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1) MA09 Design Is Human launches with a SieMatic showroom lecture and a reception for Wm. Coleman Mills’ Patterns: Landscapes of the Sublime, Ridiculous and Contrived exhibit at the Mansion on Peachtree.

2) Park Tavern hosts ZAP Grand Tasting, with dozens of zinfandels from nonprofit Zinfandel Advocates & Producers.

3) Bone Garden Cantina holds Supper Club to benefit Atlanta Community Food Bank.

4) Michael Malone discusses his new book, The Four Corners of the Sky, at Decatur Library.

5) The Little Pirate Mermaid continues at the Center for Puppetry Arts.

(Photo courtesy Modern Atlanta)

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Brooke and Solomon are too young to remember a recession as bad as this one’s likely to get. But, over the last year, the Cobb County couple has gotten an up-close preview.

“We always talk about how we never thought we’d be in this predicament,” says Brooke, who lives with her husband and two babies in a $945-a-month apartment in Marietta.

Last year, the couple moved from Texas. For a time, they rented out the house they owned back in Beaumont. But the tenants moved out and the house sat empty. With gas prices rising, the second baby on the way and rent to pay in Atlanta, Solomon’s job on a Gulf of Mexico oil rig didn’t provide enough to also carry the mortgage. They fell behind.

Then, in January, just after the birth of their second son, Solomon’s rig shut down, and he had to go to work for another oil-services company. His pay dropped from $18 to $13 an hour. The bank foreclosed on the house in Texas. Bills began to pile up.

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(Photo by Joeff Davis)

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WABE’s Odette Yousef reports the Atlanta Community Food Bank’s inventory is at an all-time low.

Food bank CEO Bill Bolling blames the flagging economy. Donations have dipped while demand has surged, he says.

Georgia’s unemployment rate hit a 15-year high of 6.2% in July.

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