the sound table – casual sophistication descends on atlanta’s edgewood district
Remember that trip you took to New York back in your mid-twenties? You were feeling young, sexy and sure of yourself. The friends that you came to visit in the bustling city introduced you to their group of friends, and you all met up for an evening out at a cool, but unpretentious lounge in lower Manhattan. The DJ there played an intriguing and unintrusive medley of urban underground funkiness, the drinks from the bar were prepared just right, the food: filling, flavorful, and just light enough to keep you feeling flirty. At one point in the evening, you thought ...
atlanta’s national black arts festival kicks off next week
Only a few more days before the 22nd National Black Arts Festival begins! Well, technically, the festival never ends since it's a year-round celebration of arts and culture across the African Diaspora. But from July 14-18, we'll be treated to a concentrated dose of all that the NBAF has to offer. The NBAF is always a highlight of Atlanta's summer festival season with a myriad of music and theater performances, workshops, films, and educational programs that allow Atlantans and visitors from all around the globe to see, taste, hear, and feel the work of artists and artisans that have shaped and continue to ...
foodie travel: highlights of savannah’s food scene
Ah, Savannah. That historic city that simply drips with Southern charm. It’s a place where you can slow down your pace, pick up a drawl, commune with ghosts, and revisit the past. If you’re an art lover, you’re in luck, since the students and staff at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) have fostered a vibrant arts community there. Beach bums will feel right at home on nearby Tybee Island, and history buffs will hardly run out of facts, figures, and folklore to ruminate over. But this one is for the foodies, the eatatarians, the lovers of good grub ...
mistress didi – crusader of classic fetish
**Disclaimer: some of the links and topics contained in this post are of an adult nature. If you find such information objectionable, go watch a cartoon. :)** Bondage, BDSM, fetish, kink. When you hear those terms, images of whips, chains, leather, and latex may immediately come to mind. Less innocuous terms like freak, pervert, or deviant, are often used to describe the participants in the bondage and fetish scenes. Many people are confounded, some are intrigued (even those who won’t admit it), and others are downright repulsed by the set of behaviors classified as modern fetish. But there is at least ...
after the affair event staffing – an intro to my latest project
I have fond memories of summer from childhood. Long days of building forts, scraping up cash for the candy lady, playing kickball, jumping on trampolines, going on four-wheeler adventures in the woods.... Back then, that was serious business to me. These days, though, it's all about trying to balance the competing demands of life (read: a hectic social calendar) and work (read: the ups/downs of freelancing). But the good thing is, when you find the right people to collaborate with, serious business can still seem like play. My latest collaboration is one that I’m especially excited about. I’ve partnered with my longtime ...
royal china – an oasis in atlanta’s chinese food desert
Since Dinho (and its lackluster sequel, Frank Ma South) have both gone the way of the dragon, there's been a serious void in my Chinese dining excursions of late. I've had to rely on more cookie-cutter Chinese restaurants in the Atlanta area, since there are no authentic, casual Chinese restaurants to speak of anywhere near my 'hood. The ones that are close by generally get referred to by me as ‘gravy chino’ – due to their tendency to smother almost every dish on the menu in a ubiquitous brown gravy. Thankfully, it seems like I've been delivered from the barren desert ...
Music
i’m listening to: skin, is my by andrew bird
I hate Pandora. Ok maybe hate is too strong of a word. Really, it’s a sort of missplaced hate. Who I really hate is MySpace, since it is the reason behind the demise of the online music service, Imeem, that I was such a loyal fan of. Listening to music on Pandora is much more restricted, so it’s taken me a while to get adjusted to it. The one ‘sunny upside’ though, is that I get exposed...
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the sound table – casual sophistication descends on atlanta’s edgewood district
Remember that trip you took to New York back in your mid-twenties? You were feeling young, sexy and sure of yourself. The friends that you came to visit in the bustling city introduced you to their group of friends, and you all met up for an evening out at a cool, but unpretentious lounge in lower Manhattan. The DJ there played an intriguing and unintrusive medley of urban underground funkiness, the...
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how to lose like a winner
A couple of weekends ago, I got invited to watch a friend’s daughter compete in the National American Miss pageant. I’ve known this young lady since she was a toddler, and over the years I’ve watched her blossom into an awesome little woman. She’s bright, energetic, savvy, and beautiful to boot. You know, one of those kids that makes you feel confident about what the next generation will be able to do with their infinite potential. So I was thrilled to join her parents in the audience to hoot and holler like a madwoman whenever she appeared... [Read more ]
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foodie travel: highlights of savannah’s food scene
Ah, Savannah. That historic city that simply drips with Southern charm. It’s a place where you can slow down your pace, pick up a drawl, commune with ghosts, and revisit the past. If you’re an art lover, you’re in luck, since the students and staff at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) have fostered a vibrant arts community there. Beach bums will feel right at home on nearby Tybee Island, and history buffs will hardly run out of facts, figures, and folklore to ruminate over. But this one is for the foodies, the eatatarians, the... [Read more...]
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how to watch television – tips #2, #3, and #4: put your tv in its place
“If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.” ~Lily Tomlin In keeping with the series of posts about the evils of television I started a couple of weeks back… wait. No. Let’s clarify a couple of things before we get too far along with these. I don’t actually consider TV to be evil at all. After reading my first post on the topic, a friend of mine expressed some concern that I had morphed into one of these staunch anti-TV nazis and that I was... [Read more...]
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atlanta auction gallery – vintage deals for next to nothing
If you’ve ever ridden Marta southbound into the West End station, you might have noticed the backside of a huge billboard that faces east towards downtown. The front of the billboard changes regularly, but the rear consistently bears the large and highly recognizable glyph of the ubiquitous grafitti artist, DOSE. For months, that billboard was the signal that I’d reached the end of my daily work commute from Alpharetta. Every day, I’d marvel at the sheer size of the thing and the ballsiness it must have taken to climb that... [Read more...]
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shifting into manic with atlanta photographer gudrun stone
Gudrun (pronounced: ‘good-drun’) Stone continues to build a reputation for herself as a rising star in Atlanta’s artist community. She excels at capturing the energy and passion of stage and concert performances – Van Hunt, Brittany Bosco, and countless visiting artists at the annual National Black Arts Festival have all found themselves in front of her lens. Her first solo photography exhibit – Long Exposures, which debuts at the Ferst Center on April 11 – is just another milestone on her journey of evolution... [Read more...]
More VISUAL AND THEATER >>>Books
spiderman saves obama’s inauguration
Just saw a USA Today article about a special inauguration edition of a Spider Man comic book. Obama and SpiderMan giving each other a ‘fist bump’? Wow. How crazy is that? Furthermore, how crazy is it that I WANT one!? cheers, k Read More →
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we brunch hard – brunch is not a game. it’s delicious.
Man, I thought I was serious about brunch. But Brooklyn-based comedian and tell-it-like-it-’tis man Elon James White has got me beat. Unlike all those other brunch rappers out there… he spits nothing but hot FIYAH! I will definitley be booming this on Saturday mornings from here on out. Read, see, and hear more from Elon (and believe me, you’ll want to) on This Week in Blackness. cheers, k Read More →
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what’s next – tips for overcoming stagnation
Making your own money – and by that I mean, not from a typical 9 to 5, but from something you created and you own – is like a drug. Once you’ve had even the littlest taste of it, you’ll always want it again. Be careful what you wish for when you wish to be your own boss. You might get hooked for life. I say be careful because it’s not an easy path. It’s a #@$&! scary ride. But… it’s a ride that changes you for the better. You learn to become bigger than yourself, if that makes any sense. You learn to use your strengths and your... [Read more...]
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