The first annual CounterPoint Festival is taking place September 27-29 on a 350–acre farm in Fairburn, GA. The three-day music festival zeros in on the multiple genres within the electronic music scene. It will feature headliners such as Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, Skrillex, M83 and Crystal Castles along with several local stalwarts in the dance, hip [...]
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CounterPoint Festival Brings Huge Electronic To Georgia
10th Annual Kirkwood Spring Fling is This Weekend – May 19 & 20
Rain or shine, we’re well into Spring. Which means it’s time for the Kirkwood Spring Fling once again. Benefitting the Kirkwood Neighbors Organization, the family-friendly festival features a 5K, juried Artist Market with more than 90 booths, tons of live music, creative kids’ activities, a new Green Area and the Tour of Homes. This year’s [...]
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Indie Craft Experience is Back This June
The Indie Craft Experience Summer Market is celebrating it’s 14th anniversary this June. The market, founded by Christy Petterson and Shannon Mulky in 2005, gives crafters an opportunity to sell and promote their original, hand-made items in a curated environment. As regular DaFC readers know, we are huge fans of ICE and their multitude of [...]
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Spring Beauty Bar Event at Van Michael Salon
This Saturday, the talented folks of Van Michael Salon (Virginia Highland) offer Atlantans professional prepping and pampering for Spring. They’ve teamed up with RAW Bronzing Studio, Sugarcoat Nail and Beauty Bar, and Tritt Aesthetic & Plastic Center to bring you the latest trends and tips from experts. Sip on complimentary mimosas and nosh on light [...]
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Atlanta’s Sweetheart, Bosco, Launches National Spring Tour
I popped into Apache Cafe last Friday to catch Bosco before she absconded for her spring tour in support of her band’s Let Go Of Me EP release. Opening for the incomparable Rahbi, Bosco breezily liberated a short set of scintillating, lush numbers on the expectant crowd. Along with reminding the 21st century – and [...]
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The $100 Startup – Meet Author Chris Guillebeau This Tuesday
You may or may not have noticed my brief retreat from this blog last year. In an inspired and opportunistic moment, I left my job and decided to travel half the world. After professing my intentions to my friends, my friend Maigh recommended I read a book called The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own [...]
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Tiny Victories Release “Mr. Bones” Video
It’s Monday and I’m feeling rough. Sign of a good weekend and plead for some good new music to keep me going. Brooklyn-based Tiny Victories released the video for “Mr. Bones,” off their debut EP Those Of Us Still Alive, out now via BirdDog Records. Directed by Brian Bowman of Nice Shoes studio, the electropop [...]
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CinéBistro in Brookhaven Kind of Opens to Underage Audiences
Thanks Dad. Insert eye roll. CinéBistro at Town Brookhaven has officially opened their doors to the under 21 crowd with two notable exceptions: only movies beginning before 6PM and you must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Lovely for the older audiences but I can’t fathom high school students begging their parents to be [...]
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Atlanta Fringe Festival: Storytelling For The Rest Of Us
Last night, Decatur Square served as host to the inaugural Atlanta Fringe Festival opening preview party. Barbara Tushbant fittingly guest hosted, ushering forth a parade of local and imported storytelling talent. Twenty-seven original productions each had three minutes to preview their show for the audience. Scenes about love, death, breasts, robots, the end of the world, [...]
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Remembering Beastie Boys Co-Founder Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch
The problem with hearing news while traveling is that you’re a bit late to share it. Today it was the kind where one of the first bands you really pissed off your parents with lost a member to cancer. Well dang. As I’m sure many of you have heard by now, Beastie Boys co-founder Adam [...]
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Inman Park Festival: A Riot of Color
Of the numerous festivals our fair city is home to, the Inman Park Festival ranks among my very favorite. As opposed to festivals and fairs held in wide open spaces, Inman Park’s neighborhood celebration meanders through its historic streets, past Victorian homes, and under the lush tree canopy. This year’s festival took place this past weekend. The [...]
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Sharon Van Etten: killin em softly at The Earl
Sharon Van Etten brought her signature brand of velvety gut punches to The Earl on Wednesday night in an intimate, arresting concert that kept us all hanging on her every word. As a long time listener but first time concert-goer, I expected the charmingly badass Sharon to look the part. But Van Etten took [...]
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SweetWater 420 Fest Rocked Candler Park Green this April
The number 420 can mean different things to different people. But regardless of any other connotations associated with it, Atlantans have come to know that the annual SweetWater 420 Fest in Candler Park means three days of eco-friendly festival fun including music, art vendors, food trucks and, of course, locally brewed SweetWater beer. Though it [...]
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Crocodiles’ Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9)
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Only a day and a half left in this week. I’m ready for the weekend. Crocodiles premiered the video for “Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9)”, the first off their upcoming album Endless Flowers, yesterday. Their third album will be released in the US on June 5th, 2012 via Frenchkiss. They’re hitting the road in support of [...]
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Salvage with Indie Craft Experience This Saturday and Upcycle that Mason Jar
This Saturday, April 14, the always awesome Indie Craft Experience is curating a new event called Salvage at Ambient Plus Studio. Salvage is a curated vintage marketplace with vendors selling and displaying their antique and vintage treasures, from mid-century modern to retro furnishings, jewelry, decor, and more. They are also hosting an “Upcycled Mason Jar [...]
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EcoStyle South Brings Sustainable Fashion to Atlanta
This afternoon and evening, twenty of Atlanta’s sustainable fashion, jewelry, handbag, beauty and home decor companies will showcase their Spring collections at the Eco-Fashion Trunk Show in Buckhead. Meet these local designers in person and score some new Spring wears. The shopping event is open to the public and free to attend. There is also [...]
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Review: Pina
Chances are you’ve never heard of Pina Bausch, the acclaimed German dance choreographer who unexpectedly died of cancer in 2009. I certainly had never heard of her until I went to the screening of Pina, a documentary by someone I had heard of, Wim Wenders, whose credits include the 1987 philosophical fantasy Wings of Desire. [...]
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Must Watch: The Head and the Heart’s New ‘Down in the Valley’ Video
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Below is the latest video from The Head and the Heart, “Down in the Valley”. I’ve been swooning over these Seattleites’ sweet and rootsy music since catching them play at Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 launch party at SXSW 2011. So much so I ended up destroying my iPhone in the middle of their set. That’s [...]
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Poverty Is Real is Doing Whatever It Takes
Non-profit organization, Poverty is Real, based in Decatur, organizes fundraising concerts to aid organizations that work to fight poverty at a local level. Their first show, in June, presented a two-night concert series at Eddie’s Attic, raising $6,500 for Decatur Cooperative Ministry, a local group working to alleviate homelessness in the area. Their mission is [...]
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Featured Event: Criminal Records Benefit at The Cottage
By now, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the Save Criminal Records campaign. It had a November deadline for fundraising. There have been countless concerts and rallies to help save Atlanta’s biggest record store and their efforts have made a difference. The store’s here to stay (for now). Saving them from immediate closure was one step, but [...]
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