“Atlanta-History.” Atlanta-History. Atlanta Broadway, n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2016. <http://atlanta.broadway.com/history/>.

The article is a history of the Fox Theatre, with a focus on its beauty, with its magnificent and ornate design, and the struggles the theatre has gone through to stay open. The article goes over the problems had with financing the plan for building it, problems which eventually required the help of William Fox, a man who had been building movie palaces across the country. The article continues on to the Fox Theatre’s original bankruptcy after only 125 weeks of service. The Fox managed to bounce back from this early setback and prospered for decades as “one of Atlanta’s finest movie houses”. This would not last however as a changes in movie industry would slowly put the Fox Theatre out of business. The theatre managed to be reborn under the ownership of Atlanta Landmarks, an organization that spent years fundraising enough to save the building and eventually put it back on the path to being a profitable business, going as far as submitting the documents necessary to have it named an historic landmark.

“The Fox Story – The Fox Theatre.” The Fox Theatre. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2016. <http://foxtheatre.org/the-fox-story/>.

This article is written as a history of the Fox Theatre. The theatre’s history starts in 1928, when it was first imagined as a location for Atlanta’s Shriners organization, and in the minds of the organization’s leaders the theatre would be a magnificent homage to their own social status. In the end however even with their status the project’s design, inspired by temples of the far east, was more expensive than they could manage. As the building neared its completion they leased the property to a William Fox, a man who had made a fortune by creating and managing large scale “movie palaces”. The beautiful Fox theatre was and is a beloved feature of the town, it has had its share of problems in its long history though.  The Great Depression forced its owners into bankruptcy and put it on the auction block where it was sold for a a fraction of its original building price. even in new hands it still maintained its loyal audience until the eventual rise of the more modern movie theaters pushed the Fox Theatre, and other movie palaces like it, out of favor. Even as its doors closed, the Fox managed to still captivate an audience, A non-Profit, Atlanta Landmarks, was created and millions of dollars were raised through donations, eventually resulting in the of reopening the theatre’s doors.

Wells, Myrydd. “What We Saw during the Fox Theatre’s New Behind the Scenes Tour. Atlanta Magazine. Atlanta Magazine, 4 June 2015. Web. 25 Mar. 2016. <http://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/what-we-saw-during-the-fox-theatres-new-behind-the-scenes-tour/>.

This article describes the author’s experience taking a “Behind the Scenes” Tour of Atlanta’s famous Fox Theater. The tour starts by heading into a room, off of the lower ladies lounge marked “hospital”. This room previously functioning as an emergency stop for hurt or sick performers. From there it progresses through a screening room, where censors used to ensure that movies met content standards, but is now used as a break room. The group passes through the pit motor room, a space full of the equipment like the hydraulics used to lower or raise parts of the stage. The tour continued through the building passing by the electrical room, the paint shop two dressing rooms, and finally down the stairs to the stage, making sure to walk passed the signatures of many of the theater’s previous performers, examples being Madonna and Whitney Houston. When they reached the stage they were all introduced to the theater’s golden pipe organ, Mighty Mo, as they admired the view.

Brown, Robbie. “An Uneasy Reversal of Roles for Theater and Its Caretaker.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 11 Sept. 2010. Web. 25 Mar. 2016. <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/us/12atlanta.html?_r=0>.

This article is about the debate that was stirred up when the board of directors for the fox theater, a famous and historical building in Atlanta, Georgia, decided it would be best for Joe Patten to move out of the theater and instead settle down in a nursing home of some sort. The article explains that Joe has been living in the Theater as its sole resident, arranged as a reward for saving the theater from being torn down in the 1970’s and saving it again in 1996 from a fire. Joe, who is now 83, has been experiencing the poor health characteristic of the elderly and so the board of directors now doubts his ability to take care of himself. This opinion has caused a backlash among the public and has created a polarizing debate. Many believe that Joe should be allowed to live in the building until his death as he desires. Others think that the best thing to be done for Joe is to move him to a place where he can have care. Still others question the motives of the directors in this, considering the value of the apartment in which Joe stays.

Better Online Living Through Content Moderation

The article is an essay advocating the use of content moderators for online activity. The author, Melissa King, starts her argument by reminding her audience that there are people who value content control. People attempting to avoid certain triggers, such as those who suffer from PTSD or those with a solid grasp on their own comfort zones. King argues that whatever the reason, it can be considered valid as, “Nobody should be required to read or listen to content if they do not want to.” She confronts the arguments used against such features, one being that viewers should simply be more thick-skinned, King states that people taking offense to strangers insulting and threatening them is not a simple matter of being weak. She notes specifically that such online harassment has been proven to cause long lasting psychological trauma. King draws a parallel between the groups that commit such acts and hate mobs, and points out that blocking and therefore avoiding such groups is an effective way to stop the assault, “giving others the power to personally moderate the worst of the internet… is often the best option victims have.” She makes examples of the abuse that women suffer, mentioning how easy it is to have such abuse brought down upon them for attempting to challenge the sexism that can run rampant, and brings up a UN hosted event where women shared stories of the abuse they’d been forced to deal with personally. She goes on to say that people have a right to avoid such hateful content and should never be told that they do and doing that is only encouraging the setup that allows for abuse to happen.

Color Walking

The article is a report on the experiences of the authors, Phia Bennin and Brendan McMullan, in trying a “Color Walk”. Apparently invented by the author William S. Burroughs as a way of teaching his students, the idea behind a color walk is to walk throughout a city following a certain color. Taking conscious note of that shade, causing the “surroundings [to] pop as you follow the color from object to object”. The authors decided to try out the practice, in Manhattan on a Sunday afternoon, giving themselves the liberty to switch colors. As they went, the authors cataloged the colors that caught their eyes through images, from scarves to jerseys to body paint. Leaving the experience the authors Bennin and McMullan felt as if, “The colors hung in our brains and eyes”. The colors that had always been around them now stood out more than they had before. They finished with advice, when trying out a color walk of one’s own, one should give themselves plenty of time, pick the color that most catches their attention and not be afraid of changing they’re color.