First Slice 2-6-15: Festivals feuding over Piedmont Park

Atlanta Arts Festival and Music Midtown throw ‘bows over park application permit

Get ready for a smackdown! Two major festivals want to reserve Piedmont Park on the same weekend in September, leading to a battle over who will be able to use the grounds. Will it be the “quiet and artsy” Atlanta Arts festival, who filed its permit application last November, or the “loud and raucous” Music Midtown, who entered the running just last week?

Take a virtual tour of the Daily World Apartments, the first new apartments on the Atlanta Streetcar line, built inside the Sweet Auburn building that previously housed one of the most influential newspapers in the country. Rent now, move in March 1!

Has a tax return already been filed with your Social Security number? You may want to check. The Georgia Department of Revenue has already noticed a significant amount of fraudulent returns.

Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, is on life support at Emory University Hospital after being found face-down in the bathtub at her Roswell home. Her family’s attorney released a statement denying rumors that she is “brain dead.”

If you think your commute is bad, try http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/01/31/detroit-commuting-troy-rochester-hills-smart-ddot-ubs-banker-woodward-buses-transit/22660785/” rel=”external”>walking 21 miles to get to work every day.

ICYMI: A group of protesters spent the night outside the DeKalb County Courthouse on Wednesday night to demand answers about the fatal police shooting of Kevin Davis.






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