by Lauren | Oct 24, 2012 | Featured
Pretty Southern was privileged to attend a cocktail party for Emily Giffin at the W Hotel in Buckhead honoring this beautiful lady’s latest novel Where We Belong. The party took place in Atlanta’s most posh neighborhood hotel, where pretty Southern ladies...
by Lauren | Oct 23, 2012 | Featured
Editor’s note – this was an essay which was originally published in Athens Magazine (Vol. 20, No. 4 September-October 2008) with “G-O-D-A-W-G-S-! printed on the binding of the issue. In this edition, an almost-23-year old me writing from the...
by Lauren | Oct 23, 2012 | Featured
Eclectic, funky, and oh-so-tasty, Ammazza is a welcome addition to Atlanta’s historic Old Fourth Ward. And this joint truly caters to its neighborhood. Just a stone’s throw from Sister Louisa’s Church, Noni’s, and other late night hot spots,...
by Lauren | Oct 22, 2012 | Food
On Friday, Oct. 5, Atlanta foodies gathered in Tech Square to worship at the altar of The Big Grill. Dozens of Atlanta’s best grill-masters catered in slabs of beef, brisket, pork, chicken for a VIP kickoff event to start the 11th Annual Taste of Atlanta: Grills...
by Lauren | Oct 22, 2012 | Featured
“Gone With The Wind” was 1,037 pages which took its author, Margaret Mitchell a decade to write. Then it took 517 pages to correctly document the life and times of this great Southern writer and the romance between Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh. In...