From playing violin to teaching children to composing with whales, Juan R. Ramírez Hernández hits all the right notes
STORY: Ann Hardie
Juan R. Ramírez Hernández performs, conducts and composes. What does he love most? Teaching kids. “The children are like vessels, and you put into those vessels what they need,” says Ramírez. “It’s always interesting to see what they can do with the information.”
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A local makeup artist sings a different song on stage
STORY: Kevin C. Madigan
Lahcen Boufedji Photography / Wardrobe courtesy of Tootsies
Latin jazz singer and songwriter Sarai Mateo can be found most Friday evenings and various other dates throughout the month performing at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Buckhead, but she took a long, circuitous route to get there.
Mateo is Puerto Rican but started life in Nicaragua in […]
Film critic Stephen Michael Brown shares his search for the creative and different on the big screen
STORY: Michael Jacobs
Stephen Michael Brown started writing movie reviews as a third grader in Greenville, South Carolina. His parents regularly took him to the theater and movies, and the storytelling of stage and screen hooked him. He brought monthly HBO guides to kindergarten for show-and-tell, joined the Boy Scouts for […]
BRIAN BRASHER’S MUSIC STARS IN BIG-TIME MOVIE TRAILERS AND MARKETING CAMPAIGNS
STORY: Muriel Vega
PHOTO: Loli Lucaciu
Musician and composer Brian Brasher first dove into the music industry during his college years in Tallahassee, Florida, when he was a founding member of the rock band Creed. Collaborating on two of their number-one hits (“What’s This Life For” and “One”) made him realize he was passionate about the other side […]
BUCKHEAD’S MOMENT IN BOXING HISTORY
STORY: Art Jones
PHOTO: Sam Massell photo courtesy of Atlanta History Center
One of the most exciting sports events to ever take place in Atlanta occurred on Oct. 26, 1970, when a highly anticipated boxing title bout was waged between Muhammad Ali and Jerry Quarry. It had been more than three years since Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title. Convicted of draft evasion, […]
Theater pro Shuler Hensley helps launch new Sandy Springs playhouse
STORY: Jim Farmer
PHOTO: Sara Hanna
When he moved back to the Atlanta area in 2012, Shuler Hensley’s goal was to be with his family but continue a career in entertainment that has taken him around the world and brought him plenty of acclaim. And he’s managed to achieve that goal.
A Broadway veteran who won a Tony Award for […]
Play Talent agency founder Trina Allen-Abt has a knack for finding the right actors for the right roles
Trina Allen-Abt (right), along with partners Lena Lees-Heidt (left) and Vickie Petronio-King, has placed actors in everything from the Oscar-nominated movie Room to the Emmy-winning series Silicon Valley.
STORY: Mark Woolsey
It’s a long way from a small-town Canadian childhood to the booming Georgia film and TV industry, […]
Comic Moe Mitchell joins the cast of Q100’s The Bert Show
STORY: Lia Picard
Cassandra Young Photography
Maurice “Moe” Mitchell was born to be an entertainer. The Atlanta transplant is the newest voice on WWWQ-FM radio’s The Bert Show, but even as a kid he would flex his creative muscles. “I used to write poetry and music at a very young age. Back before I can even remember, I […]
Katrina Stroup opens a new theater company with her acting colleagues
STORY: Jim Farmer
PHOTO: Sara Hanna
When she was on stage as a young child, Katrina Stroup realized she had aspirations to perform for the rest of her life. Singing in her church choir and getting cast at age 5 in a production of The Adventures of Peter Cottontail led to other roles, as well as some commercials. […]
Buckhead resident Jennifer Wiggin brings music education back to area youth
Jennifer Wiggin has been playing the viola since she was in the fifth grade. Today, she shares her love for the instrument, as well as the violin, cello and bass, with budding musicians as the executive director of Buckhead Strings, a local organization offering stringed-instrument lessons and camps to area youth.
A native of Arlington, Texas, Wiggin […]
