http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:03:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/10/30/mary-norwood-reverses-herself-on-police-chief-pledge/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/10/30/mary-norwood-reverses-herself-on-police-chief-pledge/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:25:00 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=26848 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/10/30/mary-norwood-reverses-herself-on-police-chief-pledge/feed/ 25 Mary Norwood backtracks on promise to hire police chief from within ranks http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/06/17/wabes-odette-yousef-reports-from-ethiopia-on-trachoma/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/06/17/wabes-odette-yousef-reports-from-ethiopia-on-trachoma/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:07:30 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=20999 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/06/17/wabes-odette-yousef-reports-from-ethiopia-on-trachoma/feed/ 0 Journalist travels with Carter Center to report on eye illness that can lead to blindness http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/13/11alives-denis-ohayer-joins-wabe/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/13/11alives-denis-ohayer-joins-wabe/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:58:21 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=12493 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/13/11alives-denis-ohayer-joins-wabe/feed/ 13 News veteran will locally host afternoon editions of 'The World,' 'All Things Considered' and 'MarketPlace.' http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/11/storycorps-coming-to-atlanta/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/11/storycorps-coming-to-atlanta/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:44:46 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10751 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/11/storycorps-coming-to-atlanta/feed/ 0 City will host "the nation’s largest and most remarkable oral history project of our time.” http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/07/listen-to-my-npr-interview-about-bmf/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/07/listen-to-my-npr-interview-about-bmf/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:14:07 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=8797 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/07/listen-to-my-npr-interview-about-bmf/feed/ 0 The Black Mafia Family was a $270 million cocaine enterprise that had ties to some of the biggest names in hip-hop. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/25/drop-wabes-classical-music-block-spacey-says-yes/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/25/drop-wabes-classical-music-block-spacey-says-yes/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:32:48 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6413 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/25/drop-wabes-classical-music-block-spacey-says-yes/feed/ 23 Just like changing Georgia’s Sunday liquor laws, every couple years a group of NPR-addicted folks bring up the idea of urging WABE, Atlanta’s public radio godsend, to drop its six-hour afternoon block of classical music and replace it with more news. Independent-bookstore owners and dentist offices shore up their resources and successfully quash the uprising. [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/08/atlanta-community-food-bank-shelves-empty/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/08/atlanta-community-food-bank-shelves-empty/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:42:31 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/08/atlanta-community-food-bank-shelves-empty/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/08/atlanta-community-food-bank-shelves-empty/feed/ 0 WABE’s Odette Yousef reports the Atlanta Community Food Bank’s inventory is at an all-time low. Food bank CEO Bill Bolling blames the flagging economy. Donations have dipped while demand has surged, he says. Georgia’s unemployment rate hit a 15-year high of 6.2% in July. Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/19/901-beltline-podcasts-online/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/19/901-beltline-podcasts-online/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:42:49 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/19/901-beltline-podcasts-online/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/19/901-beltline-podcasts-online/feed/ 2 WABE-FM (90.1), Atlanta’s den of wicked liberal propaganda NPR affiliate and classical-music powerhouse, has posted its Beltline pieces — originally aired during “Morning Edition” — as podcasts here. While I haven’t had a chance to check out all the selections, the station consistently produces quality work, and this offering should be an interesting take on [...]