Vie Vie

Debbie Michaud, etc.

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“Basel has a way of making everything feel special or important or necessary. FOMO is real here and it’s tiring. 'Vampires have to stay up late with each other,” Saltz says, “and that’s what art fairs are for.’”

— Interviews with Art Basel Miami Beach’s new director Noah Horowitz, NY Mag’s Jerry Saltz and more on the present and future of the fair

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“Catching and diverging, catching and diverging. Choreographer Blake Beckham intones these words as five bodies shift in front of her in cascading movements. The floor squeaks under the pressure. In the afternoon light their forms appear like shadows as they pass in front of the large arched windows of Lucky Penny's Work Room. The long space is cool and dark and sparse. It emanates a church-like calm. Here, dancers do the good work of being dancers.”  — A recent feature on dance, creativity, and validation in Atlanta

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“Revolution Doughnuts’ cinnamon apple fritter triggers memories rooted so deep, it’s as though the flavor combination were written into the human genome. The knotty jumble of cinnamon-laced dough is fried to a deep molasses color and then glazed. The crunchy crust — of which there is plenty, thanks to all the lumps and bumps of dough — surrounds a moist, subtly spiced interior and bits of soft apple. The fritter has a freshness rarely found in such deep-fried, sugarcoated treats. It’s big enough to split. Or not.”

— Creative Loafing’s biannual 100 Dishes list is here! (Blurb written by me; photo by Joeff Davis)

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From the archive: thirteen palettes for the homes of famous authors.

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Turn Songs into 3D-Printed Sculptures You Can ‘Listen To’ with Reify

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Southern California is so warm and bright and breezy. When I visited in March, I felt like I was on different, more sparkly planet.

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"Now seems to be the season for trauma. Children are experiencing trauma — something that has been overlooked, I think since forever," says Samuel Washington, deputy chief probation officer of Fulton County Juvenile Court. 

Centering Youth's yoga and mindfulness training through Atlanta’s Juvenile Justice system has the potential to change how kids think about and respond to their circumstances. And that can change the city.

Help support yoga and mindfulness for underserved youth in Atlanta — the goal is $5,000 by April 27!

Photo by Eric Cash

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Not looking for anything

Meet Stranger, a new thing I'm making about travel and memory and me.

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Don’t wait for permission. If you’re doing creative work for the right reasons, you don’t’ need the validation of others to put yourself out there. That’s what the internet makes possible. Lest we forget, TNI started as a Tumblr. And love other women. The world wants you to find extraordinary women threatening. Undo that training. When you feel threatened, it’s a great sign that you have just found an ally who will bring you new energy and insight and together you will rise.

"Don’t Wait for Permission": Talking with Rachel Rosenfelt, Founder of The New Inquiry | Brooklyn Magazine (via notational)

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Pete Seeger by Annie Leibovitz

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Hunting down the ghosts of Atlanta's Clermont Hotel (Photo by Joeff Davis)

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The Atlanta Braves decide to bounce to the burbs (photo by Joeff Davis)

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Living in Georgia comes with certain political realities, a red-white-and-blue-knuckled grip on the Second Amendment being one of them. That two Republican senators from the South voted against universal background checks for gun buyers isn't a surprise. Nor is the fact that Chambliss, during his most recent election, was one of the gun lobby's biggest beneficiaries in the Senate. Isakson also enjoys the gun lobby's seal of approval, which he makes sure to tell constituents.

But what was less expected, perhaps, were the results of a February poll by Mayors Against Illegal Guns that found 91 percent of Georgians support mandatory background checks in all situations. Not only am I not alone in thinking that reform is needed, I'm not even in the minority for once.

Last week, I wrote about the failure of the Manchin-Toomey compromise and why it sucks to live in Georgia if you want to see more regulation of gun purchases (and guns in general). Found out today one of the senators holding things back — Saxby Chambliss — is giving the commencement address tonight at my alma mater UGA. Ugh.

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The future of Pullman Yard

We rented a cop and Creative Loafing photographer Joeff Davis spent 5 hours photographing abandoned Pullman Yard to make interactive 360-degree panoramas of the insides of old trains and about two-dozen rooms for you to look at and feel like you're there.

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Proofing (at Creative Loafing)

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Two new arts centers for Atlanta on the Westside and in downtown

Two years ago, word began circulating about a new arts center on the Westside. The neighborhood, anchored by the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and the King Plow Arts Center, was quickly gaining traction as a cultural destination as its concentration of galleries and performance spaces grew.

My feature this week looks at two new art spaces in ATL.

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