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Home life for Alejandro Rose-Garcia looks a little different than a few years ago. He’s now a husband and the father of a two-year-old daughter, a metamorphosis that’s audible on Fondness, Etc., his new album, out May 15.

Before it was a beloved dining institution, the building that houses Frank's today was Marlow's Supermarket, a fixture of Pawley's Island life, serving as the de facto town center for more than half a century. A place that acted as the home to the island's only phone, its only gas pump, all the grocery staples, and even as a sort of bank for the locals.

For plenty of people outside Georgia, Augusta exists as a city glimpsed through the cloud of Masters coverage: manicured fairways, azaleas, pressed polos, pimento cheese, and a week of peak spring spectacle. But that version of Augusta, while very real, is incomplete. In contrast, locals—especially those leading the city's dining scene—paint a quieter, more grounded, and much more interesting picture than the golf shorthand suggests.