http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:27:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/25/franklin-to-spread-holiday-cheer-help-fete-roy-barnes/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/25/franklin-to-spread-holiday-cheer-help-fete-roy-barnes/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:53:02 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=28139 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/11/25/franklin-to-spread-holiday-cheer-help-fete-roy-barnes/feed/ 1 Join them at Atlantic Station for yuletide cheer! http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/24/city-hall-workers-get-no-x-mas-cheer/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/24/city-hall-workers-get-no-x-mas-cheer/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:15:59 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=11598 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/24/city-hall-workers-get-no-x-mas-cheer/feed/ 2 Atlanta city workers will have to work on Christmas Day. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/23/1st-annual-unwrapped-atlanta-web-party/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/23/1st-annual-unwrapped-atlanta-web-party/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:55:01 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=11488 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/23/1st-annual-unwrapped-atlanta-web-party/feed/ 1 Half of all proceeds will go toward One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit that hopes to provide the world's poorest children with a computer. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/03/cabaret-singer-libby-whittemores-making-a-list-checking-it-twice/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/03/cabaret-singer-libby-whittemores-making-a-list-checking-it-twice/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:07 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=9864 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/03/cabaret-singer-libby-whittemores-making-a-list-checking-it-twice/feed/ 0 Beloved Atlanta singer Libby Whittemore lists five essential songs from her Christmas cabaret act, 'Ho Ho Home For the Holidays,' playing in December at Actor's Express. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/18/pick-this-weeks-creative-loafing-cover/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/18/pick-this-weeks-creative-loafing-cover/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:49:34 +0000 Joeff Davis http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=9389 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/18/pick-this-weeks-creative-loafing-cover/feed/ 0 One of these photos is this week’s “Hard Times Holiday Guide” Creative Loafing cover which hits the streets (and the web) Wednesday. Which one would you have picked? (Scroll down to vote) A) B) C) D) Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/26/breaking-santa-bypassed-atlanta-military-caught-in-lie-omg/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/26/breaking-santa-bypassed-atlanta-military-caught-in-lie-omg/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:11:49 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/26/breaking-santa-bypassed-atlanta-military-caught-in-lie-omg/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/26/breaking-santa-bypassed-atlanta-military-caught-in-lie-omg/feed/ 4 It’s up to us here at CL to get to the bottom of what may be the most brazen of government cover-ups, committed during the very time of year when the warmth of the holiday season should keep us all honest and aglow. According to NORAD’s highly publicized surveillance program meant to not only track, [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/25/merry-hanramawanzamas-readers/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/25/merry-hanramawanzamas-readers/#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:58:22 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/25/merry-hanramawanzamas-readers/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/25/merry-hanramawanzamas-readers/feed/ 1 My humbug cigar-chomping editor, after a long day of sealing donation envelopes to MoveOn.org and spit-shining his electric automobile, climbed out from under mounds of coal and the scalps of young journalists and shouted, “Wheatley! Write me a Christmas post, dammit! Something about snow, presents, good will toward men!” I, being new to the Atlanta [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/03/santa-seagal/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/03/santa-seagal/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:00:04 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/03/santa-seagal/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/03/santa-seagal/feed/ 0 Because zero-emission sleigh rides are for suckers, Santa Claus is getting all commando on us this year and will be arriving via helicopter in Sterling on the Lakes, a community in Flowery Branch on Dec. 8. He touches down at 2:15 p.m. The World’s Oldest Aviator will then shuffle up to the clubhouse to hear what [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/07/wanted-holiday-personas/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/07/wanted-holiday-personas/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:54:03 +0000 Adina Fleming http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/07/wanted-holiday-personas/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/07/wanted-holiday-personas/feed/ 0 (Photo credit: (c) 2003 Dimension Films) Are you representative of the holidays in some way, shape or form? For CL’s upcoming Holiday Guide ‘07, we’re profiling six people who define the holiday season. We are looking for people who fit the following categories: The Spiritual (Christian, Jewish, you name it), the Secular (not so religious), the [...]