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1. Atlanta’s doin’ it and lovin’ it, says Trojan study (We’re No. 1 in the nation for sexual satisfaction and No. 2 for frequency of sex. Yeah, right.)

2. Washington City Paper’s Marion Barry story = gold (Speaking of surprising sex stories, the City Paper’s doozie on former mayor Barry was such a hit it crashed the paper’s website. What do you expect from the headline: “He put me out in Denver ’cause I wouldn’t suck his dick”?)

3. Filthy Rich: Best of Atlanta 2009 kicks off today (There are 18 days left to vote for the city’s best bands, restaurants, galleries, music venues, artists, shops and cultural attractions.)

4. Peachtree Streetcar vision isn’t dead yet (But it ain’t exactly called desire.)

5. GDOT, Beltline strike deal on vital track segments (City now controls roughly half of the right of way along the Beltline’s 22-mile loop.)

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Back by popular demand!

• Pecanne Log’s Christa, who’s been on fire the last few weeks, documents the mysterious senior citizen daredevils who putter around the city on what seem to be Segways — with seats! What are these baffling people movers and where can I purchase one?

• The deadline for the Urban Land Institute’s Urban Design competition was last week. Ben at Terminal Station was part of a Georgia Tech team that submitted a redevelopment vision for Denver. I had the opportunity to review his group’s proposal — a multi-phase smart-growth model — and it’s awesome. He’s posted photos and info about his team’s submission.

• Grift continues his hilarious live-blogging series of Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Lawmakers, the daily rundown of state Legislature news. So far we’ve seen talk of taxes, Sunday booze, Minoo! and transportation. Pretty soon, they’ll get to the boll weevil. Fingers crossed, folks.

• ATLMalcontent points us to a video about Elwin Wilson, a South Carolina man who in 1961 attacked a young Civil Rights activist — and future U.S. Representative — named John Lewis. Wilson, beset with remorse over the incident, recently visited Lewis’ office in Washington, D.C. to apologize. According to the Associated Press, Lewis “offered forgiveness without hesitation.”

• Leon’s Full Service, a new Decatur pub from the same owners who brought you the Brick Store, pours its first brew today at 5 p.m. Decatur Metro has the details, including a blow-by-blow account of the eBay auction for that first beer that’s raised more than $2,500 for employees of Trackside and 5th Earl.

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As the Democratic National Convention’s stars, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, took the stage yesterday, an overflowing arena expressed every emotion that came to heart.

(Photo by Joeff Davis)

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Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin is out of town again this week, but this time John Sugg won’t need an open-records request to find her. She’s in Denver, of course, serving as one of the co-chairs of the Democratic National Convention. Last night, she was on hand in the Mile High City to kick off the ceremonies with her two co-chairs, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Texas Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, who were joined by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

I’ll leave it to the Hillary-ites to point out the irony of having an all-female chairing committee and no women on the ticket. But at least the Dems finally agreed to seat Florida and Michigan delegates with full voting privileges, so no hard feelings, hmm?

Anyway, if you’d like to follow Shirley’s adventures in Denver, or simply follow the convention action on a minute-by minute basis, we recommend you check out the Demver blog set up by Denver alt-weekly Westword. They’ve got a fresh interview with Herroner, in which she opines on Howard Dean’s “50-state strategy” and about Georgia as a potential swing state:

“In my home state of Georgia, there’s a sense that well, a Democrat can’t win here competitively, can’t be competitive on the national level. Well, we’ve seen in our lives, we had a president from this state in our lifetime, in the 70s. The state supported Clinton in his first election and was very close in the second election. So there’s no question, just a few years ago, it was competitive. So I think it’s a mistake [to write off Georgia].”

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