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    Deputy Editor

    Burns has contributed to Atlanta magazine since 1995 and worked on staff in various capacities, including serving as editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2009. She returned to the magazine in August 2012 after several years as director of digital strategy for Emmis Publishing, the magazine's parent company. Her career merges interests in media's future and our region's past. She's the author of three books on Atlanta history and at work on her fourth—an account of the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917. She co-curated the Atlanta History Center exhibit "Atlanta Magazine, 1961-2011: 50 Years of the Changing City" and produced the accompanying award-winning digital media project. An adjunct professor of journalism at Emory University, Burns is a frequent speaker at civic and community events. She lives in Cabbagetown with her husband, the designer and illustrator James Burns.

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What’s Matt Ryan worth?

Seven ways you could spend $100 million instead of paying a quarterback.

Posted on 5/23/2013 6:21:00 PM by Rebecca Burns,Mark Watkins
The AJC reports that Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan will join the NFL's $100 million club when his contract is renewed in the next few days. Naturally, we wondered, what else could Arthur Blank pick up for that much cash. Read More

Apparently downtown Atlanta’s getting a 20-story Ferris wheel

Which begs the question: Just what will riders look at?

Posted on 5/22/2013 9:47:00 AM by Rebecca Burns
Don’t get me wrong. I love Atlanta. Love Downtown. Have unabashed boosterish tendencies. But when I heard that the Atlanta City Council voted this week to approve installation of a twenty-story Ferris wheel near Centennial Olympic Park, my reaction was simple: WTF? Read More

Play our political bingo!

Find out which of our counties is the most dysfunctional

Posted on 5/22/2013 8:00:00 AM by Rebecca Burns
When Victor Hill took office as Clayton County sheriff in January—despite thirty-two pending felony charges—we were tempted to dub Clayton our most dysfunctional county. Read More

Atlanta No. 4 for suburban poverty growth

Forget your preconceptions: 87 percent of metro Atlanta’s poor people are suburbanites

Posted on 5/21/2013 9:21:00 AM by Rebecca Burns
Time to rethink your stereotypes. For decades the term “inner city” has been shorthand for "poor." But, as a study released by the Brookings Institution yesterday reveals, poverty is growing faster in U.S. suburbs than in cities, and Atlanta has the dubious distinction of being a trendsetter. Read More

Atlanta: Most redneck city in the USA?

The latest in dubious rankings, ya'll

Posted on 5/13/2013 12:10:00 PM by Rebecca Burns
Consider, as they say, the source. The same folks over at the Movoto real estate blog who recently decreed Atlanta the most nerdy city in the U.S. have now dubbed us "most redneck."

The redneck-calculation methodology developed by Movoto's Natalie Grigson includes: percentage of high school dropouts; number of gun stores, taxidermists, Walmarts, country music stations, and Western gear vendors; and proximity to a NASCAR track. Also lawn mower repair stores.

Alright, Natalie. We'll concede on most of the findings—especially the guns and dropouts. But did you have to make a Jeff Foxworthy reference? We'd have gone with the Stone Mountain laser show. Read More