Beach reads

5 local beach reads you need this summer

Small town mysteries, YA rom-coms, suspenseful crime fiction—get lost in a good book while you're lost in paradise
Tedeschi Trucks Band

Derek Trucks: Music should be about “lifting people up and stirring something in their souls”

Derek Trucks, the cofounder of Tedeschi Trucks Band—which he formed in 2010 with his wife, musician Susan Tedeschi—has strong family ties to Georgia. His uncle, Butch Trucks, was one of the founding members of the Allman Brothers Band, and Derek played with the reunited ABB from 1999 to 2014. We recently chatted with the renowned guitarist about the band’s latest album and the state of rock music today.
Cabbagetown 1996

With a Leica camera, a visually impaired photographer showed Cabbagetown to the world

Oraien Catledge might not have been able to see that well—a childhood illness left him with impaired vision—but he knew where to look.
Clutch

Jaguar on Wednesday, Lexus on Thursday, Porsche on Friday—welcome to Clutch!

Clutch is a Buckhead business that believes that our binary approach to automobiles (do I buy or lease?) leaves out a third option: subscribe.
Great American Scream Machine

50 years of Six Flags: Looking back at the highs and lows

Four years before Orlando welcomed Walt Disney World, the Southeast’s first theme park—Six Flags Over Georgia—debuted. Now roughly 300 acres, the park counts 12 roller coasters and a half-century of highs (and a few lows).
Tori Tinsley “Forest Hug”

Atlantan Tori Tinsley uses art to cope with the slow loss of her mother to dementia

Two bubblegum-pink blobular creatures stand in an unfamiliar woods in Tori Tinsley’s acrylic painting, “Forest Hug.” One reaches toward the other, who looks away without reaching back. The eye-popping work may look cartoonish, but it’s an artistic expression of Tinsley’s grief.
Beacon Atlanta

Beacon Atlanta will transform Grant Park warehouses into office and retail

By early 2018, the southern fringes of Grant Park can expect restaurants, bars, artist studios, a chiropractor, dentist, fitness studio, childcare facility, and plenty of offices—all of which will be punctuated by a 65-foot decorative metal tower.
Spinrilla

Mixtape mix-up: Why the RIAA is taking Spinrilla to court

The DIY nature of mixtapes is crucial to understanding the success of Spinrilla, a mixtape website and app founded in 2013 by Dylan Copeland after he left Georgia State University.
Layshia Clarendon

Atlanta Dream: Who will step up while Angel McCoughtry is out?

Top scorer Angel McCoughtry is out this season, but these Atlanta Dream teammates are ready to step up.
Little Women: Atlanta

On screen, Little Women: Atlanta is all drama all the time. Off camera? Not so much.

Little Women: Atlanta launched in January 2016, and now 1.3 million viewers tune in per episode. Is the drama provoked or organic? “The story is the story,” coexecutive producer Mark Scheibal says. “Obviously, we have to produce it, put them in situations that allow it to happen or amplify it.”

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