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Bo Emerson
I'm an Atlanta native and a long-time AJC feature and news writer. (At my first newspaper job, in South Carolina, we used typewriters, copy paper and glue pots.) I've covered everything from Prince's Purple Rain tour to the Olympic bombing. I'm married to columnist Maureen Downey and we have four children.
Latest from Bo Emerson
Elvis’ ruby ring up for auction
Two years before the Beatles went to India to meet the Maharishi and made meditation a trendy item, Elvis Presley studied in 1965 at the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles, created by Paramahansa Yogananda, author of “Autobiography of a Yogi.”Besides any improved insight he may have gained, the King came ...
“Sea Monsters” at Georgia Aquarium showcases preserved ocean creatures
The gelatinous folds of an enormous Humboldt squid greet visitors in one corner while, overhead, an 18-foot whale shark is suspended in midflight. Elsewhere, a detonated grouper is poised in midexplosion, its exterior parted to reveal gills, vertebrae and internal organs. By turns fascinating and macabre, the creatures are part ...
Georgia Aquarium files suit after beluga import permit denied
The Georgia Aquarium is asking a court to intervene on its behalf, after federal regulators denied a permit for it to import wild-captured beluga whales. The aquarium filed suit Monday in federal court in Atlanta seeking a ruling to let it acquire 18 belugas captured in the Sakhalin-Amur region of ...
Marco Polo exhibit shows first adventure journalist
Marco Polo made a 24-year trip along the Silk Road, crossing by land through Persia, Mongolia and China, returning by sea, and cutting a path that was longer than any other trader before him. Or maybe he didn’t. The mythology that grew up around Polo’s 13th century journeys, some of ...
Atlanta native takes Basie band baton
Scotty Barnhart, an Atlanta native and jazz trumpet virtuoso, was a starstruck high school musician back in the early 1970s when he saw the Count Basie Orchestra perform at the Fox Theatre.Standing outside on Peachtree Street, waiting for his parents to come give him a ride home, Barnhart suddenly saw ...
Team Martina helps McBride to support park
When country star Martina McBride performs in Atlanta on Sept. 28, singing at Chastain Amphitheater, she will be building more than a fan base. She, and a network of fundraisers called Team Martina, will be helping to build an innovative playground in nearby Chastain Park. The group has already raised ...
Flannery O’Connor speaks to God in prayer journal
“What I am asking for is really very ridiculous,” the young Flannery O’Connor wrote in her journal. “Oh, Lord, I am saying, at present I am a cheese, make me a mystic, immediately.”The words come from a collection of prayers that O’Connor penned from age 20 to 22, when she ...
Disabled vets rise above injuries with Yosemite climb
Shot through the arm and spouting arterial blood, Cpl. Nate Watson survived a firefight and was helicoptered out of the mountains in northern Afghanistan four years ago. Somehow, despite losing the use of his left hand, he’s headed back to some different mountains this week. Watson, 34, plans to observe ...
Jeanette Montgomery Barron: Manhattan through the lens of a Georgia Peach
Jeanette Montgomery Barron, the Atlanta-born daughter of Coke royalty, walked into some strange places when she was photographing Manhattan’s artists and scenesters in the 1980s. Perhaps the strangest was her assignment to shoot a portrait of writer William Burroughs, who 30 years earlier had drunkenly shot and killed his wife ...
Harper and Musselwhite: new and old mesh in blues project
Ben Harper, 43, is no spring chicken, but he’s a relative youngster in the world of the blues. That may be why the California native has been drawn to performing with older originators, including John Lee Hooker, Solomon Burke and the Blind Boys of Alabama. In his latest collaboration, Harper ...
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