this weekend is the 10th annual kirkwood spring fling in our little historic kirkwood. the festival also features a 5k race on saturday morning and an open air artist market with a ton of vendors, good eats, and live bands. admission to the festival is free from 10am-7pm on saturday at bessie branham park, with [...]

happy mother’s day! clementine and i made this cut-out card for gub (from clementine’s handprints) and we also got her a sorbet peony and a visit to the jeju sauna! it feels like it’s been ages since my first father’s day. – ryan & clementine

acclaimed children’s author and illustrator maurice sendak passed away today. he was best known for where the wild things are & in the night kitchen, classics that most children of our generation grew up with. for an amazing remembrance of sendak, albeit super sad, head to npr’s fresh air. the program looks back at various [...]

clementine has been enjoying eating pieces of fresh banana! she tends to get it all over! – ryan & gub

here is another graffiti-style living walls piece. it’s by atlanta-based street artist plf and can be found in oakhurst village. it’s on the facade of the old mulligan’s building, which was home to the ultimate hamdog and luther burger. right now it houses the oakhurst church, which seems like a strange place for a hip [...]

here is another kirkwood living walls piece; who would have thought our little neighborhood would have such hip street art? this one is a series of work by ltrs, peeve & blief at the corner of la france street & arizona ave ne near the arizona pub. it’s more old-school graffiti/tag style, which is cool [...]

you can find this really amazing/huge living walls piece on the side of the u*space gallery in the old fourth ward. it’s really close to the jaz painting we wrote about a couple of days ago. the title of the mural is the sunrise of edgewood and it was created by new york-based street artist [...]

i really like this piece at the corner of edgewood & krog. i drove by it on my way to work for two weeks straight and really grew to appreciate it. – ryan

here is another great living walls piece in atlanta. this large mural can be found on the side of the sound table at the corner of edgewood and boulevard. it’s by jaz, a buenos arises-based street artist. here are some other amazing murals he’s done around latin america. check our previous coverage of living walls [...]

here is another living walls mural in atlanta. you can find this gem on the back side of paris on ponce. it’s a collaborative mural by seattle-based christopher derek bruno, florida-based benjamin niznik & atlanta-based drew tyndell. i don’t know much about these guys, but i really like this mural! it’s tough catching the whole [...]

i recently had d.b.a. barbecue for the first time, albeit take-out, and was quite impressed. i went with the dry spare ribs and they were amazing, easily in my top 3 in atlanta, along with fat matt’s & community q. i really liked d.b.a.’s ordering options. you could go with spare ribs, baby back ribs, [...]

i’ve been working out of inman park this week and drove by this crazy wooden sculpture. it looks like someone carved themselves a totem pole instead of having a tree removed. clever! – ryan

wras fest 2012 is fast approaching on saturday, may 12th from 6pm – 1am at the the goat farm in atlanta. elf power is headlining and the first 88 receive a gift bag, so it should be fun. trek matthews designed the flyer/poster and it’s really awesome! check out our recent post on his great [...]

head on over to google and type in “zerg rush” for an interesting surprise! there is a video game style easter egg where the Os in google fly around and attack the searched items. here are some screen grabs in case you miss it. – ryan

the star jasmine on our front porch has been blooming recently and smells amazing! we heart spring! – ryan & gub