Tag: Sweet Auburn

Auburn Angel is located where the Auburn Avenue Rib Shack used to be. I was curious what changes were made to the community staple that fed churches, businesses, and civil rights organizations for 30 years. Restaurateur Asa Fain bought the space in 2019 after the Rib Shack closed in 2014. The space was expanded and includes a covered patio where you enter the restaurant through a wrought iron gate.

Goodr began as a sustainable food-waste management company, bridging the gap between surplus food and Atlanta’s food-insecure communities. In July, the first Goodr Community Market debuted on Edgewood Avenue in Sweet Auburn. “We’re still doing the work we’ve always done,” Jasmine Crowe-Houston explains. “But now we approach it as, ‘How do we help more families who don’t live near fresh food, and make it affordable?’”

It’s January, the coldest month in Atlanta. Despite the chill, the streets of the Sweet Auburn Historic District come alive every year on the third Monday of the month, when the city celebrates the birthday and legacy of iconic Atlantan Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

An iconic venue in Sweet Auburn gets a new pair of wings, a new neighborhood Italian spot near Chastain Park, and tacos and booze on the BeltLine.

Small, independent museums like the Madame C.J. Walker Museum dot Atlanta, commemorating underrepresented or unique histories and art. They operate out of storefronts or houses and largely rely on a team of one, who keeps the museum afloat through donations or their day job. At the Walker Museum, Ricci de Forest charges a $7 admission, collects donations, and will sometimes cut hair right there in the museum to help keep things running.

Time to get outside and play! From basketball to fishing to hiking to hanging out in a hammock, here's 50 great things to do outdoors around Atlanta.

The original Atlanta Life Insurance Company building at 148 Auburn Avenue has sat empty, its windows boarded up, for nearly 40 years. Now, a new portrait series, “Windows Speak,” aims to honor the individuals who built the company, including its founder Alonzo Herndon, Atlanta’s first black millionaire.

Bring the little ones to Toddler Takeover, an arts festival especially for kids at the Woodruff Arts Center, or listen to live music and peruse the vendors at the 35th annual Sweet Auburn Springfest.

Rosa Duffy's bookstore, For Keeps, is more than a place for visitors to purchase rare and classic black books. Duffy designed it to also be a reading room where people can stop in and interact with history that is often overlooked or placed in the bottom of the dollar bins at other bookstores.

Author Gary Pomerantz published his book Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn in 1996 after five years of uncovering slave graves in the woods, conducting more than 500 interviews, and filling the holes left behind in Atlanta’s history by a lack of proper documentation. He spoke Thursday in honor of the opening of Gene Kansas's new coworking space, Constellations.