After three years at 60 Technology Road, the Cake Box Eatery and Bakery in Starkville is moving about two miles to a new location at the East Plaza Shopping Center downtown.
According to Mark Taylor, who handles the company’s marketing, the restaurant at 100 Russell St., Suite 16, will be in a higher traffic area, particularly at night. With this change of venue, Taylor said the plan is to extend the eatery’s hours for dinner. Additionally, the hamburger plates at Cake Box that have become so popular will be offered five days a week instead of Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only.
This is not the first change of venue for Cake Box. Before moving to Technology Road, it operated as a pastry and catering business on Louisville Street for five years.
Cake Box Eatery is currently open 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundays. Plans are to open in the new location the first week of August, with the Technology Road location closing July 28.
Style Revel, a boutique clothing store for young women at 201 E. Main St. in Starkville, closed its doors on Wednesday, but owner Letty Weeks plans to reopen to a whole new clientele later this month.
Weeks plans to open Fig Studio and Shop at the same location, a combination photography studio and clothing store centered on mothers and their babies.
Weeks is converting the store so she can better pursue her second professional passion of photography. She began taking photos in 2013 to bolster the look of Style Revel’s website, and since then has taken it on as a full-time profession. Shrinking the assortment of clothes while now offering photos in the same building will prevent her from having to juggle the two jobs.
Finally, in Columbus: Iconoclast on Fifth Street has relocated to 417 Main St. under the name Dark Water Tattoo.
The tattoo parlor was the last store to vacate the block of Fifth Street set to be renovated for the future boutique hotel. Owner Thomas “Biz” Bizzle had operated Iconoclast for three years prior to the move. He worked at parlors in West Point, Memphis, and numerous other states for 16 years before that.
“About 90 percent of our designs are original, the other 10 percent are just what people bring in,” Bizzle said when asked about his stock of tattoo designs.
Dark Water’s art services are offered at $100 per hour, with a minimum cost of $50. The parlor is open from 1-10 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.
A note of interest: those wishing to obtain a license to tattoo in Mississippi must complete the American Red Cross “Preventing Disease Transmission” course or a similar course accepted by the State Department of Health; must have apprenticed at least nine months with a provisional certificate of registration; and cannot have been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor involving drug-related, alcohol-related, sexual conduct, misstatement, fraud or dishonest offenses.
Bizzle said the cost to renew a license, which must be done annually, is $150 plus testing fees.
According to the Department of Health’s online registry, there are 336 licensed tattoo artists in Mississippi.
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