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Stylin'...

host — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:29:00 GMT

It was a big week for fashion...

Movie time

host — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:32:00 GMT

You don’t have to be a studio bigwig to party with actors and rock stars—at least, you didn’t at the Atlanta Film Festival’s opening-night screening of “The People Speak” on Thursday, April 19. The film gives voice to various perspectives on key moments in American history, as read or performed by such celebrities as Eddie Vedder (pictured), Josh Brolin, Jasmine Guy, and the Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson—all of whom attended the screening and opening-night gala at the Rialto Center for the Performing Arts. And as if that weren’t enough movie mania for one weekend, the Fox Theatre hosted a 70th-anniversary screening of “Gone With the Wind” on Sunday, April 19, highlighted by a pre-show discussion with critics Molly Haskell and Michael Sragow and Turner Classic Movies’ Robert Osborne.

Photos/Spark St. Jude

BANGIN’ THE DRUM

host — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:02:00 GMT

The sense of history in was so thick you could cut it with a knife last Saturday, April 4, at the Drum Major for Justice Awards Dinner in the Omni Hotel’s Grand Ballroom. Environmental champion Laura Turner Seydel, educator Ron Clark and Emmy Award-winning actress Cicely Tyson (pictured, with activist Evelyn G. Lowery) were honored for their contributions to the cause of social justice. Kenny Leon served as master of ceremonies at the event, which also featured Reverend Joseph E. Lowery. The highlight of the evening, however, was the Ron Clark Academy Singers and their winning “You Can Vote However You Like,” which they also performed at President Obama’s inauguration.

PHOTO: SPARK ST. JUDE. To see more photos from this event, pick up the April 12 issue of The Sunday Paper!

Rockin' benefit of the week

host — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:01:00 GMT

An appreciative crowd going crazy for Stockbridge, Ga.’s favorite sons Collective Soul. Sounds like just another sweaty Friday night at the Tabernacle, right? Well, throw in up-and-comers Ben Deignan & Suburban Soul, the Less and high-school rockers Gypsum Groove, recruit Q100 personality Jeff Dauler to play host and make the whole thing a benefit for the Save Darfur Coalition. Doesn’t sound like business as usual now, does it? Frontman Ed Roland, guitarist Dean Roland and the band presented a $50,000 check to student organizers Katherine McKerrow and Megan Maziar (pictured) of the Galloway School’s Save Darfur Student Committee at the March 27 event. Kids and musicians raising 50 grand to combat the crisis in Darfur? We’d say that rocks.

PHOTOS/SPARK ST. JUDE

There's no business like show business

host — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:02:00 GMT

Spotting celebrities in the ATL isn’t exactly a big deal. Still, it’s not every weekend that newly minted “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon pops into town, as he did last Saturday, March 21. The “Saturday Night Live” vet was the featured attraction at A Tony Evening, a 40th anniversary celebration/fundraiser for the Alliance Theatre at the W Midtown, where he performed for a crowd that included event chairperson Victoria Palefsky and Alliance Artistic Director Susan Booth.

Fallon wasn’t the only star making an Atlanta stop last weekend: Angel, the 4-and-a-half-year-old star of “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” dropped by Centennial Park on March 20 to oversee canine auditions for an upcoming Disney “Buddies” flick. The event, which was tied to the release of “Chihuahua,” “Space Buddies” and “Bolt” on DVD, drew lots of hopeful hounds—as well as the lovely CJ, morning co-host for 95.5 the Beat, with her 4-year-old toy Chihuahua Zoe.

Photo by Jim Fitts

BLACK-TIE GALA OF THE WEEK

host — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:25:00 GMT

A recap of ATLexis 2009

Two starry nights

host — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:05:00 GMT

Big names and important causes were the order of the day at back-to-back events last weekend

Come out and play

host — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:36:00 GMT

Competing with professional athletes at their own game can be risky business. Going toe-to-toe at the blackjack table, though, evens the playing field a bit—or does it? The 17th annual Tom Glavine’s Spring Training, held Friday, Feb. 6 in the Oceans Ballroom at the Georgia Aquarium, offered gamblers-and comely pirates like the ones pictured—the chance to match wits with Glavine and other athletes at various casino games.

The event, hosted by the pitching ace himself also featured live and silent auctions with such goodies as a football autographed by Mark Richt, a jersey signed by former UGA Bulldog David Greene, a baseball signed by Chipper Jones and guitars signed by Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers. Jeff Francoeur, John Smoltz and the Atlanta Falcons cheerleaders were among the celebrities on hand at the shindig, which benefited the Georgia Transplant Foundation. Home run!

Photo by Gray Saunders

Super Bowl party of the week

Mister Friendly — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:52:00 GMT

While most of Atlanta watched Super Bowl XLIII with chips and dip, a case of cheap beer and some uninvited dudes chest-bumping each other after every play, your humble Radar correspondent partied it up with an A-list crowd of celebrities, athletes and, yes, a terracotta warrior at the inaugural Stewper Bowl at Luckie Food Lounge. Hosted by Doug and Ryan Stewart, hosts of 790 the Zone’s “2 Live Stews” (Pictured, flanking the aforementioned warrior), the shindig drew the likes of Bone Crusher, Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, Fantasia, “Project Runway” vet Mychael Knight and former Atlanta Falcons Bob Whitfield and Chuck Smith, who bonded over Crown Royal cocktails, cash giveaways, video games and music by DJ Don Cannon. This was probably the only Super Bowl party at which no one paid attention to Bruce Springsteen, thanks to a halftime lingerie show courtesy of the Blue Corset Co. Score!

Photo by Spark St. Jude