Arts & Events

Part museum, part "immersive" experience, Harry Potter: the Exhibition features several props and costumes from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films, reproductions of iconic set pieces (think the door to the Chamber of Secrets or Harry's cupboard under the stairs), and interactive elements throughout. Here's what to know before you go.

When tragedy turned her world upside down, award-winning author Zoe Fishman did what authors do: she wrote it all down. Fishman was busy raising two small sons with her husband Ronen Shacham when he died unexpectedly in 2017. She and her sons survived the grueling, heart-expanding years that followed with the help of family and a close circle of friends. Through it all, Fishman, author of six books and the 2020 Georgia Author of the Year, kept writing. Her latest novel, The Fun Widow’s Book Tour, is the fruit of that labor; an intimate, memoir-like exploration of loss and widowhood, and an elegy to the community that surrounded her grieving family when they needed it most.

In recent years, the street’s once-thriving bar and club scene has taken a hit. Now Atlanta’s well-known party producers aim to shift the fortunes of the struggling Edgewood Avenue. Pisces is a venture from DJ Ree de la Vega, known for her hugely popular outdoor summer dance party, Chaka Khan Hacienda. Down the street is Lore, opened by Jon Dean, Kimberly Turner, and Scott Lockhart.

“Somebody give this girl a show,” is what Lynae Vanee, the multi-hyphenate star and creator of the Parking Lot Pimpin’ digital series, once said. Now, Revolt has fulfilled that dream and partnered with her for a 45-minute weekly talk show, The People’s Brief. Here, we chatted with the Spelman alumna about her new series.

Hulu’s new original documentary Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told tells the story of how a 1983 picnic for Atlanta HBCU students in the meadow at Piedmont Park became, by the mid-1990s, a national Spring Break destination for hundreds of thousands of young people each April. Here’s five things highlighted in the new Hulu doc that even long-time Atlantans might not know about Freaknik’s enduring legacy.

Ever since third grade, Loren Rosko had fantasized about being like Jessica Rabbit, the curvy cartoon supper-club singer in the 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit. When assigned to decorate a cardboard cutout to represent her future career, Rosko cut an hourglass shape and added a velvet dress, blond hair, red lips, and a microphone. “I used to watch black-and-white movies with my mom, where you see the audience dressed up, drinking fancy martinis, having a meal, and watching a show,” she says. “I never thought I would have the opportunity to do that.”

If you’ve walked through Bold Monk Brewing, Ladybird, or other Atlanta hotspots recently, you might have noticed something unusual: a group of people independently reading in collective silence. Stumbling upon a Silent Book Club event might seem unnerving without context, but the meetup is an increasingly popular way for people to read, socialize, and explore Atlanta.

Describing her tumultuous two-year marriage to former Atlanta Braves outfielder Otis Nixon, Candi Staton doesn’t sugarcoat a thing: “It was hell on earth. My God, it was the most terrifying and devastating time in my whole life. I was going through the fires of hell trying to figure out how to live with him and then how to find a way out of that crazy marriage.”

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.

The Eagles brought their The Long Goodbye Act III Tour to Truist Park on Tuesday night. Here, check out the scenes photographer Perry Julien captured at the show.