Hilarious AND Informative Authors Panel
Monday, October 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Who would've guessed that five accomplished, award-winning and best-selling authors could be as entertaining as a raunchy improv troupe (peppering "F"-bombs and other colorful quips into their commentary) and as informative and enlightening as, well, an authors' panel? The Atlanta ...
Taylor Branch and Byron Pitts Share Their Unique Experiences with the APC
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Taylor Branch and Byron Pitts are storytellers -- Branch in books and Pitts primarily on television – but their goals are essentially the same – to enlighten, educate and inform. They successfully do that without getting in the way, the ...
Furman Bisher Writes Final Column
Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Over the weekend, Atlanta Journal-Constitution sports columnist Furman Bisher's final column before retirement appeared in the newspaper and online. Apparently, Bisher typed his column on the same old Royal typewriter he used to write his first, back in 1950. The AJC's ...
Arthur Blank Discusses What it Takes to Run a Successful Company and Football Team at the Atlanta Press Club
Friday, October 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Humble and Hungry -- the motto of the 2009 Atlanta Falcons -- were the overriding themes when Falcons owner Arthur Blank discussed his football team and a possible new gridiron home several years from now during Thursday's Atlanta Press Club ...
The Gorilla Ball, a Night of Laughs and High Recognition
Monday, September 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »CNN veteran Jane Maxwell received the APC's 2009 "Willie B" Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday evening during a ceremony at the Atlanta Zoo. Maxwell joins a long list of accomplished broadcasters whose careers have been recognized by the Press Club. ...
Stewart Cink Considers Himself a Native Georgian
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »British Open champion and TPC Sugarloaf resident Stewart Cink has some 900,000 followers on Twitter, the social networking site. That's just one interesting fact you probably didn't know about Cink whose stories poking fun at himself brought laughs and merriment ...
Lunch with Jerry Springer, a Man of Many Dimensions
Monday, September 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Lunch with Jerry Springer is a fasten your seat belt whirlwind. You spend an hour feeling like you are a passenger on his extraordinary turbo-charged hot air balloon. Springer cares passionately about many things, among them the tabloid television talker ...
Creative Loafing Sold to Highest Bidder
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Check out Atlanta Press Club board member Mara Shalhoup's blog piece this afternoon about the sale of Creative Loafing's parent company, headed by CEO Ben Eason, to Atalaya Capital Management in a bankruptcy auction. More information to come, according to local ...
Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes creator, dies
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Award-winning CBS television executive Don Hewitt, who was executive producer of "60 Minutes" for some 36 years, has died. He was 86 and had pancreatic cancer. Hewitt started his career in newspapers but spent most of his journalism life working for ...
Robert Novak Dies
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »More than a year after being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, conservative columnist Robert Novak has died. Novak had been a commentator for CNN for 25 years, most often appearing as co-host of "Crossfire." According to CNN's obituary of Novak, "In 2003, ...