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  • Tony Rehagen

    Senior Editor

    After informative stints as a stock boy, convenience-store cashier, IT grunt, hotel bar musician, algebra tutor, library circulation worker, and newspaperman, Rehagen landed in the magazine writing business in 2005—and they haven’t fired him yet. For six and a half years, the Missouri native and University of Missouri School of Journalism grad wrote and edited longform stories for Indianapolis Monthly magazine in Indiana, before heading south in the summer of 2011 to do the same as Atlanta magazine’s senior editor. He lives near something called “The Perimeter” with his wife, Erin.

This Land Is My Land

In the high country of North Georgia, an old bootlegger and a gun merchant feuded for years over a quarter-mile property line. It ended in the worst possible way.

Just before 10 a.m. on September 7, 2009, residents of Mill Creek heard gunshots. Some heard one shot; others as many as three. At the time it did not seem important. Read More

Derivation of Dirty South

What is the origin of the term?

“What chu know about the Dirty South?” Aside from being a track and infectious refrain on Goodie Mob’s 1995 debut "Soul Food," the term has devolved in spelling (Durty Souf?) and evolved wildly in connotation. Read More