Jon Lester has been called one of the most successful players in major league baseball.
STORY: Jill Becker
PHOTO: Sara Hanna
A sportswriter recently touted the Chicago Cubs pitcher as one of the top five best free agent signings of all time, and another declared, “When the team needs a stopper? Lester is the guy you want on the mound.” The 35-year-old leftie heads into his 14th season with […]
Meredyth Cole can walk to school every day. That’s because she lives on campus.
STORY: Jill Becker
PHOTO: Sara Hanna
But Cole isn’t a student roughing it in a college dorm; she’s the new head of The Lovett School, an almost 100-year-old independent college preparatory academy on Paces Ferry Road. The seasoned school administrator and teacher took over the job last July, after stints at The Episcopal School of […]
“I want to take over the world, but first comes homework.”
TOP CHEF JUNIOR — Season:2 — Pictured: Londyn Green — (Photo by: Chris Haston/Universal Kids)
STORY: Jill Becker
Those are the sage words of 12-year-old Londyn Green, a local middle schooler who has big dreams, and is, in fact, well on her way to making them come true. The seventh grader is already a seasoned […]
At her shop, Batter Cookie Dough Counter in Ponce City Market, Julie Abes sells T-shirts with the words “80% Health Goddess, 20% Cookie Dough” emblazoned across the front.
STORY: Jill Becker
PHOTO: Sara Hanna
“That could be my personal motto,” says the 48-year-old Sandy Springs resident, who opened her dessert shop selling scoops of cookie dough six months ago. Designed to be eaten raw, just as you did as […]
Chris M. Groom is a rugged-looking guy, with a fit physique, healthy tan and that general air of someone who spends a decent amount of time outdoors.
STORY: Jill Becker
PHOTO: Sara Hanna
It’s not surprising then to learn that Groom is the founder and CEO of Mountain High Outfitters, an “active lifestyle” store with 13 locations in three states, including a 6,600-square-foot outpost on West Paces Ferry that […]
Anthony Diaz has a unique morning ritual. The 46-year-old Buckhead resident heads to work well before his colleagues, grabs a set of drumsticks from his desk drawer and rocks out on a set of drums sitting on a small stage in the middle of the office.
The fact that there’s a stage with mics, guitars and other instruments as part of his workplace doesn’t seem all that […]
“We originally wanted to open a winery,” confesses Tim Resuta, the co-founder of Atlanta’s first craft cidery.
“We thought it would be a great chapter two for us. But we discovered that if you don’t have $25 million to get into the wine game, you’re not in the game.” So instead of grapes, Tim and his wife, Maria, focused on apples, opening UrbanTree Cidery on Howell Mill […]
At 78, Horst Schulze shows no signs of slowing down. (Although he has gone from traveling approximately 250 days to a year to 150.)
Horst Schulze
The German-born luxury hotelier who made a name for himself as the CEO and brains behind the Ritz-Carlton chain is now the chairman of the Buckhead-based WP Hospitality Group, formerly the Capella Hotel Group, which he started the […]
