Errin Vuley, a longtime activist for women’s causes, was killed Tuesday morning in a multi-car crash in DeKalb County.
Vuley, 35, had been a familiar face at the State Capitol for several years, working for the Feminist Women’s Health Center and GARAL, the pre-cursor to Georgia NARAL Pro-Choice America, before serving as executive director for Georgians for Choice from 2001-2006.
Most recently, Vuley had been interim CEO for GOAL — A Girl’s Journey of Growth, a Decatur-based non-profit that helps adolescent girls build self-esteem.
According to the AJC, Vuley was killed when her mini-van was struck by a Ford Explorer on Memorial Drive. Police were looking for another vehicle they believe caused the crash.
“Errin was one of the most passionate, dedicated people I know, deeply committed to social justice,” said Sara Totonchi, a lobbyist with the Southern Center for Human Rights who was close friends with Vuley.
Longtime LGBT nightlife magazine David (along with Southern Voice) shut down on Monday but there was still one Davidissue left on the computers ready to hit the streets. What to do?
How about calling in the Red Dog Unit and raiding the building Eagle-style?!
Staffers at David had already put their Nov. 19 issue to bed, meaning it was produced and ready to print in advance of hitting the street Thursday. As we now know, it never made it.
But former employees recovered the files on Wednesday when the company allowed them back into the office to remove their personal belongings. And they posted them to David’s Facebook page, allowing a look at the lost issue of the magazine.
Check out the final columns, articles, Seen@’s and one last bitch here.
The Plaza Theatre joins with ASIFA-Atlanta to present Mary and Max,the Claymation comedy of mismatched pen pals. Director Adam Elliott, who won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for “Harvie Krumpet” (narrated by Geoffrey Rush) explores the 18-year friendship between a lonely Australian girl (Toni Collette) and an obese New Yorker with Asperger’s Syndrome (Phillip Seymour Hoffman). The opening film of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Mary and Max screens at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16.
Last time it was the water bill. This time it’s the mortgage.
The city’s largest homeless shelter is again in danger of being ousted from its longtime home just in time for the holidays.
The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless faces foreclosure actions brought by two separate lenders against the enormous old building it occupies at the corner of Peachtree and Pine streets. Barring some intervention, the former automotive parts warehouse is scheduled to be auctioned off on the courthouse steps Dec. 1.
The two delinquent mortgage loans are held by private charities that specialize in low-income housing: the Mercy Loan Fund, the lending arm of Denver-based Mercy Housing; and the Institute for Community Economics, which is affiliated with the National Housing Trust of Washington, D.C.
Last week on Fresh Loaf, we delved into a mysterious topic that has puzzled Atlantans for at least a decade: the etymology of “Murder Kroger.” What is the backstory on the nickname for the depressingly downscale grocery on Ponce de Leon Avenue? After some pontificating , our commenters appear to have figured it out.
“I’ve always preferred the alliteration of ‘Killer Kroger’ over the somewhat sloppy sounding ‘Murder Kroger.’”
— “O”
“’Crack Kroger’ is the preferred nomenclature of those in the neighborhood.”
— “DOC”
“I go to this Kroger all the time. I always called it the ‘Ghetto Kroger.’”
— “Chris”
“there’s already a ‘ghetto kroger,’ it’s the one further down moreland.”
— “sassyassy”
“i’ve always called the ponce location ‘murder kroger’ because someone was stabbed to death in the parking lot. sadly, i can’t find any verifiable source to confirm this.”
— “thedionysian”
“Cynthia Prioleau, 25, left the crime and the cold weather of her native Jersey City, N.J., nearly four years ago for the gentler climate and the slower, seemingly friendlier pace of Atlanta. But she died in the parking lot of a Ponce de Leon Avenue supermarket Monday evening, shot to death by an irate motorist she had sprayed with a can of Mace.”
— From a 1991 AJC story posted by commenter “The Answer”
Richard Eldredge tweets that the Southern Voice and David, Atlanta’s leading gay publications, have been shut down. Eldredge says staffers came to work today to find the locks changed.
In February, the NYC-based Gay City News reported that the Avalon Equity Fund, a parent companymajority shareholder in SoVo, Washington Blade and several other gay publications’ parent company Unite Media, had been forced into liquidation and faced federal receivership. People familiar with the matter recently told CL they were unaware of the company’s fate.
UPDATE: “We had been told that essentially we’d be sold down the road,” SoVo Editor Laura Douglas-Brown tells CL. “We had no inclination it’d be this morning. Everyone’s in shock right now.”
SoVo News Editor Dyana Bagby tells CL that a news budget had been prepared for this week’s issue. She covered two events this weekend and was going to write up articles for the publication.
UPDATE: Project Q Atlanta posts a photo of the one-page announcement that greeted the publications’ staffers.
The text reads:
It is with GREAT regret that we must inform you that effective immediately, the operations of Window Media, LLC and Unite Media, LLC have closed down.
Please return to this office on WEDNESDAY, November 18th, 2009 at 11:00 AM to collect personal belongings and to receive information on your separation stipulations. Please bring boxes and/or containers that will allow you to collect all your personal belongings at one time.
Regretfully,
Steve Myers
Mike Kitchens
Myers is the publisher. Kitchens, Project Q reports, is a longtime Window Media executive.
Who is Etienne Abobi? Well, he’s from the small French/German border town Saint-Avold; he’s been a deputy consul at the French Consulate in Atlanta for the past two years; and he’s the man behind the AKA Photo Project — a small collective of “accidental artists” currently exhibiting its debut show, Face à Face, at Little Five Points’ Opal Gallery through Nov. 13.
I don’t think many people are aware that there’s a French Consulate in Atlanta, let alone a tight-knit French community here. Could you talk about the French presence in Atlanta?
We have had the consulate since 1989 and our last Bastille day was at the [International] school and the theme was the 20th anniversary of the French consulate in Atlanta. So far we don’t have a French school, we have the International School with the French section, but we have some different kinds of schools. You have International Community School, which specializes in refugees who are native French speakers. In the greater Atlanta area, almost 3,000 people are registered but we think we are really two times this number.
There is no shortage of love for Decatur’s Brick Store Pub. Love at the Pub by Mary Jane Mahan is the number one regional travel book on Amazon’s sales charts right now. This new book tells the “true story of a small southern town’s love for its friendly beer pub” and explains how The Brick Store became the #2 ranked beer bar on Earth.
Last night was an organized, online launch party that included a “live world craft beer bar philosophy talk” with Brick Store owners Dave Blanchard and Michael Gallagher, 5Seasons Sandy Springs owner Dennis Lange, and Paste Magazine founder and Editor-in-chief Josh Jackson. The “Telesudinar,” as it was called, offered insights on how to operate a world class beer bar and the possibility to win gift certificates and prizes.
Could online readings and discussions be eclipsing the standard brick and mortar book store readings? It’s highly unusual to see a locally focused book like Love at the Pub, which was published through the self-publishing company iUniverse, rank so high on Amazon’s overall rankings (around #140 this morning, though it reached #82 last night). Authors and publicists might need to get a beer and mull that one over.
The treasurer of a Cabbagetown nonprofit has been accused of bilking the organization of some $78,000.
Robert Wood, 42, turned himself in to the Fulton County jail on theft by taking charges, according to jail records.
The non-profit Cabbagetown Initiative Community Development Corp. earns most of its money from the Cabbagetown Chomp & Stomp chili cook-off and neighborhood festival.
Hanging with the Girls Next Door all night could definitely work up an appetite, probably leaving Hef with the hankering for some late-night eats. SoPlayboy.com searched the country for the top 10 diners and picked Atlanta’s own Majestic Diner as one of the stand-out establishments:
This Atlanta institution has been serving “food that pleases” under its Art Deco-style marquee’s blazing neon glow since 1929. The Majestic serves everything from cholesterol-threatening omelets and fist-thick burgers to blue plate specials and gyros. Red stools complement a red counter, while squeaky vinyl seats are well worn, providing cushy support for a multitude of derrières. The Majestic is located along a stretch of “Hot ‘Lanta” that’s resisted urban renewal, so the freaks do come out at night: college students, clubbers and other locals.
See the rest of the list here. And if you’re feeling a little stung by that “freak” comment, remember: there’s no one freakier than 83-year-old Hugh Hefner.
Errin Vuley, a longtime activist for women’s causes, was killed Tuesday morning in a multi-car crash in DeKalb County.
Longtime LGBT nightlife magazine David (along with Southern Voice) 
Who is Etienne Abobi? Well, he’s from the small French/German border town Saint-Avold; he’s been a deputy consul at the French Consulate in Atlanta for the past two years; and he’s the man behind the 
