Feed Your Head Music Closes

Longtime EAV business is going online-only.

Visitors to the East Atlanta Village know on Friday's and Saturday nights, the little store at 493-b Flat Shoals Ave. SE, was the jam spot. Feed Your Head Music provided the soundtrack to streetside happenings with a playlist that ranged from Motown to trip-hop for many a weekend. But Feed Your Head, an EAV retail staple for more than three years, closed late last week. A "for rent" sign now hangs on the door. While the store's physical store is closed, the business remains in operation online. "Everything is fine, I'm just pursuing better income," Feed Your Head Music owner Thom Osburn, wrote to fans on his store's Facebook page. "The store was fun and was always profitable, it was just not worth the 60-hour weeks. Not when I can run an …

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Turning the Art of Recycling Into Art

Fallen Arrows in Inman Park launches "Wastage Wash" eco-friendly tee-shirt line.

Fallen Arrows, the Inman Park-based digital fabric printing company, is launching a new, environmentally friendly tee-shirt line that reuses the waste ink that's left over during production. The result, owner Tito Sands said: "Wastage Wash." Reusing the waste ink, the company has created a line of one-of-a-kind tees that come in three basic patterns: “Splatter,” “Lilypads” and “Original.” The idea is the brainchild of Andrew Bellury, Fallen Arrows' manager. He came up with the concept while stacking containers of waste ink. "Coming from an artistic background and just being a person that doesn't really enjoy throwing anything away, I sort of set out to find some sort of use for them," Bellury said. "Wastage Wash came out of that." It …

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Readers' Choice 2012: Time To Vote

The nominations are in for Readers Choice 2012, and now it's time to pick the winners.

There is a lot to celebrate about the neighborhoods of East Atlanta Patch and the metro Atlanta community: great family-friendly activities and great local businesses. But which do you think is the best?  Help Patch determine the best of the best by voting for your favorites in each one of the categories below. (Click on the links under each category and vote in the poll attached to each article.) Cast your vote by August 17 and help us decide who's best. Whichever business gets the most votes will be named the Readers' Choice winner. The poll will open to accept votes from registered Patch users starting on July 23 and close at 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 17. Winners in all Readers Choice categories will be announced on Aug. 24. Here are the …

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Last Chance: Cast Your Votes for Your Favorite Places in the Patch

Today is your last day to nominate your favorite local businesses in Patch's Readers' Choice contest.

Today is the last day for you, dear Patch readers, to nominate and give your input on the stores, restaurants and professional service providers you find to be the best in our Readers' Choice program. The nominations are open for each of our 25 categories through July 9. After that, we’ll start the voting. To nominate a place, add it in the comments area in the individual nomination categories. If you already see the place you want to nominate, make sure to add your comment about why it should be included, because we may not be able to add all destinations to our poll and we want to make sure the top ones make the first cut. Here are the categories: Best Festival Best place to bike, walk or hike Best remote workspace  Best vet Best women's…

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Name Your Favorite Breakfast And Brunch Spots In East Atlanta Patch

Let us know the best breakfast and brunch places in the Patch so we can put it to a vote and find out which is the Readers’ Choice 2012 winner.

Traders Neighborhood Store Closing

East Atlanta Village anchor business shutters doors after 15 years.

Traders Neighborhood Store, an early pioneer business in the East Atlanta Village that helped draw other businesses, is closing, the Georgia Voice reported. It's not immediately clear why the furniture and home goods store — a staple in the EAV's business district for 15 years and one of the anchor retailers that helped the neighborhood in its renaissance and revitalization — closed. Owners Shawn Ergle and Michael Knight had contemplated closing Traders nearly two years ago, following the economy's sharp downturn. The two, who also are life partners, owned Area at the Edgewood Retail District, in October 2005. But the economy took its toll and consumers pulled back on high-end merchandise Area offered. They closed Area four years later. "I…

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