I’m standing in front of a beautiful wooden tea sniffing bar built by owner Doria Roberts at the brand-new Tipple + Rose Tea Parlor and Apothecary in Virginia-Highland. She pulls out silver box No. 17 labeled “Black Forest” from the rack, gently lifts its lid and instructs me to inhale. Immediately, the sharp tang of […]
One morning in 1999 over coffee in her office, a few weeks before she died at age 89, Atlanta Constitution reporter Celestine Sibley brilliantly boiled down her 60-year journalism career for me. “Letting the people know,” she explained. “It’s really a holy cause. Time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad […]
On this scorching hot August afternoon, iconic Atlanta morning radio voices Steve McCoy and Vikki Locke, along with daredevil sidekick Tom Sullivan are back behind microphones together, deep into a hilarious conversation involving the modern convenience that is Uber. Suddenly, a clap of thunder rattles everyone out of their chairs as a bolt of lightning […]