Podcast: ‘Heroin tightens its grip’
August 21st, 2008 by Web EditorSarah, the subject of this week’s cover story on heroin addiction, speaks to CL Senior Writer Mara Shalhoup about how she got hooked on the drug — and how, six years later, she finally quit.




Former “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” star Bob Saget has reinvented himself in recent years with his stand-up routine and blue humor, most famously captured in the 2005 documentary The Aristocrats, as well as his 2006 direct-to-video comedy Farce of the Penguins.
Bravo’s “Top Chef” has been especially emotional for Atlantans this season, with hometown chef Richard Blais in the running. Last week’s finale dashed our hopes of an Atlanta Top Chef, with Blais losing to sweet and sensible Stephanie. The morning after the finale aired, I caught up with Blais by phone, and asked him about the show, his career and some of his more controversial co-contestants.