Creative Loafing’s 2012 Best of Atlanta (with a Decatur Bent)
Decatur Metro | September 24, 2012
You could say that Creative Loafing’s 2012 edition of the “Best of Atlanta” has now hit newsstands, if newsstands still existed in Atlanta.
Here are some of the Decatur area people/items/events/things that made the list in no particular order!
Critic’s Picks
- Best Leisurely Stroll – Olmstead Linear Park
- Best bookstore for browsing – Book Nook
- Best hardware store to stand up to the man – Intown Ace Hardware
- Best place to meet the maker – Homegrown
- Legendary Beer Bar in Your Backyard – Brick Store Pub
- Best spot for a first date – Leon’s Full Service
- Best local poet – Natasha Thethewey
Reader’s Picks
- Best Suburb – Decatur
- Best Antique Store – Kudzu
- Best Consignment Store – Finders Keepers
- Best Craft Beer Store – Ale Yeah!
- Best fashion blogger – AsianCajuns (tie)
- Best Jewelry Store – Worthmore
- Best Specialty Store – Your DeKalb Farmers Market
- Best Vet Clinic – Village Vets
- Best cocktails – Leon’s Full Service
- Best cookies – Cookie Studio (tie)
- Best place to fill up your growler – Ale Yeah!
- Best tacos – Taqueria del Sol
- Best book event – Decatur Book Festival
Let me know if we missed anything!
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Critic’s pick for Best Reinvention of the Reading Series went to WRITE CLUB Atlanta, which takes place under PushPush Theater’s auspices at East Decatur Station.
I’m excited to try the Optimist on Thursday…
Though the kudos for “Best Suburb” are well-intended, I somewhat resent the designation. After all, the CITY of Decatur is older than Atlanta.
Agreed. If Decatur is a suburb, then so is virtually every residential neighborhood in the City of Atlanta. In fact, you could easily argue that Decatur is more “urban” than many areas within Atlanta’s city limits.
I believe this is a very old conversation in Decatur. I once read a news clipping from the ’80s that referenced an older lady who had lived here her entire life and made this same assertion.
No wonder this discussion generates heat so reliably and predictably!
from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/suburb
suburb
c.1340 (implied in suburban), “residential area outside a town or city,” from O.Fr. suburbe, from L. suburbium “an outlying part of a city,” from sub “below, near” + urbs (gen. urbis) “city.” Close to crowds but just beyond the reach of municipal jurisdiction, suburbs in 17c., especially those of London,
had a sense of “inferior, debased, and licentious habits or life” (e.g. suburban sinner, slang for “loose woman, prostitute”). By 1817, the tinge had shifted to “inferior manners and narrow views.” Compare also Fr. equivalent faubourg. Suburbanite formed 1890; suburbia first attested 1896, probably influenced by utopia, originally in England with ref. to London.
“[T]he growth of the metropolis throws vast numbers of people into distant dormitories where … life is carried on without the discipline of rural occupations and without the cultural resources that the Central District of the city still retains.” [Lewis Mumford, 1922]
“Suburban Sinner” would be a good DM t-shirt.
I’d buy THAT for a dollar!
(Name that movie, without using the Interwebs).
Robocop!
Has there ever been a “Best of Decatur” poll done on Decatur Metro?
awesome idea!
I know who the pre-race favorite is for best community blog.
Nope. I thought about it a long time ago, but decided it might become a bit too divisive. It’s sorta the same reason there haven’t ever really been restaurant reviews on DM.
Maybe it could work and everyone would enjoy it. But the categories would need to be pretty broad for there to be any sort of competition.
The latest Decatur Living (or maybe it was two issues ago . . .) had a “best of Decatur” feature.
“Best Street Character” dwells in Decatur and is a Scottie!