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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.
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Does Nicolas Cage look like John Madden in new biopic shooting in Atlanta?
Amazon has released a first look photo of Nicolas Cage as John Madden and yes, the resemblance is fleeting at best.
‘Will Trent’ producers talk Season 3’s mariachi band, disco fever dream
"Will Trent" Season 3 concludes Tuesday, and the AJC talked to the ABC show's co-executive producers about the "big-swing opportunities and one-offs" from the season.
These hot new Southern reads belong on your summer list
Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the publishing industry will release more than 40 new books with Southern connections. These are the books everyone will be talking about.
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Failed health inspections sent the Atlanta airport scrambling to fix problems
The Atlanta airport uses a “Quality Assurance Audit” to find potential food safety and customer service issues, but the bump in failures in 2023 and 2024 raises questions.
Trump legislation awaits decision from Kemp as Georgia veto deadline nears
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has a May 14 deadline to sign or veto bills that passed in the 2025 legislative session. Anything he ignores will become law.
Justices struggle with ‘awkward’ Georgia law in hair relaxer cases
Georgia Supreme Court justices grappled Tuesday with an “awkward” state law that could significantly limit hundreds of cases alleging harm from hair relaxer products.