WABE Arts

Playwright Kelundra (kuh-LUN-druh) Smith’s  “The Wash” earned five Suzi Bass Awards. Her new play, “Other Paths to God,” is a hospital whodunit now on stage at Horizon Theatre. Midway through its premiere run, WABE Arts & Culture Editor Sherri Daye Scott caught up with Smith to talk telling untold stories and laughter as a truth-telling tool. 

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🎧 Pianist Igor Levit brings an all-Beethoven program to Spivey Hall at Clayton State University on Oct. 31. He tells WABE Arts & Culture Editor Sherri Daye Scott how Beethoven's music became a love that never ended, starting at age 4. Levit explains why he built this program to show the boldness of Beethoven's writing, from the revolution of Sonata No. 1 to the "Waldstein," which he says split piano music into a before and an after. He also describes "The Tempest" as a Shakespearean drama and reflects on how he has changed since recording all 32 sonatas. 

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Award-winning sitarist Niladri Kumaar talks Zakir Hussain, the Zitar and 'Space Between the Notes' before his Oct. 30 Sandy Springs show.  

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The High Museum of Art turns 100 this month, and its director says the museum isn't spending much time looking back. "We're really excited about what's next," Rand Suffolk told WABE on Sunday, Oct. 18, as the High's Centennial Block Party filled a closed stretch of Peachtree Street. 

The free afternoon of DJs, dancing and art-making marked 100 years since Hattie High gave her Peachtree Street home to the city in October 1926. 

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Ahead of her Oct. 18 performance at Buckhead Theatre, comedian, actress and writer Kathy Griffin spoke to WABE Arts contributor Kenny Murry on what audiences can expect from her latest special and her thoughts on coming back to perform in Atlanta

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🎧 Atlanta photographer Kendrick Brinson spent more than 16 years photographing Sun City, Arizona, a retirement community where great-grandmothers march in sequins. Her photobook, “Sun City: A Love Letter to the Golden Years,” is out now from Artisan. Brinson tells WABE’s Sherri Daye Scott how a movie scene led her to Sun City and explains why she chose not to show the illness and loneliness often tied to aging, and why her advice is to play more.

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🎧 Monti Carlo, senior editor of food and dining at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, will emcee cooking demonstrations at Taste of Atlanta's Grand Tasting Midtown on Oct. 15 at the Epicurean Atlanta hotel. Carlo tells WABE's Sherri Daye Scott what she expects from her first Grand Tasting, and why she still hasn't picked a recipe to demo. She talks about her cookbook, "Spanglish: Recipes & Stories," the "MasterChef" run she says changed her life, and growing up on a dairy farm in Puerto Rico, eating bacalaítos from a nearby fishing village. She also shares what she loves about Atlanta's food scene, from Lazy Betty to So. Fox. 

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🎧 Former CNN anchor Don Lemon brings the DL + DL "Anything Goes" tour with comedian D.L. Hughley to Atlanta Symphony Hall on Oct. 9. For What's Feeding You?, Lemon tells WABE's Sherri Daye Scott what sharing a stage with a comedian lets him do that the anchor desk didn't, and how he and Hughley learn from each other. He talks about the news sites and blogs he reads, and why he believes the audience has moved to social media. He also looks back on his years in Atlanta, from his Virginia-Highland home to the comfort of living in a Black city, and builds an Atlanta playlist with André 3000, Janelle Monáe and the Ohio Players.

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🎧 The Atlanta Swing Classic brings West Coast Swing workshops, competitions and social dancing to t Dunwoody, Oct. 1-4. Atlanta dancer and instructor Lindsay Mistretta tells WABE's Sherri Daye Scott how to tell an improvised dance from a choreographed one, what spectators can expect from the champion division's Jack and Jill, and why this year's Classic marks her first competition back after a nine-month break. She also explains why dancers call their community a "dance family" and why West Coast Swing draws dancers from their teens to their 90s.

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🎧 The third Atlanta Art Fair opens October 1 at Pullman Yards with more than 80 galleries, the most in the fair’s history. Fair director Kelly Freeman tells WABE’s Sherri Daye Scott how interest in Atlanta has grown beyond the American South to galleries around the world, and why the fair’s public programming is meant to bring art out of the booth. She describes artist Tariqa Waters’ live game show, “I Know Art People,” the “Low Grit Grins” exhibition and ATL CURRENTS, a new initiative for independent Atlanta artists. She also shares tips for first-timers.

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