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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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‘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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‘Human composting’ is a thing. It’ll soon be legal in Georgia
Gov. Brian Kemp recently signed a bill legalizing ‘terramation’ as a method for disposing of a deceased person’s body.
‘I have no choice’: Georgia judge resigns amid misconduct investigation
A probate judge in Middle Georgia has abruptly resigned while accused of misusing county funds and having improper discussions about cases, among other things.
‘It’s a mess’: Georgia utility elections restart amid power price hikes and voting rights case
Elections are resuming after years of delays amid a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in Georgia's statewide voting method for the Public Service Commission.