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    <title>Just in time for Christmas</title>
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        My father rejects me from his grave...
       
      
        By Cliff Bostock
      
      
      In the week after my father&#39;s death on Nov. 25, I was haunted by a dream image: a cabin on a wide-open field. I was inside the unfurnished house, which was serenely quiet. But outside, winds churned noiselessly about the house, growing in ferocity every minute. As long as I didn&#39;t look out the windows, I remained calm. I saw this as a metaphor for my circumstances. As I wrote two weeks ago, I made a decision to focus on
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    <category>News &amp;amp; Views/Headcase</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>John is leaving the building</title>
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        But he's still damned determined to save the world and Atlanta...
       
      
        By John F. Sugg
      
      
      While home from college 41 years ago, I read a newspaper column that changed my life. It was 1966, and most Americans had not yet received the epiphany that the Vietnam War was a deceit-driven adventure in imperialism. But the war had caught my attention. I had orders that a few months later would take me to active duty in the Navy. The column I read in my hometown newspaper, the Miami Herald, boldly proclaimed: &quot;There is no victory in
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    <title>A split second</title>
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        It's safest to shop with a fairy grandmother...
       
      
        By Hollis Gillespie
      
      
      Daniel&#39;s mom is a Wal-Mart greeter, and I&#39;m wondering if she can give me a company discount. Daniel and I have been friends for 500 years, so that should stand for something, not to mention those four seconds when I got her hopes up and cruelly let her think Daniel was the father of my daughter, but that was not really my fault. I can hardly help the fact that, when Mae was 1, she happened to look exactly like
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Man of Steel</title>
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        Asian fusion transplanted from Dallas...
       
      
        By Cliff Bostock
      
      
      &quot;Where did the name come from?&quot; I asked our server. &quot;From the Dallas restaurant,&quot; he said. &quot;Uh, I mean, why was the word picked in the first place?&quot; &quot;I&#39;ll try to find out,&quot; he replied. Someone else, apparently the manager, stopped by our table, and I asked him the same question. &quot;&#39;Steel&#39; refers to the steel of a wok and the edge of a sushi knife,&quot; he explained. OK. I look forward to a restaurant called &quot;Grate&quot; (referring to the
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Mayor&amp;#39;s daughter admits guilt, will assist cocaine probe</title>
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        By Mara Shalhoup
      
      
      GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin&#39;s daughter, Kai Franklin Graham, pleaded guilty in federal court Dec. 18 to playing a minor role in her ex-husband Tremayne Graham&#39;s crime ring -- and she agreed to cooperate in what a prosecutor describes as an &quot;ongoing investigation&quot; into his cocaine enterprise. Mayor Franklin sat toward the front of the Greenville courtroom, her signature flower pinned to the lapel of her jacket, and watched as her eldest daughter pleaded guilty to a federal
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    <title>Atlanta&amp;#39;s drug war</title>
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        Cops say gangs are driving the city's crime surge...
       
      
        By John F. Sugg
      
      
      The &quot;International Robbing Crew&quot; was the gang that shot straight -- or, at least, often. Prosecutors on Nov. 2 charged nine young desperados from the gang, at least three of them from New Orleans, with seven murders. But cops say they may have killed as many as 30 people over the last two years in a brutal gambit to dominate the Atlanta crime scene. Some of the murder victims apparently were random &ndash; among them an Iraq war vet who
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    <category>News &amp;amp; Views/Cover Story</category>
    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Music: Caf&amp;amp;eacute; Tacuba</title>
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        Thurs., Dec. 13...
       
      
        By Mosi Reeves
      
      
      CAF&Eacute; TACUBA may be the best indie-pop band you&#39;ve never heard, but that doesn&#39;t keep the Mexican quartet from selling out large theaters around the country and packing them with multicultural audiences. The group&#39;s following includes everyone from Spanish-speaking fans who can recite all the lyrics to English-speaking fans who simply love the music. The key to Caf&eacute; Tacuba&#39;s success is a series of brilliant albums, including 2004&#39;s Cuatro Caminos. A tour for its new album, Sino, lands at the
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Classical Music: Handel&amp;#39;s Messiah</title>
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        Sat., Dec. 15...
       
      
        By Curt Holman
      
      
      Even those who don&#39;t know anything about classical music are bound to have heard the Hallelujah chorus of George Frederic Handel&#39;s MESSIAH, which could be the audio equivalent of a fireworks display. As part of the ASO&#39;s Holiday Pops series, Norman Mackenzie conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus in a sure-to-be stirring rendition of Handel Thurs., Dec. 13, and Sat., DEC. 15, as well as Bach&#39;s Christmas Oratorio. Featured singers include mezzo-soprano Kelley O&#39;Connor, soprano Cyndia Sieden, tenor
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Visual Art: Margarita Checa</title>
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        Wed., Dec. 19...
       
      
        By Felicia Feaster
      
      
      LOVE, LOSS &amp; LONGING, Bill Lowe Gallery&#39;s last show in its Bennett Street location before moving on to sleeker digs at Two Peachtree Point, features esteemed Peruvian artist Margarita Checa and continues on Wed., DEC. 19. African and Egyptian art strongly influence Checa, though her work feels distinctly contemporary. Checa&#39;s finely wrought, sensual and serene sculptures of children, animals and women, made primarily in olive, but also in mahogany and other woods with elaborate bull&#39;s-horn inlays, resonate with mythical and
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        Bizarre crimes from Atlanta police reports...
       
      
        By Lauren Keating
      
      
      HOLIDAY CARD SHARK: A 67-year-old woman said someone stole her credit-card information and used it to charge $1,600 at the Georgia Aquarium. (The Blotter Diva must ask: How does someone rack up a $1,600 tab at the Georgia Aquarium? Can you buy your own personal snapping turtle? A beluga whale for the bathtub?) &quot;SILENT NIGHT&quot; DENIED: An officer dealt with a 911 hang-up call from an apartment on Piedmont Avenue. A 31-year-old woman answered the door. She denied calling 911
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    <title>This Modern World</title>
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        "Iran has an active nuclear weapons program!...
       
      
      
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    <title>I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With: Kicking &amp;amp;amp; screaming</title>
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        On screen, men don't want to grow up. Suddenly, neither do women...
       
      
        By Felicia Feaster
      
      
      In the 1970s, men wore mustaches with straight faces. That point seems important in an age when trucker hats and curated facial hair amount to riffs on other generations&#39; notions of adulthood. The mustache has become more than a crumb receptacle and girlfriend exfoliant. Under the new macho chic, it&#39;s an ironic badge of immaturity. &quot;I&#39;m not really an adult,&quot; it says. &quot;I&#39;m just groomed that way.&quot; In this fall&#39;s family psychodrama Margot at the Wedding, Jack Black plays Malcolm,
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Bistro New York: Truck drivers and Korean karaoke</title>
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        By Maureen McCarthy
      
      
      A favorite memory while in France was visiting a bistro that was frequented by blue-collar truck drivers who stopped in at odd hours for manly, inexpensive cheese and fruit plates. The essence of the bistro there did not carry the attitude it does here. Rather, it was one of the few French places where there was no attitude -- just good gastronomy pared down for the workingman; a variation on the diner. So it&#39;s either by accident or ingenuity that
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Gastrointestinal sado-masochism</title>
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        Cliff takes on the worst food in America in the name of journalism...
       
      
        By Cliff Bostock
      
      
      It was about 3 a.m. I clicked on the bedside lamp. Why oh why had I not bought some Prilosec when I ran out? Another wave of queasiness swept through my body. I&#39;d been trying to sleep almost sitting up. That helps control the gastro-esophageal reflux. One of the cats jumped onto the bed and, as usual, threatened to prick me with a single claw if I didn&#39;t pet her. I imagined onion-flavored oil exuding from the wound. I brushed
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    <title>Fag Static</title>
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        Blame the name on shotgun evolution...
       
      
        By Chad Radford
      
      
      There is something inherently absurd in naming a band Fag Static. That is especially true of a band whose sound is a merger of complex noise, structure and ADD melodies that draws comparisons to everything from the angular mathematics of Don Caballero to the mutant-rock stylings of Captain Beefheart. Former Blame Game/God&#39;s America guitarist and vocalist Ian Deaton hones such contradictory aesthetics not for shock value, but to poke fun at the layers of PC ideology that underscore his musical
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