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We live in a great city. Originally built in the middle of nowhere, it was burned to the ground, rebuilt into the epicenter of the Southeast, hit hard by the recent recession, and is now growing once again. Business leaders will say this is because of our massive airport or the many Fortune 500 companies headquartered here, which is partly true. But while it’s easy to credit the big names, more often it’s the efforts of the little guys that are truly making a difference in building a better city: The oddballs and mysterious characters who make superhero outfits and patrol neighborhood streets. The new parks and greenspaces that are forming around us thanks to committed residents. The communities we’re all trying to improve because we can’t imagine ever leaving them. And the elected officials fighting the good fight Downtown. (Yes, they exist.)

In the last year we’ve celebrated a stray cat along the Atlanta Beltline, taken over the streets in the name of a young teen who died hundreds of miles away, invested in a more bike-friendly city, and seen a baseball player who had seemingly given up hope go on to become a living legend. Too often we focus on the ills of our fair city. But there is much more good in Atlanta than there is bad and that deserves recognition.

— Thomas Wheatley

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 AND Candler Park AND Grant Park

Best Radio DJ/Personality BOA Award Winner

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Aly Young of 105.7 (WRDA-FM)

Best Radio Station BOA Award Winner

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105.7 (WRDA-FM)

Best Rec League BOA Award Winner

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Atlanta Rollergirls

Best Rock Station BOA Award Winner

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105.7 (WRDA-FM)

Best Public Skatepark BOA Award Winner

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Historic Fourth Ward Park

Best Street BOA Award Winner

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Peachtree Street

Best Street Character BOA Award Winner

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Baton Bob
batonbob.weebly.com

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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Atlanta Rollergirls

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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Hands On Atlanta AND Trees Atlanta

Best Walkable Neighborhood BOA Award Winner

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Virginia Highland

Best elementary school BOA Award Winner

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Mary Lin Elementary School
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Best Tourist Trap BOA Award Winner

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Oakland Cemetery

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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The Varsity (7 ATL Locations)

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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“Southside” Steve Rickman

Best Person You Love to Hate BOA Award Winner

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Kasim Reed AND Nathan Deal
www.kasimreed.com AND gov.georgia.gov

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

Best place to ride your bike BOA Award Winner

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Atlanta Beltline Inc

Best Playground BOA Award Winner

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Historic Fourth Ward Park

Best Columnist/Journalist BOA Award Winner

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Greg Bluestein
In June 2012, Greg Bluestein made the jump to the AJC from the Associated Press’ Atlanta bureau, where for seven years he’d covered everything from the Brian Nichols trial to the BP oil spill and a West Virginia mine explosion. His official new beats were commercial real estate and economic development,more...
In June 2012, Greg Bluestein made the jump to the AJC from the Associated Press’ Atlanta bureau, where for seven years he’d covered everything from the Brian Nichols trial to the BP oil spill and a West Virginia mine explosion. His official new beats were commercial real estate and economic development, but it quickly became clear that he could cover anything. Bluestein’s name started appearing on political stories and pretty much everything else. In addition to uncovering questionable expenses that led to the resignation of the Atlanta Beltline’s CEO, he’s reported on corporations underwriting Gov. Nathan Deals trip to China and Gold Dome shenanigans during the legislative session. He’s an attack dog and a workhorse and he’s one of the biggest strengths at the metro region’s paper of record. www.twitter.com/Bluestein. less...

Best Public Basketball Court BOA Award Winner

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Central 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 AND Candler Park AND Grant Park

Best Local Rabble-Rouser/Activist BOA Award Winner

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Common Cause Georgia
While progressive political group Better Georgia has emerged as a major GOP foe and a force to be reckoned with, Common Cause Georgia truly deserves applause for daring to question City Hall and the business elite. Amid the rushed process of the Atlanta Falcons’ new stadium deal, the ethics watchdogmore...
While progressive political group Better Georgia has emerged as a major GOP foe and a force to be reckoned with, Common Cause Georgia truly deserves applause for daring to question City Hall and the business elite. Amid the rushed process of the Atlanta Falcons’ new stadium deal, the ethics watchdog group stood as one of the few steadfast opponents and continuously expressed concerns. The organization called out city officials, most notably Mayor Kasim Reed, for what it considered a failure to maintain transparency. Common Cause also raised hell over the use the hotel and motel tax, from which at least $200 million (and potentially hundreds of millions more) will go toward the stadium’s construction. In the end, Common Cause made a valiant, albeit unsuccessful, effort to collect 35,000 signatures to force the issue to a referendum. www.commoncause.org/ga. less...

Best Radio DJ/Personality BOA Award Winner

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Aly Young of 105.7 (WRDA-FM)

Best Radio Station BOA Award Winner

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105.7 (WRDA-FM)

Best Ideas to Right the Wrongs BOA Award Winner

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Smart Growth Atlanta
About a year ago, veteran Atlanta developer Jeff Fuqua announced plans to turn a defunct Glenwood Park cement factory along the Atlanta Beltline into a massive retail center. The proposed shopping complex included a 143,000-square-foot big-box anchor tenant rumored to be a Walmart and a sea of parkingmore...
About a year ago, veteran Atlanta developer Jeff Fuqua announced plans to turn a defunct Glenwood Park cement factory along the Atlanta Beltline into a massive retail center. The proposed shopping complex included a 143,000-square-foot big-box anchor tenant rumored to be a Walmart and a sea of parking lots. Residents of Grant Park, Ormewood Park, and other surrounding communities quickly hired a lawyer and formed Smart Growth Atlanta and began fighting for a more walkable, denser development that meshes with the Beltline’s vision. In July, their adamant pushback swelled to the point where hundreds of concerned opponents piled into City Hall to support an attempted rezoning effort. They heckled Fuqua’s representatives and pressured Zoning Review Board members. After a small victory that evening, one local resident even wept tears of joy. It remains to be seen how Fuqua’s proposal will pan out (Edgewood Retail District redux?), but it’s clear that southeast Atlantans don’t want the same car-centric development found in the suburbs - and want to protect the transit-oriented, walkable Beltline vision they helped create during planning meetings. www.smartgrowthatlanta.org. less...

Best Rec League BOA Award Winner

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Atlanta Rollergirls

Best Spot to Commune with Nature/Best Park BOA Award Winner

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Island Ford
If you want a quiet hike or run in one of the Chattahoochee River’s more scenic and less crowded areas (with plenty of nooks where you can take a dip, depending on the water quality) head to Island Ford. The approximately 300-acre North Fulton enclave, which serves as the recreation area’s headquarters,more...
If you want a quiet hike or run in one of the Chattahoochee River’s more scenic and less crowded areas (with plenty of nooks where you can take a dip, depending on the water quality) head to Island Ford. The approximately 300-acre North Fulton enclave, which serves as the recreation area’s headquarters, boasts a trail through the forest and along the river with clear views of gently flowing water, shoals, kayaking, and geese galore. Unlike other sections of the river, Island Ford is relatively free from development. If you have any questions, stop by the well-maintained visitor station that was once the 1930s summer home - made with timber from the Okefenokee Swamp and Stone Mountain rock - of former Georgia Supreme Court Judge Samuel Hewlett. www.nps.gov/chat. less...

Best Rock Station BOA Award Winner

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105.7 (WRDA-FM)

Best Public Skatepark BOA Award Winner

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Historic Fourth Ward Park

Best Local Sports Team BOA Award Winner

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Atlanta Silverbacks
Who says Atlanta teams don’t win championships? In April, thanks to the turnaround job led by new coach Brian Haynes, the Atlanta Silverbacks edged out the Carolina Railhawks to win the North American Soccer League’s spring championship. With a small-but-rabid fan base and solid squad - includingmore...
Who says Atlanta teams don’t win championships? In April, thanks to the turnaround job led by new coach Brian Haynes, the Atlanta Silverbacks edged out the Carolina Railhawks to win the North American Soccer League’s spring championship. With a small-but-rabid fan base and solid squad - including forwards Pedro Mendes and Danny Barrera and goalkeeper Eric Ati - that in the past has drawn the attention of Major League Soccer scouts, it’s clear the scrappy team that plays in the shadow of the Spaghetti Junction has potential to win more silverware. www.atlantasilverbacks.com/fc/. less...

Best Contribution to Atlanta’s Urban Design BOA Award Winner

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Govathon
In February, City Hall officials brainstormed with programmers, data junkies, and other tech-minded geeks during Govathon, the first-ever citywide hackathon. Held inside City Hall’s Old Council Chambers, city officials pitched citizens eager to improve Atlanta on projects and programs their underfundedmore...
In February, City Hall officials brainstormed with programmers, data junkies, and other tech-minded geeks during Govathon, the first-ever citywide hackathon. Held inside City Hall’s Old Council Chambers, city officials pitched citizens eager to improve Atlanta on projects and programs their underfunded departments need. After working together for the better part of 24 hours, consuming countless pizza slices and cups of coffee, teams emerged with proposals for a series of promising Web programs and apps, many of which the city hopes to develop. The highlights include programs that generate online police reports, can search city park amenities or report vacant homes in blighted areas, and allow residents to rate Atlanta’s customer service. Who said civic collaboration couldn’t be fun? www.govathon.com. less...

Best Contribution to Atlanta’s Urban Design BOA Award Winner

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$2.5 million to bicycle projects
The Atlanta City Council made a wise move back in February when it dedicated $2.5 million to bicycle projects. The cash comes from unspent bond funding and the infrastructure upgrades, including bike lanes, are planned for Midtown, Old Fourth Ward, Castleberry Hill, and portions of southwest Atlanta.more...
The Atlanta City Council made a wise move back in February when it dedicated $2.5 million to bicycle projects. The cash comes from unspent bond funding and the infrastructure upgrades, including bike lanes, are planned for Midtown, Old Fourth Ward, Castleberry Hill, and portions of southwest Atlanta. The funding would also create the city’s first-ever “bike boulevard” along James P. Brawley Drive, connecting Atlanta University Center to nearby neighborhoods. Some projects, including a two-way “cycle track” on 10th Street, have already been built. Others, including bike lanes along Ponce de Leon Avenue and Juniper Street, are underway or scheduled to begin soon. Once complete, they’ll be a major boon to the city’s bicycling community. www.atlantabike.org/comingup. less...

Best Ideas to Right the Wrongs BOA Award Winner

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Homeless Registry
It’s hard to combat homelessness if you don’t know exactly who or how many need help. Atlanta’s officials realized this last year. The city’s Innovation Delivery Team, which is funded by a grant from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s philanthropic foundation, wanted to figure out a bettermore...
It’s hard to combat homelessness if you don’t know exactly who or how many need help. Atlanta’s officials realized this last year. The city’s Innovation Delivery Team, which is funded by a grant from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s philanthropic foundation, wanted to figure out a better way to get men and women off the city’s streets. So City Hall recruited an army of volunteers on a freezing January evening to help create its first-ever Homeless Registry. Over a 12-hour period, volunteers visited Atlanta’s shelters and other so-called hot spots where they offered participants $5 McDonald’s gift cards in exchange for taking a confidential survey. In total, the volunteers spoke with nearly 400 people. The survey asked personal questions about past employment, housing, substance abuse, and mental illness history. Although the findings won’t solve the problem of homelessness, at least the city now has a better idea of what the issues are. www.unshelterednomore.com. less...

Best New Addition to the Cityscape BOA Award Winner

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Piper the Beltline Cat
Not too many animals, domesticated or not, have their own Facebook page with more than 4,600 likes. But Piper the Beltline Cat, so named for her home in a drainage pipe along the Atlanta Beltline’s Eastside Trail, has become an Atlanta celebrity and unofficial mascot for the smart-growth project evermore...
Not too many animals, domesticated or not, have their own Facebook page with more than 4,600 likes. But Piper the Beltline Cat, so named for her home in a drainage pipe along the Atlanta Beltline’s Eastside Trail, has become an Atlanta celebrity and unofficial mascot for the smart-growth project ever since she cozied up in the metal coop earlier this year. It was there that she would chow down on Fancy Feast and “read” fan mail left in the mailbox admirers planted in her front yard. That is, until she was “bought out” by a developer building a residential complex atop her claimed home. No worries, however. The feline apparently found a new home a few blocks from the Beltline in a similar pipe attached to a bungalow. A big *pawbump* (her catchphrase, not ours) to the city’s coolest stray. www.facebook.com/BeltLinePiper. less...

Best Street BOA Award Winner

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Peachtree Street

Best Street Character BOA Award Winner

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Baton Bob
batonbob.weebly.com

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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Atlanta Rollergirls

Best Hiking Trail BOA Award Winner

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Atlanta Beltline Inc
The Atlanta Beltline’s Eastside Trail is a great place to visit if you want to get lost in a real-life artist’s rendering of a smart-growth Nirvana. If you’re in the mood for more rustic splendor, head south to Adair Park. There, the Beltline’s Southwest Trail weaves through lush grass, betweenmore...
The Atlanta Beltline’s Eastside Trail is a great place to visit if you want to get lost in a real-life artist’s rendering of a smart-growth Nirvana. If you’re in the mood for more rustic splendor, head south to Adair Park. There, the Beltline’s Southwest Trail weaves through lush grass, between old warehouses, and under beautiful bridges. (Wear galoshes after rainy days, as the makeshift path is below grade and prone to flooding.) In late August, Beltline officials won an $18 million federal grant that will help fund construction of the trail segment to match the Eastside’s design. While that’s great news, it will be bittersweet for those who love the southwest’s rustic authenticity and meandering feel. Enjoy it while you can. www.beltline.org. less...

Best Urban/ Contemporary Station BOA Award Winner

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103.3 (WVEE-FM)
v103.cbslocal.com

Best Contribution to Atlanta’s Urban Design BOA Award Winner

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Northside Drive Corridor Study
Walk along Northside Drive and you’ll pass auto shops, stores set far back from the street, and traffic congestion. Try to cross the busy north-south thoroughfare and you better have a will. Georgia Tech professor Mike Dobbins and a group of his students have set out to overhaul what’s essentiallymore...
Walk along Northside Drive and you’ll pass auto shops, stores set far back from the street, and traffic congestion. Try to cross the busy north-south thoroughfare and you better have a will. Georgia Tech professor Mike Dobbins and a group of his students have set out to overhaul what’s essentially an intown highway. Over the course of a year, the former Atlanta planning commissioner and his pupils brainstormed and created the Northside Drive Corridor Study, a beautiful vision of transit, mixed-use development, and walkable environments that could improve Northside Drive. Among the proposals: starting bus rapid transit, turning the reservoir along Howell Mill Road into a park, and promoting dense, mixed-income developments. The analysis was timely - both a new Atlanta Falcons stadium and possible Amtrak and Greyhound stations are being considered along the road, which could mean major changes in the years to come. Heavy-hitters such as Central Atlanta Progress, the Midtown Alliance, City Hall, and Georgia Department of Transportation sponsored the study, so it’s likely it will have some strong advocates when upgrades are considered. www.northsidedrvision.gatech.edu. less...

Best Volunteer Program BOA Award Winner

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Hands On Atlanta AND Trees Atlanta

Best Walkable Neighborhood BOA Award Winner

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Virginia Highland

Best elementary school BOA Award Winner

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Mary Lin Elementary School

Best New Thing About Atlanta BOA Award Winner

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The Atlanta Beltline
Naysayers who wrote off Ryan Gravel’s Georgia Tech graduate student thesis as a pipe dream and a loop to nowhere could not have predicted the excitement the project would create. Or the effects it’s had on neighborhoods where trails and parks have already been built. The nationally recognized 22-milemore...
Naysayers who wrote off Ryan Gravel’s Georgia Tech graduate student thesis as a pipe dream and a loop to nowhere could not have predicted the excitement the project would create. Or the effects it’s had on neighborhoods where trails and parks have already been built. The nationally recognized 22-mile loop of parks, trails, and transit has a long way to go but is constantly evolving - boosters say even once it’s completely built, it will never really be “finished” - and is changing the city for the better. less...

Best Street Character BOA Award Winner

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Bicycle Shorts Man
Long Dong Silver. Ponce de Le-Dong. Compression Shorts Man. Willie Terry is known by many names. For years, the street character has stood at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Briarcliff Road in his revealing tight shorts, cane in hand, smile on his face, waving at passersby. Not much is known aboutmore...
Long Dong Silver. Ponce de Le-Dong. Compression Shorts Man. Willie Terry is known by many names. For years, the street character has stood at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Briarcliff Road in his revealing tight shorts, cane in hand, smile on his face, waving at passersby. Not much is known about his life, but the lifelong Atlantan who no one really knows is someone nearly everyone knows. Thank you. less...

BOA Award Winner

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Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition
“If I was to pick another group besides Occupy Our Homes Atlanta it would have to be the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition. They are centered right in the Bluff, their work is of a different nature being that it’s really more of a direct service rather than a group applying public pressure. Manymore...
“If I was to pick another group besides Occupy Our Homes Atlanta it would have to be the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition. They are centered right in the Bluff, their work is of a different nature being that it’s really more of a direct service rather than a group applying public pressure. Many of the folks involved with the AHRC are the same ones who have taken on the issue of [[[[sex worker] banishment in Atlanta. AHRC is Christ-like in their commitment to the least of these, the prostitutes, the drug addicted, those living in extreme poverty, the people our city has left behind. In the face of being totally broke, folks at AHRC work for free so the center can keep its doors open.” - “Tim Franzen of Occupy Atlanta. 2012 Critics Pick for Best Show of Radical Dedication” less...

Best Book Event BOA Award Winner

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Decatur Book Festival
We’d venture to guess that the organizers behind the Decatur Book Festival want to make it impossible for you not to like them. Whether you like young adult books or cookbooks or political nonfiction or experimental poetry or novels, you will find at least some small sliver of programming devoted tomore...
We’d venture to guess that the organizers behind the Decatur Book Festival want to make it impossible for you not to like them. Whether you like young adult books or cookbooks or political nonfiction or experimental poetry or novels, you will find at least some small sliver of programming devoted to your tastes. (Don’t like books? They have pretty good corn dogs, too.) That’s what makes this annual Labor Day weekend event the biggest and most popular book event of the year, every year. “Every Labor Day weekend. Downtown Decatur, E. Ponce de Leon Avenue and Church Street. less...

Best Local Twitter Feed BOA Award Winner

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@loisreitzes
Since 1979, WABE (90.1 FM)’s Lois Reitzes has given mental massages to undercaffeinated commuters and dentists’ patients with her velvety roller coaster of a voice while she churns out Debussy, Bach, and Mozart from Atlanta’s “home for the classics.” In mid-April, she joined Twitter. So beganmore...
Since 1979, WABE (90.1 FM)’s Lois Reitzes has given mental massages to undercaffeinated commuters and dentists’ patients with her velvety roller coaster of a voice while she churns out Debussy, Bach, and Mozart from Atlanta’s “home for the classics.” In mid-April, she joined Twitter. So began the cheerful banter with listeners and random thoughts one normally finds on Twitter, though with a twist sprung from the heart and mind of the city’s muse. (She’d love it if Yo-Yo Ma ran for president in 2016.) Now if we could just get former Buckhead Mayor Sam Massell on Twitter, we’d be set. “www.twitter.com/loisreitzes”. less...
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