COSTUME CONFUSION?

Yelp offers ideas for places to find Halloween duds

By Benjamin Getz

Yelp Atlanta Community Manager

Halloween candy has been haunting shelves across the metro area for months, but have you picked out a costume yet? This month, Yelp Atlanta has some suggestions for to where find your party get-ups and accessories.

Costumes, Etc

Tilia M notes, “They have EVERYTHING here… wigs, realistic fangs, shoes, contacts, they have it all.” Need to be pink Darth Vader for 10/31? They’re on it.

2138 Faulkner Road.

Junkman’s Daughter

More than just a costumer! You’ll find all of your goto collectibles and whacky, awesome candy here as well. Also, the Little Five Points icon is the coup de grâce when it comes to gag gifts.

464 Moreland Ave.

Atlanta Costume

Professional makeup, costume rental, and some serious theatricalgrade equipment for the decorators who go all out. 2089 Monroe Drive

Rag-O-Rama

If a decadespecific outfit is what you’re plundering about for, this Little Five spot is a surefire stop for everything from dresses with shoulder pads to acid-wash jeans. 1111 Euclid Ave.

Richard’s Variety Store

Should you need an eerily realistic mask, a hefty selection of stick-on moustaches, or all of the materials needed to make your own costume from scratch, Richards’ is the place for you. 931 Monroe Drive.

Benjamin Getz is the Community Manager for Yelp in Atlanta. Follow his reviews at benjamingetz.yelp.com and follow all of the Yelp adventures on Instagram & Twitter at @YelpAtlanta.

Atlanta Celebrates Photography show awakens viewers’ sense of curiosity, mystery, romance

By Martha Nodar

Autumn is upon us and so is the annual Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival, now in its 16th season. Founded by Atlanta artists, ACP is a nonpro t organization devoted to promoting creative ideas and engaging the viewer’s imagination.

Among the di erent locales around town participating in the festival this fall is the Mason Murer Gallery in Midtown. Gracing its walls through Oct. 31, are three di erent exhibitions all by female photographers. Helen Reddy would be proud.

One of the exhibitions is “Women in Focus XXI, Juried by Fay Gold,” with 83 images.

Carolyn Meltzer, Sheri Garza-Pope, and Kelly ompson are among 36 members of Women in Focus, an Atlanta-based group of female photographers whose work was selected for this event.

Meltzer’s “Awakening,” is a photo of the lake at Georgia’s Sweetwater Creek State Park capturing the dawning of a new day. She said the early stages of her own artistic journey exploring innovative ideas may be echoed in this image.

“I wanted to re ect the emotional connection with nature rather than depicting a replica of the scene,” she said.

Intrigued by “Awakening,” Midtown artist David Swann said Meltzer’s piece requires more than casual observation.

“When aesthetically analyzed, ‘Awakening’ is the image of a branch hovering over a pond of water,” he said. “Its re ection on the water’s surface lures us in and then we notice it is graphically replicated—digitally ipped—and then monochromed. Black and white awakens to color.”

Awakening our senses and looking deeper at the concealed details is what it is all about, said Garza-Pope, who suggests “there is something extraordinary in everyday moment.” ompson agrees. She said she wanted to capture a moment-in-time and a sense of mystery in “Coming for You,” a photo she took at the Wormsloe Historic Site in Savannah.

“I kept thinking – is that person coming here for a reunion?” she said about a car stopped by a fence in the background.

While Buckhead artist Nathan Dean also detected a sense of mystery in ompson’s image by “the arches of the trees leading toward a distant, vanishing point,” Cheryl D’ Amato, a Midtown artist, was moved instead by a sense of romance. She perceived the same image with “the majestic canopy of oak trees as a tunnel for couples to walk hand-inhand under its inviting shelter.”

Engaging the viewer is what artists intend to do. A parallel may be drawn between the connection a photographer develops with the lens and the intimacy a viewer may develop with a |composition.

Rounding up the rest of the exhibits at Mason Murer for this year’s festival are: “ e Family as the Vernacular,” by Margaret Hiden, Libby Rowe, and H. Jennings She eld; and, “Lucinda’s World” a solo-artist exhibition featuring Lucinda Bunnen’s pieces.

Other venues around town celebrating the annual event are Piedmont Park, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia/TULA Art Complex in Midtown, and the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in the Virginia-Highland-Poncey area among many others.

For a complete listing of events happening during the festival, visit acpinfo.org.