Diamonds & Rust,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and “We Shall Overcome” remain iconic to this day. But Joan Baez, now 71, is still going strong. She just kicked off a tour this week and will have 10 special shows where she will perform with Atlanta’s own Indigo Girls, including shows at Atlanta’s Chastain Park Amphitheater June 14-15. The concerts won’t be the first time Baez collaborated with… >>
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Best Best: 5.24.13 – 6.6.13
Friday, May 24 Charis Books screens the documentary “Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 – 1992” tonight at 7 p.m., www.charisbooksandmore.com Bwb appears with Chrisette Michele, who played Black Gay Pride in 2011, at 7:30 p.m. at Chastain Park Amphitheatre, www.livenation.com Gay singer-pianist Michael Feinstein performs at 8 p.m. at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, www.aso.org Singer-songwriter Jen Foster performs at 8 p.m. at Eddie’s Attic, www.eddiesattic.com Edie Cheezburger presents The Other Show on Fridays. Doors open at 8:30 p.m., show at 9:30 p.m. at Jungle, www.jungleclubatlanta.com DJ Stan Jackson spins at… >>
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HBO’s ‘Behind the Candelabra’ looks beyond gay pianist’s legendary flamboyance
It would be virtually impossible to make a film about the life of gay entertainer Liberace and not have plenty of campy, over-the-top moments. But Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh largely focuses on the human story over the flamboyance in his new HBO film “Behind the Candelabra,” debuting May 26. Based on Liberace’s six-year relationship with Scott Thorson and Thorson’s memoir, “Behind the Candelabra: My Life With Liberace,” the film opens in 1977 as a young Scott (Damon) goes to Las Vegas with a new friend to see pianist Liberace (Michael Douglas) in concert. Scott goes… >>
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Girlyman kids around, ‘Vagina’ author heads back to ATL, and more
Girlyman members need your help with kids’ album Three members of the queer band Girlyman have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund their new kids’ music project, dubbed Django Jones after member Doris Muramatsu’s Chihuahua. With members Muramatsu, Nate Borofsky Tylan Greenstein and JJ Jones, Girlyman wowed audiences with beautiful harmonies and emotional songwriting. The band went on hiatus in 2012 and Greenstein recently released a solo album. Now Muramatsu, Borofsky and Jones want to take their sometimes silly songs to kids. The trio says they have been writing and recording songs for a debut album, “D is for Django,”… >>
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‘Studzmen’ screens at Midtown Art Cinema this Thursday
A screening of the new films “Studzmen” from M.Power Productions about the story of black lesbians, especially dominant and male-identified lesbians sometimes known as “studs,” comes to Midtown Art Cinema on Thursday at 7:15 p.m. In an interview, co-director Onyx Keesha of Atlanta, said the film is “about brotherhood, connections, growing up and feeling captive to your past or the old you. It is about temptation and growing into your manhood.” >>
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Food Porn #24: A place at the table
Lee lifted the pitcher of margaritas over his head with both hands and shouted, “Feliz Cinco de Mayo!” He was slightly drunk. The server at Mezcalito’s Cocina, a new Mexican restaurant in Grant Park, didn’t blink as she swept the pitcher out of his wobbling hands and returned it to the table. Robert, only a little less inebriated, was singing “Besame Mucho,” which mariachi bands often perform tableside, repeating the lyrics until diners tip them enough to go away. Lee pushed two $5 bills in Robert’s shirt, drag-queen-style, to silence him. The two were dining alone. As… >>
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John Q Collective uses Cyclorama as metaphor for LGBT migration
Located in the northeastern corner of Georgia, Resaca is a small town with a current population less than 1,000. In that rural town in May 1864, the Battle of Resaca was fought — the first of many in the Civil War campaign that led to the Battle of Atlanta. Union troops defeated Confederates in a bloody clash that led to the surrender of Atlanta to Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, who later ordered the city burned. The Battle of Atlanta, fought on July 22, 1864, is still alive today at one of Atlanta’s famous tourist spots, the Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum located… >>
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Best Bets: 04.26.13 – 05.09.13
Friday, April 26 – Sunday, April 28 A strong lineup of music – including Caroline Aiken, Lindsey Hinkle, Ronnda Cadle and more – along with workshops make up the Women’s Music in the Mountains spring fest. All weekend at Fox Mountain Camp and Artist Retreat, Cherry Log, Ga. www.foxmtncamp.com Bearrapalooza at OZ Campground in Unadilla, Ga., features an acoustic show, contests, dance parties, a DJ and tons o’ men. Entertainers include Sean Kagalis, Freddie Freeman, Charlie K. Brown and more. Oz Campground, www.ozcampground.com The National Youth Pride Services South Region Conference, titled “I Am Black Excellence,” features Maurice… >>
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Gay directors shine in spring shows
Although LGBT-themed productions are something of a rarity the next few months in the ATL, the upcoming theater season nonetheless has some snap to it. One of the plays with a gay character in it is Horizon Theatre’s “The Book Club Play” (May 17 – June 23) by playwright Karen Zacarias, in which the leader of a book club discovers that she and the members of the group — including a gay man — are being featured in a documentary, and the camera is always running. Directed by Jeff Adler, the comedy has a great cast including Wendy Melkonian. Several… >>
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Atlanta Cotillion’s ‘Cirque de Nuit’ brings big changes to drag fundraising tradition
Now in its 12th year, Atlanta Cotillion is turning its old fundraising format on its crown. The group has ditched the drag debutantes, tiaras and season-ending black-tie ball in favor of year-round team fundraising and a more inclusive annual bash to raise money for its longtime beneficiary, AID Atlanta. In January 2013, event chair Darrell Burke, former chair John McGuirk and several past debs decided on an all-new format that kicks off with the group’s “Cirque de Nuit,” an avant-garde ball June 8 in the Historic Hangar of the Delta Heritage Museum. >>
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