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/2009/03/09/for-brand-atlanta-today-was-a-closing-day/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/09/for-brand-atlanta-today-was-a-closing-day/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:59:46 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=16756 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/09/for-brand-atlanta-today-was-a-closing-day/feed/ 7 The Brand Atlanta campaign has been de-funded by the city. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/13/atlantas-version-of-bilderberg/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/13/atlantas-version-of-bilderberg/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:30:46 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/13/atlantas-version-of-bilderberg/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/13/atlantas-version-of-bilderberg/feed/ 2 Reporters get suspicious when we’re denied access to meetings where extremely powerful and wealthy people get together with elected officials to discuss issues of great public importance. That’s what will happen this Monday morning when the Atlanta Committee for Progress (PDF) and Mayor Shirley Franklin go behind closed doors to talk about … well, who knows [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/08/mayor-franklin-panhandling-unwelcome-downtown/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/08/mayor-franklin-panhandling-unwelcome-downtown/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:57:23 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/08/mayor-franklin-panhandling-unwelcome-downtown/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/08/mayor-franklin-panhandling-unwelcome-downtown/feed/ 0 As we’d reported in early August and the AJC repeated Sunday, City Hall has launched something of a crackdown on downtown panhandling. Last month, the city fired the first shot across the bow when police arrested almost 50 aggressive beggars, the first serious enforcement of the downtown “no panhandling zone” in three years. And this Wednesday, [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/brand-atlanta-were-broke-come-see-us/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/brand-atlanta-were-broke-come-see-us/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:06:55 +0000 David Lee Simmons http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/brand-atlanta-were-broke-come-see-us/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/brand-atlanta-were-broke-come-see-us/feed/ 4 We’ve all been getting a kick this morning out of the AJC’s report about Brand Atlanta (”Every Day is an Opening Day!”) running out of funding. There are so many jokes to what has become a kind of running punchline source, we don’t know where to start. One poster on ArtNews recommended the alternate motto [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/atlanta-is-so-gay/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/atlanta-is-so-gay/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:31:48 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/atlanta-is-so-gay/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/atlanta-is-so-gay/feed/ 3 Posters announcing “Atlanta is so gay” are reportedly on display throughout London’s subway system — their appearance timed to coincide with the city’s Pride festivities last week. The posters are the work of Amro Worldwide, a travel agency specializing in gay-friendly tourism. The agency has similar posters touting the gay-friendliness of Boston, New Orleans, D.C., Las [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/22/brand-atlanta-and-cl-spoofed/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/22/brand-atlanta-and-cl-spoofed/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:00:11 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/22/brand-atlanta-and-cl-spoofed/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/22/brand-atlanta-and-cl-spoofed/feed/ 3 A news-style parody of Brand Atlanta’s municipal marketing campaign was posted on the ARTNEWS listserv on Saturday. With the author’s permission, I’ve posted it below. I like the line about the aquarium and the description of CL writers as “self important douche bags” — which probably just makes me seem like even more of a self-important [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/19/atlanta-blogs-today-city-lights-southern-nights/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/19/atlanta-blogs-today-city-lights-southern-nights/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:15:07 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/19/atlanta-blogs-today-city-lights-southern-nights/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/19/atlanta-blogs-today-city-lights-southern-nights/feed/ 2 Instead, how about “The City Too Busy to Cut a Deadweight Marketing Initiative from its Budget”? — Rusty the Radical Georgia Moderate on “City lights, Southern nights,” the slogan reportedly replacing “Every day is an opening day” as Atlanta’s new municipal marketing theme —– Atlanta abandons slogan, resurrects Glen Campbell’s career — When ATLMalcontent heard the slogan, he [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/18/brand-atlanta-20/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/18/brand-atlanta-20/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:39:23 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/18/brand-atlanta-20/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/18/brand-atlanta-20/feed/ 14 This is not a joke. Brand Atlanta, the municipal marketers who spent millions embarrassing the city with that idiotic “Every day is an opening day” marketing campaign, have unveiled a replacement. Shockingly, they’ve managed to come up with something even worse: “City lights, Southern nights” Atlanta has electricity. Atlanta has nighttime. Come visit us. Please. We’re begging you. Other than cleverly combining the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/01/bland-atlanta/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/01/bland-atlanta/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:00:57 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/01/bland-atlanta/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/01/bland-atlanta/feed/ 4 As my cubicular neighbor Scott Henry blogged on Friday, the city will soon scrap its failed “Every Day Is an Opening Day” and “Opportunity Optimism Openness” marketing campaign. Writing on the My ‘Lanta blog in October 2005, Phil O’Steen and I predicted this failure. But instead of just being nabobs of negativism, we came up with what [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/28/its-about-time-2/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/28/its-about-time-2/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:35:52 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/28/its-about-time-2/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/28/its-about-time-2/feed/ 7 If you call Atlanta City Hall and get put on hold, a recording of Andy Young will remind you over and over that “Every Day Is an Opening Day” until you want to scream, slam down the phone and move to Bainbridge, Ga. Well, your misery is about to end. The Brand Atlanta campaign has finally [...]