Tuesday, November 17, 2015

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  • Shots fired outside funeral at SW Atlanta church | www

    Shots fired outside funeral at SW Atlanta church | www
    Shots rang out outside a southwest Atlanta church Tuesday, just as the pastor was preparing to begin funeral services for a young woman believed killed by gun violence.Even hours later, the circumstances surrounding the shooting — and what, if any, connection it had to the death of the woman being memorialized inside — remained murky.According to Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones, an off-duty officer was at the Workhouse of Faith Missionary Baptist Church on Pryor Street late Tuesday morning ..
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  • Atlanta students demand that colleges fight campus rape culture | www

    Atlanta students demand that colleges fight campus rape culture | www
    Students from Spelman and Morehouse Colleges and Clark Atlanta University are demanding that their institutions do more to address sexual violence on their campuses.The students sent administrators at the collegesa list of 13 demandsfor the schools to do more to “protect, serve and work for and with all students to keep us safe.” Their demands include two or more campus convocations and forums dedicated to the issues of consent, sexual violence, sexual relationships and health relationships. The..
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  • Business group solicits a study of casino gambling in downtown...

    Business group solicits a study of casino gambling in downtown...
    AJC fileWe’re still two months from the beginningof the 2016 session of the state Legislature, but the casino issue just heated up a notch.Central Atlanta Progress, the longtime organization that looks after the interests of downtown Atlanta, has issued a “request for proposal” – a solicitation for someone make a quick study of the costs gambling in the city, pro and con.Our AJC colleague Kristina Torres has details here.From the RFP:Central Atlanta Progress, Inc. (CAP) is seeking proposals from..
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  • Reed: Georgia shouldn't 'close all borders' to Syrian refugees

    Reed: Georgia shouldn't 'close all borders' to Syrian refugees
    State leaders should not close off Georgia to Syrians fleeing their war-torn country, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said Tuesday.Despite his high-profile political alliance with Gov. Nathan Deal, Reed disagrees with the governor’s stance that Georgia should shut its doors to additional Syrian refugees.Monday,Deal joined a chorus of Republican governorswho — on the heels of deadly terrorist attacks in Paris — are questioning a White House-led resettlement program. At least one of the suspects believed..
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  • Home Depot sales strong in struggling retail sector

    Home Depot sales strong in struggling retail sector
    Consumers’ desire to update kitchens and refresh paint jobs lifted Home Depot sales in the third quarter, even as other retailers struggled in the days before the holiday season.The Atlanta-based home improvement giant reported Tuesday that sales rose 6.4 percent to $21.8 billion for the quarter. The gain was fueled by strong business from contractors and handymen as Americans use savings from lower gas prices to update homes.“It’s a sign of the strength of the housing rebound as well as the hou..
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  • Top 50 Falcons: No. 34, Ray Buchanan

    Top 50 Falcons: No. 34, Ray Buchanan
    Cornerback Ray Buchanan joined the Falcons in 1997 and stuck around for seven seasons. (AJC File)The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is counting down the Top 50 players in Atlanta Falcons history during the franchise’s 50th anniversary season. No. 34 is cornerback Ray Buchanan.Years played for Falcons:Ray Buchanan, who played his college ball at the University of Louisville and was a third round pick in the 1993 NFL draft., spent the first four years of his career in Indianapolis before joining Atl..
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  • Atlanta native Ally Ioannides plays Tilda in AMC’s ‘Into the Badlands’ | Radio and TV Talk

    Atlanta native Ally Ioannides plays Tilda in AMC’s ‘Into the Badlands’ | Radio and TV Talk
    Ally Loannides as Tilda – Into the Badlands _ Season 1, Epsiode 2 – Photo Credit: Patti Perret/AMCBy RODNEY HO/ rho@ajc.com, originally filed Tuesday, November 17, 2015Atlanta native and teenAlly Ioannideshas always liked martial arts films. She never imagined actually performing jumps and leaps and kicks in front of the camera.But when she was cast to play Tilda on AMC’s new drama “Into the Badlands,” she got to channel her inner Bruce Lee. The show placed the actors in a seven-week martial art..
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  • What to do: Music | Nov. 18-25

    What to do: Music | Nov. 18-25
    Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra.8 p.m. Nov. 18. Free. Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, 1700 North Decatur Road, Atlanta.arts.emory.edu.Mavis Staples and Joan Osborne.8 p.m. Nov. 18. $36-$46. Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology, 350 Ferst Drive N.W., Atlanta.ferstcenter.org.Kennesaw State University Wind Ensemble.8 p.m. Nov. 18. $10-$15. Bailey Performance Center, 488 Prillaman Way N.W., Kennesaw.arts.kennesaw.edu.Enormodome.Nov. 19. $8 in advance. Smith’s Olde Bar, 1578..
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  • Forgotten firearm slips by TSA at Atlanta airport | NBC26

    Forgotten firearm slips by TSA at Atlanta airport | NBC26
    Georgia man says he flew from Atlanta to Chicago with loaded semi-automatic pistol in his carry-on bag.ATLANTA, Ga. – (WXIA) An Atlanta, Georgia man is speaking out after he say she took a loaded gun through security at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and managed to fly to Chicago with his weapon in his carry-on bag under his seat the entire flight.“I said, ‘Mother of God,'” Blake Alford said when he arrived in his hotel room and unpacked his loaded gun.“I had it laying in my b..
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  • Thoughts of Home: Country living is the life for me

    Thoughts of Home: Country living is the life for me
    Home & GardenThoughts of Home: Country living is the life for meIt’s a labor of loveNovember 17, 2015Doug CrandellCommentsIllustration by Clare MallisonWe’d talked about moving to the country, each of us giving up our single homes. And it was on a summer night in my Marietta apartment eight years ago that we agreed to look for a farm, during a meal of halibut, figs with goat cheese, and a fresh arugula salad. We’d seek out a place with less than 10 acres—some room to hold our informal litera..
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