There's plenty to do in Atlanta this weekend. Avenue Q premiers Friday night, Feb. 3rd at the Horizon Theater company. Showings are at 8:00 pm and will the show will run until Feb. 10th. This funny, light-hearted musical tells the story Princeton, a recent college graduate who tries to find his place in the world and who happens to be a puppet.
The stigma attached to thrift shopping is beginning to detach itself. With celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Ashton Kutcher dressing like fashionable bums, the "thrifty" look has started to catch on. But for Georgia State students Rashard Dobbins and Jessica Townsend thrift shopping is not just a fad for them.
Dance Moms Review This dance-sational hit reality show that began on Lifetime last year, is back for season two with even more outrageous moments. Abby Lee, the owner and operator of the renowned Abby Lee Dance Studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brings the heat each week as she prepares her young dancers for competitions around the nation.
CLUB | Gamer's Revolution Whether you are fighting for your life, going on a quest or rocking out in a band, video games allow for all types of people to enter a world where imagination and creativity take over.
Country songstress Kellie Pickler puts her heart to music on her new album release 100 Proof. This 12-track project allows listeners to view Pickler in a more personal and relatable light through her heartfelt and emotional lyrics.
Craig Finn, Clear Heart, Full Eyes (Vagrant)
If an artist creates a solo record after a storied history with a particular group, the quality of the solo project will inevitably be judged alongside their group's past material, for better or worse. The same is true for the recent solo venture from Craig Finn, called Clear Heart, Full Eyes.
In the past week, Atlanta has been the host of "Off the Edge," a weeklong festival of dance and performances presented by Georgia State University's Rialto Center, Kennesaw State University (KSU) and gloATL.
Red Tails
After 23 years of production, the highly anticipated film, "Red Tails," hit theatres on Jan. 20. Raking in $19.1 million in its opening weekend, director Anthony Hemingway and executive producer George Lucas proved to Hollywood naysayers that a film featuring a majority African American cast can indeed rack up the coins.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Many movies have been released about the Sept. 11 attacks that attempt to show the bravery and devastation of that fateful day in 2001. "World Trade Center", released in 2006, gives the 9/11 story from a firefighter's perspective; "United 93", also released in 2006, portrays the event from the eyes of the passengers and crew on the United 93 air- plane; and "Fahrenheit 911", released in 2004, shows viewers a more inside look at President George W.
In the past week, Atlanta has been the host of "Off the Edge," a weeklong festival of dance and performances presented by Georgia State University's Rialto Center, Kennesaw State University (KSU) and gloATL.
Underworld: Awakening
Grade: C- To absolutely no one's surprise, Underworld: Awakening, the 4th movie in the long-drawn out Underworld series, is all style over substance. The fact that this movie is advertised on the strength of it's 3-D camera work (which is admittedly used to great effect) should be the first clue that the plot might not exactly be the selling point of the film.
Tell those rain clouds, metaphorical and realistic, to move out the way! Is the stress of this semester already irritating you? Start off your weekend with a free one-day anxiety workshop at New Beginnings Counseling Center in Lawrenceville, Ga.
Captain Beefheart: Bat Chain Puller
Reissues of old records are commonplace today, but first-time releases of long-since recorded albums are seldom seen. That's exactly the case of Bat Chain Puller, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's lost would-be opus that was shelved after its production in 1976 due to a conflict between the producers and the label.
The Maccabees
Given to the Wild is The Maccabees' third album, which has already gotten a lot of media praise in their United Kingdom home. They recorded the album over two years and the result was a compilation of beautiful and intricate tracks.
CONTRABAND Contraband, an action film set in New Orleans, introduces Mark Wahlberg as an ex-smuggler named Chris Farraday determined to leave his old ways in the past. The film introduces interesting elements by taking the main characters to the country of Panama, where Wahlberg is in a race against time to pick up illegal merchandise to keep his family safe back home.
The Iron Lady fails to impress
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As a college student, numerous hours are spent investigating the nightlife of whatever city or small town perhaps, your college dwells in. Georgia State students might not realize how lucky they are to have a city like Atlanta at their fingertips to take advantage of, or maybe they simply don't know how.
Don't let the recent string of cold weather fool you. This weekend's going to be a warm one for Atlanta. With sunny skies, and highs in the 60's there's plenty to do downtown. Percussion performance group "Blast" comes to the Cobb Energy center and will do two shows on Saturday at 2 and 8pm and one show on Sunday at 2pm.
CineFest is known across campus for showing unique and cultural films, and The Skin I Live In, from director Pedro Almodóvar, lives up to this reputation. With Antonio Banderas headlining this film, it is clear from the first scene that viewers are soon to be entangled in a web even bigger than anything Charlotte could have created.
The highly popularized film "The Devil Inside" is what is known as a ‘mockumentary' – a documentary style film in which fictitious events are made out to seem, well, nonfictitious. With this in mind, movie-goers expectations shouldn't be too high, considering how terrible of a movie this turned out to be.
JOYFUL NOISE
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Since they released Brothers in 2010, it's become clear that there are two distinct sides to the Black Keys, stylistically speaking. Gritty blues-rock characterized the first portion of their career, but the duo is rapidly adapting their style to the tastes of more conventional palates.
Atlanta is regarded by many as a mecca for the gay community,,and this is reflected strongly in the city's thriving drag culture. Atlanta has had a sizeable and diverse drag scene for years. "[The scene] is very big.
one year later
"The military is now able today to take greater pride in their record on diversity and their mission, which is to defend our nation's freedom." These are the words of Danny Ingram, one of the first soldiers discharged from the military under the law banning homosexual men and women from serving openly in the military, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
A little more than one year after his successful 5.0 album, Nelly is back again as he drops his new and highly anticipated project O.E.M.O., which stands for On Everything Mo. O.
In her response to staff writer Brittany Spornhauer's article "Racism is absurd but reverse racism is ok?" Georgia State's section of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) President Jeida K.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, directed by David Fincher, is an English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson. The story follows a journalist who has found himself in the middle of legal turmoil regarding an alleged libelous article.
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Let’s Go Eat at the Factory
It seems as though we've come into the age of reunion albums, in which the groups of yore are cashing in on their past successes with "original lineups" and material that sounds at once just new enough and old enough.
on music, growing up and discovering her passion
Lauren Keyana Palmer, known to the world as Keke Palmer, broke through in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee. Now, as an 18 year old, an established actress and singer and a Nickelodeon sitcom later, she's singing a more mature and relatable tune.
It was 26 years ago that Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was first recognized nationally as a federal holiday. Since the initial recognition of this once controversial holiday, the nation has made several strides towards the equality that King strived for.
Like every other month in Atlanta, January is kind to the fan of live music. And while the joys of an outdoor concert are still months away, there are plenty of hot shows to catch at many premier Atlanta venues.
There are plenty of places that students can eat on Broad Street that can make your mouth water, but Ali Baba's is the only place that offers a menu that's full of food and caters to those with a foreign taste for Mediterranean culture.
What do you get when you throw three hung-over designers together and give them 24 hours to create a website? Drinkify.org- a website that gives you the perfect cocktail for any music selection. Hannah Donovan, Matthew Ogle and Lindsay Eyink arrived at Hack Day in Boston with alcohol on the brain.
The Roots – Undun
Penetrating The Roots universe is not always easy at first listen, but as you go into the Philadelphia jazz/rap band's atmosphere, it brings you a quiet withdrawal of the world. After teasing us with the first single "Make My" and other following short video clip leaks of "Stomp" or "Sleep," their new album undun releases on Dec.
With such intense excitement already driving fans wild to see the third Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn Part I, how did director Bill Condon keep moviegoers interested? Fans that have read the book already know what will happen and fans that have been following the movie online had obvious hints of what was going to happen; however, the film has managed to remain number one in the Box Office so far, grossing approximately $220.
Martin Scorsese has directed every kind of movie at this point in his career - from the musical New York, New York to the mob classic Goodfellas. However, one genre has eluded the master storyteller until now: the family film.
Suck my cockiness/Lick my persuasion/ Eat my words and then swallow your pride down, down!" No, that's not a quote from your drunk and promiscuous aunt at her birthday party last year. That's Rihanna talking dirty to you on a track off of her new album, Talk That Talk.
Georgia State student DJ Dunsker took the crown as best DJ of the nighton Nov. 18, when eight DJ's from four different colleges competed to win Table Manners; a competition for DJ's sponsored by Red Bull Energy Drink. Emily Reinecke, a student at Georgia State and the Student Brand Manager for Red Bull organized this event together.
Last Friday evening, a hallway in the Cosby building of Spelman College was transformed into a runway for college students of Morehouse College and Spelman College.
Pop records are a dime a dozen — they're kind of made to be that way, after all — but Rooney vocalist Robert Schwartzman's new solo release, Double Capri- corn, is a little different in at least one regard.
Fans who liked My Brightest Diamond's previous works may love the band's newest album. All Things Will Unwind, their latest release, contains experimental sounds and provocative lyrics that startle the senses and captivate the mind.
Florence + The Machine | Ceremonials
Florence + The Machine | Ceremonials Florence Welch is painfully self-aware. She is not afraid to be completely exposed in her music, and you can hear it in every track on her latest album Ceremonials.
Staff Reports, In celebration of the new video game Super Mario 3D Land, Nintendo organized a series of flash mobs where 100 Mario volunteers would run around a city and eventually congregate at a mall or another popular place to put on a little show.
On Nov. 11, Skyrim, the long awaited fifth installment of the Elder Scrolls series hit stores. The Elder Scrolls is a video game series that has been evolving over time, with a dedicated group of fans that have been following the mythos.
Most modern music is made to generate profit, but Björk's Biophilia embraces the universal qualities of life to educate the listener through an eclectic array of sounds.
The gears shift, the wheel turns slightly, adjusting the force of the car in the dark night. The head- lights warble by, their hues lost in bokeh trails.
Seeing Jay-Z and Kanye West sitting onstage like two old friends as they performed "New Day" before seamlessly transitioning into "Hard Knock Life" was just one of the highlights of their show at Philips Arena last Saturday.
Atlanta Ballet presents challenging yet beautiful contemporary pieces
If you've ever thought ballet was a cookie-cutter dance style, think again.
Real Estate Days Domino Reverb-soaked beach rock is ever more commonplace nowadays, but the New Jersey trio Real Estate takes a different approach than most. Instead of copping the traditional, upbeat coastal melodies of yesteryear like many of their contemporaries, Real Estate opts for a sound with as much in common with the Beach Boys as the Cure on their new offering, Days.
If Halloween was a band, it would be M83.
Music doesn't really need anymore break-up songs — or at least synth-pop surely doesn't.
For a musician, being successful can mean a variety of things. You can be commercially successful, enjoying hordes of fans and gratuitous radio play, or you can be artistically successful, which is what virtually every musician will at least claim to strive for.
On Saturday, the Vegetarian Taste of Atlanta was held in the Castleberry Hills neighborhood of Atlanta. Approximately 50 visitors attended, including a few Georgia State students.
I drove around all day looking for bikes. From shop to shop, store to store, on four wheels, to find and examine and take pictures of bicycles. I drive up, park and go in and just stand there and stare at the bike on the wall.
Georgia State's Cinefest began hosting movies from the Atlanta Asian Film Festival (AAFF) Oct. 8, featuring entertaining and informative films from various Asian countries.
Rapper Rick Ross, who is slated to headline the homecoming concert at the Tabernacle Friday, suffered two seizures on Oct. 14.
Director Tsui Hark may not be a household name, but in critical circles, he's known for his visionary work in film. The grand aesthetic of Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame proves that this reputation is deserved.
From shooting stars and wishing wells to police cars with loaded guns, Blink-182's new album alludes to every subject under the sun.
When the news that a remake of Footloose, the classic 1984 film starring Kevin Bacon, would hit the big screen Oct. 14, skepticism arose.
I'm standing at the front of a crowd of people, pressed against a rusty chain-link fence, watching the building on the other side explode.
Rapper Jay-Z and tabla player Zakir Hussein aren't normally mentioned in the same conversation. Jay-Z is one of the best rappers of all time and heralded as much for his lyrical ability as his business acumen.
From Oct. 6 through 8, Atlanta will play host to rappers, beatmakers and hip-hop heads alike as the A3C festival returns. The festival, which is now in its seventh year, is a two-day, three-night event that features live performances, meet-and-greets and discussions with some of hip-hop's most talented up-and-coming artists.
Eyedrum, oh Eyedrum. The champion of Atlanta's emerging and underground artists. What have you guys been up to? The well-known Atlanta staple, bringing to the city a dose of culture in all things creative for over a decade, left its much-esteemed former location on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive last year, but has yet to find another place to call home.
October has always been a spooky, scary kind of month. It seems there's always something around the corner, hiding in a pile of leaves or on a crisp, hollow breath of wind. A haunting chill starts to set in before winter comes, jackets start to zip up higher and higher and we start seeing less and less skin, leaving floating heads crouched in hoods scurrying hurriedly from place to place, as if being outside exposes them to some very real spectral threat in the nature and atmosphere of autumn.
I can't recall the number of times I've seen The Lion King during my young life. Originally released in 1994, most of my peers were barely out of diapers when the childhood classic first made it to the big screen. Now, some 16 years later, The Lion King is back and just as incredible as I remember it being — only now it's in 3D.
You have to be some kind of man to open your performance with a song sampling Jay-Z, considered by many to be one of the greatest rappers of all time.
The mesmerizing Broadway musical Wicked returns to Atlanta this month for a special performance at the Fox Theater. Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked explores why evil becomes evil.
Kurt Vonnegut once said that, "laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." When screenwriter Will Reiser found out he had cancer six years ago, he took a similar approach. Con- fronted with a diagnosis that called into question any chance of a future, Reiser and longtime friend Seth Rogen (Pineapple Express) did what they do best: make jokes.
From the much-antipated return of Music Midtown to the boho revelry of Little Five Fest, Atlanta pla
Darling Norman rocked it out in their appearance at this year's Little Five Fest.
In the year 2000, rock 'n' roll was all but dead. Consumer taste, fed by an extra-large helping of the '80s and '90s, had pivoted toward hip-hop, DJs and boy bands. The few rock bands with any sort of popularity are still the butt of jokes today: Linkin Park, Creed, Staind, et al.
Although some may rally at the idea of a Linkin Parkl-ed rock scene, times were bleak for those with post-adolescent musical tastes.
Understandably hungry for change, critics began paying close attention to the rise of several local bands, each from different parts of the world, and declared that the saviors of rock 'n' roll had arrived. It's only been a decade since the garage rock revival took hold of popular music, and although tastes may have taken another turn, it's still worth recognizing some of the bands behind the movement.
Blair Crimmins and the Hookers
Any fan of ragtime and vaudeville is sure to love this merry band of troubadours, but fans of any kind of music can appreciate their raucous old-time style. Consisting of everything from a three-part brass section to piano, banjo and upright bass, this massive project has an equally huge sound, both live and in the studio. These guys play around town a fair amount, so check them out next time you're looking for a rambunctious night out.
Even though Relax is only the debut album from Das Racist, the duo has somehow managed to become one the biggest names in alternative hip hop. Das Racist falls in the new category of groups that probably wouldn't exist if not for the Internet. In 2008, their first single, "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell," was enough to spread their name across a number of blogs, and from there the successive mixtapes Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man kept their name relevant. With three years of experience, one would think Das Racist would have only honed and improved their style, yet every time I hear them, I can't help but like them less. Their initial style was born out of their lazy yet verbose flow, yet they have pushed the concept to the point to where their rhymes feel supremely boring.
Shocker: Although the Nintendo 64 had some truly seminal and critically adored games, it was ultimately a disappointment. If you disagree, try to name a good N64 game not made by Rareware (Banjo-Kazooie, Goldeneye, Diddy Kong Racing, etc.) or Nintendo. Of course, most people of our generation probably disagree with this sentiment, instead feeling nothing but undying loyalty for what avid gamers see as a pretty mediocre system. Luckily for this group, Nintendo has taken to remastering the graphics on N64 games, and releasing them on their newest handheld, the 3DS. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time got this treatment earlier this year, and now it's time for fan-favorite Star Fox 64 to get the same reappraisal.
Another shocker: Star Fox 64 is still hella great. Everything you remember from Star Fox — the large scale dogfights, ducking and weaving between asteroids and enemy pilots — it's all still there.
And with higher presentation values and the inherent portability of being a 3DS game, Star Fox 64 3D feels like a game designed specifically to be played on the 3DS, an accolade few games on the system can boast.
The only complaint is lack of online multiplayer, but it's hard to weigh that too heavily. Star Fox 64 was never about its multiplayer, and the same remains true today. If you have a 3DS, any time you've spent not buying, or working for the money to buy Star Fox 64 3D has been utterly wasted. Get cracking.
Dark colors, black, cut-outs and flounce meet a huge splash of bright hot pink: That's the best way to describe the Betsey Johnson Fall 2011 Fashion Collection, or at least the inspiration for the playful and flirty dresses that are now part of the company's collection.
You wouldn't expect Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star — a movie about a young man who decides to pursue a career in adult films after discovering his parents were once porn stars — to provide a fresh perspective on sexuality. If anything,
It speaks to the versatility of Starfucker that lead songwriter Josh Hodges can manage to have a coherent conversation with me after nearly dying in a car wreck.
Artists have to open up and be completely vulnerable in order to relate to their audience, and Mates of State have exactly that on their latest album, Mountaintops.
THURSDAY , SEPT. 15
March of the Muses
Come out to see the lovely ladies of Minette Magnifique put on the
most memorable burlesque show you've ever seen. There's limited
seating, though, so you'll have to get your tickets fast if you want to get
in on the action.
Various Artists The Green Album Walt Disney Records It's hard to remember the Muppets with anything but fondness. Whether it was gained from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, Labyrinth, Muppet Babies or any of the countless Muppet movies, there will always be something incredibly special about Kermit and the gang.
On Sept. 6, The Plaza Theatre invited bike enthusiasts and movie buffs alike to view a display of bike art and a showing of Tim Burton's cult classic film, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
Judy Kim
In one corner is Ludacris: world-renowned rapper, the lyrical genius behind "Move Bitch" and arguably Georgia State's most famous former student.
Black Moth Super Rainbow is back. After a two-year hiatus, the ragtag collection of aural explorers has returned to melt any and all eardrums with its fifth release, Psychic Love Damage.
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