Hometown Hero Mark Bloom lives his dream with Atlanta United Head out to the local park on a Saturday morning, and you’ll find hordes of kids playing “the Beautiful Game.” Ask them what they want to be when they grow up, and many reply, “A soccer player.” This is especially true now that “Uncle” Arthur Blank has brought MLS soccer to Atlanta. It was a long wait (often filled with heartbreak for Atlanta sports fans at large), but Blank never lost sight of his near decade-long goal to bring big league soccer to town. For one Marietta...
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Never tell an artist to get his head out of the clouds. Case in point— Marietta native and current Los Angeles-based creator C. Michael Frey. Despite wanting to be a doctor during his formative years at Sprayberry High School, Frey’s earliest childhood memories are of drawing. “I wanted to be a doctor because everyone tells you it’s so hard to make a living as an artist,” Frey said. “My mom worked at an outpatient surgical center, and I worked there part-time. I watched a surgery once and passed out. I realized it wasn’t for me.” Call it...
Continue readingEach year we profile a handful of Cobb’s family-owned businesses that have been passed down from generation to generation. This year, we present a sporting goods store, a food service business, a carpet company and Georgia’s oldest drugstore. We hope you enjoy getting to know them. Lacey Drug Company Considered to be the oldest continually-operating pharmacy in Cobb County and among the oldest in the state of Georgia, Lacey Drug Company has been affording locals quality care since 1895. Originally founded by Claude and Albert Durham as the Durham Brothers Drug Company at the still-operating Acworth location, the company...
Continue readingThe annual Cobb Life magazine Best of Cobb awards received thousands of votes this year. Here are some of the winners for Best Breakfast, Best Boutique, Best Home Decor, Best Burger and Best Fine Dining....
Continue readingYoung, hip and multi-talented, this 2016 Wood Industry 40 Under 40 winner and British ex-pat is combining carbon steel and butcher block wood to create customized industrial chic desks and accompanying office furniture that is anything but boring....
Continue readingMoms and their daughters may not always share in an affinity for the latest fashion trends, but for some style runs in the family. Enter Angela and Emily Macuga...
Continue readingRenowned American crime writer and self-proclaimed “relentless traveler” Lawrence Block once said, “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” For Diane Abdi Robertson, Cobb County native, retired Cobb music teacher and mother of three grown children, truer words never were spoken....
Continue readingFutbol. Footie. Soccer. The “beautiful game” is the most widely played sport in the world, and one of its biggest stars calls Cobb County home. Idolized by young soccer players across the globe, Powder Springs resident Michelle Akers is the most decorated woman in soccer history....
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Being this funny should be illegal. But, the only time this East Cobb wife and mother of twin boys has seen the back of a squad car is as an actress playing an obsessive monogrammer named Leanne in the Dirty Little Secrets episode of her new web series....
Continue readingAmerican author and cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead famously said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Truer words were never spoken for four Marietta girlfriends, the brain trust behind local faith-based company Glory Haus....
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