Aubrey Schield

The $100 million project—funded by federal grants, the city, and the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District—seems close to completion. Track is installed, the stops are in place, and the cars wait in their shed. What to expect when you finally board.

“Poetry is made of language under pressure—words chosen with precision and charged with meaning,” says Judson Mitcham, Georgia’s poet laureate. This spring, Mitcham and the Georgia Council for the Arts debut the Poet Laureate’s Prize, to be awarded for an original poem written by a state high school student.

Right now, SCAD Atlanta students and faculty are sleeping in the parking lot of the Atlanta campus’s main building. No, it’s not a dorm crisis or a protest, but an experiment in small living spaces.

We went to DragonCon and asked everyone we met the same question: "Why do you come here?" Video interviews by Rebecca Burns

Preview of the Atlanta Magazine Dream Home 2009. Videography by Caroline C. Kilgore.

Video of the Candler Park Market, featured in the June 2010 issue of Atlanta magazine. Video by Jamey Guy.

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We toured the convention and asked people: "Why do YOU come to DragonCon?"