Informer:Atlanta 10/7/08

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 10/7

Dressy Bessy, Casper and the Cookies @ Smith's Olde Bar -- 8 p.m. $10 adv.

Wednesday 10/8

The Hiss (L), The Coathangers (L), Predator @ Star Bar -- 9 p.m., $3
Sunburned Hand of the Man, The Dead Science, Magic Apron @ The Earl -- 9 p.m., $7
Bernadette Seacrest @ Eddie's Attic -- 8 p.m., $10 adv./$13 door
DMTO (Don't Miss This Opener!): Say Hi, Jukebox the Ghost, Sleep Therapy (L) @ Drunken Unicorn -- $8 adv./$10 door

Thursday 10/9

Hot Chip, Growing @ Variety Playhouse -- 8:30 p.m., $25
DMTO: Evangelicals, Parenthetical Girls, Chainstereo (L), Tealights (L) @ Drunken Unicorn -- $8 adv./$10 door

Friday 10/10

All Night Drug Prowling Wolves (L) record release, The Wake, Mocking Birds @ Star Bar -- 9 p.m., $10
Howlies (L), Pardner @ The Earl -- 9:30 p.m., $7
Dancer vs. Politician, Lovesick Scientist, Travel By Train @ Kavarna -- 9 p.m.

Saturday 10/11

Jeff Holmes (of The Floating Men) @ Kavarna -- 8 p.m.
Sopo Cogtail Party: The Shondes, Herman Put Down The Gun, The Thieves @ WonderRoot -- 8 p.m.
Sopo Bicycle Co-op's third birthday party!
"A Ten Year Affair" @ Eyedrum -- 8 p.m., $10.
Eyedrum celebrates its 10-year anniversary with over 30 musicians and performing artists, not to mention a debut viewing of a documentary about the organization as well as the First Annual Eyedrum Awards (or "The Eddies").

Sunday 10/12

DMTO (Don't Miss This Opener!): Wire, The Selmanaires (L) @ Variety Playhouse -- 8 p.m., $20

Monday 10/13

SkabDriver, Lazer/Wulf @ Smith's Olde Bar -- 8 p.m.

Film:

Sunday 10/12

Stomp and Stammer Film Night: Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten and X - Live in Los Angeles @ The Five Spot
The Found Footage Festival @ The Plaza Theatre
The Queens, N.Y.-based touring film fest reaches the ATL, and brings with it the weirdest collection of awkward footage imaginable. We can't say it any better than they can, so here's how the Plaza describes it: "Awkward sexual harassment in the workplace reenactment videos, flamboyant 1980s exercise tapes, and ridiculous home movies unite in the latest edition of the Found Footage Festival, a touring collection of discarded video clips that are, usually unintentionally, gut-bustingly funny." Don't miss this!

Culture:

Friday 10/10

Antigone premieres @ Oglethorpe University's Conant Performing Arts Center -- Georgia Shakespeare's new original musical adaptation of Sohpocles' Greek classic continues through November 2.

Saturday 10/11-Sunday 10/12

Taste of Atlanta @ Atlantic StationTickets available in advance for individual days at TasteOfAtlanta.net.
Get ready to loosen that belt! Sample morsels from 70 of Atlanta's best restaurants at the yearly outdoor culinary event, as well as cooking demonstrations, wine tastings and other activities.
2008 Brookhaven Arts Festival @ Apple Valley Road, behind the Brookhaven MARTA station -- Sat. 10-6 p.m., Sun. 12-6 p.m.
Candler Park Fall Fest @ Candler Park -- 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. both days

Sunday 10/12