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In fashion, floral prints are as perennial as daffodils in March. But this season, they take a high-tech botanical spin, with designers creating graphic plant patterns in digital and 3-D media. Coincidentally, as spring clothes hit the streets this month, the Atlanta History Center hosts an exhibition featuring contemporary plant portraits in watercolor, pencil, gouache, and more by the American Society of Botanical Artists.

The rise in restaurant takeout has led to a tasty new trend: fancy takeaway snacks made in restaurant kitchens. Here are the sweetest local options—some savory, spicy, and boozy ones, too.

A few blocks south of the Lakewood amphitheater at the end of a dead-end street, something unexpected is sprouting: rows upon rows of certified organic kale and collards and beets (and, come summer, tomatoes and eggplants and okra).

Save Mom from another Whitman’s Sampler with a box of jewel-like Jardí chocolates or a design-your-own bar from Twigg & Co.

Paul Cervino is a Marine who has been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, most recently in 2011. Stateside after that, he found himself in Arizona, in training to open a Bio-One franchise in Atlanta.

Cranes are sprouting in the historic, understated West Village, located loosely between East Andrews Drive and West Paces Ferry Road. Developers promise shiny new residential units and retail in 2017, but they’re pushing out some old favorites along the way.

R.E.M.’s beginnings were modest but extremely weird. I first saw the band in the spring of 1981 while working on a story about the then-burgeoning music scene in Athens, Georgia, R.E.M.’s hometown.

The former president of both Church’s Chicken and Arby’s Restaurant Group, Moddelmog became the first female president and CEO of the Metro Atlanta Chamber in January 2014.