The name Fat Man’s Mill Café has, for the past 60 years, become synonymous with hearty, stick-to-your-ribs Southern cooking. It’s ironic, then, that its current owners, Brad and Havird Usry,…
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Les Reagan, the founding director of The Augusta Broadway Singers (TAB), had no trouble deciding what the theme of the group’s upcoming show would be: “Hope… Happiness… Harmony…” is what…
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To Robert Williams, being in the restaurant business is a lot like being in the music industry. “A song is very much like a recipe, and a band is like…
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It was a novel concept when it opened in the summer of 2015: A barbecue joint that was serious about its food, but not so serious about much else. Beer…
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The term “B&B” means something a little different at the Olde Town Inn than it does at other places that describe themselves that way. “It is a B&B,” admits co-owner…
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Exactly two years after he died, Andy Jordan’s friends and family will do what the local legend loved to do most — ride bikes. The date of the inaugural Flow…
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It has been a rough month for Derek Trucks. The bandleader of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, co-named for his musical and life partner Susan Tedeschi, was in Macon last weekend…
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Derek Trucks was performing in bars and nightclubs in Augusta, “When maybe I was 10, 11… 12?” Besides the Walton Way institution the Red Lion Pub, Trucks remembers the former…
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When big band legend Glenn Miller left fame behind in 1942 to join the Armed Forces, he was at the pinnacle of his career. “It’s kind of interesting: When he…
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Alex Zhao, a new Augusta resident from New York and who most recently lived in Atlanta, grew up in the restaurant business. He’s knows a thing or two about the…