What Michael Vick’s TV show—real or not—says about our celebrity-obsessed culture

When it comes to video blogging, or vlogging, everyone has something to say. But where’s the love, man?

Americans like marriage so much, they do it over and over again.

It’s not too late for the mayor to end the police furloughs before summer, when there will be … more opportunities for crime.

How the juvenile “point system” works—and fails

Can the Hawks and Braves pull it out?

Going to the Kentucky Derby?

This week in live music

This week's Arts and Entertainment Calendar

“MAMA, I’M SWOLLEN”
 (SADDLE CREEK)

“WHITE LIES FOR DARK TIMES”
 (VIRGIN)

Talent-filled ‘Soloist’ strikes discordant note

A continuation of Kirsten Ott's series, "Brides and Prejudice"

Intriguing ‘1:23’ doesn’t quite add up

High-end hotel offers a steal of a meal

SP goes Greek and Italian, all in one visit

New cheese debuts at Flat Creek Lodge

Make JoAnn Ealey's blueberry cobbler

In this economy, Café Physique knows it takes more than exercise to take a load off your mind

Even if you’ve been before, there may be a few sites you missed

Atlanta faces a gang problem that will only get worse this summer. Here’s why you probably didn’t know it existed.

Katy Perry on success, her sense of humor and being a "role model"

Download SP's 2009 Spring Fashion Guide

Rob Lawhon scores a hit with Holly retrospective

Blane Bachelor answers your relationship questions

SP chats with the bar manager at Kozmo Gastro Pub

A roundup of some of our favorite Vinings restaurants

Carvel Grant Gould shares her favorite okra restaurant

Restaurants bond together for a cause, cold sake is a hit, and prix fix dinners aplenty

Time to trim the winter blubber and get bathing-suit ready—but how?

High (and low) points of the Atlanta Film Festival’s second week

A Shorttakes review

A Shorttakes review

More than 200,000 customers with dead light switches, telephones and computers can raise quite a hue and cry...

Festivals, exhibits, theater and lectures

This week's music events

Mike Woodson

Beans, beans, good for the heart, the more you eat...

Last week the Falcons learned when and where they’ll be playing next fall...

Wisteria wins our heart, Leons supports the community, and Atlanta gets its first craft beer and wine store

Living the rock ’n’ roll dream is easier than ever—but it still takes a little work

The Buzz: What's movin' and shakin' in the world of sports

The beautiful flora blooms around these parts much like sports-filled days do...

Hunt Archbold makes the call

Atlanta Film Festival empowers and entertains—hopefully at the same time

An expanded work visa program is the obvious choice for helping our justice system, our educational system, our health care system and our economy.

This week's arts and entertainment calendar

This week in Atlanta live music

Atlanta actress Kate Donadio says goodbye to Hollywood

Cajun totchos at the Nook

SP pays a visit to Atlanta staple Chef Paul Albrecht’s restaurant, Social Vinings


An Austell butcher and smoke shop delivers the goods

Scale won’t budge? Add strength training to your routine, and watch the pounds drop off

Discovering the Atlanta Jazz Listeners Club

Selecting the right caterer

‘Observe and Report’ a criminal waste of time

Alpharetta woman develops Virtual Dementia Tour so others can see what it’s like

Governor Perdue and MARTA cutbacks

A conservative expert says it’s necessary. A small-business scholar says it would be a big mistake.

Repentance, forgiveness, and the restorative justice movement

‘Fast & Furious’ is neither, but it’s not a total drag

Nostalgic sex comedy as substantial as a summer fling

SP pays a visit to the Diner at North Point


Relax on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Restaurants continue to open, college students join forces with local store, and where to get your Easter lamb

Local bartenders and restaurants share the recipes of their popular cocktails

The new Expresso bikes let you race against someone in the same room—or hundreds of miles away

Versatile actresses raise ‘Hair’ a cut above

When table manners go seriously wrong

Brewmaster John Roberts dishes on his fondness for lager, homebrewing and brew pubs

“GOODNIGHT OSLO”
 (YEP ROC)

“THE HOT RODS”
 (FONTANA)

Arts and Entertainment events in Atlanta this week

This week's live music

The Buzz: What's movin' and shakin' in the world of sports

A national survey ranks Georgia the 12th most dangerous state. But are the numbers trustworthy?

How can a broke city pay for better public safety?

So I have decided give baseball another try...

Jordan Schafer