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Deadline looms for ART Station to raise funds or close doors

ART Station in downtown Stone Mountain
It could be a script for an upcoming play: financial trouble drives a small-town theater to make an impassioned plea to town folks to save it from extinction. However this is exactly the situation ART Station Theatre Company and Contemporary Art Cent...

Lawmakers renew Avondale Estates annexation efforts

A sign against annexation in on E. College Ave. in Avondale Estates
A state senator from Avondale Estates still hopes to annex a portion of unincorporated land west of the city’s gateway to clean up blighted areas and some businesses. State Rep. Stephanie Benfield said she plans to speak this month with DeKalb Coun...

Avenue X is an a cappella treat

From left, Winston (J.D. Webster), Milton (J.D. Goldblatt), Rosco (Lawrence Clayton), Pasquale (Nick Spangler) and Ubazz (Steve French) unite their voices in a “battle-of-the-bands” competition in the a cappella musical Avenue X. Photos by Greg Mooney
It takes more than a nice voice to sing a cappella well. And it takes powerful voices with depth and personality to sing a cappella predominantly throughout an entire musical. But that’s what the Alliance Theatre has done brilliantly with its curre...

Kingwood Golf Club & Resort

Standing on the elevated first tee at the Kingwood Golf Club in the northeast Georgia mountain town of Clayton, I took a deep breath and surveyed my surroundings. Hardwoods (though bare, as I was teeing up in December) and evergreens hug each side of...