Category: The ATL
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Atlanta’s freakiest weekend
It’s that time of year again. If you’re a black gay or lesbian with a predilection for Spock ears and a passion for college football, your ship has come in.
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Is Atlanta about to get less clusterfucky?
Ever since starting this blog 10 years ago (time flies when you have few readers) I’ve been railing against the city’s stubborn refusal to synchronize its traffic signals, something it last did roughly 40 years ago. But it appears our long municipal nightmare is over, assuming next Tuesday’s $250 million infrastructure bond referendum is approved…
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An Atlanta mystery solved
For years I’ve wondered about the post-modern grain silo overlooking the Downtown Connector at Freedom Parkway. Curbed Atlanta says the residence, zoned for commercial use, is available for $3.5 million. Someone bought the lot for $77,000 back in 1996 and built this six-bedroom home two years later, back when the Old Fourth Ward was a little less…
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I told you he was thin-skinned
Today the rest of the country got to see our serially defensive mayor in action. I’ve compared him before to his predecessor, Shirley Franklin, and for that I apologize. Kasim Reed is much more thin-skinned than she was. My suggestion to the mayor: Stay off the airwaves. Much of the clusterfuck is not your fault,…
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The spirit of Atlanta
So we paid the IOC’s bounty for the ’96 Olympics to get a park downtown where one day the Zac Brown Band would perform? Thanks for the memories, Billy Payne. “I never measured the success of the Olympics by the venues left behind,” said the man who conceived the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The stadium that served as…
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Kasim Reed thinks you’re stupid
How else to explain his deathbed conversion on publicly financed stadiums? “… At the end of the day, there was simply no way the [Braves were] going to stay in downtown Atlanta without city taxpayers spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make that happen,” Reed said in a statement. “Given the needs facing our…
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