November 2011
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GloATL's Float | Creative Loafing Atlanta →
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Historical Context of the Margaret Mitchell House →
GREAT history of Midtown by Tommy H. Jones. Warning: serious history dorks only!
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Also, I was just reminded yesterday that Margaret... →
peachtreekeen:
One of the things Lerner writes about is the history of public attitudes toward drunk driving. He uses the example of Margaret Mitchell, the author of Gone with the Wind, who was crossing the street with her husband in Atlanta in 1949 when she was hit by a drunk driver and died.
According to Lerner, people initially reacted with horror, but then attitudes shifted and there...
Outwrite says goodbye to landmark Midtown corner →
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Georgia Tech said it would keep the front portion... →
As currently envisioned, Georgia Tech would redevelop the Crum & Forster block and keep more than the historic building’s facade but would want to tear down part of the building.
Lisa Grovenstein, Georgia Tech’s director of media relations, sent SaportaReport a couple of emails on Tuesday to elaborate further on the university’s conceptual plans for the block bordered by Spring Street,...
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Memorial Drive: Is Atlanta’s public art... →
Society remains intolerant of challenging art. When you can’t install an abstract mural without a dust-up, as happened recently in Inman Park, it’s difficult to envision a really progressive, cutting-edge arts scene that questions cultural values on the necessary global scale.
Instead of challenging the system, we are decorating our failures. “Elevate,” at Underground Atlanta, seemed...
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Fight to save historic Crum & Forster continues;... →
Georgia Tech apparently has solidified plans for what it would like to see on the block — a High Performing Computing Center, which would take advantage of a major fiber optics trunk line that travels underneath West Peachtree Street.
Now there’s a growing concern that Georgia Tech has not given up its desire to demolish the entire building, with the possible exception of just keeping the...
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Outwrite Bookstore and Coffeehouse closing at... →
“We’ve been in this location 15 years and helped this neighborhood grow. With any luck we will find another location and help that neighborhood, that corner, that location grow and thrive,” Rafshoon added.
That’s the reassuring thing about this. Hopefully Outwrite can make the successful move to a new space and revitalize another little corner all over again....
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noelinc asked: Loving your blog....did I already say that? Sorry lol
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The Intriguing, Invisible World of Atlanta’s... →