The People v. Leo Frank
Throughout the rain-threatened spring morning, pilgrims kept arriving at the Marietta City Cemetery. High school kids researching a history project. A Darlington, South Carolina, lawyer who’d been planning his trip for months. A curious college student.
The cemetery discovered near Chastain Park
Ray Mock can remember the “poorhouses” next to the North Fulton Golf Course where he played as a teenage duffer. “Most of the people who lived there were elderly or ‘tetched,’ as we called it—or, as the census at the time cruelly termed them, ‘lunatics,’” he says.
Out of Many: Dancehall kings, cricket batters, fowl farmers, and more have found ways to bring the Caribbean to the South
Christopher Swain
Christopher Swain has traveled the globe seeking to understand his ancestral lineage through the arts. The native Atlantan, author, and public arts coordinator for the City of East Point is an avid collector...
2014 in Atlanta, as told by 14 #weloveATL Instagram photos
There’s more to cellphone snaps than selfies and documentation of everyone’s dinner. In 2012, photographers Brandon Barr, Aaron Coury, and Tim Moxley created the hashtag #weloveATL to curate Instagram shots for a gallery show. The label has become a badge of civic pride, with Atlantans tagging more than 100,000 photos.
What’s next for GSU football?
When they went 6–5 in their inaugural season four years ago, Georgia State University’s Panthers had reason for optimism. Now it seems the young Panthers grew up too quickly for their own good.
The Shelf: Emily Giffin
Emily Giffin From her attic home office in Brookhaven, Emily Giffin has written a string of bestselling, candy-colored novels about love, marriage, and all the inconvenient drama that often accompanies both. In her four books—Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Baby Proof, and Love the One You’re Wi
In Tune: Bryan-Michael Cox
Songwriter, producer, and four-time Grammy Award–winner Bryan-Michael Cox—aka B. Cox—is the man behind some of R&B’s biggest hits, including number ones for Usher (“Burn”), Mariah Carey (“Don’t Forget About Us”), and Mary J. Blige (“Be Without You”). The single thirty-one-year-old is based in Atlanta, but you’re just as likely to find him in L.A., Houston, or New York, writing for artists such as Toni Braxton, Ron I
Dope Girls’ cofounder shows us her perfect New Year’s Eve party
Sevananda for party favors, Kookie House for custom-made cookies, and wine from Hop City—Beca Grimm, a Dope Girls zine cofounder, shops local to ring in 2020 with a Babysitter’s Club–themed bash at home.
Our 14 top longreads of 2014
Our most popular longreads of the year included the bizarre tale of a fugitive banker, a heartbreaking account of a ballpark accident, and a little known slice of Civil War history.
One night at Northside Tavern
Amid a landscape of shiny new “West Midtown” development, a shabby old blues club is an oasis of old-school debauchery.
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