The Walking Dead Haiku Recap: Season 4, Episode 4: Indifference
Zombies and kudzu. Which is the most pernicious? Neither ever dies.
What are you doing this weekend? June 26-29
This weekend, presuming you aren’t plopped in front of a screen for marathon World Cup viewing, you can stroll along rows of art, get colorful with Katy Perry, brush up on your Civil War history, or party Canadian-style.
What are you doing this weekend? March 20-23
Spring has officially sprung as of today, and what better way to celebrate than to get out and take advantage of what Atlanta has to offer, which this week includes a country legend, dancers of all types, an epic science fair.
Newt Gingrich personally thanks me for my support
Perhaps I misjudged Newt Gingrich.Despite my chronic inability to say anything nice about him, he posted a YouTube video yesterday thanking me personally for supporting his campaign.Me. Personally. How sweet.
How safe are e-cigarettes?
What's the truth about e-cigarettes? Georgia State University’s School of Public Health aims to find out. The school and its partners will receive $19 million over five years—the largest grant in the university’s history—from the FDA and the National Institutes of Health to create one of fourteen Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science.
Applauding the gutsy former staff of the Red & Black
The University of Georgia’s 119-year-old newspaper, the Red & Black, has made national news for the second time this summer—but this time, for a good reason.
What’s Atlanta watching?
Everyone’s fretting about U.S. government surveillance of phone calls and Facebook, but what about spying by YouTube? The YouTube Trends blog includes an interactive map that shows the three most popular videos on any given day in 150 regions throughout the United States–among them Atlanta. We wondered just what this monitoring might reveal, so we asked YouTube to track Atlanta’s top picks for the past week. It all feels a bit random to us, so maybe you need to be an intelligence agent to find a pattern in the following:
Dissenters did not get a chance to weigh in at last night’s Cobb Commission vote on the Braves stadium
Last night’s Cobb County Commission meeting felt more like a Chamber-backed groundbreaking for the new Braves stadium than a public forum. Before the call to order, the room was packed with suits, ties, and a few nametags attached to people talking about business, glad-handing, and passing out cards—the only things missing were the souvenir hard hats and shiny shovels.
Hagman, Duffy, Gray spawn a new generation of family dysfunction in reboot of “Dallas”
Good news, Ewing family fight fans. If the 1 minute and 6 second sneak peek of next summer's TNT reboot of "Dallas" is any indication, sibling rivalry and imploding family units remain the chief export of Ewing Oil, even in the age of "Dr. Phil."
Herman Cain revels in his own religious bigotry
On Friday, Herman Cain made a campaign stop at The Holy Land Experience Biblical amusement park in Orlando, Florida. While addressing a crowd, he told a jokey story about his cancer treatment displaying Cain's pride in his own vulgar anti-Muslim bigotry.
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