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  • Mammal Gallery co-founders Brian Egan (left) and Chris Yonker
    Mammal Gallery
  • Atlanta's prime indie rock group the Back Pockets
    The Backpockets
  • Raquel Willis is a Black queer transgender activist and media maven dedicated to elevating marginalized individuals, particularly transgender women of color. She is a national organizer for Transgender Law Center, the largest organization in the U.S. advocating on behalf of transgender and gender nonconforming people.
    Raquel Willis
  • Syrian refugee, and now American citizen, Dr. Heval Mohamed Kelli. He rose from washing dishes as a Kurdish Syrian refugee to treating heart disease as an American cardiologist. He and his family fled persecution in Syria, where his father was beaten and imprisoned by the pol​ice. He is currently a doctor at Emory hospital.
    Dr. Heval Mohamed Kelli
  • Geshe Wangden Tashi is a Tibetan Monk living in Atlanta. He was born in Tawu, Tibet. Tesh walked hundreds of miles when he was 15 to flee Tibet. It took him three months traversing the Himalayan mountains of Nepal and Tibet. He walked at night to avoid being caught by Chinese soldiers.
    Geshe Wangden Tashi
  • An injured man in the ring during a fight at Wild Bill's Fight Night in Duluth, Georgia
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  • Civil rights icon Rev. Joseph Lowery grips a picture of him and his wife, Evelyn Gibson Lowery, while greeting well-wishers after her funeral. They were married 67 years.
    Reverend Joseph Lowery
  • A cover shoot for Creative Loafing's Summer Guide
    Pool Party
  • Creative Loafing Chef to Watch - Jeremy Miller
    Jeremy Miller
  • Goodie Mob shot on the roof of the Glenn Hotel in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.<br />
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Goodie Mob is Cee-lo (bald), T-Mo (glasses), Khujo (braided Hair), Big Gipp (cap), Goodie Mob
    Goodie Mob
  • Atlanta Punk Rockers Dasher at Tinder Box practice space
    Dasher
  • Atlanta Hawks CEO Steve Koonin slam dunks at the Hawks practice court at Phillips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
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  • Real life superhero Crimson Fist roams the streets of Atlanta's Castleberry Hill neighborhood.<br />
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Metropolis had Superman. Gotham had Batman. Atlanta has the Crimson Fist. The Castleberry Hill resident — who, sometimes along with his wife “Metadata” — walks the streets of the neighborhood making sure people don’t break into cars or get into fights. He can’t scale tall buildings or stop a moving freight train but he does bring some flair to the city streets.<br />
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Image: Maybe him standing on the top of a building, foot on a ledge, with the skyline behind him, a la Batman?<br />
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Contact: Crimson Fist, heroatl@gmail.com, 678-612-2293
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  • Atlanta heavy metal band Sadistic Ritual
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  • Comedian Ismael Loutfi at the Laughing Skull in Atlanta, Georgia.
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  • Artist Fahamu Pecou and his work “Talking Drum,” at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
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  • Atlanta comedian Keenan Burton at the Star Bar in Atlanta's Little Five Points neighborhood.
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  • Reverend Raphael Warnock shortly before being arrested at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta.<br />
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Warnock was arrested along with other activists who took their message to the Gold Dome urging Gov. Nathan Deal to expand Medicaid in Georgia.
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  • Killer Mike rapper, actor,  activist and small business owner
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  • Big Boi Atlanta rapper and one half of duo Oatkast
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  • ATL native comic David Perdue shot at Laughing Skull.
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  • Comic book illustrator Mark Bagley
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  • Hundreds of Atlanta fast-food employees last week joined other food service workers across the country and protested to improve workers' rights.<br />
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Restaurant staff protested this past Thursday at several different fast-food chains, including a Burger King near Five Points, a McDonald's in Ormewood Park, and a Church's Chicken near the Starlight Six Drive-In Theatre. Their demands included raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour and the right to unionize.<br />
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According to Atlanta Jobs with Justice, the city's more than 77,000 fast-food workers earn a median wage of $8.59 per hour and make approximately $10,700 each year.<br />
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Picketer Deonte Butler has worked at Church's Chicken for around two months. The 32-year-old southeast Atlantan, who has a six-year-old daughter, Deona, said he'll continue marching as long as it takes see changes happen.<br />
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"We're trying to get minimum wages up to $15 [per hour] so we can make ends meet," he said. "I get paid $7.25 [per hour]. By the time I cash my check and pay my bills, I've only got money to get to work next week and provide for my child."<br />
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Outside the McDonald's near Five Points, Subway employee Israel Matos told CL that he struggles to support his family with his $7.25 hourly current minimum wage. "I work 12 to 15 hours a day and I have no health benefits," he said.<br />
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The picketing occurred as part of a nationwide series of strikes in nearly 50 American cities including Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Tampa. McDonald's said in a statement that increasing entry-level wages could lead to higher prices for its menu items. "That would potentially have a negative impact on employment and business growth in our restaurants, as well as value for our customers," the company said in a statement.<br />
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Several Atlanta lawmakers also showed up to support the protesters near Little Five Points. Congressman John Lewis, D-Atlanta, , standing outside the McDonald's on Marietta Street, called for "livable wages" for workers. State Sen. Vincent Fort,
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  • Kai Lin owner of Kai Lin gallery in Atlanta, Georgia
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  • He Ro, all pro Oyster Shucker at Kimbell house in Decatur, Georgia
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  • Atlanta Artist HENSE
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  • Atlanta native Tinsley Ellis is keeping the Blues alive
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  • Notch 8 Gallery co-owners Sharon Dennehey and Miya Bailey
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  • A women addicted to heroin waiting to exchange dirty needles for clean ones at Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalitions mobile needle exchange
    Needle Exchange Client
  • Scott and Sloane Warren in their car
    Road Rage
  • Atlanta rap group Travis Porter's music broke in the strip clubs of Atlanta.
    Travis Porter
  • A robbery victim shortly after being beaten and robbed in an alley outside her apartement on Chicago's West Side.
    Robbery Victim
  • Artist Nikita Gale
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  • Atlanta right wing radio talk show host Neal Boortz
    Neal Boortz
  • Eric (red shirt) and Clayton on the light rail after being beaten by police while protesting in downtown Denver, Colorado during the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
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  • Chwanda Nixon (left) and Kacey Frierson sit beneath five of the marriage certificates they’ve received in states where same-sex marriage was legal. When I photographed them, they’d gotten married in a dozen states. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled on gay marriage, the couple say they plan to get married in Georgia after they get married in all the other 37 states. “We are hoping to do Georgia in 2018," Frierson says, “unless we find a sponsor or a reality show.”
    Married Couple
  • Atlanta heavy metal band Zoroaster pose as business men for CL's music Issue
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  • Freako Ricko aka FRKOA - former local high school football standout, BMX biker, and now visual artist known for his trippy cartoons and album covers for everyone from Action Bronson to Key!
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  • Author Kate Sweeney's new book "American Afterlife," explores cemetery culture and ways of celebrating the dead. <br />
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Shot at Sylvestor Cemetery
    Author Kate Sweeney
  • CeeLo Green at his Buckhead condo
    CeeLo Green
  • Don Lemon beats on a television during a cover shoot in Atlanta, Georgia.
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  • Legendary Atlanta DJ Romeo Cologne
    Romeo Cologne
  • Cover shoot for Gobi Lumberjacks Prankster story on Atl residents who do public pranks. Matthew Flaschen is the No Pants MARTA guy. He encourages people to ride MARTA pantless once a year.
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  • Best-selling Author Kathryn Stockett
    Kathryn Stockett
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  • Sommelier Eric Crane<br />
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Eric Crane of Empire Distributors says he won’t stop till he’s a Master Sommelier<br />
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There are 211 Master Sommeliers in the world. Crane is vying for a spot on that exclusive list.
    Sommelier Eric Crane
  • Miyamoto in the studio
    Miyamoto
  • Drag Queen Phoenix
    Phoenix
  • Andy Ditzler is the brain behind "Film Love," a film series which shows rare archival films.
    Film Love
  • Yang-Yoon Kim is the viola player for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
    Yang-Yoon Kim
  • Arrested Development Co-Founder "Headliner" holding his two Grammy's.
    Headliner
  • Arrested Development co-Founder "Headliner"
    Headliner
  • Portrait of playwright Topher Payne
    Playwright Topher Payne
  • Joe McGuinness leads the Joe McGuinness trio a funky bluegrass band.
    Banjo Player Joe Mcginness
  • Joe McGuinness leads the Joe McGuinness trio a funky bluegrass band.
    Joe Mcginness
  • Rara hanging out in South Decatur with his Grandma
    Atlanta Rapper RaRa
  • Nina, 17, and Gigi, 11, pictured in front of the abandoned building next to their home in Vine City. "It makes me sad, and it makes the community look bad," said Nina, who wants to be a registered nurse when she grows up. "I wish they would get some of the dope dealers off the street and get the homeless somewhere to live."
    Vine City
  • “Repent! Repent!” Shouting these words Prophet Love seemingly rose from the dead at Last Chance Church on Love street in southwest Atlanta. Staging what he called a “casket demonstration,” Prophet Love presented his own funeral in hopes of saving people from the depths of hell. “If we continue with our wrongdoing, heaven will not be our home,” he preached while sitting up in a coffin in which he had laid still for over an hour.<br />
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The idea came to him to do the half funeral, half performance art after his wife and son refused his request to be cremated upon his death. “So I said I will just do my funeral myself,” Love explained.<br />
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“Its strange,” said Missionary Forte, one of 5 other people sitting in the<br />
church during the mock open-casket viewing. “Its unique,” added Barbara Phillips, who says Prophet Love saved her years ago. “It demonstrates that we are all going to go through this and we better get our lives right.”<br />
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Prophet Love described lying in the coffin as “not feeling much different<br />
then laying in bed.” He added, “Death is inevitable. Be ready to meet God, repent for your wrongdoing, you know when you are doing right and wrong. There is no water in hell — hell is real. The majority of people will end up in hell.”
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  • Jason Orr, founder of the iconic Atlanta event FunkJazz Cafe
    Jason Orr
  • An undocumented American Muslim woman. She lives in metro Atlanta and came to the United States from Pakistan with her family when she was 2 years old.
    Dreamer
  • Sam Cuadra fronts Atlanta death metal band Apocalyptic Visions
    Apocalyptic Visions
  • William is disabled and can barely walk, so he shuffles around on a walker. He has been homeless ever since he got out of prison 10 years ago. “I got so many health problems it’s not even funny,“ he said. He stopped receiving his disability check a while ago and now gets nothing. He does not know why. “It's horrible being homeless,” he said, “you never have any peace of mind.”
    Homeless Man
  • Janelle Monae and members of her band
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  • Anita Beaty, former executive director of Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless in Atlanta
    Anita Beaty
  • Atlanta's sensual funk artist Rahbi
    Rahbi
  • Janelle Monae
    Janelle Monae
  • Atlanta legend Blondie during a Creative Loafing cover shoot
    Blondie
  • Shot May 27, 2010<br />
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If you've ever wondered what that temple with the onion-shaped dome on Ponce de Leon Avenue looks like on the inside, just imagine walls of photos featuring pasty, old white men in those pimped-out red beanies that resemble mini-KFC chicken buckets turned upside down on top of their heads.<br />
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Atlanta's Yaarab Shrine Temple certainly was not built for Big Boi and company. The acoustics were wack and the floorboards were weak, but it was still the perfect place to hold last night's secret show, spread by word-of-Twitter and Facebook only hours before the curtains went up at 8 p.m.<br />
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Jay Electronica, the god MC (no, really: he has "god" tatted on his neck, and you've heard him rhyme, right?), opened the show, followed by Interscope's newest catch, Yelawolf, aka Catfish Billy. J Elect did that thing he always does onstage where he hushes the DJ midway into his verse so he can spit a cappella. It's cool as hell the first time you see him do it, ’cause you really get to feel the impact of his lyrics. But last night the sound was so bad that he probably would've been better off riding the beat.<br />
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Next up was Yelawolf. While he was performing I noticed KP (Kawan Prather) onstage DJing behind him. It's probably the first time I've seen a label owner DJing behind his own act. Prather recently signed Yelawolf to a deal with Interscope Records via Prather's own GhettoVision imprint.<br />
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By the time Big Boi took the stage, most people were on at least their third free drink (yep, the bar was wide open, thanks to the show's corporate sponsor which I'm probably supposed to mention here but would feel like such a *cheap ho if I did). He started off with the ol' OutKast medley deal — you know the one where he strings all of their classics together, jumping from one hook to the next without giving the crowd time to bemoan the fact that ’Dre's in absentia. After nearly a decade of performing solo, he's really become a pro at it. Of course, Black-Owned C-Bone had his
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  • Blind Woman, Atlanta, Georgia 2008
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  • Pet Psychic Kelly Goff in her Duluth, Georgia office. Goff claims she can communicate with pets through pictures they put in her mind. "Animals communicate in picture form." she says, "I?m intuitive. I?ll get an impression of a situation, and I just have to put together what I?m picking up until it makes sense.".....................  .....................................................................
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  • Rodney Bowman in the tree he was in on June 29, 2008 at 2:30 am when two graffiti artists started to "tag" a nearby wall, Bowman jumped out of the tree and attacked the two graffiti artists punching one of them in the face. He was charged with disorderly conduct. Bowman has led a one man crusade to stop graffiti in Atlanta's Cabbagetown neighborhood.
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  • Dialogue is a two-piece featuring Keith William and Alexa Lima. Together, they turn out an incredibly noisy hybrid that leans more toward musical abstraction and improvisation.
    Dialogue
  • Music Issue 2014<br />
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Rara hanging out in South Decatur with his Grandma and at Mrs Winners
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  • Music Issue 2014<br />
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Dasher at Tinder Box practice space
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  • Atlanta's 11 Least Influential People<br />
Karma Delite is a hotel employee. She puts ads for sex on the internet.
    Karma Delite.jpg
  • January 3
  • Marty works for "We Buy Gold". He stands on the sidewalk on Cheshire Bridge Road and waves at cars. He stands next to a sign that says "We Buy Gold" with an arrow pointing across the parking lot to the store. He does this for eight hours a day rain or shine. Today it was very cold. Marty says he plays a mean saxophone even though he has bad teeth.
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  • Music Issue 2014<br />
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17 ?year?old singer/rapper/songwriter Raury ... So this kid has a hip, kind of eccentric style that plays well to visuals. He’s very animated and creative so y’all should be able to.
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  • Alhasane Keita from Conakry, Guinea warms up in the trailer in the parking lot of Turner Field before his performance.
    The Contortionist
  • A bloody boxer gets attention in his corner during a fight at the Rialto Theater in Atlanta, Georgia
    Boxer
  • Pat Lanzo sits in front of the sign outside his "Peach Bar" in Paulding County, Georgia which he owns the day after the 2008 election in which Barack Obama was elected president of the United States.  Lanzo claims he is not a racist even though he constantly uses the word "nigger" on the sign in front of  his bar which he calls the  "Original Klan Bar" on his website. "The minute someone says the N-word, you're labeled racist," he explains.
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  • Chicago, Illinois - April, 2003: Malachi Ritscher holds up a sign during an antiwar protest in Chicago. On November 3, 2006, Ritscher, set up a video camera, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire on expressway off-ramp in downtown Chicago. He died shortly later. <br />
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“Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country,” he wrote in his suicide note. “... If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country.” He wrote in a cuicide note posted on his website.
    Malachi Ritscher
  • Comedian Noah Gardenswartz
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  • Big Boi backstage before performing a free show at the Yaarab Shrine Temple in Atlanta.
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  • The frontrunner in the race for Atlanta mayor, Atlanta City Councilwoman Mary Norwood,  the night of the 2009 Atlanta Mayoral election. By the end of the night the results showed Norwood with 45 percent of the vote, roughly five percentage points shy of an outright win. She will face State Sen. Kasim Reed,  who got 38 percent of the vote --in a Dec. 1 runoff.
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  • May 19, 2016 -  Mother Mamie Moore (longtime civic activist and president of the English Avenue Neighborhood Association, which is being very critical and watchful of the process), and people watching presentation (about what could be done to change English Avenue's land use and streets).<br />
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On her porch on oliver street wheich she lives with 4 generations of her family.
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