JAN. 22 - FEB. 4, 2016 • VOL. 10— NO. 2
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Three Kings Day
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Ana Avilez, 14, a member of the Danza Aztec Dance Group, prepares for a performance during the Three Kings Day or “Dia de Los Reyes” festival at the Atlanta History Center on Jan. 10. See additional photos on page 15.►
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Survey: No to ‘Religious Freedom’ law Reporter Newspapers is working with a new mobile market research firm, Atlanta-based 1Q, to survey residents of our communities periodically about topics of state and local interest. In our first poll, we ask about the proposed Religious Freedom Restoration Act being considered in the state Legislature. Nearly two-thirds of 200 respondents said the bill should be rejected. Here are two reactions to the law. Read more about the poll and local comments on page 11. ►
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I’m so sick of Georgia looking like backward buffoons. This is just legalized discrimina�ion, plain and simple. If that isn’t enough, it’s bad for the state economically. A 44-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO LIVES IN BROOKHAVEN
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Exhibit highlights Atlanta in 50 objects
Celebrating a Latin tradition
OUT & ABOUT Puppetry Arts Center expands under Atlanta’s own puppet master
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Even having a proposal of a religious freedom law seems to be a step in the right direc�ion... to start having more considera�ion for religion, period. A 34-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO LIVES IN SANDY SPRINGS
Familiar sights crowd the new exhibit at the Atlanta History Center. Georgia Tech’s Ramblin’ Wreck holds center stage. A billboard-ready Chick-fil-A cow protests in one corner. A few feet away, a Varsity car-hop’s tray hangs from a door of a ’63 Plymouth Valiant. It’s no surprise that the items in this particular museum show seem familiar. They’re all part of Atlanta. Each was chosen to represent some important feature of the city, the exhibit’s curators say. The exhibit, “Atlanta in 50 Objects,” which opened Jan. 16 and is to be on display through July 10, is intended to show, in its own way, what makes Atlanta Atlanta. “I think my favorite thing is the King manuscript,” guest curator Amy Wilson said on the day before the show opened, as she and History Center exhibitions director Dan Rooney made last-minute tweaks to the exhibit. She pointed toward a case holding a series of handwritten pages from a yellow legal pad on which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had written the acceptance speech for his 1964 Nobel Prize. “It’s the original manuscript.” Wilson and Rooney started work on the project in November 2014. The original idea behind the exhibit – gathering objects that represent important themes or events in history – had been used in a few other high-profile museum shows and books, such as “The Smithsonian’s History of America in Continued page 14 The Atlanta History center’s exhibition, “Atlanta in 50 Objects,” showcases unique, local items like this katana from “The Walking Dead” TV show.