http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:10:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/20/last-weeks-top-posts-a-senile-ex-congressman-a-gallery-in-trouble-and-thieving-squirrels/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/20/last-weeks-top-posts-a-senile-ex-congressman-a-gallery-in-trouble-and-thieving-squirrels/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:55:20 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=22600 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/20/last-weeks-top-posts-a-senile-ex-congressman-a-gallery-in-trouble-and-thieving-squirrels/feed/ 0 What's the difference between Zell Miller and the owner of a crappy Marietta bar called Mulligan's? (Hint: We don't know.) http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/10/gawker-names-tennessee-obama-column-the-countrys-most-racist/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/10/gawker-names-tennessee-obama-column-the-countrys-most-racist/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:16:05 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=8899 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/10/gawker-names-tennessee-obama-column-the-countrys-most-racist/feed/ 0 Columnist Stephen Lewis compared Barack Obama's ascent to the presidency to the "movin' on up" jingle from "The Jeffersons." http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/27/mike-norman-exclusive-interview-with-the-nonracist-t-shirt-guy/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/27/mike-norman-exclusive-interview-with-the-nonracist-t-shirt-guy/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 17:28:43 +0000 TL Pixley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/27/mike-norman-exclusive-interview-with-the-nonracist-t-shirt-guy/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/27/mike-norman-exclusive-interview-with-the-nonracist-t-shirt-guy/feed/ 2 CL has followed the goings-on of Mike Norman, bar owner and T-shirt designer extraordinaire, with great interest in recent weeks. We were lucky enough to get a video interview with the man who became a person of national interest by selling T-shirts depicting Sen. Barack Obama as a Curious George look-alike. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/yXIId8LyxMQ" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/marietta-racist-insists-hes-not-racist/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/marietta-racist-insists-hes-not-racist/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 16:19:49 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/marietta-racist-insists-hes-not-racist/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/marietta-racist-insists-hes-not-racist/feed/ 13 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 [...]