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Archives: 2006 | 2005 | E-Clippings Home

December 2006

New team, same result

Falcons push to rename Dome

Upstart Arkansas, comeback Gators face off

Fans Prepare For Big Game

Expect Heavy Traffic This Weekend

Expect heavy traffic downtown Saturday

Yancey appointed to World Congress Center board

Notebook: Bulldogs hope for Dome crowd advantage when they take on Hokies

Forbes: Georgia should drop income tax

Fantasy dazzles at Callaway

Job forecast looks sunny

A Dome-Good Fight

MORE TO SEE AND DO

Sound Machine Earns Invitation to Battle of the Bands

Meyer Seeks Advice From Rival

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Perdue getting ready for inaugural bash

Reality bites for Gators, whose BCS worries temper SEC joy

Tech to get Chick-fil-A bid today

AirTran gets plug at SEC Championship

Friday Night Lights

Florida Gets Nod For the Title Game

Hokies to bowl in Atlanta

Devils on GPTV again...10 years later

Tigers Maul their Way to Georgia Dome

Anticipation, attendance high for semifinals

Chick-fil-A Bowl sold out

Dome dream: Peachtree Ridge content as lone Gwinnett semifinalist

See & Do Short List

Three heading for warmth of the Dome

Devils head to Dome for eighth time

The Weekend Guide

Atlanta power player Tom Cousins retires

Lovett's ride to Dome 'a dream come true'

Chicken, Peaches and Football?

Dome not much of a factor for area schools

Rhythms of the South touts ATL, Southern kin

Dome mesmerizes Tigers

Experience tells at the Dome

Convention plays to foreign tourists

Centennial Olympic Park Presents 7th Annual Holiday in Lights - through January 7th

City to announce plans for civil rights museum

"Houseboat Row" returns for 45th annual Atlanta Boat Show

Study lists sites for possible civil rights museum

Panel: Rights museum should locate on Coke land, have global focus

Short List The Wiz, Open Scars, and more

Airtran A-Savers Newsletter

Leaders support civil rights museum in downtown Atlanta

Leaders back $100 million rights museum

Civic leaders get behind rights museum

Highlights on the road to the Final Four

Civil rights museum site quickly a hot topic

Proposal for civil rights museum stokes passions; town hall set for public comment

Wes Side: Skating to Success

The 12th Man

Happy Opening Day 2007

Bowl bonanza, folks!

Chick-fil-A tickets scarce

 

November 2006

MegaFest taking year off, may not come back to Atlanta

MegaFest scales down in Grapevine

Weekend traffic headaches: Ga. 400, veterans parade, BET Awards

Now's the time to dream of Georgia Dome date

Public coffers, not lawsuits, often end stadium disputes

Veterans Day brings reunions, respect

Atlanta celebrates Hip-Hop Awards

Transportation summit today likely to tackle hot issues

Coke's gift not the real thing

This crowd takes care of fun business

New World of Coca-Cola: Hipper, smarter, global.

Cousins Properties chairman to retire

Aquarium pumps up bottom lines for hotels

45th annual Atlanta Boat Show coming to Atlanta Jan. 10-14

Seeking Out the Biggest Thrills When the Room Is All Abuzz

City Newsbytes

Adding football at Georgia State would cost up to $24.8 million

Study: Adding football at GSU could cost up to $24.8M

Tour de Georgia unveils route for 2007 cycling race

Heard it through the grapevine: Wine South moving to Atlanta

Tour De Georgia Announces 2007 Routes

Tour de Georgia announces race route

Tour de Georgia race to pass through 11 cities

November 21st, 2006: IAAPA 2006: success beyond expectations

Jane Turner's Top 5

Latest News: 2007 Tour de Georgia

USA : Mega-crowd at MEGATEX umbrella textile event

Tour de Georgia returning to Atlanta

Northwest Georgia hub for bike tour

Tour de Georgia picks new finish line for 2007

Georgia State considers football

Falcons get OK to spend $23 million to renovate Georgia Dome

Atlanta awaits with something new for Gators

Public invited to Perdue inauguration

Perdue puts inaugural plans in motion

SEE&DO: Short List

Falcons get OK to renovate Ga. Dome

Atlanta Falcons to Spend $23.3 Million to Renovate Georgia Dome

Perdue's Camp to Mail Invites to Ball

Take Ten: Pros and Cons of neutral sites

The Holiday A&E Top 10

A Big Home Win

Celebrate ‘Christmas Past’ at the Festival of Trees

Return of the Gator growl

Metro chamber favors sales tax for transportation

Boosters hope for more cash quickly

Sugar Bowl working out kinks

Guardians of civil rights past are right to look to future

Greet the holiday season with special events in special places

Conferees focus on childhood education

Passion '07 Heads to Atlanta

 

October 2006

A parade with pride

City's population to nearly double by 2020, Cousins says

Cousins sees ATL population jump, envisions downtown restaurant district

A Big-City Attraction That Hits The Spot

Memory just a no-brainer

Streetcar's path for south, 'tourist loop' sections proposed

Georgia Aquarium getting $13M overhaul

FBI, Homeland Security Investigate Georgia Dome Threat

Scientists mine the gap between males, females

FBI: NFL Threats a 'Writing Duel'

Threat Made Against Steelers Game Was Hoax, FBI Says

Georgia Dome among reported terror targets

Steelers game 1 of 7 in threat

Help Fight Juvenile Diabetes

Walkers turn out to fight diabetes

Walkers take to streets for fund-raisers

Coke to donate land for Civil Rights museum

Coca-Cola Donates Land to Civil Rights Museum in Atlanta

Walkers take to streets for fund-raisers

Who'll pay for civil rights museum?

Habitat for Humanity gets assist

Bishop T.D. Jakes and the Potter's House Announce Megafest Conference Changes

Sporting dancers off to an early start

Civial Rights Museum: Link site to movement's birthplace

Civil Rights Museum: Olympic Park locale a bad idea

Industrial technology takes center stage at Georgia World Congress Center this week

Testing the waters

MegaFest not coming to Atlanta in 2007

Cotton Bowl is a tradition, but also a relic

Short List

Central Atlanta Progress Downtown Connects Card – Newest Offers

 

September 2006

Forbes: Falcons among NFL's least valuable teams

Falcons owner expects new home by 2016

Kick a goal, win $1 million

Falcons owner pushing for new stadium in next decade

Blanks thinks out of the Dome

Blank Wants New Stadium For Falcons

TSU has got to get more fans in the seats

Classy Carrier

SEC not concerned about talk of new Georgia Dome

UConn sets hoop schedules

Suite's OK for Brooking baby

Are We There Yet?

Your wallet, please

Down East Classic more than a game

Red Rocks Featured In MONOPOLY Game

Mega Showing in Atlanta

Georgia Dome May Get Corporate Name

Extreme Makeover: Falcons edition

Falcons to pay for Georgia Dome facelift

New Monopoly has Centennial Olympic Park

Dome might get new name

Blank unveils Dome plans

Reunited R.E.M. highlights Georgia music hall inductions

Monopoly's extreme makeover

Blank weighs in on the Dome

Falcon fans ready to rock in Dome

Music hall greets new class

Fenway has Monopoly on sports properties in new version

The Way I See It...

Latinos Challenge Perdue Statements

GSU plans new law, business buildings downtown

W Hotel to boost coolness factor at Allen Plaza

Fox News' birthday bash comes with CNN view

Hyatt Regency Atlanta's Atrium to Get $100M Facelift

Violent crime in Atlanta lowest since 1969

Students will compete for gold at welding championships

Cut crime further with more police

Interceptions in past three games please Carter

Classic Is A Celebration Of Football, Fun

Studio B-sharp?

No time to party as Rattlers prepare

 

August 2006

Stars Take to stage as Mega Fest hits 30

Tourism officials: Panhandling remains a nagging problem in Atlanta

Inforum to be renamed for American Cancer Society

ACVB: Panhandling gripes up

Bigger signs will point way to attractions

Metro population boom turns inward

Tourism officials: Rein in beggars

Keeping Terror Out of the Dome

A real cut-up on stage

Unnecessary roughness called on football league

Food franchisers embrace diversity

UConn, Maui Invitational highlight Jackets schedule

Fantasia radiates in Lifetime bio

Home-grown

Atlanta's new fun zone

Fox series 'Vanished' offers city as mix of modern, mysterious

Atlanta's promotion beefs up convention

ADNA approves helipad, apartments

Nat'l Linen sale the end for NSI?

Honda Battle of the Bands Prepares to Celebrate Milestone 5th Anniversary Year

Superdome to host bowl games

Motorcyclists ride to raise Komen Foundation funds

GWCC likely to see a drop in business

Daily Briefing Georgia Aquarium Lands Big Numbers

Dangerous Heat Cooks Up Dirty Air

Daily Briefing Georgia Aquarium Lands Big Numbers

Football Classic's field of dreams

Cancer Society to relocate

 

July 2006

Congress Center profit shows Katrina windfall

ACC wants second Atlanta bowl game

Beg for enforcement

All the right moves

Ten years on, Atlanta takes stock of its Olympic legacy

MegaFest to fill streets this week

The Atlanta 11: They brought the Olympics here

Crowd celebrates Games' anniversary

A decade later, city still dreams big

Modest Celebration for '96 Olympics Anniversary

Atlanta Games Left Lasting Legacy

Grand opening of the Centennial Olympic Games Museum

Canon announces co-locations for newly acquired shows

MegaFest 2006 Comes To Atlanta

Audible to offer podcast sermons

2006-'07 Amp'd Mobile AMA Supercross Series/Amp'd Mobile World Supercross GP Schedule

Southeast Powders Show to Co-Locate with SouthPack

Supporters say Atlanta games had Olympic-sized impact

A burning devotion

Atlanta prepares for 3rd MegaFest

Georgia Songbird Trisha Yearwood Celebrates Olympics 10 Years Later With Special Performance!

New Dream Team: Magic Johnson, Thomas Dortch, Cornel West, and T.D. Jakes

Treatment, not jail is HOPE team's mission

Centennial Park fireworks celebrants complain

Falcons to practice at Piedmont Park

Falcons Readying 'Midtown Touchdown' Festival in Piedmont Park to Kick Off 2006 Season in a Big Way

Storms Delay Some Fireworks Displays

High Definition 4th of July!

Fish and Flags: Museum to Move

Yearwood to Play at Olympic Anniversary

CBF meets to discuss needs

 

June 2006

When the Librarians Come Marching In

Fourth of July Events Around Town

ACC announces future sites & dates for men's & women's basketball & baseball tournaments

Convention center's profit beats forecast

National Urban League Annual Conference to Feature Free Empowerment
Exhibit Zone Devoted to Employment, Homeownership, Tech, Health

MegaFest to Return to Atlanta for Third Year

Adventures in Atlanta

Carl Lewis, almost 45, parties like an Olympian

Smog, heat herald summer

In 2017, a full head of self-esteem?

Tourism groups want link with Sandy Springs

Museum, events to commemorate 1996 Olympics

Centennial spirit

CheapTickets.com Announces Its Top BBQ Destinations for Fourth of July Travel

'Grand celebration' promised for Olympics anniversary

Organizers: Olympic anniversary marked by celebration, progress

Celebration to mark games' anniversary

Cascade's preacher gets a hero's farewell

Bonding with baseball

REALITY CHECK: Memories relived by Bellaire native

Teens embrace FAME camp

Cooperative Baptists to meet in Atlanta

Junior Events Converge on Atlanta, Minneapolis

Turning on to robotics

Legacy breaks ground for Park Pavilion downtown

IAAPA attractions expo 2006 announces key note speaker

Tiger Martial Arts sending 16 to Jr. Olympics in Taekwondo

Cosby charms, chastises conventioneers

Area Religion in Brief

Centennial Olympic Park Invites You To Share In Atlanta History While Recognizing The Spirit Of Olympic Volunteerism

Atlanta falls a bit in eyes of meeting planners

Tenants take note of downtown activity

 

May 2006

Tens of Thousands Joining T.D. Jakes in Atlanta to Improve Their Lives, Strengthen Their Families, and Enjoy 'Mega'-Fun

Buy ticket, help the game

The Best of Atlanta: Attractions, eats, shopping - the best things to do in a day

Favorite Atlanta experiences: Frommer's picks on what not to miss while in Atlanta

Condos to tower over aquarium

MARTA Adds Midtown Tourist Loop Bus

New Orleans seen top target for '06 hurricanes

Georgia Aquarium proves to be a huge lure

Music Festival Set For Centennial Park

ACC does Charlotte a disservice

IAAPA attractions expo 2005 recognized as top tradeshow

Mayor wants more spent on Brand Atlanta

Attendance shows city still has game

ACC's finances on solid footing

Aquarium spawns competing bus services

Walter Bird, Leader in Fabric Structure Design, Dies

Georgia Tech graduates about 2,200

Robot builders focus on event circuit

Leaders to gather for simulcast

Trump: "I'm doing a project in Atlanta"

Downtown Atlanta gains trolleys for tourists

New Allies Bolster Student in His Immigration Struggle By

 

April 2006

Robotics competition concludes at Georgia Dome

Chamblee students get robotics ball rolling

Boutique hotels enjoy new boom

Lynn Tech, Classical robotics team ahead of the pack

Auto show pitches luxury, sportiness

Organized chaos on the floor

Orlando may land on Monopoly board

Aquarium gives Centennial Park an added attraction

Student's Prize Is a Trip Into Immigration Limbo

Centennial Park's famous fountains to be refurbished

Aquarium package sign of growing tourism in Atlanta

Cycling's in big ditch in Atlanta

Church youth meet, but can have no meat

New Coke museum pauses, refreshes

Thousands of worshippers expected to fill stadiums

On Easter, megachurches fill even larger venues

Atlanta's $25M not nearly enough - 2009 SUPER BOWL BID

NASCAR bid open to public, court says

How well do you know your trade show law?

WalkAmerica proceeds fund local programs supporting our children and our community

Cable industry confident of its turf

AT&T casts a giant shadow

Falcons open season at Carolina

NFL: Falcons announce 2006 regular season schedule

Miron, Maffei Join National Show Panels

Chick-fil-A Bowl banner unveiled

Tourists hooked by Georgia Aquarium

R.E.M. in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame

 

March 2006

Neighbors Take Neighborhood Back

Atlanta sues online travel sites over hotel taxes

Maybe 'GWTW' wasn't shot here, but city's had lots of screen time

Jackets to face UConn in Dome

KC would be contender for Final Four, NCAA says

Atlanta welcomes 10,000 girls' for the nation's largest volleyball event

ACS Arrives In Atlanta

Ambassadors of streets guide the way

Scoreboard problems to be solved for 2007

U.S. Cable Industry Brings "A Great American Success Story" to Atlanta April 9-11

March Madness Brings Money to Atlanta

Special Duke fan pulls rank

Crime down in city's center

Former suburban resident discovers right spirit in downtown community

Georgia Aquarium's million visitors spurs Atlanta travel boom

A Hundred Thousand Fish, Behind a Pane 2 Feet Thick

1,400-room Hilton to connect to Convention Center Rooms will help fill demand for top-flight accommodations

 

January 2006

Corporate Sponsors Drawn to Volleyball Events