This is one of the more popular sessions of the AiMA calendar: Search Engine Marketing. Panelists will discuss what works, what doesn’t, and what’s changing in the world of search engine marketing and optimization. No word just yet on who is speaking, but AiMA is usually pretty good at picking first-rate speakers. Plus they serve [...]
[3 Feb 2007]
I Am My Own Wife is a one-man play about a gay transvestite — Charlotte von Mahlsdorf — from East Berlin who survives both the Nazi and Communist regimes and creates a museum of everyday objects that served as a haven and meeting place for GLBT East Berliners until the 1990s. Actor Doyle Reynolds does [...]
[27 Jan 2007]
You can find information about the 2008 Sex Workers Art show in this post. An all-star lineup of porn stars, prostitutes and purveyors of smut is coming to the A this month for the Sex Workers’s Art Show. It’s a cabaret-style variety show of performance art, literature readings, burlesque dancing and raunchy singing. Some stuff [...]
[23 Jan 2007]
Every Atlantan’s favorite design museum hosts Design at Play: The High Design & Low-Brow Humor of Cartoon Network from February 1 through May 19, 2007. It’s a multimedia exhibit featuring print advertising, billboards, on-air spots, animation storyboards, websites, and online games designed by the Cartoon Network to promote its shows and brand. The opening reception [...]
[23 Jan 2007]
A PodCamp unconference will be held in Atlanta. No brand-name speakers and in crowd folks. Just a bunch of enthusiastic podcasters and bloggers leading how-to sessions, discussions and such. Register by adding your name to the PodCamp Atlanta registration wiki page. Event details When: Friday, March 16 through Sunday, March 18, 2007 Where: Emory University [...]
[4 Jan 2007]
Since at least two different Atlanta news outlets are spilling the beans about who won at the BET Hip-Hop Awards (to be televised Wednesday), I might as well try for some traffic, right? The BET Hip-Hop Awards as best I remember them. Winners: Hip-hop Hustler Award: Jay-Z I guess endorsement deals with EA, HP and [...]
[12 Nov 2006]
All hail the mighty t-shirt at this exhibit of global t-shirt designs, with a focus on Southern designers like Project Alabama, Epidemik Coalition and Pecan Pie Couture. Project Runway star Michael Knight will also be there (he’s such a sweetheart). Event details When: October 19 through January 13. Opening reception: October 19, 6 – 9 [...]
[12 Oct 2006]
The High Museum celebrates its new Louvre Atlanta exhibit with a Beaujolais Nouveau Wine Tasting. Taste this year’s Beaujolais wines on the third Thursday in November (it’s traditional release date). <winesnobbery> Beaujolais Nouveau is picked, fermented and ready to drink after about six weeks. Only gamay grapes from the Beaujolais and Beaujolais-Villages regions of France [...]
[11 Oct 2006]
Just in time for Halloween, the Carlos Museum presents “Mummies and Milkshakes!” Attendees can visit mummies in the museum’s Egyptian galleries, then have a milkshake by Jake’s Ice Cream. Then watch a screening of mummy cartoons and the film Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. Event details When: Friday, October 27, 2006; Cartoons begin at [...]
[9 Oct 2006]
Telling you now so you can make plans for later . Harvest Midtown Festival – 5th Street, Atlanta, Saturday, October 7, 1 – 5 p.m. $50 in advance. The Taste – The Granite Room, 211 Peters Street, Atlanta, Saturday October 7, 4 – 9 p.m. $38 in advance. Cirque de Luna – Sutra Lounge, Saturday, [...]
[29 Sep 2006]