On Second Thought For Thursday, October 20, 2016

Happy two-year anniversary to us! Celebrate our time on the air with dinner, drinks and dancing:

Atlanta is home to some of the best restaurants found in the Southeast. But to get your hands on some of that great food, you have to put up with an awful lot of noise. Restaurants around the city are getting increasingly noisier, but is it just high volume of patrons or conscious decisions made by owners? We talk to Atlanta Magazine Deputy Food Editor Evan Mah and interior designer Vivian Bencich to find out who or what is responsible for all the noise.

Happy Anniversary to us!

Plus, a documentary by Atlanta filmmaker James Martin tells the story of one of the most famous cocktails to come out of the South: The New Orleans Sazerac. We speak with Martin and Clair McLafferty, an expert on Southern cocktails, about the drink’s history and what it tells us about the South.

And viral dance moves like “Whip/Nae Nae” and “Hit the Quan” have come out of the South or are affiliated with Southern rap songs. We look at the emergence and history of regional hip hop dance styles and what makes Southern styles so popular. We talk about the intersection of dance and hip hop with Creative Loafing senior staff writer and Five Points podcast co-host Rodney Carmichael; UCLA professor and hip hop dance scholar Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris; and Andy Tadic, who manages young rappers and dancers like Atlanta’s We Are Toonz which created the viral dance “Nae Nae.”