Atlanta, GA
Your 2023 Atlanta Playlist
Oh my (At)lanta.
The Nittany Lions have touched down in Atlanta, Georgia, and are enjoying some time in the Peach State ahead of their Peach Bowl debut against Ole Miss on Saturday, December 30, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. As Franklin and Co. ventured south for the program’s first-ever appearance in the Peach Bowl, so have thousands of members of the blue and white faithful.
Whether you’ll be cheering in the Nittany Lions from inside the (close-roofed!) stadium or the comfort of your home, you can always use a little music. So, we put together a playlist to show a little bit of love to A-Town.
Equipped with “Down In Atlanta” by Pharrell Williams and Travis Scott, “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” by the Charlie Daniels Band, and so much more, this playlist will be sure to get Atlanta on your mind. Or, pass some time on the final leg of your Onward State-approved road trip.
So, crank up this playlist, and don’t forget to wear your official 2023 Peach Bowl merch. Happy listening!
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Atlanta entertainer killed in shooting outside Ohio Waffle House
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Police in Ohio are searching for a 19-year-old accused of the murder of an Atlanta man at a Waffle House earlier this week.
WSYX reports that Columbus police officers responded to reports of a shooting at around 2:30 a.m. on Monday outside a Waffle House near Ohio State University.
At the scene, officers found 38-year-old Ronald Diggs shot in the chest. Medics rushed Diggs to a local hospital, where he later died.
Investigators say the incident started as a fight inside the restaurant that continued out onto the street.
A suspect, identified as 19-year-old Jaquan Curry, is facing a murder charge and remains on the run.
Who was Ronald Diggs?
Ronald Diggs was visiting Columbus to perform at a show in the city’s arts district.
Friend Robbie Rickard told WBNS that Diggs had nothing to do with the fight that led to his death.
“It was simply a matter of being at the wrong place and the wrong time,” Rickard said.
He said that Diggs, who went by the name King Ry’Yon Shugahbear Tajoure, was known for his passion for dancing, which had won him multiple titles at LGBTQ+ pageants.
“He was here just to simply be an entertainer, and to judge that event. Little did we know – that would be his last dance,” Rickard told WBNS.
Police are asking anyone who has information about Diggs’s death or Curry’s whereabouts to call the Columbus Police Homicide Unit at (614) 645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at (614) 461-8477.
Atlanta, GA
'A Man in Full' has fun with an Atlanta mogul scrambling to survive
Tom Wolfe was a breathtakingly gifted wordsmith whose writings have been adapted with varying success by Hollywood. Wolfe’s 1965 Esquire article about the NASCAR driver Junior Johnson became the terrific 1973 sports drama “The Last American Hero,” starring a young Jeff Bridges. “The Right Stuff,” Wolfe’s sprawling 1979 book about NASA’s Project Mercury program, was turned into one of the best films of the 1980s. Then there’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities” (1990), based on the Wolfe novel of the same name, which is such an unmitigated, tone-deaf, cartoonishly garish disaster, it proved that even Tom Hanks can be miscast in a film.
Now comes the six-part Netflix limited series “A Man in Full,” based on Wolfe’s 1998 scathingly satirical novel that touches on race, class, the legal system and politics in Atlanta. With a perfectly cast Jeff Daniels turning in a world-class performance as the powerful and obscenely wealthy but beleaguered real estate tycoon Charlie Croker; a gifted supporting ensemble that includes Diane Lane, Lucy Liu, Bill Camp, William Jackson Harper and Tom Pelphrey, and sharp writing and stylish direction throughout, “A Man in Full” doesn’t quite match the Shakespearean gravitas of “Succession” or the outlandish spectacle of “Billions.” But it’s well-crafted pop entertainment about people who are mostly awful (with a few notable exceptions) but great fun to watch.
As is almost the norm these days, “A Man in Full” opens in Media Res, with a major character in crisis, wondering: “I don’t mean this as a criticism … but when you die, will people notice?” Cut to a title card telling us it’s 10 DAYS EARLIER, and we swoop into Croker’s lavish 60th birthday party, and judging by the giant renditions of Charlie on the cover of Atlanta Magazine, GQ and Forbes, it’s safe to say there’s no small amount of ego involved here.
This is such a swank and exclusive affair that the entertainment is none other than Shania Twain (played by Shania Twain) who sings “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” and later does a sultry version of “You’re Still the One” as Charlie dances with his beautiful and ever-supportive second wife, Serena (Sarah Jones). We’ve also caught a glimpse of the gold and gleaming tower for Croker Industries, which appears to be the tallest and most impressive structure in the city, with “CROKER” in letters so large it would give Donald Trump pause (OK, almost). It’s clear Charlie Croker is the king of Atlanta.
Turns out Charlie is also a profligate spender who indulges in every personal luxury imaginable and is deeply in debt, as we learn in an expertly rendered sequence in which Bill Camp’s Harry Zale, who is the head of the Real Estate Asset Management Department for Charlie’s primary bank, sits at the head of an unimaginably long conference table populated by more than a dozen bankers and lawyers, and bluntly tells Charlie the party is over — that unless Charlie starts to make good on outstanding loans, he’s going to lose everything.
“I’m not sure who the hell you think you’re talking to!” bellows Charlie, to which Harry coolly replies, “I’m talking to a man who owes this bank 800 million dollars. A man who owes six other banks another 400 million dollars.”
As Charlie scrambles, plots and schemes to save his empire, — and he’ll resort to just about any means necessary to survive — the “A Man in Full” universe expands to incorporate a number of story threads, all of them connected in one way or another to Charlie’s world. Charlie’s executive assistant, Jill Hensley (Chanté Adams), comes to Charlie for help when her husband Conrad (Steppenwolf Theatre’s Jon Michael Hill) is arrested for assaulting a police officer in a dispute over a traffic violation. Charlie’s ex-wife, Martha (Diane Lane), becomes involved with Tom Pelphrey’s Raymond Peepgrass, a lowly loan officer who has been treated like a bug by Charlie for years and is obsessed with bringing him down. Meanwhile, incumbent Mayor Wes Jordan (William Jackson Harper) is facing a stiff challenge from a good ol’ boy who was Charlie’s college football teammate back in the day — and it’s in Charlie’s best interest to persuade his ex’s friend, Joyce Newman (Lucy Liu), to come forward with some potentially campaign-ending information about the mayor’s opponent.
Yes, it’s a lot to unpack. But with the prolific David E. Kelley (“Ally McBeal,” “Big Little Lies,” et al.) as showrunner, writer and executive producer, and directing duties split between actor-filmmaker Regina King (“One Night in Miami”) and Thomas Schlamme (“The West Wing,” “The Americans”), each story gets just the right amount of play, and the result is a rich mix of sudsy but spot-on social commentary and satire.
Atlanta, GA
JP Morgan offers several initiatives to help Atlanta-area entrepreneurs scale their businesses – WABE
JP Morgan Chase is working to support Atlanta-area entrepreneurs through several initiatives.
On Wednesday, the financial institution hosted “The Experience Atlanta,” an event designed to help entrepreneurs start, grow and scale their businesses. As the event was getting underway, Ben Walter, the CEO of Business Banking at JP Morgan, was a guest on “Closer Look.”
Walter spoke with show host Rose Scott about the state of small businesses in metro Atlanta. He also shared key actions that entrepreneurs can take to access capitol, network and allocate business tasks to professional experts.
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