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Dining in has its advantages: You can wear what you want, eat when you want, and drink as much as you like. To craft the perfect dinner party but skip dirtyingPeter Conlon was moving Music Midtown to the neighborhood surrounding the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center, some residents made immediate plans to be elsewhere. Those who stayed, however, enjoyed some of the weekend’s unexpected benefits to the neighborhood (Hole lead singer Courtney Love baring her breasts and screaming expletives into a microphone, not withstanding). For starters, Music Midtown weekend became the only weekend of the year when local residents felt safe roaming through Renaissance Park, the small wooded park between Pine Street and Renaissance Parkway. More routinely, empty dime bags from the speedy sales (and consumption) of crack cocaine littered the ground, along with the occasional used syringes. It was not uncommon for residents returning home after work to discover drug dealers, their clients, and/or mentally ill patrons