By: Mikaela Junn The family saga as a form makes specific demands on both the writer and the reader. The writer has to sustain genuine investment in characters across decades of narrative time and multiple generations of relationships without losing the specific human texture that makes any individual scene
The Atlanta Hawks open their home schedule against the Houston Rockets on Saturday, October 24, at 8 p.m. at State Farm Arena. Hawks vs Rockets follows a 132-125 season-opening win in Orlando and a Friday stop in Charlotte, and it starts a season of earlier home tip-offs and local
The Atlanta Jazz Festival is a free, three-day outdoor festival held in Piedmont Park each Memorial Day weekend and produced by the City of Atlanta’s Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Founded in 1978, the festival held its 49th edition in May 2026, which puts its 50th edition on Memorial
By: Lauryn Jay, Atlanta Author of So, I Guess I’m Writing a Rom-Com There is something uniquely vulnerable about writing a love story. Romantic comedies may be known for humor, escapism, and happily-ever-afters,
Capturing the Spirit of Oakland, the Halloween tour series at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, holds its final weekend of 2026 from October 22 to 25, closing out the event’s 20th year. The nighttime
By: Doug Stevens For Jeremy Parsons, the road to becoming the man and musician he is today hasn’t always been smooth. There have been wrong turns, uncertain destinations, Nashville dreams, long Texas highways,
Piedmont Park Conservancy’s Light Up the Season returns Sunday, November 22, 2026, with a new Holiday Lantern Parade. The free event starts at 5 p.m. at Greystone in Piedmont Park, where guests make
The 2026 Atlanta Pride Festival takes over Piedmont Park on Saturday, October 10, and Sunday, October 11, with rapper and entrepreneur JT headlining the Main Stage. Admission is free, organizers expect more than
By: Lennard James MEMPHIS, Tenn., Memphis has always been a city filled with personality. From music and food to neighborhood conversations and unmistakable Southern expressions, the city has produced generations of entertainers who
The High Museum of Art is marking its 100th anniversary this fall with reinstalled American and African art galleries, more than 200 new acquisitions and a free Centennial Block Party on Peachtree Street
By: Anne Powell Rock and roll loves a transformation story. The kid picks up a guitar, escapes the small town, finds the right bandmates, gets discovered, and becomes somebody. We have repeated that
Atlanta’s National Women’s Soccer League expansion team will play as Atlanta City FC. AMB Sports and Entertainment revealed the name, crest, and colors on September 28, 2026. The crest shows a rising phoenix
By: Andrew Hollister The first line of Gary Pratt’s “4th of July” tells you that it isn’t the Fourth of July. It’s February. That seeming contradiction is more than a cute opening gambit.
By Jack R. Delaney There is an old lie buried somewhere in rock ’n’ roll: that the music belongs to the young. You know the story. Get the band together before you know
The Atlanta Braves clinched the National League East division title on September 20 with a 4-2 victory over the Houston Astros at Daikin Park, securing their seventh division crown in the last nine
Afrobeats has grown from the sound of West Africa into a global cultural movement, and some of hip hop and R&B’s biggest African American artists have helped introduce that sound to even wider
By: Mark Lewis Atlanta has never been a city that cared about musical boundaries. Country, Southern rock, gospel, blues, hip-hop and soul have spent decades rubbing shoulders here, sometimes colliding and sometimes borrowing
By: Adrian Keller There is an appealing lack of tidiness to Cello’s Singing to Serpents, an album that behaves as though emotional consistency might itself be a kind of dishonesty. Across nine songs,
By: Stephanie Terr Most people who follow pop music careers see the finished product, the polished performances and the carefully managed public image and the chart positions and the dedicated fan base, and
By Scotty Richter There is a particular pleasure in hearing a song that knows exactly what it wants to be. It does not have to announce its importance. It does not have to
By: Tasha Monroe Atlanta knows what happens when gospel meets the blues. This is a city where Sunday-morning testimony and Saturday-night soul have never been as far apart as people pretend. From neighborhood
By: Marcus Ellington Atlanta understands the difference between polish and soul. This is a city where immaculate studio craft has never meant much without feeling underneath it. From the gospel voices that filled
By: Lennard James Austell, Georgia, is preparing for a night where soul rises, stories breathe, and live music takes its rightful place at center stage. On Saturday, September 26, 2026, Alonia “The Silky
By: Maya Ellington Atlanta understands trees. For all its highways, glass towers, recording studios, soundstages and relentless construction, Georgia’s capital remains famously wrapped in green. Trees crowd neighborhood streets, rise behind downtown buildings
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