
Richard L. Eldredge
Editor of Eldredge ATL, a digital magazine and contributing editor at Atlanta magazine. Proudly covering Atlanta since 1990.
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3 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
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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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Feb 11, 2025 |
atlantamagazine.com | Richard L. Eldredge
Atlantans panicked last summer, when The Colonnade, the city’s second-longest running restaurant, went up for sale. After many decades, owners Jodi and David Stallings had decided to retire. The beloved 98-year-old Cheshire Bridge Road institution, famed for its meat-and-threes, had just crept out of the pandemic when a pair of road closures caused by bridge fires threatened to collapse the iconic eatery’s business for good.
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Feb 4, 2025 |
atlantamagazine.com | Richard L. Eldredge
Unveiled February 4, the Atlanta Opera’s upcoming 2025/2026 season is “all about twilight,” says artistic director Tomer Zvulun. And not just because the company is presenting the eagerly awaited production of Richard Wagner’s Twilight of the Gods (Götterdämmerung), the impressive conclusion to the composer’s Ring cycle, a massive 15-year undertaking for the Atlanta Opera.
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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

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

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