The Best of 2012

Thanks for Reading View from Inman Park!

Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for 2013

Best New Thing in Atlanta - Swings at Dancing Goats Coffee

Coolest Thing on the Internet - Code Academy

Favorite Old Thing - March 16-20, 1992

Tag Line of the Year - Chef Don't Judge

Atlanta Lunch of the Year - Chongqing Spicy Chicken at Gu's Bistro

Tweet of the Year - Via @timdorr

Favorite Business Book - Revenue Disruption

Favorite Sign the Neighborhood is Still Occupied by Eccentrics - Inman Park Squirrel Census

French Office Product of the Year - Rhodia Meeting Book

Proudest Kid Moment - Lemonade Stand for the Atlanta Community Food Bank

Oneupme.com Player of the Year - Ski Zits

Smoothie of the Year – Sambazon Chocolate + Almond + Coconut Milk

Art Show of the year - Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

Favorite Civil War Sesquicentennial Coverage - To the Sounds of the Guns

YouTube Discovery of the Year - Let's Get Lost

Pinterest Board of the Year - Dave 1980 Letters

Best Secret Place in Atlanta - Frazer Center Leaf Pile

Top Purveyors of Birthday Parties - My Reptile Guys 

Be a Part of Mammalian History!

Anyone who has every attempted to walk a dog in Inman Park has surely speculated that Atlanta's small town downtown must have the highest concentration of squirrels in the universe.  A disparate group of neighbors set out to prove this very point, thus embarking on an adventure that would culminate in the Inman Park Squirrel Census.

The team's Kickstarter page has attracted much deserved media attention, perhaps laying the ground work for more research into the habits of the ATL's favorite rodents. 

Skip the Black Friday sales this year and get everyone on your Christmas list an awesome infographic poster of Grey Squirrel statistics from the 30307. Hurry, supplies are limited!

Halloween Comes Early in Little Five Points

We look forward to seeing you and yours October 20 for the 12th Annual Little Five Points Halloween Parade.  Atlanta's favorite spectacle, slightly tamer and more kid friendly than in years past, kicks off at 4 p.m. Come early to enjoy a perfect fall day in Inman Park and the thrills of the 16th hippest neighborhood in the U.S with its hair down.

Parking in Little 5 will be tough going, so ditch your car in Candler Park or on Sinclair or Lake Avenues in Inman Park and stroll towards the mayhem.

After the parade you can head to the new Cameli's Pizza location on Moreland Avenue for great food and a live outdoor performance by Gringo Star. Even odds I will be there dressed as the Annoying Orange.

You Can Power Wikipedia!

The indispensable online reference site Wikipedia has set the goal this September of collecting user contributed photos of every site on the U.S.  National Register of Historic Places. You can see the entire list via this interactive map.

Make your contributions by creating a Wikipedia account and reviewing the list of locations in your community without active entries on Wikipedia for targets.  You can upload your photos via the location listings from the interactive map.  Assigning a Creative Commons license of CC0 will keep your image in the public domain.

The top ten photos from U.S. contributors will win prizes and the chance to compete in the International Best Picture Competition.  More importantly, your contributions will help in the effort to call attention to the  collage of 80,000+ "districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation" in the U.S.
 
Hit the streets as part of an organized meet-up (like the one in Atlanta at noon on September 15) or have the fun of hunting down and exploring unlisted place with family and friends.  My crew will be cruising for Carnegie Libraries.  Happy hunting!