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Harriet Robinson
The problem is invisible. The solution is expressed in a symbology that few laypeople can decipher. And despite more than a decade of development, any substantive sign of that solution’s effect on...
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Ponce City Market
On August 2, 1926, Sears threw a party and 30,000 Atlantans showed up, frantic to peek inside the new 750,000-square-foot retail center on Ponce de Leon Avenue, where all of the 35,000 items in the...
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K. Rashid Nuri
The older man steps out of a gray Chrysler Grand Voyager. He wears a tan fisherman’s cap and a brown tee topped with a plaid workshirt. People chat as they fill baskets with carrots, chard, kale,...
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Linda Matzigkeit
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has admitted patients who weigh more than 500 pounds, and the pediatric facility treats type 2 diabetes, hypertension,...
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Georgia State University
Bulldogs and Yellow Jackets may have the more distinguished histories among local colleges. But Atlanta’s future may very well rest in the hands of the Panthers of Georgia State. That’s because the...
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GATSBII
Meet GATSBII. He’s a sturdy fellow who weighs about 450 pounds and stands at four foot four—unless he needs to reach something and extends to five foot five. He looks just like the classic robot of...
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EUE/Screen Gems
The folks behind the decision to transform the old Lakewood Fairgrounds into a thirty-three-acre film and television production campus want you to know two things: Part of the reason they came here was...
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Louis Corrigan
As evidence for the maxim that one person can indeed make a difference, consider that, all by his lonesome, arts enthusiast Louis Corrigan gave more money to local arts groups last year than the entire...
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Rosalynn Carter
Rickey Wingo, fifty-three, suffered from schizophrenia and got agitated due to a side effect of his medicine. The final time it happened, workers at Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital pinned him to...
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The Enterprise Innovation Institute
As you read this, programmers hover over laptops and lattes at the Technology Square Starbucks, designing the Next Big Thing. It has never been so easy (or so cheap) to turn a good idea into a global...
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The Atlanta BeltLine
In the center of an old railroad bridge in Reynoldstown, a man pedaled a unicycle, arms outstretched. An odd-looking chap, he had spindly fingers made from motorcycle foot pegs and a red taillight...
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The Other 284 Days
This article originally appeared in our July 2013 issue. Opening Day. 5 p.m. The first pitch inside Turner Field was still two hours off, but outside Justin Doll had been tailgating since 2:30. “Oh,...
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Gunshow
After a bout of doldrums, when only a handful of exciting restaurants opened in each of the last few years, 2013 is fizzing with activity. And among the new crop, Gunshow stands out as one of the most...
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The Silverbacks have the rowdiest supporters in town
Merited or not, Atlanta sports fans have a reputation for fair-weather flightiness. Followers of the city’s big-league teams would do well to take a lesson from supporters of our lesser-known pro team,...
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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...
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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...
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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. Seating in the open, clamorous...
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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. Yes, the back counter sells “appetizing”—the word used to describe...
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Farm to School
The green beans occupy just a small corner of the plastic plate, barely visible next to the pile of mac and cheese, but Casey spots the veggies right away, and an impish smile indicates that this...
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Cancer Wellness
Tom Chapman sat with his wife as she was dying of multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. As CEO of Equifax, a leading consumer credit company, Chapman could afford second opinions from the nation’s experts....
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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. But I’ve...
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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. On a whim, I checked ticket prices to...
View ArticleShell 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...
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Night of the 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....
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Wine lovers rejoice: Coravin device extracts a glassful while still...
Wine may look impervious in its thick glass bottles, but it is sensitive stuff. Once it’s uncorked, oxygen will drive even the most elegant quaff toward vinegary ruin. Most restaurants, including those...
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Bedbugs are no match for the beagles of Red Coat Services
Bedbugs bite even if you sleep tight, but the pests now face an equally intractable, if cuter, foe: beagles. Red Coat Services, based in Brookhaven, is the only company in Georgia that specializes in...
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Zoo Atlanta’s panda twins celebrate their first birthday
Happy birthday, Mei Lun and Mei Huan! One year ago today, pandemonium began when Zoo Atlanta’s giant panda Lun Lun gave birth to a set of tiny pink cubs, the first giant panda twins born in the U.S....
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The roof-to-table movement at Manuel’s Tavern
Most of the hens are a breed called Speckled Sussex. Brian Maloof speaks of chickens with a combination of reverence and zeal. For several years, he has been having visions of chickens; they would come...
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Rideshare Showdown
After a bill to regulate them died in the state House, private rideshare vehicles have multiplied on Atlanta streets like ants in spilled Coke. We wanted to know: Who’s quickest? So on a Tuesday in...
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READing Paws
As soon as eight-year-old Alexandra Gutierrez kicks off her sparkly pink Hello Kitty shoes and plops down on the paw-print blanket in a back room at the Alpharetta branch of the Atlanta-Fulton Public...
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The Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy
When she became principal, Termerion McCrary Lakes focused on all the things that her new school had: athletic programs, a team in the International Science Fair, a JROTC program, and a school-wide...
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Can Atlanta, a city built for cars, make room for bikes?
I’ve been riding to and from work several days per week since May. Everything they tell you about the benefits of cycle commuting is true: I’ve lost eleven pounds, my back and neck are no longer stiff...
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A drone’s eye view of the SkyView Atlanta Ferris wheel
Photograph by Ryan Hayslip and Jeff Wolk Where 168 Luckie Street Drone elevation 142 feet Last year Starbucks’s holiday gift cards raised eyebrows by featuring the SkyView Atlanta Ferris wheel more...
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Video: A drone’s eye view of MARTA’s Armour Yard
Every night, MARTA’s 318 railcars, each weighing 81,000 pounds, pull in to this gleaming maintenance facility for the mass transit equivalent of a tune-up and a detail. Here, in a facility just west of...
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A drone’s eye view of the Chattahoochee River
Because the Chattahoochee snakes to the west—rather than through the heart of the city—the river is not linked to Atlanta in popular imagination the way that, say, Boston is paired with the Charles,...
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A drone’s eye view of Sunrise Yoga at Avalon, Alpharetta
The center of a mixed-use development is not the first place one thinks of seeking enlightenment. But downward dog usurps shopping sprees during Sunrise Yoga classes on the grassy plaza of Avalon in...
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A drone’s eye view of Bellwood Quarry
Park proposals don’t get more ambitious. The 350-acre former mining site—more than double the size of Piedmont Park—could become the city’s largest greenspace, but not until 2030. Sandwiched between...
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A drone’s eye view of Oakland Cemetery
Oakland Cemetery first opened its gates to the public a decade before the Civil War. Now filled with ornate tombstones, mausoleums, and magnolia trees, the cemetery has seen more than 70,000 people...
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November 2015: Mural Maker
Peter Ferrari in front of the mural he created for our cover.Photography by Gregory Miller For the past four years, Peter Ferrari has made his living as a full-time artist, which is no mean feat when...
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A drone’s eye view of Corn Dawgs maze
About an hour east of Atlanta, corn stalks tower over visitors wandering through the Loganville maze, which twists and turns for more than four miles. High above Corn Dawgs’ seven-acre cornfield, the...
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Stephon Ferguson brings Martin Luther King Jr.’s words to life
Ferguson performing at Flux NightPhotograph by Ben Rollins Atlanta resident Stephon Ferguson has spent a good chunk of his 47 years working as a comedian, specifically a “gospel comic” on the Christian...
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A drone’s eye view of the Zoo Atlanta elephants
Kelly (right) and Tara start each morning with a hearty breakfast of bamboo, hay, and grain before spending the day wandering their habitat, which mimics a grassland savanna—equipped with a private...
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Taking a test drive at Atlanta’s Porsche Experience Center
When Porsche opened its new North American headquarters near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport last spring, the German luxury carmaker made it more than just an office. The $100 million Porsche...
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Checking in on SunTrust Park: An aerial view of the construction
After Turner Field has gone quiet a year from now, SunTrust Park will be buzzing with Braves fans. Before then, there’s plenty of work left to do at the $672 million ballpark. Inside the newly built...
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