June 2020
Features
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What will save Buford Highway’s restaurants from COVID-19?
Buford Highway’s restaurants and workers face additional threats due to COVID-19. They might also be better equipped to survive it.
Restaurant-industry couples turn to survival mode—and to each other
Five metro Atlanta couples spoke with us about how they’re surviving, adapting, and keeping one another afloat.
10 ways to help restaurants survive COVID-19
Restaurants are scrappy and innovative—and overwhelmed. It’s going to take all of us pitching in to help them rebound.
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The Connector
What creating a grief app taught me about connection
Western culture idolizes feeling good, making us chronically incapable of facing human fragility. People shun discussions of death. They fear talking about grief. If you haven’t yet squirmed in grief’s grip, I’m sorry to say, it’s ahead.
How Living Walls continues to inspire during the pandemic
Monica Campana, who launched Living Walls in the wake of the Great Recession with only $4,000—kickstarting a mural movement in the city that eventually would attract international artists—has witnessed the power of public art in trying times.
What, exactly, do FEMA and GEMA do when disaster strikes?
Can FEMA swoop in whenever it wants? If we have FEMA, why do we also need GEMA? The emergency response departments, explained.
The Bite
Georgia’s farmers have plenty of crops. The problem is who can buy them—and how.
With COVID-19, Georgia farmers—and the organizations designed to support them—have had to rethink nearly every aspect of what they do with their bounty.
My life in takeout
Ordering food is a way to relive old restaurant memories—and to, somehow, strangely form new ones.
The Goods
This versatile room does triple duty for studying, crafts, and playtime
Part playroom, part crafts room, and part study hall, this terrace-level space in Decatur serves many functions in style.
Miscellaneous
Atlanta’s 50 Best Restaurants: Takeout Edition
With most restaurant dining rooms still shuttered due to the pandemic, we’ve compiled a list below of all the restaurants from last year’s 75 Best Restaurants issue that are offering takeout, curbside, or delivery.
