--- title: "Culture - Mainline" language: "en-US" canonical_url: "/category/culture/page/5/" source_url: "https://www.mainlineatl.com/category/culture/page/5/" content_type: "text/markdown" --- [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Football-PRINT-1-e1576874050474.jpg)](/opinion-coming-to-terms-with-football/) [ Dec 20 2019 ](/opinion-coming-to-terms-with-football/) ## [Opinion: Coming to Terms with Football](/opinion-coming-to-terms-with-football/) The season of awkward family meetings with somewhat happy faces is upon us all. For some out there, this is a therapeutic time when they can reconnect with friends and family, take a moment to reflect on the past year, […] [ Opinion: Coming to Terms with Football Read More »](/opinion-coming-to-terms-with-football/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/BLACK.jpg)](/dad-genes/) [ Dec 18 2019 ](/dad-genes/) ## [Dad Genes](/dad-genes/) Tell me that I’m the stuff of science fiction. Tell me that I’m a cheap, capitalist commodity, a failed eugenic experiment in nature and nurture. Tell me, if you will, “Shit, man. That’s heavy.” Just don’t tell me that he’s [ Dad Genes Read More »](/dad-genes/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_4033-683x1024.jpg)](/i-was-there-prism-at-mother/) [ Nov 11 2019 ](/i-was-there-prism-at-mother/) ## [Show Review: Prism](/i-was-there-prism-at-mother/) For many Atlantans, Edgewood Avenue has garnered quite a reputation for attracting Buckhead Bros and their Betty counterparts, and that reputation is somewhat warranted. Edgewood has seen its fair share of changes—and with those, growing pains. Since 2005 (ish), the [ Show Review: Prism Read More »](/i-was-there-prism-at-mother/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/NOIC3.jpg)](/no-one-is-coming/) [ Oct 31 2019 ](/no-one-is-coming/) ## [NO ONE IS COMING](/no-one-is-coming/) But it’s fine—you’re already here One morning in fall 2018, I woke up plagued by dissolution and with an existential hangover. I’d spent the previous night chainsmoking, asking the big, ultimately unimportant questions of why any of us are here [ NO ONE IS COMING Read More »](/no-one-is-coming/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/fullsizeoutput_1f8a-1024x492.jpeg)](/wanted-bassist-girl/) [ Oct 30 2019 ](/wanted-bassist-girl/) ## [WANTED : BASSIST (GIRL)](/wanted-bassist-girl/) I’ve always felt the coolest women in bands perform outside the traditional normative standards of beauty. To be clear, when I mention “bands,” I’m referring to a holistic four- or five-piece musical group in which all members contribute equally. I’m [ WANTED : BASSIST (GIRL) Read More »](/wanted-bassist-girl/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CQ4.jpg)](/country-queer-queer-eyeing-your-southern-belle/) [ Oct 29 2019 ](/country-queer-queer-eyeing-your-southern-belle/) ## [COUNTRY QUEER: QUEER-EYEING YOUR SOUTHERN BELLE](/country-queer-queer-eyeing-your-southern-belle/) Growing up in Southwest Georgia, where Jesus is the president and being gay is the same as having leprosy, the “Southern Lady” has quite a standard to uphold. As an essential component of that standard, my feminine appeal and overall [ COUNTRY QUEER: QUEER-EYEING YOUR SOUTHERN BELLE Read More »](/country-queer-queer-eyeing-your-southern-belle/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Kenneth1-1.jpg)](/immigration-we-are-all-affected/) [ Oct 28 2019 ](/immigration-we-are-all-affected/) ## [IMMIGRATION: WE ARE ALL AFFECTED](/immigration-we-are-all-affected/) Originally published in Atlanta Pride Guide, October 2019. Attention, brothers and sisters: we have a crisis. I write this over 50 years since the revolutionary Stonewall uprising: a milestone that sparked a movement that fights to ensure no one would [ IMMIGRATION: WE ARE ALL AFFECTED Read More »](/immigration-we-are-all-affected/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/YBW4-1-1024x683.jpg)](/you-better-work/) [ Oct 28 2019 ](/you-better-work/) ## [(YOU BETTER WORK) uberMODEL](/you-better-work/) The recent shift of employers looking towards employing contract, contingent freelance, and temp workers has also brought promises of flexible work hours, higher hourly rates, and independence—but at what cost? The past decade has brought a swath of change to [ (YOU BETTER WORK) uberMODEL Read More »](/you-better-work/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Lineup2-1024x622.jpeg)](/lineup-working-in-food-service-in-the-deep-south/) [ Oct 19 2019 ](/lineup-working-in-food-service-in-the-deep-south/) ## [LINEUP: WORKING IN FOOD SERVICE IN THE DEEP SOUTH](/lineup-working-in-food-service-in-the-deep-south/) Barring extreme and most likely quite interesting circumstances, the reader of this article has eaten at a restaurant. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there were 647,646 private food service establishments in the U.S. in late 2018. As of [ LINEUP: WORKING IN FOOD SERVICE IN THE DEEP SOUTH Read More »](/lineup-working-in-food-service-in-the-deep-south/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Free-Humanity_2.jpg)](/interview-free-humanity/) [ Oct 11 2019 ](/interview-free-humanity/) ## [INTERVIEW: FREE HUMANITY](/interview-free-humanity/) “The biggest delusion and marketing scheme is if you work hard enough you can live the American Dream. But one has to be asleep to live that dream.” @freehumanity Free Humanity is a street artist based in Los Angeles who [ INTERVIEW: FREE HUMANITY Read More »](/interview-free-humanity/)