Atlanta Magazine

It’s the season for art markets and festivals, where locally owned businesses showcase jewelry, clothes, and totes you won’t find anywhere else. Here are four local brands—Solid Moss Co., Loud Italians, Indian Roots, Color of Heat—helmed by designers who are committed to artisan traditions and a slow-fashion ethos.

The neighborhood butcher shop is experiencing a revival, as evidenced by the opening of at least four shops in the metro area in the past five years. Owner Rusty Bowers of Pine Street Market helped pioneer the resurgence when he opened in 2008. Since then, we've seen Spotted Trotter, Kinship Butcher & Sundry, Frazie’s Meat & Market, Evergreen Butcher & Baker, and Vice Kitchen have joined the mix.

Ruki’s Kitchen, a fast-casual spot for Ethiopian dishes, has a few Atlanta inflections. First debuting as an EAV food stall in 2022, Ruki’s Kitchen graduated earlier this year to brick-and-mortar status at the Terminal South complex in Peoplestown, near the Beltline’s southside trail.

Ashe Legacy Family Farm in Hampton began in 2022, when several generations of White’s family pooled resources to purchase the 11-acre property about 35 miles south of Atlanta. Today, Ashe Legacy is part of a larger effort to rebuild Black farming in the United States.

While there’s plenty to recommend a visit to the heart of North Carolina any time of the year, springtime in this part of the world is something special. A road trip over the rolling hills of the state’s Piedmont region promises farm-fresh fare, an explosion of native wildflowers, and a bumper crop of newborn animals.

It isn’t just Atlanta that’s welcoming FIFA World Cup 2026™; it’s the entire state of Georgia. Soccer pitches are under construction from Augusta to Moultrie. And watch parties are being planned from the mountains to the coast.

Buckhead has no shortage of restaurants built for spectacle, but few manage to deliver substance with the show. Luella, the new restaurant from brothers Jamey and Benjie Shirah, executes both. The Roswell Road space has had many lives—including Carbo’s Cafe and The Ivy. Perhaps it was time to grow up.

I do think my father-in-law would be proud of the essays we’ve assembled and the contributions we’ve received from Atlanta icons such as Andrew Young. He’d be happy that his hometown magazine is still printing away after 65 years. Most of all, he would say he’s glad he spent his life in Atlanta, a city that grew up right alongside him but always managed to feel like home.

I crest the Waccamaw River Bridge on an August evening when a storm is looming in the distance. I haven’t been back to Pawleys Island in nearly a decade, but the smell of the Georgetown paper mills and the rhythmic thunk of the bridge’s seams under my tires call up the years I spent visiting this tiny spit of South Carolina Lowcountry. My father, the poet James Dickey, loved what he called the “unbroken openness” of the island’s salt marshes and the spooky beauty of its live oaks. He bought a second home here long before I was born. When he died in 1997, we buried him at Pawleys in an 18th-century graveyard under a tree cloaked in Spanish moss.

Last week, dozens of women in brightly colored dresses showed up at the Swan Coach House to hear Trisha Addicks, America’s leading sorority recruitment coach, read from her new tome, The Rush Bible: Secrets to Crush Sorority Recruitment and Find Your Forever Greek Home (Simon & Schuster).