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Cheap Eats Survey
We’re taking nominations for the city’s best cheap eats! All you have to do to contribute is fill out our survey. You have until the end of the day on Monday, January 16, to share your thoughts and help shape our March 2012 Cheap Eats issue!

50th Anniversary

50 Most Influential Atlantans The sons and daughters, native and adopted, who have raised our profile over the last fifty years
Cover Galleries
Our decade-by-decade tour features pop stars, politicians, pro athletes, and other unforgettable personalities
Video Interviews Andrew Young, Carl Sanders, Shirley Franklin, Sam Massell, and others look back on a half century
Free Digital Edition Our commemorative May issue is one click away (great on your desktop, iPod, and iPhone)

Meet Atlanta's cutest pets

2011 Pet of the Month Contest

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Features

Food Fight: School Lunches
If you haven’t eaten in a school cafeteria in a while, you might find yourself both relieved and horrified by its evolution. The ubiquitous Jell-O and canned green beans of yore are gone, but pizza and chicken nuggets still rule. Children as young as kindergartners are allowed to choose burgers and flavored milk (twenty-two grams of sugar per cup, as ... Read more

Food & Dining

Golden House
A decade ago, Atlanta's Chinese food scene went through a tantalizing phase in which Buford Highway restaurant owners would constantly lure away each other's best dim sum cooks, who swapped loyalties like a culinary Game of Thrones. Out of those competitive switcheroos came impeccably fresh dumplings and other snacky tidbits wheeled through large dining rooms on jangling, tempting carts. By ... Read more

Life & Style

Badge Girls
My apologies to our dining critic, Bill Addison, whose office is next to mine, but my longtime family recipe for chicken ratatouille involves opening lots of cans. That is, it did until recently, when I “earned” my Locavore Girl Scout badge. I couldn’t resist testing the new badges when I heard that the Girl Scouts had overhauled their entire program ... Read more

Arts & Entertainment

iPhoneography
Steve Jobs may be gone, but a generation of acolytes is capitalizing on his design-savvy, intuitive gadgets—none of them more so than devotees of the iPhone. The world-in-your-palm invention has spawned the latest photographic fixation. Say hello to the Polaroid of the twenty-first century: iPhone photography or, in a word, iPhoneography. Photograph by Eric De Fino This exploding movement is ... Read more

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Top-Rated Restaurants

Restaurants awarded three or more stars by our critics

  1. La Pietra Cucina

    Atlanta native Bruce Logue cooks a soulful, progressive brand of Italian cuisine, and his pastas are the culinary version of Cinema Paradiso.

  2. Bistro VG

    Offering a smart mix of New American favorites and imaginative, urbane dishes, Bistro VG is still one of the fine-dining bright spots in the northern suburbs.

  3. Cacao Atlanta Chocolate Co. - Virginia-Highland

    The transcendence of Cacao’s bean-to-bar chocolate is already renowned. Pastel-shaded macarons are their finest non-chocolate endeavor.


 

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