The Newest Silverback
It’s been a good week in Atlanta pro soccer. First, there was victory against the Fort Lauderdale Strikers on Saturday night. Then, Atlanta Silverbacks team forward Pedro Mendes was named Offensive...
View ArticleMuseum of Flight Gathers No Dust
Retired pilot Ron Alexander loves old airplanes so much that he opened a museum dedicated to them. Candler Field Museum in Williamson, Georgia is a close-to-exact replica of Atlanta’s first airport in...
View ArticleStoryCorps Atlanta: Christina Gross & Jennifer Swope
77-year-old Christina Gross grew up in North Dakota, and never planned to leave. But then a job opportunity beckoned her husband. At StoryCorps, Christina told her granddaughter, Jennifer Swope, how it...
View ArticleReproducing Gutenberg
In the mid-15th century, the printing of the Gutenberg Bible marked a turning point in Western history. It was the first book printed using movable-type, laying the groundwork for the mass production...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Jorge, Sophie & Elise Polo
Jorge Polo is an immigrant, but for the past 30 years, his family has called Georgia home. At StoryCorps, Jorge’s granddaughters—13-year-old Sophie and 10-year-old Elise–wanted to know what his own...
View ArticleZounds! Who is that Masked Man?
The Box Heroes bring superheroes—and heroines—to life, in vivid...cardboard? If you’ve lived here long, then it’s likely you have at least a passing familiarity with Dragon*Con. Each Labor Day weekend,...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Woody Bartlett & Amanda Bolster
When Reverend Woody Bartlett got married for the second time 29 years ago, he had three kids from his first marriage. His new wife, who’d also previously been married, had two kids. Together, Woody,...
View ArticleThe Ten Dollar Art Mystery: Solved? Sort of.
This Saturday, the 2012 Decatur Book Festival will quite possibly see the end of an art project that’s had Atlanta writers and artists in its thrall for more than a year now. At least, so says the...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Charlotte & Jeanine Gardner
By all accounts, Charlotte Gardner had a well-behaved girlhood, growing up in Chicago during World War II. But, like us all, Charlotte, now 85, wasn’t perfect. At StoryCorps Atlanta, she told her...
View ArticleThe Problem of Public Art
When it comes to art in public spaces, can there be any such thing as compromise?
View ArticleStoryCorps: Nancy Thompson & Lisa Carlson
Emory Public Health professors Nancy Thompson and Lisa Carlson have been professional colleagues for the past 20 years. But they share a friendship that goes beyond the professional, and goes back 20...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Paula Lowery & Stewart Scott
In the 1990s, Stewart Scott was managing employees at a manufacturing plant in Kennesaw. Paula Lowery had always done blue-collar work, and was looking for a job on the second shift, which ran from...
View ArticleHit Those Chickens
This is an installment of our occasional series, “Storytellers” –personal, first-person narratives from metro Atlantans. This is storytelling at its most intimate, delivered without scripts or notes...
View ArticleA Visit to the Waffle House Museum
The Georgia Historical Society this month placed an historical marker at the world's very first Waffle House--in Avondale Estates. Today, that location has actually been converted into museum, and...
View ArticleSounds from ASO's Benefit Concert
Last night, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Players Association played the first of two benefit concerts—in the midst of stormy negotiations and a lockout. One purpose of the free concerts, at North...
View ArticleHundreds Turn Out for ASO Players' Benefit Concert
Last night, musicians from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra played the first of two benefit performances—in the midst of stormy negotiations and a lockout. WABE's Kate Sweeney has more.
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