2015 Father’s Day Gift Guide
According to 2013 research, people spend around 75% more on Mother’s Day than Father’s Day. That ain’t right: Us dads need love, too! These…
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Little Richard- Directly From My Heart Review
With the deaths of Otis Redding (who passed away in 1967), Ray Charles (2004) and James Brown (2006), Macon’s Richard Wayne Penniman is the…
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Summer Movie Previews 2015
Summer is here, and with it comes the usual litany of wannabe-blockbusters vying for your box office bucks. This year brings so many remakes…
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The Best Coffee Around the World 2015
Over the past 5 years, we’ve become much more conscious of where our coffee is grown and how the farmers who grow it are treated….
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Royal Thunder Frontwoman MIny Parsonz On Religion, Divorce & Crooked Doors
If Robert Plant and Tina Turner had spawned an offspring who grew up worshipping at the altar of Janis Joplin, she might sound a…
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New Orleans Chef Alon Shaya Wins the James Beard Award
On a recent afternoon, I had the opportunity to interview newly-crowned James Beard Award-winning Chef Alon Shaya over plates of chicken schnitzel, lamb kebabs and heirloom…
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Mad Max Fury Road Review
Roaring, snarling, screeching into multiplexes this weekend, Mad Max: Fury Road does not disappoint. It’s currently sitting at 98%+ positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and the very…
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Faith No More- Sol Invictus Review
It’s been 18 years since Faith No More’s last album (the multi-platinum Album of the Year) was released, and 17 years since they announced…
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MoNique Interview On New Movies & Hollywood’s Old Race Issues
It was the writer Louisa May Alcott who once said, “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my…
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Top 10 Things to Do with Kids in New Orleans
Bourbon Street may be a playground for adults, but there are also plenty of things to do with kids in New Orleans. While it…
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ROYAL THUNDER- CROOKED DOORS REVIEW
A lot has happened in the three years since Atlanta’s Royal Thunder released its swampy, cryptic 2012 debut, CVI. Most significantly, bassist/vocalist Mlny Parsonz…
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2015 SPRING FASHION GUIDE
With a metrosexual (do people still use that word?) guy, a buxom blonde and a trend-bucking teen living in the same household, finding fashion…
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Merchants of Doubt Review (2015’s Most Important Movie)
Merchants of Doubt is arguably the most important documentary of the past decade, since Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth sounded the global alarm over climate…
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Robin Lord Taylor Reinvents The Penguin on Gotham
Empire is undoubtedly the hottest new show of this TV season. But Gotham, which is set in Gotham City shortly after the murder of…
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Indie Dance Duo Matt and Kim Back with New Glow
With little-to-no radio airplay over the years, the hard-to-define indie-rock duo Matt and Kim have managed to get their music out to the masses…
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M.O. Walsh- My Sunshine Away Book Review
It’s not every day that a debut novel appears on the New York Times Bestseller list just weeks after its publication. But glowing advance reviews…
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Spring Festivals in Atlanta
When you consider our blazing hot summers and relatively short winters, perhaps it’s no surprise that spring ranks as a favorite season for…
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José González- Vestiges & Claws Review
José González was born in Sweden in 1978, two years after his academic psychologist father, mother and older sister escaped the military junta that…
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An Honest Liar Movie Review
A renowned magician spends much of his life’s first 80 years exposing fraud and deception, then later proves to have a secret or two…
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Review
Lightning caught in a bottle does not strike twice. Cliché though that phrase may be, it’s still better than most of the mangled…
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