Tag: Stone Mountain
Don’t Miss List: Our top 5 event picks for July
Dozens of July 4 celebrations OTP and ITP, Atlanta Water Lantern Festival, and Hugh Jackman sings Les Miserables songs at State Farm Arena.
Karla Davis and her daughters love to wear matching retro styles
As a writer, director, filmmaker, and mom to two rambunctious girls—Olive and Ora Abercrombie— Karla Davis is busy 24/7. She got her start at Turner Studios and has elevated her Instagram account @mintkarla into a picturesque moodboard featuring her two stylish daughters.
13 ways to spend Memorial Day weekend in metro Atlanta
Enjoy the long weekend with the Atlanta Jazz Festival, MomoCon, Six Flags's new ride, the Decatur Arts Festival, the Alpharetta Arts Streetfest, the Georgia Renaissance Festival, and more.
Meet Karla Aberdavis and her family’s vintage ’50s and ’60s lifestyle
Karla Aberdavis and her family pine for the ’50s and ’60s, when they believe good design was at its peak. Their style, a retro mashup that’s part practicality and part kitschy glam, touches every aspect of their lives, from furniture and clothes to music and kitchenware in their 1964 Stone Mountain ranch. For more of their throwback lifestyle, visit Karla’s Instagram, @mintkarla, where she has more than 200,000 followers.
A modest proposal to get Amazon’s HQ2 in Atlanta: Make stuff up
Atlanta really, really, wants to be the site of Amazon’s HQ2, but we've got some problems that could halt that. How do we fix our issues before the Amazon delegation arrives to inspect our city? Like a steel plate over a pothole, let's cover 'em up.
5 restaurants where you can sample Stone Mountain’s Caribbean soul
Looking for great Jamaican and Caribbean food in Atlanta? Pienanny owner Tiffany Parkes takes us on a tour of her favorite spots in Stone Mountain, where people from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and beyond have opened several restaurants along Memorial Drive.
Climb to the top of Stone Mountain
The 825-foot-tall hunk of granite surrounded by 3,200 acres of state-owned park is a historic and adventurous spot for a daytrip. Take a shaded hike or a cable car to the top for an impressive view of the landscape, ride a 1940s-era Army Duck on Stone Mountain Lake, or explore the treetops on an adventure course of ropes and swinging bridges.
13 things to do during Labor Day weekend in Atlanta
Cosplay all day at Dragon Con, college football at Mercedes-Benz, and the largest independent book festival in the country
Peachtree Hills Place will offer luxury homes for independent seniors
Peachtree Hills Place, right next to Peachtree Creek and will eventually connect to the Atlanta BeltLine, offers spacious units with upscale features like 10-foot ceilings, high-end appliances, and luxurious master baths. Subtle accommodations like lever door handles, shower grab bars, and wider doorways allow for aging in place.
Witness a rare diamorpha bloom on Arabia Mountain
Stone Mountain isn’t the only enormous granite monadnock around.
