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Night of the Georgia Alligator Hunter
When Phillip Scott first noticed the alligator in his backyard pond four years ago, the animal couldn’t have been more than three feet long—meaning it was about as many years old. A toddler, really.
Shell yeah! Hot restaurants crack open the world of raw oysters
I slurped my first oyster while standing in brackish water on the lower coast of Brittany. The sensation filled me with wonder. I had eaten something that was still alive—something pure and oddly fleshy trapped in a bracing sip of seawater.
Get away to Oahu
Last winter I was so sick of holing up in my house, hiding from Atlanta’s dreary, cold weather, that I found myself daydreaming about a warm, tropical vacation.
Kimball House
Kimball House, Decatur’s buzziest new restaurant, doesn’t take reservations. In most places, such a policy leads to a wait about as pleasurable as the midnight drive-through line at Zesto’s.
Cancer Wellness
Tom Chapman, former CEO of Equifax, collaborated with Piedmont Hospital to create Cancer Wellness at Piedmont, holistic treatment centers for patients, families and caregivers.
Farm to School
Georgia Organics's Farm to School program connects schools and farms and offers lessons about healthy eating. No local program is as comprehensive as that run by Decatur City Schools and the Wylde Center.
Restaurant of the Year: The General Muir
Simply labeling the General Muir a Jewish deli may be useful shorthand, but it doesn’t cover the extent of its multifaceted pleasures.
Best New Restaurants: Gunshow
Leave everything you know about traditional restaurant service at the door of Kevin Gillespie’s new Glenwood Park funhouse. For starters, you don’t order from a menu.
Get away to Columbus, GA
Move over, Chattooga River. At least for the moment, the Chattahoochee is Georgia’s hot spot for whitewater rafting—along a new course that travels right through the heart of downtown Columbus. And there’s more to this adventure than the novelty of floating past historic city mills.
Punk Rocks!
Fall looks are rife with studs, leather, plaids, and mesh, borrowed from the youth culture that lifted a middle finger at the corporate world in the seventies and eighties. Like it or not, this do-it-yourself style was long ago commodified and hung on the racks of upscale department stores.