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Known for quality and communication, Level Craft is an experienced, renowned design-build company based in Decatur. Specializing in new construction, renovations, and remodels, business partners Debbie Hollonbeck and Virginia Van Lear are a powerhouse duo with knowledge of every aspect of the homebuilding process. LevelCraftAtlanta.com, 404-704-7350
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Best Local Home Furnishings/ Accessories
City Winery As Atlanta’s first urban winery that also encompasses an intimate music venue, restaurant/bar, and private event space, City Winery pairs the culinary experience with the cultural experience while encouraging diners to indulge their senses. Guests relish nationally touring performers while savoring globally-influenced cuisine complemented by award-winning wine. CityWinery.com/Atlanta, 404-946-3791
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Le Petit Marché LePetitMarche.net
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Octane Coffee
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Grindhouse Killer Burgers
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Best Outdoor Dining Casie Hughes
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Pink Sky Boutique
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Assured Comfort Heating, Air, Plumbing Assured Comfort is a leading heating, air conditioning and plumbing company with five metro locations that serve Atlanta and surrounding cities. Family-owned since 2002, they help clients live in greater comfort year-round and they also focus on community involvement. AssuredComfort.com, 770-872-4168 Continued on page 17
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JULY 21 The Village Market ATL 65 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. SW. 5-10pm Prices vary Support black-owned businesses specializing in fashion, food, and art. You’ll also be able to see vegan cooking demonstrations and live performances. TheVillageMarketAtl.com
JULY 28 8th Annual Atlanta Ice Cream Festival Piedmont Park 11am-6pm Free entry Choose from hundreds of ice cream flavors to treat yourself to, bop along to local music, and put the sugary energy to use during fitness activities. AtlantaIceCreamFestival.com
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“Some of my fondest memories are when I spent summers in Mississippi where my grandma, Ida Mae, lived along the coastline,” Marchet Sparks says. “She taught me how to bake and work with crab and shrimp—all kinds of seafood.” Marchet puts the lessons she learned in her grandmother’s kitchen to good use as the owner of the popular Kirkwood eatery Le Petit Marché. She came to Atlanta from Los Angeles as a young adult when her parents relocated here to retire. She worked as a real-estate agent, then invested her savings into her own business, a retail market offering prepared foods. Months after opening Le Petit Marché, the economy shattered and she, like so many others, felt the devastating effects of the economic recession of 2008. “I would cry to my dad, ‘Where are the customers?’” she remembers. Marchet lost her home and her investments, eventually renting a room from a friend. “We both struggled together,” she says.
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With the attitude of a woman who’s triumphed over her struggles, she discusses the ensuing years of depression and withdrawal into alcoholism. “I was really presumptuous back then,” she says. “I assumed things would go fine. They didn’t. I opened a business three months shy of the recession. I was spinning out of control, trying to figure out what to do.” “I realized I had to be flexible and find out what this neighborhood really needed. After about the 60th person coming up to me and saying, ‘I love your paninis—could you sell them for breakfast?’ I woke up and thought, ‘I’d better get some eggs and start whisking!’”
FOODIE MARCHET SPARKS (RIGHT) IS SET TO WED HER FIANCÉ, ROMAL TUN E, ON JUNE 25.
Marchet has clearly mastered the art of reinvention, presiding over her successful, eclectic eatery, proving to her parents and herself that she could conquer her financial predicament and her addiction. “Becoming sober opened up so many doors for me,” she acknowledges. “It was a lucky break—landing in Kirkwood,” she says. She spends time in the neighborhood walking her dog, Happy, with her fiancé, Romal Tune, an author and motivational speaker, often heading to We Suki Suki for a delicious change of pace. LePetitMarche.net
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You may have seen a late-night improv show at Midtown’s famed Whole World Improv Theatre but the brain behind the successful theater has an equally interesting story to tell. A graduate of Georgia State University’s film and theater program, Lance Krall, isn’t only a Whole World co-founder, he’s also written for hit TV comedies. The hysterically dark series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (FXX’s highest-rated scripted series) and the family-centric sitcom “Last Man Standing” starring Tim Allen are just a few of the notable projects he’s contributed to. The entertainment powerhouse moved back to Atlanta in 2016 for the same reason he left the city for Los Angeles 16 years ago. There was no access to Hollywood executives. “Even though there is a lot of production in Atlanta, there is almost no development. Turner [Broadcasting], for instance, is headquartered right here but every TV meeting they have with executives to hear idea pitches happens in Hollywood,” Lance notes.
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That’s when he came back to the Big Peach and created Picture It Productions, a television development, and production company located on Krog Street. Lance is the co-founder and partner, head of television. In 2018, the company sold five shows, including “Party Girls,” to major television networks. The tentatively titled show details the true story of Ericka Suzanne, an Atlanta resident who is the daughter of the first female leader of the Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown. Lance, his wife, Brittany, and their two children live near Candler Park. They frequent MF Sushi and Kevin Rathbun Steak and love taking the kids to Fernbank Museum of Natural History. PictureItProductions.com
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