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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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How Atlanta’s Young Dro achieved one of rap’s great comebacks this year
The AJC interviews veteran rapper Young Dro on one of the most exciting years of his career.
Bookshelf: 3 Southern novels celebrate family and community
Three new Southern novels by women authors, two of them based in metro Atlanta and one in North Carolina (Jan Karon), offer reads full of romance and uplift.
Like surprises? Local theaters try ‘mystery movie’ nights for a discount
Surprise! Local movie theaters trying mystery movie nights where you enter the theater not knowing what movie you're going to see.
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UGA to pay $100K H-1B visa fee only ‘in exceptional circumstances’
The University of Georgia could soon limit the number of foreign workers it employs, a result of the $100,000 fee imposed on some H-1B visas.
Georgia judges deal blow to ICE’s new mandatory detention policy
The ruling is a first-of-its-kind to come out of Georgia’s Middle District.
At the Cobb jail, a new kind of rehabilitation starts at the horse barn
Joshua Arp is one of two Cobb County jail detainees taking part of the sheriff’s office new equine therapy program meant to help him stay out of jail.