April 2013
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March 2013
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February 2013
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“Do people still walk in off the street with their stories and problems? I loved...”
– Ken Layne talks with a journalist who went from newspapers to Patch and back to newspapers.
January 2013
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December 2012
3 posts
“Fewer than 4,000 adults in the southern state receive welfare, even as poverty...”
– Georgia’s war against the poor: The southern state is emptying its welfare rolls at the same time that poverty is soaring. - Slate Magazine (via alexloyal)
November 2012
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October 2012
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September 2012
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August 2012
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July 2012
11 posts
The Press as Company Store, Atlanta Style →
pecannelog:
by Eric Guthey
Southern Changes, Vol. 10, No. 6, 1988,
Great read.
rachael maddux: Funtimes in Self-reflectionland →
rachael-maddux:
So apparently there’s nothing like spending years thinking about and months working on a story, writing 8,000 words, having that cut down to a very generous 4,500, being both happy with it and proud of it (two different things), seeing it published in a well-regarded and beautiful print magazine…
Atlanta’s Transportation Referendum vote is making... →
lizsnodgrass:
Atlanta’s Transportation Referendum vote is making national news. I read this article just now in the NYT and this is the most ridiculous quote I’ve ever read:
“His pet project is the Atlanta BeltLine, so he’s included the BeltLine,” he said. “The BeltLine goes nowhere, and it’s not going to do…
“Independence Day doesn’t commemorate a battle or a war. It commemorates the day...”
– From my latest piece “The Declaration of Independence Day” in Creative Loafing. http://clatl.com/atlanta/the-declaration-of-independence-day/Content?oid=5696723 (via andishehnouraee)
June 2012
4 posts
“These teachers saw enough to make them wonder and even to worry. Yet when the...”
– Amos Kamil, The Horace Mann School’s Secret History of Sexual Abuse
Private schools can be sick, insane, and incestuous places. I had a pervert-free experience, but still believe graduating from a private high school (I only went to Key for three years!) fucked me up socially. What’s addressed in...
May 2012
3 posts
“Indeed, it’s a strange day in America when rappers take a more progressive...”
– Creative Loafing’s Rodney Carmichael on homophobia in black churches. (via andishehnouraee)
My coworker, the talented and twisted Gwynedd... →
First up: the garlic-onion tortilla stack, one of the master chef’s “appe-tapas.”
April 2012
5 posts
If you're riding MARTA's Braves shuttle to... →
March 2012
2 posts
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February 2012
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January 2012
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