Dragon Con 2026 was dominated by Dungeon Crawler Carl cosplayers and featured a great lineup of celebrity guests and a book drive in honor of Dolly Parton. Here are the trends and notable moments we noticed while attending this year's convention.

Pied Piper Parade When: July 4 Where: First Baptist Church of Decatur (Starting Point) Cost: Free to Spectate and Participate (sign up here) Details: Decatur’s Fourth of July...

Posy Press, which uses eco-friendly risograph prints, adds a pop of color to Goat Farm Arts Center’s ongoing construction: Visitors are welcomed into the studio with a hot-pink, art nouveau–style floral logo. The studio offers events where artists sell riso prints and classes for a range of skill levels.

One of the most gratifying aspects of my years at WABE was connecting listeners to our city’s cultural events. A vibrant arts community can uplift and enrich the lives of Atlantans. The challenge today is to help these organizations thrive: Funding is essential from various sources. With money allocated to the arts, we can all take pride in a city made greater by its cultural organizations.

Alpharetta native Emma Elizabeth Smith grew up going to performances at the Fox Theatre. She remembers telling her parents, “I would love to perform here one day.” One day has arrived: April 28 to May 3, Smith will take to the Fox’s legendary stage playing Catherine of Aragon in Six, the Tony Award-winning musical that reimagines the wives of Henry VIII as pop stars. Here are five things to know about the hometown actor. 

When The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales was first published in 1992, the children’s book became immediately popular and won awards for writer Jon Scieszka’s irreverent take on fairy tales and Lane Smith’s uniquely textured illustrations. Jason Hines, the artistic director of the Center for Puppetry Arts (CPA), always knew he wanted to adapt it. He was surprised when CPA gave him the greenlight for the "raucous, subversive” tale that reimagines classics like the Gingerbread Man as the Stinky Cheese Man.

Posy Press, which uses eco-friendly risograph prints, adds a pop of color to Goat Farm Arts Center’s ongoing construction: Visitors are welcomed into the studio with a hot-pink, art nouveau–style floral logo. The studio offers events where artists sell riso prints and classes for a range of skill levels.

One of the most gratifying aspects of my years at WABE was connecting listeners to our city’s cultural events. A vibrant arts community can uplift and enrich the lives of Atlantans. The challenge today is to help these organizations thrive: Funding is essential from various sources. With money allocated to the arts, we can all take pride in a city made greater by its cultural organizations.

Gordon Parks: The South in Color isn’t the first time Anna Walker Skillman has exhibited the work of the iconic photographer at her gallery, Jackson Fine Art. When more than seventy color transparencies from the seminal trip at the base of his epochal 1956 Life magazine photo essay “The Restraints: Open and Hidden” were found at the bottom of an old storage bin in 2011, the Gordon Parks Foundation contacted Skillman and fellow gallery owner friend Arnika Dawkins for the first exhibition of them in 2012. Then in 2015, Skillman dovetailed the celebrated Gordon Parks: Segregation Story exhibition at the High Museum. Over a decade later, Skillman remains intimately involved with Parks’s epic work.

Even though Harry Connick Jr. has been performing since age 5, he’s still excited every time he takes the stage. The popular crooner takes the stage at Chastain Park July 11.

The Atlanta Jazz Festival, held this Memorial Day weekend, from May 23 to 25, is one of the largest events of its kind in the nation—and it remains free, a rarity among modern music festivals. These numbers help tell the story.

Frontman, bassist, and principal songwriter for the iconic British band The Police, Sting brought his solo Sting 3.0 tour to a sold-out Synovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park on Friday night. Here, check out the scenes photographer Perry Julien captured at the show.

City of Refuge is a faith-based nonprofit organization that serves individuals facing some of life’s most difficult circumstances. A new documentary from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Nick Nanton, The Greatest of These, tells the story of the nearly 30-year-old nonprofit and its founder, Bruce Deel.

One of the most gratifying aspects of my years at WABE was connecting listeners to our city’s cultural events. A vibrant arts community can uplift and enrich the lives of Atlantans. The challenge today is to help these organizations thrive: Funding is essential from various sources. With money allocated to the arts, we can all take pride in a city made greater by its cultural organizations.

When Tre’ Horton arrived in Los Angeles from metro Atlanta in 2022, he still wasn’t sure whether to focus on dancing, singing, or acting. Growing up in Clayton County, he excelled in all three art forms, Luckily for Horton, his feature film debut gave him the chance to showcase all of these skills at once, as he plays Michael Jackson’s older brother Marlon in Michael, the new biopic on the King of Pop.