Decatur Arts FestivalThe 25th annual festival will be held Memorial Day weekend in and around downtown Decatur. The event kicks off Friday, May 24, with an ArtWalk around Decatur and the Oakhurst neighborhood to participating galleries and businesses. The giant artist…

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It’s a big weekend for deals, shopping discounts and free events: Check out this tip sheet on Memorial Day sales. Don’t forget the free country music concerts at Stone Mountain and the Atlanta Jazz Festival at Piedmont Park (also free).…

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Julia Lynn TENT REVIVAL: Spoleto Festival USA 2013 kicks off in Charleston on Friday, May 24. Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston’s massive performing arts festival that spreads acrossArticle source: http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2013/05/23/spoleto-2013-kicks-off-this-weekend-in-charleston-south-carolina

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Mollie Lyman’s teaching methods were almost as memorable as she was. An art teacher for more than 30 years in Atlanta, Lyman wanted people to experience art in many different ways. “Her teaching was very adventurous,” said Clark Poling, art…

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The first time I heard about the National Black Arts Festival in 1998, I didn’t go. I was a practicing artist in my late 20s, but Atlanta’s annual summer festival of African-American dance, music, theater, film, and visual art still…

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By GREGORY KATZAssociated Press LONDON (AP) – Shakespeare, the Magna Carta – and now some of John Lennon’s finest lyrics. The British Library on Wednesday added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to Beatles’ classics “Strawberry Fields…

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By JENNIFER PELTZAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) – The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they’re getting a spiffy new home in Queens. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of “Sesame Street” fame, the stars of “Fraggle Rock”…

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