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A road trip route along Alabama's southwestern coast

4 days ago | atlantamagazine.com | Kevin Benefield

Coastal AlabamaIllustration by BrainstormSouthwest Alabama is a land dominated by water, from Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico to the Magnolia River and the Mississippi Sound, as well as a host of lakes and lagoons, swamps and sloughs, bogs and bayous. As such, travelers along Alabama’s Coastal Connection, a National Scenic Byway, will be treated to plenty of stunning water views.
A Georgia Tech student's ethereal lamps combine human creativity with mathematical precision

1 week ago | atlantamagazine.com | Denise K James

Photograph by Wedig + LaxtonThere’s a glow emanating from the windows of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Hinman Research Building, and it’s cast by a collection of unusual geometric lamps. If you’re there at the right time, you might catch Sam Thurman using a 3D printer to create one based on his custom design script.
Review: While waiting for his pizzeria to open next door, Anthony Spina is excelling at Small Fry

1 week ago | atlantamagazine.com | Wendell Brock

Falafel burgerPhotograph by Martha WilliamsThe vestiges of Anthony Spina’s Italian American childhood, spent largely in New Jersey, are all over the 25-year-old chef’s first restaurant. That would be Small Fry, a tiny slip of a room at Atlanta Dairies on Memorial Drive, where Spina makes magic by embellishing deep-fried foods with Italian touches. Behold Spina’s vodka parm sandwich: Never before have I seen a breaded chicken cutlet smothered with so much sauce, pesto, and cheese.
Sekou Thornell is rewriting the rules of soccer and style

1 week ago | atlantamagazine.com | Brady Nash

Sekou ThornellSekou Thornell could be considered a creative Swiss Army Knife. As the creative director and founder of Atlanta-based streetwear label Kitboys Club, he fuses apparel design, photography, and videography to exalt his earliest passion: soccer. This year, he’s a recipient of Adidas’ Honoring Black Excellence award, a program that honors the artistry and accomplishments of Black collectives and community leaders.
Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, a thriving Vietnamese community calls Atlanta home

1 week ago | atlantamagazine.com | Cat Kerr

Chùa Quang Minh, Georgia’s oldest Vietnamese Buddhist temple, hosts a meditation service. Photograph by Audra MeltonAbout 30 pairs of shoes are perched on a rack outside the door at Chùa Quang Minh, Georgia’s oldest Vietnamese Buddhist temple, taken off as a gesture of respect. Devotees sit on floor cushions inside the hall for an evening meditation session.
I tried it: Atlanta Airport’s ultra-luxe private terminal

1 week ago | atlantamagazine.com | Allison Entrekin

A PS ATL private suiteI am eating caviar on toast at 10 am. I am sipping champagne. I am doing these things in a private suite before my flight out of Hartsfield-Jackson. This utterly ruinous experience is courtesy of PS ATL, the Atlanta airport’s standalone private terminal. The PS ATL salonThe PS ATL experience is not inexpensive. All-access members pay a $4,850 annual fee, then $3,550 for up to four people to enjoy a private suite before their flight. Non-members pay $4,850 for the same.
As he appears set to run for governor, Michael Thurmond uses his recent book to connect with Georgians

1 week ago | atlantamagazine.com | Bill Nigut

Michael Thurmond speaks about his most recent book to the Carrollton Kiwanis Club. If former DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond announces in the weeks ahead that he’s running for the Democratic nomination for governor, which seems increasingly likely, one of his most important allies on the campaign trail will be a Georgian who died 240 years ago.
Heaps serves savory New Zealand meat pies in Decatur

1 week ago | atlantamagazine.com | Vené Franco

Photograph by Martha WilliamsNew Zealand native Jake Harvey arrived in Atlanta via New York, his first stateside stop as a budding hip-hop producer. While pursuing musical aspirations and taking on side gigs, Harvey got to missing the savory meat pies that were a staple back home. (New Zealanders consume some 70 million meat pies a year. That’s pretty impressive for an island country that’s roughly the size of Colorado.)So, what is a New Zealand meat pie?
Why did Cornelius Taylor die?

1 week ago | atlantamagazine.com | Rachel Garbus

Illustration by Marella Moon AlbaneseLolita Griffeth was only saying goodbye for a few days. Her boyfriend really didn’t want her to go. But Griffeth told him she’d been offered a temporary apartment—a pathway out of homelessness, out of the tent she and Cornelius Taylor had been living in on Old Wheat Street in Sweet Auburn. “I told him, ‘Baby, let me go ahead and try to get us a place to live.’” She stops, tears welling in her eyes.
Two Atlanta interior designers team up for a hardware collaboration

1 week ago | atlantamagazine.com | Lauren Finney Harden

Laura Jenkins (left), who created the Profile collection, and Jessica Davis, founder of Nest Studio, at the launch party. Photograph courtesy of Nest StudioTwo Atlanta designers, Jessica Davis of Atelier Davis, and Laura Jenkins of Laura W. Jenkins Interiors, recently debuted a hardware collaboration for Jessica’s luxury hardware brand Nest Studio.