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Decatur just opened the first phase of its Town Center Plan 2.0 — and is christening it with Decatur WatchFest '26: 60+ World Cup matches on three big screens plus 34 free concerts over five weeks.
Atlanta's 5+ weeks of free World Cup festival kicks off Thursday at Centennial Olympic Park. Here's who's playing, who's hosting, where to eat, and why LVRN, UniverSoul Circus, and Soccer in the Streets are the city's fingerprint on the whole thing.
Nearly 23,000 square feet of the former CNN Center — now rebranded as The CTR — will become the ATL Culture House during the World Cup, hosting eight days of live performances, art exhibitions, and youth workshops curated by more than 400 local artists.
Mayor Dickens announced the return of the Peach Drop to Underground Atlanta for New Year's Eve 2024, with Big Boi headlining, Neon Trees and Res performing, and a giant peach descending from a 100-foot tower at midnight.
Darryl Harris, who has operated Moods Music in Little Five Points for 24 years, is expanding to South Downtown with Crates — a used vinyl shop targeting an August or September 2024 debut at 215 Mitchell Street, focused on Neo Soul, Afro-Cuban, Acid Jazz, R&B, and Funk records.
Hulu's "Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told" traces the annual gathering from a Morehouse cookout to a 250,000-person cultural phenomenon — and examines how it shaped Atlanta's identity as the capital of Black America.
Eight galleries, a relocated music venue, a sculptor's studio, and a growing community of artists are transforming Underground Atlanta from a shuttered retail complex into a grassroots creative hub in the center of downtown.
From the streets of Lagos in "Captain America: Civil War" to the sidewalks of New York in "Avengers: Infinity War," downtown Atlanta's blocks have doubled for cities around the world — earning Georgia the nickname Hollywood of the South.
The Georgia Music Accord, co-chaired by Ludacris and entertainment lawyer Joel Katz, launched a campaign to build a Grammy Museum in downtown Atlanta — backed by a $500,000 state-funded feasibility study and a vision to honor the state that produced James Brown, the Allman Brothers, and R.E.M.
The building at 152 Nassau Street in downtown Atlanta — where Fiddlin' John Carson recorded country music's first major hit in 1923 — faces demolition for a Jimmy Buffett Margaritaville Resort. Preservationists are fighting to save it.
Castleberry Hill's story begins with bootleggers, political riots, and a merchant named Daniel Castleberry who helped rebuild the neighborhood after it was burned to the ground. Today it's the National Park Service's pick for Atlanta's most complete surviving warehouse district.
At the 2016 A3C festival, photographer Cam Kirk was building something larger than a portfolio — a visual archive of Atlanta's hip-hop scene that aimed to change the perception of the genre and the city that shaped it.
The Atlanta-Fulton County Central Library, Marcel Breuer's last completed building, faced demolition calls in 2016. Architects argued that its brutalist design was irreplaceable — and that the building deserved a second life, not a wrecking ball.
The 27th annual Peach Drop brought an estimated 80,000 people to Underground Atlanta on New Year's Eve 2015, with T.I. and Sister Hazel headlining a celebration anchored by an 800-pound fiberglass peach dropping from a tower at midnight.
