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    Charles Bethea is, as his paternal grandmother boasts, a fifth-generation Atlantan. Raised in Ansley Park, he now lives in Buckhead, though he's always talking about moving somewhere cool, like Cabbagetown. He likes writing about lots of things, but especially sports, adventure, and death. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Wired, and Outside magazine, about subjects ranging from Barack Obama's e-mail address to whether or not humans can outrun pronghorn antelope. In 2011, he won the City and Regional Magazine Association award for reporting for his piece on Final Exit Network and was nominated for a James Beard Award.

The Doritos ad champ

A chat with Ben Callner, creator of the winning goat ad during this year's Super Bowl

Posted on 5/6/2013 8:00:00 AM by Charles Bethea
Ben Callner is twenty-eight and lives in the basement of his girlfriend’s parents’ home in Decatur—by choice, he insists, not necessity. Read More

On the Falcons' New Stadium

So, the Falcons get a new stadium. What’s in it for us?

Posted on 2/1/2013 7:30:00 AM by Charles Bethea
A new stadium! Georgia Dome 3.0: the thinnest, lightest, fastest arena ever! With a retractable roof! At a cost of a mere billion, $300 million of which would come from hotel/motel taxes, the rest from Falcons owner Arthur Blank and the NFL. Read More

Georgia's Olympic Hopefuls

These natives are London-bound and medal-hungry

Posted on 8/1/2012 12:00:00 PM by Charles Bethea
Of the 760 American Olympic athletes who had made their teams by mid-June—when we went to press—twenty-one called Georgia home. That total ranked eleventh in the nation and third in the South, behind Florida (forty-four) and Texas (sixty-three). Georgia has the ninth-largest state population, approaching 10 million, so we’re slightly underperforming (proportionately). Of course, medals are what counts. We’re counting on this Georgia gang to make us proud in London. Read More

Into the Wild

Pat Morrin's Duluth home is a veritable museum of natural history

Posted on 7/1/2012 12:00:00 PM by Charles Bethea
In 2007, not long after getting divorced, Pat Morrin received his first deer mount. It was a gift from a neighbor. Five years later, it sits above the fireplace in the living room of his three-bedroom home in a Duluth subdivision, surrounded by some 300 other mounts, skulls, and hides arranged in alarmingly convincing poses. Read More

Johnny's Hideaway

A new generation discovers the club

Posted on 7/1/2011 12:00:00 PM by Charles Bethea
Nothing much has changed at Johnny’s Hideaway, the cougar bar buried in the strip mall homogeneity of Roswell Road. Not the disco ball or the parquet floor or the glamour shots of dead and dying celebrities. Divorcées in tight jeans and halter tops still troll the perimeter. The oldies soundtrack is the same, though founder Johnny Esposito, “Mr. Nightlife,” passed away in April at age seventy-nine. Chris Dauria, the son of Esposito’s partner Mike Dana, has run the place for years—still guarding the door with his entourage of big, bald bouncers, as if something valuable were inside. And maybe, in this age of disposable bars, there is. Read More

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5/26+ Georgia Renaissance Festival
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5/26+ Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture, and American Cuisine Identity

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