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By Yankee Rose
Often we get so excited about a book club we feel the need to tell everybody - our friends, family, people we run into at the library, and yes, you. (Of course if we forget to post it here chances are you can still find it on our calendar.) This month there are [...]
One of our favorites, The Whigs, have just released two new free tracks from their forthcoming LP, In The Dark, scheduled to hit the streets sometime early next year. The new tracks, “Hundred / Million” and “In The Dark”, are a natural extension of what this hard rockin’ trio delivered on 2008’s Mission Control. We got [...]
The National Book Award is celebrating its 60th annual award honoring American books. The prize is awarded to one fiction, one nonfiction, one poetry and one young adult book. This year 193 publishers submitted a total of 1,129 books for consideration by the National Book Foundation (everybody wants one).
Of course, like other literary prizes, just making the short list is an [...]
There are lots of great live music choices available this Halloween in the ATL. One choice is to spend the evening at the Highland Inn Ballroom where great local bands will share the stage.
The evening will start off with the chamber pop of Little Tybee whose first LP, Building A Bomb is filled with promise [...]
The original A-Lister, Bernadette Seacrest, will be playing her last Highland Inn Ballroom show of 2009 tonight. Catch our mostest favoritest (and coolest) chanteuse tonight as she and her Provocateurs prepare to drop their latest record, The Filthy South Sessions. Don’t make yourself wait until she re-emerges from her autumn cocoon in January, go now. [...]
The Guys Who Read will be doing it again this month in Decatur. If you missed our earlier post about this group, they meet at Little Shop of Stories at 7:00pm and promptly move to The Brick Store pub for discussion (and other indulgences). This month they read My Name Is Will, the debut novel from [...]
We’re sort of infamous in our own little circle for not paying much attention to the tv, but tonight we may have to make an exception. One of our favorite new records, The Avett Brothers‘ I and Love and You, will be featured on One Tree Hill. In fact, we understand that the title track of their new album [...]
