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OutKast, Contextually

Jason Parham · 10/01/14 02:45PM

The four rail lines that make up the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) meet at Five Points Station. The station, which was opened in 1979 and later added North-South lines in 1981, is located in the middle of downtown and serves as a transportation hub for the metro area’s five million residents. Ascending from the below-ground platforms, the plaza opens onto Alabama Street SW and Marietta Street NW. From Five Points you can get just about anywhere in Atlanta.

America's Ugliest Accent: Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Memphis, Philly

Dayna Evans · 10/01/14 12:05PM

It's that time again: voting in round one of America's Ugliest Accent Tournament is about to begin. We can now give you the results of our prior days' matchups, which may serve to inform where your loyalties lie in today's rounds of voting. Nevertheless, please remember that city pride is important when it comes to nominating the ugliest garbage-sounding mealymouth in America. Stay true to your school.

Cool Teacher Fired for Playing Sixth Graders Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love"

Allie Jones · 08/22/14 10:00AM

Atlanta Public Schools fired a sixth grade teacher this week for playing her class Beyoncé and Jay Z's eternal classic, "Drunk in Love." According to the administrators' complaint against Ms. Nikki Turner, "This song contained profanity, vulgarity, and sexually explicit lyrics. This song is not [in] alignment with Teacher Keys Standard 9, Professionalism." Blah blah blah, surf-boring, this is bullshit.

Water Inspector Demanded Free Food from Bar for Good Reports

Aleksander Chan · 07/10/14 09:21PM

Cynthia Burch, a former water inspector for the city of Atlanta, would make sure your establishment gets a passing score—if you paid her in food. Well, Burch would never actually exactly "offer" this arrangement. Until she was fired, Burch used to promise restaurants that she would cause problems for them if they didn't give her free food.

Father Charged With Murder for Leaving Son in Hot Car for Seven Hours

Aleksander Chan · 06/19/14 07:52PM

Justin Ross Harris, 33, of Marietta, Ga., was supposed to drive his 22-month-old son to the on-site daycare facility at the Home Depot Headquarters in Atlanta where he works. It wasn't until his drive home seven hours later that he looked back and realized that he had forgotten his son, who was still strapped to his car seat and had been for the duration of the hot day. By then, his son had died. Police have charged Harris with murder.

Hamilton Nolan · 04/10/14 02:37PM

The Atlanta Falcons' plan for a new stadium calls for $200 million in public money, and "for demolishing the city's first black Baptist church, and turning the street named after [Martin Luther] King into a dead-end for stadium VIP parking."

Sarah Hedgecock · 01/29/14 01:45PM

[In this photo taken with a fisheye lens over the perimeter highway known as "Spaghetti Junction" in Atlanta on Wednesday, the ice-covered system shows the remnants of a winter storm that slammed the city with over 2 inches of snow, turning highways into parking lots when motorists abandoned their vehicles. Image via David Tulis/AP.]

The Atlanta Braves Will Not Be Stuck Playing in a 20-Year-Old Ballpark

Tom Scocca · 11/11/13 04:35PM

"Nostalgia's a fad," Stan Kasten, then president of the Atlanta Braves, said in 1996. "This is classic." He was talking about the brand-new Centennial Olympic Stadium, which was designed to be converted after the Atlanta Olympics into a state-of-the-art baseball stadium for the Braves, at a total construction cost of $209 million.

Hamilton Nolan · 08/13/13 08:10AM

Congrats to Atlanta for winning this year's "most guns found at the airport" title. We know you'll do great next year, Dallas!

One of the School Reform Movement's Shining Stars Cheated

Max Rivlin-Nadler · 03/30/13 02:26PM

Former Atlanta schools chief, Beverly L. Hall, was indicted yesterday on charges of cheating to make under-performing schools look better on state testing, allowing herself and other school administrators to profit. Hall and 34 others were indicted by a Georgia grand jury that found rampant cheating between 2005 and 2010. Hall was a celebrated school superintendent, who had been praised by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and even invited to the White House.

14-Year-Old Student Shot in Neck, Teacher Wounded at Atlanta Middle School [UPDATED]

Max Read · 01/31/13 03:04PM

A student was shot in the back of the neck, apparently by a fellow student, at the at Price Middle School in Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, and a teacher sustained "minor scrapes and bruises" after being trampled during the aftermath. The underage victim was admitted to Grady Memorial Hospital, and is "awake and breathing," according to Atlanta Public Schools; the teacher was treated on-scene.

It Has Been a Bad 24 Hours For Strippers

Jordan Sargent · 01/03/13 09:05PM

It's almost never a good thing for a stripper to make the news. The last 24 hours — which has seen strippers hospitalized, arrested and fired — has proven at least that much.