NIMBY
Thursday, April 26, 2012
NIMBY First Slice 4/26/12: Unemployment rate drops, everything's better forever
Posted by Eric Celeste on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:55 AM
- Joeff Davis
- Last year, on Mother's Day the Hawks beat the Bulls at home to push their Eastern Conference Semifinals playoff series to six games. They lost the series in game six. Al Horford announced Wednesday he will miss the first round playoffs against the Celtics because of an injury.
1. Metro Atlanta's unemployment has fallen to 8.7 percent. I'm heartened by this trend, but I'm sure I'm just in the tank for Obama, according to comments coming soon.
2. Atlanta airport employees are getting hired without TSA background checks. It's not clear if other airports were allowed to do this, which makes me feel kinda special.
3. The Hawks can secure home-court advantage for the first round of the playoffs if they beat the world champion Dallas Mavericks tonight. I'll be at the game screaming "I see you Big German!" every time Dirk scores. I would not sit near me if I were you.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
NIMBY / Haters / LGBT Gidewon clan to open Midtown nightclub for Halloween
Posted by Scott Henry on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:59 PM
- Courtesy Club Reign
- Make it Reign, baby!
No, when the Gidewon brothers finally open the doors of their latest and, already, most controversial nightclub, the name on the marquee will be Club Reign. (Not to be confused with Rain, the hip-hop club in Mechanicsville.)
According to club spokesman Chris Kappy, Reign will open Saturday, Oct. 30, for a Q100-promoted Halloween party. But don't expect too much crunkness. (Crunkiosity? Crunkitude?) "We're not going to go with a huge fanfare to blow the doors off because some of our neighbors are still looking for reasons to get us shut down," Kappy explains. "We're expecting some push-back from the neighborhood."
That's probably a reasonable expectation, to say the least. Since July 2009, when Michael Gidewon filed an application to open a new, 20,000-square-foot club at 1021 Peachtree St. — since divided into separate nightclub and lounge spaces — the "first family of Atlanta nightlife" (as we called them in a cover story last year) was forced to fight several rounds of legal battles against neighboring residents and businesses that wanted to prevent the clubs from opening.
The clubs' opponents used every avenue to wage war against the Gidewons — filing lawsuits and legal challenges; speaking out at public hearings; creating an anonymous, anti-Vision website, www.keepmidtownsafe.com; collecting 1451 signatures on an online petition; writing letters to persuade Mayor Shirley Franklin and other public officials to deny the required permits; and generally bad-mouthing the Gidewons and their previous clubs at every turn.
