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67 Things Every Atlantan Must Do
 When's the last time you went to the opera? Or climbed Stone Mountain (in the dark)? Or toured Auburn Avenue with Andrew Young? Here are sixty-seven must-dos to reintroduce you to your city.

Don't Try This at Home!
 Sophisticated mixologists now craft drinks the way savvy chefs approach cooking: with intelligence and technique, using quality ingredients.
Photographs by Gregory Miller

The Black Mafia Family
Mara Shalhoup chronicles the rise and fall of Atlanta drug kingpin. An excerpt from her new book.

Plaza Project
A floor-to-ceiling remodel glams up a forty-year-old Buckhead condo.
By Suzanne Oliver

AGENDA
What to talk about this month

Artful Dodger Fourteen-year-old pundit Jonathan Krohn
How it Works Suniva solar cells
Charles at Large The BeltLine and airport parking
Best bets Dr. Seuss takes on Hitler, cheerleaders bring it on!
Georgia music Atlanta Opera soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams
Teresa Weaver on books Novelist Daniel Black
Thomas Lake wanders the city A pauper's funeral

ARBITER
Your handbook to living well

Restaurant review Bistro Niko
Culinary character Grindhouse burgers
Dining discovery Afghani flatbread at Alosta Bakery
Hot Shop Lululemon Athletica
Head to Toe Matthew Maloney, SCAD-Atlanta dean
Getaway New Orleans
Inside look An end to megamansions?

PLUS...

Hollis Gillespie What we found in the Best Buy parking lot
Editor's Note
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Photograph by Caroline Kilgore
Last month: Freedom Park at the intersection of North Avenue and Euclid

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