Fall reading

Fall reading: Cozy up with these 5 books from Georgia authors

5 books to add to your fall reading list, including Jonathan Rabb's Among the Living and Molly Brodak's Bandit.
Deirdre Shoemaker and Laura Cadonati

These Georgia Tech physicists helped prove Einstein right

Deirdre Shoemaker has known from the time she was a 12-year-old science fiction fan that she wanted to spend her life studying black holes. But when she came to Georgia Tech in 2008 as a founding faculty member of the university’s Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, she found few other female postgraduates.
CNN Newsroom

This is the CNN nerve center

Since the former Omni International Complex’s rechristening as the CNN Center in 1987, the newsroom has been the core of the network’s global news-gathering operations.
Nydia Tisdale

Crusader with a camera: Nydia Tisdale has been flipped off, called a Nazi, even arrested for recording public officials

Tisdale is, for lack of a better term, a “citizen journalist,” a label that’s taken on greater relevance as video recording has become more ubiquitous and as conventional media outlets have shrunk. Citizen journalists often straddle the line between reporter and advocate. Since 2011 Tisdale has recorded hundreds of videos of elected officials and political candidates in public settings, uploading them to her website, unedited and without commentary.
SlowExposures

SlowExposures spotlights photography made in and about the rural South

What does the rural South look like? The region’s popular image is colored by Deliverance-style stereotypes and misconceptions. But 15 years ago, Christine Curry—a clinical social worker and bookstore owner in Zebulon, Georgia—realized that the area was in danger of having its true character erased.
Flatiron Building Atlanta

5 things to know about the recently renovated Flatiron Building

Relaunched as FlatironCity, the building’s “Next Gen Office Space” (think two-gigabit internet service and fridges stocked with craft beer) was more than 70 percent leased before its grand opening in May.
Tom Key Theatrical Outfit

Q&A: Artistic director Tom Key on Theatrical Outfit’s 40th season

Key, now in his 21st year with Theatrical Outfit, talks about the "Season of Hope" and why he chose Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights to kick off the 40th season.
Dragon Con cosplay 2015

Meet some of Dragon Con’s dedicated cosplayers

Why the obsession? Sure, it’s fun to impress the throngs at the annual parade. Better still to one-up your peers in the hotel lobby. But ultimately, Dragon Con is about community, from Avengers to zombies.

How I ended up learning to drive at 39

I thought I would live in Chicago until the day I died. But life has a way of forcing you to improvise, to adjust, to do things you never imagined. For me, a lifelong Midwesterner, one of the greatest adjustments involved learning to drive.
The Stitch

The Stitch: An ambitious proposal to build parks and housing above The Connector

An alliance of neighborhood boosters and downtown landowners is pushing an ambitious new proposal, bearing an estimated price tag of $300 million. They believe it can bring about a fresh renaissance in Atlanta’s urban core and finally erase the half-century-old barrier between downtown and Midtown.

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