A Sandy Springs author puts a new spin on “LOL”
STORY: H.M. Cauley
In texting lingo, “LOL” means “laughing out loud,” though some have mistakenly interpreted those letters as “love you lots.” Sandy Springs author Robyn Spizman now offers another option with the title of her latest book, Loving Out Loud: The Power of a Kind Word.
The prolific writer, who has penned books on topics ranging from buying […]
Long before camera phones, a local group was promoting the joys of photography
Viewing photographic works from the Atlanta Photography Group’s exhibition, Reverie.
STORY: H.M. Cauley
Thanks to smartphones, just about everyone has a camera in their purse or their pocket these days. But it doesn’t come with details on how to produce a quality photograph.
Luckily, there’s a group for that.
The roughly 400 members of the […]
A comedian’s podcast pursues happiness with money
Paul Ollinger brings deep curiosity and observations about the absurdities of life to both his stand-up and his new podcast.
STORY: Michael Jacobs
Photos: Mike Carano
Being one of Facebook’s first 250 employees seemingly resolved Paul Ollinger’s lifelong stress over money. But after he left his job as the social network’s vice president of West Coast sales after four years […]
From playing violin to teaching children to composing with whales, Juan R. Ramírez Hernández hits all the right notes
STORY: Ann Hardie
Juan R. Ramírez Hernández performs, conducts and composes. What does he love most? Teaching kids. “The children are like vessels, and you put into those vessels what they need,” says Ramírez. “It’s always interesting to see what they can do with the information.”
On top of more […]
A Sandy Springs author dishes on dating and the senior set
STORY: H.M. Cauley
It might be raising a few eyebrows, but author Lynn Garson is happy with the title of her new book, Sex and the Single Grandma.
“Some people said they didn’t consider themselves a ‘grandma,’ and some didn’t like the idea of grandmas having sex,” says Garson. “I worked through a lot of titles before I […]
A Buckhead artist delves into her past for creative inspiration
Blayne Macauley’s artworks capturing memories in symbols have found a following thanks to HGTV.
STORY: H.M. Cauley
Blayne Macauley’s days as an artist date back to her high school years at The Westminster Schools, where she took up photography. Then a trip to Italy between her junior and senior years introduced her to the power of […]
A local makeup artist sings a different song on stage
STORY: Kevin C. Madigan
Lahcen Boufedji Photography / Wardrobe courtesy of Tootsies
Latin jazz singer and songwriter Sarai Mateo can be found most Friday evenings and various other dates throughout the month performing at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Buckhead, but she took a long, circuitous route to get there.
Mateo is Puerto Rican but started life in Nicaragua in […]
A Buckhead artist moves from walls to floors with hand-painted rug designs
Artist Alan Vaughn creates durable works for floors as well as walls.
STORY: H.M. Cauley
Put a painting on the floor? The idea does raise eyebrows, says Buckhead artist Alan Vaughn. But in fact, it’s been happening for eons.
“It goes back many hundreds of years, when big expanses of ship sails were painted by […]
After years of nurturing successful restaurants, chef Ford Fry whips up his first cookbook
Be it fajitas or flan, Ford Fry’s new Tex-Mex tome has it all.
STORY: H.M. Cauley
Atlantans have long enjoyed dining at Ford Fry restaurants. In Buckhead alone, the Texasborn chef is behind the flavors of St. Cecilia, King + Duke and Superica, while also overseeing operations at nine other eateries around […]
Film critic Stephen Michael Brown shares his search for the creative and different on the big screen
STORY: Michael Jacobs
Stephen Michael Brown started writing movie reviews as a third grader in Greenville, South Carolina. His parents regularly took him to the theater and movies, and the storytelling of stage and screen hooked him. He brought monthly HBO guides to kindergarten for show-and-tell, joined the Boy Scouts for […]
