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Rep Your Hood featured on Atlanta Heydays

Rep Your Hood’s first shirt featured a street corner in East Atlanta Village. And, at the 2011 East Atlanta Strut, Rep Your Hood sold 50 of their newly designed shirts.

Poncey-Highlands gym, yoga studio featured on Atlanta Heydays (in Virginia Highland-Druid Hills Patch)

Chalk. Sweat. Gym mats. Those are the scents that send Kim Steen down memory lane. The Stone Mountain native spent most of her childhood and teenage years in competitive gymnasts.

Decatur native and resident featured on Atlanta Heydays (in Decatur-Avondale Estates Patch)

Barry Clement’s family tells him they would like to see a few nice pictures from his trips, but the less they know the better.

Local Connections

Tech grads featured on Atlanta Heydays (in Midtown Patch)

With Hugh Malkin’s passion for Atlanta events and Adam Wilson's knowledge of software, the two Georgia Tech grads created HUGEcity.us to help connect people with events in Atlanta.

Kennesaw professor featured on Atlanta Heydays (in Marietta Patch)

Charles Parrott was never very skilled at or interested in farm chores. He grew up on a Nebraska farm, but the world he really enjoyed living in was an imaginary one.

Do it yourself with supplies from a local hardware store (in Smyrna-Vinings Patch)

In 2009, Smyrna's Vickery Hardware store was named best hardware store by Atlanta Magazine. And, it’s no wonder.

Atlanta Heydays: Meet Atlantan Brooke Schultz (in Virginia Highland-Druid Hills Patch)

Brooke Schultz tells the story of Re-Inspiration at least three times a week. The people who enter her shop on Highland Avenue often ask her lots of questions about the store’s recycled gift items.

Atlanta Heydays: Meet Atlantan Amanda Plumb (in Buckhead Patch)

This week the Atlanta StoryCorps book moves to Buckhead's Atlanta History Center. As the Atlanta Site Supervisor for StoryCorps, Amanda Plumb helps Atlantans record the stories of their lives.

Atlanta Heydays profile: Meet Atlanta Bee Nguyen (in Buckhead Patch)

Athena Warehouse, founded by Bee Nguyen, provides prom dresses to girls at Brookhaven's Cross Keys' High School. The girls complete three hours of community service before receiving a dress.

Atlanta Heydays profile: Meet Kirkwood resident Josh Woiderski

Socks. Josh Woiderski recommends always having a pair of extra socks at your office. That’s the one thing usually forgotten when packing for a trip or in Josh’s case … a trip to work.

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