Artist meets scientist, then dinosaurs meet Barbie, in the world of these Guinness-quaffing Atlanta creatives. :: Tony Martin’s job is every child’s dream: He is a dinosaur hunter. The professor of paleontology at Emory University was part of the team that discovered the first known dinosaur burrow. It held the remains of a previously unknown…
When Daniel Pearl was killed by militants in Karachi in 2002, his musician friends were as shocked as the rest of the world. Now the Atlanta nonprofit Music in Common is spreading his message internationally. :: For journalist Daniel Pearl, his violin was almost as essential as his notepad. In troubled hot spots around the…
The Woodruff Arts Center, home of the Alliance Theatre, High Museum of Art and Atlanta Symphony, has launched a multi-million dollar capital campaign.
Billy Howard is the go-to photographer for the game-changing idealists of the world, from John Lewis to the Carter family. In fact, he was one of three photographers sanctioned to photograph First Lady Rosalynn Carter’s recent memorial service — a meaningful moment in a career spent documenting health, education and social themes around the globe….
Who says couplehood doesn’t mix with show business? For Matt Torney and Amber McGinnis, marriage offers the role of a lifetime. McGinnis is the founder of Outskirt Media, on “a mission to tell the stories of working class women who turn their pain into power.” Her film credits include her feature debut dark comedy, International…
Movie producer Autumn Bailey-Ford is still in her 30s but claims more than 35 projects to her name, with several in the works now. The first person of color to serve as vice chair for the Atlanta chapter of the Producers Guild of America, Bailey-Ford seeks out films that foster cross-cultural connections while telling stories…
Folk artist Nellie Mae Rowe and gallerist Judith Alexander hailed from vastly different worlds. Rowe was the daughter of a sharecropper who had been enslaved; Alexander, from one of the South’s most prominent Jewish families, grew up with a chauffeur. They both were deemed plenty “eccentric” by their respective communities, but they found sustenance, and…
David Bottoms, formerly Georgia’s poet laureate who wrote muscular verse in a high-lonesome tenor about the South’s most rugged landscapes — and its least glamorous inhabitants — died March 10. He was 73. “A lot of poets seem to think their work has to be set 50,000 miles from Earth, but David never did,” says…
Atlanta native Janelle M. Williams has produced a debut novel that asks what we owe to our families, what we owe to our ancestors and what we owe to ourselves. Gone Like Yesterday (Tiny Reparations Books, 368 pages) should come with a soundtrack, because it is swingingly lyrical in more ways than one and will…
The pleasures of jazz singer Bernadette Seacrest’s latest recording project are not exclusively auditory, though those are, predictably, seductive. Her My Love Is comes with frame-worthy album art: an eye-popping, symbolism-heavy, Surrealist photograph of the “jazzabilly chanteuse” all but baring her naughty bits, taken by Joel-Peter Witkin, the deliciously deviant “thinking Goth’s favorite artist.” “The…
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