Delta debuts 80s-tastic safety video
The airline's newest in-flight safety video, while lacking the subtlety of the original, is its funniest yet, with nods to Atari, Alf, the high-top fade, and other icons of the 80s.
Alison Krauss (and NeNe Leakes fan!) dazzles attendees at sold-out Captain Planet Foundation gala
As Ted Turner arrived at the Captain Planet Foundation gala private reception for major donors Friday night at the Georgia Aquarium, he made one final tweak to the fundraiser's decor. He ordered the environmental non-profit's trademark green carpet taken up and re-rolled in order to fix a potentially dangerous buckling issue on the floor. It's little wonder then when CNN's Nadia Bilchik introduced the smog-fighting cartoon character's dad to attendees at the sold-out dinner in the Oceans Ballroom, she described Turner as "media mogul, philanthropist and a guy who still picks up trash on the sidewalk."
Video of the Day: Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix
Plot details are hazy, to put it mildly, in the trailer for Jimi: All Is by My Side, the Hendrix biopic starring Andre Benjamin of Outkast, aka Andre 3000. But here's what you can glean: Set in groovilicious 1966 London, the movie focuses on the early days of Hendrix's career, which evidently included a romantic entanglement with a young British woman, played by Imogen Poots. (That is the most British name ever; it sounds like a tertiary Harry Potter character, one of the Hufflepuff quidditch players, maybe.)
Video of the Day: The Walking Dead as an 80s sitcom
The Walking Dead already has been given the House of Cards treatment, so it's inevitable that a total mood-swing parody would follow. Matin Comedy envisions TWD as a Full House-esque 1980s sitcom.
For those of us who still first think of Andrew Lincoln as the hopelessly smitten gallery guy in Love Actually (and I know I'm not the only one) the thought of Rick as a lovable comedy lead makes total sense. My main kvetch with this perky send up is the excessive screen time allocated to Lori. Really?
For those of us who still first think of Andrew Lincoln as the hopelessly smitten gallery guy in Love Actually (and I know I'm not the only one) the thought of Rick as a lovable comedy lead makes total sense. My main kvetch with this perky send up is the excessive screen time allocated to Lori. Really?
Valentine’s cards for your sweethearts who love Atlanta
Everyone's doing ironic, themed Valentine's cards today. Here are ours, Atlanta-style.
Dumb and Dumber To transforms Cabbagetown into … Rhode Island?
At some point, I suppose, it will stop being a surprise that movie folks ask Atlanta to stand in for so many other places. Odd enough that Woodruff Park was a facsimile of seventies-era NYC complete with overflowing garbage cans and yellow cabs for Anchorman 2. But today, while strolling around our neighborhood, my husband and I came across a crew hard at work constructing a faux Rhode Island streetscape on a long-vacant lot at the corner of Kirkwood Avenue and Pearl Street in Cabbagetown, about the most quintessentially Southern pocket of Atlanta you could hope for.
Red & Black publisher resigns
The publisher of University of Georgia’s independent student-run newspaper has resigned, according to an article posted on The Red & Black’s website.
Transportation referendum: Is the AJC being a downer?
On Sunday, the AJC provided an in-depth look at how the proposed transportation sales tax will affect commute times. This being the Twitter age, it's safe to assume many readers delved only as far as the article's downer of a lede:
With a new daytime talk show debuting Sept 10, Katie Couric hits Atlanta to discuss her future, putting her personal life on TV and why she’s on Pinterest
In advance of Katie Couric’s new ABC/Disney syndicated talk show “Katie” set to debut September 10 at 3 p.m., one of the most recognized media personalities on the planet has opted to go hat-in-hand, market-by-market to introduce viewers and the press to her new live topical show.
Don Farmer, Chris Curle deliver Deadly News to DBF
The couple will introduce the novel to friends and fans Saturday morning on the Emerging Writers stage at the AJC Decatur Book Festival at 10:50 a.m. This week, Farner and Curle took time out from visiting old colleagues and family in town (Farmer is the father of current Action News anchor Justin Farmer) to discuss Deadly News with Atlanta magazine.
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