Atlanta Magazine
60 years of covering Atlanta: The 2000s
November 2004: OutKast ranked #6, right behind Ted Turner.
For our January 2021 issue, in honor of our 60th anniversary year, we dug through our archives to present a snapshot of the magazine during each of our six decades. We discovered groundbreaking work, inspiring stories, and, yes, some errors in judgement. Here’s what we found:
The ’00s in 8 Quotes
The city was full of bravado in the days before the Great Recession
“Phoenix Follies” (our annual “Worst of Atlanta” package)
December 2003
After adding stickers (which were later removed) calling evolution “a theory, not a fact” to textbooks, Cobb County was ranked No. 2 on the Campaign to Defend the Constitution’s top 10 “Islands of Ignorance”—places where the separation of church and state is considered threatened. But Cobb School Board chair Kathie Johnstone was more concerned with geography, saying, “None of the places they’re listing are islands.”