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Three ways to spend spring break on Florida's Gulf Coast

Three ways to spend spring break on Florida’s Gulf Coast

Florida's Gulf Coast offers easy escapes, whether you're craving lush resorts, preseason baseball, or natural retreats.
Crystal River manatees

A walk on Florida’s wild side (as told through a series of animal encounters)

Want to experience the Florida's natural side? Here, we find manatees (and mermaids), orchids and alligators, weird deer, butterflies, and chickens.
A guide to Atlanta Braves spring training

A guide to visiting Atlanta Braves spring training in Sarasota County

Fans flock to Sarasota County, where they can get close to their team, and their companions can find plenty of other distractions.
A 30A escape for grown-ups

Want a 30A escape for grown-ups? It’s all in the timing.

Families flock to the Panhandle’s scenic highway during school breaks. But adults can chill here in the spring, too—it’s all in the timing.
A love letter to the Flora-Bama

A love letter to the Flora-Bama

The first time that I was lured to the Flora-Bama Lounge, I had been casting for speckled trout on a guided fishing trip off the coast of Orange Beach, Alabama. This was a fall evening in the ’90s. Gulls spread rumors overhead. The sun was going to orange. From a distant point came music, pounding yet lighthearted, like a cross between Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Buffett. It sounded like dirty dancing. It sounded like a good time.
Mend Coffee Buckhead

Mend Coffee & Goods aims to create an accessible community space for people with disabilities

Mend Coffee & Goods is designed to be a place for the inter-ability community to convene, work, and socialize. It comes from Jay and Katherine Wolf, the founders of disability nonprofit Hope Heals, and will serve Opo coffee drinks—think espresso, drip, nitro, cold brew lattes—and kombucha on tap, plus breakfast and pastries.
Francie Lowman’s home furnishings are feminine, sustainable, and built to last

Francie Lowman’s home furnishings are feminine, sustainable, and built to last

Curved lines, interesting textures, and playful scale—chances are, you’ve seen furniture designer Francie Lowman’s work at stores like Anthropologie, Interior Define, or Urban Outfitters. With her own brand, Mangata Experience, which she launched in 2020, she is looking to break down gender norms around carpentry and redefine what it means to be sustainable in furniture design.
A new rock-climbing park will preserve the legacy of a stone mason who became one of Georgia's first Black legislators

A new rock-climbing park will preserve the legacy of a stone mason who became one of Georgia’s first Black legislators

Northeast of Macon, the Jake’s Woods project aims to create regional destination through confluence of Georgia history and unique, outdoor recreation.
Spring reading: the season’s new releases by Atlanta-based authors

Spring Reading: The season’s new releases by Atlanta-based authors

Spring is here, and with it, a new selection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books to check out. Here are six from Atlanta authors to add to your reading list.
In her new book of essays, Sabrina Orah Mark finds out what fairy tales still have to teach us

In her new book of essays, Sabrina Orah Mark finds out what fairy tales still have to teach us

When Sabrina Orah Mark began to delve into the world of fairy tales, it was Geppetto—who carves his own son from a block of wood—whom she connected with most. “Pinocchio lies to him, steals from him, runs away from him, comes back, saves him, and breaks his heart,” Mark says. It’s a tale as old as time: The things that we create—that lie to us, steal from us, and break our hearts—might be the things that save us in the end.

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