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Tonight’s the night. We’re throwing our first ever event, a somewhat-belated 1-year anniversary party.
We’ll have food & drink for the first 50 people, giveaways, and more, thanks to our sponsors: Atlanta REALTOR® Benjy Rose, Highland Mortgage, and Lazyface.
Who: Anthem Readers & Friends
What: Casual happy hour vibes (FREE)
When: TODAY from 5-7pm
Where: El Tesoro (Edgewood location)
RSVP: Click Here
Ok, let’s get into this week’s Anthem 👇
The Anthem is made possible in part by El Tesoro, a neighborhood treasure serving good quality food at reasonable prices.
🌮 El Tesoro is hosting us tonight, and a Community Market on Saturday (9/12) from 3-8pm, with art, books, ceramics, vintage, and tarot vendors set up around the patios. Grab tacos and drinks while you browse.
☕ Harbor Coffee rolled out a Faux Fall menu featuring a house-made syrup with dark brown sugar, cardamom, pumpkin pie spices, and orange peel, plus an apple cider slushie. Also, you’ve got about 3 weeks left to enjoy the CHAIcee (oat chai icee).
🍺 Big news out of Decatur: Inner Voice Brewing changed their license to a brewpub, so they're now serving cocktails, wine, and cider alongside their own beer. Meanwhile, Brainwave Pizza dropped a Pizzamasala special, a Chicken Tikka Masala pie with griddled paneer, curried chicken, mint raita, and cilantro, available for about a month.
🍕 File this under sentences we didn't expect to write: Fred Martin Welding Co. is running a buy one, get one where every welded Lego man sculpture comes with a free Staplehouse pizza or sandwich.
☕ Taproom heard you: the Banana Bread Latte is back on the fall menu, alongside new flavors including a pumpkin miso cappuccino with white miso and ginger. Available now in shop and through mobile ordering.
🍯 Sugar Loaf rolls out sticky buns and cinnamon rolls on weekends only: a "Sticky Buna" with spiced dates, coffee caramel, and local pecans, plus cinnamon rolls with a Chinese five spice filling and buttermilk orange glaze. First come first served.
📋 Wyld Bird, Some Luck, and Revolution Doughnuts are all hiring. Hit the Anthem job board for more info.
🍺 Beer enthusiasts, listen up… The Porter is putting 3 Floyds on draft for the first time with a tap takeover on Tuesday (9/16) from 6-8pm. Expect Zombie Dust and friends, no tickets needed.
🍗 Southern Belle at Vela Park Food Works dropped a new Gochujang Hot Honey sauce for their fried chicken sandwich, sweet, spicy, and stacked with pickles and slaw.
🌯 Poco Loco's weekly breakfast burritos are named "The Wine Stroll" and "The Plant Sale" this week, both $11. The meat one stacks Pine Street Market bacon, hashbrowns, sweet heat jalapeños, and 5N Farm eggs. Feels like they've been reading our weekend plans. -Connor
🥩 Bona Fide Deluxe brought back Nonna's Cheesesteak as this week's special: house-smoked top round with caramelized onions, pickled banana peppers, sun-dried tomato and roasted red pepper mayo, and provolone, mozzarella, and American on a toasted Alon's Bakery Tuscan hoagie. Available through Sunday only.
☕ Little Rat Coffee has been over at Mikkelson's Market this week for a coffee pop-up and will be there again today & Saturday from 8a-3pm.
🍖 There’s a lot to love about this new dish from Little Bear — strip steak, grilled cabbage wedge, XO fromage blanc dressing, chili oil, málà bacon, pickled peppers, herb salad — but personally I love that they’ve tagged 10 local farmers and producers in their ingredients. Truly a masterclass of sustainable sourcing, community building, and absolutely delicious food.
🌺 Love beer and tequila? You’re gonna love this Paloma Sour from 3 Taverns Brewery. Fun fact: I made a Peach Paloma for Connor’s wedding. Another fun fact: we both got married at the Trolley Barn.
🇩🇪 James here. My favorite kind of beers are Oktoberfest beers — which means I’ll pretty much be camped out at Halfway Crooks from Sept 12 - Oct 4 (not a huge departure from my typical routine tbf) as they release three Oktoberfest beers in 1 Liter glasses, and host a variety of activities for people of all ages. Let’s goooooooooo!
🌮 9/10 - Anthem Anniversary - Just in case you hadn’t heard, we’re throwing a happy hour party at El Tesoro TODAY to celebrate one year of the Anthem. We’d love to see you there, RSVP here.
🎸 9/11-9/13 - Mainline Music Fest - Three days of local music across four venues, from Star Bar (Fri) to Halfway Crooks, Aisle 5 (Sat), and Thinking Man Tavern (Sun). The Saturday afternoon set at Halfway Crooks is now a FREE show. | Tickets & Info
🍷 9/12 - Kirkwood Wine Stroll - One of my favorite events of the year. I’ve been a vendor more than I’ve attended and always had a great time. There will be 50+ stations pouring samples of red, white, rose, and sparkling wine (and, as I can attest, Buzzballs). Various food options available for purchase. | Tickets | More Info
🌱 9/12 - Love is Love Fall Plant Sale & Family Day - You've been eating Love is Love's vegetables all over the neighborhood whether you knew it or not. It's a drive out to Mansfield, but some of our favorite East Atlanta folks, including Poco Loco and Slow Food Atlanta, will be there for a full farm day of seedlings, workshops, and music. 10:30am to 3:30pm. | More Info
🛸 9/12 - Mini Market at Little's Food Store - Disco UFO brings a small artist market to Cabbagetown with vintage, jewelry, glass art, fresh flowers, paintings, and paper sculptures. Noon to 5pm, right next to Little's. | More Info
🎨 9/12 - FREEFORM at ABV Gallery - 50+ artists, one room. ABV Gallery in East Atlanta Village opens its Freeform group show with a curated mix of mediums and perspectives, from 6-10pm. | FREE | More Info & RSVP
🎾 9/12 - US Open Women's Final Watch Party at Jolene Jolene - JJ teamed up with Dove to show the final, and Dove's got the tab: free food and drink all match long. Doors at 3pm, first serve at 4pm. | FREE | More Info
🍺 9/12 - Follow the Leder - Halfway Crooks Biergarten kicks off Oktoberfest with a 5K run, keg tap, and music fest all in one. Race starts at 11am, lederhosen and dirndl encouraged. | More Info
🎬 9/12 - L5P Picture Show - The debut of an outdoor experimental cinema series in Little Five Points, projecting video art from Masha Vlasova and Kate Balsley onto The Porter's video truck in Findley Plaza. Starts at 8pm, come early for food and drinks at The Porter. | More Info
🌿 9/13 - Georgia Plant Sale - Whether you’ve got a green thumb or just getting started, this plant sale is for you. Discover new plants and take a potted plant class, while perusing art, handmade goods, and jewelry at LikeMinds this Sunday. | More Info
PS - if plants aren’t your thing, they’ve got a massive slate of college football games on this weekend, too.
🍕 9/13 - Pizza Making Class - Learn from the masters at Indaco how to make your own pizza. Class starts at noon, come hungry. | $80 (!!!) | More Info
🎤 9/14 - Mass Debators - A comedy debate show where local comedians argue nonsense topics and the crowd decides who's the true debater versus who's just getting rage-baited. Runs 2nd and 4th Mondays going forward. | $5 | More Info
🥢 9/15 - Off Menu Series: Komos Tequila x Ruby Chow's - A four-course Pan-Asian tasting dinner by Chef Sungpil An, paired with handcrafted tequila cocktails curated by Beverage Director Brian Seo. Old Fourth Ward. Limited seats. 6-8:15pm. | More Info & Tickets
🦪 9/16 - Kinda Clean Oysters and Comedy - You had me at oysters and comedy… and while the title is funny, those oysters better be clean!! Head to Hippin Hops next week to catch this one. | More Info
🚧 Heads up: if you're headed to Park Pet Supply or anywhere else in the back of EAV: fencing went up on 9/1 for underground infrastructure upgrades that'll take 4-6 weeks. The back lot stays partially open but the back door entrance is closed for now, so street parking around the Village is your friend.
Introducing… Molly
Neighborhood: Kirkwood
About: Mollard Greens (Molly for short), loves life and probably you, if you met her.
Fun Facts: Her favorite celebrity is Judge Reinhold.
Thank you to Katie for sharing Molly with us.
If you want your pet featured in the Park Pet Supply Pet of the Week section of the Anthem, fill out this form!
🎾 Atlanta-born Ben Shelton advanced to the semifinals of the US Open with an incredible victory over two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in a match that ended at 3:33 am, the latest match in tennis history. Fun fact - I got to see Andre Agassi play Marcos Baghdatis in the 2006 US Open. The match ended around 1am and I thought THAT was late… -Connor
🧱 Submission are due TOMORROW for East Atlanta Clay’s first-ever juried Object Show. Selected entries will be on display at a pop-up exhibition at MODA on October 29.
🚂 The Atlanta Beltline dropped an impressive $3.5 billion plan to build light rail around the Beltline, with 13 station locations along the southwest and southeast transit corridor.
⛳ Got plans on Tuesday nights? Check out Green Office Golf’s Fall league: 9 holes, 6 weeks, 2-person scramble format.
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