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Where can I see back issue of the magazine from the 60's and 70's

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:37:03 -0400

You can view archival covers of the magazine from the ’60s and ’70s in our covers...

Putting a public face on the rape debate—his own From the...

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:53:51 -0400

Putting a public face on the rape debate—his own

From the post:

McLean had been weighing whether to share his deeply personal story ever since Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin attempted to define “legitimate rape” during an interview Sunday where he also theorized that rape victims’ bodies could “shut that whole thing down.” But for McLean, the tipping point came this week when Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King made the media rounds defending Akin, saying, “Well, I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way, and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.”

Read Rich Eldredge’s blog post

“Sheriff on Deck!” From the article: The sheriff in...

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:54:39 -0400

“Sheriff on Deck!”

From the article:

The sheriff in charge of the jail is a man named Victor Hill, who took office on January 1, 2005. Hill wears a pencil moustache, clock-shaped Gino Franco cufflinks that actually tell time and a badge hanging from a chain around his neck. He stands 5-feet-5. Short men with power and the lust for more are inevitably likened to Napoleon, and in his 18 months as sheriff, Hill hasn’t done much to invalidate the comparison. On his first Monday in office, he summoned 27 employees to the jail on the pretense of reinstating them. Instead, he fired them. He assigned sharpshooters to watch over the proceedings as the sacked workers—most of whom had supported the outgoing sheriff that Hill had unseated—handed over their guns and badges.

Read Steve Fennessy’s full feature story

Flashback Friday: Victor Hill is facing 37 felony charges, but he may still win this Tuesday’s runoff election and regain his position as Clayton’s sheriff. Check out our 2006 feature on the man who fired 27 deputies on his first day in office, and tell us: How would you vote?

Photograph by Jonathan Hollada

Commentary: I ate Cinnabon’s Pizzabon so you won’t...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:33:05 -0400

Commentary: I ate Cinnabon’s Pizzabon so you won’t have to

From the post:

There’s something insidious to me about the self-aware logic that underpins the stunt sandwich: It’s asking the customer to be in on the joke of fast food. The concept is practically yelling, “You remember how gross and unhealthy and environmentally unsustainable fast food is? Well, this is, like, TWICE as gross as that. Come eat it.” The Pizzabon asks the consumer to acknowledge the unappetizing absurdity of fast food while participating in it. It’s the same logic that operates in reality television: encouraging us to pity and laugh at people while participating in their glorification. The Pizzabon is the Honey Boo Boo Child of food.

Read Wyatt Williams’s blog post

Promo photo courtesy Cinnabon, real photo by author

Atlanta’s Own Onion: Atlanta Banana From the...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:52:14 -0400

Atlanta’s Own Onion: Atlanta Banana

From the article:

Launched in December 2011, it’s become the warped mirror that you can’t help but peruse when ATL drama turns from precious to precarious.

Read Jackson Reeves’s full story

Photograph by flickr user Public Domain Photos (Emilian Robert Vicol) via Getty Images

Bone Lick BBQ opens on the Westside today From the post: About...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:49:22 -0400

Bone Lick BBQ opens on the Westside today

From the post:

About two years ago, our dining critic Bill Addison went in search of the best barbeque in the Atlanta area. He searched low and high, finding joints hidden far outside of the city in towns like Jackson and Gainesville. A total of 58 joints were reviewed in all. After all that searching, just one place inside Atlanta made Addison’s top five and it wasn’t even a full-time BBQ joint.

Read Wyatt Williams’s full blog post

Photograph by Erik Dixon

Anatomy of a Divorce From the feature story: I will try to tell...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:08:54 -0400

Anatomy of a Divorce

From the feature story:

I will try to tell honestly what it was like for a woman to have a relationship with me and what I was thinking and how I was feeling toward her and how it seemed like a very bad thing to love me. Because I was raised an American male, I will tell that I did not learn to give or receive affection, that I did not learn to weep when I was hurting, that I did not learn to love women in ways that made them feel secure and desirable and needed. I will tell of the day I told the great Atlanta therapist, Marion O’Neill, that whenever I uttered the words “I love you” to a woman, they had the hollow dispossessed sound of someone ordering a meal for the first time in a foreign language. I will tell that I felt inexhaustible but inexpressible reserves of love within me, and I searched for women who were able to translate my silences, interpreters who understood about the inarticulate lover screaming from within.

Read Pat Conroy’s full essay

Flashback Friday: The eminent author’s poetic 1978 article on the pain of divorce

Illustration by Jaff Seijas

Neal Boortz: Have Mouth, Will Talk From the...

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:23:25 -0400

Neal Boortz: Have Mouth, Will Talk

From the post:

”I’m an entertainer,” Boortz says. “Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.” No kidding, Neal. Talk radio is supposed to be a conservative phenomenon, a crie de coeur from America’s great Gap-wearing, feminine hygiene spraying middle class, those heartland millions who distrust the government and its lackeys in the media. Here’s Boortz playing that violin: “People listen to my show. They hear things that they never read in the newspaper and never see on TV news. And they say ‘Well damn! Why didn’t I read that in The Constitution this morning?’ “

Read Vincent Coppola’s full feature story

Flashback Friday: As the talk radio host nears closer to retirement, a look back on his career with this 1998 profile.

Photograph by Jason Maris

"A strange, witty, occasionally confounding, and often wonderful mix of eccentricities defines the..."

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:58:02 -0400

“A strange, witty, occasionally confounding, and often wonderful mix of eccentricities defines...

"The director explains, “All of Charity’s boyfriends, normally played by four actors, are played by..."

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:42:34 -0400

“The director explains, “All of Charity’s boyfriends, normally played by four actors, are...

In this month’s issue: Big ideas for the city of Atlanta,...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:21:44 -0400

In this month’s issue: Big ideas for the city of Atlanta, plus a review of the Spence and a look at Billy Reid’s new store

Waffold: Are waffle sandwiches the next frozen yogurt? From the...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:11:00 -0400

Waffold: Are waffle sandwiches the next frozen yogurt?

From the post:

The real question, though, is whether waffle sandwiches can do what frozen yogurt did in Atlanta in the past five years. I don’t have actual statistics, but I’d say that roughly ten million trillion* frozen yogurt stands have opened in Atlanta in the past five years or so. The appeal is somewhat lost on me, but clearly has not been lost on the Atlanta crowds thronging to these places. Waffle House has certainly shown that Atlanta is a waffle town. Perhaps this is the moment for gourmet waffle sandwiches.

Read Wyatt Williams’s blog post

Photograph courtesy the Reynolds Group

New John Lewis Mural on Auburn Avenue

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:29:36 -0400

New John Lewis Mural on Auburn Avenue

Urban Cannibals to bring back Two-Chicks brunch special From the...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:14:29 -0400

Urban Cannibals to bring back Two-Chicks brunch special

From the post:

The two human rights activists rallied last week to respond to Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy’s recently published views on “the biblical definition of the family unit,” marriage and his fried chicken’s emporium’s unwavering corporate commitment to remaining betrothed to your first wife.

Read Rich Eldredge’s full blog post

Flashback Friday: An Oral History of Atlanta’s Olympic...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:05:13 -0400

Flashback Friday: An Oral History of Atlanta’s Olympic Park Bombing

An unhappy Olympics memory: On this day in 1996, the bomb went off

Photograph by Gregory Miller

U.S. swimmers release “Call Me Maybe”...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:00:44 -0400

U.S. swimmers release “Call Me Maybe” video—spearheaded by one of our own

"I’m not big into going to the doctor. It took most of the humility I had to turn to the Google bar..."

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:02:09 -0400

“I’m not big into going to the doctor. It took most of the humility I had to turn to the...

A summer indulgence: Tomatoes, tomatoes From the...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:01:00 -0400

A summer indulgence: Tomatoes, tomatoes

From the post:

It’s a known fact that you just can’t have too many tomatoes. And by “tomatoes,” I mean real tomatoes—the kind that ripen in the sunshine, spend no more than an hour or two in captivity, and, when sliced, display their jewel tones all the way through.

Read Deborah Geering’s full blog post

Image by: Monitorpop at en.wikipedia

A guide to Chinese dumplings across Atlanta’s Buford...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:47:42 -0400

A guide to Chinese dumplings across Atlanta’s Buford Highway

From the post:

According to most of my Chinese friends, finding good dumplings in Atlanta is harder than scaling the Great Wall. They would rather make them on their own. One friend, though, was more optimistic than the rest. Chef Ken Lim, the owner at Penang Atlanta, has been eating dumplings for thirty years, and he offered to be my guide for the afternoon. Lim first came to Atlanta in 1996 to help his uncle open Penang, and just last year Lim returned to the city to takeover the family business.

Read Evan Mah’s full blog post

"This year the biggest “I resent you even asking me” ballot question is the one..."

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:18:57 -0400

“This year the biggest “I resent you even asking me” ballot question is the one...