Arts & Events

This band’s sweet jams really jell around the hickory fires of a barbecue pit—or in the cigarette haze of a juke joint—so the handle Blackberry Smoke fits the Atlanta-based Southern rockers just fine.

How is Atlanta celebrating Mardi Gras? Find out where you can eat crawfish and snag some free beads this weekend.

Catch Nine Inch Nails at their first Atlanta concert in four years, eat all the cheese your heart could desire, and step inside some very tiny houses.

“To visit Pasaquan is a total immersion experience,” says Kohler Foundation executive director Terri Yoho. “You’re surrounded in otherworldliness.”

Even as an oily octogenarian, J.R. Ewing can lasso TV ratings. Only three weeks into the reboot of former 1970s, 1980s and 1990s CBS primetime sudser’s run on Atlanta-based TNT, the basic cable network has green lit a 15-episode second season of the show slated to air in the summer of 2013.

In 2015 Atlanta photographer Peter Essick strapped on cross-country skis and traveled across 10 miles of snow to Takakkaw Falls, the third highest waterfall in Canada, which he then scaled using ropes and ice picks—all to get a picture.

Atlanta is doubling for a number of other places in movies being shot here, ranging from Colorado and Florida (Identity Thief) to Panem (the Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire). But trying to pass downtown Atlanta off as a certain city with a big ice-rink?

In The Autobiography of Gucci Mane, published this month, the 37-year-old Atlanta trap rap crossover act revisits his rise to rap stardom; his struggle with a codeine cocktail called “lean;” and becoming a mentor to Future and Migos.

Q: Here we are 45 years later and people are still clamoring to talk to you about this film, made for a reported $114,000. Does that ever make your jaw go slack?

From craft beer to Halloween happenings, here are some of best festivals in Atlanta this month.