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Awesome news. Developers say the full-service grocer planned for the old Atlanta Dairies location will be a “mainstream” store, but not a high-end chain such as Whole Foods or Fresh Market. Regardless, if you live nearby, you’re getting a place within walking distance to buy food.
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The week after two taggers and the man who attacked them reached a peaceful resolution over the highly charged issue of how much graffiti is too much in Cabbagetown, tensions in the neighborhood flared again.
This time, it was Atlanta police who cracked down.
At around 2:30 a.m. this morning, muralists with an out-of-state art collective called Trust Your Struggle were putting up a mural in the Krog Street tunnel when four patrol cars responded. Police put an abrupt end to their painting, according to witness Dawn Smith.
About an hour earlier, the artists, who had come to Atlanta to do a free commissioned mural at West End’s Omenala-Griot Afrocentric Museum, arrived with Smith at the Cabbgetown bar 97 Estoria. At the bar, Smith and several other patrons mentioned that the muralists should paint something in the tunnel, which is widely perceived by graffiti artists and Cabbagetown residents as a “free space” for graffiti-styled murals.
“Neighbors, people from Estoria all gathered around” to watch them paint, Smith says.
Within 15 minutes, Smith says, the cops arrived. “They proceeded to harass and threaten to arrest people,” she says. “It was really this tense standoff.”
After this week’s story about the tensions between Cabbagetown residents and local graffiti artists went to press, we learned that the man ticketed by police for hiding in a tree and pouncing on two taggers has made amends with them.
The man, Rodney Bowman, was ticketed for disorderly conduct after he jumped from the tree at 2:30 a.m. one Sunday morning and surprised Joshua Ward and Jesse Jaeger, who were about to spray-paint a railroad wall near the Krog Street Tunnel. Bowman punched Ward in the face, then pulled one of the sparkplugs from Jaeger’s truck in an attempt to keep them from fleeing.
The police also ticketed Ward and Jaeger, for defacing a public building.
All the three men went to court on Monday and said they didn’t want to push the case, so the judge dropped the charges.
“We shook hands, all three of us did,” Bowman told CL. “And I told them that they are welcome to come back and speak with our [neighborhood] association to put their artwork on the wall. And I hope that they do come back and do that.”
As for Jaeger, Bowman said: “I even offered to buy him a set of sparkplugs.”
In an email, Ward wrote that he was pleased with how it all turned out:
“Rodney apologized to me for what he did and now wants us to get a lot of graffiti writers to actually paint murals on the wall, haha things actually turned out to be pretty cool.”
(photo by Alex Gibbs)
Artists aren’t typically people with a lot of cash on hand, but when their friends and neighbors are in need, they always seem to step up.
Cabbagetown Relief, a benefit concert and silent art auction at Studio 900 in Inman Park, raised $5,500 dollars Saturday for victims of the March 14 tornado that pummeled several intown neighborhoods.
Cabbagetown was among the ‘hoods hardest hit by the storm, with several homes destroyed and the top floor of one the buildings at the iconic Fulton Cotton Mill lofts ripped off. Since Cabbagetown has long been an enclave for creative people, it wasn’t surprising that artful photos of tornado damage in Cabbagetown comprised the bulk of art being auctioned.
According to event co-organizer Michael Pisarri, Cabbagetown Relief will continue to raise money by auctioning art online.
Additionally, the Cabbagetown Neighborhood Improvement Association will try to raise money for tornado victims with the Dine-Out for Tornado Victims event on April 14.
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