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Richard L. Eldredge

Atlanta

Editor-in-Chief at Eldredge ATL

Contributing Editor at Atlanta Magazine

Senior Editor at VOX ATL

Editor of Eldredge ATL, a digital magazine and contributing editor at Atlanta magazine. Proudly covering Atlanta since 1990.

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  • 4 days ago | atlantamagazine.com | Richard L. Eldredge

    After Reitzes announced her retirement, tributes flooded in from Atlanta arts luminaries; over the decades, she’s interviewed nearly all of them. Nothing better illustrates the length and breadth of Lois Reitzes’s radio tenure than the concert ad that ran next to an early newspaper profile of her in 1982. Opening up for the J. Geils Band at the Atlanta Civic Center, the ad announced, were “special guest stars”: the band U2.

  • 2 weeks ago | eldredgeatl.com | Richard L. Eldredge

    Art + Entertain At a slim 165 pages, “The Ones We Love,” Jonathan Sayer’s debut novel, grabs readers on page one and doesn’t let go. In an era when many viewers now scroll past the trope-filled, historically inaccurate old Hollywood westerns on Turner Classic Movies, the Austin-based writer offers an enticing invitation to re-examine the genre.

  • 1 month ago | atlantamagazine.com | Richard L. Eldredge

    Andrew Young speaks at an event in 2023Photograph by Derek White/Getty Images for ScrippsThe Forever Young gala tribute to Andrew Young on May 12 at the Woodruff Arts Center is the latest black tie event honoring the 93-year-old former Atlanta mayor, United Nations ambassador, and civil rights icon. While Young usually eschews such public fusses, he said yes to this particular evening co-chaired by friends Billye Aaron, Billy Payne, and Paul Hagedorn.

  • 2 months ago | atlantamagazine.com | Richard L. Eldredge

    Billy Payne (left) and Andrew Young share a conversation in the feature documentary The Games in Black and WhitePhotograph courtesy of Atlanta Story PartnersLike Atlanta’s unlikely journey to host the 1996 Centennial Olympics, for The Games in Black and White filmmakers George Hirthler and Bob Judson, the path to make the new documentary—premiering at the 49th annual Atlanta Film Festival Saturday, April 26 at the Rialto Theatre for the Arts—was equally long and complicated.

  • 2 months ago | eldredgeatl.com | Richard L. Eldredge

    Art + Entertain When the Tony Award-winning “Parade” first played the Fox Theatre 25 years ago this summer, the musical by Atlanta native Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown depicting the 1913 murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan at the National Pencil Factory in downtown Atlanta felt like both a cautionary tale and a powerful history lesson.

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Richard L. Eldredge
Richard L. Eldredge @EldredgeATL
8 Mar 24

Now posted at Eldredge ATL: Our Q&A with Becoming Ella author Judith Tick. Among the icons she talked to for the new bio: Arranger Buddy Bregman who wrote the charts for the first Ella song book (and the father of Emmy-winning Y&R Queen @Traceybregman)! https://t.co/0KtFYIhkIo

Richard L. Eldredge
Richard L. Eldredge @EldredgeATL
1 Feb 24

My latest for @AtlantaMagazine: Over the years, I spent hours interviewing him here. While he had rooms full of Versace furniture, we always sat at his kitchen table to talk. The same table where he created the Elton John AIDS Foundation. https://t.co/s2iQwu4c4l

Richard L. Eldredge
Richard L. Eldredge @EldredgeATL
10 Jan 24

Huge thanks to @GeneralHospital vet @kinshriner for such a terrific and heartfelt conversation about his longtime pal Jacklyn Zeman. https://t.co/GyR3FZbepI