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    Digital Media Director

    Since joining Atlanta magazine in 2006, Florio has served as assistant and associate editor and currently serves as digital media director, overseeing day-to-day operations of the magazine's website and its ancillary digital products. She is a 2005 graduate of Northwestern University.

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Modal Citizen: Kyle Azevedo of ViaCycle

Our (inaugural) monthly chat with a champion of transit, mobility, connectivity, and good urbanism

Posted on 5/14/2013 1:46:00 PM by Elizabeth Florio
This post marks the first in a series of spotlights on local transportation rock stars. May is National Bike Month, so I spoke with **Kyle Azevedo**, 26, who along with a group of engineering grad students developed the world’s first GPS-enabled, stationless bike-share system. Call them "smart bikes" for short. Read More

Gushing over "Gatsby"

You don't forget an encounter with a rare first edition

Posted on 4/26/2013 1:52:00 PM by Elizabeth Florio
The New York Times ran a story yesterday on the DiCaprio-emblazoned paperback edition of "The Great Gatsby" and how it’s offended the sensibilities of some booksellers. The article recalled to my mind a first edition of the book, complete with iconic dust jacket, I encountered four years ago while working on a short profile of Buckhead’s Grey Parrot Gallery. Read More

3. Stay for the fireworks at the Ted

A Braves' summertime tradition

Posted on 4/15/2013 8:03:00 AM by Elizabeth Florio
In the predawn hours of July 5, 1985, in the eighteenth inning of a twice-rain-delayed game against the Mets, an unassuming Braves relief pitcher named Rick Camp smacked a two-out solo home run to send the game into the nineteenth. Read More

Riding to work with MARTA's CEO

The city's commuter in chief

Posted on 4/8/2013 8:00:00 AM by Elizabeth Florio
Standing on the platform of the Dunwoody station one late January morning, Keith Parker looks every bit the high-ranking executive—camel overcoat, dapper gray suit, trim goatee—except for one small detail: a broken-in leather briefcase that appears to have seen the floors of a few train cars. Read More

MARTA says it won't ask for state money until "house is in order"

The transit authority releases 5-year business plan

Posted on 1/18/2013 8:19:00 PM by Elizabeth Florio
On Friday afternoon, MARTA unveiled a draft of a five-year plan for how the transit authority can cope with a $30 million operating deficit. Authored by auditing firm KPMG, the "transformation road map" provides guidelines for implementing measures recommended in an audit last year. These include restructuring employee benefits and outsourcing certain business functions—savings that could amount to more than $100 million over five years. Read More