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Mysterious Vintage is a choose-your-own-adventure for thrifting

“I love things but I hate waste,” says Dara Schaier, the Atlanta-based entrepreneur behind Mysterious Vintage, a shopping experience that combines sustainability and surprise. “So a business centered around vintage and secondhand objects just felt right to pursue. I was also thinking about creating a shopping experience where the act of getting the thing is just as fun as the actual thing.”

Let the good times roll: Lanta Gras returns to Kirkwood

On February 22, brass instruments, vibrantly colored beads, and a procession of floats with masked and costumed revelers, aka “krewes,” will parade through Kirkwood in celebration of Lanta Gras.

Nashville’s Choy offers a fresh take on classic Chinese takeout

Brian Griffith grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he says Chinese food in the 1990s meant sweet and sour pork or shrimp fried rice that came in waxy takeout boxes. Now, after years of cooking in cities from Copenhagen to San Francisco, the chef has returned to his home state to open Choy, a chic Chinese-American eatery in Nashville designed to evoke mid-20th century Shanghai.

Need for Speed

Meet the Georgia start-up aimed at making hypersonic passenger air travel a reality.
Lone Star Tick

Metro Atlanta is a hot bed for Lone Star ticks. Here’s what you can do to avoid them.

Alicia Tucker suffers from alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a type of allergy that is passed to humans via a single, tiny vector: the Lone Star tick. In a 2023 press release, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that up to 450,000 Americans suffer from AGS, calling it “an important emerging public health problem.”

Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant opens in Alpharetta

Metro Atlanta certainly has its share of breweries, from SweetWater to Reformation, but wine-tasting venues are mostly confined to North Georgia. Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants, a company with 66 other locations around the country, is looking to change that, bringing its signature tasting and dining rooms to Alpharetta. Located near North Point Mall, the 300-plus-seat space is now open with a Napa-style tasting room, all-ages dining room, full bar, and retail area.
Snow covers downtown Atlanta on January 10, 2025

When temperatures drop, who steps up for Atlanta’s homeless?

It’s on the coldest nights that Atlanta's unsheltered population becomes acutely vulnerable. A 2024 investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that over the previous three years, at least 32 people who were confirmed homeless died from cold exposure in metro Atlanta.

Painter and filmmaker Bo Bartlett’s perfect day in Columbus, Georgia

Celebrated painter and filmmaker Bo Bartlett was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia. Today he and his wife, artist and musician Betsy Eby, live in his childhood home in the city’s historic district. Here he shares his perfect day in the city that shaped him.

Madeira Park to soft open in historic Poncey-Highland space February 15

Tonight, the 2,000 square feet once home to Carpe Diem (the predecessor of Apres Diem) will welcome a wine bar called Madeira Park. It’s a project that Miller Union co-owners chef Steven Satterfield and general manager Neal McCarthy have been working on since 2018. Post-pandemic, they teamed up with Dive Wine pop-up founder Tim Willard to bring the bar to life. Madeira Park will soft open to the public Saturday with limited hours (opening at 5 p.m.), expanding to regular hours on Tuesday.
A man shopping at a record store

Editor’s Journal: Loving Atlanta

My monthly ritual in college was a drive into Atlanta to make the rounds of the rich array of record stores across the city. My favorite haunt was Peaches, a warehouse-sized store that prided itself on having the back catalog of just about every music artist imaginable. This was long before iTunes and Spotify.

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