Editor’s Note: Guitarist and singer Bob Hay co-founded the legendary Athens act The Squalls in 1981. The band is immortalized, along with R.E.M., Pylon, Love Tractor, B-52’s, Howard Finster, Flat Duo Jets and Kilkenny Cats in the Jim Herbert-shot 1987 documentary “Athens, Ga. Inside/Out” and the band opens and closes the doc’s soundtrack on I.R.S. […]
“It’s a scorcher out here!” Vanessa Briscoe Hay says playfully, fanning herself with her hand on a 93 degree Saturday afternoon in downtown Athens. In an effort to beat the summer heat each week in July, the Pylon and Pylon Reenactment Society vocalist will introduce Eldredge ATL readers to one of her favorite Athens watering […]
For more than a decade now, Marlow’s Tavern has provided a friendly neighborhood go-to refuge for Valentines weary of 11:30 p.m. Open Table reservation availabilities and credit card maxing pre-fixe chef menus each February 14. But as it turns out, the patrons in the front of the house haven’t cornered the market on hand-holding. Over […]
It’s a chilly winter’s night but at the end of Dutch Valley Road, warmth emanates inside chef-owner Calavino Donati’s new Madre + Mason restaurant. Just inside the door, a bartender is giving first-time customers a tutorial on the restaurant’s array of local small batch gins. In the back room, Charis Circle, the city’s feminist social […]
Editor’s Note from Eldredge ATL December Guest Editor Topher Payne: Widdi Turner is a whirling dervish of creative energy. She’s an actress, a voiceover artist, maker of crafts, and can twirl a mean baton. And there’s so much joy in all of her pursuits — for her, and for those who experience it. So when […]
Just in time for All Hallows’ Eve, Vincent Price’s daughter, author and interior designer Victoria Price arrived in Atlanta this month with a stack of the brand-new 50th anniversary edition of her parent’s legendary cookbook, “A Treasury of Great Recipes” (Calla Editions, $50). Written by the Hollywood actor and horror movie icon and his wife […]
Editor’s Note From Ed Roland: “I’m so proud of Mitchell Anderson, not only for writing this new cookbook but for 10 years of success at MetroFresh. He’s so focused and has worked his ass off and put so much love and energy into everything he does. In the early years of MetroFresh, the coolest thing […]
Bursting into a laugh over lunch on the patio at Inman Park’s Fritti, Meridith Ford is digging through her purse in a desperate search for something. Finally, a satisfied smile alights across her face as she produces a glossy new business card and slides it across the table. It reads: Novo Cucina, Meridith Ford, Gelataia/Marketing. “It’s […]
I’m standing in front of a beautiful wooden tea sniffing bar built by owner Doria Roberts at the brand-new Tipple + Rose Tea Parlor and Apothecary in Virginia-Highland. She pulls out silver box No. 17 labeled “Black Forest” from the rack, gently lifts its lid and instructs me to inhale. Immediately, the sharp tang of […]