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Wendy G. Binns OWNER & PUBLISHER (404) 586-0027 wendy@atlantaintownpaper.com Collin Kelley EDITOR (404) 586-0102 collin@atlantaintownpaper.com Elizabeth P. Holmes PRODUCTION/GRAPHIC DESIGN (404) 586-0002 x312 elizabeth@atlantaintownpaper.com
Triathletes Inspire .....................................4 Intown Runaround ....................................8 Yoga for Kids ..........................................10 Letter from the Editor ............................11 Health & Wellness Briefs ........................12 More Summer Camps ............................12 Philanthropy 101 ....................................14 Living By Giving......................................15 Street Fashion ........................................17 Pets.........................................................18 A Look Back ...........................................19
INTERNS Osayi Endolyn, SCAD
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CONTRIBUTORS Cameron Adams, Taylor Arnold, Kate Atwood, Pamela Berger, Ann Boutwell, Peter Bryant, Tina Chadwick, Patrick Dennis, Brigette Flood, Helen Grebe, Walt Harrison, Wendy Lowden, Annie Kinnett Nichols, Dan Popovic, Laura Turner Seydel, Shandra Hill Smith, Tim Sullivan
Phoenix Flies ..........................................20 Eco-Briefs ...............................................21 Laura Turner Seydel................................21 Chastain Park Upgrades ........................22
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THE STUDIO Bookstores: The Last Indies ..................24 The Thinking Artist ..................................25 Intown Datebook ....................................26 Atlanta PlanIT .........................................31
NEWS YOU CAN EAT Best Breakfast Spots..............................32 Quick Bites .............................................34 Emily Gís Jams.......................................35 Keep It INtown: Poncey-Highland ..........36
IN BUSINESS Family Medical Practice .........................38 Making Sense of Social..........................38 Indie-pendent .........................................40 Business & Retail Briefs .........................41
REAL ESTATE Active Adult Communities ......................42 Real Estate Briefs ...................................45 CotY Award Winners ..............................45
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Junior League Tour of Kitchens..............47 The Bob Project Part 3 ...........................48 Design Wars ...........................................49 Gardening ..............................................50 Sleeping Porches ...................................52 Before & After .........................................54
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Publisher Letter To accompany Osayi’s piece on local bookstores (p. 24) we asked our talented friend Cameron Adams to scout-out an image for the March cover. Cameron visited Little Shop of Stories in Decatur to discover the young readers, Lily Bartlett and Virika Earl, both 5. Cameron also used to snap photographs “for fun” at the old Oxford Books. Since we know our readers like history and nostalgia, we’ve included one on this page for old time’s sake. My husband grew-up eating at Jalisco’s before shopping at Oxford Books. Did your family have a similar tradition? You can see more of Cameron’s photography on Page 17 in his regular Street Fashion column and at atlantastreetfashion. blogspot.com. In this issue, you’ll also read about local triathletes who power through grueling regimes (p. 4). A special thanks to Dan Popovic for working with us on this. Dan
coordinates the BeltLine Running Series and has just launched a new website cMECompete. com. Recently I’ve been thinking about how exercise can also condition ourselves to face the unknown, such as disease, surgery, an accident. Just finishing chemotheraphy and starting radiation, I know that to be true. Now I’m working to rebuild and am enrolled in Piedmont Hospital’s PINK program designed for breast cancer patients to regain balance. As I do this, I can think of Marshall, Chad, Gabrielle and the others featured on the following pages. They are a ton of inspiration. Best, Owner & Publisher
Remember Oxford Books?
Editor Letter Collin Kelley Independent bookstores are fighting for their lives not only in Atlanta but around the world. Amazon has taken a huge bite out of bookstores large and small, with Borders closing last year and Barnes & Noble fighting to keep its brick and mortar business solvent. In a span of two weeks, Outwrite Books closed in Midtown and Blue Elephant in Decatur announced it would close this month. Our intern and contributor Osayi Endolyn has done an in depth look at the “state of the union” of Intown’s local booksellers. It’s a long Outwrite Books’ Last Tango article, but definitely worth your time. Here’s a bit more context. Because Amazon offers deeply discounted Top photo: Cameron Adams; Bottom photo by Colin Potts prices on books plus a gargantuan selection of inexpensive eBooks, it’s nearly impossible for of self-publishing with many authors going indies to compete. But it’s not entirely Amazon’s strictly eBook. A few of those “indie authors” fault. Books can now be had on the cheap at – Amanda Hocking and JA Konrath for example your local supermarket and big box retailer. – have become millionaires selling their eBooks There’s also the trend of people browsing in for as low as 99 cents. bookstores and then having the temerity to tell So how do we keep our local bookstores the clerks that they’re going home to buy it from open? Amazon or download it to their eReader. We live in a world where instant gratification I remember going to Outwrite when takes too long, so when a bookstore doesn’t have it opened in its first location – a tiny hole a title you want but can order it, be patient. It in the wall in Midtown Promenade – and won’t kill you to wait a few more days. If the buying Jeanette Winterson’s Written On the book costs a few extra dollars, don’t be cheap. Body. Internet was in its infancy, there was no Engage local booksellers and let them know Amazon, so if you wanted an obscure title, you what you want to stocked on the shelves. And had to track it down. That’s part of the fun if you’re a complete eBook convert, see if your of bookstores. When Oxford Books closed its favorite indie is selling them at their website. locations in the late 90s, I was gutted. I sat in Your patience and dollars will keep the parking lot at the old Pharr Road store and bookstores – and other local businesses – wiped away a few tears. I did the same after around for years to come. Like Joni Mitchell “The Last Tango” reading event at Outwrite in says, you don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s January. gone. It’s not just bookstores that are in flux. The entire book industry has been rocked by the rise
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