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2 months ago | 
atlantamagazine.com | Jennifer Green
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.
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2 months ago | 
atlantamagazine.com | Jennifer Green
In 1766—a decade before America’s founding—Captain Thomas Bullitt built the Homestead, an 18-room Shenandoah Valley retreat where visitors could “take the waters.” Holding the title of America’s oldest resort, this Hot Springs, Virginia, grande dame hotel has been in operation for more than 250 years. It was at times a see-and-be-seen destination for the elite.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
atlantamagazine.com | Brady Nash |Kevin Benefield |Emma Hunt |Jennifer Green
While some holiday traditions have stood for centuries (Christmas trees and carols), others have faded from popular view (when was the last time you hung a box of animal crackers as an ornament?). At these Southern destinations, what’s old is new again every December. From Christmas Eve bonfires and glowing Moravian stars to hayrides and fife and drum corps marches, these yuletide celebrations offer a glimpse of Christmas as it used to be—in many cases, even before it arrived in the New World.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
atlantamagazine.com | Jennifer Green
Along Centre Street, old brick buildings sport striped awnings and flower-filled window boxes, and lit-up trees sway in the harbor breeze. This seaport town on Amelia Island—which has more than 50 blocks on the National Register of Historic Places—has coastal charm in spades. The Nassau County Courthouse (Florida’s oldest) stands proud with a steeple and bell tower once used as a fire alarm.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
pagosasun.com | Jennifer Green
Posted Friday, October 25, 2024 6:00 am Yamaguchi Park 684 S 5th St. Pagosa Springs, CO 81147 View larger map The Town of Pagosa Springs and Archuleta County would like you to join us Oct. 26 for a ghoulish day of fun for the whole family. The Halloween Hootenanny is a huge Halloween party returning for the third year including trick-or-treating and kids’ activities, a witch and warlocks hot air balloon fly-in, a witch-costumed paddle boarding event, live music, food trucks, a beer garden,...
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
atlantamagazine.com | Jennifer Green
Set in the rolling hills of Goshen, Kentucky, Hermitage Farm is a historic property and inn that raises champion thoroughbreds and celebrates the area’s agricultural legacy with bourbon tastings and farm-to-table dining. At the property’s Barn8 restaurant, bartender and Kentucky native Zack Staten uses craft bourbons in seasonal cocktails like the Bourbon, Beets, Battlestar Galactica, a fall menu favorite.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
atlantamagazine.com | Jennifer Green
When Gilded Age glitterati traveled south to escape the Northeast winters in the late 19th century, they brought an indulgent lifestyle and a penchant for equestrian pursuits. Aiken, South Carolina, became known as a winter colony for wealthy sojourners—and a training ground for their racehorses. In the 1940s and ‘50s, horses owned by the rich and famous (think Walter Chrysler, Elizabeth Arden, and Louis B.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
atlantamagazine.com | Jennifer Green
The Sober SocialAtlanta, GeorgiaIn a converted warehouse in Castleberry Hill, inventive nonalcoholic cocktails include the Socialite, featuring hibiscus, lime, agave, and tequila alternative, and the Loner, with gin alternative, blueberries, and lemon. Coffees, teas, and light snacks are also on the menu. Umbrella Dry BarRaleigh, North CarolinaHigh-end craft cocktails come without the hangover at this hip downtown spot.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
atlantamagazine.com | Jennifer Green
In New Smyrna Beach, Florida, not a day goes by that you won’t see surfers heading out to the beach, longboards in tow. This laid-back community just south of Daytona has been a surf haven for decades. A jetty and three sandbars off the coast provide dependable breakers, especially when the breeze kicks up the waves and the swell direction is just right. “We have the most consistent waves on the East Coast,” says Chuck Carter, owner of Nichols Surf Shop, the oldest one in town.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
atlantamagazine.com | Jennifer Green
“Gnocchi are traditionally made with potatoes in my country, but I wanted to make this lighter and fluffier,” says Andrea Rodella, executive chef at Amore de Lago, an Italian restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Reynolds, Lake Oconee. Raised in northern Italy and hailing from a family of cooks, Rodella recreates recipes from his childhood at the popular lake resort in Greensboro, Georgia.
