Life + Culture

More Than Muscle: Strength Worth Carrying

At GRIT Life Fitness, we measure strength by what a community will carry for others. Article by Canton City Lifestyle | Photography by GRIT Life Fitness There are plenty of ways to measure strength inside GRIT Life Fitness. You can count repetitions or track the pounds on a barbell. You can watch a member finish a workout they swore last month they'd never survive. For owners Justin and Lindsay Mattingly, strength has come to mean something bigger. Sometimes it looks like clean water reaching...

Travel

Hotel Bennett

Inside Charleston's Grand Hotel, a vision of 25 years Article by Lisa Thibault There are hotels you stay in, and there are hotels that tell a story the moment you walk in that leave you with an experience worth taking home. Hotel Bennett, on the corner of King Street and historic Marion Square in downtown Charleston, is unmistakably both and the perfect escape for the holidays. From the marble-clad Grand Court to the pink-hued glow of Camellias, every inch of this 179-room property was built...

Travel

From Fall days to Christmas celebrations at Biltmore

Celebrating 131 years of Christmas magic and beyond in Asheville, North Carolina Article by Lisa Thibault   There are holiday trips, and there are holiday experiences   and Biltmore Estate is unmistakably the latter. From the moment you drive through the winding entrance, past bare winter trees giving way to the first glimpse of America's largest home lit for the season, we understood why guests travel from all over the country for this. Biltmore doesn't just decorate for Christmas. It...

Food + Beverage

Daymakers, Miracle Workers

From a folding table at the farmers market to historic storefronts, Sabrina and Mike Kaylor built Cherokee County's most recognizable brand on a question. Article by Jude Pratt | Photography by Sabrina Kaylor There is a stack of college notebooks in Sabrina Kaylor's house filled with coffee shops that never got built, and to understand the one she did build, you have to go back to those pages. She is the woman whose videos your daughter sends you and your mother-in-law recognizes on sight, but...

Life + Culture

The Only Way is Up

From a Mexican table on Main to a shaded deck in Ball Ground, the Benitez Team keeps chasing a feeling. Article by Canton City Lifestyle | Photography by Freddy Benitez Freddy Benitez can tell you the exact moment a restaurant comes alive. It happens the first night strangers fill the room, staring at the colors on the menus and amazed by the unique choices in the buildout and decor. Glasses clink against each other. Somebody laughs too loud at a table in the corner. The noise settles into...

Food + Beverage

Wine Without The Attitude

Christina and Nick Caruso keep Canton in small-farm bottles, good conversation, and wine worth giving. Article by Tim May | Photography by Sud's and Bottles Nick Caruso asks two questions before handing you anything. What are you eating, and who is it for? He trained through the Court of Master Sommeliers, though you would never guess it from the conversation, and that is exactly the point. That tone runs through the entire shop, from the front door to the back wall. Christina and Nick stock...

Food + Beverage

Worth The Drive

One day of eating, from a Canton lunch to dessert Article by Canton City Lifestyle Here is the thing about a food town. You never eat in it. You drive past the good stuff on the way to the same four places, and then somebody visits and you panic. So this is a whole day, built the way I would actually build it. Lunch close to home, dinner far enough out that the drive counts as part of the date, and dessert back on North Street where you started. Six stops, none more than ninety minutes from...

Wellness

A New Career Path

How Northside Hospital is training its own future, one student at a time Article by Peter Butler | Photography by City Lifestyle Last October, Northside Hospital quietly opened the doors of the Northside Hospital School of Radiology. No admissions essay, no four-year commitment, just eighteen months and a promise. The hospital had watched radiology jobs pile up faster than anyone could fill them, so it opened the Northside Hospital School of Radiography, growing its own workforce, student by...

Style + Beauty

Style Starts Here

Two Downtown Canton stops worth adding to your rotation. Article and Photography by Canton City Lifestyle Style in Downtown Canton doesn't require a drive into the city. Two of the corridor's most inviting stops prove that the best finds are closer than you think. Whether you are treating yourself or someone you love, Main Street has you covered. 1. The White Cottage on Main Curated style, right on Main Street The White Cottage on Main is a women's and children's clothing boutique...

Fitness

Aura that Hits Different

Coach Robert Roddie and Veteran Hunter Morris are proving that craft, family, and community is still Cherokee County Article by Canton City Lifestyle | Photography by Naomi Hopkins Photography Robert Roddie was nineteen when he traded the gray streets of Glasgow for a soccer scholarship at Reinhardt University, started for four years, and then found a career at Georgia Impact he never planned on. Sixteen years later, he is the club's Girls Director of Coaching and Director of Operations. As a...