Over the years I’ve gotten to know the trap rap architect Gucci Mane by attending his mixtape release parties, covering video shoots downtown and hearing “Lemonade” blared from car stereos years after its 2009 release. But the first time our paths crossed, I met him as the outlaw....
The Goat Farm had a vision with its Beacons program: forge an arts artery in metro Atlanta, in the midst of its rapid gentrification. But after developers brought much progress in South Downtown to a halt, the Goat Farm is shifting its focus to Castleberry Hill with a new approach....
All Eyez on Me: The Untold Story of Tupac Shakur, the first biopic on the West Coast rap icon, comes courtesy of L.T. Hutton. Before segueing into film and TV, he was an A&R rep at Eazy E's Ruthless Records who also worked at Death Row, Tupac's label home....
Mary Jackson lowers her eyes, though only for a second. “If you were a white male,” a higher-up asked her, “would you wish to become an engineer?” It is the year 1961. Every NASA employee stationed at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia must help achieve do the impossible: launching the first American into orbit around Earth. But at this moment, as a Black female mathematician of the Civil Rights Era, Jackson must imagine a world where she never dealt with racism or sexism. “I wouldn't have to,” Jackson says. “I'd already be one.”...
"It's the place where ballet becomes friendliest all year round." So says Jennifer Fisher, whose 2003 book Nutcracker Nation examines how E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale became a Christmas-time tradition in North America almost 70 years after its St. Petersburg, Russia, premiere....
In the 90’s Atlanta finally started getting the world’s attention –– and not just because of the Olympics. New York, the birthplace of hip-hop, would have been happy to ignore OutKast altogether, as would Los Angeles, the home of then-burgeoning gangsta rap....
One Saturday back in March, at Little Five Points clothing store Wish, I tried on my first pair of sneakers that cost more than $50. The Fenty Puma was designed by R&B-pop superstar Rihanna, which was one of her first tasks as Puma's new creative director. It looked like the sneaker version of the combat boots I wore that day. “Uh oh,” I muttered when I saw my reflection. This was me reckoning with the price tag: $180 and my first brush with a cultural phenomenon so prominent that it is now being examined in a museum exhibition....
