Each year the Decatur Book Festival brings in a crowd. The DBF is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Since its launch, more than 1,000 world-class ...
By Jonathan Phillips, contributor Summer has come to Decatur and with summer comes youth baseball. The cheers, the teams chanting, the crack of a bat, all familiar sounds as families rally around their players. Each ...
By Jonathan Phillips, contributor The Decatur Arts Festival is taking over downtown, featuring live musical acts, food, drink and as much art as you can stand. Well over 100 artists are participating in the festival ...
By Jonathan Phillips, contributor As the sun set over E. Howard Ave. in Decatur the lights started to come on. Not just street lights, but the lights of lanterns as people gathered at Color Wheel ...
The city of Decatur’s Glenlake Park played host to PAWS for the Cause on Saturday morning, April 18. The event, sponsored by the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office, helps to raise awareness about animal cruelty. Decaturish ...
By Dena Mellick, contributor Annexation, transparency of government, education, and parking. Those seemed to be the main topics of interest Thursday evening at a forum for the five candidates competing to be the new mayor ...
The Mead Road Mardi Gras Parade returned on Saturday, Feb. 7. The parade began in 2005. This year it ended with a dinner of red beans and rice, chicken and sausage gumbo and jambalaya at ...
The 13th annual MLK Service Project is the most ambitious yet. This weekend hundreds of volunteers are visiting 31 homes. Organizers had to rent a record 1,300 tools, Service Project Chairman Paul Mitchell said. On Sunday ...
I hope you all got a chance to check out Dena Mellick’s article about the VIP perks at this year’s Decatur Book Festival. Photographer Jonathan Phillips was out and about taking photos for Decaturish this year. Here ...