During Hurricane Irma in 2017, a 90-foot oak tree split and fell into the middle of Amy Pence’s cottage in the old fishing village of Pine Lake, Georgia. A beam came down and hit her in the back, knocking her unconscious. She kept hearing a voice telling her to get up. As she came to…
“Grays and gays” — it’s the unofficial motto of The Colonnade, which has always exulted in its stalwart demographic: seasoned belles in the lavender-rise phase of life and fashionable young men who could be their grandsons. At Atlanta’s second-oldest restaurant, which anchors Cheshire Bridge Road, they mingle over boozy brunches of fried chicken, tomato aspic…
Imagine you are visiting a city and taking a ghost tour. A specter walks up, taps you on your shoulder and asks you to travel back in time to solve her murder. A mystery with a side of history. What aspiring sleuth could resist? So unspools the plot of a collaborative novel-in-progress from Atlanta-based husband…
It should have been a fine, frivolous Saturday for Lucille Selig Frank in the spring of 1913. A vivacious socialite, she went to an opera matinee after wheedling her husband, Leo, to accompany her. He was a dutiful workaholic, however, so he retired to his desk at the National Pencil Company to complete a business…
Together, they have spilled vats of ink. Ralph Ellis and Susan Puckett are old-school newspaper people who made the transition to books. Ellis recently became a first-time novelist at age 72 when he published The Accident Report, following Ronald Truluck, a stoner reporter for a small-town paper trying to uncover a scandal in the spirit of Watergate….
Newspaper reporters were once powerful enough to topple a government using only their typewriters. Watergate sent countless scruffy idealists to J-school to emulate Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Atlanta newsman Ralph Ellis was one of them, and, for his fiction debut, he draws upon his halcyon memories in The Accident Report, a cagey, comic novel…
Artist meets scientist, then dinosaurs meet Barbie, in the world of these Guinness-quaffing Atlanta creatives. :: Tony Martin’s job is every child’s dream: He is a dinosaur hunter. The professor of paleontology at Emory University was part of the team that discovered the first known dinosaur burrow. It held the remains of a previously unknown…
When Daniel Pearl was killed by militants in Karachi in 2002, his musician friends were as shocked as the rest of the world. Now the Atlanta nonprofit Music in Common is spreading his message internationally. :: For journalist Daniel Pearl, his violin was almost as essential as his notepad. In troubled hot spots around the…
The Woodruff Arts Center, home of the Alliance Theatre, High Museum of Art and Atlanta Symphony, has launched a multi-million dollar capital campaign.
Filmmaker George King’s recent documentary about Lonnie Holley depicts the artist’s tragic upbringing, whimsical approach to craft and reverence for the mysterious force of the universe. :: When artist Lonnie Holley started to gain some hard-earned notoriety, Lloyd’s of London insured one of his exhibits. His mother happened to intercept the mail informing him of…
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