The Atlanta Boy Choir celebrates its 50th anniversary this month with a concert at the Rialto Center marking the debut of a new work by Stephen Paulus. Shortly thereafter, choir members will be jetting off for a summer tour of…
• Linger Longer Communities, which is redeveloping Jekyll Island in partnership with the Jekyll Island Authority, revamped its plans in order to place a park and environmental conservation center on a site formerly planned for hotels and condominiums. Since the…
Gingrey’s in?: Cobb County Congressman Phil Gingrey is now rumored to be planning a run for the U.S. Senate in 2010, assuming Johnny Isakson does indeed decide to leave the Senate to run for governor. If true, that could set…
Georgia’s GOP-dominated legislature left the 2008 session under a hail of criticism for doing nothing. Here’s a sample of what newspapers across the state had to say: “Lipstick this pig any way you wish. It [the legislative session] was a…
When my daughter was 4, I traded a freelance career – flexible schedule, no dress code, easy commute to the back bedroom where I worked – for a “real” job that required dressing like a grownup and driving across town…
Assuming that the U.S. economic recession is mild and that Georgia’s economy manages to keep its head above water, the Albany MSA will add about 400 new jobs in 2008. As always, there are headwinds and tailwinds. Albany’s economy will…
Bee Malady: Some 165 billion members of Georgia’s most critical workforce are without badly needed healthcare and their numbers are diminishing. This is the estimated number of bees in Georgia’s 100 or so commercial colonies who, every year, work their…
Some years ago, attorney and part-time writer Abe Schear came to an unsurprising realization. “I figured out that my clients and friends would rather read about baseball than leases,” he says. Schear, 56, a partner in the Atlanta law firm…
Jolene Mary Ammons has had the time of her life. Can you imagine coming out of Homerville (Ga.), where her biggest thrill was fixing a chocolate malted milk shake at Doc Harper’s drug store, and vaulting to the basketball Hall…
For years, I’d been hearing about this little bistro with great food. Somehow, though, I never got around to eating there. Everything about it – its odd location at Piedmont and Morningside in Atlanta, its old-fashioned French bistro menu, and…
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