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Piedmont Ear, Nose, Throat & Related Allergy Board-certified physicians work to get to the root of your allergy problems and offer treatment options like allergy drops and shots. 1720 Peachtree St. NW. PiedENT.com BEST DENTAL PRACTICE

Metropolitan Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Associates For more than 15 years, Dr. Joyce Lee has been serving Midtown with a skilled hand for your most sensitive oral surgeries. 1175 Peachtree St. NE. DrJoyceLee.com BEST DERMATOLOGIST

Dermatology Affiliates In the heart of Westside, Dermatology Affiliates is the go-to place for all of your

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Sherwood Chiropractic Center

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Proudly serving the Atlanta community for 25 years, Dr. Kathleen Sherwood offers free consultations to talk through your health concerns. 1275 McConnell Dr. SherwoodChiropracticCenter.com BEST GENERAL/FAMILY DOCTOR

Midtown Medical Associates For 18 years, the providers at this clinic have helped families treat everything from strep throat to asthma.

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DiFrancesco Plastic Surgery Dr. Lisa DiFrancesco combines three of her most popular plastic surgeries—a tummy tuck, breast augmentation, and breast lift—for a total mommy makeover.

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BareFood Wellness The team here focuses on regenerative detoxification and alkaline meal plans

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270 17th St. LoveBareFood.com BEST WOMEN’S PRACTICE

Greater Atlanta Women’s Healthcare Located next to Emory University Hospital, these skilled providers can assist you from your first ultrasound through delivery.

550 Peachtree St. NE. GreaterAtlantaWomensHealthcare.com

Decatur Yoga & Pilates For more than 15 years, this studio has offered Pilates mat classes and yoga styles such as Yin, Bikram, Prenatal, and Vinyasa. Its newest location can be found on Blackmon Drive.

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Emory Psychiatry As a teaching hospital, clinicians stay up to date on the latest treatments and methods for veteran-specific conditions and mental healthcare for all ages.

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Grady Healthcare One of the nation’s top trauma, burn, and stroke centers, this hospital saves lives every day while also providing routine care for families and seniors.

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Light Em Up Electric Don’t settle for shocking quotes or haphazard work. Here, each job comes with upfront pricing and a 100-percent satisfaction guarantee.

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Eco-Friendly Maid Service Regular service includes the cleaning of all surface areas with nontoxic materials. Customers can also expect light organization assistance.

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Trinity Mercantile & Design A retail home furnishings and gift store with a full-service interior design studio in Downtown Decatur.

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Plants Creative Landscapes Plants Creative Landscapes provides maintenance packages that are uniquely customized to provide care for your landscape.

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The Wish List Antiques & Interiors Vintage chandeliers, local art, and everything in between converge at this shop filled with one-of-a-kind finds.

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Rosie’s Roofing and Restoration These top-notch residential roofing professionals perform roof replacements and repairs, install gutters, windows, siding and can handle soffit and fascia replacement.

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High Museum of Art Times and prices vary Celebrate Winnie-the-Pooh by learning about the real people who inspired this charming literary classic.

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1155 N. Highland Ave. 10am-11pm on Saturday 10am-6pm on Sunday Free entry Tots can get crafty at KidsFest while mom and dad peruse work from local artists and dance to live tunes.

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Swim Across America Pool Clinic at Georgia Tech

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The Friends School of Atlanta 10am-3:30pm $275 This out-of-the-box summer camp will teach your little ones a variety of circus skills from trapeze acts to plate spinning.

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Ponce City Market 4pm Free entry Stop and smell the strawberries at this market filled with fresh produce, pasta and other products.

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750 Ferst Dr. NW. 10:30am-Noon $35 Swimmers of all levels are invited to this clinic. Proceeds support the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

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Georgia Aquarium 8:30am-4pm $325 for members, $361 non-members Campers (ages 12 and 13) will dive into hands-on activities involving science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics.

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The once password-protected speakeasy inside City Winery is now open to the public and is named ABV [Alcohol by Volume].

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Historic Fourth Ward Park 11am-4pm $45 Compete with a coed team of eight in this old-school field day complete with tug-of-war, relays, obstacle courses, and more.

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Piedmont Park 9:30am Prices vary This special 5K is designed for moms to enjoy being active with their children. Best part? The entire family can join mother for the jog.

Afterward, check out the race expo.

TheStrollerRun.com

New Realm Brewery 6:30pm $15 Yoga pro Ashley Lorenzo leads an inspiring class on the rooftop of this BeltLine brewery. A complimentary beer is included with each session.

NewRealmBrewing.com

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AJC Peachtree Road Race

May 2018.

Begins near Lenox Square mall and ends in Piedmont Park 7:30am Free to view Cheer on over 60,000 runners at the world’s largest 10K. AtlantaTrackClub.org/Peachtree

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Ponce City Market, Ste. NW 208 5:30pm, 7pm $39 Create your own hand-poured 7-ounce Lumary candle at this class held at Citizen Supply.

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65 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. SW. 5-10pm Prices vary Support black-owned businesses specializing in fashion, food, and art. While there, ogle vegan cooking demonstrations and live performances.

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Piedmont Park 11am-6pm Free entry Choose from hundreds of ice cream flavors and put that sugary energy to use during fitness activities.

AtlantaIceCreamFestival.com

Atkins Park Restaurant & Bar in Virginia-Highland claims to be the oldest continuously licensed tavern in Atlanta.

The restaurant was established as a deli in 1922.

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Atlanta Summer Wine Festival

Piedmont Park Arts Festival

16th Annual Grant Park Summer Shade Festival

City Winery Noon-4pm, 6-10pm Prices vary Sample more than 50 wines and bust a move to live music and tunes from DJ Q-Tip. AtlantaWineFestivals.com

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Piedmont Park 10am-5pm on Saturday 11am-5pm on Sunday Free entry Shop and learn at this fest featuring 250-plus painters, illustrators, and sculptors.

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Grant Park 10am-10pm on Saturday 11am-7:30pm on Sunday Free entry Use the bike valet before participating in the Adams Realtors Run for the Park 5K. SummerShadeFestival.org

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234 E. Parkwood Rd. 9am-Noon $930 Christy Kennedy, a pediatric occupational therapist, provides sensory-friendly activities that will help your child grow. While here, kids can have fun and make new friends.

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This family business spans four generations and handles both the design and build process to simplify your home remodel.

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Zac Pasmanick and team have helped Atlantans find their dream home for over 38 years. The company has more than 6,000 home transactions on the books.

189 S. Ponce de Leon Ave. ZacSellsAtlanta.com

DogGoneHandy Experienced technicians can help you with everything from broken screen doors to ceiling fan installation.

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Anything but traditional, an open kitchen cranks out an assortment of inventive dishes, which are presented tableside.

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Six Feet Under Pub & Fish House Cheers with your pals while taking in rooftop views of the historic Oakland Cemetery. And every Thursday, enjoy local beer on draft from Arches Brewing.

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This rustic concert venue at the heart of City Winery can seat 310 people.

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Hop City Craft Beer & Wine A plentiful selection of wine and beer is complemented by the GrowlerTown bar where you can sample over 60 beers on tap. Krog Street Market.

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Under the guidance of Dr. Ken Anderson, founder of the Anderson Center for Hair & Aesthetics, patients can now turn to hair restoration surgeon Dr. Daniel Lee for his expertise using the ARTAS® robot. Find him at the Center’s original Sandy Springs location.

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As a general surgeon for the last two decades, Dr. Lee is no stranger to the powerful effect surgery can have on a patient’s life. “I was the Chief of Surgery for Piedmont Hospital and I also worked for Kaiser Permanente for many years,” he says. “But I decided I was ready for a change. I wanted to help people in a different way.” He made the leap in 2017 from the more corporate world of healthcare to private practice as a colleague of Dr. Ken Anderson, a board-certified plastic surgeon and founder of the Anderson Center for Hair & Aesthetics.

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“When I first met him, Ken talked a lot about why he loved this type of surgery. It was very intriguing. It was what I was looking for,” Dr. Lee recalls. “I trained side by side with him for over a year—I’ve been trained by a master. He’s the best, certainly, in the city of Atlanta. His reviews show that clearly.”

The atmosphere at Anderson Center for Hair drew him to the job, too.

“It’s a practice with an intimate setting—we all feel like family. And in many other hair-restoration practices, patients don’t actually meet the surgeon. Here, we believe it’s our privilege to counsel patients

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One of the crown jewels of the Center is the groundAFTER breaking ARTAS® robotic hair restoration system, a highly specialized tool that the surgeons use to extract hair follicles from areas on the head that are immune to baldness so they can be “planted” in areas affected by hair loss. The Anderson Center for Hair was the first practice in Georgia to treat patients with this procedure in 2013. “The surgeon is there for the complete extraction, operating over the robot to extract individual hair follicles. Other practices leave that job to technicians. And, unlike in other practices, we each only schedule one surgery daily, so we can focus exclusively on that one patient,” Dr. Lee explains.

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Dr. Lee is actually a “transplant” himself, having moved to Georgia over 20 years ago from New Jersey. “I finished my medical training in the Air Force,” he says. “They sent me to Robins Air Force Base, 100 miles south of Atlanta. It’s funny—a friend asked me if I knew where that town was and I answered that I didn’t even know where Georgia was!” He says he’s thankful his career brought him to Atlanta. Now, he’s an avid Braves baseball fan and enjoys taking his beloved rescue pup, Hero, to Piedmont Park to see the sights.

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James Knight has a unique perspective on life in Atlanta’s Intown neighborhood. Not only does he see the area through an architect’s trained eyes, but he’s a transplant from Sydney, Australia. He says he chose to live in Old Fourth Ward when he first arrived in Atlanta because it reminds him of home. “Sydney is a walking city,” he says. “I didn’t own a car there. I took the train or I would run to work to get my fitness in. In Old Fourth Ward, I’m just down the road from the park, shopping, places to eat—nothing’s too far away. It has a community sort of feel.”

James’ love of travel lured him to Atlanta in 2016, right out of the University of Sydney where he earned a master’s in architecture. “My aunt, Stephanie Bramble, owns Dutchmans Casual Living Stores,” he explains. “I’m lucky I could come here to work with her to learn the business.”

Stephanie herself emigrated from Australia in the late ’90s. She started a floral design business, which eventually morphed into a retail furniture and décor store, now with five locations, offering custom furniture, upholstery, lighting, bedding, candles and textiles in a charming, relaxed setting. She named Dutchmans after her father, who was a Dutch artist and furniture builder.

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When Lawrence Palmer gazes out over Historic Fourth Ward Park, he doesn’t see leafy trees, expanses of soft, green grass or the blue sky overhead—he sees a gym.

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