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Cabbagetown's Wylie Street gets 80 new murals and a first-ever projection-mapping show at Krog Tunnel, Sept. 18-20.
Discover Atlanta's new documentary "United We Roar" traces the fans who built Atlanta's soccer culture downtown.
Chaka Khan Hacienda, the LGBTQ+ day party that found its latest home at Underground Atlanta, is going on hiatus.
Atlanta Black Pride Weekend marked 20 years with six days of parties, brunches and a festival from City Hall to Piedmont Park.
Dragon Con marked 40 years with 75,000 fans filling downtown Atlanta's host hotels and a costumed Peachtree Street parade.
Barbara McKenzie shot the neighborhood at the exact hinge point in its history. Fifty years later, 25 of more than 700 images go on public view at the Cabbagetown Community Center.
Eighty new murals, a Krog Street Tunnel projection mapping debut and a poetry showcase land on Wylie and Tennelle streets during Forward Warrior's 12th year, Sept. 18-20.
More than 50 works fill three floors at 12 Jackson Street SE, where Fabian Williams and Sindy Guerrero-Williams reread a half-century of science fiction as a record of what America feared and built.
A three-year archival project built inside Cleaver's own home is now on the walls of the Auburn Avenue Research Library, where it stays open to the public through Jan. 4, 2027.
A Dungeon Family visual artist filled two downtown rooms with paintings about grief and recovery, and one half of the pair is now a permanent free stop in The CTR's South Lobby.
On August 20, 2026, Gallery FC at The CTR hosted a free celebration for the more than 100 artists, assistants, producers, and partners who painted and installed the public art that greeted World Cup visitors across Atlanta.
Errin Haines, who got her start covering Atlanta for the Associated Press, led the National Association of Black Journalists' 50th anniversary convention at the Marriott Marquis downtown — the group's first Atlanta return since 2005.
Downtown's museum for the under-10 crowd is giving families two more weeks and a free souvenir ball before its most-loved contraption goes dark.
Paul Black is building a 4,500-square-foot LGBTQ-owned bathhouse on downtown's western edge, and the pitch is a room where nobody is looking at a phone.
Downtown's oldest entertainment district is answering the World Cup's biggest week with live bands, a futsal pitch and a fan march to the stadium.
