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Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2018
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Brenda Carlyle Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2018 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick
Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2018
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2018 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick
(tie): ATL TVHead / Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2018 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick
Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2017
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2017 » Cityscapes » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2017 » Cityscapes » Readers Pick
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Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » CityScape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » CityScape » Readers Pick
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Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2015
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2015 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2015 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
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Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2014
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2014 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2014 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
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Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2013
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2013 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2013 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
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Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2013
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2013 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
Bicycle Shorts Man Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2013 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
Long Dong Silver. Ponce de Le-Dong. Compression Shorts Man. Willie Terry is known by many names. For years, the street character has stood at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Briarcliff Road in his revealing tight shorts, cane in hand, smile on his face, waving at passersby. Not much is known aboutmore...
Long Dong Silver. Ponce de Le-Dong. Compression Shorts Man. Willie Terry is known by many names. For years, the street character has stood at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Briarcliff Road in his revealing tight shorts, cane in hand, smile on his face, waving at passersby. Not much is known about his life, but the lifelong Atlantan who no one really knows is someone nearly everyone knows. Thank you.
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Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2012
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2012 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
Larkin Taylor-Parker Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2012 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
Every street character has something that sets him or her apart from the motley crew of men and women who walk Atlanta’s streets. Baton Bob has his parade marshal outfits. Bicycle Shorts Man has his...well, you know. And Larkin Taylor-Parker has Sally and Aria, her tubas. Three or four days a week,more...
Every street character has something that sets him or her apart from the motley crew of men and women who walk Atlanta’s streets. Baton Bob has his parade marshal outfits. Bicycle Shorts Man has his...well, you know. And Larkin Taylor-Parker has Sally and Aria, her tubas. Three or four days a week, the top hat-and-tuxedo-wearing 20-year-old Chicago native can be found belting out anything from Celtic music, protest songs, spirituals, big band tunes, and everything else in Candler Park and Little Five Points. When not playing the instrument, Parker spends some of her time advocating for and writing online about people living with autism (she lives with the disorder and is also dyslexic). Post graduation at Agnes Scott College, where she’s studying history, Larkin plans to become a lawyer and help children with disabilities navigate the educational system. To Parker, who does indeed rock, we salute you.
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Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2012
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2012 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2012 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
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Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2011
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2011 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2011 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2010
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2010 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2010 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Runner-up: Bicycle shorts man
Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
Prince Daweed Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
After noticing him for the last few years, you might think the seemingly ubiquitous PRINCE DAWEED is a bit … off. Sure, he’s a fabulous dancer. But what person in his right mind leaps, bounds, gyrates and grooves on such a drab dance floor as Atlanta’s smog-filled street corners?more...
After noticing him for the last few years, you might think the seemingly ubiquitous PRINCE DAWEED is a bit … off. Sure, he’s a fabulous dancer. But what person in his right mind leaps, bounds, gyrates and grooves on such a drab dance floor as Atlanta’s smog-filled street corners? We’ll tell you who: A person who’s at peace with himself, filled with joy, and just plain happy. Weird, huh? But honestly, it makes sense. You’d be in a perpetual good mood, too, if — as Daweed has confessed to CL — you spent all day getting pumped up on the Bee Gees, Hall and Oates, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, and Earth, Wind and Fire.
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Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Runner-up
Bicycle shorts man
Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
Prince Daweed Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2008
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2008
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
Prophet Love Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
Willy Terry, aka Bicycle Shorts Man Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
With his paid gigs and his slick website, “street character” is no longer an apt title for Baton Bob. He’s a full-fledged local celeb now. For God’s sake, the man has a better Wikipedia entry than Creative Loafing does. Of Bob’s street-character colleagues,more...
With his paid gigs and his slick website, “street character” is no longer an apt title for Baton Bob. He’s a full-fledged local celeb now. For God’s sake, the man has a better Wikipedia entry than Creative Loafing does. Of Bob’s street-character colleagues, none is more notorious, long-lived or as apparently well-endowed as WILLY TERRY, AKA BICYCLE SHORTS MAN. For 16 years, he has stood at the intersection of Briarcliff and Ponce, greeting passers-by with a smile, a wave and a glimpse of what appears to be an enormous penis visible through tight bicycle shorts. He’ll probably never be Baton Bob-famous, but last year, Terry appeared in an online documentary short (filmed by an Emory student named Dan Resnick) viewed more than 60,000 times. He’s putting the tube back in YouTube.
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Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2006
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » Cityscape » Critics Pick
Best Street Character BOA Award Winner
Year » 2006
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
Baton Bob Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » Cityscape » Readers Pick
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