From all outward signs, it appears as though there is a détente between the Atlanta Mayor City Kasim Reed and the Atlanta City Council.
“I want to acknowledge Ceasar Mitchell, president of the Atlanta City Council. Working with the Council, everything we accomplished in that video, we accomplished together,” Reed said at the breakfast. “They push back and they debate, and they are an essential part of the city.”
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By Guest Columnist SUSAN VARLAMOFF, director of the Office of Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia
Social, health, economic and environmental factors now feed a grassroots movement to convert vacant lots across Atlanta into farms and community gardens.
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I thought BeltLine visionary Ryan Gravel would say his Moment was when he looked at a map of the city of Atlanta, saw the 1800s-era railroad tracks outlined and had an “ah-ha” moment. He says he’s often asked if the idea came to him all at once, but it actually marinated slowly, sparked during his senior year in college when he rode trains all over Paris and later when he returned to the traffic-clogged streets of metro Atlanta.
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Oscar nominations are out and probably the only thing Oscar addicts enjoy as much as second-guessing the eventual winners is second-guessing who got nominated and who got snubbed.
Here are some random thoughts on last Tuesday’s naming names:
Best Picture
“The Artist” “The Descendants” “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” “The Help” “Hugo” “Midnight in Paris” “Moneyball” “The Tree of Life” “War Horse”
With the Best Picture category expanded to anywhere between 5 and 10, you’d think there wouldn’t be any snubs. And there weren’t…well, yeah there were.
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By Maria Saporta
Friday, January 20, 2012
The tide has turned for the Georgia Research Alliance.
A year ago, the public-private research and innovation organization was fighting for survival. Gov. Nathan Deal had proposed in his first budget, which had been put together by the administration of former Gov. Sonny Perdue, to slash GRA’s funding from nearly $17 million to $4.5 million.
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By Maria Saporta
At Georgia Trend’s 100 Most Influential luncheon Wednesday, something became clear — the non-profit leader has arrived.
Bill Bolling, the founder and executive director of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, was honored as the 2012 Georgian of the Year.
Even Bolling has called himself “an outlier” leader — someone who does not mirror our traditional perception of leaders — business executive or elected officials.
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Gov. Nathan Deal’s transit task force has recommended making GRTA responsible for all transit operations in the state – except MARTA, according to a report made public Wednesday.
The proposed legislation (available here) is included in the report and is more than 50 pages long. The proposal significantly rewrites Title 50 of the Georgia Code, which creates the structure for GRTA – the Georgia Regional Transporation Authority.
The draft legislation specifically says the authority will not have control over MARTA. But it does say that MARTA may sign an agreement with GRTA and would gain more flexibility over its spending if such an agreement existed.
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Last week was not the first time Newt Gingrich has gone ballistic over the media’s interest in his private life, but never before has he achieved the sort of afterburn which propelled him into his huge win Saturday in the South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary.
On the day the Republicans, under his leadership, won control of the U.S. House in 1994, Gingrich is said to have been so infuriated by a Mike Lukovich cartoon which referenced his first divorce that he dented the ceiling panel of the car he was sitting in when he saw it. Whether that story is true or not, it’s a fact that Gingrich demanded an apology from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and refused to have any contact with the local paper, until practicality and the indefatigable Jeanne Cummings wore him down, weeks into his term as speaker.
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Last fall, Mitchell Anderson decided to revive his acting career in “Next Fall,” now playing at Actor’s Express on Atlanta’s west side.
After a successful TV and movie resume – you may have seen him in the series “Party of Five” or as Richard Carpenter in “The Karen Carpenter Story,” or as the kid who got eaten by a shark in “Jaws” — Anderson had left Hollywood to settle into a new life in Atlanta.
An apprenticeship in the kitchen of Jenny “Souper Jenny” Levison led to him opening his own restaurant, Metrofresh in Midtown, and a spin-off bistro at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
At 50, his culinary stage kept him plenty busy – but what pulled him back to acting was what he loved about cooking, too: friendships and a unique, exquisite creation.
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