Atlanta Magazine

Atlanta is where David Cross’s love of comedy first blossomed. Years before he rose to fame with the screwball sketch comedy series Mr. Show with Bob and David, and as Tobias Fünke in Arrested Development, Cross was a student at the former Northside High School. He calls its specialist performance arts program, now defunct, “a lifesaver.”

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.

A dumpling haven brings Buford Highway favorites to West Marietta Street, a welcoming spot for sampling Honduran street food, and an ode to Scottish and Southern cooking from Kevin Gillespie.

Every other Thursday night, Maddie (using only her first name, in keeping with the program’s anonymity) heads to the Atlanta Triangle Club for a 12-Step recovery program called Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous, known as ITAA. There, Maddie and over a dozen other attendees share their daily struggles with internet addiction disorder.

Eighteen years ago, Austin, Texas, residents got used to seeing Mike Rypka drive around on a bright red Vespa, passing out taco and salsa samples. He then set up a trailer to sell his homemade fare, and Torchy’s Tacos was born. Now, 126 brick-and-mortar locations later, Torchy’s has entered the Atlanta market with a location in the Star Metals building on the Westside. The first Torchy’s in Georgia, it offers the same “Damn Good” tacos and queso that earned the brand its following in a classy, 4,100-square-foot space with a full bar and patio.

Atlanta Freedom Bands, which began in 1994, will serve for the first time as grand marshals at this year’s Atlanta Pride Festival, taking place October 12 and 13. Each year, several people and organizations are nominated by their community and chosen as Pride grand marshals based on their contributions to LGBTQ+ life; other marshals this year include Dr. Elijah Nicholas, founder of The Global Trans Equity Project, and the local nonprofit Lost-n-Found Youth.

You can have your Space Needle. Your Chrysler Building. Your Burj Khalifa. Your Sears Tower, or whatever they’re calling it now. Give me Bank of America Plaza—the tallest building in Atlanta for more than 30 years, a certifiable supertall skyscraper—any day.

Atlanta Pride is back this weekend for its 54th year with a jam-packed series of events celebrating the city’s LGBTQ+ community. The festival’s main events are free and open to all ages, including live...

James Burns’s Instagram post last December immediately upstaged all of the food porn, cat videos, and workout thirst traps on the app. Even the doomscrollers parked their thumbs for a minute. Through a series of four black-and-white comic panels, the Athens-based graphic designer told followers that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.