A far cry from your garden-variety gift-shop keychains and mugs, these souvenirs are made by hand and epitomize the culture and history of the places they were created. Some represent crafts that have been passed down for generations, like the sweetgrass baskets of South Carolina’s Lowcountry or moonshine from the hills of Kentucky, while others capture a region’s natural bounty, like shell art from Sanibel Island, Florida, and sumptuous peach cakes made with central Georgia’s most famous crop.

Many of those gathered at The Gathering Spot on Tuesday for the Black History Month program "When HIStory Was Watching: A Fireside Chat with Ambassador Andrew Young and Torchbearers of the Civil Rights Legacy," mere hours after news of Rev. Jesse Jackson's death broke, either knew him well or were inspired by him. Andrew Young fondly recalled first meeting Jackson, who was then just a year out of college, in 1965.

Atlanta is among the first cities in the country to offer Waymo. Though the software company has its own app, it’s been using Uber as a platform to introduce Atlantans to Waymo; an option in the app’s settings allows users to opt for the autonomous ride. Waymo’s Atlanta fleet consists of about 100 vehicles, and the company plans to add more over the next few years.

On Monday, the Atlanta Opera pitched a big red-and-blue circus tent on the lawn of its new home at the historic Bobby Jones Golf Course Clubhouse. It was the same tent the opera set up in the middle of an Oglethorpe University baseball field during the pandemic in 2020, when it was one of the only active art organizations performing in the country. Executive and artistic director Tomer Zvulun dusted the tent off and out of storage for Monday’s occasion to break ground on a new $72 million campus. A $25 million gift from Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation propelled the project, and the facility will be named after Arthur’s late mother as the Molly Blank Center for Opera and the Arts.

For savvy shoppers, estate sales are a bargain and an adventure all at once. You’ll find home decor, appliances, clothing, and everything in between well below the original ticket price. They usually take place in the home itself, so you can make your way through rooms full of interesting goods, priced and ready for browsing—all while taking a peep inside midcentury ranches, Victorian manses, and Craftsman cottages across the city. Here are our tips to make your experience even better.

For Jobina Fortson-Evans, joining CBS Atlanta’s newsroom felt less like a career move and more like a homecoming to the city that first ignited her passion for storytelling. As a child, Fortson-Evans loved interviewing people with her camcorder. Years later, she joined the Tucker High School newspaper, which sparked her interest in a journalism career. Now she's joining CBS Atlanta’s new team.

The opening of Coffee Therapy is a caffeine- and community-driven boost for owners Tamar Telahun and her brother, Simon Gebru. They are best known for Feedel Bistro, an Eritrean and Ethiopian restaurant, which closed in 2023. At that time, Telahun promised a comeback, and in October 2025, they opened their new cafe, which she says is an extension of Feedel.

A few decades ago, romance novels were stereotyped as bodice rippers with hand-painted covers relegated to a corner of the bookstore. Now multiple romance bookstores have opened across metro Atlanta and fill their shelves for every reader—from sports romance superfans to romantasy (aka romantic fantasy) devotees. Readers of all persuasions will gather in Decatur for the third year of Atlanta’s Love Y’All Romance Book Fest from February 13-15.

Serial Killer: The Exhibition, now on display at Pullman Yards, is not intended to be scary or macabre. It’s the result of more than 10 years of research and the collaboration of 60 international collectors, historians, criminologists and forensic specialists and is designed to be factual, rather than speculative. Here's what to know before you go.

My husband and I were bound for New Orleans, the train’s fifth and final stop. Amtrak only resumed the Gulf Coast route in August, some 20 years after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to wide swaths of the track. On I-10, the drive between the two cities would have taken us two hours. Instead, we’d opted for a four-hour train journey with four Mississippi stops along the way. Our decision was born of curiosity, mostly. As lifelong residents of the southeastern United States, where cars are plentiful but train travel is a novelty, taking an Amtrak trip sounded like a check-the-box experience in itself.