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I heard the movie before I saw it. I heard the crunch of gravel while the screen was still black. And then I thought I was in the wrong theater. It looked like a documentary about cavemen. Then once I saw the main character, Lucy, putting on makeup and heard her talk about marriage as …
For the same reason I never really visited Savannah or Charleston until recently, I had never been a tourist on the Golden Isles, like St. Simons or Jekyll Island. Most of my family lives in Louisiana, so family trips were there, or we would meet in Destin if we wanted to be on the beach. …
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October 10, 2024 Everyone has big ideas, but these days, audiences prefer to consume their content in smaller bits, even for the big ideas, and marketers must find inventive ways to reach new audiences. Content atomization allows marketers to take larger pieces of content and break them up into smaller, more digestible forms, expand ways …
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May is Historic Preservation Month, and as we near the end of spring in our wonderful state, I wanted to look back on all of the historic sites I've visited over this spring. March is also Phoenix Flies, an entire month of free tours of historic buildings and properties courtesy of the Atlanta Preservation Center. …
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I spent most of my free time over the holidays catching up on my Criterion Collection watch list. I guess it was to combat my brain turning to mush from too many Hallmark holiday movies? I've always loved older movies, so it was a no-brainer for me to subscribe to the Criterion Collection earlier this …
School started this week in Georgia, and like quite a few students this year, this 42-year old is learning outside of the classroom from her home. Okay, so my reading assignments aren't quite Catcher in the Rye, the Great Gatsby and Madame Bovary like in Mrs. Tomblin' 10th grade American Literature or Mrs. Epperson's AP …
Many of my friends and family know that I am a voracious reader. As a child, I could usually be found reading a book, even when it was bedtime, and I hid under the covers with a flashlight. No meal was complete without a book in front of my plate. No road trip could begin …
If you're from Atlanta, you've heard the jokes. Atlanta loves to tear down history and build new or just make everything parking.In 1959, Atlanta literally razed a 80 year old, 7 story building to build a parking deck which still stands today, 61 years later. The Kimball House was built in 1885 to replace the …
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Sitting around for the last few months while job hunting, I realized there are so many things to do around the city during the day that I could never do when I had a full-time job. So when I'm not freelance writing, working part-time in a retail store, or interviewing for that dream job, I …
I'm embarking on a project that has been on my mind since 2008 when I first visited Ellis Island and had my first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty. I wondered, what was the process for immigrants after Ellis Island closed in 1954? For immigrants like my grandfather? In 2008 when I first thought about …
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Sravanthi Meka 