http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:00:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/09/21/atlflood-and-atltraffic-on-twitter-are-your-best-bets/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/09/21/atlflood-and-atltraffic-on-twitter-are-your-best-bets/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:32:12 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=25226 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/09/21/atlflood-and-atltraffic-on-twitter-are-your-best-bets/feed/ 1 Because misery loves company — and the info there's the most up-to-date http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/02/atlanta-blogs-today-bill-murray-slowing-growth-reporters-with-candy/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/02/atlanta-blogs-today-bill-murray-slowing-growth-reporters-with-candy/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:49:40 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=16211 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/02/atlanta-blogs-today-bill-murray-slowing-growth-reporters-with-candy/feed/ 0 Everyone's favorite uncle is filming a movie — and lurking — around metro Atlanta. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/09/atlanta-blogs-today-54/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/09/atlanta-blogs-today-54/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:08:16 +0000 Scott Freeman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=7108 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/09/atlanta-blogs-today-54/feed/ 0 — Live Apartment Fire takes a look at the coverage of the voodoo lady that Cobb County Commissioner Annette Kesting allegedly tried to hire to off her opponent. The kicker? South Carolina authorities say they could charge Kesting with solicitation for murder. — Esquire magazine takes a look at the Congressional races and compiles a list [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/01/the-woman-behind-atlgas/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/01/the-woman-behind-atlgas/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:38:13 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6804 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/01/the-woman-behind-atlgas/feed/ 8 The person who gave the most help to Atlantans struggling to find gas in recent weeks wasn’t a governor, a mayor, or even a reporter. Tessa Horehled is a marketing consultant and author of the popular local culture blog Drive A Faster Car. While tracking down gas for her mother two weeks ago, Horehled used her mobile [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/30/relief-from-gas-pain/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/30/relief-from-gas-pain/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:34:13 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6738 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/30/relief-from-gas-pain/feed/ 3 Here’s a welcome sight — a gas station with gas, but no lines. I hope this means the gas shortage is easing. Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/god-to-gas-starved-georgians-make-up-your-minds-already/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/god-to-gas-starved-georgians-make-up-your-minds-already/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:53:48 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6637 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/god-to-gas-starved-georgians-make-up-your-minds-already/feed/ 5 In an exclusive interview with Creative Loafing, God asked gasoline-starved Georgians to make up their minds already. “You prayed for rain, so I gave unto you an exceptionally active Atlantic hurricane season,” the Almighty said today. “Now you’re nagging because my wind-borne servants, Gustav and Ike, slowed your gasoline production. I swear there’s no pleasing some [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/perdue-requests-bush-open-reserves/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/perdue-requests-bush-open-reserves/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:49:25 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6625 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/perdue-requests-bush-open-reserves/feed/ 4 Gov. Sonny Perdue has asked Pres. Bush to release crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. (Click here to view the letter to the president.) “As President Bush and Congress work on a plan to rescue our financial markets, I urge them to also focus on our fuel shortage in the Southeast,” Perdue said in a [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/bring-on-the-price-gouging/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/bring-on-the-price-gouging/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:00:25 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6572 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/bring-on-the-price-gouging/feed/ 2 I’ll start this off by saying I’m not exactly sure what price gouging is. I’m under the impression that charging as much for something as you can is capitalism. I don’t quite understand when and how a price hike for a scarce product becomes crime. With that in mind, I’d like to request the state lift [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/the-downside-of-diesel/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/the-downside-of-diesel/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:46:32 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6599 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/the-downside-of-diesel/feed/ 1 I drive a 1973 Mercedes that runs on petro-diesel, biodiesel, or any combination of the two. This means I do not have to wait in long lines to fill up my tank as there is plenty of diesel around town. Unfortunately, this also means I can’t use “I don’t have gas” as an excuse to work from [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/atlanta-gas-hunt-rocks-the-twitter/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/atlanta-gas-hunt-rocks-the-twitter/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:21:48 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6578 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/atlanta-gas-hunt-rocks-the-twitter/feed/ 1 Searching for gasoline in Atlanta is one of the most popular uses of the micro-blogging service Twitter this morning, according to Twitter’s list of most-searched topics. Note: #atlgas is the only non-national topic on the list. If you have no clue what I’m talking about — web-enabled Atlantans are blogging the location of stations with gasoline by [...]