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Free Will Astrology

Jan. 20-26

• by Rob Brezsny
• Tags: Free Will Astrology, Free Will Astrology, Rob Brezsny, horoscope

What Atlanta should have learned from Snowpocalypse 2011

Six lessons from the week Atlanta stopped

• by Gwynedd Stuart
• Tags: News Feature, Snowpocalypse 2011, Nathan Deal, Georgia Department of Transportation, Vance Smith, Kasim Reed

How to make the Beltline happen

Atlanta's game-changing transit loop won't succeed without big, bold ideas. Here are five.

• by Thomas Wheatley
• Tags: Cover Story, Beltline, public transit, mass transportation, streetcar, bike paths, Cover Story

Voters deserve a bill that actually fixes transit

Georgia's transportation tax rife with problems

• by Editorial Board
• Tags: Opinion, Sales tax, MARTA, Fulton County, DeKalb county, mass transit, public transportation, Atlanta gridlock, Regional Transit Committee

The myth of the law-abiding citizen

Gun-rights advocates divide the world neatly into crazed criminals and law-abiding citizens

• by Scott Henry
• Tags: Opinion, Gun rights, Second Amendment, NRA, Mitch Seabaugh

Can liquor be used as an emergency antiseptic?

• by Cecil Adams
• Tags: Straight Dope, Straight Dope, Cecil Adams

Church for scums, air-sex championship and more

• by Chuck Shepherd
• Tags: News of the Weird, News of the Weird, Chuck Shepherd, weird news

Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports

• by Lauren Keating
• Tags: The Blotter, The Blotter, Bizarre Atlanta crimes, Atlanta police reports, Best of the Blotter

The Full Loop: Introduce Atlanta to the Beltline — by building a bike path

It's far less expensive than the project's transit component and far more feasible in the short-term

• by Thomas Wheatley
• Tags: Cover Story, Beltline, Bike paths, Biking, mass transit, public transportation

Northwest: Turn a giant hole in the ground into Atlanta's new waterfront

The booming Westside would benefit with a 45-acre reservoir and greenspace that's twice the size of Piedmont Park

• by Thomas Wheatley
• Tags: Cover Story, Beltline, mass transit, public transportation, Bellwood Quarry, Westside

Northeast: Build a rail segment that links Atlanta's most booming neighborhoods

The crescent-shaped arc between Piedmont Park and DeKalb Avenue has the density to make transit work

• by Thomas Wheatley
• Tags: Cover Story, Beltline, mass transit, public transportation, Historic Fourth Ward Park, Eastside Bike Trail, Peachtree Streetcar

Southeast: Ready one of the Beltline's coolest segments for rail — and art

Secure the Beltline's most prominent gap — a bucolic, gritty stretch of tracks between Glenwood Park and southwest Atlanta

• by Thomas Wheatley
• Tags: Cover Story, Beltline, mass transit, public transportation, CSX, Lafarge

Southwest: Turn a 31-acre parking lot into a vibrant southside neighborhood

With the right project, some of Atlanta's most beleaguered communities — and the entire city — could benefit

• by Thomas Wheatley
• Tags: Cover Story, Beltline, mass transit, public transportation, Pittsburgh, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Georgia Tech, urban design

What would you tell God to tell Tyler Perry?

The Last Word

• by CL staff
• Tags: The Last Word, Man on the Street, Facebook, Twitter, social media, Tyler Perry

Review: H. Harper Station

Cocktails and Creole in Reynoldstown

• by Besha Rodell
• Tags: Restaurant Review, Reynoldstown, H. Harper Station

Visits to Parish Market, Peter Chang's and Perla Taqueria

A sampling of prefreeze meals

• by Cliff Bostock
• Tags: Grazing, Parish Market, Peter Chang, Perla Taqueria

Sorry No Ferrari doesn't mean to intimidate

Math rockers throw self-deprecating remix contest, Bodega Brovas get HiPNOTTic

• by Chad Radford
• Tags: Local Music News, Sorry No Ferrari, Bodega Brovas, Headkrack, HiPNOTT Records, Kevin Nottingham, Atlanta Mess-Around, Hunx & his Punx

Feeding Fingers wrestle with gothic misperceptions

Black lipstick and vampire imagery might rule at home, but their true fanbase is Germanic to the core

• by Chad Radford
• Tags: Music Feature, The Feeding Fingers

The Get Up Kids: There Are Rules

The band's first release in seven years is sonically different from anything they've done before, but the melodic intuition is familiar

• by Gabe Vodicka
• Tags: Album Reviews, media mashups, The Get Up Kids, Quality Hill

The Wheeler Boys: My Brother's Keeper

Street-level blues poured into hip-hop songs

• by Chad Radford
• Tags: Album Reviews, media mashups, The Wheeler Boys, Southern Ground, Dungeon Family

Abby Dobson: Sleeping Beauty

The long-awaited debut by the NYC soulful songstress exemplifies the best and worst of her "grown folks music" subgenre

• by L. Michael Gipson
• Tags: Album Reviews, media mashups, Abby Dobson, LadyBraveBird Music

The Company Men looks at life in the unemployment line

Better recession-era movies makes John Wells' film replaceable

• by Curt Holman
• Tags: Movie Review, Movies, Company Men, Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper

"Top Chef" All-stars: Restaurant wars

A glory to behold

• by Besha Rodell

What happened after MLK died?

Rebecca Burns examines the week following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in her new book, Burial for a King

• by Wyatt Williams
• Tags: Books, Rebecca Burns, Burial for a King, Martin Luther King Jr.

Come! Hear the devil's music!

Broadsword presents a compelling portrait of rock 'n' roll casualties

• by Curt Holman
• Tags: Theater Review, Theater, Broadsword, Actor's Express, Freddie Ashley, Marco Ramirez

Should he leave his wife for his ex-lover?

Don't confuse a rekindled flame for true love

• by Michael Alvear
• Tags: The Sexorcist, Atlanta sex, Atlanta dating, divorce, marriage

MLK Jr. Day March

It was a spirited, joyous and somber afternoon as thousands marched and celebrated the legacy of Atlanta's most famous native

• by Joeff Davis