Catching up with the Newt “Comeback Kid” Gingrich
Guess who's also stunned by Newt Gingrich's rise to the top of the GOP Presidential polls? Newt himself. He recently spoke to Newsweek about what it describes in the headline as his "stunning" comeback.
Open this week in Atlanta: Avalon, Neiman Marcus Last Call Studio, Bella Bag
We take a look at three new spots for Atlanta shoppers.
You know when you’re an Atlantan when . . .
We posed this question to our readers. Here's what they told us.
As season winds down, Mary Kay Andrews reflects on the best “Summer” of her career
Sometimes, to grow effectively as a writer, you have to scare the bejesus out of yourself. That's the lesson New York Times best-selling author Mary Kay Andrews has learned over the past year, leaving Harper Collins, her publisher of 18 years, for a fresh start with St. Martin's Press. "It was terrifying but I just felt it was time," Andrews reflected this summer over lunch at Big Tex Cantina in Decatur. "It was time to grow."
Cheer up, Atlanta! At least we have a new Stranger Things trailer.
While the Super Bowl didn't deliver us a Falcons championship, it did provide one ray of sunshine—a new trailer for the second season of the Atlanta-filmed Netflix hit Stranger Things.
What’s filming in Atlanta now? Avengers: Infinity War, Godzilla, The Passage, and more
Avengers: Infinity War (starring every Marvel character ever), Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and post-apocalyptic series The Passage are just a few of the movies and TV shows filming in Atlanta right now.
Don’t Miss List: Our top 5 event picks for January
Fahamu Pecou has come back from tragedy to host a solo show at Emory’s Michael C. Carlos Museum, Justin Timberlake is coming to State Farm Arena, and Atlanta is celebrating what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 90th birthday.
Inside the Rolling Stone Live: Atlanta Super Bowl party at the Goat Farm
Atlanta's Goat Farm Art Center is a 12-acre complex of 19th-century industrial warehouses. They’re usually populated by artists, but on Saturday, the Bravo-lebrities took over. Also in attendance—Ludacris, Young Thug, Gunna, Questlove, CeeLo Green, Ty Burrell, and more.
Who is casting All-Star votes for Justin Upton?
What do a supermodel and an evangelical political strategist have in common? How about a legendary half of Outkast and our hometown burrito chain? They all support Atlanta Brave Justin Upton's All-Star bid. Oh, so does BJ Upton, in case you wondered.
Why did Georgia execute more prisoners in 2016 than any other state?
Last year, at a time when the use of death penalty had dropped to historic lows nationwide, Georgia executed nine people convicted of murder, more than any other state. Don’t expect that pace to continue.
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