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Best Public Tennis Court BOA Award Winner

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Bitsy Grant Tennis Center

Best Radio DJ/Personality BOA Award Winner

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Kidd Chris

Best Radio Station BOA Award Winner

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Project 96.1 (WKLS-FM)

Best Rec League BOA Award Winner

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Atlanta Rollergirls Rec League

Best Rock Station BOA Award Winner

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Project 96.1 (WKLS-FM)

Best Public Skatepark BOA Award Winner

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Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark

Best Street BOA Award Winner

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Peachtree Street

Best Street Character BOA Award Winner

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Baton Bob
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Best suburb BOA Award Winner

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Decatur

Best Talk Radio BOA Award Winner

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WSB (95.5-FM) and (750-AM)

Best UnderRated Thing About Atlanta BOA Award Winner

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Food scene

Best Urban/ Contemporary Station BOA Award Winner

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103.3 (WVEE-FM)
v103.cbslocal.com

Best Volunteer Program BOA Award Winner

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Everybody Wins Atlanta

Best Walkable Neighborhood BOA Award Winner

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Virginia-Highland
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Best Tourist Trap BOA Award Winner

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LP Grant Mansion

Best OTP Park BOA Award Winner

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Stone Mountain Park

Best Overall Neighborhood BOA Award Winner

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Inman Park

Best OverRated Thing About Atlanta BOA Award Winner

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Buckhead

Best College BOA Award Winner

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Georgia State University

Best Person You Hate to Love BOA Award Winner

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NeNe Leakes
twitter.com/NeNeLeakes

Best Person You Love to Hate BOA Award Winner

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Neal Boortz

Best Picnic Spot BOA Award Winner

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Piedmont Park

Best Place to People Watch BOA Award Winner

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Little Five Points
little5points.wordpress.com

Best place to ride your bike BOA Award Winner

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Silver Comet Trail - Mavell Road / Nickajack Elementary Trailhead

Best Playground BOA Award Winner

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Historic Fourth Ward Park

Best Contribution to Atlanta’s Urban Design BOA Award Winner

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Building Marta
Yeah, yeah, we can hear the complaints. It doesn’t go anywhere. It’s dirty. It doesn’t work. But before you bemoan life with MARTA, first imagine life without it. In the late 1960s, metro Atlanta snagged federal funding left on the table by Seattle voters after they decided not to create a transitmore...
Yeah, yeah, we can hear the complaints. It doesn’t go anywhere. It’s dirty. It doesn’t work. But before you bemoan life with MARTA, first imagine life without it. In the late 1960s, metro Atlanta snagged federal funding left on the table by Seattle voters after they decided not to create a transit system. Racism and myopia caused the suburbs to say “No thanks” to the regional transit agency. And state lawmakers never showed much interest - but plenty of hostility. More than 40 years later, we have a system that connects the heart of the city to the world’s busiest airport - a luxury that not all aviation hubs can claim - and a bus network that tries to link people in between its rail routes. Sadly, MARTA’s a shell of what it could be and, should the state not step up and invest or give metro residents control of the system, will further atrophy. That’s a shame. Were it not for MARTA, according to recent statistics, an estimated 185,000 additional cars would clog the region’s roads. More than 60 percent of the city’s hospitality employees, its largest industry, wouldn’t make it to work. Nearly 50 percent of its straphangers have no other way to move around their world. Looking forward, which is something the state neglected to do when it thumbed its nose at what’s considered one of the country’s most efficient transit systems, we should be thankful for the foundation it’s provided. Better yet, MARTA’s helped Atlanta lay the groundwork to become more dense and the kind of walkable city that everyone - young and old - wants to call home. Not to mention provide us another way to move around when the next gas spike happens. It’s a damn fine service, and the local leaders who fought hard to bring MARTA to life deserve a round of thanks. www.itsmarta.com. less...

Best Public Basketball Court BOA Award Winner

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Candler Park

Best Public Pool BOA Award Winner

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Piedmont Park Aquatic Center

Best Public Tennis Court BOA Award Winner

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Bitsy Grant Tennis Center

Best Radio DJ/Personality BOA Award Winner

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Kidd Chris

Best Radio Station BOA Award Winner

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Project 96.1 (WKLS-FM)

Best Fighters for Atlanta’s Soul BOA Award Winner

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Sister Louisa’s Church of the Living Room & Ping Pong Emporium
Early in the morning on June 9, a band of ne’er-do-wells broke into Sister Louisa’s Church of the Living Room and Ping Pong Emporium and proceeded to trash the Old Fourth Ward bar. Front windows were smashed, liquor bottles were broken. Adding insult to injury: the beer taps were left to run so themore...
Early in the morning on June 9, a band of ne’er-do-wells broke into Sister Louisa’s Church of the Living Room and Ping Pong Emporium and proceeded to trash the Old Fourth Ward bar. Front windows were smashed, liquor bottles were broken. Adding insult to injury: the beer taps were left to run so the kegs poured dry. (Oddly enough, bar owner Grant Henry’s artwork on the walls - and the cash in the register - were left untouched.) Friends and neighbors of the Edgewood Avenue bar sprang into action and helped sweep up the glass, mop up the mess, and replace the broken windows. That evening, Henry threw open the doors to loyal fans angered over the vandalism and eager to feast on Ruffles and French onion dip, guzzle stiff drinks, and play table tennis in the quirky bar’s second floor. “If it wasn’t the top Saturday night we’ve ever had,” Henry told CL the following Monday, “it was the second top night.” less...

Best Local Blogger BOA Award Winner

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Pecanne Log
Count yourself blessed if you’re able to get your hands on a copy of “The Making of Modern Atlanta,” a 1990s public TV mini-series that investigated, in amusing fashion, how the metropolis we know and love came to be a transit-deprived, road-ravaged, ball of ignorance, hubris, and procrastination.more...
Count yourself blessed if you’re able to get your hands on a copy of “The Making of Modern Atlanta,” a 1990s public TV mini-series that investigated, in amusing fashion, how the metropolis we know and love came to be a transit-deprived, road-ravaged, ball of ignorance, hubris, and procrastination. Hosted by Tim Crimmins of Georgia State University and Dana White of Emory University, the program is like “Glee” for urban policy wonks - lots of talk about the Lochner Report and sewer infrastructure. And who better to introduce us to this gem than Pecanne Log. Over the course of several blog posts, the local ladyblogger (who’s now expanded her online empire to Twitter and Tumblr) took us on a spellbinding, screenshot-laden recap of the delightfully informative series, episode by episode, and shows a sweet reverence for Crimmins and White, who call themselves “the History Twins” (even though White, who recently retired from Emory, is bald, while Crimmins sports a shock of blonde hair). less...

Best Rec League BOA Award Winner

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Atlanta Rollergirls Rec League

Best Rock Station BOA Award Winner

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Project 96.1 (WKLS-FM)

Best Fighters for Atlanta’s Soul BOA Award Winner

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Occupy Atlanta
It’s been a year since rabble-rousers across the country settled in parks and vacant lots to protest greedy banks, income inequality, and other social ills in what became the Occupy movement. And while some cities’ groups ultimately fizzled - or, as in Oakland’s case, mushroomed - after beingmore...
It’s been a year since rabble-rousers across the country settled in parks and vacant lots to protest greedy banks, income inequality, and other social ills in what became the Occupy movement. And while some cities’ groups ultimately fizzled - or, as in Oakland’s case, mushroomed - after being booted from their encampments, Occupy Atlanta sunk its teeth into Georgia’s unfair foreclosure laws and ran with the issue. They shouted down courthouse foreclosure auctions and set up tents in front yards outside the homes of families being threatened with eviction, all the while risking arrest. In some cases, they actually helped people avoid being put out on the street. That’s not to say the members of the leaderless group were always right, or that the think tanks and legal groups fighting the issues aren’t doing just as commendable a job. But the leaderless group added a dose of radicalism to the foreclosure issue. And last time we checked, they were still fighting. less...

Best Contribution to Atlanta’s Urban Design BOA Award Winner

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A crane or two
Scan the Midtown skyline and you’ll see a crane or two. And if developers actually follow through on what they’ve pitched to neighborhood groups and journalists, they’ll start popping up along Juniper Street. And on Ponce de Leon Avenue. And then who knows where else. These towering beasts, whichmore...
Scan the Midtown skyline and you’ll see a crane or two. And if developers actually follow through on what they’ve pitched to neighborhood groups and journalists, they’ll start popping up along Juniper Street. And on Ponce de Leon Avenue. And then who knows where else. These towering beasts, which for the last four years have been a rare sight in a metro region that for decades was about nothing but construction, have slowly been flowing back to Atlanta, into the dense urban core, where they should have been years ago. Unlike developers’ previous fascination with condos, this go-round they’re erecting apartments, where young people and empty nesters can snag a home high above Atlanta, overlooking a city that, one hopes, keeps growing steadily. If there wasn’t a feeling that’s the case, we wouldn’t be seeing them. less...

Best Public Skatepark BOA Award Winner

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Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark

Best Street BOA Award Winner

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Peachtree Street

Best Street Character BOA Award Winner

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Larkin Taylor-Parker
Every street character has something that sets him or her apart from the motley crew of men and women who walk Atlanta’s streets. Baton Bob has his parade marshal outfits. Bicycle Shorts Man has his...well, you know. And Larkin Taylor-Parker has Sally and Aria, her tubas. Three or four days a week,more...
Every street character has something that sets him or her apart from the motley crew of men and women who walk Atlanta’s streets. Baton Bob has his parade marshal outfits. Bicycle Shorts Man has his...well, you know. And Larkin Taylor-Parker has Sally and Aria, her tubas. Three or four days a week, the top hat-and-tuxedo-wearing 20-year-old Chicago native can be found belting out anything from Celtic music, protest songs, spirituals, big band tunes, and everything else in Candler Park and Little Five Points. When not playing the instrument, Parker spends some of her time advocating for and writing online about people living with autism (she lives with the disorder and is also dyslexic). Post graduation at Agnes Scott College, where she’s studying history, Larkin plans to become a lawyer and help children with disabilities navigate the educational system. To Parker, who does indeed rock, we salute you. less...

Best Street Character BOA Award Winner

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Baton Bob
batonbob.weebly.com

Best Festivals BOA Award Winner

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Atlanta Streets Alive

Best suburb BOA Award Winner

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Decatur

Best Talk Radio BOA Award Winner

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WSB (95.5-FM) and (750-AM)

Best Local Instagram Feed BOA Award Winner

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Atlanta History Center
Corporate and nonprofit forays into social media are often awkward and clumsy - really, why does a fertilizer need a Twitter account? But the Atlanta History Center has figured it out. There’s the world’s busiest airport when it was basically just a tower and strip of asphalt. And there’s Peachtreemore...
Corporate and nonprofit forays into social media are often awkward and clumsy - really, why does a fertilizer need a Twitter account? But the Atlanta History Center has figured it out. There’s the world’s busiest airport when it was basically just a tower and strip of asphalt. And there’s Peachtree Street packed with men in fedoras and celebrating Japan’s surrender in World War II. Oh, and here’s an as-it-happened, liveblog reenacting the 1917 fire that consumed nearly 300 acres between the Old Fourth Ward and Midtown. By digging into its vaults and sharing historic photographs, audio files, relics, and other do-dads on Tumblr (and often with humor), the Buckhead-based center deftly manages to do what so many museums can’t - become more than a building filled with exhibits. Not to mention tempting a younger generation to make the trek north on Peachtree and pay a visit. less...

Best Local TV News BOA Award Winner

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Monica Pearson
For nearly 40 years, Monica Pearson (formerly Kaufman) of WSB-TV has been considered the evening news anchor in Atlanta. There were others, yes, but none matched the Kentucky native’s celebrity. After decades of reporting on such stories as the Atlanta child murders and the 1996 Olympics, the winnermore...
For nearly 40 years, Monica Pearson (formerly Kaufman) of WSB-TV has been considered the evening news anchor in Atlanta. There were others, yes, but none matched the Kentucky native’s celebrity. After decades of reporting on such stories as the Atlanta child murders and the 1996 Olympics, the winner of multiple Emmy Awards and wearer of 1 million hairstyles called it a career. And Jesus, did WSB-TV celebrate. An in-studio meet-and-greet! A congressional commendation and City Hall reception and proclamation! A farewell ball! Radio interviews! And then ... tours of Monica’s closets! Clips of Monica trying on boots! Shots of Monica hanging out by a lake at the home she shares with her husband. The heady hero worship was, for some reason, oddly mesmerizing once you got sucked in. less...

Best UnderRated Thing About Atlanta BOA Award Winner

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Food scene

Best Urban/ Contemporary Station BOA Award Winner

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103.3 (WVEE-FM)
v103.cbslocal.com

Best Volunteer Program BOA Award Winner

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Everybody Wins Atlanta

Best Walkable Neighborhood BOA Award Winner

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Virginia-Highland

Best Furniture Store BOA Award Winner

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Lifecycle Building Center
Days before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention swung a wrecking ball into old buildings that were probably health hazards themselves, volunteers visited the decommissioned labs and offices and started unscrewing furniture. Instead of a landfill, the desks, filing cabinets, and shelves, allmore...
Days before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention swung a wrecking ball into old buildings that were probably health hazards themselves, volunteers visited the decommissioned labs and offices and started unscrewing furniture. Instead of a landfill, the desks, filing cabinets, and shelves, all in usable condition, traveled to southwest Atlanta to the Lifecycle Building Center. The all-volunteer nonprofit is housed in a nearly 100-year-old mammoth warehouse where the salvaged items are resold at low cost to homeowners, artists, and businesses, or sometimes given free to qualified charities and churches. The project, a partnership with several intown design firms, building companies, and greenies, aims to tap a potential gold mine and source of unnecessary waste. According to the center’s figures, Georgians tossed out an estimated 2.9 million tons of wood, gypsum wallboard, metal, and other building materials. By interrupting the process before demolition, they’re able to reuse the items, thereby reducing the amount of waste that goes into dumps. Their efforts also offset the need to cut down more trees to build another bookshelf. less...
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