Published at 2:55 PM on October 14, 2008

By Julia Reidy

Informer:Atlanta 10/14/08

Welcome to Informer:Atlanta! Each Tuesday, we bring you the very best in the coming week's music, film and culture events in and around Atlanta. Think we missed something? Wanna tip us off to something cool over the horizon? Let us know! All events are recommended, but italics indicate an editor's pick. (L) indicates local artists.

Music:

Tuesday 10/14

  • The Judies (L), Elli Perry (L), Paul Warner, Jeremy Ezel @ Smith's Olde Bar -- 7 p.m., $5 (In the Atlanta Room)

Wednesday 10/15
  • DTMO (Don't Miss This Opener!): Talkdemonic, By Polar Bear, Nerdkween (L) @ The Earl -- 9 p.m., $8
  • The Heartless Bastards, Dead Confederate @ The Five Spot -- 8:30 p.m., $12.50 adv./$15 door 

Thursday 10/16
  • Big Trouble in Little Five Points: Manchester Orchestra (L), Lowery, Winston Audio @ Star Bar -- 9 p.m., FREE
  • Girl Talk, Grand Buffet, Hearts of Darkness @ Variety Playhouse -- 8 p.m.
  • Jay Clifford, Joel Hamilton, Joal Rush @ Eddie's Attic -- 8 p.m., $15 adv./$18 door 

Friday 10/17
  • Robert Pollard's Boston Spaceships, The High Strung @ The Earl -- 8 p.m., $18 adv./$20 door
  • Hoots & Hellmouth @ Smith's Olde Bar -- 8 p.m., $8
  • DMTO: Awesome Color, The Graboids, This Piano Plays Itself @ Drunken Unicorn -- $8 adv./ $10 door
  • Sons of Tonatiuh, Night of the Wolf, Spewtilator, Revolutionary Youth @ WonderRoot -- 8 p.m.
  • Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet @ -- 8 p.m., $32-$42 
  • The Magnetic Fields @ Atlanta Symphony Hall -- 8 p.m., $29.
    If you can't make the show, enter to win passes to see the Magnetic Fields live at Paste!

Saturday 10/18
  • Halloween Parade Day: All Night Drug Prowling Wolves (L), DJs all night @ Star Bar -- 3 p.m., FREE
  • Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, The Wood Brothers @ Variety Playhouse -- 8 p.m., $15 adv./$17.50 door
  • Wheeler Boys, D.R.E.S. the Beatnick (L), Shaun Bryant, Vicky Siz, Larve, Random Rabbit, Carbonas (L), The Wild, Gary Eddy @ Lenny's -- 7 p.m., $7
  • DMTO: A Place To Bury Strangers, Sian Alice Group, All The Saints (L) @ Drunken Unicorn -- $10

Sunday 10/19
  • The Octopus Project, Carnivores, So So Death @ The Earl -- 8 p.m., $10
  • Delta Spirit, Ocha La Rocha (L) @ Drunken Unicorn -- $10 

Monday 10/20
  • The Duhks, Whoa Nelly, Kellin Watson @ Smith's Olde Bar -- 7 p.m., $10.
    Celebrate the relaunch of NoDepression.com and benefit MusiCares, a nonprofit to help musicians in their times of need, at the same time.

Film:

Tuesday 10/14

Wednesday 10/15
  • Film Love #61: Songs of Devotion: Films by Nathaniel Dorsky @ Eyedrum -- 8 p.m.
    Part two of Film and Spirit, the Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2008 film series. 

Culture:

Friday 10/17
  • Christina Gusek art opening @ Kavarna -- 9 p.m. Music by The Subliminator and VieTNam

Friday 10/17-Saturday 10/18
  • 8th Annual L5P Halloween Festival & Parade @ Little Five Points -- 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Friday, 12 p.m.-10 p.m. Saturday.
    With children's activities, costume contests, "eclectic" entertainment (when is L5P not eclectic?) and, of course, a 4 p.m. parade on Saturday, the L5P Halloween Festival is the spooky event of the season. Start workin' on those costumes...

Saturday 10/18
  • Out of Hand Theater presents: ELECT: The Game @ 486 Decatur St., 30312 -- 3 p.m., $25.
    Turn the election into a cross between a scavenger hunt and the Amazing Race. Get political!
  • Southern Drawl Gallery Art Show Opening @ The Five Spot -- 7 p.m. FREE
    Featured artists at the Spooktacular Art Show include Ben Prisk, Jake Nelson-Dooley, Ashley Zeltzer, Pierre Cerrato, C Martin Croker, Chris Hamer, Amber Draschil, Andrew Bellury and Brett Thompson.

Sunday 10/19

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