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Notorious Marietta bar parodied on MySpace

Andisheh Nouraee — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:57:09 +0000

Welcome to Mulletguns.

Marietta perplexed by cruising, public sex at A.L. Burruss Park

Thomas Wheatley — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:28:59 +0000

Think about the children, Marietta!

Great moments in site selection

Andisheh Nouraee — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:01:43 +0000

Black Power conference in the 'burbs.

Is the F-22 really dead?

Andisheh Nouraee — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:26:07 +0000

Pentagon programs never die. They evolve.

Morning headlines

Russell McLendon — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:20:48 +0000

DEFENSES DOWN: The Fulton County Superior Court’s chief judge calls the mass layoffs of public defenders — which was announced Friday with lack of state funding as the reason — irresponsible, saying it could create a legal crisis. ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: Major restaurants and grocery store chains are voluntarily withdrawing raw tomatoes suspected of [...]

Atlanta’s carbon footprint

Thomas Wheatley — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:04:43 +0000

Gather ’round, Atlanta, Marietta, Sandy Springs — according to the Brookings Institution, your carbon footprint is shrinking. Everybody gets a gold star. The Washington, D.C.-based think tank has released a study of the carbon footprint from transportation and residential energy uses of 100 metropolitan areas. The three-city survey conducted from 2000 to 2005 in our neck [...]

Marietta racist T-shirt guy on CNN Headline News

Andisheh Nouraee — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:20:21 +0000

Watch CNN Headline News anchor Mike Galanos hammer Mulligan’s owner Mike Norman during a phone interview. Incidentally, Norman says the cartoon monkey on the T-shirt is not in fact Curious George, but a spin-off called Satisfied Fred. Bookmark It

Marietta racist insists he’s not racist

Andisheh Nouraee — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:19:49 +0000

A bar-owner in Marietta is selling t-shirts depicting Sen. Barack Obama as a banana-chomping chimp. From AJC.com: Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he’s peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with “Obama in ‘08″ scrolled underneath, are “cute.” But to a coalition of critics, the shirts are an insulting exploitation of racial [...]

Some dude from New York crashes Ron Paul rally

Thomas Wheatley — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:34:52 +0000

A man calling himself Rudy Giuliani astounded Marietta citizens yesterday by swooping down on the suburb and crashing a well-attended rally organized by supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul. Operating under the guise of a “campaign stop,” Giuliani took the The Good Doctor’s peaceful foot soldiers by surprise. While the followers of Paul’s dark horse [...]

Peep Show: Paralympics throwdown in Marietta

Andisheh Nouraee — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:15:53 +0000

BLIND JAVELIN TOSS: Less dangerous than it sounds. On Saturday, we stopped by Marietta High School for the U.S. Paralympics Track & Field National Championships. The event features hundreds of athletes with a variety of disabilities including amputations, paralysis and cerebral palsy competing in classic track and field events including, believe it or not, blind javelin [...]