How far will Atlanta City Hall’s corruption probe go? Only BJay Pak knows.
BJay Pak, U.S. attorney in the northern district of Georgia, is the supercop tackling the region's most important crimes. The most prominent open investigation Pak is handling is the longstanding corruption pay-to-play probe at City Hall under the Kasim Reed administration.
Bird Invasion: Atlanta’s electric scooters are fun, dangerous, exciting, annoying, and unstoppable
In early May, without much of a heads up to Atlanta City Hall, Bird, founded by a former Lyft and Uber executive, dropped off 200 of its electric scooters in the city. The electric vehicles—which include Lime, Spin, Ofo, Muving, and Relay—have since become fun, dangerous, exciting, annoying, revolutionary, and polarizing. What can Atlanta do?
Art on the Atlanta BeltLine brings a new festival to Southwest Atlanta
From August 8-11, the Art.Movement.Film.Music Summer Fest will come alive along the Westside Trail in Oakland City, with visual art, live music, food trucks, panelists, affordable art shows, and more.
When Hollywood needs fake cash, it turns to Atlanta’s RJ Rappaport
If you need to make it rain in a music video or want hundreds of $100s for that drug-deal scene, Rich “RJ” Rappaport is the man to see. He owns RJR Props and is Atlanta’s premiere proprietor of fake money for movies.
Walking Dead alum Jayson Warner Smith brings the Tony Award-nominated play Blackbird back to Atlanta
Atlanta actor and The Walking Dead alum Jayson Warner Smith launched an Indiegogo campaign in May to stage Blackbird, David Harrower’s play about a man who had an affair with a 12-year-old girl and her confrontation of him years later, in Atlanta. The show runs at the Doraville's Robert Mello Studio from August 3-19.
Don’t Miss List: Our top 5 Atlanta event picks for August
Tens of thousands of nerds take over downtown at Dragon Con, hop in a hot air balloon at Callaway Gardens, and sing your lungs out with Janelle Monáe at the Tabernacle
5 Atlanta events you won’t want to miss: August 1-7
Dance to Kesha and Macklemore, celebrate Monday Night Brewing's 7th anniversary, and sample tons of chicken wings.
Jimmy Carter’s human rights message resonates in Atlanta and globally
On July 24, inside the Carter Center's Cecil B. Day chapel overlooking Freedom Parkway and the downtown skyline, Jimmy Carter’s earnest roundtable discussions with around 70 human rights defenders and religious leaders from 36...
Everything you need to know about MLS All-Star Game events in Atlanta
Starting Saturday, soccer fans will take over Atlanta for our city's first time hosting Major League Soccer's All-Star Game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where a roster of MLS players—including Atlanta United's Miguel Almirón, Ezequiel Barco, Brad Guzan, Josef Martínez, and Michael Parkhurst—take on Italian team Juventus.
What’s filming in Atlanta now? Stranger Things, Superintelligence, The Mule, plus our Comic-Con roundup
Stranger Things officially introduces Starcourt Mall, Melissa McCarthy returns to Atlanta for comedy Superintelligence, and Tyra Banks is finally filming Life Size 2, 18 years after the original film premiered.
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