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Here Comes the (All Organic) Bride

After running the Barr Mansion Artisan Ballroom for more than 20 years, Melanie McAfee had catered a lot of meals and staged a lot of weddings.“And they were wonderful events,” she remembers. ...

Chocolate Meets Booze; Palates Rejoice

Twenty-five years ago, Lecia Duke graduated from architecture school and found herself unhappily employed at a large Nashville firm. “I wasn’t happy, but I wasn’t dumb,” she recalls. ...

One in the Hand

By Kim Lane Photography by Jenna Noel There are adults among us who think the world has become entirely too handheld, too convenient, too portable. PDAs, cell phones, iPods...a veritable army of ...

Sweet Success

By Andrea Vanscoy Photography by Jenna Noel One day, Tom left his mainstream job of 17 years to spend several months reading library books on his couch, looking for his life’s mission, his ...

La Casita de Buen Sabor

By Lucinda HutsonPhotography by John Pozdro “As is the gardener, so is the garden,” say the old-timers. What would they think of my gardens? I live in a bright-purple bungalow ...

Our Man in the Field

By Betsy Levy Photography by Carole Topalian It’s high noon at the Austin Whole Foods flagship store, and serious foodies are pouring through the sliding glass doors in ...

Joy Stick

By Spike Gillespie Photography by Randy Allbritton Katherine Lott emerges from her shiny bubble: the refurbished 1968 Silver Streak known as the Silver Spoon Trailer, where she peddles her ...