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NEWS NEWS THE MOVE: Plan Accordingly. THE BLOTTER: Accessorizing with flair Hey, y’all! What’s the move? And other tales of life in the ATL

MS. CONCEPTION FRI., SEPT 10 AND LAUREN KEATING Yamada insists he has a renewed outlook ILLUSTRATION: TRAY BUTLER on life since the shark attack. “I feel more id you hear? Vaccines are all the SAT., SEPT. 11 alive,” he told WJCL-TV. “I feel like I want to rage — and possibly required. The K, most of the time, NextDoor is do more.” Move is returning to a new normal Candler Park Music Festival — Let the annoying AF. But every once in a of large IRL gatherings, indoors festivals begin — again! This festival moves while, it’s hilarious. andD out, some requiring masks and some even from its regularly scheduled pre-COVID DUMBASS DRIVER An Oakhurst woman de- vaccines. programming in June to two days in Septem- O A FedEx driver was delivering a package scribed her bizarre experience at Target. “We ber. Friday’s party includes Galactic featuring to an apartment complex on Wilmington Cute pandemic trends to keep: sanitizer saw a family in Edgewood Target this after- Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph, Voodoo Visionary, Island near Savannah. He drives through a everywhere, six-foot minimum personal noon all with a variety of snakes wrapped Ripe, and The Vegabonds. Saturday is filled grassy area, backs up, hits one car, backs up space, masks, everything cashless and deliv- around their necks. We stopped and stared at with The Infamous Stringdusters, Spafford, again — and hits two trees and a utility pole. ered, and WFH. Plus, let’s thank QR codes for them for a bit because obviously they wanted The Dirty Guv’nahs, Marco Benevento, He- making the comeback of the century, because attention. Is this normal? Were they comfort A police officer arrives and asks the Fed- donistas and Webster. menus were gross long before today’s plague. snakes? How odd.” Ex Driver: Where’s your driver’s license? Taking a train to the Candler Park MAR- There are golden nuggets in the form of free A different woman replied, “My fat ass The driver answered: It’s in my lunch box. TA station is the easiest way to get there, tickets laced throughout this month’s column. read this as snacks.” Take a look. A thank you to the millions of readers out and, for those peddling on two wheels, a free bike valet is being provided by Atlanta Another comment: “Excuse u, this is my So the cop opens the Fed-Ex driver’s

there. VIDEO PHOTO DV Bicycle Coalition. The Candler Park Music emotional support snack necklace.” lunchbox — which contained two empty Tell your favorite sex toy you’re ready to Festival benefits City of Atlanta Parks, At- bottles of Amsterdam vodka. see other people, bc it’s time get back out in Another comment: “There was a reptile lanta ContactPoint and Candler Park neigh- The driver was charged with DUI. the city you love. You might want to find show this weekend.” borhood 501c(3) organizations. those pants you ditched in March 2020 if The first Oakhurst woman replied, “OK, Special hat tip to a new “Friend of The you’ve been Winnie the Poohing it on Zoom. SUN’S OUT, YES, BUNS OUT: September marks the return of Imagine Music Fest, the Golden nugget: First reader to DM CL but do the reptiles need to go to Target after- Blotter” for that one! Bottoms will be required to this month’s of- area’s biggest EDM carnival, this year in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. mentioning free tix to CPMF wins a pair! ward??!” Thanks for reading! fline events. Be mindful of your public neigh- Perhaps the family with snakes around CHECKS AND BALANCES bors, and remember, you don’t have to wait Single day general admission tickets start [the son] into the bathroom,” where the son In addition to the blue Antifa Smurfs, the their necks was just implementing an ex- A new trend in Savannah has emerged in until everything’s “OK” to be happy and enjoy life. Just ask a Republican. at $30. Weekend passes start at $40. Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday, noon. All ages. Candler Park, 1500 was arrested. activists replaced the store’s name, Wildman’s tremely clever social-distancing trick. Just recent weeks. Several people who pay their McLendon Avenue, candlerparkmusicfestival.com @candlerparkmusicfestival @rivalent Deputies contacted the horse’s owner who Civil War Surplus, with the phrase “Respect Disclaimer: The Move does not recommend Twitter in life or in this column. Any @han- think, if everyone wore snakes around their utility bills via snail mail — and put their says his Quarter Horse is valued at $6,500 Existence or Expect Resistance.” dles mentioned below are for Instagram. necks, we’d have this pandemic wrapped up mailbox flag up to signal the postman for SUN., SEPT. 12 and his horse now has a red cut on a front The activist group Indecline, which tar- in no time flat. outgoing mail — have started noticing their leg that was not there before. gets racism and social injustices, is taking EVERY 1ST AND 3RD THURS. Georgia Vintage Goods pop-up market at Atlanta Dairies — Vintage meets the ’90s at this payment checks disappearing from their credit for the caper, calling it a “large-scale AMEN! It’s A Drag Show — AMEN! is Edgewood’s longest running drag show, hitting four pop-up, with 1996 Atlanta Olympic merch all the rage for young collectors — plus, decades be- RIDICULOUS RIDER The 31-year-old son is charged with steal- mailboxes. years strong. If you are one who wishes to pray away the gay, this newly renovated and ex- fore and after! Yes, Y2K fashion is back. All this and more will be on display and up for grabs ing livestock and faces other charges related art installation.” A 31-year-old man stole a horse near the Apparently, suspects are whiting out the panded Church service is mandatory. Every first and third Thursday is hosted by Dotte Com, at the Georgia Vintage Goods pop-up in the gravel lot at Atlanta Dairies. More than 50 vendors to different burglaries and thefts. Wildman’s Civil War Surplus opened in Georgia-South Carolina border and tried to check-writers’ signatures and replacing them JayBella Bankz and TAYLOR ALXNDR. This month, Saliva Godiva and Tuna Fiasco make serving vintage clothes, arts and prints, handmade jewelry, leather goods, and probably some 1971 and sells segregationist and Confederate hide it in a bedroom — not his own bed- with their own names — you know, the real guest appearances. Shows are upstairs and are not ADA accessible. plants and macramé sandwiched in somewhere. memorabilia. room, not even his own home — a bedroom ACTIVIST CAPER names of the criminal suspects. Then, the Atlanta Dairies’ newest tenants include City Champion, Young Blood, Proper Wax, and Free. 21 and up. Doors 11 p.m. Show 11:30 p.m. Sister Louisa’s Church of the Living Room in his dad’s house. Atlanta graffiti activists painted antifa- suspects increase check payment amounts and Ping Pong Emporium, 466 Edgewood Ave. S.E. sisterlouisaschurch.com @sisterlouisasch- Paradiso Plant Shop. As always, there’s Wonderkid for grub. Get a beer at Three Taverns Imagi- to sums just under $2,000 and electroni- How did he got caught? A woman spot- inspired Smurfs outside a controversial Con- REALITY BITES urch @sfqp @tayloralxndr @thedottecom @tunafiasco narium or coffee from Cold Brew and sip in the courtyard outside Atlanta’s newest venue, The cally deposit the checks into their own bank ted the man riding the horse down the coun- federate souvenir shop in Kennesaw. A Georgia surfing instructor says he’s Eastern. Everything’s located on a strip of Memorial Drive you won’t recognize if you haven’t accounts. Stupidly, all the suspects’ names try lane and coaxing the horse into his dad’s “A brick wall atop the Wildman’s Civil “more than lucky” after a shark attacked him FRI., SEPT. 10 visited in a while, conveniently BeltLine adjacent. show up in databases as real people. home in Oconee County, SC. War Surplus store was vandalized with while he was teaching children. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion Screening — Wussy Mag brings another cult- Free. All ages. Noon-6 p.m. Atlanta Dairies, 777 Memorial Drive S.E. what the alleged culprits described as ‘An- Atsushi Yamada owns Hot Sushi’s Happy One Savannah mother inadvertently im- like experience appropriate for the masses. Romy and Michele have remained legends since The son wasn’t even supposed to be in- @georgiavintagegoods @atlantadaires @easternatl @youngbloodboutique @citychampio- tifa Smurfs’ that resemble the blue cartoon Surf Camp Aloha on Tybee Island. He was plicated her own son. The mother noticed a their 1997 debut documenting their journey to their 10-year high school reunion. The opening side his father’s house (police already had nusa @proper.wax @coldbrewbar @wonderkidatl @3timaginarium characters,” according to the Atlanta Journal- on his surfboard helping a student back to pile of mail sitting in her home, but all the scene, mingling fashion and No Doubt’s iconic hit “I’m Just a Girl,” puts you in Romy and Mi- a warrant out for the son’s arrest for other Constitution. shore when a shark bit him on the leg, he mail was addressed to her neighbor. The chele’s unrealistic beachfront apartment. From there, the audience learns what life was like for burglaries). The woman called the cops who FRI., SEPT. 17 — SUN., SEPT. 19 tells WRCB. Yamada tried to stay calm to mother did the kind thing and took the way- a blonde in LA in the late ’90s — exercising in platforms, dieting on gummy worms and candy notified the dad who raced home and met Apparently, the activists did their home- Imagine Music Festival at Bouckaert Farm— A new home for Atlanta’s largest electronic not startle his young students. After paddling ward mail to the female neighbor’s house. corn, and pretending to invent Post-its, all while naturally donning the fashions of the ’80s and authorities there. work to successfully pull off this caper. festival awaits at Bouckaert Farm in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. Ride the experiential wave back to shore, he got a lifeguard to call an The neighbor thanked the mother and men- ’90s — thanks to flashbacks. You may have donated your VHS tapes, but the story is alive and “The father opened the door of the home, About six months ago, the activists pretended of music, art, and camping just 14 miles south of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International ambulance. tioned that her utility payment check was well this month on the silver screen at the Plaza Theatre. to be Civil War buffs and befriended the Airport. Performers over the three days include Fisher, GRIZ, Excision, Illenium, and Liquid and deputies saw horse feces in the living stolen from her mailbox recently. Turns out, 90-year-old owner of Wildman’s Civil War The shark — and its teeth — left three sig- If people talking during movies drives you nuts, do not attend this screening. Crowd par- Stranger. There are a lot of acts, making this experience a wonderful treat for one’s wallet. room,” according to WISTV’s police report. the mother’s son allegedly was the culprit. Surplus, a man named Dent “Wildman” My- nificant gashes on the instructor’s leg, requir- ticipation is encouraged. Brush up on the flick beforehand. You’d hate to be the only one in the “A full-size Quarter Horse was found stand- —CL— VIPs get an exclusive escape to the VIP Club by Oceania, express entry into the venue, ers. The activists allegedly got Myers’ permis- ing several stitches at a local hospital. theatre not quoting its most popular lines! ing in the middle of a bedroom that [the son] private air-conditioned trailer restrooms (if you’ve outgrown the grime) and the privilege to sion to redesign the Confederate store’s mural The Blotter Diva compiles reports from was in.” A full-size Quarter Horse weighs up Yamada is “super duper thankful” that he $15. The film is rated R. 9:30 p.m. Plaza Theatre, 1049 Ponce De Leon Ave. N.E. plazaatlanta. chillax at the lounge or get up close to the main stage with pit-row access. and logo, which features armed Confederate the Atlanta Police Department and local news to 1,200 pounds. was the only one in the water at the time of com wussymag.com @wussymag @plazatlanta soldiers and the store’s name. But owner — and puts them into her own words. The preparty starts Thursday night with the bass ’n Wobble sound of the Belgian duo Ganja A sheriff’s deputy wrote, “The horse ap- the attack. “It [could] have been much, much Myers didn’t know what design they would peared to be calm, and I continued following worse,” he posted on Facebook. See The Move p.13 choose.

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ver Scream Spook Show with Dr. Evil and in which Brumby gets dissected on camera Shane Morton and Madeline Brumby keep Professor Morte together on stage — one of yet again. During the shoot, a hapless by- the all-time highlights.” stander came upon the set just as Brumby, Aiding and abetting Morton in the Spook in the middle of a take, “started screaming scaring people Show, as well as in many other endeavors, is and blood was flying everywhere, scaring the his longtime girlfriend and partner Madeline poor guy half to death,” Morton recalls fond- Perennial horror meisters hosting Silver Scream Spook Show once again Brumby, a scream queen with a bunch of act- ly. The band in the video, Cement Scabies, ing credits whom Morton refers to as Mad. A is a new venture for Morton and features classically trained pianist, vocalist, and danc- drummer Kellii Scott, from LA rockers Fail- so good back then, in 1989. I was in a band KEVIN C. MADIGAN er, Brumby eschewed biology studies in favor ure, and music teacher Laurie Segars Mor- called Something that we put together with he Silver Scream Spook Show is of joining the world of horror entertainment. rison, owner of the Main Street School of the a bunch of SCAD students in Savannah. returning to the Plaza Theatre on Oct. She and Morton met when both worked on Arts in Tucker. Morton also has a band called We moved to Atlanta to become rock stars.” 2 after a long pandemic break. At the an exploitation action-horror film titled Dear The Valkyrie that started out just for fun, he Musicians such as Chris Mills and the band helm as ever will be grand master God No! that premiered in 2011 at the Plaza. says, “but I got really sick of hearing about ShaneT Morton, creator of the long-running Dead Elvis formed part of the scene at the all these kids committing suicide for being Together now for 11 years, Morton calls horror pageant. The theme of the show will shop, Morton recalls. bullied, so a lot of the songs are anti-bullying her “my better half” and “the real brains be based around the 1935 classic film Bride of Morton had what he calls a “truly magi- anthems. We might look like this silly trans- behind the outfit.” He continues, “She can Frankenstein, and the movie itself, the sequel cal childhood” on St. Simons Island after vestite Viking band, but some of the stuff make stuff happen. I can get people together to Frankenstein, will be shown after the live moving there from New York at age five. “St. we’re saying is pretty important.” and get ideas going, but as far as organizing presentation. Simons is a great place for a kid to grow up,” things — without her it wouldn’t be any- Currently, Morton is working on the he recalls. “It’s haunted and weird, with oak A designer, artist, producer, writer, actor, thing.” The pair have since worked together second season of a show for Twitch, a live trees and Spanish moss looming over every- musician, and director, Morton is the man on numerous other projects, such as Dracula: streaming platform for gamers. It’s called thing. People think of it as a vacation spot, behind the Silver Scream FX Lab, a special The Rock Opera, Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse, Clicksport-2 and features a galactic emperor but I think of the spooky oak trees, creepy effects studio in Atlanta that creates all man- Spring Break Zombie Massacre, Frankenstein played by The Walking Dead actor Dan Fo- marshes and ghost stories.” ner of props, masks, monsters, makeup, de- Created Bikers and the hit TV series Your gler, a frequent host of gaming tournaments. signs and other necessities for film, TV, and The classic movie King Kong (1933) made Pretty Face Is Going to Hell. “I designed the characters and all the cos- theater. The laboratory has created haunted a big impression on Morton as a youngster, tumes,” says Morton. “They wanted me to do When we spoke, Morton had just attractions, such as Casa de Muerte (House as did Tony Curtis’ role in Houdini (1953). it because they saw my work in Your Pretty wrapped a music video project titled “Inside” of Death), for Six Flags Over Georgia’s Fright His interest in magic was spurred by Alice Face Is Going to Hell. The Fest and made floats for the Little Five Cooper, whose poster adorned Morton’s producers liked his “wacky Points Halloween Parade and the Atlanta bedroom wall. “I always wanted to perform style” and gave him total ar- Pride Parade. Morton has designed and fabri- as a combination of rock star, magician, and tistic freedom. “I don’t want cated interactive art installations all over the comedian. I figured the Spook Show was the to offend anybody, but I’d just United States. His work can be seen in indie best way to pull it off,” he says. “It’s got a bit gay this thing up. It looks like hits such as Bad Candy,” Sam & Mattie Make of a punk rock quality to it.” [1982 sci-fi thriller] Liquid

Sky meets Ziggy Stardust DASH WARRIOR a Zombie Movie, and Mandy, starring Nico- MEISSNER ASHLEY Further inspiration came from Canadian meets the Power Rangers. las Cage and debuting the infamous Cheddar conjuror James Randi (aka The Amazing These superheroes are all Goblin, a Morton creation that went viral. Randi) and his box trunk illusions. “I had really flamboyant. I would On Adult Swim’s hit show Your Pretty Face super cool parents and always said my child- switch gender roles around Is Going To Hell,” Morton was dubbed art hood was like growing up in the Addams BURNING EMBERS GIVE YOU SO MUCH MORE: When not detailing devious ways to scare and and make them the toughest director of Hell and headed the makeup de- WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL: Professor Morte, a/k/a Shane Morton. Family house. I had access to cool stuff like spook others, Morton and Brumby enjoy taking in Viking Warrior games for relaxation. characters. They let me go partment. Recently, The Suicide Squad used the Famous Monsters magazine. I got to silicone fire safety masks for stunt doubles crazy!” see Ray Harryhausen movies. I was really from a four-month film shoot in Austria and she calls “a cousin of the creature from the designed by Morton. young, and now they’re getting married, giv- thing for me is the kids. It’s got to be funny lucky because there were always imaginative In lieu of this year’s now- already has plans for another horror movie Black Lagoon.” She says the show “is some- ing it [the show] a different angle and a little and kind of spooky, and I keep it pretty For the upcoming Silver Scream Spook things going on in my house.” cancelled Halloween parade to be filmed in Transylvania next May. The thing I’m probably the most proud of. We bit more heart because an actual love story is light. We’ve had some really magical things in Little Five Points, Morton Show, Morton says, “We’ve got some cool Philip Morris, actor, costumer and author Romanian government has given the produc- produce all of it by ourselves and it’s special being played out on stage.” happen, like autistic kids who bring us stop- and his cohorts are throwing illusions and lots of seat-of-your-pants of How to Operate a Successful Haunted tion company permission to shoot inside to the community. Parents can bring their motion LEGOs of Professor Morte.” a monster hunt in the area shenanigans that sometimes turn into acci- Morton’s alter-ego, Professor Morte, will House, also influenced the young Morton. Bran Castle, said to closely fit Bram Stoker’s kids there and they can experience things Morton first performed a version of in late October. The idea is dents. People love to see us make mistakes.” once again emcee the proceedings. He based “He showed you a lot of tricks, like how description of Dracula’s lair. together in a theater setting. I’m so looking his character on famous horror show figures the show on Coney Island in New York — to track down “monsters” Magic tricks and dance routines are indeed to make glow-in-the-dark ghosts,” he says. Other plans for Brumby and Morton in- forward to it!” —CL— rehearsed, but Morton concedes that in the of the past, such as TV host John Zacherle, where it was known as the Phantom Freak stationed all over Little Five “He was one of the top spook show guys clude turning a newly purchased house near SILVER SCREAM SPOOK SHOW pres- past criticism has been leveled at the show actor Ernie Anderson’s fictional character Theatre. It took off in Atlanta after Morton Points and take a selfie with back in the day.” Dr. Evil was the character Stone Mountain that was built in 1840 into a ents The Bride of Frankenstein, Saturday, for its looseness and improvisational nature, Ghoulardi, and actor Glenn Strange, known pitched Jonathan and Gayle Rej, who bought them. Winners of the Mon- Morris created and played onstage and as combination workshop-studio-venue. Oct. 2, at the Plaza Theatre, 1049 Ponce De “but to me that’s the strength of it,” he says. for playing Frankenstein’s monster three the Plaza Theatre in 2006, and they eventu- ster Hunt will receive “a mini horror host on TV long before comedian Leon Avenue N.E. Matinee: doors 1 p.m., ally took him up on the idea of doing live collectible art book” created “In addition to making props and artwork “It keeps things interesting and exciting, and times during the 1940s. Mike Myers appropriated the name for his by Morton, with his own there, we’re going to use it as an alternative show at 1:30 p.m.. Night show: doors at 9:30

shows at the movie house. MEISSNER ASHLEY it’s got a vitality I don’t think it would have “I threw a bit of Sid and Marty Krofft in Austin Powers nemesis. Morris became a original artwork, in the style venue for goth Victorian-type weddings, p.m., show at 10 p.m. SSSS is a 30 minute if it was too rehearsed. It’s got this weird there with a big Witchiepoo nose,” Morton Morton’s first job when he moved to cause célèbre when grainy footage emerged of old iconic horror maga- beautifully staged,” Brumby says. “Think of live stage show filled with magic tricks, awesomeness to it — the same quality that says, “but my favorite part of the Morte Atlanta was creating airbrushed designs for supposedly showing the creature known as zines such as Famous Mon- the graveyard scene in Interview with the dancing girls, jokes, spectacle and frights! an Ed Wood movie has.” character is the stitches that come down his clothing and sold comic books at T-Shirt Bigfoot stomping through snow while look- sters of Filmland, Creepy and Vampire — nicely stylized in that vein.” Tickets available at the door:$12 adults, $8 A proper wedding will take place during face that are all taken from Glenn Strange.” Dragnet, an off-shoot of Wax ‘N’ Facts co- ing over his shoulder. “That’s a Philip Morris its sister publication Eerie. children 12 and under. plazaatlanta.com the show with a real minister officiating — The Spook Show is in essence for kids, or at owned by Dan Beard and Harry DeMille. costume. Over the years we became friends BETWEEN THE RIGHT AND WRONG: Madeline Brumby (right) In the Silver Scream Spook Show, Morton himself. “These two kids have been least the matinee is. The evening show tends “That was my introduction to Atlanta — until he passed away. We actually did a Sil- keeps a close watch on Shane Morton. Morton recently returned Brumby plays a ghoul named Guna whom coming to the show since they were really to be a bit more blue, he warns, “but the real Little Five Points. The local music scene was See Spook Show p.12

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IN THE CITY LITTLE FIVE POINTS: Memory eternal The same GOING OUT? Blind Willie McTell and Ofc. Gregory L. Davis remembered great ‘Loafing’ content, WE KNOW TONY PARIS To fund the massive undertaking, engraved bricks are now being sold to be placed around the mosaic, in its new perma- orty-five years ago, when Wax N Facts first nent home and place of honor. opened in Little Five Points, L5P really now delivered was five points, that is, a point where August also marked an anniversary for the area WHERE TO EAT five streets converged with each other, formerly known as Seminole Plaza. It was 33 years straight to Fjust like Five Points in downtown Atlanta. Euclid ago Aug. 26, 1988, that Atlanta Police Department Of- IN ATLANTA and Moreland Avenues criss-crossed, and Seminole ficer Gregory L. Davis was shot and killed in Seminole Avenue met them at the point. Plaza while in the line of duty. Officer Davis stopped a your ears! man on a bicycle to question him about a series of night-

In the ‘80s, as other business owners began to fol- ASSOCIATION BUSINESS POINTS FIVE LITTLE time burglaries in the Little 5 Points area. Davis did not low Danny Beard and Harry DeMille’s lead and open realize the suspect was also wanted in the murder of a college stores in the neighborhood, foot traffic became heavier, student that occurred three nights earlier in the plaza. The sus- and Seminole Avenue was blocked off, with the street pect pulled out a gun and shot Davis in the chest. Though fatally HOW TO LISTEN IN: diverted into a parking lot, and Seminole Plaza established wounded, Davis managed to shoot and kill the suspect. along what used to be Seminole Avenue. The adjacent Findley Plaza — named after John and Elizabeth Findley, who ran Findley’s Not too long after, Davis’ > Go to CL Radio on Hardware Store in L5P from the 1930s to nearly 1980 — was also memory, bravery, and friend- created to divert traffic and to lend a somewhat park-like atmosphere ship to the community was creativeloafing.com to the area. honored with Seminole Plaza be- ing renamed Gregory L. Davis Pla- Few remember that a mosaic of the itinerant Atlanta bluesman Blind za. It is the only public space named Willie McTell was once located in Findley Plaza, surrounded by a black > Subscribe to in honor of a fallen police officer in the wrought iron fence. If you’ve ever wondered why that fence appears to sur- City of Atlanta. “Creative Loafing Atlanta” round an empty patch of ground for no reason, now you know. BORN TO DIE: DEPARTMENT POLICE ATLANTA OF CITY In 1988 police officers were not issued on Apple podcasts Recently, the mosaic, which has been in storage for decades, was relocated and The newly- bullet proof vests. The shooting of Officer restored outside the Little Five Points Center for Arts and Community (L5PCAC), restored Blind Willie McTell Davis brought the need for vests to the 1083 Austin Ave N.E. Jason Johnson, the original artist, who used to be a resident of mosaic. public’s eye. It also highlighted the need for L5P, was commissioned to return from to the neighborhood from his current home in > Search for “Creative the State to provide educational funding for Perugia, Italy, to oversee and complete the project. fallen officers’ children. After the event 33 years ago, Loafing Atlanta” on Johnson has engaged in kintsugi, the ancient Japanese technique art of mosaic repair, where- the Little 5 Points Business Association, together SoundCloud, or where by the work is mended with with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold. According to a with the surrounding communities, raised money press release distributed by Kelly Stocks, a member of the Little Five Points Business Associa- to purchase bulletproof vests for all Atlanta police you get your podcasts tion, “Kintsugi advocates embracing the flawed or the imperfect, and sees breaks and repairs as officers. —CL— REMEMBERED: Ofc. Gregory L. Davis. part of the history of an object which adds value and is not something to be hidden.”

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this stuff. It tastes like homemade Thousand MORE ‘CUE: Speaking of barbecue, the Island salad dressing to me. Collier Road favorite, DAS BBQ, has opened GRAZING: Barbecue on my mind I got two sides — collards and hushpuppies. a second location on Memorial Drive in Grant The former were mild, slippery, and country- Park. The pandemic has crushed most restau- Rodney Scott’s Whole Hog is just that! good; I resisted hitting them with the vinegar rants, especially new ones, and I know this sec- sauce. The hushpuppies were stunning, semi- ond location will improve, but it’s got a ways to go. I’ve been twice. The most disconcerting CLIFF BOSTOCK general culinary culture as well as its barbecue their restaurant in Hemingway, South Carolina, factor. The “Other” is made with apple-cider sweet orbs of crunchy cornmeal. My server told me I needed to put honey-butter on them. thing has been the pulled pork sandwich. You fixation. (Last month I wrote about Netflix’s where he worked for 25 years, starting when vinegar and adds a natural, but not too overt, order at the counter and the sandwich instantly ith the exception of fried She asked me if I’d ever tried it there before. I series on this subject, High on the Hog, hosted he was 11. The process is very much like the sweetness. The next, “Kathy’s,” exhausted me. appears, already wrapped, pulled from a bank chicken, nothing Southerners said no and she said, “Well, I’m going to stand by Atlantan Stephen Satterfield. It has been one I observed frequently in rural Georgia in It’s ketchupy, tomato-based, and way too sweet of refrigerator-sized warming cabinets. Both put in their mouths evokes as here and watch the look on your face when renewed for a second season.) the ’70s. The splayed pigs were dry-rubbed for my bitter mouth. My server told me Scott visits, the sandwiches have been super dry much nostalgia as barbecue. you taste it.” I smiled as best I know how to, The new restaurant is an open, airy, but also basted with each pitmaster’s person- was “experimenting” with it because, um, well, with the meat glued to the bread. The brisket WIt doesn’t matter where I sit down to eat it, I which is not well, but the overall sweetness windowed space far from the cliché of the ally concocted sauce. The coals or wood were that’s what a lot of people like around here. I’d was fatty-good the first visit, but dry as hell remember road trips around North Carolina was enough to completely derail my earlier Southern ramshackle joint with wood walls moved around, sometimes splashed with wa- call it Kansas City style. The fourth sauce is on the second. Sides have been mainly good, with my father, stopping at one ’cue shack after plans to order the banana pudding. decorated with cartoon portraits of happy pigs ter, to distribute the heat at different intensities an Alabama-style white. I’ve never understood although, the Brunswick stew, yet again, was another. I remember waking up every Friday while the lard dripped constantly. The skin was It is difficult to express again, like last bound for slaughter and jigsaw portraits of distressingly dry. Collards were homey, and the BOSTOCK CLIFF morning to the smoke of roadside barbecue Jesus (although I admit liking the latter at the charred. The most amazing thing to me was month, how personally affected I am by this cheesy creamed corn was rich. My dining com- pits fired up for the weekend throughout rural old Harold’s). There are two dining rooms and that when you stepped up to order, you were country’s reckoning with racism. When I lived panion actually managed to spend $40 on his Georgia where I edited weekly newspapers a porch, a bar, a view of the kitchen and its usually given a choice of which meat of the pig in Elberton during my five-year stint inside meal of brisket and a couple of sides. Weirdly, in my early twenties. I remember moving to unusual airconditioned pit area. There’s a front you wanted, and it would be pulled from the a Faulkner novel, my boss dragged me nearly the restaurant was out of single serving con- Houston and reeling when all the barbecue CHE BUTTER JONEZ: The popular food truck now has a brick and mortar location at 757 counter where you order, although there’s a pig as you watched. Usually, I ordered mixed every Friday to a barbecue joint in the woods tainers, and we ended up with pint-sized ones seemed to be brisket. (Who knew you could meat and begged for some of the crisp skin. whose walls were covered with photos and Cleveland Ave., south of the airport, that you need to visit. This is the shrimp full staff of educated servers, meaning they can priced with bad math. On the way out of the fries and “that shit slambing,” more commonly known as a smashed lamb burger. Owned barbecue corned beef?) There was and always (Meanwhile the crew also cooked chickens explain the worth of the barbecue gold they are campaign literature in support of Alabama building — through the smokers — an em- by an “Occupy” activist whose Che Butter nickname honors both Che Guevara and shea will be the horror — the horror! — of barbe- putting on your table. whose feet they sold. I refused to believe any- governor George Wallace’s openly racist presi- ployee asked how our meal was and we com- butter, the restaurant is the first place I’ve ever eaten with Cornel West looking cue sauce that is ketchup doctored with an one ate them.) dential bid. Black customers were not allowed plained. He immediately fell into apology and over my shoulder while a PhD candidate studying mega-church power dynamics chatted eyedropper of vinegar and a cup of sugar. The menu surprised me. It goes way be- inside, but, incredibly, they nonetheless lined me up. I’ll clue you in further next month. In the meantime, consult their website yond barbecue and includes fried catfish and I’ve only tried the pulled whole-hog pork at said he was going to give us a coupon. We said (chebutterjonez.com) or FB page (@chezbutterjonez) before visiting. Hours can be We would all be happier if we could just sit up at a takeout window. Back at the paper, I chicken tenders, wings, burgers, a steak sand- Scott’s. I ordered the plate, instead of the open- “no.” He raced away to fetch it, and we raced to irregular. down to a plate of barbecue like the Buddha — asked our only Black employee — the janitor, wich, big salads, and loaded baked potatoes, face sandwich because I wanted two sides the car. The sauces here are intriguing. There’s put aside our memories and eat with curiosity, of course — how to explain that. He laughed here called “tater trucks.” Go ahead and order instead of one. The sandwich comes topped a mustard-based one that contains peaches and CLIFF BOSTOCK CLIFF FOOD MEDIA: Do you hate Twitter? I to Bourdain, but it’s also moving to hear her sampling each bite as if it were our first ever, with pig skins and I was disappointed that the and said, “I guess they like the barbecue.” I said, a more conventional red spiked with espresso any of that — it all gets good reviews at the have a reason for you to love it. Christiane chatting with her super-foodie father, giving a om-ing while we nom nom. I hoped I could do plate’s meat did not. The pulled pork itself was, “You mean it’s just the way it’s always been.” but mainly presents strong notes of Worces- other two restaurants in Birmingham and Lauterbach (@xianechronicles), the longtime perfect example of the meaning of her podcast that when I headed to Rodney Scott’s Whole I’ll admit, a bit on the dry side. I’m happiest He smiled. About 10 years later, I took Larry tershire sauce. I’m most mystified why a new Charleston — but your attention should really Atlanta Magazine dining critic and publisher name. And, speaking again about barbecue, she Hog BBQ a few weeks after it opened in the when barbecue doesn’t depend too much on Ashmead, the executive editor of HarperCol- barbecue joint would open next to Daddy D’z. be directed to the pit-cooked meats that have of Knife & Fork, has been tweeting prolifi- interviewed the Fox Bros. on June 24. —CL— West End, across from the MET complex, but I heavy shots of sauce at the table because they lins, on a road trip to the three towns where I … I’ve been addicted to Wednesday’s Cuban made Scott a superstar. There are sandwiches ANOTHER BREAKTHROUGH: After winning cally there. I’m talking 7,811 comments in a already knew too much. Scott’s original restau- can rob the meat of its own flavor. Then again, the 2018 James Beard award for worked those five years. I was most anxious sandwich special at Wood’s Chapel BBQ for Rodney Scott’s Whole Hog BBQ, 588 Met- and plates of pork, chicken, turkey, spareribs, year. Sometimes, she’ll fire off five or six a day rant is in Charleston, South Carolina, and he I was anxious to sample Scott’s four sauces. best chef in the Southeast, Rodney for him to see the barbecue joint. We walked in the last few months. Happily, it’s on the regular ropolitan Parkway, 678-855-7377, rodneyscotts- and brisket. The go-to choice is of course the and not just about food. That’s the good part. won the James Beard award for best chef in the The original, “Rodney’s Sauce,” was by far my Scott has now released a cookbook, and the man at the counter was Black. He was menu now. Unfortunately, the last two times bbq.com whole hog pork sandwich or plate. But why? co-authored by Lolis Eric Elie. Christiane is hilarious and smart, and Twit- Southeast in 2018. He just published Rodney favorite, made principally with vinegar and now the owner of the place. I told him what I I’ve gone to get one, they’ve not had any. When ter gives you a bigger taste of her. … Jennifer Das BBQ, 350 Memorial Dr., 404-850-7373, Scott’s World of BBQ: Recipes and Perspectives Understand that when you order barbecue spicy seasonings — the kind I grew up with in had seen there 10 years ago. He said plaintively, I asked why the second time, a staffer told me, Zyman (@JenniferZyman) continues hosting dasbbq.com from the Legendary Pitmaster with co-writer at the average restaurant, you’re usually getting North Carolina. We had lots of family in South “Things change.” It’s true, but for many, racism “We ran out.” I resisted saying, “Make more,” her podcast, The Food that Binds (available Wood’s Chapel BBQ, 85 Georgia Ave., 404- Lolis Eric Elie. Both achievements are part of meat smoked for a long period from a particu- Carolina, and I was surprised not to find any just got politer and now has resurfaced in all and ordered some cornbread. “Sorry we ran everywhere). I especially loved her June 23 522-3000, woodschapelbbq.com the very late recognition of the primary role lar cut of the pig. Scott pit-cooks the entire of the mustard-based sauce I remember eating its brutal forms. Rodney Scott and countless out.” The good news is that they’ve opened a episode about Anthony Bourdain. She is joined of Black chefs in the formation of America’s pig for hours more, just as his family did at there. The next two sauces amp up the sweet others are exhibiting the futility of hate. second location at Krog Street Market. by her father Sergio Zyman. They pay homage CLIFF BOSTOCK CLIFF @XIANECHRONICLES

THE SPECTRUM OF SWEETNESS: Please, CLIFF BOSTOCK CLIFF BOSTOCK CLIFF go for Rodney’s. It’s his own BOSTOCK CLIFF CLIFF BOSTOCK CLIFF CLIFF BOSTOCK CLIFF take on the Carolinas’ traditional vinegar-based sauce. If you insist SHE TWEETS LIKE MAD: Christiane on a sauce that will remind you of Lauterbach, our city’s most the stuff your mama dumped out of a infamous critic, has tweeted Hunt’s bottle, get the Kathy’s. The DAS SMOKEHOUSE: On your way out, take a I LIKE IT!: It’s something of DAS BBQ: Pulled pork, Brunswick stew, and cheesy over 7,000 times in the YOUR SHARE OF A WHOLE HOG: Great taste, a little dry, but a IT’S NOT A SHACK: The front dining room of Rodney Scott’s, where Other is a little of both and the look at the equipment. an acquired taste, but DAS BBQ’s creamed corn. last year. Go experience her sauce will take care of that. Don’t miss the hushpuppies with you order or pick up your share of the whole hog. The adjacent White is stuff they eat in Alabama tangy mustard sauce depends on unfiltered Parisian mind, honey-butter, unless you plan to have dessert. Collards rock. dining room is just as large and there’s outdoor space too. where mayo is apparently king. peaches for its sweet notes. @xianechronicles.

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out with some government paperwork for the pandemic unemployment assistance,” Daly says, recalling how the two first met in Jonny Daly and ‘The Low Level Hum’ the early days of COVID-19. “I noticed online he was playing guitar and singing, doing Surrounded by musical allies, prolific Atlanta guitarist launches his first solo project some Lou Reed thing. Since we were talking already he asked if I’d be willing to record a song by Reed. I said, ‘Why don’t we just do a KEVIN C. MADIGAN whole record?’” uitarist Jonny Daly used to be Slow Peel was recorded remotely, with a full-on punk rocker. Living in all the musicians submitting their tracks New York in his late teens, he got through Dropbox. “I was in the studio doing to see the Ramones at a small club my stuff and I said, ‘You get the cast of peo- inG Port Chester in 1978, which was a life- ple, call whoever you want, and I’ll just put it changing experience. But that wasn’t his first together for you.’ It was pretty easy. Some of exposure to rock ’n’ roll. the stuff they sent over was absolutely amaz- ing. It was a lot of fun and took no effort Growing up in Miami, it was classic rock. whatsoever.” Bassist Lee Kennedy and singer Daly would steal his older sister’s records Halley O’Malley, two of Daly’s Hum cohorts, and play them incessantly: the first Hendrix participated in the recording of Slow Peel. album, the first couple of Doors albums, Steppenwolf, the first two Chicago records, So did ex-Uncle Green drummer Peter Led Zeppelin, and other staples of the ’60s McDade, who plays in Beastie Y’all and in and early ’70s. “I was a beach rat and a jock Melancon’s band The New Insecurities, and until I picked up a guitar. (Then) I wanted to with whom Daly has just completed an- be Jimmy Page.” other venture. Now also a novelist, McDade wrote The Weight of Sound and will have a But after seeing the Ramones, it was second book out next year. “He likes to do all over. Daly took a stab at writing songs,

MIKE MORELL MIKE soundtracks for the songs that are involved briefly adopted the moniker Jonny D, and with the fictional bands he’s writing about,” formed his first punk band after moving to Daly says. “That was me and Pete and his for- Dallas, Texas, in 1982. “It was me singing, and mer (Uncle Green) bandmate Jeff Jensen, so it was awful,” he recalls. “I think the writing that’s done. I’m just waiting for Pete to get his left a lot to be desired as well. It flew because CAPTURING THE LOW LEVEL HOME: Jonny Daly during the recording of his first solo album. book deal finished.” it was punk — so who cares?” mother being fully coherent inside her brain is the other side of “Rage.” The first line is Daly. Kirkpatrick, who many know from his Unsurprisingly, Daly is juggling a bunch Much has changed since then. Daly, now but not being able to express herself through from “Sympathy for the Devil” — ‘I’m a man blistering guitar work for the blues rock band of projects at the moment. Up-and-coming 61, is well established as a session musician, the filter of her disease. She’s screaming on of wealth and taste’ — which Daly explains Hydra in the ’70s, and now works at Atlanta Americana band Boxcar Radio has an album arranger, composer, and producer in Atlanta DALY JONNY the inside, saying ‘can’t you hear me, can’t you is the emotion of evil speaking to the per- Vintage Guitars, has been a frequent visitor in the works, as does Julie Gribble. “She’s a who works in multiple styles of music with hear me?’ She can’t express that; all she can son that it inhabits. “The last line about the to Daly’s studio for years, playing on numer- singer-songwriter I’ve known for a few years. players of all kinds. In recent years he has say is ‘I don’t know you.’ It’s written from her helter-skelter at your door is a (Charles) Man- ous sessions. “He floors me; he’s so good and She’s a cool writer with a great voice like worked with, among others, rootsy foursome standpoint.” son reference. How much more evil can you so humble,” says Daly. “He’d play a track that Natalie Merchant — nice and husky,” he says. Right as Rain, “online experiment” Beastie IN THE STUDIO: Jonny Daly (inset) at home. get?” In the song, McGee quotes a line from a would leave my jaw on the ground, then he’d Playing bass and harmonica on Gribble’s re- Y’all, indie folk-pop ensemble Kim Ware He adds, “That was a piece of music that poem by D.H. Lawrence: “We are mostly un- look up at me over his glasses and ask, ‘Was cord is Robin Vincent, known as Rob before and the Good Graces, LA singer-songwriter I’ve had kicking around, and no one I pre- leased first solo album, is one which he pro- acts with the emotions that we have. When song is about the day I received news from explored hinterland, and our consciousness is that okay?’” transgendering. “The talent that emanates Nancy Gardos, Paul Melancon & The New sented it to knew what to do with it. They duced, composing all of the music and writ- we’re excited, the hum gets faster and louder home of my nephew’s suicide. It’s the shock, a spot of light in a great but living darkness.” from her is incredible,” says Daly. “We will Insecurities, a Denali offshoot called Am- were baffled because they’re stuck in the The 2019 album Songs For Spencer Vol. 1 ing most of the lyrics. For him it’s a deeply in pitch. It’s like (German physicist Winfried) it’s the gut punch, the questioning of why. work together again.” Another singer, Deca- bulette, Rob Vincent & the Accents, and whole Western formula of song composition. The Low Level Hum features a further was created by Daly for Kirkpatrick without personal work. The songs reflect difficulties Schumann’s theory of an electromagnetic eon Every time something senseless occurs the tur-based Mike Killeen, is in the pipeline too. “rock chick” Sheila Green (formerly known I completely am not.” array of talented veterans from Atlanta’s his direct knowledge. Daly explains: “I had in his life and the losses he endured during that develops a hum; the hum is persistent question is ‘why?’” Charles Walston, formerly with The Vidalias, as Lynsey Moon), whose album Anemoia he Chandler McGee, formerly of The Law music scene. Kenny Creswell (Brand New no way of paying him back. His profile was the year of the pandemic. Daly addresses, and lower in volume but deeper in its reso- will have an album produced by Daly in the produced and on which he plays practically Daly produced Cargal’s 2019 album $7 Band, tackles the vocals on two of the al- Immortals, Butch Walker) plays drums on low and he was always talking about needing among other upheavals, the sudden death of nance, therefore it acknowledges that sadness coming months. “He’s got a whole lot more every instrument. and Change, the title referencing the fatal bum’s songs. Sung with vehement brutality, two tracks, and Paul Barrie (Donkey, Cigar work, so I got a bunch of writer friends of a young relative, his mother’s mental decline, that we feel.” life experience now, since The Vidalias. He mugging in 2003 of “lost friend” Christian “Rage” is another “sonic personification of an Store Indians) plays them on four; Phil Skip- mine and they came over and recorded songs. These days he plays onstage with Ameri- and his own struggles with alcohol. sees the world differently and he writes a Daly no longer tries to sing. ”I’m just not a Henderson for the meager sum of cash in his emotion,” according to Daly. “When you feel per (Gracie Moon, Tinsley Ellis, Chris Stalcup Then I would have Spencer come over and cana band Jackson County Line, featuring lot. He needs to be recorded and documented Why that title? “Each one of these songs singer, but I’ve worked with great, great sing- pocket. Cargal is the frontman for Blackfox, rage, it’s just chaos. You can’t make heads or and the Grange) plays fretless bass, and James play on top of them, not knowing it was for euphonic vocalist Kevin Jackson. “That’s my represents a universal emotion as it relates ers. I’ve been happy to take a backseat role,” a band whose output is described as “golden Hall (Mary My Hope, Pleasure Club The La- him, so it was a bit of a surprise when I sent right now.” main gig, really,” Daly says, speaking on the tails out of anything.” McGee was perfect for to my experiences of the past year,” he says. he says. Kevin Jackson sings on the record, country greats, played backwards for the dies of …) does a fine, tender trumpet solo on him the whole album on SoundCloud. I said Talking about himself and his vast output phone from Freedom of Sound, his home that, Daly says. “He is the essence of rage in “Those emotions also have a hum, so each along with Stacey Cargal, Chandler McGee, devil” on its Facebook page. Daly plays guitar “Peaceful Dream,” a song near the end of the ‘Spencer, this is your record. Do with it what seems egocentric to him, Daly claims. “I’m studio in Marietta. “I like it because it’s that song,” adding, “Chandler is really intense, one has a start point — which is the hum —- Trappers Cabin, Miles Landrum, and Halley on the band’s well-received second album La record that Daly describes as “a brief respite you will.’” The assembled songwriters who not that way at all. I just keep busy because grown-up music. I’m not trying to be a teen- like a modern-day Jim Morrison by way of and you can hear it; it’s audible all through O’Malley. What does he look for in a singer? Brea, and the two men are now collaborating and escape from reality” in his liner notes. contributed to Songs For Spencer were Car- I love doing what I do. These are all friends ager or a 20-something guitar basher. It’s a Rob Zombie.” the song. Some of them have less of a hum, “A good tone and emotional quality; the abil- on an electronic project that will also feature gal, Jackson, Skipper, Chris Edmonds, Philip of mine, and I have a studio in my house. I little more cerebral to me. I can play the way The other song on which McGee is fea- Guitarist Spencer Kirkpatrick plays on but they all have a sound that correlates with ity to not be afraid in front of a mic; someone Blackfox’s Ryan Taylor. Buchanan, Zoenda McIntosh, and longtime figured out a way to get people to come to I want to play and include effects and sounds tured, “Heartless Place,” is about resentment. that song as well. Kirkpatrick first got no- the theme of the album as a whole.” who can project what they’re singing about,” Creative Loafing scribe James Kelly, frontman me, outside the perimeter. At this age I’m as warranted by the song itself. There’s free- Cargal and Taylor are both on a stark “As an alcoholic, resentment is very evil to ticed as a local musician decades ago. When Daly offers. “As it pertains to this record, I of Slim Chance & The Convicts. afforded the time and perhaps the luxury of dom in that, plus we have a cello player, and He continues: “The Low Level Hum was a Hum track called “Requiem,” with the latter us because it chips away at the foundation of The Beatles performed at the Atlanta Sta- picked singers who best suited the song, like being able to do this for the years we have it’s pretty incredible to play along with the concept in my head a year ago. I thought, like playing synths and piano. “It’s about my mom, our sobriety if we allow it. To have resent- dium on August 18, 1965, the winner of a Another album Daly made for a friend the guy who sings ‘March Two Nine.’ That left on the planet. We still have something to cello and back up a singer like Kevin.” we all do, about existential life and the crises who suffered from dementia, and it’s pretty ment towards a partner or a partnership ... local battle-of-the-bands contest won a spot was Slow Peel by Chris Chandler & The was Stacey Cargal; I thought he would be offer.” —CL— that we face. I discovered the hum basically evident through Stacey’s spoken word,” Daly it eats you up.” Daly says “Heartless Place” to open the show. “It was Spencer’s band (The Mercenaries, a 2020 remake of The Velvet The Low Level Hum, Daly’s recently-re- connects the brain and the heart and inter- perfect for what I was trying to convey. That acknowledges. “I had this concept of my Atlanta Vibrations) that won that slot,” says Underground’s debut LP. “Chris helped me 20 · SEPTEMBER 2021 · creativeloafing.com SEPTEMBER 2021 · creativeloafing.com · 21 22 23

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HAL HOROWITZ t really shouldn’t be a big deal to have a CLUB concert dedicated to women playing the blues. After all, they have a storied his- I tory in the genre dating back to 1920. That’s when Mamie Smith is credited with “Crazy Blues,” reportedly the first female blues recording. After she got her foot in the door, others such as Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Lucille Bogan and of course Bessie Smith soon made their way through it. The list of famous, sometimes infamous, blues women is too long to list, but highlights FOR include Big Mama Thornton, Nina Simone, 2 1 Billie Holiday and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. In more contemporary roots music, there is Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Susan Tedeschi — TABLE you get the idea. Even locally, the blues scene boasts plenty of talent with the late Beverly “Guitar” Wat- DANCES kins as one of Atlanta’s most prominent and gifted players. Others, such as Francine Reed SPECIAL SET and the city’s own Empress of the Blues, EVERY HOUR Sandra Hall, have kept the female fires stoked on the Atlanta blues map for decades. Still, having an entire evening featuring only lo- cal women not just fronting blues bands but also working as supporting musicians is BILL THAMES BILL something we, and virtually every other city, severely lacks. At least that’s what George Klein, co- coordinator of the Atlanta Blues Society POUR SOME ‘SUGA’ ON IT: The multitalented Diane Durrett leads her Soul Suga band. (ABS), felt back in early 2019. He composed a list of 20 women, all members of the Atlanta have done in their career.” is 18 to seniors.” The venue is now outdoors Not surprisingly, things are slightly differ- Blues Society, who played every instrument The result, Women in Blues — the three- due to pandemic precautions, and there is no ent in 2021 due to pandemic pressures, but (except harmonica). “The initial concept was hour Sunday afternoon gig in June, 2019 — admission charge. Durrett is working on videotaping the event to highlight women who don’t get a lot of was a huge, sold-out success. Participants in- Durrett wants to honor historic blues to save it for posterity, something that didn’t recognition because they’re in a band full cluded obvious choices like Donna Hopkins, women, like Koko Taylor and Etta James, as happen in 2019. The prospects of this being of guys,” he told me. Klein also realized he Hall and Durrett along with less known lo- well as “newcomers,” like Bonnie Raitt, with a biannual event instead of just once a year is wasn’t qualified to put together a concert of cals, such as Melissa Junebug, Kiana Gibson, performers covering the classics. But she en- also a possibility. women in blues. Sandra Senn, Carly Gibson, Fuji Fujimoto, courages the acts to include original material Those expecting a loose-knit jam or That’s when Diane Durrett entered the Tamara Nicolai and Kathie Holmes. Even Liz as well to keep the presentation fresh. a backline with a variety of lead women picture. Melendez, who had taken a break from play- Many of the same names from 2019’s should be aware that it’s a much more or- Klein knew she had her own band, toured ing to go back to school, made an appearance. event will appear again, with Hall likely ganized, and varied, gig. “I wanted to be extensively, and had enough contacts through Everyone was ready for the concert in 2020 headlining. But, as of press time, the roster able to showcase the other instruments that various organizations to pull together a qual- … before the pandemic took away that op- was still in flux. All the players Durrett in- women play. We perform different songs, ity show. He also didn’t want to micromanage tion. vited to perform at the first event showed but it’s a structured event where people play the project, so he provided the budget (ABS Women in Blues is planned to return Oct. up “as long as they were available.” Since with different groups. It’s not a jam,” Durrett fronted the money) and turned her loose. “I’m 15 of this year, not at Blind Willie’s as initially that late afternoon Sunday show was so well says emphatically, “You’re gonna get a show!” OPEN NOON UNTIL 3AM • MONDAY - SATURDAY happy that they contacted me because I really scheduled (thanks to the recent surge in CO- received, Durrett is expecting the same level —CL— respect the ladies who are doing blues and VID-19 cases), but at Tunes by the Tracks in of participation. Still, there is limited time Women in Blues, presented by the Atlanta 2075 PIEDMONT RD, ATLANTA, 30324 • TATTLETALEATLATLANTA.COM roots here,” explains Durrett. “I wanted it [the the city of Stone Mountain. And, yes, Durrett and budget, so she has to make the final call. Blues Society and curated by Diane Durrett. show] to be where you could hear something will be back at the helm. It will be another There aren’t rehearsals, but each act comes Friday, Oct. 15, 7-9 p.m. Tunes by the Tracks, about each player, not just the lead person diverse, three-hour extravaganza. “It’s all pro- prepared with songs submitted in advance to the municipal parking lot, Stone Mountain VIP SHUTTLE SERVICE • 404-392-1445 — what they have been doing and what they fessional women,” she says. “The age range prevent duplication. Village. Free. For Your Safety, We’re Following All CDC Recommended Cleaning & Disinfecting Guidelines.

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part of getting the rebirth fully underway be- partial blame for his debut’s performance. rated virtually with ATL UNTRAPPED: cause I was like, ‘You people like this type of Jerome Raheem Fortune was his only release Kody Nielson from The rebirth of Rome Fortune music from me? Alright, Imma drop a song on a label, and he confesses that his frustra- Unknown Mortal like this.’ But honestly, I can’t duplicate any- tions surrounding the album were originally Orchestra. The psy- Five years after his life-changing debut album, Rome Fortune looks inward once more. thing I do because I’m not in that same space directed at Fool’s Gold. chedelic rock drum- in life, mentally. So then I get confused, and “It was a one-album deal, so they didn’t mer would send him you get confused, and it’s like — alright, stop. have so much skin in the game,” Fortune material to which JOSHUA ROBINSON 27-year-old, Atlanta artist, and the music was Just do what you want to do.” admits. “Granted, I will give them this, I’m Fortune would add his simply a reflection of his perspective. While ideas. The month-long ome Fortune is in a world of his On another level, Jerome Raheem Fortune an artist in the purest form. I will switch my there was an underlying sense of optimism Caribbean respite also own. At the Goat Farm Arts Cen- was literally a sonic encapsulation of his shit up a million times. The track list will coursing through the album’s tracks, For- rekindled Rome’s cre- ter in West Midtown, the shirtless life story. Artists are known to get sensi- change, the vibe will change, everything will tune’s, at times, harrowing and bleak subject ative spark. He credits artist sits at a desk positioned tive about their work, but given that some change. Originally, the project I was want- matter added a significant weight to the “having a different set Rnear the corner of his personal studio, sport- albums are much more personal than oth- ing to do with them was more like dance, record. Beyond all the artsy and experimental ers, criticism sometimes stings more than it groovy, club shit — their specialty.” of eyes” on him there ing a fluffy yellow bucket hat and dark blue beats, Fortune’s self-titled debut was, at its probably should. Fortune attests to the men- as the latest source of denim. The modest-sized room is spacious core, an honest translation of his life onto As fate would have it, Fortune was un- tal turmoil that he experienced following the his inspiration. enough to welcome friends, collaborators and wax. able to force himself to create that type of guests, yet small enough to still feel intimate. release of his debut. album, and what he delivered in the end was Returning to this On the first track, he proclaims, “I’ve got There is a monitor, an assortment of speakers “It really messes you up, especially when an eclectic and avant-garde hip-hop record. city after the break, to take it all the way / Bloody and limping and other studio equipment atop his desk. the music is so synonymous with who you As time has passed, Fortune accepts the situ- Fortune settled I’m getting it all,” and then immediately airs The rest of the space is filled with eye-catch- are,” he says. “If it was just a persona that I ation for what it was, seeing it as a “real, real into his new space, all his troubles for the world to stream. De- ing art installations and paintings from the created and that was its story, it wouldn’t re- valuable learning experience.” But his rough Romey’s Homies. In spite the many personal accounts of struggle likes of Markeidric Walker and Jair Salgado. ally affect me. But this is really my life you label experience coupled with his dissatisfac- an equally profound housed in that album’s 11 tracks — from Yet one of the most striking aspects about talking about. That stuff fucks you up be- tion with the Jerome Raheem Fortune recep- move, he also got to missing his child’s first steps while on tour the entire scene is the yellow accent wall on cause if you have a certainty in yourself, the tion opened up wounds that weren’t quick work building his to questioning his sanity during an intense the far side of the room. confidence stays, but you start questioning to heal. new team. In light of cocaine bender — Jerome Raheem Fortune certain things within yourself. It’s people’s his decision to be less It’s acutely reminiscent of the cover concludes with a bruised, yet persevering, Rather than heading straight into record- responsibility to know that the words that shielded and secluded, art for his self-titled, debut, studio album, artist limping away as the dust clears. With ing a second album, Fortune saw himself they say add weight, but it’s also the artist’s he speaks of how which came coated in a deep dandelion hue. the final track, Fortune convinces himself, as back at square one — mainly because the responsibility to expect it when we step into crucial it is to do self- Released via indie powerhouse Fool’s Gold well as the listener, that he will soon find his album he thought could have been a GRAM- this.” inventory and firmly Records on Feb. 26, 2016, Jerome Raheem way, regardless of the circumstances. MY-nominated debut and widely regarded understand what you WALKER JAREL Fortune celebrates its five-year anniversary In addition to learning how to prevent work of art turned into something more akin Little did Fortune know, his journey to need. this year. And there’s no place more suitable criticism from negatively affecting his to a placement exam. As Fortune puts it, find his way was just beginning. Upon its than right here, the Atlanta artist’s vibrant psyche, Fortune also says he had to get to having to start over again “was like going to “I got crazy trust release, his debut received generally positive creative space, to discuss his artistic journey a point where he could look back and take school.” After being so heavily dependent on issues, and that’s an reviews from critics, but it didn’t achieve over the past five years. his business partnerships, the Atlanta understatement,” For- SELF-PORTRAIT: Rome Fortune has a gift for turning his life much commercial success. Seeing the early tune explains. “But I into lyrics. One of the first things that Fortune re- artist started developing trust issues. reactions from his fanbase, however, Fortune do know I gotta relin- veals is that he has recently experienced a It was only a matter of time before he started to worry about his self-titled album’s quish that in order to move forward. I know portrait from one of Atlanta’s most talented full-fledged rebirth as an artist and as a hu- rebuilt his team from the ground up performance. I’m capable by myself, but just the presence and experimental artists is fast approaching. man being. When looking at the rapper, it’s as well. “At first, I didn’t really care,” Fortune of other people can do more for me because The half-decade since Jerome Raheem impossible to ignore how much he’s changed Having taught himself the neces- admits. “Then, when it didn’t do what I it’s like an unspoken accountability. If I’m let- Fortune has seen Rome at his highest and just in terms of his appearance. The huge, sary skills — like how to engineer expected it to do, I was just like, ‘What?’ It ting people in this zone, that means I respect at his lowest. Although he has emerged a blue-dyed beard and blonde braids that he and how to market himself to music frightened me because it got a good response their opinion, so I’ve gotta be cool with hear- newly realized person, the rapper admits used to don are noticeably gone, leaving him industry professionals — to keep his critically, but not with people who had ing shit I don’t want to hear sometimes.” that he still hasn’t figured it all out quite yet. with a new clean-cut look. Even the space career going with minimal help from grown to know me up to that point. They On “Alone Tonight” from his first self-titled that he currently occupies, which he has others, Fortune continued to have his Months later, the rebirth of Rome For- was like, ‘Bro, what you doing?’” project, Rome sang, “I’m trying to find the named Romey’s Homies, is another physical fair share of highlights. In the years fol- tune had run its course. Having licked his time to find my sanity,” and even now, he manifestation of his growth. Fortune has “I feel like it was more so a misunder- lowing his debut, he made noise in the wounds, found himself a purpose bigger confirms that he never did find the time to turned his Goat Farm hideout into an all-in- standing of the vessel in which the music underground scene with projects such than his own ambitions, and rediscovered was coming from,” he continues. “If that was his voracious appetite for creating, he’s find it. one studio, art gallery and communal space WALKER JAREL as Toro Y Rome Vol. 1 with Toro y Moi that’s designed to connect and uplift local whoever and they heard the album, they’d in 2018 and FREEk at the top of 2020. ready to formally signal the next stage in his “I think that’s a part of it,” he says. “I creatives. be like, ‘Oh shit!’ But it’s like, ‘Rome Fortune, But eventually, he hit a wall and felt it journey, a second self-titled album. In the think that — and just making sure I don’t go same year that his debut turns five years old, “I’m just trying to have a purpose bigger Beautiful Pimp — what you doing? You’re was time for a change. off the deep end — is a part of what makes talking about you in your ma used to sleep Rome confirms that he will be releasing his my stuff cool. When everything is good, I than me,” Fortune says. “Being an artist is a MR. FORTUNE: Rome is readying his next self-titled project. “I got to a point last year where I in a hotel!’” next LP titled Mr. Fortune on Oct. 13, his don’t really make the best stuff. Even though self-serving profession, so I’m trying to be needed to detach,” he says, “so I went 33rd birthday. a bunch of things are going good right now, more intentional. With this rebirth, I’m learn- On one level, the mixed fan reception to Jamaica for a month. Before I went, I life has been a tornado! And that’s why I’m ing the game and the rules even more just to lessons, fresh starts and life-changing ex- and Small VVorld, Fortune made the daring dealt a blow to Fortune’s confidence when had this long hair and a big beard, and I In terms of what to expect, Rome teases confident in saying Mr. Fortune gon’ be the break them and show other artists that they periences. And unbeknownst to many, the decision in 2016 to drop the most serious and it came to fully expressing himself in his knew I needed to shave off that energy that it will be a very musical, Gil Scott-

JAREL WALKER JAREL illest thing I’ve done.” can break them too.” early stages of his rebirth actually started personal work of his career. Although Jerome music, and as a result, the ambitious artist in order to have a physical reminder Heron-inspired record that features vivid storytelling and diary-like bars. Judging from Yet, this rebirth that Fortune speaks of five years ago with the release of his debut Raheem Fortune was presented in bright descended into somewhat of an artistic iden- or representation of when this rebirth It appears that in the five critical years his description, it definitely sounds like Mr. goes far beyond his decisions to shave off album. yellow packaging, Fortune’s bold, self-titled tity crisis. happened.” since Jerome Raheem Fortune, Mr. Fortune Fortune will find Rome pouring his soul on- his iconic hair and beard combo and open a After making noise in Atlanta and the project was in no way, shape or form a joyful “That made me kind of want to stick to found his way after all. —CL— While in Jamaica, Fortune collabo- to wax once more, meaning that another self- creative communal space. Fortune’s path to world beyond with more lighthearted mix- and festive I-made-it-type of record. these social contracts of like, ‘Okay, I’m this REBIRTH: Rome Fortune did some soul searching after releasing his debut album in 2016. self-realization has consisted of hard-learned tapes like Beautiful Pimp, Beautiful Pimp II At the time, Fortune was an independent, type of Rome,’” he explains, “and that was

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MUSIC UPCOMING: Hot roots ‘n’ blues shows still to come The humidity may be falling, but...

HAL HOROWITZ MON., SEPT. 13 songs, there may be some fireworks generated. SAT., OCT. 2 But no guarantees. Less humid weather keeps September’s Son Little, City Winery — Three albums Amplify Decatur, Downtown Decatur Atlanta-area blues shows hot. into his career, Son Little’s combination of SAT., SEPT. 25 Square — It’s impossible to fault a lineup as blues, soul and a bit of hip-hop has been well strong and diverse as one headlined by the In- Blind Willie McTell Music Festival, THURS., SEPT. 2 enough received for him to get the nod as pro- digo Girls and supported by the rollicking Old Thomson, Georgia — Now in its 27th year, N.A.S.H., Blind Willie’s — Nick Johnson’s ducer on a Mavis Staples EP. Mix Prince with 97’s, the searing gospel of The Blind Boys of Georgia’s largest pure roots fest is lighter on stinging guitar leads this recently formed, local Michael Kiwanuka, and you’re close to Little’s Alabama, the gorgeous Everly Brothers-styled blues lately with Americana acts, like this four-piece that is quickly garnering a follow- unique, somewhat retro sound and sweet, harmonies of The Cactus Blossoms, and local year’s North Mississippi Allstars, Son Volt and ing. Check out this talented group now and soulful voice. roots icon Michelle Malone. And it’s outdoors Joachim Cooder, as headliners. Still, the out- see what the excitement is all about. too, which makes this a safer way to get your door show is safer than most clubs where you THURS., SEPT. 16 roots and Americana fix on. would normally see these acts, and Thomson’s FRI., SEPT. 3 Eddie 9V, Cody Matlock, Eddie’s At- country comfort vibe is always congenial. See Gregg Allman’s Laid Back Legacy, tic — SUN., OCT. 3 These two friends and Blind Willie’s Blues & Beyond’s August feature for details. September: Variety Playhouse — Original players from mainstays hike out to Decatur where their EG Kight Trio, Eddie’s Attic — Nick- Allman’s legendary 1974 album and tour — soul blues ought to go down just fine in the Cracker, Eddie’s Attic — Back in the named “The Georgia Songbird,” Kight had to Randall Bramblett, Tommy Talton and the more reserved confines of Eddie’s Attic. Both day — that being the early ’90s — it was im- delay the release of her acoustic album The rhythm section of Charlie Hayward and Bill possible to turn on album rock radio and not National Prostate in their mid-20s, they are the most prominent Trio Sessions, but it’s out now — and she’s Stewart — lead an 11-piece ensemble with local young blues players in town. Eddie’s hear at least one Cracker song like “Low” or touring behind it. The goat-loving singer- horns through the songs from Allman’s first recent Little Black Flies release has rightfully “Euro Trash Girl” in rotation. That time has songwriter-guitarist was a close friend of Ko- solo album along with a few Allman Brothers attained international acclaim. Catch them long passed though, and it has been eight ko Taylor and has a voice nearly as powerful. classics. This ensemble has been playing these now at this intimate club before they move on years since the band led by David Lowery and She is an under-recognized, locally born and Health Month tribute shows for a few years now, incorporat- to larger venues. Johnny Hickman has released new music. Re- bred, veteran musician who never disappoints ing the brotherhood and spirit that made that gardless, they still tour — sometimes as a band live. In her new “Feel-in’ a Healin’” Kight has album and subsequent tour so special. THURS., SEPT. 23 and other times as a duo — sounding tough written one of the year’s finest soul and blues Todd Albright, Red Clay Music Found- and tight with their tongue-in-cheek lyrics and pandemic songs, a tune that looks forward to bluesy rocking Americana, which still feels Join us as we turn our attention SAT., SEPT. 4 ry — Acoustic, delta-influenced, 12-string gui- brighter days ahead. Mississippi Invasion, The Garden Club fresh if not quite as edgy as it used to. to men's health this month. We tarist Albright makes a stop here before head- WED., OCT. 6 at Wild Heaven West End — Delta blues- ing over to Thomson, Georgia’s Blind Willie SUN., SEPT. 26 encourage all men to get an annual man Cedric Burnside headlines this diverse McTell Music Fest. The Detroit native’s nimble, Sean McConnell, Eddie’s Attic — Sing- show that also features Cary Hudson’s rugged often frisky, finger-picking country is reminis- Women in Blues Festival — See feature er-songwriter McConnell, a recording artist screening. Contact your doctor and Americana and The Weeks’ energetic indie pop cent of Jorma Kaukonen in its clarity, intensity elsewhere.. since 2000, spent time in Georgia before relo- schedule an appointment today! rock. and folk-blues approach. A recent release on cating to Nashville where he penned tunes for Mention this ad for: Jack White’s Third Man label should provide TUES., SEPT. 28 major acts like Brad Paisley and Tim McGraw SUN., SEPT. 5 him some much-deserved attention. Jorma Kaukonen, City Winery — For- and became a producer. His latest and 10th mer Jefferson Airplane and off again/on again JJ Grey & MOFRO, The Eastern — Grey Charley Crockett, Variety Playhouse release, A Horrible Beautiful Dream, is one of Hot Tuna guitarist, Kaukonen has been — and and his ever-changing backup band MOFRO — Even heart surgery in 2019 couldn’t slow his most powerful and emotionally affecting remains — one of the finest practitioners of haven’t released an album in six years, but that down roots singer-songwriter Charley Crock- yet. pure country blues guitar. Expect plenty of won’t make any difference since his swampy ett who has released five albums in the past old-time blues covers, especially a few from soul music has remained consistent since his six years. Once a blues and soul man, Crockett FRI.-SAT., OCT. 8-9 the Rev. Gary Davis, one of Kaukonen’s biggest days playing Smith’s Olde Bar back in the early has shifted to a pure honky-tonkin’ country Wire and Wood Festival, Alpharetta, influences, along with similarly styled origi- ’00s. The group has pushed closer to a more singer, a transition that has been more logical Georgia — Thirty artists, six stages and nals. If we’re lucky, he’ll give us a few minutes commercial sound over the years, yet Grey’s than it sounds. His 2020 Welcome to Hard two days outdoors in the cooler early Octo- of his Airplane classic “Embryonic Journey.” bluesy heart and gritty vocals have always Times release was one of the best indie coun- ber weather — What’s not to like? And it’s kept the rootsy faith. free! Ruthie Foster and Drew Holcomb & 15% try albums of the year. THURS., SEPT. 30 the Neighbors top the bill for this singer- Eric Clapton, Jimmie Vaughan, Gas SAT., SEPT. 11 Bobby Rush, City Winery — There is no songwriter fest. However, at press time they South Arena — Slowhand has been in the Michelle Malone, Eddie’s Attic — stopping the irrepressible 88-year-old Bobby were the only acts advertised. You may not headlines recently more for his anti-vax stance “Moanin’” Malone needs no introduction to Rush. The veteran bluesman is riding high on recognize many names, but you never know than any new music. His hand is definitely any blues or roots fan. She has been a constant his acoustic, Grammy-winning Rawer Than which ones will become famous later. So chill getting slower these days as he moves through presence on the Atlanta scene since the early Raw, so he may not bring the full contingent out in lowkey Alpharetta, appreciate the end his 70s, and health issues have unsurpris- ’90s. She’s back in her old stomping-ground of backing band members and singers along. of summer weather, and get acquainted with ingly curtailed his touring. He’s a living legend venue for two shows that will surely include Regardless, he’s a force of nature who has some new acts while enjoying the headliners. though, so tickets for other-than-nosebleed @ at least a few songs from an upcoming album been blowing away audiences for six decades —CL— OFFSelect Men's Sexual Offer also valid seats are exorbitantly priced. Even if his fire and shows no sign of slowing down. Pick up along with plenty of favorites from her exten- Please send upcoming blues events to con- * might be muted, his band is always filled with a copy of his newly published autobiography sive catalog. 7 and 9 p.m. sider for CL’s Blues & Beyond concert calendar Health Products ... top-notch veterans, and this may be the last I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya: My American Blues Story to [email protected]. (*Not to be combined w/other offers.) chance you get to catch him live. Perhaps if while you’re there too. 24/7: ShopStarship.com opener Vaughan shares the stage for a few

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MUSIC FILM OBITUARY: Eric Kaiser SCREEN TIME: Out on Film and more 1964 — 2021 Filmmakers call Atlanta home JT instrument, kept the cacophony together with guitar and screech- ric Kaiser passed away August 5, ing diatribes on life, ensuring the CURT HOLMAN 2021. He was 57. Chowder Shouters a place in At- eondray Gossett and Along with his wife and busi- lanta’s varied music history. Quincy LeNear were E ness partner Margaret — a former An avid golfer, Kaiser also had married by Queen Latifah state representative from Georgia — Kaiser an unmatched and completely at the 2014 GRAMMY built and ran a number of popular Atlanta AwardsD broadcast. Longtime creative original sense of humor. He never eateries, including Grant Central, Grant Cen- met a stranger, shared his love for and domestic partners, the pair cre- tral East, Cabbagetown Grill, and Tomatillos, anyone and everyone through the ated the TV series The DL Chronicles along with business partners Donnie Parmer food he made, and loved his wife and other projects. In 2020 they and Russell Mayer. Kaiser also owned and and their two boys more than moved to East Point, so it’s as local operated the pizza concessions at Turner life itself. Even though he died filmmakers that they’re debuting Field, managing the operation from his home KAISER MARGARET COURTESY young, Kaiser lived an incredible two shorts at this year’s Out on Film in nearby Grant Park, known to friends as the life full of adventure, misadven- Festival. Kaiser Compound. ture, and lots and lots of laughter The LGBTQ festival went online Born and raised in Atlanta, he graduated and joy with his inseparable bud- in 2020 (apart from one drive-in from Druid Hills High School in 1982. Kaiser dies Championship Tony, Fred screening), but for its 34th year, it PICTURES SEARCHLIGHT was the son of Margaret Mary Anne and Dr. and H.W. brings a robust program of more Robert Kaiser. Kaiser is survived by his wife than 140 narrative and documentary COLOR HIM FATHER: Ewan Kaiser’s East Atlanta tribute to his father Eric Kaiser. Before becoming a successful restaurant Margaret; his two sons, Willem, shorts and features from around the owner, Kaiser enjoyed notoriety as a mem- 24, and Ewan, 23; sisters Karen world, with both in-person and vir- ber of the Chowder Shouters, the first band to Atlanta. Credited by many with creating member — banged on kitchen utensils, a bass Kaiser Summerour and Wendy Conroy; and tual screenings from Sept. 23-Oct. 3. formed by Bill Taft (The Jody Grind, Smoke, the Cabbagetown sound, the rag-tag trio — drum and beer bottles while Taft, the only nephews Hugh, Harrison, Robert, Andrew, Credited as Deondray Gossfield THE ONE WHO KNOCKS: Things get spooky for Rebecca Hall in David Bruckner’s ‘The Night House.’ W8ing4UFOs, etc.) upon the musician’s move former CL editor John Thomas was the third person in the band who knew how to play an and Matthew. —CL— and Quincy LeNear Gossfield, the pair codirected “Smoke, Lilies and “The Traveler,” Patrick Seda’s “Reverend Falls” like a character study than a fright fest. Re- Burke) says to her husband Malik (Cory Jade” (Sept. 26), a 30-minute short set and Carmen LoBue’s “Pink and Blue.” becca Hall plays Beth, the widow of an archi- Hardrict). during the Harlem Renaissance narrated by tect who killed himself. As she rattles around “Pose”’s Billy Porter. Based on a short story Out on Film opens Sept. 23 with the Like the “Karen” meme expanded into a the large lake house he designed, she detects by gay author Richard Bruce Nugent, the film Southeastern premiere of Firebird, depict- 1990s thriller, the film follows Karen Drexler signs of hauntings, like phantom whispers Food • Tequila • Culture depicts a young artist, (Xavier Avila) torn be- ing a romantic triangle on a Soviet Air Force (Taryn Manning of Orange is the New Black) and mysterious footprints. Is it her husband’s tween his attraction for a woman and a man. base during the Cold War. On Oct. 3, the as she pretends to be polite but demonstrates ghost? Is she cracking up? Or is there some- While the settings don’t look much like 1926, closing night film is Keep the Cameras Roll- every maddening, race-baiting behavior one thing uncanny about the house itself? Saturday Sept 25, 2021 the film has an ear for the literary discus- ing: The Pedro Zamora Way, about the AIDS can imagine. The film’s first shot shows her sions of the era while addressing desire and activist and cast member of MTV’s “The Real Hall can seem like one of Hollywood’s mopping up sidewalk chalk that reads “Black More than 30 hand-crafted, small-batch tequilas from Mexico, intersectionality. World” in 1994. least-utilized actors, but she relishes her role Lives Matter.” She trains security cameras here, conveying how Beth’s grief comes out on her new neighbors and calls the cops paired with small plates from Atlanta’s top chefs and restaurants! For the Oct. 3 Drama Shorts program, the The festival’s Centerpiece Screenings in sorrow and rage. When she lashes out at on “suspicious” black pedestrians, while ly- pair also directed “Flames,” which depicts include Invisible: Gay Women in Southern unsuspecting people, Hall can be more un- ing about their actions. And she enlists her Truist Park | Free Parking for fi rst 3 hours an emotionally raw encounter between two Music (Sept. 25), No Straight Lines: The Rise nerving than the film’s supernatural elements. brother, a violent police officer, to escalate young friends as their paths in life diverge. of Queer Comics (Sept. 28) and the family her campaign against her neighbors. Taken together, the screenings suggest the drama Jump, Darling (Sept. 24), featuring the As director, Bruckner oversees some ex- Gossfields will be two local filmmakers to final performance of Cloris Leachman. cellent performances as well as some intrigu- Releasing in theaters and on demand on VivaTequilaFestival.com watch, especially regarding issues of race and Out on Film. Sep. 23-Oct. 3. Land- ing, unusual special effects. The film cleverly Sept. 3, Karen has an extremely low budget sexuality. mark, Midtown Art Cinema Out Front employs its unearthly visuals, including and production values with heavy-handed hidden profiles in the home fixtures, which storytelling from writer-director Coke Dan- Other Out on Film selections of local in- Theatre Co. and virtual screenings. $11 for at times evokes the mirrored images of M.C. iels. Nevertheless, its themes of bigotry and terest include the Georgia-filmed Landlocked individual tickets and $150 for a full festival Escher’s artwork. The puzzle box nature of police harassment can prove compelling even (Oct. 3) about a man journeying to scatter his pass, which includes in-theater and virtual The Night House’s story and set pieces sug- with cliched treatment, and Manning genu- late mother’s ashes with his estranged, trans- fare. outonfilm.org gest that Bruckner may excel at his next inely gives a live-wire performance in the gender father played by transgender actress Home Invasion, One: Released on Aug. reported project, a reboot of the Hellraiser title role. Manning’s Karen isn’t just predict- Delia Kropp. Steven Norris, an Atlanta native 20, the haunted house thriller The Night franchise. ably condescending. She brings a host of in- and Georgia Tech grad, directed “Euromerica” House marks the latest step in the career of securities and hostile emotions to seemingly (screening virtually), about American su- Home Invasion, Two: The Atlanta- Atlanta filmmaker David Bruckner. Bruckner every encounter as well. With her, a casual perfans of the Eurovision Song Contest, the filmed thriller Karen shows a little too much first drew national attention as one of three chat about weekly garbage pick-up can turn most watched live music event in the world. directors behind the 2007 sleeper hit The awareness of its central conceit as a racist white woman named Karen torments her into a minefield. —CL— On Sep. 30, the festival’s annual Local Signal. He debuted his eerie first feature, The LABOR DAY SPECIAL new black neighbors. “Wait, we have a white, Screen Time is a monthly column about Shorts program presents nine films from Ritual, on Netflix in 2017. entitled neighbor named Karen? 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Because you need to summon vivid and intense You may uncover inspiring clues in plot twists that initially pest) IS HERE TO STAY! protests in the face of influences that may be inhibiting and frustrated you. Upon further examination, interludes you 5 Makes “turn” look infringing on your soul’s style. You have a poetic license to dismissed as unimportant or uninteresting could reveal valu- like “tum,” say rebel against conventions that oppress you. able wrinkles. 10 Amorphous lump 14 “Caprica” actor SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): Everyone dreams at least TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): After studying your astro- Morales three dreams per night. In a year, your subconscious mind logical omens, I’ve decided to offer you inspiration from the 15 Get from the generates over 1,100 dreams. About this remarkable fact, ancient Roman poet Catullus. 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If there’s no one in your life to 20 Mythical beast tion you’d like your dreams to respond to. 2. Keep a notebook provide you with such blessings, give them to yourself. 21 Levi’s competitor by your bed and transcribe at least one dream each time you GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): Gemini author Elif Batuman 22 Puzzler’s precau- sleep. 3. In the morning, have fun imagining what the previ- writes that the Old Uzbek language was rich in expressions tion ous night’s dreams might be trying to communicate to you. about crying. There were “words for wanting to cry and not 24 B complex com- 4. 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WED., SEP. 1 Taste of Soul Atlanta, Taste of Soul Smith’s Olde Bar, Erin Incoherent / 9 p.m. Evening with the Atlanta Pops and Mono/Poly, Derlee, Everybody’s Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Atlanta - Soul In the City Concert. A Heather’s Reference / Room 213. Smith’s Olde Bar, Wookville Atlanta Braves favorite, Timothy Homie. $19.00 . 10 p.m. Chastain Park, John Legend Bigger $25+. 2 p.m. $10-$15. 9 p.m. Promotions Presents Tripzy Leary. Miller. Tickets: $30atlant. 7 p.m. The Atlanta Symphony, Amos Lee Love 2020 Tour. $89 and up. 8 p.m. Terminal West, Mdou Moctar With The Atlanta Symphony, Opening $20-$25. 9 p.m. The Atlanta Symphony, Nitty Gritty with the Atlanta Symphony Orches- City Winery, Shaun Cassidy. $60- Speed Stick. $18.00 - $20.00 . 8:30 Night: Garrick Ohlsson Performs Dirt Band. $29.50 and up. 8 p.m. tra . Sold Out. 8 p.m. p.m. Beethoven. $21 and up. 8 p.m. FRI., SEP. 17 $75. 7 p.m. Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lake- MON., SEP. 20 The Eastern, Cherub. $25-$29. 8 Variety Playhouse, Julien Baker Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre, Rod Wave The Eastern, Dawes, Erin Rae. $30- wood, Trippie Redd: Tripp At Knight Virtual, Spirited Conversations: Be- p.m. with Thao & Katie Malco. $25.00 - Live. $126+. 8 p.m. $35. 8 p.m. Tour. $29.50 and up. 7 p.m. hind the Scores with Special Guest Variety Playhouse, Paul Thorn. $55.00 . 7 p.m. Terminal West, The White Buffalo. Variety Playhouse, Reckless Kelly, Chattahoochee Hills, Imagine Music Jason Max Ferdinand. FREE. Noon. $25.00 - $49.50 . 7 p.m. $25.00 - $30.00 . 7 p.m. SUN., SEP. 5 Will Hoge with Tylor & the Train Festival 2021.$189-$289. Noon. Robbers. $25.00 - $45.00 . 7 p.m. TUE., SEP. 21 SAT., SEP. 25 The Eastern, Big Boi. $39.50-$89. Piedmont Park, 2021 Atlanta Jazz Eddie Owen Presents: Red Clay 529 Bar, KARAOKE w/ DANA 529 Bar, Order of the Owl, Empty Zoo Atlanta, Cocktails for the Park, 8 p.m. Festival. Free. 1:30 p.m. Music Foundry, Parker Smith and & CDSM + Irrelevant Music DJs. Black, and Donna the Wolfman. a 21 and over event to benefit the Smith’s Olde Bar, Lovechild. $15- Adam Klein. $20-$25. 8 p.m. $10.00. 9 p.m. $12.00. 9 p.m. THU., SEP. 2 Grant Park Conservancy. $65-100. $20. 9 p.m. Masquerade, THE OCEAN BLUE. Atlanta Civic Center - Outdoors, Aisle 5, NateWantsToBattle, CG5, 7 p.m. Ameris Bank Amphitheatre, Rock Vespera. $17-$92. 7:30 p.m. State Farm Arena, Marc Anthony. $20. 7:30 p.m. 100.5 Presents 311 - Live From the Dropkick Murphys, Rancid, Jesse $70+. 8 p.m. Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre, Cody SAT., SEP. 11 Smith’s Olde Bar, Little Stranger Ride Tour. $39.50 and up. 6:30 p.m. Ahern. $44 advance. Doors 6 p.m. Johnson. $112-$362. 8 p.m. The Eastern, JJ Grey & Mofro. $35- 529 Bar, Homeboy Sandman, Nolan with Pip the Pansy and Damn Skip- Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre, Sylvan All ages. $39. 8 p.m. Smith’s Olde Bar, GrandVille with the Ninja, Clan Destined, J57. $15.00. py. $12-$17. 9 p.m. Esso - Shaking Out the Numb, Fall Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Rooster and The Manly Hero. $12- MON., SEP. 6 9 p.m. Smith’s Olde Bar, Temple Monarc / 2021 Tour . $34 and up. 8 p.m. Chastain Park, Quinn XCII, Chelsea $17. 9 p.m. Piedmont Park, 2021 Atlanta Jazz Atlantic Station, Atlanta Grilled Transistor / Rosser. $10-$15. 9 p.m. The Eastern, Big Thief. $29.50-$34. Cutler: Stay Next To Me Tour. $21.50 and up. 7:30 p.m. Smith’s Olde Bar, A Jalen Concert Festival. Free. 1:30 p.m. Cheese Festival 2021. $35. 11:30 am Terminal West, Whitey Morgan. 8 p.m. Experience with Special Guest Variety Playhouse, The Residents. Candler Park Music and Food Festi- $25.00 - $30.00. 8:30 p.m. WED., SEP. 22 Masquerade, Weathers. $12. 7 p.m. val, Candler Park Music Fest Day 2. Smith’s Olde Bar, Side Hustle with Journey Se Kwa. Free. 7 p.m. $35. 8 p.m. The Atlanta Symphony, Stefan Ameris Bank Amphitheatre, Outlaw $30-$100. 10 am Terminal West, An-Ten-Nae, Ill Jackiw Performs World Premiere Of Music Festival Tour 2021. $106 and Moon Chief. $10-$15. 9 p.m. WED., SEP. 8 Smith’s Olde Bar, Goldpark + Bre Conrad Tao’s Violin Concerto. $21 Smith’s Olde Bar, Aubrey Enter- Gates. $15.00 - $20.00 . 10 p.m. City Winery, Candlelight Jazz: A up. 5:15 p.m. Kennedy. $10-$15. 9 p.m. and up. 8 p.m. tainment Presents Hazel Virtue. The Eastern, New Madrid on the Celebration of Aretha Franklin. Sold Smith’s Olde Bar, Cannibal Kids $20-$25. 9 p.m. Rooftop. $16-$18. 6 p.m. Out.. 8:30 p.m. Smith’s Olde Bar, Rebirth Brass Variety Playhouse, wellRED. $25 with Animal Sun and Raquel Lily. Band with Special Guests Seratones. and up. 6:30 p.m. The Atlanta Symphony, Principal The Eastern, Futurebirds with Bob- Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre, Glass $10-$15. 9 p.m. $30-$35. 9 p.m. Bass Joseph McFadden Performs by’s Shorts. $25-$39. 7 p.m. Animals - Dreamland Tour . $153 and SAT., SEP. 18 The Atlanta Symphony, Lindsey Terminal West, Mark Farina. $18.00 Vanhal Concerto. $21 and up. 8 p.m. Variety Playhouse, MeShell Nde- up. 8 p.m. 529 Bar, “UNDERGROUND” Buckingham with special guest - $25.00 . 9:30 p.m. geocello. $28 and up. 7 p.m. Terminal West, Read Southall Band - Britpop, New Wave, UK Indie, Mad- Sammy Brue. $39.50 and up. 8 p.m. SUN., SEP. 26 FRI., SEP. 3 With Midnight River Choir. $15.00 - The Atlanta Symphony, Garrick chester, Dance Party!. $10.00. 9 p.m. THU., SEP. 23 Masquerade, Lorna Shore, Ohlsson Performs Beethoven. $21 Enterprise Earth, Sentinels, Crow 529 Bar, Heffner, Deep State, and $18.00 . 8 p.m. Burnt Hickory Brewery, Drawn and Center Stage Theater, Leonid & and up. 8 p.m. Magnetar, Six. $15 advance. Doors 8 Semicircle at 529. $10.00. 9 p.m. The Atlanta Symphony, Scott Disorderly Pop up art Market. Free. Friends. $35-$65. 8 p.m. Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox. The Eastern, Colony House. $20- Noon. p.m. All ages. Ameris Bank Amphitheatre, My City Springs, Food That Rocks. $90 $25. 8 p.m. Spivey Hall Piano Series Morning Jacket and Brittany How- $38-$88. 7:30 p.m. Chattahoochee Hills, Imagine Music per person. 7 p.m. Spivey Hall, - Jeremy Denk . $30-$60. 3 p.m. ard. $35 and up. 7 p.m. The Eastern, Leon Bridges with SUN., SEP. 12 Festival 2021. $189-$289. Noon. Eddie Owen Presents: Red Clay Abraham Alexander. $59.50-$99.50. The Atlanta Symphony, Kenny G. Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Masquerade, Duckwrth, Jordan Eddie Owen Presents: Red Clay Music Foundry, Todd Albright. $15- 8 p.m. $39.50 and up. 8 p.m. Chastain Park, Club Quaratine Live Warden, Anthony Dragons. $18 Music Foundry, Chuck Cannon. $25- $22. 7:30 p.m. With D-Nice. $50+. 8 p.m. THU., SEP. 9 advance. Doors 7 p.m. All ages. $33. 8 p.m. Smith’s Olde Bar, Marielle Kraft w/ The Eastern, Taking Back Sunday. $39.50-$45. 7:30 p.m. Eddie Owen Presents: Red Clay 529 Bar, Supertask, Soul Candy, MON., SEP. 13 Gwinnett Convention Center & Erin Kirby. $10-$15. 9 p.m. Music Foundry, Brad Lauretti, Betsy Kreatev, Flohr. $20. 9 p.m. Terminal West, Emily King. $30.00 - Arena, JapanFest Atlanta 2021. Masquerade, All Get Out, Early MON., SEP. 27 Franck, Kristen Englenz. $20. 8 p.m. City Winery, Candlelight Jazz: A $35.00 . 8 p.m. $10-$15. 10 am Humans, Stay. $13 advance. Doors 8 Masquerade, Scary Kids Scaring Smith’s Olde Bar, Dr. Doctor. $10- Celebration of Aretha Franklin. Sold TUE., SEP. 14 Piedmont Park, Music Midtown 2021 p.m. All ages. Kids, The Classic Crime, Picturesque, $15. 9 p.m. Out.. 8:30 p.m. - Day 1. $50-$650. Noon. Terminal West, Low Cut Connie. The Villa. $22 advance. Doors 7 p.m. Smith’s Olde Bar, MG Chronic. $10- Schwartz Center for Performing $18.00 - $20.00 . 8 p.m. All ages. Terminal West, The Unlikely Can- Eddie Owen Presents: Red Clay $15. 9 p.m. didates With Kesley Bou, Hero the Music Foundry, The Quebe Sisters. Arts, Schwartz Center Candler The Atlanta Symphony, Principal Terminal West, Lucy Dacus With TUE., SEP. 28 Band. $17.00 - $20.00 . 8:30 p.m. $30-$41. 7:30 p.m. Concert Series. $10 Emory Students, Bass Joseph McFadden Performs Bachelor. $20.00 - $24.00 . 8 p.m. $45. 8 p.m. The Earl, The Good Graces with The Eastern, George Clinton & Smith’s Olde Bar, Jameson Tank / Vanhal Concerto. $21 and up. 8 p.m. The Eastern, Sunsquabi on the The Preakness and the Ben Trickey Parliament Funkadelic. $39.50-$45. Convince the Kid / Distance / The Smith’s Olde Bar, INTHEWHALE The Eastern, Bruce Hornsby & The Rooftop. $25-$30. 6 p.m. Band. $12-$15. 8:30 p.m. Casters. $12-$17. 9 p.m. with MammaBear and Sixteen Noisemakers. $35-$79. 8 p.m. 8:30 p.m. Variety Playhouse, Gary Numan. Town Mountain. Bullets. $10-$15. 9 p.m. Variety Playhouse, Gregg Allman Terminal West, WED., SEP. 15 Variety Playhouse, Charley Crock- $25.00 - $49.00 . 7 p.m. Laid Back Legacy. $25.00 - $52.00 $18.00 - $20.00 . 8 p.m. City Winery, Candlelight Jazz: A Smith’s Olde Bar, An Evening with ett. $20.00 - $48.00 . 7 p.m. 7 p.m. The Atlanta Symphony, Opening Celebration of Aretha Franklin. Sold Angie Aparo. $30-$35. 9 p.m. WED., SEP. 29 Night: Garrick Ohlsson Performs Out.. 7 p.m.. Terminal West, Houndmouth. FRI., SEP. 24 Smith’s Olde Bar, Rod Gator. $10- 529 Bar, Tinder Live. $20-$25. 9 SAT., SEP. 4 Beethoven. $21 and up. 8 p.m. Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre, Rebelution $24.00 - $29.00 . 8:30 p.m. $15. 9 p.m. 529 Bar, Tuk Smith & The Restless p.m. The Eastern, Parker McCollum. $25- + Special Guests - 2021 . $35 and The Atlanta Symphony, Stefan Smith’s Olde Bar, Afton Wolfe and Hearts. $10-$20. 9 p.m. Ameris Bank Amphitheatre, Daryl $30. 8 p.m. up. 7 p.m. Jackiw Performs World Premiere Of Kevin Daniel. $15-$20. 9 p.m. Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lake- Hall & John Oates. $29.50 and up. Variety Playhouse, Brent Cobb & Rialto Center for the Arts at Conrad Tao’s Violin Concerto. $21 Terminal West, Gracie Abrams. wood, The Black Crowes Present: 7 p.m. Nikki Lane. $25.00 - $40.00 . 7 p.m. Georgia State University, Feed Your and up. 8 p.m. $19.50 - $25.00 . 8 p.m. Shake Your Money Maker. $29 and Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Senses: Myrna Clayton - Livestream. The Eastern, The Connells with Variety Playhouse, Osees with Mr up. 7:30 p.m. Chastain Park, Counting Crows: FRI., SEP. 10 Free. Noon. Peter Holsapple. $30-$79. 8 p.m. Elevator. $27.00 - $30.00 . 7 p.m. Masquerade, The Struts Live At 529 Bar, Book Club, Hark, and Casey Butter Miracle Tour 2021. $21.50 and Smith’s Olde Bar, Bo Bice. $25-$30. Tucker Brewing Company, Tuckto- Heaven Stage at Masquerade. $69+. Harper. $10. 9 p.m. up. 7 p.m. THU., SEP. 30 9 p.m. berfest. Free. Noon. 7 p.m. Basement, Psycho Disco! w/ Kendoll Center Stage Theater, Hoodoo 529 Bar, Holy Wave, Peel Dream The Eastern, Grouplove with Black- Smith’s Olde Bar, Nitefoxx (ft. + datatab. $10-20. 10 p.m. SUN., SEP. 19 Gurus. $28. 8 p.m. Magazine. $15.00. 9 p.m. starkids. $30-$59. 8 p.m. Sammi and Sean) / Blackfox / Greg Candler Park, Candler Park Music Gwinnett Convention Center & Smith’s Olde Bar, Sam Soto / Minka Smith’s Olde Bar, Okay Kenedi with Galla. $10-$15. 9 p.m. Fest Day 1. $40-$100. 4 p.m. Variety Playhouse, Soccer Mommy. Arena, JapanFest Atlanta 2021. / password:password. $10-$15. 9 Mason Embers. $10-$15. 9 p.m. $18.00 - $20.00 . 7:30 p.m. Smith’s Olde Bar, The Ladies of... Eddie Owen Presents: Red Clay $10-15. 10 am p.m. Terminal West, Faye Webster. Featuring James Hall with Dreer Music Foundry, Forest Sun. $8-$25. THU., SEP. 16 Piedmont Park, Music Midtown 2021 Smith’s Olde Bar, Chapel Hart. $20- $20.00. 8 p.m. Leer and Taco Mouth. $20-$25. 9 8 p.m. 529 Bar, Dark Time Sunshine, - Day 2. $50-$650. Noon. $25. 9 p.m. Variety Playhouse, Candlebox. p.m. Masquerade, Watsky. $20. 7 p.m. Ceschi, iCon the Mic King. $12-$15. Roswell Cultural Arts Center, An Terminal West, Daily Bread With $30.00 - $59.00 . 7 p.m.

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