http://www.driveafastercar.com Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:18:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FEATURED EVENT * Benefit for Paste Magazine at The Earl, brought to you in part by Drive A Faster Car and OK Productions MORE MUSIC TONIGHT * Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers at Variety Playhouse * Greg Laswell at Eddie's Attic * The Julia Dream at Masquerade * Carbon Leaf at Smith's Olde Bar * Catalyst ... http://www.driveafastercar.com/2009/07/10/events-tonight-in-atlanta-july-10/ This is the first from Venice Is Sinking's Summer 2009 tour diary, by VIS member and Drive A Faster Car contributing writer, Lucas Jensen. Let us know what you think of these and if you'd like to see more tour diaries in the future! -- Tessa, DaFC Editor-In-Chief So the Venice ... http://www.driveafastercar.com/2009/07/10/from-the-road-venice-is-sinking-tour-diary-july-8-2009/ For those of you who have prefab cow costumes hanging once-worn and unloved in your closets, the relics of some long-forgotten Halloween party, well, tomorrow is your day. Chik-Fil-A, everyone's favorite distributor of prayer-approved chicken, will give a free meal to all customers that wear cow costumes to their ... http://www.driveafastercar.com/2009/07/10/chik-fil-a-cow-appreciation-day-today/ Help us out! Creative Loafing has voting open for their annual Best Of Atlanta 2009 -- show the city how much you dig Drive A Faster Car and vote for us! Categories We Think It Would Be Really Cool For Drive A Faster Car To Win: Local blog/blogger - Drive A Faster ... http://www.driveafastercar.com/2009/07/10/vote-drive-a-faster-car-best-local-blog-in-atlanta/ Remember when Drive A Faster Car broke the news about the Save Paste campaign? Paste Magazine was having a bit of financial difficulty and thanks to tons of musicians donating tracks and readers donating their dollars in exchange, they are doing much better! DaFC also volunteered to help coordinate a ... http://www.driveafastercar.com/2009/07/09/drive-a-faster-car-presents-a-benefit-for-paste-magazine-friday/ Local visual artist, Sam Parker, will be opening his latest solo show, Neoteny, at Beep Beep Gallery on Saturday, July 11. The show will run through Sunday, August 2 and will feature Sam's work influenced by his history as a tattoo, graffiti and mixed media artist. Parker exhibited new works ... http://www.driveafastercar.com/2009/07/09/sam-parker-neotony-opening-at-beep-beep-gallery/ Most of the shows Drive A Faster Car blogs about are in Atlanta but we know not all of our readers are in the fine state of Georgia and wanted to give this show a shout-out. Tomorrow night, Nashville is throwing a Save Paste party at the always awesome Mercy ... http://www.driveafastercar.com/2009/07/07/nashville-save-paste-party-tomorrow-night/ Since we all can't be at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for Michael Jackson's memorial service today, here's a live stream will begin promptly at 12:55PM EST today: http://www.driveafastercar.com/2009/07/07/live-stream-michael-jackson-memorial-service-today/ Tonight while driving home from seeing the fireworks at Lenox, I checked my Twitter stream to see what was going down in Atlanta and heard that there was a lot of smoke coming from somewhere near City Hall East. I continued through my stream and saw this photo by Matt ... http://www.driveafastercar.com/2009/07/04/masquerade-music-park-fire-tonight-july-4-photos/ This weekend, local buzz beverage, Whynatte, is throwing down at Smith’s Olde Bar with two nights of Judi Chicago, Noot d'Noot, and Black Dominoes. It's upstairs at Smith's at the first 100 people get a free Whynatte bomb of Jager and mocha goodness. 9-1030pm Black Dominoes/Judi Chicago vinyl DJ set 1030-1130pm Noot ... http://www.driveafastercar.com/2009/07/03/whynatte-kicks-it-at-smiths-olde-bar/