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hen it comes to celebrity, disco, drugs, and dancing, nothing surpasses the legend of Studio 54; the NYC disco that experienced its fabled heyday in the late 70s.

Even though it was only open for 33 months in total, the myth surrounding the discotheque lives on. Writer Gregg Shapiro talked to Matt Tyrnaur who directed a 2018 documentary about Studio 54, who got his account from the disco’s creator, Ian Schrager – supposedly one of the only people who could tell the real story about the venue. Read their conversation about the history and end of Studio 54.

Elsewhere in this November issue, you will also find a conversation with Neil Balani, the owner and chief tailor of HKT Custom Clothiers, which offers you a Savile Row-style establishment for the fashion-conscious man right here in Atlanta. Read about how custom tailoring is something every man should get into at some point in their life.

We also feature artist Rubem Robierb whose artwork excels in engaging the beholder so that they can extract the underlying message of the work, which is characteristically hidden in plain sight. Explore the artist and a selection of his art on page 22.

And, of course, we let our beautiful comedic muse, Deven Green, offer her experience to those who long for a little salacious sense and savory sensibility in their lives.

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ON THE ATL AGENDA LGBTQ Night at Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

2018 GLAAD Gala Atlanta The event honors outstanding LGBTQ advocates and benefits GLAAD’s culture-changing initiatives, including GLAAD Southern Stories, which boosts understanding and acceptance of LGBTQ Southerners. Television star and singer Kat Graham will host the event at The Estate on November 9, and the night will feature a special performance from the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus and remarks from GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis.

The Symphony Orchestra’s LGBTQ Night is presented in partnership with HRC, and a portion of ticket sales will go to the organization. The orchestra will perform A Tchaikovsky Thrill Ride – the piano concerto that has appeared in everything from cult films to late-night comedy shows. Get your ticket via atlantasymphony.org (use promo code HRCATL for a reduced price), and get ready for a dazzling musical rush on November 17 at the Atlanta Symphony.

Love Bazaar Presents Eli Escobar NY-based DJ Eli Escobar has been spinning house and disco beats for more than two decades – and now he comes to Atlanta for a special edition of Love Bazaar at The Music Room on November 17. Opening sets by Vicki Powell (Deep South ATL) and Elio Stereo.

Amy Schumer Live Award-winning comedian Amy Schumer is coming to Atlanta with a show at the Fox Theatre on November 14 that goes back to her stand-up comedian roots.

The show is rescheduled from the canceled show in September.

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Get ready for a sleigh load of that special acrobatic magic that only Cirque du Soleil can provide. For two nights only on November 2425 at the Fox Theatre, you can experience the new Cirque adventure, which is best described as Broadway musical and family holiday spectacular wrapped in one!

The magical ball that benefits Pets Are Loving Support (PALS) will take place at the Fox Theatre in their grand Egyptian Ballroom.

The black-tie optional event on November 29 will be full of mystery, including an open bar, heavy passed hors-d’oeuvres, a themed silent auction, and many other surprises.

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The all-inclusive Daddy Issues party out of London is making its Atlanta debut on November 30 at the Heretic. The DJ’s play an eclectic mix of electronic dance beats that range from house to disco and techno. The success of the party can also be attributed to a signature line of merchandise that will surely be on display and for sale on the night.

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Bespoke Never Looked Better The art of bespoke tailoring isn’t lost on Atlanta. Neil Balani, the owner and chief tailor of HKT Custom Clothiers, has created highly customized suiting for Atlantans since 2005, and the family-run business has offered bespoke tailoring since 1970. In fact, if you’re looking for a Savile Row-style tailoring establishment, you will feel very comfortable in the capable hands of Neil, who both understands the logistics of running a bespoke clothing brand, as well as the intricacies of how to tailor.

Neil, How did you get into tailoring?

Back home in Malta, my dad was in the men’s clothing and tailoring business, so I saw it on the daily when I was visiting him at the shop. HKT is a bit different because we’re into making custom suits, versus just alterations. But, tailoring has always been in my life.

Explain the process of creating a bespoke suit for a client.

First is understanding the client’s needs to get an idea of what fabric is needed and their lifestyle. We help them choose fabrics; we carry over 3,000 different types, which are all different depending on the use such as work travel or a wedding.

We then go through the details of the garment, including the styling of the suit - so one or two button, pleats or no pleats, double-breasted or not. Then we take body measurements to create a pattern, which we keep on file. In four to six weeks the garment will be complete for him to try where we will do a couple of light fittings to make additional adjustments. Then it will be completed in a week.

What elements are crucial to creating the perfectly tailored suit?

The key is to understand what a client wants, but at the same time give them the advice on how a suit should fit. It’s not as easy as just taking body measurements, but consulting them on how we can design the suit to fit for their body.

Beyond suits, HKT Custom Clothiers offer custom shirts, belts, jeans, sports jackets, trousers, tuxedos, sweaters, polos, as well as a whole line of luxury men’s accessories like ties pocket, squares, cufflinks, and sunglasses.

What’s your favorite item of clothing – and why?

I love my bold sports jackets and a nice pocket square to give it that finesse. I like to make a statement, but at the same time I tone it down with nice jeans or dark colored pants to keep it in balance.

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How do you keep up with trends and get inspiration for your work?

I go through our archives and take inspiration from what we created over the years. Since we’ve been in business so long, we can look back and see what we were creating in the 70s and 80s to take inspiration. I also watch what’s happening with British and Italian fashion trends, pulling from the best trends to create our own here in Atlanta.

As a bit of Savile Row flair in Atlanta – how do you view the style of Atlanta’s men?

Style in Atlanta has really improved from even five years ago. I’m now seeing that even the youngest generation is dressing up much more instead of wearing shorts and tees to the office. The music and film industry has also had an influence in making people dress up more. The younger man wants to stand out as a person, and from a style and business perspective, it’s upped the game.

Atlanta has its own look that’s in the middle of LA and NYC, so a mix of casual street style with curated dressed up and well-designed pieces.

What is it about bespoke suiting that makes it so unique?

Bespoke suiting is an art and a craft that is very unique in itself. It’s all about perfection and making something that is precisely for the individual, not an off the peg suit that has to be altered to try and fit them. At HKT it is a personal service as well; we get to build a relationship with our clients, and that helps us set a different standard. You really have to get to understand someone as a person to craft something so personal for them.

Why should every man experience having a custom clothing item made?

Everyone should experience knowing that a clothing item is made just for them, solidly for their body. It’s not going to fit anyone else. I think the custom clothing experience is extraordinary and amazing from start to finish. There is nothing better than having something that fits for your confidence. That is where guys have trouble buying off the rack clothing because the items don’t fit great and they are uncomfortable. With alterations, you can only do so much.

What do you think is the biggest misconception about bespoke clothing?

People tend to think bespoke clothing is just way too expensive, but realistically it’s not. They think it’s something beyond their conception or are even unaware of it. But it’s really something to try in life. Once you enjoy the process, you’ll find it amazing.

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Bespoke suits are also something you’ll wear for a lifetime. We’ve had clients come to us with suits from 1986 that we made. They still fit and look great, but we’re able to update them, so they reflect today’s styles. Your return on investment with a custom suit is actually better than an off the peg suit since it will last you longer and you’ll get more wears.

Your Own Style Consultation Arrange for a personal style consultation with Neil. Call the store to arrange an appointment at 770-458-8662 or go online at hktclothiers.com/appointments.

You can also learn more about HKT Custom Clothiers and get the latest styles by following their Instagram at @hktclothiers.

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Alberto Giacometti. A Retrospective This exhibition surveys four decades of production by Alberto Giacometti (b. 1901; d.

1966), one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. More than 200 sculptures, paintings, and drawings make up a show that offers a unique perspective on the artist’s work, highlighting the extraordinary holdings of artworks and archive material gathered by Giacometti’s wife, Annette. As an added bonus the retrospective is shown at the incredible Guggenheim Bilbao, conceived by American architect, Frank Gehry. Showing now through February 24, 2019.

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The Mnuchin Gallery presents The Joy of Color – an exhibition that brings together paintings and sculpture spanning eight decades, united by their unbridled celebration of color’s power to inspire and uplift.

Featured artists include Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Sam Gilliam, Jeff Koons, Laura Owens, Mark Rothko, and Alma Thomas, to name a few. November 1 through December 8, 2018, at the Mnuchin Gallery in New York. mnuchingallery.com

Opening November 1 for the Berlin Science Week, the Art Science exhibition features international artists that work within a wide range of eco thematics, like climate change, pollution, ecosystems, all showcased in this extensive and fact-based exhibition. The exhibit includes a flowerhouse designed by Gorenflos Architekten, video screenings with features on ecosystems recovery by John D. Liu, artist lectures, and much more. Catch the EcoConnectivity Exhibition at Thaer-Institut’s Grand Hall, next door to the Museum für Naturkunde in the heart of Berlin November 1 through November 23, 2018. artscienceexhibits.com

There’s no doubt that documentary filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer is on a roll. You may recognize his name from his award-winning 2008 doc Valentino: The Last Emperor, about the titular gay fashion designer.

It’s more likely, however, that it’s his current popular release Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, which opened in theaters this summer that has caught your eye.

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The doc, based on Scotty Bowers’ memoir in which he recounts his life as procurer to the stars, has them lining up at the box office. Tyrnauer’s new doc Studio 54 (Altimeter Films), which is currently making the LGBTQ film festival circuit, is an eye-opening look at the history and abrupt end of the renowned late-1970s Manhattan disco Studio 54, as told by co-founder Ian Schrager and a host of others. I spoke with Matt about his movie in early autumn 2018.

I’d like to begin by congratulating you on the positive reception that Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood has received upon its release.

Thank you.

What does that mean to you as a filmmaker?

I’m thrilled that Scotty has been so well-received. It’s a very important movie to me because it pulls together a lot of thematic strands that are of interest to me and have appeared in my other work, among them alternate histories, being material about Hollywood itself, the exploration of a character in a very deep way and coming at a character in, perhaps, an unexpected angle.

The material is difficult, so that people, by and large, have responded to it positively, means an extraordinary amount to me.

FILM that fertile ground. The basic story is known around the world, but it’s never been given the full-dress documentary treatment.

It’s a fascinating story that has a lot more to it than sex, drugs and disco, which is the version of it that normally gets told. Like with Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, it might seem at first like a frivolous subject matter – nightclubs and music and celebrities and bacchanalias – but I think there’s a lot more to it which I was keen to explore.

Early in the Studio 54 doc, Ian Schrager, one of the co-creators of the disco (and as he put it, one of only two people who could tell the story) says that after almost 40 years it’s all right for him to talk about. How long had you been in contact with Schrager before you were able to begin production?

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood along with RBG, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Three Identical Strangers and Fahrenheit 11/9, to name a few, are the reason that 2018 is being called “the year of the documentary”. As a doc filmmaker, what does it mean to you to see the genre experiencing such popularity?

It’s not only the year of the documentary, it’s the year of the theatrical documentary, which I think is very significant. I’ve been a big proponent of the theatrical doc which is something that has been declared dead many times, even since I’ve been making documentaries. I think that it’s extremely important for documentaries to be in movie theaters because they, like all film, should provoke conversation. I think there’s nothing to replace the theater-going experience for the conversation that occurs generally after the movie ends on the way up the aisle, out into the street and maybe to the restaurant or the bar. That newly discovered phenomenon of theatrical documentary, said with irony, is really welcome and not surprising to me. I feel like people have been saying to me for years, “The movies I really like to go see are the documentaries.” It’s kind of like a whispered aside. I think that it’s come into its own because theatrical films are so polarized now. There are the blockbuster tent-poles and there are the little scrappy indies. The so-called sophisticated, mid-budget films, which are the films a lot of people at least like, sort of disappeared from the landscape. To me, these successful theatrical docs have filled that void.

How much does your being a journalist have to do with your interest in doc filmmaking?

I think it’s related. I started my career as a journalist, but always had a keen interest in film. I was even a film major in college. It seemed like a logical progression to me to make the leap from long-form journalism to documentary filmmaking. One thing that I found mildly frustrating as a writer was that I have a visual side to me and it was not possible for me to flex those muscles as a writer. Let alone the fact that writing is the loneliest job in the world and filmmaking is the least lonely and most collaborative.

There’s a lot less loneliness and a lot more happiness in the doc world.

Your new doc Studio 54, which is screening at the OUTshine Film Festival in Fort Lauderdale in October, is an unflinching look at the famed disco and those associated with it. What inspired you to take on this subject?

Studio 54 is one of those subjects that I think is prime for a documentary. Because it’s something that people think they know about but they don’t really know about. I’ve always found

I’ve known him because I wrote about him. We discussed the film project for a few weeks before we agreed to make the movie.

What was involved in the process of gathering other interview subjects?

It’s interesting, there’s a kind of Studio 54 diaspora. The club was only open for 33 months in its original incarnation. The people who helped create the club and staffed it for those 33 months are very attached to each other spiritually. Even if they weren’t in touch on a regular basis, it’s just what I called it – a diaspora.

They all have a common origin story and Studio 54 helped define their lives. If you know a few of those people, they lead you to all of the rest.

Roy Cohn was Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell’s lawyer during their legal troubles with the IRS and the government. Were you already planning to make Where’s My Roy Cohn? your next doc project or did the concept come about while you were making Studio 54?

It absolutely came out of Studio 54. I was watching all of this archival footage of Roy Cohn and became fairly mesmerized by his onscreen persona, which has been described as “serpentlike”. He’s really compelling to watch. He has this Dark Prince of the TV Tube persona. He was on my mind a lot as a character and someone who hadn’t been explored in a documentary. That’s how that came about.

Lastly, would you please say something about the queer subject matter in your films, including Valentino: The Last Emperor, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, Studio 54 and the upcoming Where’s My Roy Cohn?

There’s a lot of queer in my movies which I’m very happy about.

There’s a lot of queer in me, too. To the extent that I believe that films should be personal, that’s one of my themes and it’s not a coincidence and it’s no mistake. Each of the films you mentioned looks at the subject matter in its own particular way. I believe that sex is politics. My friend Gore Vidal told me that. I make political films that might not seem on the surface to be political.

Sex and sexuality are themes that these films have in common.

To the extent that I’m fascinated in exploring that, it’s a political subject for me and I’m not going to stop exploring it as I continue on in making future projects.

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Rubem Robierb successfully captures the beholder’s attention compelling the viewer to extract the underlying message of the artwork – a particularly powerful trait of Robierb’s art.

Rubem Robierb’s most significant artistic talent is his ability to bestow the seemingly banal with monumental proportions. Case in point: His BulletFly Effect paintings that combine the beauty and delicate innocence of butterfly wings with a bullet body to create a powerful metaphor of violent transformation. His use of figures, that span from commonplace to iconic, are given new and profound meanings that reveal themselves as the beholder discover the subtle signs that Robierb so masterfully hides in plain sight.

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His work carries an innate connection to the pop art movement where he, like Andy Warhol, creates a visually compelling dimensionality and figurativeness that conveys powerful messages to the beholder. His link to the contemporary art movement is also apparent with references to Damien Hirst whose use of natural elements creates a constant dialogue between life and death.

Robierb’s strong inspiration from street art is also evident in many of his works constructing politically laden layers to his artworks. In turn, the constant play on the permanence of all things life links him to contemporary Banksy.

[1] BulletFly Effect Series (2012-2014) Robierb has developed his BulletFly Effect series over several years, adding even more layers to the strong visual and symbolic figure that combines butterfly wings and bullets.

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[2] Diptychs Butterflies (2016) Robierb evolves his signature figures by dismembering to combine painting and sculpture on a larger scale. The wings have become human-scale, and the bullet body hast materialized into a larger than life sculpture – together a powerful symbol of hand and human-made power.

Diptych Butterfly I – White on Black (2016), Hand painted/ SilkScreen/Diamond Dust, 72 x 46 in (each wing), Edition: Unique

[3] Metamorph-US - BulletFly Murals (2015) At the beginning of 2015, Robierb was commissioned by the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to bring his BulletFly Effect series into the heart of the city. His art project Metamorph-US transformed a Downtown Fort Lauderdale building with a 300-foot mural of large-scale butterflies.

Metamorph-US Mural (2015), Fort Lauderdale, Florida

[4] HEART (2015) With HEART Rubem Robierb strikes yet another nerve in contemporary American society by showcasing the fact that human emotion often gets transferred to a plethora of external communicative objects like signs, emojis, words, and symbols.

Now or Never (2015), Hand Painting/Silk Screen/Neon, 44 × 44 in, Edition: Unique.

[5] Money Talks (2017) Gathering inspiration from the pictures, symbols, and phrases that are drawn or written on money across the world, Robierb distills the significance and layers these motifs add to the currency. By using different techniques and textures, he lets the money reveal the layers of what the money is actually saying about our shared values.

Sorry Not Sorry (2017), Hand Painting/Silk Screen/Neon, 34 x 74in, Edition: Unique

[6] Thoughts & Prayers (2018) The expression ‘’thoughts and prayers’ has been co-opted in today’s supercharged political discourse, losing its value of comfort and understanding. Robierb’s artwork questions its currency in today’s world by painting mass-produced soup cans (with a distinct nod to Warhol) and creating over-size and empty boxes as a metaphor of how society mass-produces feelings that are delivered in throw-away packaging.

Thoughts & Prayers Soup Can (2016), Silk Screen on Paper/ Diamond Dust, 20 x 20 in, Edition: 30 Prayers & Thoughts Boxes (2017), Stencil on wood, 18 x 18 in, Edition: 30

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It’s unrealistic to date someone without any past history at all. Acknowledge your feelings but put them in perspective.

Remember, you have a past too.

DEAR DEVEN: I love Canadians! Just wanted you to know that their manners, comedy and music is Eh-Okay!

“Maple”

I/We appreciate your excellent insight.

The beauty of your list is that anyone, no matter what country they are from, already possess these attributes

DEAR DEVEN: I’m dating a new guy that drives like a maniac. He scares me for fun.

He has a fast car and loud music, which I love, but his driving though!

“Rubber”

Safety first. I know it is thrilling and he is showing off because he wants to impress you but get this in check. Don’t condone it. Taking risks of this nature is reckless.

DEAR DEVEN: Dear Deven: I am embarrassed when I cry during a movie. I can’t stop and just blubber in front of everyone. Do you have any tricks to stop crying?

“Weeping Willow”

There is no need to stop. You are allowed to cry. If you really can’t contain yourself, go to the washroom until your sobs have quieted. What a reassurance that you are human and not a robot devoid of feelings.

DEAR DEVEN: I have a confession to make. Last month I got seriously addicted to going to a psychic. She just keeps enticing me in with deals. I feel guilty like it is a secret, but I keep going. Should I stop if it feels like the right thing?

“Palm”

Just wait until your credit card bill arrives.

She is running a business and you are looking for a friend. No one has the answers but you, dear.

Dear Friends: I offer no advice, only my salacious experience. DevenGreen@gmail.com Photo: Jasmine Mieles Mua: David Marvel

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