Culture
Little Five Points is renowned for its alternative culture. It is home to metro-wide indie radio station WRFG FM 89.3, two independent bookstores (Charis Books and More and A Cappella Books), record stores (Criminal Records, Wax'n'Facts), coffee shops (Java Lords, Aurora Coffee, Starbucks), a health and wellness center (Sweetgrass Wellness Spring), new and used clothing stores (Rag-O-Rama), novelty shops (Junkman's Daughter), a new-age shop (Crystal Blue), a locally owned credit union (BOND Community Federal Credit Union), a natural foods store (Sevananda Natural Foods Market), an independent pharmacy, and independent record labels (DB Records) and Shut Eye Records & Agency, three theaters (7Stages, Dad's Garage Theatre Company, and Horizon Theatre), a major music venue (Variety Playhouse), a community music school (The Little 5 Points Music Center), a smoking store (42°), and several local restaurants and bars. The neighborhood is featured in the Cartoon Network show Class of 3000 as well as the Internet Girls series of books by Lauren Myracle, who mentions several of the businesses in Little Five Points by name.
Little Five points is home to the Little Five Points Halloween Festival, which takes place every year on the Saturday of Halloween. Bands play in the square, local vendors sell arts and crafts, and the highlight of the celebration is the Little Five Points Halloween Parade. The parade features local celebrities, bikers in costume, live music, hearses, several local marching bands, and many parade floats that are put together by community action groups and local businesses. Little Five is also the host of Little Five Fest, which is an annual music festival featuring 50-100 local bands spread across multiple venues.
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Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man’s culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing—he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)
“Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.”
—Norman Podhoretz (b. 1930)