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The 46th Inman Park Spring Festival is taking place April 29–30. The two-day event includes a parade featuring the Seed & Feed Marching Abominable band, the Tour

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Jazz up your event calendar beginning Saturday, May 6 at 7 p.m. Concerts on the Square, which will be held in May and September, adds to the lively vibe in Downtown Decatur.

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The next time you and your family are walking down Ponce de Leon Avenue in Decatur, make sure to look down at the newly decorated crosswalks.

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Amara serves an authentic approach to Indian and modern American fare with small plates like shishito peppers with whipped paneer and other items like the duck confit samosa. Wash it all down with the East India cocktail, which is made with cognac, dark rum, pineapple and bitters.

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AmaraAtlanta.com 5. March Madness or any other sports tournament calls for bellying up to a good bar with plenty of tipples to quell the anxiety. Head to Hampton + Hudson to watch the games on any of the restaurant’s eight televisions—all while eating in a stylish atmosphere. Keep it light with the charred octopus salad. 299 N. Highland Ave. NE. HamptonAndHudson.com

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Next time you go, Brandy Ramsey will help you find the best beer to accompany the must-have salmon chips.

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Passover and Easter are around the corner. Have you thought about where you’re getting your meat from for your holiday meals? High-quality kosher meats can be found at Kosher Gourmet.

Order your Easter lamb from Shield’s Meat Market, the “original oldfashioned butcher shop.”

2153 Briarcliff Rd. NE. KGAtl.com 1554 N. Decatur Rd. ShieldsMarket.com

Have a wall that’s just begging for a piece of art? Wild Oats & Billy Goats will charm you with its fanciful offerings. This art gallery is conveniently located in Decatur Square and has a nice selection of paintings, sculptures, pottery and other pieces for the home made by local and regional artists.

112 E. Ponce de Leon Ave. WildOatsAndBillyGoats.com

Looking to give your room an industrial edge? The eclectic antiques and modern furniture store, Kudzu Antiques, now has more industrial furniture offerings including tables, consoles and stools.

While you’re there, check out their fun soda collection featuring unique flavors like Dad’s Root Beer and Lemmy soda. 2928 E. Ponce de Leon Ave. KudzuAntiques.com

Don’t have a green thumb?

Try caring for a succulent. Succulents are water-retaining plants, which make them pleasantly low maintenance.

You can find them in a variety of vibrant colors (blue, green, pink) at Southeast Succulents. 723 Lake Ave. NE. SoutheastSucculents.com

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Add some sparkle to your décor with a piece of glasswork—created by you! Head over to Decatur Glassblowing where you can take classes taught by its glassblowing masters.

Sign up for Date Night Special or the two-hour group Bowl class. One-hour private classes for one person start at $110. A cool bonus? You can bring your own food and drinks to the glass shop. 250 Freeman St. NateNardi.Weebly.com

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Atlantic Station 12-5pm, VIP 11am $20, $25 day of event More than 20 restaurants will come together at Atlantic Station to celebrate the art of breakfast and lunch.

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BaconFest 569 Ezzard St. Noon $45 The 17th annual festival will feature bottomless bacon, beer, fun carnival games like cornhole and more.

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2nd Annual Enduring Hearts Charity Bourbon Gala & Auction The Stave Room at American Spirit Works 199 Armour Dr. NE. 7-11pm $200 per person Dinner, tastings and whiskey auctions.

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Historic Fourth Ward Park 3pm Free Join Atlanta’s oldest no-kill shelter for a fun pet party including food trucks and a parade.

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Times, Locations vary $5 For seven days straight, you can try burgers for five bucks at a number of restaurants around town.

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MAY 20 Kirkwood Spring Fling & Tour of Homes 2051 Delano Dr. NE. 8:30am (race), 10am-8pm (festival) and Noon to 6pm (tour) Free Participate in a 5K, visit the artists’ market and listen to music before spending time perusing homes.

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Various times and locations Most events are free For 11 days, the Atlanta Science Festival blankets the metro region of Atlanta with science exhibits, experiments, workshops and hands-on activities.

More than 100 events take place in over 60 venues offering something for every age and interest.

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980 Briarcliff Rd. NE. 10am Prices vary for age groups Meet the Easter bunny and search for candy-filled eggs at this family event.

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Historic Fourth Ward Park 1-5pm $45 advance, $50 after April 6, $60 day of event Grab your friends and sample over 100 different wines at this festival.

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APRIL 29 5th Annual Tour of Kitchens

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716 W. Trinity Pl. 11am-5pm $20 general admission, $30 VIP Take a self-guided tour through several residential kitchens in DeKalb County.

Expect chef demonstrations and more.

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MAY 27 Brew at the Zoo 800 Cherokee Avenue SE. 6-9:30pm Savor lots of beers and wines while enjoying live music and many animals at this entertaining event.

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The Grant Park neighborhood gets its name from civil engineer, Lemuel P. Grant.

Grant donated 100 acres of his Southeast Atlanta land to become a park, earning him the nickname “Father of Atlanta.”

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Olmsted Linear Park 10am-5pm on Saturday; 11am to 5pm on Sunday Free Have fun at this Atlanta arts and crafts festival.

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REFUEL WITH DELICIOUS AND NUTRITIOUS TREATS at Kale Me Crazy. On the menu you’ll find filling smoothies like Grounded, packed with almond milk, hemp protein, raw cacao, banana, dates, and cinnamon. If you still have room, they also offer salads, wraps, and juices.

300 N. Highland Ave. NE. KaleMeCrazy.net

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NEIGHBORS

Jake Rothschild, Jake-of-all-Trades | Peter and Sarah Servold, Paleo-preneurs Tyler Lynch, Treasure Seeker

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f you think Jake’s Ice Cream is all Jake Rothschild is about, think again. This Jake-of-all

trades—urban farmer, director of a food incubator, entrepreneur and chief encourager of rising food stars—is into almost as many businesses as there are flavors of his legendary ice cream.

While Jake keeps a cooler full of fresh ideas for the ice cream business he founded in 1999, his skills as a food entrepreneur and his passion and love of nature and nurture have evolved into helping others craft businesses they’ve dreamed of.

The variety of businesses he is helping stuns. Friends and fellow foodie entrepreneurs from the halls of high-flying dot.coms to fig farmers come

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Helping people get their dream—

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that is what has always mattered most to me.

for Jake’s counsel. They hope for the contagious success of Jake’s Midas touch on everything from helping student-athletes tend and harvest school gardens to seeing crawfish go the 20 or so feet from his from “pond-to-table” cooking school in College Park, to making work-play-live-urban space truly available to all socioeconomic groups in the inner city.

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“Helping people get their dream—that is what has always mattered most to me. I don’t get a charge like that with anything else I do,” he says, peering over reading glasses, blue-green eyes sparkling.

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Jake guides budding entrepreneurs creating “sustainable, healthy, humane enterprises that are gifts to the world.” The secret to his, and ultimately their success: if you are taken under his wing, the encouragement and love come with reality checks.

Ultimately four cooking schools, with ideas spanning continents, will be among the projects launched and those “in the oven.”

The Cooking School at Irwin Street and The Cooking School at Sweet Selma Farms are already in full swing.

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“food enterprise incubator ...”

• The Little Tart Bakeshop • King of Pops • Doctah Mojo’s Juice Clinic • 2FunGuys • Joyscream

JAKE HAS HIS HANDS FULL AT HIS POPULAR ICE CREAM SHOP. OFFERING PATRONS A VARIETY OF DELICIOUS FLAVORS TO CHOOSE FROM, SOME OF HIS FAVORITES INCLUDE WHITE HOUSE CHERRY, KISS OF THE LEPRECHAUN, AND BLUEBERRY BUTTERMILK.

“At the classes, strangers meet over a pasta maker, and by the time students have made organic noodles and sauce together, they’ve become friends, and are looking forward to the next class together,” Jake says.

Meanwhile, at The Farmhouse at Sweet Selma Farms in College Park, pilots in Delta Air Lines’ rigorous training programs revel in the serenity and nurturing environment Jake has created at his 4,000-square-foot bed and breakfast.

Stepping outside the cooking school kitchen to walk the farm, Jake examines the mushroom business up-close, occasionally checking emails filled with the business plans and dreams of his protégés and partners. His entrepreneurial skills are honed by years of creating his own successes and learning the lessons of what not to do.

And when he’s not working round the clock, you can find Jake at Manuel’s Tavern. “I feel like I am at home in a place of history ... a place that matters ... and that the echoes of some of Atlanta’s greatest figures still lurk there. The food is also right on point.”

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At Sweet Selma Farms, named for his pioneering great aunt, rescue turkeys, chickens, and ducks have happily found a new home, and greet Jake with eggs and enthusiasm. Even the peacocks seem to strut on cue for this animal lover who treasures rescue dogs and other creatures, including Jim Tom, the turkey who found his third and final home with Jake after being rehomed by his first and second owners for chasing cars and a running down a boyfriend, respectively.

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY CATMAX PHOTOGRAPHY (TOP LEFT); JIM TOM PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAKE ROTHSCHILD (FAR RIGHT).

PHOTOGRAPHY BY CATMAX PHOTOGRAPHY.

Among the businesses benefiting from his

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As a kid growing up in Powder Springs, Tyler Lynch cherished his family’s trips into Atlanta. So much so that he vowed to one day live in the city. And today he does. In Midtown, near Piedmont Park.

“I love the city and I love its energy,” Tyler explains one leisurely Saturday over lunch at Rreal Tacos in Midtown.

His antique-dealing parents imbued him with a passion for the past.

Even as a kid, he alone would man the family stand at the Lakewood 400 Antiques Market. Historic preservation became an interest when his parents swapped lodging with a 90-year-old woman and they all moved into a farmhouse that he says, “ … my parents renovated for

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One reason why I’ve been involved in historic preservation is because

everything I ever loved is being torn down.

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years.” Today he uses his fun and highly anticipated Thrift with Tyler extravaganzas to support The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.

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“One reason why I’ve been involved in historic preservation,” he says, “is because everything I ever loved is being torn down.”

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The lucky ones meet early one Saturday morning and board a luxury bus to fruitful thrifting destinations either west of the city like Villa Rica or north of the city in Marietta. In addition, there’s a disc jockey, cocktails, a catered lunch and swag bags. Most recently, he raised $3,350 for The Georgia Trust by donating 15 percent of ticket sales along with individual donations received. He also relinquishes 100 percent of the raffle money as well.

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Twice a year, Tyler, despite his demanding day job working with interior designers and retailers for Codarus in AmericasMart, plans two installments of the Thrift with Tyler bus tour sponsored by Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles, Atlanta Decorative Arts Center (ADAC) and AmericasMart. Announcements are made via his Facebook and Instagram Thrift with Tyler accounts but the roughly 55 tickets, which are under $100, sell out quick.

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Sarah and Peter Servold took their passion for healthy food to the next level with their Paleo Diet food-delivery business in San Diego back in 2012. The demand was high for Paleo in San Diego and now they have focused on bringing the business to Atlanta. “Our menu has the highest-quality ingredients and changes each week according to the season. We get great produce and can support Georgia farmers and ranchers here,” Peter explains. They send ready-to-eat, organic, non-GMO, fresh, tasty food anywhere in the world from their Old Fourth Ward digs.

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What motivates you to work hard at your business?

Being in the food industry is no joke. Long hours and low pay. You have to have a love affair with food to see it through.

Putting ourselves in uncomfortable situations always moves us to the next level of success.

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The Paleo Diet has become a mainstay on the American dining scene. What does it mean to “eat Paleo”?

To us, Paleo represents not only eating the highest-quality “real” and unprocessed food (think outside grocery-store aisles) but it’s also a way of life—paying attention to nutrition, sleep and exercise.

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How did you and Peter meet each other?

Why did you choose Intown as a location for your business?

We’re Intown folks through and through, no question. We wanted our business to be in a vibrant, up-and-

coming neighborhood. We chose Old Fourth Ward—location, location, location! Seriously. Little to no commute was our big focus and we wanted to be near MARTA.

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What are your favorite things to do in Intown?

We take friends to Ponce City Market, Buford Highway and the BeltLine. I workout at Highland Yoga and

Pure Barre. Peter works out with DJ at The Forum at Ponce City Market. And our favorite restaurant, hands down, is Ticonderoga Club. You can’t find a better crew serving up the most insane dishes in Atlanta.

Go to PetesPaleo.com to find out more.

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PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF SARAH SERVOLD.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY CATMAX PHOTOGRAPHY.

We met at Universal Joint—a pub in Decatur. He was bartending and I couldn’t ditch this weirdo guy who was following me around one night. Peter pretended to be my boyfriend so I could shake the weirdo, and the rest is history ...

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Global Growers Network was created when Georgia experienced an influx of international farmers, many of whom were refugees.

Through sustainable agriculture at several growing sites, many of them in Decatur, this

organization provides economic opportunity and training. Get your

hands dirty and help out at one of their farms.

GlobalGrowers.org

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If you can’t get enough gardening in the beautiful springtime weather, pitch in at the Wylde Center.

Their volunteers

cultivate greenspaces in urban environments and the center also

promotes environmental educational programs for youth. 435 Oakview Rd. WyldeCenter.org

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Food delivery makes everyone’s lives easier and even more so if you’re homebound. Senior Connections needs help delivering complete meals in the city of Decatur. You’ll help over

3,000 seniors get a comforting and nourishing meal.

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Join 3,000 of your neighbors and lace

up your sneakers for Decatur’s largest 5K, Tour deCatur benefiting the Decatur Education Foundation on Saturday, March 11. Bring the whole family: there’s also a 1-mile fun run and Tot Trot!

DecaturEducationFoundation.org

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Literacy Action is looking for tutors to assist adult learners as they master reading, writing, mathematics, computer training and GED classes.

This is a good way to give back if you need a flexible schedule—you can devote as little as two hours per week and still make a big impact. 246 Sycamore St. LiteracyAction.org

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