By Rosey Sumrall. There is a new kind of music seeping into the streets of Atlanta. It is new, but familiar. It is simultaneously rebellious, emotional, and sexual; something that grabs onto your collar, pulling you into what feels like a music video and leaving you wanting more.

By Lauren Shirley. Oh, the holidays. It’s that time of year again when people come together, share wonderful meals, traditions…and in many cases, plenty of booze. Oh, Atlanta, you offer so many wonderful temptations! Atlantans know how to party and really get down with the best of ‘em, and this year should be no different. I don’t often indulge in cocktails, (definitely more of a beer kind of girl) but I do have a special place in my heart for seasonal delights, and alcohol is no exception.

By Gus Fernandez. 529 in East Atlanta hosted our own Subsonics last Saturday. I’d been personally counting down the days until this show when I found out it was happening. Subsonics seem to have been playing in Atlanta for an eternity, their first release dating back to a seven inch from back in 1993. Clay Reed, brains behind the outfit, has been

By Rosey Sumrall. Crafted with the materials of an old pub and salvaged artifacts, RiRa in Midtown has an atmosphere you cannot find at other bars. Their menu says it best:

By Jon Adam Green. Ask former Gravel Undertone frontman Sean Thompson how he came to play for Teddy and the Bears, and be met with a simple reply.

“It was only inevitable this would happen,” remarks the scruffy-faced, SG-wielding lead guitarist as he nurses a Miller High Life during a Friday afternoon practice session. “Me and Ryan (Ryan Ross, drummer) worked together and he’d always come in with these songs [...] Eventually it happened one day when I was like, ‘These are really good. What are you doing with these?’”

By Madison Massey. “It is important to know the local art scene and what is happening in our corner of the art world,” validates local Atlanta artist, Nicole Merkens. Art is one of Atlanta’s driving forces attributed with keeping up our nation-wide reputation as an eclectic entertainment metropolis. The laid back mother of two, living and working out of North Fulton, is just one of many artists helping to keep Atlanta’s art scene alive.

By Gus Fernandez. I woke up last week in a hurry, late for class. In a hasty search for my keys in the living room I found a stranger on my couch, just stirring from a night’s rest. One good-morning-nod later, I had moved my search into the kitchen, where another stranger was rolling up her sleeping bag. I had to wait to brush my teeth too, because someone was in my bathroom.

By Rosey Sumrall. Imagine taking an American vacation in a place that makes you feel you are on a European beach. Well, the Hotel Delano does exactly that. From the first moment you walk through its doors, you feel as though you are walking out of normal American civilization and into a grand European hotel.

By Jon Adam Green. What do fine French desserts, a Georgia Tech quarterback completing a pass, and a heavily-tattooed hardcore vocalist screaming at an enraptured crowd all have in common? Well, for starters, all are included in the photography portfolio of Josh D. Weiss, Creative Loafing readers’ pick for Atlanta’s Best Emerging Visual Artist of 2009.

By Gerard Spinks. While Chris Bridges’ aka Ludacris is doing an incredible job for the Atlanta community at large, as a leader he is smart enough to know to build a strong backbone of true business leaders around him to continue to grow his enterprises. For the Ludacris Foundation, community service means providing monetary support and donating time in our communities at large. Since 2001, The Ludacris Foundation has donated $500,000 to support grassroots organizations that work to help our youth, as well as invested more than 3,500 hours in devoted service to young people across the nation. The programs in support of the Foundation have impacted 7000 lives. The Ludacris Foundation takes pride in “helping youth help themselves.”