11 Least Influential 2009 News Features
11 Least Influential Countdown: No. 7 - Sebastian Hurst News Features
11 Least Influential Countdown: No. 8 — Alex Goose News Features
11 Least Influential Countdown: No. 8 - Alex Goose News Features
11 Least Influential Countdown: No. 9 - Todd Dominey News Features
11 Least Influential Countdown: No. 10 - Jonathan Jaxson News Features
11 Least Influential Countdown: No. 11 The AJC News Features
Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People: No. 6 (1) News Features
1. Caroline: Unemployed dairy goat News Features
Caroline has a great spread.
Her home, Decimal Place Farm, is a gently rolling 18-acre tract in Clayton County. Even though it’s close to I-285 and is actually under the take-off path of two Hartsfield-Jackson runways, it feels like the country.
Caroline shares her home with 22 other adult female saanen dairy goats and Mary Rigdon, a goat farmer. The herd is small enough that it subsists...
| more...Rex Smith: Can’t stop bitchassness News Features
Rex Smith is fed up with bitchassness.
He’s so fed up, in fact, the 25-year-old Northside Drive resident has taken to wearing a t-shirt that asks bitchasses to refrain from bitchassness in his presence.
“A bitchass is like a hater,” he explains. “A woman hating on you because you’re talking to other women. Someone hating on you for your style or because they don’t fit in. Someone you...
| more...3. Deisha Oliver: Can’t play her cello because some jerk sat on her bow and broke it News Features
Deisha Oliver’s cello and bow aren’t special by objective standards.
“My instrument is not the best,” she says. “It’s low-end, intermediate.”
They’re nevertheless special to her.
She got them in college, when she saved up for both even before she had her first car.
Oliver played in several bands, as well as the Terre Haute Symphony in Indiana. But in recent years, she set her instrument...
| more...4. Jason Pye: Frustrated Randian News Features
Jason Pye tries to live his life in accordance with his libertarian ideals. He is a devotee of author and philosopher Ayn Rand, whose work promotes laissez-faire capitalism and individualism.
“I view government as something that should play a minimal role in our lives.”
He avoids public transportation “as a point of principle.”
He tries not to shop at WalMart because, in conjunction with...
| more...5. Rodney Bowman: Can’t stop graffiti in his neighborhood News Features
“Ever since I jumped out of that tree, I’ve probably covered about 50 graffiti tags.”
Bowman is talking about June 29, when he jumped out of a tree in the dead of night to confront two young men spray-painting graffiti near the Krog Street tunnel in Cabbagetown. The verbal confrontation became physical, and Bowman was charged with disorderly conduct.
Since the incident, Bowman has...
| more...Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential 2008 News Features
Who are the most influential people on Earth?
George W. Bush could, with the push of a button, flatten any city on Earth.
Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi could slow output from his kingdom’s oil fields and plunge the world into another Great Depression.
Together, Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers could command a screaming tween army of millions mighty enough to overthrow the U.S. government...
| more...Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People: No. 7 (1) News Features
Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People: No. 8 (1) News Features
Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People: No. 9 (1) News Features
Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People: No. 10 (1) News Features
Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People: No. 11 (1) News Features
11 Least Influential Update: Benny Herman Allen III News Features
image-1In November, CL honored Barbie Bandit male co-conspirator Benny Herman Allen III as one of Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People.
Despite acting as the “inside man” during the infamous bank heist, Allen was little more than a footnote in the coverage.
Today’s AJC.com coverage of the Barbie Bandit sentencing hearing drives home the point:
Amid a gaggle of media jamming the...
| more...11 Least Influential: How the sausage was made News Features
Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People: No. 6 News Features
Creative Loafing’s countdown of Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People is a tribute to women and men everywhere struggling to meet the challenges of life in a modern American city.
The top five will be revealed online at midnight. It will also appear in the Nov. 8 print edition of Creative Loafing, which hits newsstands tomorrow.
No. 6 — Troy...
| more...Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People: No. 7 News Features
Creative Loafing’s countdown of Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People is a tribute to women and men everywhere struggling to meet the challenges of life in a modern American city.
The top five will be revealed in the next print edition of Creative Loafing, which hits newsstands Thursday, Nov. 8.
No. 7 Bridgette Vassar
Can’t lure customers to her smoothie shop...
| more...Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People: No. 8 News Features
Creative Loafing’s countdown of Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People is a tribute to women, men and fish everywhere struggling to meet the challenges of life in a modern American city.
The top five will be revealed in the next print edition of Creative Loafing, which hits newsstands on Thursday, Nov. 8.
No. 8 — Taroko and Yushan...
| more...Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People: No. 9 News Features
Creative Loafing’s countdown of Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People is a tribute to women and men everywhere struggling to meet the challenges of life in a modern American city.
No. 9 — Lashay Butler
Not allowed to ask for help
(photo by Joeff Davis)
image-1Lashay Butler lives on the streets of Atlanta.
The 33-year-old...
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