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1 2 creative loafing anD write club atlanta present fiction contest partY at highlanD inn ballrooM clatl.com 1/12/17, 7pM 2 ❘ DECEMBER 22 - 28, 2016 ❘ clatl.com 3 TIME AND PLACE 10:14 p.m. December 18, 2016, 420 Moreland Ave N.E. Brandon EngLiSh Fire up the Death Star Contents How the election hacked holiday movies Dec. 22 - 28, 2016 Volume 45, Issue 35 clatl.com 10 By Curt HoLMan Overdose reversal drug goes OTC Southern fried State will loosen access to a life-saving — but still Ludacris opens his long-awaited airport 6 expensive — overdose reversal drug eatery, Chicken+Beer By Maggie Lee 15 By HiLary Cadigan Cyndi Cyndi Holiday hilarity Living the dream S Highwire Comedy’s Lost Without Yule explores highs Big Jesus goes big with sophomore LP, aBido 9 and lows of the Christmas season 22 Oneiric By CaroLine Cox By Ben SaLMon Send an illustrated version of CL to illustrateCL@ For a chance to have your photo published in an upcoming issue, send the creativeloafing.com, or tag it #illustrateCL, and it image and the time and place it was taken to [email protected]. may be featured above. Size: 2.5" x 2.5" .jpg or .eps clatl.com ❘ DECEMBER 22 - 28, 2016, 2016 ❘ 3 404 NEWS H o M e L essness NEWS e L ectors CLATL.COM | 404.688.5623 More police, please PUBLISHER • SHaRRy SmItH Dispute between city and shelter shows no signs of ending [email protected] IntERIm EDItOR-In-CHIEF/ nEwS EDItOR • tHOmaS wHEatLEy [email protected] ART DIRECTOR • Wes Duvall MANAGING EDITOR • Alicia Carter MUSIC EDITOR • Chad Radford Can’t win ‘em all: FOOD EDITOR • Hilary Cadigan SENIOR WRITER • Rodney Carmichael Georgia electors EDITORIAL ASSISTANT • Adjoa Danso PHOTO EDITOR • Joeff Davis pick Trump GRAPHIC DESIGNERS • Katy Barrett-Alley, Amy Gomoljak, Abbie Leali, Despite the emails, phone calls, and Liz Loewenstein, Melanie Mays, Jonathan Splitlog eleventh hour protests, georgia’s 16 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS • Cliff Bostock, Olivia Cathcart, Caroline electoral college members on Monday Cox, Stephanie Dazey, Paul DeMerritt, Rebekah Goode-Peoples, Angela Hansberger, Curt Holman, Hal Horowitz, Jacinta Howard, unanimously supported Pres.-elect Don- Brad Kaplan, James Kelly, Maggie Lee, Bobby Moore, Bobby Power, ald trump, sending the businessman and Sucheta Rawal, Austin L. Ray, Tai Saint-Louis, Ben Salmon, Jeff reality tv star to the white House. Tobias, Sonam Vashi, Bobbin Wages, Jonathan Williams CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS • Dustin Chambers, shortly after noon, the republican Brandon English, Perry Julien, Erik Meadows, Mia Yakal Joeff Davis electors gathered in the state senate as INTERNS • Savannah Elder, Kory Jordan dozens of protesters carrying signs read- ing “Dump trump” and “Don’t Let russia OPERatIOnS manaGER • KaRtRIna tHOmaS [email protected] Decide” marched outside. after a short OVERLOOKED?: Peachtree-Pine shelter leaders, including longtime Executive Director Anita Beaty, prayer, they joined other electors in state- DIRECtOR OF maRKEtInG, allege city has directed police not to patrol area. PROmOtIOnS anD EvEntS • nICK taPP houses across the country, fulfilling their [email protected] BY Maggie Lee does the Almighty’s work, providing a place for pledge to support the goP winner, and SALES EXECUTIVES • Andrew Cylar, Justis Godfree, hundreds of people who have nowhere to go. But handing the keys to the country to trump Megan Hoot, Carrie Karas, Taylor Long, Oscar Pope, Julie n the evening of Nov. 28, Nanette its critics say the facility stifles the area and fails and Mike Pence, the vice president-elect. Romano Walker heard shots while working to help people get off the street. The litigation SALES ASSISTANT • Connie Irvin the night before, more than 40 men, at the Metro Atlanta Task Force for over ownership of the building, plus another suit SOUtHCO mm women, and children came to the capitol CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER • Chris Ferrell the Homeless’ shelter at Peachtree against Emory University, seems unending. to launch a last-ditch effort to convince INTERIM CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER • Bob Mahoney Oand Pine streets. She got the women and children Beaty several months ago denied rumors georgia’s electors to prevent trump from CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER • Blair Johnson on the floor, where they stayed for 30 minutes, that the shelter would close in November. Board EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT • Mark Bartel taking office. robert Lowe, a retired im- Walker says, until someone gave them the all clear. member Joe Beasley said during the press confer- VICE PRESIDENT Of PRODUCTION OPERaTIONS prov professional, said he felt a duty to • Curt Pordes But it was hard to get back to normal, especially ence that Central Atlanta Progress, the Down- come out because “i have to look [my VICE PRESIDENT Of CONTENT/COMMUNICaTION for people who are in a difficult place anyway. town business group, offered the task force an $11 • Patrick Rains “There is no normal routine at that point,” million settlement. Beaty says no formal offer was 28-year-old son] in the eye ... this is the DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES • Becky Turner last thing we can do.” CREaTIVE DIRECTOR • Heather Pierce says Walker. “It’s still in the back of your head, made. CAP declined to comment. will there be a next time?” APD directed questions to Reed’s office. A Dani washburn, the co-founder of natIOnaL aDvERtISInG SaLES VMG Advertising Police that evening responded to a shots fired Reed spokeswoman called accusations that the Democracy spring georgia, an advocacy 1-888-278-9866 or 1-212-475-2529 call, but no victim was located, so no report was mayor has directed the police to allow criminal group focused on fair elections, said the SR. VP OF SALES • Susan Belair filed. About a week later, police answered another activity to take place are “patently false.” SR. VP OF SALES OPERATIONS • Joe Larkin sunday night effort was about “protect- shots fired call and found a man sitting inside the “This year alone, more than 1,000 arrests have ing the integrity of the republic and the women’s shelter who said he’d been shot in the occurred, largely for narcotics activity” within a about the constitution.” leg. Police later arrested a suspect. In May, a man two-block radius of the shelter, the spokesperson cover after trump locked up the electoral This week’s was shot and killed outside the shelter. wrote. “The reality is Peachtree-Pine has attract- votes needed to win the presidency on cover features Task Force Executive Director Anita Beaty ed illegal and drug activity for years. In addition, illustration and says people outside the shelter are getting more the leadership of Peachtree-Pine contributes to nov. 8, activists across the country spent design by Wes weeks urging the people who make up Duvall. violent and volunteers are getting scared. She the problem by doing nothing to prevent it.” and some other task force leaders, and supporters The city says illegal activity is one reason it the electoral college to not vote for the think Atlanta Police and Mayor Kasim Reed are wants to take over the building to create a public candidate and either select another per- allowing drug dealers and others to hang around safety complex. Atlanta City Council this year son or send the matter to the U.s. House on nearby streets. Beaty accuses some, but not all, authorized the city to enter talks for the building. of representatives to pick a different officers of ignoring law-breaking on the block. Advocates wonder where the homeless will go. president. Creative Loafing © is published by CL Atlanta, LLC, “The mayor needs to get up, to demand police Reed’s office did not answer a repeated ques- www.creativeloafing.com But georgia’s electors — and 288 protection for this block,” Beaty said at a meeting tion about progress of another Reed plan: selling 115 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite 301, Atlanta, GA 30303. electors in other states — cast enough Periodicals Postage Paid at Atlanta GA. of shelter leaders and supporters last week. bonds to finance several small and well-resourced votes to make trump and Pence’s victo- The city, however, says the shelter has at- shelters that could house and help Peachtree-Pine Creative Loafing is printed on a 90% recycled stock. ry official. the inauguration is scheduled It may be recycled further, please do your part. tracted illegal and drug activity for years and that clients. It said only it was working with United for Jan. 20, 2017. C Distribution, Rack/Box Sales, the shelter isn’t doing anything about it. Way on offering shelter options. C Consulting, SIMNet of Georgia — THOMAS WHEATLEY Peachtree-Pine’s supporters say the shelter [email protected] 4 ❘ DECEMBER 22 - 28, 2016 ❘ clatl.com 5 NEWS government Decriminalizing HIV Activists want changes to state laws that unfairly punish HIV-positive people development and research at Georgia State University’s school of public health. “Getting people on adequate treatment (defined as no detectable viral load) clearly diminishes trans- mission considerably.” Georgia has one of the highest diagnosis rates of HIV in the nation. According to a re- cent study by the Big Cities Health Coalition, metro Atlanta had the country’s second-highest rate of HIV diagnoses, second to Washington, D.C. Nearly half of metro Atlanta cases are in Fulton County. “So how well has our criminalization law done to drive down [HIV] cases?,” asked Mel Medalle, a SisterLove policy and advocacy ad- visor. “I don’t think very well.” To people who aren’t knowledgeable of ad- vancements in HIV treatment and prevention, Dixon Diallo said, “it might seem like these Lauren Shay Lavin Lauren Shay laws are helping people ..