In one week, Atlanta's Perimeter was the scene of several multicar collisions, including three in one day involving more than 30 cars. Why and what can be done to prevent...
It's been a good year for Atlanta's bass-driven, high-energy hip-hop known as crunk. Atlanta artists such as the Ying Yang Twins, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz ("Get Low"),...
When I wrote for advertising agencies, one of my accounts was a national brand of charcoal, the kind you put in the grill to cook hamburgers. What a strange job....
To anyone who wonders why men repeatedly run around on beautiful women, experts say this: Sexual addiction is not about the sex. Actress Halle Berry's split from her second husband,...
In any warm, dimly lit club in metro Atlanta, the chances of a squirm-in-your-seat cheesy line going over well is slim. Unless, that is, you are a woman. Mary Maloof,...
After watching Oklahoma dominate Oklahoma State 52-9 Saturday, there appears to be no debate about who has the nation's No. 1 college football team. But between now and Dec. 7,...
The original "Matrix" movie left spellbound audiences saying, "Whoa!" The first sequel, "The Matrix Reloaded," was greeted in May with a resounding "Huh?" "The Matrix Revolutions," the trilogy's final chapter,...
Curse words wield power, a power to provoke or offend. But sometimes they're used just for emphasis, like a dash of Tabasco sauce. That's apparently the latest word from the...
It's with a graceful (but confessedly unconscious) nod to another Nigerian author that 25-year-old Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie begins her first novel: "Things started to fall apart at home when my...
The 1960s and 1970s were an era of cultural and political upheaval. Americans were fighting a war in Vietnam and objecting to the war at home. Through sit-ins and protest...