Rachel Garbus

The party was already in full swing by the time Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz appeared. It was opening night for Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, a traveling exhibit featuring a selection of the couple’s extensive art collection, and Atlanta had turned out for the occasion. With pulsing beats filling the lobby atrium—courtesy of DJs Runna and Princess Cut—a crowd of hundreds of stylish Atlantans had descended on the High Museum of Art to schmooze, dance, and enjoy the work of dozens of celebrated Black artists, from Gordon Parks to Amy Sherald.

Thursday’s show delivered on everything Lake Street Dive fans have come to expect over the years: Rachael Price’s bright vocals are as dazzling as ever, bassist Bridget Kearney is still turning her upright into a get-down jam machine, and five minutes is enough time to convey just how much this group still loves each other. That’s no small feat for a bunch of freakishly talented musicians, most of whom met in college twenty years ago.

During the pandemic Peter Essick, an award-winning photographer who often shoots for National Geographic, was spending a lot of time on the road. Commuting regularly from his home in Stone Mountain for a project at the Fernbank Museum in North Druid Hills, Essick began to notice all the construction projects popping up along the route. “From the road, all that construction wasn’t that visually interesting,” Essick says. “But then I started thinking, what would it look like from a drone?” With that idea, a new project was born.

Atlanta has long been known as a mecca for business owners. Many of these new business owners are young; some of them, in fact, are too young to sign their own business incorporation papers. All over the city, creative kids are finding ways to turn their interests into professional enterprises—usually with some help from their parents—and learning important lessons about responsibility and leadership along the way.

Our primary responsibility is to represent our speaker of the House and our lawmakers with the greatest respect and honor. We make sure anybody that comes in the chamber is badged properly; if you don’t have that on, you can’t come through the door. Any visitors, we keep our eyes on them and make sure they’re in compliance with the rules. When the chaplain of the day is doing the devotional, we lock the doors. Nobody can come in or out, and representatives have to turn off phones and computers.

Every March for nearly a decade, Children’s Museum of Atlanta has built a suite of programming celebrating Women’s History Month, all designed for young people who may not yet know the meaning of women, history, or even months. This year, the theme of the exhibit is “daredevils,” featuring women who broke the mold in their respective fields.

It’s a big claim, and Atlanta backs it up. Discover the city’s integral role in the sport’s recreational boom, a Wimbledon debutant’s unforgettable run, a 14-year summer professional tournament, and the untold story of a groundbreaking prodigy.

Grant Henry’s eclectic maximalism made a legend out of his Edgewood Avenue bar, Sister Louisa’s Church of the Living Room and Ping Pong Emporium (also known as Church). But at home in Chosewood Park, Henry leans into a different aesthetic: less paint-by-numbers Jesus, more modern furniture and backyard oasis.

Over the years, Atlanta residents have made plenty of headlines with their exotic pets, often when said pets escape, generating hullabaloo and amusing—or terrorizing—the surrounding neighborhood. Here’s a look back through history at some of Atlanta’s most memorable pets and the chaos they’ve caused.

If anyone doubted Shaky Knees’s move from Central Park to Piedmont Park this year, three days of jam-packed, sold-out revelry this weekend should have thoroughly set them at ease. Organizers of the iconic music festival, now in its 12th year, made the savvy choice to snatch up the locale, and the September weekend, vacated by Music Midtown, which announced its hiatus last year.