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There are dinners, and then there are date-night dinners. The difference isn’t necessarily price or white tablecloths. A good date-night restaurant needs the right combination of food, atmosphere and enough energy in the room that dinner actually feels like going somewhere. Bonus points if there’s somewhere nearby to keep the night going when neither of you is ready to call it. Fortunately, Birmingham gives us plenty to work with.

When it comes to skincare, plenty of people want visible results without adding needles or significant downtime to the equation. That’s where D.E.J. BioStim by Revision Skincare comes in. Now available at Gunn Dermatology, the professional-grade treatment is designed to support firmer, smoother and more luminous-looking skin through a customized series of treatments.

270 Rele St. – Lane Parke (205) 747-0013 locandabrasato.com Birmingham has no shortage of Italian restaurants, but Locanda Brasato is taking a slower approach. Opened in Lane Parke by the team behind downtown favorite Lé Fresca, the restaurant leans into handmade pastas, traditional techniques, seasonal ingredients and the kind of personal service that makes dinner feel less transactional and more like someone actually wants you there.

What makes a home truly beautiful? It isn’t necessarily another renovation, a room full of new furniture or whatever happens to be trending at the moment. Often, it’s the details that make a house feel considered, comfortable and distinctly yours. From editing what you already own to thinking differently about lighting, art and the places where people naturally gather, Christen Bond at Ray & Poynor shares seven ways to create a home that looks beautiful and feels even better to live in.

Photo Credit: birminghamartwalk.org For one weekend every September, downtown Birmingham becomes one very large art gallery. The 24th annual Birmingham Artwalk returns Friday, September 11 and Saturday, September 12, bringing more than 100 regional artists into businesses, residential buildings and streets throughout the downtown loft district. And that’s really what makes Artwalk worth doing. You aren’t walking into one building, looking at art and heading home.

What makes someone beautiful? It’s a question with as many answers as there are people to ask. Beauty can be confidence and personal style, but it can also be resilience, kindness, strength, faith, authenticity or simply the way someone makes other people feel. For our Most Beautiful People feature, we asked a group of Birmingham women from different backgrounds, careers and walks of life two questions: How do you define beauty, and what do you do to stay beautiful?

Protein is having a moment. It’s in the coffee. It’s in the cereal. It’s in the chips. There are protein waters, protein bars and enough protein powders to make choosing one feel like a major life decision. But underneath all the marketing, there is a legitimate reason we’re talking about protein so much. It plays an important role in maintaining muscle, strength and overall health, and it becomes particularly worth paying attention to as we get older. So, are you actually getting enough?

Infrared workouts gently heat your body from the inside out. That’s the idea behind infrared fitness studios, where short, high-intensity workouts take place in an infrared-heated environment. The combination of exercise and heat has become popular with people looking for more from their workout than simply burning calories. INCREASED SWEATING Sweating itself isn’t a magic “detox,” but it is an important part of the body’s natural cooling system.

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Photo Credit: southboundfoodfest.com September is when Birmingham starts feeling like itself again. The heat finally loosens its grip, the social calendar fills up, football returns and suddenly everyone has somewhere to be. Here are 10 things worth making room for this September. 1.