Over the past couple of decades, architects and builders looking to green their projects turned to the addition of various piecemeal elements to save water here or cut down on electricity there. Those who added more than a few green touches could apply for and get certified by the United States [...]
Imagine for a moment that East and West are hypothetical strangers meeting for the first time. Invariably, dialogue (once they got over the language barrier) delves into culture, food and customs.
The open-minded duo quickly bond then, like Romulus and Remus, decide to form a great city. But unlike the tempestuous brothers – whose Rome flourished [...]
“When do you have time to make all that pizza?” I tried a joke.
Max laughed back at my comment. Thank God. The 30-minute long discussion had gone sour for me twenty minutes ago. The subject as usual focused on a bad state of affairs — my health. Today had started [...]
Club Awesome began as a rotating cast of musicians and instruments in 2004, finally settling around founders Errol Crane and Rick Kemp, joined by Blair Gainous and Lance Warner. The band soon became known for inventively self-aware stage pranks like stopping mid-set to read aloud from their suggestion box, staging impromptu “battles” with other bands [...]
Often lauded for its sophisticated pop/rock style, Atlanta-based music collaborative Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun continues to gather accolades, having quickly become one of the city’s more favored bands.
Featuring vocalist Lauren Gibson, guitarist Cregg Gibson, bassist Micah Silverman and drummer Jeremy Cole, the band is known for its powerful live show, and played [...]
The Atlanta-based This Piano Plays Itself delves deep into the electronic possibilities traditional instruments can offer, their style a drugged state of the usual rock fare, one that’s somehow pulls off refined incoherence.
In many of their songs, the start is slow and mellow, with the melodies quietly building towards a sort of climax that pulls [...]
As would be the case after any natural disaster, water-borne illness could run rampant and chemicals and oil could leak out of damaged storage facilities as a result of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that ripped apart Haiti on January 12. Surprisingly, no large industrial spills have been found during initial [...]
By all definitions, the earthquake disaster in Haiti is a true catastrophe.
The Red Cross’s current estimate of the number of people killed is 100,000, but that number could rise in the weeks to come. With Haiti’s feeble infrastructure almost totally destroyed, including most all government buildings, the response over the [...]
Musician Adam Franklin has never been one to sit still. The man has about three dozen releases through the revered Swervedriver, Magnetic Morning and his own solo projects, including Bolts of Melody, his latest endeavor.
The Oxford-based Franklin put the final touches on an upcoming album — “I Could Sleep a Thousand Years” — just before [...]
Cars, trucks and buses emit considerable amounts of airborne pollution as they make their ways along city streets and highways. The fine particles, nitrogen dioxide and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) spewing out of tailpipes have been linked to a wide range of human health problems, from headaches to respiratory illness to [...]
Karen Shacham is a photographer specializing in portraiture, conceptual, and documentary photography. Her work examines how culture and society inform individual identity, and seeks to expose a truer sense of self-expression. The trapeze series documents several acrobats in Baltimore, Md., peeling back the layers of otherness that confine the performers by merging the [...]
Dave Batterman is a photographer and graphic designer who specializes in revealing the surreal aspects of ordinary life. His work spans portraiture, music, travel and abstract subjects, often incorporating field recordings and tangible artifacts to break down the traditional dialogue between a two dimensional print and our three dimensional world.
We recently chatted with Batterman [...]
The Atlanta-based This Piano Plays Itself delves deep into the electronic possibilities traditional instruments can offer, their style a drugged state of the usual rock fare, one that’s somehow pulls off refined incoherence.
In many of their songs, the start is slow and mellow, with the melodies quietly building towards a sort of climax that pulls [...]
Often lauded for its sophisticated pop/rock style, Atlanta-based music collaborative Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun continues to gather accolades, having quickly become one of the city’s more favored bands.
Featuring vocalist Lauren Gibson, guitarist Cregg Gibson, bassist Micah Silverman and drummer Jeremy Cole, the band is known for its powerful live show, and [...]
Club Awesome began as a rotating cast of musicians and instruments in 2004, finally settling around founders Errol Crane and Rick Kemp, joined by Blair Gainous and Lance Warner. The band soon became known for inventively self-aware stage pranks like stopping mid-set to read aloud from their suggestion box, staging impromptu “battles” with other [...]
