How now, Howell Mill? Atlanta’s once pocked and remote industrial thoroughfare seemed an edgy choice for elegant Bacchanalia when it moved there from its safe and serene Buckhead manse a decade ago. Today Howell Mill, invaded by artsy urban homesteaders,…
I talked with Coach Bobby Cremins two days after his College of Charles-ton Cougars were upset by Chattanooga in the finals of the Southern Conference basketball tournament. “We did not play well,” he says, “but mainly we were simply too…
Despite standing front and center as senior vice president of communications for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce (MACOC), Esther Campi, 36, claims she’s actually an introvert. “People who know me laugh when I say that,” she says. “I guess…
The total economic impact of all 35 institutions of the University System of Georgia on their host communities was $12.1 billion for the fiscal year that ended in June 2008. The output impact of each institution is the change in…
We are still about a year away from raising the curtain on primary elections in Georgia, but the main players are already assembled onstage. They are all auditioning for the biggest role in Georgia politics: the person who will succeed…
In the middle of the largest surplus of new homes in the nation’s history, Patti Goff is facing a housing shortage. And she has a waiting list of customers lined up, cash in hand, ready to lease some space. Goff…
Augusta is known worldwide as the home of one of golf’s greatest tournaments, the Masters. However, there’s far more to this city, located some two hours east of Atlanta, than green fairways and green jackets. Augusta also is home to…
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