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Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun are back in town after their mini-tour with Club Awesome. They will be at the Starbar tonight with Sealions. Check out Week of Origins for a video taste of TTMTTS.

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May 29th, 2009 | Filed under Local (events)

Atlanta’s A-List: The Origin
I think the most recent X-Men movie was about origins. Of course, we would know that if we went to the movies around here but that’s something that doesn’t happen very often at Atlanta’s A-List. That doesn’t mean we don’t like comic books…er, I mean, graphic novels. We do. We’re even considering [...]

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May 26th, 2009 | Filed under Live (more music)

This weekend’s Decatur Arts Festival is not all about the graphic arts. There will be a literary arts forum tonight (Friday) at the Old Courthouse and dance exhibitions each night. Of course, there will a little music too.
If the van doesn’t break down again (that Autobahn ain’t so much fun at 0 kph) [...]

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May 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Local (events)

Every week Atlanta’s A-List misses at least one or two with our weekly editorial/update. As we are leaning more on cyberspace (remember that phrase?) to spread the word, we’re starting to post stuff only on the blog.
In case you haven’t visited lately check it out at http://atlalist.com. There are pictures, record reviews, book [...]

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May 20th, 2009 | Filed under Live (more music)

Art Centric
We’re heading into Memorial Day weekend and there are a surprising number of quality events going on this week. Before we get there let’s take a break for art. Not art punkers Art Brut whose new record Art Brut vs. Satan has me seriously curious even though I wasn’t crazy about their show last [...]

May 18th, 2009 | Filed under Live (more music)

It was just sitting there on the table. In the hall in that undefined place sort of between the checkout area and the children’s section of the library. The tattered baseball that dominated the cover of this small book caught my eye. I picked it up. The other book on the table was a children’s [...]

May 13th, 2009 | Filed under Book Reviews, Literate (books)

Somebody recently suggested to me that lawyers are like Canadians – they are everywhere, you just don’t know it. We suppose the converse holds true as well. As the Canadian national pastime is in the second round of its playoff fury, there probably is no better time to consider a couple of recent releases from [...]

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May 13th, 2009 | Filed under Indie (music), Record Reviews