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Michael Dubin’s secret to success: “A relentless curiosity” and “an indefatigable energy for problem solving”

It would be a stretch to call Michael Dubin an energy conservationist. However, considering that Dubin started Dollar Shave Club in 2011 and sold the direct-to-consumer razor blade business to Unilever for $1 billion just five years later, it might be worth listening to what he has to say about how to put your personal energy to optimal use.
Baby Driver filming locations map

A map of all the places Baby Driver filmed in Atlanta

Where was the First Bank of Atlanta? Bo's Diner? Baby's apartment? Find out.

A child of South Carolina, and the complicated legacy of the Confederate flag

Some people learn the true history and change. Others live with the myth and perpetuate hate and discrimination, and, in its darkest form, violence.
The Color Purple

5 Atlanta events you won’t want to miss: October 25-31

The Color Purple hits the Fox Theatre, Cumberland Mall celebrates Halloween, and Franco-Cuban musical duo Ibeyi plays Variety Playhouse.
Frank Patterson

Pinewood Atlanta’s president wants to make Y’allywood a new media magnet

Frank Patterson envisions the Pinewood campus becoming something of a mini Silicon Valley for new media companies. Think firms devoted to emerging virtual reality or motion capture technology, or a start-up focused on next-generation sound design or video game software.

A proposed law could cloud details of spending on the Braves and Falcons stadiums

Atlanta Braves pitchers and catchers are basking under the Florida sun as they prepare for the 2014 baseball season. Meanwhile, dark clouds could be forming in Atlanta to obscure details of public spending on the team’s proposed $672 million stadium.
Dragon Con

Don’t Miss List: Our top 5 Atlanta event picks for August

Tens of thousands of nerds take over downtown at Dragon Con, hop in a hot air balloon at Callaway Gardens, and sing your lungs out with Janelle Monáe at the Tabernacle

Would grocery shopping with a nutritionist help people eat healthier?

Kristina Lewis, a medical researcher with Kaiser Permanente of Georgia, snagged one of the inaugural awards from the New York Academy of Sciences’ Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science.

After a hellish marriage to Otis Nixon, Candi Staton returns with Life Happens

Describing her tumultuous two-year marriage to former Atlanta Braves outfielder Otis Nixon, Candi Staton doesn’t sugarcoat a thing: “It was hell on earth. My God, it was the most terrifying and devastating time in my whole life. I was going through the fires of hell trying to figure out how to live with him and then how to find a way out of that crazy marriage.”
Rayshard Brooks Protest

What we know so far about the killing of Rayshard Brooks

On the evening of Friday, June 12, 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by an Atlanta Police Department officer in the parking lot of the Wendy's restaurant on University Avenue in Peoplestown.

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