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Despite humid temperatures and pesky bugs (and a Producers: Sara Hanna, Giannina Smith Bedford, Joanne Hayes near inclement weather postponement), our Chief Photographer: Sara Hanna rising stars took everything in stride, cracking Photo assistant: Scott Reeves jokes as we adjusted their poses, changed their Stylist: LaNetra Butler shoes and tweaked their wardrobes. Each indiStylist Assistant: Ceret Knott vidual wore designer duds hand-picked by our Makeup: Sarai Mateo-Trammell, Nicole Martin and Matthew Taylor, stylist, LaNetra Butler, that evoked the romantic NARS Cosmetics elegance of the historic mansion designed by Hair: Alicia Igess, The Green Room Agency/Farouk Systems famed Atlanta architect Philip Trammell Shutze.

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Instead, it was their easy-going and positive natures (maintained through action-packed schedules and responsibilities) that convinced me they are people who will continue to succeed in their chosen paths— paths created through passion and perseverance.

After waking in the middle of the night with the desire to design dresses, Danielle Hosker launched fashion brand Mason Hosker, which has already been picked up by national retailer Rent the Runway. Dr. Darria Long Gillespie didn’t let her diagnosis of autoimmune arthritis slow her down; instead, she used it to fuel her desire to help others overcome disease. A native of Jamaica, Julian Reynolds left home for New York at 19 to fulfill his dream of dancing professionally and now is an Atlanta business owner and actor.

After a successful career in theater, Jenni Kopelman shares her love of the arts with children who suffer from autism. And Kent Bazemore took his dreams of becoming an NBA player from the small town of Kelford, North Carolina, all the way to the Atlanta Hawks, where, after just two seasons, he is already making his mark.

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Architecture AS ART Emerson ascends in Buckhead

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tlanta-based real estate development firm JPX Works LLC has announced its plans for a highly anticipated Buckhead condominium tower project. Located at 2520 Peachtree just north of Lindbergh Drive and rising 21 stories, the luxury building, dubbed Emerson, is destined to be a beautiful addition to Buckhead’s skyline. The tower’s profile, with views of Peachtree Battle and beyond, mimics the design of Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic “Fallingwater” design. Cascading levels of 44

homes will feature abundant glass in addition to beautiful outdoor terraces.

Josh Herndon, development director at JPX Works, explains, “While unique in its character, the design exhibits a long tradition of modernism in Atlanta and is contextualized by the narrative of Buckhead’s Peachtree Battle neighborhood.”

The Emerson condos also will feature elements that incorporate Atlanta’s appreciation of trees and green space.

“The building is raised from the ground, allowing the landscape to flow through

JPX Works’ latest cascading design, Emerson, features sophisticated, luxurious homes in one of Buckhead’s most iconic neighborhoods.

and under it,” Herndon illustrates.

“As it ascends vertically, the building takes the shape and transparency of an urban lantern, surrounded by landscaped outdoor terraces.” The design is both sculptural and artistic.

Herndon describes the building as “architecture as art.” Excluding the prestigious penthouse, two- and three-bedroom units for the first release can be pre-purchased for $1.8 million to $4.5 million. The project will break ground this fall. n

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NEWS BITES SYNC MIND, BODY AND SOUL Yoga and fitness lifestyle studio Atmasphere, for yogis and novices alike, has opened in Buckhead. Based in Atlanta and with locations already in the works for Los Angeles and Honolulu, Atmasphere was created by two fitness experts, Carol Scott and Alanna Kaivalya.

Atmasphere combines classes geared towards the mind, body and soul for one complete physical and mental experience. “Mind” classes are movement-based and include yoga and hot yoga, while “body” classes are geared toward endurance

and strength and include classes such as cycling. The two-story, 10,000-squarefoot studio also offers “soul,” or meditation, classes. With more than 100 offerings each week, guests can create a strengthening yet Zen program that fits their needs.

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AN ENCOURAGING ATHLETIC WEAR STORE FOR GIRLS From the creators of Lululemon, a new location of Ivivva has opened at Lenox

Square. An athletic wear store specifically designed for girls sizes 6 to 14, Ivivva focuses on designing beautiful, technical athletic wear that celebrates young ladies while encouraging goal-setting and dreaming big. Each location runs a Dreams and Goals program designed to help girls create an ideal life through goal setting. The store also offers a variety of complimentary events such as Brunch and Barre (a brunch complete with barre class hosted by Bar Method) or unique fitness classes such as a mother and daughter selfdefense class. Find Ivivva on the second level across from Williams-Sonoma.

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MORE ROOM TO ROAM AT NADEAU Nadeau, the furniture store specializing in handcrafted and affordable items from India and Indonesia that look like lovingly restored antiques, has long been a Peachtree Battle shopping center staple. Now shoppers can get their hands on even more of its ever-changing product inventory includ-

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The added room allows the shop to expand its selections to include a wider range of furniture and accessories, filling 5,300 square feet.

Manager Julie Edwards says, “Our loyal customer base was a huge part of our decision to expand our space.”

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Bill Holley's Blazing Saddles team has been riding together for two decades to support the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Pedaling 150 Miles Research funds from cycling change the lives of MS patients In 1989, one of Bill Holley’s attorney mentors, Weyman Johnson, invited the Buckhead resident to ride 150 miles to raise research funds for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. “At the time, there was very little that could be done medically for people diagnosed with the disease,” Holley says. “It resonated with me, and I rode my first bike tour on a borrowed bike.”

This year, on Oct. 1 and 2, Holley will ride for the 22nd time in the Bike MS: Cox Atlanta Peach Ride, an event that raises more than $1 million annually. He also serves on the national board of the MS Society, is immediate past board chair of the Georgia Chapter and has his own team, the Blazing Saddles, known for

their bright yellow jerseys, fun-loving attitudes and outstanding fundraising.

With the monies raised through the ride, the National MS Society, one of the largest non-governmental funders of neurological research in the world, has supported the development of new drugs to treat MS, advanced the search for a cure and provided programs for the 2.3 million diagnosed with the disease annually.

The 2016 event begins at Blalock Lake in Newnan and ends in LaGrange. Rest areas are every 10 to 12 miles, and live music and a feel-good atmosphere make the ride fun. l For more information, visit nationalmssociety.org.

Making Waves Swim event raises funds for CHOA Sheri Hart, a Buckhead resident, is equally comfortable in and out of the water. A top-level competitive swimmer at the University of Southern California, she retired her racing swimsuit for a while but never wandered far from the sport she loves.

In 1988, Olympian Daniel Watters founded Swim Across America in Dallas to raise money for cancer research and years later, asked Hart to clone the event in Atlanta, which she has done for the last three years. “When he told me that all the donations would stay locally, I immediately chose Aflac Cancer Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta,” Hart says.

“Sheri’s enthusiasm and commitment toward raising funds for childhood cancer research is contagious, which is why Swim Across America has been such a remarkable success in a short period of time,” says Diane Vaughan, senior development director at Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center.

Kaleigh, Kelsi and Sheri Hart get set for Swim Across America on Sept. 17 to raise money for cancer research.

Approximately 100 adults and 50 children will participate in this year’s open water event at Lake Lanier on Sept. 17. “We hope to cross over the $1 million mark this year, adding to $70 million raised nationwide for cancer research at 17 centers,” Hart says.

Each swimmer raises funds, and those who raise $2,500 have an opportunity to dine with former Olympians the night before the swim. “We call [the Olympians] our Angel Swimmers, and they visit with kids at Aflac and swim alongside people who are nervous,” Hart says.

The entire Hart family takes part in Swim Across America—Sheri, her husband Kevin, Kelsi (8), Kaleigh (10) and Kennedy (13). “The sport teaches perseverance and discipline, lifelong traits,” Hart says. l For more information, visit swimacrossamerica.org.

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Closing the Education Gap Buckhead Coalition and partners keep area kids on track No one has a better pulse on Buckhead than Sam Massell, president of the Buckhead Coalition. “In order to fulfill our mission of nurturing the quality of life for our residents and help coordinate an orderly growth, we must boost the educational levels of all our students,” Massell says.

“Many children from lower income families have little or no support with their schoolwork.

As a result, they continue to fall behind their peers year after year.”

To combat the education gap,

the Buckhead Coalition, Buckhead Rotary Club and Paul Brown, CEO of Arby’s, have partnered with the Atlanta International School (AIS) to assist disadvantaged Buckhead elementary students through a national program called Horizons.

The outreach, which combines sports and academics, involves teachers and volunteers from the metro area and is chaired by John Brock, CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises and a Buckhead Coalition director. During this inaugural year, Horizons

has a budget of $100,000, which will serve 45 students, many from Garden Hills Elementary, who have been identified by their principals as falling behind.

Kicked off June 23, the six-week program intends for participants to experience a two- to threemonth improvement in math and reading, setting them on a path to academic success. l For more information, visit buckhead.net/buckheadcoalition or horizonsatlanta.org.

Sam Massell, president of the Buckhead Coalition, supports a summer educational program to help area kids succeed.

Want to nominate a volunteer, company or nonprofit that makes Buckhead, Sandy Springs or Brookhaven a better place to live?

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Left: Many of the rooms at the Hilton Bonnet Creek offer a view of Disney's nightly fireworks display.

Right: The Hilton Bonnet Creek's 3-mile lazy river makes a splash with kids and adults alike.

Below: The Waldorf Astoria Orlando combines the elegance of the original Waldorf in New York City with a tropical Florida feel.

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Below: The Bull & Bear's dry-aged tomahawk ribeye weighs in at a hefty 38 ounces.

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Possibly even more than once. But with hundreds of hotels to choose from, it can get tricky when it comes time to book a place to stay. Do you want to stay at a luxury property with a spa, golf course and award-winning restaurants, or do you prefer a kidfriendly hotel with a lazy river, game room and arts-and-crafts classes?

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guests staying at one property full access to all of the features of the other. So it’s like getting two hotels for the price of one.

Say, for instance, you want to play 18 holes on the Waldorf’s championship golf course while your spouse entertains the youngsters at the Hilton’s 3-acre lazy-river pool, complete with waterslide. Or perhaps you’re staying on the Hilton side, but after spending the day at Disney, you want to pamper yourself with a relaxing massage at the Waldorf spa. It’s all just steps away.

The larger, and less expensive, of the two, is the Hilton Bonnet Creek, with 1,001 rooms, a full fitness facility and six dining options, including La Luce, a modern Italian eatery serving authentic thin-crust pizzas and a butterscotch pudding so popular it has its own Facebook page. Another dining option is Harvest Bistro, an American farm-to-fork bistro where kids 12 and younger eat for free as

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part of the daily resort fee.

The adjoining Waldorf Astoria affords a more refined experience, with luxuries such as marble bathrooms and Blu-ray players in each of the 498 rooms. Its spacious spa offers a full menu of treatments and therapies sourced with local ingredients, and its awardwinning golf course was designed

by Rees Jones with a separate practice range and putting green.

For the ultimate in relaxation, reserve a private cabana out by the pool, and enjoy food and beverage service, high-def TV and wireless Internet.

Other don’t-misses include ordering fanciful drinks like the Peacock Egg (a frozen blue Curaçao-infused cocktail that actually lights up) at Peacock Alley, and dinner at the Bull & Bear, where you’ll savor delectable and inventive dishes such as one of its most popular entrees: a massive 38-ounce, bone-in tomahawk ribeye

that has been dry aged for 32 days.

Advertised as for two (although it could probably feed four), it is carved tableside and drizzled with the drippings from a lit candle made, not of wax, but of beef tallow. Another example is the fanciful chocolate dessert that looks like a cigar, ashes and all.

Also noteworthy is the free transportation provided to all the area theme parks, as well the worldclass convention center connecting the properties. This destination is truly a one-stop shop for fun. n

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Above: The Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale is adjacent to the renowned Weiskopf & Morrishdesigned golf courses of Troon North and offers awesome views of Phoenix, balancing rock formations and acres of desert.

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he Sonoran Desert mesmerized me the minute I landed in Phoenix. And as my family and I drove north of the airport, I got a close up of the sandy landscape dotted with boulders and cacti of varying heights, shapes and colors.

Having lived in sub-tropical climates most of my life, it was like nothing I’d ever seen. Nestled in this arid terrain at the foothills of Pinnacle Peak and secluded away from the hustle of Phoenix, is the Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North, which honors its unique backdrop with a design that blends seamlessly into the surroundings. The 210 adobe rooms and suites are one- and two-story Southwestern style “casitas” that overlook a stunning panorama. I had an idea what Arizona’s desert would look like, but I didn’t know how it would feel to stare out at 40 acres of desert blooms and watch the sun set in brilliant reds and oranges from our private balcony.

It was a pure pinch-me heaven that cleared my mind of life’s clutter. And the view was just one of the reasons why we never left the resort property during our long weekend. Here are four more reasons we stayed put.

HIKE-IN, HIKE-OUT One of the most expansive views of the area can be seen from the

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top of Pinnacle Peak, which can be reached via a trailhead on the Four Seasons’ property. The path off the main drive meanders through towering saguaro cacti and other desert flora to Pinnacle Peak Park, where you begin the 1.75-mile ascent up to 2,889 feet. From the hotel’s trailhead it’s 4.7 miles round trip, so expect a workout, and don’t forget to wear a hat and pack sunblock and water.

TIP: There are several other concierge-recommended hikes a short drive from the hotel, so arrive ready to trek.

CASUAL TO CLASSY HOTEL FARE Whether you want to dress up or dress down for dinner, you’ll feel right at home. The property’s upscale dining spot, Talavera, is decorated in jewel tones and Southwest flair and ideal for steak and seafood lovers. The dinneronly restaurant serves produce from local farms, olive oil sourced from a nearby mill and Arizona-ranch raised meats. For laid back comfort food all day long, head to Proof, an American canteen featuring shuffle board, a vintage bar and televisions buzzing with the latest sports. If you just can’t get out of your bathing suit for a meal, Saguaro Blossom, the poolside bar and grill, has you covered with light Southwestern spa cuisine from

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11 a.m. to sunset. When the sun begins to dip, head to Onyx Bar & Lounge off the lobby for cocktails, small plates and stunning views, as well as live weekend entertainment.

POOL DAZE A morning swim turns into a lazy pool day at the 6,000-square-foot freeform pool, which cascades on two levels and includes a whirlpool and shallow children’s pool. What will keep you parked in your chaise lounge all day, however, is the poolside service. Revel in ice water, chilled towels and “Evian spritzes”, along with cut fruit, seasonal bites and sunglass polishing, to fight the desert heat. Yes, please!

SPA-AHHH The 12,000-square-foot, Forbes FourStar spa offers a local lesson in pampering. Specialty massages, body treatments, skin scrubs and body wraps are inspired by the “four seasons” of life and Native American rituals, using indigenous ingredients such as Sonoran honey, prickly pear, Sedona clay and ground pumice. Destress and untangle tight muscles with a journey that indulges the face and body, such as the 110-minute Pinnacle Facial that includes an anti-inflammatory facial and body treatment using gold-infused sugar scrub and shimmer oil.

FOUR FAMILIES Taking children to any four-star hotel can be a stressful affair, but at the Four Seasons Scottsdale, the red carpet is rolled out for adults and kids of all ages. At check-in, young travelers receive a stuffed coyote toy, and items such as cribs, high chairs, strollers and bath amenities are available at no charge. The “Kid for All Seasons” program also keeps kiddos entertained throughout their stay with cultural crafts and programming, as well as a dedicated facility equipped with a game room, movie theater, ping pong, pool and foosball tables. Complimentary meals are extended in all the restaurants to children younger than 4 and, for families with older children, adventurous excursions, such as a Jeep or Hummer tour, panning for gold, stargazing or a hot air balloon ride above the desert, are sure to create lasting memories. n

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ummers are made for vacations, but far-flung destinations sometimes require enough planning to make us feel we need a vacation from the vacation. A near-perfect antidote to the planning blues is Blue Ridge, tucked in the mountains of the same name in north Georgia.

It’s close enough to feel easy, but far enough away to feel like a true getaway. Plus, with an elevation of 1,762 feet above sea level, it can be as many as 10 degrees cooler than Atlanta’s steamy summers.

Here’s a suggested itinerary for a stress-free weekend escape.

Day 1 7:30 p.m. Hit the Road From Buckhead, Blue Ridge is just 86 miles north, and by this time of night, you should be able to leave the city’s famously frustrating traffic behind.

TIP: If you want to stock your fridge with anything stiffer than beer or wine, plan ahead. Fannin County doesn’t allow liquor sales.

9:30 p.m. Late Bite Have a late dinner at Chester Brunnenmeyer’s, one of the only places you’ll find open after

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9 p.m. in historic Blue Ridge.

Order some succulent smoked chicken wings or cheesy pulled pork-stuffed potato skins before settling in for a good night’s sleep at your local cabin rental.

Day 2 8:00 a.m. Rise and Shine Stop for breakfast of buttermilk pepper biscuits with gravy and sausage at Blue Ridge Grocery, and wash it down with a bracing cup of cold-brew coffee or freshsqueezed OJ. While you’re there, build a picnic lunch of sandwiches, drinks and homemade cookies from the takeaway selection.

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take an easy 5-minute walk to the 270-foot bridge, the longest suspension bridge east of the Mississippi River. Find a spot overlooking the rushing Toccoa River to enjoy your picnic before heading back to town. For a longer hike, follow the white diamond markers on the Benton MacKaye Trail that goes for nearly 300 miles.

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s The Toccoa Swinging Bridge, in the Chattahoochee National Forest, is popular for hikers.

9:30 a.m. The Swing of Things Head just out of town to the Toccoa Swinging Bridge. Park and

1:00 p.m. Retail Therapy Blue Ridge’s quaint downtown offers all manner of stores, from homely to high-end. Don’t miss Gatewood Hall Gracious Home and Cabin Chic for stylish art and home furnishings, Juliana’s Boutique for affordable women’s clothing, and Out of the Blue for gourmet goods, craft beer and wine. Score a fishing license at

Blue Ridge Fly Fishing, and ask the experts about lures and guides.

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Pick up vintage candy or a bottle of Nehi soda at Huck’s General Store, and buy a ticket for the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway that leaves from the 1905 depot downtown.

The schedule changes based on the day and season, so check to make sure you’re “all aboard!” in time for the 26-mile ride.

6:00 p.m. Pizza Pie Order a wood oven-fired pizza at Masseria Kitchen & Bar, where just about everything is available gluten-free. After dinner, pick up a winning cupcake at The Sweet Shoppe of Blue Ridge, and keep an eye out for the bakers, who won Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars.”

TIP: Plan on an early meal.

Almost everything downtown closes between 8 and 9 p.m.

Day 3 7 a.m. An Apple a Day Mercier Orchards may be Blue Ridge’s most famous retailer, known far and wide for its stellar apples, jams and produce. Today, fuel up with a cup of strong coffee and apple cider donuts.

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s The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway train is a centerpiece of downtown.

Stay Awhile Though you won’t find big-name hotels in Blue Ridge, rentals ranging from rustic to luxury abound. A Blue Ridge Vacation Cabin Rentals is a trusted source. For something unique, book the treehouse at Bear Claw Vineyards.

t Window shopping and outdoor dining are popular pastimes in town.

Map It Download maps to the best fishing holes and hiking trails on the Fannin County Welcome Center site, and plan to follow them to the letter, since some key turns are unmarked.

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7:30 a.m. Reel One In Discover why Blue Ridge is known as “The Trout Fishing Capital of Georgia.” Armed with your license and possibly a guide, cast a line in the rushing crystal waters around town for a peaceful last morning away.

TIP: It’s tempting to sleep the day away in the crisp mountain air, but fish bite best when it’s cool.

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Running 17 exercise classes each week, plus private sessions with people recovering from injury or surgery, would surely exhaust an average person. Of course, Mattie’s far from average. She’s a bundle of energy who loves to dance, works a variety of music into her classes, and joins Canterbury’s walking club whenever she can, especially when they’re training for the annual Peachtree Road 10k.

She says residents and staff are so much like family that she’s always encouraging people to move here.

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If you ever needed an excuse to indulge in frozen treats, the time is now.

During the hot summer months, a cool milkshake is a delicious way to beat the heat.

Along with the traditional favorites, Buckhead restaurants have an impressive variety of milkshake flavors, including booze-spiked concoctions. Read on to get a taste for our most memorable gulps.

1. 10 Degrees South: Don Pedro ($8) The flavors of South Africa don’t end with your entrée. The Don Pedro, the restaurant’s signature dessert drink, can double as a sweet finish. It has the consistency of a creamy milkshake with a kick any respectable adult shake should have, thanks to the Amarula, a liqueur created from the fruit of the exotic African marula tree. It’s a rare treat after enjoying the many flavors of South Africa.

4183 Roswell Road N.E. Atlanta 30342 404.705.8870 10degreessouth.com

2. Flip Burger Boutique: Cap’n Crunch ($5.50) Leave it to a celebrity chef to reinvent a classic. The Cap’n Crunch milkshake is the brainchild of “Top Chef’s” Richard Blais. This concoction is clearly the frozen version of

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a favorite sugary breakfast combination, Cap’n Crunch cereal and milk. But here, the chef coarsely blends the cereal into vanilla ice cream and adds milk and liquid nitrogen—the second coldest substance on earth. The result is an icy-cold shake with an ultra thick and velvety texture. Bonus effect: the liquid nitrogen produces wispy plumes of smoke from the glass.

3655 Roswell Road N.E. Atlanta 30342 404.549.3298 flipburgerboutique.com

3. Buckhead Diner: Choconana ($5.75) There's something about pairing the classic flavors of chocolate and banana that never gets old.

Each shake is spun to order in a KitchenAid and made with fresh fruit, a key ingredient to a good milkshake. The result is a ridiculously rich, smooth shake with the

perfect pleasantly thick consistency that can still be sipped with a straw. It will satisfy that afternoon chocolate craving and is an indulgent way to sneak a banana into your day.

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4. Shake Shack: Peachtree ($5.59) As the name suggests, Shake Shack knows a thing or two about ice cream beverages. The Peachtree, made with handspun vanilla ice cream, fresh juicy peaches, a drizzle of salted caramel and milk, is a must-try for residents or visitors to the Peach State—especially during the summer peach season. The taste is creamy and light with a genuine peach flavor and enough consistency to feel substantial while still

hitting the ideal middle ground between thick and drinkable.

3035 Peachtree Road N.E. Atlanta 30305 470.809.9201 shakeshack.com

5. Ted's Montana Grill: Salted Caramel ($10) Booze and milkshakes are never a bad combination, and this adult shake is no exception. Ted’s recipe includes Haagen-Dazs ice cream, Jack Daniel’s bourbon, salted caramel and whipped cream. The dominant flavor comes from the bourbon, which is a delicious complement to the made-fromscratch, salted caramel. Virgin versions are also available and pair perfectly with the bison sliders.

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Parents marvel at the small-scale Atlanta made entirely of Lego bricks, but you’re likely to find the kids at the Lego Racers section, building and testing their creations on a sloping track. If you haven’t been to Legoland this year, it’s time for another visit. The venue recently added a pirate-themed playground. Kids can climb the rigging, walk the plank and raise the pirate flag. For landlubbers, check out the new 4D movie based on the totally awesome Lego Movie.

Legoland Discovery Center 3500 Peachtree Road, Suite G-1 Atlanta 30326 404.848.9252 Legolanddiscoverycenter.com/atlanta

BEAT THE HEAT STAYING COOL WITH KIDS IN BUCKHEAD

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he obvious way to escape Georgia’s summer heat is to relax by the pool with a cool drink in your hand. But after a while, the kids get antsy for a little more excitement than just hanging out in the water. When that happens, here are five places to stay cool with kids in Buckhead.

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Bowling The whole family can have some cool fun at the bowling alley, and the Buckhead area has several to choose from.

The Painted Pin on Miami Circle is familiar to many for a date night or with adult friends, but on the weekends before The Painted Pin 5 p.m., it welcomes children, 737 Miami Circle N.E. too. Families can rent lanes by Atlanta 30324 the hour no matter how many 404.814.8736 people are in the party, and all thepaintedpin.com the games in the arcade are Stars and Strikes free. Stars and Strikes in Sandy 8767 Roswell Road Springs participates in the Kids Sandy Springs 30350 Bowl Free program that invites 678.965.5707 children to register to receive two starsandstrikes.com free games of bowling each day during the summer. Tweens and BowlMor teens might prefer Bowlmor, lo2175 Savoy Drive cated on Savoy Avenue near the Atlanta 30341 Perimeter, because it feels more 770.451.8605 like a family-friendly nightclub www.bowlmor.com/ atlanta than a typical bowling alley.

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In a mild-mannered strip mall just outside the Perimeter on Roswell Road sits a storefront labeled Catch Air—a front for a kid’s utopia. Leave your shoes at the entrance, and pass through the gate to a wonderland of bright colors, music, lights and fun. Catch Air is more than just a bounce house: slides end in a ball pit; a climbing wall is covered with smiling, brightly colored flowers; a carousel is made of giant balls; a life-sized piano resembles the one from Catch Air the movie “Big.” Tiny Town is a play space 5920 Roswell Road specifically for children under 4 feet tall.

Sandy Springs 30328 This place is so cool even celebrities like 678.882.1205 Elmo and Olaf stop by to groove on the catchairparty.com/ location/sandy-springs light-up dance floor and meet their fans.

Garden Hills Pool After all that activity, the kids may want to go back to hanging out at the pool. If that’s the case, head to the Garden Hills Park, tucked between East Wesley and Bolling roads. The pool is open to the public during day hours and to members only in the evenings. There is a diving board for older kids and kiddie pool for the very youngest guests. Outside the gates is a playground and sports field to pass the time during adult swim.

Garden Hills Pool 335 Pine Tree Drive N.E Atlanta 30305 404.848.7220 gardenhillspool.com

Atlanta Rocks After the initial excitement of summer, it’s not long before the kids are climbing the walls.

Let them, at Atlanta Rocks.

This indoor climbing gym off Collier Road has more than 12,000 square feet of professionally designed climbing surfaces, with 50 top rope stations. This is a great activity for the hardto-please tween and teen crowd.

In addition to belay climbs (a certified staff member assists), the facility offers auto-belay climbs for novices and bouldering that doesn’t need a harness.

Atlanta Rocks 1019 Collier Road N.W. Atlanta 30318 404.351.3009 atlantarocks.com

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QUEEN OF THE RING TERRI MOSS HAS THE EYE OF THE TIGER WHEN IT COMES TO BOXING

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ehind a nondescript door and down a steep set of stairs in a shopping strip off Buford Highway is Buckhead Fight Club. And at the center of it all is Terri “The Boss” Moss.

Moss, 50, a petite blonde who is all of 5-foot-1 and 107 pounds, owns and runs the 15,000-square-foot gym that looks like it could be straight out of a Rocky movie. Here, amid the graffitied walls, fight posters and punching bags, Moss and her crew train a roster of both male and female clients. A few do it just for the fitness aspect, but most are in it for the love of the sport and to compete in events such as the popular Atlanta Corporate Fight Nights Moss puts on each year to raise money for charity.

Moss is no lightweight when it comes to life in the ring. After attending the University of Georgia (she dropped out one semester shy of her degree), she worked in law enforcement for 14 years before leaving to box full-time in her mid30s. “I stumbled into the sport,” she recalls. A friend of hers had seen the movie Enough, which stars Jennifer Lopez as a woman who learns to box to defend herself against an abusive husband, and

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talked Moss into trying it with her.

“After a month, my friend dropped out, but I was hooked,” Moss says.

She had her first fight at 36. By her fifth fight, she was ranked No. 2 in the world in the strawweight division.

She remained in the Top 10 until retiring in 2008, and just last year she was inducted into the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame.

In addition to training boxers and running the gym, Moss is also a promoter and particularly passionate about getting women’s boxing the recognition it deserves. We met with Moss recently as she was prepping for a Ladies Fight Night event at the gym, and to watch her in action is like watching a mini tornado rip through town. She has the energy of a 19-year-old, and the body of one to match, and it’s easy to see how she’s accomplished so much in a predominately male-driven sport.

Here’s how her day unfolded.

9:15 a.m. A crowd is already gathered outside when Moss shows up to open the gym. Among them are youngsters participating in the Georgia Junior Olympic Championships being held there the next day. Moss immediately begins greeting the

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steady stream of visitors and attending to tasks in preparation for the weekend’s worth of events.

10 a.m. The boxers competing in Ladies Fight Night arrive for weighin. Over the next few hours, Moss is in full-on prep mode, overseeing everything from concessions and lighting to writing the script for the fight announcer. At one point, Moss is on a ladder, hanging a banner from the rafters, then jumps down to direct the deejay and catering folks to their spots in the VIP area. Amidst it all, she is bombarded with questions from the slew of boxers, referees, judges, doctors and other personnel necessary to put on one of these events.

4:30 p.m. Moss is running around— literally—attending to all the lastminute things that need to done before the first bell rings.

5 p.m. Moss switches into trainer mode since she has several fighters in the lineup. The main event features Georgia’s Golden Gloves champ Kelsey Smith, who also works as Buckhead Fight Club’s office manager. Moss begins taping her fighters’ hands and warming them up. From

seeing Moss’s intensity, speed and power as she hits with them, it’s clear she hasn’t lost any of the skills that made her a champ. As Smith enters the ring for her fight, Moss jumps up on a folding chair and begins shouting encouragement. Between rounds, she works Smith’s corner, wiping her down, giving her water and instructing her on technique.

Smith wins the bout.

8:25 p.m. The fights may be through, but Moss’s night is far from over.

Cleanup and administrative stuff still needs to be done. Due back at the gym at 6 a.m. the next day, she opines, “If I can get out of here at midnight, maybe I can get some sleep and be ready to start all over again tomorrow.” Does the constant pace ever get to her? It doesn’t seem to. “I just love the life in the ring,” she says. “There’s so much more to do than just box, and I think that’s what a lot of people don’t understand. It’s a whole little universe spinning with excitement, challenge, laughter, insight and triumph, and I seem to have made it my personal goal to experience everything there is to do in the sport, business and experience of boxing.” n

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“I can always glean inspiration when sitting on the patio drinking coffee and listening to the church bells ring.” - Summer Loftin

Designer, antiques dealer and entertaining enthusiast Summer Loftin loves her cloistered 1920s cottage, tucked away in the heart of Buckhead.

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In the main living room—formerly a garage—is a star-spangled Americana mirror from Scott Antique Markets. Checkerboard floors offer graphic pop, enhanced by the Jim Thompson silk pillows atop the English mahogany sofa.

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’m from Mississippi; we’re taught not to be self-promotional,” says Summer Loftin with a laugh. So don’t fret if you’re not already privy to her talents. The local designer, antiques dealer and jewelry collector in her early 30s has built a reputation as a traditionalist in an era when such styles have gone the way of chintz fabrics and checkerboard floors, Deco dog statues and diagonal stripes.

After managing Miami Circle’s Franya Waide Antiques & Interiors, Loftin formed her own LLC in 2005, around the same time she moved into the cloistered 1920s Buckhead cottage she’s called home for the better part of a decade. Renovated in the 1940s with a few extra architectural flourishes, the 1,000-square-foot brick residence is framed by magnolias and boxwood hedges and has been home to a colorful cast of characters over the years, including residential real estate tycoon Wes Vawter in the ’70s. It was

said he threw extravagant parties, and a few vestiges of red remain from when he painted the main living room a vibrant crimson. Loftin loves how the room’s fireplace and flanking bookshelves accommodate her vast design library, one she’s been building devotedly for as long as she’s had the means.

“I didn’t have access to design books, and definitely not the Internet, growing up,” Loftin says of her semi-isolated childhood on a 50acre farm in Columbia, Mississippi, where to this day seven of the family’s barns brim with furniture and design objects. “We’re basically generational hoarders,” jokes Loftin, whose primary design education was her grandmother’s diverse array of decorations: a mahogany upright piano, a stuffed bobcat and a velvet version of The Last Supper, to name a few.

Attracted to her unique mix of classicism and eclecticism, approximately half of her interior design clients reside in Buckhead, while

Above: The mannequin dressed in full Mardi Gras costume is one of her favorite conversation pieces.

“If a piece has made it 170 years, it’s going to make it that many more.”

– Summer Loftin

Above: This hallway between Lofton’s guest bedroom and bathroom is a space full of folk art from such talents as Ben Smith, R.A. Miller, Kip Ramey, Richard McKey and B.F. Perkins. Here also, a 19th-century Queen Anne-style gold cane Chinoiserie chair joins a Netherlandish petrified-wood side table.

Left: Atop a decoupaged 19thcentury American Empire demilune console is a painting by local folk artist Cornbread and an impressive grouping of crystal decanters.

“Anything less than 12 is not a collection,” Loftin says.

cious she needs to walk circles around them.

Instead, she incorporates them into daily life.

It is precisely their patina, history and collective wear-and-tear that make them so prized.

“If a piece has made it 170 years, it’s going to make it that many more,” Loftin points out.

One favorite example: The oyster burl walnut chest that sits in the hallway is English, Georgian and circa-1820s at the latest.

Far Eastern elements play prominently as well, such as the authentic Chinese wedding cabinet she’s retrofitted for the living room

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the rest are distributed as far afield as Lookout Mountain, Memphis, New Orleans and Mississippi. Loftin also sells items she culls from trips to Europe and U.S. auctions at Peachtree Battle Antiques and online through 1stdibs.com.

“I decorate for entire families: daughters, mothers, sisters. It’s fun to get to know the whole brood,” says Loftin, who is big on textiles and upholstery but remains especially sensitive to—and sentimental about—treasured family heirlooms. She champions quality but is never one to treat her acquisitions as so pre-

TV and a floral painted Mongolian chest that anchors a wall next to the kitchen.

“I’ll never be able to find pieces like this again for the price, so they’re probably some of the only ones that will stay.”

There are also numerous works of art with which Loftin will never part. Presiding over the bed of her miniature white schnauzer, Patton, is a portrait by folk artist Lois Curtis, who has also famously painted President Obama. You may also spy a painting by Atlanta icon “Cornbread” Anderson that was commissioned for the Bette Midler movie “Parental Guidance,” filmed here in 2011.

“They invite me in to buy sometimes after they break down the sets,” Loftin explains.

As a sign of the folk-art appreciation she’s developed from her volunteer and board member work at Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden, additional pieces by R.A Miller adorn

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her gallery hall, which also features a rare pastel drawing by New Orleans artist Ben Smith.

Also in the mix? An oversize portrait of Elton John in the guest room serves as the perfect complement to the bathroom’s equally groovy (original) 1970s metallic silver wallpaper. A rendering of a drunken sailor by a still-active French artist contributes kitsch in the living room. And Old-World-inspired portraits add European élan throughout. “When I was traveling abroad in my early 20s, I started collecting early 20th-century Dutch Art because it’s what I could afford,” she recalls. Though these paintings are still some of her most beloved, Loftin insists on mixing highbrow with low. That could include a cardboard cutout of Elvis, a mannequin in full Mardi Gras regalia—from sequined frock to feather headdress—or a 5-foot-tall stuffed ostrich atop the sideboard.

Of her abiding appreciation for taxidermy, Loftin says: “In kindergarten, before I had ever gone to a real zoo, I saw long rows of taxidermy animals lining the atrium of someone’s home”—a reference to the obscure surroundings of her youth. And considering her affection for such conversation pieces to this day—and lively conversation in general—it’s likely no surprise Loftin is big on entertaining, too.

“Tablecloths, napkins, serving pieces… I have a whole warehouse full. I could be a party planner,” she says of the linens, trays, plates and vessels she often hauls out for gracious gatherings with loved ones.

Since her house is usually packed with wares, the al fresco spaces are where everyone can stretch their legs on the outdoor furniture and enjoy snacks (her famous pimiento cheese, perhaps?), drinks (sweet tea with lemon, naturally) and jovial banter. Summertime in Buckhead is, after all, Summer’s time. n

Above: The guest room’s launching point was a “ridiculous” pair of needlepoint nun pillows Loftin found at Scott Antique Markets. There are also vintage posters, a red bathing suit sculpture and eye-catching portrait of Elton John.

Summer Loftin’s Antiquing Pointers l When shopping for antiques, seek pieces that show consistent wear over the entire object. If a table’s base is very worn while the edges of the tabletop are very crisp, it is probably a “married” piece, which means it consists of two parts with different histories that were eventually joined together.

Above: The master bedroom’s focal point is a fine-art watercolor print of yellow and white roses by Nick Burchell. It hangs over a 1920s Empire-style burl wood chest of drawers.

l If you purchase antiques that reflect your personal style, you will have a connection to them that goes beyond their monetary value. Even if you discover at a later date that the piece is not as old as the appraisal suggested, it will remain precious to you. l Don’t be afraid to “abuse” your antique furniture. These items have already survived through generations of use—and other people’s children, for that matter. l Celebrate textile designs you love by displaying them as works of art.

Costumes, scarves, quilts, hats and embroidered linens, for example, all make colorful and whimsical conversation pieces.

Above: Loftin’s miniature white schnauzer, Patton, loves to laze around in her whimsical outdoor entertaining space.

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Right: The bathroom features original 1970s wallpaper with a silvery sheen and a cheeky vintage serigraph by Frank Gallo.

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l If possible, I always try to salvage or restore vintage and antique wallpapers. They cost a fortune to replace, and most motifs seem to come back in fashion eventually anyway. summerloftinantiques.com

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Low-key prints and fabrics such as gingham and subdued stripes are versatile options for showing your “Born in the USA” pride. J. Crew’s BowShoulder Top in oversized gingham is a mostly red-hued combo of fuchsia and rust that gives off a flirty, feminine vibe. For another option, the Collection Off-The-Shoulder Top in yarn-dyed silk features a woven blue and navy print inspired by traditional madras. J. Crew also offers matching pants for the Off-The-Shoulder top and skirt for the BowShoulder if you want to coordinate a head-to-toe look.

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he Fourth of July may come and go, but don’t put away your red, white and blues just yet. After all, we have a presidential election coming. Just tone down the stars and stripes, and opt for patriotic pieces that show your American pride without looking like you’re wearing our country’s flag. Here, we give you fashionable flair to carry you from July 4 through Election Day.

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Wedging your bets The Gucci Carolina Platform Corded Wedge Sandals are fit to take the cake—or blueberry pie— with their nautical and nationalistic style. The red, white and blue cord-wrapped wedge accompanies a suede toe strap with a gold-tone signature horse bit that gives a little shine to your step.

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ummer vacay is a time to be more carefree in all aspects of your routine, including beauty. You might have left your curling iron at home and conveniently forgotten to pack your thick foundation. Good for you! But if you’re not planning to go completely barefaced (that’s cool, too), what should you carry in your makeup kit to maximize your more minimalistic look? Jenny Smith, lead makeup artist at NARS, which opened a stunning boutique in The Shops Buckhead Atlanta earlier this year, gives us the easy-breezy tips and products we need for a fresh daytime face and to transition into the evening with only a few additions.

SHEER JOY Select a sheer, bold, bright pink lipstick, such as NARS Sheer Lipstick in Roman Holiday ($28), that screams summer fun. Smith recommends just slicking it on your lips, no lip pencil needed!

DAY TO NIGHT: Add some cheek shine with a translucent blush. Wet your fingers, dip them into a shimmery blush, such as the two-toned NARS Dual-Intensity Blush ($45), and dab it on the apples of your cheeks for a luminous look.

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Choose a light, mattifying skin tint, such as NARS Velvet Matte Skin Tint SPF 30 ($44), that provides a bit more coverage than a very sheer tinted moisturizer yet isn’t as heavy as a typical foundation. “Blend a dimeor pea-sized amount with your fingertips from the center of your face out across the cheeks and down to jawline. Add more as needed,” Smith says.

DAY TO NIGHT: Use a highlighting stick, such as NARS Illuminating Multiple in Hot Sand ($30), to produce a natural-looking, light-reflecting glow wherever you want it on your face—a little on the nose, cheekbones and under the brow works.

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1. The dark pout. Don’t be afraid of trying out a vampy lip that’s borderline black. It’s very bold yet looks romantic. Tip: “Use a black lip liner over lips, and apply a color— red, blue or even pink—on top,” Smith says.

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2. Futuristic skin. Highlighted faces with an apocalyptic-chic feel are popping up all over red carpet events. The uplifting look replaces the heavy contouring trend.

Tip: “Add sheer highlighter to the bridge of your nose, on top of cheekbones and at eye corners.”

3. Sparkling eyes. Blue. White. Yellow.

Red. Silver. Pick a sparkling shadow in any color, and experiment wearing it in different ways. Tip: “Apply it as liner: smudge just a hint of it in the inner corner of the eyes, or cover the whole lid.”

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roup therapy, hypnosis, AA—these are all things that come to mind when we think about ways to help people dealing with issues such as addiction or trauma. But what about yoga and Pilates?

Across the city, fitness instructors are using their mind-body experience to help heal clients through movement. Read on to learn more about three of these individuals.

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Three instructors share how they’re healing clients through movement Leslie Clayton

Meryl Arnett

Yoga instructor, Synapse

Founder, Body Awareness Studio and Joyous Heart Network

Yoga instructor, Positive Impact Health Centers

The Instructor: Clayton, who has a background in dance, discovered Pilates while recovering from a serious car accident and eventually opened her own studio on Roswell Road. She’s also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. “My passion has been to help anyone who feels disconnected and numbed to find new pathways into feeling more alive in their body and in relationships with others,” she adds.

The Instructor: Arnett, a West Buckhead resident who teaches at studios such as Atlanta Hot Yoga in Buckhead, started working with the nonprofit Positive Impact Health Centers in 2013. “A friend asked if I’d create a class for Atlanta’s HIV population, and it evolved into something that helps those who are dealing with addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder,” she says.

The Instructor: Hufschmidt teaches at studios such as Solstice and Evolation Yoga and also leads teacher trainings around the world. His involvement with Buckhead’s Synapse, an outpatient program that supports teenagers and adults with a history of addiction, recovery and relapse with alcohol and drugs, began after a friend recommended him to the organization in 2016.

The Program: Yoga classes are open to anyone in the Synapse program. Since this means a variety of ages and fitness levels, Hufschmidt adapts each practice to the audience. However, there are some commonalities. Each class begins in a seated position to focus on the present moment, flows into a variety of joint-opening movements and poses, and ends with a resting period.

“For addicts in particular, many of them are disconnected from their body,” he says.

“It’s so satisfying to see them hold and breathe with ease in a pose they couldn’t do the first time I showed them. And by learning something new, they get new brain-body connections, which hopefully will help them redevelop their post-addiction brain,” Hufschmidt says.

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The Program: Clayton’s Sandy Springs studio offers both group Pilates reformer classes and private sessions that are open to clients from all backgrounds, not just those who’ve experienced trauma. During a private session, she always has the student first focus on the way his or her body feels at that moment (versus in the past). Then, using the fitness tools in the studio, Clayton creates a practice that is sensitive to the client’s needs and movement goals.

To complement her healing work at Body Awareness, in 2015, Clayton also founded the Joyous Heart Network, a service-oriented organization dedicated to supporting individuals and communities affected by any type of life trauma.

“We offer mind and body workshops to help survivors learn the skills they need to become healthy and joyful people, and we provide scholarships to help survivors attend, too,” she adds.

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The Program: Arnett co-leads the weekly class, which is open to 15 to 20 clients of the center, with a counselor.

Each class starts with 20 minutes of yoga, then the group gathers to discuss the practice and the topic of the day— usually something such as honesty or boundaries. It ends with 10 minutes of guided meditation.

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unting and gathering inspiration is a favorite pastime of Kelly Anthony.

Since 1996, the interior designer has run Wolf Design Group, an interior design company that boasts her maiden name, as well as Anthony-Wolf, an online marketplace, and Swoox, her 3,000-square-foot Buckhead consignment boutique, both of which are extensions of her design business and sell décor items, furniture, accessories and more. All of Anthony’s businesses require the globetrotter to collect ideas from around the world—something she has in common with her husband of 15 years, Justin, who is the mastermind behind Atlanta’s South African restaurants, including 10 Degrees South, Yebo Beach Haus, Cape Dutch and Biltong Bar. Anthony spends four to five months of the year traveling for far-flung clients and for pleasure, always returning to display her design prowess in her hometown. Here, she spills a few of her secrets.

Tell me about Swoox—the store and the name.

It’s definitely not your grandmother’s attic.

It’s a curated consignment boutique that features a mix of high-end furniture, accessories and new pieces. My store manager does an amazing job of putting them together in a way that’s so chic and of-the-moment. Everything feels collected, rather than purchased in one location. It’s designed to be a treasure hunt. And it’s a name I coined. It means “swoon” with a little something extra.

What are some of the brands you sell?

You might find Bradley, Missoni, Hermès accessories, Bernhardt and Hickory White.

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We gather pieces from everywhere and look to brands people recognize. Also, we have some amazing vintage items.

You’ve had a hand in designing all of your husband’s restaurants, haven’t you?

I have! They all really fit into our brand of being approachable and not corporate. We want people to feel good when they’re with us. Our style has happened naturally because it’s honest. They feel cohesive, but unique.

Growing up, did you know interior design was your passion?

I loved setting things up, even creating little vignettes for my dolls. I was always putting things together without recognizing that it was my gift. In high school, my friends’ moms would hire me to re-do their bathrooms or living rooms. I grew up in Port Orange, Florida, and we didn’t have a whole lot, so I wasn’t necessarily exposed to anything fancy or nice. Even in that simple environment, my brain worked differently.

Does Wolf Design Group do a mix of business interiors and residential?

I work across the board. I started out in highend residential, and clients began asking me to do work on their businesses. We’ve done

car dealerships, museums, wineries and much more across the country and abroad. We’re a boutique firm of just six employees by design, but we work on really big projects.

What vendors do you love?

I’m a nomad and buy things all over. I’m a big fan of Bradley, which has a showroom at ADAC in Buckhead. They’re innovative and make a great product. I always drool over Arhaus [at Phipps Plaza]. I do a lot of custom stuff with a couple of houses here in Atlanta and one in North Carolina. I physically build some of the pieces myself. I also love B.D. Jeffries.

The style and aesthetic is so classic. For a mix of antiques, I’ll shop South of Market.

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he would, perhaps, have had it no other way. While performing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in May, something she’d done for more than seven decades, 87-year-old Jane Little collapsed on stage and later that day passed away. She was a beloved ASO member whose commitment to music earned her a Guinness World Record for the longest professional tenure with a single orchestra. Just prior to her passing, Simply Buckhead had the honor to speak with Little about her remarkable career.

Minutes after Little was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, the doctor jokingly told her mother she had given birth to a musician. “Look at those [long] fingers,” he said.

His prophetic comment came true.

Raised in Atlanta where most of her family lived, Little was interested in the arts early on. At three she wanted to dance, and she did so for a few years before aspiring to play the piano. “I took lessons for a while but didn’t have anything to practice on,” she said. Later in junior high, she sang in the girls’ glee club and sextet.

Her life changed one day while attending Atlanta’s Girls High School. All the students had to take a music aptitude test, and afterward, she was called to the orchestra room and informed that she received a very high score. “I told [school officials] I didn’t play an instrument, and they were amazed,” she recalled. They suggested she play bass. A self-described 98-pound weakling, she didn’t cotton to the idea, but after taking some lessons, she grew to love it. Three months later she joined the orchestra and worked her

way up to principal bass player. The next year, 1945, the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra was formed, and she became a charter member. When the orchestra officially morphed into the ASO in 1947, she remained a part of it.

Aiming to study music, Little attended the University of Georgia that same year, but came home on weekends to play with the symphony. Tired of the commute, she left UGA and continued her studies at Georgia State but didn’t finish. The orchestra had grown, and she was finally getting paid. In 1950, she traveled to Chicago and studied with the principal bass player in the city’s symphony. “It was like going to music school,” she admitted.

Besides her work with the ASO, Little performed with the Chattanooga Opera, Chattanooga Symphony, Macon Symphony, Rome Symphony and Theater of the Stars. She was also part of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games’ opening and closing ceremonies for renowned composer John Williams.

During her ASO tenure, she worked with four musical directors, including the legendary Robert Shaw. Her audition for him fell on the day before Christmas, so the holiday was put on hold while she practiced for hours each day. “I knew

people were playing for their jobs,” she recalled. Her reward for a successful audition was a contract and promotion to co-principal bass player.

Tammy Hawk, spokesperson for the ASO, remembers Little as someone who was not only talented but disciplined.

“She was a beautiful person, inside and out,” Hawk says. “She was always smiling and laughing. She also had this incredible work ethic. She came to work every day, hair done, makeup done, always on time. Even when she was sick, she was still there. She was a great role model and mentor to others.”

A Sandy Springs resident since 1977, Little was married for 41 years to Warren Little, the ASO’s principal flautist who passed in 2002. They had no children but enjoyed spending time with their three nephews, a cousin across the street and several cats.

On Feb. 4, 71 years to the date from her first professional debut, her longevity was acknowledged as part of a symphony performance. She received a five-minute standing ovation. Her nieces brought flowers, and Little was interviewed on NBC’s “Nightly News.”

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Woof-worthy PORTRAITS

Above left: David Lefkovits created a company that turns pet photos into imaginative portraits.

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Above right: Artist Aziz Kadmiri works on a pet painting in the company’s Woodstock studio.

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Sandy Springs company turns pooch photos into fine art

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andy Springs resident David Lefkovits is an entrepreneur who doesn’t own a dog. But he knows a business opportunity when he sees one.

That instinct sparked the creation of his latest venture, an online site where owners can have their pets’ photos transformed into hand-painted portraits.

The germ of a business idea was planted when a friend posted a photo of his pet on Facebook, and the image garnered so many “likes” that Lefkovits spotted an opportunity. After testing the concept, he launched My Pooch Face 10 months ago. The complete website debuted in May. “I wanted a site to target very specialized markets,” says the Venezuela native who came to the U.S. to study industrial engineering at Georgia Tech and now considers himself a “serial entrepreneur.”

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“The first thing we did was create a Facebook page for My Pooch Face. We posted images of some whimsical portraits by our master artist, Aziz Kadmiri. The response was phenomenal, with lots of ‘likes’ and [people] asking how they could commission one of these ‘pawtraits’ of their own dogs. We then started targeting specific pet-loving Facebook audiences throughout the U.S., and the response was even more significant. I knew then we were onto something big.”

Lefkovits has tapped into the strong emotions owners have for their furry companions. To date, almost 1,000 people have ordered personalized portraits that are completed by one of the 12 artists in the company’s Woodstock, Georgia studio.

“People love it,” Lefkovits says.

“Half of our orders are gifts to someone who loves a pet; the

other half are folks memorializing their pets. They call us, crying with happiness when they see the portraits. It brings a lot of comfort, and it’s rewarding for us to see the passion these owners have.”

Each commissioned work begins with an owner registering online and uploading photos of the pet to be painted. A detailed questionnaire aims to zero in on the pet’s personality. From the information, an artist produces an acrylic work on canvas that is ready to hang. The entire process takes about four weeks, and, depending on the size of the painting, can cost between $500 and $1,500.

Artist Kadmiri’s goal is to give each portrait a unique style that conveys each pet’s personality.

To do that, he carefully reads the detailed information pet owners upload about their pets.

“I love the stories they share,” he says. “It helps me know them more. I look at the dog, and he tells me his personality through his eyes. You want to capture the playfulness that these pets have.

Reading their stories, I know each dog like my own, and I do everything I can to bring this dog to life on the canvas.”

Lefkovits also plans to launch a digital portrait option with prices starting in the mid-$100s.

And even though the company is called “My Pooch Face,” it’s not just about dogs.

“We’ve expanded the system we built around dog lovers to other pets,” Lefkovits says.

“We’ve already done several cute cats and a zebra.” n

Information about My Pooch Face is online at Mypoochface.com.

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A photo legacy Co-authors uncover the man behind the National Park Service lens

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he National Park Service celebrates its 100th birthday this year, and special events are happening across the country to mark the milestone. One Brookhaven couple will be closely involved in many of those activities as they travel around the country with their latest book, Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service.

Co-authors Ren and Helen Davis stumbled upon the book’s story while doing research for one of their guidebooks. The couple, who married in 1979, built a busy second career as travel and feature writers even while they worked day jobs—Ren as an administrator at Emory Healthcare for more than 30 years and Helen as a director of the day nursery at Crawford Long Hospital. Both retired in 2009, but are still writing and publishing.

This latest tome grew out a story the two produced about the legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Georgia.

“That came out in 1998, but it whetted my appetite,” Ren says. “I realized it was a bigger story than just Georgia.

So Helen and I began exploring other places where the Corps had an impact.

We started building files, thinking we’d

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do a guidebook about the legacy of the Corps in the state and national parks, about how if you can stay in a cabin or have lunch in a picnic shelter at one of these parks, you’re probably in a structure men built 80 years ago.”

For almost six years, the couple took their young son along on working vacations to visit national parks where the Corps left a legacy. On a 2012 trip to Charleston, West Virginia, they were scanning photos of Corps workers when Helen commented, “It looks like Ansel Adams took these,” referring to the renowned landscape photographer.

“The vivid black-and-white images were credited to the National Park Service, but were all taken by George Grant, the first chief photographer of the National Park Service from 1929 to 1954,” Ren says.

Over the next two years, the couple made six trips back to Charleston to scan more photos and to dig into Grant’s history. They discovered the lifelong bachelor, who died in 1964, had nieces living in Maryland, and they spent a day with the women, reminiscing about “Uncle George.” The story of Grant’s life and work, along with 170 of his photographs, came together in the book published last fall by University of Georgia press.

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“We refer to him as the unknown elder of American landscape photography, but he’s gotten very little recognition in his lifetime,” Ren says.

More National Park visitors and photography enthusiasts will learn about Grant this summer as the Davises tour the country speaking about him and signing copies of their book, which has turned out to be one of their most successful ventures.

“It has a national scope, and though it doesn’t have New York Times best-seller numbers, we’re very happy,” Ren says. “I say that from it being No. 1 on Amazon on two occasions [in its category of books of/or about photographers].” The book is also going into Copies of LANDSCAPES FOR THE PEOPLE: a second GEORGE ALEXANDER GRANT, FIRST printing after CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE NAan initial press TIONAL PARK SERVICE, are available on run of 4,000 Amazon.com and through Barnes & Noble. copies. n More information is online at ugapress.org.

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Don’t mess with Houston’s P56

On the Atlanta landscape for nearly four decades, Houston’s is suddenly hot again; our critic explains why.

At Houston’s, your vodka martini with blue-cheese olives will never reach room temperature, because a server is always standing by with a freshly chilled glass.

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Above: At Houston’s, even a simple pre-meal nosh like rosemary focaccia is delicious and beautifully presented; the old-fashioned spinach-and-artichoke dip is an ’80s throwback that never goes out of style. .

Right: Thai steak and noodle salad is a perfect marriage of sweet and salty, and a brilliant dish for summer.

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id you know that one of America’s best-loved restaurants has been quietly minding its business in Atlanta since 1978?

Named for a dynamic city in the founders’ home state of Texas, part of a national chain that now includes nearly 50 restaurants in 15 states, home of the Famous French Dip sandwich and the legendary spinach-and-artichoke spread, beloved by grandmothers who clutch pearls and celebrity chefs who covet James Beard medals: It’s Houston’s we speak of.

Sure, Houston’s probably won’t make the list of any highfalutin, big-city restaurant critic. Most assuredly, it’s not where you go for fancy foams, smoking cocktails, powdered this or deconstructed that. And yet Houston’s—part of the Beverly Hills-based Hillstone Restaurant Group—has earned a devoted following, thanks to its consistently good, all-American food; its commitment to customer comforts; and its flagrant disregard for culinary razzle-dazzle.

I enjoyed visiting Atlanta’s first Houston’s (the second restaurant in the entire chain) on Lenox Road back in the ’80s, when din-

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ing options in the city were scattered, and spinach salad with honey-mustard dressing was the latest thing. (Houston’s West Paces branch appeared on Northside Parkway in 1982, followed by Peachtree Road in 1988.)

A decade or so later, on a visit to Miami, I was puzzled to hear that the new Houston’s was the “in” spot. “Really?” I thought. “So ’80s.”

Then I forked into an exceptionally crisp, luxuriously dressed Cobb salad, admired the handsome room and the well-dressed crowd and wondered why I didn’t eat at Houston’s more often. But let’s face it: Atlanta is the kind of town that has exciting new restaurants opening left and right, and though I stopped by Houston’s on Peachtree occasionally, I wasn’t exactly addicted. But when a couple of Buckheaddwelling cronies told me recently that it’s their top neighborhood choice, I decided to give it a whirl.

Smart decision.

Sitting in the farthest corner booth of the clubby, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired room, I ordered a springy Jackrabbit cocktail (tequila, Campari, fresh grapefruit and mint) and scooped a corn chip into the gooey spinach-

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and-artichoke dip, possibly the most genius recipe to emerge from the ’80s. Waiter, bring me a bib. (Oh, wait. Every Houston’s napkin has a buttonhole in one corner: It’s the businessman’s best friend, saver of thousands of white shirts and silk ties.) If that luscious dip makes you feel the earth move, no worries: The table won’t budge. That’s because every table in the Houston’s kingdom is bolted to the floor to avoid the pesky bobbling-table sensation that’s sunk many a promising dinner. By my second visit, when the server asked if she could replace my martini glass with a newly-chilled vessel, I understood how the Houston’s mystique has oozed into the national psyche.

My Ketel One martini (dry, straight up, with blue-cheese-stuffed olives) was the perfect pick-me-up on a swelteringly hot day. I nibbled the focaccia bread appetizer (which comes with almonds, a big dab of butter and ginormous marinated olives scattered with fennel slices and thyme twigs); struck up a conversation with my server (a nice kid from Virginia who is studying for her nursing exam); and moved on to my entrée.

Left: The famous French Dip may look rather ordinary, but it’s a favorite of some of America’s top chefs, like Momofuku’s David Chang.

Below: Paired with cool, herb-flecked tabbouleh, Houston’s rotisserie chicken hits all the right notes.

Above: The Hawaiian rib-eye and loaded baked potato are a Houston’s classic.

Left: The Club Salad, Houston’s take on a Cobb, is decked out with crispy chicken, smoky bacon and chopped egg.

Below: Start your experience with a Jackrabbit cocktail, a refreshing summer drink made with tequila, Campari, grapefruit juice and mint.

With deep roots in Atlanta, Houston’s has endured the test of time to become an American icon.

That would be the Thai steak and noodle salad, a sweet-salty mélange of tender filet, avocado, mango, tomatoes, fragrant herbs and crunchy peanuts. For those who have the willpower to resist the famous French dip (paper-thin slivers of prime rib on a housemade roll with a ramekin of au jus for dipping) and the classic cheeseburger, Houston’s makes exceptional salads.

Sure, maybe some things are a little too sweet (the otherwise perfectly executed Hawaiian rib-eye, marinated with soy, ginger and pineapple). Or they may need a bit of salt (the otherwise dreamy loaded baked potato that comes with the steak). But other dishes are downright marvels. Consider the rotisserie chicken, with its crispy, herb-encrusted skin.

I love the way the bird soaks up the juices of the bright, perky tabbouleh that comes on the side. It’s a memorable marriage, at once warm and comforting, cool and tingly.

When it comes to desserts, Houston’s sticks with the classics: hot-fudge sundaes, warm apple-walnut cobblers, key-lime pies. I’ve had rich brownies, but the five-nut version served here is a mighty powerful dose of chocolate.

Fasten your napkin! You’re in for sloppy ride—

Above: The five-nut brownie is a decadent overload of chocolate, served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

of sinful chocolate and melting vanilla.

As I began to research this review, my dining companion sent me a link to Bon Appetit’s recent ode to the Hillstone family of restaurants

by Atlanta homeboy Andrew Knowlton. Seems Momofuku chef David Chang is a big fan of the French dip. Shake Shack’s Danny Meyer loves the crispy chicken sandwich. Well, count me in, guys. It’s taken a minute, but I’m happy to be back on the Houston’s horse. n

HOUSTON’S 2166 Peachtree Road N.W. 30309 404.351.2442 hillstone.com/houstons Prices: Starters: $4-$15. Salads: $13-$20. Burgers and sandwiches: $18-$20. Entrees: $25-$45.

Recommended: Jackrabbit cocktail. Spinach-andartichoke dip. Rotisserie chicken with tabbouleh.

Thai beef and noodle salad. Warm five-nut brownie.

Bottom line: A chain, yes, but also a classic.

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Clockwise from far left: Pine Ridge Chenin Blanc + Viognier is recommended

by Manjula deSilva at Sherlock’s Wine Merchant; Ian Mendelsohn recommends Horton Viognier, which is produced in Orange County, Virginia; Pair a glass of viognier with Vine & Tap’s Spanish octopus dish; Vine & Tap’s Mendelsohn.

A VISION IN WHITE FLORAL VIOGNIER JUST MIGHT BE THE GRAPE YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS SUMMER

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rue, it’s a heavier white than your typical summery riesling or pinot grigio, yet its incredible nose and lush body earn it a worthy place at your summer supper. Allow us to introduce you to your new favorite white: viognier (pronounced “vee-oh-gnyay”).

“It’s not widely planted, but it’s one of the major grapes of the world,” says Ian Mendelsohn, owner and sommelier at Buckhead’s Vine & Tap. “It’s a very difficult grape to grow. It can be too fat with no acid or too thin with too much acid, and it requires a long hang time.” When you take this into account, as well as viognier’s typically low yield, the wines don’t reach the volume of other famous whites, such as sauvignon blanc or chardonnay, for instance.

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Some of the best growers of the grape are located in France, where ancient viognier vines produce topcaliber bottles. The Rhone Valley’s Condrieu and Château-Grillet appellations, or wine growing regions, are highly regulated specifically for viognier (think of it as the regulation that goes with the certified organic designation in the U.S., but more expensive). Since the ’80s and ’90s, when an interest in wines surged, viognier spread its reach with production in other parts of the world, including the U.S.—predominately in Washington, California and Virginia.

Medium-to-full bodied, this aromatic white enchants with a floral nose and a peach and honeysuckle palate that also make viognier a go-to pairing choice. “Paired with

duck, it’s absolutely delicious,” Mendelsohn advises. Also try it with grilled seafood, cheese, poultry or pork with a fruity accompaniment (such as peach compote), or simply enjoy it on its own.

Since viognier is not a household name, it doesn’t appear as frequently on restaurant menus. The next time you do see it, try it (Buckhead establishments Gypsy Kitchen, King + Duke and Vine & Tap are all safe bets). Ask your server or bartender if there are any viognier blends you may have overlooked (the wine is a popular blending grape), and always look to local wine stores such as Buckhead’s Sherlock’s Wine Merchant and H&F Bottle Shop as starting points when shopping for a bottle. n

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GET SCHOOLED Interested in learning more about viognier and other wines? Keep a look out for Vine & Tap’s upcoming wine classes, starting later this fall. Mendelsohn will offer master classes as well as a more intensive Windows on the World wine session.

DETAILS: Vine & Tap 2770 Lenox Road N.E. Atlanta 30324 404.600.5820 vineandtapatl.com

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Culinary News & Notes

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IT’S NATIONAL OYSTER DAY! August 5 is National Oyster Day, and the only thing that’s better than spending a hot summer day slurping down a few dozen salty mollusks from one of these Buckhead spots is chasing them with cold champagne or cocktails.

s St. Cecilia’s chilled ST. CECILIA oysters on the half shell; the Pull up a stool at the crudo restaurant also serves $3 bar at Ford Fry’s Mediteroysters off its La Strada bar menu from 4 to 7 p.m. ranean-inspired seafood house for a round of six chilled oysters on the half shell. Here they’re served with moscato mignonette (minced shallots, pepper and vinegar traditionally Seven Lamps served with oysters), frozen 3400 Around champagne grapes and Lenox Road house-made chile sauce.

VINE & TAP This Buckhead gastropub features a killer oyster happy hour every day from 5 to 7 p.m., when the $3 daily oysters are just a buck apiece, even on weekends. They’re served with cocktail sauce and mignonette granita (the frozen version), so all you need to do is pick your perfect happy hour pairing from the massive drinks menu.

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SEVEN LAMPS The dining is communal at Chef Drew van Leuvan’s Buckhead spot, but that makes sharing the iced oysters on the half shell with friends a lot easier.

East coast oysters are $3 each, and west coast $3.50 each, but on weekdays from 5 to 7 p.m. you can get east coasters for only $1 apiece.

Aria’s new look It’s been 16 years since Aria opened its doors in Buckhead, and now chef and owner Gerry Klaskala has taken the iconic restaurant to new heights once again with a beautiful makeover that elevates the dining experience. Stacey Kirby of Atlanta’s Seiber Design created the new look with a goal of “taking away the formality and bringing more radiance and texture into the space.” The stark white downstairs dining room has been updated with warm tones—rich gray walls, canary yellow draperies and new light gray leather banquettes. The upstairs dining room features a mixture of white oak tabletops and leather seating. Mirrors mounted in both

s Rich gray walls, yellow draperies and new leather banquettes are a few highlights of Aria’s recent makeover.

spaces create a more spacious feel. The original bar area was expanded, and a white marble bar top and walnut back bar was added for a casual dining spot. Aria’s exterior remains its trademark white, but new black accents were added to the door and windows, giving them extra pop. A few interior elements also remain, such as white tablecloths (this is Aria, after all). Several pieces of the restaurant’s iconic artwork, including its signature Aria chandelier and dog 490 East Paces Ferry sculptures, were also Atlanta 30305 incorporated back 404.233.7673 into the design. n aria-atl.com

FOOD NEWS n The Woodruff Arts Center’s Twelve Eighty – Inspired Dining restaurant in Midtown got a bit of a facelift recently.

The rehab included new furniture, logo design and menu options. The updated name, “Inspired

out when the next to-go event will be. Until then, curb your chicken biscuit cravings by ordering from the restaurant’s breakfast or brunch menu.

Dining,” reflects its ties to The Woodruff Arts Center and its staff’s passion for creating chefdriven, global cuisine and handcrafted cocktails.

The restaurant is open to the public as well as Arts Center patrons.

Photo: David Danzig

n Fans of Chef Suzanne Vizethann’s chicken biscuits can now get them on the go at a pop-up stand behind her restaurant, Buttermilk Kitchen in Buckhead.

As it isn’t an everyday thing, follow Buttermilk Kitchen on social media @ButtermilkKitch to find

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n Vero Pizzeria in Brookhaven has added lunch service throughout the summer on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Chef Matt Swickerath’s sandwiches, salads and Neapolitan pies will be available starting at noon on weekends. Pizzas are cooked in about two minutes in the restaurant’s Acunto pizza oven, cast of clay from Mount

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Vesuvius’ volcanic rock.

The restaurant, which opened last year, is the sister restaurant to Brookhaven favorites Haven and Valenza.

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uckhead-resident Karen Pagano has been working in the hospitality industry since age 14. From waiting tables at Takorea and Saltyard to studying food photography at SCAD and marketing the restaurant tech startup Orderly, she’s always been focused on engaging people with food and drink. When the Washington, D.C.-based Industree Group, a networking group for food and beverage professionals, lost its Atlanta funding, Pagano took matters into her own hands and created Nosh Talks.

“The whole mission is to get people within the industry together, learning and growing and providing a platform for everyone to network, and really to have fun, drink and eat and talk about what we all love,” Pagano says.

Nosh Talks hosts bimonthly events and industry socials that are open to the public.

The inaugural event was a Booze Schmooze panel discussion featuring Trip Sandifer of The Painted Pin and Andres Loaiza of Aria.

There are no membership fees; instead, event tickets are available for $10 to $40.

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schools in Atlanta and will have a list of local chefs who want to bring on a culinary student for a set period of time,” Pagano says. “I have an amazing advisory board, [including] Todd Rushing of Concentrics, Melissa Libby of Melissa Libby & Associates, Gerry Klaskala of Aria, Nick Leahy of Saltyard and Naomi Green of The Giving Kitchen.”

Below, she shares her goals, her favorite restaurant hangouts and her views on the hospitality industry in Atlanta today.

What do you think are the biggest challenges in the Atlanta food and beverage industries today?

A huge challenge is finding great staff who will be loyal to your company. I think [the solution] is developing the culture in your restaurant and having it be positive. Mentorship is a huge part of that. Social media in general is a challenge with Yelp and reviews. It’s always a battle against what people are saying.

It seems like a lot of restaurants are starting industry nights or serving late-night specials for those in the business.

What are your favorites?

I love Marcel late night Fridays and Saturdays.

They have really great cocktails, and the bar is really cool. One of my favorites is Saltyard.

It is kind of my restaurant home. [Executive Chef] Nick Leahy is willing to take anyone under his wing. The food is incredible.

What’s your dream photo shoot?

I specialize in weddings, interiors and food.

I love doing chef portraits, especially the plating and design aspects. I would like to do fine dining like Bacchanalia or Restaurant Eugene.

A decadent display would be really fun.

What are your goals, both personally and professionally?

My goal for Nosh Talks is to grow a sense of community. I would like everyone to come together to talk about how they can make their businesses better.

Growing up, I wanted to open a coffee shop, and I still would like to do that.

The whole aspect of creating regulars, getting to know people over a coffee bar and hearing their stories is really important to me. You get to know people more in the coffee shop environment. n

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1KEPT KITCHEN & BAR This hidden, club-like space took over the home of old-school French restaurant Toulouse in 2013. Manned by a trio of chefs with equal authority, the collaborative kitchen strives to keep up with the contemporary culinary game.

When they nail it—with the likes of pimento cheese boards, fresh seasonal salads, old-fashioned pecan pies, killer brownies and what is surely the best steak-frites in town—you’ll find yourself sated and happy. Start with a classic Sazerac. Then drink in the ambience. Proprietor Thaddeus Keefe attended Buckhead’s Atlanta International School as a lad, and this is his vision of the neighborhood of today: young, prosperous and ready to embrace the good life.

Salads, starters and flatbreads: $6-$14 Entrees; $20-$27 1kept.com

BABYLON CAFÉ When Iraqi native Saad Marwad and his wife, Kelly Rafia, opened Babylon Café in 2014, the city’s foodie community started to buzz about the couple’s fresh, flavorful repertoire of Middle Eastern classics, from falafel and hummus to kebabs and baklava. While the starters are quite good—try the fattoush salad, the lentil soup and the eggplant

badenjan—the earthy, long-simmered stews are unlike anything else in town.

We like the herb-based qurma sabzi with super-tender lamb shank and the bamia (okra and tomatoes) with oxtail.

Don’t leave with out a sip of the aniseflavored aperitif called “arak” and a bite of kanafeh, a sweet made of shredded phyllo, housemade sweet cheese, roseand orange-water syrup and pistachios.

Appetizers and sides: $2-$7 Entrées: $12-$20 babyloncafeatl.com

CHAMA GAUCHA Chama Gaucha is the latest addition to what is turning into a Brazilian-steakhouse strip along Piedmont Road. It has an appealing price point, a wonderfully fresh salad bar and, for meat lovers, an endless parade of gauchos bearing skewers of flame-kissed prime rib, pork loin, sausage, lamb, chicken, shrimp, and on and on—all you care to eat for a set price. Start with a classic lime caipirinha. Try the meats that look good to you, and remember to pace yourself. The filet and the picanha (thin, delicate strips of prime sirloin) won’t let you down, but the most memorable cut is the rich, succulent, super-fatty meat that’s carved from the beef rib. Heaven.

Dinner: $44.50 (Salad bar only: $24.50) Lunch: $26.50 (Salad bar only: $19.50) chamagaucha.com

1Kept celebrates the season with a bright salad of beets, strawberries, rhubarb, arugula, candied pecans and blue-cheese crumbles.

CO’M VIETNAMESE GRILL In a Buford Highway strip mall on the edge of Brookhaven, Co’m has for some time now been my favorite place for the vibrant, aromatic flavors of the Southeast Asian nation that ownerbrothers Duc and Henry Tran once called home. While Atlanta has pho shops aplenty, the stars here are the rice and noodle dishes, which can be ordered with heavenly grilled meats, chicken or fish. The pièce de résistance, though, is the grilled grape-leaf rolls, stuffed with bits of beef, lamb, salmon, duck or tofu; doused in a pool of sweet-fishy vinaigrette and sprinkled with crushed peanuts and crispy fried scallions. Heaven!

Appetizers: $3-$10 Entrées: $7-$18 comgrillrestaurant.com

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Babylon Café’s Middle Eastern appetizers called “mezza” are beautiful and abundant: tahini-dressed eggplant badenjan (left); a platter with heaped with falafel, hummus, “dulma” and baba ghanoush; fattoush salad (rear) and tabbouleh (right).

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The Piedmont Avenue location of burger-preneur Alex Brounstein’s success story is where you go for a superbly flavorful, juice-dripping, napkin-soaking beef patty with all the trimmings. Though you can customize your sandwich, consider the signature “Cowboy” treatment: cheddar, bacon, barbecue sauce and a beer-battered onion ring—for a slim $7.99. To gild the

lily, add an order of Frings (that’s fries and rings), and ask for a side of the chipotle ranch dipping sauce. Here you can quaff a draft brew, slurp down a boozy shake, like the banana-flavored Puddin’ Out, or sip a “Snooty” cocktail such as the mezcal-based El Guapo.

Burgers: $4.50-$7.99 Starters and sides: $2.50-$5.50 grindhouseburgers.com

JOY CAFÉ Every Sunday at sunrise, Joy Austin Beber goes to her Buckhead café and makes a whopping pile of her greatgrandmother’s biscuits. After church, she serves a hallelujah chorus of a brunch: fluffy buttermilk pancakes; eggs Benedict; and those famous biscuits topped with gravy, sausage and scrambled eggs. I arrived at the 3 p.m. cutoff for the breakfast-y brunch items, and enjoyed a terrific cobb salad with loads of blue cheese, bacon, avocado, boiled egg and grilled chicken. The Joy’s pièce de résistance, though, is the Crack Pie, with its oatmeal-cookie crust and gooey interior. Joy got a kick out of hearing that I am wack for her crack. This selftaught chef keeps it simple and fresh.

Brunch: $7-$14 Lunch: $8-$12 joycafeatl.com

KR STEAKBAR Atlanta chef Kevin Rathbun’s only Buckhead restaurant feels customtailored for the community. A contemporary nocturnal cubbyhole where small plates rule, wine flows and the air bristles with excitement, the fashionable “steakbar” concept finds Rathbun and chef de cuisine Jessica Gamble fusing two venerable concepts: meat and Italian. Here, nearly everything speaks with a perky Mediterranean lilt: amari-kissed cocktails; steak doused with espresso sauce; heavenly olive-oil cake with almond brittle and citrus cream. (Pastry chef Kylie Akiyama is terrific.) Hidden touches, like the speakeasy-style bar behind the kitchen and a patio that feels like a sunken garden, make us want to continue to explore this romantic spot.

Antipasti: $6-$19 Pasta: $12-$16 Entrées: $18-$68 krsteakbar.com

LITTLE BANGKOK Little Bangkok is a decidedly humble hole-in-the-wall, yet many Atlanta ethnic-foodies insist that it is their favorite go-to joint for casual Thai. Not the fussy business of intricately carved radishes and gilded bowls. Not the throwaway curries and stir-fries of lastchance airport concessions and mall food courts. Little Bangkok is that happy place somewhere in the middle—a spot where the spring rolls are always crispy and the pad thai always a plate of tangy-sweet comfort, and where adventuresome diners can savor the green-peppercorn bite of spicy catfish and the sweet, Rice-Krispie weirdness of mee krob. At its best, Little Bangkok is like a brief, belly-pleasing adventure to the Land of Smiles.

Entrées: $8-$18 littlebangkokatlanta.com

PANAHAR BANGLADESHI CUISINE Anyone who has a passing familiarity with Indian food will feel right at home at this exotic-yet-homespun Buford Highway hole-in-the-wall. The $9.99 lunch buffet is a delicious way to sample the flavorful, aromatic cuisine of Bangladesh, which often uses less spice and more coconut milk than its sister region in Northern India.

At dinner, you may take advantage of the BYOB policy, bringing wine or beer to wash down the highly appealing biryanis, kormas, tandooris and other delights of the Bengali table, including many here with beef.

Appetizers: $4-$6 Mains: $11-$15 panaharbangladeshi.com

A 6-ounce filet with carrots, pistachio and orange from KR Steakbar is delicious and beautiful.

PASTA VINO You can surely find trendier pizza parlors or posher places to eat Italian in Atlanta. But if you are looking for old-fashioned linguini with clam sauce or chicken Florentine in a relaxed and inviting atmosphere with a loyal following, this Buckhead favorite has got you covered. The restaurant is beloved by many for its home-style cooking, casual ambiance, reasonable prices and a staff of servers who have acquired faithful

customers of their own. Owner Nancy Powell treasures her crew, most of whom have been on the job for more than 10 years. Given the refined state of Italian dining in America today, Pasta Vino is not likely to win any awards for innovation or inspiration. But it remains a perfectly fine, frequently delicious, middle-of-the-road trattoria.

Starters and salads: $2-$10 Entrées: $10-$22 pastavinoatlanta.com

WATERSHED ON PEACHTREE Co-owned by Indigo Girl Emily Saliers and restaurateur Ross Jones, Watershed is a restaurant with a storied, personality-driven past. It started as a walk-up sandwich shop in Decatur, won a James Beard Award for chef Scott Peacock and moved to Buckhead in 2012. Recently, chef Zeb Stevenson took over the kitchen, and his Southern and sometimes French-accented food is a decided improvement over predecessor Joe Truex. We are crazy about the dreamy chicken-liver mousse, smoked-trout brandade and Appalachian cider beans, a cassoulet-like play on pork and beans. A self-taught cook who brings soul, excitement and the occasional spark of genius, Stevenson is less interested in replicating the greatest hits of the past than cooking straight from the heart. We should all respect that.

Appetizers: $8-$16 Entrees: $9-$18 at lunch, $20-$35 at dinner watershedrestaurant.com

At Panahar, tandoori lovers can indulge in platters of chicken, lamb, kebabs, shrimp and chicken tikka.

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BUCKHEAD'S RISING STARS SEVEN SHINING LOCAL TALENTS WHO ARE MAKING THEIR MARKS

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In the third installment of Buckhead’s Rising Stars, we meet seven locals sprung from various industries who are taking their careers and callings to the top. These over-achievers range from 27-year-old Atlanta Hawk Kent Bazemore, an indisputably talented NBA young-gun, to doctor, mother and media personality Darria Long Gillespie, who uses her Yale University Medical degree and Harvard MBA to help others. They come from distinct backgrounds and possess unique talents, but each is driven to be the best of the best in their chosen fields. Read on to learn what makes each of of these individuals worth watching.

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n the surface, Danielle Mason Hosker, the creative force behind Mason Hosker, has enjoyed the kind of seemingly fast success aspiring fashion designers love to hate. Here’s the short version: Hosker began designing in late 2014, motivated by a void she saw in the market for garments that were both feminine and powerful. In 2015, she sourced luxurious fabrics and had patterns and dress samples made. She took the garments around the country, targeting a cadre of ultra-high-style boutiques. An influential buyer connected her with a star-making fashion mentor, and this year her designs are being picked up nationwide, including at Tootsies in Buckhead. It sounds easy, doesn’t it? Dig just a little bit deeper, and it’s clear the adage of “the harder I work, the luckier I get” rings true for this enterprising designer.

“I never aspired to be fashionable,” the diminutive 37-year-old brunette explains over coffee in her Brookhaven neighborhood, though her chic black-and-white ensemble makes her look effortlessly pulled together. However, as a ballet dancer growing up, she was fascinated by the elegance of the female form in motion. She started her first business, the nonprofit Dancefx, in 2000 while still a senior at the University of Georgia. Hosker led the professional performance group and launched dance education classes at her Athens studio, cultivating it into one of the 100 fastest-growing companies by UGA graduates three years in a row. She also realized that her style of choreography highlighted women’s beauty and strength, and it took the audience on an emotional journey. “Now, I create fashion that does the same thing,” the entrepreneur and mom explains.

In 2014, after opening Dancefx outposts in Charleston (2008) and Atlanta (2011), and while scouting domestically produced fabric for a bedding company she was building, she found herself waking in the middle of the night to design dresses.

“I thought, ‘I have to do this, if just to get it out of my system,’” she recalls.

She sketched dresses, then worked with a technical renderings designer, pattern maker and finally a sample maker to create her first “mini” 12item line. It featured what would

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become her signature elements of exposed zippers, sumptuous fabrics (faille, duchess satin and jacquard), structured construction and flattering feminine detailing.

In March 2015, three days and three women changed her course forever. On a Friday, a buyer in Raleigh saw the collection and liked it enough to encourage Hosker to fly to Washington, D.C., which she did on that following Monday to show it to Lashea Green, a buyer at the legendary Saks Jandel. Green connected her with Jodi Sandman at Crescala Fashion Development in New York’s Garment District, who asked her to fly up—with her samples in tow—on

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Tuesday. Sandman, who has shaped up-and-coming designers such as Nha Kahnh and Stephanie Waldrip (a line worn by Taylor Swift), signed the Mason Hosker line that very day.

Since then, Hosker has maintained a grueling schedule of traveling to New York sometimes weekly to create her collection, which ranges in price from $500 to $1,500, and make it attractive to top-tier retailers. It’s working.

Pieces from her 20-item fall 2016 collection will be available starting in August at several retailers nationwide, including Rent the Runway.

While the boutiques are snapping up her designs, perhaps most gratifying is how women are responding.

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Sandy Springs-based doctor and entrepreneur Shivani Bhatia discovered Mason Hosker a year ago and is already a fan. “The esthetic is classic, but with a slight edge,” she says.

“There are few American designers who have achieved this level of refinement.” It’s high praise from someone who regularly wears designers such as Dior, Céline and Valentino (one of Hosker’s favorites).

“If I can create garments that help a woman feel confident, empowered and beautiful, I’m happy,” Hosker says. Armed with her trademark creativity, eye for details and dowhatever-it-takes work ethic, it’s clear that her star is on the rise. n

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ent Bazemore, is rising–no, soaring–to great heights.

His athletic prowess, easy-going personality and unselfish play have made him an Atlanta Hawks fan favorite.

Growing up in Kelford, North Carolina, a tiny town with a population of approximately 250, the 6-foot, 5-inch “Baze” was a self-professed “out-ofcontrol young ’un.” His entourage was a group of 15 kids, aged elementary to high school, with whom he played football, baseball and basketball.

“It was a great way to grow up, with a melting pot of personalities,” he recalls.

In eighth grade, when Bazemore grew 4 inches with no weight gain, he gave up his first love of football and took up track instead. He worked out rigorously the summer before 11th grade, and that year was named All-State in track. During this time, he also continued to improve his basketball game.

It was at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, that basketball became his focus, but as a red-shirted freshman, he had to adjust to going from all-star games to not playing at all. This inspired him to work hard, push his physical boundaries and never skip reps during workouts.

“I was a raw athlete; could run and jump with the best of them, but really couldn’t do anything else, so my first year was a struggle,” he says.

His effort paid off, and his junior year, he won the Lefty Driesell Award, given to the best defensive player in college basketball.

Bazemore graduated with two degrees, human services and criminal justice, and then moved on to an NBA career. He was drafted by the Golden State Warriors in 2012 and played there for two years before heading to the Lakers in 2014, then to the Atlanta Hawks that same year.

He says his biggest challenge today is learning not to put so much pressure on himself and not allowing missed baskets to affect his game.

With that attitude, he’s gone from playing the last minutes of a game to being a Hawks starter this year.

His playful photo-bombs of his teammates during post-game interviews have become known as “BazeGaze,” an ode to basketball that even has its own Instagram page. Off the court, the 27-year-old looks for balance through the slower pace and mental challenge of golf. He’s also an avid bike rider who practices yoga and relaxes by playing video games.

When discussing life after the NBA, he’s all about philanthropy. His

ARMS Foundation, which he started two years ago, gives underprivileged kids leadership skills through sports programs and training camps. This year he’s working with the Salvation Army Bellwood Boys and Girls Club in northwest Atlanta to provide meals several days a week. In August, ARMS is hosting three events: a bowling tournament at Painted Pin, an Uno tournament at Fernbank Museum and a golf tournament at Druid Hills Golf Club. Bazemore also puts on a golf tournament in Virginia Beach and an annual summer camp in his hometown that teaches kids basketball and nutrition.

“I always wanted to be a mentor, and that’s something I’m going to move toward,” he says “I want to give kids equal opportunity. Some of the brightest people come from the most inopportune places.”

The recently-engaged basketball star lives in Peachtree Hills with his fiancée, Samantha, and his two French bulldogs, Spike and Spade. He enjoys living in the community and often gets comments on a great game or words of encouragement from his Buckhead neighbors. (One even leaves handwritten cards in his mailbox.) “[Atlanta is] so diverse–young couples, old couples, and everything

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in between,” he says. “The people are great, and the pockets of Buckhead have their own look and feel.”

When he isn’t on the court, you might find him noshing at One Sushi Plus in Brookhaven, Dolce, The Optimist or True Food Kitchen, where he eats almost twice a week. If you happen to run into him, don’t be shy about saying hello.

But watch your back for a quintessential “Baze-Gaze” photo bomb, one of the many ways this Rising Star is leaving his indelible mark.

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ulian Reynolds is an artist to his core. “I love the path of creating something,” he says.

The owner of Julian's Cosmetics and Skincare in Brookhaven isn’t just a makeup artist, though. He studied visual and performing arts in his native Jamaica and New York, had a

storied professional dancing career for 15 years and recently launched an acting career as a “side gig” (he’s already appeared in “The Boss” alongside Melissa McCarthy, is featured on The CW’s “Containment” and “The Originals” and is the lead in a new musical “The Promise”

opening this month at Atlanta Workshop Players in Alpharetta).

Just dabbling isn’t Reynolds’ style. He throws his entire self into each project or career path. This fortitude is something he learned from his mother, who raised five children on her own.

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“My mom is just an amazing source of inspiration in my life. She made me the person I am today,” says Reynolds, who left Jamaica for New York when he was 19 years old.

Through the 1990s, Reynolds performed all over the world with Garth Fagan Dance, a modern dance troupe based in Rochester, New York. At 30, he resigned in search of a more stable financial future. In 2006, he took a full-time position in retail at Kiehl’s within Bloomingdale’s in Manhattan. “Makeup artistry is something I fell into. But I naturally grasped the face as a canvas and that it’s really just painting a picture,” Reynolds explains.

What began as a job to make ends meet turned into a passion when he discovered that through makeup he could make a positive impact on the way a person feels. On one quiet day at the Bobbi Brown cosmetics counter at Saks Fifth Avenue, he encountered a badly burned shopper.

“I invited her to sit down with me and did her makeup. When I gave her the mirror, she started crying. She said she never thought she could look this good again. I realized then that I could give through this art,” Reynolds says.

After working in New York with several big beauty-brand names, including L’Oreal and Christian Dior, and following a year of traveling through Mexico, he decided on a whim to buy a house in Atlanta and move in 2010.

Here, he first worked for Bobbi Brown at Perimeter Mall followed by Woo Skincare and Cosmetics in Buckhead.

Craving a beauty boutique of his own, in 2013, Reynolds opened Julian's Cosmetics and Skincare. “I wanted to create a place where people can find great makeup and medical-grade skincare—a nice,welcoming environment where you don’t have to feel pushed to buy anything,” he explains.

Julian’s carries seven skincare lines usually found only at dermatologist and plastic surgeon offices: Neocutis, SkinMedica and SkinCeuticals. He also offers high-end makeup such as Kevyn Aucoin, Jouer and Ellis Faas, and has two spa rooms for skincare treatments that pack a punch of active, medicalgrade ingredients.

The secret to his success? Reynolds says it’s his honest personality.

“I’m not going to sell you something you don’t need. I will tell you what you need in the nicest way possible.”

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sudden diagnosis at 25 would forever change the way Dr. Darria Long Gillespie viewed disease and the possibility of recovery.

During her intern year of residency in emergency medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and shortly after graduating with her MBA from Harvard Business School, doctors told her she had autoimmune arthritis. The Sandy Springs resident had always been healthy, so she was shocked when suddenly her feet, ankles and hands were swollen, and doing any activity, including walking, was extremely painful. She was initially put on an injectable medication and also made significant lifestyle changes, including pursuing a diet of whole foods, cutting out sugar and dairy and, once her residency was finished, adding more balance to her schedule By 2012, she was able to get off of the arthritis medication for good.

“Now I’m back to normal, running and doing everything I want. My personal mission is to help people learn that it’s not only possible to get better, but to truly thrive after having a medical issue,” says Long Gillespie, who is senior vice president of clinical strategy at Sharecare, Emergency Department physician at Northside Hospital, clinical assistant professor at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine and national spokesperson for the American College of Emergency Physicians.

And thrive she has. After working as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, in 2013, Long Gillespie moved to Atlanta from Boston with her husband, Dr. Bryce Gillespie, an orthopedic hand and elbow surgeon at The Hand and Upper Extremity Center of Georgia. She now divides her work schedule between the ER at Northside and duties at the health and wellness platform Sharecare (a combination of clinical strategy, overseeing all digital content and hosting its iHeart Radio RadioMD podcast). She also makes national media appearances as a health expert on CNN, CNBC, FoxNews Network, “The Doctors” and “The Dr. Oz Show,” and blogs about women and children’s health for The Huffington Post and Mindbodygreen.com.

DR. DARRIA LONG GILLESPIE’S SECRETS TO SURVIVAL 1. Make a routine as much as possible. “The more you don’t have to make small decisions, the less brainwork and time that requires. Three days per week, I run at 6 a.m. I would rather go to the DMV and do my taxes than get up that early, but it’s the only time I have to run, so I’ve committed to it and don’t spend time questioning or finding ways to fit it in another day.”

2. Schedule everything, including time for yourself.

“Between Sharecare, ER shifts and more, my days get filled. So I schedule appointments just for myself for an hour to write a blog post or think through an important project.”

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The swine flu epidemic in 2012 was the catalyst for Long Gillespie to begin her work in media. She noted how confusing and frightening it was for people. “I get so frustrated when the media portray a health issue inaccurately. At the time, healthy people were terrified and coming to the ER, waiting for eight hours, when in fact they were going to be OK. That’s when I realized there was a need for another trustworthy, not sensationalized, health source in the media. I love that in the ER you can have very close interactions

with 20 people and truly help those individuals. With the media, the scale is different—not as close a connection, but you can help the lives of thousands of people.”

Somehow she still finds time to spend with her husband, toddler daughter and 150-pound bullmastiff.

How does she possibly keep it all together? “My husband may say it’s because I’m hardheaded,” Long Gillespie laughs. “That may be it, but the real driver is that I feel very strongly that what I’m doing is something that people really need.” n

3. Align healthy practices with what you value and want to do.

“I want to get physical activity every day, and I want my family to eat well. So, I find ways that we can do those things together.

I planted a backyard garden with my daughter—a great way for us to play together while also getting her to eat fresh produce.”

4. Choose to laugh and enjoy.

“Having a child breaks down type-A tendencies, so sometimes you have to just laugh because you can’t negotiate with a toddler.

Or you can try, if you’re insane.”

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aking others laugh is something Andrew Markle has always enjoyed, but he never imagined it would be his profession.

With comedy gigs coming aplenty these days, he’s well on his way.

Markle grew up in Peachtree City where he found himself performing

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frequently, whether it was in magic shows or elementary school plays.

While attending Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville from 2007 to 2011, he embraced more acting in plays such as “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The 1940’s Radio Hour.”

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his passion became comedy. During those college years, he started doing student improv, producing comedy shows on campus and performing at open mic nights in nearby Macon. It was there that he met fellow comic Jerrod Harris, who suggested Markle flex his comedy muscles in Atlanta.

After graduation, Markle moved back home to his parents’ house and followed Harris’ advice. His mother was surprisingly supportive. “She told me I did not have to get a job in corporate America,” he recalls.

“I told myself, ‘If I am going to do this, I might as well go for it now.

What do I have to lose?’”

His first Atlanta comedy sets were in 2010 at the Laughing Skull Lounge, where he opened for Harris and was received warmly. He also works at the Vortex Midtown, where Laughing Skull is housed, as a bartender and assistant manager.

It is there that Markle, 28, met actress and comedienne Margaret Cho in 2013. She saw his skit, liked it and asked him to join her for some of her shows when she was in Atlanta filming “Drop Dead Diva.”

Later, Cho asked him to be on her podcast, “Monsters of Talk.” The two remain in touch, and he has gained a lot from their professional and personal friendship. “I learned from her to be yourself,” he says.

“Someone will love you for that.”

As a gay man, Markle has always felt comfortable working his sexuality into his comedy and has grown in professional confidence the more he has performed. Although being gay is part of his routine, it doesn’t define him. He is certainly aware that the industry doesn’t have an abundance of gay male stand-up comedians. “I try to break stereotypes of what you think may be true, but isn’t true,” he says. “People talk to me after shows.

I feel sometimes like the gay ambassador. I don’t have all the answers.”

Besides being a regular with Laughing Skull’s annual Comedy Festival, he works occasionally at Eddie’s Attic (when the club offers comedy nights) and performed with Jeff Dauler of Star 94.1 at Terminal West earlier this year.

He was also asked by comedienne Erin Foley to perform with her at the Hollywood Improv in 2012. That experience was a career highlight, and one of his future goals is accruing more engagements on the road.

Markle is single and lives on the outskirts of Buckhead. His mother and father still live in Peachtree City.

The idea of being a rising star is one that appeals to him. “I am just doing what I love, and if other people love it, that’s great.” n

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hen Jenni Kopelman was 5 years old, her parents took her to see her first Broadway show, and from that moment on she was smitten. “The story, the energy, just being in the theater—it was magic,” she recalls. But little did she know then just how significant an event it would be. “It defined my future,” she says. “It was so impactful.”

Kopelman went on to tread the boards in New York City as an offBroadway actress for 15 years before moving with her husband to Buckhead in 1994. When their first-born daughter, Hannah, was 5, Kopelman took her to see Annie at the Fox Theatre. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree apparently, because immediately thereafter, Hannah told her mom, “I want to be Annie!” So Kopelman went in search of a local children’s theater group.

“People said, ‘We have children’s theater,’” she remembers, “but they were doing shows for children, not starring children.” So in 2000, she started her own children’s theater program, Applause for Kids. “I designed and created it to help build self-confidence and self-esteem in kids by [letting] them be on stage,” she says. After a while, Kopelman felt the need to create another, more professional school for the kids who were really serious about pursuing a career in the theater. Thus in 2005, the Atlanta School of the Performing Arts was born.

Kopelman wound up closing Applause for Kids in 2010, mostly because by then she was busy running her Buckhead-based nonprofit, Curtains Up. Devoted to providing performing arts programs to area youth-oriented organizations such as Camp Twin Lakes, Curtains Up came about in 2006 after Kopelman began working with special needs kids at Cumberland Academy of Georgia, a private school for children with autism and other learning disabilities.

It was there Kopelman introduced students to Jambo, a character from a children’s book she had written called Jambo’s Journey. Inspired by a real-life experience she had when a baby bird fell on a table in front of her family while they were on a cruise, the story revolves around

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conservation and saving endangered species across the globe.

When she took Jambo to Cumberland Academy, she was amazed at the students’ reaction. They often demonstrate “a lack of connection to themselves, their peers and their classmates,” she says, but they connected to Jambo’s story, and, with her assistance, they each picked their own endangered species and wrote stories about saving them. “Every child went up to the microphone to tell his or her story,” Kopelman remembers, “and I thought, this is it. This is my new path.” Jambo has since spawned

a multimedia venture that includes songs, videos and, most recently, an interactive musical stage show, Jambo Live!, which made its debut at Zoo Atlanta in April. “It’s a fun way to get the message across without preaching. The arts are a powerful tool for bringing about change," Kopelman says, referring to the catchy songs and dances the show gets audience members to join in on.

Fresh from staging a mid-June performance of a special show titled Broadway Kids at Carnegie Hall in New York City, which featured 30 of her School of the Performing Arts

students, Kopelman is now focusing her attention on expanding the Jambo brand even further, including an in-school program called Jambo’s Jamboree that teachers can use to educate their students about protecting our planet. She’s also filming a pilot for a children’s episodic TV show to appear this fall but can’t divulge too many details at the moment.

“Children inspire me,” she asserts, talking about her mission to ensure they have a happy and safe planet and the skills to navigate the complex and ever-changing world we live in.

“That’s what drives me.” n

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hen you think about heart disease, you might think of it as a man’s issue. But the truth is, it’s the No. 1 killer of women in the United States, causing one of every three female deaths. In fact, one woman dies of heart disease every single minute in this country.

Changing those grim statistics is what drives 35-year-old Atlanta native Dr. Jyoti Sharma, co-director of the women’s heart program at Piedmont Heart Institute in Buckhead.

Sharma attended Emory University School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City where she was chief medical resident from 2009 to 2010. She knew early on she wanted to concentrate on women’s health.

“My undergrad degree [from Emory University] is in women’s studies, so I took a lot classes on women’s

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health issues,” she says. “I think that’s when it was cemented for me that I wanted to focus on women’s health.”

But Sharma didn’t realize she wanted to specialize in cardiology until she began her internal medicine rotation in New York.

“When I began the cardiac care unit and cardiac ICU rotation [at Beth Israel], it was by far the most interesting and most complex,” she says. “I knew I could have the most impact focusing on cardiology, especially figuring out why female patients don’t do as well [as male patients].”

She continued her training and completed her fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston in 2013. That same year, she joined Piedmont Hospital where she focuses on raising awareness among women about the dangers of heart disease.

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“I try to stress to women that [heart disease] doesn’t care about your age or how much money you make,” she says. “And it’s not an old person’s disease or a man’s disease.”

She says women need to see their primary care physicians regularly and know their risk factors and warning signs because much of heart disease is preventable.

Sharma and her colleagues created a program at Piedmont that helps women find out their risks.

The $100 screening takes about an hour and includes a complete health exam, including family history, pregnancy history, depression scale assessment, sleep evaluation, functional capacity assessment, EKG, labs and more. It then provides patients with recommendations on what next steps they should take.

“Anyone can walk in and do this,” Sharma says. “It’s been a tremen-

dously successful program because you can’t always feel heart disease, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, but if you screen for them, you can detect them early.”

Phase II of the screening program will re-launch as the Piedmont Women’s Heart Program in January 2017 with Sharma as one of the directors.

“I hope that we can grow Piedmont’s Women's Heart Program, both locally and nationally,” she says. “I want our female cardiac patients to get the best comprehensive care in the country.”

Sharma, who grew up in Tucker and now lives in Druid Hills with her family, confesses that one of the best things about working at Piedmont is living in her hometown. “I love my patients and my colleagues, and practicing cardiology in a hospital that truly cares about quality patient care,” she says.

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DRIVE TO DESIGN Three up-and-coming interior designers who are making waves

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Kate Abney

CLARY BOSBYSHELL

HEATHER HOGAN ROBERTS

ALLISON HENNESSY

Trained practically from birth under the top-shelf tutelage of her interior designer-mother, Margaret, 31-year-old Clary Bosbyshell certainly has the chops to make a mark of her own. “As a little girl, my mom brought me to ADAC and to all her clients’ homes. I remember weekends antiquing.

She really nurtured and trained my eye at such a young age for beautiful things,” Bosbyshell says.

Born and bred in Buckhead, the University of Georgia graduate dwells in a Collier Hills cottage around the corner from the iconic Houston’s restaurant. When not walking her 5-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Magnolia, on the Buckhead bend of The BeltLine or cheering on her 4-year-old son at soccer games, she’s bringing her fresh, transitional take on Southern style to the younger skew of clientele who walk into Margaux Interiors Ltd., the company she and her mother own at 2300 Peachtree. Bosbyshell’s youthful updates to her mom’s famously chic aesthetic include a number of eclectic elements.

“I like to bring in something that’s African with something that’s French, Dutch or midcentury,” notes Bosbyshell, who loves to layer— Oriental rugs with natural fiber, linens with velvet or mohair, brass with chrome, marble with anything. “I believe in the element of the unexpected; it’s what makes my clients’ homes so much more interesting.”

Her interiors also are known to include pops of colorful, abstract art amid soft and soothing schemes of cream, green and blue. “I find that everyone loves blue, be it a navy, French or powder,” says the self-professed blue-and-white porcelain fanatic. She recently used a powder blue in a Traditional Home showhouse in New Orleans, where she adorned the laundry room with her crisp and feminine aesthetic. This stylish lady has even more impressive projects up her sleeve, including a budget-free redo of a favorite

Buckhead residence historically designed

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Heather Hogan Roberts’ style is a perfect mix of coastal New England prep and sophisticated Southern polish. After all, her childhood was not one to leave light impressions. Reared in the former guest house of the storied Ocean House resort in Swampscott, Massachusetts, Roberts headed to New York City after graduating from Hamilton College, then spent more than a decade working for magazines such as Elle, Elle Girl, Shop Etc. and Jane. Decamping in 2008 from her Brooklyn Heights townhouse to an 1820s Long Island cottage with husband, Read, she learned the gritty reality of historic restoration and became a bona fide interiors expert. Soon, she was taking on design clients due to ardent word-of-mouth requests. She moved to Atlanta in 2009, and business blossomed.

Cultivating a style that combines her New England upbringing with a touch of Palm Beach panache, she founded the vintage furniture resale business Ivy & Vine in 2010. It’s a job that has her tirelessly hunting, restoring and curating treasures to sell online via One Kings Lane. Her design projects have included jobs in Charleston, Austin and Chicago, as well as a Rachel Zoe-owned Dream Dry salon and her family’s own mountain cabin along the Chattahoochee National Forest in Big Canoe. Roberts often works out of her home, a Frazier and Bodin-designed Colonial Revival near Powers Ferry that she and Read updated in 2009. Its four bedrooms bound with a brood of redheads (Quinn, Graham and Crosby), plus pups Otis Redding (a golden retriever) and Clover (a pug). The white abode serves as Roberts’ creative test ground and the consummate blank canvas for her exquisite taste: Think plush Hermès blankets, monogrammed Gramercy linens, custom murals, Robert Abbey lighting, collections of rare vintage glassware, luxurious wall coverings from top ADAC showrooms and even a zebra-skin rug from the estate of celebrated designer Dan Carithers. n

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Despite being a native of St. Augustine, Florida, and a Mass Communications graduate from Hollins University in Virginia, Allison Hennessy is no stranger to the Buckhead community. She lived here for four years after college, first to help Phoebe Howard launch the Atlanta installment of her Mrs. Howard series of retail boutiques. She continued to cut her teeth under an impressive list of interior designers, including longstanding local doyenne Susan Lapelle, before moving to New York. A college internship with Amelia T. Handegan helped Hennessy land a coveted position under fellow Southerner Meg Braff, where she learned the ropes of classically-rooted and fresh but tailored interiors. She went out on her own in 2010, maintaining a small office in the West Village before business brought her husband, Robert, back to Buckhead in September 2015. The pair is now happily ensconced in the Chastain Park area with their 1-year-old daughter, while Hennessy quickly builds up a base of clients in a community eager for her proverbial breath of fresh air. She already has this market down pat: Her first project after going out on her own was a Buckhead residence that won her recognition as one of 2012’s top 10 "New Trad Designers" from Traditional Home. Though she maintains clients in New York and Connecticut, this Southern belle also was awarded the ultimate accolade from Southern Living in 2016: "Best Up-and-Coming Designer." Now, Hennessy is working on projects in Richmond, Virginia (her third for this family), a gut renovation in Sea Island in tandem with Bennett Street-based architect Caroline Reu, and a midcentury-esque makeover for a young family in the heart of Buckhead. And as for her sharp aesthetic: “My style is rooted in traditionalism, with classic silhouettes, layered textures and a variety of finishes. I think that’s very important when adding interest to a room,” she says. “And I’ll never do anything muddy or muted; bright, clear colors add a freshness to antiques that could sometimes be interpreted as being old-fashioned.” Translation: Expect nothing stodgy on Hennessy’s watch. n allisonhennessy.com

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E V E N T S | C H A RI TA B L E | S C E N E

SIMPLY HAPPENING The “Eats” part of Eats & Beats includes endless samples from some of Atlanta’s best restaurants.

Above: Eats & Beats features an open bar, but an upgraded VIP ticket affords you access to special wine tastings, pairings and more.

Below: Eventgoers jam out to a lively set by Yacht Rock Revue and a couple of chef bands as well.

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ant to sample an endless array of food from some of the area’s best restaurants, sip libations from an open bar, listen to some great bands and help support a couple of deserving charities all at the same time?

You can do exactly that at the fifth annual Eats & Beats, a benefit for Children of Conservation and The Giving Kitchen, taking place this year at Buckhead Theatre on

Aug. 11. The dozens of restaurants tantalizing your taste buds include Davio’s, Local Three, Smokebelly BBQ, 4th & Swift, Chicken and the Egg, Muss & Turner’s, Barcelona, Red Sky Tapas, Common Quarter, Farm Burger and Food 101. Local favorite Yacht Rock Revue and their killer set list will entertain the crowd, along with a couple of chef bands starring area foodies who’ve stepped out from behind

the stove and onto the stage.

The 21-and-older event also includes a silent auction featuring group chef experiences, golf packages and luxury vacations.

Plus, don’t miss the wine wall where for $25 you can purchase a cork with a number on it and take home the bottle with the corresponding number; values can range from $30 to $75.

– Jill Becker

Above: Wining and dining for a good cause puts a smile on everyone’s face.

EATS & BEATS Aug. 11, 7-10 p.m.

General admission $85, VIP experience $175 Buckhead Theatre 3110 Roswell Road, Atlanta 30305 404.840.4139 childrenofconservation.org/dinner-a-cause/eats-beats

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Huff Harrington’s Bastille Day highlights French artwork like Lyliane Coiffard’s Les Fruits d’Hiver.

HUFF HARRINGTON FINE ART’S BASTILLE DAY

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Shake Shack and Big Peach Running offer free regularly scheduled group runs through Buckhead, Brookhaven and other area neighborhoods.

LOCAL RUNNING FANS BAND TOGETHER 3- to 4-mile run around the community, with free beverages served up after. Over in Brookhaven, the Big Peach Running Co. holds a group run every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. that navigates a 3- to 7-mile route through the neighborhood. Big Peach also offers a free running skills clinic each Monday at 6:30 p.m. that’s designed to help make you a stronger, more efficient runner and reduce the likelihood of injuries. – JB

The AJC Peachtree Road Race, held each Fourth of July, is one of the largest 10Ks in the world. But just because you didn’t get one of its 60,000 available spots doesn’t mean you can’t show off your running skills. Shake Shack and partner Highland Runners have formed a new Shack Track & Field running program, in which every second Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m., participants take off from the Buckhead burger joint for a

AREA GROUP RUNS SHACK TRACK & FIELD Every second Tuesday of the month, 7 p.m.

Shake Shack 3035 Peachtree Road N.E. Atlanta 30305 470.809.9201 shakeshack.com BIG PEACH RUNNING CO. Every Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 p.m.

Big Peach Running Co. 705 Town Boulevard Atlanta 30319 404.816.8488 bigpeachrunningco.com

July 14 404.257.0511 huffharrington.com Vive la France! Huff Harrington celebrates Bastille Day on July 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. Peruse works from French and French-inspired artists over light appetizers and rosé. The works run the gamut of medium and style, showcasing everything from impressionist to modern works. The event is free and open to the public.

ATLANTA BAR-B-Q FESTIVAL Aug. 12 and 13 404.406.1403 atlbbqfest.com Are you a Texas, St. Louis, Memphis or Kentucky fan? Then don’t miss Atlanta Bar-B-Q Festival on Friday, Aug. 12 from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturday Aug. 13 from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., where more than 50 BBQ teams will be cooking for your vote. General admission tickets are $6 if purchased in advance and $10 the day of. The fest, located outside Perimeter Mall, will also host local restaurants, live music, cooking demonstrations and more.

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Pet project FIRST-AID CLASSES FOR FOUR-LEGGED FRIENDS If dogs and cats are a part of your family, then wouldn’t you want to ensure they live a good, long life? You can do your part by taking a PetSaver first-aid class. In these one-day seminars, held in partnership with the Brookhaven Parks and Recreation department, you’ll learn how to perform CPR and rescue breathing, along with other life-saving skills such as what to do if your pet is choking and how to treat bleeding and shock. Seconds count

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in an emergency medical situation, notes class instructor Nicole Essawy, and one out of five pets would survive if the owner knew these invaluable techniques. Attendees will also learn to do a complete snout-to-tail assessment that assists in detecting issues ahead of time. And, fun fact: You get to practice on stuffed animals. Classes are currently scheduled for July 16 and Aug. 21, with more to follow.

Online registration is required. – JB

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A PetSaver first-aid class, like those taught by Nicole Essawy (above), may just help save your beloved pet’s life in an emergency.

PETSAVER FIRST-AID CLASSES July 16 and Aug. 21 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $120 Ashford Park Activity Building 2980 Redding Road N.E. Atlanta 30319 dobiemom.com/first-aid-classes

Aug. 14 404.851.9111 heritagesandysprings.org Don’t miss August’s Concerts by the Springs in Sandy Springs, where A1A, a Jimmy Buffet tribute band, will be taking the stage as part of the free monthly series. Each concert plays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and takes place on Heritage Green.

WALK, WAG N’ RUN Aug. 27 404.496.4038 ahimsahouse.org/walkwagnrun Put yourself and your pet through your paces at the Walk, Wag N’ Run 5K or 1-mile race through Lenox Park in Brookhaven. The 5K starts at 7:30 a.m., and the mile fun run starts at 8:45 a.m. Entry fee is $30 before Aug. 19. Race proceeds support Ahimsa House, benefiting animal and human victims of domestic violence.

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Believe Ball honoree Jeff Foxworthy

Sandra and Chris Cauley Tom Glavine addresses the attendees of CURE’s Believe Ball.

Photos: Lynn Crow Photography

Grace Bunke, Dikembe and Rose Mutombo

THE THIRD ANNUAL CURE BELIEVE BALL Heather Forbes, Ben Dale

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or the successful third year of the Believe Ball, CURE Childhood Cancer hosted a sold-out crowd of 600 guests at The St. Regis Atlanta. Formally dressed patrons were treated to a cocktail reception and three-course dinner that included a seared beef tenderloin entrée and triple chocolate mousse dessert. The evening also paid tribute to comedian and CURE supporter Jeff Foxworthy who was in attendance to give a speech to acknowledge the honor. Silent and live auctions kept the donations rolling in with noteworthy prizes such as VIP Ellen DeGeneres tickets, a Star Wars pinball machine, University of Georgia season football tickets and much more. Guests also enjoyed live entertainment from Sandra and Chris Cauley and an After Hours party with band Terry Lee and the GT’s, snacks and a photo booth. The festive evening raised more than $1 million towards CURE’s mission of improving survival rates, developing less toxic treatments for children battling cancer and supporting patient families. - Jessica Wise

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Diners enjoyed a multi-course dinner with wine pairings.

Emily Kilduff and Lauren LaViola of CORE

F&B ATLANTA AND CORE BENEFIT DINNER

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&B Atlanta partnered with Children of Restaurant Employees (CORE) for the second annual CORE Benefit Dinner. In its French-inspired ambiance, F&B hosted approximately 50 patrons who enjoyed a multi-course, wine-paired dinner highlighting vintages provided by Rodney Strong Wine Estates. During the reception, tomato bruschetta with basil and balsamic-truffle dressing, mini quiche Lorraine, and brie cheese on walnut-raisin crostini were complemented by Rodney Strong Sauvignon Blanc of Northern Sonoma.

The first course followed with dashi-marinated scallop salad with dill olive oil and grilled lemon, paired with Rodney Strong Chardonnay, and sous-vide chicken ballotine served with morels, sweet potato mash and veal-tarragon jus, alongside Rodney Strong Pinot Noir.

The meal culminated with five-day marinated beef tenderloin bourguignon, topped with roasted pearl onions, pomme purée and baby carrots, paired with Rodney Strong Symmetry, Red Meritage.

CORE strives to raise money for children of restaurant employees who are facing life-threatening or life-altering circumstances. Proceeds from the event raised $1,000 for this worthy cause. Keynote speakers included CORE’s Executive Director Lauren LaViola as well as Colleen Brennan and Beth Nowak of Rodney Strong. - Jessica Wise

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Rodney Strong vintages paired perfectly with F&B’s gourmet French menu.

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