Laura Scholz
@lbscholz.bsky.social
ATL-based freelance lifestyle writer + editor. Runner. Playlist curator. Pilates instructor. Introvert. Wanderer. Sagittarius. Childless dog lady. Probably on a plane or in the woods.
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editors who follow me on here: if you’re open to pitches from incarcerated writers please let me know/slide into the DMs! trying to facilitate pitching & editorial connections for an experienced incarcerated essayist, scholar, & journalist, but we keep hitting walls.
June 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
editors who follow me on here: if you’re open to pitches from incarcerated writers please let me know/slide into the DMs! trying to facilitate pitching & editorial connections for an experienced incarcerated essayist, scholar, & journalist, but we keep hitting walls.
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Tomorrow’s weather might be so nice that the person at the end of the Taqueria Del Sol line might be standing next to the person at the end of El Tesero’s line.
March 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Tomorrow’s weather might be so nice that the person at the end of the Taqueria Del Sol line might be standing next to the person at the end of El Tesero’s line.
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"But just as the general public can’t enter the kitchen or the manager’s office, neither can ICE without a judicial warrant giving them explicit permission." www.eater.com/24364171/ice...
What Should You Do if ICE Comes to Your Restaurant?
We spoke to legal experts about what restaurant owners and workers can do to protect themselves from immigration raids
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February 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"But just as the general public can’t enter the kitchen or the manager’s office, neither can ICE without a judicial warrant giving them explicit permission." www.eater.com/24364171/ice...
As someone who regularly got asked what high school I attended and got carded well into my early 30s, it's weird to now be at the age (almost 50) that I've edited out my graduation years and early work experience from LI.
February 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
As someone who regularly got asked what high school I attended and got carded well into my early 30s, it's weird to now be at the age (almost 50) that I've edited out my graduation years and early work experience from LI.
Shouldn't have started reading a (lovely) book about two best friends (one dying of cancer at the exact same age that my best friend died of cancer) with a character with the same name as her kid/my godson right before bed. For better or worse, I compartmentalize that grief so it doesn't consume me.
February 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Shouldn't have started reading a (lovely) book about two best friends (one dying of cancer at the exact same age that my best friend died of cancer) with a character with the same name as her kid/my godson right before bed. For better or worse, I compartmentalize that grief so it doesn't consume me.
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i'm one day away from posting lyrics like aim away messages
February 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
i'm one day away from posting lyrics like aim away messages
Thank you for consistently speaking out!
A good read, from @roseveleth.com, in response to yesterday's announcement from World Athletics. If you haven't listened to their podcast, Tested, this would be a great time to do so. And athletes and coaches, now is the time to speak up.
February 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Thank you for consistently speaking out!
In spite of *everything,* I had a perfect Atlanta weekend because I left my house, ran on some trails, and shared conversation and music and food with friends. Harder to be isolated and defeated (which is what they want) when in community.
January 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
In spite of *everything,* I had a perfect Atlanta weekend because I left my house, ran on some trails, and shared conversation and music and food with friends. Harder to be isolated and defeated (which is what they want) when in community.
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How is it still January?! 😫😫😫
January 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
How is it still January?! 😫😫😫
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If you have tips about the DEI mandates coming from the Trump Administration, if you are being impacted or know of others being impacted, email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com.
January 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If you have tips about the DEI mandates coming from the Trump Administration, if you are being impacted or know of others being impacted, email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com.
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hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago!
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
January 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago!
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!)
signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics
struggling with these conflicting things: I met most of my best friends and built much of my career online; but we were never meant to know this much about random people or celebrities and these addictive platforms are a cesspool of misinformation and chaos destroying our society
January 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
struggling with these conflicting things: I met most of my best friends and built much of my career online; but we were never meant to know this much about random people or celebrities and these addictive platforms are a cesspool of misinformation and chaos destroying our society
supervising the neighborhood snowball fight
January 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
supervising the neighborhood snowball fight
sorry can't answer your Slack right now too busy smashing "love" on all of the Atlanta snow photos
January 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
sorry can't answer your Slack right now too busy smashing "love" on all of the Atlanta snow photos
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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
Keep thinking about how my parents made my best friend sit through a 30-minute slide show (set to music) of photos from their anniversary trip to New Zealand and how she made me scrapbooks for every birthday and graduation and maybe we need to get that analog again. Also: I really miss her.
January 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Keep thinking about how my parents made my best friend sit through a 30-minute slide show (set to music) of photos from their anniversary trip to New Zealand and how she made me scrapbooks for every birthday and graduation and maybe we need to get that analog again. Also: I really miss her.
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Decaturish is hiring another reporter.
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January 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Decaturish is hiring another reporter.
first work day of the year, and already had to ask for a deadline
extension
extension
January 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
first work day of the year, and already had to ask for a deadline
extension
extension
time to stop having panic attacks and just open the damn laptop already (my pep talk for 2025)
January 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
time to stop having panic attacks and just open the damn laptop already (my pep talk for 2025)
Loved writing about this very Atlanta institution.
Last dining story of 2024 and it’s a story on the regulars at iconic Buckhead nightclub Johnny’s Hideaway @lbscholz.bsky.social roughdraftatlanta.com/2024/12/31/j...
A night at Johnny's Hideaway
Johnny's Hideaway, a Buckhead nightclub that opened in 1979, remains largely unchanged, attracting a diverse multi-generational crowd. The bar's timeless appeal is due, in part, to its unpretentious v...
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December 31, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Loved writing about this very Atlanta institution.
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Written from the dive bar booth Jimmy Carter so enjoyed:
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/u...
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‘He Always Knew My Name’: Carter Is Remembered at a Bar That Was Dear to Him (Gift Article)
The former president had kicked off his campaign for Georgia governor at Manuel’s Tavern in Atlanta. On Sunday, workers and patrons at the bar raised a glass in his honor.
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December 30, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Written from the dive bar booth Jimmy Carter so enjoyed:
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/u...
I love this map and retrospective of this series, which I looked forward to writing every month. Thank you @bethmckibben.bsky.social and @roughdraftatlanta.com for the opportunity and to everyone in Atlanta who shared their favorite restaurants (and often their meals!) with me this year.
Throughout 2024, @roughdraftatlanta.com introduced you to everyday Atlantans and local characters who have found a sense of belonging and community at restaurants and bars around town. roughdraftatlanta.com/2024/12/24/a...
9 Atlanta restaurants to try from the Rough Draft series ‘The Regulars’
Check out the Atlanta restaurants recommended by nine regulars featured in the 2024 Rough Draft series "The Regulars," along with their favorite dishes and drinks to try.
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December 24, 2024 at 2:17 PM
I love this map and retrospective of this series, which I looked forward to writing every month. Thank you @bethmckibben.bsky.social and @roughdraftatlanta.com for the opportunity and to everyone in Atlanta who shared their favorite restaurants (and often their meals!) with me this year.
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This tells a little *too much* truth. Atlanta has a powerful creative, progressive culture that is stifled at almost every single turn.
Atlanta was the future once.
Now it's on the precipice of being just another city - with a Shake Shack and Sweetgreen for all.
Atlanta was the future once.
Now it's on the precipice of being just another city - with a Shake Shack and Sweetgreen for all.
Is Atlanta cooked? It sure feels that way sometimes.
If we wanna thrive, we must nurture the makers and push back against the takers.
Kyle Stapleton is here today with How I'd Fix Atlanta's powerful Season Three finale:
how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-kyle-sta...
If we wanna thrive, we must nurture the makers and push back against the takers.
Kyle Stapleton is here today with How I'd Fix Atlanta's powerful Season Three finale:
how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-kyle-sta...
How Kyle Stapleton Would Fix Atlanta
Good morning. Happy Thursday. A few quick programming notes:
1. How I’d Fix Atlanta was recently featured on Rose Scott’s legendary WABE show, Closer Look! What an honor.
2. We're no longer on Twit...
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December 20, 2024 at 1:30 AM
This tells a little *too much* truth. Atlanta has a powerful creative, progressive culture that is stifled at almost every single turn.
Atlanta was the future once.
Now it's on the precipice of being just another city - with a Shake Shack and Sweetgreen for all.
Atlanta was the future once.
Now it's on the precipice of being just another city - with a Shake Shack and Sweetgreen for all.
Had a very hard day yesterday and am very proud of myself I didn't even think about drinking. I still drink on occasion, but am very mindful about it and only do when I feel relaxed and/or happy. And grateful I was with a friend when I got bad news—no better place to cry than the hair salon.
December 20, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Had a very hard day yesterday and am very proud of myself I didn't even think about drinking. I still drink on occasion, but am very mindful about it and only do when I feel relaxed and/or happy. And grateful I was with a friend when I got bad news—no better place to cry than the hair salon.
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the “that’s January me’s problem” season is nigh upon us
December 18, 2024 at 9:56 PM
the “that’s January me’s problem” season is nigh upon us