“The Kitchen” is about three women who can handle the heat and still want out of the kitchen. They want to move into The Kitchen, as in Hell’s Kitchen, that peculiar slice of Manhattan in the 40s and 50s stretching from 8thAvenue west.
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Atlanta to negotiate with global scooter companies valued at estimated $5 billion
Now with an estimated total value of $5 billion, the two big companies that rent scooters in Atlanta have become their own global force of nature. Yet to be determined is how Bird and Lime will respond to regulatory efforts such as the one imposed by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
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Health of Atlanta’s neighborhoods a marker of progress toward equity
By Guest Columnist DEBRA EDELSON, executive director of Grove Park Foundation
If our Atlanta region continues to grow as predicted, we will have tens of thousands of new residents move in town over the next 10 years. How will they decide what neighborhood to live in? Like many of us, they will look for a community that feels safe, is proximate to good schools, and is accessible to retail and community services. Sadly, across Atlanta, many neighborhoods don’t have these critical characteristics.
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Hackers could gridlock Atlanta, any other city by stranding connected vehicles: Georgia Tech
The allure of self-driving cars and other connected vehicles just suffered another ding, this one in a report of Georgia Tech research into the traffic gridlock that could be created if hackers immobilized vehicles. Metro Atlanta is especially vulnerable because of the layout of the region’s road network researchers said.
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BeltLine recruits new COO from HUD
Reuben Brooks, previously a U.S. Department of House and Urban Development leader in the southeast, is joining the BeltLine as COO.
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Climate experts say rescue food can reduce warming; it now feeds those in need
Climate-change scientists meeting in Geneva released a report Thursday that locks on to one of metro Atlanta’s popular social action programs as a way to stem global warming – rescuing food that’s destined for the landfill and getting it on someone’s table.
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Late Fulton Commissioner Joan Garner honored by naming of Ponce de Leon library
The public library on Ponce de Leon Avenue is to be named for the late Joan Garner, Fulton County’s first openly gay commissioner and a strong advocate of public health. Fulton County’s board of commissioners voted unanimously for the measure Wednesday.
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Decarceration activists bring message to Fulton County
Fulton County’s commissioners are open about the overcrowding crisis at the county’s main jail. Activists have a solution: stop what they call “over-incarceration” in the county.
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Atlanta schools leader: Poverty at the heart of issues facing students
“You can see that white students … they’re 4.5 grade levels ahead of black students and it’s tied to poverty,” APS Superintendent Meria Carstarphen said.
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ARC goes high tech to reach public to devise plan for 2050
By David Pendered
Think of ARC’s long-range, regional planning blueprint done with 3-D animation. It would feel more alive, more real-time representational of the region it aims to serve. And the conversation has already started about the future the blueprint aims to inform.
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Fort Mac developments in doubt due to messy backroom deals
A real life tug-of-war is playing out at the Fort McPherson Local Redevelopment Authority.
At stake is the future development of 144 acres of the 480-acre property that once was the Fort McPherson army base in southwest Atlanta.
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Viewpoint: Georgia has too many counties — and other jurisdictions — to run as well as it could
All this complexity makes government hard to understand, hard to oversee. And in a lot of ways, it doesn’t serve the people all that well. Still, there are yet ways to make local governments work better together.
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‘The Farewell’ – a Chinese-U.S. tale based on an actual lie
As offbeat and unique as its star, “The Farewell” offers a lot of the shaggy-dog weirdness of a Jim Jarmusch film.
Said star, Awkwafina (born Nora Lum), is an actress and rapper who made her movie breakthrough last summer with the one-two punch of “Ocean’s 8” and “Crazy Rich Asians.”
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Along the South River, large tracts of tree canopy under siege
By Guest Columnist RYAN GRAVEL, AICP, founder of Sixpitch, Inc.
The latest tale in the slow destruction of Atlanta’s iconic tree canopy might seem like a bizarre aberration. When you see it in context of generational disinvestment in the South River watershed, however, suddenly it’s not so surprising. As it turns out, this tale is not an anomaly, but if you look closely, an elegant and aspirational solution to the larger narrative is hiding in plain sight.
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Aerospace sector stands out among Georgia’s economic success stories
Of all the “gee whiz, Georgia’s great” economic stories, the aerospace and defense sector stands out – The United States ranks No. 1 in the world and Georgia ranks No. 2 in the nation, and Georgia’s education system has the capacity to help workers into transition the jobs of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, two recent reports show.
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Just as mayor sings of ‘birds in the air,’ little Pine Lake named Wildlife Sanctuary
Pine Lake folks talk big about theirs being the smallest city in DeKalb County. On Thursday, this self-described “micropolitan” was recognized as the latest Atlanta Audubon Certified Wildlife Sanctuary. There was no word if the mayor will be singing about the award.
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Summer rite of ‘Shark Week’ highlights bipartisan support for shark conservation
Bobby Kennedy’s grandson might not have much in common with a Texan who taught high school English before she was elected to Congress. But both congressmembers have signed legislation intended to protect sharks – an effort gaining attention during ‘Shark Week.’
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Atlanta joins Rockefeller program to jumpstart investment in poorest pockets of city
The idea is to make sure these investments lift all boats, “not just the yachts.”
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Housing costs barely a blip for Atlanta’s well-paid, 20-something IT pros: CBRE report
Housing prices are little concern for metro Atlanta’s burgeoning population of young IT professionals who, according to a new report by the real estate firm CBRE, pay an average rent-to-wage ratio of 15 percent. This ratio is less than half the standard measure for an FHA loan.
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Don’t turn Grady High’s green front lawn into a parking lot
Forget about NIMBY. My protest is NIMFY (Not In My Front Yard).
Grady High School is planning to turn its beautiful front lawn into a parking lot.
The plans are part of the Atlanta Public School’s efforts to improve its schools and accommodate increased student demand.
